Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,372, David Gammon, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Gammon, David

NUMBER
S. 20,372
carder

CONTENTS
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10.249. Maine - 
David Gammon Oxford in the State of Me was a Private in the company commanded Captain --- of the Regt commanded Col Foggs in the Maine [lin]e for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of March 1833 and sent Joseph G Cole Paris Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $60 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep " 15 - 
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$75
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⎨ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. 
[Re]corded by H H McBlair Clerk 
[Boo]k E Vol. 1st Page 18. E
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Rec'd
2Decr

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4976
David Gammon
Application

David Gammon 
Private
9 months 

$30

Joseph G. Col Esq
Paris Maine
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STATE OF MAINE

County of Oxford SS.
ON this 17th day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, David Gammon a resident of Buckfield in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 77 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 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. That in September in the year 1776 thinks, his brother Samuel Gammon was drafted to go into the army, at Gorham, in the then District, new State of Maine for the term of six months that he, the (of) David, took his brothers place & entered in his stead into the company commanded by Samuel Whittemore of Col Foggs Regiment of Massachusetts troops- He marched to Peekskill, New York where he was stationed a while & then marched through the Jerseys, part of Pennsylvania: Delaware to Maryland to a place called Succasunny Plains & came back to New York State & I think I was dismissed at Peekskill for this expedition to Maryland said David was a part of a guard drawn out of the troops at Peekskill. In this service (illegible) David completed the service of six months for which said Samuel was drafted. 
Beside the above said David service at a great many different times in the defence [sic] of Falmouth as one of the militia, who were occasionally called out to defend the town against continental attack of the enemy and when the town was burnt by the enemy. In all these services at Falmouth, he thinks he (illegible) have served at least as much as three months, but he is quite at a loss as to the specific periods of service.
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Said David was born in this town called Cape Elizabeth, near Portland. The record of his age is in said town of Gorham. He was living in said Gorham when he was called into the service, (illegible) when he has live in Stanford in the County of Cumberland (?), State of Maine & from there moved into Buckfield where he now resides. He cannot now recalled any continental and militia Regiment other then above states. He never received any written discharge that he now recalled. 
Said Gammon says that Nathaniel Chase & ( name illegible) and Jon Loung Saml F Brown Grisham Davis (?) Gary (?) Spalding all persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood & who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a solider of the revolution.          his

David & Mark Gammon
Winthrop Samuel Brown
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Mr. Nathaniel Chase a clergyman residing in Buckfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine & Gershon Davis residing in the same town [illegible] hereby certify that are well acquainted with David Gammon who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that he is reputed to be seventy seven years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and in we concur in that opinion 
Nath'l Chase 
Gershom Davis

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court Stephen Emery, Judge 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, said applicant having adduced the deposition of Samuel Gammon & Joshua Davis, as on the certificate of Nathaniel Chase Clergyman & Gershom Davis, all under oath duly administered, in consideration of his own declaration 
Stephen Emery, Judge 

I Joseph G. Cole Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Gammon for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of August A.D. 1832 CLERK. Joseph G. Cole Register
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. 
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
David his X mark Gammon
Witness Saml Bow to signature 
Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate
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I Joshua Davis now residing in the town of Hartford County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged seventy three years testify & say that I was a soldier in the american army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for as much as six years at different periods for which I now receive a pension from the government of the United States . In the year 1776. I was in the service at Cape Elizabeth having taken the place of my father Joshua Davis who had enlisted, I think for twelve months at Gurham in Maine where he lived at that time & I with him. We were nigh neighbors to Joseph Gammon of Gurham. When I returned home from my tour to Cape Elizabeth, David Gammon, the son of said Joseph Gammon, was gone off, a soldier into the army to New York as I was then told & now well remember, having taken the place of his brother Samuel Gammon, who was drafted of as I was then informed, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Whittemore and I believe for six months but am not certain as to this 

After this in January then next I again enlisted into the army into the company commanded by Capt Josiah Jenkins of Col. Brewers Regiment for three years and went on to West Point. While in this service I heard of said David Gammon's being in the army by various ways & have no doubt of his having been in the service, from what I then knew & again conversation frequently had with him since concerning many circumstances that took place in the army 
Joshua his X mark Davis
Witness Samuel F. Brown 

State of Maine County of Oxford July 30. 1832 
then the above named Joshua Davis, to me well known as a man of truth personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Samuel F Brown Justice of the Peace
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I Samuel Gammon of Hartford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged seventy seven years on oath say that I was a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for eight months at Cambridge near Boston in the company commanded by Capt Hart Williams of Col Edmund Phinneys Regiment that I enlisted at Gurham, then in the District, now said State of Maine where I then lived, that after my term had expired I returned home to Gurham and in I think September 1776 I was drafted to go again into the army and I then procured my brother David Gammon to go in my stead and I well know that he did go & belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Whittemore according to my best remembrance. their Col. I do not remember. I was drafted for six months according to my best recollection. My said brother went off according to said draft as I then & always understood to the army in New York and I have no doubt that he served the six month through for I remember meeting him with a horse on his return home in the spring following. My said brother David Gammon now lives in Buckfield in said County of Oxford & I will know him to be the same man who served in my stead as aforesaid- 

I further know that my said brother David did serve in sd Army at near Falmouth now Portland in the company commanded by Alexander McClellan for several months; but how long I cant tell particularly, but feel confident it was much as three months. This was before the
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six months service mentioned above and about the time that Falmouth was burnt. When I got home from my eight month service my said brother was then a soldier at Falmouth
Saml Gammon

State of Maine County of Oxford July 25 1832. 
Then the above named Samuel Gammon, to me well known as a man of truth personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me 
Samuel F Brown Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF MAINE.OXFORD COUNTY, SS. 

I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Samuel F. Brown whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Joshua Davis Samuel Gammon, Gershom Davis & David Gammon is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this eighteenth day of December in the year A. D. 1832. 
R K Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts:
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State of Maine County of Oxford SS December 15th 1832. 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in afor said County of Oxford, David Gammon of Buckford in said County, who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of all his services; but he is confident that in his period of service, first named in his application, wherein he served in his brothers stead, he served six months completely through & that he so intended & expected to have his application understood for which term he served as a private soldier. and for the last named services in his said application he served over three months (but claims but for three month) as a private soldier, and for such service he claims a pension 
David his X mark Gammon 

State of Maine County of Oxford ss. December 15. 1842. Then the above named David Gammon personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Sam L Brown Justice of the Peace
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I Gershom Davis of Buckfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged seventy three years, on oath say that I was a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for several periods, one of which was a company commanded by Captain Samuel White more of Col. Foggs Regiment. I entered at Gurham in the District of Maine when I resided with my father Davis, who had been drafted and whose place took in sd Company. We went on Peekskill in New York and I continued in the service then till we were dismissed about the last of February. The particular years I will not swear to but my impression is that we went in the fall of the year 1776 

I further say that David Gammon who now lives Buckfield aforesaid was a neighbor to me in Gorham at that time & I well know that he belonged to the same company and marched with us to New York and that I left him in the army when I left myself. How long he served I cannot tell, but I know that he served all the time that I did 
Gershom Davis 

sState of Maine County of Oxford SS. July 20th 1832. 

Then the above named Gershom Davis to me well known as a man of truth & credibility, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me 
Samuel F Brown Justice of the Peace
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Revolution
20372 INVALID. 
File no. 20372 
David Gammon 
Pri Rev War 

Act: - June 7" 32" 
Index: -- Vol. 2 , Page 148
{ Arrangement of 1870.}