Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37156, for Joseph Lancaster, Massachusetts
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Joseph Lancaster aged sixty three years, resident in Bowdoinham in the County of Lincoln

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in the Company commanded by Captain Burnham and Regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of
three years that he was at the battle of [Bemis] Heights at the taking of [Burgoyne] and at the storming of Stony point
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one cow of the value of sixteen dollars.
old [household stuff besides] necessary [bedding], not [exceeding] Eight dollars in value, one axe of the value of one dollars
I have no debts that [can be collected], and [ ] as much as [ ] hundred dollars.
I have no income [past] property, [have] possession I am a [ ] man by by profession, but from age and infirmity am not able to do a days work [ ] 

I have at home six in family viz myself, my wife Martha aged fifty nine sick and [ ]  a [ ]  old [ ] daughter,  [ ] twenty nine my daughter May aged twenty two, my daughter [ ] aged
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Joseph Lancaster aged sixty one years, a citizen of the U. States born in Woolwich, Maine, but now of Bowdoinham, Maine upon oath testify and declare, that on the twenty fourth day of March 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy for the period of three years, upon the continental [ ] [ ] this [ ] in Capt Woodbridge's Company but served in Capt John Burhman's company and Col Michael Jackson's regiment, Massachusetts line. This period I served, and was finally and honorably discharged from the army at West Point March 9, 1780. My discharge I have since lost, and it is not now to my knowledge in existence. I was in Fort Stanwix, when it was besieged by the British and Indians, and at the storming of Stony point, under General Wayne. From my reduced circumstances, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge [ ] on any pension [ ] whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Joseph Lancaster

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln S.s.

On the tenth day of April A.D. 1818 Joseph Lancaster above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration, by him subscribed. Before me Nathan Weston Hn C. Just
C Court C. Pens 2d Eastern Circuit