Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22819, Peter Colbeth, Mass.
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State of Maine
Washington Ss.

On this 28 day of August 1832, personally appears in open Court of Probate now held at Machias by Hon. John Dickenson Judge of Probate in& for said County,
Peter Colbeth, resident at Machias port, formerly a part of Machias, in said County aged eighty one, who being sworn according to law, doth on 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 under the following officers & served as herein stated: he resided at Machias & enlisted in a Company of Artillery Commanded by Lieut. William Albee in a regiment or command of Col. John Allen, raised by Massachusetts & afterwards taken into the pay of the United States, & was one of the first who to enlisted, but he does not recollect the time; he served as a private soldier under said [[subitment]] & stationed at Machias, until near the close of the war of the revolution, when he was discharged at Machias, but he does not recollect the time nor by whom his discharge was signed- nor where his discharge now is:
He had previously served under Capt Judus West to whom [ said Albee was Lieut ] as a private by enlistment & joined said Albee's Company [from exactly]]  after his discharge by said ALlen who had [asssign]] company [[ofals]] [[from]] at Machias
his service was all at Machias, in which place he before & has ever since resided- and that his said Allen's Company & [[saimonth]] under said West: the only engagement he was in after his enlistment (he had been engaged as a volunteer in the taking of the British armed vessel Margaretta & in [[days]] guard duty at sundry times) was in repelling an attach upon the fort & town at Machias by Capt Dawson in an armed brig the name of which he does not recollect.
And he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on any pension roll.
Peter Colbeth

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson Judge
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State of Maine.
Washington Ss

On this Eighteenth day of June A.D. One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty, personally appeared before the subscribed Judge of Probate, of the County of Washington at Machias & at, within the County of Washington, 
Hannah Colbeth, a resident of said Machias Port, aged eighty eight 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 4, 1836, entitled "an Act granting  half pay to widows or orphans, where their husband and fathers have died of wounds received in the miliary service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes."

That she is the widow of Peter Colbeth, who served as a private in the company of Jabez West, during the Revolutionary War for the period of six months, and who also served as a private in the corps of artillary, under the command of Lieut. William Albee in the Regiment of Col. John Allan raised during the Revolutionary War by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the defense of Machias and neighborhood, for a further period of six months, having been one of the first who enlisted in said corps of artillery- 
his term of service amounting in all to one year- that he cannot recollect certainly when the time of said services commenced or enlisted, but that he verily believes they were performed at some time during the years 1776 and 1777- 
that she is unable to state the precise nature of the services, which her late husband performed, or the engagement, if any, in which he took part- but that he was a pensioner under the Act of Congress of July 7. 1832, and that to the papers supporting his claims as a pensioner, which she believes now to be in the Pension Office of the War Department of the United States, she refers for more particular information [[tracking]] her late husband's services as a Revolutionary soldier. The said applicant further says that possibly she may be in error as to the companies in which her said husband served, in as much as the militia was frequently on duty at Machias during the Revolutionary War - and it is not improbable that her said husband served in other companies beside those under command of Jabez West and of Lieut. Albee
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particularly in one or more of the companies occasionally on duty at Machias, under command of Capt.
  Stephen Smith
  Joseph L. Sevey
  Joseph L Libby
  John Scott
that if Peter Colbeth did serve in either of those companies, her said husband was the person who thus served.

She further declares that her maiden name was Hannah Libby, and that she was married to the said Peter Colbeth, at said Machias, by the late Jonathan Longfellow, Esquire, on the twenty ninth day of April, One thousand, Seven hundred and seventy one, but that she has no record of her marriage except a family record, which was made by her husband many years before his death, on a loose piece of paper, with the dates of the births of their children - which paper has since been copied into the family bible of her family, and accompanies this application- that she is unable to find any other record of her marriage in any quarter- 
that the Town records of Machias furnish no evidence of it as it took place previous to the incorporation of said Town- that she has made diligent enquiry respecting the papers of the late Johnathan Longfellow, Esquire, and have ascertained that no record of any marriage solemnized by him has ever been, or can be, found among said papers- and that she has reason to believe he may never have made any such record, as her marriage took place many years before the passage of the law of Massachusetts requiring magistrates and others solemnizing marriages to keep a record of the same and return it annually to the clerk of the town or plantation in which he may live, the said act not having been passed till the year 1786- that she verily believes that she is the only living witness of said marriage- and that her late husband, the aforesaid Peter Colbeth, died on the twenty sixth day of February, One thousand, Eight Hundred and Thirty four.
Hannah Colbeth x her mark

Witness J. C. Fullate
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I, Jacob Longfellow, on oath testify and say that I came to Machias to live in the year 1779, which I was thirteen years of age; That I was at Machias when only eight years of age and spent eight or nine months with my grandfather Jonathan Longfellow Esq. who was then an acting magistrate in this town;
That soon after I came here to live I got acquainted with Peter Colbeth and have been at his house & seen his wife, now his widow & an applicant for a pension; That when I first knew him & her they were considered legally married, and I never had any intimation to the contrary from that day to the present;
That I have in my possession a book of my said grandfather's in which appears his record of about half a dozen or a dozen cases tried by him as a justice of the peace, -which book appears to have made use of by my father as an amount book & in that way filled; 
That there is no record in that book of any marriage solemnized by my grandfather, and I have never to my recollection seen any such record of marriage by him; 
That my uncle David Longfellow commenced administration of his Estate, which was completed by John Kelly, now deceased, who married the widow of the said David & lived in the same house which my grandfather occupied in his lifetime & said David afterwards, & which since the decease of said Kelly has been occupied by John S. Kelly; And that if any such record is not found in said John S. Kelly's house, I verily believe it must have been lost or destroyed as of no value.
 Jacob Longfellow
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I, Obid Libby of Machias port in the County of Washington on oath testify & say that I am eighty three years of age, that I came to Machias to live when I was six years old (~1761); that Hannah Colbeth now an applicant for pension is a [[cousin]] of mine & came to Machias to live about the same time I did; That I was well acquainted with Peter Colbeth her late husband, and recollect when they were first reputed to be married, which was before the revolutionary war; I recollect that immediately after they were said to be married they lived together and from that time to the time of his death were in reputable standing & known as husband & wife;
That I knew said Peter Colbeth to be a soldier in the Company commanded by Lieut. Albee in the War of the revolution; Whether he served under any other commander I do not know, but if there was no other Peter Colbeth in the vicinity of Machias in the War of the revolution and if that name is found upon the rolls of any company in the service of the United States in the War of the revolution at Machias, he must have been the person;
That said Hannah has not remarried again since the death of said Peter which took place about six years ago; That I was not present at the marriage of said Peter & Hannah but always understood, by hearsay, that Esquire Longfellow married them.
Obed Libbey

State of Maine 
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