Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32784, Thomas Hancock, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Hancock Thomas
NUMBER
S. 32784
CONTENTS

8,787 Massachusetts
Thomas Hancock 4 of Braintree in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three Years War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of March 1819 and sent to Thomas B. Adams Esquire
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 88.49 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48. $ 136 49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Copies of papers sent to Hon. J. Q. Adams H.R. Jan 31. 1835
Publication in September 1835 New Hampshire To Hon. John Quincy Adams

Copies of papers sent to Hon. J. 2. Adams H.R. Jan 31. 1835
Notification sent September 25th 1820 to Sirs, Ware Judge C.C.C. Pleas. Norfolk Co. To her than Mass. 16

The Judge should certify he believes the man performed the 9 mo. to service
The seal of the Court is necessary
War Dept Pens. off. 1 day 1898
Thomas Hancock b. 1703 Shepherd Mass Regt From 1781 to the end of the war
The Dept of War is in need of clerks to call on as to callants are wanted
Quincy Mass, April 7 th
Free
The Secretary for the department of War
City of Washington
Mr. Bryan

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts Norfolk ss: April 3 rd . 1818.
I, Thomas Hancock a citizen of the United States, now resident at Braintree in the County of Norfolk in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the Land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a common soldier  as private soldier against the common enemy; from the month of March in the year 1781. until the end of the war, having served three months in a Company of the Massachusetts Militia of which Stearns of Peterham was Captain, previous to my enlisting in the Continental Service. That I belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Moore and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Shepherd of Longmeadow , having enlisted for three years, in the Massachusetts line and that I left the service at the end of the War, having received an honoura- ble discharge from Major General Knox and having been a forfeited in the Company aforesaid for the term of nine months or longer. And I further declare that I have not been able to find the missing part of my discharge, which had to it the signature of Maj. Gen. Henry Knox .
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
By reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of Assistance from my Country for Support Thomas Hancock
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third 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 ser- vice of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Thomas B Adams Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit.
the abovenamed Thomas Hancock 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.
Thomas B Adams

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk
ss.
On this third 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 Thomas Hancock of Braintree 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."
Norfolk ss
27 th Feby 1819.
The poverty of the applicant and his need of Assistance for support are affirmed by me the said Judge, and I have no doubt of his title to a pension by more than nine months continued service.
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Hancock 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.
Thomas B Adams.

Copy Schedule No of Thomas Hancock
8787 March 1819 cont? Sep 25 1820
Copy
Sep 1819

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NORFOLK, ss.—CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SPECIAL SESSION, JULY 17, 1820.
On this Eighteenth day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, 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 Hancock , aged fifty seven years, resident in Braintree in said County, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: As a private in Capt Moore's Company, Colonel Shepard, Regiment Massachusetts Line—his declaration was dated the third day of April 1818, his Pension Certificate is No 8787 and dated March 29th 1819
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.
Thomas Hancock
Sworn to and declared, on the 18 th day of July A. D. 1820 before
James Ware Judge of C. C. Com Pleas for S o Circuit
I, Horatio Townsend Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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 and _____ cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fourth day of July 1820
Horatio Townsend Clerk.

Schedule of property belonging to the subscriber late a private in the Army of the Revolution viz — Real Estate none Personal Estate none
Occupation — Stone Cutter — able at times to work in that employment — but the employment not good — but am very subject to the Rheumatism and at times laid up for two or three months at the time and during those times unable to do anything
Family — three — my wife self, wife & one child Thomas Hancock.

32 784 Ray INVALID.
File No. 32 784
Thomas Hancock
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 183
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Corporal Thomas Hancock in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given
the
By the General's Command
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Charles E. Dyer Adjutant