Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 928, Consider Glass, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Glass, Consider
Martha.
NUMBER
W. 928.
B.L.Wt. 824-160-55
CONTENTS
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11/31
2.83
21
168
170 83
16656
Maine
Consider Glass
of Penobscot in the state of Maine
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brook of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 25 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of April
and sent to the Honble
M. Kinsley
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 $170.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept
48.
$218.83
{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
Copy
Bangor
Notificate
July 14. 1820
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1358
Maine
Martha Glass
widow of
Consider Glass
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a private  Mass
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out] 4th of March, 1818
3d February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the
26" day of Aug/53
and sent to
John P. Dickinson
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
3/53 Page 4 Vol A
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11,906. Act March 3 55
Rec'd March 23 55
Martha Glass
Widow of Consider Glass, private
Capt
Col J. Brooks Mass Contl. line
 Ent
 Dis
War of the Revolution, is now a pensioner of the U.S. 
Admit 160 acres for 9" /55.
Boynton
824 iss June 9/55
George B Moody
Bangor Maine
53
Vol. G.-77
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11.906
Bounty Land Claim
act of March 3, 1855
Revolutionary service
Widow- Martha Glass

Geo. B Moody
Agent & Atty
Bangor
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STATE OF MAINE.
County of Piscataquis
On this 13th day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five, personally appeared before me,  a justice of the Peace, within and for the County
and State aforesaid, Martha Glass  aged seventy four
years, a resident of Guilford in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according
to law, declares that she is the widow of Consider Glass deceased, 
who was a private in the war of the
Revolution- that not knowing the particulars
of his service she will not undertake to describe it
but she declares that he
continued in actual service in said War
for the term of at least 9 months and was honorably discharged as will appear by
the Records in the Pension office and other Departments
of the Government- especially those upon which bestew a Pension in his life time of ninety six dollars per annum and upon which the said Declaration was placed upon the pension list at the same rate on the 26th of August [illegible]
She further states that she was married to the said Consider Glass on some day of April A.D. 1811 by one and that her name
before her said marriage was
that her said husband died at on the 18th day  of February A.D. 1843 and that she is still a widow. That the above mentioned fact being proved & the evidence thereof in the pension office she refers to [illegible]
She further declares that neither she, nor her said husband have received Bounty Land under the act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1855 nor under my other act & have made no application therefor
And I hereby constitute and appoint Geo. B Moody my Attorney for me, and
in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior, a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid, and I fully authorize and empower him to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes therein expressed.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be
entitled, under the Act of Congress passed this 3d, March 1855, granting Bounty Lands
to certain officers and soldiers, and their heirs or widows who have been engaged in the Military service of the United States.
Martha Glass
WITNESS
Seth Nelson
Philemon Bennett
Subscribed and sworn to before me, the day and year first above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Martha Glass to
be the widow of the soldier above
named, and that she appears to be of the age above written, and that I have no interest in the result of this application and no concern in the prosecution of it.
David R.  Straw Justice of the Peace
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We, Seth Nelson & Philemon Bennett
of Guilford in the Court of Piscataquis
in the State of Maine, on oath depose and say that we are well acquainted with
Matha [Martha] Glass that she is well known to us as the widow of Consider Glass
and that she is the same person who executed
the foregoing declaration.
We also depose that we well knew her and the said Consider Glass during the life time of the latter and know that they lived together many years in the relation of husband and wife, were so universally reputed, and no one ever disputed their marriage to our knowledge.
We also know from personal recollection and from many facts and circumstances that the
said Consider Glass died on the 18th day of Februy 1843-
Seth Nelson 
Philemon Bennett
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Penobscot ss. March 13 1855
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, and I certify that the said Seth Nelson
& Philemon Bennett are well known to me and entitled to credit. Also that I have no interest in the result of the claim aforesaid, and no concern in the prosecution of it.
David R. Straw
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, Piscataquis County of
I, [crossed out] NATHAN WESTON, Ephraim Flint, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that David R Straw Esquire, is and was, at the date of his certificates
hereunto annexed, an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for the said County, that he is
and was then duly qualified to act as such; and that the signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT for said State, this 13th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
E. Flint Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd section
of the act of the 3rd February n1853
State of Maine
County of Piscataquis } SS
On this twenty third day of April AD 1853
personally appeared before me Seth Nelson a
Justice of the Peace within and for the said
County duly authorized to administer oaths
Martha Glass a resident of the town of Guilford in said County aged seventy one years who
first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration on order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of pensioners who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Consider Glass who was a private in the army of the Revolution but she has no certain knowledge of the particulars of his service that he was a Pensioner under the act of 1818 at the rate of ninety six Dollars and she respectfully refers to the proof upon which he was pensioned.
She further declares that she was married to the said Consider Glass on the        day of April in the year eighteen hundred and seven that her said husband
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died on the Eighteenth day of February AD 1843 that she was not married to him prior to the 2nd of January AD 1800 but at the time above stated she further declares too she is now a widow and that her said Husbands Pension was paid at Portland Maine.
Martha Glass
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that the said Martha Glass is in too infirm and debilitated a state of bodily health to leave her own residence or to travel the distance of 6 miles to the town of Dover where the court for this county is held and that there is no Judge of any court of record residing nearer to her than Bangor which is distant from her said residence 45 miles That it is impossible for her to go to Bangor and that it would be attended with more expense to obtain a visit from such Judge to take her declaration than she is able to pay and that there is no probability that any such judge would consent to take so long a journey for the purpose to further certify that she therefore prays that the Declaration made before a Justice of the Peace may for the reasons stated be admitted-
I also certify that I have no interest in the result of her claim and no concern in the prosecution of it. Also that I well know her to be the identicle person she describes herself.
Seth Nelson Justice of Peace
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(ill legible) June (ill legible)


Consider Glass

Private
Col Brooks Regt
1780,23 years
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I Consider Glass of Guilford in the County of Penobscot Yeoman aged fifty eight do on oath
testify & say
that ,on or about the month of September 1780
according to the best of my recollection I inlisted into the Revolutionary war for three years, in Capt.Cobins Company ,Col. Brooks regt. Pattons Brigade/I think/ I joined my Regt at York Hutts [Heights] on West Point .
I continued on the Point during this first Campaign & went into Winter quarters at the Sd. York Hutts [Heights].
My Regt. was stationed pretty much the whole time on West Point till the close of the War: I was [illegible] to New Windsor &
to Verplanks Point:
My time of intlistment expired a little previous to the close of the war but I do not know the times exactly: I rec. an honorable Discharge signed by Col Brooks which I have since lost;
I am now under reduced circumstances & need the assistance of my Country for support.

   Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
________________________________

PENOBSCOT,ss.
ON the 25th day of May A.D. 1818,
before me the subscriber ,one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot: Personally appears Consider Glass who ,being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed ,in order to 
obtain the provision made by the late 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."
  And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Consider did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me ,that he is in reduced circumstance, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
 IN testimony whereof, I hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed
                                                 M. Kinsley Esquire,
 Judge of the Court as aforesaid 

Capt. Philips Company
hon. discharged
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I Consider Glass of Guilford in the County of Penobscot Yeoman aged fifty eight do on oath 
testify & say
that ,on or about the month of September 1780
according to the best of my recollection I inlisted into the Revolutionary war for three years, in Capt.Cobins Company ,Col. Brooks regt. Pattons Brigade/I think/ I joined my Regt at York Hutts [Heights] on West Point .
I continued on the Point during this first Campaign & went into Winter quarters at the P. York Hutts [Heights].
My Regt. was stationed pretty much the whole time on West Point till the close of the War: I was [illegible] detached to New Windsor & 
to Verplanks Point:
My time of intlistment expired a little previous to the close of the war but I do not know the times exactly: I rec.  an honorable Discharge signed by Col Brooks which I have since lost;
I am now under reduced circumstances & need the assistance of my Country for support.

Consider Glass
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STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss. At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas begun & holden
at Bangor in +for the County aforsaid on the Fourth Tuesday of June A.D.
1820. On this twenty seventh day of June
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County, and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the twenty fourth day of June, A. D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine, having power of fine & imprisonment, Consider Glass aged, sixty years, resident in Guilford
in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his
oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows;
I served in the Company commanded by Captain Colburn and afterwards by Captain Phelps, in the Regiment
commanded by Col John Brooks, in
the Massachusetts Line, on the Continental Establishment, in the year 1780, and served till
the army was disbanded; when I was discharged. 
My enlistment was for three years. I was in
several skirmishes.-- All which is more
particularly set forth in my original declaration made on the twenty fifth day of May
A.D. 1818, and the Deposition of Governor John Brooks, on which declaration and deposition my Certificate of Pension numbered 15654, was granted
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AND I Consider Glass do 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 one thousand 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) Consider Glass
Schedule of real and personal estate belonging
to me the subscriber, necessary cloathing & beding excepted. Real Estate. None.
Personal estate, 1 cow - 1 Swine- My household furniture & cooking utensils are old, and not enough necessary to keep house.
Schedule of family residing with me
Consider Glass, who am by occupation an Husbandman, which I am unable to pursue by reason of Rheumatism, and the infirmities of age.
My wife Martha aged 48 years
Daughter Martha aged 18 years
Daughter Nancy, aged 17 years feeble constitution
Son Lucius, aged 14 years
(Signed) Consider Glass
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty seventh
day of June A.D. 1820 before the Courts.
Att. Thos Cobb Cler
I, THOMAS COBB, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the
Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the records of the said 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, is thirty six dollars [crossed out] and
__ Cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1820.
Thos Cobb Clerk
of the said Court for the County of Penobscot.
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Consider Glass
Declaration &c
   Copy

continued
16654
bap 1820
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WIDOW , &c.
revy
File No. 928
Martha Glass.
Widow,
Consider Glass.
Priv, Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 3. 1853.
Index :- Vol. A, Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 11,906
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. 
Received Mar 23, 1855 [181, the last 1 is marked out and 55 written above]
Martha,. Glass.
Wife of Consider. Glass
Rev. War

Warrant, No 824-160-55

George B. Moody
Bangor
        Mainie [Maine]
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No. 2034
Appl of Martha
Glass widow of 
Consider Glass
Piscataquis
Maine
_____________
S.20

Act 3d Feby 1853
Adm &. $96 per annum 
Commencing 3d February 1853
Rev.

Suspended 16 Aug 53
New Nor - before a Judge or in open Court

Department of the Interior;
Pension Office, Official Business
Commissioner

John P. Dickinson Present
 Commissioner
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824




Keobury
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Pension Office
16 Aug 53
This case is respectfully 
refered to 3rd Auditor
for date of death of
Pensioner and for 
Cash Payment
 Very   Respectfully,
S. Cole Chief Clerk



D.M. C. (see other side.)
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Consider Glass, Oct 1818
$8.p.m.- Died 18th.Feb. 1843
and paid to his death.

           F. Burt 
            Auditor
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Medford, Mass. Decr  9th 1819.
This is to certify that Consider Glass
was a soldier in the late 7th Mass Regt
that he enlisted July 1st 1781, & continued to serve in  Sd Regt until it was disbanded in the month of June 1783.

      J. Brooks Lt. Col. [Comdt?].[Commander?]
             of Sd Regt.
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State of Maine.
PENOBSCOT, ss.
I, Nathan Weston, Jr., CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS in said County, certify that Seth Nelson and & David R. Straw Esquire's, are and were at the dates of their Certificates acting Justice's of the Peace, in and for our County ^ of Piscataquis, as appears by the papers hereto annexed, that they are duly commissioned and qualified to act as such;
and that the signature's to the papers ^ annexed  purporting to be theirs is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT for said State, this thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Nathan Weston Jr. 
Clerk.
[round seal with ribbon]
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Satisfactory
evidence having been presented to me of Jno P. Dickinsons authority in this case, future 
communications may be addressed to him, at Washington D.C.  L P Waldo

Widows Claim
act 3d Febry 1853
2d Section
Geo. Moody
Agent
Bangor
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Bangor May 23, 1853
Sir
   I present Mrs Glass, claim under 2nd Sec. Act of Feb. 3. 1853. It is earnestly hoped that for the reasons set forth in the Justices Certificate the Declaration may be received altho not taken before a Court of Record.
The letter of the Clerk of Falmouth was received in answer to one written by me requiring a Certificate of the Record of the marriage.
I am very Respectfully your obt Svt
Geo. B Moody
Hon L. P. Waldo,
Commr of Pensions
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We the undersigned of lawful age depose & say, that for twenty years or more we have known Mr. Consider Glass late of Guilford, & Martha Glass, and that they lived together before the decease of Mr. Glass, [that to - crossed out] as husband & wife that length of time, in the town of
Guilford of Said County of Piscataquis
& State of Maine
Given under our hands this
14th day of May A.D. 1853
at Guilford
Seth Nelson
Parsons Davis
Joseph Kelsey
Piscataquis Ss. May 13, 1853
Personally appeared Seth Nelson,  Parsons Davis and Joseph Kelsey and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit
by them Subscribed before me David R. Straw Justice of the Peace
David R. Straw

Seth Nelson, Parsons Davis and Joseph
Kelsey are well known to me and are men of veracity, & entitled to credit & confidence & I have no Interest in the Claim made by
Martha Glass
David R. Straw Justice of Peace
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We Chandler G Robbins
and Chandler G.
Robbins Jr. on oath depose & say that we were made
acquainted with Consider Glass a Revolutionary
Pensioner for many years, whose widow is Martha Glass also well known to us, we further that to our personal knowledge the said
Consider Glass died at Guilford
on the 18th day of February A.D. 1843.  we are 
disinterested
Chandler G. Robbins
Chandler, G. Robbins Jr
State of Maine
County of Piscataquis
April 23 1853
Subscribed and sworn to before me & I certify
that the said C.G. Robbins and C. G. Robbins
jr.
are well known to me & are entitled to credit - also that I have no interest
in the claim & no concern in prosecuting it-
Seth Nelson
Justice of the peace
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West Falmouth Ap 24 1853
Geo. B. Moody Sir
The Records of this town concerning Marriages etc. were burnt Octo 1849 and there is no records of this town at the time since that year 1849 accordingly I cant give you any certificate.
Yours John Noyes F. Clerk of Falmouth
to Geo B. Moody
Bangor
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Be it known that I Martha Glass of the town of Guilford, County of Piscataquis &
State of Maine of lawful age do testify depose
and say that I have caused search to be made in the town of Falmouth for a Record of my marriage to Consider Glass where I was married and no Record of the marriage there is to be found and I do not know of any private or family Record of the marriage in existance [existence]. Martha Glass

Guilford May 26th 1853
State of Maine
County of Piscataquis
May 26th 1853

Subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that I have no interest in the claim of Mrs Glass nor concern in the prosecution of it
Seth Nilson Justice of the peace
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Glass
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Brief in the case of Martha Glass, widow of Consider Glass.

Piscataquis County and State of Maine
act 3d February 1853.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") ["or for increase.")" crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under the
act of March 18. 1818

Marriage proved by parol evidence duly certified to be credible.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

John P. Dickinson Esqr
Present
Name and residence of Agent
R. Geddes
Examining Clerk.