Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,286, Joseph Coombs, Mass.
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State of Maine
County of Lincoln Ss. 
On this Sixth day of April 1854, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County & State aforesaid, Ruth Dean aged 86 years, a resident of South Thomaston in said State, who on her oath doth depose and say, that she came to reside at a place call'd West Keag in said South Thomaston, and formerly in the town of Thomaston, at which place she came to reside at, about sixty six years ago, and has lived or resided there ever since, and at the time I came there to live, Joseph Coombs was a married man, and had several children, his wife's christen name was Elizabeth, and at the time I came here to the Keag to live, it was reported, and frequently & commonly talked about, that Joseph Coombs, who was then living at West Keag, was in what was then styled, and commonly called the Bagaduce expedition in the Revolution, and according to my recollection, I believe that the Joseph Coombs who resided where I do now, that is in the same school Dist where I did forty five or fifty years ago, and our children attended the same school, was the identical Joseph Coombs & person, who served in the said Bagaduce expedition, and rendered military service therein. I never to my recollection heard it said, that the Joseph Coombs who lived in the same neighborhood I did, was not in the war of the Revolution, and that Joseph Coombs with whom I was acquainted, resided at West Keag from the time I first went there to live sixty six years ago until the time he died about thirty seven year ago.
Ruth Dean
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State of Maine
County of Lincoln SS. 
On this sixth day of April 1854 personally appeared, [ Joshua Bartlett aged 73 years, a resident of South Thomaston in the County of Lincoln State of Maine, ]
before me a justice of the Peace within and for said County and State, and who on his oath depose and say, that he the said Joshua Bartlett was born at a place call'd Owls Head Bay in Thomaston, and about two and a half miles from a place call'd West Keag, where a certain individual lived named Joseph Coombs, and always, since my remembrance, resided there, until his death in the fall of 1817. He left a widow whose given name was Elizabeth who died sometime in the fall of 1845. The names of their children were Archibald, Joseph, Issabella, George, Betsey, Nancy, Abigail, & Asa, a boy named Washington died when a child, all the rest grew up to their majority; three are now living, Betsey, Nancy & Asa, & Asa was the last or youngest of the family. 
My father in law, Richard Keating was, so I have heard him say, in the same company & same mess during the Bagaduce seige, they were near neighbors not much over 100 rods apart, and lived there on the same lots during the seige, and for many years afterwards, and I have heard them speak of and recount over their doings in that campaign, now they landed in their boats while the Brittish were firing upon them, how they gained the bank, and of one man on gaining the bank taking off his hat and waving it exclaiming the day is ours, and of their being engaged in other military service I have heard them speak and tell of, that they rendered in the coast defense, before entering upon the Bagaduce seige, the term they used in speaking of this expedition, and also after their return from that seige, and I have no doubt upon my mind but that they both rendered [ ]
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Military service as recounted heretofore in the war of the Revolution. I further declare & say, that in the fall of the year of 1804, I was employed by the said Joseph Coombs to pilot a brig call'd the Joseph, built and owned by Mr Coombs that season from West Keag River to Boston. He Mr Coombs went up in the brig, and on our passage to Boston, we went into the New Meadow River in Maine, and where Mr Coombs was born, and where a Mr Asa Coombs then lived and on a part of the farm that was the homestead that was their fathers, and he Asa Coombs came on board the vessel, and the two brothers talked about and conversed along while about being in the campaign at Bagaduce. The Asa Coombs if I recollect and as my memory serves me was not in the same company with his brother Joseph, but from Brunswick or Georgetown but they noted that after the breaking up of the seige, and on their retreat Asa Coombs joined the squad with Joseph Coombs and went home with him to his house at West Keag, further deponent says he has no interest in the case or for the purpose in which this his deposition is to be used.
Joshua Bartlett
South Thomaston April 6th 1854
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have heard Richard Keating who lived in the same place only three lots separated from Mr Coombs say that he and Mr Coombs serv'd in the same Company at Bagaduce, and that they were out at other times together during the Revolution, and about 50 years ago in a saw mill that my father and Mr Coombs owned together, I recollect hearing Mr Coombs describing to my father & others, the seige of Bagaduce as he called it, and talking about their landing from their boats and clambering up the bank to make an attack upon the Brittish, and have also heard Johathan Maker say that he saw the said Joseph Coombs the identical person who lived at West Keag in the service performing military service in the Penobscot or Bagaduce expedition, and the said Jonathan Maker came here to the Keag to live over 60 years ago ..