Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32285, Nathaniel Ham, Mass.
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SERVICE Mass.

Ham, Nathaniel

NUMBER S 32285
CONTENTS
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Maine

No. 26040

Nathaniel Ham
of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Stanwood of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Allen in the Maine Troops
line for 10 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 1/3 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Dec.
1833 and sent to J. Murphy
Portland Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833   83.33 1/3
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th March 1834 - 16.66 2/3

$100.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E  Vol. 1   Page 21
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No. 2826

Nathaniel Ham

Application for a Pension

August 1832

a private

He must be positive as to the length of his service before he was taken sick - application must be made to the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts for evidence of the claim admittance

Pension Office Oct. 7 1833

Admitted 
10 Months Pr

J. Murphy Esq.
Portland Maine
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MAINE DISTRICT SS>

At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the seventeenth day of August AD eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of said Court.

On this seventeenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Nathaniel Ham a resident of Brunswick in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:  Viz; That late in the fall of the year 1776, he was drafted at Brunswick for three months, and joined to a company of Militia in the State service commanded by Capt. Stanwood, and was ordered with said Company to New York.  That on the march he froze his foot, was taken sick, and returned home. said Company remained at Pittskill - That he did duty in said Company about one month before they started for New York State - That he was unable to do duty after he returned home on account of his sickness and lameness - The Company was disbanded at the end of the three months for which they had been drafted.  That in the fall of the year 1777 he was again drafted for five months and joined a Company by Capt. Lemont and marched to Camden and there embarked for Machias where he arrived in October - and served there for five months Col. Allen and Lemont Col. Nevers commanded the Troops which were there.  That in the spring of the year 1779 he was again drafted at said Brunswick for four months and  joined a Company of Militia in the State service, commanded by Capt. Lemont, afterward by Capt. Curtis, and marched to Falmouth, and from there to was transported with said Company by water to Penobscot and Castine - where he served the term of four months - that he was engaged in several skirmished and was defeated under the command of Saltonstall and Lovell
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State.

Nathaniel  Ham

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before

Ashur Ware

U.S. Judge for the 
District of Maine
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The said Nathaniel Ham farther states That he was born at Brunswick in February 1757 there is he believes a record of his age in said Brunswick.  That he resided in Brunswick when he first entered the service, and has always resided there ever since.  That he was drafted when he went into the service - and served as a private soldier.

Nathaniel Ham

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before 

Ashur Ware

U. S. Judge for the District of Maine

And the said Court do hereby declares their opinion (after the investigation of the matter; and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department)  that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I, John Mussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Ham for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fifth day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

John Mussey
Clerk of the United States District Court for Maine District
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32285

Invalid
Rev.

File No. 32,285

Nathaniel Ham
Private Rev. War

Act:  June 7, 1832

Index: - Vol. 2  Page 173


[Arrangement of 1870]
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I Ichabod Doughty of Brunswick aged 76 years on oath declare that I am well knowing that Nathaniel Ham enlisted or was drafted into the company of the Militia in the state service commanded by Capt. William Stanwood at Brunswick.   I served in the same company and marched with them to Pitts Hill where I did service for three months.  I perfectly remember that the said Nathaniel Ham was obliged to leave us after we began our march on account of his foot  being frozen and other indisposition and inability to pursue the march, according to the best of my knowledge and belief, and as I have always understood the said Nathaniel Ham's name remained on the roll of said company, the whole term till the company was disbanded, I believe the said Ham to be 75 years of age and he is known and reported in the neighborhood to have been in the service of of the United States several times.

Ichabod Doughty his x mark

Witness
Ebenr Everett



State of Maine
Cumberland  ss.  Brunswick, August 22, 1832
Then the above named Ichabod Doughty a person of fair reputation for veracity, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration  by him 
Subscribed before 
Ebenr Everett
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine

Cumberland County ss.

I William T. Vaughan, Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland and County do certify that Eben Everett is a magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this twenty fifth day of August AD 1832.

William T. Vaughan
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I William Getchell of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath testify and say that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Ham of Brunswick aforesaid, that I believe him to be about 75 years of age, that about the middle of September in the year 1777 we were drafted together at the same time and in the same company of the same militia, said Company was commanded by Capt. Benjamin Lemont and Ballard was Lieutenant and Samuel Lemont Ensign.  We marched by land to Camden and there embarked for Machias and joined the force under the command of Col. Allen and Lieutenant Col. Phineas Nevers.  Said Company remained at Machias the term of five months and then returned home.  I was at that time well acquainted with said Nathaniel Ham  - served the whole of the above time in the same company and can state from personal knowledge that he was in the service at the time and place afore mentioned and the aforesaid period of five months.

William Getchell his x mark

Witness William H. Codman

State of Maine Cumberland Personally appeared the above named William Getchell this ninth day of August 1832 at Portland in said County and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true.

Before 
William Henry Codman
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I believe aforesaid depositioned is a person of truth and veracity--

William H Codman
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State of Maine

Cumberland County ss.

I William T. Vaughan, Clerk of the Court of Cumberland County do certify that William H. Codman is a magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office this ninth day of August AD 1832

William T. Vaughan
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, November 7, 1833

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 name of Nathaniel Ham is borne on "An Abstract or Pay Roll for Capt. Benjamin Lemont's Company in Col. John Allen's Regiment raised for the defense of Machias in the State of Massachusetts Bay October 1st 1777" having served as a private from October 3rd to December 31st  where he is allowed Three months and nine days, including time to go home
The name of Nathaniel Ham is borne on "A Pay Roll for Capt. Nehemiah Curtis' Company in Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment in the Service of the United States in the Expedition at Penobscot from the 7th of July to the 25th day of September inclusive 1779"  Where he is allowed Two months and eighteen days.
The name of Nathaniel Ham is also borne  on "A Pay Roll of Capt. Benjamin Lemont's Company in a Detachment Commanded by Major William Lithigow of the Massachusetts State Troops made from the time of their engaging up to first day of November 1779 according to an Act of the General Court allowing two shillings for each mile out
amount carried over
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Time Brought over

and home, which is on an average sixteen miles to each man's home, where he is allowed one month and fifteen days
Nathaniel Ham claims service under Capt. Stanwood as a private in 1776.  the roll of which is not in the Office.

Edward D. Bangs
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Nathaniel Ham has stated to me, that he did actual service under Capt. Stanwood only one month and that his lameness continued after the Company was disbanded
owing to present infirmity he is not able to leave home to amend his declaration 

Joseph Pope 
Justice of the Peace

Portland Maine Nov. 18, 1833