Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,440, for Solomon Spencer, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE Mass 
Spencer, Solomon 
NUMBER S. 37.440 |
CONTENTS
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5530. 
Maine |
Solomon Spencer 
Private. 
Capt. Sewall
3 yrs. Massachusetts line 
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War |
subscribed  on the Roll of Maine 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence 
the 10 of April 1818  |
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jany 1819 and sent to Saml S. Wilde Esq Fairfax Kennebec Cy. |
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4.25/30 38.66 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.-- |
$ 86.66 ||
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 

Plantation No 3. Somerset Cy 

Dead 
Paid at the Treasury under act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sep 1838 to 28 Dec 1838. Agt notified 8 July 1840 

Cont. sent to R Wolfe 
Jany 18. 1821
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37440
Revy INVALID. |
File No. 37.440 
Solomon Spencer 
Pri Rev War |
Act: 18 March 18th
Index: --Vol. 2, Page &483
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
Second Comptroller's Office, 
July 3d 1840. 
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the child'n of Solomon Spencer, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars and --Cents per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept 1838 to the 28th Decr 1838, the day of his death. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller. 
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Declaration & evidence
In the case of 
Solomon Spencer 
Private 
Brewer Mass. Regt
March 1777 3 years 
Admitted 
April 10th 1818
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I Solomon Spencer of a plantation called No 3 in the County of Somerset & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being a native citizen of the United States do on oath testify & declare the I served in the War of the Revolution for the Term of three years, & from reduced circumstances I am now in need of assistance from my Country for support. I enlisted at Winslow in the County of Kennebec on the 12th day of March A.D. 1777 into the company commanded by Captain Jenkins of the Regiment commanded by Col Brewer & of the Massachusetts line for the Term of three years & I served the said term and at the expiration thereof was honorably discharged. I have not my discharge in my possession and am not able to procure it in the year 1781, if I rightly remember I sent it to Boston by one I acquire, to enable him to prove my arranges of pay - he left it there as he informed me  & I have never seen it since.
Solomon Spencer
Kennebec  ss.  Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
On this 10th day of April A.D. 1818 the above named Solomon Spencer after having been carefully examined made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed before me. 
S.S. Wilde 
Jus. Sup. Jud CouCourt 
for sd Comth
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I William Kendall of Fairfield in the County of Somerset of lawful age do testify & say that I am well knowing to the facts stated in the within affidavit & declaration of Solomon Spencer I enlisted at the same time into the same company & served for the three years with him I was discharged at the same time. I have seen his discharge several times since his return from the army & then understood that he sent it to Boston as within stated by him.
 Wm Kendall 
Kennebec. ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
On this 10th day of April A.D. 1818 the above named William Kendall, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed 
before me S.S. Wilde 
Jus. Sup. Jud Court 
for sd Comth 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Kennebec. ss.
The Subscribe Clerk of all the Judicial Court held within said county hereby certifies that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esqr before whom the annexed proceedings were had, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed to this Certificate by his signature the seal of said Court. In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand at Augusta in said County, this fifteenth day of said month Anno Domini 1818
John Davis
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. 
I the subscriber being one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify to your Honor, that Solomon Spencer a citizen of the United States now resident in a plantation called No 3. in the District of Maine & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 10th day of April AD 1818 made application to me to receive his declaration under Oath & such other evidence as was in his power to produce; & to transmit the same & 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War "" passed March 18th AD 1818, which declaration & the evidence produced by the said Applicant is hereunto annexed in 
And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the applicant, & a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy & on the continental establishment, for the term of more than nine months as stated in his declaration aforesaid & that from reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & have caused the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed this first day of July A.D. 1818. 
S.S. Wilde 
J. S. J. Court 
for sd. Comth
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State of Maine. 
I William Allen Jr. Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is forty four dollars and not cents, deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is forty four dollars and -- Cents. Intestimony whereof hereto set my hand affixed Court on this Eighth day of November 1820. William Allen Jr. of said Court for the County of of Somerset
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5 
Solomon Spencer 
Hartland 
5530 
March - 
1819
CVL
RJ.Vose, Augusta, 
Maine
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State of Maine. 
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss. 
On this twenty ninth day of May, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junr Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Solomon Spencer 58 aged years, resident in Hartland in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Sewall and Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years, was at the battle of Monmouth and storming Stony Point 
that his original declaration was made before Judge Wilde on the ninth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5,530. And I, the said Solomon Spencer do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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, one thousand eight 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.
Solomon Spencer
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: A log hut & hovel standing upon land belonging to the town of the value of ten dollars 
one cow of the value of fifteen dollars 
Four sheep of the value of seven dollars 
One swine of the valued four dollars 
old household stuff, besides necessary bedding of the value not exceeding six dollars 
one old axe and and old hoe of the value of two dollars. I have no debts due to me and save as much as three hundred dollars. 
The income derived from the above property is very trifling at half so much as the interest I pay yearly, my composition is that of a farmer; but being aged infirm and having lost the use of one of my hands, are able to labor very little. 
my family consists of myself, my wife Mary aged seventy years wholly unable to labor being subject to fits
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Except the above and my necessary bedding and clothing, I have no estate or income whatever. 
Solomon Spencer 
Subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the twenty ninth day of May 1820. 
Before me 
Nathan Weston Jr.
C. J. CCC Pleas.

 A true copy 
Attest John Davis clk. 
County of Somerset 
Clerk's Office Norridgewock} The foregoing is a true copy of of the original oath and schedule filed in this office this eighth day of November AD 1890
Attest Wm. Allen  Clerk of CCC Pleas Somerset