Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,953, for Oliver Pettee, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

Service
Continental
Mass.

Petter, Oliver or
Petter Abigail

Number
W. 21,953
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M. s7    16.222. d '31
District of Maine
Oliver Petten  R
of Goldsborough in the D of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Two years

Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of Dec. 18[obscured] and [indecipherable] James Campbell of Narraguagus D of Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819.
Semi-anl, all'ce ending Mar. 1820.

133.8[6]
48.00
$181.86

16 No 22/50

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Copied for the Land agent
[indecipherable]
cop[ied] for Land Ag[ent] of Maine, by Nat. Orme, apl 21. 1839.
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1476
Maine
Abigail Petter widów of Oliver
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
[indecipherable] from $60
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st of July 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of May 1831 and sent to Dickens and Coombs Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 30, Vol. 1.
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Oliver Petter
No. 16.222
Goldsborough
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State of Maine.
Hancock ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock on the second Tuesday of July being the eleventh day of July, and by adjournment from day to day, on the fourteenth day of said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable William Crosby & James Campbell Judges of said Court. On this fourteenth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court 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, Oliver Petter aged sixty one years, resident in Goldsborough in 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. as a Private in the company commanded by Capt. Hobby & in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose 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 thirteenth day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 16.222 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 than 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. Oliver Petter

Sworn to and declared, on the 14th day of July A.D. 1820.
Before William Crosby and James Campbell Esquires Judges of the said Court.
attest Mason Shaw Clerk
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real Estate None Personal Estate to wit
1 Cow + Calf 2 Pigs 5 sheep
1 open Row Boat (old) Pail Tubs Churn + wooden ware
2 Plough - Rake - ax - scythe - shovel
6 Knives + Forks + spoons
Basket full of Crockery and Tinware
Pot Kettle Tea Kettle Bake Pan Spiders
Chest [and] chairs old Table & spinning wheels
Bible & lot small Books + Pamphlets
5 quintals Fish & small lot of other Provisions
Sundry small articles of the value of two Dollars
Annual income by Labour $10.00 so Oliver Petter

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Oliver Petter who, by occupation am a Fisherman which I am unable to pursue by reason of Rheumatism + the Palsy.

Names. Ages. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.

Abigail Petter 50 common ability for her age
Ebenezer Petter 15 common ability
Barnabus Petter 12 Ditto
Samuel Petter 9 Ditto
Abigail Petter 6 Ditto
Oliver Petter Junior 3 Nothing
so Oliver Petter

State of Maine
Hancock ss.
I Mason Shaw Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Hancock 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 fifty three dollars and ------ cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this twentieth day of July A.D one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Mason Shaw, Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Hancock.
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I Timothy Pettee of Gouldsboro in the State of Maine do testify & say I am the oldest Child of Oliver Pettee and Abigail Pettee I was born in said Gouldsboro on the ninth day of March 1788 My late father Oliver Pettee was a Revolutionary Pentioner My mother said Abigail Pettee still Resides in Gouldsboro and is a claimant for a pension on account of the Services of my late father. The Record hereunto annexed was kept in an old family Bible where I have often seen it in my youth when I lived in my fathers family and I have no doubt it is a true record -- My Father and Mother as I have always understood from them were married by the late Alexander Campbell Esquire who then resided in a place called Narragaugus, ten miles from what is now called Gouldsboro, in the year 1787 Esquire Campbell deceased many years ago and the place in which he lived was not organized into a town till many years after said Marriage was solemnized.
Timothy Pettee

State of Maine
Hancock Ss. Gouldsboro Oct 11th 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Timothy Petter, and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him exhibits truth in 
all its facts. Before me Hiram Emery, Justice of the Peace and of the Pensions
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State of Maine
Hancock Ss;
Clerks Office, Ellsworth 10 Dec 1839
I Joseph A Deane Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said County of Hancock do hereby certify that Hiram Emery of Sullivan is a Magistrate duly commissioned & empowered to administer oaths in said County and that his official signature to the paper annexed is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of our District Court, Eastern District, the day and year before stated.
J A Deane Clerk
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Oliver Pettee maryed 1787
Timothy Born Tuesday March 9 1788
Joseph Petter Born April 9 1790 Tuesday
Alexander Pettee Born October Thursday 19 1792
Noah Pettee Born July Thursday 16 1795
Eunice Pettee Born July 19 1797
Hannah Pettee Born Sunday October 29 1799
Abial Pettee Born Sunday November 29 1801
Ebenezer Pettee Born June 9 1804
Barnabus Pettee Born Tuesday June 19 1807
Samuel Pettee Born Saturday December 1811
Abagail Pettee Born Thursday April 15 1813
Oliver Pettee Born Thursday May 27 1817

Joseph Pettee departed this life march 4 1800
in the 10 year of his Age
Samuel Pettee departed this Life June 26 1829 in the 19 year of his age
Mr. Oliver Pettee departed this life in the 2 September 1831 73 of his age
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V 5678
Abigail Petter
Me. [Maine]
Act 7. July '38
From Feby 82 to Sept 83 -
[indecipherable]
18ma pri
60$

No deduction

Thos. Robinson 
Ellsworth Me [Maine]
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State of Maine
County of Hancock Ss. on this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred + thirty nine personally appeared before Samuel M. Pond Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Hancock, Abigail Petter a resident of Gouldsboro in the County of Hancock + State of Maine, aged sixty 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 Oliver Petter who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, that he enlisted at the age of seventeen years in the year 1776 or 1777, at or near Walpole in the State of Massachusetts for three years and joined a Regiment under the command of Colonel Henry Jackson. That he served out the term of his enlistment returned to visit his friends in Walpole, aforesaid, the place of his birth and after remaining at home for a few weeks he again enlisted for during the war -- a younger brother by the name of Timothy Petter enlisted also at the time of his second enlistment. That the said Oliver served out the full term of his second enlistment, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war and had a certificate of his discharge which said Abigail has often seen but which has been lost or destroyed many years. That the said Oliver received a full pension of eight dollars per month under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818, up to the time of his death
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which happened the third day of August A.D. 1831, at which time there was due in arrears of pension money, thirty dollars or thereabouts which said Abigail, as the widow of said Oliver afterwards obtained. All of which will appear upon inspection of the Records of the War Department pension rolls & that said Abigail at the time of his decease was a resident in Gouldsboro. She further declares that she was married to the said Oliver Petter at Steuben in the County of Washington in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven by Alexander Campbell Esquire and that her husband the aforementioned Oliver Petter died on the third day of August A.D. 1831 -- 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.
( [illegible] for the [illegible])
Witness Jos S Price

Abigail Petter
her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above mentioned before me --

Saml M Pond Judge of Probate for the County of Hancock State of Maine
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State of Maine
Hancock Ss

I Joseph S. Price Register of Probate for the County of Hancock hereby certify that Samuel M Pond is Judge of the Probate of Wills in & for the County of Hancock & that the foregoing is the true & genuine Signature of him the said Samuel M Pond
Witness my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Joseph S Price
Register
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Oliver Petter
Col Putnam & Col Vose's Regt Mass Line 1782 to 1784

dec: 13 April 1818

Admitted
The deposition of two credible & disinterested witnesses, to prove the service of the Applicant as within stated, duly to be taken and authenticated, is required.

The certificate of the Judge as to reduced circumstances of the Applicant is wanting

further evidence is enclosed in this J C
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I Oliver Petter of the Town of Gouldsborough in the County of Washington do testify and say that I was enlisted into the Continental service by a Captain Charles in Boston in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two passed muster in Boston by a Major Hopkins, who was their call muster Matter. I was enlisted for three years, from thence I was Marched to New-windsor or what was at that time called the grand Containment in the State of New York turned to Captain John Turners Company in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the Brigade Commanded by Brigadier General Rufus Putman in June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three was turned into Col Joseph Voses Regiment which was the fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the Brigade Commanded by Brigadier General Patterson. Continued in the service untill I was discharged -- which was in June the thirteenth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four at West Point. Oliver Petter

Washington Ss April 13th 1818 there the above named Oliver Petter made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed before me. James Campbell Judge C C C third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts
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Washington, ss.
April 13th A.D. 1818

It appearing to my satisfaction, that Oliver Petter subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"; the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked (J) (K) together with this certificate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts to be hereunto affixed.

James Campbell Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts.
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Washington ss September 17th 1819 I am satisfied that the within named Oliver Petter by reason of his reduced circumstances in Life is in need of assistance from his Country for support.

James Campbell Judge C C C Ps [i.e., Circuit Court of Common Pleas] third Eastern Circuit Massa --
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(J)

I Nicholas Thomas Jr do hereby testify that Davis Wasgatt esqr who has given his Deposition on this paper and Subscribed and made Oath to the same in my presence is a credible Witness -

Nicholas Thomas Jr Justin Pease

I Mason Shaw Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the County of Hancock and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that Nicholas Thomas Jun. before whom the above affidavit appears to have been made, is a justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County at Castine this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred nineteen.
Mason Shaw
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I the Subscriber do under Oath certify that Oliver Pettee joined Captain Jonathan Turners Company in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment in February or March in the year Seventeen hundred eighty three and soon after I think in May he the said Pettee was transferred with myself, & the whole of our Company to Captain Christopher Marshals Company in the first Massachusetts Regiment & there he the said Pettee remained untill I was discharged which was about the twenty sixth of December Seventeen hundred & eighty three --
Davis Wasgatt
Hancock Ss December 31 1818 There the above named Davis Wasgatt Esqr appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him Subscribed before me.
Nicholas Thomas Jr. Justin Pease
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(K)

I Thomas Applebee of Milton in the county of Strafford in the state of New Hampshire of Lawful age do testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred & eighty two I enlisted in the service of the United States a private soldier & in the same year joined the Company commanded by Capt. Marshall & I served in said Marshall company about eighteen months & then I was placed under the command of Capt. Hovey at which time I became acquainted with Mr. Oliver Pettee who served in the same company with myself about seven months The said company belonged to the American Regiment so called commanded by Col. Henry Jackson I further testify & say that said Pettee & myself were discharged the thirtieth day of June A.D. 1784.--
Thomas Applebee

York. Ss. August 5th, 1819 The aforesaid Thomas Applebee was examined, and cautioned, and sworn agreeable to Law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed.
Before me John Bodwell Justice of the Peace

N.B. This may certify that Mr. Thomas Applebees character stands fair. John Bodwell.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
York ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of York, hereby certify, that John Bodwell esquire before whom the above deposition was taken, is a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of York, duly qualified to take depositions and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts of attestations as such.
In testimony where, I hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court for said county, the sixth day of August, A.D. 1819. Daniel Sewall
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M.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

June 18, 1924

Mrs. Harry E. Ring
4 Washburn St.
Bath, Me.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.21953, it appears that Oliver Pettee, pensioned Petter, was born at Walpole, Massachusetts, date not stated.

He enlisted at or near Walpole, Massachusetts, in February, 1782, served as a private in Captains Hobby's, Jonathan Turner's, and Christopher Marshall's Companies, Colonels Henry Jackson's and Joseph Vose's Massachusetts Regiments, and was discharged June 30, 1784.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while living at Gouldsboro, Washington County, Massachusetts (Iater Hancock County, Maine). He died there August 3, 1831, aged 72 years.

He married at Steuben, Massachusetts (later Maine) in November, 1787, Abigail Young. She was allowed pension on her application executed January 2, 1839, while living at Gouldsboro, Hancock County, Maine, aged 67 years.
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They had the following children:
Timothy born in 1788, at Gouldsboro, Maine, and a resident of said place in 1839.
Joseph  born April 9, 1790, died March 4, 1800.
Alexander "  October 19, 1792.
Noah         "  July 16, 1795.
Eunice       "     "   19, 1797.
Hannah     "  October 29, 1799.
Abial          "  November 29, 1801.
Ebenezer   " June 9, 1804.
Barnabus   "    "     19, 1807.
Samuel       "  December 1, 1811, died June 26, 1829.
Abagail       "  April 15, 1813.
Oliver          "  May 27, 1817.

Respectfully,
Commissioner
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1924 June 19 [illegible]
Mrs. Harry G Ring

Rev
Widow, &c.

File No L 1.953
Abigail Pettee
Wid. of
Oliver Pettee
Priv. Rev. War.
Act. Feb. 2d 1848.
Index: Vol M, Page 124

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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429.7
V Maine

Abigail Petter
widow of Oliver Petter
who was a private 
in the Masstts Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars ---- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the ninth day of Jan 1844 and sent to Joel Moore Gouldsborough Me

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 8
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1476
Maine
Abigail Petter widów of Oliver Petter who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars [ ] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of August 1848 and sent to J Ilsley Portland Me

Recorded on Roll of Pensioner under act February 2, 1848, page 30, Vol 1.

Reported
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See letter to Joel Moore July 31 1843

Maine -- 4960

Abigail Petter, widów of Oliver Petter, decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818. and who died on the 3d August, 1831 of Hancock Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the --- commanded by Captain --- of the Regt commanded by Col Vose in the Masstts line for 18 months private.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 60 Dollars ---- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of January, 1840 and sent to Nat. Robinson, Ellsworth, Me.

Arrears to the 4th of March, 1840 - $240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept " [i.e., 1840] $30.00
$270.00

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk, Book A Vol. 7 Page 19
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V
Maine
Abigail Petter, widów of Oliver.
See letter to Tho. Robinson. Aug. 7th 1839.

Act. July, 7th 1838.
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State of Maine
Hancock Ss Clerk's Office Ellsworth

I George W Brown Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock hereby certify that Benjamin G Moore whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that as such full faith and credit are due to his official acts.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
G. W. Brown Clerk.
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5678
Me
7 July 1838
Abigail Potter wid. [i.e., widow] of Oliver

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington (D. C.)
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Ellsworth June 20th 1839

To J L. Edwards Esqr
Sir -- enclosed is the declaration of Abigail Pettee, widow of Oliver Pettee, late of Gouldsboro in the State of Maine -- a Revolutionary Soldier & Pensioner -- Mrs. Pettee is quite poor, aged & infirm -- I suppose the name of the late husband will appear upon inspection of the pensioner rolls & in the Department -- The two depositions seem to prove the marriage, and the time it was solemnized, as correctly as can be expected at this distance of time. The deponents then were, and now are neighbors of the declarant -- No person is now alive who was present at the marriage -- The magistrate deceased many years since, and no second can be found. The Country was then new, and no records were kept of marriage by town clerks for many years after that event; as search to the effect has been made -- If the matter set forth in the declaration is sufficient to bring the petitioner within the provisions of the law, I apprehend the depositions & authentication of the papers, together with the evidence, in possession of the Department, will be sufficient to allow the claim -- An early decision will confer a great favor upon the old lady --
Very Respectfully Yr. Ab Sev't
Tho. Robinson Atty
for Ab. Petter
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Declaration.

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1848 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows, who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838, and the extended act of 23 August. 1842,
State of Maine
County of Hancock Ss

On this tenth day of October A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said County of Hancock, Abigail Pettee, a widow of Gouldsborough in said County, aged Seventy two 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 provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the Widow of Oliver Pettee, who was a private in the Revolutionary war -- in the army -- and that she has drawn as her annual allowance of Pension under the act of July 7, 1838, Sixty Dollars. She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Abigail Pettee X her mark
Witnesses Oliver Pettee Abigail Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Joel Moore Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Hancock Ss.
I Joel Moore of Gouldsborough in said County of Hancock Esquire, of legal age depose and say that I am well acquainted with Abigail Pettee whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing declaration, that she is known to me as being the identical person who drew an annual pension of Sixty Dollars and is the widow of Oliver Pettee late of said Gouldsborough deceased, Gouldsborough Oct 10, 1843. Joel Moore

State of Maine
Hancock Ss.
Oct. 10, AD 1848 subscribed and sworn to before me Benjm Moore Jus. of the Peace.
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State of Maine
Hancock Clerks Office Ellsworth

I George W Brown Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock hereby certify that Joel More whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the said County and that as such full faith and credit are due to his official acts. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of said Courth this fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. G. W Brown Clerk.
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I C H Haskell of Steuben of lawful age do say that I have examined the Records of the Town of Steuben and can not find any Record of marriages previous to the year eighteen hundred & twenty two -- C H Haskell Town Clerk

State of Maine
Washington Ss January eighth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared the above named Charles H Haskell and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Steuben Jan 8th 1839
Saml Moore
Jus. Peace
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Gouldsborough
November 6

Thomas Robinson Esquire
Ellsworth
Me
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State of Maine
Hancock Ss Clerk Office, Ellsworth

I Joseph A Deane Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Hancock do hereby certify that Nathan Shaw of Gouldsborough is a Magistrate duly commissioned and empowered to administer Oaths in said County and that the foregoing signature purported to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of our District Court, Eastern District, this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine. J A Deane Clerk
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I Nahum Guttail of Gouldsborough in the County of Hancock & State of Maine, do testify and say that I had an invitation [to the] wedding of Oliver Pettee late of said Gouldsboro with Abigail Young now Abigail Pettee widow of said Oliver, the marriage was solemnized by Alexander Campbell Esquire, in Township Ne. Jour (now Steuben) in the County of Washington; that the place where the said Marriage was solemnized was then and for many years after was unorganized, having no Clerk or other officer to keep records, that said Marriage took place the month of November in the year 1787. that said Campbell deceased many years ago. I knew said Oliver Pettee from the time of his marriage with the said Abigail to the time of his death which happened in the year 1831 at said Gouldsborough; that I have known the said Abigail Pettee for the same length of time and know her to be the widow of the said Oliver, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, that their oldest child Timothy Pettee now lives in said Gouldsborough, and his age is fitty one years or thereabouts, that I lived near them when their first child was born, which was within seven months after the marriage. that said Oliver Pettee & Abigail Pettee lived together as husband & wife up to the time of his death, and that they had a large family of children.
Nahum Guptail
Witness Abial P. Clark
Hancock ss. Gouldsborough 6th November 1839.
There personally appeared the above named Nahum Guttail, and after being duly cautioned made solemn oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed that it is true.
Before me,
Nathan Shaw, Justice of the Peace
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Tho Robinson Esq.

Dear Sir, I have taken the deponents [indecipherable] you will see Mr Guttail was not at the wedding as supposed he says that Petter was married [at] his brother Abijah's house, but Abijah and his wife are both dead and their children live on Grand Manor wheather they or any of them would remember the Marriage is uncertain there are several persons in this town who know of their going to be married but none that saw the fact.
In haste yours
Nathan Shaw
I [indecipherable] you a certificate that should have been sent to the Secretary's Office long ago -- will not this answer the purpose. N Shaw
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1476

Incd [i.e., increased] to $96 per annum
[de dg] former pays [i.e., payments]
at $60 per annum
Com'g [i.e., commencing] 1 July 1848

Dickens & Coombs
[indecipherable]
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State of Maine.
Cumberland, SS.

Probate Office, Portland, Oct. 21, A. D. 1850

I, Freeman Bradford Register of Probate, In and for said County of Cumberland, certify that Benjamin Moore, is an Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Hancock as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said Moore is dated July 22, A. D. 1847 and will expire July 22, A. D. 1854 and the following Signature, purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written. Freeman Bradford Register.
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Declaration for the benefits of the Act of July 7, 1838. 3d March 1843. 17 June 1844. 2d February 1848 and the joint Resolution of July 1, 1848.

State of Maine.
Hancock County, ss.
On this fifteenth day of April A.D. 1850 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Abigail Pettee a resident of Gouldsborough in said County of Hancock, aged 78 years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts aforesaid by virtue of the Joint Resolution of July 1848.
And this declarant states that she is the widow of Oliver Pettee late of Gouldsborough aforesaid deceased. She further declares that her husband was a soldier of the Revolution on continental Establishment and that he was a pensioner under the Act of 18th March 1818. at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum, which pension he drew till the 3d day of August 1831 the day of his death. She further states that she intermarried with the said Oliver Pettee prior to 1794 and that subsequent to her husband's death she was placed on the pension Roll at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum, and that she now received said amount of Pension as will appear by her pension certificate under the Act of February 2d 1848. She therefore claims a pension of Ninety Six dollars per annum, and refers the Commissioner to the original
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declaration she has heretofore made and to the declaration of her husband for proof in this her claim.
Abigail Pettee + her mark
Witnesses Joel Moore Gilbert Moore

Hancock Ss. 
Thus personally appeared the above named Abigail Pettee known to me to be the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration and oath that the same is true.
Before me. Benjm Moore Justice of the Peace, Gouldsborough
April 15, 1850
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A Pettee
aa 
4297

admitted

J. Ilsley
Portland Me
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State of Maine.
Cumberland, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, Portland, July 17th A.D. 1848.

I, Charles C Harmon clerk of all the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Cumberland, certify that Amos G. Guptill is an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Hancock as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is Duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said Guptill is dated February 6th A.D. 1845, and will expire February 6th A.D. 1852 and that the following signatures purporting to be his, are genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas D Harmon clerk.
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State of Maine.
County of Hancock Ss. Gouldsborough
On this six day of July A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace. Abigail Pettee a resident of Gouldsborough in the County of Hancock aged seventy eight 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 provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Oliver Pettee who was a Private in the Army of the Revolutionary War that said Oliver Pettee was a pensioner under the Act 18 March 1818 and died on the 3d day of August 1831.
She further declares that she has received the benefits of the act of Congress passed 7 July 1838. & March 1843. & 7 June 1844 at the Rate of Sixty dollars per annum and that she is still a Widow.
Abigail Pettee + her mark
Witness Oliver Pettee
Joel Moore
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me AG Guptill Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named official is personally known to me and that she is the individual who drew a pention as stated by her in the foregoing declaration. AG Guptill Justice of the Peace.
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Payment to be made at Portland by William Woodbury Esq 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, page 30 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, Abigail Petter widow of Oliver Petter who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Sixty dollars 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 States this 25th day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. W. L. Marcy. Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
By F. S. Evans.
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Hancock Ss State of Maine

I Joseph S Rice Register of Probate for the County of Hancock hereby testify that Asa Cole is now and was on the twelfth day of January last past a justice of the peace within & for the County of Hancock in full Commission as such & that full faith & credit should be given to all his judicial Acts.
Witness my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate this second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine.
Joseph S Rice 
Register of Probate 
Hancock County 
Maine
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Dec 26.

Ellsworth ME Dec 17 [postmark] Free Free

Me
Addl proof
Abigail Petee

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington (D. C.)
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Ellsworth Dec 16th 1839

Dr Sir
In support of the claim of Mrs. Abigail Pettee of Gouldsboro I forward the enclosed affidavits -- to wit the affidavits of Nahum Guptail who seems to cover the whole ground, short of normal evidence -- or being personally present at the solemnization of the marriage -- also the affidavit of James Pettee the oldest child mentioned by Guptail with the old leaf or family journal -- And if further evidence is required to prove the non-existence of any public record, I forward the affidavit of the town clerk of Steuben -- embracing the territory in which they were married -- also the affidavit Joel Townsley, who assisted in settling the estate of the late Col Campbell -- I suppose all the evidence now furnished ought to be sufficient to bring the case within the rules of the Department -- The applicant is poor ignorant and lives in a remote out of the way place, or her case would have been served & better attended to -- Will you return or answer as soon as practicable, that she may eat (?) thereof before she dies. Very Respectfully Tho. Robinson
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4326
Oct 23 43.

Maine
Mar 3 1843
Abigail Pettee

$60 per a--

Joel Moore
Gouldsborough
Maine

J. L. Edwards Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
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Gouldsborough October 14, 1843
Sir
The pension papers returned to me; to be lawfully authenticated; is once more transmited to the pension Department for examination and I hope they will be correct this time; The Regiment to which Oliver Pettee belong to in the Army I cannot ascertain here but presume you have the Record on file -- The Widow Pettee's original certificate was returned to the pension office when she received her last payment. It was No. 4960 and recorded in Book. A. Vol. 1 page 14 at the pension office. The widows claim is very just and she is very poor & needy --
Please to direct your communications to Prospect Harbour -- Maine
I am, respectfully, your obt servant Joel Moore

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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I Jacob Townsley of Steuben of Lawfull age do testify and say that I was acquainted with the late Alexander Campbell Esq. of Steuben in the county of Washington and assisted in settling his Estate and am knowing that he was a justice of the Peace and solemnized Marriages but found no record of the marriage of Oliver Pettee and Abigail Pettee among his papers. Jacob Townsley

State of Maine
Washington Ss January eighth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally Jacob Townsley above named and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed before me.
Steuben Jan 8th 1839.
Samuel Moore
Jus. of the Peace
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Deposition of Nathaniel Allen
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I, Nathaniel Allen of lawful age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Oliver Pettee late of Gouldsborough in the county of Hancock & State of Maine now deceased and with Abigail Pettee his wife in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, and that according to the best of my knowledge and belief the said Oliver & Abigail were married on or about the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven. And I the said deponent do know that the said Oliver Pettee and Abigail Pettee have lived together as man and wife up to the time of the decease of said Oliver Pettee which happened the third day of August AD. 1831 Nathaniel Allen

State of Maine
Hancock Ss. Gouldsborough the twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Allen and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Asa Cole, Justice of Peace
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Deposition of Abijah Cole Sr.
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I, Abijah Cole Sr. of lawful age do testify and say that I have been personally acquainted with Oliver Pettee late of Gouldsborough in the county of Hancock, & State of Maine now deceased and Abigail Pettee his wife ever since the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five up to the time of the decease of the said Oliver, and that according to the best of my knowledge and belief the said Oliver Pettee and Abigail Pettee were married on or about the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven. And I the said deponent do know that the said Oliver Pettee and Abigail Pettee have lived together man & wife ever since the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven up to the time of the decease of the said Oliver Pettee which happened on third day of August AD 1831. Abijah Cole Sr.

State of Maine
Hancock, Ss. Gouldsborough January twelfth day in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine then and there personally appeared the above named Abijah Cole Sr. and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Asa Cole, Justice of the Peace
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8-049
Ex. MCS. Div. Rev. & 1812
War Section
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. May 5, 1924

The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained. Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
First name Abigail widow
Name of soldier, Oliver Pettee soldier at enlistment
P.O. address after service Gouldsboro, Maine.
Company Capt. Daniel Shays.
Regiment Lt. Col. Webb's regt.
State where enlisted Maine, Walpole
Date of birth
Date of death Aug. 3 1831

If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.

Return attached letter with reply.
Washington Gardner, Commissioner.

6--2469
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Bath, Maine.
April 2, '24

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension papers of one Oliver Pettee who was in the Revolutionary war, or such information in those papers as are necessary for D.A.R. membership.

Our librarian here says you will do this for me, and such information will
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be very gratefully received. Thanking you in advance, I am very truly yours.
Mrs. Harry E. Ring,
4 Washburn St.,
Bath,
Maine