Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2023, for John Swett, Massachusetts
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Mass
Swett, John
Mary 
Number: [illegible] 2023
BL. [illegible] 31711-160-55
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528
Maine
John Swett
Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Mayberry of the reg commanded by Col. Tupper, in the Massachusetts line for 3 years from 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of September 1832 and sent to John [illegible] Portland

Arrears to 4th of September 1882 $120.
Semi=anl. Allowance ending 4 March 1883 40.
$160
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk
Book A. Vol. 1. Page 89
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Claim of Mary Swett (widow of John)
To Bounty Land.
Act of March 3, 1855.
War of the Rev.

Z.K. Harmon
Portland, Maine.

388841
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State of Miane.
Cumberland, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court, Portland, June 21st, 1855
I, Obadiah G. Cook, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Ezra Brown Esq is, and at the date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the papers hereto annexed; that he is Duly Commissioned and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid, - and that the following Signatures, purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Obi. Cook Clerk.
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State of Maine.
County of Cumberland S.s. 

On this nineteenth day of June A.D. 1855 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Swett a resident of Windham in said County and State, aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain Bounty Land, under the Act of Congress passed March 31, A.D. 1855.

And your declarant further states that she is the window of John Swett late of Windham in the State of Maine that her said husband John Swett was a Soldier of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of the 4th June 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum which pension he drew till the time of his death which took place at Windham on the 23d day of November 1845. 
She also declares that she has not received Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefore, and she believes her husband never applied for or received Bounty land in his life time on the part of the United States.
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Your Declarant Further States, that she was married to the said John Swett on the twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1803, at Windham in said State, and that her name before marriage was Mary Hunnewell. 
And your declarant further states, that after the passage of the Act of Congress of 3d February 1853 she made application for a Pension, on which application a pension was granted her at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, as will appear by her Pension Certificate, dated the twenty third day of May A.D. 1853 No. 464
 
For proof of marriage, her husband's service in the Revolutionary War, and his death, and of your declarant's identity, she refers to her declaration and proof for Pension, now on file in the Department of the Interior, at Washington.

She therefore claims Bounty Land under the act aforesaid, and states that she is still a widow.

And for the purpose of this application, I hereby appoint Z.K. Harmon of Portland my true and lawful Attorney in the premises.
Attest, 
Mary Swett
Wm. C. Swett
Mary Ann Swett

Sworn to and subscribed, before me, the day and year first above written, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subjoined, for the purposes above mentioned. And I hereby certify that I know the said Mary Swett to be the person she represents herself to be in her declaration and that I have no interest in this claim.
Ezra Brown Justice of the Peace.
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We William C. Swett of Windham and Mary Ann Swett of Windham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that we are well acquainted with Mary Swett who has this day made application for Bounty Land under the Act of Congress passed March 3d 1855. We know she is the widow of John Swett late of Windham, deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and we know the said Mary still continues his widow and that she is now a widow pensioner of the United States and the identical person she represents herself to be in her application which she signed in our presence we being witnesses to her signature.
Wm. C. Swett
Mary Ann Swett

State of Maine
County of Cumberland June 19th, 1855 There personally appeared the above named Wm C. Swett & Mary Ann Swett known to me to be credible persons and
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[page 2 of letter]
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed Before me
Ezra Brown Jus: Peace
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Mary Swett
Act 3 July 1853-
widow of John 
[illegible]
Act 3 Feb 1833
$80 per annum, [illegible]
3 Feb 1833
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State of Maine.
Cumberland, ss. 
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court.
Portland, March 3, A.D. 1853
I, Charles C. Harmon, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, In and for said County of Cumberland, certify that Charles Johnson Esq. is an Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is Duly Qualified to Act as such; that his Commission is dated February 7th A.D. 1849 and will expire July 7th A.D. 1856 and that the following Signature, purporting to be his is Genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written. 

C. C. Horman, Clerk
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State of Maine
County of Cumberland
On this Twentyfirst day of February A.D. 1853, personally appeared before me Joseph Howard Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Mary Swett a resident of Windham in the County of Cumberland aged Seventythree years, who being sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed February 3d 1853.
And your declarant states that she is the widow of John Swett late of Windham in the State of Maine deceased, who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution. and a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum which Pension he drew until his death which took place at Windham on the 23d day of November 1845
And the said declarant further states, that she was married to the said John Swett on the twentyseventh day of March A.D. 1803 at Windham and that her name before marriage was Mary Hunnewell
She therefore claims a pension under the act aforesaid, and states that she is still a widow.
Mary Swett
Then personally appeared the above named Mary Swett, in Open Court, and made oath to the declaration by her signed, on the day and year first above written.
Before me, Joseph Howard Just. Sup. Jud. Court
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State of Maine
Cumberland, ss.
I, Charles C. Harmon, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in Said County, certify that Joseph Howard Esq. is one of the Justices of said Supreme Judicial Court for the State of Maine, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credence, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this ninth day of March A.D. 1853.
C.C> Harmon, Clerk.
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Marriages solemnized by the Reverend Nathaniel Stone of Windham in the County of Cumberland.
ON the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, Mr. John Sweat [misspelled Swett] and Miss Mary Hunnuel [misspelled Hunnewell] both of Windham, (Recorded by) Josiah Chute Town Clerk
I John Eveleth, of Windham aforesaid, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, depose and say, that I was Town Clerk of the Town of Windham aforesaid, and have in my keeping and possessions the town records in which marriages that have been solemnized in the Town are recorded, and that the above is a true and correct copy from said records, with the exception that the date on the record itself is expressed in figures thus Mar. 27, 1803, instead of inscribed as above written; and that the words "recorded by" are not in the original record.
John Eveleth, Town Clerk of the Town of Windham
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. February 19, 1853, then personally appeared the above named John Eveleth and made oath that the above affidavit  by him signed was true.
Charles Harmon, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine.
Probate Court, Cumberland County, ss.}
Be it Known, That on this Second day of March 1853 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That John Swett late of Windham Me was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that he died at said Windham on or about the 23d day of November - And that Mary Swett is the widow of said John Swett deceased.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this Second day of March in the year 1853,
Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate for Cumberland County.
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To..

John Swett of Windham in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier
in the war of the revolution for the term of three years
on the Continental ..  .. being now sixty years of age

And your applicant farther represents, that in the service ..  .. capacity of a private soldier to Capt Mayberry Company of the Seventh Regiment, Commanded by Col. Frazier of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he left said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the term of his enlistment having then -- and he received and honorable discharge which he has since lost. 

..
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I William Mayberry of Raymond in the County of Cumberland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts being now fifty nine years of age testify and say that -- -- 
acquainted with John Swett now -- from his --
that he enlisted into -- the company of Capt Mayberry who was my father in January 1777 in which I had enlisted the  month before and that he served out the time of our enlistment of three years together in -- company. He is now -- -- of his country for support.