Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2301, Ezra Willard, Mass
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SERVICE
Mass

Willard, Ezra
Mary

NUMBER
W. 2301
B.L.Wt. 2622-160-55.

CONTENTS
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[1st page]
41,119 act 3 March/55
April 4/55
Mary Willard widow of
Ezra Willard dec'd. private
Ezra
Mass.
Mil.
Pensioner Revolutionary War
Feby 53 1480
av:160  [illegible] 16/56
Boynton
Wm Allen
Norridgewock
Maine
[2nd page]
Civ. Wm Allery Aug 29./55

Feby 53 No 1480
Vol W2, page 19.
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18002
Maine
Ezra Willard
at Kenner in the State of Maine
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Mason of the Regt commander
by Col [blank] in the Mass. ma
line for 11 mos.
Inscribed in the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July
1833 and Sent to
R C Vose. [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 18.33
$91.65
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk.
Book E Vol. 1 Page 3
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[page 1]
Let [illegible] Allen Sept 18, [illegible]
[illegible] April 1869
Allen Sept 18, 183,
Pension died
1869 L. C. L. Currein  [illegible]
[illegible] 78 Claim [illegible] died
[illegible] claim [illegible]
[page 2]
1480
Maine
Mary Willard
widow of Ezra Willard
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on 3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
23 day of Aug/53
and sent to
Wm Allen
Norridgewock Me

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3 /53
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41,119
Mary Willard
widow's Claim for
Bounty Land
Act of Mar 3. 1853
Presented by
William Allen
Norridgewock
Maine
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Bounty Land Claim
State of Maine
County of Somerset SS
On this twenty seventh day of March one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared
before me William Allen a Justice of the Peace within
and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Willard
aged seventy six years a resident of Norridgewock in the State of
Maine, who being duly sworn according to law declares
that she is the widow of the identical Ezra Willard who
a private in the Massachusetts Militia in the war
of the Revolution and served a term of eleven months and
was placed on the Pension list under the Act of June 7, 1832 at the
rate of $36.66 per annum and died at Starks in the County
of Somerset on the 21st day of April 1851 as near as she can
recollect: that she as his widow was placed on the Pension list
after his death under the act of Feb. 3, 1853 at the same rate of 36.66
and is now a Pensioner of the United States of that rate.
No 1,480 she further states that she was married to the said
Ezra Willard at Starks Maine, on the 28th day of Feby 1833
by Stephen Greenleaf a Justice of Peace that her name before marriage
was Mary Benson, that her said husband died at said [illegible]
according to best of her recollection on the 21st day of
April 1851, and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of claiming
the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the
act of March 3 1855. She also declares that she has not
received a warrant for Bounty land under this or any
other act of Congress nor made any application therefor.
Mary Willard
Witnesses Charles Benson
Dennis Moore
We Charles Benson and Dennis Moore both residents of
Norridgewock in the State of Maine upon our oaths declare
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that the foregoing declaration was signed and
acknowledged by the said Mary Willard in our presence
and that we believe from the appearance and statements
of the applicant and from our personal knowledge of her
that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Charles Benson
Dennis Moore
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn
to and subscribed before me on the day and year above
written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be
credible persons, that the claimant is the person
she represents herself to be, that I have known her
for a long time; and that I have no interest in this claim.
William Allen Justice of
the Peace
I certify that during the summer of 1853,
I procured record evidence of the marriage of
Ezra Willard and Mary Willard above named also
satisfactory legal evidence of the death of said Ezra
Willard which evidence was forwarded to the Pension
Office at the time she was placed on the Pension list: where it is
presented the evidence still remains William Allen Just Peace.
State of Maine
County of Somerset SS. 
I hereby certify that William Allen
before whom the above declaration and affidavit were made and
executed and who has thereunto subscribed his name
is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly
commissioned and sworn & that his signature is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal
of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County aforesaid this twenty seventh
day of March AD 1855.
Geo. A. Hobbs Clerk
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Mrs. Mary Willard the within
applicant refers to the papers filed
in the Pension Office for record evidence
of her marriage and also for the day on which her husband died in the cases
No 1.480 Widow's Pension Act of Feb 3, 1853

Wm Allen Just Peace
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Case of Mary Willard
applicant for a pension under
act of Feb 3, 1853
Supplementary evidence
to the papers filed in the
Pension Office May 1853
Returns to be to care of
William Allen
Norridgewock Me
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State of Maine
County of Somerset
At a Court of Probate holden at
Norridgewock in and for the County aforesaid August 2 1853.
I certify that William Allen & Charles Benson
the Deponents who testified before me in the original proceeding
in the case of Mary Willard an applicant for a pension
in Probate Court May 2, 1853 are credible witnesses
David White
Judge of Court of Probate Somerset
Attest A Moore Reg'd

State of Maine
Somerset County SS. I Llewellyn Kidder Clerk of the Judicial
Courts in the County aforesaid, certify that the Hon David White is Judge
of the Court of Probate in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified
and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
I also certify that Cyrus Rogers Esq is a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature
to the paper annexed purporting to be his
is genuine and also, that William Allen Esquire
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Somerset
duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature
to the annexed papers purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court
of the State, for said County at Norridgewock the ninth day of August
in the year Eighteen hundred & fifty three. Lewellyn Kidder, Clerk
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Pension Office
July 25, 1853
Sir
In the case of Mrs Mary Willard, who applies
for pension under the act of 3d February
1853 it is required that she file record proof of
her marriage if any exist either public or private: if not that fact must be satisfactorily
shown, when secondary evidence will be
admitted. The judge has omitted to certify
the credibility of the witnesses (Charles Benson
and William Allen). This must also be done,
as our rules are imperative upon this point,
and cannot be waived in particular cases.
As soon as these requirements are complied
with, the claim will be decided
William Allen Esq
Very Respectfully
LP Waldo
Commissioner
William Allen Esq.
Norridgewock
Maine
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I John G. Brown Town Clerk of the
town of Starks in the County of Somerset and
State of Maine, certify that I have the
custody of the records of said town, that
I find in the record of marriages in
said town the following to wit:
"To whom it may concern." "This is to certify
that Ezra Williard and Mary Benson, both of
Starks in the County of Somerset, State of Maine,
were joined in marriage at said Starks, agreeable to the Laws of said State on the twenty fourth (24th)
day of February in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty three, by me."
Starks April 1833 Stephen Greenleaf, Justice of the peace
A true copy-Attest, J. G. Brown Town Clerk
The above date of the month is not in words
but in plain legible figures thus (24th, and
with that exception is a true copy of the
record.
John G. Brown Town Clerk
State of Maine
County of Somerset SS

On this 5th day of August
1853, personally appeared before me a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County the above
named John G. Brown and made oath to the
above certificate by him subscribed.
Cyrus Rogers, Justice of the peace
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State of Maine
County of Somerset SS.
Be it known that before me William Allen
Justice of the Peace within and for the County
aforesaid on the ninth day of August A.D. 1853,
personally appeared Robert Waugh a resident
of Starks in said County aged sixty years who
being first sworn according law made oath that
he was born and reared up in said Starks in
the immediate vicinity of the residence
of Mary Willard, the widow of Ezra Willard
a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, now deceased; that he has from his earlyest recollection
in his infancy known and been personally acquainted
with said Mary Willard, formerly Mary
Benson, and knows that she was married
to said Ezra Willard, as appears by the record;
and that he knows her now to be the identical
person who was married to said Ezra Willard
in his life time and is now his widow.
Robert Waugh
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first
above written before me William Allen Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Robert Waugh is a person
by me well known and is a person of unimpeachable
veracity and a credible witness William Allen
Justice of the Peace
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Norridgewock Maine Aug 10, 1853
Sir
I herewith forward the certificates and
supplementary evidence required in the case
of Mary Willard an applicant for pension
under the act of 3 Feb papers filed in May last and would also
refer to the papers filed in the Treasury Department
in support of her claim for [illegible] of her
husbands pension from March 4, 1851 to the time
of his death in April of the same which has
be paid her amounting to $4.22
When her claim for pension is established
please enclose the certificate to her to care
of your obt Servt William Allen
Norridgewock Me
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
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app of Mary Willard
widow of Ezra Willard
dec'd for pension
under act of Feb 3, 1853
See papers on file in the
Department on the case
of the dec'd No 18,002
under act of June 7, 1832
Returns to be made to
Mary Willard to care of
William Allen Norridgewock 
Maine
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 2'd
Section of the Act of February, 1853.
State of Maine
County of Somerset
On this third day of May AD. 1853.
personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of
the County and State aforesaid, being a Court of record Mary
Willard, a resident of Norridgewock in said county & state
aged seventy four years who being first 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 3d February AD 1853, granting pensions to widows of
persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is
the widow of Ezra Willard, who was a private in the Massachusetts
militia and served eleven months in the war of the Revolution,
now deceased; and who was a pensioner of the United States
at the time he died, under the Act of June 7, 1832 entitled to receive
thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum during his life and
who was paid at the Maine Agency in Portland, at that rate up to
the 4th March 1831, that his pension certificate was numbered
18,002 and dated the nineteenth of[blank] 1833. All which will fully appear she presumes by the evidence in the war Department & Pension Office.
She further declares that she was married to said Ezra Willard
on the twenty fourth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty three
that her name was Mary Benson prior to her said marriage; that
her said husband died on the fourteenth day of April Eighteen hundred
and fifty one at [illegible] in the County of Kennebec; that at the time she
was married to him he resided in Mercer in Maine; that she
was not married to him prior to the second day of January
in the year Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated She
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further declares that she is now a widow
Mary Willard
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day
and year within written before me Daniel White Judge of
said Court of Probate.
Charles Benson a resident of Norridgewock
aged thirty three years, being first sworn according to law
doth on his oath testify and say that he was present on the
twenty fourth day of February, Eighteen hundred and thirty
three at Starks in Maine at the marriage of the within
named Ezra Willard with the within named Mary Willard
his mother, by Stephen Greenleaf Esq a Justice of the Peace 
that said Ezra Willard was a Revolutionary pensioner
at the time he died; that he died as he was informed by his
Sister at Vienna in Maine on the fourteenth day of April
Eighteen hundred and fifty one, that he was not present of the
time of his death, but knows that he is dead and that he died
about that time; that he died about forty days after he received
his last payment of pension on the 4th of March 1851.
That his mother has remained unmarried ever
since the death of her said husband and that she is now a widow
living with him.
Charles Benson
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day
and year first within written before me
David White Judge of said Court of
Probate
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State of Maine
County of Somerset SS
I Stephen Greenleaf a resident in Starks in the county and State aforesaid certify that on the twenty fourth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty three that I was then and there a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that on that day at said Starks, Ezra Willard & late of Mercer was joined in marriage with Mary Benson of said Starks by me. I further certify that I was personally acquainted with the said Ezra & Mary have from infancy lived near them. that said Ezra Willard we saw dean and was a Revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death, that said Mary Willard is now his lawful widow according to my best knowledge and belief.
Stephen Greenleaf

State of Main County of Somerset ss
Be it know that on this 23rd day of April 1833 before me John G. Brown a Justice of the Peace personally appeared the above named Stephen Greenleaf Esq, a person by me well known and a respectable magistrate and credible witness and made oath the above certificate by him subscribed.
John G. Brown, Justice of Peace

State of Maine
County of Somerset ss
I Llewellyn Kidder Clerk of the Courts of the county and State aforesaid certify that John G. Brown above named is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Somerset duly commissioned and qualified and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State this third day of May A. D.  1833.
Llewellyn Kidder Clerk
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William Allen of Norridgewock aged seventy three years being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he was personally acquainted with the within named Ezra Willard for more than forty years prior to his death, that he knew him to be a Revolutionary pensioner, that he knew that his first wife died more than twenty years ago: that he has been personally acquainted with the within named Mary Willard formerly a Mary Benson, a widow and was employed by her about thirty years ago to assist in the settlement of her first husband's estate; that he afterwards saw her at the dwelling house of said Ezra Willard acting in the capacity of his wife and understood from the family that they had been lawfully married and has good reason to believe that her declaration within made on oath is strictly true and that she is now the lawful widow of said Ezra Willard deceased, and that her statements are entitled to full credit.
William Allen
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first within written in open Court before me.
David White, Judge of Probate
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State of Maine
county of Somerset SS
I Albert Moore Register of the Court of Probate in and for the county aforesaid certify that the within contains the original proceedings before the Court of Probate of said county in the matter of the application of Mary Willard widow of Ezra Willard for a pension; that the Hon. David White is Judge of said Court for the county aforesaid and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate for the count of Somerset and the State aforesaid this third day of May in the year Eighteen hundred & fifty three
A. Moore, Register
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(illegible)  Sharon M. E. 
June 21                 6

Robert C. Vose Esq.
Augusta, Me
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State of Maine
We John Gower a Clergyman, residing in the town of Industry in the County of Somerset and Andrew Croswell of Mercer in the same County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ezra Willard who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him toe be seventy two 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.
John Gower
Andrew Croswell

State of Maine Somerset ss. Sworn and subscribed this seventeenth day of June A. D. 1833. Before me
Hannibal Ingalls Justice of the Peace

Hannibal Ingalls Esquire is a Justice of the Peace. The Rev. John Gower is a Clergyman residing in Industry & the hon. Andrew Croswell residing in Mercer is a credible person & their statement is entitled to be believed.
J. A. Chandler, Clerk
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wers: That he (smudged) born in Lancaster, Massachusetts (where his age is recorded) in 1761, where his home was during his Revolutionary service. That in 1807 he removed to Mercer Maine, where he now lives. That he enlisted, was not drafted or (illegible) as a substitute. That he took a written discharge signed by Col. Mason, which is now lost.
That under Capt. Robinson he served at Watertown, Massachusetts guarding continental stores. That he does not now recollect the names of his then officers. that Enoch Craig will testify to his second service, and that will respect to the first he hopes it will be found on the rolls (illegible) in Massachusetts.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Ezra Willard

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before
Nathan Weston, Jun. (illegible) S. J. C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun.
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25940
Ezra Willard
Private Masstts. troops
Mason's regt. 5 months
Robinson's Co. 6 months

11 months as a private

Witness for 6 mo.

admd. 11 mo. pri
$36.66

R. C. Vose
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State of Maine
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at August, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 26th day of March A. D. 1833

Personally appears in open Court Ezra Willard by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress of June 7th 1832, was made before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jr. on the 3d day of August A. D. 1832 and makes oath in due form of law, that the annexed declaration by him made and signed, it true.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
Nathan Weston, Just. S. J. C.

I, John Alphonso Chandler, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Willard for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial court and subscribe my name this 26th day of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler
(seal with ribbon)
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832

State of Maine
Kennebec County ss
On this third day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Ezra Willard a resident of Mercer in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain not recollected and served in Col. Mason's regiment of invilids of the Massachusetts line or troops. that in June 1777 he enlisted into that company and regiment for five months. that he does not remember the name of his Captain or Lieutenants, but remembers Sergeant Ebenezer Flagg with whom he enlisted. that he served out this period, being employed in the Labratory at Springfield making cartridges and was discharged at Springfield the last of October or first of November 1777. That the last of November 1777 he again enlisted as a private in Capt. Samuel Robinson's Massachusetts company, not attached to any regiment but employed in guarding continental stores at Watertown Massachusetts, and was there verbally discharged in May 1778
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11 mo pri
$36.66
R. C. Vose
Augusta, me.

State of Maine 
I Enoch Craig aged seventy four years a soldier of the revolution, upon oath testify and declare that being myself a soldier in the same company I know that Ezra Willard, then of Lancaster now of Mercer served as a private six months in Capt. Samuel Robinson's Massachusetts company, guarding the continental stores at Watertown.
Will (illegible) to his service of six months, I would state that I know he served, that it was a six months service and that I do not remember (illegible)  any of the company left whom the (illegible) of
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In reply to your request of.............., received.............for a statement of the military history of Ezra Willard a
 soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (& his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
(note in margin: Sgt. Ebenezer Flag Mass. book p. 747)

Dates of Enlisment or appointment: June '77
Length of Service: 5 mos. 
Rank: Pri
Officers under whom service was rendered: Sgt. Ebenezer Flagg, Colonel Mason (Sta. at Springfield Labratories)

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: Nov. '77
Length of Service: to May '78
Rank: Pri
Officers:  Capt. Samuel Robinson

Battles engaged in:
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Lancaster Mass.
Date of application for pension: Aug. 3, 1832
Residence at date of application: Mercer, Somerset Co.,Me. since 1807
Age at date of application: born in 1761 Lancaster, Mass.
Remarks:  Soldier mar. Feby. 24, 1833 the widow Mary Benson. He died Apl. 14, 1851 
Wid. app. May 3, 1853 at 74  Res. Norridgewock, Somerset Co., Me, Died Oct. 12, 1868 at Farmington Me.
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heirs of Mary Benson Willard=1869
Lydia wife of John Gilman
Mary Dinsore
Bartlett Benson
Benjamin Benson
Charles Benson

Not used Cts.
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26,212
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Post mark: Norridgewock Mar 31
41.119

Free
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Dist. Col.

(illegible) Bounty Land Claim
act 1855
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Sir
In reply to your letter of 24th inst. you are (illegible) to find that the claim of John Gilman adr. of Mary Willard deceased under (illegible) Act of July 27,1868 as requested. Law provides for allowance of (illegible) to legal representatives only in case an application was pending at date of death of person. Mr. Gilman was a (illegible)  April 1 1869 of the (illegible) of claim.

C. L. Conn
June 28, 1869
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Sir
Arrears of Pension are due in the case pf Mary Willard to date of death. Increase pension cannot be allowed in case of Mrs. (illegible) pleadings being well before claim increase under (illegible) act of Congress ?68. she cannot be allowed to increase.
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Pension Department
Washington D. C.

Gentlemen,
Will you kindly send me the war record of Ezra Willard. I think he fought at Bunker Hill. I know he received a pension and after his death his wife
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received one.
thanking you in advance I am
yours truly
Mrs. J. G. Clondman
91 Merritts Ave
Atlanta Ga.

January third

(round stamp-U.S. Pension Office A Jan 6 1909)
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Pension Office
Aug. 16/53

Sir,
Please state the time to which the within named pensioner was last paid; and (if you know) the date of his death.
Very respectfully
Your obt. servt.
S. Cole
for Commissioner

Hon. F. Burt
Third Auditor

(see other side)
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Ezra Willard, Act 1832, $36.66 per annum.
Died 14th April 1851, Paid to his death
F. Burt
Auditor
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To J. P. Waldo Esqr.
Comr. of Pensions
Washington
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Norridgewock May 5, 1853

Sir,
Herewith is forwarded the application for of Mary  Willard widow of Ezra Willard a Rev. Pensioner decd. for pension under the late act of Congress, with a voucher to support her claim; If further evidence is required please notify her and when a certificate is granted, please forward to her directed to the case of the undersigned.
Norridgewock Maine
I am sir
very respectfully
your obt. servt.
William Allen

J. P. Waldo Esq.
Comr. of Pensions
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Mary Willard
wid. of Ezra

[Postmark-Norridgewock Me (date illegible)]

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

widow's appl. under act 3 Feb. 1853
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Postmark-Norridgewock Me, May 5
May 1853
FREE
j. P. Waldo Esqr.
commissioner of Pensions
Washington (City)
Dist. Col.
Free
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Mary Willard
wid. Ezra
53 no. 1480
FREE
Postmark-Norridgewock Me Sep 10

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, Dist. col.

Widows claim for arrearage of Pension under Act of Feb. 3 1853 and March 3. 1855
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Appl. of Mary Willard widow of Ezra
Somerset Co.
Maine
18002
Act 3d Feby 1853

Revy
Admd. $36.66/100 per annum
Commencing 3d Feb. 1853

William Allen
Norridgewock
Maine

Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
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No. 1585
Mary Willard
widow of Ezra
Maine

Let to William Allen
July 25, 1853

Act Febuary 3 1833
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3-871
Record division
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Briefed by L. D. L. 

Soldier Ezra Willard
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev. War

Remarks: No claim except W#2301
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Revy
WIDOW &c.
file No. 2301
Mary Willard
Widow
Ezra Willard
Priv. Rev. War

Act Feb. 3 1853
Index: Vol. M, Page 336

[Arrangement of 1870]

1909 Jan. 21 History to Mrs. J. D. Cloudman Cts.
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Copy
No. 1480
Department of the Interior
Widows Pension

I certify that in conformity with the 2d section act of February 3, 1853 Mary Willard widow of Ezra Willard who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of thirty six dollars & sixty six cents per annum commencing on the 3d February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of said marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
(Seal)
(illegible/faded signature)

examined & countersigned
L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Maine
Franklin County SS

The subscriber, Register of the Court od Probate, for said County, hereby certified and attests that on the Second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine, John Gilman of Farmington in said County, as duly appointed adm. of the estate of Mary Willard, late of said Farmington, deceased, intestate, and became bound according to law for the faithful discharge of said Trust; and that full faith is due to his official acts at this time in that capacity; and now acting at the request of the following named Heirs of said deceased in the collection of Arrears of Pension, viz: Lydia Gilman, wife of said Administrator and daughter of said deceased, and Bartlett Benson, Benjm.Benson, Charles Benson and Mary Dinsmore, sons and daughters, and only heirs above the age of 16 years of said Mary Willard, and there being no other heirs.

(Seal) In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the official seal of said Court, this Eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.
Benj. f. Atkinson, Register
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app. of Mary Willard for arrearage of Pension under Act of Feb 3d, 1853

See Pension Widows No. 1480 Act of Feb 3, 1853

Returns to be made to case of William Allen
Norridgewock Maine
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State of Maine
County of Somerset ss.
On this seventh day of September A. D. 1857 personally appeared before me William Allen a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Mary Willard a person by me well known aged Eighty years a resident in Norridgewock in the county of Somerset aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law declares on oath that she is the identical Mary Willard named in original certificate in her possession No. 1480, of which I certify the following is a true copy.

 Department of the Interior...Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the Act of February 3, 1853 Mary Willard with of Ezra Willard who was a private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, commencing on the 3rd day of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
(seal-Sec C of the Department of the Interior)
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R. McClelland, Secretary of the Interior
Examined and countersigned, L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions.

That she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the above named Ezra Willard, receiving the above pension of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents a year, that her pension commenced on the third day of February 1853 when by the true meaning of the Act aforesaid and by the recent construction thereof she was entitled to said pension form the 4th day of March 1848 up to said 3d day of February 1853deducting only the pension received up to the 14th of April 1851 the time of her said husbands death; that from the 11th of April 1851 to said 3d of February
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1853 a period of one year mine months and twenty days, she has received nothing.
She makes this application for a certificate for that arrearage of pension due her from April 11, 1851 to Feb. 3, 1853 at the above rates referring to her original application and evidence in the case No. 1480 filed in the Pension Office by her in April 1853 in support of her claim, and to the annexed Depositions.
Mary Willard
her X mark
Witness Hiram McLaughlin

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written by the above named Mary Willard a Revolutionary Pensioner with whom I have personally acquainted for fifty years last past and know that she is the identical person named in said pension certificate now before me.
William Allen Justice of the Peace

Somerset ss Sept. 7, 1857
I Charles Benson of Norridgewock aged thirty seven years being first sworn according to law depose and sat that my mother the above named Mary Willard is the identical person named in a pension certificate in her possession as the widow of said Ezra Willard my father in law, deceased, that he deceaced on the eleventh day of April 1851, that she is now a widow.
Charles Benson
Somerset ss. Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written before me, that deponent is a credible witness.
William Allen Just. Peace
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I Hiram McLaughlin a resident of Starks in Maine being first sworn according to law testifies and says that the above named Mary Willard is a person by me well known being my own aunt, a sister of my mother that she is the identical person named in an original Pension certificate in her possession No. 1.480, that she has remained a widow ever since the death of Ezra Willard her late husband a Revolutionary Pensioner deceased.
Hiram McLaughlin
Somerset Ss Sept. 7 1857
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that the Deponent is a person by me well know and is a credible witness. i also certify that the facts stated by the said Mary Willard in her application are correctly stated having the personal knowledge thereof when they occurred.
William Allen Justice of Peace

State of Maine, County of Somerset
I Stephen D. Lindsey Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for the county aforesaid certify that William Allen is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his on the foregoing papers are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Sate this seventh day of September A. D. 1857
Stephen D. Lindsey, Clerk
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Pensioner died Oct 12, 1868 without having made claim for inc. under act July 17, 1868
Arrears due to date of death (illegible)
Inc. not allowed

(stamp-illegible)
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Be it known that I John Gilman administrator of the estate of Mary Willard a revolutionary pensioner deceased and the identical Mary Willard named (illegible) pension certificate in my possession on oath certifies that under the act of Congress (illegible sentences) revolutionary pensioner of the United States (illegible) to receive a pension of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum from the 3d day of February 1853 and to continue during life unless she again (illegible) which the pension is not payable after the date (illegible) marriage. That she did not again marry and (illegible) Main in the (illegible) was entitled to an increase of pension (illegible)

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Benjamin Benson & Charles Benson children of said Mary Willard and her only heirs (illegible) all above the age of twenty one years and that it is now (illegible) in the collection of said increase of (illegible) That his post office address is Farmington (illegible) Maine
John Gilman

State of Maine
County of Franklin ss
Be it known that on the third day of March (illegible) before me personally appeared the above named John Gilman who has beed duly appointed administrator of the estate of Mary Willard deceased a person well known to me and presented the above described certificate dated August 25th 1853 and made oath to and subscribed the foregoing statement before me. In witness whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed my official seal the day and year aforesaid and certify that I know (illegible).
Oliver L. Carrier
Judge of Probate

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To the Commissioner of pensions
Washington City

(stamp-Department of the Interior
Pension Office March 31)
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Be it known that I John Gilman administrator of Mary Willard a Revolutionary Pensioner deceased named in an original pension certificate in my possession No. 1480 which certified that under the Act of Feb. 3 1853, Mary Willard widow of Ezra Willard who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States in entitled to receive a pension of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum from the 3d day of February 1853 and to continue during life unless she shall again marry in which case it is not payable after the date of such marriage. that he did not again marry and died at my house in Farmington on the 12th day of October 1868. That by the Act of July 27, 1868 said deceased was entitled to an increase of pension from the above sum to Eight dollars per month from the 24th day of July 1868 to Oct. 12th 1868. No part of said additional pension has been received by any one wherefore this petitioner prays that a warrant may be issued to him for the same.
Feb. 9, 1869
John Gilman

State of Maine county of Franklin Feb. 9 1869 Be it knows that on the nineth day of February 1869 the above named John Gilman who has been duly appointed administrator of Mary Willard deceased a person by me well personally appeared and presented the above described certificate dated February 3d 1853 and made oath to the above statement in open Court before me O. L. Carrier, Judge of Probate
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State of Maine
County of Franklin SS
Also at the same time and place personally appeared John E. Gilman and Henry W. Gilman residents of New Sharon in the County of Franklin aforesaid persons of adult age and known to me and whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me (illegible) say that they (illegible/faded)
John .E Gilman
Henry W. Gilman

Sworn to and subscribed by the said affiant and by said declarant before me on this ninth day of February A. D. 1869 and I certify that I have no interest in the increase in said claim. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year aforesaid.
O. L. Carrier Judge of Probate
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State of Maine
County of Franklin ss.
on this ninth day of February A. D. 1869 before me Oliver L. Carrier, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the county and State above named personally appeared John E. Gilman and Henry W. Gilman both residents of New Sharon in said County above the age of twenty one years, persons well known to me and whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit who being by me first duly sworn according to law on oath depose and say they were well acquainted with Mary Willard a revolutionary pensioner in her life time now deceased, that the said Mary Willard died at Farmington in the State of Maine on the twelfth day of October (illegible) they after did her funeral. We further (illegible) have no interest in the claim John Gilman her admr. (illegible).
John E. Gilman  
Henry W. Gilman
Sworn to and subscribed by the said John E. Gilman and Henry W. Gilman before me on the day and year first above written. I certify that I have no interest in the prosecution of said claim. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed y official seal the day and year aforesaid.
O. L. Carrier Judge of Probate
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Willard
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Brief in the case of Mary Willard, widow of Ezra Willard
Somerset County and State of Maine
act February 3, 1853

Claim, ("original,)
Proof Exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or support by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832
Marriage proved by only certified copy of Town Records
(if for increase)
Had additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
R. Geddes
Examining Clerk

William Allen Esqr.
Norridgewock Maine
Name and residence of Agent
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1480
Mary Willard

Recorded in the Pension office in the roll of pensioners under act Feb 3, 1853 Page 11 Vol.A
H. R. Weightman clerk
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Copy
Depaartment of the Interior
Widow's Pension

I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853 No. 1480 Mary Willard widow of Ezra Willard who was a private in  Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum commencing on the 3d day of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
(hand drawn seal)
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty third day of august one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and countersigned
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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1480
Maray Willard

Recorded in the Pension office on the roll of pensioners under act Feb. 3 1853 Page 11 Vol. A
H. R. Weightman Clerk
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State of Maine
County of Franklin
Be it known that on this first Tuesday of February A. D. 1869 Personally appeared in open Court John Gilman administrator of Mary Willard within named deceased and made oath in due form of law that the withing is a true copy of a pension certificate No. 1480 dated February 3 1853 in his possession to be filed with the Agent for paying pensions at Augusta in the State of Maine for the purpose of obtaining the balance of pension due thereon on the fourth day of March 1869
O. L. Carrier Judge