Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32815, Thomas Hadley, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hadley, Thomas
S. 32815
CONTENTS

No letter to Agent 8 Sep 1825
Notication sent to Abraham Bigelow Esq r 22 d September 1820 Cambridge Massachusetts
16.038 Q
Massachusetts
Thomas Hadley
of Meaford in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bond of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Ten Months
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 21 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of March and sent to John N. Davis Esq r Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 137.31
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1820 48.00
17 Mch 31 3/4
$185.31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

No 103
Thomas Hadley
Private
Nov 75 to Oct 11 th 76
= new service must Bond Map to (Precipice)
Rest
Admitted
3. Nov. 1819. Further Affidavit of Applicant is offered.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Thomas Hadley of Medford, in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Continental , do hereby say that I served as a private in the war of the Revolution in different companies, & at different periods - and that I served nine months & upwards, in Capt. Hatch's Company, in Col. Bond's Regiment at the time of my discharge which accompanies this Affidavit. Medford March 31. 1818 Thomas Hadley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
We the subscribers, Selectmen & Magistrates of the Town of Medford in the County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Hadley an inhabitant of said Town of Medford, & a resident Citizen of the United States, is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of Assistance from his Country for his support, We likewise certify that we have examined the above affidavit of this date, stating his having served in the American Army of the Revolution, & we give full credit to the truth of the same, & sincerely believe that he is entitled to & hope that he will receive the pension allowed by Law - Medford March 31. 1818
Luther Stearns
Selectmen of Medford
Isaacher Magoon
Nathl. Hall Justice of the Peace
Abner Bartlett L. Brant.
TO THE DEPT

discharge which accompany this Affidavit Medford March 31. 1818 Thomas Hadley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
We the subscribers, Selectmen & Magistrates of the Town of Medford in the County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Hadley an inhabitant of said Town of Medford, & a resident Citizen of the United States, is by reason of his reduced circumstances in like in need of Assistance from his Country for his Support, We likewise certify that we have examined the above affidavit of this date, Stating his having served in the American Army of the Revolution, & we give full credit to the truth of the same, & sincerely believe that he is entitled to & hope that he will receive the pension allowed by Law - Medford March 30. 1818
Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston 6 June A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Thomas Hadley 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 pensions 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 1. 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. D. D. [Signature]
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

discharge which accompany this Affidavit Medford March 31. 1818 Thomas Hadley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
We the subscribers, Selectmen & Magistrates of the Town of Medford in the County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Hadley an inhabitant of said Town of Medford, & a resident Citizen of the United States, is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of Assistance from his Country for his Support, We likewise certify that we have examined the above affidavit of this date, Stating his having served in the American Army of the Revolution, & are fully credulous to the truth of the same, & sincerely believe that he is entitled to & hope that he will receive the pension allowed by Law - Medford March 30. 1818
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
July 3 d
1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Thomas Hadley by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Massachusetts District } Boston 31. March 1818 }
The within Affidavit sworn to before me
M Davis Dist d Judge M. Dist d

United States Massachusetts Dist. } ss
Thomas Hadley the aforementioned Deponent now further deposes and says, that in May 1775, he enlisted as a private in Capt. Naylor Hatch's Company, Colonel Greenleaf's  afterwards Bond's Regiment, Massachu- setts Line, & faithfully did his duty as a soldier in said Company until October A.D. 1776, when he was honorably discharged, as appears by the Discharge heretofore produced. And he further declares, that he is in such reduced circumstances in life as to need the assis- tance of his Country for support. He witnessed to the
Thomas Hadley
Massachusetts Dist. ss.
Boston 30. October 1819
Sworn to before me
W. Davis Judge Mass Dist. Ct.

173.
Thomas Hadley Medford
16,038
Nov. 1819 cont 21 pp 1820

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 June 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, Thomas Hadley resident at Medford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 16038, 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 Hadley of Medford State of Mass 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 first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen."
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of November one thousand eight hundred and nineteen C Van Rensselaer acting  J. MONROE , 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,
  11 old chairs, of the value of $1 00   1 old maple table 0 50   1 pine do 0 50   1 light stand 0 25   1/2 dozen tea cups & saucers 0 25   Tea pot & sugar bowl 0 33   Looking glass & pine chest, etc 1 00   Pair audirns, shovel & tongs 1 00   1 silver tea spoon 0 25   4 old knives, & forks 0 20   1 iron pot & tea kettle 1 50   Iron skillets, & old family bible etc 0 66   4 yz shovels, 200 old pins, etc 2 33   Iron bar and 2 old loes 1 83 
his Thomas H. Hadley mark

He served in the Massachusetts line of the Army as follows viz, enlisted in Capt. Nathan Haskell's company Col. Bowdoin's Regt Massachusetts line January first 1776 for a year served until eleventh of October following was then discharged on account of my being sick, I shall be sixty two years old in ext. July have followed farming and boating on Mystic River principally since the war but for some time past have been and still am wholly unable to do work of any kind I have in my family my wife and my son Richard aged twenty four who is a great invalid and unable to support himself by labor or otherwise, I have no income what- soever
Thomas his H. Bradley mark
Sworn to & declared before Mrs. Wetmore Judge etc "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Thomas Bradley 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 Bradley mark
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Thomas Bradley took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore 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
eleven dollars & sixty cents
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 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Mount Independence Oct r 11 1778
These Certify that Thomas Hadley soldier in Capt. Hatchs Comp y in the late Col d Rende Regim t is under length for further service this Campaign. By request &c. hereby recommended for a Discharge Luther Waterman M aj or to Capt. Simeon Hatch
In consequence of the Above Certificate and Convinced that the Complaint of Thomas Hadley, is not justified, I do recommend the said Thomas Hadley soldier Capt. Hatchs Comp y of the Regim t . Under my Command, Aged Eighteen Years, five feet three Inches high, Black hair Black Eyes Dark Complexion belonging to the Town of Chelsea; as a proper person to be Discharged from the Army of the United States of America to the Hon ble Major General Gates Commander at Saratoga

I Thomas Hadley do Acknowledge that I have Received all my pay & Bricars due of all kinds due to me for my service in the Army of the United States of America
Thomas Hadley
Thomas Hadley soldier in Captain Hatch's Comp. in the late Col. Borden's Regiment is for the reasons above mentioned Disch d from the service of the United States of America
Thomas Hadley
Given at New Bedford this 11 th Day of October 1861
Horatio Gates Major General
A
Thomas Hadley
Thank you for this

32,815
Thos Hadley
mol. 31-1818 .59 Medford Mass
Day 76. ————— mass Cpt. Nathl. Hatch Cal Bond Deb. Oct. 11, 76
No Deb

32815 Reg INVALID.
File No. 32,815-
Thomas Hadley
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 22-1901 Nelson A. Miller, Medford Mass