Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37550, George White, Mass.
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(3-1776)
White, George
Service Mass.
Number S37550
   

CONTENTS
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Maine
George White
in the Dist. of Maine
who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Francis of the Masstts. line for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Mar 1819 and sent to Wm. Crosby, Esq. Belfast, Maine

Arrears to 4th March 1819 10 mos. 15/30  4/3l
$212.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819  $120.00
$332.58
Continued

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
File Sept. 1819
(illegible)

Notification sent October 10, 1820 to Moses L. Judkins, Castine, Maine

Let. to Hon. A. Marshall Feb. 7, 1842
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George White

George White, Cap

Admitted
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hancock SS

On the sixteenth day of April A. D. 1818 Before me the subscriber chief Justice of the Third Castine Circuit Court of Common pleas in said Commonwealth including the counties of Hancock Washington and Penobscot Personally appeared George White who being by me first duly sworn according to law on his oath make the statement and declaration by him subscribed and hereto annexed in order to obtain the provision of law made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.
And there upon the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said George White did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his said declaration and that from the evidence offered me to appears to me that he is in reduced circumstanced and stands in need of assistance of his country for his support--which proceeding s and the testimony annexed I now transmit to the Secy. for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of said act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed by Mason Shawa clk. of said county for said county of Hancock.
Wm. Crosby
Attest Mason Shaw clerk
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I George White of Vinal haven in the county of Hancock and Destrict of Maine on oath say and declare that I served in the late revolutionary war upon the continental establishment from the first day of Dec. 1776 till the twenty fifth of July 1779 as a commissioned officer. that on the sixth day of Nov. 1776 I was commissioned a Captain of a compy. in a regiment commanded by Col. Eber. Francis in the Massachusetts line and in March 1777 joined my Regiment at Ticonderoga and commanded said compy.  till June 25, 1779 when I resigned my said command and was regularly discharged. at New Windsor N. York and left the service with said Resignation and commission are hereto annexed.
(illegible) that I am now seventy two years old next June. That I am poor and thence in need of the assistance of my country for my support.
George White
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George White
number blank

Vinalhaven
Con
10 Mch 19
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I George White submit my claims to a continuance of my Pension upon the following brief statement of facts.
I have been afflicted with the asthma for twenty six years during 21 years of which time I have thereby been rendered totally unable to labour for my support or even to walk without inconvenience.  I formally owned a farm in Vinalhaven which afforded me a decent living, whilst I was able to work upon it.  But having to hire the requisite labour theron and having much sickness in my family I became involved
in debt, and was compelled thereby to sell off one parcel after another of my said farm to relieve myself from the pressure, at length forseeing a total wreck of the remnant of
my fortune, to prevent a sacrifice thereof and with a design to reserve something for my subsistence.  I did on the 2d day of April 1817 sell and convey to my sons Henry + Oliver
White all the residue of my property consistingof about 100 acres of land in said Vinalhaven with some small buildings thereon in and unfinished state, the fair value of which
was about $400.  I owed debts at that time to the amount of $300 for the payment of which they were to provide in as far as they were able for my support. But I took from them neither Bond or Mortgage for my security since which
time I have lived with and they have supported me and my wife and their grandmother who is now 86 years old.  They have discharged a portion of the Debts, but I still owe about one hundred and thirty dollars.
In March 1814 my son Mathew B. White enlisted as a private soldier in the late war with Great Britain in Capt. Benjamin Polands Company - was mustered at Portland  
performed duty two months and by exposure to inclement
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my wife and their grandmother who is now 86 years old. They have discharged a portion of the Debts, but I still owe about one hundred and thirty dollars.
In March 1814 my son Mathew B. White enlisted as a private soldier in the late war with Great Britain in Capt. Benjamin Pollends Company - was mustered at Portland
performed duty two months and by exposure to inclement weather and damp lodgings took a severe cold which terminated in a pulmonic complaint he returned home on
furlough and after lingering confinement to a bed of sickness of four years and nine months died on the fourth of may 1819.  HIs board and medicinal attendance was paid for by me from funds I received from my son Henry
and Oliver White aforesaid.  Under these circumstances I am satisfied that for the property which I conveyed to them by my deed aforesaid they have paid me full just & reasonable consideration.  But if not they are now embarrassed by debts of their own and both very infirm (one being under Pulmonic complaint and the other afflicted with a Fever or ague sore) and unable to labour.
I have in my former declaration provided the certificate of the selectman of Vinalhaven of my being in reduced circumstances, which although herein more fully exemplified I would again refer to. I served my Country faithfully as an officer for five years and nine months in the revolutionary army nearly three years of which was on the continental establishment and am now unable to subsist without the aid of public or private
charity.
George White
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STATE OF MAINE.

Hancock ss...At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit, begun
and holden at Castine within and for the county of Hancock
on the second tuesday of July being the eleventh day of said month
and by adjournment form day to day, on the thirteenth day of said month in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and twenty,
before the Honorable William Crosby and James Campbell
Judges of said Court.

ON this thirteenth day of July in the year 1820. personally appeared in open court the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings and having "the power of fine and
imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, George White aged seventy four years, resident in Vinalhaven in 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. as a Captain of a company in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Francis
in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more
particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the sixteenth
day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his certificate of Pension,
numbered        was granted.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 navel service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,"
passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contract, or debts due to me; not have I any income other than which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is par-
ticularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed my me. 
George White
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding ex-
cepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
6 table & 6 teaspoons which have been
72 years in my family
1 sheep
a claim against Henry & Oliver White
of an uncertain amount & doubtful security
more particularly described on the other side
of this sheet
annual income by labour nothing
George White
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me George White, who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of Asthma of twenty six years standing

NAMES.                AGES.        Capacity of each to contribute to their support.
Sarah White           65              nothing by reason of debility
                                                   George White

STATE OF MAINE.
Hancock ss.
I, Mason Shaw Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within
the county of Hancock do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said 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, is seven
dollars and fifty cents.  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
Court on this thirteenth day of July A.D. onE thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Mason Shaw   {Clerk of the said Circuit Court
                         {for the County of Hancock
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This mans son Mathew Beverage White
made application for pension for services
rendered in 1814.  Rej. F. 18.948
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[On the left side of the page.]
37550
Revy INVALID

File No. 37,550
George White
Lieut Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 475
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[On the right side of the page.]
1930 May 3. Photos mailed
to  Edw. A. Gould.  See
Matthew Beveridge W25232
A.D.Y.
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See request in Matthew Beveridge, W.25232

Submit in Duplicate  1-681  Phone Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 42581
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering ............Pension
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Tital and description of job: photostatic copied of 5 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of George White, Mass. Troops, S37550
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Margaret M. H. Finch, Chief of Division
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The Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secy. War
Washington
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District of Maine
Belfast June 6, 1818

Sir
Inclosed I send you applications for pensions under the late law made for the benefit of the revolution survivors of the armies and navy of the revolution.
In takeing these declaration I have (illegible) on all to comply with the law and the forms and (illegible) wants of the war (illegible) as they are known to me.
The number of claimants who have appeared before me and whose declarations I have taken is about seventy. They (illegible) live in my vicinity and followed the fortune and person of the late Genl. Hen. Kox into this country and settled on his land here.
They are very poor and unable to employ agents or counsel and I have warned them not to fall into the hand of
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(illegible) or to anticipate the bounty of this country. I therefore hop they may meet with no embarrassments on account of the form of their applications and my certificate.
I have taken their (illegible) stories for you to Judge whether their service was upon the continental establishment.
If these are acceptable in point of form I shall  transmit the residue immediately.
If you will have the goodness to inform me by mail whether the inclosed cases are accepted and if either of them are rejected the reason of their rejection you will confer them and myself an essential service.
I am yr. very hum. Sir &c
Willaim Crosby

Hon. John C. Calhoun Secy. War
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West Point June 20, 1779
To His Excellency George Washington Esquire Commander in chief of the Armys of the United States of America
May it please your Excellency
   
     When I consider the glory of
The cause Ive been so long engaged in & which Ive the Greatest Reason to expect will be at a period the conclusion of the present campaign I cannot but conceive myself
The most miserable man in the world when I am obliged though With the greatest Reluctance to make this my application
to you for a Resignation of my Commission.  Ive been in the service since the
Commencement of the Present War and have had the honour to command a Company in the (15th) Battalion belonging to
The Massachusetts State from the first of December 1776 To the Present Date.
     And when Your Excellency considers the
Justice of my application I flatter myself you will have no objection to my Resignation. Ive Just received some letters from my family Demanding a speedy return home to [word is crossed out] Preserve my Interest which is a present at the brink of Destruction
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This may Certify that Capt. George White has
Setled all publick accounts and is not in Debited to the Army
 Billy Porter P.
 Benjn. Tupper Col.

West Point June 1779







White, Geo.
Mass. S37550
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Ebenr. Frye
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I Archibald M. Mullin a soldier in the war of the Revolution on oath say that I (illegible) George White of Vinal Haven in the District of Maine and knew him in the service of said War.
He was a Captain in a Regt. in the Mass. line commanded by Col. Francis afterward by Col. Tupper as I think.
Archibald M. Mullin

Hancock SS
May 2 1818
Sworn to before me
Wm. Crosby, Chief Jus &c.
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We the subscribers Selectmen and overseers of the Poor of the Town of Vinal Haven in the county of Hancock and District of Maine do hereby certify that George White of said Vinal haven and commonly reported to have been an officer in the late revolutionary war by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stand in need of the assistance of his country for his support and in our opinion is well entitled to the bounty provided by law for the necessitary (illegible) of the army and navy of the late revolutionary war.
Nathaniel Beverage
Zebulon Standly
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IN CONGRESS the DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersy, Pennsylvania, the COUNTIES of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Caroline, South-Carolina and Georgia TO George White, Esq.,  Greeting
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity Do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of the  Company in the Battalion whereof Ebenezer Frances Esq. is Colonel in the Army of the United States raised for the Defence of American Liberty and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to Discharge the Duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your Orders as their Captain. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated at Boston this sixth day of November, A.D. 1776
By Order of the Congress   John Hancock, President
Attest Chas. Thomson, Secy.
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I certify that Capt White has
resigned his rank in the army of the
United States and is hereby released
from the Service.
   By His Excellency
Command
Alex Hamilton
Aide DeCamp

Head Quarters New
Windsor for June 25.1779

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George White
Mass
S.37550


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