Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37254, for Jacob Morrill, Other
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
(h/w) Continental
(h/w) Morrill, Jacob
(h/w) Mr. residence in 1818

NUMBER
(h/w) S. 37254

CONTENTS
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Agent
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Notification sent to William Crosby 21 Oct 1820
Belfast Maine

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12.685
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Maine
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Jacob Morrill
of Monroe in the district of Maine
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Stark of the N Hampshire
line for the term of One Year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine District 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month,
to commence on the 13th of April, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of July 1819
and sent William Crosby [illegible]
Judge Belfast Maine
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 20 mo + 18/30 + 4/30 | $85.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 | 48.00
| $133.83

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

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37 254
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 37.254
Jacob Morrill
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18th March 18'
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 286

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jacob Morrill

[in pencil]
12685
Munroe
Con
July 19'
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STATE OF MAINE.

At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock on the seventeenth day of July A. D. 1820.

Hancock SS.

On this twelfth day of July 1820, being the second day of said term, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record by the laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Jacob Morrill aged 68 years, resident in Monroe in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare the he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:

as a private from January 1776 till nearly the end of the year more than nine months in Capt George Reeds Company in Genl Jno Starks Regiment in the New hampshire line of which I made declaration.

[crossed-out - of all which I made declaration] before the Honorable Wm. Crosby on the third day of April 1818, and have received my pension cerificate therefor, No. 12685 and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen in 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 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.

Jacob Morrill

Sworn to and declared on the twelfth day of July 1820 before the Court.
Attest Mason Shaw Clerk
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(Schedule)

I Jacob Morrill on oath say and declare that I have no real Estate or any personal Estate save any necessary bedding and wearing apparrel nor any income whatever.

Except One Cow - one hog - and six sheep - 

I am a Farmer and can perform about half a mans work- I have but one Child under age a Daughter aged 18.

And I am unable to support myself without the aid of public or private charity.

Jacob Morrill


State of Maine

Hancock ss.

I MASON SHAW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Hancock and State of Maine, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 thirty one dollars and -- cents. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twentieth day of July A. D. 1820.

Mason Shaw Clerk of the said Court for the County of Hancock

[Seal]
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Jacob Morrill
[crossed-out [illegible]] Private

Col: Starks Regt. New Hamp
Line 1776 - 1 year, decd 13th
April 1818

The deposition of of two credible
& disinterested [illegible], 
duly to be sworn [illegible] [illegible],
(or the certificate of an officer if
the [illegible] to [illegible] the service
of applicant, is required.

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Admitted
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I Jacob Morrill of Munroe in the County of Hancock in the District of Maine on oath I say and declare that same time in Dec 1775 or Jan 1776 I enlisted into the service of the United States in the late Revolutionary war as a private wherein for the term of twelve months and was embodied at [illegible] Hill near Boston in Cap George Reeds company in Col John Starks Regt in the New hampshire line. The No not [illegible] [illegible] said served in the [illegible] and Regt till within six weeks of [illegible] time, being out and [illegible] then on its March from Ticonderoga from Albany. but being semi invalid and not fit for service [illegible] [illegible] discharged as [illegible] Colo and went home.

I further say that I am under sixty five years [illegible] said person and stand in need to the assistance of our country for my support.

Jacob Morrill
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I Ebenezer Frye of North port in the county of Hancock and District of Maine and a Persionner under the law of the Act of the 18th of March 1818 do hereby certify that I was a Lieut and Captain in the [illegible] War of the Revolution from the Spring of 1775 till the [illegible] of the year 1782 - That I was a Lieut in Capt George Reeds Com in Colo John Starks Regt N Hampshire Line [crossed-out [illegible]] 1776 till the 16th Novr 1776 when I was commissioned a Captain.

I further certify that I [illegible] Jacob Morrill of Munroe in said county and I know that he served as a private soldier in said company and Regiment more than nine months and till [illegible] his term was out which was a years' service commencing the last of Dec. [crossed-out - 1775] or beginning of Jan 2 1776.

Ebenr Frye
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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HANCOCK ss.

ON the thirteenth day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot: Personally appeared Jacob Morrill who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."

And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Jacob Morrill did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed by Mason Shaw Esquire, Clerk of said Court for Said County of Hancock.

Attest. William Crosby Judge L---

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1818 april 13

We the subscribers selectmen and overseers of the Poor of the Town of Monroe in the County of Hancock and District of Maine do hereby certify that Jacob Morrill formerly a solider in the late revolutionary war is a resident citizen of the united states and an inhabitant of this Town and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that in our opinion he is well intitled to the relief provided by the late law for the [illegible] survivors of the army and navy of the late revolutionary war.

{Ezra Thissel
Hosea Emery} Select Men