Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23516, Samuel Bates, Mass.
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Mass     Bates. samuel   W. 235.16
                Susannah
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Main  873
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Susannah Bates
widow of Samuel Bates dec'd
Mass
who died on the 28 October 1817
of Somerset in the State of ME
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by captain- of the Regt commanded by Col Brooks in the Mass line for 2 years
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of May
1827 and sent Geo W Morton Augusta ME
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Arrears tot he 4th of MArch 1837 $480.00
Semianul. allowance ending 4 Sept..$40.00
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                                                    $520.00
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{Revolutionary Claim}
Act July 4 1836
Section the 3rd
Recorded by DD Addison  Clerk
Book A  Vol 1  Page 2
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[Left side]
let to G W Morton
22 Nov 1836


[Right side]

Susannah bates
No 520
3 Sec

aomd
2 years pri
$80
reginal - no deduction
died 1817

Geo W Morton
Augusta ME
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STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County ss.

On this thirteenth day of October AD 1836. personnally appeared in open court before the Hon. nathan Weston chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the sate of Maine Susannah Bates a resident of Fairfield in the County of journey and state of main, aged seventy seven years who, being first duly worn according to law,  doth on her oath, make the ollowing decleration, in order to obtan the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Samuel Bates late a soldier of the term of the Revolution that her said husbband enlisted for three years into Capt. EddyCompany $ Col Bradford's regiment in the year 1777 and as she beleives served fully the period of his enlistment that her said husband afterwrds enlisted in 1789 or 1781 for three years  as she believes into Colonel Brooks regiment of the Massachusetts line his discharge from the last three years sercice is hereunto annexed and ( )  discharge was always in his papers during his life time and was left among his papers at his decease.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Bates on the tenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty; that her husband, the aforesaid samuel bates died on the 28th day of October AD 1817; and that she has remained a widow ever since that perod, as will more fully appear by reference tot he proof hereto annexed. she doth further depose and say that her name before mariage with said Samuel Bates was Susannah MCFarlin and that the siad Bates was a resident of Wareham Massachusetts
her X mark
Susannah Bates
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
Nathan Weston
Ch. ( ) -S.J.C
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I john Bates of fairfield in the County of  Somerset and State of Maine aged fifty years and upwards, do testify and declare upon oath that my father Samuel bates died at said Fairfield on the twenty eighth day of October 1817 that before his decease I had always ^understood^ by him that he was a soldier in the War of the revolution for several years and that his discharge was found among his papers after his decease that my oldest brother now living is now in his fifty fifth year of age that since the decease of my father my mother Susannah bates has loved in the same neighborhood with me and that she has remained unmarried eve since  his death of my said father.

John Bates

State of Maine
County of Kennebec SS
Augusta Oct 13 1836
Subscribed & sworn to and I certify the deponents is a respectable man & credible witness
Before me
Geo W Morton Justic eof the Peace

George W Mrton Esq.
is a Jutce of the Peace in the county of Kennebec
Nathan Weston
Ch.  ( ) SJC
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Middleboro MA Sept 1 183/4

George W Morton Esq
Augusta Maine
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Rev
WIDOW, &c
File No. 23516
Susannah Bates
wid of Samuel Bates
Pri Rev War
act: July 4th 36
Index:- Vol. A, Page 40
[Arrangment of 1870]
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Maine
Susannah Bates
Widow of Sam; Bates
Suspended
Lee Let to GW Mrton
22 Nov 1836
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By the Honourable
Major General KNOX,
Commanding the American Forces on Hudson's River
Samuel Bates Soldier in the fourth MAssachusetts Regiment being inlisted for three years, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of the United States.
Given in the State of New York
the thirty first day of Dec 1783
By the General's Command,  Knox W  W Gae

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
Tho H Condy
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Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts}
Town of Middleborough Mass
April 12th 1837

I Alan Shaw do on oath declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Middleborough County of Plymouth State of MAssachusetts and that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, that it appears by said Records of said town that it appears by said Records that Mr. Samuel bates of Wareham and Miss Susannah McFarlin of Middleborough were maried by Ebenezer Sproutt Justice of the Peace Dcember the 10th 1780
Allen Shaw Town Clerk

Plymouth Ss
Then personally appeared llen Shaw subscriber to the above certificate and made solemn oath to the truth of the above efore me
Arad Thmpson Justice of the Peace

Fee 1$
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Commonwaelth of massachusetts
Secretary's office April 13 1837

I hereby certify that the written named Arad Thompson is a justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in this state witness may hand 7 seal of the State
John P Bigelow
Sec of the courts
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I Simeon Simpson of Wareham in the County of Kennebec and state of MAine aged seventy years and afterwards a revolutionary pensions of the United States do testify anddeclare upon oath that I well know Samel Bates a private of Capt Kings company and Colonel Brooks regiment that I joined the said company at west point where i found the said bates then a Private in said Company i undersand that the said Bates belonged in same town in the state of Massachusetts I believe the said bates was discharged from the Army a few days before myself  that after my discharge from the army I remained in the state of Massachusetts a few months and then went to a place called Winston in the  then district of Maine that immediatly after my arrival at said Winston I  saw the said Samuel Bates who informed me hehad mved with his wife that during the life time of said Bates I frequently saw him he living in the town of Fairfield a few miles from my residence when he died a few yers since and that his sidow Susannah is now living in said Fairfield
Simeon Simpson
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State of Maine
Conty of Kennebec Ss April 21 1837  The within affidavit was published prior to  on the twenty ninth day of December 1836 before me I certify the deponent a disinterested and credible witness
Geo W Morton Justice of the Peace

I, John A Chandler Clerk of the Judicial Courts for Kennebec County, certify that George W Morton is a magistrate as above & that the bove signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscriber my name this twenty first day of April AD 1837
J A chandler
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Augusta ME April 1837

Sir
   Enclosed is transmitted your certificate of the clerk of the yown of Middleborough Mass relative to the marriage of Samuel Bates and Susannah McFarlin also the affidavit of Mr. Simeon Simson relating to the Revolutionary services of the said Bates. Similiar papers were  sent you by me on the tenth day of December last purported to be burnt with the genrals post office. The above mentioned papers to be filed in support of hte widow Susannah Bates claim to pension under Act of Congress of JUly 4 1836 where application is now of on file in your office as with ( ) by your letter of Nov 22 1837

Very Respectfully
your obbserv
Geo W Morton