Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35238, Tristram Daggett, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Massachusetts     

Daggett, Tristram      
or Dagget

NUMBER
S.35238

CONTENTS
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6538
Maine
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Tristram Daggett
Died January 27 1848
of Somerset County in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Turner of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Brooks in the Massachusetts
line, for the term of three years or longer
from November 1777 to June 1783
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Inscribed on the roll of Maine
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 1 day of January 1828.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of January
1830 and sent to Honorable S. Butman House of Representatives.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1830 $209.06
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September  48.--
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$257.06
Paid under Act 15 May 1821   213.74
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$43.29.

{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec.: Book D
Volume: 1 folder: 54


See letter to Agent 25 January 1831
See letter to Pensioner March 24, 1831.
1891
August 19 Mess N D Zahr History Prior
Letter in Deborah No 22879
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Ap. 22. Vose.

J George Roberts
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I Tristram Daggett of Industry in the County of Somerset and District of Maine, in my sixtieth year, a resident citizen of the United States, desiring to obtain the provision made by the law 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,” and to be placed on the pension list for the District of Maine, do on oath testify and declare That after having enlisted for three years and served the greater portion of the time, I enlisted during the war at Morristown, in New Jersey, into the Company of Captain Thomas Turner, in Colonel Henry Jackson’s regiment, about January 1780 and served until the close of the war, when in June, 1783 I was discharged with honor at Newburg. My discharge I afterward entrusted to a friend, with a view to its being used for my benefit. I have not seen it since and do not know that it is in existence. ✘ I was in the Battles of Monmouth and Rhode Island. By reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
Tristram Daggett

[Side Note:] [lined thru] ✘ since obtained and annexed. [/lined thru]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On the twenty second day of April A.D. 1818, the aforesaid Tristram Daggett, having been duly cautioned and [crossed out] examined made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed. 
Before me, Josiah Stebbins,
a Judge of the C.C.C.P.[Circuit Court of Common Pleas] For said Circuit.
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We Thomas Johnson and Sanford Davis, both of Farmington in Maine, on oath testify that we were in the army, and know personally that Tristram Daggett, the signer of the foregoing affidavit, did duty as a soldier the greater part of the war, and particularly in Captain Turner’s company for about the three last years, as in his affidavit mentioned. 

[signed] Thomas Johnson
[signed] Sanford Davis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On the 22nd of April 1818 the aforesaid Thomas Johnson and Sanford Davis made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed: Before me, [signed] Josiah Stebbins a Judge of the C.C.C.P [Circuit Court of Common Pleas] for said Circuit.

House of Representatives January 20 1819
I certify that I am acquainted with Thomas Johnson, & Sanford Davis, above named they are credible witnesses - [signed] Joshua Gage
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Number 14
Tristram Daggett
Industry
6538
March
Not entitled


Robert C. Vose
Augusta
Maine
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I William Allen Jr Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the County of Somerset State of Maine do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Tristram Daggett I have lived near by him for more than twenty years during which time he has sustained the character of an honest industrious man; and has at no time been worth three hundred Dollars, and is a man of strict truth & veracity - I have seen his original discharge signed by General Washington & Col'o Jno. Brooks, now in his possession, certifying that he had served five years and six months was honourably discharged & entitled to a badge of merit - He is now poor and needs the bounty of Government for his support.
Norridgewock June 30, 1820       [signed] William Allen Jr
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[printed form, blanks filled in by hand]

State of Maine.
Somerset COUNTY, ss.

On this twenty sixth day of June, 1820, personally appeared before Josiah Stebbins a Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Tristram Daggett aged Sixty two years, resident in Industry in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Turner and Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson and John Brooks, of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years and during the war that his original declaration was made before Judge Stebbins on the twenty day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6538. And I, the said Tristram Daggett do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions 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 eighteenth day of March, onethousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.
[signed] Tristram Daggett

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: Eighty acres of land in Industry- one yoke of steers two cows - one yearling -  one horse - two swine, a few articles of house hold furniture two chairs - one plow - two old axes two old hoes. I owe not less than eighty five dollars, have no debts of value due to me: I have been wounded by a fall upon ice, am otherwise in ordinary health for a person of my years - can support myself only in part.-
My family consists of my wife aged fifty seven years- who is infirm and unable to labor and my son Timothy aged eighteen years, in health. I have no income except my pension, by aid of which I have removed the mortgage from my land.
[signed] Tristam Daggett

Somerset. ss. Subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule this 26th day of June 1820 before me
[signed] Josiah Stebbins a Judge of the
C.C.C.P.[Circuit Court of Common Pleas] sd E. Circuit--
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Declaration of Tristram Daggett in order to be restored to the pension list under the act of first of March 1823

State of Maine, County of Somerset ss. On this twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas holden at Norridgewock in the county of Somerset, State of Maine, being a Court of record for said State, proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping record of their proceedings; having the power of fine and imprisonment, Tristram Daggett resident in Industry in said county aged sixty nine years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said Daggett enlisted for the term of three years and during the war, in the month of November in the year 1777 at Pownalboro, then in the State of Massachusetts now in the State of Maine, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Turner in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Henry Jackson, afterwards by Lieutenant Col. John Brooks, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 8th day of June 1783 when he was discharged from the service at Newburgh in the State of New York, that his original discharge signed by Genl Washington and Col. Brooks is now in his possession and here in Court produced, a copy of which is hereto annexed that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped there from on account of the property which he had accumulated from the savings of his pension and which he has since expended in the support of himself and family -

And now in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since
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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 provisions 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 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the exhibition of my second schedule the following changes have been made in my property
[Four column table with headings:]
Description of property | Names of Persons Owners, Disposed | Time of sale | Amount of money or other property received in return.

Two swine | - |1821| Killed and used in family

One heifer | Henry Daggett |1822| Beef to live on

One horse | John Trafton |1822 | His account against me for work twelve dollars

One Cow | Matthew Benson |1823| Cash ten dollars

About Sixty acres land | Tristram Daggett | 1823 | Debt due him, one Colt for Steers work and assistance to build a house in all one hundred and eighty dollars.

Twenty acres land and house and half a barn | James Bailey | 1824 | Cash two hundred and fifty dollars.

One Colt but of my son | Rufus Allen |1824| cash twenty five dollars

Pair Steers Do [ditto] | Jabez Norton | 1826 | Part cash part work thirty two dollars

Pair Oxen | True Remick | 1826 | Cash forty two Dollars

One Cow | Leonard Luce | 1827 | Cash fifteen Dollars
 
The money which I received in payment for the above property sold I have applied from time to time, first to build a house and barn and after several changes to defray the expenses of my family, particularly the expenses of my wife's last sickness, who was confined with a
lingering consumption for seven years and died on the fourth of March 1827 - Part of the proceeds I applied to the payment of sundry small debts, and I now owe as much as thirty dollars. A part of the proceeds of my land I attempted to secure against old age but by reason of sickness I have been compelled to make use of all except the note described in the schedule annexed. I have no copy of my first schedule, but I am confident that all I then owned
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or possessed was not worth so much as my property was when I made my second schedule. (signed) "Tristram Daggett"
Somerset ss. Sworn to and declared in open Court on the twelfth of March AD 1828 before me [signed] Samuel E. Smith, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Maine
"Property valued at Eighty Dollars"

Schedule of all the real and personal estate (necessary clothing bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber viz.
Real estate none, nor house or building of any kind -
Personal estate, six sheep valued at $8.00
One swine " 2.00
One note against my son Timothy Daggett one half payable in November 1828 the other half November 1829 } 45.00
2 hemlock boards ------ 8.00
3 tons hay ------ 12.00
Old axe, Old chairs and a few old tools, whole value  5.00
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Total  80.00
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(signed) "Tristram Daggett"

I Tristram Daggett am by occupation a farmer but I am old and infirm, and not able to do but little labor, and I am and for many years have been in a great measure dependent on kind friends and neighbors for assistance in sickness I now have no family except a daughter aged thirty three years who lives with me and takes care of me and helps support me.
signed "Tristram Daggett"
"Copy of Discharge filed in Court"

By his Excellency George Washington, Esquire General and Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States of America.
These are to certify that the bearer hereof Tristram Daggett soldier in the seventh Massachusetts Regiment having faithfully served the United States five years and six months and being enlisted for the war only is hereby discharged from the American army. Given at Head Quarters the 8th June 1783
(signed) "G. Washington"
By His Excellency's command
J Trumbull [illegible] Secry
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Registered in the books of the Regiment,
/signed/  Jonathan Haskill Adjutant
The above Tristram Daggett Soldier has been honored with the badge of merit for five years faithful service.
/sogned/ J. Brooks Lieutenant Colonel Commander 7th Massachusetts Regiment,

State of Maine.
Somerset ss I James Dinsmore Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset. State of Maine do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Tristram Daggett did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for a term of five years and six months under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule and declaration thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and that the original discharge of the said Daggett was exhibited in Court and compared with the foregoing copy thereof: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighty Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Norridgewock on this twelfth day of March AD 1828
James Dinsmore Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Somerset State of Maine

Tristram Daggett
application for pension
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in Maine (Town) etc.  in Somerset County

35238
Revolutionary INVALID.

File Number 35.238
Tristram Daggett
Private Revolutionary War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:—Volume D , Page 104

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Enlisted & [illegible]
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6538
Maine
Tristram Daggett, private
Massachusetts line — War.
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
[I]nscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 22d of April 1818.

Certificate of pension issued the [blank] of February 1819 and delivered.
R. G. Vose

Arrears to 4th of September 1818. 4 months 13/30 _ 35.46
semi-annual. allowance ending 4 March 1819 48.00
$83.46

{Revolutionary claim
Act of 18th March, 1818}

Farmington,

not entitled

Respecting application. to be restored, see letter 4 April 1828 to Honorable L. Butman, House of Representatives and 11 April 1828

Notification sent July 20th, 1820 to Robert C. Vose, Augusta, Maine
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Tristram Daggett
a revolutionary Soldier
April 21. 1828
referred by revo. [?] to the Commissioner on military Pensions.

April 29. 1828
Bill [illegible] Number 283

December 5, 1828.
Referred. to Commissioner- military. Pensions

Allowed —
December 16 1829
Referred- to Commissioner Military Pensions
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Treasury Department

12 January 1831

I hereby certify that Tristram Dagett has received under the act 15 May 1828. Six dollars sixty six 2/3 cents per month from the 3rd March 1826 to the 2nd September 1830 both days inclusive

Francis A. Dickins
Clerk
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Copy of Deed

Tristram Daggett
to  
James Bailey
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State of Maine Somerset, fs.
I James Dinsmore Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset, State of Maine do hereby certify that Asa Clark Esq is Register of Deeds for said county and the within attestation is his signature _ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Norridgewock this thirty first day of March 1828

James Dinsmore Clerk
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Tristram Daggett of Industry in the county of Somerset and state of Maine yeoman In consideration of two hundred and fifty Dollars paid by James Bailey of the town, county & state aforesaid yeoman (the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge) do [crossed out] give, grant, sell, and convey unto the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns to their use and benefit forever a certain piece of land situated in said Industry being the south part of lot number ten on a a plan of said town made by Cornelius Norton Esq and bounded as follows northerly by the town road, southerly by the bull horse pond west by land owned by David Luce East by lot number E containing twenty acres more or less together with the house and one half the barn which stands on the land deeded to said Bailey by Tristram Daggett Esq, which were reserved in said Tristram Jr's deed to said Bailey

To Have and to Hold the same to the said James Bailey his  heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever. And I do covenant with the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns, That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises—That they are free of all incumbrances—That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Bailey And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Tristram Daggett and June my wife in token of relinquishment of dower have hereunto set our hands and seals this thirty first [crossed out] of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Tristram Daggett Seal
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us
Bartlett Allen
Truman Allen} Seal

Somerset...ss. March 31. 1823 Then [crossed out] personally appeared the within named Tristram Daggett acknowledged the within instrument, by him subscribed, to be his free act and deed, before me Bartlett Allen JUSTICE OF PEACE.
Somerset, ss. Rec March 29. 1828 and entered with the records of Deeds Book 21. Page 339 Asa Clark Register
A true copy of the original Deed in full
Attest Asa Clark Register
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State of Maine.

I William Allen Esq, Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is two hundred and fifty one dollars and fifty cents; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is one hundred sixty six dollars and fifty cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of June 1820.

William Allen Esq Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset
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20th Congress.
1st. Session.

Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
April 21, 1828.
On motion of Mr. Butman
Resolved, that the Committee on Military Pension be instituted to enquire into the propriety of placing Tristam Dagget a revolutionary Soldier, upon the pension list.

Attest, Wm St Clair Clark
Clerk
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Hs of Rep.
January 21 1831

J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir— Yours of the 20th Inst - is before me - In regard to you enquiries I would observe - That when I called upon you, and stated that I suspected there was something wrong, in the case of Tristram Daggett, my suspicion was grounded wholly upon a letter I had received from the Sec. of the Treasury - Having not at that time seen any of the papers relating to his case - Soon after I had this conversation with you, I called at the office of the Sec_ of the Treasury and examined the papers - I was then led to believe that there was something wrong -  and proposed to Wm Dickens, that I would write to a friend, and ascertain the fact, whether there was two men of the same name (Daggett) who were both entitled to a pension for revolutionary
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services, and both living in the county of Somersett Maine — I accordingly wrote to Wm Allen Junr_ Esq who had done the business for Mr Daggett in this case, knowing him to be a Gent_ of integrity and of high respectability — Before he received my letter, he wrote me upon the subject, and his letter I immediately forwarded to the Sec. of the Treasury, which letter I thought would fully explain the business — In due time I received from Wm Allen, in answer to mine, in which I had made particular enquiry in relation to the subject, and without even intimating to him what was the object of my enquiry - his answer_ 
This letter from him I likewise immediately sent to the Sec_ which went more fully into an explanation of the subject — And I had hoped would have been perfectly satisfactory to the Depart_, that there was nothing intentionally wrong in the case_
I presume the only object is, & has been, to get Mr. Daggetts name transferred from a pension of $7— per month under the act of 1828 _ to that of $8 per month under the act of 1830 —
I have the honor to be very very respec. yrs — S Butman
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War Department
Pension Office
11 April 1828
Sir
The documents transmitted by you in the case of Tristram Daggett have been examined In my last letter, the claimant was required to show the application of $340 which he received for his land. The testimony now offered, goes merely to prove that the witnesses believe this money was expended for necessaries for the claimants family. This is no doubt true; but it is not the kind of testimony required by our regulations. The testimony of the persons to whom these payments were made is necessary. If it cannot be procured, let the fact be stated, and the reasons for the non-production of such testimony disclosed by the affidavit of the applicant.
I have the honor to be 
very respectfully
Your Ob. Servt.
J.L. Edwards
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Recd. 5 Jany 1831
2333.
Hs. of Rep. Jan. 3d 1831

Hon. S. D. Ingham
Sec of the Treasury}
Sir— I herewith enclose you a letter from Wm Allen, of Norridgewock Maine — One of the Gent- to whom you refered me to, as connected in some way, in the case of Tristram Daggett — This letter will I think, explain to you the whole affair —
I will thank you to return the letter to me as it refers to other business — And should likewise be pleased to learn, if the transfer he wishes to have made, can be done consistent with the rules of the Dept — 
I have the honor to be with much respect yr. Obt. Servt
S Butman
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Washington, February 24, 1821.
Sir- It is known to your Department that Tristam Daggett of Somerset county in Maine, a Soldier of the revolution, was latly a pensioner under the law of March 18, 1818 — and that by the construction put upon the pension-law of the last session, he is stricken from the list of revolutionary pensioners. I am authorised, Sir, to Say that his case is peculiarly hard. He possesses only eight acres of poor land, which was purchased by the assistance of his friends and some savings from his pension. His accommodations are insufficient covering from the beating storm. He is infirm and unable at this period of his life to procure a subsistence by labour, and his wife, more infirm than himself, has been confined to her room for years. He has been an industrious and honest man through life. He was honorably discharged from the service
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of his country - after serving in Col. Micah Jackson's, or Col. Brook's regiment for five years — a regiment, which in more instances than one, performed brilliant achievements and covered itself with glory. — Permit me, Sir, most respectfully, to solicit you to cause the case of this poor and well deserving Soldier to be reviewed, in order he may obtain that relief from his country which the law may justify, and his age and circumstances require. — With the highest esteem, I am, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant
Joshua Cushman. 

Hon. J.C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
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Herbert Boardman
Esq. Deposition
in the case of
Tristram Daggett
an applicant for 
Pensions.
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I Herbert Boardman Esq one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county of Somerset on oath depose and say that I have for forty years been well acquainted with Tristram Daggett of Industry who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war: that I have often advanced money for him and received my pay when it was convenient for him in labor and otherwise: that I know him to be now very poor, and is deserving of assistance from the Government. I have always found him to be strictly honest and industrious: that he is not capable of managing business so well as some men and has never been worth but little: that for several years past he has suffered much from sickness and has been importuned by his friends to apply for his pension but refused on the ground that he would not beg of the Government so long as he could live without and "would never swear that he has nothing" "while he has any thing": He now has neither house nor lands and all he possesses would not be sufficient to support himself through a fit of sickness: that it is now extremely difficult for him to obtain evidence of all the shifts and changes of his property within the last eight years, but there is no suspicion but that he has disposed of it and used it according to his best discretion and without any fraudulent intentions
Herbert Boardman
State of Maine
County of Somerset ss} Norridgewock march 22. 1828. Personally appeared before me William Allen Jr Esq one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county of Somerset Herbert Boardman Esq above named a person by me well known and worthy of credit and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
William Allen Jr Just. Peace
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State of Maine
County of Somerset} I James Dinsmore Esq Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset state of Maine do hereby certify and make known that William Allen Jr Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Somerset duly qualified to act in said office and that the within is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Norridgewock the thirty first day of March AD 1828

James Dinsmore Clerk
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T. Daggett
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We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Industry hereby certify that Tristram Daggett who is an inhabitant of said town and who was a Soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war is a man of truth and veracity, and being in reduced circumstances [crossed out] in our opinion needs the assistance of his country, provided by the late Act of Congress: and we have no doubt that he actually served in the Revolutionary army for the term of five years & six months —
Industry
April. 10. 1818
James Davis 
Bartlett Allen
James Stanley} Selectmen
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Norridgewock
29 Dec
Free

Hon Samuel Butman
Member of Congress
Washington
Dist. Columbia
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Norridgewock Dec 28. 1830
Hon. Samuel Butman
Sir
I was informed by you near the close of the last session that a bill had passed making provision for Revolutionary Pensioners and that among others Tristram Daggett was provided for — I notified Mr Daggett of the fact and he some time during the last fall made application for the pension supposed to be granted him under the act: but he has had no return from the War Department:
If not too much trouble I will thank you to send me the necessary instructions for him to obtain the sum granted him — I believe I had informed you that he has for two years past recd a pension of $7 a month under the act of 1828 That he considers as a pament of debt or just claim: He also considers himself entitled the provisions of the last act: or at any rate to be transferred from the Roll of $7 per month to that of $8—
your attention to the above
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will add to the obligations which Mr Daggett already feels himself under to you and will be acknowledged as a favor
I also enclose to your care some papers in the case of Maj Obadiah Witherell of this town, with a view to have his claim presented and allowed by special will if practicable Mr Sprague has some personal knowledge of Maj Witherell and had engaged to give him assistance: the blank for the enclosed was sent him by Mr Sprague two years ago and was filled up and sent to the War Dept. under the Regulations of Mr Rush but failed as did all others at that time by reason of the change in the Government — or [?] He is now about 84 years old and has the full possession of his reason, and would be much gratified to be restored to the pension list. He is now dependent on is son for support, who is laboring under some embarrassments and owes money although he can not be called poor. You may have seen his son Rev Saml B Witherell as he resided at Bangor three or four years - at the Theological school
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He is now an ordained minister, owns a farm but is not settled in any particular place is employed occasionally by the Missionary Society
I am Sir
Your Humble Servt
Wm Allen, Jr. 

P.S. Maj Witherells Commission as Lieut. & other evidence of his service in the Revolutionary war is on file in the Pension office —
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Tristram Daggett
Farmington. private. Colonel H. Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment 1780 to 1783.

April 22 1818
Admitted
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

To the honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.

I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and SOmerset, do hereby certify to your Honor that Tristram Daggett, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Industry, in the siad County of Somerset, in the District of Maine, on the twenty second day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of said applicant, and careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed this 27th. day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Joisiah Stebbins.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Kennebec, ss.
I THE subscriber, clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINs, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
John Davis
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Recd Oct 1830 
2153
Norridgewock Sept 30. 1830

Hon Sam D. Ingham
Secy of Treasury

Sir
Having served as a soldier in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary war: and being poor and entitled to a pension, I presented a petition to Congress in the spring of 1828 a bill was thereupon reported & passed the House of Representatives granting me a pension of Eight dollars a month commencing March 1828 but was not then acted upon in the Senate and the petition has been preferred [crossed out] and taken up. from time to time till near the close of the last session of Congress, when I have lately been informed that a bill was finally passed in which my name was included as a Revolutionary Pensioner: I therefore wish you to furnish me with a copy, of the act of Congress aforesaid together with a blank form of an application
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to obtain from the treasury the money due to me by said act —
Please to direct to me at Norridgewock Maine, any information on the subject will be gratefully received by
Yours respectfully
[crossed out]
Tristram daggett
subscribed in my presence
Attest [?] W Allen Jr. }

I certify that I have been informed by Hon Samuel Butman, member of Congress from this District, that he presented the above [crossed out] claim for Tristram Daggett above named and that a pension of eight dollars a month was granted him at the close of the last session of Congress commencing at the time he made application in March 1828 and I well know Mr Daggett to be the identical person whose name is above written
William Allen, Jr.
Justice of the Peace and Yeoman
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Deacon Ira Emery's Deposition
Number 3
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I Ira Emery of lawful age depose and say that I live within about a mile and a half of Trastram Daggett in Industry, that I consider him to be as honest a man as ever I saw: that he has been to the best of my knowledge industrious and prudent ever since I knew him: Has had much sickness in his family: and he is now very poor and unable to support himself — There is no suspicion that he has any claim on any individual for any property except what he has described in his application for a pension and all that he possesses is not worth more than eighty dollars: I know that whenever he has disposed of any property he has taken the proceeds to pay his debts and to support his family and I have as much confidence in his word as I can put in any man I am in no way related
Ira Emery

Somerset County, ss. March 14. 1828 Then the Deacon Ira Emery above named a person by me well known and worthy of good credit personally appeared before me and made solemn oath that the facts stated by him in the above affidavit by him subscribed are all of them true —
William Allen, Jr. Justice of Peace
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State of Maine
County of Somerset,

I James Dinsman Esquire Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset, in the State of Maine do hereby certify and make known that William Allen Jr Esquire of Norridgewock is a Justice of the Peace for said county of Somerset duly qualified to act in said office and the certificates by him subscribed to the annexed Depositions of Cornelius Norton Esquire Capain William Allen Capain True Remick, Deacon Ira Emery and John Gott are of his own proper hand writing: and also that the above deponents are by me well known as credible and substantial witnesses
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said county this fifteenth day of March A.D. 1828
James Dinsmore Clerk

Depositions Number 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5 annexed
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Deposition of Captain William Allen
Number 2
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I William Allen of lawful age depose and say that for thirty years last past I have lived near Tristram Daggett of Industry in the county of Somerset who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and is an applicant for a pension: Mr Daggett has always sustained the character of an honest industrious man, he has had much sickness in his family and has always been a poor man: that I have no doubt but he has managed his business according to the best of his discretion to save and secure what little property he has had in his possession: and that he has disposed of the same from time to time within the last seven years in the best manner he could to obtain necessary support and assistance for his family: and I have no reason to doubt that from his present indigent circumstances he is well entitled to his pension: I believe that he is and has been conscientiously scrupulous about disposing of any property so as to bring himself within the provisions of the pension laws: that he is now old and infirm and needs assistance to make himself comfortable or even to support himself
William Allen

State of Maine
Somerset County ss} Norridgewock March 13. 1828
Personally appeared the above named Deponent a person by me well known, and worthy of credit as a witness and made solemn oath that the facts by him stated in the above Deposition by him subscribed are all of them true
Before me William Allen Jr Justice of the Peace
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Deposition of John Gott
No 4
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I John Gott of lawful age depose and say that I am well acquainted with Tristram Daggett of Industry, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war: that he now lives in my house in the same house in which I live myself: that I now own some property which he once owned: that he is not now the owner to my knowledge of either house or lands of any description: and that in all the sales or changes which he has made in his property for ten years past he has to the best of my knowledge and belief received the full and fair value thereof: and that he has carefully applied the proceeds of his property to defray the expenses of his family and for his support: that he has no children or relatives who are able to support him: that his daughter, Jane is in feeble health, has been deranged, and is the only person now living with him; she has done all in her power for him: That he in my opinion stands in need of assistance and is well entitled to a pension form the Government: I am in no way related to him or interested in his affairs, other than that he has a right to live in my house till the first day of May next: the privelege having been secured for him by his son who is gone to sea: of whom I purchased the house: I believe that Mr Daggett would not by any means intentionally make a false statement, being esteemed as a man of strict truth and veracity: and in my opinion all the property in his possession or [crossed out] which he is any way entitled to is not worth more than ninety dollars, and that he is unable to support himself. John Gott

Somerset ss March 14. 1828 Personally appeared before me the above named John Gott a person by me well known as a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
William Allen Jr Justice of Peace
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Tristam Daggett. Private 
7th. Reg. Massachusetts line.
claim for 2 years pay


The answer is requested to be sent Post Office Augusta, Maine
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State of Maine
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the Act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers" "of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828. I tristram Daggett of Industry in the county of Somerset, in the state of Maine, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a private soldier in Captain Turner Company in the seventh regiment commanded by Lt Col. Brooks, of the Massachusetts line — and I also declare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth of May 1828, on the Pension list of the United States — My Honorable Discharge signed by the commander in chief is hereunto annexed
Witness my hand, this Eleventh day of June, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
Tristam Daggett
Witness
Shubael C West

Before me Asa Clark Esq a Justice of the Peace in the county of Somerset in the state of Maine, personally appeared, this day Peter Butler and James Gower of the said county, who did, severally make oath, that Tristam Daggett by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this Eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Asa Clark

I James Dinsmore, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, do hereby certify that Asa Clark Esquire, before whom he foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time  a Justice of the Peace, and duly qualified to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County this elevinth [eleventh] day of June Anno Domini 1828
James Dinsmore Clerk
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Augusta Maine June 11th 1828

Sir,
In pursuance of your instruction of the 28th May last, I herewith transmit you my declaration and evidence of my service as a Soldier in the Massachusetts line during the war of the Revolution _ If my papers are satisfactory to your department, I presume I am entitled to two years pay as a Soldier. viz. [namely] from March 3d 1826 to March 4. 1828. which amount you will please to find me by mail directed to the care of Robert C. Vose, Clerk of the Courts Augusta Maine. 
My Honorable Discharge signed by the Commander in chief, I have annexed to my declaration and after my claim has been registered its my wish my discharge may be returned to me, being very anxious to preserve the same — Any future payments which may be due and coming to me I wish may be made at the agents office of the State of Maine —
I am very respectfully your obedient Servant
Tristam Daggett
Honorable Richard Rush
Secretary of U.S. Treasury
Washington
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139    4
Number of orignal Pay 136
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
8 July 1828.

Tristam Daggett of Industry in the County of Somerset in the State of Maine has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Turner's company, in the 7 regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary,
A Dickins.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
9. July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Tristum Dagget in the Massachusetts line It further appears that Tristram Dagget is not now on the pension list of  any agency, and has not been so since the 3d. March 1826 
Peter Hagner And
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Capt True Remick's Deposition
No 5
In the case of
Tristram Daggett applicant for Pension
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I True Remick a Deputy Shereff of the county of Somerset of lawful age, depose and testify on oath; that I live near Tristram Daggett of Industry who is an applicant for a pension: that in my opinion he has made no sales or changes in his property within eight years past which his necessities did not require: that I have been well acquainted with his manner of doing business and his exertions to meet all just and necessary charges against him: that I purchased a yoke of oxen of him in the fall of the year 1826 for which I paid him forty two Dollars in cash; [crossed out] I know that he stood in absolute need of money to meet his engagements and fully believe that the money was faithfully expended and paid away by him: that he is now in reduced circumstances and needs assistance to support himself: that his reputation is extremely [?] fair as an honest, industrious, but a poor, man and I believe that he would by no means be induced to make a false representation to obtain his pension: that he has often received assistance from his neighbors and friends in cases of sickness from motives of charity: and in my opinion is deserving of assistance from the public: That every article of property he owns or possesses would not in my opinion be worth more than Eighty or Eighty five Dollars: that I am in no wise related to him —
True Remick
Somerset ss. March 14. 1828 Personally appeared before me the above named True Remick a Deputy Sheriff and a person by me well known and worthy of good credit and made solemn oath that the facts stated by him in the above affidavit by him subscribed are all of them true —
William Allen .Jr. Justice of the Peace
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William Allen Jr's [?] Deposition 
in the case of Tristram Daggett an applicant for a Pension
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I William Allen Jr of Norridgewock in the county of Somerset of lawful age depose and say that for thirty years past I have been well acquainted with Tristram Daggett of Industry who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war: I know that he is now very poor and that he needs assistance to support himself: that he has had much sickness in his family and always been considered a poor man; has ever been industrious and prudent and sustains a fair character for integrity and veracity — Previous to the year 1814 he had bargained for a lot of land [illegible] in Industry belonging to the late Francis C. Lowell of Boston Deceased. and made some small payment had agreed to give $137.50/100 In that year Mr. Lowell appointed me his agent, I found this lot to be poor and deficient in quantity that there was about $125 due to Mr Lowell in the contract; on representing the above facts Mr Lowell sent me a Deed for Mr Daggett to be delivered him if he would get sureties for $100 — it not being in his favor to do this, he proposed to abandon his log house which he had built on this land and relinquish his contract; In February 1816 Mr Lowell by Easter directed me to remit to Daggett all but $50 "as he was very poor" and I therefore delivered him his deed and took a mortgage of the land to secure the payment of the $50 and interest in these years — In April 1818 Daggett was placed on the pension list and remained a pensioner about two years during which time he received so much of his pension as to redeem the above mortgage and on the 26th June 1820 when he filed a new declaration and schedule under the act of 1st. May 1820 the above described land constituted all the real estate he possessed and the same was described in his schedule; in consequence of which he was stricken from the pension "list on account of his property." He some time afterwards bargained with his son Tristram Daggett, Jr. to live with him and assist in supporting his family and conveyed to him about sixty or sixty five acres of the above land and with the proceeds built a small board and slab house and one half of a barn; on the 24 January 1823 the son conveyed the same land to James Bailey the original deed was sent to me a few days since by Bailey to be copied: a copy of which is as follows "Know all men by these presents that I Tristram Daggett Jr of Industry in the county of Somerset and State of Maine yeoman in consideration of one hundred and eighty seven dollars and fifty cents paid by James Bailey of the town county and State aforesaid, yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby bargain sell and convey unto the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns a certain piece of land situated in said Industry being part of lot numbered ten on a plan drawn by Cornelius Norton, surveyor: bounded westerly by lot Number11. northerly by lots Number 16, 17 and 18, easterly by lot Number 9 southerly by the road leading across said lot Number 10 containing seventy acres more or less, being all the land on the northerly side of said road on said lot, together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, except the house and one half of the barn: To have and to hold the same premises to the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns to his and their use and benefit forever. And I do covenant with the said Bailey
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his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises: That they are free of all incumbrances — That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Bailey — And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Bailey his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of any persons — In witness whereof I the said Tristram Daggett Jr have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three—
Tristram Daggett .Jr. Seal
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Bartlett Allen, James Thompson }
Somerset ss. January 24. 1823 Then the above named Tristram Daggett, Jr. acknowledged this instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and Deed before me
Bartlett Allen Justice of the Peace
And I further depose that the said James Bailey on the 31. March 1823 purchased the residue of said lot No 10 of said Tristram Daggett with the house and half of the barn above described as appears by his deed a copy of which has been duly certified and herewith enclosed — That said Bailey at the time he made the above purchases was a tenant on my farm near the premises, that his term had then nearly expired, that I prevailed on him to remain on my farm another year and that he thereupon consented that said Daggett should live in the house he had purchased till April 1824 at which time he left it and Bailey removed into it and has remained the sole proprietor and occupant of the same house and lands ever since: that I was at the house and examined the premises in April 1824 a few days after Bailey had taken possession and i know that he gave the full value of the premises and that he then would gladly have been released from the bargain; that the sale was absolute and unconditional — that the increased value of the twenty acres by reason of the buildings was nearly or quite equal to the value of the part of the lot which was conveyed by Mr Daggett to his son and that the improvements made on both parts account for the additional value compared with Mr Daggetts estimate in his schedule in June 1820 — That in my opinion every thing Mr Daggett had owned or possessed in April 1824 after paying his just debts would not on a fair appraisement exceed two hundred dollars: that I have good reason to believe that the sales and changes made by him of his property have always been absolute and bona fide transactions and that no sale or transfer of property has ever been made by him with any fraudulent intentions or subject to the least suspicion thereof: that his children are all poor and unable to contribute to his relief: that his oldest son has twice been in gaol for debt and compelled to take the poor debtors oath — That I have now in my custody his original discharge from the army dated at Head Quarters Jan 8. 1783 signed by Gen Washington & countersigned by Lt Col. Comd. Jno Brooks" which he values, he says, more than he should a pension
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and is unwilling to part with so valuable a document but has authorized me to forward it to the pension office if any evidence is wanting of his having faithfully served five years and six months in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution.
William Allen, Jr.

State of Maine Somerset ss. March 31. 1828 before me Calvin Selden Esq one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, the above named William Allen Jr. to me well known as a person of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit, appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Calvin Selden

State of Maine
County of Somerset
I James Dinsmore Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset do hereby certify and make known that Calvin Selden Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Somerset duly qualified to act in said office and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Norridgewock the thirty first day of March 1828.
James Dinsmore Clerk
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J Baileys Depo. 
the case of Tristram Daggett an applicant for a Pension
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I James Bailey of lawful age on oath depose and say that I have for many years been well acquainted with Tristram Daggett, that I am in no wise related to him or interested in his concerns than as a neighbor: that he has ever sustained the reputation of an honest industrious man: has suffered much by sickness in is family: and was from time to time compelled to dispose of his property to pay for necessary expenses. that he has always managed his property according to the best of his discretion and in my opinion with good economy since I have known him that I now own all the real estate that he owned on the 26th June 1820 having purchased the same of him and his son Tristram Daggett, Jr. and that I gave them the full value thereof: that his son has now removed to a great distance: and that the following are copies of their deeds to me, to wit: "Know all men by these presents that I Trstram Daggett of industry, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine — Yeoman In consideration of two hundred and fifty Dollars to me paid by James Bailey of the Town, County and State aforesaid — Yeoman, The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do give, grant, sell and convey unto the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns to their use and benefit forever a certain piece of land situated in said Industry, being the south part of lot Number ten, on a plan of said town made by Cornelius Norton Esq. and bounded as follows Northerly by the Town road Southerly by Bull-Horse pond, West by land owned by David Luce, East by lot number E. containing twenty acres more or less together with the house and one half of the barn which stands on the land deeded to said Bailey by
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Tristram Daggett Jr. which were reserved in said Tristram Jr. Deed to said Bailey. To have and to hold the same to the sd. James Bailey his heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever .&c. 
The above Deed was finished, Signed, Sealed, and delivered in common form
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Know all men by these presents that I, Tristram Daggett Jr. of Industry in the County of Somerset and state of Maine __ (Yeoman
In consideration of one hundred and eighty seven Dollars and fifty cents paid by James Bailey of the Town, County, and State aforesaid __ Yeoman. The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby bargin sell and convey unto the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns a certain Piece of land situated in said Industry being part of lot Number ten on a plan drawn by Cornelius Norton Surveyor — bounded Westerly by lot Noumber [illegible] Northerly by lots Numbered 16, 17, & 18 Easterly by lot Number 9. Southerly by the road leading across said lot Number10. containing seventy acres more or less being all the land on the Northerly side of said road on said lot together with all the privileges and appertunances thereunto belonging except the house and one half of the barn — To have and to hold the same premises to the said James Bailey his heirs and assigns, to his and their use and benefit forever
The above Deed was finished, Signed, Sealed and delivered in common form
James Bailey

Somerset. ss. March. 17.. 1828.. Subscribed and Sworn to before me
James Stanley Justice of Peace
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State of Maine
County of Somerset} I James Dinsmore Esq Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset, State of Maine do hereby certify and make known that James Stanley Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Somerset duly qualified to act in said office and that the within is his signature; I further certify that the withinamed James Bailey the deponent is a person by me well known and worthy of full credit — 
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Norridgewock the thirty first day of March AD 1828 — 
James Dinsmore Clerk
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Deposition of Cornelius Norton Esq in [illegible] of Tristram Daggett
No—1—
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I Cornelius Norton, Esquire, aged fifty five years, depose and say that from my earliest recollection I have been well acquainted with Tristram Daggett of Industry in the county of Somerset an applicant for a pension: that he is the identical Tristram Daggett named in a discharge dated June 8. 1783 signed "G Washington' and in the certificate annexed signed J. Brooks Lt Col Com the Masst Regt" now in his possession and that I consider him as honest and upright a man as I know of: that he has been much afflicted with sickness in his family having lost three children [crossed out] and his wife after long courses of sickness with consumption: that he has always been industrious and has exerted himself very much to support himself and family and to pay all his necessary expenses: that such is his good reputation that his townsmen will never see him suffer: and I have no doubt that he has exercised his best skill to secure and protect his property and that he is now in indigent circumstances and being old and infirm absolutely needs assistance: and unless he receives his pension or other assistance from public or private charity he must be deprived of many of the necessaries of life — 
C..Norton
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State of Maine
Somerset County ss} Norridgewock March 12. 1828
Personally appeared before me, Cornelius Norton Esquire, a person by me well known as a magistrate and a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and worthy of full credit, and made solemn oath that the facts stated by him in the within affidavit by him subscribed are all of them true
William Allen Jr Just. Peace
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Allowed; it being directed so to be done by a special act of Congress of the 20 May 1830 
Let the monthly amount [crossed out] of pay which he has recd at the [illegible] [illegible] 1828 under the act of the 15 May 1828, be deducted from the allowances due to him under the act of 1830
J A Eaton
24 Jany 31
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Revolutionary Claims.

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
5 Jany 1831.

SIR:
I have the honour of transmitting to you the enclosed letters, and stating that Mr Daggett has been paid under the above-mentioned act, to the 3d of September last. If you should determine to place him on the pension list I will thank you to inform me of your decision.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
S D Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Hon.
Secretary of War.