Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,971, for Ichabod Simmons, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass
Simmons Ichabod
Urania
Number 
W.24.971

CONTENTS
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Maine 11.559
Ichabod Simmons
of Somerset in the State of Maine who
was a Pr
in the Company commanded
by Captain Clifts of the Regt commanded
by Col. Sprouls in the [illegible]
Troops-
11 No 3 Private 36.98.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 36 Dollars 98 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of May and [illegible]
1833 R C Vose August, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 73.96
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1849
92.45
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. J. Sprague Clerk,
Book 6
Vol. 1 Page 53
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State of Maine.

KENNEBEC, ss.--I, John A. Chandler, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun'r, be-fore whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Ichabod Simmons for a pension. that Seth May Esper is a Justice of the Peace.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this thirtieth day of July
A.D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4th 1838 an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows

State of Maine

County of Somerset

On this twelveth day of February nighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared in open Court held at Anson in said County before the Hon Drummond Hamsworth Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Somerset Urina Simmons a resident of Kingfield Maine aged Seventy eight years who bring first Sworn according to lane doth on him oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress [unknown] July 4 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows that She is the Widow Ichabod Simmons late of Kingsfield Maine who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of June 7 1832 upon the Maine roll She refers to the widence furnished the War department of his services in the War of the Revolution by her late husband to establish her claim to a pension She further declares that she was Married to the said Ichabod Simmmons

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[underlined] Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 13th 1832.
hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that
[remainder of document is handwritten] the name of Ichabod Simmons is born [illegible] payroll of Capt. Nehemiah Allen's company in Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment engaged in a secret expedition to the State of Rhode Island in Sept + Oct. 1777 as having been paid for thirty three days service and that there are no rolls of Capt. Clift's company in Col Sprout's regt. for 1779 or of Capt. Haskell's company in Col. Bradford's regt. for 1780 to be found in this office.
[signature] Edward D Bangs
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[entire document handwritten] 
I David Thurston a clergyman residing in Winthrop in the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mr Ichabod Simmons of Kingfield in the
County of Somerset, who formerly resided in the town of Readfield
in this County and who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
[signature] David Thurston
Kennebec Ss. July. 28. 1832. Sworn and subscribed this twenty eighth day of July A D. 1832
Before me Seth May Justice of the Peace
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The undersigned citizens of Readfield in the County of Kennebec
and State of Maine hereby certify that we have for more than twenty five years last past been well acquainted with Ichabod Simmons formerly of said Readfield but now resident in the Town of Kingfield County of Somerset and State aforesaid and to the best of our information he has uniformly supported good moral character and that he has ever been considered a man of truth and veracity
Readfield July 28th 1832
[signatures]
Edward Fuller
Jonathan G. Hunton
John Smith
Francis Davis
James Williamson
Shapard Bean 
Oliver Bean