Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,639, Peter Babb, Mass.
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Service 
Mass. 
Babb, Peter 
Thankful 
Number
N. 24,639
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Notification sent October 10th 1820 to
Daniel Sewall, Kennebunk, Maine
Died June 26, 1842

7474
Maine
Peter Babb
of Buxton in Maine
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Vose of the Masschusetts
line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of March 1919
and sent to G. Thacher, Esqr.
Saco, Ma.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 18    4   85.83
                                                           30  31  48.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819           ====
Continued                                                  $:133.83

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
York Co. Me.
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I Peter Babb of Buxton in the County of York &
Commonwealth of Massachusetts [and [illegible; added above the line], do declare
that I Enlisted as a private Soldier in the American army on the Continental Establishment about the middle of May A.D. 1781 under a recruiting officer at Scarboro [Scarborough?] and was turned in to Capt. John Williams Company & Colonel Voses [Vose's] Massachusetts Line [added above the line] regiment about the first of July A.D. 1781 at White Plains, for three years. I served under Capt. Williams about [illegible, crossed out] thirteen months. I was stationed at Pecks kill, West Point [added above the line], at York [illegible], after which about July A.D. 1782 I was transferred into Capt. Hills Company & Colonel Begelows Regiment & was stationed at Fish Kill landery [Landing?] untils [until] I was discharged, which was about the first of July A.D. 1783 - [illegible, crossed out] I was regularly discharged by Colonel Begelow regularly. My discharge [illegible] about sixteen years since. I have no pension [&] from my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support - I am a citizen of the United States 
Plt [Peter?] Babb
April 13, 1818
Commonwealth of Massachusetts [illegible]
Be it known that on the 13th day of April A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme [illegible] Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, personally appeared the above named Peter Babb. & being duly sworn made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him, in my presence.