Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3501, Jacob Bornheimer, Mass.
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Service: Mass
Bornheimer, Jacob
Mary
Number W3501
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No 1265
Mary Bornheimer
widow of Jacob
Maine
Jul 29, 1848

Date of marriage (1787) - 
date of Jacob's death, Identity & widowhood - proved by 3 witnesses who were present at the marriage. 
No record of marriage.
Died 24 Jany '51
J. Reed
Waldoboro, Maine
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State of Maine
County of Lincoln ⎬ ss On this fifteenth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and
fifty three personally appeared
before Hon Arnold Blaney Judge of the Court of Probate in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine, the same being a Court
of record - Mary Bornheimer a resident of
Waldoboro in the County and State aforesaid, aged eighty 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 provisions of
an act of Congress passed July 29th A.D. 1848 entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and
Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army"
That she is the widow of Jacob Bornheimer late of Waldoboro, aforesaid deceased, who
was a private and Marriner in the Revolutionary war. That he resided in Waldoboro, aforesaid when he entered the service, that the time when he entered and left the service, the names and ranks of the officers under whom he served are unknown
to your applicant - For the particular details and period of his services she respectfully refers to his original declaration on file in the war office, made under the act of the 7th
of June 1832 - on which declaration his certificate of pension was issued which is hereto annexed, on which
he drew a pension of twenty five dollars & twenty seven cents to the time of his death - 
over
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She further declares that she was married to her said husband Jacob Bornheimer on the last day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven at Waldoboro. aforesaid by a German Minister of the Gospel by the name of Croner who was authorized to solemnize marriages - that she has made diligent search & has not found any town parish or family record of her marriage aforesaid but there are several now living who were present - my wedding & marriage - I recollect - that Conrad Ayer was present - she further declares that her maiden name was Mary Hofses and that she never was intermarried with any other person but said Jacob Bornheimer and is now his widow. 
that said Jacob Bornheimer died at Waldoboro aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of January AD eighteen hundred & fifty one. 
Witness John A. Kennedy
Mary Bornheimer (her mark)