Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32771, Thomas Grush, N.H.

SERVICE
N. 16.
Grush, Thomas
NUMBER
S. 32771
CONTENTS

10,705
Massachusetts
Thomas Grist 4
of Marblehead in the state of Mass who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Kelley of the N. Hampshire 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 10th of Sept 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of May 1819 and sent to D. & H. White Esq. Valley, Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 5 m. 21 d.  46.63    semi-ann. all'ce ending 1st Sept 1819  48.00     $94.63  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Note for June Nov 21 1820 to Chas. D. D. D. ...

32771 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,771
Thomas Grush
Rev Me
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 498
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Johnson Gratton Private
Col. Gilley's Regiment New Hampshire Line 1777-3 years
Correct by Roll

I Thomas Grush of Marblehead in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare that I served in the Army of the United States in the war of the Revolution and on the continental establishment as follows. I enlisted on the sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the Company commanded by Thomas Emerson in Colonel Joseph Scitelys Regiment General Pains Brigade New Hampshire line to serve for three years and did my duty faithfully therein until the 20th day of March 1800 when I received an honorable discharge - but I have since lost it - I do further declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of the assistance of my country for support.
I was at the Battle at Monmouth, Trenton & at Still water - That he is in his fifty ninth year of age.
Sep. 10. 1810.
Thomas Grush
I Richard Wheeler of Marblehead in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath depose and testify that I am well acquainted with the above named Thomas Grush. I knew him in the American Revolutionary war - I was in the same Brigade with him under General Pains, but not in the same Regt.
I know he was in the service all the year of 1777, 1778 and 1779 - He is Grush was a three years man, I was during the whole war from 1776 to 1783.
Richard Wheeler
Essex ss. Sept. 8 th 1810. Then Richard Wheeler mark personally subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit.
Cyrus Ralph M c Clusky Jus. Peace

I Nathaniel Stacey of Salem in Massachusetts on oath testify:
That I know I know Thomas Grush of Marblehead served three years in the Conti- nental Army 1777-1778, and 1799 - I was not in the same company or Regiment; but I often saw him in the service: He was an old acquaintance Nathaniel Stacey
Essex ss: Sept. 10. 1818 Then Nathaniel Stacey a credible & disinterested witness subscribed & made oath to the above before me Benjamin Russell Just. Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex
I Daniel White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said county do certify that Thomas Grush afore- named personally appeared on the Tenth day of September A.D. 1818. & made the foregoing declaration by him signed under oath before me. That the foregoing affidavits of Richard Wheeler & Nathaniel Stacey, both credible & disinterested witnesses were duly taken as above certified. and That it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Grush served in the revolutionary war, as set forth in his said declaration, & That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country

for support.
Given under my hand & the seal of the said This tenth day of September in the year aforesaid.
D. H. H. de.

Thomas Grush
10,765 May '77
C
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Ichabod Crane Salon

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, Thomas Grush resident in Marblehead in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10,765 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, Thomas Grush 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 tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** * L. S. * *****
Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of May - one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
L. G. CALHOUN, Secretary of War, J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the 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, Has no estate either real or personal.
He is sixty years old, is a labourer but unable to work by reason of an asthmatic affection, and has no family. Declarant entered the service on the sixteenth of March 1777 in Col Silliy's Reg t Capt. Amos Emerson's company for three years, was in the battles at Still water, Monmouth, and in 1779 went with Genl Sullivan to scout the Indians. Was honourably discharged on 20 th of March 1780, at a place called Newtown, in Connecticut.
Thomas Grush

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. William Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Grush 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.
Thomas Grush
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Thomas Grush took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Wm 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
dollars  nothing
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 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk