Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,125, Edmund Eastman, N.H.
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(3-1776) SERVICE N.H. Eastman, Edmund NUMBER W.7.125 B L.M. 31898-160-55
Hannah
CONTENTS
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[illegible]
of [illegible]
NH Eastman 785
sserved in the Revolutionary as
Private
on the roll at the [illegible]
per [illegible]
day
[illegible]
certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1837
nt to

Alex Ray esq
Presents
Pensioners under act
15 Vol A
●
To Maine 4 March 1851
┃ Sent to I Isley, Portleman
Dec. 11. Sept 1831
Let A. Roy. Apl 27, 1852
A. McArthur May 14, 1857
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186052
act 3 March
July 9 / 55
Hannah Eastman
Widow
Edmund Eastman
Private,
Pensioner
N. Hamp.
Maine
Revolutionary War
July 48 785
160 [illegible\
from 28 56
Boynton
A McArthur
Lemington
Maine
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Vol E. Page 3
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No 95
Hannah Eastman
Wi of Edmund
her
26 May 1848
Mamul 1795
and
1812
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State of Maine
York County SS:  On this second day of October A.D. 1848 personally appeared before Hon. William C. Allen Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the county aforesaid being a court of Record, in open court Hannah Eastman a resident of Limerick in said county aged seventy nine 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 this act of Congress passed on the 29th day of July 1848 granting pensions to certain widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army that she is the widow of Edmund Eastman who was a serjeant in the army of the Revolution, that he enlisted in Captain Isaac Farewell's company in Col. George Reed's Regiment in New Hampshire line and that he served three years or more and that he was discharged as a serjeant on the thirteenth of June in the year 1784 as set forth in this discharge hereunto annexed.
She further declares that she was married to the said Edmund Eastman on the twenty sixth day of November seventeen hundred and ninety five that her husband the aforesaid Edmund Eastman died on the ninth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twelve that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January eighteen hundred [illegible] at the time above stated. Witness Cassandana Eastman. Hannah Eastman. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Wm. C. Allen, Judge.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE N.H.
Eastman, Edmund Hannah
NUMBER W.7.125 BL.M-31898_160_55

CONTENTS
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State of Maine
York County ss:  On this Twenty ninth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid Hannah Eastman aged eighty five years a resident of Limerick in the State of Maine who being duly sworn according to law on her oath declares that she is the widow of Edmund Eastman late of said Limerick deceased who was a private in the army of the revolution and served as set forth in her original declaration for a pension under Act 29 July 1848 which said pension was originally granted for eight dollars per annum was numbered 7850 and was originally payable at Pension Agency of Concord New Hampshire and since removed to the Pension Agency of Portland State of Maine for the evidence of which service and of her marriage and the death of her said husband your  unreferred of her original refers on file in Pension office under Act 29 July 1848.    She further states on oath that she was married t the said Edmund Eastman at Concord State of New Hampshire on the twenty sixth day November AD 1795 by one Israel Evans   that her name before
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her said marriage was Hannah Carter and that her said husband died at Limerick, Maine, on the ninth day of December AD 1812 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land warrant to which she may be entitled wherever the same may issue.  Hannah Eastman [her signature]
We Charles M Freeman and Rufus Eastman residents of Limerick Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by the above named Hannah Eastman and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and further upon our oaths I deem that the aforesaid Hannah Eastman has never intermarried since the decease of her said husband and is now a widow. 
Chas M. Freeman
Rufus Eastman
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The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written and I certify that I know the applicants to be respectable and credible persons and the claimant to be the identical person she represents herself to be and that I have no intent in this claim.
Winborn Adams Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss
Town Clerks Office Concord N.H.
Oct. 12, 1848
Edmund Eastman
Hannah Carter
and ┃

Married November twenty six
Seventeen Hundred and ninety five
I certify that the above is a true copy
of the Record, with the exception of the date, which is
expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
(26
Nov. 1795)

Geo. H. H. Silsby
Town Clerk
of Concord
I George H. H. Siby of Concord
above named, depose and 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 record of said town with the
exception above named, as certified by me.
Geo. H. H. Silsby
Clerk of the
town of Concord
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack
Oct. 12. 1840
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me
Wm West Justice of the Peace
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
W.F. 7125
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.
19
In reply to your request of
---
received
for a statement of the military history of Edmond Eastman
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
3 years 9 m days
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
June 30 1782
RANK,
[illegible]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.
Isaac Farwell
COLONEL.
George Reed N.H.
STATE
N.H. 
He was also one of Genl Washingtons Life Guards
Battles engaged in, have filed
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Concord NH.
Date of application for pension, Oct 2 1848 Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Limerick, York Co Me
Age at date of application 79 years old

Remarks: [illegible] Nov 16 1795 at Concord N. H. Hannah Carter and died Dec. 9. 1812, at Limerick Maine
[illegible] Samuel B. Eastman was a resident of Brooklyn N. Y. in
1848 aged 42 years.
Soldier was a graduate of Dartmouth College and at one time 
a congregational minister at Limerick, Maine
Respectfully
Commissioner,
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being inlisted for the
Service of the United States.
-
in
Regiment,
honourably DISCHARGED from
Given in the State of New York,
the [illegible] Day of June
1784
By the General's Command, [illegible]
C Seldon Capt [illeible]
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
---
Charles Ster
Adjutant
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Sir
Aga
copy of
Comm
Declar
of
Lord
Public
the 14
had a
ago a
infor
[crossed out Eva]
of the
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186052
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Sir
Limington July 6 1855
I herewith forward you the application
of Hannah Eastman widow of Edmund
for Bounty Land under act 3 March 1855.
Hon. Lorin P. Waldo
I am very respetfully
Comm of Pensions
Your Obt Scey
Arthur McArthur
Washington
D. C
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M 9 [illegible]
Hannah Eastman
ME
Hon D Hammonds March
49, [illegible] [illegible] Rec Oct 2/50
Act 7 July 1848
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31898
⎬
No any
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Altadena, California
Oct. 8, 1920
Bureau of Revolutionary Pension
Gentlemen, Can you help me to establish proof of service in the Revolutionary war of Edmund Eastman, of Concord, N.H. who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1793, was married to Hannah Carter aged 46 of Concord in 1795 and died in 1812 in Limerick, Maine while pastor of the Congregational church there? His widow later received a pension on account of his services. I shall be grateful for your help.  Yours truly, 
Nancy Pierce Harmon
Mrs. James A. Harmon
Altadena, California
[stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 14 1920 [/stamped]
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Altadena, California
Nov. 12, 1920
Bureau of Revolutionary Pensions,
Washington, D.C. 
Gentlemen - A few weeks ago I wrote to ask for some information and later realized that I had not enclosed a stamp for reply.  I am sorry to have been careless.
In joining the D. A. R. I wish to have proof of service of my great grandfather, Edmund Eastman of Concord, N.H. He graduated at Dartmouth 1793, was married in 1795 to Hannah Carter of Concord, N.H. and died in Limerick, Maine, Dec. 9, 1812 aged 46 while pastor of the Congregational church there. He went into the army at 16 years of age.  If you can put me in the way of getting proof, I shall be grateful.  Kindly tell me what is the charge for the service.  Yours truly, Nancy Pierce Harmon
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1920 Nov 16[illegible] Mrs. James A Harman
R. Harmon
Revolutionary War
File No. 7125
Inde
WIDOW, &c.
Hannah Eastman
Widow
Edmund Eastman
Pri Rev. War ┃
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Act: July 29 [illegible] 38
Index: --Vol. A
Page 206
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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New Hampshire Roll
-
Hannel Castaindon
Hannah Eastman
Widow of Edmond
who was a private
New Hampshire Line
Act July 29, 1848
-
2 years private
$80 per am
Commerce Nov 4. 1848.
To Alxander Ray
Present
[illegible]
[crossed out to
David Hammons
Cornish
Mae]
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State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, SS.
October
Court of Probate,
Term, A. D. 1848
BE IT KNOWN, That on this second day 
of October
A. D. 1848 it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record,
that Edmund Easton
late of
Limerick
in said County, 
was reported to have been a Seargent in the Revolutionary war
day
Pensioner of the United States, that he died at said Limerick
on the ninth day of December
A. D. 1812 and that
Hannah Eastman of said Limerick is the widow of Edmond
Eastman deceased and that she has remained unmarried ever
since the decease of said Edmund
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this second
day of October
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
forty eight
Wm Hammond
Register of the Court of
Probate, York County.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Office of Secretary of State.
I Thomas P Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid do hereby
certify, that William West
is an acting Justice
of the Peace, in and for the County of Merrimack duly
Commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of
said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgement of Deeds
: This Commission was dated on the
21st day of June - 1845 and will expire on the 21st day of June - 1850 and his signature, as such, to the
annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 12th day of
October
1848
Thomas S. Treadwell, Secretary of State.
[seal affixed]
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I Samuel B Eastman
of Brooklyn in
the County
of Kings and State of
New York aged (42) forty-two years, depose testify and say that Edmund Carman late
of Limerick in the County of York and State
of Maine deceased, was my father and that ┃
Hannah Eaton of Limerick aforesaid,
is his widow and my mother, that the said
=
Edmund died at said Limerick on the 9th day
of December, 1812; that about the time the first person
was granted to the Revolutionary Soldiers. I went to
my mothers trunk of papers and took from it my fathers
discharge, which is the document hereunto annexed, that I
carried it about a long time until the foldings became worn
and finally a portion of it last, as appears in one corner of the
annexed document; that when I took it from the trunk it was
Edmund Eastman's (my father's) honorable discharge from the Revolutionary
Army complete in every respect; that my fathers hand
writing was on the discharge and the writing on the back of the
annexed instrument is the genuine hand-writing of Edmund
Eastman, my late father
Samuel B. Eastman
Witness
Wm G. Williamson
Sworn before me this 20th day
[illegible]
Samuel B Eastman known Saml Garrison Justice of the ┃
Municipal Court of the [illegible]
of Brooklyn
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New York City St. 25 1848
I George Demott proprietor and publisher of 
Taylor's United States Money Reporter and Gold and Silver Coin Examiner in the City and County of New York, depose, testify and say
that Samuel B. Eastman of Brooklyn, in the
County of Kings has been in my employ for
nearly two years (and is still in my employ) as the printer of my Money Reporter, and that I
have always found him a man of truth and 
Varacity [veracity].
George Demott

Witness
C S. Sloan
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State of New York
County of Kings ⎬ I John M Hicks Clerk of the
County of Kings do hereby certify that Samuel Garson whose name is subscribed to the
annexed affidavit and therein written was us
the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the
City of Brooklyn in said County dwelling in said
City duly commissioned and sworn, and further
that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said
Justice and believe the signature to the said affidavit to be genuine
I Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 26th day of September 1848
John M Hicks
Clerk
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United States of America
State of New York 
City & County of New York
David R Jaques, a
Notary Public duly admitted & sworn, dwelling in the
City of New York, do hereby certify that on the 26 day of September
1848 before me personally appeared George Demott
to me power by oath to be the person named in & who
and the annexed affidavit and made oath
to the same in due form of law
testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name & caused my notarial
seal of office to be hereunto affixed
the 26 day of September 1868
David R. Jaques
Notary Public
7
New York Sept 26, 1848
M. McArthur. Sir-- As I am not acquainted with any
Judge to certify to my character I have sent the affidavit
of my employer, George Demott as you will see, Samuel B. Eastman
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State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, February 17 1887.
I, OBADIAH G. COOK.
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Jeremiah M. Mason Esquire
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 COMMISSINED 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.
,
O. G. Cook
CLERK.
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State of Maine
York County ss
On this sixteenth day
of February, AD 1837 before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County
personally appeared Hannah Eastman
resident of Limerick in said County
and State aged
years and made
oath in due form of law that she is the
widow of Edmund Eastman of said Limerick deceased, who was a Revolutionary soldier
that she has drawn a pension since
his death at the rate of eighty dollars per
annum and is now a pensioner under
act of 29th July 1848 that at the time &
making her declaration under the approved
act
she was not well informed as to the
service of her said husband or of his grade in
the Revolutionary army and made a declaration that his services were those of private, but from information she has since
obtained, she has learned that his services
were not only in the grade of a private but
for a long term of his services he served as a
Sergeant and he asks that her pension
accordingly be increased and for all arrears
of pension under act of 29th July 1848
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- and says that she resides in the aforesaid county and state and she hereby appoints Arthur McArthur of Limington, Maine her attorney in the premises hereby revoking all former powers & giving power of substitution -----

Witness - James Fogg 
Mary Carr                    Hannah Eastman

Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged on the day and year first above written before me, and I certify that I have no interest in the above claim and am not concerned[?] in its prosecution. 

Jeremiah M Mason
Justice of the Peace
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Application for a transfer

State of Maine
County of York fif.

On this third day of September before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the Maine county of York, formally approves Hannah Eastman, who on her oath declares that she is the same person who formerly was placed in the pension son of the State of New Hampshire, from where she formerly resided that she now resides in Limerick in the County of York and State of Maine, where she intends to remain and wishes her pension to be there payable in future. The following are the reasons for removing from Concord to Limerick; that she accompanies her husband, who came to Limerick to reside previous to his death.

C.B. Lord.          Hannah Eastman

Sworn and subscribed here on the day and year aforesaid. 

Caleb B Lord, Justice of the Peace
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To Mr Rufus Eastman
Limerick ME
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I Jonathan Uran of Concord in the county of Merrimack and state of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that above the third or fourth year of the Revolutionary War I enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Farewell of Charleston No. 4 in the Regt. commanded by George Reed Colonel - and Scott Major: that at the same time that I enlisted Edmund Eastman of this town enlisted in the same company and we served in the said Company for three years - when said Eastman's term of service expired and he accordingly left the service. And I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with said Eastman both during and after the war, and that I am knowing to the fact of his subsequent intermarrying with one Hannah Carter of said Concord; that I was a neighbor to said Hannah's father and that I know her to be the same person who now intends an application for a pension as the widow of the above named Edmund Eastman. 

In presence of us
Abel Baker          Jonathan Uran
John Abbott

State of New Hampshire 
County of Merrimack   On this 19 day of October 1838 personally appeared the said Jonathan Uran who is known to me to be a credible witness and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him _____ is just and true before me. 

 Isaac Dial Justice of the Peace for said county of Merrimacke
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I Stephen C Badger clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Merrimack and the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Isaac Dow is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Merrimack and the signature within written purporting to be his is genuine.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty second day of October Anno Domini 1838

S. C. Badger Clerk of said court
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Washington 
Nov 18.48.

Sir   
I herewith submit this application of [?] Hannah Eastman widow of Edmund for the benefit of the act 29 July 1848. 

As there is no evidence of service presented in this case beg the favor of [illegible] examination of the roll of Col Reeds Regt.

I remain Sir
Your most Obt Sert
Alex. Ray

J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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James L Edwards Esq       
Commissioner of Pensions       

Washington
Dec 5/49

Sir
      Some time back I presented evidence in the case of [illegible]  Hannah Eastman widow of Edmund of Maine for the benefit of the act 29 July 1848 and a report was made to the [illegible] Hammons at my request.

     I now enclose you a letter I received from Mr Arthur McArthur  of Maine who sent the case to me. This letter explains when and how the affidavit of Jonathan was taken, and I think should have [illegible] weight in the adjustment of that claim, the final settlement certificate vol 1. page 228 show that Edmund Eastman was  paid on the 4 Nov 83 $39.00 being no doubt  the balance of pay due to him at that time. This, with the affidavit of "[illegible]" endorsed may be considered as sufficient for the allowance of the claim. 

I remain yours 
Most Ob. Ser.
Alex ray
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Washington
Decr 27. 1850
J. E. Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
Sir
Your letter of Oct. 10/50
in the case of Hannah Eastman of New Hampshire an applicant for the Act 29 July 1849 was somehow or other mislaid and not found until today.
You inform me,  "both Mr Eastman and the
witnesses whose deposition was taken in 1838. say her husband served in Captain Isaac Farewells company Col Reeds Regiment, according to the rolls of this office no such Captain was ever in the Regiment
And for this reason, it would appear
you reject the claim. In my former letter you
were referred to sundry payment made to applicant husband, by John Burrell, Vol.1 final settlement Certificate to which I must again call you attention, indeed there are further payments made to E Eastman  then named in my letter of Dec 5 1849. all of which seems unsatisfactory, because you cannot discover "or according to your rolls" no such office or Capt Isaac Farewell was in that regiment
I beg to refer you to the 3d [illegible] or to Mr Gordon of your Office. You will in either case
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be informed that both Caps Isaac Farewell and
Col. Reed the officer of the first New Hampshire regt
My rolls show, that Capt Isaac Farewell entered
the service as said on the 6 June 1777 and served out the entire war.

I hope therefore, as the impression you 
entertain is nowremoved, the claim will be
at once allowed
I remain your
most respectully
Alex. Ray
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Hon
J. E. Heath
Cornish Me April 12, 1851.
Sir
About three years since
Hannah
Eastman, widow of Edmund
Eastman employed Arthur McArthur Esq
to procure for her a pension under the act
of 1848. Mr. McArthur is extensively engaged
in the pension business and Mrs Eastman
is unable to account for the delay
When a member of the Committee on
revolutionary pensions of the thirtieth
Congress I seem to have same recollection of Mr. M's having written me
upon the subject, but I am unable
to recollect the particulars-
Will you do her the favour to
write me, informing me of the State of
her case.
Very Respectfully
yours &c
David Hammons -
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18.822, to 22:169, dead
men page 281-
1902263
189
10
2
and am the pay of
and
May 22. 122. Eastman to 4.834
Edmond Eastman N. 9.50
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Limington Nov. 12 1849
Alexander Ray Esq
Dear Sir
in the commisioner of
Pensions letter to Mr Hammon of March
2 1849, he says. "I have the honor to inform
you that the evidence presented by
"Revy in the case of Hannah Eastman widow
due Eastman an applicant for a
---
Pension under the act of 29 July 1848 is
satisfactory to establish their mariage
and to show that her husband was in
service in the New Hampshire line at the
conclusion of the Revolutionary War but
the time this
1
of enlistment has not been
proved, the evidence in the State Department
should amid the evidence
1
required upon this point."
There is no evidence in the "State Department
as appears by
the enclosed letter of sec
to me dated for 25 1848. Hence the
next best evidence the note of the case
[illegible] will be acceptable & I therefor
inclose you a deposition that was taken
in 1838 when it was supposed she
night come under the act
of July 7 1838
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The deponent in this deposition Jonathan
Uran is dead but the deposition was
regularly taken at that time & I know not why it should not in used as evidence- The Secretary's letter to me was written before the law of July 29 was enacted & was to ascertain his service in order to petition Congress for the enactment of a law to [illegible] her case. The  husband Edmund Eastman was a worthy[?] and [illegible] Congregationalist minister of [illegible] Maine a graduate of Dartmouth College & was when in the service one of the life guard of Genl Washington In  his discharge a mutilated part of which was annexed[?]  to
his papers he is called sergeant. a part of discharge is [illegible words] being
folded in sequence & the the edges worn so
as to make it in several [illegible] & one or two of those [illegible] as were lost or [illegible words] it showing
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how it was lost - I hope you will
let this case receive your best attents
as the venerable to lady is near the close of her earthly care[?]  & I fear she will die before she shall taste the benefits of her pension.
In the list of officers [illegible] in your book you will oblige me by informing[?] of the names thus mention are all that were ever entitled to commutation or all that now remain who have not received their Commutation ?
I am very respectfully
Your obt sevt
Arthur McArthur
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J. E. Heath esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
to
Hannah Eastman
NH 48

1
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Portland Sept 4, 1857 [?]
Sir
I herewith enclose you the application
of Hannah Eastman to be transferred from
Concord N.H. to Portland, Me. Agency
Mr. Land has filed in the Pension Office the evidence that he has been qualified to act
as a magistrate
Respectrully Your
Jas Ilsley


Jas E Heath Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington
D.C.
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Washington
Jan. 23, 1852

J. E. Heath Jr. 
Commr of Pensions 
Sir, 
Per an allowance you lately made on my application in the case of Hannah Eastman of Maine under act 1848 at the rate of $80 per annum the gentleman who sent me the case is of the opinion the proof adduced in support of his rank and service, show he was a Sergeant, and therefore entitled to $120. 
Will you be pleased to examine + report to me the facts in the case (of evidence)
I remain your most obt. 
Alex Ray
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George Reid, is returned on the list of Officers, as Lt. Colonel, Commander 1st Regt. N. Hampshire line ~ W. Gordon

So also is the name of Thomas Farwell, returned as a Captain in the 1st Regt. of the line aforesaid
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State of Maine. 
Cumberland, ss. 
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court, 
Portland, July 4, 1885

I, Obadiah G. Cook, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, 
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Winborn Adams Esq is, and at that date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for [blank] the County of York as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgements 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. 
O. G. Cook, CLERK. 
[PAPER SEAL WITH RIBAND BACKING IN LOWER LEFT CORNER OF DOCUMENT]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name: Eastman (Eastham), Edward 
Grade: Private 
Line: New Hampshire

Warrant Number: 3092
Acreage: 100
Issued: Mar. 25, 1790
eo - Not shown -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the application for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.