Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22690, Daniel Worthly, Mass.
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Massachusetts 
Daniel Worthly
Dorcas Worthly
Number 22690
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Maine 6303
Dorcas Worthly deceased widow of Daniel Worthly, who served in the Revolutionary War as as a Private. Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 38 dollars and 55 cents, per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1848. Ending 13, November 1853. Certificate of pension issued on the 16th day of October 1854 and sent to A H Markland [illegible].
Recorded on the role of pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 44 volume 1.
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Somerset county Maine
Daniel died 1820
Dorcas died 13th November 1853

Daniel Worthly- Admr
Mary Buxton
Lydia Hensey
Hannah Ross
Sarah Nason
Francis Worthly
Surviving children
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August 11th 1854
Freeman A Bradford, Esquire
Cumberland
Robert A. Bird
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United States of America
On this 5th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty, personally applied before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of the United States for Maine district. Dorcas Worthly, a resident of Portland in the county of Cumberland and state of Maine, aged eighty nine years, who upon her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the acts of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, March 3rd, 1843, June 17th 1844, and February 2nd 1848. And this declarant states that she is the widow of Daniel Worthly, late of Skowhegan, deceased. She states that her husband was a resident North Yarmouth in the time of the Revolution, and she believes he was a soldier of the Revolution. She recollects that her husband has informed her that served in thein the war of the revolution Captain Scarborough and also under Captain John Gray, a townsman of his, and that he was in the Penobscot Expedition when the American troops were defeated at that place. This declarant further states that her said husband performed other service, but in consequence of old age she is unable to give the names of the Officers under whom he served. She further states that her husband did endeavour to obtain a pension under the Act of 18th March 1818, but she can not say whether he made a declaration or not, but he died before he obtained the pension to wit on the 7th day of April 1820. She further states
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was married to the said Daniel Worthly at North Yarmouth on the 29th day of December 1781 and that her maiden name before marriage was Dorcas Small. She therefore claims a pension under the acts of aforesaid and adduces the following testimony in support of her claim. She believes that Jonathan Byram and Samuel Talbot were soldiers with her husband adn that they were witnesses for her husband in his endeavors to obtain a pension.

Mark of Ashur Ware    her mark Dorcas Worthly
Signed and sworn to before me December 5th 1856
Ashur Ware
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I certify that Dorcas Worthly made the foregoing declaration before Judge Ware and that the same was  addressed under her dictation. I made application for proof of service under the declaration at the Secretary of State office in Massachusetts and received for answer according to my best recollection that there was no service on military sons of Massachusetts except in the Penobscot Expedition. Not finding sufficient evidence of the service at the time was the reason for not prosecuting the case further. I have full confidence in the statement made by Mrs. Worthly and her declaration appears to be corroborated by the certificate in the case lately obtained dated July 20, 1854, which has been exhibited to me. I have no interest in claim of Mrs. Worthly, Joseph Ilsly
State of Maine
Cumberland County SS August 10 1854 when personally appeared the above named Joseph Ilsly and made oath that the foregoing certificate by heir signed is true according to his best recollection and belief said Ilsly is the clerk in the pension office at Portland Maine and is a man of strict truth and integrity. 
Before me Freemason Bradford Jus Peace
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Daniel Worthly
Dorcas Worthly
Me  sus 1838

Geddes

A. H. Mackland 
Present
Recd. Sept. 18, 1834
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State of Maine
Cumberland Ss
Clerks Office Supreme Judicial court Portland Sep. 14, 1854
I Robt. A. Bird, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Courts in and for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Stephen Packard Esq. was at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed, and acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Androscoggin, that Z. K. Harmon Esq. was at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland. That Prisebius Weston Esq. was at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed and acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Somerset, as appears by the several papers hereto annexed; that they were duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and take acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments in writing in their respective counties and that the following signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court the day and year first above written.
Robt. A. Bird, Clerk
(black smudge/seal)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Sept. 13th 1843

I hereby Certify, that, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the residence of the Officers & Soldiers in no instance appears on the rolls of Capt. Abraham Tyler's Co. in 1778 & '79 or of Capt. John Gray's Comp. in 1779, said rolls bearing the name of Daniel Worthly as heretofore certified.
From other rolls & documents in this office it appears that Jonathan Byram whose name is on Capt. Tyler's Roll belonged to North Yarmouth, and that Capt. Tyler belonged to Scarborough. Capt. John Gray's Roll for the 1779 service was sworn to in North Yarmouth.
Hart Williams, 1st Lieut. in Capt. Tyler's Co. in 1778 appears from documents in this office to have been a resident of Gorham, Me.
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And I further Certify, that, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I William True of Auburn in the county of Androscoggin and state of Maine on oath say that I am ninty four years of age and upwards and am a revolutionary Pensioner of the Untied States. I was born in Kington N. H. and moved with my fathers family to North Yarmouth Maine when I was three years old as I have been told, and I continued to live in said Yarmouth until about the year 1777 when I moved to New Gloucester an adjoining town, and there resided through the residue of the of Revolution. and after that till about the year 1785 or until I was twenty five years of age, when I removed to this place. I was well & intimately acquainted with Daniel Worthly when I lived in North Yarmouth. He was about my age and lived within three quarters of a mile from me for most of the time while I staid in said N. Yarmouth. Daniel Worthly was a soldier in the revolutionary War, and served at least two terms. In 1778 I served nine months in the continental Army under Capt. Daniel Merrill of wells, in the Regiment of Col. Brewer. There was several of my acquaintances from New Gloucester & North Yarmouth were engaged to serve for the same time and I recollect this same Daniel Worthly was one of them and we intended to serve in the same company, but Worthly and most of the others served in a different company. I do not now recollect what company said Worthly served. I was mustered at fishkill and was permitted to join any company I pleased. I fell in with Capt. Merrill and I and one or two others joined his company in 1779. I served in the Penobscot expedition in Capt. Grey's company
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and Col. Mitchels Regt. Daviel Worthly served with me in this company. I have not seen said Worthly for a great many years and do not know who he married. I never knew any other Daniel Worthly and am well satisfied there was no other in North Yarmouth in the time of the revolution. I have no interest in this matter.
William True   X his mark

State of Maine
Androscoggin SS, Sept. 8th 1854
then personally appeared the above named William True whom I know to be a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Stephen Packard, Justice of the Peace.
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I Martha Griffin of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am seventy six years of age and upwards. I was born and brought up in North Yarmouth in this County. I was will and intimately acquainted with Daniel Worthley of said North Yarmouth, he was a non cousin to and said Daniel was brought up in my father's family in said North Yarmouth, and after he was grown up he used to make it his home there. He married Dorcas Small who lived somewhere near either in Freeport or North Yarmouth both of which places used to be called Harraseeket. I was young at that time but have always understood that Daniel Worthley was brought up by father as above stated and also that we went into the Revolutionary War from North Yarmouth. My father's name was John Worthley and was a Captain in
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the Revolutionary War. Daniel Worthley moved away from No. Yarmouth ^to Bloomfield many years ago, and has been dead for (more than=crossed out) many years, his widow has been dead about  one year. I used to know all the children, Daniel, Mary Buxton of Portland, and Sally Nason of this town are a part of the children of Daniel & Dorcas Worthley. I further state that I have no interest whatever in the claim of said children for a pension.
Witness  Martha N Griffin  Martha Griffin

Cumberland County ss: September 8th 1854.
then personally appeared the above named Martha Griffin who is a person of strict truth and integrity and a credible and intelligent witness, and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by her signed is true.
Before me. Z. K. Harmon, Just. of Peace
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I Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate in and for the County of Somerset in the state of Maine certify: That Daniel Worthley of Bloomfield in said County was on the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, duly appointed and qualified in said County of Somerset, and that he has taken upon him that trust, and given (illegible) pursuant to the laws of the state and that full credence ought to be given to all his legal acts in the capacity.
Given under my hand and seal official of the Probate Court for said County, at the Probate office in said County, this fifth day of Sept. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
Benjamin Adams, Register
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Certificate of appt. of Admr. in Estate of Daniel Worthley decd.
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I James White of Skowhegan in the County of Somerset & state of Maine do on oath depose & say that I was well acquainted with Mr. Daniel Worthley late of Bloomfield who was the Father of Capt. Daniel Worthley now living in Skowhegan and it is within my knowledge that said Daniel Worthley, Senr. went to the town of Athens to move or assist in moving David Ross' Family to said Athens as near as I can recollect in the spring of 1820 and that he said Worthley was there taken sick of a disease of which he died suddenly at said Athens & was buried there & never returned to Bloomfield. I knew said Worthley in Bloomfield for several years (in Bloomfield-crossed out) having lived with in half a mile of him. He was reported to have died with an attack of Gravel a disease of which he had been afflicted before.
James White

State of Maine
Somerset County Ss Be it known that on this first day of Sept. A.D. 1854 personally appeared James White Esquire of Skowhegan & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed & I certify that he is a perfectly reliable witness. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this first day of Sept. A.D. 1854
Eusebius Weston Justice of the peace
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Application of Dorcas Worthly
wid. Daniel
Maine 1838

Original case

No papers under the act 1818 -ad-or suspd.

A. H. Markland
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State of Maine
Cumberland, SS.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
Portland, Aug. 11th 1854

I, Robert A. Bird, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that John W. Gookin Esq. is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed, was an Acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is Duly Commissioned and qualified to administer Oaths and take acknowledgment 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.
(Seal & ribbon)
R. A. Bird, Clerk
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State of Maine
Somerset County Ss.
On this first day of August A.D. 1854, personally appeared before the Hon. David White Judge of Probate in ad for the County of Somerset and State aforesaid Daniel Worthly of Skowhegan, Administrator of the Estate of Dorcas Worthly late of said Skowhegan deceased, who appearing in open Court the same being a Court of Record and being duly sworn doth on oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the pension that was due his mother the said Dorcas Worthly under the acts of Congress passed July 7 1838 March 3 1843 June 17 1844 and Feby 2 1848.
And your declarant states that Dorcas Worthly was the widow of Daniel Worthly who died in the Town of Athens, Maine in the month of April he believes in 1820. He further states that his father the said Daniell Worth was a resident of North Yarmouth in the time of the Revolution and the tradition is that he was a soldier of the Revolution and he has heard his father say that he served under
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Capt. John Worthly, Capt. Tyler and also under Capt. Gray. He has no doubt his father served under those officers. This declarant also states that his father made some effort to obtain a Pension under the act of 1818 and for that purpose employed Mr. Vose of Augusta Maine to assist him and he has heard his father say that he was entitled in virtue of his Revolutionary services to that benefit of the Act of 1818.  Your declarant also states that his mother made application for a pension in her life time but was unable as he has been informed to find the evidence of any service except his service in the Penobscot expedition under Capt. Gray. He further states that his mother Dorcas Worthly was married to his father Daniel Worthly on the 19th day of December A.D. 1781 and that her name before marriage was Dorcas Small that she remained a widow from the time of her husbands death till she died which took place on the thirteenth day of November A. D. 1853 at my house in Skowhegan.
Your declarant further states that the surviving children of Dorcas Worthly are Daniel Worthly,, Mary Buxton, Lydia Hersey
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Hannah Ross, Sarah Nason, and (he presumes also) Francis Worthly. Francis Worthly resides remote from your declarant and he has not heard from him for about five years.
As Administrator he claims the pension that was due his mother and adduces the following testimony in support of his claim.
Attest B. Adams
Daniel Worthly

Signed and sworn to in my presence by the above named Daniel Worthly on the day and year first above written.
Daniel White, Judge
(seal)

State of Maine 
Somerset County ss. Office of the Court of Probate
I Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify that Hon. David White whose name is signed to the foregoing declaration is Judge of Probate, in & for said County & State, duly commissioned & qualified agreeably to the constitution & laws of said State, that the annexed signature purporting to be his is genuine. And that full faith & credit are & ought to be given to his (illegible) acts & attestations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the official seal of said Court & subscribed my name this first day of August A. D. 1854.
Benjamin Adams
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No. 2
State of maine
Somerset County ss.
Probate Office
I, Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate for said County hereby certify that at a Court of Probate held at Norridgewock in aforesaid County on the first Tuesday of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, Daniel Worthly of Skowhegan in said County (illegible) was duly appointed and commissioned Administrator of the Estate of Dorcas Worthly late of said Skowhegan, widow, deceased, that he  has accepted the trust & given (illegible) with good sufficient (illegible) in the sum of twelve hundred dollars pursuant to the laws of the state; that he remained at the (illegible) administrator aforesaid & that full faith is (illegible) to his legal acts in that capacity. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal official of said Court this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
Benjamin Adams
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State of Maine
County of Somerset ss. Probate Office
I David White Judge of Probate for said County, hereby certify that Benjamin Adams whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the Register of Probate for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn and that his said certificate is in due form.
Given under my hand this first August A. D. 1854
David White
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(Seal)
State of Maine
Somerset County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Norridgewock within and for said County, on the First Tuesday of (July-crossed out) August A. D. 1854, being a Court of Record:
Satisfactory evidence having been offered to the Hon. David White, Judge of said Court, that the facts hereinafter mentioned are true, the same are ordered to be entered on the Docket of this Court, and the testimony pertaining thereto file, viz:--by the testimony of Lydia Lennell Joseph Herrin & Rebecca Herrin, all residing the town of Skowhegan in the County & State aforesaid disinterested & credible witnesses: that Dorcas Worthly widow of Daniel Worthly died at said Skowhegan on the thirteenth day of November A. D. 1853 reputed to be ninety one years of age; that Daniel Worthly the husband of said Dorcas was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he died about thirty four years ago: Also that the known surviving children of said Dorcas Worthly are Daniel Worthly Mary Buxton Lydia Hersey Hannah Ross & Sarah Nason. Francis worthly was also one of the children, but whether he is living is unknown.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this first day of August 1854.
Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate

State of Maine
County of Somerset, ss. Probate Office,
I, David White Judge of Probate for said County, here certify that Benjamin Adams whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is Register of Probate for said County duly appointed, commissioned and sworn; and that his said certificate is in due form and in accordance with the facts proven before me.
Given under my hand this first day of August, A. D. 1854.
David White, Judge
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(seal)
State of Maine
Somerset County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Norridgewock within and for said County, on the First Tuesday of (July-crossed out) August A. D. 1854, being a Court of Record;
Satisfactory evidence having been offered to the Hon. David White, Judge of said Court, that the facts hereinafter mentioned are true, the same are ordered to be entered on the Docket of this Court, and the testimony pertaining thereto filed, viz:--
by the testimony of Lydia Lennell Joseph Herrin & Rebecca Herrin all residing in the town of Skowhegan in the County & State aforesaid disinterested & credible witnesses; that Dorcas Worthly widow of Daniel Worthly died at said Skowhegan on the thirteenth day of November A.D. 1853 reputed to be ninety one yeas of age; That Daniel Worthly the husband of said Dorcas was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he died about thirty four years ago; Also that the known surviving children of said Dorcas Worthly are Daniel Worthly Mary Buxton Lydia Hersey Hannah Ross & Sarah Nason. Francis Worthly was also one of the children but whether he is living is unknown.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office this first day of August 1854.
Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate

State of Maine
County of Somerset, ss, Probate Office, 
I, David White Judge of Probate for said County, hereby certify that Benjamin Adams whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is the Register of Probate, for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn; and that his certificate is in due form and in accordance with the facts proven before me.
Given under  my hand this first day of August A. D. 1854.
David White, Judge
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(seal)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston:
July 20th 1854

I hereby Certify, that, for an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, if appears that the name of Daniel Worthley is borne on pay roll of Capt. Abraham Tyler's Comp. Col. Thomas Povis Regt. service at North River, New York from June 1. 1778 to July 17th 1779 9 mos. 7 days including travel.
Also on pay roll of Capt. John Gray's Comp., Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. Penobscot Expedition from July 7 to Sept 12 1779 2 mos. 10 days including travel.

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And I further Certify, that, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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(seal)
To the Secretary of State Mass.
The undersigned one of the surviving children of Dorcas Worthly who was the widow of Daniel Worthly requests the Secretary aforesaid to furnish from Rolls & Documents pertaining to Revolutionary services in his office, the evidence of service of Daniel Worthly.
Daniel Worthly was a resident of North Yarmouth in the then District of Maine in the time of the Revolution. That at the commencement of the Revolutionary war was of the age required by law liable to perform military duty and was as she believes duly enrolled.
She believes her father served for one year or more under two or three enlistments in the war of the Revolution. She has heard her father and mother say that he served under Captain John Worthly or Capt. Abraham Tyler or both in the first part of the war
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and in one or both these services was in Cambridge. She has also heard him say that he was in the Company of Capt. John Gray in the Penobscot Expedition.
Her said father made application for and employed a Mr. Vose of Augusta to assist him in procuring a pension under the act of 1818 and died before it was obtained.
Her mother also made application for a pension under the acts of 1838, 1843, 1844 & 1848 but was not then able to prove so much as six months service as she believes and she died Nov. 13, 1853.
She therefore requests a certificate of all the service that may be found on the Rolls and Documents aforesaid relative to the service of Daniel Worthly of North Yarmouth and for the purpose of this application appoint Daniel Worthly of Skowhegan Maine, my agent and request that the certificate of service be sent to Freeman Bradford of Portland Maine.
Witness my hand this fourteenth
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day of July A.D. 1854
Attest Z. K. Harmon
Mary Buxton

Cumberland ss July 14th 1854.
Then personally appeared the above named Mary Buxton and subscribed the foregoing statement in my presence.
Z. K. Harmon, Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine
Somerset Ss, Probate Office.
Norridgewock, August 1 A. D. 1854

I Benjamin Adams, Register of Probate in and for the said County of Somerset, certify that Washington Rowell is an acting Justice of the Peace (illegible) and in the county of Somerset (illegible/faded)
that he is duly qualified to act as such, that the commission of the said Washington Rowell is dated on the thirty first day of August A. D. 1850 and will expire on the thirty first day of August A. D. 1857. And the following signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal official of said Court the day and year first above written.
Benjamin Adams, Register
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We Lydia Lennell, Joseph Herrin and Rebecca Herrin all residing in the town of Skowhegan in the County of Somerset and State of Maine on oath say that we are of lawful age to testify and in the matter of the pension of Mrs. Dorcas Worthly are disinterested. We on oath severally say that we have known Mrs. Dorcas Worthly widow of Daniel Worthly deceased for more than twenty years prior to her death. We further state that Dorcas Worthly died at the residence of her son Daniel Worthly in Skowhegan on the 13th day of November 1853 and was said to be and we believe she was at the time of her death ninety one years of age and upwards. We were each present at the time of her death. Daniel Worthly the husband of said Dorcas was said to have been in the Revolutionary war and died about 34 years ago. Dorcas Worthly was never married after the death of husband and was his widow at the time
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of her death. The surviving children of Dorcas Worthly are Daniel Worthly Mary Buxton Lydia Hearsey Hannah Ross Sarah Nason and there was a son by the name of Francis Worthly but we know not whether he is now living. If Francis Worthly is alive the foregoing are the only surviving children of Dorcas Worthly deceased.
Lydia Linnell
Joseph Herrin
Rebecca Herrin
Attest
Washington Rowell

State of Maine
Somerset County SS July 28th 1854. 
Then personally appeared the above named Lydia Linnell Joseph Herrin and Rebecca Herrin known to me as persons of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them signed. I also certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the result of this claim.
Before me
Washington Rowell, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine County of Cumberland Town of North Yarmouth
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one-December twenty nine-
were married Daniel Worthly and Dorcas Small both of this town.
By David Mitchell Jus. Peace
Recorded by D. Mitchell Town Clerk

I Certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the Marriage of said parties, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures as follows: (b)
1781 Decr. 29 Were married Daniel Worthly and Dorcas Small both of this town.
By David Mitchell Jus. Peace
Attest William Osgood, town Clerk of North Yarmouth

I, William Osgood 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.
Attest William Osgood, Clerk of the Town of North Yarmouth

Cumberland County ss:
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this thirty first day of July A. D. 1854
John W. Gookin, Justice of the Peace

(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full.
(b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.
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January 29, 1936
Daniel Worthly
W.22690
BA-J/MLB

Miss Louise H. Coburn
Skowhegan
Maine

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Daniel Worthley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, whose place of residence later was Cannan, Wilburn or Skowhegan, successive names of the same region, but his service was from North Yarmouth, all in Maine.
The record of Daniel Worthly or Worthley (both spellings of name or shown) is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim W. 22690, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth, the age, and names of the parents of Daniel Worthly or Worthley are not shown.
While residing in North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (Maine), Daniel Worthly enlisted and served as a private in Captain John Worthley's Massachusetts company (relationship not designated) stationed at Cambridge, dates of service not given. He served also, from June 1, 1778 to February 17, 1779, as a private in Captain Abraham Tyler's company, Colonel Thomas Poor's Massachusetts regiment; and from July 7, 1779, to September 12, 1779 as private in Captain John Gray's company, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's Massachusetts regiment, in the Penobscot expedition.
The soldier moved from North Yarmouth, Maine, to Bloomfield, Somerset County, Main, date not stated. He died in Athens, Somerset County, Maine, where he had gone to move the family of David Ross, and while there was taken ill and died suddenly and was buried there instead of being taken back to his home at Bloomfield, Maine.
Daniel Worthly or Worthley married December 29, 1781, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (Maine), Dorcas Small. The date and place of her birth and names of parents were not given.
At the time of their
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marriage, they were both residents of North Yarmouth.
In 1850, soldier's widow, Dorcas, was living in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. She died November 13, 1853, in Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, aged about ninety-one years.
The following names of children of Daniel Worthly or Worthley and his wife Dorcas, are shown who survived their mother:
Daniel Worthley
Mary Buxton who, in 1854 was living in Portland, Maine
Lydia Hersey
Hannah Ross, whose relationship to David Ross, or Athens, Maine, before mentioned, was not shown.
Sarah or Sally Nason who, in 1854 was living in Freeport, Maine.
Francis Worthley, a son, living at a remote place not designated, had not been heard from in five years and it was not known whether he were living.
The pension due Dorcas on account of the Revolutionary War service of her husband, Daniel Worthly or Worthley, was allowed said children, on the application of the son, Daniel, with whom Dorcas lived, and at whose home she died. Said application was executed August 1, 1854, at which time he was a resident of Skowhegan, Maine. the son, Daniel, was referred to as Captain, with no explanation of the rank.
In 1854, Mrs. Martha Griffin, daughter of Captain John Worthley and an own cousin of the soldier, Daniel Worthly or Worthley who was brought up in her father's family, stated that she was born and reared in North Yarmouth, Maine but was then living in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine aged "seventy-six and upwards" and that the towns North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine were both formerly called "Harrasecket".
The name Martha Griffin also appears in the claim, her relationship to Martha Griffin, above-mentioned not shown.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator


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Pension Office
Sept. 21, 1854

Sir,
The additional papers in support of the claim of Dorcas Worthley deceased, widow of Daiel, of Maine under the act of July 7, 1838 have been examined.
For the purpose of more effectually establishing the identity of the claimants husband with the name certified to have been in the service it is advisable to consult the records of the town of North Yarmouth, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he then resided there; whether the records show him 
to have been in the service, and whether any others person of the same name then resided in the town, who served or was capable of serving in the Revolutionary war.
I am respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner

A. H. Markland, Esq.
Presents
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Identity by Town Records of No. Yarmouth Married Dorcas Small
1781
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State of Maine
Cumberland, SS.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court
Portland Octo. 23d 1854

I Robert A. Bird, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Z. K. Harmon Esq. is and at the date of his certificates to the papers 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.
Robt. A. Bird, Clerk
(seal/ribbon)
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We Richmond Loring and David Field both of Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose testify and say that I the said Loring am 79 years of age and upwards, and I the said Fields am 77 years of age & over and have always resided since our youth in this town which was formerly North Yarmouth. We both of us well knew Daniel Worthley who was a resident of this town, then No. Yarmouth. He was a man with a family and many years older than we are, he was the only person to our knowledge of that name who ever lived in North Yarmouth. the aforesaid Daniel Worthley moved away from this town into the country about forty years ago. Since that time we have had no direct information about him or his family.
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We further testify & say that we have o interest whatever in the claim said Worthley's children may have to a pension.
Richmond Loring
David Field

County of Cumberland ss. Oct. 23d 1854
Then personally appeared the above named Richmond Loring and David Field who are both known to me as men of truth & intelligence and are both credible and respectable witnesses, and severally made oath that the foregoing affidavit by them signed is true.
Before me, Z. K. Harmon, Justice of the Peace
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I James Russell of Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am eighty two years old and upwards and have always lived here in this town which until within fa few years was North Yarmouth & was well acquainted with Daniel Worthley who used to live in said North Yarmouth. He lived a neighbor to my father and would be many years older than I am if he was now living. Said Daniel Worthley married Dorcas  Small, he moved away from this town a great many years ago, he had a son named Daniel. The above are the only person by the name of Daniel Worthley that I ever knew. I have no interest in the above.
James Russell

Cumberland County ss: Oct. 23 1854. 
Then personally appeared the above
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named James Russell who is a man of truth and veracity and a credible and intelligent witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed.
Before me, Z. K. Harmon
Just. of Peace
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I William Osgood of North Yarmouth, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, on oath depose, testify & say that I am Clerk of said North Yarmouth, and have in my custody & possession the books and records of said town. I have carefully examined said books and records from 1740 to 1800 and it appears that but one Daniel Worthley resided in North Yarmouth during the time above mentioned. It appears by the records that said Daniel Worthley entered his intentions of marriage to Dorcas small in 1781, both of said North Yarmouth and that he was married to her the same year. The births of the children of Daniel and Dorcas Worthley also appear of record. I further state that there are no records showing the names of those who served in the Revolutionary War from this town, and that I have no interest whatever in the claim of said Daniel Worthley's children may have to a pension.
Attest William Osgood, Town Clerk 
of N. Yarmouth

Cumberland County SS. Oct. 9th 1854
Then personally appeared the above named William Osgood who I certify is Town Clerk as aforesaid and a man of truth & veracity and made
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oath that the foregoing affidavit by him made and signed is true.
Before me Z. K. Harmon
Just. Pacis
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Dorcas Worthly, deceased
widow of Daniel
Maine
Act July 7, 1838
Admitted
Private 11 mos. 17 days at $38.55 per annum from March 4, 1836 to Nov. 13th 1853 when she died=excepting 2 years
Certificate payable to Daniel Worthly her admr.
for benefit of himself and of Mary Buxton, Lydia Hersey, Hannah Ross, Sarah Nason and Francis Worthly her only surviving children.
Atty. A. H. Markland, Present
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Brief in the case of Dorcas Worthly, deceased, widow of Daniel
Somerset County and State of Maine
act July 7, 1838

Claim, ("original")
Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? if either, state the substance.
Service 11 mos. 17 days, private Tyler's Co. Poors Regt. proved by the Mass. rolls.
Marriage 1781 proved by town records.
Death of Danl. 1820-of widow Nov. 13, 1853. and surviving children proved by (illegible) and certified. Identity proved by Town records & testimony of contemporaries. Administration July certified.

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
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No. 15207

Dorcas Worthly deceased
widow of Daniel Worthly
Maine

Let. J. H. Markland Aug 25/54
A. A. Markland Sept 21.1854

Act July 7 1838
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9573
Maine
Dorcas Worthley dcd.
widow of Daniel who was a private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 38 Dollars 55 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Oct. 1854 and sent to A. H. Markland Present

Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17,1844

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 11
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11717
Maine
Dorcas Worthly dcd.
widow of Daniel who died on the ....1820
in the State of ..............who was a private in the ............commanded by Captain.........of the ........commanded by ......in the .......line for Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland (paper slightly folded over)
the rate of 38 Dollars 55 Cents
annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Oct. 1854 and sent to A. H. Markland Present

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by R. McRae, Clerk
Book D. Vol. 1, Page 21
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August 31, 1933

Daniel Worthly
W.22690
Jonathan Worthley
W2395
BA-J/MLB

Mr. E. C. Worthley
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Metropolitan Life Building
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John, Jonathan, Daniel, Timothy, Thomas, Samuel and Nathan Worthley, and James Hyde, also the War of 1812 record of Brooks Worthley.
The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claims for pension found based upon service of John, Timothy, Thomas, Samuel and Nathan Worthley or Worthly; nor do the War of 1812 records show a claim for pension on file based upon service of Brooks Worthley or Worthly; such claims are the source of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office.
Because of the great number of requests for data pertaining to soldiers of the above named wars, and the limited clerical force available for the purpose of furnishing such data, it has not been possible to comply with each request which requires the preparation of a large number of reports.
The records of two soldiers of the Revolutionary War are furnished you herein, those of Daniel and Jonathan Worthly or Worthley, as found in the respective claims based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Daniel Worthly
W. 22690
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 22690, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Daniel Worthly or Worthley (both spellings of the surname appear),\.
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The date and place of Daniel Worthly or Worthley's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
While a resident of North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (Maine), he enlisted and served as a private in Captain John Worthley's  Massachusetts company, this service was at Cambridge, dates not stated; he also served from June 1, 1778, to February 17, 1779 as a private in Captain Abraham Tyler's company, Colonel Thomas Poor's Massachusetts regiment; and from July 7, 1779 to September 12, 1779 as a private in Captain John Gray's company, Colonel Jonathan  Mitchell's Massachusetts regiment, in Penobscot expedition.
He moved from North Yarmouth, Maine to Bloomfield, Somerset County, Main, date not stated.
The soldier died April 7, 1820, in Athens, Somerset County, Maine, where he had gone to move the family of David Ross, and while there taken ill and died suddenly and was buried there instead of being taken back to his home at Bloomfield, Maine.
Daniel Worthly or Worthley married December 29, 1781, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (Maine), Dorcas Small; they were both of said North Yarmouth.
In 1850 soldier's widow Dorcas was living in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. She died November 13, 1853 in Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, aged about ninety-one years.
The following children of soldier and his wife, Dorcas, survived their mother:
Daniel Worthley
Mary Buxton, who in 1854 was living in Portland, Maine.
Lydia Hersey
Hannah Ross (her relationship to Daid Ross of Athens, Main, before mentioned, not shown)
Sarah or Sally Nason, who in 1854 was living in Freeport, Maine.
Francis Worthley, a son living at a remote place, not stated, had not been heard from in five years and it was not known whether or not he was living.

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The pension due Dorcas on account of the Revolutionary War service of her husband, Daniel Worthly or Worthley, was allowed said children on the application of the son Daniel, with whom soldier's widow lived and at whose home she died.; said application was executed August 2, 1854, at which time he was a resident of Skowhegan, Main. The son, Daniel, was referred to as Captain, with no explanation of the rank.
In 1854, Mrs. Martha Griffin, daughter of Captain John Worthley, and an own cousin of the soldier, Daniel Worthly or Worthley who was brought up in her father's family, stated that she was born and reared in North Yarmouth, Maine, but was then living in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, aged "seventy-six and upwards", and that the towns, North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine were both formerly called "Harrasecket".
 name, Martha M. Griffin, also appears in the claim, her relationship to Martha Griffin, above mentioned, not shown.
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Jonathan Worthlyy
W. 2395
The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim W. 2395, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Jonathan Worthly or Worthley (both spellings of the surname are shown in the claim).
He was born May 9, 1750 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, he volunteered July 11, 1775, served as private Captain John Parker's company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire regiment of rangers, was in the attacks on Saint Johns and Fort Chambly, and was discharged December 16, 1775. He volunteered August 6, 1778, and served as private in Captain Aaron Quinby's company, Colonel Moses Kelley's New Hampshire regiment, in the expedition to Rhode Island under General Sullivan, and was discharged August 27, 1778. 
Jonathan Worthly or Worthley died November 14, 1835, in Weare, New Hampshire.

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Soldier married March 7 1816, in Weare, New Hampshire, Tamar Grant; they were both of said Weare, New Hampshire, and their marriage was recorded in the town clerk's office of that place.
Soldier's widow, Tamar, was allowed pension on her application executed July 14, 1853, at which time stated she was aged ninety-seven years and a resident of Weare, New Hampshire. In 1855 she was living in Weare, New Hampshire, and then gave her age as eight-eight years, with no explanation of the discrepancy. She died February 25, 1857.
No reference was made in the claim to children.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

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(corner folded over)
r Section.

Sept. 9. 1922

J. J. Haskell
Box 153
Wellesley, Mass.

Sir:
In response to your letter which was received on July 28, 1922, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, W.22,690, it appears that Daniel Worthley lived at North Yarmouth, Maine  during the Revolution and served as a priivate under Capt. John Worthley, dates not stated, also from June 1, 1778, to Feb. 17, 1779, under Capt. Abraham Tyler and Col. Thomas Poor, and from July 7, to Sept. 12, 1779, under Capt. John Gray ad Col. Jonathan Mitchell.
He married Dec. 19, 1781 Dorcas Small of North Yarmouth and he died April 7, 1820 and she died Nov. 13, 1853 aged 91 years at Skowhegan, Maine. The following children survived her: Mary Buxton, Lydia Hersey, Hannah Ross, Sarah Nason and Daniel Worthley, and probably Francis Worthley, who had not been heard from for many years.
The pension due her was allowed said children, on the application of the son Daniel which was executed Aug. 1, 1854.
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
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(square stamp-U.S. Civil Service Commission Received A. M. Jan 19 1938-First Mail-Mails and Files)
(Rd. stamp-Received Jan 16 1938)
(oval stamp-U.S. Civil Service Commission
Jan. 19 1938-illegible)

Miss Louise H. Coburn
Skowhegan, Maine

U. S. Pension Office
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:
Will you be kind enough to inform me if Daniel Worthley, Revolutionary soldier was on the U. S. Pension list? His service was from No. Yarmouth, Me. His residence later was in Canaan or Milburn or Skowhegan, successive names of the same region. If he was on the pension list I will be much obliged if you could send me the date of his death and his age at that time, or if you have it on file, the date and place of his birth.
I will appreciate very much an answer giving this information.
Very truly yours,
Louise H. Coburn
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Revy
WIDOW &c.

File No. 22690
Dorcas Worthley
widow of Daniel Worthley
Pri Rev War
Act Feb 2d '48
Index: Vol. M., Page 368

[Arrangement of 1870]


1922 Sept. 9 Hist. to Je
J. J. Haskell
1933 Aug. 31 hist. to E. C. Worthley
See ltr in claim 2395 of Jonathan Worthley MLB
1938 Jan. 29 Hist to Miss Louise H. Coburn MLB
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Rev Sec


Will you kindly send particulars of the application of Dorcas Worthley of North Yarmouth, Portland, and Skowhegan, Maine, where she died in 1854 for pension in the right of her husband Daniel Worthley, who served from North Yarmouth Maine, in 1778. the claim was refused but in 1854 or thereabouts her heirs took the matter up.
J. J. Haskell
Box 153
Wellesley, Mass.