Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21990, for Joshua Pool, Massachusetts
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United States of America
Maine District SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Minot, within and for said District...

1832

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That the said Poole enlisted in Abington in the State of Massachusetts sometime in September A.D. 1776 and served three month in the company commanded by Capt. [Pierce] in the regiment commanded by Col. Nicholas Dykes and was stationed in part of the [time] in Dorchester and a part of the time in Roxbury.
That he the said Poole again enlisted sometime in May AD. 1777 and served six months in the company commanded by Capt. Porter of Weymouth in the regiment commanded by Col. Burbank and was stationed on Castle William so called new Boston during said six months.
That he the said Poole again enlisted sometime in the first of January AD. 1778 and served three months in the company commanded by Capt. _  the Lieuts name was Joshua Shaw. in the regiment commanded by Col. Sprout and was stationed at [Obolishes ] Newtown in Rhode Island during said three months.
That he again enlisted on the first of April AD. 1778 and served in in the company commanded by Capt. Abram Washburn of Bridgewater for three months in the regiment commanded by Col. Jones of Bridgewater and was stationed during said three months on Castle William aforesaid.
That he the said Poole again enlisted sometime in the summer of 1778 and served six months in the company commanded by Capt. Packard the first part of said time and by Capt Smith the later part in the regiment Commanded by Col Wade the first part and in Col. Jacob's regiment the last part of the time thought he served said [terms] of time as a private soldier.
That the evidence of his service is hereunto annexed. that his present place of residence is in Greenwood aforesaid. That he has been a resident of the State of Maine for forty four years. He was born in [a] town of Abington in a County of Plymouth, state of Massachusetts in 1760. 
He has a record of his [ } in a family bible and there is a record of  [ ] in the  [ ] of Abington where he resided when called into the [service]
[That he served in the Whole 21 months __ for that __- he claims a pension] 
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Synopsis of Proof
The first three months service is proved by Ephraim Whitman & Nathan Alden under the Command of Capt. Pierce.
The second service is proved by Jacob Bates under Capt. Porter.
The last service is proved by James Hearsey

The applicant claims a pension for 21 mos and if you should not deem his own dedication as to the [residue] of his service over the 15 mos that he has proved explicit enough, he would like to make an additional declaration to that part of his service.
J. L. Edwards
Commis. of Pension
Very respectfully your Obt. Svnt
F Bradford
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I James Hearsey of Turner in the County of Oxford State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am now seventy four years of age and served in the revolutionary war at different periods. In the summer of 1778 I enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Packard in the regiment commanded by Col. Wade. I recollect that Joshua Pool of Greenwood County of Oxford State of Maine who was then a resident of Abington State of Massachusetts entered said company and served with me as private during said six months. The said term of service was in Rhode Island at the period of Gen Sullivans expedition. I well know the said Pool, was brought up together, and can testify that he is the identical person that served with me during said term of time.
James Hearsey
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I Jacob Bates of Minot in the County of Cumberland State of Maine yeoman, aged seventy three years, testify and say that I was a soldier in the american Army during the revolutionary war with great Britain, for Different periods, one of which was in the six months service in the Massachusetts troops at Castle William in the harbour of Boston under Captain Porter of Colonel Burbanks Regiment. I enlisted at Weymouth Massachusetts State for said six months which term I served through and was discharged. This was in the year 1777.
I further say that I am well knowing to the fact that Joshua Pool, now residing in the town of Greenwood County of Oxford and State of Maine, was a soldier in the same Company with me and that he served for the same period as aforesaid.-
Jacob Bates
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