Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,599, Thomas Booffee, Continental N. H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
N.H.

Booffee, Thomas

NUMBER
S. 37,599

CONTENTS
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6645
Maine,   4
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Thomas Booffee,

Capt. Spaulding  Ensign.
New Hampshire,  1 Year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine
at the rate of --20--Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1820
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Feby. 1819  and del'd  R.C. Vose
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Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4mo 25/30......96.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819----120.00
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..............................................................................$216.66
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(Revolutionary claim,   )
(Act 18th March, 1818.)

Litchfield,

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34
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25

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died January 9, 1820
from A.B.
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I, Nehemiah Hutchinson, aged Sixty five years, now of Litchfield in the County of Lincoln, upon Oath testify and declare that I well knew Thomas Boffee now of Litchfield in the Said County of Lincoln, he served and did duty as a Lieutenant from my knowledge from January 1776 to November of the Same year 1776, a period of more than nine months--he served as a Lieutenant in Col. Spauldings Company 7 Col. James Reed regiment of the New Hampshire troops--at the last mentioned period I was detached to the service at Trenton New Jersey--and left Lieut Boffee at Mount Independence
Nehemiah Hutchinson

Kennebec  fs.
on this third day of October A.D. 1818--Personally appeared before me Nehemiah Hutchinson to me well known--and he made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed & I certify that the Said Hutchinson is in my opinion a credible witnefs
Robert C. Vose.  Jus of the Peace

Robert C. Vose Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec.
Nathan Weston Junior
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[Entire page of writing has a large "X" and several lines drawn through it.  It appears that it relates to a legal case that is unrelated to this pension file}

Henry Farnum and        )
Richard Ward  Plfs.       )
                                     )  Attachment on 
V                                   )   Warrant in Baltimore
                                     )    County Court
Ezra Clark, Garnishee    )    Maryland
of Jos. P. Wood   Dfts.  )

----------Same,--------- )
                                      )
V                                    )     Same.
                                      )
James Creighton,          )
Garnishee of same        )

Answer of Samuel Cory Esq, deponent upon oath to the interogatories propounded on the Pltfs--

To the first Interogatory I answer that I do not so faar as I am now able to recollect know the Plaintiffs, but I know the said Joseph P. Wood and the said Ezra Clark--

To the second Interogator

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Thomas ["Boffee" stricken out]  Booffee
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.

I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern District of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Thomas Booffee, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Litchfield, in the said County of Lincoln, in the District of Maine, on the eleventh day of April, A.D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.

And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a commifsioned officer, in the was of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Junior  C. Just.
C.C.C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

KENNEBEC, SS.

The Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:  Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis
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Thomas Booffee, Litchfield
Lincoln Co.   Ensign in
Col. Jas. Reed.  N.H. Reg.
1775. & 1776---Served 20 mo.

April 10, 1818

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Admitted
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Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts

I Thomas Booffee aged Sixty eight years, a Citizen of the United States, botn in Lyndsborough New Hampshire, but now a resident of Litchfield in the District of Main upon oath testify and declare that in the Month of May 1775 I was commifsioned as an Ensign in the company commanded by Cap Spaulding and regiment commanded Col. James Reed of the New Hampshire line upon the continental establishment during the revolutionary War against the common enemy--I served in Said regiment during the year 1775 and on the 1st January 1776 I received my commifsion from the Congrefs of the United States as a Lieutenant in the same Cap Spauldings Company and same Col James Reeds regiment.  I served as a Lieutenant in Said Regiment in the year "76 untill nearly the close of the year and at Mount Independence on Lake Champlain, the time of service of my regiment having expired, I left the service by permifsion on accounts of the peculiar state of my health, and upon a furlough obtained for me by the Surgeon David Greene my health continuing feeble, I was unable to join any regiment again, though I had been promised the appointment of Captain whenever my health would permit me to join the Service.  I Served in the continental Army twenty two months as an officer, partly as an Ensign and the remainder of the time as a Lieutenant.  My Commifsions I left more than thirty years since at the place of my former residence in New Hampshire--they are not either of them now to my knowledge in existance.--From my reduced circumstances in life, and feeble state of my health, I am in need of afsistance from my Country for support.--I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the Laws of the United States, if any; but I am not borne on any pension list whatever to my knowledge--I request that I may be placed upon the pension list in the District of Maine.--I have no reason to believe my commifsions could now be found, and I am sick and unable to make the attempt
Thomas Booffee

Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts
Lincoln  fs.

On the eleventh day of April A.D. 1818, Thomas Booffee, above named, after having been carefully examined, made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed--

Before me:  Nathan Weston Jun.
Chief Justice C. Court C. Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit
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Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts.

I Samuel Hutchinson of Litchfield in the District of Maine of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare, that i served in the same company of which I knew the within named Thomas Booffee was Ensign the first eight months by him within mentioned, and I left him in the army.  From his reduced circumstances, he is in need of afsistance from his country for support.  he sustains the character of a man of truth.
Samuel Hutchinson

Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts
Lincoln   fs.

On the eleventh day of April A.D. 1818 Samuel Hutchinson above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed--
Before me  Nathan Weston Junior
Chief Justice C. Court C. Pleas Second Eastern Circuit

H.R.  Feb 5. 1819.
I Certify that Samuel Hutchinson above named is a credible and disinterested witnefs
Joshua Gage
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37599

Revy INVALID.

File No.  37,599

Thomas Booffee
Ensign  Rev  War

Act:  18" March '18

Index:--Vol. D,  Page 59

[Arrangement of 1870.]