Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,219, for Thomas Libby, Other
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SERVICE
Continental

Libby, Thomas
Libby, Mary
Me. Agency and residence in 1818.

NUMBER
W. 26219
B.L. Wt. 34921-160-55

CONTENTS
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5769.
Maine   4
Thomas Libby 
Private
Massachusetts Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 5 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 28th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of Jan 1819
and sent to Albion Re Paris (illegible)
Paris Oxford County Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 (illegible) 7/30 - 33.16
Semi-anl. all'cc ending 4.12 (illegible) 48
$81.86

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

Dead.
Papers copied for Mary Libby
Aug. 5.1835-
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4503
Maine
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Mary Libbey,
widow of Thomas Libbey
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Sergeant.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 120 Dollars " ":
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.
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Certificate of Pension issued
12th day of September 1854
and sent to 
Joseph Isley
Portland
Me.

Recorded on Roll of Pensions under act
February 8, 1853, Page 6 Vol. A

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Thomas Libbey
Private
H. Jackson's Mass^ts Reg^t.
July 1st 1777
to July 1st 1780

[in pencil]
Admitted

[in ink]
April 28, 1818
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To the Honorable Albion K. Parris, District Judge
of the United States for Maine District.

RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....

Thomas Libby of Dearborough in said Maine District, that he served as a Sergeant in the war of the revolution thru Devon on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.

AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a Sergeant to Capt (illegible) Company of the H. Jacksons Regiment, of the Massachusetts line, that he entered said service on or about the 1st day of July one thousand seven hundred and twenty seven and that he left said service on or about the 1st day of July one thousand seven  hundred and eighty, was discharged at Rainesburgh by Col. Jackson which discharge I have (illegible) - That he is (illegible) three years of age, (illegible).

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 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.

(signed) Thomas Libby

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.

BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, ALBION K. PARRIS, District Judge of the United States for the Maine District, Thomas Libby 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 Thomas Libby farther offered in evidence the affidavits of William Harty & (illegible) Fenderson signed and sworn to before me, and also an original order signed by H. Jackson, hereunto amended.

Whereupon it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Thomas Libby served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that by reason (illegible).

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for the Maine District, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day fo April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.

(signed) Albion K. Parris
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Personally appeared Piestiah [illegible] & made oath that he was well acquainted with Thomas Libbey the signer of the within affidavit & well know that this affidavit thereunto subscribed is Just & true all its parts. Having been acquainted with him for three Years in the Revolutionary War.

Piestiah [illegible]


Personally appeared William Hasty & made oath that he was well acquainted with Thomas Libbey in the Revolutionary Army as Sergeant in Col Henry Jacksons Regiment in the Massachusetts Line.

W^m Hasty
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I Grenville McKenny of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am town clerk of the Town of Scarborough that I have in my possession the record books of said town that in one of said books (the record of marriages) is the following record

I hereby certify that I have this sixth day of September A.D. One thousand eight hundred and twenty five joined Thomas Libby of Scarborough and Mary Waterhouse of Gorham in marriage.
James Parker Clergyman

A true copy received July 20th 1854 Attest Grenville McKenny Town Clerk

And I certify that the above to be a true copy of said record except the date which is in plain legible figures, thus

"6th day of September A.D. 1825"

Grenville McKenny Clerk of the Town of Scarborough


Cumberland ss. July 22d A.D. 1854
Subscribed and sworn to before me

Henry S. [illegible] Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine. County of Cumberland Town of Gorham

"Eighteen hundred and twenty five. July thirtieth Capt Thomas Libby of Scarborough with Mary Waterhouse of Gorham"

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the "Intentions of Marriage" of said parties with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures as follows   1825. July 30

Jame W. Davis Jr Town Clerk of Gorham


I James W. Davis Jr above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true copy of the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me.

J. W. Davis Jr Clerk of the Town of Gorham


Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this twentieth day of June AD 1854

Hugh D. McLellan Justice of the Peace thr^t the State.
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State of Maine County of Cumberland Town of Scarborough April 8th 1854

"Eighteen hundred and twenty five July twenty third
Thomas Libby of Scarborugh and
Mary Waterhouse of Gorham"

I Grenville McKenny town clerk of Scarborough certify that the above is a true extract from the intentions of marriages as appears from the books of record belonging to said town in my possession with the exception of the date which is expressed in said record in fair legible figures thus  "July 23 1825"

Grenville McKenny Town Clerk of Scarborough


Cumberland ss. Then personally appeared on the day and year first above written Grenville McKenny town clerk of Scarborough and made oath to the true and correctness of the copy of intention by him signed

Before me
Henry A. Tilton Justice of Peace
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On this thirty first day of March 1853, personally appeared Mary Libby a resident of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged Seventy Seven years, before the Hon^l Ashur Ware Judge of the United States for the District of Maine who being first Sworn, doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress passed 7th July 1838, 3d March 1843 17th June 1844, 2d February 1848, and their Joint Resolution 1 July 1848 and the Act approved 3d February 1853.

Her husband Thomas Libby, was a Soldier in the Revolution and was placed on the roll of the Act 18th March 1818. at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum. That your applicant is unable to State under what Captains he served during the war of the Revolution, but She refers the Commission of Pensions. & the proof of her late husband made for the benefits of the Act 18 March 1818. that was then added in support of his claim.

She further declares that She was married to Said Thomas Libby on the Sixth day of September 1825 and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Libby died on the twenty seventh of March 1828. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that her marriage took place in the day before mentioned.

She further declares that she has not intermarried since the death of her late husband Thomas Libby. but that she continues
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is still a Widow and remains unmarried.

Mary [her mark X] Libby

Witness Ashur Ware

Signed & sworn to the day & year above mentioned before me

Ashur Ware
Justice of the United States for the District of Maine
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Maine District ss. Office of the Clerk C. C. U. S.

I Geo. F. Emery Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for Maine District, hereby certify that, Ashur Ware, whose genuine signatures appear on the preceding page, had at the time of writing the same, Judge of the United States for the District of Maine, duly commissioned and qualified, and full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.

I further certify that Hugh D. McLellan, Toppan Robie & Henry A. Tilton, who purport by the papers hereunto prefixed, to have acted as Justices of the Peace, were, at the several times they respectively purport to have so acted, in fact Justices of the Peace, the said McLellan for and throughout the State of Maine, and the said Robie and Tilton within & for the County of Cumberland, all of them duly commissioned & qualified, fully authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments, and all the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs respectively are genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & official seal this 30th day of August A. D. 1854

Geo. F. Emery Clerk Circuit Court U. S. for Main District

[Seal]
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State of Maine.
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CUMBERLAND, ss.

Clerks Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, September 20 1855.

I OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Hugh D. McLellan Esq
is, and at the date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for each and every [crossed-out the] County [crossed-out of] in said State of Maine as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid, - and that the following Signature, purporting to be his is GENUINE.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.

O. G. Cook CLERK.

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213.765

Mary Libby widow
of 
Thomas Libby
Act 3d March 1855

Revolutionary War

Hugh D. McLellan
Gorham 
Maine
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Sold by B. Thurston, Steam Printer, Portland.

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
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Form of Declaration for widow of a deceased Officer or Soldier who has not had a Land Warrant [crossed-out and desires another].
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{State of Maine.
Cunty of Cumberland} ss.

On this first day of September A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, a Just of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mary Libby aged seventy eight years, a resident of Gorham in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of Thomas Libby, deceased, who was a private [crossed-out [illegible] in the company commanded by] in the War of the Revolution, that this declarant now receives a Revolutionary Pension, in the service of her said husband, as will appear by reference to her case on file in the Pension office, And her Pension Certificate No 4503, dated Sept 12" 1854 And to the said papers on file as aforesaid, she begs leave & refer for proof in the case Recorded under Act Feb 3' 1853 - Vol A, Page 6.

She further states that she was married to the said Thomas Libby in Scarborough on the sixth day of September A. D., 1825 by one Parker a Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Waterhouse, that her said husband died at Scarborough on the 27" day of March A. D., 1828 and that she is now a widow; [crossed-out and having obtained a Bounty Land warrant under act of    , for    [illegible] No.    , which she has legally disposed of, and is cannot now be returned].

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under act approved March 3d, 1855.

Any warrant issued or communication to me, please direct to Hugh D. McLellan, Gorham Maine

Mary [her mark X] Libby


AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES.

{STATE OF MAINE
COUNTY OF Cumberland} ss.

Personally appeared Meshach Rust and Stephen Hinkley Jr residents of the State of Maine and County of Cumberland who being duly sworn according to law, declare that they are personally and well acquainted with Mrs. Mary Libby who saw her sign her name (or make her mark) to the foregoing declaration, that they know her to be the identical person therein represented and that she is not a widow; and they swear they are disinterested witnesses.
Meshach Rust
Stephen Hinkley Jr

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Hugh D. McLellan Just Peace tho the State
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 26.219
Mary Libbey
wid. of
Thomas Libbey
Sergt Rev War
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Act Feb. 3rd. 1853.
Index: -Vol. A, Page 438

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Postmark]
PORTLAND MAINE
SEP 4 

L. T. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Me
Mary Libby
wid
Thomas

Brynte[illegible]

Recd [illegible] 7th [illegible]
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34.921

Rev War
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[Postmark]
GORHAM ME
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Hon J. [illegible]
Commissioner [cut off]
Washington [cut off]
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Sept: 7th 1854
[crossed-out] No. 5008
Mary Libbey
Wid. of
Thomas Cumberland:
Me

Act of 53
$120 Per Ann.
Com: Feby 3, 1853

Revy;

Jos: Ilsley
Portland, Me

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business

Commissioner
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Pen: Off:
Sept: 8" /54.

Sir,

Please Certify the time to [illegible] at the within [illegible] pension was passed, or the date of his death.

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Mr Randall

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Thomas Libbey, paid to 4 Mar. 1820. Dropped.

W. [illegible] [illegible]

Actg. 3rd [illegible]
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[text wrritten in fading ink, difficult to read]
Cert of [illegible] Clerk of Pub: of interior of [illegible]
Also Cert: of Mas [illegible] [illegible] death 27"
March 1828. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

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I found this [illegible]
for Tho Tratt [illegible]
for a [illegible]

Danbury July 1 [illegible]
Recd
[illegible] with three day, [illegible]
John White [illegible]
D [illegible]

Serv'd the Within for the Eight Instant
For Moses Church [illegible]
Jos Williston [illegible]

[in pencil]
Thomas Libby
[illegible].
TT 26219

[upside down, difficult to read]
Thomas Libby
July [illegible] 17[illegible]

[illegible]
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Camp Ramapough July 1, 178[cut-off]

Sir

please to [illegible] [illegible] to Sergeant Libby to carry him home he [illegible] rec^d his discharge from my Regiment.

J L Jackson Col^o
[illegible] [illegible]
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Claim, ("original," [crossed-out or "for increase"])

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supplied by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was pensioned under the Act of 18th March 1818 [illegible] the Act of 1st May 1820, because he was [illegible] of the [illegible] [illegible] She declares for & [illegible] by three revolutionary soldiers at the time was pensioned that he served in the Massachusetts Continental line as a Sergeant for three years & was pensioned for such service. He died, 27th March 1828, before any Subsequent Act was passed by which he would have been entitled, had he lived until after the passage of the Act of 7th June 1832, he would have been entitled to $120. per an; as a Sergeant. In addition to his

[crossed-out (If for increase)]
[crossed-out Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?]

proofs of Service, the rolls of Massachusetts show that he served continuously three years as Sergeant. His widow is entitled to the same amount of pension per ann. that he would have been until to if living, therefore I have allowed him a pension of $120. per Ann. Marriage is proved by certified copies of of town record of the publishment of intentions of marriage I of marriage, the affidavits of two creditable witnesses to cohabitation. Pension sent as aforesaid & I [illegible] thereof [crossed-out [illegible]] is by the affidavits of three creditable Witnesses. Widow, [illegible] [illegible], established by three creditable [illegible].

Jos: Ilsley Esqr,
Portland, Me
Name and residence of Agent

"[illegible] [illegible]"
Examining Clerk.
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Portland, Me. Sept 4, 1854

Sir,

I herewith forward you the application of Mary Libby widow of Thomas for the benefits of the Act of 3 July 1853 which if correct please forward her a Certificate.

Respectfully your
Jos Ilsley

L. T. Waldo Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington
D.C.
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Gorham July 31

[crossed-out illegible]

To the Comm of Pensions
At Washington 
City
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Gorham, Me. July 29th 1835

Sir:

I have applied to the Land Agent of Maine for the benefit of the Resolve of the Legislature of March 17. 1835. for land granted to the soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary army but not having any of my late husband Thomas Libby of Scarbrough papers. He wrote to me that I must send to the pension office and get a copy of his declaration that was taken when he drew his pension and if you will have the goodness to forward to my attorney Samuel Staples Jr. of Gorham Me. a copy of his declaration you will much oblige a poor widow.

I am Respectfull
Your Obt Set. 
Mary [her Mark X] Libby

Att William McLellan

Thomas Libby, belonged to Col. Henry Jackson. reg^t.
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I Betsey Roberts of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, On oath depose and say, that I am 65 years of age, thus I knew Thomas Libby late of the town of Scarborough, a Revolutionary Pensioner, in his life time, And he died on or about the 27th day of March AD 1828 in Scarborough, that I saw him after he was dead, and was at his funeral, that Mrs Mary Libby now of Gorham is his Widow
Betsey Roberts

Cumberland ss Augt 24th 1854
Subscribed, and the truth of the same Sworn to before me
Hugh D. McLellan Justice of the Peace that [illegible] State


I certify that I well know Mrs Betsey Roberts and that she is a credible witness.
Hugh D. McLellan Justice of the Peace [illegible] State
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I David Waterhouse of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say, that I am 62 years of age, that I knew Mr Thomas Libby of Scarborough in his life time, that he was a Pensioner (Revolutionary) that he died in said Scarborough on the 27th day of March 1828, that I was at his funeral, and saw him after he was dead, that Mrs Mary Libby now of said Gorham is his Widow
David Waterhouse

Cumberland ss Augt 24th 1854
Subscribed, and Sworn to before me
Hugh D. McLellan Justice of the Peace [illegible] [illegible] State


I certify that the above named David Waterhouse is well known to me and that he is a credible witness
Hugh D. McLellan Justice Peace [illegible] [illegible] State
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I Charles Moulton of Gorham in the County of Cumberland
and state of Maine, on oath depose and say that I am 
fifty two years of age, and a disinterested witness, that 
I am well acquainted with Mary Libby late of [crossout]
Scarborough, now of Gorham in said County, that my acquaintance
with her has been for thirty years last past, 
that I was also well acquainted with her husband, 
Thomas Libby late of said Scarborough, deceased, that she
is the widow of said deceased, and that they have
lived together as husband and wife for two or three
years past. Charles Moulton
State of Maine, Cumberland County [illegible] Sworn and
subscribed this 30th day of Nov 1853 Before me, 
Toppan Robie, a Justice of the Peace, in and for
the County aforesaid, And I further certify that
Charles Moulton, above named, is personally known
to me to be a credible witness for truth and 
veracity. 
Toppan Robie Justice of the Peace
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I, John M Parker, of Scarborough in the 
County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath
depose and say that I am fiftyfive years of age, and
a disinterested [illegible], that I am now acquainted 
with Mary Libby of Gorham in said county, widow
of Thomas Libby deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner
of the United States, that said Mary Libby formerly lived
in Scarborough, that said Mary Libby lived in the 
same neighborhood that I have lived in, and that 
they lived together as husband and wife, that I was
[illegible] to her marriage to said Thomas. Mary Waterhouse
for [illegible] years previous to her marriage to said Thomas
that I was well acquainted with Thomas Libby her late
husband, and that I know he said Mary Libby to be 
the identical person widow of said Thomas, deceased.
John M Parker
State of Maine
County of Cumberland [illegible] August 8, 1854. Sworn and Subscribed
[illegible] [crossed out] Hugh D McLellan [name written above crossed out text] a justice of the Peace in [illegible] for the 
county aforesaid and I [illegible] certify that said John M. Parker
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] is personally known to me to be a credible [illegible]
of truth and veracity Hugh D McLellan Justice of the Peace