Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,650, William Hamilton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass,
★ Hamilton, William
S 39,650
CONTENTS

18.728 —
Pennsylvania
William Hamilton (aged 58)
Erie County in the State of Penn a was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam & of the Mass ts for the term of from 1782 to 1784. War final settlements. Vol. 2. pa. 188. scribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of May 1822
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of August 1822 to Thomas Wilson Esq. Erie, Penn a .
rears to 4th of September 1822 30.73
mi anl. all'ce ending 3 mo 22/ 4/ 30 21 31 30 5.67 1. 6 30.73
$ 30.73
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Schedule (May 1. 1822) $18.87 1/2

18,523
M m - Hamilton, Erie Co. Pa
Thomas Nelson, Erie Pa
John B. Bachman Secretary of War
Washington City

39650 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 39650
William Hamilton
Rev Rev
Act: 15 March 18 m
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 211
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Application of William Hamilton - for revolutionary —
on final settlement
Vol. 2 — page 188 —

State of Pennsylvania
Berks County Set
On this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Berks aforesaid being a Court of Record with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount proceeding according to the course of the Common Law and keeping a Record of their proceedings, William Hamilton of the township of North East in the County of aged fifty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 8 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that the said William Hamilton enlisted for the term of three years on the 18 th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two in the State of Massachusetts in the town of Worcester in the County of Worcester in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the month of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was transferred to the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Vose (or Vose) and served in said Regiment until the latter part of the winter in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four when he was discharged from said Service in West Point in the State of New York and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said Service And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820 one thousand eight hundred and twenty I 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 other manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for 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 that contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Witness: Thos Sill
William Hamilton Newark
Schedule of the real and personal property of the before named applicant William Hamilton, the said William Hamilton states that he has no real estate whatever He has no debts due to him
   Personal Property   Two Old Beds & bedding $10.00   One Iron Pot 2.-   One Small Kettle 1.-   Five Earthen Plates 0.62 1/2   Three Knives and Forks .75   One Old Clothes- chest .50   Two wheels 3.-   One pair of Pongs 1.-   his $ 18.87 1/2  
Witness: Thos Sill
William Hamilton
...work by reason of his

Witness Thos Sill
William Hamilton mark
Schedule of the real and personal property of the before named applicant William Hamilton, the said William Hamilton states that he has no real estate whatever. He has no debts due to him.
  Personal Property   Two Old Beds & bedding $10.00   One Iron Pot 2. —   One Small Kettle 1. —   Five Earthen Plates 0.62 1/2   Five Knives and Forks .75   One Old Clothes-Chest .50   Two Wheels 3. —   One pair of Pongs 1. —   $18.87 1/2 
Witness Thos Sill
William Hamilton his mark
The Occupation of the said William Hamilton is that of a farmer. He is unable to do much work by reason of his a disability in his knees occasioned by a fever and by the loss of the use of his right thumb and on account of the Rheumatism. He has no family residing with him excepting his wife Sarah Hamilton aged fifty two years and a son named David Hamilton aged ten years who is as well able to work as boys in general of his age.
Witness Thos Sill
William Hamilton his mark
Sworn and declared on the tenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty two in open Court
Wm Wilson Pro
And now to wit May 10th 1822 The Court having carefully examined and enquired into the foregoing Schedule and valuation of the property real and personal of the applicant William Hamilton pronounce the same to be satisfactory to the Court and order that the same be so certified. the said Schedule and valuation amounting to the sum of eighteen dollars and eighty seven and a half cents —
By the Court
Wm Wilson Pro
Pennsylvania County of Erie
I Thomas Wilson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Erie aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original application statement schedule and valuation of the property real and personal of the applicant William Hamilton and of the proceeding and order thereupon by the said Court, the said Court being a Court of Record having a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount proceeding according to the course of the Common Law and keeping a Record of their proceedings. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Erie in the County of Erie aforesaid this twenty second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
Wm Wilson Pro