Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22001, for Barton Pollard, New Hampshire
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KNOW all Men by these Presents, That I Barton Pollard late a Soldier in the Newhampshire [sic] line during the Revolutionary War, having enlisted into Capt Ellis's Company in the 3d New Hampshire Regiment for the period during the war, and continued in the service to the peace of 1783 - have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Joshua W Wing of the town of [illegible] in the County of Ontario and State of New York my legal representative and lawful attorney, for me and in my name and behalf, to demand and receive of and from the proper officer at the War department of the United States, or such other person as may be duly authorised [sic] to grant the same a warrant for all the bounty Land to which I am entitled by virtue of the several Acts of Congress of the United States in such case made & provided -
And the said Joshua W Wing
is hereby authorised [sic] and directed
to execute in my name and behalf the proper receipt and legitimate acquittance for the same, and all other writings, necessary in my name, to make, do, seal and execute in as
ample and complete a manner to all intents and purposes as I might or could do were I personally present at the doing thereof. - And one or more attorneys or substitutes under him to duly make and appoint, and at pleasure revoke their powers; and whatsoever my said
attorney or his substitutes may lawfully do in the premises by virtue of the power herein
contained I hereby irrevocably ratify and confirm. In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal, this thirty first day of January A. D. 1818
Barton Pollard
In presence of
Moses Appleton

STATE OF Massachusetts
COUNTY OF Kennebec ss.}
PERSONALLY APPEARED Barton Pollard to me well known, and made oath in due form of law, that he is the same person described in and who executed the above power of attorney, and the same is his free, voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned,
Barton Pollard
Sworn and subscribed before me, this thirty first day of January
A. D. 1818
Moses Appleton Just. [JUSTICE] Peace

STATE OF Massachusetts 
Kennebec COUNTY, SS.} PERSONALLY APPEARED Asa Redington Esqr
and Timo [TIMOTHY] Hudson and being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say, that they and each of them are personally acquainted with Barton Pollard who has executed the above power of attorney, and well know him to be the person described therein.
Asa Redington
Tim'o [TIMOTHY] Hudson 

Sworn and subscribed before me, this
thirty first day of January A.D. 1818 and I hereby certify that the above deponents are in my opinion credible witnesses.}
Moses Appleton Just. [JUSTICE] Peace
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✓ 3270 Maine
Mary Pollard N.H. widow of Barton Pollard
who was a Serg [SERGEANT] & private 
in the N. Hamp [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
109 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Decemr [DECEMBER] 1843 and sent to
N. H. Bradbury Belfast Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 8
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Barton Pollard
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J Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Brooks Nov 22nd 1839
Sir I send you a coppy [sic] of record found in the town of Clinton it will bee [sic] perceive [sic] that my mother was born in Vassalborough [VASSALBORO] but I am informed that in the papers sent to Washington the town Sidney is set down as her birth place, it may be well to state that ["to" crossed out] Sidney was then a part of Vassalborough [VASSALBORO]
P. Pollard

W. Bradbury
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Belfast Aug 12 1843
Sir
Enclosed is the Declaration of Widow Mary Pollard for pension under the act of 3d March - When the certificate is made out please to enclose the same to me
Respectfully yrs [YOURS]
N.H. Bradbury
J.L. Edwards Esq
Com. [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
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[stamp] BELFAST ME DEC 8 FREE (postage)

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[sideways] Me [MAINE] Dec 16
Add [ADDITIONAL] proof Mary Pollard
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I hereby Certify That
some time in latter part of the year 1788-
I was present at the house of Asa Phillips of Winslow and saw a marriage solemnized
by Ezekiel Pattee Justice of the peace between Barton Pollard & Mary Phillips daughter of said Asa - I cannot now recolect [RECOLLECT] the day or the month of the said year in which the said marriage was Soleming [SOLEMNIZED] I further testify I was well acquainted with said Pollard & his wife Mary & part of the time they lived in a house with me & had a family of children of their own - I knew them well from the time of their marriage to the time of the death of Pollard - Which hapned [HAPPENED] several
years a go [AGO] - his widow the said Mary is
yet living -
Charles Hayden of [illegible]
now over 75 years of age -

Winslow - August 11. 1839}

Kennebec SS August 11. 1839
Then the above Charles Hayden personally appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed Lemuel Paine Justice of the Peace
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Deposition of
Abagail Leonard
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Deposition of
Southwood Philps
State of Maine
Kennebec ss.

I, the undersigned, Clerk of the Jud. [JUDICIAL] Courts for
the County of Kennebec, do certify that Lemuel Paine and
Archelaus P. Fuller are magistrates as within said duly commissioned
& sworn and that the signature affixed to the papers
hereto annexed are their genuine signatures-
Witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court
this nineteenth day of August AD 1839-
JA Chandler