Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32790, Jonathan Hamblet, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hamblet Jonathan
S. 32790
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Massachusetts Rolls.
1604
Jonathan Hamblet Capt Langdon Massachusetts Private. 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 the 7 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Sam d Dana, Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service all be ending
4 months 28/30 $39.46.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Payroll, Massachusetts (3)

Notification Sent to Abraham Puglon Esq Oct 13 1820 Cambridge Mass

Jonathan Hamblet
Correct
 卷二 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Jonathan Hamblet of Draught in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy four years and one month, - having served eight months at Cambridge in 1775 - and five months at Ticonderoga in 1776. - On the twenty sixth day of June 1777 he enlisted into the Continental army, for three years and having served in the company commanded, by Capt Langdon in Col Henry Jackson's regiments for the full term of three years He received an honorable discharge on the twenty sixth day of June AD 1780. - That he is sixty one years old is destitute of property and
he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support. by reason of his reduced circumstances in life
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Chelmsford  Jonathan Hamblet in said county of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid.
Sam t Dana

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Jonathan Hamblet personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time he exhibited to me the discharge therein described —
from which it appears to me, that the said Jonathan Hamblet did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. upon the Continental establishment —
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam t Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, 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, Jonathan Hamblet resident in Lyngsborough - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 16045, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jonathan Hamblet late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War. L.S.
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Table with 2 columns: Item, Value. Items include: 6 chairs (2 00), 1 table (1 --), Crockery ware (1 --), Pig 4 weeks old (1 00), Spoons, knives, spuds (0 50), Looking glass (0 75), Glass ware (0 50), Iron pot (1 00), Shovel & tongs (0 50), Audiron (1 00), Tin ware (0 75), 2 chests (2 00). Total: $12 00.
Jonathan Hamblet
And the said Hamblet further saith that he served in the Revolutionary war as he set

forth in his original declaration dated April 7 1818 and in particular he entered the service in June 1777 for three years and entered Capt Langdon's company in Col Henry Jackson's Reg t and continued to serve under several commanders in said Reg t until he had fully completed his three years, when he received a discharge from the Commandant which discharge he forwarded to the Secretary's office with his original declaration that he is sixty five years old or thereabouts that his occupation is that of a common day labourer that he is wholly unable to labour being very infirm that his family consists of a wife aged about fifty seven years not able to support herself and a daughter Phoebe Hamblet aged seventeen years employed in taking care of him & his wife Jonathan Hamblet

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Jonathan Hamblet do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Jonathan Hamblet
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Jonathan Hamblet took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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 Twelve dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow 30

32790 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32790
Jonathan Hamblett Rev Rev Mad
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I do hereby certify that Jonathan Humble a Soldier in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment has this Day Faithfully Completed the term of three years which he Engaged to serve the United States, and is hereby honorably Discharge- Given under my hand at camp Ramapough this 26 Day of June 1780
[Signature] Prescott major Commandant
To All Concerned

The Bearer is sent with provisions to the end of this month June 20 th 186 for John Elmer H. Jones Forkhill Landing James Douglass