Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3163, Thomas Durrell, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Durrell, Thomas 
Mary
R. 3163
CONTENTS
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Be it known that before me, Joseph T. Nye, Judge of the Court of Probate, being a Court of Record, written and for the County of York in the State of Maine, at a regular session of said Court by me held at Saco in said County and State, on this first day of May, A.D. 1854, personally appeared in open court, Miranda Durrell a resident of Kennebunk Port in said County, aged fifty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is a daughter of Mary Durrell late of said Kennebunk Port deceased, widow of Thomas Durrell late of said Kennebunk Port also deceased, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and that she, the said Miranda, is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made by the said Mary Durrell. She further declares, that her father, the said Thomas Durrell served as a private, (she believes) in the war of the revolution, in a company to defend the sea coast, under command of Benjamin Hooper Esq. Captain, from July 17th to December 31st 1775, for which he was allowed and paid for six month's service:_ that he also served as a private, in a company stationed at Falmouth (now Portland) in said State, commanded by Captain Tobias Lord, from the 31st day of May to the 25th day of December A.D. 1776, being a service of 5 months and twenty five days more, and 11 months and 25 days in the whole. And that he was, as she has
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reason to believe, in both cases, honorably discharged, although no original certificates of discharge are now found among his papers.
She further sates, that if her mother, said Mary Durrell, made any statements in her said application for a pension, either as to the facts of her father's service, or the names of the officers, differing from the foregoing, she must have been led into such mistakes either by the effects of advanced age upon her memory, or by incorrect information from others on whom she relied.
She further says, that her father, the said Thomas Durrell senior, died at Kennebunk Port in 1809. That her mother the said Mary Durrell was never married after her said father's death, and died his widow, at said Kennebunk Port on the ninth day of May A.D. 1841. That the children of her mother, the said Mary Durrell, being also the children of the said Thomas, living at the time of her mother's death, (who are still living) are Betsey Kimball, Mary Nason, Lucy Durrell, and herself, the said declarant. For further particulars and proofs she refers the commissioner of pensions to papers and documents heretofore forwarded to the department.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining for herself and her said sisters the pension due to her mother, the said Mary Durrell under the act of 7th July 1838, or under any act of Congress.
Miranda Durrell
Attest
S.V. Loving
Wm. F. Durell
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The foregoing Declaration made, sworn & subscribed to the Court aforesaid in manner aforesaid._
Joseph T. Nye
Judge._
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I William F Durrell of Kennebunk Port in the State of Maine aged Thirty years on oath depose and say, that I am a nephew of Miranda Durrell the declarant, that she is a daughter of Mary Durrell who applied for a pension several years ago on account of the services of her husband and my Grandfather Thomas Durrell deceased in the War of the Revolution, that the said Mary Durrell died at said Kennebunk Port on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. I know this first because she lived in the house in which I lived in my father's family, and died there and I attended her funeral. I know it was in the year 1840, because that was the year and the only year that Cyrus Herman worked for us and because she died the next year after my father died. I know she died in the month of May because we were there planting corn and that it was about the 9th of May because we usually begin to plant corn from the ninth to the 12th of May. I am sure it was the 9th of May A.D. 1840 because her death was recorded in our old family Bible which is now before me in the following words and figures viz.
"Mary Durrell died on saturday the 9th day of May 1840 aged 81 years." My grandfather died before I was born. His death is recorded in said
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Bible in the following words and figures viz. 
"Thomas Durrell died on Thursday the 7th of September A.D. 1809 aged [crossed out: fifty] 57 years"
I further say; that the only children of the said Mary Durrell living at the time of her death were Betsey Kimball wife of Israel Kimball of Kennebunk, Mary Nason, wife of William Nason of said Kennebunk Port, and Lucy Durrell and Miranda Durell the declarant both of said Kennebunk Port, single woman. These women are all now living. I further say, that said Mary was always a widow after the said Thomas died so far as I ever heard or knew, and she died a widow. I am not interested in this case.
Wm. F. Durell
State of Maine
County of York} ss. May 2nd A.D. 1854. Then personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said County and State, William F. Durell and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath in due form of law that the same is true. And I certify that the said applicant is personally known to me, that he is a credible witness, and that I have no interest in the result of this case and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Frederic Greene,
Justice of the Peace
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I Sarah E. Durell of Kennebunk Port in the State of Maine aged twenty one years on oath declare that I am a grand daughter of Thomas Durrell the Revolutionary soldier and of Mary Durrell his wife. That the said Thomas died many years ago, and that the said Mary died on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. She lived in the same house my father's family lived in. I was present during her last sickness, saw her die and attended her funeral. I remember our men folk were at work planting corn when she died and that I was seven years old. For the precise day of her death, I rely on the general talk and understanding of our family, and particulary [particularly] on the Record of her death in our old family Bible which record is correctly copied in the foregoing affidavit of my brother William F. Durrell. That Bible contains original records of all the deaths in our family for many years. I further say that the records of said Mary's children living at the time of her death and still living are correctly stated in said affidavit of my brother and that my said grandmother died a widow. I am not interested in this case.
Sarah E. Durell
State of Maine
County of York} ss. May 2nd A.D. 1854. Then personally appeared before me Sarah E. Durrell and subscribed
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the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same is true. And I certify that the said applicant is personally known to me, that she is a credible witness, and that I have no interest in the result of this case and am not concerned in its prosecution._
Frederic Greene
Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
County of York Ss.
I, Francis Bacon, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, do hereby certify that Frederick Greene is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord_ one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
Francis Bacon, Register as aforesaid
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Extract from the records of the town of Kennebunkport in the county of York and State of Maine under the head of Marriages sole united by the Rev. Silas Moody minister of the Gospel in said town then called Arundel, viz;
"Seventeen hundred and eighty one July the fifteenth Thomas Durrell to Mary Perkins both of Arundel"
I Joshua Herrick Clerk of said town of Kennebunkport certify that the foregoing is a true extract as it is on the record except the dates which are expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz;
"1781 July [illegible] 15th"
Joshua Herrick Clerk of sd. Town
I Joshua Herrick above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the same town with the exceptions aforesaid.
Joshua Herrick, Clerk of said Town
York Ss. August 4th 1839. Subscribed & sworn to by the above named Joshua Herrick.
Before me Nathl. Wheeler Justice of the Peace
I the above named Justice of the Peace certify that the above named Joshua Herrick is well known to me, that he is a person of truth and veracity and that his statements under oath are entitled to full credit.
Nathl. Wheeler~Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
County of York SS._
On this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable William A. Hayes Judge of the Probate Court now sitting at Alfredo within and for said County of York Mary Durrell a resident of Kennebunk Port, (formerly called Arundel,) in the County of York aforesaid aged seventy eight 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 Pension to certain Widows"_ That she is the widow of Thomas Durrill [Durrell] late of said Kennebunk Port, formerly Arundel, that the said Thomas Durrill served as a soldier against the common enemy in the revolutionary War, according to her best knowledge and belief, as follows_ He the said Thomas Durrill enlisted in January A.D. 1776 into Captain Tobias Lord's company of Wells in the said State of Maine, for one year and marched to Portland in said State, where he served ten months and that Colonel Mitchell of North Yarmouth in said State, she thinks, commanded the Regiment. And the said Mary Durrill further declares, that according to her best knowledge and belief, her said late husband, Thomas Durrill enlisted as a volunteer soldier of the army of the Revolution in 1775 in the volunteer Company commanded by Captain Hubbard and served as a soldier in said Company at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts for the term of eight months and was discharged at said Cambridge in December 1775_  She further declares, that she was married to said Thomas Durrill on the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty one, that her husband, the said Thomas Durrill, died on the seventh day of September A.D. 1809, that she still remains the widow of the said Thomas Durrill
Mary Durrell
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned_
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate
York County Maine
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1802, and March 3, 1873.]
3163
P.O. Mary Durrell
Service:
[stamp: REJECTED]
Enlisted: ___, 18_.
Discharged: ___, 18_.
Application filed: ___, 18_.
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___, 18_.
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Lett Barnabas Palmer, 
Apl. 17: '39 
To same 
October 31, 1839
Let. to Wm. A. Hayes, 
November 25, 1839
" M. Emery Aug 31, 1853
Moses Emery 19 May 1854.
Act 7 July 1838
3163
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Wm. A. Hayes
State of Maine
York Ss.
I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probates of the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that William A. Hayes, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for each and every county in this state, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January 1839 and will expire on the 25th day of January 1846, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court his 15th day of August, 1839.
Wm. Cutter Allen
Regr. Court of Prob. York county.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office Septr. 29 1838.
 I hereby certify that the Rolls of the Companies of Captain Hubbard and Captain Tobias Lord are not in this office.
Witness the Seal of the State
John P. Bigelow
Secy. of the [illegible]
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Me
Durrell
Hon. James L. Edison
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Dis. Col.
[handwritten vertically: Nov. 25.]
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South Brunswick Nov. 15_ 1839_
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Sir,
Several months since I forwarded to you the declaration of Mary Durrell widow of Thomas Durrell for a pension, and have received no answer to her application_ Please to look into the case and forward the certificate as soon as convenient.
In a late communication to me you expressed doubts whether the Court of Probate was a Court of record in this state_ The secretary  early in the pension business decided that was a Court of records_ The Court has a register, or Clerk & all its proceedings are recorded_ It has fixed terms for its sessions, The amount of business in the Court is very great, and the responsibility of the Judge is immense_
Respectfully
Your obt Servant
Wm. A. Hayes_
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I William P. Hooper of Biddeford in the state of Maine, aged sixty nine years, on oath declare, that I was born and have always lived in said Biddeford excepting one year._ that Benjamin Hooper Esq. who commanded a company raised to defend the sea coast of Maine, in the war of the revolution, under whom Thomas Durrell is said to have served, was my Grandfather and that I remember him well. I further say, that my said grand-father was post-master in Biddeford under General Washington, and that I was a clerk or assistant post-master under him, and that I, myself, was post-master for Saco and Biddeford from 1800 to 1810. Previous to 1807, the Courts for the County had in whole or in part been held at Biddeford, and my father kept a public house and boarded people who attended said courts. My grandfather, the said Benjamin Hooper, lived with him at that time. I often heard him, said Benjamin, speak of having been in the service in the war of the revolution, at Falmouth, as Captain of a Company, to defend the sea coast in Maine. I have also been considerably engaged in business since 1810, and have all the time been well acquainted with the old men in said County of York, and am quite sure that all the Durrells in said County were related to each other [crossed out: descended from said Thomas and his wife, the said Mary,] and that they all lived
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until within a few years at Kennebunk Port and at Kennebunk, and that owing to my wife's connexion [connection] with the Durrells, by marriage, I have know them all. I remember Thomas Durrell, deceased, father of Miranda Durrell, the declarant. He was the only Thomas Durrell who lived in the County of York, to my knowledge [crossed out: I am quite sure], excepting his son Thomas, who was born after the war of the revolution, and died many years ago. There is no doubt that Thomas Durrell the father of said Miranda was the identical man who served in my grandfather's Company defending the sea coast. Biddeford and Kennebunk-Port are adjoining towns. I am not interested in the claim of said Miranda Durrell for a pension in the right of her mother. I further say that the said Thomas Durrell died about the year 1809._ the said Mary Durrell his wife was never again married and died said Thomas' widow some time in 1841, the day and month not recollected by me., and that their children now living are, Betsey Kimball, Mary Nason, Lucy Durrell and herself the said [crossed out: declarant], Miranda Durrell, the declarant.
Wm. P. Hooper
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State of Maine.
County of York. ss. 

May 2d A.D. 1854. Then personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, William P. Hooper and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath in due form of law that the same is true. And I certify that the said William P. Hooper is personally known to me, that he is a highly respectable man, and a perfectly credible witness, and that I have no interest in the result of this case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Thomas G Thornton Jr - Justice of the Peace (signature)

State of Maine
County of York Ss.
I Francis Bacon Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Thomas G Thornton Junior is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this eighth day of may A.D. eighteen hundred & fifty four
Francis Bacon. Register as aforesaid

[seal]
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I Dominicus Lord of Kennebunk in the County of York and State of Maine, Aaged [aged] seventy seven years on oath do depose, testify and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution, in the Company commanded by Capt. Tobias Lord, then of Wells in said County of York, in the Regiment of which Jonathan Mitchell of North Yarmouth was Colonel and Daniel Ilsley, then of Falmouth, was Major._ I served in said Company at Portland, then called Falmouth, in Maine, then a part of the State of Massachusetts for the term of ten months. I well know Thomas Durrill [Durrell], deceased, then of Arundel - now called Kennebunk Port_ He belonged to said Company and to my certain knowledge served therein as a soldier for the term of ten months, from the first of January 1776, when said Company marched to said Portland. The enlistment was for twelve months but we were discharged at the end of ten months_ Said Capt. Tobias Lord was my father, and I acted as his waiter during said term of service_
Kennebunk Sept. 28. 1838
Dominicus Lord
State of Maine
County of York ss September 28th 1838_ Then personally appeared
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Dominicus Lord above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed in my presence_ I further certify, that I am well acquainted with the said Dominicus Lord, the Deponent, and know that his reputation is good for truth and veracity and that his testimony is entitled to full credit._
Jere. Bradbury Justice of the Peace
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I William Patten of Kennebunk Port in the County of York and State of Maine, aged fifty two years on oath depose and say, that I live a near neighbour to Mrs. Mary Durrill [Durrell] of said Kennebunk Port and know her to be the widow of the late Thomas Durrill, who died over twenty years ago_, that she is still living & unmarried since the decease of her said husband Thomas Durrill
William Patten
State of Maine
County of York ss_ October 10th. 1838 Then personally appeared William Patten above named and made solemn oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true_ I further certify that the said William Patten is well known to me and that he is a man of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to full credit.
Jere. Bradbury Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
County of York Ss. On this fifth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty nine personally appeared before William Allen Hayes Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate being a Court of record within & for the county of York in said State of Maine. Mary Durrell a resident of Kennebunk-Port in said County of York aged seventy Nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" that she is the widow of Thomas Durrell late of Arundell now called Kennebunk Port deceased who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution and served as follows viz: in Capt. Silas Wildes Company in Col Edmund Phinneys Regiment in the first part of the war 1776_ viz: from the first day of January of that year till the last of May of the same year being five months_ Again on the first day of June in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six the said Thomas Durrell enlisted into Capt Tobias Lord Company of Massachusetts Militia, and served in Falmouth Maine in that Company from that time till the twenty fifth day of November of that year, being five months & twenty five days when he was honorably discharged
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She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Durrell on the fifteenth day of July in the year seventeen hundred & eighty one, that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Durrell died on the seventh day of September in the year eighteen hundred and Nine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above stated, and that she has remained a widow single and unmarried ever since the desease [decease] of her said husband Thomas Durrell.
Mary Durrell
State of Maine York Ss Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written in open Court by the said Mary Durrell.
Before me Wm A. Hayes Judge of the Court of Probate York County Maine
The word "June' changed into "July" and "Ninth" into "seventh" before signing
Wm A. Hayes~
State of Maine. York Ss.
I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for the county and State aforesaid hereby certify that the Hon. Wm A. Hayes is the Judge of said Court, and that his signatures hereunto annexed are his genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 15th day of August, 1839.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Regr Prob. York County
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I Daniel S Perkins of Kennebunk Port in the County of York and State of of Maine aged forty seven years depose testify and say that I have known Mr Thomas Durrell of said Kennebunk Port from my infancy that he died on or about the seventh day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and nine and that his widow, Mary Durrell is now living & has remained single and unmarried ever since the desease [decease] of the said Thomas Durrell_ I have known the said Mary also from my childhood & have always understood that she was married to the said Thomas Durrell when a young woman.
Daniel S. Perkins
State of Maine County of York Ss August 5th_ AD 1839. Then personally appeared the said Daniel S Perkins whom I certify to be well known to me and that he is a person of truth & veracity and his Statements are entitled to full credit and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace
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State of Maine.
York, ss.-
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Jeremiah Bradbury and Barnabas Palmer are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
John Skeele} Register of Probate York County.
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Sun. June 24. 1853.
Sir,
I herewith enclose to you the affidavit and power of atty of Miranda Durrell daughter of Mary Durrell deceased, who heretofore applied to your office for a pension, on account of the service of her husband, Thomas Durrell deceased in the war of the revolution. The applicant says, her mothers claim was suspended or rejected because she did not prove service enough by 5 days to entitle her to a pension;-  but that the family believe her grandfather served a much longer time. Will you be kind enough to let me know precisely what service was alleged in said Mary's declaration; at what place or places and under what officers, and also what service was proved that I may be able to ascertain if more was rendered -  Will you also let me know where said Thomas was discharged and whether any thing was allowed in the estimate for the time occupied in returning to in his home from the service- and what office he held in the army, with such other facts as will aid me in investigating this claim.
Very respectfully
Moses Emery (signature)
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Hon L.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City;
[written vertically: illegible
Mary Durrell 
Me_
No 3391 recd.,
29 Nov
Act 38-]
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Kennebunk April 9_1839
Hon J.L Edwards
Dear Sir
Sometime about the month of November last the papers and evidence in support of the claim of Mary Durrell of Kennebunk port widow of Thomas Durrill [Durrell] a revolutionary soldier were transmitted to Washington by Jeremiah Bradbury Esqr. but she has since recieved [received] no inteligence [intelligence] from the Department relative to her application.
Mr. Bradbury having been appointed Clerk of our judicial Courts has removed to Alfred and Mrs. Durrell desires me to say that she wishes you to communicate with me in reference to her claim_ she has recent information that now has been made to Mr. Bradbury_
I would respectfully request your early attention to her case and ask you to communicate the result of the examination with as little delay as possible_ Mrs. Durrell is the more anxious as several cases transmitted subsequent to hers have been reported in this section_
I have the honor to be
Your obdt sevt
Barnabas Palmer
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STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court, 
PORTLAND June 21st A.D. 1853}
I, Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Samuel N. Loring Esqr
is and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed, was an Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of York, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer oaths and take acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid-and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C.C. Harmon, Clerk.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
[seal]
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Oct. 1. 1853. 

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 Thomas Daniel is borne on Master list of Company to defend the Sea Coast under command of Benjamin Hooper Esq Capt. from July 17. to Dec. 31. 1775   6 mos from the County of York Also on pay roll of Capt Johns Lord's Comp stationed at Falmouth from the 31 of May to the 25 of November 1776. 5 mos.  25 days as private.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written 
EM Wright (signature) 
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Application for certificate of Revolutionary services made a daughter of the party who rendered the service.

State of Maine 
County of York, Town of Kennebunk Port 

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Thomas Durrell in the war of the revolution. He was a native of the Town of Arundell, now Kennebunk Port in the County of York and State of Maine. 

He enlisted from the town of Arundell in the County of York and State of Maine, as I presume, but the time or times of such enlistment I am unable to state, I have heard that he served in Post and at the time an attack was made upon that place by the Brittish. I do not know in whose composes or regiments he served, other than appears by the annexed copy of a letter from the acting commissioner of pensions. I have leaved that he served a much longer time than is stated in that letter to have been proved, but I am unable to state at what periods or places he so served having been born long after my said father left the service I refer to the annexed copy of a letter for the names of at least some of the officers under whom he served and hope that the evidence of his service under Captain Hubbard and the others, is now in the State Department at Boston. 

I further ask, that as but five days were wanting to the service proved to entitle my mother Mary Durnell deceased to a pension (though small) as the widow of my father, the Secretary of the Commonwealth will state in his certificate of service, whether allowance  is made for my father's travel to and with army and will in each case of service name the place of discharge. 

I am now fifty years old and my means of infor
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mation and memory do not enable me to state the services than above stated 

Witness my hand this twenty third day of September A.D. 1853. 

Miranda Durrell (signature)

Signed by said Miranda Durrell in my presence 
Rufus P. Tapley Justice of the Peace (signature)

Please send your certificate to Moses Emery E Saw Main, for me. 

Miranda Durrell  (signature) 

State of Maine 
County of York  ss
J. Francis Baron Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Rufus P. Talley is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine 

[seal]
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, this eighth day of May A.D. eighteen hundred & fifty four. 
Francis Baron Register as aforesaid [signature]
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Copy
Pension Office
August 31st 1853.

Sir,
The informal declaration of Miranda Durrell (made before a Justice of the Peace), in the case of Mary Durrell deceased, widow of Thomas of, Maine under the act of July 7th 1838 has been filed. 
This claim was disallowed for the reason that the service of Thomas Durrell as proved amounted to only five months and twenty five days six months being  the smallest service for which a pension could be granted. The alleged service under Captains Wilder and Hubbard was not shown by the records the evidence of the service under Captain Hubbard was not then in the State Department at Boston.
Enclosed herewith are printed instructions.
I am respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt.
S. Cole
Acting Commissioner. 

Moses Emery Esqr.
Saco Maine
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State of Maine 
County of York}

At a Probate Court by me held at Saco in and for said County and State on the first and second day of May A.D. 1854. it is satisfactorily proved by the annexed affidavit of William P. Hooper of Biddeford, and William F. Durrell and Sarah E. Durrell of Kennebunk port all in said County, and all credible witnesses; that Thomas Durrell who is alleged to have served in the war of the Revolution, died at said Kennebunk Port on the 7th day of September A.D. 1809. - that Mary Durrell his wife and widow, never again married, but lived a widow until her death, and that she died at said Kennebunk Port on the 9th day of May A.D. 1840 and that her only surviving children at the time of her death, were Betsey Kimball, Mary Nason Lucy Durrell, and Miranda Durrell the declarant, who are all still living, and that the said declarant together with the said Betsey, Mary Nason and Lucy Durrell are daughters of the identical Mary Durrell who was the wife and widow of the identical Thomas Durrell, on account of whose alleged service in the war of the Revolution, a pension is claimed.
Joseph T. Nye (signature) 
Judge. 

State of Maine, County of York ss. 
[seal]
 I  Francis Baron, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, do hereby certify that Joseph T. Nye is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, that due credit is to be given to his official acts as such, and that the two foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Probate Court this the day of May A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty four.

Francis Bacon, Register as aforesaid (signature)
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State of Maine 
County of York } ss. 
Be it known that before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Miranda Durrell a resident of Kennebunk Port in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, states that she is the daughter of Mary Durrell widow of Thomas Durrell late of Arundel (now Kennebunk Port aforesaid) deceased, who was a revolutionary officer, and that she is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made by said Mary Durrell and constitutes and appoints Moses Emery of Saco in the County and State aforesaid her true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and to all acts necessary thereto, 

In witness whereof she the said Miranda Durrell has on this eleventh day of May A.D. 1853, heretofore signed her name, and affixed her seal. 
Miranda Durrell (signature)
Witness: 
Wm F. Durrell 
S. V. Loving 

Signed, sealed, acknowledged and sworn to on this eleventh day of May A.D. 1853. I am not concerned or interested in the result of this case 
Samuel V. Loring, Justice of the Peace (signature)
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Extract from the Records of the town of Kennebunk Port formerly Arundel in the County of York and State of Maine 

"Married by the Rev. Silas Moody July the fifteenth day in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, Thomas Durrell and Mary Perkins."
 
The foregoing is a true copy an extract from said Records, with the exception of the year & day of the month, which are in legible figures. 
Joshua Herrick Town Clerk of Kennebunkport (signature) 

I Joshua Herrick certify and declare that I hold the Office of Town Clerk, in the town County State aforesaid, and that the foregoing is a true extract from the Records of said town, with the aforesaid exceptions 
Joshua Herrick Town Clerk of Kennebunkport (signature) 

State of Maine 
York ss - Nov. 9th 1838. 
Then personally appeared Joshua Herrick of Kennebunkport in said county and made Solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him signed -
Before me 
Barnabas Palmer - (signature)
Justice of the Peace
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Mary Durrell's
Declaration


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V 3391
Mary Durrell
widow of Thomas
Me
Act 7 July 38


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Alfred (Maine)  Nov. 22. 1838 
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Sir 
I enclose the declaration & evidences in the case Mary Durrill, widow of Thomas Durrill, in order to obtain for her the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows" - 
Respectfully your 
obedient servant 
Jere. Bradbury (signature)
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Free

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
District of Columbia
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3391
Nov 29

Me
7 July 1838.
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Sept. 2d
Declaration of
Mary Durrell
Deposition



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Lemuel Miller
Deposition


Please to forward
answer to me at
South Berwick Maine
Wm A. Hayes
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I Lemuel Miller of Kennebunkport in the County of York aged Eighty Eight years testify and declare that I was acquainted with Thomas Daniel of said town from his childhood to the time of his death of think nearly twenty five years ago- Said Thomas Durrell was a private Soldier in Capt Silas Wilds company in Colonel Finneys Regiment - Edward Finney, in the first part of the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Six   I think he enlisted about the first of January 1776 - and served in said Regiment until some time in the month of August following- I think he was discharged in Boston, my impression is that he procured a substitute to take his place in the company and serve out the remainder of the year for which he was enlisted - but my recollection is not distinct as to that point -  I know the facts above stated having been myself a Sarjent in the same company and Clerk of the same.  I was before the close of the year appointed a Lieutenant in the 12th Massachusetts Regiment. Thomas Durrill was born near me; was always my neighbor and friend - 
Lemuel Miller (signature)

State of Maine
York ss  
August 5. 1839   Then personally appeared Samuel Miller and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed 
Before me.
Barnabas Palmer Justice of Peace (signature)

I, Barnabas Palmer the Justice of the peace afore named hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Lemuel Miller the above named deponent and he is a credible witness his statements intitled to full confidence and belief.
Barnabas Palmer (signature)
Just Peace