Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,664, for Isaiah Ingalls, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Ingalls, Isaiah
Phebe
NUMBER
W. 26, 664
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Maine
Phoebe Ingalls
widow of Isaiah Ingalls
who was a Private & Drummer
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
45 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
and sent to
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
(Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book  Vol. 1. Page 6

Rebate
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Phebe Ingalls
widow of
Isaiah Ingalls
application for a pension
Dist. Coun
June 7. 1839
Maine
13 mo.  - 12 days service
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Proof Thomas Ingalls a
Revolutionary Pension
Robert Andrews
and reform to Rolls
admin
8 mo. private
5 mo. Drummer
45.00 no deduction
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-
Certificate to be
returned to Wm Allen
______________
Maine



Rolls Vol. 11.76
20105
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th
July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions
to certain widows
State of Maine
Sommerset County ⎬
 On this second day of July AD. 1839
personally appeared before the Hon Asa Redstone
judge of the Court for the County aforesaid at a District
at Norridgewock in said County
Phebe Ingalls a resident of Mercer in the County aforesaid
and seventy eight years of age, who being first duly sworn according
law, doth on her oath make the following declaration
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the
of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act granting
half pay and pensions to certain widows; that she is the
widow of Isaiah Ingalls who was a private & drummer
in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
that she is credibly informed and verily believes that her late
husband the aforesaid Isaiah Ingalls enlisted as a private
in Capt Farnhams Company in Col. Hays Regiment of the
Massachusetts troops on the nineteenth day of April in the
year Seventeen hundred and seventy five, at Cambridge in
Massachusetts and served in said company till the first
day of January next following; and afterwards in the month
of July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six he
enlisted again as a drummer in Capt Johnsons company
in Col Wigglesworths Regiment of the Massachusetts troops
and served in said company for the term of five months
in a campaign at Ticonderoga and refers to the
testimony of Phineas Ingalls who served with him and to
the testimony of Robert Andrews herto annexed & presumes that
evidence of said service may be found on the rolls in the War Office
she further declares that she was married to the said Isaiah
Ingalls at Middleton in Massachusetts on the fourth day of
September, seventeen hundred and Eighty two that her maiden
name was Phebe Cartes: that her husband the aforesaid
Isaiah Ingalls died at Bridgeton Maine on the second day
of June Eighteen hundred and thirty one; that she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the
marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen
hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated, that
she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will
more fully appear by refer to the proof hereto annexed.
that her said husband resided at Andover Massachusetts
the time of his enlistment. that she removed with him to Bridge
Maner after her marriage & resided then till his death, after that
she removed to Maine, where she now here with her son
Hannibal Ingalls - that she has no documentary evidence of her said
husbands service
                           Phebe Ingalls
Witness
Hannibal Ingalls 
I
of
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. District Court Middle District at Nordgecock June 1 1839
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above before me and I certify that
I have no reason to doubt the document written before me and I certify that the declarant
is a person of truth and veracity
and that I have full confidence in the
correctness of her declaration-
Asa Redington, Jus Dis. Court
Midder DisT.

Hannibal Ingalls a resident of Mercer in the
County of Somerset State of Maine aged forty years son
of the late Isaiah Ingalls and the within named Phebe
Ingalls, who after being first sworn according to law doth on
his oath declare that his father the within named Isaiah
Ingalls died at Bridgeton in Maine in June Eighteen hundred
and thirty one: that his mother the within named Phebe
Ingalls has remained a widow and unmarried ever since
that period, that his said father was in his life in
was reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier and
that he fully believes that he served in the year seven
the hundred and seventy five eight months & twelve days
and in the year seventeen hundred and Twenty six he
again enlisted and served as a drummer five months
that his mother the aforesaid Phebe Ingalls now resides
 with him;
                              Hannibal Ingalls

State of Marie
Sommerset County
is a
District Court Middle District of
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Nadgarock June Term AD 1839
Sworn and subscribed in open Court
Attest J. Gould
Clerk
I certify that Hannibal Ingalls above named personis  of good reputation for truth & veracity
Asa Redington JP  Dis. Court
Mid District ┃
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State of Maine
Sommerset County Ss
 I Joshua Gould Clerk of all the
Judicial County in the County of Somerset, in the State of
Maine hereby certify that the Hon Asa Redington
before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is the Judge
of the District Court for the middle District in the State of
I also certify that this sheet & the three half sheets hereto annexed
contain the original proceedings of the said Judge and the
matter of the application of Phebe Ingalls for a
pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Norridgewock this thirteenth day of August
A.D. 1839
Joshua Gould Clerk


Norridgewock Aug 11 1809
To Col James L. Edward
Com Pensions
Sir
After acting on the foregoing
case of the widow, Phebe Ingalls of Isaiah Ingalls  please to forward 
his certificate or make returns to me at 
this place per her request.
Yours truly,
 William Allen
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Daniel Emerson Town Clerk of the
Town of Middleton in the County of Essex
in Massachusetts do hereby certify that
I find by the records of said Town that
Isaiah Ingalls and Phebe Curtis were married
September fourth Seventeen hundred and
Eighty two that the same is expressed
thereon in plain legible words and figures as
follows under the the head of Marriages to wit
Isaiah Ingalls to Phebe Curtis Sept 4th 1782
A True extract from the record
Daniel Emerson Town Clerk


State of Massachusetts Essex County
July 30. 1839 Subscribed & Sworn to before K. Merrill Just. Peace
I certify
that Benjamin Merrill is a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County of Essex, duly qualified, and that the above is his genuine hand writing
Leverett Saltonstall
M.C
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State of Maine
County of Cumberland ss.
 Be it known that on
this twenty eight day of May AD 1839
Personally appeared before me Asa Ingalls
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
Thomas Ingalls a resident of Bridgeton in
said County a Revolutionary Pensioner aged
Eighty
years and after being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath testify
that he knew Isaiah Ingalls before the 
Revolutionary  war, that he then lived in Andover in
Massachusetts and that he enlisted as a soldier
and went into the service of the United States on
the nineteenth day of April in the year Seventeen
hundred and seventy five; went to Cambridge in
Massachusetts and served as a private in Capt
Farnhams Company in Col. Fry's Regiment
of the Massachusetts troops until the first
of January Seven hundred & seventy six, I
served in the same company with him day
the term and the company was then dismissed
and in the month of July of the same year
he enlisted again as a Drummer & served five months
in Capt Samuel Johnsons Company Col Wiggles
worth Regiment of the Massachusetts tops
and went to Ticonderoga. I also served with
him in the same company the same time and
we were discharged at the close of the campaign
Afterwards in the year 1789 said Isaiah Ingalls
and his wife Phebe
Ingalls removed from
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Andover to Bridgeton in Maine
they resided till his death in June in the year
Eighteen hundred and Ninty one and that the
said Phebe
●
Ingalls has remained his
widow and
and we see that
son
Phineas Ingalls


Sworn and Subscribed the day and
give aforesaid before me
and I certify that I am well acquainted with the
above named Deponent and
that
he is a man of truth
.
Asa Ingalls
Justice of the Peace




Thomas Ingalls Depo
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State of Maine
County
of Cumberland
ss
1
Be it known that on this
day of May AD. 1839.
Personally appeared before me Asa Ingalls
A.
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
Robert Andrews a resident in Bridgeton in said County
a Revolutionary Pensioner aged Eighty six
years and
after being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath
Testify that he knew Isaiah Ingalls while in the Revolutionary war
in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy five that he
served as a private soldier at Cambridge in Massachusetts and
was there discharged on the first of January Seventeen hundred
and seventy six. And I further testify that I saw and was acquain
with the said Isaiah Ingalls in the summer and fall
of
venteen hundred and seventy six he was at Ticonderoga in the
Massachusetts Militia troops, and served as a Drummer in the
five months service and he staid untill the company was dismissed.
And I further testify that I moved to Bridgeton in Seventeen
hundred and Eighty one where I have resided untill this time
that Isaiah Ingalls and Phebe Ingalls his wife moved to the
Town of Bridgeton in Seventeen hundred and Eighty three when
the said Isaiah Ingalls and Phebe Ingalls lived together
as man and wife untill Eighteen hundred and thirty one
when the said Isaiah died and that Thebe Ingalls his widow
remains unmarried
Robert Andrews



Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me and I certify that I am
well acquainted
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a
Robert Andrews
Bridgeton
May 29 1839



Hanniball Ingalls Esqr
Mercer
Maine
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Rev War
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26664
Phebe Ingalls
widow of
Isaiah Ingalls
Private Rev War
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Act March 3d 43
Index: Vol. A  Page 367

Arrangement of 1870
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Phebe Ingalls


$45 per an

Pension
Declaration of
Phebe Ingalls

Geo W Morton
Augusta
Maine
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Mrs. Phebe Ingalls who has been
able to write her name , due to her 
infirmity is now unable.


DECLARATION
in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions
for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
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STATE OF MAINE,
County  of Somerset SS. ⎬
 On this fourth
day of September
A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the
County of Somerset
and State of Maine,
Phebe Ingalls a resident of Mercer
in the County of years, who, being first
by sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March,
1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Isaiah Ingalls
who was a
Private and Drummer
during the Revolutionary War; that she was
pensioned as the widow of the said Isaiah in 
rate of Forty five
dollars and no cents per
annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in
Portland in the State of Maine
that she is still the widow of the said Isaiah Ingalls having
remained unmarried ever since his death.
                                 Phebe Ingalls
                                        her mark
Witness
Hannibal Ingalls
John E. Ingalls


Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me, Hannibal Ingalls, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the
Act of July 7, 1838, and the reputed widow of Isaiah Ingalls
deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Hannibal Ingalls Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Kennebec County,
I the subscriber, Clerk of all
the Judicial Court, held for and within the said
County of Kennebee, do hereby certify that Hannibal Ingalls  is a Justice of the Peace as within
stated and that the within signatures purporting to be his are  genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of
the Supreme Judicial Court of same
the eighth day of September A.D. 1843
A. R. Nichols
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4341
Maine
Phebe Ingalls
widow of Isaiah Ingalls decd
and who died on the 22 June 1831
of Mercer Co. in the State of M.
who was a Private in the Comp commanded
by Captain Johnson of the Regt commanded
by Wigglesworth in the M.
line
 for 8 mos Private
        5 mos Drummer

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 45 Dollars - Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Oct
1839 and sent to  Wm. AllenJ 
Rerridgewock

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839
$157.50
Semi-annual allowance ending Nov.
$ 22.38
________________
$180.00

Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book A
Vol. 1
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