Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2394, Nathan Wiggin, N.H.
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SERVICE
NH   

Wiggin, Nathan 
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W2394 

CONTENTS
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2838
Maine
Elizabeth Wiggin
widow of
Nathan Wiggin
who served
in the Revolutionary war
N H
, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20
Dollars 10
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th
day of November,
1853
and sent to
R. McIntire
Portland
Me.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page
Vol. A
(32 )

[Handwritten text to the right]
Date of her
death not [illegible]
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2592  Maine   
Nathan Wiggin of Parsonsfield in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pike of the Regt commanded by Col [Denters?] in the Massa'tts line for Militia for NH 6,mo/day    

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,  1831.         

Certificate of Pension issued the 1t day of Dec 1832 and Sent to Hon R McIntire. House of Reps          

Arrears to 4th of [illegible] 1832   $30.15   $40.20  

Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 [illegible]  1877 10.05   

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} Recorded by Enos D Bulloch Clerk,  
Book D  Vol.11 Page 101
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State of Maine
County of York ss On this thirteenth
day of August AD 1853 personally appeared before me William C. Allen Judge of Probate in & for the County of York & State aforesaid, Elizabeth Wiggin of Parsonsfield in said County
did depose & says that she is the Widow of Nathan Wiggin late of said Parsonsfield deceased - that she was married to said Nathan Wiggin by Elder Zachariah Jordan on the twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty - that
said Nathan Wiggin died on the fourteenth day of October AD 1847 and was an United States Pensioner for Revolutionary services at the time of his death-- that said Nathan Wiggin was a soldier in the United States 
service in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain for the time & particulars of that service
refers to the declaration & evidence 
furnished by said Nathan Wiggin in his application for a pension & now on file in the Pension department--that she makes this declaration to obtain the
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the benefits of the provisions of the act
of Congress of the third day of February
AD 1853 -- that she is Seventy three years of age & still remains a widow and that said Nathan Wiggin drew a pension of twenty dollars & twenty cents per annum at the time of his decease.
Signature [illegible] Wiggin

Witness
Wm. E. Moulton
Betsey J Bean

State of Maine:
York Count ss
Subscribed and sworn to, before the undersigned, on the day and year above written; and it is further certified that the said Elizabeth Wiggin is, by reason of bodily infirmity and old age, unable to attend Court, and it is further certified that the Court of Probate for County and State aforesaid is a Court of Record.
Wm. C. Allen
Judge as aforesaid.
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I Louisa Wiggin of Parsonfield, of lawful age testify and depose under oath, that I was well acquainted with Nathan Wiggin of said Parsonfield, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and the husband of Elizabeth Wiggin who is an applicant for pension; that said Nathan Wiggin died at my home in said Parsonfield, on the fourteenth day of October, A.D. 1847, and was buried therefrom; that I am the wife of [arrow pointing up to add   "the late" between the words "wife of" and "Samuel Wiggin"] the late Samuel Wiggin, a son of said deceased; that I have no  [inter??] whatever in the application of said Elizabeth Wiggin  
Louisa [Me] Wiggin
[York Js??]  sworn and subscribed this thirteenth day of August, AD. 1853; and I herby certify, that the said deponent is a credible witness.   Rufus McIntire  Just. of the Peace
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I Silas Moulton of the town of Parsonsfield in the County of York and State of Maine depose and say that I am Town Clerk of the town of Parsonsfield and that the records of said town are in my custody and that I find on the book of the record of return of Marriages page 153, the following marriage returned by the Rev Zachariah Jordan Viz In Parsonsfield on the
twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Mr Nathan Wiggin and Mrs Elizabeth Miles and this is an exact copy excepting on the book of records it stands in legible figures as follows "In Parsonsfield on the 23d of February 1840 Mr. Nathan Wiggin & Mrs
Elisabeth Miles "
Silas Moulton Town Clerk of Parsonsfield
State of Maine York ss Parsonsfield August 12th 1853 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for said County Silas Moulton Town Clerk of the town of Parsonsfield and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed
G L Bennett
Justice of the Peace
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I Eliza Jane Wiggin, of lawful age testify and
depose, that I was well acquainted with Nathan Wigin of Parsonsfield, a Revolutionary
Pensioner, and the husband of the [illegible]
Elizabeth Wiggin who is an applicant for
a Pension; that said Nathan died at my fathers home on the 14th day of October A.D. 1847, and was buried therefrom; that I have no interest in the application aforesaid
Eliza Jane Wiggin
York ss. subscribed and sworn to this thirteenth
day of August, 1853, and I hereby certify that said deponent is a credible witness
Rufus McIntire
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine:
York County ss
I Joshua Henrich, Register of the Court of Probate for the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. William C. Allen, whose genuine signature appears above, and before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was and is, the Judge of the Court aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his official acts are entitled to credit.
I also further certify that the Hon. Rufus
McIntire is a Justice of the Peace within
and for said county of York, duly commissioned and qualified, and that
his signatures hereunto annexed are
genuine. I further certify that Gillman L. Bennett is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of York, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature hereunto annexed is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of August, AD. 1853.
Joshua Herrick Register
[Round seal in lower left corner]
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4818.
Nathan Wiggin
PO
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State of Rhode Island & from thence to Warwick & Little Compton
There were four companies of Militia raised in the State of New Hampshire at the time aforesaid, which were continued together during the aforesaid term of service & were occasionally joined by other militia
From the fact that the four companies to enlisted were from the State of New Hampshire he infers that they constituted one of the New Hampshire Regiments
but he does not know where the commanding officer Colonel Senter resided
He hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or an annuity except the
present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
He further states in answer to interrogatories that he was born in Northam in the State of New Hampshire on the 22nd of October 1760 & has no record of his birth but is one in a birth of one of his children his Son Daniel in said Parsonsfield-- That he was living in [illegible] in New Hampshire when he was
called into said service and that he has lived in
Parsonsfield when now lives for the last
forty five years, & that he entered the service
by voluntary enlistment. that he had no
written discharge when he [illegible]
Nathan Wiggin
Subscribed & Sworn to the day & year aforesaid
We Dudley Hilton Zebulon Peace depose & say that we that we lived in Newmarket in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1777 & 1778 & were well acquainted with Nathan Wiggin then [illegible] now of Parsonsfield in the state of Maine [illegible] [served?] in the Militia in the service of the United States 
for the term of six months in a company com
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Subscribed & Sworn to the day & year aforesaid
We Dudley Hilton Zebulon Peace depose & say that we lived in Newmarket in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1777 & 1778 & were well acquainted with Nathan Wiggin then of Epping N. H. now of Parsonsfield in the State of Maine & know that he served in the Militia in the service of the United States for the term of six months in a company commanded by Capt Robert Pike from June 1777 to January 1778 and served principally in Rhode Island having marched from Exeter N.H. through Cambridge Massachusetts to that State. We have personal knowledge of this having served in the same company at the same time. Aug 20-- 1832-
Zabulon Peace
Dudley Hilton
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
I Robert McIntire in resident in [illegible] of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Nathan Wiggin who has subscribed & sworn to the above evidence [illegible] & that 
I believe him to be or seventy one years of age; that he is [illegible] he resides to have 
when he resides to have been a soldier of the
revolution and that I concur in the [illegible]
I further certify that [illegible] Wiggin is [illegible] veracity & entitled to full credit and that I am well acquainted with the records of
the Town of Parsonsfield & know his name appears in them [illegible] of the county [illegible] of [illegible]
[illegible] Aug 20- 1832 - [illegible] McIntire 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
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on Aug 20-1832 - Rufus McIntire
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of the investigation of the matter & putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. and the Court further certifies that Zebulon Pease Dudley Hilton & Rufus McIntire who have signed the preceding certificates are all resident in Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine the said Rufus McIntire being a member of Congress from this district, that they are all credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit

William Cutter Allen, Register of the court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Nathan Wiggin for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the twentieth day of August AD 1832
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate
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State of Maine
County of York
On this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two before the honorable William A. Hayes Judge of Probate for the County of York
aforesaid at a Probate Court holden this day at Limerick in said County personally appeared Nathan Wiggin a resident of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy one 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 June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. That some time in the month of June 1777 he enlisted as a volunteer in a company of New Hampshire Militia commanded by Captain Robert Pike in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel - Senter.
He enlisted for the term of six months
& served during the full term of his enlistment & left the service on the first day of January 1778.
That at the time he so entered the service he
resided in the town of Epping in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire. He marched from Exeter in said County of Rockingham by way of Cambridge in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Providence in the
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4818
6 [illegible]
admit
private [illegible] 1 day
$20.10
Hon R McIntire
Leut [crossed out word]
H. R
Parsonsfield
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BRIEF in the case of Nathan Wiggin
of
in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court of Probate
2. If be Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old he? 71 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days. As a. Gen.
In 1777. 6. Private. Col Senter's Regt.
Cap. Pike's Com.
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Epping
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. D. Bullock Examining Clerk.
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February 10, 1932
BA-J/FEL
Miss Mary P. Hill
Box 68
Topsham, Maine
Dear Madam:

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.2394, based upon the
military service of Nathan Wiggin in that war.

Nathan Wiggin was born October 22, 1760, in Stratham, New Hampshire.

While residing in Epping, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, he volunteered in June, 1777, served as a private in Captain Robert Pike's Company, Colonel Senter's New Hampshire Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1778.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, while residing in Parsonfield, York County, Maine, where he had
then lived for about forty-five years.

He died October 14, 1847, in Parsonfield, Maine.

The soldier married February 23, 1840, at Parsonfield, Maine, Mrs. Elizabeth Miles. Their marriage was recorded on the town records
of said Personfield.

Soldier's widow, Elizabeth, was allowed pension on her application executed August 30, 1853, at which time she was aged seventy-
three years and resided in Parsonfield, Maine. 

Soldier's son, Daniel, was residing in Parsonfield, Maine, in 1832. In 1853, Louise Wiggin, stated that she was the wife of the
late Samuel Wiggin, son of the said deceased Nathan Wiggin, who died at her home in Parsonfield, Maine, on October 14, 1847. In
1853, one Eliza Jane Wiggin stated that the Revolutionary Pensioner, Nathan Wiggin died at her father's house relationship of Eliza Jane
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to soldier not shown.

The name of the mother of Daniel and Samuel Wiggin is not stated and there are no further data as to family.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Portland Aug. 18th 1853
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed herewith is the application of Elisabeth
Wiggin for a pension as the widow of Nathan Wiggin a late U. S. [illegible] deceased. Any communication on the subject may be addressed
to me, Portland, Maine,
Yours respectfully 
Rufus McIntire
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I Rufus McIntire of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine depose & testify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeht Wiggins the widow of Nathan Wiggins late of said Parsonsfield deceased - that said Elizabeth, now an applicant for a pension from the United States for services of said Nathan rendered the United States in the army in the Revolutionary war, is still the widow of said Nathan Wiggins she not having been married
since his death. I was acquainted with said Nathan Wiggins in his life time being my neighbor & with said Elizabeth while they lived together as husband & wife and know said Nathan is dead, that said Elizabeth remains
his widdow & that she is the identical Elizabeth Wiggins now an applicant for a pension under the laws of the United States
Rufus McIntire
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State of Maine:
York County ss.
Subscribed and sworn to, on this 29th day of October, A.D. 1853, before me,
W. C. Allen, Judge
of Probate for said County
State of Maine.
York County
I Joshua Henrick, Register of Probate for the County aforesaid, hereby certify that Wm. C. Allen, above named, is the Judge of said
Court of Probate, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature hereunto annexed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 31st day of October AD. 1853.
Joshua Herrick Regr
[seal]
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To the Hon. Comm. of Pensions:
Dr. Sir,
Enclosed is the deposition of the Hon. Rufus McIntire to be filed in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth
Wiggin, for Pension.
Yr. obdt. servt.
Wm. C. Allen
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Recvd: 14 Oct
"Boynton"
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1932 - Feb 10- Hist to
Mrs Mary P. Hill [illegible]
Letter in case of
Noah Ricker, R8791
WIDOW, &c.
[illegible]
File No. 2394
Elizabeth Wiggin,
Widow
Nathan Wiggin,
Priv. Rev. War.
Act Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:-Vol. M. Page 337
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pension Offs
8" Nov. 53
Sir,
Please certify the time
to which the within named pension
was paid, or the date of his death,
[illegible signature]

[illegible]
For the [illegible]
Nathan Wiggin, act 1832
$20.10 pr annum. Paid
to 4th Sept. 1847, no
date of death on our
Books
Saml S. Rinds
[illegible] Auditor
Francis Burt Esqr
[illegible]
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No. 3035
Elizabeth Wiggin,
Wid: of
Nathan
Set. to R. McIntyre 10" Oct:/53
Act. 3d Feb: 1853
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Aug 20, 1853.
Appl. of Elizabeth Wiggin
Widow of
Nathan,
York Co.
Me.
25 [illegible]
On 3d Feb 1853.
$20.00 per Annum
Feby' 3, 1853
[illegible]
R. McIntire
Portland,
Me.
[vertical on right side]/DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Busin/[vertical on right side]
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Wiggin, widow of Nathan, York County and State of Maine,
act 3 Feby', 1853,
Claim, ("original " [crossed out]/or " for increase")/[crossed out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of
7" June, 1832,
Record evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
R. McIntire, Esq. 
Portland,
Name and residence of agent J. [illegible] Boynton,
Examining Clerk,
Me.