Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,074, Benjamin Furbish, N.H.
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(3-1776)

Service
N. H.

Furbish, Benjamin 
~Furbush
Lydia

Number
W. 23,074
B. L. Wt. 12559-160-55-
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17,032
Maine. R

Benjamin Furbush,
of Kennebec co. in the state of Maine, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Poor of the N. Hampsh line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20, of May, 1820 and sent to Robert C. Vose of Augusta, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $181.83. 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Septr, 1820. 48
22 mos. 18/30 $229.83
S 4/31
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Act
No. 43 667 (55) Apl 6f 55
Lydia Furbush Wid:
Benjamin Furbush {Priv
Cap N H intl lines
Col
Eul {War of Revolution
Dis
Pen: Certf No 3381 Act Feb 2d 1848
AG. 160 AC., Dec, 7 1855

Geo: W. Morton Esq
Augusta
Maine

Civ G. W. Morton Sept 6 /55
Me
Feby -46 -No 3381
Vol F. 162.

No 12.559 f Dec 11/55
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3381 Maine

Lydia Furbush widow of Benjamin Furbush Mass
who served in the Revolutionary wars as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the first day of July, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the third day of Jany 1851 and sent to G. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners act February 2, 1848, Page 11 Vol. 1

Reg ssn 55-43667
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Benjamin Furbush
pr. Col Poor's NH. Reg
from Dec 1775 to Dec 1776
April 9 1818
1 year

Proof Ezra Carlton}
Eben. Waldron}

[upside down text of the next page transcribed on the next page]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States:

I the subscriber being chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify tpo your Honor, that Benjamin Furbish, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Rome in the said county of Kennebec and District of Maine, on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence as was in his power to produce, and 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 States, a agreeably to the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, 1818; which declaration and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annixed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that I after a careful examination of the said Applicant, and 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 war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment for more than nine months, as states in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Nathan Weston
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I Benjamin Furbush aged Sixty one years a citizen of the United States born in Lebanon, Maine but now resident in Rome, Kennebec County, Maine do upon oath testify and declare that I enlisted the last of December 1775 in the War of Revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishment for the period of one year. I first joined Captain Brewsters company, and Col Poor's New Hampshire regiment. I served in said company first under Capt. Brewster + afterwards the company was commanded by Cap Bell, I continued to serve the full term of my enlistment and was honorably though verbally discharged at Fort Sullivan, December 1776 after serving one full year. I afterwards served in the state troops and was in battle at Still Water at the taking Burgoyne in October 1777 and now by reason of my reduced circumstances I need the assistance if my country for support and I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States of any and request to be placed upon the pension Roll for the District of Maine.
Ben S Furbish
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec
On the thirteenth day of April A. D. 1818 Benjamin Furbush above named after having been carefully examined made declaration before me under the oath on this ninth day of December 1819 he made oath to the above amended declaration before me.
Nathan Weston Chief Justice C Court Com Pleas second Eastern Circuit
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88
Benjamin Furbush
17,032
20th May 1820
Sep 1820

R. C. Vose, Augusta
Maine.
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(Copy) 88
State of Maine
Kennebec County, ss.
On this twenty second day of May, 1820 personally appeared before Nathan Weston Jur 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, Benjamin Furbish aged Sixty one years, resident in Rome 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 Brewster and Regiment commanded by Colonel Poor of the line of the State of New Hampshire upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of one year.
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the ninth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 17032. And I, the said Benjamin Furbish 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, contacts or debts due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Benj. Furbish

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
Two sheep of the value of four dollars
One pig worth four dollars
Furniture besides necessary bedding, not exceeding five dollars in value
One old axe, of the value of fifty cents
I have no debts due to me that can be collected, and I own as much as two hundred dollars
I have no income from property, trade or profession. I am a labouring man, by occupation, but being rheumatic am able to do very little labor or to dress or undress without assistance.
I have nine in family, my wife is unwell and totally unable to labor except occassionly she may do some little thereas,
Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no property or income whatever.
Benj. Furbish
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Subscribed, sworn to, and declared both the oath and schedule on the twenty second day of May 1820.
Before me Nathan Weston Jun. C. J.
C. C. C Pleas

A true copy
Attest. John Davis Clerk
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State of Maine.
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 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 Thirteen dollars and Fifty cents; and deducing 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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43667
Lydia Furbush
widow of Benjamin Furbush

Claim of
To Bounty Land.

Act of March 3, 1855
Has not recd Bounty Land
Revolutionary Pensioner
Benjamin Furbush, late husband
Private in the army of the Revolution

Presented by
Geo. W. Morton
Attorney, Augusta, Maine.
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Bounty Land Claim
State of Maine} SS. Mount Vernon March 29 1855
Court of Kennebec} 

On this twenty ninth day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, Zra Thring, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Furbush aged ninetey three years, a resident of Mt. Vernon being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical widow of Benjamin Furbish who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and that she is the widow Lydia Furbush who is now a Revolutionary pensioner under the Act of February 2, 1848 at the rate of thirty six dollars per annum on account of the services of her late husband Benjamin Furbush in the Revolutionary Army and the pensioner Lydia Furbush named in aforesaid service certificate of which the following is a true copy. The "Department of the Interior Widows Pension No 3381. I certify that in conformity with the Act of February 2 1848, Lydia Furbush widow of Benjamin Furbush who was a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum commencing on the first of July 1848, and continuing for life, when she should again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the time of said marriage, deducting former annuity at the rate of forty dollars per annum. Given at the Department of the Interior the third day of January one thousand eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Examined Alex H. H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior
F. S. Evans
Acting Commissioner of Pensions"
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855." She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor and that she is still a widow having declared
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all men by these presents. That I, Lydia Furbank
of Mt. Vernon in the
County of Kennebec
and State of Maine, have constituted and appointed GEO. W. MORTON, of the
City of Augusta, in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute and
receive from the United States the Bounty Land Certificate, or Warrant, due me under existing Laws granting Bounty Lands
for services rendered in the United States in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching
the premises, and an attorney or attorneys under him, for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby
confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do, or cause to be done, in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty ninth day of
March
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five

Witness: Ira Thing
Lydia Furbank [Seal 185] [ X and illegible]

STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY of Kennebec ss: -- On the twenty ninth day of March personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County Lydia Furbank and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed. 
On the twenty ninth day of March
185
personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County on
and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed. Ira Thing Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF MAINE,
COUNTY OF Kennebec } ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that
Ira Thign before whom the within declaration,
affidavit, and power of attorney, were made and executed, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme
Judicial Court for the County aforesaid, this third day of April 1855
[ILLEGIBLE] Stratton Clerk
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I Enoch Furbish of Rome in the County of Kennebec State of Maine do testify and declare upon oath that Lydia Furbish now living in said town of Rome is the pensioner of Benjamin Furbish late a revolutionary pensioner of the mentioned state has remained unmarried ever since the decease of the said Benjamin Furbish
Enoch Furbish
State of Maine
Kennebec County Ss
Subscribed and Sworn to this seventh day of August 1838 I certify the deposement and subscriber hereunto before me.
Nathan Weston C.J.  S.J.C.
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Benja: Furbish & Lydia Hasey were married by Rev Mr. Isaac Hasey February seventh seventeen hundred eighty one
Attest Joseph Farnham Town Clerk

A true transcript from the record illegible:  L. Kimball Town Clerk
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is explained on the record in fair legable figures as follows:
1781 February 7th Benja: Furbush & Lydia Hasey were married by the Rev Mr. Isaac Hasey.
Illegible: L Kimball above named epose and say that I hold the office of clerk of Lebanon in the County of York and State of Maine and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Timothy L. Kimball Town Clerk of Lebanon

State of Maine
York Ss Sworn this 14th day of August 1888
Timoth L. Kimball appear before me and made oath to the above record
James Brackett Esq  is an Justice of the Peace for the county of York
Nathan Weston  James Brackett Justice of Peace
I shall charge one dollar for my trouble and the Justice fees
T. L. Kimball
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1043
Lydia Furbush
widow of
Benjamin Furbush late
pensioner and
Act March 18, 1818
Maine Agency
Act 7 July 38
Married in 1781
Died in 1835
Illegible
17 mo pen
40$
No deduction
Geo W Martin
Augusta
Maine
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitle "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Maine
November County, SS.
On this Seventh day of August A.D., 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Warton Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, Lydia Furbush a resident of Rome in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, 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 benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"  That she is the widow of Benjamin Furbush late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818 & she refers to the evidence furnished the War Department by him of his services in the War of the Revolution in order to establish his claim to pension under said act.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Benjamin Furbush on the eleventh day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one; that her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Furbush died on the twenty seventh day of August 1835 at Rome aforesaid; 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, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Lydia Furbush Her Mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me (the applicant from infirmity illegible unable to appear in open court)
Nathan Weston C J S J C
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State of Maine
One the seventh day of August, 1838, Lydia Furbish, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn as within stated.  I am satisfied that she was married to Benjamin Furbush, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, on the seventh of February 1781, that the said Benjamin Furbush deceased on the twenty seventh of August, 1855, and that the applicant has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C. J.
S.J.C.
State of Maine
Kennebec SS.
I the subscriber Clerk of the County for same County hereby certify, that the Hon Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is this day, Justice of the Supreme Court of said State.  I also certify, that the foregoing & annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Lydia Furbush for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this twenty seventh day of August A.D., 1838
Tho Swan
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entitled
his widow to such quantity only as her husband
would be if living
Yours Respectfully
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23.174.
Lydia Furbus
Wid
Benjamin Fuller
Prish
---
Act: Feb 9th
Index: -- Vol. A
Page 259
Arrangement of 1870.]
of
the
to
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Furbush
S
P
on Eviden
Boynton
claim No 43667
for Bounty Land
H
on
I Minot
FREE
---
Coner Pensions
Washington D.C.
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2559
No Any
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Lydia
the
City
Atkins & Coombs
Furbush
allowed
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STATE OF TRANS
CUMBERLAND, SS.
To
PORTLAND,
Nov. 12
Freeman Bradford
Probate Office,
A.D. 185
REGISTER OF PROBa
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Nathan Hoyt, is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Kennebec
as appears by the paper hereto
COMMISSION of the said Hort
DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the
is dated August 27th
A. D. 1850 and will expire August
27th
A. D. 1857.
annexed, that the
following SIGNATURE purporting to be his tires
RENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed th
Affiant day and years
Freeman Bradford Register
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State of Maine
County
SS
On this 7th day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty, personally appeared Lydia Furbush
a resident of Mount Vernon in the County of Kernaber aged 85 years, who upon oath
makes the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838, March 3 1843-- June 17 1844
and February 2nd 1848 and the joint
Resolution of July 1st 1848
and this declarant states that she is the
widow of Benj Furbush late of Mt Vernon deceased
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the
United States under the act of 1818. The states
that her said husband Benj. Furbush received
a pension in his life time, at the rate of
ninety six dollars per annum and that he
died on the
day of September 1838
That after the death of her husband she made
application for a pension under the acts aforesaid
and now receives a stipend at the rate of $40
per annum. And that she has remained a
widow ever since her husbands death
the therefore claims a full Pension and
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upon the commissioner to her former delacution and to the proof hereto annexed
Kennebec SS
Lyded
her
Furbush
November 7th 1830
then personally appeared the above named
Lydia Furbush known to me to be the rents
person she represents herself to be and
made oath that the same is true
Before me,
Nathan Hoyt Just. Per
hereby certify
that from my
own hermal
knowledge the above named Lydia Ferbuckis
the widow of Benjamin Furbush deceased
a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that said
Lydia has remained a widow ever since
her husbands death
Nathan Hoy
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5540
Benjamin Furbush,
Kennebec County,
Maine
13. April, 1818.
Col. Poor's regimt
New Hampshire line,
one year, Decemr 1775,
to December 1776
-
Not found on the rolls,
service proved by the
testimony, on oath, of
two persons, certified
to be credible witnesses,
by the judge,
Admitted.
Robert C. Vose, agt
Augusta, Maine,
recd 27. Decr 1819
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, SS.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County
of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire,
before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of
Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties
of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have
affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he
presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this ninth
day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen.
John Davis
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I Ebenezer
Waldron, aged sixty four years of August
Maine, do upon oath certify and declare that I well know
Benjamin Furbush, continental Soldier in the war of the
revolution, to my knowledge
he enlisted in December 1775 for
the period of one year, Cap. Brewster company and Col. Poor
New Hampshire Regiment
I frequently
for the said Purburtduring the
year
1776 and being myself
a soldier at that time
I well knew
that the said Finbush, seved
one full year
I was not present when he was discharged, but well known
his officers,
I always understood he was a faithful soldier
I have no doubt
he received an
am now on
the pension
honorable
discharge I
all plain Ebert
Halt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
of
Kennebee County ss December 9th 1819
Personally
appeared
Ebenezer
Waldron
to me well
known,
as a credible
witness and he
made oath to the truth of the above
deposition
by
him subscribed
Before Me
Robert Rose Justice of the
Peace
Robert C. Von Esq is a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Kenneber, and the above deponent is in
my opinion
a credible and disinterested witness
Nathan Weston Sen C.J.C. Pleas
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I Ezra Carlton, of Plantation No Oxford County Maine do
hereby upon oath testify and declare that I well know Benjamin Furbush, continental Soldier in
the war of the revolution
to my knowledge the said Benjamin Furbush, served in Capt
Brewster Company and Col Poor's New Hampshire Regiment in the
years service in 1776. I frequently saw
said Forbush during the person
and was well knowing to his Lewis in continuation in the year 1776
for one full year
I was myself a continental soldier, after
the army
went into lines, and am now on the Pension Roll for
his
the District of Man the said Furbush now live in some
the County of Kenneber
---
Ezra
Carlton
mark
West Ryon

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Kennebec County Nov. 24, 1879. Personally appeared
the ┃
above
named
Ezra Carter, and be made oath to the South of
the above
departed
by him signed and I certify that the
above named
Ezra Carter, is in my opinion a credible
of discrtold witness
Before
me
Robert C Vose justice of the Peace
Robert C. Vose Esq is a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Kenneber
Nathan Weston Jan.
.C.C. Pleas
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3381.
Maine
Lydia Furbush
widow of Benjamin
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a pri

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jany 1819
and sent to
G W Morton
Augusta
all
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 11 Vol 1
Reputed
Jany 26 / 49
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Marre
940
Lydia Furbush
widow of Benjamin Furbush
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar 18
and who died on the 17 Aug 1835
of Kennebec in the State of Maine
who was a Priv
in the Compy commanded
by Captain
of the Regt commanded
by Poor
in the top
line for
12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Novr
38
, and sat and Geo. W. Morton
to Mr
---
Arrears to the 4th of Sept $100.00
Semi-annual allowance ending $20.00
$120,00
Recorded by R Burdin Clerk
Book A
Vol.  1 Page 9
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Maine
89.
Lydia Furbush
widow of Benjamin Furbush
who was a private
in the Massachusetts
12 months,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40.
Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate Pension issued the
day of May 1843 and
sent to
G. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
{Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A 
Vol. 1 
Page 4.
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Has $ 1.00
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State of Mem Hampshire.
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE,
I DO 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 office, it
appears that the name of Benjamin Furbish
is borne upon the page Roll of Capt. John
Brewster
Company, as a
Private
in said Company,
"time in service"
1 month"

Also on page 95 of Vol 9 
of "Army Ralls" in this office as 
follows -
"A Pay roll of the Company Commanded
by Capt. John Brewster in
Colonel Pierce Longs
Regiment at New Castle
in New Hampshire
from August 7th
to
December 7th of 1776
Inclusive"
[illegible]
"Benj Furbush"
"Station"
Private 
Nu of days in the Service
"95 days" "place of "Abode " "Lebanon"
1776
December 7th from Aug
Allens Names.


In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this
thirtieth day of November 1855
Lemuel N Pattee
Secretary of State
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538
Lydia Forbush
Geo W Morton
Auguster
Maine
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions
for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.

STATE OF MAINE,
County of Number Ss. On this [illegible]
day of April
A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the
County of Humbers  aged eighty one years, who, being first duly
duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March,
1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Benjamin
Furbush who was a
private
during the Revolutionary War; that she was
pensioned as the widow of the said Benjamin
Furbush at
the
rate of forty
dollars and
cents per
annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in
Portland
in the State of Maine
She further declares
that she is still the widow of the said Benjamin Furbush
having
remained unmarried ever since his death.
her
Lydia Furbush
mark
Witness
[illegible]
Upham J. Cram
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,
Upham J. Cram
Justice of the Peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the
Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Benjamin Furbush
deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Upham J. Cram Justice of the Peace
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State of Marie
Kennebec County SS
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial
Court held for and within said County of Kent, do
hereby certify that Upham I Cram is a Justice of the Peace as within stated, and that the within signatures per
porting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme
Judicial Court of Marra the eighteenth
day of April 1843

A R. Nichols
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Lydia Furbush
commonly
Geo W Mort
Augustin
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 Kennebec ss
On this twenty fourth day of August A.D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec
and State of Maine, Lydia Furbush
a resident of
Mt Vernon
in the County of Humber aged
eighty six 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 Benjamin Furbush
who was a Private
during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of
the said Benjamin Furbush at the rate of Forty 
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.
WITNESS:
James Chapman
Geo. Worcester
her
Lydia Furbush
mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
James Chapman 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.
James Chapman
Justice of the Peace,

STATE OF MAINE.
KENNEBEC COUNTY. ss.
I,William M. Stratton Clerk in the Court of Kennebec County,
certify that James Chapman 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 26th day of August 
in the year 1848.
W. M. Stratton
{Cleark of the Courts of Kennebec County
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Mt. Vernon
Nov 20 1850
Hon James L Edwards
Commr of Pension
Sir
I am now a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars for annum, my person is payable at the U.S. Agency in all and State of Maine, when
it has been paid to Sept 4, 1850, I have also been pensioned under the Act of July 7. 1838, March 3 1843 and June 17, 1844 on account of these
Revolutionary service of my late husband Benj
---
Furbush who was a pensioner under the act
---
of March 18. 1818 and died August 27, 1835. I hereby Authorize Gene Martin of Augusta in the State of
Maine to act as my attorney in establishing my
claim for an increase of my pension to which
I am entitled under any act of Congress relative
to increase of pension. I hereby revoke all authority given to any person whatever heretofore to
act as my attorney or agent in establish in my
am
Witness
George S. Worcester
Austin Worcester
My
 Lydia Furbish
mark
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In to $96 per
annum, did former
parts at $40 per
Anne Coung
July 1848
G. W Morton
Augusta
Maine
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Augusta, Maine
Nov 21. 1850
Sir
I enclose the pension certificate and
application of Mrs Lydia Furbush in order to obtain
an increase of pension for her. I understand a
travelling agent called upon her and induced
her to bargain with him for one half the amount
of the increase for establishing her claim, she and her friends are extremely anxious to stop all further proceedings by him in doing her so much injustice
as I have always acted as her agent in
establishing he claim to persons and prepared
her vouchers for the semiannual payment of
her pension and collecting the same for her, she
has
continued me to act as her agent and
I would respectfully request you to allow
her claim for increase of pension
any acts relative to increase of pension
the provisions of which she is entitled to the
benefit & send me as her agent such certificates
you issue in like cases, very respectfully
C. Sent
Geo. W. Morton
Hon James L. Edward
Comm of Pensions
Washington 
D C
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Lydia Furbush
$40.
Payment to be made at Portland
by
William Woodbury Es
Agent for paying 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, Page11 
Vol. 1
Leo Jenkins
Clerk
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War Department
Widow's Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Lydia Furbish, widow of Benjamin Furbish, who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of forty dollars and __ cents 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 State sthis 16th day of January on thousand eight hundred and forty [illegible].
Mb. L. Marcy
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Augusta, Maine
Dec. 3, 1855.
Sir
I herewith trament a certificate of
Secty N. Hampshire in support of the claim of
Lydia Furbush widow of Benjamin Furbush
No 43667 for bounty land for act March 3, 1855.
relative to while I have recd your letter had
Sept 6. 1855 in where you state the claim is
Suspended until evidence of Record seven
produced
Very respetfully
Your Obt Sert
Geo W Morton
Hon J Minot
[illegible]
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