Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20496, for James Loveland, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Loveland, James
Mary
NUMBER   W. 20496
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Notification sent December 20. 1820 to Robert C. Vose, Augusta, Maine 
6127 M. ’81 died 1827 
Maine  4   
James Loveland. private Connecticut line - 1 year in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Jany 1819 and del’d [delivered]  R. C. Vose Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818.  4 mo 38.66
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819  48.00 
$86.66 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
North Hill 
Continued
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Maine 6000 
Mary Loveland 
widow of James Loveland Con who was a Private in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th  day of August 1844 and sent to Geo. W. Morton Augusta, Maine 
[Act of March 3, 1843]
& June 17 1844 
Recorded in Book A. Vol 1 Page 13 
Repd [reported]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the [United] States
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that James Loveland a citizen of the United States, now resident in North Hill in the said County of Somerset in the District of Maine, on the Seventeenth day of April A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act, entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed. 
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his county for support.  
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
Nathan Weston Jr. C. first CCC Pleas 2d E. Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
KENNEBEC, SS. 
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis
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James Loveland, North Hills Somerset County Col Huntington, Con. Reg. Dec 1775 to Dec. 1776 - 1 year
April 17th 1818
Admitted
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
I James Loveland, aged fifty nine years, a citizen of the United States, born in Glosenbury in the state of Connecticut, but now resident in North Hill in the District of Maine upon oath testify and declare, that in December 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier, into the war of the revolution against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment for the period of one year, in Capt Eliza Hubbards company, and Col. Huntingdon's [Huntington] regiment of the Connecticut troops or line, and served therein until August 1776, when I was taken prisoner at the battle at Long Island and remained as such with the enemy until December 1776 and was then exchanged at old Milford in the state of Connecticut. In December 1777 I again enlisted into the same service and upon the same establishment, unto the three years service for the remainder of the term, in Capt Barnards company and Col Willis [Wyllys] regiment of the Connecticut troops or line, and served therein until the last of December 1779 or the first of January 1780 when I took my final and honorable Discharge from the Army at West Point.   I was at the battle at Long Island, where I was taken prisoner and remained such about five months at New York, in the new Dutch Church and Sugar House, which imprisonment very much impaired my health.  My discharge from the Army is lost and not to my knowledge in existence.  Not knowing where any of my officers, or the soldiers who served with me, now reside, or whether they are living or not, this is all the evidence in my power at this term to furnish.  
From my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever.  I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.  I further testify and and declare upon oath that I was baptized by the name of Levi, and continued to be known by the name of Levi Loveland from my birth to the year 1781, when upon application to the Legislature of Connecticut I had permission to take the name of James Loveland; by which name I have been known since the year 1781.  During the revolutionary war I was known by the name of Levi Loveland.   
James Loveland 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Kennebec ss 
On the seventeenth day of April A.D. 1818  James Loveland above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the  above declaration, by him subscribed. Before me, 
Nathan Weston Jr first C. Court C. Pleas 2d Eastern Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
I Church Williams of Augusta in the District of Maine of lawful age upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the within named James Loveland; from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth.   
Church Williams  
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Kennebec ss    
On the twentieth day of April A.D. 1818  Church Williams, above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed. Before me, 
Nathan Weston Jr C. Dist C. Court C. Pleas 2d Eastern Circuit 
James Loveland, North Hill 
Somerset County pr Col Huntington, Con. Reg. Dec 1775 to Dec. 1776 - 1 year 
April 17th 1818 
Admitted
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Northhill April the 14 1818  
We hereby certify that Mr James Loveland of said Northhill is in low circumstances and kneady of the pension that Government may pleas to grant to him.  
Wm Butterfield          
John W. Weeks Selectmen of said town
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Levi Loveland
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Chatham Ms Octob 27  18 ¾ 
Wm Wolcot Junr Esqr
Augusta Me
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James Loveland and Molly Howes both of Chatham was married the eighteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred & eighty one by the Revd Stephen Emery of Chatham (Signed) Nathan Basset Town Clerk 
I David Atwood do certify that the above record is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follow December 18th 1781.  
I David Atwood above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Chatham in the County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above and as certified by me David Atwood Clerk of the Town of Chatham County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts 
Barnstable ss October 16th 1838 
personally appeared the above named David Atwood and made oath that the above extract is a true copy from the record of the above said Town of Chatham  
Joseph Atwood  Justice Peace
Fees & trouble $1.00 D. A.
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Chatham Ms
Octob 27   18 ¾
Wm Wolcot Junr Esqr
Augusta Me
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Secty Office  Oct. 25. 1838. 
I hereby certify that the within Joseph Atwood was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable at the state of his within attestation
Witness the Seal of the State 
John P. Bigelow 
Secty of the Court
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Mary Loveland 
widow of James Loveland late a pensioner under 
Act of March 18th 1818 
Maine Agency 
See Registry for the No 
12 mo. in 76 Capt Hubbard Col Huntington Conn 
admd [admitted] 
12 mo pri 
$40 
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine
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DECLARATION 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.”  
STATE OF MAINE. 
Kennebec County, ss. 
On this fourth day of June A. D., 1839, personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, in open Court May Loveland a resident of Waterville in the County of Kennebec State of Maine, aged seventy eight and 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 James Loveland, deceased who at the time of his decease, was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, under the Act of Congress of March 18. 1818. that his pension was payable at the Maine Agency and that she refers to the evidence furnished the war department by her late said husband, of his service in the war of the Revolution in support of her claim 
She further declares, that she was married to the said James Loveland on the eighteenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one;  that her husband the aforesaid James Loveland  died on the twenty second day of March 1827 in the town of Brighton Somerset County, Maine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.   That her maiden name Mary Howes and that she was married at Chatham Mass.  
Mary Loveland her mark 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me 
Nathan Weston Jr C. J. S. J. C.
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State of Maine 
On the fourth day of June, 1839. Mary Loveland the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated, in open court at a regular term.  I am satisfied that the applicant was married to James Loveland late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, on the eighteenth day of December  1781, that the said James Loveland deceased on the twenty second of March 1827, and that the applicant was ever since remained his widow. 
Nathan Weston C.J. J.J. Court 
STATE OF MAINE. Kennebec ss 
I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said county, hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State.   
I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of Mary Loveland for a pension. I further certify that George W. Morton  is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Kennebec and that the signature hereunto annexed purporting to be his is genuine.   
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this tenth  day of June A. D. 1839. 
J A Chandler
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I Joseph Huntoon of Waterville in the County of Kennebec, and State of Maine, aged sixty one years, do depose and say, that I was well acquainted with James Loveland deceased, that he was to my knowledge a revolutionary pensioner of the United States that he died in the month of March A.D. One thousand eight hundred & twenty seven, that his reputed widow Mary Loveland, now a resident of Waterville aforesaid and who made the foregoing declaration, lived with the said James Loveland as his wife, ever since my acquaintance with them, which had been for upwards of thirty years previous to the decease of the said James Loveland and that the said Mary has remained unmarried ever since his decease.  
Joseph Huntoon  
State of Maine County of Kennebec ss. 
On this fourth day of June AD 1839. Personally appeared Joseph Huntoon and made oath to the trust of the above affidavit by him subscribed. The deponent I certify reputable person and entitled to full belief.   
Before me Geo W. Morton Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine. 
I William Allen Jr Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is thirty dollars, and not deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is thirty dollars. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Eighth day of November 1820. 
1 William Allen Jr Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset
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James Loveland 
Northhill
Somerset county
6127
March 1819
Con
Sent to 
Robert C. Vose Augusta Maine
Dec 20 1820
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Copy    405  State of Maine. KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss. 
On this fourteenth day of June, 1820, personally appeared before in Open Court before Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, James Loveland aged sixty one years, resident in North Hill in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Hubbard and Regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington of the line of the State of Connecticut upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of one year and afterwards two years in Captain Barnard's company and Col. Willis's [Wyllys] regiment of the line, was at the battle of Long Island and the storming of Stony Point 
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the Seventeenth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6127. And I, the said James Loveland do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to 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 service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
James Loveland 
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary Clothing and bedding excepted, viz: 
one old house of the value of fifteen dollars only one yearling steer [steer] of the value of five dollars one swine of the value of three dollars, old furniture besides necessary bedding of the value of five dollars,  one old axe, hoe and scythe, worth two dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected and I owe as much as three hundred dollars. My income from the above is not one fourth as much as the interest on the money I owe.  My occupation has been that of a farmer but from age and infirmity am unable to labor. My family at home consists of myself,  my wife Molly aged fifty eight years, very feeble person and mostly unable to labor, my son Isaac aged Seventeen years, my son Elijah aged fifteen years, my daughter Mary aged eleven years, and my grandson James aged three years.
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Except the foregoing and necessary bedding and clothing, I have no estate or income whatever.  
James Loveland 
Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the fourteenth day of June 1820 before me 
Nathan Weston Jr J.C.C.C. Pleas 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original oath and schedule filed in the Clerk's Office at Norriddgewock in the County of Somerset November 8. 1820 
Attest  Wm Allen  Clerk of Courts Somerset
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Augusta Maine August 7. 1844 
Sir
I herewith enclose a declaration of Mrs Mary Loveland for the purpose of having her claim to a pension by virtue of the act of March 3, 1843 allowed.  If satisfactory, be pleased to allow her claim and send me for her a certificate.  
Very respectfully your Obt Sert 
Geo W. Morton 
James L. Edwards Esq Comm of Pension City of Washington D.C.
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Jas Loveland d.
75 12 mo Elizar Hubbard [unreadable] 
Name of Lin
Dec 77 3 yrs Barnard Willis [Wyllys] 
Elist in 77 for War – found in Tills Co joined from Cap Barnards co Aug 78 desert Aug 8 79
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Augusta Maine May 13. 1844 
Sir
The claim of Mrs Molly Loveland widow of James Loveland, whose papers are on file in your office, and which were transmitted to you in 1839 for the purpose of having it allowed under act of July 7. 1838, was rejected, as appears by your letter of 6 August 1839, by reason of his desertion, you inform me that he set forth two tour of service one in 1776 for one year which was proved by the affidavit of a credible witness in which his pension was allowed,  the second tour was not fully served, that he deserted.   Is not she entitled to the benefit of the years service, which he served and if she is will you please to pension her for it.  
Very respectfully your Obt Servt 
Geo. W Morton 
James L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions City of Washington
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Mary Loveland
6000
March 43 & 44
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State of Maine 
On the ninth day of August, 1838,  I received the declaration of Mary Loveland for a pension. The applicant was seventy seven years of age. Considering her sex and the indignities incident to her advanced period of life, it appeared to me that I was Justified in certifying her inability to attend in open and Her case was examined with care.   
Nathan Weston 
C Just. State of Maine
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Levi Loveland
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I Samuel Cone, aged sixty two years upon oath testify and declare, that being myself  a soldier at the time, I know that Loveland served in the war of the revolution as a private soldier in Col. Huntington's regiment of the Connecticut line, and that the said Levi served in the year 1776.  
Samuel Cone 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Kennebec ss  
On the sixteenth day of October, A.D. 1818 Samuel Cone above named, being a credible and disinterested witness, made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed Before me, 
Nathan Weston Jr C. Just. C.C.C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit.
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DECLARATION  
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838. 
STATE OF MAINE, County of Somerset ss}
On this fifth day of August A. D. 1844, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, Mary Loveland a resident of Brighton, Maine in the County of Somerset aged eighty three  years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 
That she is the widow of James Loveland who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said James Loveland at the rate of Forty dollars per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was payable to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine.   She further declares that she is still the widow of the said James Loveland having remained unmarried ever since his death that she now resides in Brighton as above stated where she has resided for four years, that previously she resided in Waterville Maine and that she has this day empower an attorney to recover from the Agency in Portland Maine the amt of pension she is entitled under act of July 7. 1838.  
Mary Loveland her mark   
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, Before me David Gilman Justice of the Peace
Witness Asa Russel
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death. 
David Gilman Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Kennebec ss   I the subscriber Clerk of the Jud. Courts for the County of Kennebee hereby certify that David Gilman is a magistrate as within said and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.   Witness my hand and the seal of the Sup. Jud Court this seventh day of August A.D. 1844. 
A. R. Nichols,
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Mary Loveland
Widow of James
Let. G. W. Morton
Augt 6th 1839
7 July '38
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8402   
Maine 
Mary Loveland widow of James Loveland who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 22nd March 1827 of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hubbard of the Regt commanded by Col. Huntington in the Conn line for 12 Months.   
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day 1844 and sent to G. W. Morton, Augusta Me 
Total Amount, $200. 
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by the Tho Lumpkin  Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 11
[unreadable]
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20496 
Mary Loveland 
Widow of James Loveland 
Priv. Rev. War –
Act: March 3. 1843 
Index: -- Vol. A Page 443 
[Arrangement of 1870.]