Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32780, William Hancock, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hancock, William
S. 32780
CONTENTS

322
Massachusetts
William Hancock Capt Colton
4
Private Massachusetts 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 on the 8th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Apr. 1818 and sent to the Pensioner care of John Hooker Esq. Judge, U Hampden County, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 Sep. 1818
4. 28/31 mo.
$ 39.22
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}
Continued
Springfield, Hampden Co.

Notification sent July 29th 1820 to John Ingersoll Springfield, Mass.

William Hancocks
322, Springfield
April 1818.
Em
Sep. 1818

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampden ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden
William Hancock aged Ninety Three years, resident in Springfield , in said county of Hampden who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Enlisted June 1775 under Capt Isaac Colton & Col: Breads Regiment & marched to Roxbury & staid there Eight Months. In 1776 I enlisted into Capt Charles Coltons Company & Col: Woodbridges Regiment & marched to Ticonderoga for five months. In 1777 Enlisted under the same Capt. for three years & Col: Graytons Regiment & marched to Albany & was at the taking of Burgoyne & served three years & was discharged & have lost my discharge. I made application for a Pension April 8th 1815 Certificate dated 30th April 1818. No 322. William Hancock, Labourer, has no family, & has been for a number of years past, supported by public & private Charity he is of feeble constitution & unable to walk. that I have no property of any description except my wearing Apparel and am supported by Charity except the aid I have of late received from the United States on the within mentioned Certificate.
William Hancock

he is of feeble constitution & unable to walk. That I have no property of any description except any wearing Apparel and am supported by Charity except the aid I have of late received from The United States on the within mentioned Certificate
William Hancock
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States at the time of making this oath and 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 sche- dule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before The Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid 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 in William Hancock is wholly destitute of property
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fifteenth day of July 1820 John Ingersoll { Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampshire

32780 Recy  INVALID.
File No. 32,780
William Hancock
Dis Rev had
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Will m Hancock
Private
Col t Greaton's Reg t
May 1 st June
res d at Springfield
May 1 st
care of John Hooker Esq.
Judge, &c,
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County ss
On this 8th day of April 1818 personally appeared before John Hooker Esq. Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said Commonwealth including said County of Hampden William Hanchett a citizen of the United States resident in Springfield in said County who being duly sworn deposes & saith that in 1777 he enlisted under Capt Charles Totten in the 1st Continental Regiment for three years service & that he continued in said service during the whole time & was discharged at Fishkill on the North River & that he gave his discharge to William Ely Esq. in order to carry to Boston & get his pay for his services which was the last he saw of it & the Deponent further saith that he is in reduced circumstances in life & therefore stands in need of assistance from his country for support
William Hanchett
I Joseph Kellogg of said Springfield do depose & say that I was in said service with the above named William Hanchett & that he served three years in the Continental Army in the revolutionary war as he has stated in his said Affidavit
Joseph Kellogg

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden the above named William Hancock the applicant & Joseph Kellogg  severally
respectively made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said William Hancock the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this fourth day of April 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony of proceedings had before me in the above application & transmit the same to the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States — JOHN HOOKER