Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,052, John Wilson, Mass.
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18205
Maine
John Wilson
of Lincoln Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Lithgow of the Regt commanded
by Col _____ in the Mas ma line for thems.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of July 1833 and sent to
Nathl. Groton Bath

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $113.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 28.33
$141.65

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 64
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Maine - 1310
Rachel Wilson
widow of John Wilson, dec'd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of Jun 7 '32
and who died on the 15th Aug 1835
of Lincoln in the State of Maine
who was a Pvt. in the [Cnts] commanded
by Captain Lithgow of the Regt. commanded
by ----- in the Massts line for 
[11] months 23 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 39 Dollars 20 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Decr '38 and sent to [and] E. Everett
Brunswick, Me

Arrears to the 4th of Sept $98.00
Semi-annual allowance ending  19.60
$117.60

Act July 7 1838.
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk, 
Book A Vol 2 Page 26
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3. How old is he? 74

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period  Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
[March] in 1776 entered     9 months  as a private  Capt Lithgow

1779 volunteer  7 months  " Cap Patten Genl. Lovell

Making his whole time of service in the year  16 months

5. In what battles was he engaged? Captured a British post  on Penobscot Bay

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Topsham Massachusetts

7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary - two living witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations. The living witnesses are not certified to be credible

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Topsham
30th day of august A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two

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That he entered the service of the United States, in the militia, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in a company of Militia in the month of March in the year 1776, under Capt. William Lithgow of Georgetown, and marched on foot from Topsham to Falmouth now Portland, and there served as a soldier to the end of the year year 1776 making a service at that time of since monthly, thus service was rendered in Col. Mitchell's regiment, at the end of the year 1776 he was dismissed from this service by Captain Lithgow but had no written discharge - This applicant further on oath declares, that in the latter part of May or first of June 1779 he again enlisted as a volunteer under Capt Actor Patten, and marched as a soldier in his company to Townsend in Boothbay, and thence embarked by [ ] for Bagaduce a British post on the Penobscot bay, that he was one of the army that arrived there to attack the British and capture the place. that he was among the first american troops that landed and was in the engagement against the British which took place on landing, that he returned back to Kennebec river and [went] on service the remainder of the year 1779 at Cox's head on Kennebec river under Capt. Actor Patten who was stationed there after
The expedition & defeat of Bagaduce, In the expedition at Bagaduce Genl. Lovell commanded the troops and Commander Saltonstall the [ ], making his whole term of service during the two years afore-said of sixteen months. He further on oath declares that he was born in Topsham, in the month of January in the year 1759. has no record of his
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The expedition & defeat of Bagaduce, In the expedition at Bagaduce Genl. Lovell commanded the troops and Commadore Saltonstall 'the fleet', marking his whole term of service during the two years afore-said of sixteen months. He further on oath declares that he was born in Topsham, in the month of January in the year 1759. has no record of his age but knows it from information received from his mother now decd. that he lived in Topsham in the year 1776 when first called into service he has lived in Topsham ever since the Revolutionary War and now lives there. He is known in his neighborhood to Eder Elihu Purington and and Jebediah Moulton of Topsham. who can testify to his character, and Ebenezer Farrin and Martha Farrin and Samuel Wilson of Topsham who can testify to his services as a soldier.
John [Wilson]
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We Elihu Purington an clergyman residing at Topsham in the County of Lincoln and Jedediah Moulton residing at said Topsham do hereby certify that we are acquainted with john Wilson who had sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration and that he is seventy four years of age, and that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he [resides] to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary army and can concur in that belief. 
Elihu Purington 
Jedediah Moulton

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I Ebenezer Farrin of Topsham in the County of Lincoln aged seventy four years of age, I have known him about [sixty] years, he was a soldier in the Revolutionary army in a company commanded y Capt William Lithgow in 1776 & went to Falmouth now Portland in said company & served then in said company until the end of said year & then returned home in the spring of the year 1779. said John Wilson went as a soldier to Baggaduce in Captain Actor Pattens company of [militia] & served then as I understand. I know him when he returned & [then] went to the mouth of Kennebec River in service of said company & served then until the end of the year 1779.
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Sworn to this 30th of Augt. 1832 before Ezekiel Whitman Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Maine
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clerk
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I Rachel Wilson the younger aged thirty three years on oath declare that I am the daughter of John Wilson of Topsham, [who] as I have ever understood & believed was a solider of the revolution, and Rachel Wilson, his wife, whose maiden name I have always understood to be Rachel Thompson, & who is now an applicant for a pension; that the said John Wilson my father died at Topsham aforesaid in the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred & thirty five, leaving my mother the said Rachel Wilson his widow, & that she still remains his widow, having ever since been sole & unmarried. 
Rachel Wilson

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Extract from the record of marriages of the Town of Topsham in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine.

"In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty three March tenth, John Wilson to Rachel Thompson."

I the undersigned certify that the above is a true copy of the record ..

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