Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,568, Paul Wentworth, Continental Mass.
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Continental
Mass
Wentworth, 
Paul
W. 22568
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3249
Maine Roll
Paul Wentworth, 4
private
Massachusetts line 3 yrs
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 11th of May 1818

Certificate pension issued the 2nd of October 1818 and sent to Judah Dana Esqr.
Fryeburg Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818   $30.47
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819   48.00
$78.47

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th march, 1818}

Continued
Fryeburg Oxford Co
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1656
Maine
Mary Wentworth
widow of Paul Wentworth decd.
Mass.
who died on the 4 September 1833
of Waldo Co. in the State of Me
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Derby of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bailey in the Massa. line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars --Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of September 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of Decr. 1837 and sent Hon. H. G. Anderson ,
Ho. of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1837  $320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '38   40.00
$360.00
{Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4 1836
Section the 3}
Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
Book A. Vol 2d Page 19

Date of death not on AB
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Extract from the records of the town of Berwick in the County of York & State of Maine
"Paul Wentworth and Molly Coffin of the town of Berwick marriage solemnized"
"By Humphrey Chadbourne, Justice of the Peace"

I Joseph Prime Clerk of said town of Berwick certify that the foregoing is a true extract as it is on the record except the dates which are expressed in fair legible figures as follows:
"February 4" fourth" 1782" seventeen hundred & eight two.
Joseph Prime Clerk of said Town

I Joseph Prime above named depose & say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the record of the same town except as aforesaid.
Joseph Prime, Clerk of said Town

York SS November 4th AD. 1837
Subscribed & Sworn to by the above named Joseph  Prime Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just. Peace and I William Allen Jayes the before named Justice of the Peace certify that the above named Joseph Prime who is well  known to me is a man of truth and that his declarations on oath are entitled to credit.
Wm. A. Hayes, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Waldo, ss

I the subscriber, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Waldo certify that William A. Hays is a Justice fo the Peace within & for the said County of York & that the signatures on the other side of this sheet purporting to be his are genuine.
(Seal)
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this ninth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
N. M. Lowney, Clerk of the Judicial Courts
Waldo County
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V  1706

Declaration of
Mary Wentworth 
Wid. of Paul dec'd
Maine
Mar 1782 Died 1833
See final settl. cert.
Vol 3 p 13

Admd. Jan 24 $80
per ann comm. 4 Sept 1833

Hon. H. J. Anderson
H.R.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of an act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836-
On the twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty seven personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the County of Waldo, State of Maine, Mary Wentworth a resident of Knox in said County of Waldo aged seventy four years the eighth day of May last, who being first 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 July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of Paul Wentworth late of Knox aforesaid, who was a private & Sergeant in the army of the Revolution & a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 for further proof of his service she refers to his declaration & other proof by him made now in file i the War Department.
She further says & on oath declares that her name before she was married to the said Paul  Wentworth was Mary Coffin. That she was married to the said Paul Wentworth at Berwick Maine on the twentieth day of January in year seventeen hundred & eighty two, that her husband the aforesaid Paul Wentworth died on the fourth day of September in the year eighteen hundred & thirty three & that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Mary   X   Wentworth
her mark
Attest N. M. Lowney
Subscribed & sworn to on the day above written in open Court
Before Alfred Schmotz
Judge of Probate
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State of Maie
Waldo SS
I William H. Burrill Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court of Probate in the matter of the application of Mary Wentworth for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty first day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty seven,
William H. Burrill Register of Probate
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I John Wentworth of Belfast aged forty one years on oath declare that Paul Wentworth late of Knox a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States was my father & that Mary Wentworth who is sometimes called Molly Wentworth of Knox is my mother. That the said Paul Wentworth died September fourth eighteen hundred & thirty three. That Molly Wentworth is the widow of Paul Wentworth & is now living at said Knox unmarried & has not been married since the death of said Paul Wentworth.
John Wentworth

Septr. 13, 1837
State of Maine
Waldo SS
Then personally appeared the above named John Wentworth who is well known to me & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed. And I certify that said John Wentworth is a ma of truth and that his declarations on oath are entitled to credit.
N. M. Lowney, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Waldo County SS
I N. M. Lowney Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County certify that N. M. Lowney is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed my official seal this thirteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred
& thirty seven.
N. M. Lowney Clerk of the Courts Waldo County
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I hereby certify to whom it may concern That Paul Wentworth and Molly coffin of the Town of Berwick were joined in Marriage by Humphry Chadbourn Justice of the Peace for the County of York February 4th 1782
Recorded by
Nahum Marshall Tn. Clk

A true extract from the Records of Berwick Book 2 page 437
Attest Joseph Prime, Town Clerk

Berwick August 29, 1837
I Joseph Prime of the Town of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine of lawfull age testify depose and say that I am the Town Clerk of the Town of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine Chosen and sworn and that the foregoing copy by me certified is a true extract from the records of said Town.
Joseph Prime

State of Maine
County of York
On the twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared Joseph Prime Esq. and made oath that the foregoing Deposition by him signed is just and true; and to my knowledge the said Joseph Prime is Town Clerk of Berwick and that he is a person of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to full credit.
Charles N. Cogswell, Justice of the Peace, York County State of Maine
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State of Maine
County of York SS
I, Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County of York, hereby certify that Charles N, Cogswell is a justice of the Peace for said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
(seal)
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix my official seal this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
Jere. Bradbury Clerk
Jud. Courts York County
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Paul Wentworth
No 3249

Fryeburg

Act 18

con
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STATE OF MAINE
Oxford ss. at a Circuit Court of Common Pleas
begun and holden at Paris within and for the County of Oxford on the fourth Tuesday of July A. D. 1820, before the Honorable Judah Dana, Judge of said Court.
On this 25th day of July 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 county of Oxford, Paul Wentworth aged 62 years resident in Conway, New Hampshire now of Fryeburg in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Derby in the Regiment commanded by Colonel 
bailey i 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 11th day of May A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 3249 was granted. And I do solemnly swear tht I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th daya of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so do 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 serrvice of the United States, in the Revolutionary War", passed on the 18th day of March 1818; 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annxed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me
Paul Wentworth
Sworn to and declaredon the 25th day of July A. D. 1820
Before Judah Dana Judge of said Court

Schedule of the real estate and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz;
one old house, hog, 1 axe, household furniture od & poor. I am oweing the sum of one hundred Dollars
Paul Wentworth
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Paul Wentworth

Correct for 3 yrs.

Found in Bailey's (illegible) Regt.
Derby's Co.
Ent.  1 Feby Dischd. Feby '80
3 yrs
Dont appear in (illegible)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Oxford SS
One this seventh day of May AD. 1818 before me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate in said County & associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth personally appeared Paul Wentworth aged about sixty years a resident of  Fryeburg in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the ate 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", that he the said Paul Wentworth enlisted & served in the revolutionary war on the continental establishement almost seven yearrs. & enlisted in Massachusetts in the year AD. 1777 for three years into the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Derby of Maine in Col. Baldwing's Regiment in Massachusetts line. I served out ths time & then enlisted again for three years into Capt. Junkins company in Col. Cranes Regiment of artillery and served in this corps or some other of the United States companys till the army was disbanded & he honorably discharged at West Point York State in the year AD. 1783. The he ^ has long since lost his Discharge & was in the battle of Still Water of the White Plains & at the Capture of Berguoyne & that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his county for support.
Sworn to and declared this day & y6ear aforesaid.
Judah Dana Judge &c.
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I Judah Dana Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Paul Wentworth did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the continental establishment (as two credible witnesses have testified that they were personally acquainted with said Paul Wentworth and knew that he served in the revolutionary war as a soldier, one said for two years, the other frequently saw him there ; both swore they had no doubt but he served the whole time as he had stated in his sd. Wentworths affidavit aforesaid & that from his reduced circumstances he stood in need of assistance from his country for support; I now transmit the proceeding & testimony take & had before me to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Probate in said County at Fryeburg this sixteenth day of July AD. 1818.
(seal)
Judah Dana Judge
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Oxford Ss
I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said county do at Fryeburg in said county on this twenty fifth day of July AD. 1818 certify & make known that the Hon. Judah Dana who signed the foregoing certificates is Judge of said Court of Probate & first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth & that said Instrument is under the seal of said Probate Court
Attest Tim Osgood, Register of Probate
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June 9, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
MEL

E. F. J. Tafe
437 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W.222569, that Paul Wentworth was in the battle of White Plains, but detail and length of his service are not given.
He enlisted in Massachusetts in 1777, served as a private in Captain Samuel Darby's Company, Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment, and was at the battle of Stillwater and capture of Burgoyne, length of service three years; he re-enlisted, served in Captain Junkins' Company, Colonel Cran's Regiment of Artillery and was discharged in 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 17, 1818, at which time he was aged about sixty years and resided in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Massachusetts (Maine).
He died September 4, 1833, at Knox, Maine. the date and place of his birth are now shown.
The soldier married January 20, 1782 (as stated by the widow) or February 4, 1782 (as shown by the certified statement of the town clerk) at Berwick, York County, Massachusetts (Maine)Mary or Molly Coffin, of said Berwick. She was born May 8, 1763.
She was allowed pension on her application executed August 21, 1837, while residing in Knox, Waldo County, Maine.
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Children referred to are: son John, who, in 1837, was aged forty-one years and resided in Belfast, Maine; daughter Sophia, who was aged seventeen years in 1820; and son Freeman, aged twelve years in 1820.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
E. W. Morgan 
Acting Commissioner

Date of widow's death not on A.B.
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Washington July 16/50

Dr. sir
Please inform me where Paul Wentwith, Private, of Massachusetts line who died Sept 3rd 1833 aged 75, lived; & also whether his widow drew a pension & where & when she died or where she now lives.
Respectfully yrs
Jn Whentsth

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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Paul Wentworth of Me pen under act 18 Mar 1818
when last paid
H. H. Oct 7 '37

Died 4th Sept. '33 Paid 3d 9 '33
S. H. H.
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Mary Wentworth
Wid of Paul dec.
Maine
(illegible) see let. Hon H. J. Anderson 
Oct 16, 1837
adm

Act 4 July 1836
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Paul Wentworth of Maine a pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818
Up to what time was he paid?
H. H. L.
Pen. Off
21 Decr.

Died 4th Sep 1833
 paid to that period 
S. H.
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Paul Wentworth of Maine a pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818.  Up to what time was he paid?
H. H. L.
Pen. Off.
21 Decr.

Died 4th Sept 1933
paid to that period
S. H.
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Rev
WIDOW &c.
File No. 22568
Mary Wentworth
widow of
Paul Wentworth
Pri Rev War

Act July 4th '36
Index: Vol. M. Page 323

[Arrangement of 1870]
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June 10,1907 History to Mrs. Emma S. Brush  V.L.M.
1931 June 9 Hist. to E. F. J. Tafe  E.E.B.
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1077 Boylston Street
Boston, Mass
May 19, 1907
(stamped-U. S. Pension Office H May 31, 1907)
To Commissioner of Pensions

My dear Sir:
Will you kindly send a copy of the application of pension or any information regarding pension of Paul Wentworth formerly of New
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Hampshire but who moved to East Knox Maine in 1822 and drew pension for Revolutionary service until his death Sept.1833. Then his widow Mary Coffin Wentworth drew pension until her death in 1842.
I wish to send this proof of my ancestor's service to the National
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Board before Wednesday June fifth, if possible and to save time will you please enclose the desired information in the addressed envelope to the Registrar General D. A. R. and oblige.
Yours truly,
Emma Brush
(Mrs.Frederic Brush)
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J. A. H. (stamped)
O. W. & N. Div.

(stamped-O. W. & N. Div. Files Jun 1 1907
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[Letterhead]

Sons of the Revolution
in the State of California
437 South Hope Street
Los Angeles
MU 6807
April 14, 1931

Bureau of Pension,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Will you kindly send me family data on Pension record of Paul Westworth, born abt. 1758 in Kittery or Berwick, Me. He married Mary Coffin.
Died in East Knox, Me., Sept. 4, 1833
Received a pension in 1818.
Thanking you for an early reply, I am,
Very truly yours,
E. F. J. Tafe (signature)
E. F. J. Tafe
(stamped-Pension Office O Apr 18, 1931)
Assistant Genealogist
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O. W. and N. Division  3-525
V. L.M.
File 22,568
Rev. War

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Madam,
In reply to your request of May 29, received May 31 for a statement of the military history of Paul Wentworth a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Date of Enlistment or Appointment: 1777
Length of Service: 3 years
Rank: Pvt.
Officers under whom Service was rendered:
Captain Samuel Derby, Colonel Bailey
State: Mass.

Date of Enlistment or Appointment: (blank)
Length of Service: 3 years
Rank:  (blank)
Officers: Captain Junkins, Colonel Crane
and discharged in 1783
State: (blank)

Battles engaged in: White Plains, Stillwater, & capture of Burgoyne
Residence of soldier at enlistment: not stated
Date of application for pension: May 7, 1818 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application: Fryeburg, Oxford Co, Maine, formerly lived at Conway, New Hampshire
Age at date of application: 60 year in 1818, died Sept. 4, 133
Remarks: Soldier married at Berwick, York Co. Feby 4 or Jany 20 1782, Mary Coffin. She was allowed pension on an application executed Aug. 21 1837 while a resident of Knox, Waldo Co., Me. She was born May 8 1763. Their children were John living at Belfast Maine 41 yrs old in 1837, Sophia 17 yrs old and Freeman 12 yrs old in 1820; No further family data.
Very respectfully
Commissioner

Mrs. Emma S. Brush
1077 Boylston St.
Boston, Mass.
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Mary Wentworth widow of Paul pri $80 per annum  Sept. 4 1842