Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,474, Reuben Haynes, Mass.

SERVICE
Haynes, Reuben
NUMBER
S. 30.474
CONTENTS

Letter to Hon. C. Hudson & S d Ando. 27. April 1844
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 th April 1838 from 4 March to 13 th April 1841. after Notified 5 June 1844.
N o 420
Massachusetts
Reuben Haynes
Worcester 6 o in the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Holden of the Reg t commanded by Col. Nixon in the Mass. Militia line for three years from March 1777 to March 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 120 Dollars & Cents per acre. to commence on the 5 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Sept 1832 and sent to petitioner Gardner, Worcester 6 o Mass s
Arrears to 5 th of March 1832 120. Pension, allowance ending 14 Sept " 60 $180
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by
R. E. Lee
Clerk.
Book
D
Vol.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss
In this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally before appeared before me Nathl. Farny Judge of Probate. Reuben Haynes a resident of Gardner in the County of Worcester aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 - That in the year 1818 he was placed on the pension roll, under the pension Act of March 18 1818, and & that in the year 1820 (as he believes) he was struck from the same on account of his property. That in the month of March 1777 he enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt. Abel Holden's Company, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Dixon, of Gen. John Nixon's Brigade - That he served as a Sergeant in said Company three years, & was discharged in March 1780 in the High- lands State of New York - That he lived in the

Said town of Lancaster, which place on the pension roll in 1878, & now & ever since has resided in said town - & that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid - Reuben Hagner
Worcester ss August 7 th 1832
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before me Nathl. Farnes Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Worcester
Worcester ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Probate Court at Worcester on the First Tuesday August AD 1832 - and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named application was a revolutionary soldier and served as the states. Nathl. Farnes Judge of the Probate Court for Worcester County -
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate Court for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the Original Recordings of the said Probate Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Hagner for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court, this seventh day of August A.D. 1832. Theoph us Wheeler Reg of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts

Reuben Haynes.

Schedule.
Declaration, in order to be continued on the Pension List, under the act of May 1st. 1820.
County of Worcester ss.
On this fifteenth day of April 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the county of Worcester Reuben Haynes resident in said county, aged seventy four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress, of the 18 th March, 1818, and the 1 st of May, 1820: that he the said Reuben enlisted for the term of three years on the first day of March in the year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by captain Abel Holden in the regiment commanded by colonel Thomas Vions in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps (or vessel) until Mar. 1 st 1780 when he was discharged from the service in Fishkill heights in the State of New York that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present; that his name has been placed on the pension list; that the number of his pension certificate is 2621; and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property, because he was told that he could not be restored to the Pension list if his property exceeded two hundred dollars, & as it did exceed that sum, he has never before exhibited a schedule of his property.
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May, 1820. I do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) 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 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 & naval service of the United

States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18 th day of March, 1818; 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. That, since the 18 th of March, 1818, the following changes have been made in my property, as stated in the annexed statement.
Reuben Haynes.
Sworn to, and declared, on the fifteenth day of April, 1820 before the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for said county.
Attest. Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
I Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Reuben Haynes did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, (or affirmation,) and the schedule statement thereto annexed, are truly copied 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 eight hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy seven cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth day of June, 1820.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

A schedule of the property of Reuben Haynes of Gardner in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts as appraised by W m Whitney, Jacob Woodbury and Parley Haw upon oath.
Real Estate.
Eighty five acres of land laying on the north side of the town of Gardner adjoining Winchendon with the buildings thereon standing. appraised at $ 600.00
Personal Estate
  one yoke of oxen appraised at  72.50    one horse nineteen years old at  10.00    one cow 12, and 2 two year old heifers 25, at  37.    one yearling steer 5, and one farrow cow 13  18.    ten sheep at 20 two swine at 8  28.  
Farming tools.
  1 old hay $2. one old wagon 3. three old plows 4.  09.    one old cart & wheels 2.50 one ox yoke 0.75  03.25    one iron bar 0.75 two old pitch forks 0.12  00.87    one old dung fork 0.50 one shovel 0.50  01.00    two old chains 1.25 one axe 0.75  12.00    one old sled 0.50 - one scythe & snath 1.00  01.50    two old rages 0.25 one shave 0.50  10.75    lot of old iron 50  00.50    1 lot of english hay 18. do. swamp hay 5.  23.00  
Household Furniture
  one old iron kettle 1.50 - two dish kettles 1.50  03.00    one iron pot 1.00 - two spiders 0.75  01.75    one shovel & tongs 0.50 one old table 0.25  00.75    one old looking glass 0.25 nine old casks 0.90  01.15    Three old cyder barrels 0.75  00.75  
Reuben Haynes.
$ 814.77 3/4
We the Subscribers hereby certify that we have appraised upon oath at the present true value in cash all the property

mentioned in the within schedule signed by Reuben Haynes and have set what in our opinion is the true value thereof to each article and carried out the same which amounts in the whole to eight hundred and fourteen dollars & seventy seven cents.
Dated at Gardner this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine.
Wm Whitney Jacob Woodbury Perley Howe.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss
March 16th 1829 Personally appeared the above named Wm Whitney, Jacob Woodbury, and Perley Howe & made solemn oath that they would faithfully and impartially appraise all the property shown to them in the within schedule both real & personal at the present true value thereof in money according to their best judgment & discretion.
Before me Smyrna Glazier Just. of the Peace
Statement of the property of Reuben Haynes and the changes therein since Mar. 18. 1818.
The undersigned at his advanced period of life is unable to state very minutely the property he possessed Mar. 18. 1818. & the changes therein since. Possessing a small farm having a very small income & few contracts to make he has preserved very few vouchers & can make only general statements.
In 1818 Mar. 18 as near as he can recollect he possessed the following property - to wit - the same real estate as is included in his schedule hereto annexed & no more - He had he supposes because at that period he generally kept one pair of oxen & three cows & probably one or two young cattle and ten sheep - from that period to the present time he has generally kept about the same stock. He had then and now a horse as stated in his schedule. In all other respects his personal property has

remained about the same except that his farming tools are nearly worn out. He has had very little income from his farm except from the sale of some cattle or beef & lambs several years of the period in question. The following is the best statement he can make in compliance with the rules of the department.
1 Pair of oxen sold to W m Penniman Sept 1821 for $93 in cash 2 2 year old steers — do. } for the fair cattle. 1 pair 4 year old steers sold to W m Penniman 1824. Price not recollected Exchanged oxen with Phinehas Whitney } 1826 received $9 in the exchange Six Sheep Joel Page 1826 for $1.50 & 1.67 each in cash
He further states that he has at other times sold some lambs 2 or 3 for several years since 1827 at the prices stated in 1826. He has never sold any hay or grain. Probably some other small articles the products of his land & labour have been from time to time sold by the undersigned, but they were of small value and no accurate statement thereof can now be made. Of the $93. received in 1821 $40 were paid to Simon Gannett for a yoke of steers. The balance was expended to pay debts & interest which he owed. He has consumed the wool he has grown in his own family. He has made only sufficient butter & cheese for his own family.
I Reuben Haynes of lawful age testify and say that my occupation has always been that of a farmer that I am seventy four years of age & have been unable to work at all for the past two years that I have in my family a wife 69 years of age, three daughters Ruth aged thirty three years Rebecca aged thirty one years & Asenath aged twenty seven years & a grandson Reuben Haynes aged 16 years — that said Rebecca is & for more than a year past has been unable to perform much labour & that my said daughters are entitled to their own earnings, but have sometimes done

Something toward my support. — I further testify that I am now justly indebted to several persons to the amount of above $450. —
Reuben Haines.
True copies of the Schedule and statement.
Attest. Abijah Bigelow, (L.S.)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. April 6th 1829 personally appear- ed Benjamin Stone of Gardner in said County of Worcester and made oath that he, as Guardian holds a note against Reuben Haynes of said Gardner of the sum of two hundred and ninety nine Dollars and forty two cents bearing date August the 27th 1827 with interest which money is due to minor heirs, children of Willer Haynes who died in the year A.D. 1817 and became due to said minors on the set- tlement of the said Willer's Estate as the said Reuben has set forth in his declaration Sworn to before me Smyrna Glazier Just. Peace
Worcester ss. April 6th 1829 personally appear- ed John Eaton and made oath that he holds a note against Reuben Haynes of Gardner in said County of Worcester of the sum of for- ty Dollars bearing July 27th 1824 with interest it being for Cash lent and remains wholly unpaid except a part of the interest Sworn to before me Smyrna Glazier Just. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Court, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Smyrna Glazier is, and at the time of making the above certificate was, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Worcester, duly qualified to act in said Office, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts as such Justice of the Peace, and that the above certifi- cates are in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the County Seal of said County. June 13. 1829. Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Forster ss. April 8th 1829 personally appeared Enos Kelton Eliam Kelton and Perley Howe all freeholders and inhabitants of the Town of Gardner and living in the neighbourhood of Reuben Haynes of said Gardner and made severally made oath that before Smyrna Glazier Esqr one of the justices of the peace for the County of Worcester to the following affidavit by them subscribed
We the subscribers hereby certify that Reuben Haynes the person by whom the annexed declaration was sub- scribed is generally reputed and believed to be a Man of truth and veracity, and we have no hesitation in saying that we believe that his statements are all correct and true we have been personally and intimately acquainted with the said Haynes from thirty to forty years and do testify and say that he has been an industrious Man and has managed his farm as men generally do who are in moderate circumstances, but the soil being or- dinary and having a large family to support we are confident that he has not laid up money, but has rather gone behindhand, his family has consisted of one son and Seven Daughters four of whom are married the other three now live at home with their father, the youngest is twentyseven years of age, his son married and settled with his father and died in the year 1817 and left a widow and three Children, and matters were so situated that the said Haynes was obliged to run in debt between three and four hundred Dollars to settle with the widow and guardian for the Children, which money he still owes to Benja Stone and John Eaton and others which sums we believe it is impossible for him to pay and support his family he being now seventy four years of age
Enos Kelton
Eliam Kelton
Perley Howe
Subscribed and sworn to this 8th day of April A.D. 1829 before me Smyrna Glazier justice of peace I hereby certify that the above Deponants are considered and reputed to be Credible Men
Smyrna Glazier J. P.

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Massachusetts Roll
Reuben Haynes
Sergeant
Massachusetts line - 1777 - 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Sept r 1818 and forwarded to Edward D. Bangs Esq r Worcester Massachusetts. —
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 34.93   Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar. 1819 32.00   Arrears 4 Mo - 11/30 $66.93 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Springfield, Jan y 1819
Reference sent to Abigail Weston, Worcester Mass 11 June 1829

P.O. Aug 14. 1832
Revolutionary Papers
Free
Hon. Lewis Cass Esquire
Secretary of War of the United States City of Washington
D.C.
Westminster Mass Aug 8 -

Guadalupe Augt. 8. 1832
To the Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War of the United States.
Sir If I am pleased on the answer list. Please to send my certificate to the Post Office in Guadalupe with great Respect &c. &c.
Reuben Haynes

30474 Ry INVALID.
File No. 30474
Reuben Haynes
serg Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 2 nd , 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The child ren of Reuben Haynes, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of One hundred & twenty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the State of Massachusetts  1832 , has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March — to the 13 th April 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

State of Massachusetts  Reuben Haynes
Gardner a Citizen of the United States, now resident at in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first day of March in the year of our Lord seven hundred and seventy seven -
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 first day of March in the year of our Lord seven hundred and eighty -
as a commissioned officer against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the Massachusetts line. General John Nixon's Brigade, Col. Thomas Nixon's Regt. and Capt. Abel Holden's Company being the sixth Massachusetts Regt. -
and that I left the service on the first day of March A.D. 1780 - when I was honorably discharged from the said service and my discharge is lost or mislaid & cannot be found and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life now now I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty three years -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. Reuben Haynes
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 24 th 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,
George C. C. Com. places Weston Green the abovenamed Reuben Haynes
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 du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
with the seal of the Court
Col. B. Bangs

Barbara Waynes
24 Apr
Botanella
DA
Admitted

1847

I Joseph Balcom of Templeton in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, of lawful age do testify and declare - That I am well acquainted with the within named Reuben Haynes. That I am knowing to his serving "in the war of the Revolution in the continen- tal establishment". That he was a non commission- ed Officer in the Company in which I was Ensign at the same period. & I have no doubt that he was honorablely discharged from the said service at the time within mentioned - and further, that I believe the statement made within by the said Haynes is all true -
Joseph Balcom
Worcester ss. April 22 nd 1818 Then the above named Joseph Balcom personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement before me Josiah Stone Jus. Peace
This may certify that Serjt Reuben Haynes of my Company in the 6 th Mass t Regiment had four pounds Ten Shillings stopped from his State note for a Fire Arm and Accoutrements, which at his discharge he returned into the Arm Chest of said Regiment
Walter Holden Capt 6 th Mass t Regiment
March 1. 1780
To all concerned

Reuben Haggis Case -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss. I, Elijah Bigelow, clerk of the limit court of common Pleas, of within and for said county of Worcester, do certify that James Draper (junior, b. 1809), before whom the within affidavit has been made, is a jus- tice of the Peace, within and for said county, duly qualified for the purpose; acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that his name, subscribed thereto, is his own proper sig- nature. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, this tenth day of July, Anno Domini 1875.
Elijah Bigelow, Clerk.

I Jesse Berris of Spencer in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman of lawfull age do testify and say, that sometime in the month of April A. D. 1777 I first saw Mr. Robert Haynes who at Springfield Mass, who had previously enlisted as a Serjeant under Abel Holden as Captain, in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas Nixon, I being a Serjeant, likewise, in the same Company, and I am per- sonally knowing that the said Robert Haynes served in the Company and Regiment aforesaid, full three years in the Continental Establishment faithfully, and I have good reason to believe was honourably discharged on or about the first day of March A. D. 1780. And I further testify that I was well acquainted with said Haynes during said term, and that during the whole of said term the said Haynes performed all the duties assigned him, faithfully and to the satisfaction of his superior officers.
Jesse Berris
Worcester ss. Spencer July 7-1818
Then the above named Jesse Berris came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed, and I hereby certify that the said Jesse Berris is a man of truth and veracity and fully entitled to credit
James D. Drape for Jus. Peace