Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23167, Eliab Gurney, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Gurney, Eliab 
Sarah

NUMBER
W23167

CONTENTS
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11 . 533R
Dist of Maine
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Eliab Gurney
of Cumbd. Coty in the state of Masstts.
who was private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line for the term of one year
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Inscribed on the roll of Distt of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on 
the 27 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of June 1819
and sent to William Widgery,
Judge, Portland, dist of 
Maine
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Arrears to 4th of March, 1819             82.10
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819    48. "
                                                           130.10  
10 mo 4/30
& 4/31 } Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 1818

Mass Roll Vol 15 p 27
8md M
1320/21.20

(written perpendicular on left side of document)
Notification sent to John Mussey Esq 26yh June 1820 Porttam Maine
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3998
Maine
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Sarah Gurney
widow of Eliab
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary war 
as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate for
72 Dollars 22 
cents per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March 1848
________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 
24 day of Feb 1849
and sent to 
Hon H., Belcher 
Hoft
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 12 Vol. 1
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I Daniel Beal Freeport in the District of Maine my hand notes his years testify and say that in last of April 1775 I enlisted in Captain William Mundys company and Colonel Baileys regiment for eight months and after serving in the same some time reinlisted in the same company and regiment for one year and served said time in the same; Eliab Gurney enlisted in the same regiment with me and in Captain E. Hamlins company and served in the same regiment with me for eight months, at the conclusion of his term he reinlisted in the same regiment Captain Allen company for one year and served the year out. I served with him in said regiment serving the whole of both our terms of service. We were discharged together in the state of New Jersey but I do not remember the town.
 Daniel Beal
District of Maine ss Personally appeared the above named Beal and made oath that this deposition by him subscribed is true. Before me
I certify that the above named Beal is a credible and disinterested witness. 
I Joseph Townsend of Freeport being now sixty five years of age testify and say that I served as a soldier in Colonel Bailey's regiment Captain Rands company for eight months from about first of May 1775 and in Captain Drurys company of artillery for one year from June 26 1776 Clonel Knox regiment under two sworn enlistments first for eight and then for twelve months.
Eliab Gurney served in Colonel Baileys regiment during the whole of that time. During the war that I was in the artillery I often saw  him and am knowing his having served the year out. Joseph Townsend

District Maine ss.  Personally appeared the above named sworn and made oath that the deposition by him subscribed is true before me
Asham Ware Justice of the Peace
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We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Freeport do certify that Eliab Gurney of said Freeport is in such circumstances as to require assistance from his country and is a proper subject for a pension as provided by the late act of Congress for indigent officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolutionary War.  sd. Gurney is and has been supported by this town.

Freeport April 26th 1818
Cors Dillingham
William Pate
Selectmen of Freeport
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Eliab Gurney
Private
Col. Bailey
Regt. Mass. Line
1775-1 year
dec. 27 April 1818

Adm.


(The following was written and then crossed out)
The deposition of two witnesses who served with & attempts to prove the service of the applicant duly to be taken & authenticated is required.

Portland, Maine
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To the Honorable William Widgery, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Eliab Gurney of  Freeport in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of [one year and upwards in continuation] on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Freeport aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.  [being now sixty years of age.] And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a [?] to the [?]Company of the [?] Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the [first] day of [December?] one thousand seven hundred and [seventy-five] and that he left said service on or about the [twentieth] day of [February?]one thousand seven hundred and [illegible script]
Wherefore, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at Portland, this [twentyseventh] day of [April] 1818. 
Eliab Gurney
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
Be it known that on the [?] day of [April] one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District-the said Court being a Court of record of the State, [Elijab Gurney] the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true.  And the said [Eliab Gurney] farther offered in evidence [illegible script "and the certificate of the ?of his town-]
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said [Eliab Gurney] served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy [and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support.]
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this [twenty seventh?] day of [April] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. [All which is herewith certified and transmitted.] 
[Wm Widgery] Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

COMMOMWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, this 27th day of June A.D. 1818. 
[Geo Bradbury]
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I John Forman of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being now fifty three years testify and say that I have been personally acquainted with Eliab Gurney [illegible] since I was a child that he has always been my near neighbor that I well remember him enlisting as a soldier in 1775 soon after the Lexington battle that he frequently went to his family when in the army and I remember often to have seen and made his [illegible] at the time he was absent in the army about twenty one months. He is now very poor.
John Townsend
Cumberland Ss.
Personally appeared the above named John Townsend and made oath to the above deposition
William Widgery Judge, etc.
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N105. Eliab Gurney
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11,533
7 June '19

V
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Maine District, ss.
I, John Mussey, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do here certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is eight...... dollars and no more........

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

John Mussey Junr.

Clerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DISTRICT OF MAINE ss

Aa a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within for the District of Maine on the first Tuesday being the sixth day of June end by adjournment from day to day on the ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the Honorable ALBION K PARRIS Judge of said Court.

On this ninth day of June in the year above written personally appeared in open Court the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment" and being a Court of Records for said Main District, Eliab Gurney aged sixty three years, resident in Freeport in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows viz. as a private in the Company commanded by Capt Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration made on the 27th day of April A.D. 1812 and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension numbered 11503 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an Act to proved for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,," passed on the 18th day of March: and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I  any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same together with the number and other particulars of my family and in fact and in truth is particularly described on the back hereof, al subscribed by me.
Eilab Gurney

Sworn to and declared on the ninth day of June A.D. 1820

Before Albion K. Parris { U.S. District Judge for the District of Maine
" B" (his signature)
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belong to me the subscriber vis:

Real estate - none - Personal estate - one swine, 5 live in a small house which my son hires for me. a few articles to keep house with - I have no income - I owe thirty dollars and have been helped by the Town

Eliab Gurney

Sworn to 
Before
Albron K. Parris
U.S. District Judge

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Eliab Gurney who by occupation am a Laborer which I am not able to pursue by reason of age and infirmity
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My wife Sarah | 60 | a feeble woman
Sally ----------| 23 | deaf and dumb
Leonard ------| 16 | able to support himself
Nancy--------| 14 | able to do housework

Eliab Gurney

Sworn to 
Before
Albron K. Parris
U.S, District Judge
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3010
Sarah Gurney
widow of Eliab Gurney
who was a pensioner
under act of March
18, 1818
Maine Roll
Married 1780
died 1826
Allow 21 mo  20 days
private $72.22 
a mi. Ad July 7 '38
Mass Rolls Vol 157-27
on 8 Ms 75
Cap Hamlen Col Bailey
Geo. W Morton
Augusta
Maine
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th
July, 1838, entitled " An Act granting half pay
and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec coiunty Ss.
On this 25th day of September A. D., 1838,
personally appeared before the Honorable Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, Sarah Gurney a resident of Fayette in the County of Kennebec
State of Maine, aged eighty years, who, being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled
"An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;"" That she is the
widow of Eliab Gurney late of Freeport in the County of
Cumberland, deceased, who at the time of his death was a
pensioner of the United States, on the Maine Roll
under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818. and she
refers to the evidence he furnished the war
Department for proof of service.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Eliab Gurney on the not recollected day or month
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty
that her husband, the aforesaid Eliab Gurney
died on the not recollected day of July eighteen hundred and twenty six, at Freeport;
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. [namely] at the time
above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully
appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. That her maiden name was Sarah Townsend and she was married at Abington, Massachusetts
by the Rev. W. Niles. her memory is so imperfect she is
unable to state the month when she was married,
Sarah Gurney-her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me (the applicant being unable from age and infirmity, to appear in open court.
Nathan Weston Chief Justice
Supreme Judicial Court
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State of Maine
ON the twenty fifth day of September,
Sarah Gurney, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated. I am satisfied that she was married to Eliab Gurney, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, in April 1780, that the said Eliab Gurney deceased in July 1826, and that the applicant has ever since remained his widow.

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

State of Maine.
Kennebec S.S.

I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said county, hereby certify, that the Hon. Nathan Weston, before whom the proceedings were had, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said state. I also certify, that the foregoing and annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of Sarah Gurney for a pension.

The Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said court, this thirtieth day of October A.D. 1838.
Thomas Swan
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I George Moody of Fayette, Kennebec County Maine, aged forty two years, upon oath state that the written named Eliab Gurney died at Freeport in the year eighteen hundred & seventy six. That the within named Sarah Gurney has ever since remained a widow.
George Moody

State of Maine
Kennebec Ss.   Subscribed & sworn on the 25th day of September 1838, the deponent being a credible witness.  Before me,
Nathan Weston C. J.
  S. J. C.
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Abington Massachusetts
August 18

Mr Ebenezer Wells
Freeport
Maine
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Co. I John Nash Town Clerk of the Town of Abington certify that by the Record of
said Town now in my care and possession it appears that the intentions of marriage between Eliab Gurney and Sarah Townsend of Abington was entered and cried the eighth day if April one thousand seven hundred and eighty.  I 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 vis April the 8th 1780.  I also certify that i have carefully examined the records of said town and find no record of their marriage.

I John Nash above named depose & say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Abington in the County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named , as certified by me.

John Nash  Town Clerk
Plymouth Co, August 10, 1780
Sworn to before me
Jared Whitman, Justice Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts to
 Secretary's office
July 11. [18]39

I hereby certify that the within Jared Whitman was a Justice of the Peace at the date of the written attestation. Witness the Seal of the State.
   John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Hampton August 17th 1838
Dear sir in compliance with your request, I have carefully examined the records of this town but I can find no record of the marriage of Mr Eliab Gurney and Sarah Townsend.

I have made a certificate of their publishment, which I here transmit to you as being the best, and perhaps the only service I can render you in this case.  If I can render you any further service I shall cheerfully do it.
Yours with respect
John Nash
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23167  
Sarah Gurney 
Widow of 
Eliab Gurney 
Pri Rev War 
Act Feb 29 48 
Index: Vol A, Page 278 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Gurney
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Augusta, Maine
July 15 1829

Sir
The declarations of Mrs. Sarah Gurney made in order to obtain a pension under the act of July 7 1828 and which was returned to me accompanied by your letter of 6th May last is herewith and now with some additional testimony in support of her claim. This is one of the cases when the applicant was absolutely unable to make her declarations in open court, in consequence of infirmity as will more fully appear by the affidavit of George Moody. When the case was first transmitted to you the affidavits of John Nash, town clerk of Arlington, Mass. was annexed, in order to provide the Secty. of the Commonwealth of Mass. authentication, it was detached & sent him for that purpose and now sent separate. I mention this as it appears by the declaration that there may be some papers missing in the case. This case is now presented with such evidence as it is presumed it will be perfectly satisfactory to you as she really needs the immediate assistance of this pension for a comfortable support. You are (illegible) to examine the claim at as early a period as convenient & if allowed
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purpose of my request to send me a certificate 
for her.

I am very respectfully
your obn servant
Geo. W. Morton


James L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
     DC
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Eliab Gurney Me.  1818   When paid. d. 1826
Died 28 July 1826  p % that paid
                            JH
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Sara Gurney
au
705



Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain benefits of the Act of Congress February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving  Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."

STATE OF MAINE}
County of Kennebec}

On this twenty eighth day of September  A.D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Sarah Gurney, a resident of Fayette in the County of Kennebec aged Eighty Nine years, who, being first duly sworn to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain he benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War.    That she is the widow of Eliab Gurney, who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Eliab Gurney at the rate of twenty two cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine.  She further declares that she is still a widow.

Witness:
Albert G. French         Sarah  (?)  Gurney      
Fanny Gurney               mark

Sworn to and subscribed, on this day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in foregoing declaration.
John S. French  Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF MAINE}
Kennebec County}
I, William M. Stratton, Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that John S. French is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this ninth day of October in the year 1848.
W. M. Stratton  }  Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County
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JOHN FAIRFIELD,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS,
GREETING:
Know Ye, that Stephen Packard, Esq. of Minot in the County of Cumberland, is a Justice of the Peace for our said County of Cumberland, and George W. Morton of Augusta in the County of Kennebec, is a Justice of the Peace for our said County of Kennebec--and that their signatures upon the papers hereunto are genuine & they having been duly nominated and appointed, commissioned and qualified; and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
John Fairfield

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at AUGUSTA, this fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and in the sixty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR
A.. R. Nichols, Secretary of State
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I George Moody of Fayette in the County of Kennebec, and the State of Maine, aged forty two years & upwards to depose and say, that Sarah Gurney now of Said town of Fayette, but formerly of Freeport in said state, is the reported widow of Eliab Gurney late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, on the claim rolls who died in said town of Freeport on or about the twentieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty six , that the said Eliab & Sarah lived together as husband & wife from my first acquaintance with them, until the death of the said Eliab, that i was acquainted with them many years prior to his death.  I have always understood she was the wife of his youth and the mother of his children, the family consisting of five sons and seven daughters the youngest of whom is now my lawful wife and aged thirty three years, that the said Sarah is very feeble in health and unable to leave her residence without endangering her life.

George Moody
State of Maine 
Kennebec County  B.   
Augusta, July 9, 1838
Subscribed and sworn to this (illegible) being a reputable witness.                                      Before me                                                     Geo. W. Morton, Justice of the Peace
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(only partial first line with illegible text)
and state of Maine but formerly of Abington (paper torn and missing) Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty years do depose and say that I was present at the solemnization of the marriage of Eliab Gurney and Sarah Townsend in said Town of Abington in the year seventeen hundred and eighty. They after their marriage removed to the then district of Maine I have understood that the said Gurney was a revolutionary pensioner I will recollect of his being a soldier in the war of the revolution. his widdow is now living in the Town of Fayette in the state of Maine that she formerly lived in the Town of Freeport in said state where her late husband died said Gurney & Sarah Townsend was Married by the Rev Samuel Niles of Abington Mass in October seventeen hundred and eighty. 
Lydia Bates
State of Maine
Cumberland Ls
on the eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Personally appeared the above named Lydia Bates and made oath to the truth of the above affidavitt by here subscribed
I certify the informant is a credible person and is entitled to full credit and belief
Stephen Packard Justice of the Peace
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684
Sarah Gurney

Admit private $72.22

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 Franklin 88. On this seventeenth day of April A.D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, Sarah Gurney a resident of Chesterville in the County of Franklin aged eighty four 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 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 
That she is the widow of Eliab Gurney who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Eliab Gurney at the rate of seventy two dollars and twenty two 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 Eliab Gurney having remained unmarried ever since his death. 
Witness, George Moody
Sarah X (mark) Gurney
Issac Jarenocke
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me, Jesse Soper 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 Eliab Gurney deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Jesse Soper Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine,
Kennebec County, SS.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all
the Judicial Courts, now or within the said
County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Josiah
Godfrer is a Justice of the Peace in within
stated, and that the written signature purporting
to be his own genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of
the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
the twenty second day of April 1843.
[Signature] J.B.E. Smith
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Maine     705
Sarah Gurney
widow of Eliab Gurney
who was a Private
in the Mass Line
for 21 months & 20 days

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 
72 dollars & 22
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
[looks like Geo ... Morton]
Augusta
Maine

Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in book A
Vol 1  Page 5
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Maine 3987

Sarah Gurney
widow of Ebel Gurney, dec'd.

who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818-
and who died in the          1821
of Kennebec (in the State of Maine—
who was a private in the   com. commanded
by Captain Hamilton of the regt. commanded
by Col Bailey in the   Mass.
for                      21 m. 20 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 72 Dollars 22 Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Aug.
1839. Jonathan L. W. Morton
      Augusta Maine.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839  $216.66
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept '39   36.11
                                    $252.77

{Act July 7,
 1838.}

Recorded by E M Kennedy    Clerk.
Book A.  Vol. 1.   Page 10.