Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32802, Joshua Hayward, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass.
Hayward, Joshua
S. 32802
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10,635 4
Massachusetts.
Joshua Hayward
of Hapkinton in the state of Mass ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Read of the Mass ts ine, for the term of ten months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of May 1819 and sent to M rs John Davis, Judge & Boston.
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 85.56
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 48
10. 17/30 4/31 - $133.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Obtification sent to Abraham Benson Esq. Secy of War 13. 1820 Jan 20 Mass.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
1 March
1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Joshua Hayward by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
{ Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 12 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Joshua Hayward subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J. D. D. D.
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

No 4435
Johna Hayward
Jan 1866 - 1 year Bonds Maf. H.
Rep.
pledge - collateral note as to date amount, etc. - financial - Adm. proof of interest
New evidence B.C.D.

I Joshua Hayward of Hopkinton a citizen of the United States, Do testify & say, that, in the month of December A.D 1775 I enlisted into Captain Samuel Warren's Company of Milford in the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment of Foot commanded by Colonel Joseph Reed of Uxbridge, and that I joined said Regiment in the army at Roxbury on the first of January A.D 1776 and continued in the service untill the latter part of the following November at which time (being in a poor state of health) the Colonel of said Regiment gave me liberty to leave the service for the purpose of accompanying home a wounded man — no discharges were given at that time — And I further testify & say, that, I am in reduced circum- stances and Do stand in need of help from my Country Joshua Hayward
Massachusetts District Boston 14 April 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Davitt
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

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Joshua Hayward
10635
John Hayward
Coat
May 19

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. 182 0
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, Joshua Hayward resident in Hopkinton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10635, 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 Hayward 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 fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . "Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen . J. L. Edwards, in the absence & on behalf of the J. Q. ADAMS , 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,
  11 chairs with drawers 0 75   1 kitchen table 60 8 old chairs 175 1 85   1 cedar tub 1 3 pails 35 1 35   2 pails 45 1 pail tub 1 1 45   1 wooden dipper 12 3 wooden trays 25 0 37   1 bellows 33 1 shoemakers bench & tools 75 1 08   2 old dry casks 25 1 old meal chest 15 0 40   1 spinning wheel 33 1 pr cotton cards 25 0 58   1 broken iron pot 25 1 tea kettle 50 0 75   1 spider 33 1 large iron kettle 125 1 58   1 small iron kettle 12 1 gridiron 50 0 62   1 pair flat irons 50 1 pr shovel tongs 33 0 83   1 scythe 1 hoe 1 axe 1 saw 1 poor 0 75   1 hoop shear 75 1 handsaw broken 10 0 85 

  1 tin lamp 16 1 tin lantern 25 41   1 pewter plate 33 7 pewter spoons 16 49   1 tin funnel 2 cañister + 2 cups 33   5 glass bottles 33 1 glass tumbler 7 40   8 white earthen plates 33 1 earthen pitcher 25 58   3 earthen bowls 12 2 large earthen plates/pots 33 45   2 pudding pans 16 2 brown jug 17 33   2 jugs 15 1 tea pot 20 1.10   1 wicker basket 25 1 butter boy 25 0.50   2 small looking glasses 42   6 knives + forks 25 1 hay fork 25 50   3 books 50 1 sickle 16 66   6 bushels of Indian corn 4.50   1 - do Rye 1 30 lbs pork 3.50   6 dung hill fowl 1 1 small pig 125 2.25   Brass skimmer 0.33   $29 47 
Joshua Hayward
And the said Joshua Hayward being first duly sworn as his oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution about eleven months in the year's service in the company of Capt Samuel Warren in Colo Joseph Reads Regt of the Mass a line and was discharged before his time expired on account of sickness, he is sixty five years of age his occupation is a husbandman but by reason of a rheumatick affection is unable to labour but a small part of the time, his family consists only of himself and his wife Anna aged sixty five but past her labour.
Joshua Hayward
Declared + sworn to before S Dana Judge re "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Joshua Hayward 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 Hayward
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Joshua Hayward took and subscribed the forewritten Oath before me,
Sam d Dana. 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
twenty four dollars & forty seven cents
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

32802 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,802
Joshua Hayward Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 194
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I, the subscriber, do hereby testify and say, that, Mr Joshua Hayward was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in Captain Samuel Warren's Company of the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Joseph Read, and that, the said Joshua Hayward joined said Company & Regiment at Roxbury on the first of January A.D. 1776 and continued in the service til the latter part of the following November. At which time (being in a poor state of health) the Colonel of said Regiment gave him liberty to leave the service, for the purpose of accompanying home a wounded man.
David White - Sergeant in said Company and Regiment Mass. Dist. 14. April 1810
Never to be given me
Mr Dyer's
D 2

I the subscriber do hereby testify & say that Mr Joshua Hayward was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in Captain Samuel Warren's company of the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment of Foot commanded by Colonel Joseph Read, And that the said Joshua Hayward joined said company & Regiment at Roxbury on the first of January A.D. 1776 And continued in the service til the latter part of the following November at which time (being in a poor state of health) he was dismissed from the service by the Colonel of said Regiment, for the purpose of accompanying home a wounded man
And I further testify that I served as a corporal in the Revolutionary War at the same time & in the same company and Regiment with the said Joshua Hayward and am knowing to the truth of what is above written
William Cheney
Middlesex ss March 29 th 1819
Then the above William Cheney personally appeared and Made solemn Oath to the Truth of the Above Deposition By him Subscribed before me
Walter M c Farland Just of the peace
Middlesex ss March 29 th 1819
This may certify that the Above Named William Cheney is generally esteemed as a man of integrity and truth - Attest
Walter M c Farland Just of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it known, That I Abraham Bayley Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Walter M c Farland is a Justice of the Peace, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name subscribed to the within certificate is his own, & not another's signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this thirteenth day of March 1819.
Abraham Bayley

C
Filed 30. March 1819

I the subscriber do hereby testify & say that Mr Joshua Hayward was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in Captain Samuel Warren's company of the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. Joseph Read. And that the said Joshua Hayward joined said company and Regiment at Roxbury on the first of January A.D. 1776 and continued in the service till the latter part of the following November, at which time (being in a poor state of health) he was dismissed from the service by the Colonel of said Regiment for the purpose of accompanying home a wounded man
And I further testify that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War at the same time and in the same company & Regiment with the said Joshua Hayward, and am knowing to the truth of what is above written
Middlesex ss March 24 th 1819
Then the above named John Dewing personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before
John Dewing
Me Walter M c Farland Jus. of the Peace
Middlesex ss March 24 th 1819
the above named John Dewing is a man generally esteemed to be a man of veracity and truth
Attest Walter M c Farland Jus. of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mississippi. I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Walter M c Far- land is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name set to the within Statement Certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this thirtieth day of March 1819.
Abraham Biglow

D
Filed 30. March 1819

I the subscriber, do hereby testify and say that Mr Joshua Hayward was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in Captain Samuel Warren's Company of the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Joseph Read, and that, the said Joshua Hayward joined said Company & Regiment at Roxbury on the first of January A D 1776, And continued in the service til the latter part of the following November, as near as I can recollect at which time (being in a poor state of health) he was dismissed from the service, by the Colonel of said Regiment, for the purpose of accompanying home a wounded man
Adams Chapin } Ensign in Capt. Sam Warrens
Middlesex Is then the above Named Adams Chapin Personally Appeared and made solemn Oath to the above Deposition By him Subscribed Before me March 24 th 1819
Walter M c Guirkland Jus t . of the Peace
Company of the 13 th Mas- Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Read as above described at the time said Joshua- Hayward served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War
Middlesex Is March 24 th 1819 This may certify the above Named Adams Chapin Is a man of Veracity and Honesty Attest Walter M c Guirkland Jus t . of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Walter M c Farland is a Justice of the Peace, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Courts Thirteenth day of March 1819.
Abraham Biglow

B
Filed 30. March 1819