Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 868-100, Aaron Clements, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass.
★ Clements, Aaron
B.L. # 868-100.
CONTENTS

I know all men by these presents that I Aaron Clements now Resident of the town of Scituate in the County of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts- Bay husbandman in Consideration of forty two Shillings to me in hand Well and truly Paid one before the Delivery hereof by Daniel Robbins of Somersworth in the County of Strasson and State of Newhampshire Gentleman I do hereby sell and convey and Confirm forever Quit Claim unto the said Daniel Robbins his heirs and assigns forever all the right Title Claim property or Demand I have of an and unto one hundred Acres of Land Where for it may be assigned and located me as a Soldier in the Continental army During the Late War in the South Massachusetts Regiment having faithfully served the United States seven years and being regular- ly Discharged therefrom by his Excellency General Wash- ington Capt Gen. of said army. —
To have and to hold the said hundred acres of Land to him the said Daniel Robbins his heirs and Assigns forever in as full and ample a manner With all the Priviledges and Appurtenances thereto belonging in as full and ample a man- ner as the same was granted to me in consequence of my Enlistment into and serving in said army During the Late War as Will more fully appear by the Resolves of the Hon ble Cont l Congress for Raising and Establishing an army the Consideration of the above obligation is such that if it should hereafter appear that the said Aaron Clements has Disposed of or Conveyed the above said Land in any manner or form Whatsoever to any person or persons he the said — Aaron Clements is to Return Double the sum above With Interest from this Date In Witness Whereof I do hereby set my hand and Seal this fourteenth Day of April Anno Domini 1788
signed Seal and Delivered in presence of us — Tho: Abbott Francis Yeaton
Aaron Clements

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York ss. September 5 1788 The within named Aaron Clements acknowledge the within instrument to be his free act & deed before me Benj a Chadbourn
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
York ss. I Daniel Sewall, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the county of York, hereby certify, that Benjamin Chadbourn, now deceased, before whom the above acknowledgment was taken, was at the time when the same was taken, a justice of the peace within & for said county, & duly qualified to act as such; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and that the above appears to be his signature.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and the seal of the said Court, the tenth day of February, A. D. 1819.
Daniel Sewall.

Aaron Clements.
No. 868.
Jacket is with Claim of Truworthy Dudley B. L. Wt. 863-100.

Aaron Clements July 26 1783 to two quarters of Rum to the persons of Shiger to the persons of the to be paid to the
By His EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE ARE TO CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Aaron Clements of the in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, having faithfull- ly served the United States Seven years and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the
E. W. Washington
By His EXCELLENCY Command,
John Trumbull
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John Davis Adjutant.
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