Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20278, William Albee, Mass
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Albee, William 

NUMBER
S. 20278

carded
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William Albee's Application for Pension

Document accompanying the application
Said Albee's commission
Copy of Albee's deed to Machias
Hutchens Declaration ~~~

explanatory [deposition] of Wm Albee applicable
to the [several] application of Ledermin Runnely [& others]

Sam Rummely deposition
Copy of Resolve of Congress
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STATE OF MAINE.
Washington SS At the Supreme Judicial Court on the fourth Tuesday of June 1825 before the Honorable Prentiss Mellen Chief Justice of said Court.

On this thirtieth day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Washington - William Albee ....  aged seventy eight years, resident in Machias in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath declare that he served in the evolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Second Lieutenant
in the company commanded by Capt. [crossed out]   by Colonel John Allen in the line of the State of Massachusetts, afterwards by resolve of [Long Ib placed] on the Continental Establishment, in the said Corps untill the end of the War in 1783 when he was discharged from the service at Machias in said [   ] and [ that] he relinquishes his Claim to any pension whatever except that [ ----- 18 1818 & May 1. 1820. ] 

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of
my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me, 

That since the eighteenth day of March 1818 the changes in the following list have been made in my property, and that I could not find any evidence of the said Regiment being placed upon the Continental service untill the resolve of Congress of Feby 15. 1781 was found, the last Winter, & therefore make this late application of pension~
Wm Albee

Sworn to and declared, on the 30 day of June A.D. 1825 ┃
BEFORE Prentiss Mellent Chief Justice of said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted
subscriber, viz:--
Nothing~~~~
On the 18th day of March 1818 I owned seventy five acres of land in Machias, subjecct to the mortgage to Harrison Thatcher a Copy of which is annexed, and I have since released all my right to the same to discharge the debt secured by said mortgage; as by the copies & deposition of said Thatcher appears ~~
Wm Albee

























(B-1776)
SERVICE     NUMBER
Mass.   Albee, William    S.20278

carded
CONTENTS
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Schedule of family residing with me William Albee who by occupation am a husband  man which I am unable to pursue by reason of age, infirmity
[Table with entrie(s)]
NAMES | AGES | Capacity of each to contribute to  their support |

Myself alone | 78 | Very decrepit Wm Albee |

State of Maine. Washington I Josiah Harris Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine [unk] in fore said County of Washington. Do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of said court, the said William Albee did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy, enemy the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment set forth -

for said count of Sabo do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 22nd day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
Jonah Harris  clerk of the Sup Jud  Court for said county of Washington
Documents accompanying the application
Said Albee's Commission
Copy of Albee's deed to Hatcher
Hatcher's deposition
explanatory deposition of Wm Albee, applicable to the general application of Lederman Runnd and other
Sam Runnd deposition
Copy of Resolve of Congress

[written on the side]
William Albee's application for pension
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No. 11,204
Maine
William Albee
of Machias Co. in the state of Maine who was a Lt. Artillery in the Company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regm. commanded by Col. Allen in the Main troops for 2 years ST.  $400.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 400 Dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certified of Pension iforied the 11th day of April 1833 and sent to R.K. Porter Machias Me.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  800.00
Semi-amb. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 200.00
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1000.00
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown  clerk
Book E  Vol 1  page /
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We Jacob Longfellow and Joseph Gitchell residents of Machias [aforesaid] herby certify that we are well acquainted with William Albee within-named, and are [knowing] to his having been a lieutenant in the revolution as he has written Stated and serving the time by him written set forth.
Jacob Longfellow
Joseph  (his X mark) Gitchell

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Dickerson Judge

And the Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department. That the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Longfellow esquire who has signed the above and also Joseph Gitchell are residents of Machias aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit -- John Dickerson Judge of Court 

State of Maine Washington Ss.

I Aaron L. Raymond Register of the Court of Probate writing for the County of Washington do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceeds of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Albee for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this thirteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Aaron L. Raymond, Register
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State of Maine
Washington Ss:

On this 28 day of August, 1832. personally appeared in open Court, held by & before Hon. John Dickinson Judge of Probate of the County of Washington, & now sitting, William Albee, a resident of East Machias in said county, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States as Second Lieutenant in command of a company of Artillery, placed under command of Captain afterward Col. John Allen sometime in the year 1777, & continued in the service till the end of the war in 1783. that during all that time he was stationed at small fort in Machias, of which he had the command. that he does not recollect the precise day of entering the service or of his discharge. 
and that his commission which was from the State of Massachusetts, is on file in the Pension office at Washington with the paper relating to his application (unsuccessful) for a pension under a former act of Congress which he made in June 1825, 
and that he had no other documentary evidence of his service, except the [illegible] certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts & of the late Judge [Jones] deceased - He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on any pension roll.
Wm Albee
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid.
John Dickerson  Judge
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August 24,1915

Mr. E. F . Albee
1564 Broadway
New York City

Sir:
In response to your letter of the 18" instant, you are advised that from the papers in the claim sur. File No. 20,278, Rev. War, it appears that William Albee, who was a resident of Machias, Maine, was commissioned August 16, 1777, Second Lieutenant in Colonel John Allen's Massachusetts regiment, and served to the end of the war in 1783, during which time he was in command of a fort at Machias.
In 1825, he was seventy-eight years of age, and was a resident of Machias, Maine.
There is no data relative to family.
Very respectfully,
E.C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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[ three part document - first part illegible]

Revolution
20278
INVALID
File No. 20278
William Albee
Lieut Rev War 
Mass Reg Arty

1893 Dec 12
to Mrs SB Lovejo
Massachusetts
1915 Aug 24 History to
E.F. Albee
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Samuel Runnely deposition
with Wm Albee application -
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I, Samuel Runnely, truly say,  I served in a company of artillery in the corps commanded by Col. John Allen, in the company under command of Lieutenant William Albee, and on that the said Albee served as Lieutenant from the year 1777 to the end of the war, when we were all discharged at Machias, by John Allen but no certificates of discharge were given to us
Samuel Runnely

Washington Ss: July 1 1825 - [There] Samuel Runnels made oath to the truth of the aforgoing deposition by him [subscribed before]
R. K. Porter Just. Peace

State of Maine, Washington Ss, 
I Josiah Harris Clerk of the Judicial Court holden in & for sd County of Washington, do hereby certify that Rufus K. Porter Esqr.  by whom the above deposition appears to have been taken was at the date of the taking thereof [& yet is]  one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County, duly commissioned & acting under the sd State of Maine & that by Signature, above, is his true & proper signature - In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 22nd day of August 1825.
Josiah Harris
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No. 7
I the subscriber hereby certify that I have been an inhabitant of Machias ever since march in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty five That I am well acquainted with Lieutenant William Albee who was an inhabitant of Machias for several years previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary War, That from and after the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, That said Albee had the command of a company of artillery and was known and called as Lieutenant Commandant of said company, which was under the immediate command of Colonel John Allen who was Commandant at this port & Superintendent of Indians - and that said Albee is now indigent curcumstances.

Machias September
6th 1818 - Stephen Jones - Judge of probate
County of Washington
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Application for Pension 5768

Admitted 2 yrs Lieutenant of Artillery $400.-

R.K. Porter Machias Maine

Wm. Albee
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Copy of Resolve of 1781
Transcribed from the Journals of Congress by the Hon. John Obrian [illegible] by him
The 25th 1825
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Feby 15th 1781
Resolved that the President inform the Governor of Massachusetts that Congress, sensible of the importance of supporting the eastern Indian department,  under the superintendence of Col John Allan, [appear of the care] of the executive of Massachusetts in Making from time to time, the necessary provisions for the same; and they are requested to [continue] such supplies, and charge the same to the United States; And it is further resolved, that the Govr. & Council of Massachusetts, be, and hereby am empowered to Complete the Company of [   ], at the port of Machias, to A number not exceeding sixty five, including such officers as they shall Judge necessary, for the further security & defense thereof; the said Company to be under the Command of Colonel John Allan, and to be raised, clothed, paid
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Harrison Thatchers disposition with William Albee's application for pension.
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I Harrison Thatcher, testify & say that on the 27th day of April 1820, William Albee was indebted to me in the sum of three hundred dollars for necessaries for himself & family, & for security of said debt he conveyed to me by deed dated April 20,1820, a lot of land in Machias, and I gave him a [bond of defeasance] by which he could redeem the same lot on paying said debt & interest,- 
that in 1824 the said lot not being worth the said debt I relieved him from the debt & had that the bond aforesaid cancelled,- that I verily believe that the said [transfer] & the cancelling of said bond were both fairly & honestly made, without any intent on the part of said Albee to dimmish his property his property so as to bring him within the provisions of the act entitled " An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & marine service of the  United States in the Revolutionary War; - 
And that I am well acquainted with his circumstances & am satisfied that he not any property & has made no conveyance of any property with what to diminish it for the purpose aforesaid. I further testify that in said Albee, deed to me I am called Harrison G. O. Thatcher.
Harrison Thatcher

State of Maine -
Washington Co; August 19, 1825 - Application Harrison Thatcher of are named I under oath to the truth of the aforementioned disposition before me
R.K. Porter Just Peace.
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State of Maine Washington Co.
I Jonah Harry , Clerk of all the Judicial Courts holden in & for said County of Washington, Do hereby certify that Rufus K. Porter Esq by whom the written deposition of Harrison Thatcher appearing to have been taken, was at the date of the taking thereon, one of the Justices of the Peace written for said county, Duly commissioned and acting under the Authority of the State of Maine -  And that the written Signature of R. K. Porter is the true & proper Signature of the said Rufus K. Porter.
In Testimony whereas I have herewith set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 22nd day if August 1825.
Josiah Harris

Harrison Thatcher disposition with William Albee application for pension
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary Office, Feb. 20 1819
By this I certify that it appears by the army books & lists of officers & soldiers in the war of the revolution name arriving in this office that William Albee was Lieutenant of artillery under command of Col. John Allan at Machias & vicinity from Decr. 1777 to May 1, 1781 - and from any thing which is on record he was also regularly discharged.
Alden Bradford
Secy. [illegible] of Mass
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[Official document with signatures on the left hand side]

Jos Powell
A. Ward
B Greenleaf
Caleb Cushing
John Whetcomb
S Hotten
Zaber Fisher
D Hopkins
[illegible]
Benj Austin
H Gardner
F M Dunn
D Sewall
Josiah Stone
N Cushing

[ document with signatures on the right]

State of Massachusetts 
The Major Part of the COUNCIL Massachusetts Bay in New England
To William Albee Gentleman - Greeting.

You being appointed Second Lieutenant [illegible] Company Commanded by John Allen Esq to be [raised] for the defense of Eastern Settlements agreeable to a resolution of the General Court of the 16th of August 1777 -

By virtue of the power vested in us, We do by these Present ([reposing] special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct,) commission you accordingly.  -You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the [duty] of a Second Lieutenant in leading, ordering, and exercising said company in [illegible] both Inferior officers and soldiers; and to keep them in good order and Discipline. And they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Second Lieutenant and are yourself, to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall from [illegible] Time receive from 
The major part of the Council, or your Superior Officers

Given under our hands, and the seal of the fair state, at Boston the sixteenth day of august in the year of our lord 1777.

By the Command of the 
Major-part of the council.
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Copy of Albee's deed to Thatcher with Wm Albee's application
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, 
That  I William Albee [Leny] of Machias in the county of Washington & state of Massachusetts [Gentleman] 

in consideration of the sum of three hundred Dollars paid by Harrison G. O. Thatcher of Machias aforesaid trader 

the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto said 
Harrison G. O. Thatcher a certain piece of land situate in said Machias & bounded as follows to [Wit] 
beginning at a spruce tree standing near the fresh river on a point of sand near a small brook below Albees meadow brook so called sd tree marked W C and from thence runs north 80 degrees East fifty nine rods to a Small hemlock tree marked WC, thence north ten degrees West one hundred and thirty six rods to a stake and stones thence South 80 degrees West fifty none rods to a Stake and Stones - thence South ten degrees East thirty two rods to a [bouned] thence West ten degrees South one hundred twenty nine rods to a corner or to the river thence by the river as it now runs to the first mentioned boundary 
be the contents what they may - excepting & reserving such part of said land as I have deeded to Arthur D. Albee, together with all the privileges & appurtenances to same belongings -

To HAVE and HOLD the afore-granted Premises to the said Harrison G.O. Thatcher and his Heirs and Assigns, to his [illegible] Use and Behoof forever. And I do covenant with the said Harrison Thatcher his Heirs and Assigns, That I am lawfully seized in Fee of the afore-granted Premises; That they are free of all Incumbrances; That I have good Right to sell and convey the same to the said Thatcher to hold as afore said 
And that I will warrant and defend the same Premises to the said Thatcher his Heirs and Assigns forever, against the lawful claims and Demand of all persons.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said William Albee & wife as a relinquishment of her rights of dowess in the above premises have hereunto set our hands to 
Seals this Twentieth - day of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and ten
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us,

Wm Albee (seal)
Ebinezer Inglee
Edward Clark

Washington ss. April 27 1810 Then the above named William Albee seals personally offered & acknowledges the above Instrument to be his free Act and Deed - before me,
Ebenzer Inglee Just. of Peace
Read for Record 27th April 1810 & entered
Attist. [illegible]
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Washington Co. I certify the written to be a true copy from the records of dee for said county book. No. 7 page 102
Attest G. Smith

Copy of Albee's deed to Thatcher with Wm Albee's application
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Explanatory deposition to accompany the application of Louis F. Deterdemin, William Albee Thomas Harvey, de.
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I, William Albee, a oath declare & say that in the year 1777, I was commissioned by the Council of Massachusetts a Lieutenant in the corps commanded by John Allen, to be employed near Machias against the Common Enemy. 
One great object of said corps being raised was to [illegible] the neighboring Indians from [uniting] with the British. I was stationed, with part of said Corps of sometimes twenty five & some times thirty five men, as artillery, in a small fort at Machias. 
The rest of said corps acted under the immediate command of Col. Allen, & under Capt. Preble & Lieutenants [DelesDermin] & Avery, in watching and restraining & as far as possible [disciplining] the indians on our side, & in one expedition against the British settlements in New Brunswick in which the fort at St John was taken & held until retaken by a larger force from Halifax. 
The whole force under Col. Allen including my command did not, according to the best of my recollection, exceed sixty five men, but the precise number I do not recollect.  During my term of service there was but one attack made by the British upon my command & in that we [repulsed] an armed brig & drove her from the river.
Wm. Albee
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Washington Co: August 2 1825 There William Albee within named made oath to the truth of the written affidavits before me
R.K. Porter, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine, Washington Co. I Josiah Harris Clerk of all the Judicial Courts holden in & for said County of Washington, do hereby certify that Rufus K. Porter Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition & affidavit appears to have been made at the date of his certificate above was & yet is one of the justices of the peace in & for said county acting under the authority of commission of State of Maine - And the signature above is his true & proper Signature.
In testimony wherof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 22nd day of August 1825.
Josiah Harris
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Copy -
War Department
Pension Office
September 9th 1825

Sir, 
The claims of Thomas Harvey, William Albee, Samuel Runnels, John Bryant & Lewis F. Belesdamien have been examined. They claim pensions under the act of March 18, 1818, and ground their applications on the presumption that the resolution of Congress of the 15 February 1781, places the Corps of Col. Allan, in which they state to have served, as the Continental establishment. 
They are entirely [mistaken] as to the nature of the service which constituted what was called the continental establishment. None of the troops were evidenced in that establishment who were not intended for the general defence. 
The resolution alluded to only directs the Corps to be raised, clothed, paid & subscripted as continental soldiers at the expense of the United States - but it does not say that the men shall form a part of the continental army for the general defense. On the contrary, it declares that the corps was to be raised solely for the security of Machias. 
Corps for general defence were never co-
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considered as the Continental Establishment, as you will perceive by the report of the Secretary of War to Congress in December 1819,  in which he says that persons who joined the Corps for local defense, have, under the [continuation] given to the act of the 18 March 1818, been excluded from the benefits thereof. 
These claims must, of course be rejected.  The papers will remain in our files, agreeably to the regulation of this dept.

I am respectfully
Yr. Abd. Savt.
(signed)
J. L. Edwards
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Rev Sec H,
1564 Broadway
New York
August 18-1915
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
I am advised by the War Department (Adjutant General's Office)  that I might possibly be able to get the information I desire from your office.
I am erecting a monument to my Great-grandfather, William Albee, who lived in Machias, Maine, and who served in the Revolutionary Army from 1775 to 1783 and on the tablet I desire to please a table with an inscription giving his War Record.
Can you give me any information relative thereto, such as his full military record, date of enlistment, promotions, assignments, details, etc., as well as the date of his discharge or muster out of the service! Or Can you advise me where I can obtain this information ?
Very Truly yours,
E.F. Albee