Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28668, David Cargill, Mass.
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service             number
Mass.     Cargill, David     S.28668
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Maine 27.528
David Cargill
Liberty in the State of Maine who was a Serg't in the Company commanded by Captain ------- of the Reg't commanded by Colo Cargill in the Mass. militia line for 15 months

Waldo

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 75 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of July 1834  and J.S. Hall Camden Me

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $225
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 37.50
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$262.50

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 9

Died May 20 - 1835. A. B.

Waldo
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -
State of Maine
Waldo County ss.
On this twenty ninth day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. Alfred Johnson Jr Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting David Cargill of Liberty in the County of Waldo and State of Maine aged seventy eight years last October who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated -
At NewCastle in the District (now State) of Maine in March 1776 he entered as a volunteer into a company commanded by Col. James Cargill for nine months & marched to Georgetown at the mouth of the Kennebec River thence to Boothbay then to Damaniscotta River, then to Pennaquid, then to Friendship, then to St. George then to Clam Cove near Camden, then to Belfast, thence up the Penobscot River, thence back to Boothbay where he was discharged in December 1776 by Colonel James Cargill without a written discharge -
At New Castle aforesaid on the second day of March 1777 he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in a company commanded by Captain Israel Davis & Lieutenant Christopher Woodbridge, in Colo. James Cargill's Regiment for four months & marched to Boothbay in the then District of Maine where he was stationed during the four months for which he enlisted & was discharged by Captain Davis on the second day of July 1777 without a written discharge -
At New Castle aforesaid in September 1779 he again entered as a volunteer in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Gove, Lieutenant William Cunningham & Ensign David Webster in the Regiment commanded by Major William Liscoe for two months & marched to a place called Clam Cove near Camden Maine; thence he with a portion of the other troops stationed there were detached to go to a place called Sandy Point in Prospect where he was stationed during the remainder
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of his time of service when & where he was dismissed about the last of November without a written discharge -
He was in the service in all fifteen months during the whole of which he was a Sergent - He was born at New Castle October 18th 1753 at which place he thinks there is a record of his age - He lived at said New Castle at the three several times he entered the service; Since the revolution he has lived in said New Castle & Liberty State of Maine at which latter place he now lives - He has no other evidence of his services than the Depositions hereunto annexed -
He is known to Ebenezer Everett Post Master at Montville and the Selectmen of the town of Liberty who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution -
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
David Cargill 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me 
A Johnson Jr
I Nath'l M Lowney Register of the Court of Probate for Waldo County hereby certify that the foregoing the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of David Cargill for a pension -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty ninth day of August A.D. 1832 -
[embossed seal] Nath'l M. Lowney Register of Probate
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State of Maine
Waldo County ss.
On this first day of July 1833 personally appeared in Probate Court now sitting for said County David Cargill mentioned on the preceding declaration who being duly sworn in open Court doth on this oath make the following declaration in addition to the declaration by him made in open Court of the eighth day of August 1832 -
That I understood at the time I first entered the service in 1776 under Colo. James Cargill who held the office of Captain of the company of Militia in said town of New Castle, had received the appointment & had been commissioned a Colonel of the army of the revolution by the authority of Massachusetts. That he had been entrusted with the command of the several companies stationed at Georgetown at Penamaquid and several other places along the shores of Maine, that he had also been instructed to raise a company of volunteers to serve for nine months & to proceed to the places aforesaid where companies were stationed for the purpose of inspecting & furnishing them with arms & ammunition & then to proceed up Penobscot River & destroy the old French fort at that place to prevent the British from occupying it - At this time I was a Sergeant of the company of Militia then commanded by said Cargill in New Castle & in that capacity I volunteered & went with him to the places mentioned above & in the first term of service mentioned in my declaration to which this is additional I was discharged as therein described &  I received the pay of a Sergeant of the army for nine month service -
At the time I entered the service the second time a company was raised by the authority of Massachusetts as I then understood to be stationed at Boothbay for the purpose of guarding the shores in that vicinity into this company which was commanded by the officers mentioned in my preceding declaration I again in the
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capacity of a Sergeant which office I still held in the Militia of NewCastle as before I volunteered & served four months & received a sergeants pay of the army for that length of time -
At the third time I entered the service of the U. States I volunteered as before in the capacity of Sergeant for two months & served two months & received the pay of a Sergeant of the army for two months. the officers names under whom I served this term are in my preceeding declaration - I think I had a warrant as Sergeant in the Militia of New Castle which I have long since lost. do not now recollect whither I did or did not hold any other Sergeant's warrants than the one described but that if I ever did I have lost them - 
I have made diligent search & strict inquiry & can produce no other evidence of my service than my own declaration & the depositions of Daniel Webster & of James Campbell which are attached.
David Cargill
Signed & sworn to before me the subscribed Judge of Probate for said county the day & year above written - & I certify that the Declaration of the said Cargill made before me August 29 1832 contained on this sheet of paper was made in open Court -
Alfred Johnson Jr Judge
I Nathaniel M. Lowney Register of the court of Probate for Waldo County hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of David Cargill for a pension
Witness my hand & seal of office this first of July 1833
N.M. Lowney } Register of Probate
[embossed seal]

Hon.Jas.Hall
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department . Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 

L. W. B. I. 28668,
O. W. & N. Div. Revolutionary

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. August 9th, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning David Cargill, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on August 29th, 1832, at which time he was 78 years of age and residing in Liberty, Maine, and his pension was allowed for fifteen months' actual service as a sergeant in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Davis and Co. James Cargill. He enlisted at New Castle, Maine. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner,

Miss Mary A. Owen, 306 North 9th St., St Joseph Mo.
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28668
Rev'y Invalid.
File No. 28,668
David Cargill
Serg Rev War

Act: "7 June 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 63

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug. 9/97  Miss Mary A. Owen St. Joseph, Mo.
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[stamped] U.S. Pension Office D Aug 4 1897

St. Joseph, Mo., July 31 '97.
To The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I have been referred to you from the Record and Pension office for proof of the services of Col. David Cargill of Montville, or Belfast, Maine, who was a colonel in the War of the Revolution, and afterwards enjoyed a pension. Any proof of this fact will be thankfully received and the costs
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of investigation cheerfully paid for by his descendant;
(Miss) Mary A. Owen, of 306 N. 9th Street, 
St. Joseph, Mo.
Very truly, yours,
Mary A. Owen.
[stamps] U.S. Pension Office D Aug 4 1897
Old War & Navy Files Aug 7 1897
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I James Campbell of NewCastle in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine of the age of Seventy Eight years do, solemnly, depose testily and say, that I have been well acquainted with Mr David Cargill who now resides at Liberty in said State - Mr Cargill was born in NewCastle in the District, (now State,) of Maine - He lived a neighbor to me for many years, and is now one year or thereabouts, older than myself - I well remember of his serving one Campaign of eight months in the Revolutionary war, I think in the year 1776 - Orders came from the general Court of Massachusetts to raise men to proceed to Penobscot & destroy the fort at Penobscot point - Mr Cargill enlisted for the term of 8 or nine months & served out the time under the command of Col James Cargill - He left home in March & returned in December - I understood Mr Cargill served the next year under Capt Davis at Boothbay, but I cannot swear to it as I was absent myself privateering -
James Campbell
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State of Maine
Lincoln ss. July 24th 1832
Then James Campbell within named personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln & made oath to the truth of the deposition by him subscribed - And I hereby certify that his health is so bad & that he is so old & infirm that he is unable to travel to attend a Court of Record to give his deposition -
Albert Smith Justice of the Peace

In addition to the above I certify and state, that the above named deponent James Campbell is a man of truth & veracity & his statements are entitled to implicit credit
Albert Smith Jus Peace

State of Maine
Waldo County ss. July 1 1833
I Nathl M Lowney Register of the court of Probate for the county of Waldo certify that I am well acquainted with Albert Smith who is Marshal of Maine & know him to be an acting Magistrate for the County of Lincoln & that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine - Witness my hand & seal of office the day & year above written
N M Lowney Register of Probate
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Unity
I Daniel Webster of said Unity do hereby certify and declare that in the old revolutionary war their was a detachment of Malitia called for to be stationed at Camden in this state at a place called Clam Cove of which their was a company of ninety two privates taken from the Regiment in which I then belonged, then having in the Town of Edgemont the Regiment composed of a number of adjoining towns viz Edgemont NewCastle Boothbay & perhaps some other towns that I do not now recollect. -
The officers of that company were all from Edgemont, Eben'r Gove Captain, William Cunningham Lieut, and I officiated as Ensign, I further certify that David Cargill, then of NewCastle and now living in the town of Liberty in this state, was a private or a Sargent in our company at that time, but do not recollect whether he served as a private or a warrant officer during that campaign, according to my best recollection D Cargill served in E Gove's company at that time about two months, the year that we was called out and stationed at Clam Cove I do not now recollect, I further certify that Major William Lithgo of Kennebunk was the commanding officer of all the military forces that were stationed at and about Camden at the time above referred to -
Daniel Webster

Waldo ss May 11th 1833
Personally appeared the above named Daniel Webster and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed - I also certify the above named Webster is a creditable person and that his statement is entitled to credit
William Cunningham Justice of Peace
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State of Maine
Waldo County ss
I Nathaniel M Lowney Register of the Court of Probate for said County certify that William Cunningham is a Magistrate & that the signature on the other side of this paper purporting to be his is genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 13th day of June 1833.
N.M. Lowney } Register of Probate Waldo County

[embossed seal]
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Unity May 16th 1833
This may certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named Webster and have been for a number of years. and think him a man of truth and his statements are entitled to credit
Benjamin Ayer Jr

I fully accord in the statement made by Benjamin Ayer, as to the truth and and credibility of the within named Webster
Jacob Leavitt
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David Cargill
Agent N M Lowney
Belfast Me.
Ent. B. 3. J. 15. -

Admil as Sergeant
15 months - $75.00

Capt. Young

(Insp - -

Hon. Jas Hall Camden Maine
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War Department Pension Office
7 August - 1833

Sir, the papers in the case of David Cargill have been again examined, and are herewith enclosed to you.
As his statement that he was a Sergeant during his various periods of Service is not Sustained by the testimony he has addressed, he must apply to E. D. Bangs esq. Secr'y of the State of Massachusetts and obtain from him all information that may bear upon his case.
I am, respectfully, Your obt Servant
J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, March 12th 1834.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the roll of the Company under the command of Col. James Cargill 1776 as described by David Cargill who claims for services under Col. James Cargill is 1776 is not found in this office.
David Cargill claims for services under Capt Israel Davis in 1777 and under Capt Ebenezer Gove in 1779 - but the rolls he describes are not found in this office.
Edward D Bangs Sec'y
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We Joab Brown a Clergyman residing in the town of Liberty and John Knowlton residing in the town of Liberty hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Cargill who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy eight years old last October; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion -
Joab Brown  John Knowlton

Waldo ss August 29 1832 -
Sworn to and subscribed by day and year aforesaid
Before me Albert Cargill Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Waldo County ss
I Nathaniel M Lowney Register of the Court of Probate of Waldo County certify that Albert Cargill, Albert Smith & William Cunningham are Magistrates as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this twenty ninth day of August in the year 1832
Nath'l M Lowney } Register of Probate