Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13,674, for John Maxson, Rhode Island
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
R.I.
Maxson, John
or Maxon,
Sarah
NUMBER
W. 13,674
CONTENTS
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2049
Rhode Island
Sarah Maxson
widow of John Maxson
who served in the Revolutionary
war, R. I. as a private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate pf Pension issued the
14 day of Sept. 1848 
and sent to
D. C.  Denham
Newport
R I

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 14 Vol. 3.

Rept
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Dead-letter to S. Waterman
Pen agt. Nov 12 1836

806
Rhode Island
John Maxson 
Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16th of April 1818.
Rhode Island Line

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of June 1818
and sent to Nicholas Taylor,
Agt. Newport, R. I.
4 months 19/30
$37.6
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
One Year


Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
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Declaration of Sarah Maxson, widow of John Maxson deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolution, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7h of July 1838, Entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows".
  State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations .- Newport ss. on this seventh day of August AD, 1838, appeared before me the undersigned first Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Newport, said court being a court of record at Newport in said county Sarah Maxson of Newport, in said county and  a resident in said town of Newport, widow of John Maxson aforesaid,  the said Sarah being seventy three years of age the 30h of June last, who being first duly sworn by me the undersigned Judge according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows."-That she is the widow of the aforesaid John Maxson deceased, that she was married to him on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three by William Bliss Pastor of one of the Churches in the town of Newport, that her maiden name was Shrieve that her said husband died on the 15th day of April, 1822, seventy years of age-that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service of his country as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, but that her marriage took place on the 19th of April A.D. 1783 vis. at the time above said that she has always understood that her said husband was a soldier of the Revolution and served during the whole or nearly whole of that war, that she is entirely ignorant of the nature of his service, the officers under whom he served, the company in which he served, the regiment brigade, or battalions, to which he was attached, the battles he was in or the different campaigns in which he served, that at the time of her intermarriaging  she was about thirteen years younger than her said husband, that she thinks she has heard him say that he was in the battle of Long Island but of this she is not now certain, that her said husband was a Pensioner under the  act of 1818, and so continued until the time of his death as aforesaid receiving annually under a Pension certificate the annual sum of ninety six dollars in semi annual payments-that at the time of his death there was ten or eleven dollars due him for a fractional part of his semi-annual payment that to the papers, documents, and proof now on file in the War Department upon the strength for which her said husband had extended to him the Pension aforesaid, -she would respectfully refer the Honorable Secretary of War, and the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,  for the evidence of the services of here deceased husband, the said John Maxson, as a soldier of the Revolution, the times of his service, the troops, company, regiment or corps he served in, the name of his officer, and the grade he held.-her said husband had his pension granted to him in the year 1818, and under the provision of an act of Congress of that year-that she presumes that all she has referred to as proof of her said husband
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service can be found in the file of the War Department of that year-that she is now feme sole, and has never married since the death of her said husband the said John Maxson as aforesaid.
[illegible] Maxson
Sarah Maxson
X her mark
Witness
Deeter Y. Pearce

State of Rhode-Island sc.
County of Newport sc  At Newport, on the 11th day of August A.D. 1838- The above written Sarah Maxon swore to the above Declaration and subscribed it with her mark in my presence, at her residence, where I attended for the purpose of enabling her to complete it with the requisite solemnity;- and from her age and infirmity she was evidently unable to attend for the purpose.  And I believe her character for truth and veracity to be good.
  In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand on the day and year above written.
Joseph Joslen
C. Jus. C. C. Pleas, 
Newport.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Clerks office, Court of Common Pleas County of Newport sc.
  I Daniel C. Denham, Clerk of said Court for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Joslen Esquire, subscriber to the aforegoing certificate is Chief Justice off the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Newport and that his signature aforewritten is genuine.
  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Eleventh day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Daniel C. Denham
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R. I.
John Maxson
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  On this Twentieth Day of May AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Newport State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations United States of America John Maxson in the seventy first of his age a native Citizen of and resident in said County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War vis twelve months in the Regiment commanded by Col Richmond and afterwards some time in the Regiment commanded by Col Green as will more fully appear  by documents lodged in the office of the Secretary of War and declaration dated 10th April 1820 and on which Declaration Nb a pension Certificate dated 2nd June 1820 and numbered [illegible] was granted to me from the War department and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 11th March 1820  and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 10th March 1820 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed-that is I have no property whatever of any kind either real or personal, except  a few articles of furniture which would not to the very extent sell for Forty Dollars. that I have no Debts due me to the amount of a Dollar.
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sss
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John Maxson
16 Apl.
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Newport 29th March 1818
I hereby Certify that John Maxson was an inlisted soldier by me in December 1775 in my Company in Col  William Richmond's Regiment and was discharged in December 1779 whose Regiment was not then a part of the Continental Army.

To the Hon Judge Taylor
Jas Wallace Captain Col. W. Richmond Regiment
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations.
NEWPORT, ss.
  On the Sixteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport, personally appears John Maxson aged ___ years, resident in Newport in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:"  That he the said John Maxson enlisted in the town of Newport in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1775 inn the company commanded by Captain James Wallace of the Regiment Comd. by Col.  Wm Richmond he continued to serve in he said corps, or in the service of the United States, until Dec. 1776, when he was discharged from service in Newhaven State of Connecticut, that he was in the battles of Fort  Jeans in Nov. 1776 under Col. Livingston and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of he assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Nich Taylor

  I, Nich Taylor Judge, as aforesaid,, do certify, That it appears, to my satisfaction that the said John Maxson did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy ; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
Newport 16th April 1818
Nich Taylor

Clerk's office Court of Common Pleas County Newport
26th April 1818
I hereby certify that Nicholas Taylor Esquire whose signature is affixed to the above statement and Certificate is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Newport State of Rhode Island in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court
Robert Rogers Clerk
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Sprague
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN,  That the name, "HENRY BOWEN,' to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is in the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law : Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence, this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred  and thirty -eight and of Independence the sixty-third
Wm Sprague
By His Excellency's Command
Henry Bowen Secry
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Town Clerks Office.  Newport Rhode Island
August 10th AD 1838
  I Benjamin B. Howland Town Clerk, do certify that in the Book of Record of Births, marriages and deaths of said town, is the following, vis "I hereby certify that John Maxson son of Elder John Maxson, and Sarah Shrieve, daughter of Daniel Shrieve were lawfully joined together in marriage on the nineteenth day of July AD one thousand seven hundred eighty  three by me the subscriber William Bliss, Elder."  I hereby further certify that the aforegoing is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "the Nineteenth day of July AD Seventeen hundred eighty three " (the 19th day of July AD 1783).
  I Benjamin B Howland above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Newport, in the County of Newport and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Newport, with the exception above named as certified by me .
Brenj B Howland Town Clerk
Newport Augusts 10th 1838
Sworn to before me
Daniel C. Denham Just. Peace
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  I Samuel S. Maxson of Newport in the County of Newport do upon solemn oath declare that I am now forty years of age and upwards; that I am the son of John Maxson deceased, and Sarah  his widow, who before her marriage was Sarah Shrieve, that my father was at the time of his decease a Revolutionary Pensioner, having been a soldier in the War of the Revolution; that he died at Newport aforesaid, on the fifteenth day of April AD 1822, I was with him when he died, and followed him afterwards to his grave.
Samuel Shrieve Maxson
  State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation
Newport ss.  At Newport the 11th August 1838.  Then personally came before me the above named Samuel S Maxson, to me well known, and in my presence subscribed to the aforegoing deposition' and at the same time made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated and continued' said Samuel S. Maxson being, to my knowledge, a man of good character for truth and veracity.
Before me,
E. V.  Allan Justice of the Peace
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  I John H. Barber of the Town and County of Newport do hereby Certify and say that I have been one of the Publishers of the Newspaper called the Newport Mercury for twenty years and upwards and that the following notice of the decease of the late John Maxson was first published in said Newspaper on Saturday the 20th of April 1822-in the following words:-
"Died--In this town on Tuesday last Mr John Maxson aged 70 years."--
  And I have this day copied the same from the original paper now on file in the office in my possession.
J. H. Barber

  State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Newport ss.  At Newport this 11th day of August AD 1838 then personally came before me the above named John H Barber to me well known Subscriber to the foregoing deposition and at the same time made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated and contained said John H Barber being to my knowledge a man of good character for truth and veracity.
  Before me
E. V. Allan Justice of the Peace
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  I James Alger of Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, aged fifty two years, do upon solemn oath declare, that I am well acquainted with Sarah Maxson, widow of John Maxson, and have known her for the last thirty years and upwards, that the said John, Died in April 1822, and that the said Sarah has never since been Married from that time to the present, but now is, and ever since, has been a single woman and the widow of the said John Maxson.
James Alger

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Newport ss.
  At Newport this eleventh day of August AD 1838  Then personally appeared before me the above named James Alger to me well known and in my presence subscribed to the foregoing deposition and at the same time made solemn oath to the truth of the facts there in stated and contained, Said James Alger being to my knowledge a man of good character for truth and veracity.
Before me
E. V. Allan Justice of the Peace
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372
Sarah Maxson
R. I.
admitted
Pr 1 yr. $40

died 15 Apr 1822
P. [illegible] list.

Hon D. J. Pearce
Newport 
R. I.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Secretary's office August 15 AD 1838
  I certify, that at the session of the General Assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday in May last, Joseph Joslin was elected Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within the county of Newport and Daniel C Denham Clerk of said Court.
  That at said session the said Daniel C Denham, and Erastus P Allan were severally elected Justice of the Peace for the town of Newport in said County.  Each for one year, and commissioned accordingly, as appears of record in this office.
Witness Henry Bowen Secry.
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  From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim Widow File No. 13,674, it appears that John Maxson was born at Newport, R. I. date not stated.  He enlisted there in Dec. 1775, served as a private in Capt. James Wallace's Co. Col. William Richmond's Regt. and was discharged in Dec. 1776.  He afterwards served in Col. Green's Regt, but no details of service are given.
  He married July 19, 1783, at Newport, R. I.  Sarah born June 30, 1765, the daughter of Daniel Shrieve.  He was allowed pension of his application executed April 16, 1818, while living at Newport, aged about 68 years and he died there April 15, 1822.  His widow Sarah was allowed pension on her application executed Aug. 11, 1838, while living at Newport.  Their children:  Samuel Shrieve, born about 1798  and a daughter name not stated was born about 1808.
Very respectfully
Washington Gardner
Commissioner 

First part of this letter in John Aldrich S 21601
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Rhode Island 297
Sarah Maxson
widow of John Maxson
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar, 1818, and who died on the 15 April 1822 of Newport in the State of R. Island, who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain____  of the Regt. commanded by Col Green in the R. Island line for one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island at the rate of 40 Dollars __cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Sept 1838, and sent to Hon D J Pearce, Newport R. I.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '38,  $100.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39  20.
$120.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk,
Book A.  Vol. 2 Page 14.
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FREE
[ILLEGIBLE] Cole

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner
of Pensions, Washington D. C.
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John Maxson, R Island Roll, Act March 18, 1818.
Up to what time does he appear to have been paid?
Pension 
Office
Nov. 12. 1836.
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4078
Rhode Island
Sarah Maxson
widow of John Maxson
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
40 Dollars __
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to
D. C. Denham,
Newport
R. I.
[Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded om Bool C
Vol. 1  Page 92
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Postmarks 
Mar 30 1903
U. S. PENSION OFFICE MAR 25 1903
  Westerly R. I.
Mch 24th 1903
The Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir-
    Again I write to you for information in the pension line of one John Maxson of Newport who was in a Rhode Island Company as private and today I am told that he was a pensioner.  His death occurred April 15th 1822 and now I am in search of proof.  It is for the same purpose as when I wrote before, that is, to aid a boy of 12 years to become a member of the C. A. R Society
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He has all he can seem to get and I knew you were so kind to send the pension record before that I take the liberty of asking the favor and at the same time to thank you for the past favor which greatly assisted me as well as the child.
Very Respectfully 
(Mrs) Fannie D. Holmes
53 Elm St.
Westerly R. I.

(Postmark)
U.S. PENSIONS OFFICE MAR 25 1903
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.  13,674
Sarah Maxson
Widow of
John Maxson
Priv. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2nd 1818
Index:Vol. M, Page 7

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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1892 Apr 9 Hist
to J M Andrew
New York  NY.

Apr 3, 1903 - Hist to
Mrs. Fannie D. Holmes
Westerly R. I. 

1921 May 4 Hist to H O
Brigham au
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To Chy   own Div
Action  Consideration
Apr 5 1892
COMMISSIONER
H E Lineaweaver

Free
FILE WITH CASE
OLD WAR AND [illegible] FILES
APR 5 1892
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THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB,
37 WEST 31ST STREET.
4th April 1892.
Dear Sir:
  Will you kindly send me what information your Department has in relation to John Maxon a private in the Rhode Island Continental Line who was upon the pension rolls of the U. S.  for such service?
He died  15 April 1822.  
  I wish his personal history from his descriptive lists to trace ancestry is all .
when and where born and
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He enlisted from Newport Co. but I do not know in which Regiment or Company he served or what officers he was under.
Resp ly Yours.
J. M. Andrews.
48 w. 5" St.
New York.
Please address my residence as above.
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Arcade Bank
Providence Novemb. 3. 1836
Sir
  Application has been made by the widow of John Maxson whose power of attorney see in herewith enclosed for payment of arrears for pension due her late husband. __on referring to our Book, it appears the name has been on the Roll of the agency and as having failed to apply for four successive periods was so reported to the War Department in June 1824.
  Be pleased to inform me if payment shall be made here on production of the proper Vouching.
     I am Very Respectfully 
your obd. Ser.
for the President
H Greene Clk

J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Newport September 8, 1848
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Sir
  I send enclosed the Declarations of Mrs. Curd and Mrs. Maxson in order to obtain Certificates of Pension agreeable to the Act of Congress of the 2nd February 1848.  Please transmit the certificates as soon as convenient.
Very Respectfully yours
Daniel C. Denham

P. S.  I forwarded a Declaration in favor of Mrs. Phebe Eddy some time since.
D.C. D.
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Know all men by these present that I Sarah Maxson of Newport widow of John Maxson late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Benjamin Bliven my own and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Providence State of Rhode Island the arrears of pension owed me as widow  of the said John Maxson from the fourth day of March A1822 to the fifteenth day April AD. 1822.
Witness my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of October 1835.
Sarah Maxson
Sealed and delivered in presence of Wm Gilpin
Henry A. Gilpin
 State of Rhode Island sc
County of Newport

Be it known that on the twenty fourth day of October 1835 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Sarah Maxson above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on day and year last above mentioned.
Wm Gilpin Just. Peace
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State of Rhode Island
County of Newport ss
Be it known that before me William Gilpin a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Maxson and made oath in due form of law that she is now the widow of John Maxson deceased and late a revolutionary pensioner.
Wm Gilpin Just. Peace
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At a Court of Probate holden in the town of Newport in the County of Newport, State of Rhode Island, on the second day of May AD one thousand Eight-hundred and thirty six, I Benjamin B Howland, Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Maxson, late of said town, county and state, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, in the State of Rhode Island, under the act of Congress of the Eighteenth of March 1818, and that he died at said Newport on the fifteenth day of April 1822, and that Sarah Maxson now living in said Newport still remains his widow, and that the evidence adduced is to the satisfaction of this Court.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the second day of May AD Eighteen hundred and thirty six.
Benj B. Howland Probate Clerk
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4731
Application of
Sarah Maxson
for Pension

$40 per an

D. C. Denham
Newport
R. I.