Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8241, for John Lancaster, Massachusetts
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State of Maine
County of Sagadahoc}

On this fourth day of October AD 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace [within] and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Lancaster aged sixty six years a resident of the City of Bath in the State of Maine who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John Lancaster, late of Augusta, but formerly of Bowdoin, deceased, [   ] was a private in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension in his lifetime which pension who paid at the Portland Agency in the State of Maine.

She further states that she was married to the
said John Lancaster in Bowdoin in or about
the [fifteen] day of January 1827 by James Rogers [ ] Justice of the Peace, that [       ] 
said husband died at Augusta in the [ ] of 1840 according to her best recollection [     ]
that she is [ ] a widow, that no record of her marriage exists nor of the death of her said husband.

 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of Claiming the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the [ ] [application] March 3d 1855. 
She also [ ] that [ ] [ ] not received a warrant for Bounty Land
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STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF LINCOLN SS.
AT a Court of Common Pleas holden at Wiscasset
in said County on the 11th day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, personally
appeared in open Court, before JOHN RUGGLES,
Esq. one of the Judges thereof, 
John Lancaster a resident of Bowdoin in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he
was drafted to serve as a soldier, in the army raised to undertake the capture of Bagaduce, a British port on the East side of Penobscot Bay, this draft was about the first of June in the year 1779, at which time he was a soldier in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Elijah Grant of Woolwich in Lincoln County, Saml McCobb __], 
that upon being drafted as before stated, he marched from Woolwich by land to a place called clam cove in Camden, on Penobscot Bay a distance of about sixty miles, and on [arriving] there was mustered and joined Capt Acter Patten's company.
this applicant on oath says that his was before the American fleet arrived in Penobscot Bay, that he was shifted from Capt Hinkley's company to Capt. Patten's in order to equalize the men. 
that for some time he was employed as a guard on the West Coast of Penobscot Bay, and a day or two after the American troops landed at Bagaduce, he joined the army on the neck at Bagaduce, and was in Capt Actor Patten's company and was engaged in the siege until the arrival of the British fleet, which drove off the American fleet & army.
after this some of the troops with most of the fleet retreated up Penobscot river and retreated thro the wilderness to Kennebec river, - This applicant [crossed] the bay and came thro by land but did not go up the river on arriving at Kennebec river he went to Cox's head on Kennebec river, under Capt Patten and there served as a soldier the rest of the year 1779 making a time of service that year of seven
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on arriving at Kennebec river he went to Cox's head on Kennebec river, under Capt Patten and there served as a soldier the rest of the year 1779 making a time of service that year of seven months. 
He further on oath says that he was drafted, never received any written discharge. That he was born in Woolwich in the County of Lincoln. June 27th 1761- has a record of his age and annexs it, lived in Woolwich when drafted into service lived in Woolwich after the revolutionary war, removed to Winslow about forty two years since, lived there about seven years, then removed to Augusta, and lived there about fourteen years, then Georgetown & lived a number of years and from Georgetown to Bowdoin where he now resides
he is known to John Crawford of Bath who is the only person who can distinctly swear to his services as a soldier, that he can find and to Revd Silas Stears  
David Shaw Esq town Clerk of Bath and David Stinson Esq [Past] Marten of Bath who can testify to his character
John Lancaster

[Signed & sworn] the day & year aforesaid
J Ruggles JCCP
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I Silas Stearns a Clergyman residing in Bath certify that I am acquainted with John Lancaster of Bowdoin, that he is about seventy one years of age as I believe, that he is a man of truth and in the opinion of others served in the revolutionary war, and I concur in that opinion
Silas Stearns

Lincoln Ss. Sep 3. 1832. Signed & sworn to before me
Nath Groton Justice of the Peace

I David Stinson post Master of Bath do say that
for many years I have known John Lancaster of Bowdoin who has signed the foregoing declaration he is about seventy one years of age as I believe. he is a man of truth and in the opinion of others & in my opinion served in
the Revolutionary war,
David Stinson

Lincoln Ss Sept 4, 1832 Signed sworn to in
before me
Nath Groton Justice of Peace

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was revolutionary soldier, and served as he states 
and the court further certifies that it appears
that Silas Stearns who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
resident in Bath and that David Stinson who has also signed the preceding certificate
the Post Master of Bath and are credible persons, and this statement is entitled to credit-
Clerk of the Court of Record and Court of Common Pleas & for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
Attest Nath Coffin Clerk

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Clerk of the Courts of
┃ Record and Court of
Common Pleas in
Lincoln County,
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I John Crawford of Bath in the county of Lincoln aged sixty none years on oath do say, that I am well acquainted with John Lancaster of Bowdoin in said county, & I believe him to be seventy one years of age
I well know he was in the expedition against Bagaduce in 1779, he served with the [armies forces] [   ]
from their arrival which was in July till they were driven up the Penobscot river by the British fleet 
that he returned with [thus] to Kennebec river & went on duty immediately after at the mouth of said river at a place called Cox's head & served there until the end of the year 1779.
John Cawford

I David Stinson of Bath in the county of Lincoln a Justice of the peace in & for said county, hereby certify that the above John Crawford personally appeared before me & made oath that above affidavit by him subscribed to be true. I further certify that the said Crawford is a man of truth & veracity
David Stinson [Judge]