Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21884, for Peter Ott, Massachusetts
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3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
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Ott, Peter
Beulah
NUMBER
W. 21884
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4155
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State of Maine
Waldo County Ss.
On this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Alfred Johnson Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Waldo 
Beulah Ott aged eighty years a resident of Camden in said County 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 7 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay & Provisions to certain Widows" that she is the Widow of Peter Ott who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution and entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated, that in the year 1776 or 1777 but prior to the occupation of Castine by the British the said Peter Ott enlisted into a Company of the Militia commanded by Capt John Plummer Lieutenant John Ballard and in the month of November of the same year embarked from Camden for Machias and served in the garrison at that place till the latter part of March following being a period of four
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Months for the particulars of which she refers to the accompanying testimony. That the said Peter Ott in the latter part of May or the first of June in the year 1789 enlisted as a Private at said Camden in a company of the Militia commanded by Captain Philip Ulmer and joined the expedition to Bagaduce and continued in the service till the return of said expedition being a period not less than three months, and after the return of said expedition the said Ott continued in the service as a Private and was stationed at the garrison at a place called Pine hill in said Camden, for a period of Five Months longer making in all eight months and in both periods not less than twelve months, for a more particular account of said service she refers to the accompanying testimony.
She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Ott on the seventeenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight, that her husband the said Peter Ott died on the sixteenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, that she was not married to her
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said husband prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz, at the time above stated.- 
Attest Robert Harkness
Her Mark X Beulah Ott

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I William Gregory
of Camden & County of Waldo depose & testify - that I am seventy six years of age, have [lived] a near neighbor and been well acquainted with the subject of this disposition Peter Ott & Bula Upham for upwards of 65 years of that period I cannot fix the precise time of their marraige but am confident that it was some time between the years of 1784 & 1792 and that the said Peter & Bula lived together as husband & wife in about half a century when Mr Ott died
The said Peter Ott if living would be about 77 years of age, and that some time prior to the occupation of Bagaduce by the English he was either enlisted or drafted into a company of infantry commanded by a Capt. Plummer & Luit. John Ballard, as a private, that said company embarked in a vessel for Machias in this state in the fall of the year, not later however than November to serve as a guard or garrison in that town, that the said Peter Ott was one of the company and served at Machias as a private the following winter and returned home with said company in the spring
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I am unable to fix the precise time of his return but it was in March or April. He was in service at this time about four months. After the English took possession of Bagaduce which I think was in 1779 or 80 the said Peter was drafted into a company of which Philip Ulmer was Capt. 
I was also drafted & belonged to the same company. The said Peter and the said company joined the expedition from Massachusetts to dislodge the English from Bagaduce & the Penobscot River
After the defeat of Bagaduce he the said Peter Ott returned home, but was still retained in the service at the battery at a place called Pine hill near the line of Thomaston and Camden
I also still belonged to the same company and served with Mr Ott as a guard & at the Pine hill battery till we were both discharged
The Bagaduce expedition commenced in the fore part of the summer and the said Peter in that expedition about three months and at the Pine hill battery about five months
I am confident that in both places - Bagaduce & Pine hill he could not have served less than seven months & I think it was considerable longer
Wm Gregory