Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,819, Joshua Herrick, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Herrick, Joshua
S 32819
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
1,110
Joshua Herrick, Capt. Barnum's Massachusetts line 1776. one year
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 7 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1810, and sent to Sam l Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Summary of Account
4 months 28/30. $39.46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Wentworth, Esq.
Notification sent Oct. 18. 1820 to Schaback
Lucifer Salem Mass.

32819 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,819
Joshua Herrick Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Joshua Herrick
June 1818 Boat 25 Sep 1818
Cow
Neham

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Joshua Herrick 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.
Joshua Herrick
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Joshua Herrick took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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 one hundred twenty three — dollars forty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July — A. D.
1820.
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Joshua Herrick resident in Wenham in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1,110 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, Joshua Herrick 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 seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and 18 30 day L. S. of June one thousand eight hundred and 18 J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,
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,
An eighth part of an acre of a gravel knoll + half of a one story unfinished wooden house on it in Wenham the land hardly worth cultivation $250.00 an old chaise 20.00 desk 2.00 dozen old chairs 2.00 broken table 50:- 24.50 stand 25: pot 75: kettle 50: cupboard, ax, hatchet 1.50
276.00 The said real estate was mortgaged by deed dated 22 Feb. 1814 to secure payment of 60.00 & interest from said date, on which is due $71.60 He owes David Woodbury 15.00 to Rachel Meady 6.00 and Joshua Herrick jr 60.00 on account 81.00 152.60 He is worth only $ 123.40
He is sixty eight years old, and his business has been to make candle stands, and to go round to retail them. He is now very infirm and his eyesight is so dim he can work very little. His wife is dead, and he boards in the family of his son and pays 1.33 a

week for board - His taxes have formerly been abated on account of his poverty and infirmities -
He enlisted and served the first 12 months of the war in Capt. Barnes' company in Col. Hutchinsons Regiment, and three years from the beginning of 1777, at first in Capt. Emerson's company in Col. Tupper's Regiment, and was then drafted into Capt. Abbotts Infantry Company in same Regiment, and afterwards under Col. Jackson, all in the Massachusetts line - Joshua Herrick

Joshua Herrick
7 th Apr l
Set on Rolls
24
correct

Joshua Herrick of Wenham in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Soever upon Oath make the following Declaration
That the said Joshua Herrick on the 11 th of May A D 1775 enlisted as a private in Capt Enoch Patnam's company of Foot in Col. Math ew Mans- field's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and advised for the term of 8 months. That the Declarant faithfully served the whole of said term in said Compa- ny and was on the last of Dec r 1775 honourably discharged That the Declarant on the 11 th of Jan y 1776 again enlisted as a noncommissioned officer for the term of one year in Capt. Thomas Barnes's Company of Foot in the Regi- ment commanded by Col Israel Hutchinson in Genl Brigade in the Massachusetts line: That the Declarant faithfully served the whole of the last mentioned term & was on or about 31 st day of Dec r 1776 honourably discharged
That the Declarant received written certificates of his discharge and that he has lost the same by time & accident.
That the Declarant is 66 years of age infirm & from his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support: and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the Laws of the United States. Joshua Herrick
I Thomas Barnes of Salem in Massachusetts Soever do on Oath testify that in the year 1776 in Jan. Joshua Herrick enlisted into my Company commanded by me as above mentioned, and to my knowledge Joshua Herrick who has made the aforesaid written declaration served as a non- commissioned officer in said company the whole term of one year as he has declared. Thomas Barnes
sworn 7. Apr. 1818

Joshua Herrick.
7. cap.
Additional Affidavit.
I Giles Burrows of Salem, on oath testify that I know Joshua Herrick, now of Wenham, served one year - in 1776, as a Soldier in Capt. Thomas Barnes' Company in Nixon's Regiment - we marched from Winter Hill near Boston to New York and the Jerseys - I was in the same Company - and know he served a year -
Giles Burrows -
Efsefs: June, 11. 1818 Then the above named Giles Burrows Subscribed and made oath to the above written affidavit before me Brj Merrill Just. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
On this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth
the aforementioned Joshua Herrick and in my presence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforeswritten Declaration and AFFIDAVIT , by them respectively made as aforesaid:—And it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforementioned Joshua Herrick served more than NINE MONTHS, to wit, from the first day of Jan'y A. D. 1776 to the 31 st day of Dec r A. D. 1776 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby cer- tify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court a- foresaid, at Salem , this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just } S. J. Court of Mass s }
I further certify that I am satisfied the said Joshua Herrick is poor and indigent, and that Capt. Thomas Barnes and Giles Burrows are credible and disinterested Witnesses.
June. 15. 1818
S. Putnam Just } S. J. Court of Mass s }

Essex ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in & for the County of Essex do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme Judicial Court, that the within signature is his proper handwriting & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said court.
Salem April 20 1878
Attest Ichabod Tucker Clerk
I further certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq r is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that his signature is under the deposition of Giles Burroughs.
Attest Ichabod Tucker Clerk