Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,254, Israel Hale, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE Mass

Hale, Israel
          Esther

NUMBER W. 23.254.

Contents:
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Maine 3345
Israel Hale
of Waterford in the State of Maine
Who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Brown of the Regt commanded
by Col. Jackson in the Massats
line for 3 years-
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 80 Dollars 0 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Decem
1832 and sent to C.
Whitman, Waterford, Me
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 40
$160

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Eras. D. Bullock Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 +/1 - Page 64
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279
Maine
Esther Hale
widow of Israel Hale
who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
17 day of June 1848
and sent to
Levi Whitman
Norway
Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 13 Vol. 1
Reported
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Israel Hale
application for a
Pension
to be restored

admit
3 years private
$80
sent
private
C Whitman
waterford
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STATE OF MAINE.

COUNTY OF Oxford -- SS.

On this 6th day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open
Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting,
Israel Hale a resident of Waterford in the County of Oxford
and State of Maine, aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law
doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to cham the benefit of the
act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, on or about the first
day of April 1777, at Hardee in the County of Worcester and
State of Massachusetts, he enlisted, for a term of three years
in the Continental line of the Revolutionary Army, under
Capt Benjamin Brown of the eighth Massachusetts Regiment
commanded by Col. Michael Jackson - He went immediate
to Concord in said Massachusetts to pass muster and draw
arms- About a fortnight afterwards he rendevoused
at Cambridge, Mass. and in about another fortnight
marched to Albany in the State of New York. After
that his company was stationed at Still-water till
Gen Burgoyne went up to Saratoga - at this time
Col John Brooks had command of the 8th Massachusetts
Regiment in which he was - He was at the battle of
Still Water on the 7th of October 1777 and was also
present on the 17th of the same month at the surrender
of Gen. Burgoynes army. The night after this surrender 
the Company, in which he was, started for
Albany by a forced march where they arrived the
next day. He immediately went down the North River
to Fishkill where he was sick about three months with
the small pox - In March 1778 he was ordered to Valley
Forge in Pensylvania- There he stayed till the Brittish
forces evacuated Philadelphia. He was in the
main army under Washington when it met the Brittish
at Monmouth and was in the battle at that place
on the 30th of June, he believes 1778- After the battle of
Monmouth he was ordered
repaired with
this Company to White Plains - There he stayed till
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[illegible] or place
on the 30th of June be believes 1778 - After the battle of
Monmouth he was ordered and repaired with
his company to White plains - There he stayed till
till the next fall when his division of the army had
orders to march to Hartford in the State of Connecticut.
After remaining there about a week he had orders
to march back to Fishkill.  From thence his Regiment
marched to Poughkeepsie in to Winter Quarters. In the spring
of 1779 he marched to [illegible] West pouch where he served out the
remaing part of his term of inlistment  During three
months of which he was one of Gnrl M Dougals
Life Guard. He received an honorable discharge
at the expiration of his term of service which he
now supposes is in the war office at Washington.
He served under other and different inlistments
during the War of the Revolution but thinks it unnassary to particularize them-
He further states that he has once been
on the pension roll, under the act of March 18, 1810
on district of Maine agency
and has been dropped therefrom on
account of his property and that his place of
residence when he first made application,
was and still is, Waterford aforesaid.  His
original Pension Certificate he has lost
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the
matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the
above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, said applicant
having adduced the certificate of Lincoln Ripley, a
Clergyman & Leander Gage, both of said Waterford, respectable
& credible persons, on oath duly administered, in corroboration
of his own declaration, it being inconvenient for
said Gage & Repley to attend personally in Court.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register of the Court of Probate
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Israel Hale
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixth
day of August A.D. 1832.
Joseph G. Cole Register
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Worcester County.
June 17, 1843
I hereby certify that I hold the office of Town
Clerk in the town of Harvard. and have held said
Office since March 5, 1832. And that I have this
day examined the Harvard town Records in
Vol. 2 page 210. among the record of Marriages on
said page is the following. "An account of Marr ages performed by Josiah Whitney Esq.
1782.
Nov. 12, Israel Hall & Esther Taylor, both of Harvard
Jerome Gardner Town Clerk of Harvard
Sworn to Before me Art Ward Just of Peace
June 20th 1843
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, in and for said County of
Worcester, do certify, that Artemas Ward, Esq. above named, is a
Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and
qualified, and that his signature, as above appears, is in his
own proper hand writing. In witness whereof, I hereto set
my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at
Worcester, this twentieth day of June, in the
year 1843.-
Jos G Kendall Clerk
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State of Maine ss. Oxford County
On this thirty first day of July in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty three personally appeared
before the Judge of Probate for the County of
Oxford it being a court of record Esther
Hall, a resident of Waterford in the County
of Oxford aged Seventy seven years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth,
on her oath, make the following declaration,
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838.
entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions
to certain widows; That she is the widow
of Israel Hale who was a private in the
army of the Revolutionary war that a
pension was granted him under an act of
Congress passed June seventh eighteen
hundred and thirty two, and the proof of
the service performed by the said Israel
Hale is now on file in the Pension
office-
She further declares that she was
married to the said Israel Hull on the
twelfth day of November Seventeen hundred
and eighty two that her husband, the
aforesaid Israel Hale died on the sixteenth
day of May eighteen hundred and forty
one 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
and that she still remain a widow
in open Court        Esther Hale   
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year above
written before me Lyman Rawson Judge.
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State of Maine
Oxford County ss: & the Subscriber Register of the
Court of Probate within & for said County, it being
a Court of Record hereby certify that Lyman Rawson, whose genuine signature is annexed to
the foregoing declaration of Esther Hale is Judge
of the Court aforesaid, duly appointed & qualified,
the foregoing contains the original proceedings
in the matter of said Esther Hale's application
for a Pension
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand & affix the seal of said Court this fifth
day of August Anno Domini eighteen hundred &
forty three
Geo. F. Emery Register
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N4. Isreal Hale
copy
(7990)
Sept 1819
not entitled
522 Dollars
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, SS.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at
Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the
first Tuesday, being the sixth day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS,
Judge of said Court.
On this sixth day of June in the year above written, personally
appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a
Court of Record for said Maine District, Isreal Hale aged
sixty one years, resident in Waterford in said District,
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.
Benj Brown in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson
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 seventh
day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 7.990 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.
Isreal Hale

Sworn to and declared, on the Sixth
day of June - A. D. 1820.

BEFORE Albion H. Parris {U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.
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Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Sown thirty five acres of land in Waterford - having a small house and barn on it - one yoke of oxen two cows - two heifers, three calves, twelve sheep - two pigs and an old horse. I have a few articles of necessary household furniture and a few farming tools - and no income but my earnings. I am much indebted to the amount of two hundred fifty nine dollars and 67/100 which I am liable to pay but cannot without selling or sacrificing the property I have above stated.
Isreal Hale
Sworn to before Albion K Parris, U.S. Dist. Judge

Schedule of the family residing with me Isreal Hale who, by occupation, am a farmer which I am not able to pursue constantly, by reason of old age and infirmity

Names | Ages | Capacity of each to contribute to their support.
My wife Esther | 55 years | feeble & infirm. often under the care of physicians
Ever a son | 18 | able to work
Isreal | 15 | a feeble boy - deaf
Sumner | 14 | an able boy

Isreal Hale
Sworn to before Albion K Parris
U.S. Dist Judge
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Maine District, SS.
I, John Mussey, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, 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 five hundred, twenty two dollars and no more. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixth day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

John Mussey Junr Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District
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House of Rep.
Washington Jany 9th 1844
Sir
I enclose herewith the Declaration of Esther Hale of Waterford in the State of Maine, and should there be any thing further wanted I would thank you to drop me a line.
Very respectfully your obe Sevt J. Herrick
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9396 
Aug 10,1843
Esther Hale
July 7, 1832
(illegible)
Israel 32

Paris Me
Aug. 7

James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Paris Aug 4, 1843
Jas L Edwards Esq
Dr Sir:
Should you have any communications to make in relation to the enclosed, you will please correspond with Levi Brown of Waterford, Oxford, Co. Me, who is the agent of Esther Hale. 
Yours resp Geo F Emery
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Washington Jany 24th 1844
Hon. James L Edwards Com of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the certificate intended for Esther Hale, for correction.
I have the honor to be your obe Sevt
J. Herrick
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Israel Hale
Clegym and Certificate
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We, Lincoln Ripley, a clergyman, residing in the town of Waterford in the County of Oxford and State of Maine and Leander Gage of the same town Physician hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Israel Hale, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
L Ripley
L Gage

State of Maine
County of Oxford SS August 6th 1832
Subscribed and sworn to Before me Charles Whitman Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Oxford County, SS
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Charles Whitman Esq whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of L. Ripley & L. Gage is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 28th day of August in the year A.D. 1832.

R. K. Goodenow Clerk of Oxford County Courts
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No 9396
Esther Hale Maine
Act 7th July 38
admd
2 years priv
$80 per an

Levi Brown Esq Waterford Oxford Co Me
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Israel Hale
Maine

Private nine years from 1777, 35 acres of land with all house and barn there. 
Yoke of Oxen
2 cows
2 Heifers
3 calves
 12 sheep-- 2 pigs old horse,
a few articles of furniture & some farming utensils, valued by court $532 - owes $259.67 

Schedule late of June, 1820
Schedule dated 5th June, 1823
a few articles of furniture 30.75

Sold in Nov 1820  Alpheus Hall
all his real estate for $350 copy of the
exhibit with which he has paid debts &
expenditures in support of his family affidavit
of creditors exhibited 

Alpheus Hales affidavit exhibited states that claimant owed him 460 which he loaned him in 1819  & on Nov. 1820 said Alpheus purchased his farm being all his real estate,  for $350 which was considered to be a fair price
by the judgment of two judicious men stated and after deducting the aforesaid 60 he paid the balance in money to the creditors of claimant principally in taking of notes which for debts due previous to 1820. The other affidavits exhibit debts paid by claimant to [illegible] to the amount of $328.16, partly paid in stock
debts collected between the year 1817 &  1821 for goods for family use, during Month [illegible] bill for stock leather and blacksmithing, & affidavits Daniel Brown & same state that they have long been acquainted with claimant that he is destitute of property sufficient to
support himself and family is unable to labor having lately had a fall in [illegible] which he has been and still is confined to bed.

Claimant aged 65, farmer unable to work, Wife 59 years infirm sick and entirely unable to do anything, son 18, deaf earns his support in part - daughter 12 - earns her own living by her labor

I certify that I have examined this case and am of the opinion that according to the principle, a [illegible] have given in previous decisions the claim ought to be allowed.

See letters May 2d 1825.
 to Joseph Pope Esq
Portland Maine

Feb 3. 1825 to Hon. E. Lincoln H.R.
See letter 21 May 1829 to Chas Whitman
of  last evidence 6 Feb 1824
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Israel Hale / Private
8th Massachusetts Regt.
April 1777 to 23 March 1780
7th April 1818
Correct
[illegible]
Israel Hale.
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I Israel Hale a resident citizen of the United State of America in the town of Waterford in the County of Oxford & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath declare that at Harvard in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth about the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven I enlisted into the service of the United States in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Brown in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment in the continental establishment & served as a private soldier in the company aforesaid untill the twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty when I received an honorable discharge hereunto annexed.
I further on oath declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am need of assistance from my country for support.
Israel Hale

I Jonathan Houghton of Waterford aforesaid Esquire testify that that Israel Hale abovenamed served in the revolutionary war on the continental establishment the term of nine months & more as a private soldier in the United States army as above in his Certificate described & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Jonathan Houghton
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Israel Hale a soldier in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment is this Day Discharge the Army of the United States of America he having served his time out as a good Soldier
Given under my hand at West Point March 23rd 1780
[illegible] he hath drawn his provision to carry him home
Michl Jackson Col 8 Mass Regt
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United States of America
Maine District, SS.
Be it remembered, That on the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Israel Hale the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence that affidavit of Jonathan Houghton, made and signed in my presence; and a regular discharge, given said applicant in the revolutionary war, all which are hereunto annexed.

And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Israel Hale the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned. 
Albion K Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine
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Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 23254
Esther Hale wid. of Israel Hale
Priv. Rev. War
Act Feb 2 of 1848
Index: Vol A, Page 318
[Arrangement of 1870]
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[illegible] Oct 10
1769
Maine
Esther Hale widow of Israel Hale who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 16 of May, 1841 of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brown of the Regt commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass. line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars ____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Oct. 1843 and sent to Levi Brown Waterford of Oxford Maine
Total amount, $400.
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin, Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 1 Page 13
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4961
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State of Maine SS.
On this second day of January A.D. 1844 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the County of Oxford Esther Hale, a resident of Waterford in the County of Oxford 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3rd March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 
That she is the widow of Israel Hale who was a private in the Revolutionary War. That she received eighty dollars annually for five years under the act of July 7, 1838. for proof of the services of the said Israel Hale, reference may be had to certificates now on file in the Pension Office which entitled him to a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832. 
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Esther Hale
Subscribed + sworn to on the day and year [illegible] written before
Lyman Rawson Judge _

State of Maine
Oxford SS: I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate in a for said County hereby certify that Lyman Rawson, whose genuine signature is above written, and before whom the foregoing proceedings were had _ is Judge of the Court aforesaid + the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Esther Hale for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand of the seal of [illegible] court this second day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred + forty four.
Geo. F. Emery Register
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Letter to agent notifying him of a correction in the names Jany 25th '44

Certificate corrected and returned to [illegible] J. Herrick House of Representatives Jany 25th '44

4425
Maine
Esther Hale widow of Israel Hale who was a private in the Mass tts Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the seventeenth day of Jany 1844 and sent to Hon J Herrick
House of Representatives
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 6
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[illegible]
Maine
Israel Hale of Waterford in the Dist of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of Mar 1819 and sent to A. K. Parris Esq
Paris, Maine

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 [illegible] 87.43.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 48.00
$135.43

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

See letter to Hon. J. Holmes, Jan. 13 1831

[faint text] Modification sent the 19th June 1820, to John Murphy [illegible]
Portland, Ma
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Levi Whitman
Norway ME
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State of Maine
County of Oxford SS
On the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty eight, formally appeared before Levi Whitman of Norway in said County of Oxford & State of Maine and a Justice of the Peace in a for said County Esther Hale a resident of said Norway aged eighty-three years - who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, eighteen hundred & forty-eight, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War __ That she is the widow of Israel Hale late of Waterford in said County of Oxford, deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War & a Revolutionary Pensioner, for the precise character of whose services she refers to evidence on file in the Pension office __ That she was a Pensioner under the Act of June 17th, 1844, and received eighty dollars per annum __ She further declares that she is still a widow__
Esther Hale her mark
witness
Levi Whitman
Daniel Hott

Sworn to + submitted on the day + year above written by said Esther Hale, who is personally known to me, before me
Levi Whitman Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Oxford County, SS:
I, the subscriber, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Levi Whitman whose proper signature is affixed to the foregoing declaration of Esther Hale is a Justice of the Peace within said County of Oxford, duly appointed and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and set the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this fifth day of May A.D. 1848
Charles Andrews Clerk