Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23127, Jabez Gould, Conti. Mass. R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conti.
Mass.
R.I.

Gould, Jabez
or
Gold, Esther

NUMBER
W. 23127

CONTENTS
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15.8[46]
District of Maine
15.841 R

Jabez Gould, 
of Kennebec co. in the state of Maf[s]ac[h] tts ,
/ who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whitcomb, of the Maf[s]ac[h] tts 
/ ine, for the term of one year.

inscribed on the roll of District of Maine
/ at a rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence o[n]
/ the 5. of May, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18. of Nov. 1819
/ and sent to R.C. Nose, agent, 
/ Augusta, Dist. of Maine.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819.. Ꞩ. 128 "
/ Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. March ,   48 "
/ 16 months. } 1820                     Ꞩ. 176"

{Revolutionary claim,
/ Act 18th M[a]rch, 1818}

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Notification sent July 12 [148208]
/ R C. Vose Esaz
/Augusta,
/Maine
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Maine
Esther Gould
of Kennebec in the State of Maine
who was a widow of Jabez Gould
died late a private in
the Revolution
Inscribe on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 40 dollars and 00 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day fo Nov.
1836 and sent to W.
Morton Augusta, 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $220.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending $20.00
$240.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
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                                                            Commonwealth of Massachusetts

I Jabez Gould, aged seventy three years, a citizen of the United States, born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, now resident in Belgrade in the district of Maine upon oath testify and declare, that at Wrentham in the State of Massachusetts, in January 1776, I enlisted as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishment, for the period of one year, into the company commanded by Capt. Whiting and Col. Whitcomb's regiment of the Massachusetts troops: I served at Ticonderoga, was in the expedition against the indians, and in the battle with enemy at Lake Champlain, at which I suffered much from the British and the Indians. I served out the full period of my enlistment, and was honorably, but verbally discharged, at Ticonderoga in December 1776. I afterwards served in the expedition under Gen Sullivan on Rhode Island. I am now old and poor, and from my reduced circumstances in life, need the assistance of my Country for support; and I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States; but am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever-- I request to be placed upon the pension roll for the District of Maine.
                                                                     his
Attest R. C Vose                           Jabez                  Gold  [signed by an x by Jabez Gold]
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                                                   Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Kennebec County Ss

     On the fifth day of May AD 1818, the within named Jabez Gould, made his declaration before me under oath; and, on the second day of October, one thousand eight hundred an nineteen, he made oath to the within amended declaration, by him subscribed with his mark, the same having been first distinctly read to him.__
And the said Jabez Gould is known to me, to be a man of truth.____

Nathan Weston Jun C. Just. 
C. C. C. Pleas
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I Ichabod Brownell, of Belgrade, Kennebec County Maine do upon oath testify and declare that I well know Jabez Gold a Continental soldier in the war of the revolution__to my knowledge the said Gold served in Cap Whiting's Company Col. Whitcomb Massachusetts Regt. in the year service in 1776.__ I was personally knowing to the said Gold serving more than ten months in continuation__I was a continental soldier myself at the time, I lived in the same county with him in the war of the revolution__and well knew of the said Gold service___
Witness R.C. Vose                 
Ichabod his Brownell  [signed by Ichabod Brownell with his mark of x]
              mark

Kennebec County Ss.

October 2 1819. Ichabod Brownell; above named known to me as a credible witness, after the same was first read to him, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him
Subscribed -     Before me
                       Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace 

I George Wallcutt at present of Winthrop Maine aged sixty years do upon ^oath testify and decree that I well knew Jabez Gold within named, a Continental in the war of the revolution. The said Gold to my knowledge enlisted and served in Cap Whiteny company & in Col. Whitcombs Massachusetts Regt in the year served in 1776 as he has in his declaration stated__I lived in the same town with the said Gold during the revolutionary War & was well knowing to his service. & was myself a soldier in the war of the revolution_I was not present while he was discharged, but have no doubt he was discharged as he has stated having heard his Captain say he was - good soldier.
Geo. Walcott

Kennebec County Ss.
October 4 1819. George Walcott, above named to me well known as a credible witness, and he made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Robert C. Vose, Justice of the Peace

Robert C. Vose Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the Kennebec and the said Ichabod Brownell and George Walcott are in my opinion, credible witnesses.__

Nathan Weston Jun C. Just. C C C Pleas
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Jabez Gould
15.841
18 Nov 1819.

Mar 1820

R C Vose, Augusta 
Maine.

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Chief Jus[text cut off by edge of paper]
Court of [text cut off by edge of paper]

A true copy

Attest -[text cut off by edge of paper]
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Pension Certificate No. 15,841 (Copy) [vertically on left hand side of top of page]

                                            State of Maine.

To the Honorable the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset.

I, Jabez Gould of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec aforesaid, a pensioner on the Maine roll, under the law of the United States, 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 18th March, 1818, do hereby exhibit the following schedule of my whole estate and income (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) viz;

One Cow of the value of twenty five dollars.
One swine of the value of eight dollars
Household Furniture of the value of five dollars (excepting my necessary bedding) ________
I have no debts due to me; and I owe much more than I am worth______
I have no income derived from property, trade or profession; and for age and infirmity, I am unable to earn my subistence by labor. _____
I was assisted by the town until I received my pension.
Except the above I have no other property, besides my necessary wearing apparel._______
                                                                                his 
Witness  A. Nichols                                    Jabez             Gould [signed by Jabez Gould with his x]
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A true Copy
Attest John Davis Clerk
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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 Twenty eight dollars ["and ___ cents" crossed out]; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Twenty eight dollars ["and ___ cents" crossed out].

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.

John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec


and from age and infirmity I am unable to earn my subsistence by labor. I was assisted by the town until I received my pension. Except the above I have no other property, besides my necessary wearing apparel.

his mark
John Gould

A true copy 

A. Nichols

[illegible]

John Davis Clerk
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(Copy)

State of Maine.

I, Jabez Gould within named do solemnly swear, that on the fifth day of May 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge Weston, and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency.  And I, the said Jabez Gould, 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.
Jabez Gould  his X mark
Witness  A. Nichols

KENNEBEC, ss. 
ON this thirteenth day of May 1820, Jabez Gould before named, after being duly cautioned and examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath, before me,
Nathan Weston Junr.  Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas.

A true copy
Attest, John Davis Clerk

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Jabez Gould 
15,841

18 Nov 1819

Mar 1820

R. C. Vose, Augusta  Maine
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.
State of Maine
Kennebec County, Ss}

On this ninth day of August A.D. 1836, personally appeared before the Hon. Henry W. Fuller, Judge of Probate for the County of Kennebec in said State of Maine; Esther Gould a resident of Belgrade in said County of Kennebec, aged ninety two years, who being first 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 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Jabez Gould who served as a private soldier eight months in the year 1775, in Capt. Pond's coy. in Col. Joseph Read's Massachusetts Regiment and in the years 1776 & 1777, ten months in Capt. Whiting's company in Col. Whitcomb's regiment of the same troops; and also served as a private three months in 1778 in Capt. Ballou's coy. in Col. Atwell's Rhode Island regiment: that evidence was furnished the War Department of the whole, or part of the above mentioned services, in order to establish the said Jabez Gould's claim to a pension under the Act of Congress of 18th of March 1818,
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that the said Jabez Gould was pensioned under said Act & drew his pension at the Maine Agency. She further declares, that she was married to the said Jabez Gould in the month of April Seventeen hundred & sixty six in the town of Attleborough, Massachusetts: that her husband the said Jabez Gould died on the twenty eighth day of January A.D. 1825 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She refers to the papers now on file in the pension office for evidence of the said Jabez Gould's service, having no evidence herself to offer.
Esther Gould her X mark
Witness - two words
[illegible]
[signed] HW Fuller

Sworn and subscribed on the ninth day of August AD 1836 at her residence in said Belgrade & I do certify that the said Esther Gould, by reason of old age and it natural curses together with  entire blindness is unable to attend personally in open court, and that I fully believe in the truth of the foregoing declaration the deponent being a credible person. [crossed out] Before me The Foregoing affidavit being read aloud to her by me
Before me
Henry W. Fuller, Judge of Probate
County of Kennebec
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Esther Gould
Widow of
Jabez Gould
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Geo. W. Morton
Augusta Me
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I George Robinson Register of Probate for the County of Kennebec, State of Maine certify that Henry W Fuller is the Judge of said Court of Probate and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court of Probate and subscribed my name this ninth day of August AD 1836

Geo. Robinson  } Register of Probate for Kennebec County State of Maine

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Esther Gould
Widow of Jabez Gould
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Geo. W. Morton
Augusta Me
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North Attelbor[text obscured by stain; missing text is probably "ough"] Ms.                          
Augt. 6                                 18 3/4

Geo. W. Morton Esq.
Augustaa
Maine,

admd.
12 mo. pri
40$ 

Geo. W. Morton
Augusta Me
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Attleborough   August 5 1836.

Dear Sir,

Your communication of the 30 ult. relative to the marriage of the widow Esther Gould has been received.  I have examined the records of this town, and after a laborious search of books in a very bad ["condition" crossed out] state of preservation, I have found the record of her marriage.

The following is a true copy of the recorded intention of marriage. 

"Intention of Marriage between Jabez Gould Jr. of Cumberland and Esther Sweetlands of Attleborough was recorded March 15. 1766."
Records of the Marriage.

Jabez Gould Jr. and Esther Sweetlands were joined in Marriage by the subscriber April 2. 1766.
Nathaniel Robinson, Justice of the Peace.

The above are true copys of the intention of marriage and the record of the marriage.
Certified at Attleborough Ma,   Elihu Daggett  Town Clerk of Attleborough

If you will forward me $2.00 by mail I will consider myself fully remunerated for my trouble.
Yours &c
Elihu Daggett.

G. W. Morton, Esqr.
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September 14, 1935

Daniel Gould-9.29839
Jabez Gould-W.23127
BA-J/AWF

Mr. Edward K. Gould
Office of the State Historian
Rockland, Maine

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the data from the Revolutionary War pension records of Daniel Gould, Massachusetts militia, and Jabez Gould, Massachusetts line, both of Kennebec
County, Maine.

The data furnished herein were obtained from
claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Gould-S.29839

The data pertaining to Daniel Gould which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 29839, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Gould was born in the year 1766 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, names of his parenst not given.

While residing in Dunstable, he enlisted sometime in May, 1782, served as private and wagoner in Captain Solomon Kimball's company, under Major Cogswell with
the Massachusetts troops, length of service seven months.

He was allowed pension on his application executed,
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July 12, 1832, at which time he was living in New Sharon, Kennebec County, Maine, where he had lived about thirty-three years.

It is not stated that the soldier, Daniel Gould
was married. His brother, Jesse Gould, was aged seventy-six years in 1833, and brother, Silas Gould, was seventy-two years of age in same year. They made affidavits in Kennebec County, Maine in 1833.

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Jabez Gould-W.23127

The revolutionary War record of Jabez Gould which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23127, based upon his service in that war.

Jabez Gould was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, date not given, nor are the names of his parents shown.

He enlisted at Wrenthan, Massachusetts, sometime in 1775, served eight months as private in Captain Pond's company, Colonel Joseph Read's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted sometime in January, 1776,
served one year as private in Captain Whiting's company, Colonel Whitcomb's Massachusetts regiment and was in
the battle of Lake Champlain. He served in 1778, three months in Captain Ballou's company, Colonel Atwell's Rhode Island regiment, and was in General Sullivan's
expedition on Rhode Island.


He was allowed pension on his application executed May 5, 1818, then residing in Belgrade, Kennebec County, District of Maine and aged seventy-three years.  He died January 28, 1825 in Belgrade, Maine.

The soldier, Jabez Gould, married April 2, 1766
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in Attleborough, Massachusetts, Esther Sweetland of said Attleborough; Jabez Gould was then of Cumberland.

The widow, Esther Gould, was allowed pension on her application executed August 9, 1836, then about ninety-two years of age and living in Belgrade, Maine. She died January 5, 1841.

Reference was made in 1836 to several children
residing in the neighborhood with their mother, Esther Gould, names of children not stated.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No 23127
Esther Gould
Wid of Jabez Gould
Priv.  Rev. War

Act June 7th 1832
Index: Vol A, Page 282

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1935 - Sept. 14 - list to Edward K. Gould.  See his letter in Daniel Gould - S. 29839 case F
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To what time was Jabez Gould paid at the Maine agency under act 1818?     G. W. C. 
September 28. 1836 

Died 28 January 1825 arrears paid to that period.
JH
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Esther Gould
wid. of
Jabez Gould

Suspended, see let to Geo W. Morton
Augusta, Sept 30
1836

Act 4th July 1836
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Esther Gould
Maine

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Augusta.  August 30th 1836

Sir

I herewith send the applications of the widows of Israel Webster, Isaiah Booker, Peter Moore and Jabez Gould for pensions under Act of Congress of 4 July 1836.  Should their cases be satisfactorily proved, be pleased to transmit their certificates to me

Respectfully
Your Obt Serv't
Geo. W. Morton

J. L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions.
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agrees to take the service for which husband was pensioned.

FREE

AUGUSTA Me.  NOV 14 

J. L. Edwards Esq
Coms of Pensions
Washington D. C.

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Nov 19

Me
4 July '36

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Esther Gould
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Augusta, Me. November 11, 1835

Sir

I had the honor of transmitting to you the 10th of August last the application of Mrs. Esther Gould, the widow of Jabez Gould, for pension under act of Congress of July 4, 1835. In your letter of 30th Sept. I am informed her papers were placed on file for the purpose of making some investigations relating to the services performed by her late husband during the Revolution. As it required but nine months service to entitle a person claiming pension under Act of March 1818, he probably did not state the whole of his services during the war in his declaration for pension. It being difficult if possible to obtain the evidences satisfactory to you of his performing the services mentioned in her application other than what her late husband declared to obtain his pension under Act of March 18, 1818. She being now ninety two years of age & extremely poor is desirous of some immediate assistance would be willing to receive the pension she is entitled to by such portion of the services performed by her late husband on which he was pensioned

I am very Respectfully your Obed't Serv't
Geo. W Morton

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pension
Washington CIty [flourish]
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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 the Common Pleas, for the Second Easter Circuit Court of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand :
Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, on thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

John Davis
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District of Maine.
Jabez Gould,
Belgrade
Kennebec County
Private-Col. Whitcombe
Masachusetts Regiment
January 1776 - 1 year.
May 5, 1818.

Proof Ichabod Brownell
George Walcott

Admitted

R.C. Nore Atty

Augusta Maine
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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 certify to your Honor, that Jabez Gould, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Belgrade, in said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the fifth day of May AD 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, with such other evidence as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon to your Honor, that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed March 18 AD 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 careful examination of the said Applicant, and a full 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
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of his Country for support.
I Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and nineteen.
Nathan Weston Jun'r C. Just. CCC Pleas
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State of Maine
Kennebec County &c

I, John A. Chandler, clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that George W. Morton is a Magistrate, & that the annexed Signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, & subscribed my name this twenty ninth day of August A.D. 1836
J. A. Chandler
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I Elias Taylor of Belgrade in the  County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged seventy four years & upwards do testify upon oath that I was well acquainted with Jabez Gould a pensioner of the United States who died in said Belgrade in the year 1825, that I attended the funeral of said Gould as a Clergyman, that the said Jabez Gould lived in the same neighborhood with me a number of years prior to his death, that his widow Esther Gould is now living a neighbor to me with several of her children, that there is not the least doubt she was married to s'd Jabez Gould, and that I do know she has remained unmarried ever since the death of s'd Jabez Gould.
Elias Taylor

State of Maine
Kennebec County &c
August 20, 1839. Subscribed & sworn to and I certify the deponent a respectable and credible witness &c
Before me
Geo W Morton Justice of Peace