Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 9780, Charles Church, Mass.
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Mass.     Church, Charles               W9780
Rachel      BLWt 8141-160-55
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6538
Maine
Rachel Church
widow of Charles Church
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on the 18th November, 1858
Certificate of Pension issued 7th day of Febry 1859 and sent to
Geo W, Morton
Augusta, ME
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66.830 Act March 3/55
April 13/55
Charles Church
Private
Capt. Marshall
Col. Tupper
Ct. Cont line
Enlist April 178
Dis Feb 1783
Pensioner
Me July 32-3711
CO:160 Oct 11/55
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine 
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Dec 1832 and sent to R Close
{per gasta Me}
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 Mar 1832 $40
                                                                $160
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
recorded by E.D. Bullock clerk
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I Jonathan Pratt of Phillips in Maine depose and say that I now Charles Church, named in now annexed discharge, and that he is now same person who did his services therein certified.
Jonathan Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On this 22 day of April 1818 the aforesaid Jonathan Pratt, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to his truth of the foregiving affidavit by him signed
before me, Josiah Stebbins, a Judge 
of the C.C.C.P for said circuit.
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I Charles Church of the town of Phillips in the County of Somerset, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the fifty fifth year of my age, a resident citizen of the United States, deserving to obtain the provision made by the law of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," and to be placed on the pension in the District of Maine, do, on oath testify & declare: That I was born in Scituate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that at Scituate on the fifth day of April Auno Domini 1781, I enlisted as a soldier in the Continental Army for the term of those years; and was  there mustered; That I served during the whole  term of those years in Capt. Christopher Marshall (of Boston) company; and until {untill} June or July, or about that time, 1783, in the 10th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Tupper; and afterward, in Col. Vose regiment. I faithfully served in the Continental accomplishment from the time of my enlistment to the 24th day of December 1783, when I was honorably discharged, at West Point in the State of New York, I then serving in the first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Vose. I am now, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, stand in need of assistance from my country for support.
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never was off from duty or received a furlough during said terms. I have my discharge in posession.
Charles Church
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On the twenty second of April abt. 1818, the aforesaid Charles Church, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed. Before me, Josiah Stebbins, a Judge
of the C.C.C.P. for said Circuit.
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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 Five Hundred and three dollars and - cents; 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 Three hundred sixty three dollars and - cents.
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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that his original declaration was made before Judge Stebbins on the twenty second day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6205. And I, the said Charles Church 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 wit 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 nt, nor has any person in trust for me, any property as securities, contracts or debts, due to me; not have I any income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Charles Church
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: one hundred acres of land mostly {    }is with a small house and barn thereon not exceeding the value of Three hundred and fifty dollars, one old horse of the value of twenty dollars. Three cows of the value of forty five dollars, one yoke of three years old steers of the value of twenty five dollars, two two years heifers of the value of sixteen dollars two yearlings of the value of ten dollars, ten sheep and ten lambs of the value of twenty dollars, Three swine of the value ten dollars, old household furniture of the value of five dollar, old farming tools worth not exceeding two dollars. I have no debts due me that can be collected and I owe as much as one hundred and forty dollars. The income of the above property after deducting the interest of my money owe does not exceed fifteen dollars.
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My occupation is that of a farmer but from infirmity having a very bad rupture and being very  {  }, which was occasioned by an injury received while in the service, as unable to labor, my family at home consists of myself my wife Rachael aged forty seven years, being a very weakly woman is unable to work, my daughter Nancy aged twenty five years who is cripple and has been from her birth, my son William aged eighteen years who is lame and probably always will be and therefore unable to labor, my son John aged eleven years, my daughter Dorcas aged ten years and my mother aged seventy seven years so infirmed that she is unable to go about without help.
Except the foregoing and my necessary bedding and clothing I have no estate or income whatsoever. 
Charles Church
Subscribed, swornto, and declared both the oath and schedule on the thirteenth day of June 1820
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr.
C,J.C.C. Pleas
John Davis Clerk
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Declaration. In order to obtain its benefits of the 20 sec of this day of Feb. 3, 1853.
State of Maine,
Franklin County S.S. on this fourth of day of January 1859 personally {  } before the {  } Court of Probate for said County of Franklin it being a court of record, Rachel Church a resident of Phillips in said County of Franklin eighty two years, who being duly sworn according to law, doith on her oath, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 of February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary wat, that she is the widow of Charles Church who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution and a revolutionary pensioner of the United Stats at the rate of eighty dollars per annum under the date of June 7, 1832, that his pension was payable at the United States Agency in Portland, State of Maine, where it was paid to Sept 4, 1858. She further declares that she was married to the said Charles Church n the Seventeen day of March A.D. 1815, that he died on the thirteenth ay of November 1858 at  said Phillips, that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January 1800 but at the time above states, and that she is now a widow  Rachel Church
Attest W. H. Josselyn
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year where written in open Court before me
P.M. Stubbs Judge of Probate Court
Franklin County 
State of Maine
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State of Maine
Franklin County S.S.   I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate for said county of Franklin, do hereby certify that the Hon Philip M. Stubbs is the Judge of said court and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Rachel Church for a Pension for testimony whereof I have hereunto sit my hand & office its official due of said Court this fourth day of January A.D. 1859
B. Sampson Register
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State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss
I hereby certify that William H. Josselyn Esq 
before whom the annexed affidavits and sworn to, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace for our County of Franklin, duly authorized to administer oaths to and that his signatures thereto are genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of our Sup. Jud. Court for said County of Kennebec this 21st day of January A D 1859
W M Stratton Clerk of Said Court
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BOUNTY LAND CLAIM
STATE OF MAINE SS
COUNTY OF Franklin
On this sixth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, Charles Church Jr. a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Charles Church aged ninety three years, a resident of Phillips in the State of Maine, who, was a private in the Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Col. Tupper in the war of the Revolution for who's service he is now a U. States Pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 and the
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66.830
Charles Church
Claim of
TO BOUNTY LAND,
Act of March 3, 1855
Has not rec bounty land. 
Revolutionary Pensioners
Act June 7, 1832 
Private in the Army of the Revolution.

Presented by
GEO. W. MORTON,
Attorney, Augusta, Maine
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POWER OF ATTORNEY/
Know all men by these presents, That I, Charles Church of Phillips in the County of Franklin 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 service 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 sixth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
Witness: Daniel L. Dennison  
            his
Charles X Church 
           mark     
State of Maine,   SS:-On the sixth day of April 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County Charles Church and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free set and deed,
Charles Church Justice of the Peace
State Of Maine
County of Kennebec S.S.
I Hereby Certify, that Charles Church Jr. before whom the within declaration, affidavit, and power of attorney, was 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 tenth day of April 1855
W M Stratton  CLERK
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Augusta, Maine
April 10, 1855

Sir,
I hereunto sent Eight applicants for Bounty Land, Act March 3,1855. The claimants never having set any bounty land under any Act of Congress.
Therein names as following, VIZ
Dolly Esty - Sarah Pinkham - Benjamin Field
William Ham - Benjamin Branch - Ebenezer Fisher
Ephraim Anderson and Charles Church
On the examination of their [  ], if satisfactory- I wont respectfully request a new warrants sent to me for them
Very respectfully
Yours [ ] Sarah
Geo. W. Morton
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Court Pensions
Washington D.C.
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 March 17, 1815
Their joined in marriage Charles Church and Rachal Hall, both of Avon
Wm Read
Justice of the Peace
Phillips July 7, 188
A true copy of the record, as taken from said Wm Read's Bank in which I kept records of marriages
Attest, W. H. Josselyn, Justice of the Peace,
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Pension on file in this Bureau, Charles Church file 9780
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Apr, 5 1781 to June or July 1783 
then transferred to and discharged  Dec . 24, 1783
Rank,| Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED 
Captain | Christopher Marshall
Colonel | Tupper
State | Mass

Battles engaged in,___________________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Scituate Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 22, 1818
Residence at date of application, Phillips, Somerset Co. Mass
Age at date of application, 547 days old born at Scituate, Mass. died Nov. 13, 1858 at Phillips, Me.
Remarks:
Soldier married Mch 17, 1815 Rachel Hall of Avon She was allowed pension on an application executed at Jany 4, 1859 while a resident of Phillips, Franklin Co. Me. aged 82 years, children,  b. 1820 Nancy  was 25 years old.  William 18, John 11, and Dorcas 10 years old.
Soldiers mother was 77 years old at that date.  No name stated and no mentioned.
Very respectfully,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTO D.C.
June 1st, 1898
Madam:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Charles Church made an application for pension on May 2, 1818, at which time he was 2 years of age and residing at Rockingham, Vermont , and his pension was allowed for three years' actual service as a private in the mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Gates and Col. Putnam. He enlisted at New Salem, Mass. His widow , Rebecca, made application and received a pension for the service f her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
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6205.
Maine
Charles Church
private
Massachusetts 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 22nd of April 1818
Certificate pf Pension issued the 28 of Jany 1819 and [ ] 
R. C. Vose
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mo 13/30 35.46
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4 March 1819 48.00
$83.46
Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818
Farmington
Notification sent July 10, 1820 to R. C. Vose
Augusta, Maine
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we the Subscribers selectmen of the Town of Avon in the County of Somerset and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby Certify that Charles Church of said Avon s a person who by reason of his reduced circumstances in life wants in need of assistance from his country for support.
Elijah Clark
Ichabod Norton
Selectmen of the Town of Avon
Avon April 21, 1818
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Augusta, Maine 
Jany 21, 1859
Sir,
I herewith transmit before in order to have the [ ] for Pension ( under 2nd Sec Act Feb 3, 1853) of Rachel Church allowed.
Her later husband Charles Church was a Rev. Pen. under Act June 7, 1832 on the Maine Roll at $80/ on annum. died in Phillips the Nov 13, 1858.
If the papers in the care are decent sufficient I want respectfully request you to send me for her a Pension Certificate.
Very Respectfully,
Yours ow servt
Geo. W, Morton
Hon Geo C. Whiting
Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Charles Church
Phillips, pvt Col. Vose's
Mass Reg. 1781 to 1783
April 22, 1818
Admitted
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Brief in the case of Rachel Church, widow of Charles. 
Franklin County and State of Me.
act 3. Feb. 1853
Claim, (original)
Proof Exhibited (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance,
Husband was pensioner under the Act of 7th June, 1832 at the rate of $80. per ,annum.
Record evidence of marriage. Pensioner died 18th day of November, 1858 as appears by the affidavit of two credible witnesses.
(I for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Identity satisfactorily established.
Geo. W. Morton, Esq.
Augusta, Me
Name and Residence of Agent
S.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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No 7166
Rachel Church
Vix:
Charl Me:
Admit 2nd Sec Act Feb. 1853 at #80 per an:
Pension 
to Commence 18th November 1858 when he died.
Clerk to Geo. W. Morton
Augusta, Me;
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8141
[ ]
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Re: Act 7 June, 32 Me;
Boynton
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Commssioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me any information the records offer concerning Charles Church, pensioner of the War of the Revolution?
It is supposed that he was born in Cohasset, Mass. and that because of the early death of his father he lived in Scituate, Mass with Capt. Thomas Church.
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He went to Phillips, or Avon, Maine about 1800. Died at Phillips in 1858 aged 96 years. Served as guard on prison ship in Boston Harbor.
Do the records mention Christopher Church, his father and, if so, what was his native town?
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. Frank W. Wilbur
4740 Tremont Ave So.
Minneapolis, Minn.
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Revolution, Massachusetts
WIDOW, &c.
File No.9780
Rachel Church
Wid
Charles Church
Private Rev. War
Act: Feb. 3rd 1853
Index:- Vol. A, Page 129
(Arrangement of 1870)
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No. 66830
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855
Received Apr. 13, 1858
Charles Church
Rev. War
Warrant 8141-160-55
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Me
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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 a Judge of the circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Charles Church, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Phillips, in the said County of Somerset, in the District of Maine, on the twenty second day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was n his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, 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, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of is country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Josiah Stebbins
Commonwealth of Massachusetts., 
Kennebec, ss.
I the Subscribe Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Honorable Josiah Stebbins, Esquire,  before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of he said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:- Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this twenty second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE}ss.
KENNEBEC CONNTY,
ON this Eighteenth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Charles Church a resident of Avon in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1781 with Captain Marshall and served in Col. Tupper's, regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz  Marshall Capt,  Tupper Col, That he enlisted in said company & Regiment the 5th of April 1781 for three years & was discharged the last of December 1783. His discharge was in waiting & is now in the Ma office.
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6205, and dropped therefrom [  ] of his property. That at that time he resided in Avon in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, and now resides in the same town.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before Nathan Weston Jr. 
[  ] S. J. C.
And the said Judge does herby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jr.
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State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.- I, John A. Chandler, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Charles church for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 18th day of July A. D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler Clerk
 Charl Church
Private- Mass: troops
Marshall's Co. Tupper's Regt
3 years
[  ]
Private 2 years 
$80
R.C. Vose
Augusta, Me
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I Theodore Marston and William Soule of Phillips in the County of Franklin and state of Maine, do depose and say that we reside for many years in the neighborhood of the late Charles Church and his wife Rachel Church before his decease and were intimately acquainted with them, he was to our knowledge a Revolutionary Pensioner of the mustered State, and died in said Phillips on the thirteenth day of November A. D. 1858 they lived together even after their reported marriage as, husband & wife, were separated persons, his widow is said Rachel Church is now in full life a resident of said Phillips, and a widow.
Theodore Marston
Wm. Soule
State of Maine
Franklin County, S.S. on this seventh day of January 1859 personally affixed before the subscribers, as Justice of the Peace for said County, Theodore Marston and William Soule, to me were known as credible persons and under oath to the truth of the above affidavits by them I whereto, and I [  ] that I am in no [  ] interests in the claim in support of which the said affidavit was taken, Before me
W.H. Josselyn, Justice of the Peace