Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34157, Jonathan Caswell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gaswell, Jonathan
S. 34157
CONTENTS

8937 Massachusetts
Jonathan Caswell War
of Middlebury in the state of Massachusetts, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 131 3/4 80.23 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.
$128.25
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
let. to Hon. W. Baylies, H.R. Feb: 26. 1835.
Transferred to Mrs. Mary G. [?] Subsequent Massachusetts

Jonathan Laxell
1937
Lot 189
[Handwritten signature]

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Jonathan Caswell aged 66 years, resident in Middleborough in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of three years in Capt. Williams Company, Col. Dose's Regiment and that he has received a pension certificate dated 3rd day of April 1818 and numbered 8937 in pursuance of his original Declaration made May 4th 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Real estate half an acre ground 1 house room on the ground one story high.
value $63.25
Personal estate 5 chairs 2 pots 1 bible
My health passable a wife 60 years of age sickness at once would bring us at once upon the charity of friends or the public
Jonathan Caswell Mark
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 before
Nathaniel Mitchell 6 Justice of Court
I No. B Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixty three dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty ninth day of December 1820.
No B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

Jonathan Carwell Middleboro (last 3 years)
Jonathan Carwell Somerset (West Mass) ag 81 to 83 4 May 1818 250

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss.
On this fourth day of May — 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Jonathan Caswell of Middleborough aged seventy five years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed , in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." viz. that he served by several enlistments during the whole revolutionary war — that he enlisted into the last three years service in April 1781 in Capt. Williams Company & Col. Vose's regiment in the Massachusetts line, and continued to serve therein till the 23 d day of December 1783 and was honorably discharged at Westpoint, which discharge is now exhibit. That during the last three years he was only in some skirmishes on the lines — but he was before in the battle at King's bridge — that he has no further evidence of his services in his power. That from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support —

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jonathan Caswell did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and that he needs the assistance of his country for support —
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River
Jonathan Caswell Soldier ----- in the First Massachusetts ----- Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the twenty five Day of Decem r
1783
By the General's Command,
W. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Br d H. Bowles Capt. & Adjutant

Caswell, Jonathan
By the Honorable Major-General M c O W
the has been for three years in the the service of the United States.
16th. 939. 17. 232. 47 detailed for duty with Genl. G. H. Thomas
Jonathan Caswell S. 34,157 Mass.

34 157 Pay INVALID.
File No. 34, 157
Jonathan Caldwell Di Rev Geo
Act: 18 th March 187
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 63
[Arrangement of 1870.]