Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21573, for Royal Lincoln, Massachusetts
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Mass.
Mass. Sea Service

  

Lincoln, Royal  
 Jerusha


Number - W. 21573
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11233

Maine

Royal Lincoln
of York Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Bombardier, Private, Seaman in the Company commanded by Captain Hall of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crafts in the Massachusetts Militia. 


17 months  Bombardier       $94.00
3 months 2 days  Infantry    $10.21
8 months 28 days Seaman   $29.73


$133.94


Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 133 Dollrs 94 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of April 1833 and sent to J. Mussy, Portland, Maine

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833   $267.88
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 $66.97

$334.85


{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}


Recorded by John T. Sprague, Clerk
Book E. Vol. ? Page 31
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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 29 March 1837 the day of his death.  Agent notified 2nd March 1840.
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Maine 2152
Jerusha Lincoln
widow of Royal Lincoln
who was a Bombardier, Seaman Jr.
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
133 Dollars 94
Cents per annum, to commence om
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
17th day of Oct. 1864
and sent to A. K. Parris,
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Cornishville Oct. 26th 1839


Sir,

There was due to my father "Royal Lincoln" pension from March 1837 to 29th the time of his decease $8.80 he ? we have ? applying for it, and in fact one was ? in what manner his widow should apply:  doubtless there is a regular mode, with which we ?, I have no other recourse than to apply to your office for that information.
About a month since at request of widow Jewell I forwarded to your office for her, papers relative to her marriage; on arrival of each mail I have a communication from her for information:  nothwithstanding there has been no record evidence admitted to fix the precise date of her marriage, I have no
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no more hesitation in saying that I think she is entitled to a ?

Respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 

Cotton Lincoln


J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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3842

Royal Lincoln
Application for a pension

August 1832

private


Admitted

12 months  Bombardier   94.
3 months  2 days Priv Inf.     10.21
8 months 28 days Seaman  29.73
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24                              $133.94

Issued ?

J. Mussey Esq.
Portland
ME
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United States of America

Maine District ss.

At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty eighth day of August AD eighteen hundred and thirty two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this twenty eighth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Royal Lincoln a resident of Cornish in the County of York in said Maine District, aged seventy seven 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 7th, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: viz:  That, in April 1775 at Hingham near Boston he enlisted in a company of Militia as a private for eight months was commanded by Capt. James Lincoln, and stationed on the sea board in Hingham when he  served in said company in guarding the shore from the British till December following when he was dismissed - That early in the spring of  1776 he thinks in March he enlisted into a company of Militia at Dorchester and served for two months under the command of Capt. Hall as he believes and was employed in fortifying the Heights of Dorchester  at the time the British evacuated Boston and was dismissed after he had served out the two months. That he afterwards early in the summer of the year 1776 enlisted at Hingham  for twelve months in a Company of Artillery commanded by James Lincoln, in Col. Craft's Regiment and was stationed for a few weeks on Castle Island in Boston Harbor and from thence we went to Hull or Nantasket where we served till winter when we marched to Boston where we served til the next summer when the term of twelve months being expired for which he had enlisted he was dismissed with the rest of the Company, on Boston Common. 
That in 1777 in the month of November at Boston he entered on board the ? Brig Hazard a States vessel commanded by Capt. Sampson of Plymouth, and went on a cruise off the Western Island, and the Coast of England and captured several prizes, two schooners from Halifax, bound for the West Indies, and a Brig off the rock of Lisbon.
We proceeded to the West Indies in said Brig Hazard and captured another prize called the live oak laden with English goods which we carried into Boston. That we returned to Boston in May having been out some eight months.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State.

Royal Lincoln

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.  Before

Ashur Ware
U.S. Judge for the District of Maine
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The said Royal Lincoln, further states that he was born at Hingham Sept. 15, 1754. 
I have a record of my age in a Bible  - That I resided in Hingham when he first entered into the service  - and left there in the year 1790 - he went to Weymouth where he resided seven years he then removed to Gorham in the State of Maine where he resided thirty five years and then removed to Cornish where he now resides - That he entered the service as a Volunteer and served as a private - He does not know of any person living now who served with him, except William Stevens, who was with me in the Brig Hazard in the sea service.

Royal Lincoln

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before 

Ashur Ware

U.S. Judge for the District of Maine

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.


I, John Mussey, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Royal Lincoln for a pension.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this first day of September AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

John Mussey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
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2514 

Jerusha Lincoln

Maine 

Act 7 July 1838


N 79 d. 37

Admitted

12 months Bombardier
8:28 days Seaman
3.2 days private Infantry

$133.94

Died 29 March 1837
per:Com 30 March 1837


Cotton Lincoln Esq.
Cornishville
Maine
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State of Maine

York ss.

I, John Skeele, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that 
William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Arthur McArthur is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

John Skeele

Register of Probate
York County