Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,526, William Welch, Mass.
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Service    Mass

Welch, William

Number S. 37526
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[2-page booklet, some text obscured at the spine]

Sent letter to Honorable P. Sprague 
February 29.1832

[illegible] 6541
Maine
William Welch

Kennebec in the State of Maine was a Private in the company commanded Captain Weld of the Regiment command by Colonel Phinney in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year January 1776 to December 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 day of April 1818 and

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of February 1819 and delivered to R. C. Vose. Present.

Restored to the Roll on 9th day of June 1828 and notification sent to R. C. Vose at Augusta Maine

Pension commencing on the 29 May 1828
 
Amount due on 4th of September 1828  25.83

69-23
Kennebec

Revolutionary Claim Acts March 12 18[?] May [?]
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William Welch, private Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts Regiment 1776  1 year

April 11, 1818

Admitted

Bowdoinham
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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 William Welch, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Bowdoinham, in the said County of Lincoln, in the District of Maine, on the eleventh day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other 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 [Revolutionary] war [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 second day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 


[signature]
Nathan Weston [illegible] C. Court
C.C.C. Pleas 2d P. 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, and 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.
[signature]John Davis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I William Welch a citizen of the U. States, born in Boston but now of Bowdoinham, Maine, aged sixty two years upon oath testify and declare that in February 1776 I enlisted as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, for the year /76, upon the continental establishment, in Capt Wiley's company, and Col. Phinney's regiment Massachusetts troops. 
This period I fully served out, and took my honorable, but verbal discharge at Fort George, on lake George the last of December 1776.
In February 7. 1777 I enlisted for three months in Captain Edro's company Colonel Thomas Crafts regiment of artillery Massachusetts line, continental establishment. In this service I continued three months, part of the time in the state of Rhode Island, and was honorably but verbally discharged at Boston May 1777. 
From my reduced circumstances, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge found on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
William Welch

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln S.s.
On the fourth day of April AD 1818, William Welch, above named, having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed
Before me
Nathan Weston Junior
Chief Justice Circuit Court Common Pleas [illegible] Eastern Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Samuel Smith of Litchfield, Maine of lawful age upon oath testify and declare that i am well acquainted with William Welch above named. I know that he enlisted and went into the service by him first mentioned, and I served in the same company with him in the period by him last mentioned. From his reduced circumstances, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. 
He sustains the character of a man of truth
Samuel Smith
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Lincoln Ss.
On the eleventh day of April AD 1845 Samuel
Smith within named, after being carefully examined made
oath to the truth of the within deposition, by him subscribed
Before me Nathan Weston chief justice circuit court of common pleas
Eastern Circuit
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72
William Walch
6541    307
6 February 1819
Residence in Lincoln
Proceedings, in Kennebunk
not entitled
March 1819
Not entitled
3 [illegible] 6541.[illegible]
R. C. Vose, Augusta,
Maine
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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 Three hundred and seven dollars; 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 nothing
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand, and affixed that
Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of
of Kennebec
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Copy
72
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
On this twenty second day of May 1820
personally appeared before Nathan Weston Jr.
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 in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and
having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Welch, aged 
sixty seven years resident in Bowdoinham in the County of Lincoln aged
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 Wilde
and Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney
of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of one year

that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston
On the eleventh day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6541
And I, the said William Welch 
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 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.
William Welch
The following is a Schedule of my whole estate clothing and bedding excepted, 
viz:
About twenty five acres of land in Bowdoinham aforesaid of the value of fifty dollars
A house and barn standing on the land of another both of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars
One horse of the value of twenty dollars.
Two cows of the value of thirty dollars
One yoke of stags of the value of forty dollars
Seven sheep of the value of ten dollars
Furniture, besides necessary bedding, of the value of three dollars.
Implements of husbandry of the value of our dollars.
I have no debts due to me, and I owe more than five hundred dollars; - the income derived from the above property does not exceed twenty dollars a year, and not so much as the interest I pay yearly, besides which I have no income derived from property trade or profession. 
My
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My occupation was formerly a mariner, but at present that of a farmer, but from infirmity, having a rupture, am wholly unable to labor;
my family now residing with me consists of my wife Mary aged about sixty five years, she is sickly, unable to walk or do any work, and continually under the hands of a physician, my son William twenty years of age who is able to labor

Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no estate or income whatever.
William Welch

Subscribed, sworn to and declared, both the oath and schedule on the twenty second day of May 1820
Before me Nathan Weston Jun. C.J.CCC [chief justice of the circuit court of common] Pleas
A true Copy
Attest John Davis Clerk
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I William Welch Jr. of Richmond LIncoln County Maine,
do upon oath declare that on the 4th of October 1820 I purchased of my father William Welch all his right to the lot of land he was in possession of in said Richmond, the land was the Proprietors and my father was only in possession as a squatter 
the consideration mentioned in said deed was one thousand dollars, but this sum was nominal only, the actual consideration was that I should pay the debt against my father and assist in taking care of him and my mother. 
I have paid the debts against my father as far as I was able, but there are some which I am unable to pay, and all the property has been discharged of to pay debts.
The personal property was also discharged of to pay the debts and was the principal means of my discharging them, being unable to pay the Proprietors for the land they have taken it and I have now no right 
I am poor and unable to assist my and mother. I have no real estate and no personal property other than a few articles exempted by law from attachment. My father is very infirm and wholly destitute of property. The annexed is a copy of the deed of my father to me which I have just obtained
William Welch Jr

State of Maine
Kennebec January 30th 1828 Personally appeared before me the
Subscriber a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State
William Wilder, Junior,  who is in my opinion a credible witness and he made oath to the truth of the above declaration
Nathan Weston Junior

State of Maine.
Kennebec S.
I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held
within and for the County of Kennebec do certify that the
Hoorable Nathan Weston Jr before whom the foregoing annexed
proceedings were had is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State and duly qualified as such. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, this thirtieth day of January A.D. 1828
R. C. Vose Clerk
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O. W. & N. Division.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., January 21, 1896.
F. S.
M. E. C.

Sir: 

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of ---William Welch--- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERRD. | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.

In February, 1776, he enlisted as a private and served the remainder of that year in Capt. Wiley's company, Col. Phinney's Mass. regiment; February, 1777, enlisted and served three months as a private in Capt. Edes' company, Col. Thomas Craft's regiment of Artillery. No other details of his services are given.

Battles engaged in,  None mentioned.

Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Probably, Georgetown, Me.

Date of application for pension.  April 11, 1818.

Residence at date of application,  Bowdoinham, Me.

Age at date of application,  Sixty-two year.

Remarks:  His pension was allowed.

Very respectfully,

Mr. Eben Putnam,
Salem,
Box [?]01. Mass.
Commissioner.
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37526
Revy INVALID.

File No. 37,526
William Welch
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18"

Index:--Vol. 2, Page 444

(Arrangement of 1870.)

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1896.
Jan. 21 
History to Eben Putnam
Salem, Mass.

1908 Dec. 2. Hist to Horatio S. Libby &c.

1909. Apr. 24. To Qr. Mr. Genl U. S. A. 
For monument. FW.
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William Welch [illegible]
deposition of
Calvin Cowan
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I Calven Cowen of Lisbon in the County of Lincoln Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty years testify and say that sometime in January or Febuary AD 1776 according to the best of my recollection I Enlisted into my countrys service at a place called New Meadows abought 16 miles from where I now live. and under Benjamin Thompson who afterwards was a Lieutenant in Captain Welchs Company. 
William Welch Enlisted the same time that I did. soon after we Enlisted we repaired with said Thompson and others to Dorc[h]ester near Boston and joined Captain Wiles's Company in Colonel Phinneys Regiment and after the British left Boston our Regiment marched into Boston and stayed their sometime. from thencewe marched to Ticonderoague,[sic] their we staide Untill our time of Enlistment was out or Expired - I cannot say Exactly the day we were discharged but this I testify. that I returned to Boston as soon as I could and that I got back to Boston abought [sic] the last of January AD 1777 
As near as I can recollect and that said William Welch served in said Captain Wileses Company in said Collonal [colonel] Phinneys Regiment as long as I did and at the same time that I did and that we served together abought one year and that we did serve at that time a considerable of time more than nine months and that we got as Honourable discharge in my opinion as any solider in the service got
all the above said term of time we served in the said Wiles Company and in said Phinneys Regiment. 
I have often seen said Welch since we came home out of the army but I cannot say what Town he lives in but I am informed and I believe he lives in Litchfield or Bowdoinham. in this County and not far from the line between said  Towns and further saith not.
Calvin Cowing

Lincoln District of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts January 15th 1819 then personally appeared the above named Calvin Cowing and made Solemn Oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true in all its parts, before me Ezekiel Thompson Justice of the peace and of the quorum
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House of Representatives
January 26, 1819

I certify that Ezekiel Thompson, Esquire is a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Lincoln and I give credit to his testimony of the Calvin Cowan the within deponents and I further certify that Samuel Smith, the annexed deponent  is a credible witness 
Joshua Gage
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Deposition Charles Vaughan Esquire
case of William Welch
private Maine Roll
Number 6340
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I Charles Vaughan Esquire of Hallowell in the County of Kennebec, Maine do hereby on oath certify and declare that William Welsh, formerly of Bowdoinham, now Richmond Lincoln County, settled on land as a squatter, the title of which was in my self, when I sued said Welsh, as an intruder and he afterwards acquitted his title to improvement to his son, who bought the soil of me and mortgaged the same for payment of the purchase money and said William Welch senior, has now no title in the premises whatever, nor has the said William Welch Jr. the son, whose receipt of redemption of said mortgaged premises has been attached by a creditor and I have for a valuable consideration assigned his notes and mortgage to said creditor who is now in possession of the premises- Both the father and son are poor, and destitute of property, to my knowledge. - Charles Vaughan

State of Maine
Kennebec Ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Court and also Justice of the Peace and Quorum, within and for the said County of Kennebec - Charles Vaughan, Esquire, to me known as a credible and disinterested Witness and he made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. - In Testimony
Whereof I subscribe  my name and affix the County Seal of said County of Kennebec, this twenty ninth day of May Anno Domini 1828.-
R. C. Vose
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Deposition of Joseph Lancaster, in the Case of William Welch

R. C. Vose
Augusta
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I Joseph Lancaster, aged seventy one years, of Richmond in the County of Lincoln, Maine, do upon oath declare that I have lived for many years a near neighbor of William Welch of said Richmond, an applicant for a pension. the said William Welch settled on the Proprietors land as a "squatter." the original proprietor claimed the land and said Welch relinquished it. His son William under took attempted to pay for the land, but has failed to do it. 
The old man is quite infirm and in very needy circumstances wholly destitute and his son William is also poor and not able to assist his father. I have as I before stated lived as neighbor of said William Welch senior for twenty five years last past and well knew of his being dispossessed by the proprietor of the land where said Welch had lived for many years. and of his getting the same. 
Joseph Lancaster
State of Maine 
Kennebec  Ss.
on this fourth day of April A.D. 1828 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace and Quorum and also clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the said County of Kennebec, Joseph Lancaster, to me well known as a credible and disinterested witness and he made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed- In testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the County seal of the said County of Kennebec the day and year last above written R. C. Vose
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William Welch deceased
and
William. Welch Jr. Deponent
January 30, 1828
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I William Welch, of Richmond, Lincoln County Maine, now in my seventy fifth year, am applicant to be restored, to Pension Role under the laws of Congress, do further upon oath declare, that I made my first schedule before Judge Weston on the 22d May 1820, in which I stated that I was possessed of a small piece of land about twenty five acres & also a house and barn standing on land of an other, the facts were, I was then what is termed in this part of the Country a squatter, living on Proprietors land - the whole lot taken up by me was estimated at one hundred acres, to all which I had no title. Being old and unable to labor and not being able to pay the Proprietors I did on 4th of Oct. 1820 relinquish my right of possession in said land & on that day executed a quit claim deed, a copy of which is here unto annexed & likewise sold and delivered the stock on the place, to my son William and he engaged to pay debts against me & to assist as far as he was able, in taking care of myself - and wife - 
The [ ] mentioned in said deed was nominal & the sum of one thousand dollars was mentioned, which now appears in said deed, but the actual [consideration] was that my said son should pay [ ] debts & assist in taking care of myself & his mother. 
In my 2d schedule which was made in April 1823 I thereon stated the disposition of my property maintained in my past, but being feeble & very infirm, most of the time on my sick bed, I have been wholly unable to get the necessary evidence to accompany any schedule until the present time. And I now declare that I have no Real Estate and no personal property whatever, and have been supported wholly by my son for the last five years, he is now reduced by misfortunes to poverty and is unable further to assist me and if I do no now succeed in being restored to the Pension Role I must become a town charge. 
Signed
William Welch
Atten 5 R. C. [ ]
Kennebec Ss. January 30. 1828. Subscribed sworn to and declared before me the [ ] & Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State - 
Nathan Weston Jr
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Know all men by these presents that I William Welch
of Bowdoinham in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine
in consideration of the sum of one thousand Dollars to me
paid by William Welch Jr of said town, State and County yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have
remised, released and forever quit claimed, and do for myself and
my heirs by these presents remise, release and forever quit
claim unto the said William Welch or heirs & assigns, a
certain farm lying or situate in Bowdoinham, in said
County and State aforesaid being the same I now live on
with all the appurtenances, building and every thing appertaining to said farm, stock and implements of husbandry
bounded and butted as follows. Beginning at a stake and
stones at a bridge on the road between said Welch and
Waterhouses land, running South South West to Abel
Dinslows land about sixty four rods, thence West North
West on said line between said Dinslow and Welch to Cobbisee
pond, thence Northeasterly by said pond to the line
between Zenas Waterhouse and this said lot thence East
South East on said line to the Brunswick road so called
And continue on the same course by the road from the
Brunswick road to said Bridge first mentioned contain -
-ing about one hundred acres more or less
To Have and to hold the aforementioned premises with
all the privileges & appurtenances thereto belonging to
him the said William Welch Jr his heirs and heirs and assigns forever. so that neither I the said William Welch
nor my heirs or any other person or persons claiming
from or under in the name right or stead of me
or them shall or will by any way or means, have
claim or demand any right or title to the aforesaid
premises or their appurtenances, or to any part or parcel
thereof forever.
In witness whereof I the said William
Welch have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth
Day
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Copy Deed
William Welch to William Welch Jr
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day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Benjamin Shaw
William Welch and a seal
Lucinda Perry
October 4th 1820. Lincoln ss. Then the above named
William Welch appeared and acknowledged this instrument
by him subscribed to be his free act and deed before
me, Benjamin Shaw Justice of the Peace.
Received December 31. 1821 and entered and examined
by Warren Rice Register

Lincoln ss, January 28. 1828. Copy from the Records of Deeds for said County Lib [book] 116 Folio [page] 58, in for
Fee 50 cents
Warren Rice Register

State of Maine
Kennebec Ss.
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial
Courts within and for the County of Kennebec
do hereby certify that Warren Rice Esquire whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing
Copy, was on the day the same purports to
be signed and now is a Register of Deeds
for the County of Lincoln, and that the
above is his signature. In testimony
whereof I subscribe my name and
affix the County Seal of the said County
of Kennebec this 30th day of January
A.D. 1828.-
R. C. Vose.
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Schedule 
William Welch 
Private Maine 
Roll Number 6541.
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SCHEDULE of the Real and Personal Estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:[namely]
I have no Real Estate or personal property
Except a few articles of old house hold furniture besides bedding
Viz. one old Table 4 chain Iron pot, 1 kettle, 1 Tea Kettle and  a few knives and forks and few spoons,
all of the value of - Four Dollars
William Welch
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me William Welch who by
occupation am a mariner which I am unable to pursue by reason of the rheumatism and a bad rupture.
[Table of three columns, headed:]
Names || Ages || Capacity of each to contribute to their support
Mary my wife «« 67 years || very much out of health and has been for many years.
William Welch
That the since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made to my property.
I have sold and conveyed the Real Estate mentioned in my first
Schedule for the payment of my just debts, and the Horse Cows
yoke of stags and Sheep I have also sold as follows,
[Table of three columns, headed:]
Names of the persons to whom sold. || Time of Sale. || Amount of Money, or description of property received in return.
William Welch, Jr. || 4th October 1820 || who become obligated to pay my just debts and then furnish me with provisions and other 
necessary articles to live upon
Given I was stricken from the Pension Roll William Welch

I, Robert C. Vose Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the said County of Kennebec
do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said
William Welch
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 four dollars and__cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth
day of April 1823
Robert C. Vose
Clerk of the Court of the County
of Kennebec
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DECLARATION.
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the act of the 1st
March, 1823.
State of Maine.
County of Kennebec Ss.
On this tenth
day of April 1823 personally appeared
in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas
being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of common law, having
original jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping record of their proceedings, and having the power
of fine and imprisonment William Welch
resident in said County, aged
Sixty nine 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 William Welch
enlisted for
the term of one year on the first
day of January in the year
1776- in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Lane then Ladd in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney
in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued
to serve in the said corps until December 1776 when he was discharged from the
said service at Fort George, in the State of New York that his name
has been placed on the pension list, and drop therefrom 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
William Welch
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of April A.D. 1823
Before Ezekiel Whitman Chief
Justice of said Court
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Deposition 
Joseph Bradstreet 
Joshua Lord 
and John Stone in the case of William Welch January 30 1828-
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Colonel John Stone's certificate
W. Welch
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This may certify that William Welch of Bowdoinham now Richmond in the County of Lincoln husbandman was indebted to me for Smith work for himself and family in the sum of Twenty seven Dollars and ninety cents on the 28th day April 1823- and, that William Welch Junr. paid the same to me by giving his note for the same.
John Stone
Lincoln  Ss. January 10th 1828
Then personally appeared
the above named, John Stone and made solemn oath to
the Truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed
whom is known to me to be a credible witness-
Benjamin Shaw, Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Kennebec ss
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Court
within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby
certify that Benjamin Shaw Esquire before whom
the above and the annexed deposition were
taken was then know is a justice of the Peace
within and for the County of Lincoln and that his
Signature thereto is genuine. In testimony
whereof I subscribe my name and affix the
County Seal of the said County of Number this
30th day of January A.D. 1828
R. C. Vose
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Captain Joshua Lord's certificate
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This may certify that, William Welch of Bowdoinham now Richmond in the County of Lincoln husbandman, was in debted to me for necessarys and supplies for himself and family for the sum of between fourteen & fifteen dollars. on the first day of October 1820, and that since said time William Welch Junr. has paid me that sum for his father.
Joshua Lord

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To all persons whom this may concern, I Joseph Bradstreet of Gardiner in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine do hereby certify that William Welch of Bowdoinham now Richmond in the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid was indebted to me, on the fourth day of October, 1820 in the sum of one Hundred Thirty Nine Dollars & 25/100 which debt was contracted for necessary supplies for himself and family, prior to that date, and that William Welch Jr. fame forward and paid me said debt by giving me his security for the same.
Joseph Bradstreet

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Augusta June 2nd 1828
Dear Sir,
I enclose you Charles Vaughan Esqruire’s deposition
in the case of William Welch, also my own in
the case of Stephen Rideout
in the latter case
William  Walker, has deceased there never was any mortgage
given as I have stated and the memorandum which was not
under seal was given 
by Walker to Rideout. Had there
been a mortgage, it would have been
given
by the latter to the former but none is given as 
Walker always informed me, whenever I asked him
Concerning
the transaction. I hope the
evidence herewith sent, will be
satisfactory.
I am dear sir very respectfully
Your Obedient Servent
Robert C. Vose
James L. Edwards Esquire
Chief Clerk Pension Office
War Department
Washington
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Augusta Me Feb 9. 1828.

Sir, 
I herewith enclose you William Welch's schedule, copy of deed and several depositions in his case. This old man is very infirm & has been confined by sickness, otherwise he would have forwarded his papers sooner. He made his 2d schedule in April 1823. and owing to his infirmities has been wholly unable to get a copy of deed & his other papers until recently.

I suppose that had he supposed he should have lived to this time, he would have been much more anxious to have obtained his Pension. He lives about 20 miles from this place and was brot here in a sleigh, being unable to ride on horse back or in a carriage. I know him to be poor and that his son, upon whom he has relied upon for support, is now poor and very intemperate and that the old man must be supported as a pauper, unless he is restored to the Pension List.
I am very respectfully 
Your obt. svt.
Robert C Vose

J. L. Edwards Esq
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[N. 6Mn n ] 
Salem Mass Nov 20 1895
Com Pensions
Dear Sir I am referred to your department by the war dept. 
I seek information regarding the service of Wm Welch of Richmond, enlisted 14 Feb 1777 as private in Capt Abe Holden's 10. Mass Bay Reg. of foot. 
Col Nixon. - The above from the war Dept.
I think as he was a pensioner that your records may contain something of his age, birth place, & date of death
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and perhaps the facts regarding himself or his family.
Respectfully
Eben Putnam
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37526-9
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE
O. W. & N. Div.[old war and navy division]
MEMORANDA
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
William Welch
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.
Georgetown (Bath) of Richmond,Maine (then Massachusetts)
Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Richmond Maine (Massachusetts)
Date of death (as near as possible):
1824?
Christian name of widow:
of
Molly"
-Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He did
Remarks:
Styled ‘Captain' after the
Revolution. There were
Welches from Yarmouth [illegible] [illegible]
Your name and address
Eben Putnam
Salem
Massachusetts
Box 301.
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6541
Maine-4
William Welch,
private
Massachusetts line 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary war
Inscribed on the roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence the 11th of April 1818 
Certificate of pension issued the 6th of February 1819 and delivered RC Vose etc.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1816, 4 months 24/30 38.40
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 1819 48.00
$84.40
Bowdoinham,
not entitled
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[Duplicate of image 41]
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Sent [illegible] officer July 6, 1821 as before
Also letter 25 March 1828 [illegible]
20 May 1828 to RC Vose

Notification sent July 12, 1820 to RC Vose Augusta Maine
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In reply to your request of___
received____
for a statement of the military history of William Welch
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 37.526.

[Table of five columns, headed:]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. || LENGTH OF
SERVICE. || RANK || OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. || STATE
January [17]76 || 1 year || private || Captain Silas Wild || Colonel Phinney || 18 Continental infantry.
February [17]77 || 3 months || ____ || Captain Edes || Colonel Thomas Craft || Massachusetts artillery.
Battles engaged in,__
Residence of soldier at enlistment,__
Date of application for pension, April. 17, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Bowdoinham (previously called Richmond), Maine.
Age at date of application, 62 years. Born in Boston - a Mariner
Remarks: 1820 wife Mary age 65 son William 20 years.
(Agency book- paid at Portland)
to end for death etc.
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72 Gooch Street, Melrose, Massachusetts, November 18, 1808. 
Commissioner of Pensions, Pension Bureau, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Please send me a copy of the record of WILLIAM WELCH, of Richmond, (or Richmond  Corner, Maine, a sailor of the Revolutionary War, if on file in the Pension Bureau. 
He was born probably in Bath, Maine, Aug. 21, 1755, and perhaps enlisted from there, though that is not certain. He died in Richmond, Maine, date not known to me he was a pensioner. He was my great-grandfather. Respectfully yours, Horatio S.. Libby 
[stamp:] US Pension Office A
November 18, 1902