Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1870, John Humphrey, Mass.

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Humphrey, John Heamah
N 1870
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Massachusetts
Mannah Dempsey widow of John Dempsey
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Sergeant
Massachusetts Militia Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 31 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Nov. 1847, and sent to
C. M. Prentiss Worcester Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act of March 3, 1848, Page 75, Vol. 7
July 29. Book D.

79 Worcester
2.37 2.66 25 00.90
67 1/2 77 1/2
21. 923 Massachusetts John Humphrey of Athol in the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergt. Vc. in the Comp. commanded by Captain Knowlton of the Regt. commanded by Col. Pike in the Massachusetts line for 21 days service 1 Mo. Corporal 5 " Sergeant. Mts
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 31 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Nov. 1833 and issued to C. A. Miller Athol
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $77.50 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mo. 34 15" 50 $93.00
Recorded by G. Cottles Clerk Book E. Vol. 2. Page 33 Revolutionary Claim, Recd. June 7, 1832.

The Rev. Samuel Reed certifyeth that he hath joined the following persons in marriage the year past, viz. Joshua Barrett & Hitty Cobb, both of Warwick, May 25. 1794. Nathaniel Holbrook & Sally Curran May 25, 1794. Samuel Rice Jr. & Eleanor Stearnes August 1. 1794. Joel Grover & Lucy Fisher September 1. 1794. John Humphrey & Hannah Mayo September twenty five seventeen hundred ninety-four Salomon Mallard & Anna Wheelock Oct. 1. 1794. Clark Conant & Sally Dean, November 20 1794. James Fisher & Rachel Marsh Feby 5. 1795. Jesse Hale & Mary Smith December 18. 1795. Amos Ward & Sally Burnett, December 5, 1795. Samuel Goss & Mary Conant, Mr. Leland & Hannah Hill February 8 th 1795. Joseph Pond & Joanna Pomeroy March 22. 1795. April 30. 1795.
The above is a true extract from the Records of the Town of Warwick in the County of Franklin, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the exception of the date of the marriage of "John Humphrey & Hannah Mayo", which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows;
September 25. 1794.
Attest:
Town Clerk's Office, Warwick, Jan. 30 th 1849.
Geo. L. Chasebro 3 Town Clerk.
I, George L. Chasebro, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County Town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me. Jan. 30 th 1849. Sworn before me, Joseph Stevens Justice of the Peace.
Geo. L. Chasebro 3 Town Clerk of the Justice of the Peace. 3 Town of Warwick.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 11 th 1849
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Joseph Stevens was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Franklin,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to His acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M. Walcutt
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

No Humphrey
27.012
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Clough R. Miles Atat.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss
On this second day of July A.D. 1883. personally appeared open court before Hon. Nathaniel Paine Judge of the court of Probate now sitting within and for the county of Worcester John Humphrey, a resident of Athol in said county aged seventy seven 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, 1882 That he was born in Dorchester, in the county of Norfolk; That his father at this time, was the settled Minister of the town of Athol; his mother at this time, was residing with her father at Dorchester. That he was soon carried by his parents to Athol, where he has resided most of the time since. He knows of his birth and first removal from Dorchester, by record in the family. In September 1876, five men were sent for from said Athol, to march to Dorchester heights to guard the United States forts. That the said Humphrey, John Dike, James Lucas, Samuel Kendall & John Munroe volunteered themselves as soldiers and met at Watertown, where they were embod- ied. They there marched under Capt. Ezekiel Knowl- ton of Ampleton to Dorchester & joined the regiment Colonel Nicholas Dike. General Ward was the command- ing officer. They were at first for three

certain whether the first enlistment was for three months or for a longer time, but he is sure that he remained at Dorchester as aforesaid, six months, and he thinks some longer. He acted as a Sergeant Major a considerable part of the time. John Brown of Stone was the Adjutant. The said Humphrey kept the records of the General and Regimental orders, copies of some of which he has at this time in his possession. He was discharged in April 1777. He can not find his discharge, nor does he recollect the what has become of it.
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In the summer of 1777, he thinks in the month of August, men were sent for at Athol, to march to Bennington in the State of Vermont - a number of men marched under Capt Thomas Lord. The said Humphrey was one of those men. They marched to Williamstown where they were halted, and they remained there, about three weeks when they were discharged. The said Humphrey has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any persons living who knows of his service as a soldier as aforesaid, excepting those who depon this accompanying this application, and especially one Aaron Hayer who he believes is living.
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. John Humphrey
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Before Nathan Dames Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester. The undersigned a clergyman, residing in Athol aforesaid and Theodore Jones of said Athol, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Humphrey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Joseph Moyle Theodore Jones
Sworn & subscribed before me Claught A. Miles, Jus. Pacis.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigating the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a revolution- ary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Sarah Moore who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in said Athol, and that Theodore Jones who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said Athol, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Sworn to and subscribed.
NATHAN H. JUDGE OF PROBATE For the County of Worcester
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.
I, Stephen Wheeler Register of the court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Humphreys for for a Pension -
I further certify that Clough A. Miles and Rufus Putnam before whom the annexed affidavits were made, are, each of them, Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Worcester, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature of each of the said Justices, which purports to be their signature, is genuine -
In testimony, whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said court this second day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three
Stephen Wheeler Reg. of said court

I David Young of Athol testify and say that in August 1777 Men were sent for at Athol to march as soldiers to Bennington in Vermont to oppose the English forces under Gen. Burgoyne, a considerable number went from Athol under Capt Lord. I was one of the men who went in obedience to the call, and John Humphrey of Athol was another - we marched to Williamstown, where we were halted, and at the expiration of three weeks we were discharged, John Humphrey marched with me, remained as a soldier with me, and returned with me, and was at this campaign, a soldier three weeks as early as I can recollect. David Young
Worcester June 29. 1833.
The aforesaid David Young made oath that the deposition by him above subscribed is true. before me Glauz L. R. Miles Justice of the Peace I do also certify that I am well acquainted with David Young The aforesaid deponent that he is by reputation, a man of unimpeachable character for truth - Glauz L. R. Miles. J.P.

I Tilly Flint of Rutland in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts aged seventy four years do testify and say that I am well acquainted with John Humphrey of Athol in said County, that he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution that we served together in Captain E. Knowlton's company at Dorchester in said State for the term of six months or more, commencing in the month of September 1776 and ending in April 1777 at which time he was discharged. During five months of said term he served as a Sergeant & the residue of said term as a Corporal in said company.
Tilly Flint
State of Massachusetts New Bedford. July 1. 1833 Then personally appeared Tilly Flint and made oath that the above depa- sition by him described is true, and further testify that I am well acquainted with the said Deponent, and that his testimony is entitled to full and entire credit. Before me Rufus Putnam Justice of the peace.

I Joel Hubbard of Rutland in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts aged seventy four years, do testify and say that I am well acquainted with John Humphrey of Athol in said County, that he was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, that we served together in Captain E. Knowlton's Company, at Dorchester in said State, for the term of four and an half months from November 1776, and that he was discharged in April 1777, and that during all that time he served as a Sergeant
Joel Hubbard
State of Massachusetts Worcester ss. July 1 st 1833 Then personally appeared Joel Hubbard and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed as above is true I further certify that he I am well acquainted with the said Deponent and that his testimony is entitled to full and entire credit. Before me Rufus Putnam Justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester County, ss.
Be it known that before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Charles Humphrey, of Lancaster, in said County, a respectable and disinterested person, and whose statements are entitled to credit, and made oath, in due form of law, that he is personally acquainted with Hannah Humphrey, named in her Declaration hereto annexed; that he has known her for twenty years last past, and knows her to be the widow of John Humphrey, named in said Declaration, with whom he was also acquainted.
Subscribed and sworn to by Chas Humphrey the said Charles Humphrey this Thirteenth day of July, A.D. 1849. Geo. M. Pheasant, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County, ss. I, Charles W. Hartshorn, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, in and for said County of Worcester, do certify that George M. Pheasant, Esquire, was, on the day of the date of the above certificate by him signed, and now is, a justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand, and the Seal of said Court, at Worcester, this twenty third day of July, A.D. 1849. Chas. W. Hartshorn Clerk.

Hannah Humphrey No 491
Hannah Humphrey widow of John Mass.
Oct 29 July 1848
adm p 31 per annum, Comig 4 March 1848
Married Sept 1794 Husband died 1837
G. M. Brewster, Worcester, Mass

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, of the 29 th July, 1848.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester County. ss. On this ninth day of March, A.D. 1849, personally appeared in court, before the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for said County, of Worcester, Hannah Humphrey, a resident of Lancaster, in the County of Worcester aforesaid, aged Eighty-one years, who being duly sworn, according to law, did on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed the twenty-ninth day of July, A.D. 1848, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army." That she is the widow of John Humphrey who was a Private in the Revolution, and who served as set forth in the declaration upon which he was pensioned, reference being had to said Declaration and to the evidence by him therewith produced. That her said husband was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty-one Dollars per Annum.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Humphrey, on the 25 th day of September, in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety-four; That her husband, the aforesaid John Humphrey, died on the twenty-fifth day of January, A.D. 1837. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the

second of January, eighteen hundred, viz; at the time above stated.
She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a Pension.
Attest, Geo. A. Prentiss, Seven to and inclusive, on 3 the day and year above written.
for Hannah X Humphrey Mark
Before
Thos Niminicute Judge of Probate.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester County ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Worcester, do certify that Thomas Niminicute, Esquire, is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Worcester, this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

REV
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1870  3
Hannah Humphrey (Widow) John Humphrey Capt. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 354
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss , Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that John Hennings was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty-one Dollars per annum ;
was a resident of the County of Worcester , in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Atchison, in said County , in the year one thousand eight hundred and Twenty-seven , on the twenty-fifth day of January , that he left a Widow whose name is Deborah Hennings ,
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this Ninth day of March , in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine .
Chas. G. Prentiss , Register.

Massachusetts Roll, Act 7 June 1832 John Humphrey, Bix. & Sgt Vc. $31 per annum, To what time last paid? Died 25 Jan 1837. p. to his death W. Tysons

Court of Pleasants,
Washington,
D. E.

Probate Office, Master, Mass. July 25. 1849.
James L. Edwards, Esq. Comr. of Pensions.
Dear Sir,
I send you herewith, Declaration of Hannah Hampshire, sister certificate se. in order to obtain a Pension, and hope to receive a certificate in due time.
I sent to you June 2. 1849. Declarations &c. & ad 48915112 Pensions Boston.
Jemima Hall " " " " 240 Mary Langdon ad ad 29 3/4 11 1/2 245 Sally Hyde " " " " 300
" " " 5121 Hannah James ad 48, N 30 55 Anna Sumner, from which I have been expecting to receive return, and fear they may have miscarried.
Will it be asking too much of you, to inform me, if they have not reached you?
Respectfully,
Your obedt Servt
Geo. M. Prentiss,

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Humphrey, John GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7227 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Sept. 7, 1790 To John Folsom, assignee
*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.