Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,722, Silent Cutting, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mess
Cutting Silent or Silas
S. 34722
CONTENTS

11. 669 R
Massachusetts.
Silas Cutting
of Brighton in the state of Mass. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mass. line, for the term of three years.
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June 1819 and sent to John Davis, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 9 mo. 27 d. 77. 16 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 11 th Sep r 1819. 48. 00
$127. 16
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notes sent to the Mass. State Library. 24 July 1821. Cambridge Mass

Silas Cutting Juvati Cranes Mass Regt — one year '81, 16 May 1818
a Submitted
Further evidence of service and the discharge certificate of no. 54 indiged circumstances as waiving
New evidence C & D
Silas Cutting
8-20

United States Mass. Dist.
Silas Cutting of Brighton, a resi- dent citizen of the United States, makes oath, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution in the conti- nental establishment in 1780 for five months in Capt. Blanchard's company Col. Weston's Massachusetts Regiment; in the Spring after his term expired I enlisted in Capt. Readwell's company in Col. John Crane's Regiment on the same establish- in the State of New York, New Jersey &c ment for three years, and served till the fall of 1782, when I received an honorable discharge which is lost. By reason of reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support, being maintained in part by the town of Brighton for about four years.
Silent Cutting
Massachusetts District S. Boston 16. May 1818
Sworn to before me J. D. Dows Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

Silent cutting 11.669
Abraham Biglow Cambridge Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of September A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice ,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Silent cutting resident in
Brighton in said county of Middlesex
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11.869 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Silent cutting late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the Sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. L. Edwards in the absence J. C. CALHOUN , Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, “Real Estate none -
Personal Estate nothing
Silent cutting
And the said Silent cutting having first been duly sworn on oath declares that except the clothes on his back he has no article of property in possession or expectation - that he is now fifty nine years of age - that he is now afflicted with a rupture or burst, which he received twenty two years ago - he has not been able to do labour sufficient for his support for the last eight years but has received occasional assistance from the town of Brighton as one of their poor and for the last seven years has been assisted every year. said cutting was in the service in

the year 1780 for five months and March 1781 enlisted for three years and was in Col. Branes Regiment of Artillery, and in the company of Capt. Sreadwell - was in New Jersey in 1781 and afterwards in Garrison at West Point till discharged in Dec. 1783 - about three months before his term of service expired - Said Cutting has no family or ever had.
Silent Cutting //

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Daniel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Silent Cutting do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD. Silent Cutting
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. Sept. Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Silent Cutting took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Dan l Dana. Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 30 th day of Sept. 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

34 722 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 722
Silas Cutting
De Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 9 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
18. May 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Silent Cutting by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
W. Davis { District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
amo- nt of per- nary said,
d the strict
t U. S.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 16 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Henry Cutting subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A B together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

This May certify that Silent Cutting has been Supported in Part by the Town of Brighton for more than four years last past
Brighton April 3 d 1818
With Chamberlain Selectmen Edw d Sparhawk of Brighton and Overseer of the Poor

I John George of Watertown in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts & a Citizen of the United States Testify & say that I am well acquainted with Silas Cutting mentioned in the foregoing declaration, and know that he served as a private soldier in Capt. Drown's company of Artillery in Col. John Cavanes Reg t in the War of the Revolution on the Continental establishment for more than twelve months John George
Middlesex ss. April 3 d 1818. John George made solemn oath that the above declaration by him sub- scribed is true Before me Levi Thaxter Jus Peace

I Jesse Jordan of Canton in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I was an enlisted private Soldier in Capt. William Treadwell's Company and Col. John Brooks's Regiment of Artillery, and that I served in said Capt. Treadwell's Company of Artillery in the Revolutionary Army and for and during the term of three Years, and until the close of the war. And that I was perfectly well acquainted with Silas Cutting who was also a private Soldier in said Treadwell's Company that he was in my Mess for more than one Year, I always understood that S d Cutting was an enlisted Soldier for three Years in the Revolutionary Army and was warranted in saying that he S d Cutting served at least two two Years in S d Treadwell's Company and well remembers my having the smallpox at West-Point with the forces Cutting, and have no doubt on my mind but that he said Cutting served faithfully as a dutiful Soldier during or until the close of the war. And further say not
Jesse Jordan
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk ss: April 27 th AD 1819 — Then personally appeared the above named Jesse Jordan and made solemn Oath that the above statement by him made and subscribed is correctly true in all parts of the same — And I hereby certify that in my opinion the correctness of the above affidavit made and subscribed by the aforesaid Jesse Jordan ought to be relied on, as to the truth of the same by the said Jesse being a reputable Witness, accordingly as I believe of the man
Joseph Burnis } One of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Norfolk

Norfolk ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County of Norfolk do hereby certify that Joseph Berris Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned by the Executive authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the signature to the within certificate is in the handwriting of the said Joseph Berris.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Horatio Townsend
Filed 18 Nov 1879

I John George of Watertown in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts Certify to say That I was a Cap t Lieut n in Cap t Wm Freadwell, Company of Artillery & Col. John Cram. Reg t in the Revolutionary Army and served during the war on the Continental Establishment That I am well acquainted with Mr. Silent Cutting of Brighton in the County of Middlesex as observed and that he was a private Soldier in said Freadwell Company for more than two years & according to the best of my recollection the said Cutting entered & joined said Freadwell Company in March Seventeen hundred & Eighty one & left the service the latter part of the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty three. John George
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. March 19 th 1819 Personally appeared John George and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true; And I hereby certify that the said John George is a Respectable Citizen and Creditable Subject.
Levi Thaxter Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Court in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Levi Thax- ter is a Justice of the peace, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name subscribed to the foregoing certificate is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this thirteenth day of April 1819. Abraham Biglow
March 1792