Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,624, Samuel Blue, N. H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H Blue, Samuel
Hannah
NUMBER W. 23624
CONTENTS
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Maine 4462
Hannah Blue widow of Samuel Deceased
Mass [MASSACHUSETTS] and who died on the 2d of April, 1818 of Kennebec Co [COUNTY] in the State of Maine who was a private in the compy [COMPANY] commanded by Captain Bartlett of the --- commanded by ---- Masstts. [MASSACHUSETTS] line for 6 mos. [MONTHS] 9 days private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine of the rate of 21 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 - day of October 1839 and sent to Geo. [GEORGE] W.
Morton, Esq Augusta, Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Septr [SEPTEMBER] 1839 = $73.50
Semi=annual allowance ending 4th 1840. 10.50
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$84.00
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk.
Book A Vol. 1 Page 3

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sep 1840. agt [AGENT] notified 9 June 1841.
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4462 4690 
Hannah Blue
Me. [MAINE] Act 7. July [18]'38
m84d18-
admd [ADMITTED] 6 mo [MONTHS] 9 ds [DAYS] pri [PRIVATE] 
21. $
no deduction
Geo [GEORGE] W Morton
Augusta
Maine
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this eighth day of August A. D., 1839
personally appeared before the Hon. [HONORABLE] Asa Redington sole Judge of
the District Court of said State comprising the Counties of Lincoln Kennebec and Somerset in open Court now sitting at Augusta in said State at its regular term, Hannah Blue a resident of Monmouth in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn 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 July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the
widow of Samuel Blue deceased late of said Monmouth but formerly of Deerfield New Hampshire that she has reason to believe
that her said husband did serve in the Revolutionary war as follows viz. That he enlisted the first of December 1775 as a private
and served two months in Capt [CAPTAIN] [illegible] Bartlett, company at Winter Hill in Massachusetts and was discharged the first of February 1776. That the first of July 1776 he again enlisted as a private in Capt Simon Chanton's company and served five months the service being principally at Ticonderoga & was discharged in December of the same year That in July 1777 he enlisted in Captain Enoch Page's [POOR'S] company for six months & served out that period as a [illegible]
at Rhode Island & was honorably discharged. That all the above services were performed in the New Hampshire line or troops & she
refers to the annexed deposition for evidence of her said late husbands [sic] Services,
She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Blue on the fifth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four; that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Blue died on the second day of April One thousand eight hundred and
eighteen; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, she also further declares, that she has remained unmarried ever since the death of her late husband the said Samuel Blue, that her maiden name was Hannah
Marston and that she was married to the said Samuel Blue at Deerfield New Hampshire by the Rev. [REVERAND] [illegible] Upham
Hannah her x mark Blue

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before Asa Redington
Just [JUSTICE] Dist [DISTRICT] Court
Middle District
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Hannah Blue
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the Jud. [JUDICIAL] Courts for said County hereby CERTIFY, That Asa Redington before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of the District Court for the Middle Dist. [DISTRICT] in said State.
I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Hannah Blue
for a pension, I further certify that George W. Morton is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Kennebec & that the signature on the third page of this sheet purporting to his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1839.
L A Chandler
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I Nathaniel Blue of Monmouth in the County of
Kennebec and State of Maine aged fifty four years do upon oath say that my late father Samuel Blue died in said town of Monmouth in month of April 1818. that I have frequently heard him mention of his being a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that I have no doubt he served as stated in the foregoing
declaration sworn to by his widow Hannah Blue my mother, they lived together as husband and wife from my earliest recollection till the death of my late said father and brought up a large family of children that my mother is the identical person mentioned in
the record of the town of Deerfield, a transcript of which record sworn to by the Clerk of said town of Deerfield is hereunto annexed. That my said mother Hannah Blue has remained unmarried ever since the death of my late father the said Samuel Blue and that she now resides in said town of Monmouth
Nathan Blue

State of Maine
County of Kennebec Ss.
Sworn and subscribed this eighth day of August 1839. The deponent being to me well known as a credible witness
Before me
Geo. [GEORGE] W. Morton
Justice of the Peace
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Decr [DECEMBER] [17]75. Tho. [THOMAS] Bartlett Cambridge -2 mo [MONTHS] -
[17]76. Simon Marston Not on N.Y. - 5 [crossed out]
[17]77. Enoch Page on Rolls NH R.I. - 6 [crossed out] -4-9
Samuel Blue-
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 1st 1841
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The admor [ADMINISTRATOR] of Hannah Blue
decd [DECEASED] a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Twenty one Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 8th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Augusta Maine
August 15 1839
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Mrs Hannah Blue to be pensioned under the act of
July 7. 1838. a former declaration made by her, before Chief Justice Weston on the 5th of February 1839 was returned to me, accompanied by your letter dated July 13 1839 in order to have her declaration made in open Court which has been done.
As relates to the service of her late husband during the Revolutionary War it will appear by the accompanying affidavits that he served,
From Decr [DECEMBER] 1775 to February 1776 in Capt [CAPTAIN] Bartletts [sic] Company} 2 months
July 1. 1776 to Decr 1. 1776 in Capt Martin's company} 5 -" - [ditto months]
July 1777 to January 1st 1778 as a Corporal in Capt Page's company the widow states this service to have been 6 months the affidavit of Simon Batchelder in support of the alleged service says the service was from sometime in the month of July 1777 to the 1st of January
1778. If the rolls are in your possession
perhaps they will shew fully six months
service or if not and you are satisfied the service can be computed at 5 1/2 months}
Should the case be satisfactorily proved I respectfully request you to send me a certificate for her
I am respectfully your Obt [OBEDIENT] Servt. [SERVANT] Geo. [GEORGE] W. Morton

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Washington City D.C.