Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,289, Samuel Davis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mary
Davis, Daniel
S 34,289
CONTENTS

7610
Massachusetts
Samuel Davis
of Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grenon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th March 1819 and sent to Mrs. William Dey Salem Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $88.49 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48.
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Concurred
By application should be made for a new Certificate in order to withdraw Application sent July 26th 1820 to Michael Sherney, State Mass

Sam. Davis
***
Enlisted May 1775
20 months
Admitted

State of Massachusetts
I Samuel Davis a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven being one year & eight months.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Dodge in Colonel Gerrish's Regiment for eight months & to Captain Williams Bents Company in Colonel John Greaton's Regiment for one year
and that I left the service in December of January being honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty one years. My discharge is lost thro lapse of time & I have not any other evidence to offer than is herewith exhibited
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Samuel Davis
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Samuel Davis and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. I also certify that the Deponents within named are credible witnesses & have been duly sworn & are disinterested.
June 15 1858
Wm Wetmore

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gloucester depose & say that we are acquainted with the within named declarant & believe him to be in his circumstances in life reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his country for support & we vouch for his character for veracity called in question —
Isaac Elwell Charles L. Roberts
Sworn to 3 d April 1818.
Wm Wetmore Judge

7610
Sam l Davis
Mar 1819
Gloucester Co
age 64 coop r . disabl d from labor worth $8.00
Apr 1819
on this day of the seal of the said Court, as shown to said County of... In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presence of the said Court. The opinion of the said Court is that the said... from the record of the said... than the foregoing... RICHARD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Samuel Davis resident in G. Gloucester — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7,610 — 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, Samuel Davis — — — 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 third day of April — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .”
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“Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of March — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .”
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,
(No Real Estate.)
Pot, kettle, few old broken chairs, and few other household articles of trifling value and in family use. . . . . $ 8.00
He is sixty four years old - was a Cooper, but is wholly disabled from labour by the loss of his right leg amputated near the knee. He was maintained as a pauper till he got his pension, and if he loses it must seek refuge in the Alms house.
He has a wife aged 63 years infirm and sick, and an orphan grand child W m Davis aged 6 years.

The Declarant served as a year's man all 1776 in Capt. Bent's Company in Col. Greadon's Regi- ment in Massachusetts Line.
Samuel Davis.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Samuel Davis 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.
Sam t Davis
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Samuel Davis took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
eight dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 day of July A. D. 1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

34289 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,289
Samuel Davis
Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 29-1900 Miss Annie E. Rowe Rockport Mass.

I John Hanson of Gloucester in the county of Essex & commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of sixty three years testify & say: That I served as a private soldier in Capt. William Bents company, in the regiment of foot com- -manded by John Grafton in the Revo- -lutionary War in the service of the United States against the common enemy, from the beginning to the close of the year A D 1776. And Samuel Davis of said Gloucester was a soldier in the same company with me, and served during the whole of said year A D 1776. as a soldier in said company And I further testify that the said Samuel Davis here present, is the same Samuel Davis who served with me as aforesaid.
John Hanson Essex Jt. June 10. 1818. Then the above named John Hanson made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Cor. Lonson Nash. Jus. Paris

Free 20
25- P.M. Mar 22
J. L. Edwards Esq. Mar. 18. Secretary of the Pension Department, Washington City District of Columbia.

Glocester (Mass.) March 10, 1826.
Sir,
Since I wrote you in behalf of Samuel Davis of this Town, whose certificate, by which he received his Pension money, had been accidentally lost, the same has been found; and, of course, any further proceedings respecting it will be unnecessary.
Yours respectfully,
W. Whipple

34280 Samuel Davis
Jan 5. 1878 - 62 Gloucester Mass.
July May 1775
Capt. Dodge. Col. Gerrish
17 yr + 8 mos
Capt. Williams Lieut. Gorton
no Bal.
on

Rockport Massachusetts
June 21 - 1900
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me a statement of the military history of the following during the Revolutionary war.
Samuel Davis from Gloucester Mass. received a pension. He died about 1826. in Gloucester Mass. (in that part then Sandy Bay.) He did not leave a widow I think. if so her name was Margaret.

also of Ebenezer Rowe of Gloucester Mass. - he died in that part of Gloucester then Sandy Bay. abt 1827. he did not receive a pension but one was granted to his widow Deborah who died at Rockport Mass 1836. - at the time her pension was granted she lived in that part of Gloucester Mass. called Sandy Bay. I would like the service and all that is given of both.
Respectfully
(Miss) Annie E. Rowe
Box 574
Rockport Mass.