Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2472, for William Shurtliff, Massachusetts
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Servie
Mass.

Shurtliff, William
or Shurtleff

Lydia

Number W2472
B.L. Wt 36/3-160_55
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15.976
Maine - R
William Shurtliff
of Otisfield in the state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Yarmouth of the Mass. line, for the term of one year 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 24th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of Nov 1819 and sent to Hn ---- , Portland, Maine.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1809
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 2 Mar 1820
138.93
  48.00
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  178.93
---
11 mo. 11/30
63 -20
Cumberland
Continued

{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Notification sent to John Massey Jr
Portland Me July 14, 1820
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Maine 352
Lydia Shurtliff
widow of William Shurtliff
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private, Mass. line  from/80
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars ))
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Feby 1837 and sent to 
A. Waterhouse
North Pownal Maine

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 9, Vol. A
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25091
Act March 8/55
March 30/55
_________
Lydia Shurtliff, Widow of 
William Shurtliff
___________
Pensioner - Maine
____________

Re: In 7" Comp of 2nd Regt; of Mass Contl.  line
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160 acres Aug. 7, 1855
Boynton

36/3 of Aug. 11/55
Arthur McArthur
Livingston
Maine

Vol. S1, page 70.

Me
July 28 - 7W 352
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State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, March 26, 1855.

I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Joseph Sanborn
is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for the County of Cumberland
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to
administer Oaths and take acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in
the County aforesaid, -- and that the following Signature, purporting to be his is
GENUINE
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
O. G. Cook CLERK
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STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland ss.
On the twenty third day of March A. D. 1855, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths,
personally appeared Lydia Shurtleff
a resident of Raymond in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress passed March the 3d, 1855 - entitled "An Act in addition to certain acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States. -- That she is the widow of William Shurtleff who was a Revolutionary soldier and Pensioner that she is a Pensioner of the rate of $96.00 per annum under the law of July 7th 1848 that she was married to said William her deceased husband who died on the Second day of July 1836 - that she has never received Bounty land under any law of the United States nor made application there for and for proof of the marriage, service and death aforesaid refers to her papers now on file in the Pension Department at Washington
Lydia Shurtleff 
"x" her mark

Witnesses
Thomas Davis
Martha S. Shurtliff




SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED, on the day and year first above written, -- before me.
Joseph Sanborn, Justice of the Peace
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
ATTEST.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Lydia Shurtliff of Raymond in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine do hereby constitute and appoint Arthur McArthur
of Limington, Maine my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to demand
and receive from the Department of the Interior of the United States the Warrant or Certificate to which I am entitled for the Military Services of William Shurtliff my late husband, as mentioned in the foregoing declaration; and for good and sufficient reasons revoke and countermand any, and all other Powers of Attorney, or other authority that I may have given to any other person for such purposes, and vest the same wholly and irrevocably in my said Attorney.
IN THE WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal on this twenty third day of March A. D. 1855.
Lydia Shurtliff (mark)

ATTEST
Thomas Davis
Martha S Shurtliff

STATE OF MAINE.}
County of Cumberland} ss

On this twenty third day of March A. D. 1855, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace authorized by law to take
acknowledgments in and for the County aforesaid, Lydia Staples subscriber to the foregoing, and acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed, for the purposes above.

Joseph Sanborn, Justice of the Peace
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United States of America. 
District of Maine, SS.

At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty first day of June... in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Albion K. Parris, Judge of said Court.

On this twenty first day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, William Shurtliff .. aged sixty three .. years, resident in Raymond.. in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as private in the company commanded by Capt. Moses Knapp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed ..    
in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 24th day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 15.996 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818;
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Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:

Real estate - I have none - ten years ago I lost all I had by being a bondsman

Personal estate - one cow - a few necessary utensils in the house where I live - I have no income and am justly owing forty dollars

William Shurtliff

Sworn to
June 21. 1820

Before Albion H. Parris
U.S. Dist. Judge


Schedule of the family residing with me William Shurtliff who, by occupation am a farmer which I am not able to pursue by reason of age and infirmity - in one hand I am helpless

Names.   Ages.   Capacity of each to contribute to their support

Wife - Lydia 55 had the asthma for twenty years

Polly 14 able to do housework

William Shurtliff

Sworn to 
Before Albion H. Parris
U.S. Dist. Judge
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the twenty ninth of July 1948 

State of Maine
Cumberland County

On this seventh day of November AD 1848 personally appeared before the Honorable Josiah Pierce Judge of the Court of Probate in ___ for said County of Cumberland

Lydia Shurtleff a resident of Raymond in said County aged about eighty four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the twenty ninth day of July 1848 that she is the widow of William Shurtleff late of Otisfield in the County aforesaid deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818, she who declares that her said husband served in a company she things commanded by one Capt Benson in 1775 or 6 as a private from Plymton or Middleborough in the State of Massachusetts, she further declares that she believes her said husband served in a Company Commanded by one Capt Washburn, and she believes he served in all __ __ as four or five years.
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She thinks she has been informed by her said husband this he served during the last three years of the war, and she respectfully refers the Commission of Pensions for further information in regards to the length of service her said husband served to his -- --- on file in the office of secretary of war or pension office,

and she further declares that she was married to the said William Shurtleff in March 1799, and that her said husband the aforesaid William Shurtleff died on the third day of July 1825, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place at Ludlow Vermont previous to the second day of January eighteen hundred -- at the time above stated.

She further declares that she is now a widow, and that she has not been married since the death of the said William Shurtleff her husband aforesaid, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.

Lydia Shurtleff
Her Mark X

Cumberland, Me,

-- and sworn to this seventeenth day of November 1848 at the dwelling home of the said Lydia Shurtleff in Raymond in Said County of Cumberland, she being unable by reason of -- age in her -- to appear in open Court.  before me, Josiah Pierce
Judge a- --
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State of Maine

Cumberland Ss.
Probate Office

I C. C. Tobies Register of Probate for said County hearby certify that Josiah Pierce whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is Judge of Probate for said County, duly appointed, Commissioned and sworn, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court this twenty first day of November A.D. 1848.

C. C. Tobies
Register
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I, William Shurtliff a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland and State of Massachusetts do testify and say, that on the last of December AD. 1775, I enlisted into the army of said United States on the continental establishment at Roxbury in said State, for the term of one year as a private soldier in Capt. Moses Knopp's company, Col Reed's regiment, and Gen. Patterson's brigade in the Massachusetts line which term of one year I fully served, at New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and was in the battle of East Chester & Trenton, and having served to the end of said year I agreed to remain in the same company forty days longer, in which time I was in the battle of Princeton, and at the end of said forty days I was honourably discharged at Morristown, but my discharge I have lost.
In May or June AD. 1782 I again enlisted into
said army on the continental establishment, at
Plympton, for the term of three years as a private soldier in Capt. James Meer's company, Col Ebenezer Sproat's regiment in the line aforesaid and served until Oct. 14 the AD. 1783, at West Point and Philadelphia and then, at West Point, received from Ebenezer Gibbs, Com. an honourable discharge, which I sent to Washington in February last and have it not in my power to produce it.
I further testify, that some sixty years of age, a
not borne on any pension list of the United States and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support.
William Shurtliff
Sworn to, before Albion K. Parris, U.S. Judge
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I Samuel Brown of Hebron in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war with the above named William Shurtliff, and become acquainted with said Shurtliff in said service in the month of July AD. 1782 and to my certain knowledge, said Shurtliff served from this date until the first of her AD 1783 as he has above stated, when I marched to Yorktown & knew no more of said Shurtliff.

Samuel Brown

Sworn to before me; and I do 
hereby certify that the said Brown
is a credible witness,
Albion K. Parris
U.S. Dist. Judge
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Reading Vermont September 1799
William Shurtliff Born Tuesday Sept the 3
Lydia Shurtliff Born Wensday May the 8 1801
Betsey Shurtliff Born Wensday Jany the 19 1803
Polly Shurtliff Born Saurday November 10 1805
Isaac Shurtliff Born Wensday April 16 1806
State of Maine
County of Oxford

I William Shurtliff of Livermore in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged forty nine years on oath testify and say that this being was taken from my father's Bible which has been in my possesion ever since my father died that I am the son of William Shurtliff late of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland State aforesaid who died on the third day of July eighteen hundred and twenty five aged sixty eight years. I have the record of his death. 
Lydia Shurtliff of Raymond in the County aforesaid -- -- is my ---. was the second wife of my father the said William Shurtliff --
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-- who died on the third day of July eighteen hundred and twenty five aged sixty eight years, I have the record of his death . I Lydia Shurtliff of Raymond in the County --- -- aforesaid is my mother. She was the second wife of my father the said William Shurtliff ---
above of the births of children are the children of my said father by his second wife Lidia (my mother) the record above is in the hand writing of Barnabas Shurtliff my half brother who was about fifteen years older than my self. I well recollect of - him make the record under the direction of my mother. I think Barnabas at the time of making the record was twenty one or twenty two years age and I was young but -- -- and honestly remember it, my father had six children by his first wife which I -- from his record, where the old record is I cannot say but believe it is all worn out -- lost, my said father was a pensioner of the United
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States under the act of 1818. I -- the -- years pension -- him provisions to his death, I have seen my fathers discharge from the Army and believe it was sent to Washington when he was pensioned. 
Hon Albian K. Paris I think negotiated the business for my father and procured his certificate for him which certificate the said Paris delivered to me in Portland for my father, my mother the said Lydia Shurtliff has never been married since the death of my said father, and is now a widow my said father -- my said mother lived together as husband and wife ever since my first remembrance until the death of my said father, I further testify that I have always understood from my father and mother that I was born in Reading Vermont and my father has -- me the home that I was born in, but I always understood from my said parents that the other children named on the record above mentioned was born in Woodstock Vermont excepting Polly.
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I Isaac Shurtliff of Raymond in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged forty two years on oath testify and say that I am the son of William Shurtliff late of Otisfield in said County  --, who was a pensioner of the United States and died on the third day of July AD. 1825, Lydia Shurtliff who now lives with me is my mother she is now about eighty four years age, and is the widow of my said father never having been married since his death, I -- this day examined the Bible leaf attested to my Brother Williams deposition and do testify that it is the same I seen containing the record of the births of my mothers children in the family bible left by my said father, I believe and never had any reason to doubt the legal marriage of my said father and mother, I have often in times past had my mother say that she was married to my father in Ludlow Vermont.  

Isaac Shurtliff

Cumberland
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State of Maine
Cumberland County Ss.

I Benjamin Lovell of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged Sixty three years the twenty fourth day of November AD. 1848 if I shall live until that day. 
On oath testify depose and say that I was well acquainted with William Shurtliff lage of Said Otisfield deceased, he lived in my old home on my farm within a few rods of my dwelling home, and I think he died in June or July 1825, he was a Pensioner of the United States, and it appears by my day book that I collected the --- due the widow after his decease, he lived on my farm several years previous to his death. I was also well acquainted with his wife whose name is Lydia Shurtliff, she is now living in Raymond in said County and is a widow never having been married since the death of the said Shurtliff. She lives with her son Isaac. I was also well acquainted with the children of the said William and Lydia Shurtliff, their son William I think now lives in Livermore in the County of Oxford, the names of the others are Lydia, Betsy, Polly, and Isaac.
Betsy made it her home at my home for three or four years, and Isaac lived with me one season. William Shurtliff first named and his wife Lydia lived together as man and wife from the time I first --
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acquainted with them until his death, and I never had any doubt but they were legally married and I never heard any doubt expressed by any person concerning the fact.  
Benjamin Lovell





I Betsy Lovell aged fifty three years on oath testify and say that I am the wife of Benjamin Lovell above named, and that the above information signed by my said husband has been -- -- by Nathaniel L  - Esquire twice in my  - and  --
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I Benjamin Patch of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath testify and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Otisfield in said County having been legally chosen
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In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of William Shurtliff, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) applications for pension on file in this Bureau. W. 2472

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Revolutionary War
Dec. 1875
Length of service 1 year, 40 days

May or June 82 until Oct. 11, 1783

Rank.
Pvt

Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered.
Captain
Moses Knapp
James Means
7 Co.

Colonel.
Read
Ebenezer Sprout
2 Mass.

State.
Mass

Battles engaged in, East Chester, Trenton, Princeton
Residence of soldier at enlistment ---
Date of application for pension, Apl. 24, 1818. Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Otisfield, Cumberland Co., Maine
Age at date of application, 60 years.
Remarks: Sol mar. 2nd Mch 1799 Ludlow Vt. Lydia Flagg Wed July 3, 1825 Otisfield Me.  Md appln Nov. 17, 1845 at 84 res Raymond, Cumberland Co. Me. ch. Wm, Reading, Sept. 3, 1799; Lydia, Woodstock May 8, 1801; Betsey; Woodstock July 13, 1803; Polly Barnard, Vt Nov. 10, 1804; Isaac, April 15, 1806 Woodstock, VT

Very respectfully,
Sol. had 6 ch. by 1st wife - one Barnabas
1820 wife Lydia 55 - Polly 14

Commissioner.
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Rev. War

WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 2472
Lydia Shurtliff
Widow
William Shurtliff
Pri. Rev. War
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Act: July 29, 1848
Index: - Vol. M, Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870}

1907 Mch 20 History to
Mrs. F.L. Evans
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Ludlow
August 6th 1849
Artemas Spafford of Ludlow, hereby
certify that I hold the office of Town Clerk of
Ludlow above named and at the request of
N. L. Ingersoll, I have made a thorough
examination of the Records of said Town of
Ludlow, and cannot find the Marriage of
William Shirtliff and Lydia Flagg, any
where recorded on the Records of said
Town, att Artemas Spafford Town Clerk

State of Vermont ⎬ at Ludlow in said County
Windsor County ⎬ August 6th 1849
Personally appeared Artemas Spafford, before me and made Solemn oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is the truth.
Silas Warren Justice of Peace
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Ludlow Vermont November 23d, 1845
Mr. A. Waterhouse Dear Sir.
Received yours of the 14 of Nov 1845
Wishing me to examine the Town Records
of said Town respecting a Marriage between
A Mr. -- Shirtlef & Lydia Flagg, I have complied with your request, and made through
examination of the Town Records in my possession & cannot find any such record of the said Marriage.-
Artemas Spafford Town Clerk
Mr. A  Waterhouse
P.S. There was a man by that name of Shirllif
who lived in said Ludlow between 45 & 50 years
age and probably was married in some of the
adjoining towns, but no such man by that name
has lived in Ludlow for 44 years to my knowledge
Respectively &c
A. Spafford
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The bearer hereof, Wm Shirtlift soldier of the 7th company and Mayhew's Massachusetts Regiment, having precured James Harlow, an able bodied man, to serve the Public the remainder of his time out; is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States-
Given at West point October 11th 1783-
Gibbs
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
November 29th 1848.

I herby 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 name of William Shurtliff, is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Joshua Benson Company in Col Theophilus Cottons Regt as a private of Middleborough from May 2 to August 1775
3 months and 2 days.
Upon a return of said Capt Bensons Company
in said Cottons Regt as a part of Middleborough no service named said Return & dated October 1775. Also upon a Coat Roll of same dated "Roxbury November 14th 1775."
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Nathaniel Wood's Company in Col Sprouts Regt in two [illegible] in
May and September 1778 as a private. 9 days  days.
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Jonah Washburns
Company in Col Ebenezer White Regt. as a
private from August 16 / 78 - 9 days
Upon a List of Certificate of last three years
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Application of Lydia Shurtleff for the services of her late husband William Shurtleff in the war of the Revolution to the Secretary of State Massachusetts the undersigned Lydia Shurtleff of Raymond in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine requests the secretary to [ furnish ] her from the rolls and other documents in his office the -- a certificate of the service of her late husband William Shurtleff, who served in the Revolutionary army, and this applicant thinks her said husband served under our Capt Benson and also under one Capt Washburn, and that he enlisted from Plymton or Middleborough in the State of Massachusetts, and she believes he served during the last three years of the war, and this applicant further states that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States, and died in Otisfield in Said County on the third day of July 1825.