Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20298, for Jabez Keep, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Keep, Jabez
Lydia
NUMBER
W.20298
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts Roll. 
1613 Jabez Keep, 1st
 Private 4 
Massachusetts line 1777. 3 yrs In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 9 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent Samuel Dana, Esq. Groton, Mass 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 months 26 /30 
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$38.93 
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818 } Sheffield, Berkshire Co
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6020 Maine 
Lydia Keep, decd 
widow of Jabez Keep, Mass
who was a Private, in the Mass Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. & end on 13 April '
43 the day of her death 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Augt 1844 and sent to James Starr 17 Day Maine 

Act of March 3, 1843. Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 6
Pay to Francis Keep Sally Warren & Phebe Blood. Children of Lydia Keep Decd 

refrd
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State of Maine Franklin County ⎬ SS. Court of Probate June 6th 1843. 

Be it known that on the sixth day of June 1843 it has been satisfactory proved in open Court being a Court of record, that Lidia Keep late of Jay in said County deceased, (widow of Jabez Keep late of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, deceased) was a pensioner of the United States, under the act of July 7. 1838, at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, and that she died at Jay aforesaid on the thirteenth day of April 1843 that she left only three children, viz, Frances Keep of said Jay Sally Warren wife of Edmond Warren of Ashby, in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Phebe Blood wife of Calvin Blood of Cohocton in the County of Stuben and State of New York 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three 
S. Cram, Register of Probate
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Jabez Keep
Admd
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Be it remembered that on this ninth- day of April the year of Our Lord One Thousand, eight hundred and Eighteen, before me Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex & Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, Comes Jabez Keep of Pepperell in said County of Middlesex and on Oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution Seven years and seven months, against the common enemy He entered into the service, at the commencement of that war, and served at Cambridge in Massachusetts eight months in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six he served, at New York in Cap Jabez Keeps company, Col Smith Regiment eight months, he then enlisted in the Continental establishment, for three years, in the Company of Capt Benjamin Brown, in Co. Michael Jacksons Regiment, in this Regiment, he served full three years, and on the twenty third day of March 1780 he received his discharge by the name of Jabez Keeps Jr

He then enlisted into Capt Burnhams Company in the same Regiment and served out his rest three years, and received a discharge from the same Colo Jackson which he has lost by time or accident he is now fifty eight years of age is destitute of property and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from country for his support.- 
Jabez Keep 

Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to, at Pepperrell in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid. the Saml Dana
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Jabez Lee[ 
Capt Abraham Childs
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To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. 
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the ninth day  of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Jabez Keep --- and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed, and at the same time he exhibited to me, the discharge therein mentioned from which it appears to me, that the said Jabez Keep did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months upon the continental establishment 

Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration & the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises , as the said Act may require. 
In testimony of all which I have caused the Seal of said hereunto affixed. 
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the ninth of April and eighteen in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
Saml Dana
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2273 
Lidia Keep 
me 
act 7 July 38 
M. 88. D. 22. 

Admd 2 years pri - 80$ 
No deduction 
James Starr of Jay in the County of Oxford, Pell Agent
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State of Maine Oxford County ss On this Eighteenth day of September A.D. 1830. Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County, Lydia Keep of Dixfield in said County of Oxford, aged seventy three 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"; that she is the widow of Jabez Keep who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the Massachusetts Continental troops; that her said husband was a pensioner under the act of March 18th 1818, that his certificate of Pension was dated June the 30 1818 and numbered 1,613, and she refers to the evidence furnished by him on his Original application for a pension for the proof of his services 

she further declares that she was married to the said Jabez Keep, June first, seventeen hundred and eighty five, that her husband the said Jabez Keep died on the 27th day of June 1822; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated
Lidia Keep 

Sworn to & subscribed by the above named Lydia Keep the day & year first above written in open Court 
Before Stephen Emery Judge
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State of Maine Oxford ss. 

I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid. 
I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Lydia Keep for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this second day of October A.D. 1838 

Levi Stowell Register
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Jabez Keep and Lydia Parkhurst were joined in Marriage by the Revd Ebenezar Grover on June first seventeen hundred and eighty five 

I certify that the above is a true extract from the Record of Marriages now in my possession and is a part of a list of Marriages by the Rev. Ebenezar Grosvenor with the exception of the day which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figure as follows June 1 1788- 
Jerome Gardner Town Clerk of Harvard 
Worcester SS. Sept. 1838 

I Jerome Gardner of Harvard in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that I am the person above named & that I now hold the office of town Clerk in the Town County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me 
Jerome Gardner Town Clerk of Harvard 
Sworn before me Jacob Martell Jus Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \Worcester Ss

I certify that Jacob Haskell, Esquire, is a Justice the peace in and for said County of Worcester and that his signature to the certificate on the other side this paper appears to be in his own proper handwriting 

In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of the Court of Common pleas for said County at Worcester the twentieth day of September AD. 1838. \William Jennison assistant Clerk. - -
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Hon V. D. Parris informed that the certificate in this case was transmitted to Jas Starr on the 1st inst; let dated Decr 17. 1838 

Maine - 125-8 
Lidia Keep widow of Jabez Keep, who who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 22 June 1822 of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a Pri. in the Compy commanded by Captain ---- of the Reg commanded by ---- in the Mass line for 2 years 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of C '38 , and set and James Starr Esq

Arrears to the 4th of Sept $200.00
emi-annual allowance ending 40.00
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$240.00
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Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded byR  Burr Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 12[?] Page 13
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Discharge from the United States
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Jabez Keep Junr a Soldier in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment is this Day Discharged the Army of the United States of America he having served his time out as a Good Soldier the Spring Commisses will furnish him with Provisions on his way home to Harvard. Given under my hand this day at West Point 
March 3, 1780 Mich Jackson Colo Comd
4 Massachus Brigade
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September 22, 1933 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 

Miss Isabel E. Myrth 1908 Second Street, N. E. Washington, D. C.

JABEZ KEEP 
W. 20296
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
The two photostatic copies of the discharge certificate of Jabez Keep, Revolutionary War soldier, File No. W. 20295, as requested by you, are enclosed herewith. 

Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON
[circular seal VETERANS ADMINISTRATION]

March 31, 1933 IN REPLY REFER TO: JABEZ KEEP W. 20298 BA-J/MHF: MLB 

Miss Isabel E. Myrth 1908 Second Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. 

Dear Madam:
The photostatic copy of the discharge certificate of Jabez Keep, Revolutionary War soldier, File No. W. 20298, requested by you, is enclosed herewith. 
Very truly yours 
A.D. Hiller A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator 

[sideways] Her order of September 18, 1933 

September 18, 1933
Administrator of Veterans Affairs Washington, D. C. Please mail 2 of the above disch cert to same address Isabel E Myrth 
Received payment 50 2 pres ) September 18, 1933 Mary L. Bottorff Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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BA-J/MLB REV. & 1812 No. 185 September 18, 33. Dist. 2900, Branch 970
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Rev. War claim for pension of Jabez Keep, File No. W. 20208 Actual 2 of page
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50¢ /page
Kindly leave margin of 1/4 in. at top of each page and return papers in folder with corresponding name and number.

Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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March 27, 1933 
BA-J/MLB 
Administrator of Veterans Affairs Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: Please furnish photostatic copy of one page from Revolutionary War pension claim, Jabez Keep, W. 20298, uncertified. 
Very truly yours Miss Isabel E. Myrth 1908 Second Street E Washington CD 
Received payment 15 cents March 27, 1933 
Mary L. Bottorff Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

[handwritten note]
Miss Myrth called on Sept 18, 1933, & requested 2 more copies of discharge of  this Jabez Keep. See her notation on orig. letter to his dated Mch 31, 1933, herein.
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March 31, 1933 XXXXXX XXXXXXX JABEZ KEEP W. 20298 BA-J/MHFIMLB

Miss Isabel E. Myrth 1908 Second Street, N. E. Washington, D. C. 

Dear Madam:
The photostatic copy of the discharge certificate of Jabez Keep, Revolutionary War soldier, File No. W. 20298, requested by you, is enclosed herewith. Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
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BA-J/MLB
REV. & 1812 No. 153 
March 27, 1933
541
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Rev. War claim for pension of Jabez Keep, File No. W. 20298 Actual 1 of each page
15 cents ----- 1 page
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Kindly leave margin of in. at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number.
Chief, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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1933, Mar 31 Photos mailed to Miss Isabel E. Myrth & acctg Dev notified MLB
1933, Sept. 22. Photos mailed to Miss Isabel E Myrth & Acct. Dev. notified same date MLB

Rev File No. Index A WIDOW, & 
File No. 20298 
Lydia Keep Widow of Jabez Keep Priv. Rev. War 
Act: March 3, 1843 
Index:- Vol. A, Page 393 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions War Office City Washington D. C.
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Jay M. Aug. 6. 1844 
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Sir; By your favor of 6th of Apr. last, you informed me, that the papers containing the evidence of the death of Lidia Keep, widow of Jabez Keep, who was a pensioner under the act of July 7th 1838, had not been recd at the Pension Offices & inclosed them to you the 27th of last Novr by Mail. There send the evidence again with her certificate of Pension, which was accidentally omitted the first time, for the purpose of obtaining a certificate to her children for a small ballance due them under the provision of the Act of 3 March 1843, wish you to enclose the same to me. I have been expecting for some time to receive the certificate of Pension for Sarah French, widow of William French, deceased was sent to you the 30th of March last, I thought it might be possiable you had forwarded her certificate and it had miscarried, will you be so good as to inform me relative thereto 
I am most respectfully your Obt Servant James Starr
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Lidia Keep, Decd
Act '43
Payable up to 13 April 1843 (when she died) to her children, Francis Keep, Sally Warren, and Phebe Blood, at the rate of $80 per ann. 
[on side: Lidia Keep died Apr 13 1843]
Sent cert to James Starr
Jay Maine

Lidia Keep 
Payment to be made
at Portland
by A. Newhall Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Maine. 

Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year thereafter.  First payment to be made 31st December, 1838. 

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 1 Page 13 by R. Burdin Clerk
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War Department.
Five Years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Lidia Keep, of Maine widow of Jabez Keep, deceased who was a Private during the  Revly [Revolutionary} war, and died on the twenty seven day of 1 war 1822 is entitled to receive five years' pension at the sale of eighty dollars and no cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
[Seal]   Given at the War Office of the United States, this first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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1258.
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Dec 1 1843
Jay Me
Free
J.L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department City Washington D.C.
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[on left side]
Lidia Keep certificate No, 1258 - Elizabeth Grover Certificate was No, 1655.

[main page]
Jay Me. Nov. 27. 1843 
J.L. Edwards Esq 
Dr Sir 
On the 19th of Sepr last. I enclosed to you by mail the Declaration of Elizabeth Grover of Carthage, Franklin County, State of Maine (widow of Jedediah Grover, deceased) to whom a certificate of Pension was granted under the act of July 7 1838, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March 1843. not having received any return or answer from you relative there to, I have concluded you have not received them, and by some means they have failed of their arival, will you be so good as to inform me on the reception of this, and whether she must make now Declaration to establish her claim 

There enclose the evidence of the death of the widow Lidia Keep, who was a Pensioner under the act of July 7 1838 - with the names of her surviving Children, wish you to enclose to me the certificate Page that shall be issued to them to receive the ballance at her decease, of Pension due to their mother under the act of March 3rd 1843. 
I am very respectfully your Obt Servt James Starr
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State of Maine Franklin County ⎬ SS 
Court of Probate July 22nd 1844. 
Be it known, that on the second day of July 1844, it has been satisfactory proved in open Court, being a Court of record, that Lidia Keep late of Jay in said County of Franklin of (widow of Jabez Keep, deceased), was a pensioner of the United States under the act of July 7. 1838. and that she died at Jay aforesaid on the thirteenth day of April 1843 that she left only three children, viz, Francis Keep, Sally Warren, wife of Edmond Warren and Phebe Blood, wife of Calvin Blood 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this second day of July in the year of our Lord 1844 Sewall Cram Register Probate ⎬
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51- 12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Keep, James GRADE Private LINE Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER 12287 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 3, 1795 to - not shown -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.