Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32795, Gardner Hammond, Navy. Mass. Residence And Agency

SERVICE
NUMBER
Navy
Hammond Gardner
S. 32795
Mass. residence and agency
CONTENTS

Information much as if 1820 to James B. [?] Boston
May 10, 624 1/2  Massachusetts.
Gardner Hammond of Boston in the state of Massachusetts who was a Mariner in the Alliance Frigate  Colonel Landais of the Navy line, for the term of seventeen months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of May 1819 and sent to Hon: John Davis, Boston.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819.  89.54    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819.  48 —    10 9/31 in  $137.54  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

No 110
Gardner Hammond
This case will be admitted when the Admiral certify to the reduced circum- stances of the applicant

I Gardiner Hammond of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Shipmaster, aged Sixty one years, declare and say that in the month of February or March A.D. 1779, I entered on board the United States Frigate Alliance, Peter Landais Esq. Commander, then lying in the Port of Brest in France, where she had then arrived from Boston aforesaid. —
I continued on board, in the Capacity of an Able Seaman, until and after her Arrival in Boston in August 1780 — when the Ship was hauled to the end of Long Wharf & stripped — I then received a regular discharge, which I have since lost —
Our Service was principally on the Coast of Ireland, Scotland, England, North Sea, through the British Channel, Bay of Biscay &c. &c. And in executing the Service we made a number of Captures, among which were (in Company with Paul Jones in the Bon Homme Richard) his Britannic Majesty's Ship Serapis of Forty four Guns, Richard Pearson Commander, and Countess of Scarborough & Union of twenty two Guns each — Boston 30 th March 1818 — G Hammond
Massachusetts District
Suffolk ss. Boston March 1818. Then personally appeared Capt. Gardiner Hammond and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed before me M c David's Justice of the Peace Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

William Earle of Boston, Aged fifty three Years declare and say that I was a Seaman on board the Bon Homme Richard, in the Action within mentioned and after the Action, went with our People on board the Alliance the Bon Homme Richard being in sinking Condition, & Sunk soon after the Action was was Among the Crew of the Alliance I well knew Mr. Gardner Hammond within named - and I and Mr. Hammond Continued on board of the Alliance from the time of said Action, until her Arrival in until her Arrival in Boston, as within stated - I lost a Leg in the Action and am now a Pensioner - William Earle Boston 30 th March 1818 -
Massachusetts District
Suffolk ss. Boston March 30. 1818 - Then personally appeared William Earle, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above declaration by him sub- scribed - before me
Instead of the fore
M c Deer's
Dist d Judge
Mass. Dist.

Mass. Dist. S. Boston 13. July 1818. And now the said Gardner Hammond further declares on oath and says, That he is in such reduced circumstances of life, as to stand in need of assistance from his country for support. Gardner Hammond
Mass Dist
July 13. 1818
Prison to be open for
M. Davis
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston July, 13 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Gardner Hammond 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 testimo- ny 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 a pension to the widows and children of certain soldiers who have been killed in the service of the United States."
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
8. April - 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Gardner Hammond by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston July, 13 A. D. 18 18.
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Gardner Hammond 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 persons 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 A 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.
McDowall
Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Gardner Hammond
10, 624
a copy of the probate May 19
th now
regarding the
legacy
before any decision
can be had in
this case

District of Massachusetts, ss.
3
ON this Ninth day of June 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. a Special District Court of the United States for the said District, Sumner aged Seventy three years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, Seaman who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: as a Mariner on board the Alliance Frigate by Landers in the Navy of the United States. My Declaration was dated on the 30 March 1818 and my Pension Certificate 15 May 1819 and Number 10624
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th 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.
G. H. Ammons
Sworn to and declared, on the Ninth day of June A. D. 1820 before
W. Davis { Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 Fifty dollars and _____ cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Ninth day of June 1820
John W. Davis { Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule of Property belonging to the Subscribers late a Master in the Navy of the U. S. during the Revolutionary War.
Real Estate None
Personal Estate. an income of Fifty Dollars per Annum bequeathed to me by John Fullerton.
Occupation. Farmer but unable to follow the Sea in consequence of my infirmities
Family. a Wife. no Children at home
J. H. Cannon

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Massachusetts Schedule
Recd 7 Oct 1820
John D. Sleeper Oct 19 Washington

The following is an Extract from the last Will and Testament of John Fullerton late of Boston deceased  "Item I give, devise, and bequeath to my Son in law Capt. Gardner Hammond of Boston, husband of my late Daughter Elizabeth Hammond, the sum of Fifty Dollars per annum during her Natural life, to be paid to her by my Executor. Secondly, from the time of my decease, out of the rents, and income of my Real Estate, or otherwise secured to her to her satisfaction, by my Executor, or residuary legatee hereafter mentioned."
Commonwealth Massachusetts.
Suffolk. ss. Boston. October 2 nd 1820. I Samuel Blagge Notary Public by legal Authority appointed, I swear that the preceding document in Boston aforesaid certify, that the preceding extract of the last Will and Testament of John Fullerton deceased is a true and correct Copy of the Original, as carefully compared and examined by me the said Notary. And I do further certify, that the Will alluded to, was approved by the Hon. Thomas D. Dorr, Judge of Probate for the County of Suffolk at a Court held at Boston on the 26 th day of April 1819. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal of Office. the day & year first above written.  S. Blagge Notary Public

Invalid Rey WIDOW, &c. Mary
File No. 132495
Gardner Hammond Mariner Infate Alliance Rev War
Act 18th March 1818
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]
518

United States,
Massachusetts District.
Thomas Luce of Tisbury, in the county of Dukes County and District of Massachusetts, maketh oath that he served as a mariner on board the United States Frigate Alliance commanded by Peter Landais, from April 1779 until August 1780, and that he well knows Gardiner Hammond to have faithfully served as a mariner on board the said Frigate during that term —
Mass'ts Dist. July 13. 1810
Thos. Luce
Sworn to before me W. Davis P. C.