Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25068, for John Spearing, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.
N.H.

Spearing, John
or
Spearin
                 Mary

W 25068

CONTENTS
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[left side] Widow died Feb. 20.1852 (AR)
[right side] 3405
Maine
Mary Spearing
widow of John Spearing 
Mf
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inc. from $80
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
96 Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 1 " July, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May 1851
and sent to G.W. Morton
Augusta
Me:
on Roll of Pensioners under act
2, 1848, Page 34 Vol. 1
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6316.
M 84 d. 183
Maine
John Spearing
private
Mass line 3 years
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 9th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of July 1819 and recd
R.C. Vore
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 4 mo 26/30 38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.00
$86.93
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Plantation No 3.
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Let to Arch Jones June 29.1835
Cap for Land Agr
John Spearing
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State of Maine
Waldo County} ss. Be it known that before me George Thacher a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared John Spearin, a person by me well known, and reputed to be a son of John Spearin who was a Pensioner of the United States late of Hartland in the State of Maine deceased) aged fifty one years and made oath in due form of law that the paper hereunto annexed marked A purporting to be a family record, is a genuine record which his said father John Spearin deceased caused to be made in his family Bible in his lifetime; several years before his death; except the record of his death which was made afterwards, that this deponent verily believes that the record of the marriage of John Spearin and Mary Kendall his said father and mother, as there entered is correct, that said family Bible was left by his father at his decease in the custody of his said Mother and has been kept by her ever since that time; that she has lived in the same house and with this deponent ever since the death of his said father which was on the ninth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty, that he on this twelfth day of September 1839, in presence of the afore named Justice, cut said record out of said Bible, to be annexed to this deposition in order to
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furnish evidence to the War Department of said marriage and to establish the claim of his said mother Mary Spearin to a pension as the widow of said John Spearin deceased.
John Spearin
Sworn to and subscribed this twelfth day September 1839 before me and I certify that said John Spearin is a credible witness and that I saw him cut the annexed paper marked A from a large Bible this day
Geo. Thacher Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Waldo Ss I William N. Burrill Clerk of the Judicial Courts within & for said County certify that George Thatcher is a magistrate as above duly qualified & commissioned & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fourth day of September A.D. 1839
Wm. N. Burrill Clerk
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FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES
A
John Spearin Born March 3 1765
Mary Kendall Born April 15 1767
Married November 9 1781
Mr. John Spearin died, November
the 9th 1830 in the 67th year of 
His Age
I Mary Spearin of Frankfort in the County of Waldo and widow of John Spearin late of Hartland in the County of Somersett a Revolutionary soldier deceased depose, testify and say that the record of my marriage with John Spearin aforesaid and of the births of the children I had by him and also the record of the death of my son William written on this paper, is the original record of our marriage and the births of our children, which he in his life time caused to be made on this leaf, which is taken from our family Bible which he left with me and which has been in my possession ever since
Mary [her X mark] Spearin
Witness Geo. Thacher
State of Maine
Waldo ss. September 12th 1839
Personally appeared Mary Spearin above named and made oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed was true.
Before me Geo. Thacher Justice of the Peace
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FAMILY RECORD.
[left column]
BIRTHS. DEATHS.
Lydia Spearin Born
September the 21 1786
John Spearin Born
September the 9 1788
Betsy Spearin Born 
September 19 1790
Uriah Spearin Born
April the 11 1792
Sally Spearin Born
May the 11 1794
William Spearin Born
January the 8 1798
Died February 13 1825 
in Charleston S Carolina
Melinda Spearin Born
April 21 1800
Rhoda Spearin Born
December the 11 1802
Mary Spearin Born
March the 21 1805
Reuben Spearin Born
January 22 1808
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5058
Mary Spearing
wid of John
Me
4621
Act July 1838
M 84 d 30
aomd
7 yrs pri
80$
no deduction
Geo Thacher
Monroe
Waldo Co. 
Me
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1848 entitled An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widow.
State of Maine County of Waldo Ss.
On this third Day of December 1848 personally appeared before Alfred Johnson Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, in open Court Mary Spearin a resident of Frankfort in the County of Waldo, State of Maine aged seventy two 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 Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of John Spearin late of Hartland who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, according to my belief he enlisted for three years and served until his time was nearly expired when he was honourably discharged. He was at the capture of Lord Cornwallis; he lived when he enlisted at a place not then incorporated now the town of Clinton in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, but went to Beverly in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts to enlist. I have no documentary evidence to support my claim. What my said husband had if any were sent on to support his claim for the pension which was allowed him under the first general pension law.
She further declares that she was married to said John Spearin on the ninth Day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four that her husband the aforesaid John Spearin died on the ninth Day of November 1830, 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 vis as above stated
Mary [her X mark] Spearing
Witness
S. Heath
Waldo Ss. Subscribed & sworn to by the aforesaid Mary this third day of Dec A.D. 1838, in open court
Alfred Johnson Judge
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I Solyman Heath, Register of Probate within & for the County of Waldo hereby certify that the foregoing page contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Spearing for a  pension: and that the certificate of Alfred Johnson, Judge is in his own hand writing & made in my presence, & that he is Judge of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this third day of December A.D. 1838
Solyman Heath Register
[written vertically] 5058
Mary Spearing
Wid of John
Maine
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315
John Spearing
6316 1 Feb 1819
Mar 1819
Robert C Vose Augusta
Maine
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State of Maine. 315
Copy
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this fifth day of June, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Jr Chief 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, John Spearing aged fifty six years, resident in Clinton in the County of Kennebec 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 Learned and Regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of nearly two years part of the time detached into Bates' company and Col. Scammon's Regiment was at the battle of the taking of Cornwallis and other scurmishes that his original declaration was made before Judge Wilde on the tenth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6316. And I, the said John Spearing 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 of debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
John Spearing
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: one small pig of the value of one dollar, some old implements of husbandry of the value of three dollars. Furniture besides necessary living not exceeding ten dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected, I owe upwards of one hundred dollars for which I pay interest. My income from the above property is not equal to the interest of the money I owe. My occupation has been a laborer, but from infirmity I am able now to do very little labor. My family at home consists of my wife Mary aged fifty five who is much out of health and great part of her time, under the orders of a physician therefore unable to work. My daughter Polly aged fourteen years, my son Reuben aged thirteen years both able to work.
John Spearin
Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no property or income [illegible]
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Subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the fifth day of June 1820.
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr
CJCC Pleas
A true copy
Attest John David Clk
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Declaration evidence
in the case of
John Spearing
Somerset County, private
Col Scammell N.H.
Reg. 1781 to 1783
April 9. 1818
Admitted
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I John Spearing of Plantation called No. three in the County of Somerset and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being a native citizen of the United States do on oath testify and declare that I served as a private solider in the war of the Revolution for the period of nearly three years, and that from my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. that according to the best of my recollection I enlisted in March AD 1781 and was honourably  discharged the thirty first day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three by M. Genl. Knox. I enlisted in the town of Beverly. I was in the Regt. commanded by Col. Shepherd in Capt. Leonard Company at West Point & marched with said Regt. to the lines near New York. I then joined Col. Scammels Regt. of Light Infantry under Capt. Bates. while in this last Regt was at the capture of Cornwallis. I received my discharge near West Point being then under command of Cap. Chapin in Col. Jackson's Regt. My discharge I now have to be put on file & which is hereunto annexed.
John Spearin
Kennebec Ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this 9th day of April A.D. 1818 the above named John Spear after having been carefully examined touching the premises made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed
Before me S.S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud. Court
for sd Commonth
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify to your Honor, that John Spearin a citizen of the United States, now residing in a Plantation called No. 3 in the County of Somerset, District of Maine & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen 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 the proceedings to be had thereon to your Honor that he might be placed on the pension list of the United State agreeably to the provisions of an act intitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18th AD.1818-which declaration & the other evidence produced by the said applicant is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the said applicant & a full consideration of the evidence in the case it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the Continental establishment against the common enemy in the war of the Revolution for the term of more than nine months as stated in his declaration aforesaid and that from reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen. 
S.S. wilde Jus. Sup. Jud. Co. for sd Comth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Ss.
The subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within said County of Kennebec, hereby certified, that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esq. before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, of this Commonwealth and that by the direction of the said Judge I have affixed to his certificate bearing his signature, the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand:
Dated at Augusta, in the said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand and eight hundred & eighteen.
John Davis
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State of Maine
County of Somerset Ss}
On this twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before me James F. Leavitt a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Somerset, Joseph Spearing a resident of Canaan in said County of Somerset, being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he was well acquainted with Mary Kendall, at the time of her marriage with John Spearing a Revolutionary Pensioner now deceased: that the said John Spearing was a brother of this Deponent's that he was present at the marriage of the said John Spearing with Mary Kendall and saw them married at an unincorporated place, now called Clinton in the County of Kennebeck and state aforesaid, on the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and eighty four by the Reverend D Whitaker who left this State more than forty years ago and died soon after as was reported. that he has known the said Mary Spearing always ever since her marriage with said John
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2
Spearing, and knows that she is now the widow of said John Spearing who died November the ninth in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty.
Joseph Spearin
Witness
James T. Levitt
John K. Spearin
Sworn & subscribed to by the said Joseph Spearing a person well know by me as a respectable and intelligent witness.
James T. Leavitt} Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Somerset Ss. I the subscriber Clerk of the Courts within and for the County of Somerset certify that James T. Leavitt Esq is a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Somerset duly commissioned and qualified as such: that his commission bears date Dec 24, 1832 and will expire Dec 24, 1839, and that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the District Court for the Middle District and set my hand this thirteenth day of July A.D. 1839. 
Joshua Gould, Clerk
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Joseph Spearin
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May 9, 1936
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[written in pencil-mailed without review F]
Ella F. Elliot
59 Oxford Street
Somerville, Massachusetts
JOHN SPEARING
W. 25068
BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Spearing under any spelling found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 25068, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
John Spearing (whose name appears, also, as Spearin) was born March 3, 1765; the place of soldier's birth and names of his parent are not shown.
John Spearing, while residing in a place which was later Clinton, Kennebec County, Maine, enlisted in March, 1781, served as private in Captains Larned's, Bate's and Chapin's companies, and in Colonel Shepard's Massachusetts regiment, Colonel Scammell's regiment and in Colonel Jackson's 4" Massachusetts Regiment, was at the capture of Cornwallis and other skirmishes and was discharged December 31, 1783.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Plantation No. 3, Somerset County, Massachusetts (Maine). He died November 9, 1830 or 1831, in Hartland, Somerset County, Maine.
John Spearing married November 9, 1784, in Clinton, Kennebec County, Maine, Mary Kendall who was born April 15, 1767; the place of her birth and names of parents are not given.
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John Spearing's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed December 3, 1838, at which time she was a resident of Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, where she was still living in 1843. In 1848, she was living in Hartland, Somerset County, Maine. She died February 20, 1852.
The following names of children of John Spearin or Spearing and his wife Mary, are shown in the claim:
Lydia, born September 21, 1786
John, " September 9, 1788
Betsy, " September 19, 1790
Uriah, " April 11, 1792
Sally, " May 11 (?) 1794
William K., " January 8, 1798; died Feb. 1, 1825, in Charleston, So. Carolina
Melinda, " April 21, 1800
Rhoda, " December 11(?) 1802
Mary, " March 1805
Reuben, " January 22, 1808
In 1851, one Betsey Spearing with one A.M. Burrell witnessed the signature by mark of soldier's widow, Mary Spearin, but did not state their relationship to her or to each other.
In 1839, Joseph Spearing, brother of the soldier, John Spearing was a resident of Canaan, Somerset County, Maine, and made affidavit in support of the claim for pension made by soldier's widow, Mary, his signature being witnessed by one John R. Spearin; their relationship to her or to each other not shown.
In 1839, Abigail Kendall, widow of General William Kendall who was the brother of soldier's wife, Mary Spearing, was residing in Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
-2-
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BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River. 
John Spearin Soldier in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York
the Thirty first Day of Dec 1783
By the General's Command Knox M Genl
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Thos A Condy Adj PT
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[written vertically-John Spearin
Discharge 
[illegible]
We the Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Canaan in the County of Kennebec and Commonwealth of Massachusetts certify that the person who delivered the within discharge for our inspection is the within named John Spearin whom we know to have served in the army of the United States as is mentioned in the within discharge, and that said Spearin now resides and makes his home at a place called fifteen mile pond unincorporated and adjacent to said Town of Canaan
Bryce McLillan
Eli Weston} Selectmen of the Town of Canaan
Novundy 1804
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[left side]Reputed
Jany 26/49
[right side] 3405
Maine
Mary Spearing widow of John who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jany 1849 and sent to G.W. Morton Augusta Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 184, Page 34 Vol. 1.
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3331
Reported
Maine
Mary Spearing widow of John Spearing who was a Private in the Mass & N.H. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Dec 1843 and sent to N.M. Lowney Belfast Me
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 13
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Maine 4421
Mary Spearing widow of John Spearing who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 9th November 1830 of Waldo Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Leonard of the regt. commanded by Col. Shepherd in the N. Hampshire (crossed out) Mass. line for 2 years & Col. Scammell N.H.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of October 1839 and sent to Geo. Thacken Monroe, Waldo Co. Me.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 39 280.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar '40 40.00
$320.00
[Act July 7, 1839.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 30
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Mary Spearing 
$80.
Payment to be made at Portland by Wm. Woodbury Esq 
Agent for pay Pensioners, in the Agency of Maine
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 34 Vol. 1.
Leo Jno King
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Mary Spearing widow of John Spearing who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 26th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned
J.G. Buret
for Commissioner of Pensions
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Mary Spearing
Maine
Suspended
See let to George Thacken Aug 23
Aug 23.1839
Act July 1838
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59 Oxford St., Somerville, Mass.
Apr. 25, 1936.
U.S. Revolutionary
Pensions Dept.,
Dear Sirs,
Will you please send me an abstract of the papers concerning John Spearing, who appears in the 1820 list,* res. Maine & served in N.H.-as I don't find him in N.H. Rev. Rolls?
Thanking you in advance,
Ella F. Elliot
*Maine, p. 104
[stamp-RECEIVED APR 27 1936
illegible]
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[stamp-BOSTON. MASS C
APR 25
1130 PM
1936]
U.S. Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Revolutionary War Period
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1936, May 9-Hist. to Ella F. Elliot
MLB
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25068
Mary Spearing
wid of
John Spearing
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 20 '/48
Index:--Vol. L, Page 230.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mary Spearing
for
Increase Pension
Inc to $96 [illegible] $80
comg 1 July 1848
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
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Canaan March 6th 1851
Hon. J.E. Heath
Comm of Pensions
Sir. I am the widow of John Spearing who was a Pensioner under the Act of March 18.1818 on the Maine Roll. he died on the  ninth day of November 1831. I am now pensioned under the Act of Feb 2 1848 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum on account of the Revolutionary Service of my late husband the said John Spearing. My pension is made payable at the U.S. Agency in Portland in the State of Maine.
I hereby authorize Geo W Morton of Augusta, in the State of Maine, to act as my Attorney in establishing my claim to an increase of my Pension.
Mary [her X mark] Spearing
Witness
Asa Burrill
Betsey [her X mark] Spearin
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State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec 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 Fourteen dollars; and 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 nothing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec
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Mary Kendall
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State of Maine
County of Somerset} Ss On this twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Samuel Burrill a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Abigail Kendall a resident of Fairfield in said County widow of Gen William Kendall a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States deceased-being first sworn according to law doth on her oath declare that she was well acquainted with Mary Kendall a Sister of said William Kendall at the time of her marriage with John Spearing a Revolutionary Pensioner now deceased that she was present at their marriage and saw them married at an unincorporated place now Clinton in the County of Kennebec on the ninth day of November in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty four by the Rev D Whitaker, who left this state more than forty years ago and died soon after as was reported. That she has always known the said Mary Spearing ever since her said marriage and knows that she is now the widow of said John Spearing who died November the ninth in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty
Abigail Kendall
Witness
Samuel Burrill
Elster Hudson
Sworn and subscribed to by the said Abigail Kendall a person by me well known as a respectable and intelligent witness
Before me Samuel Burrill Justice of the Peace
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State of aine
Somerset Ss. I Joshua Gould, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify, that Samuel Burrill is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Somerset, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission bears date February 2.A.D.1837 and will expire February 2d.A.D.1844, and that his signature within written is genuine. Given under my hand and the Seal of the District Court Middle District this thirteenth day of July. A.D. 1839
Joshua Gould, Clerk
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J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
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Monroe County of Waldo Me.
July 16th 1839
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Sir
Enclosed herewith are the papers of Mrs Mary Spearin widow of John Spearin a Revolutionary soldier, for a Pension. I have your letter to Mr. Archibald Jones of Frankfort of May 11th.
The papers enclosed are the declaration of Mrs. Spearin and the depositions of Abigail Kendall and Joseph Spearin our Court of Probate being recognized by the Department as Court of record. I trust the evidence will be satisfactory in the case.
I am Respectfully Yr obedt Sert
Geo. Thacken
Please direct to me at Monroe. Co Waldo, Me.
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State of Maine
Waldo Ss I William H. Burill Clerk of the Judicial Courts within & for said County certify that George Thatcher is a magistrate as above duly commissioned and qualified & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fourth day of September A.D. 1839-
W H Burill Clerk
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[stamp-SEP 25]
[stamp-FREE]
J.L. Edwards Esquire
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
[written vertically-Oct 2
Me. 
Addl proof
Mary Spearin]
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Monroe Co. Waldo Me
September 25th 1839
To J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir-
Your letter of 26th of August with the accompanying directions from the "Pension Office" of June 6th 1839, was duly recd.
Enclosed I forward to you the original family record showing the  marriage &c. of Mary Spearin with her late husband John Spearin deceased which I trust, with the evidence in your possession will be satisfactory in the case.
I am Respectfully
Yr obdt Servt
Geo. Thacken
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3572
Mary Spearing
80$
NM Lowney
Belfast
Me
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State of Maine
Waldo County Ss}
On this twenty first day of August 1843 personally appeared before Nathl H. Hubbard a justice of the Peace for said County of Waldo Mary Spearing of Frankfort in said county aged seventy seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war
That she is the widow of John Spearing who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution. For proof of his services she refers to her declaration made under the act of Congress of July 7.1838 & the evidence thereto annexed now on file in the pension office. The amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7.1838 was eighty dollars by the year, She further declares that she is still a widow
Mary [her X mark] Spearing
Witness N. H. Hubbard
Waldo Ss. August 21st 1843
Personally appeared the above named Mary Spearing, who is personally known to me & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her signed before me
Nathl. H Hubbard Jus. Peace
State of Maine
Waldo County SS}
I Wm H. Burrill Clerk of the
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of the Courts for the county of Waldo aforesaid do hereby certify that Nathaniel H. Hubbard is a Magistrate in & for said county of Waldo & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this twenty first day of August in the year 1843
Wm. H. Burrill Clerk
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Belfast Maine, August 22.1843
Sir
I enclose the application of Mary Spearing for a pension under the act of March 3.1843. You will please send her Certificate to me
Respectfully yours
Nathl. M. Lowrey
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington DC
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Mary Spearin
All
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Geo W. Morton
Augusta
Maine.
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE,
COUNTY OF Somerset}ss.
On this Seventh day of September A.D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, Mary Spearin a resident of Hartland 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Spearin who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said John Spearin at the rate of Eighty dollars and - cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mary [her X mark] Spearin
WITNESS:
Joseph B Church
Saydie W Church
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Hanson Church Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Hanson Church Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY,} SS.
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Hanson Church is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this ninth of September in the year 1848
W.M. Stratton} Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.
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Augusta, Maine.
Sept. 9th 1848
Sir,
I send the enclosed declarations of Polly Battles, Mary Spearin & Rachel Sawyer in order to have their respective claims for pension under the Act of Feb 2 1848 allowed, and if satisfactory, would respectfully request you to send me, as their agent, Pension Certificates for them
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt,
Geo W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington City