Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26741, for Isaiah Keith, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass
Keith, Isaiah
Sarah
W. 26741
CONTENTS
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Reported
Maine 4942
Sarah Keith, decd.
widow of Isaiah Keith
who died on the Service
of [illegible] in the State of (blank)
who was a pr. Corp & Sergt in the Compy commanded
by Captain (blank) of the (blank) commanded
by (blank) in the (blank)
line for (blank)
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 32 Dollars 91 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March 1831 & end 7 Oct 1836
when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of
April 1850 and sent to
Hon. H. Hamlin Senate US
Arrears to the 4th of
Semiannual allowance ending
Payable to
Martin C. Keith admt.
of Sarah Keith decd. 
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the}
Recorded by
J P Chase Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page 333
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7336
Sarah Keith decd
Widow of Isaiah
Mr
Act 4 July 1836
Married 1767
Husband died in service
Widow died 7 Oct 1836
Repeted, widow has
no children living
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United States of America
Maine District SS
On this second day
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty nine, personally
appeared before the District Court of the
United States holden at Portland within and
for said District, Martin C Keith of Livermore in the County of Oxford and State of
Maine, aged forty two 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 July
4th 1836. That he is the legal representation
of Sarah Keith late of Green in the County
of Kennebec and State of Maine, deceased,
and Administrator on said deceased Estate
and that she the said Sarah Keith was the
widow of Isaiah Keith, who (this declarant
believes) served as a non commissioned officer
and private soldier during the Revolutionary war, that he the said Isaiah Keith Served
Several campaigns with the Bridgwater
and Middleborough Troops that he resided
during said war near the line between the
towns of Bridgewater and Middleborough
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in the State of Massachusetts and a portion of the
time in each town- that the said Isaiah
Keith was married to the said Sarah then
Sarah Burr before the last period of his
service expired to wit on the thirteenth day
of October 1767 in said town of Bridgewater
by Revd Mr Porter. And that the said Isaiah
Keith died sometime during said war
and that the said Sarah Keith widow of the
aforesaid Isaiah, remained and died a
widow on the Seventh day of October 1836 in the
town of Green in the County of Kennebec and
State of Maine, leaving two sons by the name of
Isaiah Keith and Ebenezer Keith, both of
whom have since deceased, leaving children
also of whom this declarant is one, and
this Declaration is made by the Administrator
and legal representative of the said Sarah
Keith, widow of the said Isaiah first name
in order to obtain the arrears of Pension due her
from the fourth day of March 1831 to the Seventh
day of October 1836 the day of her death
Martin C Keith
Signed & sworn to before me
Arthur war
Dist [illegible]
Dist. of Maine
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State of Maine
Kennebec County
I the subscriber
Register of the Court of Probate for said
County of Kennebec hereby certify that
Martin C Keith of Livermore in the County
of Oxford in said State, has this fifth
day of February AD 1849 been duly appointed
administrator on the estate of Sarah Keith
late of Greene in said County of Kennebec
deceased intestate, that his appointment as
aforesaid remains in full force, is in no
wise reversed, revoked or annulled, as fully
appears of record in this Court that full
faith and credit are to be given to all
his acts and attestations as such-
In witness whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of said Court of Probate
and subscribe my name the fifth day
of February AD 1849. -
Francis Davis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
December 23d 1848.
I hereby 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 Isaiah Keith is borne
upon a Muster Roll of Capt Amos Wade's
Company that marched from Middleborough
to Marshfield April 19 1775. as a Corporal,
3 days.
Upon a Muster Roll of Capt John Allen's
Company in Col John Bailey's Regt. as a private
of Bridgewater from May 1 to August 1 1775. 3
months, 1 week & 1 day.
Upon a Return of said Company in said Regt
his private of Bridgewater no service named,
said Return is dated "Roxbury, October 6 1775."
Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Abraham Washburn's Company in Col Edward Mitchell's Regt.
in Bridgewater that marched to Horse Neck,
in Braintree March 4 1776, as a Sergt 6 days.
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Luke Bicknell's
Company from the County of Plymouth in
Lt Col
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Enoch Putnam's Regt as a private from
September 3 to December 3 1781 including allowance of 12 days to return home,
3 months and 13 days.
Upon an Order on Treasurer of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts for
payment of service in Capt Luke
Bicknell's Company, Col Putnam's Regt.
in 1781. said Order was dated at Bridgewater.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any
one of the name shown by the military records in
this Office. ---
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm Tuft
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts is hereby requested to
furnish evidence from the Rolls
in his office of the Service of Isaiah
Keith in the war of the Revolution. -
He married Sarah Burr, of Bridgewater
Massachusetts, and removed to Middleborough
near the time of the commencement of
the war and enlisted, probably, from the
latter place in the year 1775.
How long said Keith served this
Declarant is unable to State but that
he died while in the service, neither
I State the names of the officers under
whom he served, but his widow believe he
was a portion of the time with Genl Gates.
His widow has since deceased, being entitled
to a pension at the time of her death
provided her husband served in the Revolution
in manner she represented. And I as one of the
heirs of said widow make this
application for information that I may
be enabled to obtain the amount due her at
the time of her decease.
Witness my hand this first day of November, 1848
Martin C Keith
Oxford SS_ Signed by the said Martin C
Keith in my presence
Job Prince, Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston January 5th 1849
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Philo Leach
was a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Plymouth
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted:
and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and
credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the
Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W B Calhan
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I certify that I am acquainted
with Philo Leach Esq and that the
signature to the within declaration
is in his hand writing --
Bridgewater
Jany 13, 1849
Artemas Hale
Member of Congress
Bridgewater
Jany 13, 1849
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Extract from the Records of Marriages
in the Town of Bridgewater in the County
of Plymouth and State of Massachussets
"Seventeen Hundred and sixty seven
October thirteenth
Isaiah Keith and Sarah Burr both
of Bridgewater.
By Revd John Foster "
The above is a true Extract from the
Records of Marriages in the Town of
Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth
and State of Massachusetts Except that
upon the Records it is expressed in
fair legible figures as follows
1767 October 13 Isaiah Keith and
Sarah Burr
both of Bridgewater} by the Revd
John Porter
Lewis Holmes Town Clerk of Bridgewater
I Lewis Holmes of Bridgewater in the County of
Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Depose and say that I hold the office
of Town Clerk in the Town of Bridgewater aforesaid
and that the Books of Records of said Town
are in my custody and that the above is
a true Extract from said Records with
the exception above named as certified
by me
Bridgewater Jan 2  1849
Lewis Holmes
Clerk of the Town
of Bridgewater
Plymouth & Jany 2 1849
Sworn to before me
Philo Leach Just of the Peace
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I, Nathaniel Harris of Green in the
County of Kennebec and State of Maine
aged fifty five years, on oath depose
and say that I was born and brought
up in this town, that I was well acquainted with
the widow Keith late of this town
deceased more than forty years ago
that I always understood that she
removed from Massachus to this State
and that her husband died during the
Revolution and was a Revolutionary
Soldier. I do not recollect that I
ever knew her Christian name, as
She was called "Granny Keith" as long
ago as I can remember, that I have
resided near her and a neighbor
to her ever since she resided in this
town - That I have been a
Merchant and Trader in this town
for twenty two years have also been
one of the Selectmen Assessor Town Clerk etc
and never knew any other person by
the name of Keith to reside in this
town, that she died in said town of
Green in the fall of 1836 as near as I
can recollect
Nathaniel Harris
Kennebec SS. May 1, 1849. There
over
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personally appeared Nathaniel Harris
a credible witness and made oath
to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
by him subscribed
Before me
Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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I, Bethiah Keith of Livermore in the
County of Oxford and State of Maine
aged Seventy years on oath depose
and say that I am the widow of
Ebenezer Keith late of this town, deceased,
that I became acquainted with my
late husbands mother Sarah Keith about
fifty years ago, which was the time she
removed from Bridgewater Massachusetts
into the State of Maine, that she resided
in our family some years immediately
after we commenced house keeping, which
was about forty eight years ago, that I
often heard her speak of her husband
Isaiah Keith whom she said died while
in the Revolutionary war that I heard
her speak of particular places wher her
husband served during said war, and
recollect that Roxbury, Horse Neck and Cambridge
were some of the places. that I continued
to be and remained intimately acquainted with
her to the time of her death which
took place in the Autumn of 1836. I think
on the seventh day of October but am not
positive as to the day
her
Bethiah Keith
mark
State of Maine
Oxford County SS. On this second day
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of February 1849 personally appeared Bethiah
Keith well known to me as a credible
witness and made oath to the truth of
the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed
Before Me
Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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I, Judith Timberlake of Livermore
in the County of Oxford and State of
Maine aged sixty nine years on oath
depose and say that I became acquainted with
Sarah Keith who was reputed to be
the widow of Isaiah Keith who died while
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, about
fifty six years ago, at which time, her
son Isaiah married my Sister, that
at that time I resided in Raynham
where her son Isaiah served as an apprentice
to the Carpenters trade, that she had an other
son in the same town learning the trade
of Wheelright, that she Sarah Keith resided
at that time (fifty six years ago) with her
father at a place called Titent, in the town of
Bridgewater near the line of the town of
Middleborough and that her youngest child
being a daughter, resided with her, that
after her children were married she
resided mostly with them. That she removed
with her sons into this town (Livermore)
about fifty years ago that I moved
here about forty eight years ago and
that I have ever since been acquainted with
her untill the time of her death
which took place about a dozen
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years ago in the town of Green in
the County of Henneber in this State
Judith Timberlake
State of Maine
Oxford County SS. On this second
day of February 1849 personally
appeared Judith Timberlake well
known to me as a credible witness and
made oath to the truth of the foregoing
Affidavit by her subscribed.
Before me Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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I, Salmon Richards of Turner in the County
of Oxford and State of Maine, aged Eighty four
years on oath depose and say that I was born
and brought up in the town of Bridgewater in the
County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and resided there untill the year 1810
when I removed to Turner my present place of
residence. That I resided in that part of the town of
of Bridgewater which was incorporated with a part of
the town of Middleborough into a Precinct called
"Liticus Parish" the meeting house of which stood in
the town of Middleborough near the line of the town of
Bridgwater. That during the Revolution I was
well acquainted with Isaiah Keith who then resided
in the same Parish with me, but from the great
lapse of time I am not positive whether his residence
was on the Bridgwater or Middleborough side of the
town line, but recollect that it was in the same Parish
and that he attended the Liticus parish meeting when
I attended. That said Keith was reputed to be a
Soldier in the Revolutionary war (of which I have no
doubt) that it was well understood at that time
that he served several campaigns, and that he died
during the war and I think while in the service.
I further testify that I knew of no other man by the
name of Isaiah Keith, either in the town of Bridgewater
or Middleborough, that I did not serve as a soldier
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in said war myself, but that I was classed with
four others and our Fathers hired a substitute to serve
for us once for three month to go to Rhode Island and
at an other time I think for three years-
And I further say that I was well acquainted with
Sarah Keith, widow of said deceased from the time
of the death of her husband in the Revolutionary war
to the time of her death - that she removed to the
State of Maine some years before I did, and that
after my removal to Maine she usually visited
at my house as often as twice a year, that she
did not intermarry but died a widow in the
town of Green and about five or six miles
from my place of residence eleven or twelve
years ago last fall
Salmon Rickards
State of Maine
Oxford County} S.S.
February 12th 1849
personally appeared Salmon Rickards well
known to me as a credible witness and made
oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by
him subscribed
Before me,
Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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Extract from the Town Records
in the town of Green
Widow Keith departed this life
October Seventh one thousand
eight hundred and thirty six
I certify that the above is a true true extract
from the town Records in the town of
Green and County of Kennebec and
State of Maine with the exception of
the date which is expressed on the
Record in fair legible figures as follows
"October 7th 1836"
Silas Sprague Town Clerk of Green
I Silas Sprague above named
depose and say that I hold the office
of town Clerk in the town of Green
aforesaid and that the above is a true
extract from to Records of said town
with the exceptions as above certified
by me
Silas Sprague
State of Maine
Kennebec County SS. May 1, 1849
Subscribed and sworn to -
Before me Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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United States of America
Maine District S
District Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that the Hon
Ashur Ware before whom the foregoing
proceedings were had is Judge of the
United States within and for Maine
District and that the signature thereto
purporting to be his, is genuine
And further certify that Job
Prince Esquire whose signature is annexed to the deposition attached is a
Magistrate for the State, duly appointed
and qualified and commissioned and
that full faith and credit are due to his
cial attestations.
In testimony of which I
have hereto set my hand
and the Seal of said Court
this second day of May
A.D. Eighteen hundred
and forty nine
John Mufsey Clerk U.S.
Dist. Court
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26.741
Sarah Keith
Wid of
Isaiah Keith
Sergt Rev War
---
Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. A, Page 394
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 7336
Sarah Keith decd
Mr
Let to Hon. A. K. Parris
May 10 '49
Repeted
Act 4 July 1836
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29
50

W. Ames
will issue a 
certificate to 
be admt.

sent to Hon
W Hamlin
Senate
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Washington Mar 29 /50
Dear Sir
Allow me to call your attention
to the Case of Sarah Keith deceased
for a Pension. The application is
by Martin Keith Adm. -
I believe the decision in the
case by the Secy of the Interior, on the
application of Elizabeth Thorn settles
this case- If so will you send me
a certificate -- [illegible]
[illegible]
H Hamlin
J L Edwards
Comm War
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Washington May 7. 1849
Sir
I have been requested
to file for your decision, the
inclosed papers in behalf of
Martin C. Keith for a
pension for Sarah Keith
the widow of Isaiah Keith
deceased.
Respy Albionel E. Parris
J. L. Edwards, Esqr.
Comm of Pensions
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No 7336
Sarah Keith dcd
Wid of Isaiah
me
Act 4 July 1836
admd
9  mo 14 days pri 31.55
3 " Corpl   .36
6 " Sergt  1.00
32.91
4 March 1831 to 7 Oct
1831 the any other
death payable to
Martin C Keith. admd
of Sarah Keith dcd
Hon H Hamlin
Senate U States