Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,024, Caleb Witham, Mass.
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Bath April 15 1863

To the president
Mr Abraham Lincoln

Sir I am the dauter of Caleb Witham who served three years in the [Old ] Revolution war and was at the takeing of Burgyne and was in manny others hard faught battles lost his helth and returned to my mother then with one Child thay had ten afterwards of wich I am youngist 
he had a hard time thru life he drawed a penchien a few years before he died which was in 1822
I seed many hardships at that time being the only child at home my mother health being poor in after years she drew a Small penshion
I was her only support till then She died in [1835] 
I followed her down to the grave my dear mother and was left alone my health poor But the Lord was my helper
I have since Married a man by name of John G Gould he made me a good living till he was
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hurt by a horse in Chelsea mass whare we then lived 11 years ago
Doctor Whales atended him Since that time his health has ben poor his head was hurt baad that thaught he could not live by thrugh king Provedence and Skilfulnes of his [phersishen] he is with me now but we have yet to be old
I am 62 my husban older I suffer for the nesasarrys of life and Shall the dauter of and old revolution Soldier be compeld to sufer want or be so lowerd in her own mend as to Call on the town the lord forbid when I see how much our government is doing to alay the suferings in this cuntry and in other cuntrees
I feel glad and think thay do what is right yet I think it would be also right to releve me and give me my father's penchion as my parants lived to injoy so little of it and I was the only Child that staid with them and worked for them
I have one brother living in kingfield.
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Soroundid by a large familly weell of in this world goods he and my self is all that is living of 11 Children
pleas Sir give me somthing for my presant and future benifit my husban and self will ever be thankful O forgive me if I have said to much 
I can prove this to be true evry word of it we now live in Bath maine 
writen By Amenta Gould
to
the president of the United States 
Abraham Lincoln
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State of Massachusetts -

I Caleb Witham - a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Woolwich in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in February A. D. 1777

I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the 4th day of February 1780
being three years, and the time for which I enlisted

as a private soldier - against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to 
Capt. Davis' Company Col. Wigglesworths Regiment Glover's Brigade at first; afterwards Capt. Woodbridge commended the same
Company & after Capt. Davis left the Company & before Capt. Woodbridge took the command, it was commanded by Lieutenant Mr Hall for a short time

and that I left the service on the 4th day of February 1780 at the Highlands near West Point & then & there received a regular discharge which I have lost.-

and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of 
sixty six years - I was at the capture of Burgoyne, & at the battle of Monmouth - and I further declare that Col. Wigglesworth once lived in this neighborhood & I obtained from him the annexed certificate, but he moved away westward about five or six years ago & I have not been able to see him since. - The above Regiment was in the Massachusetts line, but its number I have forgotten.

And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Caleb Wiltham

Lincoln Ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 17th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States,
entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818,
personally appeareth before me 
Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate
within & for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the same being a Court of record in said County

the abovenamed Caleb Whithem  and
after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jere Bailey -
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln hereby
certify that the aforenamed Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named & that his signature to this caption is genuine & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court - 
John H. Sheppard.
April 7. 1818
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I John Shaw of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, aged seventy six years, on oath depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Lucretia Witham, the widow of Caleb Witham a Revolutionary Pensioner, late of said Woolwich deceased. 
I first became acquainted with her and said Caleb after he returned from the army, they had then been married (as I understood) some years, and had several children- said Caleb & myself were both out in the Revolutionary war, though not in the same Regiment. Said Caleb in the latter part of his life moved with his said wife & family into the said town of Woolwich, where he died about ten or a dozen years ago. 
His widow, the said Lucretia Witham is now living in said town of Woolwich, she resides about three quarters of a mile from my dwelling house, and is very poor and needy.

I well recollect of hearing of a couple who came from Parkers Island to be married in January 1777, it was the winter I well remember, next after Independence was declared,
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and after the war was over & I became acquainted with said Witham & his wife, I found that they were the same couple. 
Said Lucretia often visited at our house, as my wife Margaret Shaw who has given her deposition today, and the said Lucretia had been acquainted with each other when girls.
John Shaw

State of Maine.
Lincoln Ss. September 29th. 1836. Personally appeared the above named John Shaw before me Jeremiah Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln, and after due examination & caution to testify & declare the whole truth, maketh oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him signed in my presence, and the foregoing deponent is a disinterested persons & of good credit, in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
Attest. J. Bailey Justice of the Peace
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I Margaret Shaw aged seventy eight years, wife of John Shaw of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, on oath depose and say, that I have been acquainted with Lucretia Witham the widow of Caleb Witham late of said Woolwich a Revolutionary Pensioner deceased,
from her youth, her name was Lucretia Linscut before she married said Caleb Witham and she lived on Parkers Island in the town of Georgetown in said County of Lincoln.
I well recollect that said Caleb Witham and said Lucretia Linscut in January 1777 came together from said Parkers Island on the ice to my fathers house in Woolwich aforesaid on their wat to the Revd. Mr. Winships house in said Woolwich to be married. Mr. Winship was then the settled ordained Minister in said town of Woolwich, and lived about a mile and a half from my fathers house. Said Caleb and Lucretia stopped at my fathers to warm themselves, and I well recollect that my father said to them, "you must get your work done well, for you have come a great way for it:- 
They told our family that they were going to
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the Revd. Mr Winships to be married. Said Caleb Witham enlisted into the Revolutionary war in the spring following, that is, in May 1777, and was gone three years, excepting once he returned for a short time on a furlough, and before he returned on the furlough, said Lucretia's first child was born. After said Caleb returned from the army when he had served his time out, he and his said wife went to housekeeping;
after living in several places, they moved into said Woolwich where he died.
He has been dead I think as much as ten or twelve years, they had a number of children, & some of them are now living. Lucretia Witham the widow of said Caleb Witham is not living, she resides in said town of Woolwich about three fourths of a mile from where I live, and she is the same person who called at my fathers house with said Celeb Witham on their way to be married as I have before stated, and always lived with said Witham as his wife, until his death. The Revd. Mr Winship has been dead a long time since.
Margaret Shaw X her mark
Witness J. Bailey
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I Anna Norris of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln State of Maine being of lawful age and sound mind, do depose as follows "to wit"

I was intimately acquainted with Caleb Witham of Georgetown and Lucretia Linscot of said Georgetown in said County of Lincoln from the time of their childhood untill the time of their marriage.
I lived with [Dominicus] Jordan Parker lower Clerk of the town of Georgetown aforesaid & [see] the intention of marriage printed up in the town Clerk office as by law required ______ of the parties above married & after being married, they the said Caleb & Lucretia lived to his the said Caleb's father's house within one halfmile of my abode as husband & wife and had one child in the time that the said Caleb was in the United States service.
I know that they they said Caleb & Lucretia were married before he enlisted as a soldier but enlisted soon after their marriage and at the close of the term of his enlistment he the said Caleb returned home with my brother- then removed his family to the country
Anna Norris X her mark
Attest Abram A Holbrook
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I Amanta Witham, of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine, aged thirty five, daughter of the late Caleb Witham, of Woolwich, on oath depose & say-

That my Mother, Lucretia Witham of said Woolwich, is still alive- that her married name was Lucretia Linscut- that my deceased father, always stated, he was married to my mother, during the War of the Revolution_
I also depose, that in [former] years, I have often seen, in our or a family Bible, a Record of their marriage AD 1777. and I am quite certain, it was on the 9th of January Anno Domine 1777- 
that it appeared they were married- I do not know what has become of the old [becaus] presume they are worn out, & the Record lost.
Amenta Witham

State of Maine- 
LIncoln SS.
February AD 1837
Then the above named 
Ament Witham, personally appeared &
made oath to the truth of the foregoing
statement. Before me
Erastus Foute Just. peace-