Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,280, James Haynes, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Haynes, James.
NUMBER _____
S 33 280
CONTENTS

13.970 R
Massachusetts
James Haynes
Fitchburg in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1812
certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of July 1813 and sent to Judge John Davis Boston Massachusetts
  years to 4th of  Mar 1819  85.83    mi-anl. all'ce ending  Sep 1819  48.00    \frac{18}{30} \frac{4}{31}   $133.83  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
James Haynes Revolutionary War Pension Massachusetts
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
26. June 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, James Haynes 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.
M Davis { Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Borrow June 12 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that James Haynes 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 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 c Dow } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

The applicant refers to the correspondence roll at the War Office. He never fulfilled fulfilled as to his enlistment.
Before me D. Davis D.O.
No 374
James Haynes (Private)
Nixon's Regt. Maf. Line
Dec r 1775 for 1 year
Aff d 13 th April 1810
Admitted
Fitzburg B. Off ce
Wanted, the Certificate of the Judge, that Applicant, in his belief, is in "reduced circumstances in life, &c."
New Evidence marked A & B

United States
Massachusetts District
James Haynes of Fitchburg in the county of Worcester and District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under an act entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war made oath that he served in the revolutionary war one year in manner following: viz - Enlisted in December 1775 in the company commanded by Captain Wheeler in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon and served in said corps one year when he was honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require aid from his country -
James Haynes
Massachusetts District ss.
Boston 13. April 1818.
I swear to before me
M c Dowell
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

Schedule of the Estate of James Haynes of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
  1 chest drawers (old) $2.00 1 chest with 2 drawers 1.50 $3.50   Looking Glass $1.00 table $1.00 light stands .50 2.50   four chairs at 50c each tea table $1.50 warming-pan .75 4.25   Kitchen table .50 six kitchen chairs at 12 1/2 cts each 1.25   Brass Kettle $2.00 dish kettle .50 spider .50 3.00   tea kettle .75 Iron Skillet .25 shovel & tongs .50 1.50   Toasting Iron .25 two water pails .30 pair andirons .50 1.05   Paster Platters and plates (old) 12 to a 20 pr set 2.40   1 doz tea cups & saucers .50 20 Earthen plates .60 1.10   4 bowls .30 1 Tea pot .25 4 glass Tumblers .50 1.05   tin ware .50 flat Irons .50 1.00   2 pails and iron square 1.00   Iron Shovel $1.00 narrow axe .75 1.75   Iron Kettle & Spork .50 .50   Old Co. 20.00 
$45.85
I have no property except the above, and over considerable sums of money. My business has been and now is, (when able) working on a farm as a common laborer. I am very feeble, and unable to work much; my family consists of myself and my wife, who is aged 74 years, and who is unable to do much labor, and can afford but little assistance towards our support. I have other children none of whom live with me, and none of them able to assist me in supporting myself; and had I not rec d a pension from my country, I should before this have been under the necessity of being supported by the town.
James Haynes

James Haynes
1870 July 1819
1870 July 1819
2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty third day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, James Maynes aged nearly sixty three years, resident in Fitchburg 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: Enlisted in Sudbury in the State of Massachusetts, as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Adam Wheeler in the Brig d then commanded by Col o Jos. Vose, and afterwards by Col o Thomas Nixon in the Massachusetts Line, on or about the first day of January 1776, and served in the same Company for the term of one year next following, and was then honourably discharged at a place called Allentown in New Jersey. Enlisted again in 1777 under Capt. Jos. Vose in the Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Brown, and served nearly five months, and remained until after the taking of Burgoyne, when I was again honourably discharged, previously in 1775 I served the month of November and December at Cambridge in the Militia service. I was at the battle of Stillwater. I have rec d a pension certificate numbered 13,970, and that my original declaration was made April 13. 1816.
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.
James Maynes.
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June, 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, 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 aforesaid Schedule, is Forty five dollars and eighty five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty third day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, James Haynes aged nearly sixty three years, resident in Fitchburg 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: Enlisted in Sudbury in the State of Massachusetts, as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Adam Wheeler in the Reg't then commanded by Col. Jos. Vose, and afterwards by Col. Thomas Mear in the Massachusetts Line, on or about the first day of January 1776, who served in the same Company for the term of one year next following, and was then honorably discharged at a place called Allentown in New Jersey. Re-enlisted again in 1777 under Capt. Jos. Vose in the Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Brown, and served nearly five months, and remained until after
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.
James Haynes
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June, 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow. cler.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, 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 aforesaid Schedule, is Forty five dollars and eighty five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

33 280 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88, 280
James Haynes Li Her War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

B.
Filed 20 April 1879

I Frederic French Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire for the County of Hillsborough do hereby certify that Nathaniel Johnston Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County and that the name Nath l Johnston subscribed to the within certificates is his signature & hand writing
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen
J. French
1819 March 29

I Calvin Stevens of Hillsborough, in the County of Hillsbor o and State of New Hampshire, of lawfull age, do, testify and say, that Mr James Haynes now a citizen of Fitchburgh in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts -bay; was a soldier in the army of the united States in the Revolutionary war, the whole of the year: one thousand seven hundred & seventy six - That the said Haynes served as a prompt soldier, to the end of his enlistment, which was then called the year service. The company in which said Haynes, served was commanded by Adam Wheeler Capt n . Reg t commanded by John Nixon Col o a part of said year & by Thomas Nixon Lieut n Col o after the promotion of the said John either by brevet or commission to the rank of Brig n Gen l And your deponent further states that he served the whole of the year 1776, as an orderly sergeant in the same Company and Reg t with the said James Haynes and perfectly recollects him the said Haynes - Calvin Stevens
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss - March 24 th 1819 Then the above named
Calvin Stevens personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed -
Before me - Nath l Johnson Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Calvin Stevens is a person of good character, and that full credit is to be given to his testimony -
Nath l Johnson Justice of the Peace

Cheshire March 29 th 1819
I Salma Hale clerk of the courts in said county certify that Stephen Harrington is a Justice of the Peace in said county and qualified to administer oaths and that no particular impression is used as a seal by the county court
S. Hale clerk
I further certify that the foregoing is the signature of the said Stephen Harrington.
S. Hale

I Ezra Smith, of Nelson in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, gentleman of lawful age, testify and say, that I was a private soldier in the war of the revolution during the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, that I enlisted into the service about the first of January in that year, at Sudbury in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Adam Wheeler in the Regiment then commanded by Col. John Nixon, and afterwards, by Lt. Colonel Thomas Nixon, in the Massachusetts line; that James Haynes, then of said Sudbury, enlisted in the same company for the term of one year about said first day of January, 1776, and went with said company to the State of New York, and served in the same company in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware for the term of one year, next following his enlistment, as a private soldier in the war of the revolution; that I saw said Haynes very frequently during said year, and know that he served without any censure until his term expired; I saw said Haynes afterwards at said Sudbury, and have always believed that he did his duty honorably for that term of one year in said war. And I further state that Lieut. Benjamin Heywood was our Paymaster, and that Lieutenant Kelly belonged to the same company.
Ezra Smith
State of New Hampshire.
Cheshire ss. On March 26 th 1819. Then Ezra Smith above named personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Stephen Harrington Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify, that the above named Ezra Smith is a person of good character for truth, and wholly disinterested, and that full credit is to be given to his testimony. Stephen Harrington Justice of the Peace (over)