Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,617, Isaac Billington, Mass. Navy.
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I Isaac Billington aged fifty nine years, a citizen of the United States born in Middleboro Massachusetts now a resident in Wayne, Kennebec County Maine. Upon oath declare that I enlisted in December 1775. as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishment, for during the year [illegible] of 1776 - into the company commanded by Capt Pearce and regiment commanded by Col. Ward of the Massachusetts troops, I continued to serve in said Company & Regiment untill September following when [illegible] was given for there in the land service - to enter the continental naval service, I accordingly enlisted at Boston, on board the Ship Hancock, commodore mainly for the [illegible], as a Marine under Captain Lyman who had command of the [illegible] on board said ship. The Hancock at the time I enlisted was fitting for a cruise at Newbury Port, & I went from Boston to that place under the command of Capt Ayer. I continued to serve on board the Hancock, and in October 1776, while on duty as a sentinel on board said ship, in attempting to prevent a marine from passing, he resisted me, a scuffle ensued and I was thrown across the ships Deck down the gang was on the carriage of one of the guns, which broke one of my ribs on my left side, & dislocated my right shoulder & broke the breast bone on my right side - there were no surgeons on board the ship at the time of this accident, one was procured by SuptAyer, and I was carried on [illegible] at Newbury Port & remained there two or three weeks, when I was again carried on board the ship and arrived at Boston the last day of November 1776. When I was Honorably dishcharged by order of commodore Manly on account of said wound. I am now poor being entirely destitute of Property and have suffered great bodily harm ever since I received said injury - and I served more than eleven months in the continental service in continuation-
Isaac Billington

On the 14th day of April 1818 the above named Isaac Billington made his declaration under oath & on this ninth day of July 1821 he  made oath to the above amended declaration -Before me
Nathan Weston [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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 Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Isaac Billington, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Wayne, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the fourteenth 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 theron, 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 the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier and marine in the war 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 
[illegible name or title]
C.C.C. Please & E. Circuit
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Declaration,
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the act of the 1st March, 1823.

State of Maine.
County of Kennebec ss.

On this fourth day of June 1823 personally appeared in open Court before the Supreme Judicial Court  being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment Isaac Billington, resident in said County, aged sixty four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, and the first of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three--that he the said Isaac Billington enlisted for the term of one year - on the first day of December 1775 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Pearce in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ward in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until September 1776 when he was discharged from the said service in Boston in the State of Massachusetts and then entered on board the ship Hancock. commodore Manly & that he is now an applicant for a Pension. [struck thru text reads "that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropt thereupon on account of his property."]
And, in pursuance of the Act of the first May, eighteen hundred and twenty, I do solemny swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof , with intent thereby, so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Isaac Billington

Sworn to and declared, on the fourth day of June A.D. 1823. before
Nathan Weston [illegible]
Just. J. S. C.
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Maine 1594
Rebecca Billington widow of Isaac Billinton dec? Mass who died on the 16 December 1827 of Kennebec in the State of Me. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pearce of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ward in the Mass. line for 17 mos & 27 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 59 Dollars 67 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Nov. 1837 and sent Geo W. Morton Augusta Me

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1837 $387.85
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 [illegible] 29.83
[total]$417.68


{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [illegible]}
Recorded by H.H. Maddison Clerk, Book: Q Vol. 20 Page 20
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State of Maine

On the sixth day of February, 1837, I took the written declaration under her oath of Rebecca Billington, the applicant within named, at her residence, she being too infirm to appear at Court. She exhibited to me their family record, in which was duly entered the birth of her late husband, her own birth, and the time of this intermarriage which corresponds with her declaration. The same record had also duly entered the births of their children, about ten in number. I am satisfied that Rebecca Billington, the applicant, was lawfully married to Isaac Billington, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, on the twenty sixth day of July 1778. That her late husband deceased on the sixteenth day of December, 1829, and that she has ever since remained his widow.

Nathan Weston Ch. Justice of the Sup. Jud. Court of said State.
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July the twenty Sixth One thousand Seven hundred and seventy eight I Married Isaac Billington & Rebecca West both of Middleborough. 
Caleb Turner

I Allen Shaw Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Records of said Town, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in fair legible figures, as follows, July 25 

I Allen Shaw above named depose and say, that I hold the Office of Town Clerk, in the Town of Middleborough, County of Plymouth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as Certified by me.
Middleborough, Nov. 15th 1837.
Allen Shaw Town Clerk of Middleborough

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth County ss. Nov 16th 1837. There personally appeared Allen Shaw subscriber to the above Certificate and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above; and he is a credible witness Before me Arad Thompson Justice of the Peace
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July 22, 1932

BA-J/MCS
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Isaac Billington
W. 23617 
[notation illegible]

Mr. Carl A. Foss
822 Pine Place 
Bellmore
Long Island
New York

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of June 30 requesting information in regard to Isaac Billington who served in the Revolution.

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 23617, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Isaac Billington.

He was born in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, date not given.

He enlisted in Massachusetts December 1, 1775, as private in Captain Pearce's Company in Colonel Ward's Massachusetts Regiment and served as such until September, 1776, when he went on board the ship, Hancock, which was commanded by Commodore Manly, and he served as a marine under Captains Lyman and Ayer. In October, 1776, while on duty as a sentinel on the Hancock he had a fall which broke a rib, dislocated his right shoulder and broke his breast bone on the right side, and in consequence of his injury he was discharged November 30, 1776. He enlisted in February or March, 1778, as private in Captain Lemuel Wood's Company in Colonel Jacob's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battle of Rhode Island and was discharged late in December, 1778.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which tie he was fifty-nine years of age and was living in Wayne, Kennebec County, Maine District.

He died December 16, 1829.
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The soldier married July 26, 1778, Rebecca West of Middleborough, Massachusetts.

She was allowed pension on her application executed February 6, 1837, at which time she was eighty-one years of age and was a resident of Wayne, Maine.

It was stated that they had about ten children but the only name given was that of Betsey who was born in September, 1780, and who gave her name as Betsey Frost in 1837.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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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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State of Maine. Kennebec County ss.

I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Kennebec do certify that Robert C. Vose, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were had was at the several periods the same purport to have been executed and now is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Kennebec and duly qualifiied as such
In testimony whereof I subscribe my [illegible] & affix the County Seal of the said County of Kennebec, this fourth day of September Anno Domini 1823.
R.C. Vose, Clerk