Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29, 578, Obadiah Albee, Mass. Privateer
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Service: Mass. Privateer
Albee, Obadiah
Number: S. 29,578
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Let. to Hon Geo Evans. 8 Sept 1836
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18, [torn]
Maine 
Obadiah Albee 
of Kennebec Co in the State of Maine 
who was a Private in the Company command 
by Captain Parker of the Regt. commanded 
by Col McCobb in the Mass ma 
line for 1 yr. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine 
at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July 
1833 and sent to R. C. Von Present 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 	  $80.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 20.00
[=] $100.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 1
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STATE OF MAINE. 
Kennebee County, ss. 
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 26th day of March A. D. 1833. 
PERSONALLY appears in open Court Obadiah Albee by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the 11th day of July A.D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true. 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
[Signed] Nathan Weston
Just SJC

I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Obadiah Albee for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 26th day of March A. D. 1833. 
[Signed] J.A. Chandler
[SEAL]
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Declaration. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the7th of June, 1832.  

STATE OF MAINE,} 
KENNEBEC COUNTY,} ss. 
On this eleventh day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Obadiah Albee a resident of Hallowell in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Sixty eighth years, 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 enlisted in the Army of the United States, in the year 1776 with Captain Israel Davis and served in Col. Emerson's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Davis Captain, Emerson Colonel, that in April 1776 he enlisted as a private in the war of the revolution for one year in that company and regiment and served out the period as a waiter to the captain, and was verbally discharged at Boothbay in April 1777. That in May 1777 he again enlisted as a mariner for cruise of six months on board of the Massachusetts Brig of war Dispatch of sixteen guns - That he entered at Wiscasset - served in said Brig, went into the St Lawrence where he was engaged in battle with a [illegible] of superior force - sailed also up Davis's straits - returned to Salem and was there verbally discharged in October 1779 That Samuel Majors of Beverly was Captain of the Brig.  That in April 1781 he again enlisted as a private for one year in Capt Jordan Parker's company and Col. Samuel McCobb's regiment of the Massachusetts troops - that he served out this period and was verbally discharged at Coxe's head at the mouth of the Kennebec river.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:  that he was born in Edgecomb Maine in 1763, where his home was during his revolutionary services - his age is recorded on his family bible - Since the revolution, has lived in Winthrop in Readfield in Portland and in Hallowell, Maine, in which last mentioned town he now resides - That all the periods before stated he enlisted, was not drafted or received as a substitute for another - That he never took a written discharge -That the first years's service, his company was employed in guarding the coast - That in the last years's service he was employed in defending Kennebec river - Nathl Winstons was Davis's Lieut - That Elisha Shaw Ensign in McCobb's regiment knew his last service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. 
[Signed] Obadiah Albee 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Junr
Just  S.J. Court 

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Junr

["July 11" noted in lower left]
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Corsswise in center:
Obadiah Albee
25945 [stricken]

2 years as a private.
Proof Elisha Shaw an officer 
of one years service
Do. of Joseph Lancaster
Credible witness of other
land service. No evidence 
of naval service, See 
additional declaration
of applicant.
privateer service disallowed

admd
12 mo -pri (by Consent)
40$
[Signed] R.C. Vose
Augusta Me.

Lower section:
State of Maine
Kennebec, ss: -	I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within & for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that William Woart Jr. is a Justice of the Peace & that the signatures to the annexed paper purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand & the County Seal this 27th day of May A.D. 1833
[Signed] J.A. Chandler
[SEAL]
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Upper:
I Joseph Lancaster of Richmond, Lincoln County, Maine, aged Seventy six years, a pensioner on the Maine Roll upon oath state, that in the year 1776, I served ten months or more as a private in Capt. Israel Davis' Company within mentioned, & although I do not distinctly recollect the within named Albee I have no doubt whatever from circumstances which he has this day related that he served in Capt. Davis' Company as he has first within stated.
[Signed] Joseph Lancaster
State of Maine,
Kennebeec ss:  Subscribed & Sworn to this 27th day of May A.D. 1833 
the deponent being a credible & entirely disinterested witness 
Before me
[Signed] Wm. Wart Jr. Jus. Pacis.

Center, crosswise:
24,583
Obadiah Albee
Private - Masstts. troops
Davis Co: Emerson's regt.
1 year

Mariner
Masstts Brig Despatch
Private 2 years 6 months,
Parker's Co: McCobb's regt.,
1 year.

2 years as a private
2 years & six months as a Mariner
[=] 4 years & six months,
Proof Elisha Shaw an officer of one years service.

Declaration in Open Court
March 26th 1833.

R.C. Vose
Augusta, Me.

Lower:
I Obadiah Albee within named, do further on oath declare, that I have diligently endeavored to procure evidence of my service in Capt. Davis Company as first within stated, but know of no persons living except Joseph Lancaster who has testified of his belief of my service in that Company. I have not been able to procure evidence of my naval service as I am informed by my agent that there are no rolls of the Brig Despatch in the Secretary's Office in Massachusetts.
[Signed] Obadiah Albee
State of Maine
Kennebec, ss: Subscribed & Sworn to this 27th day of May A.D. 1833
Before me,
[Signed] Wm. Wart Jr.  Jus. Pacis.
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I Elisha Shaw of Leeds Kennebec County formerly an Ensign in Captain Jordan Parker Company in Col. McCobbs Regiment do upon oath declare that I well know Obadiah Albee, within named  to my knowledge the said Albee, served from April 1781 and was discharged at Georgetown after his full term of one year 
I have this day seen and examined the said Albee, and am well satisfied he served as within stated.
[Signed] Elisha Shaw 
Kennebec ss  Subscribed & sworn this Eleventh day of July 1832. The deponent, is in my opinion a Credible Witness 
[Signed] Robert C. Vose, Just Peace 

State of Maine. 
KENNEBEC, ss. - 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, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Obadiah Albee for a pension. & that Robert C. Vose is a magistrate as above, 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 11th day of July A.D. 1832 
[Signed] J.A. Chandler
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TO what time was Obadiah Albee pri. 40$ pr anm paid at the Maine Agency act 7 June 1832?
G.W.C.
Sept. 8, 1836

[Response:]
He was paid to the 4th March 1836
J.H.
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29578
Revy 
INVALID.

File No. 29,578
Obadiah Albee
Pri. Rev War

Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 6
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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416			422
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, 
6 Sept 1828 
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Obadiah Albee, under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution. 
[Signed] Richard Rush 
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR. 


[Response:]
War Department 
Bounty Land Office 
15 Sep 1828. 
Obadiah Albee a soldier of the Mass. Line, is not returned [?] as entitled to Land from the U. States, or has a Warrant issued for him. 
E. Stephens
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OHJ [?]
# 29,578
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Obadiah Abbee - Serge -
Mass. line.

Maine

Inv. File No. 29,578 -
OK
S.D.S.
Nov 11 /79

Evidence insufficient Act 1828.
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Obadiah Albee of Portland, in the County of Cumberland 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 Sergeant in captain Lemon's company, in the Third 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. Durkins
Does the Claimants name appear on the Muster Rolls
 28 April 1830 not on the Book of Musters

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OPICE, 
1st August 1828
The name of Obadiah Albee cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line to whom certificates were issued for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars 
[Signed] Peter Hazan Aud
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "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 Obadiah Allbee of Portland in the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for & during the war, & continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a Sergeant in Captain Lemon's Company in the third Regt of the Massachusetts line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate 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 day of March 1828, on the pension list of the United States. 
[Signed] Obadiah Albee 
Before me Stephen Longfellow, a Justice of the Peace in the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine personally appeared, this day Joseph A Crosman and James Prescott of said County, who did severally make oath that Obadiah Allbee by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. 
Witness my hand this Second day of July in the year AD. 1828. 
[Signed] Stephen Longfellow, Justice of the Peace 

I Wm T. Vaughan Clerk of the Court for the County Cumberland in the State of Maine do certify that Stephen Longfellow before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this second day of July in the year A.D. 1828. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Wm T Vaughan
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Respectfully referred to the
Secretary of the Treasury, and
the Hon J. Anderson informed
of the reference.
War Dept. Pension Office
26 April 1830.


26 Apl.
J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
War Department
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Re? 26 April 1830      1768 

1830
House of Reps April 26th
Sir,
Will have the goodness to examine the claim of Mr Albe a pension & if he is not entitled will in state where his evidence is deficient & oblige 
Very respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
[John?] Anderson
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422. 
Obadiah Albee 
Revolutionary Claims
To the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury 
Washington D. C 


Crosswise:
Portland July 2, 1828
To the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury
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Portland July 2, 1828. 

To the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury 

Sir, 
I am desired by Obidiah Albee to transmit the inclosed application for a a pension, to you. By informing me of the result of the application, as soon as convenient, you will confer a favor on the old Soldier. 
With great respect your Ob. Serv
[Signed] Stephen Longfellow