Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], Seth Hatch, Mass.

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15 0 13 Massachusetts
Seth Watch
of Pembroke in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Regt commanded by Col Bailey on the Mass time for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of May 1833 and sent to J. H. South Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 66.66 Semi-ant. allowances on 1833  16.67 $83.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Atkinson Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 29 Page 32

Lett Hatch
11559

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twenty second day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Walker Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Hanover within and for said County of Plymouth. Seth Hatches a resident of Pembroke in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he enlisted in Capt. Thomas Turner's Company of Militia, Briggs' Thomas, Lunt & Consider's Co. Ensign, in Col. John Bailey's Regiment, that he marched to Roxbury the first of December 1775 and served under two enlistments till the first of April 1776 when he was dismissed and returned home, but received no discharge. The first enlistment was six weeks and the last nine weeks. He was stationed at Roxbury & was employed part of the time in fortifying Dorchester Heights.
In the summer of 1776 he turned out as a Volunteer when Soldiers were called for to guard the shore, and went to Marshfield in the County of Plymouth, near the Broad Rock and was employed with several others as a guard on the shore to prevent communications and supplies being sent to the enemies vessels; that at this time he served two months and a half the usual time of such service when others were sent to take their places, He has no documentary evidence to prove this service and

The persons who served with him are all dead.
That he entered the service again in November 1776 and marched with John Durfee's Company of Militia to Rhode Island, and served there four months in Col. Hall's Regiment; that he was stationed about half a mile from Bristol Ferry; that he has no documentary evidence to prove this service, and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service; Elisha Briggs of Pembroke for whom an application is made for a pension, is so impaired in his mind, as not to be able to testify to his service, and Jacob Fish, who has testified to Elisha Briggs service, he was not acquainted with.
That he was born in Pembroke, Mass. August 25. 1758, and his age is recorded in the family records, and as he believes, in the records of the Town of Pembroke; and has always lived in Pembroke.
That he is known to Rev. Morrill Allen, William Whitman & Anthony Colberson Esq. and others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Seth Hatch
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register

We, Morrill Allen a clergyman, residing in the town of Pembroke and Anthony Callamore residing in the same Town hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Seth Hatch who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Morrill Allen
Anthony Callamore
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Morrill Allen who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Pembroke and that Anthony Callamore who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Pembroke and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest
Jacob H Lord Register
I, Jacob H Lord Register of the Court or Provi do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Seth Hatch for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Jacob H Lord

We, Morrill Allen a clergyman, residing in the town of Pembroke and Anthony Gallamore residing in the same Town hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Seth Hatch who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Morrill Allen
Anthony Gallamore
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Morrill Allen who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Pembroke and that Anthony Gallamore who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Pembroke and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest
Jacob H Lord Register
I, Jacob H Lord Register of the Court of Providence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Seth Hatch for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Jacob H Lord

11559 Sett Watch
Plant 10 Months
J. H. Lord S. Plymouth Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  Seth Hatch  of  Pembroke  in the State of  Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     Recd In 1775 3 15 Punite Gen. Capt. Fernald Col. Bailey   June 1776 2 15 " officers names not stated   Nov 1776 4 " Capt. Fernald Col. Hovey  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pembroke Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses, & others  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cottle Examining Clerk.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. W. 23459, I. 30473.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
August 31st, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Seth Hatch and Alexander Erskine, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you are advised as follows:-
One Alexander Arskine made an application for pension on April 9th, 1818, at which time he was 69 years of age and residing in Lincoln County, Mass., and his pension was allowed for three years actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Col. Jackson. Place of his enlistment not stated. His widow, Mary, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Seth Hatch made an application for pension on August 22, 1832, at which time he was 76 years of age and residing at Hanover, Mass., and his pension was allowed for ten months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Turner and Col. Bailey. He enlisted at Pembroke, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. W. P. Bullard, 6 Winter St., Boston, Mass.

story to
30.478 Rev INVALID.
Aug. 31. 1897-He Mrs. W. R. Bullard Boston, Mass
File No. 30.478
Seth Hatch
Lin. Rev. Mass
Act: June 7 th 39 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

To the Clerk of the E H Pension Department Washington D.C.
I am anxious to learn for what service Seth Hatch of Pembroke, Mass. rendered in the Revolutionary War to enable him to receive a pension.
As far as I can learn he enlisted from Pembroke or Duxbury.
Also Alexander Erskine (Askin) of Bristol Me. He enlisted from Bristol and always lived there. I don't know whether he re- ceived the pension or whether it came to his daughter Mary Erskine Feltis, but part was in land situated where Quincy Ill. now stands. Any information in

regard to either of the two named or both will be gratefully acknowledged by
Yours respectfully
Mrs. H. P. Bullard
6 Winter St.
Boston Mass.
If you cannot inform me will you kindly tell me to whom I can apply.
Boston Aug. 5 th 97.

W. 26 26 2

Wm. Hatch Def. 7

I Briggs Thomas of Marshfield in the county of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, aged 80 years do testify and say, that I was lieutenant in Capt. Thomas Turner's Company of Militia; that I marched to Roxbury with the company the first of December 1775, and served under two enlistments till the first of April 1776, a period of nearly four months; that I was well acquainted with Nath Hatch of Pembroke in said County, that he enlisted in said Company and served the same time & did, at Roxbury, viz., six weeks at the first enlistment, and nine weeks on the second, making fifteen weeks. The company was placed in Col. Bailey's Regiment on the first, and in Col. Cogg's Regiment in the second enlistment.
Briggs Thomas
State of Massachusetts,
County of Plymouth, Subscribed and sworn to this twentyth day of August A.D. 1832.
Before me Anthony Collamore, Justice of Peace
Major Briggs Thomas above named is a very respectable man and his statement entitled to full credit. An th Collamore, Justice of Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Anthony Collamore Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that his name above subscribed is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord