Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24538, for Samuel Libby, Massachusetts
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State of Maine.
County of Cumberland SS.

On this twenty sixth day of March A. D. 1855
personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
and State aforesaid, Abigail Libby a resident of
Scarborough in said County and State, aged ninety one years, who being duly sworn, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to
obtain Bounty Land, under the Act of Congress passed March 3d, A. D. 1855.

And your declarant further states that she is
the widow of Samuel Libby late of Scarborough
in the State of Maine
that her said husband Samuel Libby was a Soldier of the Revolution, she believes that her said husband entered the service in the Revolutionary War from the town of Scarborough and served six month or more in the Company of Captain

That her said Husband died in Scarborough on the 8th day of March AD. 1819 and that she
is now a widow and has not been married since the death of her husband aforesaid
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YOUR DECLARANT FURTHER STATES, that she was married to the said Samuel Libby on the Eighth day of January A.D. 1783, at Scarborough in said State, and that her name before marriage was Abigail Graffam

And your declarant further states, that after the passage of the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 she made application for a pension, on which application a pension was granted her at the rate of Twenty dollars 33/100 per annum, as will appear by her Pension Certificate, dated Ninth day of June A.D. 1848 No. 10 under the act of Feby 2d 1848, 
She further states that she has not applied for nor received Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress and that her said husband never recd Bounty Land in his lifetime

For proof of marriage, her husband's service in the Revolutionary War, and his death, and of your declarant's identity, she refers to her declaration and proof for a Pension, now on file in the Department of the Interior, at Washington, under the several acts of 1838 1843, 1844 & 1848
She therefore claims Bounty Land under the act aforesaid, and states that she is still
a widow.

And for the purpose of this application, I hereby appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland my true and lawful Attorney in the premises.
Attest,


John Waterhous 
Richard Waterhous
Abigail Libby X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed, before me, the day and year first above written, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subjoined, for the purposes above mentioned. And I hereby certify that I believe
the said Samuel Libby to be the person who performed the military service aforesaid, and to be of the age above stated. 
I further certify that I know the above named Claimant to be the person she represents herself to be in her declaration and the place
have no interest in this claim
Stephen L. Waterhousee Jus Peace
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STATE OF MAINE.
Maine District
County of Cumberland, ss.

On this Seventeenth day of August A.D. 1838
personally appeared before me Asher Ware -
Judge of the District Court for the District of Maine 
Abagail Libby a resident of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged seventy four 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 Samuel Libbey who was a 
Private in the army of the Revolution. that she believes her said husband entered the service sometime in the month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five in the Company Commanded by Capt Benjamin Larabee in the Regiment commanded by Col Reuben Fogg as appears
by the testimony hereunto annexed-

Her said husband also [served] in the
Bagan Expedition so called for the time and
in the manner stated in said testimony.

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SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Samuel Libbey in Scarborough on the Eighth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty three and that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Libbey
died on the Eighth day of March AD 1819
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.
Abigail Libby X her mark


Witness
S. [onyssey]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
BEFORE
Ashur Ware
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I Mark Libby of Scarborough in the County
of Cumberland on oath depose & say
that I am Eighty Eight years of age and
was born in the Town of Scarborough
in March 1750. I was a solder in the
War of the Revolution and entered
the service in the year 1775 in December
I believe in the Company commanded
by Capt Benjamin Larabee of Scarboro-
in Col. Fogg's Regiment. Samuel Libby
of Scarboro enlisted with me and we
marched from Portland Maine I
in Christmas day and went all
the way by land to Peekskill in the
State of New York. We arrived at
head quarters at Peaks kill some time
in the month of January. The company 
to which Samuel Libby & myself
belonged was stationed at Peakskill
during the winter of 1776 about two
months and was then stationed at
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a place about ten [miles to] the westward
at a place your [affiant] does not now
recollect. He and the said Samuel were
now discharged, and [were] made up twenty
days for [travel]. Samuel Libby was discharged
the same time that I was but he did
not return to Scarborough with me.

I arrived home on the 28th of April in
the year 1777, I think I am right in the
above dates. This term of service was four
months & Samuel Libbey was with me
doing the dut. of a private soldier
all this time.

In the spring of seventeen hundred &
seventy nine I again enlisted for the
Bagaduce Expedition in Penobscot Bay
under the command of Capt Larabee
and Samuel Libby enlisted and served
with me. We sailed in a sloop from
Portland. We abandoned her when
the British fleet attacked us and
set her on fire, and wandered though
the wilderness until we reached
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Portland in the month of August
of the same year I think we enlisted
for three months but served nearly
four months. Samuel Libby served in
the two [campaigns] before alluded to with
me at last eight months. I have known
him from childhood. Abigail Libby
is his widow. Samuel Libby died about
nineteen years ago and Abigail Libby his
widow has never been married [since] the
death of her husband
Man Libbee

State of Maine August 24, 1838-
Cumberland County SS - Then personally appeared the above named Mark Libby a man of truth veracity and made oath to the above
affidavit by him signed 
Before me Truman Bradford Justice of
the Peace-