Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 16941, Nehemiah Curtis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Burtis, Nehemiah Hannah
W 16941
CONTENTS

From 9769 Pennsylvania to New York - New Britain
Matthew ... Jan'y 1822 ... of ... of ...
of Albion in the state of Penn a who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford of the Neshann line, for the term of 3 yrs 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of April, 1818 and sent to John M. ...  Albion Pa
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  $2.63 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  $8.00 10 m. 6/30 4/30  $138.63
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

N. York 4637.
Hannah Curtis, dec d widow of Nehemiah Curtis
who died in the year 1825 of senescence in the State of N. York who was a Corporal in the Co. commanded by Captain M c of the Reg t commanded by Col. Bradford in the Mass. line for 16 mo. 20 days, Corporal 7 " " " Sergt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, at the rate of 97 Dollars 93 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, ending 8 Nov. 1836, (71 when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Jany 18167. and sent to Loy, Ovid. N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by D. H. Wood Book C Vol. 1 Page 10
Payable to Hannah Downey Nathaniel Curtis, only children.
Rep d ,
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Payment to be made at Albany by L. M. Alcott, Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C. Vol. 1. Page by _____
N. H. Wood Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Hannah Curtis, dec d . late of New York — widow of Nehemiah Curtis — who was a Corporal & Sergeant in the Mass. Line & died in year 1825, was entitled to receive Ninety Seven dollars and Ninety Three cents per annum during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, and on 8. November 1836, when she died, payable to Hannah Downer & Nathaniel Curtis, only children. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 21 st day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty Seven.
Secretary of War
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July, 1836 State of New York } ss
County of Tompkins { On this 13 th day of June 1846 personally appeared before the court in open court held at Ithaca in said County, Nathaniel Curtis, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- -efit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 That this deponent is a Son of the late Nehemiah Curtis who was a pensioner of the United States and died in 1825 leaving his widow this deponents mother, by name Hannah Curtis who remained his widow till her death, and that she died on the 8 th day of Novem- -ber 1836 eighteen hundred and thirty six, that this deponents said parents were married during the early part of the Revolution to wit in 1778 Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight, that this deponents said mother at the date of her death left the fol- -lowing named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit - Hannah Downer of the City of Rochester New York and Nathaniel Curtis of Ithaca Tompkins County New York Subscribed & sworn before the court the day, Nathaniel Curtis and date above written
Ashton S Johnson Indp Tompkins County Court Councillor
The Court certify that the above named Nathaniel Curtis is a respectable person & that the above proceedings were had before the court in open court -
Ashton S Johnson Indp Tompkins County Court Councillor

State of New York
Tompkins County } ss I, Ezra Weaver Deputy Clerk of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that Arthur S. Johnson Esq., before whom the above de- claration was subscribed and sworn, and whose name is subscribed to the first thereto and to the certificate thereunto written was at the date of the same a Judge of Tompkins County Court, commissioned and sworn duly authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquaint- ed with the hand writing of such Judge and justly believe his signature thereto is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca the thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty six. Ezra Weaver D e Clerk

Dynpton Vt July 2
Mr G. W. Crump at the Pension Office, Washington, D.C.
10 Fannal Banks

"The following Marriages consummated by Rev. Ezra Sampson."
"Nehemiah Curtis to Hannah Standish June twenty seven one thousand seven hundred and eighty."
I hereby certify, that the above is a true copy from the Records of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Book 2 d , Page 640, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows, June ye 27. 1780. Plympton, Dec. 30. 1846. | Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton.
I, Lewis Bradford, above named, depose and say, that I have held the Office of Town Clerk of the aforesaid Town of Plympton ever since March 9. 1812, and that the Records of said Town are in my custody, and that the above extract from the Records of said Town is truly copied, with the exception above named, as certified by me. I further depose and say, that it appears from Records in the said Town of Plympton, that the above named Rev. Ezra Sampson held the Office of Pastor of the Church and congregation in said Plympton from February 15. 1775, to April 4. 1796, and was ecclesiastically ordained to that Office at Plympton February 15. 1775.
Plympton, Dec. 30. 1846. | Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton.
Plympton Jan'y 1 st 1847
I hereby certify, that the above named Lewis Bradford personally appeared and made Oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me.
Isaac Wright. Justice of the peace

P.S. The Justice of the Peace, before whom I made oath, consented to administer the oath and to write the certificate thereof without pay for it; but the Clerk of the Court at Plymouth will not certify that the Justice is in Commission unless he is paid for it.
I consider it enough for me to do what I have done for nothing, without paying for doing it. But if as far as I have done will not answer the purpose for which it is done, if I can have wherewith to pay a Justice and the Clerk of the Court, and some compensation like the foregoing, and I will write another oath before a Justice of the Peace, and and get a Certificate from the Clerk of the Court that the Justice is in Commission.
Lewis Bradford, Town Clerk, Plympton, January 1. 1847.

Heads of New York
Supreme Court 63. On the 25 th day of September 1821 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas for the said County, in said State constituted a Court of Records by the laws of said State with power to hear, try and determine all actions, real, personal and mixed, arising in the said County, and also all summary actions, although the same may not have arisen in the said County, with other powers. Robert Burtis aged sixty six years, resident of the town of Haver 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. That he enlisted at Middleborough, County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts in June 1777 to serve three years in Capt. Joshua Eddy's Company in Col. Jeremiah Brainerd's Regt. That he served three years and almost two months and was honorably discharged on the 6 th August 1780 at Poughkeepsie in the State of New York. He made his declaration on the 25 th day of April 1818. His pension Certificate been dated 24 th April 1819 and is numbered 9749. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th 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 to do an act of fraud, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the late naval and land services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me

subscribed. That he was by occupation a Farmer and that he has been unable to follow his trade for eight years past part in account of age and infirmary that he has a wife to support who is Sixty one years of age and incompetent to support herself by labour, and that this defendant since his wife lives with and are dependent upon their son for support. That he this defendant has no children to support. That he has no property to inventory (necessa- ries becoming and clothing excepted) except one Bible and one hymn Book worth about four dol- lars, and he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Subscribed, sworn and acknowledged before me this 25th day of September 1821.
Luther Gore Judge of Sampson Gen. P. C.
I John Johnson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Sampson do hereby certify that the fore- going oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copies from the records 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 four dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Twenty fifth day of September 1821.
John Johnson Clerk Miles Smith Clk. E.W.

Nehemiah Curtis Sgt. (Private) Col Bradford Regiment Massachusetts Line 1777- 3 years   Roll
25 th April 1810-
Admitted.

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Bradford County, ss.
On this twenty fifth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears Nehemiah Curtis aged Sixty two years, resident in Adams
Bradford County in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration 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." That he the said Nehemiah Curtis , enlisted for three years in June 1777 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Eddy in the Col. Gamaliel Bradford's regiment 1 st B ty that he continued to serve in the said corps for three years in the service of the United States, until the sixth day of August 1780 when he was discharged from service in King's Ferry state of New York that he was in the battles of East Chester  White Plains  White Plains , some skirmishes at the taking of Burgoyne  Nehemiah Curtis
And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support—and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, before me, Nehemiah Curtis the day and year aforesaid.
John McLean Associate Judge of Common Pleas Bradford County Pa

I, John M c Rean one of the Associate Judges in and for Bradford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nehemiah Coonts did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; 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.
It falls far short of appearing to me that the said Coonts was a man of a noble lineage as in his hands in view of a warm friendship country for support Date August 21 st 1818 John M c Rean also now Judge of Common Pleas Bradford County, Pa
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, BRADFORD COUNTY, SS.
I, George Scott Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford aforesaid do certify and make known that
John M c Rean is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and cer- tifying the same, Associate Judge of the County of Bradford, in the State of Pennsylvania, that the signature is his proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and Seal of Office, at Meansville, in the county of Bradford aforesaid.
thirty ninth day of August A.D. 1818
George Scott Prothon.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
cont
File No. 16941
Hannah Curtis Widow of Nehemiah Curtis, Sergt Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. A , Page 162
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hannah Curtis
Pur. of N.Y. Law '36 wid of Nehemiah
old case of mine
from
Abad Joy
I obtained the above pension, I think it was under Law '36 I know it was of N.Y. It may be Law '38 but I think not, but Law '36, her husband was a pensioner of Tompkins Co. New York Law of 1818
No such case
in N.Y. 36-38
His name is on the Pension book N.Y. page 247-2 vol, he died at Ithaca, she was pensioned from there

Mar 21, 1847
Rees Tanna Chittenden & Samuel Curtis.
Rev. S. P. Edwards Canal of Panama Washington D.C.
16

Ovid N.Y. Jan'y 21/47
Sir
On the 13 th Nov - I enclosed to you the Declaration of the children of Hannah Curtis, not having heard from you, I fear the papers have not reached you, I therefore write to ask if you have rec d ? Such papers - I am of 1836- of New York
(book as Rec d )
Respectfully Your Ob l Serv t Abad Joy
Hon S d L Edwards
Comd. of Pension Washington D.C.

Hannah Curtis, decd.
N. 4.
4 July 1836
Ac. 1780-
de- 1825
Admitted
Corporal - 1 yr. 4 mos 20: 61:10
Sergt - 7 mos. 11 36.83
97:93
Issue to Hannah Downard Nathaniel Curtis - Surving chil- dren, to expire expire 8 Nov. 1836 the day of her death -
W. Arad Joy Esq
Ovid
N.Y.

State of New York,
County of Seneca { ss On the 10 th day of November 1846 in open court held in and for said county at Waterloo in said county It appeared to the satisfaction of the court that Reubenah Curtis late a prisoner of the United States, died in 1825 leaving her widow Hannah Curtis, and that the said widow Hannah Curtis died her widow on the 8 th day of November 1836 eighteen hundred and thirty six, being a widow when she died & leaving at her death the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years & upwards, to wit, Hannah Downer of the City of Rochester New York and Nathaniel Curtis of Ithaca New York The proof that was satisfactory to the court, was the attached affidavit of Nathaniel Curtis, Horace M Baker and John H Greenleaf, all certified to be respectable persons, & the papers all duly authenticated, signed by one of the officiating Judges of the said court at the day and date above mentioned
Jesse Clark first Judge of the County Court of Seneca County New York
State of New York } Seneca County ss }
I hereby certify that Jesse Clark whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was at the date of the same a Judge of the County Court in & for said County of Seneca, duly commissioned & qualified, and also that he was one of the presiding or officiating Judges at the above mentioned Court. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his signature above to be genuine, In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 10 th day of November 1846.
H. Montgomery Dep Clerk

State of New York
County of Tompkins ss My Horace Barker appeared before the Subscriber after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he is & was a resident of said County years since, that he was called upon soon after the death of Hannah Curtis, late & widow of the late Nehemiah Curtis, late a pensioner of the United States to make Grave, or Tombstones, being a Marble cutter, that he accordingly then made the Tombstones, & put upon the head stone the date of the death of the said Hannah Curtis & that said inscription reads that she died on the 8th day of November 1836 eighteen hundred and thirty six, that according to the deponents recollection she died on the 8th day of November 1836 that soon after the date of her death, he was requested to put on the inscription that she died on the 8th November 1836 - that this deponent has within a week been to the Grave & examined the said Tombstone & he finds the inscription upon it that she died on the 8th November 1836 - that at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving & that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit Hannah Downer of the City of Rochester New York, & Nathaniel Curtis of Ithaca New York, the said Hannah Curtis died as subscribed & sworn before me
this 6th day of August 1846
H. H. Dake
My Commission Expires of the Peace Tompkins County
I certify that the above named Horace Barker is a respectable person
My Commission Expires

State of New York
Tompkins County Clerk's Office ss I Ezra Mather Deputy Clerk of said county do hereby certify that & sworn William Egle before whom the preceding declaration was subscribed, & whose name is subscribed to the same thereto & to the certificate thereto under written was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county Commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to act as such & to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice & verily believe his signatures thereto are genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said county & subscribed my name at Ithaca this tenth day of August 1846. Ezra Mather Dep. Clerk.

State of New York Seneca County - ss John H. Greenleaf appeared before the Subscriber and after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that in 1836 he was a resident of Ithaca, & that he was an Undertaker, that he was called upon to make a Coffin for Hannah Curtis, late widow of Nehemiah Curtis who was a citizen of the United States, that he made her Cof- fin and that he at that time made a charge for it, a memorandum of the date & that on examin- ing his books, he finds a memorandum on charge of the said Coffin for the said Hannah Curtis as having been made & charged on the 9 th day of November 1836 and that the said Hannah Curtis died on the 8 th day of November 1836 eighteen hun- dred and thirty six, that this deponent cannot be mistaken in the date of the death of the said Hannah Curtis, as his said charge & memorandum of her death, or the Coffin for her body was made & interred at the above date, that the said Hannah Curtis died a widow, and at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving, & that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit - Hannah Downer of the City of Rochester New York and Nathaniel Curtis of Ithaca New York Subscribed & sworn before me } John H. Greenleaf This 10 th day of November October 1846 M c T. Johnson S.P.
I certify that the above named John H. Greenleaf is a respectable person Oct. 10. 1846 M c T. Johnson Justice of the peace

State of New York Niagara County
I Moses Stevens Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that William P. Johnson is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission dates the first day of
January 1843 and will expire on the 31st day of December 1846 and that his signature within written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of the said County the 10th day of October 1846
Moses Stevens Clerk
6862
Your obedt Servt to 28 Nov

PAID 10
Town Clerk Halifax Plymouth Co Mass

Ovid N.Y. Augt 22 d '46
Dear Sir
Will you oblige the surviving children of a former resident of your town by informing me whether their marriage is on your town or church records, to wit - Married in the early part of the year 1778 "Nehemiah Curtis to Hannah Standish" - please to answer upon this half sheet, giving me a copy of the record - Oblige Respectfully Adad Joy Town Clerk
Hulifun August 29. 1846
Mr Joy -
Sir agreeable to your request I have examined the Records of the town of Hulifun to find the Marriage of Nehemiah of Hulifun Cortes & Hannah Standish of Plympton it does not appear on record that they was married in Hulifun, it is most likely they were married in Plympton, their Publication Stands Recorded June 26. 1780 Nehemiah Cortes of Hulifun & Hannah Standish of Plympton have been lawfully published in Hulifun

I hereby certify that the foregoing inscription of Marriage between Jeremiah Cortis of Halifax and Hannah Stanchish of Plympton is a true Record of the town Book of Halifax as taken from said Records this 29 th day of August 1846
Attest Ludlock Thompson } Town Clerk of Halifax

Ovid N.Y. Nov 13th 46
Sir In your application, in case of Hannah Curtis, from the letter that I enclose it would seem, that she was married in June 1780 -
Respectfully Your Old Servt Abad Joy
Wm Lloyd Edwards Counsel of Purgers Washington - D.C.

State of New-York Tompkins County ss
I Miles Finch Deputy Clerk of said County do hereby certify that to Edmund G. Patten the Subscribed the within Certificate and before whom the within affidavits were taken was on the day of date thereof a Commissioner in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn in such and that full faith will be done due to him in that capacity and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Com- missioner and do well believe the within signature of "Edmund G. Patten" is his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County. By this fifth day of December 1821.
Miles Finch Dep. Clk. of said County
For a transfer Edmund G. Patten From Penn a to New York State
Endorsement of Patten John N. York

Application for a transfer.
State of New York Tompkins County
on this sixth day of December 1821
Before me, the subscriber, one of the Commissioners in the said County duly appointed to take affidavits, personally appeared Nehemiah Curtis, who on this oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Joshua Eddy in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Bradford in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of New York where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.
From the subscriber before me the day and year aforesaid
Nehemiah Curtis
Edmund G. Patten Commissioner
Nehemiah's application for transfer Pennsylvania to New York. Transferred 22 Jan 1822.
Sept 19