Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,321, Philip Delano, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Delano, Philip
S 34,321
CONTENTS
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Commonwealth Bank Pension Office Boston 10. April 1837
Sir,
Be pleased to inform me if the amt. due the children of Philip Delano dec d can be paid on the enclosed vouchers - the power of Attorney not having been presented within 90 days from date. &c
I am, very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t .
John R. Simpson President Pension Agt.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Pensions Washington D. C.

Philip Delano
Dutcher Schedule
8722
Sept 49
Con

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this Twenty eighth day of November 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 Philip Delano aged fifty nine years, resident in Duxbury 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 six years in Capt. Joseph Madsworth's company, Col. John Bailey's Reg't. & that he has received a pension certificate dated April 3 rd 1819, and numbered 8,722 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 3 rd 1818 - before Hon. Judge Mitchell 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 18th 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 1 small house or hut built upon land not my own & of which I have no lease & is very poor for any person to live in. Personal Estate viz. 8 old chairs 2 tables 1 chest 1 Bille iron & crockery ware for iron age shovel & tongs.
My family consists of four persons; myself, & wife aged 58 years neither of us able to do much work being afflicted with rheumatism 1 daughter named Hannah aged 22 years weakly & able to do but little work 1 boy named James 13 years of age has a break in his body & is not well.
Philip Delano
sworn to, and declared, on the 21 st day of November A.D. 1820 before
Nahum Mitchell Justice of said court
I, John B Thomas clerk of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court & 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 dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on this 25 th day of December one thousand eight hundred & twenty
J B Thomas Clerk of the court for the county of Plym o
$60.00

I Phillip Delano of Duxbury in the County of Plym th and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, believing myself to be entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March in the year 1878 to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolu- tionary War, do testify and say that I entered into the service of the United States in the spring of the year 1775 as a private soldier in the company of foot commanded by Capt. Elijah Crocker and the Regiment commanded by Col. John Baly the troops of which I made a part was known by the name of the Massachusetts line having served eight months at Roxbury near Boston being the time for which I enlisted. I then entered into the service of the United States for the term of twelve months, my Colonel and Captain being the same viz Col. Baly & Capt. Crocker I marched from Roxbury to New York this campaign was in the year 1776 and commonly called the twelve months service the troops of which I made a part were known by the name of the Massachusetts line
I then enlisted into the United States service as private soldier for the term of and during the war. I served first in the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Wadsworth and the Regiment commanded by Col. Garmal- Bradford. I was shifted from Col. Bradford's Regiment to that commanded by the then Col. John Brooks now Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts I continued in Col. Brooks Regiment the remaining part of the war for which I enlisted except at short intervals being shifted from one Regiment to another for a short space of time I served in the light infantry under the command of Col. Gannett. I was at the storming the

fort at Stoney point under Genl Wayne I then returned to and joined Col Brooks Regiment and was appointed a noncommissioned officer I was marched from place to place I was at the taking of Brandywine the troops of which I made a part were called the Massachusetts line I served nearly seven years in the Revolutionary war including the whole time in which I served Philip, Delano
I also say and declare that a few months before the close of the war I had a furlough from Major Billy Porter and be- fore I returned peace had been declared and I was discharged by the act of Congress, discharging those who enlisted during the war, and all also who were on furlough; and of course I did not return to the army. And I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed. —
Philip Delano
Sworn to April 3. 1818.
Philip Delano Dursbury

I Philip Delano do further set forth and declare that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support — Philip Delano
Sworn to —

Philip Delano Duxbury
Philip Delano Junr Barnstable Mass Aug 27-81 June 3 1818

Philip Delano junior Barnstable Mass reg d 77-81 April 3 1818
Ad
Philip Delano Duxbury

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this 65.  third day of April A. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Philip Delano of Duxbury aged  years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following  encl. 1818 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."

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Philip Delano 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, & that from his 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

34321 Ray INVALID.
File No. 8/5, 321
Philip Delano Con. Com. Office - New York
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Letter 27 April 1818 Pnd Agent
8,722 Massachusetts
Philip Delano 4
of Duxbury in the state of Massachusetts who was a non-com d officer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Six years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1818 and sent to Nahum Mitchell East Bridgewater Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10 \frac{28}{30}  88.49 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sep. 1819  6 mo 48.
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }