Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23490, John Barton, Mass.
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SERVICE                                    NUMBER
Mass.               Barton, John    W 23490
                                       Abigail
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[on left side of page]  Letter to Hon. Geo. Evans,  Feb 27, 1837.

[on right side of page]
11. 380
District of Maine
John Barton
of Waterboro, in the Dist. Me
Who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alden of the Masstts line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of District Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of June 18
and sent to Ebenezer Thatcher of
Waterboro D Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819                   82.09
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819    48.00
10 Mon. 4/30   4/31                            $130.09

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
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[left side of page]
24 March 1853,
Letter to P. Agt suspending payment (by request of [illegible] Agt.)
Let to S. Belcher 19 Sept 1833
"          same          4 Oct     "
"          same         17 Nov    "
Suspension removed 4 Feb 1854

5201
Maine
Abigail Barton deceased
widow of John Barton
who died on the Mass
of              in the State of
who was a Corpl. in the      commanded
by Captain          of the       commanded
by                         in the
line for Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 88 Dollars          Cents
per annum, to commence on the 12   day of
June 1834, &
Ending 10 April 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of
Feb. 1833 and sent to  J J Coomby Mist.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the      }
Recorded by     R. McRae     Clerk,
Book  D    Vol.   2      Page      332
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State of Maine,
Franklin SS -  On this twenty eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared before the Honor-able Moris Sherbourne, judge of the court of Probate in and for said County of Franklin The same being a Court of Record, Sally Humphrey, a resident of Salem in the County of Franklin in the State of Maine aged fifty eight years, who being duly sworn according to law doth in her oath make the follow-ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 11th 1836 -----
And this declarant states that she is the only surviving child of John Barton deceased and the only surviving child of abigail Burton widow of said John Barton, also deceased, who Viz the said John Baron was a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $96 per annum under the act of 1818 - She also declares that her said father was a native of Falmouth in the State of Maine, and resided there in the time of the Revolutionary war, that he served as a Corperal in Capt. Reed's Company, Alsen's Regiment three full years - That her father the said John Barton died in Salem Maine on the 12th day of May 1834 -  That her Mother survived him and died on the 10th day of April 1837.
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That she did not intermarry after the death of her husband, but died the widow of the said John Barton the declarant's father.  She also states that her father intermarried with her mother whose maiden name was Abigail Davis while he was in the Army in the three year's service on the 1st day of July 1779 -  She therefore claims the pension due her Mother from the time of her father's death untill the death of her mother as before stated - And for the purpose of prosecuting this claim to final decision I hereby institute and appoint Jacob Herrick Esq of Lewiston Falls my attorney to ask for and receive any [illegible] pension certificates to which I may be lawfully entitled,
attest,       Sally   her x mark    Humphrey
S. D. Sherburne
Subscribed and sworn before me
M. Sherburne      Judge of said Court,
State of Maine.
County of Franklin SS - I, Joseph A. Linscott Register of Probate in and for said county, hereby certi-fy, that the Hon. Moses Sherburne fefore whom the forgoing declaration was made, is Judge of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned, and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the State, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine, and -
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that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations -
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the official seal of said Court this twenty eighth day of November, A.D. 1851.
I. A. Linscott    Register of the Court of Probate Franklin County.
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State of Maine
County of Franklin SS.
On this first day of November A.D. 1855, it has been satisfactorily proved in the open court of Probate for said County of Franklin, it being a Court of Record, that Margaret Ellsworth, a daughter of Abigail Barton late of Salem in said county, deceased, died at said Salem on the thirtieth day of April A.D. 1850, and that Sally Humphrey of said Salem is the only surviving child of the said late Abigail Barton deceased.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court, and subscribed my name this first day of November, A.D. 1855
I. A. Sinscott     {Register of the court of Probate for Franklin County.}
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I Joseph Allen of Gray in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty nine years of age and upwards on oath depose and say that I am a pensioner of the U.S. and was a soldier of the revolution on Continental establishment and also in the Militia of the State of Massa-chusetts.  In the first plan I enlisted into Capt. Ballard Company in Col Alden's Regt and served three years.  I was discharged in 1780 from the three years service.  After my return to Falmouth my native town I enlisted into Capt Price's Company and served as a Sergt for that season.  In 1781 I served in Capt Reed's Company as a Sergt -
While in the three years service I knew a man by the name of John Barton who was a soldier in the same Regt with me.  This John Barton had a woman with him that was called his wife.  I understood that this John Barton had been previosly[sic] married to a woman in Falmouth and my impression and belief is that the news of the death of Bartons first wife came to us while we were in the service.  I do not know when Barton was married to this 2nd woman nor do I know her name.  It was said that she was his wife while in the service
Attest  F. Bradford       Joseph  his x mark  Allen
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74
John Barton
11  300

Sept 1819

Matthew
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STATE OF MAINE.

LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this sixth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Eben. Thatcher a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, John Barton aged 68 years, resident in Wldoboro - in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary Was as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Reed in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Alden in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 27th day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11. 380 was granted.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818 : and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
John   his x mark   Barton
Sworn to and declared, on the sixth day of July A. D. 1820
BEFORE    Eben. Thatcher   {One of the Judges of the said Court.}
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding ex-cepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
No Real Estate
1 Cow
I owe G. Damuth      $25
& Abner Pitcher           8
John    his x mark    Barton

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me John Barton who, by occupation am a fisherman which I am unable to pursue by reason of age & infirmity

NAMES             AGES     Capacity of each to
                                              contribute to their
                                              support.
Wife                  67              sickley[sic]
 John    his x mark    Barton
Nat Coffin   Clerk 
  
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, SS.
I, Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said 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, is Nothing dollars and       cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this eighth day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat Coffin {Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.}
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Maine             27th April 1818

John Barton of Waldenborough Enlisted in October 1776 & served as a Corp. in Col. Alden's Regt Mass Line till Dec 7 1779

on Roll [in pencil]

Hon'ble Ebenezer Thatcher

Admitted
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C J
I John Barton of Walenborough in the county of Lincoln State of Massachusetts late a Corpist in Capt John Reeds Company Col Jehabit Aldens Regiment on this Continental establishment in the revolutionary War Against the common enemy testify and say that some time in the month of October 1776 I enlisted into said Company and Regiment for three years and - that I served the U. States honestly & faithfully from the said month of Oct. 1776 to the month of Decr 1779 at which time I was honorably discharged from the army by Genl Lincoln at West Point having served out the full period of three years on the Continental establish. in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy that my said discharge was lost on board of a [illegible] which was cast away on Monhegan, that I am not on any pension Rolls of the U. States, that I am now a resident Citizen of the U. States & that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life am in need of assistance from my Country for Support, therefore respectfully request that my name may be placed on the pension Roll of the U. States agreeably to an act of congress passed on the 18th of March 1818, "providing for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the U. States in  the Revolutionary War." -
John    his x mark    Barton
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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 John Barton, a citizen of the United States, now resident in  Waldoboro, in the said County of Lincoln, in the District of Maine, on the twenty seventh day of April, A. D. 1818, 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 preceedings had theron, to your Honor ; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons en-gaged 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 con-sideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a soldier 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 his 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, the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen..........
Eben Thatcher

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Lincoln, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER, 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 the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this 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 Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninteen
Nathl Coffin
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State of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln ss.}      Be it remembered that on the third day of February 1819 Personally appeared before me Ebenezer Herrick on of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Robert Jack to me personally known and made and subscribed the following oath_
I Robert Jack testify on oath that I served in Captain John Reads Company in the Revolutionary Army- and that I was personally acquainted with John Barton late a Corporal in said Company, and that said Barton served in said company three years under the Continental establishment against the common enemy and was honorably discharged at West Point in the month of December 1779 - So help me God.  Robert Jack
Subscribed and Sworn to, at Bowdoinham in the  State of Massachusetts the day and year above, written, before me Ebenezer Herrick Justice of Peace
I Daniel Ridley of Bowdoin do testify and Say that I belonged with Company of Capt John Reed with [illegible] army and was knowing to John Barton serving as Corporal in Said Company three years and was honorably discharged.        Daniel Ridley
Lincoln ss
February the 3d 1819  personly approved the above named Daniel C. Ridley and [illegible] the
truth of the Certificate by him Subscribed before me     Solomon Eaton Justice of the Peace
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In reply to your request of ........, received....... for a statement of the military history of John Barton 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.
Wid. file 23.490
Dates of enlistment or appointment.   Oct. 76 to Dec 79
Rank.    Corpl.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain.    John Reed
Colonel.     Ichabod Alden
State.     Mass.
Battles engaged in,............
Residence of soldier at enlistment,   Falmouth, Maine.
Date of application for pension,    Apl 27, 1818.
Residence at date of application,   Waldoborough, Lincoln Co., Mass.
Age at date of application,    66  native of Falmouth,  died June 12, 1834 Salem, Me.
Remarks:  Sol. marr. July 1, 1779   Abigail Davis whose age is given 67 yrs. in 1820.  She died Apl. 10, 1837, her dau. Margaret Ellsworth died Apl. 13, 1850,  the widow's pension was allowedˆin 1853 & paid  to her only surv. child Sally Humphrey age 60 yrs.
Very respectfully.
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Sept. 28, 1903  His. to Katharine & Humphrey
Sewell Mass.

Jany 9, 1905   To above
No addl inf. as to date of marriage.  See carbon.

1907 June 25.  Hist. to Volsora Richard - C.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No.  23.490
Abigail Barton
Wife of
John Barton
Corpl.  Rev War

Act:  July 4th  1848
Index:---Vol. A, Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870]


John Barton  Me.  Act 1818   when last pd?
GMC
Feby 22  1837
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21 Fide
Hon Geo Evans
respg Abigail Barton 16.

J. L. Edwards  Esq.
Com. of Pensioner.
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Ho. Rep.     Feb. 20.    1877

J. L. Edwards  Esq.
Comm. of Pensions

Sir,         John Baron a rev. pensioner,  deceased May 1834.  I am requested to ascertain, whether any person has applied for a pension for his widow    Abigail Barton - or whether any pension has been paid to any person on his account since May 1834 _    I believe the marriage took place in 1780 - Please inform me, whether upon proof of that fact, a pension will be granted to the widow!

Your ob't servant

Geo. Evans.

Maine 2 June 1819
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Abigail Barton dec
widow of John
adm.               Me
2 yrs   Corp     $88.
per annum from
12 June    1834   (Andn.  says
he was paid to that date)
when he died to 
10 April 1837
when she died

Pay to Sally Humphrey
only child

And to J.J. Coombs  Esq
[illegible]
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Brief in the case of Abigail Barton widow of John
County and State of Maine
act  July 4 1836

Claim, ("original")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Barton was a pensioner   acts  1818  & 1870
Received proof that he was a corporal

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
J.J. Coombs Esq
Berwick

Thomson Triplett
Examining Clerk
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Farmington, Maine.
September 7.  1853.
To the Hon Secretary of the Department of the Interior
Sir.
Enclosed is the application of Mrs Sally Humphrey for her pension certificate.  I have no hesitation in saying that her statements are, in my opinion, strictly true.  By her consent, I [illegible] one Jacob Herrick, who, as she supposes , controls the certificate which has been issued, seventy five dollars out of the money to be received from the government.  It would be a very liberal remuneration for any services rendered.
But is not Mrs Humphrey entitled, of right, to demand & receive her certificate of the Department? - Why should it be delivered into the hands of another, or withheld from her against her consent?
I trust the Department will give the matter early attention & do justice.
Your Obedient Servant
Saml. Belcher.
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Farmington, Maine.
September 22.  1853.

Sir.
Your [illegible] has just come to hand.  Enclosed, please find the papers returned with the official character of the Justice of the Peace properly authenticated.
Your Obt. Servant,
Saml. Belcher.

Hon G. P. Waldo, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Farmington, Maine.
Nov. 5, 1853
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
Enclosed I send you proof, in the ordinary form, that Sally Humphrey is the only surviving child of Abigail Barton deceased.  I had supposed that fact was satisfactorily proved before granting the certificate by the Department.  The circumstances attending the withholding the certificate were set forth in the affidavit of Mrs Humphrey, heretofore filed in your office - There can be no doubt of the death of Mrs Ellsworth, mentioned in your letter.  I hope there is no attempt to impose upon the Department by those who would appropriate widow's pensions to their own purposes.  In other words, " devour widow's houses".  But I know not from whom the objectives come.  I hope the enclosed paper may be satisfactory so that you may order the pension to be [illegible] over.
Your obt. Servant.  Saml. Belcher.
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Original memorandum book of John Dain exhibited to Co. Niles, who says it is satisfactory  as to the marriage.

Mr. Barton died 17 May 34
Abigail Barton " 10 Apr 1837
Sally Humphreys   Child

1st wife died in Falmouth -
Journal of Dains shows Bartton married Thursday 1st July 1779

Mr. Barton died May 17th 1834
Widow died 10th April 1837 -
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Pension Office,
June 23d 1852
Sir:
I have examined and filed the claim of Abigail Barton, deceased, widow of John, for the benefit of the Act of July 4th, 1836.  The date of the marriage is not established.  It appears from the affidavit of John Allen, that John Barton was married when he entered the Army - and that, whilst in the service, he received information of the death of his wife - That he had a woman with him whilst in the Army, whom, it was said, was his wife, &c.  To enable us to determine how far the memrandum in the Journal of John Dain can be received as evidence that he married the woman who was with him in the Army, that Journal must be submitted to this office -  as also evidence from the Town Records of the Town where his first wife resided showing the period of her death.  It should also be shewn that there is no Family, Town or Church Record of this alleged second marriage in existence.  Barton in his declaration under Act 1st May 1820, stated that his wife was then (August 8th, 1820) sixty seven years old- If the Town Records shew the day of
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her death and her age when she died, a copy thereof should also be sent to this Office
Very Respy
Your Obt Servant,
F F C Triplett
For Commissioner.
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Portland Sept 20 1853
Dear Sir
In reference to the fact that Abigail Barton left one other child than Sally Humphrey named in the Pension Certificate there can be no doubt, as that fact was communicated to be by her neice agent shortly after the Pension Certificate was issued.  I informed him that the Pension Certificate should be returned to Washington with proof of the fact.  The offer to Mr. Herrick of $75 was accompanied with the condition that he Herrick should establish Sally Humphreysˆ  claim to the whole pension - as I am informed -
Mr Herrick informed me some weeks ago that he was about getting proof to establish the claim of the other child.  I have no doubt that Abigail Barton left at her decease Sally Humphrey & Margaret Ellsworth.
Yours &c
Freeman Bradford

J. J. Coombs Esq
Washington D.Cl
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Farmington Maine
Sept 7, 1853.
Saml Belcher,
Encloses application of Sally Humphrey for Pension

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions
Dept Intr
Sept14/'53          ASH White
                             Actg:Chf:Clk:


Cole


Pritchett
Sept, 14, 1853
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To the Honorable Secretary of the Department of the Interior:

The undersigned, Sally Humphrey of Salem in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, hereby makes application to you for a certificate of pension which will enable her to obtain a pension under the act of July 4. 1831, of eighty eight dollars per annum, and prays that the same may be forwarded to address by mail.
She asks for said Pension Certificate for the reasons set forth in the subjoined affidavit.
Witness                 Sally   x   Humphrey
Saml. Belcher.
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State of Maine.
County of Franklin ss.
Salem    July 4.  AD 1854.
Personally appeared before me Samuel Belcher a Justice of the Peace, duly qualified by law to administer oaths in and for the County and State aforesaid, Sally Humphrey of Salem in said County, and made oath, in the form of law, that she is the only surviving child of Abigail Barton, and the identical person named Sally Humphrey in a Pension certificate issued from the Depart of the United States, and dated on the 26th day of February 1853, granting to her a pension of 88 dollars per annum, under the act of 4 July 1836: ________ that the said Certificate so issued from the Department of the Interior has never come into the hands, possession or control of said Sally Humphrey, but is unjustly detained from her without her consent.  and despite her best efforts to obtain it from the person having it in possession:  for which reason she is unable to obtain said pension and
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is deprived of all benefit which should accrue to her from the granting said certificate, _______ that to her best recollection & belief she never gave any person authority to demand or receive said certificate from the Department of the Interior ____
that in order to obtain the pension to which she is entitled under said act of 4 July 1836, it is necessary that she should receive a certificate from the Department of the Interior, which she prays may be forwarded to her address by mail
Attest                     Sally   her x mark  Humphrey
Saml Belcher
Abbott Belcher

State of Maine
Franklin ss.     Subscribed & sworn to this day & year first above written before me.
Saml. Belcher Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine  Franklin County ss.  I Isaac Tyler Clerk of the Judicial Courts of said State for the County aforesaid hereby certify that Samuel Belcher Esquire before whom the foregoing affadavit was subscribed and sworn to, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths and the signature thereto written purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County at Farmington this twenty second day of September A.D. 1853
Isaac Tyler Clerk

Farmington Maine
Sept 7. 1853
Saml Belcher
Encloses application of Sally Humphry for Pension

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner
V Penssing
Dept Intr
July 14/53
ASH White
Actg:Chf:Clk

Cole

[illegible]
Sept, 14, 1853
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STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts,
Portland, March 5th A. D. 1852
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said County of Cumberland, certify that Freeman Bradford is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION  of the said Bradford is dated May 28th A. D. 1846 and will expire May 28th A. D. 1853

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 Supremem Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon    CLERK.
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State of Maine
Cumberland County ss.
Probate Office Portland Dec. 16. 1851

I Josiah Pierce, Judge of Probate for the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine do hereby certify that I have examined an ancient Book entitled "Sergt. John Dain Book of Monthly Returns and Weekly States of Capt. Lans Compy" which purports to have been kept by him while he the said Dain was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, and contains a Journal of the third year of said Dains service commencing February 7 1779, and from that date with great regularity to the 31 March 1780, which includes his journey home after his discharge.
In the month of July 1779 there is the following entry, "1, Th. John bartton merried this Eveng Showery Wr."  Against the dates of the month he has designated it by the day of the week, and I understand Th. means Thursday and the next entry thereafter is the 2d. and against it the letter F. the 3d. S. the 4th Sn, the 5th M. and so on in regular order.
Thus on the 4th he says in his Journal "This day Independence was declared three years agone and this day Gen Clinton troops at Lake Sago (Oswego) ordered 13 Rounds of Cannon and three
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volley of Small arms for rejoicing."
From the Journal it appears that said Dain was in the Western part of New York and was on the march down the Susquehanna River.
The book appears ancient and genuine and it has been satisfactorily proved to me in open Court that it was formerly in possession and kept in the hand writing of Sergeant John Dain who was a Soldier in Capt. Daniel Lane's Company in the Regiment of Col. Ichabod Alden, afterwards commanded by Col. Brooks.
Josiah Pierce Judge

Cumberland SS.
In testimony that Hon Josiah Pierce is Judge of Probate within and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the Court of Probate this fifth day of March A. D. 1852.

Freeman Bradford   Register of Probate
                                  Cumberland County
The original memorandum Book of Sergt John Dain above referred to, submitted and examined, & it satisfactorily appears that the same is ancient and genuine.  Feb 25, 1853  W. Ogden Niles
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March 18/52
No 7.815

Abigail Barton
decd. widow of John Barton ___Ma 18

For pension under act of 1836
Maine
July 4, 1836

John Barton died
12 May 1834

Abigail Barton died
10 April 1837

Sally Humphrey 
only Child


J. J. Coombs
Present
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office. Boston:
February 24 1847.

I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of John Barton is borne upon an Acccount in Army Books as a corporal of Falmouth in Capt Reed's Company col Brooks's (late Aldens') regt, and there credited by his service from January 1 1777 to December 31 1779, 36 Months, at 44 per Month.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears;  that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone;  and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G [Illegible]
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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To the Secretary of State Massachusetts

The undersigned Sally Humphrey daughter of John Barton respectfully requests the Secreatry of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to furnish from the rolls & comments relating to Military Service in the war of the revolution the evidence of the service of her father the said John Barton therein.
And this applicant states that John Barton her father was a resident of Falmouth sometimes called Casco Bay in the time of the revolutionary war and she has heard her father say that he was in the Army three years or more and that he served in Capt Reed's Company Col Alden regt a part if not all of said time.  She further states that her father was a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 and drew a pension of 96 dollars per annum under said Act to the time of his death which took place in June 1834.  This applicant has been informed that her father John Barton married her mother Abigail Davis while he was in the army in his three years service.  She therefore requests the Secretary to furnish the evidence of her father's service in the Continental Army.
Sally Humphrey
State of Maine, Cumberland SS. Jun. 4th 1847 Submitted in my presence  Jacob Herrick  Just. [illegible]
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At a Court of Probate held at Farmington, within and for the County of Franklin, on the first Tuesday of December, A.D. 1851.
It was satisfactorily proved in open Court, that John Barton late of Salem in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States; That he died on the twelfth day of May, A.D. 1834. - That his wife Abigail Barton survived him, and died a widow on the tenth day of April A.D. 1837;-  And it has in like manner been proved that Sally Humphrey is the only surviving child of said John and Abigail Barton - 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal official of said Court, this second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
J. A. Linscott  {Register of the Court of Probate, Franklin County}
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[illegible]   June 17
Kingfield Maine.
W 5201
to the Bureau of Pension, Will you please to tell me about one John Barton of Bristol Me later of Salem Maine    he was Revolutinry Soldier 
is thare apension or money do him or Enoch Boston
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Or Bountys   we want to find out all about them

address
Velsora Richard
Kingfield
Maine

[stamp:  M. & M. Div.
                   JUN
                     20
                    1907
                    FILES ]
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No 7815
Abigail Barton dd
widow of John
Maine
[illegible] J. J. Coombs  June 23/52

July 4, 1836
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Pension Office
Feby 25  1853

{Maine Rolls                
Acts 1818 & 1870      
$ 96 p annum}                
     
John Barton
To what time paid?
I. Triplett                               
Died 12th June 1834
Paid to his death
BLB

I .S.Gallaher  Esq      
I auditor
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[stamp:  Navy
DEC 22  1904
FILES]

Will you please tell me if possible from the application for a pension for service in the Rev War of John Barton #23.490 where he was married and if it was his first or second marriage
Katharine H. Humphrey
59 Bellevue St
Lowell. Mass.
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JRW

W.23490:Rev.War.                Jan. 9, 1905.

Madam:
In reply to your recent inquiry, you are advised that John Barton was married to Elizabeth Davis July 1, 1779, while in the service, as you were informed September 28, 1903.  The only information in the case as to whether this was Barton's first or second marriage, is contained in an affidavit of Joseph Allen, of Gray, Maine, dated December 24, 1846, who states as follows:

"Barton had a woman with him in the service who was called his wife, think he had been previously married to a woman in Falmouth, Maine, and that the news of her death came while we were in the service."

Very respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.

Katharine H. Humphrey,
59 Bellevue St.,
Lowell, Mass.