Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,376, Timothy Hudson, Continental (Mass.)
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(3-1776)

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SERVICE | [blank] | NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)  | Hudson, Timothy | W, 23, 376
[blank] | Jane | [blank]

CONTENTS
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Def: Samuel Hudson in the case of Timothy Hudson, an applicant to be restored to Pension
R.C. Vose,
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I Samuel Hudson of Clinton, Kennebec County, Maine of lawful age do depose & say that in March 1821, my father being called upon to pay a number of small debts, and his Real Estate attached & about being told to pay one of the debts he owed. I agreed to purchase & did accordingly purchase, the homestead place where he lived, & pay or become accountable to pay his debts. The consideration mentioned in the deal was two hundred & twenty dollars. I have paid or caused to be paid the full amount I agreed to & have since once sold the place above alluded, for the same sum I gave for it. My father is quite feeble & in him & with my brother David who has arrived at the age of twenty one, since the year 1824. The transaction  bettered me & my father were fair & bona fida, and he has now no property whatever, except a few articles of old household furniture, and he & my mother both live with my brother David. 
Samuel Hudson
State of Maine
Kennebec on the 18th day of August A.D. 1824.  Personally appeared, before the Subscriber a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said state, Samuel Hudson, who is in my opinion a credible witness and he made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed - Nathan Weston Jun 
State of Maine,
Kennebec ss:
I the subscriber clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within & for the said County of Kennebec, do certify that the on; Nathan Weston, Jr. before whom the above proceedings were had is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State of Maine + duly qualified as such; 
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court this Eighteenth day of August, A.D. 1827.- R.C. Vose, Clerk
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8906
Maine Roll. 
Timothy Hudson,
of Clinton, in the dist. of Maine
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Sherburn of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of Apil 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1819 and sent to R.C. Vose, Esqr. Augusta
Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 88.49
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept.4. 1819. 48.
and 10m: 28/30-4/31 $136.49
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Not entitled
cannot be reinstated see letter
for Mr Cushman, 27 Mar 1822
Notification sent the 10th July 1820
To R.C. Vose of Augusta Maine
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702
Maine.
Jane Hudson
R. J.
widow of Timothy Hudson
who was a Private
in the Rhode Island
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of July, 1843
and sent to
Geo. C. Morton
Augusta,
Maine.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 5.
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Timothy Hudson, Clinton
Kennebee Co. Col Sherbum's
class. Reg 1777 to 1780
April 3 1818
Rejected [crossed out]
Substitute not entitled [crossed out]
to a pension [crossed out]
Admitted.
(See "extract" signed by C.
Vandeventer Esq.)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Timothy Hudson, age seventy one years, from Long Island, in the state of New York, a citizen of the U. States, 
now resident in Clinton, in the District of Maine, upon oath
with testify and declare, that on or about  the seventh of 
September 1777 I enlisted, as a private soldier into the Continental 
service of the United States, against the common enemy for the 
term of three years into the company commanded by Captain Joshua Trafton 
and regiment commanded by Corporal Henry Sherburne  , being one of the twelve volunteer regiments in the continental establishment. I served until March  27th 1780 when I took an honorable discharge from the army of Morristown, having procured at my expense a substitute for the remainder of my time viz Joseph Ingraham, who was accepted. My discharge is hereunto annexed. I was in the battle of Rhode Island and in various skirmishes.    I am by reason of sickness unable to labor, have a large family, and without resources sufficient for my comfortable and necessary support, am therefore in need of the bounty of the government. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the bounty of the land of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge,  come on any pension list whatsoever. I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine. Timothy Hudson 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
—
On the third day of April A D 1818 Timothy Hudson alone named, after having been carefully examined; made with to the truth of the forgoing declaration by him subscribed.
Supreme Nathan Weston — Chief Justice O. Court O. — — EasternCircuit ,
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but I am not to my knowledge, borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine. Timo.-Hudson [signed]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec ss.
On the third day of April A.D. 1818 Timothy Hudson above named, after having been carefully examined; made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me Nathan Weston Jun [signed] Chief Justice C Court C
[illegible], second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Joshua Peck of Clinton in the District of Maine, of lawful age upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the above named Timothy Hudson. For the reasons by him above stated, which I know to be true, he is, in my opinion, in need of the bounty of the government. He sustains the character of a man of truth. Joshua Peck [signed]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec ss.  On the third day of April AD 1818, Joshua Peck above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed - 
Before me Nathan Weston Jun [signed] Chief Justice C. Court C. [illegible] 
Second Eastern Circuit
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Timothy Hudson [underlined]
Copy - Sched.
Sept. 1879

[bottom of page, upside down]
Timothy Hudson   "Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, the deponent being a credible witness and disinterested..
April 7th 1821.  Eben. Hutcher [signed] a Justice of the C.E.C.
[illegible] 2nd Eastern Circuit State of Maine.

Above Copy Attest John Davis [signed] clk.
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[centered]
State of Maine.

[left align] [typed]
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this 
[handwritten] sixteenth
[typed] day of 
[handwritten] april
[typed] ,1820 personally appeared before
[handwritten] in other court before the 
[typed] Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, 

[handwritten] Timothy Hudson
aged 
[handwritten] seventy four 
years, resident in 
[handwritten] Clinton
 in the County of 
[handwritten] Kennebec 
[typed] within 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. in the Company commanded by Captain 
[handwritten] Trafton 
[typed] and Regiment commanded by Colonel
[handwritten] Sherburne 
[typed] of the line of the State of 
[handwritten] Massachusetts 
[typed] upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of 
[handwritten] three years, and that he was in battle on Rhode Island under General Sullivan, and at Kings Bridge. 
[typed] that his original declaration was made before Judge 
[handwritten] Weston 
[typed] on the
[Handwritten] third 
[typed] day of 
[Handwritten]  april 
[typed] 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 8.097. And I, the said
[Handwritten] Timothy Hudson 
[typed] do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteenth ; 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.

[Handwritten] Timothy Hudson

[typed] The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
[Handwritten] I have no Real estate, having conveyed the same mentioned in my schedule of the 24. May 1820 for the purpose of having my just debts. 
One house 14 years old of the value of twenty five dollars. 
Two heifers fifteen dollars. 
eleven sheep sixteen dollars.
Three  ten dollars.
old house hold stuff besides necessary bedding not exceeding fifteen dollars in value.
one sleigh ten dollars.
I have no debt due that can be collected, I was once a Tailor but from age and infitmity am totally unable to labor, I have residing with me eight in family. [illegible] myself, my wife Jane aged fifty eight years, her right side numb with the baby, my daughter Hannah aged thirty four, weak and feeble, has been married bit turned upon me for support, with three children, my grand child Israel
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Israel aged fourteen thereas - clever, Charles four; my son David aged seventeen, his left foot mutilated and my grandson Henry aged eleven years. - 
Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no estate whatever. - 
Tim Hudson [signed]
Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on his sixteenth of April 1821 in open Court.
Sanford Kingsbury Justice Circuit Court Common [illegible]
second eastern Circuit.
I Henry Johnson Esquire of Clinton, Kennebec County do hereby certify and declare that I am well acquainted with the before named Timothy Hudson, to my knowledge has sold and conveyed all his real estate for the payment of just debts and has no other personal property to  my knowledge other than that mentioned in the foregoing schedule, I live [illegible] near neighbor to said Hudson he is poor and very infirm and has a large family and if he is deprived of his pension, must depend upon public or private charity for support. - 
Henry Johnson [signed]
Timothy Hudson Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, the deponent being a credible witness and disinterested. 
April 7th 1821.
Ebenn Hutcher a Justice of the C.E.C. [illegible] 2nd Eastern Circuit State of Maine.
Above Copy
Attest John Davis Clk.- 

[bottom of page, center upside down]
Timothy Hudson
Copy Sched.
[illegible] 1879
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The following is an Extract from the records of the Town of Winslow, Book 1st page 122, which is headed, "Marriages Solemnized," among many others with which the page is filled is the following viz. "Timothy Hudson to Jane Brown September twentieth Seventeen Hundred Eighty one,"
I David Garland do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, "September 20th 1781," (September twentieth Seventeen Hundred Eighty one)
I David Garland above named deposed + say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the town of Winslow, in the County of Kennebec + State of Maine + that the above is a true extract from the words of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me.
David Garland [signed] Town Clerk
Winslow

State of Maine
Kennebec ss - Sworn this twenty seventh Day of October 1838 before me - 
L[illegible] Paine [signed] Justice of the Peace

Lemuel Paine Esq is a Justice of [illegible] Maine for the county of Kennebec.
Nathan Weston C.J.
S.J.C.
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[illegible] Jane Hudson
widow of Timo. Hudson
who was a pensioner
under Act of March 
18. 1818
claim Agency
Act 7 July 38

M81. d 36 -
AOMO
2 yrs per
80$

Died 5 July 34
pen. com: 4 March 36

Geo W Martin
Augusta
Maine.
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7ty July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,

STATE OF MAINE
Somerson County ss

On this twenty fourth day of August A.D. 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston chief Justice the Supreme Judiciary Court of the State of Maine

Jane Hudson a resident of Clinton in the County of November and State of Maine, aged seventy five 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 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 Timothy Hudson who as the time of his  death was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under law of congress of March 1818 she refers to the evidence furnished the War Department of his service in the Army of the Revolution to entitle her to the benefit of the law  and which he was pensioned that his pension was payable as the Maine agency.

She further declares, that she was married to the said Timothy Hudson on the not recollective day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two; that her husband,, the aforesaid Timothy Hudson died on the fourth day of April 1836 at Clinton Maine; 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; that she has remained a widow ever since the period, as will more fully appear by reference to proof hereto annexed. That her name before marriage was Jane Brown that she was married in Cinton Maine by a magistrate named Brewer
Jane Hudson (signature)

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me (this applicant bring, from age and in person unable to approve in your court)
Nathan Weston
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State of Maine
On the twenty fourth day of August 1830 Jane Hudson,  the applicant within named was examined and sworn, as within stated I am satisfied that she was married to Timothy Hudson, late  a revolutionary pensioner of the United States on the twentieth of September 1771, although she, from defect of remembering states it to have been a year later. I am further satisfied that she said Timothy Hudson deceased on the fourth day April 1838, and that the applicant has ever since remained his widow

Nathan Weston C.J.
S.J.C.

STATE OF MAINE
November
   I the subscriber Clerk of the Judiciary Court fsid County hereby CERTIFY, That the Nathan Weston before who the proceedings were had is the Chief Justice of Supreme Judiciary Court  for s state. I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing ____ contains the original proceeding of the said Chief Justice in the matter of application of Jane Hudson for a pension

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto  set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this third of November A.A. 1838
Thomas Swan  (signature)
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I David Hudson of Fairfield in the county of Somerset State of Maine being of lawful age do testify and declare upon both that Timothy Hudson late a revolutionary pensioner died in the month of April 1836 and that Jane Hudson in  the evidence of said declares that she has remained unmarried ever since the death of said Timothy Hudson

David Hudson (signature)


State of Maine
County of Somerset
      Augst 24. 1838 and sworn to . I certify the _____________________________
Before me, Nathan Weston
C.J.  S.J.C.
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Timothy Hudson
w. 73.376
Cont. (Mass.)
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Headquarters Morristown Mary 27, 1780 
This Certificate that M. Timothy Hudson has served in Col Henry Sherburnes Regt in the Continental Army and is recorded honorably discharged commenced him as a friend to the Cause and will by no means doing anything that maybe injurious to it and can recommend him to ________________________________________
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N.R. 8,907
Maine
Timothy Hudson
of Clinton in the State of Maine
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Trafton of the regt commanded by Colonel Sherburne in the Rhode Island line, for the term of three years.
from September 1777 to March 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 [^0] day of April 1818 and 
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1819 and sent to R.C. Vose 
Augusta, Maine
Restored to the Roll on 6th day of March 1829 and notification sent to Hon. P. Sprague at Washington City.
Pension commencing on the 5 of February 1829.
Amount due on 4th of 
Sept: 1829 }                    $55.88
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Acts March 18, 1818, 
May [illegible] 1820
Sep 1819

[right side of page] [[illegible] signature]
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Maine - 5233.
Jane Hudson,
widow of Timothy Hudson, Decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar. 1818- and who died on the 5th July 1834-
of Somerset in the State of Maine - who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Trafton of the Regt commanded by Col. Sherburne in the Rhode Island line for 2 years private.

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 3 [^0] day of April, 1840 and sent to George W. Morton, Augusta, Me.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 - $320:00
Semi=annual allowance ending [illegible] Sept.. 40:00
----------
$360.00
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{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 1 [illegible] Page 12
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[illegible]
Set Geo. W. Morton.
Sept. 6 '39 - 
Act 7. July 38
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Timothy Hudson M [illegible] act 18 March 1818 when last [illegible].
G.W. [illegible]

25 [illegible] 39 [illegible] 4 March 1834
[illegible]
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Cont'l (Mass.) Timothy Hudson  W. 23,376
Disch. [illegible]
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[illegible] letter 12 May 1826 to R C Vose Esq

Hon. J. Cushman
H Rep

To be briefed last papers recd Febr 11. 1825

March 27. 1826
Sent blank form [illegible] [illegible] under Act March 1. 1823
See letter 4 May 1824 to Mr. Cushman
Sept 1819

See letter to Hon: J. Cushman. H. Repr. July 25th 1825.
Hon: [illegible] Sprague
1st December 1827.
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Re[illegible]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23376
Jane Hudson
Wid. of Timothy Hudson
Priv. Rev. War
Act: March 3 d/o 1843.
Index:-Vol A, Page 360
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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685
Jane Hudson
Admit private $80.
Maine Agency
Send to 
Geo W Morton
Augusta
Maine.
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.

STATE OF MAINE,
County of Kennebec 88. On this Fourteenth day of April A.D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Jane Hudson a resident of Sebasticook in the the County of Kennebec aged Seventy nine 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, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Timothy Hudson who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Timothy Hudson at the rate of eighty dollars ~~and [blank] cents~~ per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Timothy Hudson having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Witness Matthias Weeks, Gerald Fox
Jane Hudson

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me, Matthias Weeks Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Timothy Hudson deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Matthias Weeks Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine
Kennebec County ss.
I the subscribed Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held for and within the said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Matthias Weeks is a Justice of the Peace as within stated, and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the 22d day of April A.D. 1843-
A R Nichols [signed]
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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 Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Timothy Hudson, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Clinton, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the third 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 proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private 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 support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Nathan Weston Jun C. Just
C.C.C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec, ss.
The Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his 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 Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis [signature]
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Geo W Morton Esq
Augusta
ME
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We the undersigned Inhabitants of the Town of Clinton in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, depose and say We have been acquainted with the late Timothy Hudson of said Clinton a pensioner deceased, from ten to forty years and depose and say that during the whole periods, he was the husband of the now Widow Jane Hudson, that we believe that he never had any other wife nor she any other husband and that she is now living and remains the Widow of the said Late Timothy Hudson who died in Clinton April 5th 1834.
Clinton Oct. 4th 1839    Thos B Strickfield
Henry P Browbridge      Winthrop Gibson
Israel Rose                     Washington Williams
[illegible] Rose               Japheth Winn
David Gray                    Ezekiel Brown 49 years
Besiah Brown                 Melinda Brown
Damon Runnels            James Gray 
Daniel Fox                     Elizabeth Gray
Samuel Gray                  James E. Gray
                                      Luke Brown
                                      Polly Brown 
                                      Hanah Trowbridge
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Kennebec ss October 4th 1839
Personally appeared before me the within named  subscribing deponents and made Oath that this Affidavit by them subscribed was true
Matthias Weeks Justice of the Peace [signature]

I certify that the foregoing deponents are persons of truth + veracity + entitled to full belief
Matthias Weeks Jus of the Peace [signature]

October 4th 1839
I certify that the late [crossed out] Widow Jane Hudson is now living, that I have been well acquainted with her and with her late husband for thirty three years and [crossed out] and know that her Husband Timothy Hudson was a Pentioner, that she now resides in Clinton and is the widow, and unmaried, of the late Timothy Hudson - 
Matthias Weeks [signature]

I Jane Hudson of Clinton in the County of Kennebec Depose and say that I am the Identical Jane Hudson widow of the late Timothy Hudson that I have not since intermarried but remain the widow of said Timothy Hudson  [illegible crossed out] 
Jane Hudson [signature]
[illegible]  and Sworn to Oct 4th 1839 before me
M Weeks Jus Peace
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State of Maine
Kennebec ss    }   Clerk's Office - Judicial Courts
I John A Chandler Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for said County of Kennebec, do certify that Matthias Weeks is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Kennebec and the signatures upon this sheet purporting to be his are genuine. Witness my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of January A.D. 1840  JA Chandler [signature]
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Timothy Hudson. priv
Maine Roll V8907
add dec Feb 5th 1829
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State of Maine
Kennebec ss
On this fifth day of February A.D. 1829. personally appeared before me Nathan Weston Junior, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State of Maine, Timothy Hudson, now nearly eighty two years of age a resident of Clinton in the County of Kennebec, who on his Oath declares that he made declaration of his services in the war of the Revolution, under the law of Congress [illegible] 1818-before the same Judge Weston, then Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, on the third day of March 1818-and was placed on the Pension list of Maine and his pension certificate is numbered 8.907. and drew his pension from the time he made His declaration up to the 4th of March 1820. where by the law of Congress of May 1st 1820. he was required to exhibit a schedule of his whole estate + income - he did exhibit said schedule, before the same Judge Weston on the 24th of May 1820. and caused the same to be transmitted to the War Department, and was afterwards informed his name was stricken off on account of the property exhibited in said schedule. and afterwards in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of March 1823. the said Hudson made an other schedule of his whole estate + income before the Supreme Judicial Court; at Augusta, within and for said Kennebec County, which last schedule he caused to be sent to the War Department and has been informed his Claims has been suspended at the Pension Office, for further proofing he has furnished from time to time since further proof of his poverty, but has never been informed of his name being restored to the pension Roll, nor has he drawn any compensation whatever from the United States, on account of his services in the War of the Revolution, since the said 4th of March 1820- and now the said Timothy Hudson, on oath further declares that at the present time, he is wholly destitute of property and has lived with one of his sons for the last five years + that he is very feeble health, and suffered much by sickness for the last ten years + wholly past labor. Timo- Hudson [signature]
Feb 15
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State of Maine
Kennebec ss. on this fifth day of February 1829. personally appeared before me, the aforesaid Timothy Hudson, to me well known, and he made oath to the truth of the within declaration and schedule by him subscribed and I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hudson is wholly destitute of property at the present time, nor has he any income derived from any source whatever and is wholly supported by this son, as he has stated in the within declaration.
Nathan Weston Jun [signature]

I Robert C. Vose, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the said County of Kennebec, do Certify that the Hon. Nathan Weston Junior, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State of Maine and by direction of said Judge I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court + subscribe my name this fifth day of February Anno Domini 1829.
R.C. Vose. [signature]
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Copy
Timothy Hudson
to 
Samuel Hudson
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State of Maine
Kennebec ss:
I Robert C. Vose, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for this County of Kennebec, certify that John Hovey, Esquire, is Register of Deeds for said County + legally qualified to act as such. and that the within attestation is his own proper signature, I also, certify that he has not & is not required by law to have an official seal.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name & affix the County Seal of the said County of Kennebec this twenty ninth day of January A.D. 1825.  R.C. Vose, Clerk
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Timothy Hudson of Clinton in the County of Kennebec Yeoman
In consideration of Two hundred  and twenty dollars paid by Samuel Hudson of said Clinton Gentleman (the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge,) do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto said Samuel Hudson a certain tract of land situate in said Clinton and bounded as follows (to wit:) on the west by Kennebec River; on the north by land owned by David Gray and Peter Robinson; on the east by Joseph North; and on the south by land owned by the said Samuel Hudson and containing about fifty acres of land by the same more or less, it being the same land on which the said Timothy Hudson now lives 
To Have and to Hold the same to the said Samuel Hudson his heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever. And I do covenant with the said Samuel Hudson his heirs and assigns, That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises - That they are free of all incumbrances - [illegible crossed out sentence] And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Samuel Hudson his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.
IN WITNESSS WHEREOF, I the said Timothy Hudson have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of
Henry Johnson     Timo: Hudson seal [circled]
Joseph Clark

Kennebec ss. March 22 1821 Then the above named Timothy Hudson acknowledged this instrument, by his subscribed to be his free act and deed, before me, Joseph Clark Justice of Peace.
 Kennebec ss Received Janry. 26. 1825 entered + compared with the original by John Hovey Register
This may certify that I have no seal of office John Hovey. [signed]

The foregoing is a true copy of record. Attest Jno Hovey Register
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Augusta Maine
January 24. 1840
Sir:
Your letter dated Sept 6 1829 relating to the claim of Mrs Jane Hudson, the widow of Timothy Hudson, to be pensioner under Act of July 7. 1838 was duly received and I herewith transmit the Affidavit of Thomas B. Stenchfield + other inhabitants of the town of Clinton (the place where her late husband died and where they lived together as husband and wife for many years prior to this death) in support of her claim. For her declaration she states the death of her husband to have occured on the 4th day of April 1836. since she made her declaration it has been ascertained that his death took place on the 5th day of April 1834. he was paid his pension to the 4th day of March 1834. the pension due his widow from the 4 day of March 1834. to the 5th day of April 1834 has not been paid because his widow has never applied for it. The discrepancy between her statements as to the time of his death made by her in the declaration and the actual time it occured on April 5 1834 as stated in the accompanying affidavit is owing entirely to the loss of memory. That she is the widow of Timo Hudson deceased who as a revolutionary Pensioner. that she was married to him on the 20th day of September 1780. and that he died on the 5th of April 1834 can be relied on as facts
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I have been acquainted with her for twenty years [illegible] past and from my first acquaintance she lived with Mr Hudson til his decease as his wife. Should the accompanying affidavit + my explanation be satisfactory I would respectfully request you to transmit me for her a pension certificate
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Geo. W. Morton [signature]

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Maine.
On the twenty fourth day of August, 1838, I received the declaration of Jane Hudson, under oath, as an applicant for a pension, near her residence, and about twenty miles from a court town. From her sex, and advanced age, she being seventy five, I felt myself justified in certifying her inability to appear in open court. I am now informed, and have reason to believe, that being afflicted with Asthma and other complaints, she is unable to leave home.  Nathan Weston C.J.
S.J. Court.
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State of Maine
Kennebec County ss.
I the subscribed clerk of all the Judicial Courts held for and within the said County of Kennebec, Certify that the Hon Nathan Weston is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State and that the within signature purporting to be his, is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of June A.D. 1839
JA Chandler
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Augusta. Maine.
June 15 1839
Sir:
I herewith return the original declaration of Mrs Jane Hudson, an applicant for pension, under Act of July 7.1838 with an additional certificate from Judge Weston. and also the papers of Mrs Anne Sprague with the additional certificate of the Judge, and the affidavit of the town clerk of [illegible] in support of her claim. I also send an application of Mrs Mary Wells to be pensioner under the Act of July 7. 1838. Should these applications be satisfactorily proved, so as to entitle them to the benefit of the Act. you are respectfully requested to send me for them such certificates as are granted to claimants under the Act
I am respectfully
Your Obt Svt
Geo. W. Morton
 James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington.
D.C.
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122
State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and that the original was exhibited in open Court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Four hundred fifty five dollars and [crossed out] cents [crossed out]; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is three hundred fifty five dollars and [crossed out] Cents.[crossed out]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis [signature] Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec
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Copy       State of Maine.         122 [underlined]

KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty fourth day of May, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junr Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited to amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Timothy Hudson aged seventy three years, resident in Clinton in the County of Kennebec within the 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. in the Company commanded by Captain Trafton and Regiment commanded by Colonel Sherburne of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years

that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the third day of April 1818 ; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 8.907. And I, the said Timothy Hudson do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish is 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; 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. Timothy Hudson [signature]

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz : Forty three acres of land very poor, in Clinton aforesaid with a small house and barn thereon of the value of three hundred dollars.
one horse of the value of thirty five dollars
one ox of the value of twenty five dollars
Two heifers, two years old of the value of eighteen dollars. Eleven sheep of the value of twenty two dollars.
Three swine of the value ten dollars
old household stuff, besides necessary bedding not exceeding fifteen dollars in value.
Implement of husbandry not exceeding twenty dollars in value.  one sleigh worth ten dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected, and I owe as much as one hundred Dollars. My income derived from property, trade or profession does not exceed thirty five dollars a year.
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[Handwritten] 
I am by occupation a farmer, was a tailor, but from age and infirmity have not labored at that trade for many years, and being afflicted with the numb palsy am totally unable to labor.
I have residing with me eight in family, viz, myself, my wife Jane aged fifty seven, her right side numb with the Palsey, my daughter Hannah aged thirty three, weak and feeble, has been married but turned upon me for support with three children, my grandchild Israel aged fourteen, infirm and feeble, my granddaughter Theresa aged eleven, my grandchild Charles aged four years.  My son David aged seventeen his left foot mutilated, and my grandson Henry aged eleven years.
Except the foregoing, and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no income or property whatsoever.

Timothy Hudson
Subscribed, sworn to, and declared both the [illegible] and schedule on the twenty fourth day of May 1820.  Before me
Nathan Weston [illegible]
C. J. C. C. C. Please
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122 Timothy Hudson


Discontinued 
Sept 1819
R.C. Vose Augusta , Maine
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Timothy Hudson
Maine Roll No. 8904
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State of Maine
Country of Kennebec
On this Seventeenth day of Dec. 1824 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleasbeing a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having
original jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment Timothy Hundson resident in said County, aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, and the first of March,
eighteen hundred and twenty-three--that he the said Timothy Hudson
enlisted for the term of three years on the Seventh day of September in the year
1777 in the State of Massachusett in the Company commanded by Captain
Traften If the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sherburne in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued
to serve in the said corps until 27 March 1780 when he was discharged from the
said service in Morriston in the State of New Jersey that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropt there from on account of his property.
AND, in pursuance of the Act of the first May eighteen hundred
and twenty, I do solemn swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the
eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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 eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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.
Timothy Hudson
SWORN to and declared, on the Seventeenth day of December 1824
before Samuel E Smith
Value of Property $55.00
J.C. Com. Pleas
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SCHEDULE of the Real and Personal Estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted)

belonging to me the subscriber, viz: 
[handwritten list]
No Real and no personal property, except 
one bow of the value 12.00
old household stuff (besides bedding) viz 6 chairs 
6 sheep of the value 6.00
2 old Tables 
1 old desk
a few articles of crockery 
1 Iron pot
3 [illegible] of the value 10.00
1 Kettle
1 Tea Kettle
a few knives + forks
a few Spoons
1 two year old colt 20.00
all old and not exceeding twelve dollars in value.
one Calf 3.00
2 old Ploughs worth 3 dollars
one old [illegible]
1 old [illegible] worth six dollars
one old sleigh worth $3 dollars

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me [handwritten] Timothy Hudson - who, by occupation am a [handwritten] Tailor - which I am [handwritten "un" filled in]able to pursue by reason of [handwritten] old age and infirmities and have been so for most part of the time for twelve years last past.

[Following is a chart with three columns: Names - Ages - Capacity of each to contribute to their support.]

Jane my wife | 62 years | her right side numb with palsy
Mary June Fox granddaughter | 13 years | as healthy as common

[signed] Timothy Hudson

That since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property.  [Handwritten] The land and buildings mentioned in my first schedule I have sold and conveyed to Samuel Hudson by deed dated March 22, 1821, who became obligated to pay debts against me which I firstly owed and for supplies for support of myself and family since I was stricken from the pension Roll.

[Following is a chart with three columns: Names of the persons to whom sold - Time of Sale - Amount of Money, or description of property received in return ]

The Horse sold to Chls. Baker | Oct 1822 | $10 in money & an old watch

one Ox sold | in 1821 | to pay a debt I owed Dr. Cook

2 heifers one was killed for the use of my family and the other went to pay for the use of a cow which I had taken on a lease

[signed] Timothy Hudson

I, [handwritten] Robert C. Vose - Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the said County of [handwritten] Kennebec - do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said [handwritten] Timothy Hudson - did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment.  I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is [handwritten] Fifty five - dollars and [blank] cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, on this [handwritten] Seventeenth - day of [handwritten] December, 1824.

[signed] Robert C. Vose
Clerk of the Court of the [handwritten] County of Kennebec
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Timothy Hudson
p[illegible] Roll Nos. 907
S. J. C. June 5, 1823
value property $ [illegible]
served 3 years
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[center align]
[typed]
DECLARATION
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the act of the 1st of March, 1823.
State of Maine.
[Typed] COUNTY OF
[handwritten] Kennebec
[Typed] ss. 
On this 
[handwritten] fifth 
[typed] day of
[handwritten] June
[typed] 1823 personally appeared 
[handwritten] in open court before the Supreme Judicial Court
[typed] being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of
[handwritten] ^the
[typed] common law, having original jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment
[handwritten] Timothy Hudson
[typed] , resident in said County aged 
[handwritten] twenty five
[typed] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, and the first of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three -- that he the said 
[handwritten] Timothy Hudson
[typed] enlisted for the term of
[handwritten] three years
[typed] on the day of
[handwritten] September
[typed] in the year
[handwritten] 1777
[typed] in the State of
[handwritten] Massachusetts
[typed] on the Continental establishment; that he con-tinued to serve in the said corps until 
[handwritten] March 1780
[typed] when he was discharged from the said service in 
[handwritten] Morristow
[typed] in the State of
[handwritten] New Jersey
[typed] that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropt there
[handwritten] from 
[typed] on account of his property.
AND, in pursuance of the Act of the first May, eighteen hundred and twenty, I do solemny swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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 eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contacts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
[handwritten] [illegible] Timothy Hudson
[typed] SWORN to and declared, on the 
[handwritten] fifth
[typed] day of
[handwritten] June 1823,
[typed] before
[handwritten] Brentits M[illegible] Ch & Justice of Said Court Total ruling $50.00
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[typed] SCHEDULE of the Real and Personal Estate, (necessary clothing and bedding exceptea) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: 
[handwritten] I have no real estate all my personal Estate is as follows, I cow 2 calves, 5 sheep, 3 pigs  I have no farming tools except 1 old cart, 1 old plough 1 axe. I have no house hold furniture except 3 old chairs, 1 iron pot, 1 tea pot 
& kettle, 1 table, 1/2 doz plates, 3 knives and forks.
Timothy Hundson
[typed]SCHEDULE of the family residing with me
[handwritten] Timothy Hudson 
[typed] who, by occupation am a
[handwritten] Farmer 
[typed] which I am 
[handwritten] un
[typed] able to pursue by reason of 
[handwritten] consumption complaint I have been totally unable to labour for many years.
Names. | Ages. | Capacity of each to contribute to their support
June my wife | 62 years | affected with Rheumatism
David my son |20 Yr┃Healthy
Mary Grand Daughter ┃11 Yr┃Healthy
Timothy Hudson
[typed] That since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my poperty.
[handwritten]The First Estate mentioned in my former schedule I have sold to pay an execution which was against me, and other debts I was owing, and for the support of my family as I have been unable to bestow the personal estate mentioned in my former schedule other than above stated has been sold for the support of
my family and consumed in it

Names of the persons to whom sold. | Time of Sale.┃ Amount of Money, or description of property received in return.
Samuel Hudson | [blank] | [blank]
Timothy Hudson
[typed] I, 
[handwritten] Robert C. Rose, 
[typed] Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the said County of 
[handwritten] Kennebec
[typed] do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said 
[handwritten] Timothy Hudson
[typed] did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine
months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is 
[handwritten] Fifty
[typed] dollars
[crossed out] and cents
[typed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 
[handwritten] fifth
[typed] day of 
[handwritten] June
[typed] 1823
[handwritten] Robert C. Vose
[typed] Clerk of the Court of the
[handwritten] County of Kennebec