Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17308, Noah Burrell, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Burrell, Noah

NUMBER
S.17308

Carded

CONTENTS
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Maine 28.444
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Noah Burrell
of Bloomfield in the State of Maine.
who was a Sargent in the [blank]  commanded by Captain  [blank]  of the Rgt. commanded by
Col. Bailey in the Mass. line for 2 years-
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 120 Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of June 34 and sent to Hon: P. Sprague. - U.S. Senate
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar : 34          360--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.   60--
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$420--
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   Revolutionary Claim,
   Act  June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk
Book E  Vol. 1  Page 5


Leh Pin agent of [illegible]
1834
G.C.
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Noah Burrell
18
Maine Roll
Mar 1819
To be filed with the papers of
Noah Burrill No.

It must be shown when claimant was promoted
under without evidence or witness as to that service in that grade of service.
See additional evidence of Seth Pratt a credible witness.
Original pension certificate under act of 1818, forwarded to pension office by applicant in April 1834.
R. C. Vose
Augusta
Me
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Augusta, Me. Sept. 27 1832
TO THE HON. LEWIS CASS,
Secretary of War.
SIR:--Being now a pensioner on the Maine Roll in the receipt of a pension under the
Act of Congress, of March 18, 1818, and being entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, by first relinquishing my further claim to the pension under the first named Act. I do accordingly hereby relinquish my further claim to such pension, and state that I served as a Sergeant in Capt. Luther Bailey's Company, in Col. John Bailey Regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops, I enlisted in Feby 1777 for the period of during the war, and served as a corporal a short time and was appointed as a Sergeant and did duty as a Sergeant until June 10, 1783, when I was honorably Discharged
my discharge and my Sergeants warrant, have been forwarded to Washington, and I presume they are in the War Office
I was in both of the Battle at the taking of
Burgoyne, at Monmouth and at the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown-- I was discharged as belonging to C. Sprouts Regiment and
do therefore respectfully request that I may be placed on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. My pension, under the first named Act, was Eight dollars per month. My pension certificate which is herein enclosed, in numbered     and I was last paid at the Branch Bank of the United States, at Portland, Maine, the fourth day of September
1832. I now live in Bloomfield in the County of Somerset Maine, and it is any communications upon this subject may be addressed to ROBERT C. VOSE, Esq. of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.
I am Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant. Noah Burrell
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No 2
Noah Burrell
Bloomfield

5871

March
1819

R. C. Vose
Augusta
Maine
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State of Maine
Somerset County, ss

On this twenty eighth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, 
Noah Burrill
aged sixty one years, resident in Bloomfield in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Bailey and Regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of 
during the war and served six years and four months as expressed in my discharge which was not in my possession at the time I made my original declaration; and was in both of the battles at the taking of Burgoyne; at the battle of Monmouth and at the capture of Cornwallis

that his original declaration was made before Judge Wilde on the ninth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5871. And I, the said Noah Burrill do further solemnly swear ...

Noah Burrill

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: Real, none.

Personal. Ten sheep with their lambs, 3 swine; a few fowls, Bible and a few other small books. A few articles of household furniture. Debts due me about forty eight dollars; I owe on an Execution and other debts as much as one hundred and eighty dollars. I am a husbandman by original occupation, have lately when able kept a school and am now a toll-gatherer at a bridge on probation, should my health prove equal to the service and the Proprietors continue me the annual income with be one hundred Dollars.
My family residing with me are my wife Mary aged 61 in ordinary health for her age. Esther Burrill, 20, no expense to me.
Eliza Burrill aged 18, very feeble able to do but little toward her support.

Someset, ss, subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule this 28th day of June 1820 Before
Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C.C.C.P. of E. Circuit
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New certificate issued 26 May 1829
and sent to Hon P. Sprague
Hallowell, Me
R C Vose
1833 
- do. to Hon. P. Sprague
Dec. 30, 1833-
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And Hon.  P. Sprague, April 23 1834
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cert not found.-
Hon Peleg Sprague
USS

Authentication sent July 20th 1820
Robert C. Vose Augusta Maine

5871
Maine
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Noah Burrell,
Sergeant
Massachusetts Line - Rev War
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1810.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of Jany 1819
R. C. Vose, Augusta Maine
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Arrears to 4th of Feb 1818. 4mo 26/30 - 38.93
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 1819  - 48.00
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$86.93
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{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Fairfield

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State of Maine

Somerset ss Bloomfield
Oct the 20, 1828.

Then Noah Burrell a Revolutionary pensioner personally appeared before me and made oath that his pension certificate was lost mislaid or withheld by Robert C. Vose Esq. to whom it was committed, for said Vose governance and for safe keeping.

Jos. H. Hill
Justice of the Peace
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Nih   Certificate by
Elam Pratt
Bloomfield
Maine
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I certify that Noah Burrill who now resides in Bloomfield, in the State of Maine, in early youth was an inhabitant of Abington, in Massachusetts with whom I was well acquainted, living near him in the same town. I further certify that at an early period of the war of the Revolution, he enlisted & served till its close, when he was discharged by General Washington, which discharge he now holds.
Bloomfield April 1910
Attest D. H. Raymond
Elam Pratt

Somerset ss. April 19, 1820. Then personally
appeared the above name Elam Pratt and acknowledged the above certificate by him subscribed to be his free act before me, and I certify that said Elam Pratt is a respectable person and a man of truth & veracity
 David H. Raymond {Justice of the peace
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Certificate by N. 3
Daniel Reed
Madison, Maine
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Madison April 19th 1828
I certify that Noah Burrill, who now resides in
Bloomfield, in the State of Maine, in his boyhood was an Inhabitant of the town of Abington in Massachusetts, with whom I was well acquainted, being an inhabitant of the same town at that time. I further certify that at an early period of the war of the Revolution he enlisted & served till its close & now holds
his discharge signed by the Commander in chief George Washington
Daniel Reed
attest
Joseph H. Hill
Josiah Reed
Somerset ss April 19th 1808. Then personally
appeared the above named Daniel Reed and acknowledged this certificate by him signed to be his free act before me & I certify that the said Daniel Reed is a respectable person and a man of truth & veracity
Joseph H. Hill {Justice of the peace
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State of Maine.
I William Allen, Esq. Clerk, for the County
of Somerset 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 ninety-
five dollars ------; and deducting therefrom
the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty-eighth day of June 1820.
William Allen, Esq. Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebu SS.
The Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within said County, hereby certifies that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esqr before whom the foregoing proceedings were had
is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, and that by the direction of the said Judge I have affixed to his certificate bearing his signature the seal of said Court--
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. Dated at Augusta the sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & eighteen
John Davis
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17.1308
INVALID.
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File No. 17.308
Noah Burrell
Sergt Rev War
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Index: -- Vol.
Act June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 53
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Senate Chamber
Ap 14 1839
Sir
I enclose the affidavit of Noah Burrill to
entitle him to the pension of a Sergeant
His discharge shows that he was --this is intended to fix the time
Yours respectfully
Peleg Sprague

J L Edwards Esq
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Senate Chamber Dec 20th 1833-
Sir;
I inclose the original discharge of Noah
Burrill - a Sergeant- This paper has been
wanting to give Mr Burrill the full amount to  as a sergeant - having as appears by the certificate served six years and during the war 
with distinguished merit-
He is of Bloomfield - Maine - Please have
his case attended to and the warrant sent to me as early as prac-
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-ticable -

I am respectfully
your
Obt Sert
P. Sprague


J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Noah Burrill
Maine
Admit as Sargent
2 years $120-
spoken of to Mr [illegible]
letter found
Set Mr Sprague
June 7th, 1834

James L. Edwards, esq
Comm. of Pension

Hon P Sprague
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Senate Chamber,
2 June, 1834.
Sir,
Will you be pleased to attend to the enclosed?
I am, very respectfully,
Yours,
Peleg Sprague
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James L Edwards Esq
Pension Office --
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Hallowell. Marin - Apr. 20 1829
Dear Sir
Herewith I send the necessary papers to attain a new pension certificate for Noah Burrill Esq.- I believe the papers are abundantly sufficient.
There can be no doubt that Mr Burrill is entitled to the certificate which he asks and
I really hope that no defects will be found in the forms to create further delay--

you will oblige me by attending to this immediately and mailing me the
new certificate as soon as practicable
I am respectfully your hb svt
P. Sprague

J.L Edwards Esq
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Pension Office
25th May, 1829.
rue a new
certificate for
Hon. Mr. Sprague
Hallowell
Maine
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Hallowell May 19 - 1829
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Sir, 
I sometime since transmitted papers to
attain a new pension certificate for Mr
Noah Burrill who is very impatient to
receive it-
Mr Edwards will confer a
favor by transmitting it as soon as convenient.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Hbt Srvt
P Sprague

Honble John H. Eaton
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R.C. Vose's
Affidavit

Hon. Peleg Sprague
U.S. Senator
Hallowell
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I Robert C. Vose, of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine aged forty five years & upwards do depose and say that I presented the claim of Noah Burrell, then of Fairfield now of Chatham Somerset County to a pension, on account of the services of said Burrell in Captain Baileys Company & Col. Sprouts Regt of the Massachusetts line and procured at the Pension office a certificate for said Noah Burrell, as a Sergeant of the said line - which certificate entitled said Burrell to a pension of $8 per month commencing on the 9th April 1818. and as numbered 5.871. Said certificate I kept in my hand as the agent said Burrell for a number of years, I should think until the last year, when said Burrell, sent to me for said certificate by one of his neighbors & I sent him said Burrell, said Pension certificate & I have not seen it since - I have examined my files and cannot find said certificate and am confident I sent the same to said Burrell, as I have before Stated-
Robert C. Vose [signature]

State of Maine
Kennebec ss.
Subscribed and sworn to this tenth day of April 1829. before me
Wm. Woart Jr. Jus. Pacis. - [signature]

I am personally acquainted with the above named R. C. Vose and said Wm Woart and with the hand writing of each and am confident that the
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above signatures purporting to be theirs and they are both gentlemen of respectability and entitled to credit. I further certify that said Wm. Woart is reputed to be and I have no doubt is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Kennebec-
Hallowell-Kennebec Co.  April 11th 1829
P. Sprague - Member of Congress [signature]
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE. 

County of Somerset SS.

On this Seventeenth day of April 182, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Somerset personally appeared Noah Burrell of Bloomfield County aforesaid who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Luther Bailey in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maine, - that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate was confided to the care of Robert C. Vose Esquire of Augusta for safe keeping & when the pensioners oath oblige said Noah to swear that sd certificate was in his possession he then sent to sd Vose several times a distance of thirty three miles tilll the year 1820, or about that time sd Burrell did send some person to deliver to Mr. Vose, but by whom said Burrill does not recollect, and has not seen it since, and it is now lost
Noah Burrell [signature]

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
Saml Philbrick Justice of the Peace for the City County of Somerset [signature]

County of Somerset
On this seventeenth day of April 1829 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of Somerset personally appeared the Hon Samuel Weston of Milburn in said County & on his oath declares that he well knows the above named Noah Burrell to be the same person who is in the pension list for services in the war of the revolution having seen his certificate when officially doing business for said Burrill as a Magistrate that he might receive his pension of the Cumberland Rank through the hands of Robert C. Vose Esq of Augusta
Samuel Weston  [signature]

Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid 
Saml Philbrick Justice of the Peace for the County of Somerset   [signature]

NOTES. -- The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate, 

The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated. 

If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in table and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one." 

The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be. 

When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above. 

I the subscriber do hereby certify that the above named Saml Weston the deponent is a person of truth & veracity -
Saml Philbrick Jus. Peace [signature]
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State of Maine  
Somerset ss 
I John G. Neil Notary Public within and for the County of Somerset, duly commissioned and qualified according to the Constitution & laws of said State, do hereby certify & make known, that Samuel Philbrick within named is at this time one of the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Somerset commissioned & qualified according to law and that due faith & credit ought to be given to all his offered acts and testimonials

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my seal of Office this Seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred twenty nine 
John G. Neil N.P. [signature]

[seal]
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I am personally acquainted with the before named Samuel Philbrick before whom the oath of said Burrill purports to have been taken, and Philbrick is a highly respectable gentleman, and is reputed to be a Justice of the Peace for the County of Somerset and I have no doubt that he is so and I have no doubt that his signature is genuine.  I am also acquainted with the Hon Weston and John G. Neil Esqr who are gentlemen of high respectability and full faith may be safely given to their attestations -
April 20. 1829. 
P. Sprague M.C. [signature]
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J.L. Edwards Esquire
Secretary of Pensions
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Sir your letter by M. Sprague has been received, and now on my part there remains an explanation (at least) Previous to the year 1780 while our beloved Colonel John Bailey commanded our Brigade, I was employed as his family steward. He being an aged man in November or December in said year 1780 retired as a superannuated Officer, but left it in charge with his son our Captain for my services & merrit to have me appointed to a sargeant. I accepted the offer & while disposing of my affairs to return to the Company to do duty as such, the Brigade Major Seth Drew came in & understanding by Capt. Bailey that I was to be [promoted?]. Said the Major, like other B. [battalion] Majors I am entitled to an orderly Sergeant, as an assistant   I am about to come into your family as an inmate    I will take Burrell & he may remain have he is. Here again I accepted & it was considered that Colonel Baileys order was complied with    I was satisfied & commenced the duty as his Sergeant the same day, & continued to do that duly till the next February when the Major informed me that there was a General order to fill the infantry companies (of which then was one in each Regiment), & send them in a ten days command. Now said Major Drew I can spare you for that short term, you may go, or not, just as you please, you may leave your affairs with me till your return. The detachment was organized forth with the command given to General De Lafayette & we soon discovered that our destination was not generally known & that we should not return by the time specified in the order - an issuing Commissary was attached to the
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Party, & I was offered the place of his clerk. I accepted & we went to Virginia to watch the motion of Lord Cornwallis' army the same which was captured the next October 1781. I  continued to do that duty till our return which was soon after and after closing the accounts of the Commissary Department for the detachment, which I finished in a few days. I returned to Captain Bailey's company. I had been absent about ten months so long that the company had its compliment of Sergants without consulting me I was appointed a Corporal. The officers considered that it was degrade, but they could do no better by me   as such I went in duty a few times, till one of our Sergeants was absent from Roll-call without leave a trifling office which often happened & as often over looked, he was arrested tried & reduced to the ranks - the Colonel approved the sentence & the same order restored me to his place, this was soon after our return from the south. As fifty or sixty years have rolled away since these transactions if the records cannot tell the exact dates they never can be ascertained. This is my explanation To avail myself of the benefits of the first act of liberality towards the soldiers of our Revolution I sent my sergeant's Warrant to substantiate my claim & when I was informed that another act was passed, that each Officer & New commissioned Officer should receive pension according to their commission or Warrant which was several years since, not knowing exactly how to proceed I petitioned Congress by Mr Sprague & send my Discharge signd by General Washington I supposed it easily obtained
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The Commander in Chief certified that I was a Sergeant while when discharged & there was his certificate on the back that the within should not avail me as a discharge until the ratification of the definitive treaty of Peace. These papers are out of my hands - they are I suppose in Washington City, but if they have not been preserved on file, as lights in my case, they are extinguished, & my case is a hand one. If the Secretary of pensions can do no better by me I would thank him to send back my Certificate which was handed by Mr. Sprague as soon as it shall be convenient - until that I shall be very uneasy for this is my all. If my discharge can be found, on its back, by the furlough may be proved that I drew pay till the ratification of the Treaty of Peace as a Sergeant in that case then would be a trifle more perhaps sufficient to entitle me to a new certificate for the other when I saw it last it was much worn 

I am with due respect 
Sir Your most Obedient and very humble Srvnt. Noah Burrell [signature]

Fairfield May 26th 1834.
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Noah Burrell
June 17 1834.

Robert C. Vose Esquire
Augusta Maine
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Fairfield June 17th, 1834
Sir: If you think you are prepared to obtain my extra pension, you have nothing to do but to send to the Secretary, for my pension certificate is in his hands & you cannot be too quick by sending it on & let me know your success & I will make the explanation. It was sent in a fit of dispair.
Yours truly
Noah Burrell [signature]
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State of Maine 
Somerset County ss.  April 7th 1834 
I Noah Burrell of Fairfield, County of Somerset do hereby depose & say that I was a soldier in the War of the Revolution in Captain Luther Bailey Company in Colonel Ebenezer Sprouts Regiment of Infantry and In the year A.D. 1780, some time in the month of November or December was promoted for the Special purpose of assisting the Brigade Major Seth Drew as his orderly Sergeant was discharged June 10, 1783. which discharge was not to avail your deponant as a discharge untill the ratification of the definition Treaty of Peace untill that time your deponent was to be considered on furlough, as may be seen in the back of said Discharge now in the hands of the Honourable Peley Sprague, or the Secretary. Further your deponent saith not 
Noah Burrell [signature]

State of Maine 
Somerset County ss. April 7th 1834 
Subscribed & sworn to the day & date as above before me 
Levi Barrett Justice Peace [signature]
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I am personally acquainted with the within Noah Burrell and certify that he is a man of undoubted veracity, and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief. I am also acquainted the within named Levi Barrett and have no doubt that he is a Magistrate, and that the within signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. 
Pely Sprague [signature]

Washington June 10th 1834.
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I Noah Burrill of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Somerset & in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a native Citizen of the United States, do on oath declare and testify that I enlisted for during the war about February 1777 and served about six years and three months under said enlistment in the War of the Revolution. That from my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my country for support. That according to my best recollection I enlisted into Capt Judah Aldens Company, Col. John Bailey's Regt in the Massachusetts line about February 1777 for the period of during the war, when I continued to same until about the 8th or 9th  of June 1783 when I was discharged at the huts near New Windsor as a Sergeant of the Company then commanded by Captain Luther Bailey, the Regiment being then commanded by Lieut Colonel Ebenezer Sprout 
my discharge was signed by General Washington for six years & three months faithful service and entitled to two Badges of Merit which discharge is out of my power to produce having not seen it these thirty years 
Noah Burrill [signature]

Kennebec ss: Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
on this 9th day of April A.D. 1818 the above named Noah Burrill after having been carefully examined made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed - before me 
Sam S Wilde Jun.  [signature]
Sup. Jud Court for sd Coiunty
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
I Henry Sewall, of Augusta in the District of Maine, a Major General in the Massachusetts Militia, and late an officer in the revolutionary army & during the last three years of the war a Captain in the same regiment in which the within named Noah Burrell served; do upon oath certify and declare, that I have seen the above named soldier in the said army, and from conversing with him & his relating certain facts which he & could not have known but by being in actual service, I have no doubt of the truth of his within statements 
H. Sewall [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Kennebec ss.
On this twenty second day of June A.D. 1818- the above named Henry Sewall Esq. personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. -
Before me 
Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace [signature]
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I Seth Pratt of Windsor County of Kennebec & State of Maine aged Seventy one years, a pensioner in the Maine Roll, on oath testify & say, that Noah Burrell, who is now before me was a Sergeant in Captain Luther Bailey's Company in Colonel Sprouts Regiment in the War of the Revolution at least two years, & was discharged as such & is the identical Noah Burrell with whom I was intimately acquainted in our boy-hood, were inlisted for during that war served in the same Regiment, were discharged in the same day & returned to our native town of Abington in Massachusetts in company & as we have not always lived in the same town since, when we have met together, have always recognized each other & conversed with each other in the dangers & escapes of that War. Further the deponent saith not. Signed at Windsor this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three 
Seth Pratt [signature]

In presence of  Harriet Perkins [signature]

State of Maine 
Kennebec ss.
Subscribed & sworn to this twelfth day of November 1833. The deponent retaining his intellectual powers & is a credible & witness. Before me
Jesse Harriman, Just. Peace [signature]

State Maine 
Kennebec ss.
I John A Chandler Clerk of the Judicial Courts do certify that Jesse Harriman is a magistrate order that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine - 
J A Chandler Clerk [signature]
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[Title at top of page is cut off but looks like
"Additional Evidence"]

I Seth Pratt of Windsor, Kennebec County, Maine, aged seventy
two years do upon oath testify & delare [illegible] addition
to the within affidavit that I served with Noah
Burrill as I have within stated: that I was serving
in Capt. Robert Bradford's company in Col. Sprout's
Massachusetts regiment at the time said Burrill
was appointed a Sergeant in Capt. Luther Baileys
Company of the same regiment.  We were then
at [Westpoint ?], in April or May 1781.  & I distinctly
recollect the facts & circumstances connected
therewith and know & recollect perfectly well
that said Burrill served as a Sergeant
in said Bailey's Company from April or
May (I think May) 1781 to the time of his
discharge in June 1783.         Seth Pratt
State of Maine
Kennebec Is:      Subscribed & sworn to this 26th day of
April 1834.  The deponent being a credible &
disinterested witness.
Before me Wm. Woart [illegible] Jus. Peace

State of Maine
Number [illegible]:  I John A Chandler, Clerk of [illegible] the Judicial
Courts, [illegible] within and for said County hereby
certify that William Woart [illegible] is a magistrate
as above and that the forgoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of the Supreme Judicial Court of said
State this twenty sixth day of April
A.D. 1834.
J. A. Chandler
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Noah Burrell, Fairfield
Sergt. Col. Sprout Mass Reg.
1777 to 1783.
April 9 1818
Admitted


[right-hand side of page, written sideways]
Noah Burrell
Oath and Evidence
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[Seal in the upper-left corner]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. -
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States -

I the subscriber being one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of  Massachusetts do hereby certify to your Honor, that Noah Burrell, a Citizen of the United States, now resident in the District of Maine, within said Commonwealth on the ninth day of April Anno Domini 1818 made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and 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, agreeable to the provision 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 18th. A.D. 1818.  Which declaration and the evidence produced by the said applicant is herewith 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 sargeant in the War of the revolution, against the common Enemy upon the continental establishment for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.

     In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand, and have caused the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed this 29th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
S. S. Wilde [signature]
Jus. Sup. Jud.  Court for sd County
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To Whom this may concern.
We certify that we are personally acquainted with Noah Burrill having lived near neighbors to him for a number of years.  And in consequence of the impaired  state of his bodily constitution, and his indigent circumstances, we consider him as standing in need of the assistance of his Country for support.  And from his acquaintance with so many minute circumstances attending the War of of the Revolution, and his reputation for truth & his veracity, we have no doubts in our minds but that he served several years in that war and was honourably discharged.
[signatures]
Joseph Town
Peter Page

Fairfield 12th, June 1818

Somerset ss.  Fairfield 12th June 1818
Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Town & Peter Page and made oath to the truth of what they had subscribed as above & sealed up by me  
Levi Barrett Jus Peace [signature]

And I the said [illegible] do also certify that I have lived a near neighbor to the said Noah Burrill as many as twelve years, and from my own personal knowledge (on account of his impaired health & needy circumstances) I consider him as being entitled to the donation granted by Congress to Revolutionary soldiers both by the spirit & letters of that act.

Levi Barrett Jus of the Peace [signature]