Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,633, Doughty Bates, Mass.
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Mass.   Bates, Dought or Douty   W. 24,633
Mary
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11.448
Maine
Doughty Bates of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a (illegible) in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Reg commanded by Col Jacoby in the Massachusetts for Troops

6.14 A Private
21.53 
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 21 Dollars 53 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
-
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of April 1833 and Sent to
R. C. Vose Augusta, ME
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833       43.06
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  10.76
                                                          $53.82

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. J. Sprague, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 3
Late G. W. Mort on May  8 1839
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Doughty Bates 24591
Private  Stetson's Co, Pikes Reg.
(illegible) to Dec. 1776 ---------  3.. 
Proof of John Allen, credible witness
Turners Co. Jacobs Reg
July to Nov. 1780.    3..  14
Proof-- Clerk of E.D. Bangs. ---------
                                 6..  14
$21.53
Applicant infirm
Certified by Judge in the
Court before me April 4, (illegible)
R. C. Vose,
Augusta  ME
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE,}
KENNEBEC COUNTY,} ss.
On this first day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, Doughty Bates
a resident of (illegible) in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Captain Stetson and served in Col. Dike's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Stetson Captain Dike Colonel. That in August 1776 he enlisted into that company and regiment for the time of three months as a
private. That this period he served out and was verbally discharged at Boston in November or December 1776. That in July 1780 he again enlisted as a private for three months in Capt. Turner's company and Col. Jacobs' regiment of the Massachusetts troops. That under this enlistment he served three months and an half, and was discharged verbally on Rhode Island
in October or November 1780.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:  That he was born in Hanover Massachusetts in 1761 where he supposes his age is recorded, and where his home
was during (illegible)
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And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answered:  That he was born in Hanover Massachusetts in 1761.  where he supposes his age is recorded, and where his home was during his revolutionary services.  That in 1802 he moved to (illegible), Maine, where he now lives.  That in his first service he was employed in (illegible) a fort at Dorchester heights, and in doing (illegible) and duty in Boston.  That in his second service, he was at Rhode Island, where he never took any written discharge, that he enlisted, was not drafted or served as a substitute. And that John Allen has testified to both his services.  

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present. and he declares that his name is not in the Pension Roll of any any agency in any State.
Doughty Bates
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before  Nathan Weston Jr. Just S.J.C.
Sept. 1
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  
Nathan Weston Jr.
State of Maine, 
April 4, 1833, It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named applicant by reason of age , infirmity cannot without prejudice to his health appear in open court to renew his declaration & again to make oath to the same.
Nathan Weston    Just.  S.J,C.
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State of Maine.

KENNEBEC, ss. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within
and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before
whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said
State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the
matter of the application of Doughty Bates
for a pension, and that George Lothrop Esq is a Magistrate as appear by annexed deposition
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 18th
day of September A. D. 1832, 
J.A. Chandler
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Mary Bates
Widow of Doughty Bates, who
was a pensioner under Act of June 7th 1832
Claim Roll 
2829
Married    1788
Died         1835

Allow of $21.53 per ann.

(illegible)
Augusta Maine
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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.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this sixth  day of September A. D., 1838,
personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State,
Mary Bates a resident of
Leeds in the County of Kennebec and
State of Maine, aged seventy eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the
widow of Doughty Bates late of said Leeds, deceased, who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, in the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, & she refers to the evidence he furnished the War Department for proof of service
She further declares, that she was married to the said Doughty Bates on the eleventh
day of October in the year seventeen
that her husband, the aforesaid Doughty Bates
died on the first day of January eighteen hundred thirty five;
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 reference to the proof hereto annexed. That her maiden name was Mary Perry & she was married at Weston, Massachusetts,
Mary Bates
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me (the applicant
being from age and infirmity, unable to appear in open court.)
Nathan Weston J S.J.C.
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State of Maine

On the sixth day of September, 1838, Mary
Bates the applicant within named, was
examined and sworn, as within stated. I am
satisfied that she was married to Doughty
(otherwise Doty) Bates, late a revolutionary
pensioner of the United States, on the twelfth
day of October, 1780, that the said Doughty
Bates deceased on the first day of January
1835, and that the applicant was ever since remained his widow
Nathan Weston C.J., S.J.C.

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec SS

I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Court for said County hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings
were had, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, 
I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing & annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of
Mary Bates for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this twentieth day of October A. D. 1838.

Thomas Swan
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I Charles Bates of Leeds, Kennebec County, on
oath state, that the within named Doughty
Bates died at said Leeds on the first day of
January 1835, that the within named Mary
Bates has remained a widow ever since
that period,              Charles Bates
State of Maine,
Kennebec Ss:
Subscribed & sworn to this 6th day of September 1838, the deponent being a credible witness
Before me
Nathan Weston  C. J
S.J.C
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Western October Twelfth Seventeen Hundred
and Eighty Eight.  Were joined in marriage Doty Bates and Polly Perry both of Western
by Danforth Keyes J. P.
Recorded by Danforth Keyes Town Clerk
I hereby certify that the above is a true Copy
of the Record from the Town Books, with the
exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
October 12th 1788
Attest               John Moore Town Clerk
I John Moore above named depose and say
that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of
Warren (formerly Western, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a
true Extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me.
John Moore Town Clerk
State of Massachusetts of Worcester Ss  Sworn this 8th day of October 1838   John Moore
Before me
Daniel Hitchcock Justice of the Peace
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Com'lth of Massachusetts

Secy Office  Oct 15   1838

I hereby certify that the within Daniel Hitchcock was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester, at the date of the with attestation.  Witness the Seal of the State
John P Bigelow
Secy of the Com'lth
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1,475
Maine
Mary Bates
widow of Doughty Bates
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 Dollars 53 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of August 1848 and sent to Geo. W. Morton  Augusta Me

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2  Vol. 1.

Reported
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WIDOW, &c.

File No.     24683
Mary Bates
Wid. of 
Doughty Bates
Priv. Rev. War
Act:  Feb. 2nd 1848.
Index:-- Vol. R , Page 40

[Arrangement of 1870]

Doughty Bates  Maine June 7 where paid
d. 1835  died January 1835
paid to that time
14.14
No. 3787
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Maine        3787
============================
Mary Bates
widow of Doughty Bates dec'd
who was a pensioned under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 1 January 1835
of Kennebec in the State of Maine
who was a private in the Co
commanded by Captain Turner of the
reg't commanded by Col Jacobs in the Mass
line  for 6 months
============================
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 21 Dollars 53 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
===========================
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Aug
1839 in and to G. W. Morton
Augusta    Maine
============================
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839  $64.59
Semi-annual allowance ending
4 Sep 39                                      10.16
                                                   $75.35
                                              {Act July 7,}
                                                   {1838.}

Recorded by
D. McCurdy, Clerk
Book A        Vol. 1        Page 2
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Maine  1127
=====================
Mary Bates
widow of Doughty Bates
who was a Private
in the Mass line
for 6 mo. & 14 days
======================
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
21 Dollars &  53
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
=======================
Certificate of Pension issued the
26th day of July, 1843.
and sent to
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
=========================
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. A      Page 2
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Mary Bates
ad
1827
Admitted
Geo W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled ""An Act
Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAIN}
COUNTY OF Kennebec} ss.
On this fourth day of July A.D. 1848 personally
appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Mary Bates a resident of Leeds
in the County of Kennebec aged eighty Seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Doughty Bates
who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of
the said Doughty Bates at the rate of Twenty one dollars and fifty three cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
Leonard Mower     Mary Bates                          
Charles Bates

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Leonard Mower Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual
who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Leonard Mower  Justice of the Peace
ss.
STATE OF MAINE.}
KENNEBEC COUNTY,} ss.
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Leonard Mower
is a Magistrate as above, and that the
above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial
Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 7th day of August in the year 1848.

Wm M  Stratton } Clerk of the Courts of                                                                                                                                                Kennebec County
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97
Mary Bates

$21.53 per ann

Geo W Morton
Augusta Maine
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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.
STATE OF MAINE,
County of Kennebec⎬ ss.
On this Nineteenth day of April A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec
and State of Maine, Mary Bates a resident of Leeds in the County of Kennebec  aged eighty two years, who, being first duly 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 Doughty Bates, who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Doughty Bates at the rate of twenty one
dollars and fifty three 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  She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Doughty Bates having remained unmarried ever since his death.

Wm Bates             Mary Bates
Elias Adams
Mary Bates
Elias Adams
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,    Elias Adams  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 is the reputed widow of Doughty Bates deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Elias Adams 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 Kennebec, do hereby certify that Elias
Adams, 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 Maine the
third day of February A.D. 1843
A. R. Nichols
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, November 1.  1832
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that Doughty Bates served as a private in Capt.
Amos Turner's company in Col. John Jacob's regiment from July 22d to October 30th 1780; that he was paid for three months & 14 days service and that there are no rolls of Capt. Stetson's company in Col. Dike's regiment from Aug. to Dec. 1776 to be found in this office
Edward D Bangs (?)
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John Allen of Green in the County of
Kennebec and State of Maine aged Seventy-one years  testify and say that in the year 1776
I knew Douty Baits a solder in Capt Joseph
Stetson Company and Col Pikes Regiment
then stationed at Dorchester and Boston I was a soldier in the same company our enlistment was for three months which time we served out and was then verbally discharge at Boston. I also say the Same Douty Baits in Capt. Imus Turner County and John Jacobs Regiment in the year 1780 at Nine Part Rhouidan where he served as a Soldier  I was in the same Regiment our enlistments was for three months which time we served and was verbally Discharge on (illegible)  the Same Douty Bates Now lives in Leeds  in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine and is the same man that I there knew and now is an applicant for a Pension and further Saith not
State of Maine                  John Allen     

County of Kennebec August 23d 1832
Personally appeared the above named John Allen to me
Will none as a credible witness and signed the
the same in my present and made oath to the same in my Presence
George Lothrop Justice of the Peace
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Augusta Maine
Aug 7. 1848
Sir
I send herewith the declarations
of Susanna Adams, Mary Bates, Mary Doe
Lydia Knowles and Abigail Kendall widows
of Revolutionary Soldiers claiming Pensions
under act of Feb 2. 1848. if their papers
an satisfactory, I would respectfully request
you to send me as their agent pension Certificates for them
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Geo W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq}
Commr of Pensions}
Washington City}
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State of Maine
On the sixth day of September, 1838,
I took the declaration of Mary Bates for a pension. No court was then in session. From her sex and the infirmities incident to be
advanced period of life, she being
seventy eight, I felt myself justified in certifying her inability to appear in open court.  
but I am now informed and have reason to believe that the State of  her health is such that
she cannot visit her neighbors.
June 10. 1839
Nathan Weston
S. J. Court
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State of Maine
Kennebec County ss
I the subscriber Clerk of all the
Judicial Courts of said County of Kennebec, Certify that the Hon Nathan Weston in the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have
hereinto set my hand and the seal of the said
Court this tenth day of June A.D. 1839
J A Chandler