Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23629, John Blackstone, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

Service:   New Jersey

Blackstone, John/Rebecca

Number:  W 23629

Contents:  Blank
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8117 Maine

John Blackstone
of Newcastle in the Dist of Main who was  Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shreve of the N. Jersey line for the term of the war.

Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the25th March 1819 and sent to Jere Bailey, Esqr. Wiscasset, Maine.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819  916/31   $76.12
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819       $40.00
TOTAL:   $124.12

{Revolutionary Claim,  Act 18th March, 1818}

Lincoln County

Died Dec. 20, 1818   
from A.B.
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Maine  790
Rebecca Blackstone
widow of John Blackstone dec.
N.J.
who died on the 20th December 1818 of Lincoln in the State of Maine who was a Private in the _______commanded by Captain ________of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shreve in the N. Jersey line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Maine at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1837 and set to George W. Morton, Augusta, Me.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837   $480.00
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 Sep 1837  $40.00
TOTAL  $520.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3rd

Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk
Book A Vol. 1, Page 2
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John Blackstone
Private, col. Shrieves Reg
New Jersey Line
1776 to 1783
dec. 20th May 1818  War


Admitted
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State of Massachusetts
I John Blackstone, a Citizen of the United State, now reside at Newcastle in the county of Lincoln in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the year 1776 (he month I do not recollect)
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served according from that time to the end of the war in 1783 - I having enlisted for  & during the war as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption of absence: that I belonged to at first to Capt. Maxfield's company, Col. Shrieves Regiment in the New Jersey Line, afterwards I belonged to Capt. Bowman's company in Col. Cummins Regiment in the same line and that I left the service in the year 1783 soon after peace was proclaimed having been regularly discharged at a place called Little Britain in the State of New York and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Fifty-nine years - my said discharge I have lost - during said time I was present engaged in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth & at the taking of Cornwallis - and that I have now no other evidence in my power to the above services.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any many be or hath been so allowed.
John Blackstone (His Mark)
Attest:  Jere Bailey

Lincoln Co, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembers, that on this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to proved for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeared before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the same being a Court of Records, the above named John Blackstone, and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribed the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jere Bailey
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named & that his signature to the caption is genuine & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court.
John H. Sheppard
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973  ILLEGIBLE
Rebecca Blackstone
widow of John
Maine

Old Case
dom d
2 years private
80$
No deductions-died
in 1818

Geo W. Morton
Augusta, Me
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Declaration
In orde rto obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress, of the 4th July, 1836.
State of Maine.
Kennebec County, ss.
On the first day of September A.D., 1836 personally appeared beforethe Hon. Nathan Heston Rebecca Blackstone, a resident of Richmond in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged next February Seventy four 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 made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4th, 1836; that she is the widow of John Blackstone, late of Newcastle in the county of Lincoln, and State of Main, a pensioner of the United States, who served several years in the war of the revolution in the troops of the New Jersey line, the particulars of which are set forth in this declaration in the War Department, when his case was established, and to which she refers.
She further declares, that she was married to the said John Blackstone on or about the fifteenth day of September in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine; that her husband, the aforesaid John Blackstone died on the twentieth day of December, 1818; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as well more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Rebecca Blackstone (Her Mark)
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day an year above written, (the applicant being from age and infirmity unable to attend in open court) before me.
Nathan Weston  Ch. Justice of the State of Maine
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State of Maine
On the first day of September 1836, I examined Rebecca Blackstone, the applicant within named with great care.  She came from Newark, New Jersey.  Application has been made there for the record of her marriage, which failed, as they have there no record of marriages going back to an earlier period than 1795.  Having been from that part of the county for more than fifty years, she knows of no living witness to whom to apply, and ILLEGIBLE are no family records.  However from her appearance and answers, and the character she bears, I give full credit to her statement.  I am satisfied that she was married to John Blackstone, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States in September, 1779, that the said John Blackstone deceased on the twentieth day of December, 1818, and that she has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C L Nist
T.J. Court
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I, William Blackstone of Newshaven in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged eighty years do declare upon oath that my late brother John Blackstone was a pentioner of the United States that he died in Newcastle in this State in the  month of December 1818 that my said brother prior to the Revolutionary War went into the State of New Jersey and then enlisted into the Army of the Revolution.  That some years after the Revolutionary War he returned to this State bringing with him a wife and children.  That his oldest child is now fifty four years old, that I always understood  by my late brother John he was married to Rebecca Vance at Newark, New Jersey while he was a soldier in the Revolution of which there can be no doubt.  His reported widow has remained unmarried since the death of my said brother, that after my said brothers return from the State of New Jersey he and the said Rebecca lived together as man and wife until his decease, his widow is now living in Richmond in the State of Maine unmarried.
William Blackstone (His mark)
Attest:
Thomes Blackstone
Franklin Weekes

State of Maine
Kennebec County
On this ninteenth day of December AD 1836 William Blackstone above named to me well known as a credible witness, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Franklin Weekes  Justice of the Peace
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Rev Widow, &c
236629
file No. 23629
Rebecca Blackstone
Wid of John Blackstone
Pri  rev War
Act:  July 4th '36
Index:-vol A, page 69

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Mrs Blackstone
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Augusta, Me  Dec 31, 1836
Sir
I transmit with this the application of Rebecca Blackstone, widow of John Blackstone for pension under act of Congress of July 4, 1836.
If her application should be satisfactory proved please send her pension certificate to me.
With respect
your Obt Servt
Geo. W. Morton

J.L. Edwards Esq
commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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John Blackstone M. 8$ pr mo.  Act 1818 wehn last pd
GWC
Apr 24, '37

To Setp 1848 & Discontinued
John Sessford
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George W. Moron Esqr.
Augusta Maine

Fr Mail
27Aug 1836
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clerks Office Essex County, N. J.
Newark  27th Augt. 1836
Sir,
In reply to your communication of the 19th inst. addressed to our Town Clerk, I beg leave to inform you that I have examined the records of marriages for the county of Essex from the 1795 when they commenced & until which period no record was officially kept and do not find thereon any record of the marriage of John Blackstone & Rebecca Vance.
Respectfully Yours,
E. Van Arsdale J. Clk
fr. Jno. Begbie

George W. Morton Esqr.
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State of Maine
Kennebec County
I, John A. Chandler, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. Nathan Weston is Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, & that the annexed signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.  I also certify that Geo. W. Morton & Franklin Weeks are Justices of the Peace for said County of Kennebec & that the signatures hereunto annexed purporting to be heirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Said State of Maine on this 31st day of December A.D. 1836.
J.A. Chandler
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I Lot Myrick of Augusta in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine of lawful age do testify and declare upon oath that in the year 1818 at which time I was a practicing physician in the Town of Newcastle in the County of Lincoln in said State and I attended one John Blackstone of said Newcastle, who was then sick, an applicant for pension under the act of congress of march 18, 1818 and who deceased in the month of December 1818. That I administered upon estate of said deceased & received the pension due him, that I had been acquainted with him many years before his death, that his widow Rebecca Blackstone now reside in the Town of Richmond and has remained unmarried ever since the death of said John Blackstone, that I fully believe she was married as stated by his in her application for pension.
Lot Myrick

State of Maine
County of Kennebec
Dec 30, 1836
Personally appeared Lot Myrick to me known as a distinguish & respectable witness and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him.  Subscribed before Geo W Morton, Justice of Peace

George w. Morton Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebc.
Nathan Weston  C. J.  S.J.C.