Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4110, John Abbott, Continental
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State of Massachusetts, 
Lincoln County, ss.}
To the Hon. Jonah Stebbins one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, (called the Second eastern circuit) which is a Court of record in the State of Massachusetts.
The Declaration under Oath of John Abbot formerly a Private Soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the town of Boothbay county of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts, respectfully sheweth,
 THAT the said 
John Abbot enlisted into Capt John [Lanes] Company, Colonel [Varnhams] Regiment and Genr Nixons Brigade, in the month of March 1776 for one year and continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment until March 1777 at which time he was honorably Discharged at Peeks Kills in the State of New York and lost said Discharge on his return home from the Army, and has never since been able to find it.

And the declaration further sheweth, that the said John Abbot is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the town of Boothbay county of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts, and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support
He is Fifty eight years of age, was at the Battle at Harlem Heights and at White Plains

Therefore the said John Abbot conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests you Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretry of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided.
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STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, Personally appeared John Abbot of the town of Boothbay county of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn and subscribed before me this
25th day of April 1818,} Josiah Stebbins, 
a Judge of the C.C.C.P.2d.E.C.

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Lincoln County ss.} 
Personally appeared Samuel Bean + Joshua Mitchell
and being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say that were personally acquainted with John Abbot late a Soldier in the Revolutionary army in Capt [Larnes] Company and Colonel [Barnams] Regiment and well know that he served [agreeable] to the written declaration having served in the same company with him 

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Sworn and subscribed before me this 
25th day of April 1818,}
Josiah Stebbins,
a Judge of the C.C.C.P.2d.E.C.
July 6. 1819. On satisfactory evidence I certify that the above Samuel Bean and Joshua Mitchell are disinterested and credible. Josiah Stebbins.
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twenty four. That she was not married to him prior to the Second of January eighteen hundred but a the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow and has been a widow ever Since the death of her husband John Abbot aforesaid
Rachel Abbott

Lincoln Ss at a Court of Probate held at Wiscasset within + for said county on this third day of May AD 1853 Personally appeared the above named Rachel Abbott and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her [subscriber] in open court. In testimony whereof I have hereto [subscribed] my name and affixed the seal official of the Court of Probate the day and year above written
Arnold Baney Judge
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Boothbay January 7th 1821
To the Hon Mark L Hill Esq.
Sir if you could render Mr John Abbot of this town any assistance in getting his pention (sic) renewed you will not only serve Mr Abbot but oblige this town he has a lot of land [situait] on an island which is destitute of a canoe harbour and with one ton of hay keeps one cow and is an oald (sic) man but has a young family seven in number and ows (sic) more than his land will fetch and now is supported in part by charity and before the month of March next must be helped by this town 
Pleas (sic) to drop us a line what the prospect is and what the prospect is respecting a lite (sic) in this harbour and oblige your friends and very Humble servants 
John M Clinton 
Jacob Auld
overseers of the poor

Both of the above subscribers are respectable magistrates of the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, & the latter a Col. of a Regiment of militia 
Mark L. Hill
January. 20. 1821.
Repe. from Maine.
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State of Maine
County of Sagadahoc } ss
On this fourth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid. Rachel Abbott a resident of the City of Bath in the State of Maine, who, being duly Sworn according to Law, declares that she was the lawful wife of one John Abbott a revolutionary pensioner of the United States in his life time and that said John Abbot died at Boothbay on the 16th of April A.D. 1824 and sometime afterwards she the Said Rachel Abbott was as she supposed at the time married to one John Livermore as he called his name then who was a stranger in the place a roving Sailor and that she was informed afterwards that he went by the name of Spear before he came to Boothbay and that he told her that he was not married to her by his right name that he had been a man a wars man and had changed his name several times. She supported him for something over six months when he informed her that he had a family in New York and soon after he left her and she has not seen him Since, nor heard of him for twenty six years past. She and her neighbors considered the Said marriage with the Said John Livermore illegal believing that he used a fictitious name when
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married to her and she has ever Since gone by the name of the Widow Abbott

She further declares that she applied for a pension under the Act of February 3rd 1853 and obtained a pension Certificate No. 2415 as the widow of John Abbott, which she thought she had a right to do, but as doubts have arisen whether she is entitled to [draw] said pension on account of Said last marriage, which she considers illegal and void, and if considered legal his never having provided anything for her, and being absent from her twenty six or seven years and no doubt is now dead, he was some four years older than herself, under these circumstances as she makes this declaration for the consideration of the Hon. Commissioner of pensions and prays that she may have her said pension continued to her as the widow of the Said John Abbott and is now a widow by law. Rachel Abbott

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this day of  April A.D. 1855 and I certify that the said Rachel Abbott is personally known to me that I believe her to be the identical person she represented herself to be and that I have not interest in this claim
James Potter Justice of the Peace
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Personally came Adam W. Pence and Hannah Pence residents of the City of Bath in the State of Maine upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration by Rachel Abbott was [signed] and acknowledged by the said Rachel Abbott in our presence and that she is personally known to us and is the identical person she represents herself to be
A W Pence
Hannah Pence

Sagadahoc ss City of Bath April 4th 1855
The above affidavit was Sworn to and Subscribed before me this fourth day of April 1855 and I certify that the affiants are personally known to me and are credible persons
James Potter Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
County of Sagadahoc fs. Probate Office
I hereby certify that James Potter Esq before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were made is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures to the above are genuine Witness by my hand and seal of Said Court of Probate for Said State for Sagadahoc County this 12th day of April 1855
A T Thompson Register of said Court
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To the Comssr of Pensions
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Portland, Mo. April 21, 1855.
Sir,
In answer to yours of 17th inst, would say that all I know relating to the subject matter of your
inquiry is as follows. Viz. In the month of September last, Rachel Abbot called at the office of the Agency, to know if any money had been approved on her pension, if so how much was to whom paid, She stated, that she had
Signed papers in the hands of one Samuel D. Reed of Bath and that he had given her a little money, but that he refused to tell her her much she was entitled to draw, and that she had no pension certificate &c &c, and desired know how she should proceed to protect her rights,
She was informed that she could file a notice has revoking all power given to Reed or any
other person, and her pension money would be safe.
Soon after which, Reed presented a power to draw Mrs Abbots pension, payment was refused, he applied to know the reason, was told, to which he stated, that he wanted Mrs Abbot to comply with her agreement with him for getting her pension, that if she did not he would put a stop to he drawing anything, that he had heard that she had been married since the death of John Abbot for whose service she was pensioned, [was] the matter rests,
Should anything more be wanted that I