Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32811, Samuel Handy, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Handy Samuel
S. 32811
CONTENTS
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9227 R Massachusetts.
Samuel Handy, Somerset, in the state of Massach ts . who was a private in the regiment commanded by colonel H. Jackson, of the Massach ts . ne, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9. of April, 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 9. of April, 19. and sent to Jairus Ware, judge Wrentham, Norfolk co. Mass ts .
  arrears to 4th of March, 1819.  86.90     emi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept.  48. "     22 1819. }      O mo 30 }   $: 134.90    4 31 }      { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Modification sent Sep 15. 1820 to Jas. Sproat Clerk of Ct. of Bristol Co. Durham Mass

A Copy of David Armstrong's Letter of Guardianhip over Samuel Heandy.
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TO THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE INSTRUCTIONS SHALL COME. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

(18) Bristol ss.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
The Honourable HODIJAH BAYLIES , Esquire, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. in the County of Bristol, within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
SENDETH GREETING.
WHEREAS it hath been made to appear to me, by the inquisition of the selectmen of the town of  taken and returned to me as the law directs, that Samuel Handy of Somerset in said County is a person who by excessive drinking and idleness does so spend waste and lessen his estate as thereby to expose himself and Family to want and suffering circumstances and the Town of Somerset to charge and expence for his and their maintenance and support.
Therefore, Know Ye, That I the said Judge, trusting in the care and fidelity of David Anthony of said Somerset Esquire - have, and by these presents do (pursuant to the power and authority to me granted in and by an act or law of the said Commonwealth, entitled, "An act empowering the Judges of Probate to appoint Guardians to minors and others,") assign and appoint the said David - to be guardian of the said Samuel - hereby directing and empowering him in said capacity, to take care, as well of the person as estate, both real and personal, of the said Spenthurst and to make a just and true inventory of the said estate, to be exhibitted into the Register's office of Probate for the County aforesaid: and the said guardian shall improve, frugally, and without waste and destruction, the estate afore mentioned, and apply the annual profits and incomes thereof for the comfortable maintenance and support of the said Spenthurst and also of his household or family (if any such he have.) And the said guardian is hereby empowered to settle accounts, receive, and (if need be) sue for, and recover, all such just debts as are due to the said Spenthurst from any person or persons whomsoever; and to manage, improve, divide, or take care of his real estate, in as full and ample a manner as he would or might do, were he not a Spenthurst
And the said guardian shall also pay all such just debts as are owing from the said Spenthurst out of his personal estate; or in case that be not sufficient, then out of his real estate, (being first empowered to make sale thereof, or of such part thereof as shall be sufficient for that end, by the Supreme Judicial Court, upon application to them made therefor) and he shall render a plain and true account of his guardianship, when and so often as he shall be thereunto lawfully required.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this Fourth First day of May June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
H. Baylies
A true copy from the original.
Attest. Francis Baylies - Register.

Sam Hardy
On rolls of Webb's Co. } R.I. Sherburne's Regt. } Line.
Adm.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Bristol ss.
On this ninth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Samuel Handy aged _____ years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."

And I hereby certify that from evidence obtained I believe the applicant poor and needing the assistance of his country for support
Further
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Handly did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818,
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

I Samuel Handy of Samment in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & a Citizen of the United States on oath Do Certify and say that I enlisted in the United States Service in April 1779 under Capt Jonathan Brown and place in the Company of Capt James Webb in under Col Henry Sheburn & as near as I recollect in the Sixth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line and served the term of three years under Capt James Webb first & in under the following Colonels during the three years Col Henry Sheburn & Col Henry Jackson till I was Regularly Discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey on or about the first of June 1782 When I was Regularly Discharged from said Service by Col Henry Jackson a " "
I Do further Testify and say that I have lost my Discharge from said Service
& also that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life that I Do stand in need of assistance from my Country for Support -
Rehoboth. April 9 th Day 1818
Samuel Handy Mark

David Anthony Guardian to Samuel Handy
No 9227
April 1819
bond. 15 sep
1820
BM
Sep '19

{ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Circuit Court of Common Pleas. }
Bristol ss. On the fifteenth fourteenth day of July, Anno Domini 1820, personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, David Anthony of Somerset, in said County Esquire, Guardian of Samuel Hlandy of said Somerset, labourer; and made oath that the said Hlandy is now a lunatic person, and incapable of taking an oath; and that the said Hlandy is a pensioner, inscribed on the list of the Massachusetts Agency, as by his Certificate numbered 9227 appears; and that he the said Anthony, as Guardian of said Hlandy, has twice received the money due said Hlandy as such pensioner. And the said Anthony further made oath that the said Hlandy is entirely destitute of property of any kind: That he is eighty years of age, and is a town pensioner, as has been for fourteen years: That he the said Anthony has no doubt of the truth of said Hlandy's former declaration, which the Certificate accompanying this, more fully substantiates.
David Anthony
{ No Property }
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 17 th day of July 1820
before me. James Sproat. Clerk of the Court, Bristol County.
I, Thomas Hlandy, of lawful age to give evidence as testify and say; That I am well acquainted with Samuel Hlandy, who, in my judgment, is a lunatic. I do not recollect the period of his enlistment, but I well knew of his serving in Capt. Webb's Company in the Regiment of Col. Shelburne, in the Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment: And that he enlisted in said Company, & served for three years, and at the expiration of said term he was regularly discharged by Col. Jackson in the State of New York; and that he is eighty years old, and that he has no family, and has no property, and is supported by the Town of Somerset.
Thomas Hlandy
Bristol ss. July 17 th 1820. Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber, the above named Thomas Hlandy, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed.
before me
Wm. S. Spooner. Justice of the Peace.
I James Sproat, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the 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 above said Schedule is nothing. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this fourth day of August 1820.
Ja. Sproat, Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.

32811 Rev INVALID.
File No. 82,811
Samuel Handy Dr Rev Par
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Handy, Sethel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4319 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 26, 1790 To John May
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.