Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3185, Phinehas Eames, Mass.
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service                                                       Number
Mass      Eames Phinehas                R 3185
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The said Eames , write their names  ( ) but I think that my grandfather and mother and his brothers  always wrote their names Eames- I furhter state that my father Phinehas Eames died February 9th 1834 and my mother Mary Eames died 25 1842 I was present at both of their funerals
Phinehas Eames
Subscribed and sworn to before me a Justice of the Peace  for therein and for the County of  Lincoln in the state of Maine this 16th day of February 1854
James Robinson justice of the Peace
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Phinehas Eames
R. 3185
BA-J/AWF

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Wasington DC

Dear Sir:

   Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Phinehas Ames, born october 26 1757 in Rutland, Massachusetts, died 1839, Dover Maine.
  The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim R. 3185, based on the service of Phinehas Eames in the War of the Revolution.  This is the record of the only Phinehas Eames, under any spelling of the name , found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
  The date and place of birth of Phinehas Eames were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated. He was a resident of Jefferson Lincoln County, District of Maine, during the Revolutionary War. He died there Februry 24, 1834, and his widow died November 25 1842.  There are no data in this claim relative to their marriage, nor was her maiden name given.
  In 1854 the following children of Phinehas Eames, and his wife, Mary were living in Lincoln County, Maine- "Phinehas" Eames, Francis Eames, John Eames, Jane Clark, Mary or May Jackson, Olive Erskine, and Paul Eams.
   Phinehas Eames on February 16, 1854, then of
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Jefferson, Lincoln county, Maine, aged sixty-nine years, "oldest son now living", applied for the pension that might have been due on account of the service of his father, Phinehas eames, and alleged that he enlisted sometime in April 1779 served as a privatein Captain Joseph Jones' comapny, that he went in Captain Archibald McAlister's company on the expedition to Bagaduce bay, and after the engagment there, returned to Booth-bay, and remained in the service until November following, and that he was in a tour to Trenton, under Captain Benny.
   The claims for pension was not allowed as proof of six months service, as recuired by the pension law was not furnished.
  It was stated that Johnathan eames, brother of the soldier, Phinehas Eames, served in the War of the Revolution at the same time.
   The son, "Phinehas" Eames, stated that many of the grandchildren and "connections" wrote their names "Ames", but his grandfather, father and brothers wrote their name "eames".
   The application for headstone for Phinehas Eames is returned herewith, as is also, "extracts"  from Piscataquis County Historical Society Collections" concerning said Phinehas ames.

Very Truly Yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Admistrator
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original
Phinehas Eames
Me Original
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1938 June 3- lists to meuco Br

3185
P.O.----
Phinehas Eames
Service:---
Enlisted:---,18
Discharged:----,18
Application filed----,18
Alleges:----
Re-enlisted-----
not on printed list of 1852
Attorney----
P.P.---
---Recognized----Contract.
--Cert of Dis Searched for----18
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No. 38847
Phinehas Eames dec'd
Maine
 jas. Robinson Feby 8 1855

3185

June 7 1832
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papers of Phinehas Eames
From Maine-
Act 1832
Suspended
Ho. H Gallaher
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Know all men by these presents that, we Phinehas Eames, Francis Eames, John Eames, Jane Clark, May Jackson ^Olive Erskine^, Paul eames all of the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, children and herin at Law of Phinehas eames late of Jefferson in said County of Lincoln, deceased, have constituated and appointed and do hereby constitute & appoint by there present Joseph Weeks Esq of said Jefferson in said county of Lincoln, our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to ^petition for^ & recieve from the Untied States the Bounty Land certificate or warrant or pension certificate or any ( ) or sum of money that may be ( ) to said Phinehas eames deceased, for any & all services for the Untied States or the Revolutionary War beween the then colonies and Great britian, and  to do all lawful acts & things whatsoever touching the pension hereby confirming all & whatsoever our said attorney shall see our name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premise.
  In testimmony whereof we have hereunto set one  hand and seal this 10th day of February AD 1854
Witness-
James Robinson             Phinehas Eames
                                      Jane Clark
                                     Francis eames     
                                   Olive Erskine    
                                   Paul Eames

Acknowledge and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln & State of  Maine this 16th day of February 1854        

James Robinson  Justice of the Peace
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I Thomas Frask of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine of lawful age to give evidence do make affidavit and say, That in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine (I believe) I lived in the town of Edgecomb in said County and in the month of April in that year I was drafted to serve as a soldier in the american service and in a few days after we were ordered to Camden in Said State and there I became acquainted with Phinehas Eames of Jefferson in Said County of Lincoln, a drafted soldier serving in the same company with myself under the command of Capt Joseph Jones
I found the said Eames at Camden where I first went thence and after stopping there a while our Company was ordered back to Boothbay in said State and went under the Command of Capt. McAllister and from Boothbay we were transported in Vessels to what was then called Bagaduce now Castine in said State and when at Castine I was wounded by a shot from the enemies Cannon & unable to travel & the said Phinehas Eames and one John Moody carried me on their backs to the boats to send to the hospital ship, and we remained at Castine until the defeat of the American forces & were then ordered back to Boothbay before said and there we remained in the Service until sometime in the month of Novem-
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ber of that you and  clearing all the time aforesaid. I am certian of the said Phinehas eames being  in the service  as aforesaid.
Thomas Frask

Lincoln  on March 15th 1844 there  personally appeared  the above named Thomas Frask and made solemn oath that the foregoing, statement by him subscribed to be true and correct before me  Samuel W Jackson Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquintd with the aforesaid Thomas Frask and that he is a person  of good moral character and entitled to full belief and credit
Sam W Jackson Justice of the Peace
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I Sanuel W Jackson, of jefferson County of Lincoln State of Maine, made affidavit and say that i was the Justice of the Peace before when the deposition which is hereto are ( ) dated March 15 1844 of Tomas Frask late of said Jefferson, now deceased,  whose children have joined in the petition hereto annexed by their agent Joseph Weeks esq the said Phinehas Eames deceased
Sam W Jackson

County of Lincoln SS subscribed and sworn to this 20th day July 1854
Before me   Thomas Simmons Justice of the Peace