Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22369, for Abraham Talbet, Massachusetts
Page 1

SERVICE
Mass.
Talbet, Abraham or Talbett or Talbert, Mary
NUMBER
W22369
Page 2

6169
Maine
Abraham Talbett, private
Massachusetts Line 9 mo.
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 28th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of January 1819 and (illegible)
R. C. Tou
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818 4 mo. 7/30  33.86
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 March 1819    48.00
                                                   (total)  $81.86      
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
China
(Illegible)
Page 3

Notification sent the 10th July 1820 to R. C. (illegible), Esq.
Augusta  Maine
Page 4

(Left side of page)
Reported
January 26 (illegible)

(Right side of page)
3409
Maine
Mary Talbett widow of Abraham who (Inserted above: Mass) served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars – Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of January 1819 and sent to G. W. Morton
Augusta ME
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 Page 39 Vol. 1
Page 5

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Secretary’s Office, Boston August 1, 1843
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Philo Leach was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth.
(illegible)

In the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno. A. Bolla
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Page 6

Copy from the Book of Records of Marriages belonging to the Town of Bridgewater in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ~ “Seventeen hundred eighty seven, September the Twentieth, Abraham Talbet and Mary Dunbar by the Revd. John Porter”
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the sate, which is expressed on the Record in fair, legible figures as follows – “September 20, 1787”
Mitchell Theith Town Clerk.
I Mitchell Theith above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Bridgwater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named as certified by me.
Mitchell Theith Town Clerk of Bridgewater Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County s.s.
April 24, 1843
Sworn to before me Philo Leach Justice of the Peace
Page 7

9376
Mary Talbett


Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine
Page 8

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled “An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.” And the Act approved August 23, 1842
STATE OF MAINE
Kennebec County, ss.
On this ninth day of June A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the Hon. Asa Redington Judge of the Middle District Court of Maine the same being a Court of Records, Mary Talbett a resident of China in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged eighty eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled “An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;” (The following printed words are crossed out: That she is the widow of) and the act approved August 23, 1842, that she is the widow of Abraham Talbett, who was a pensioner of the United States, on the roll of the Maine Agency under the Act of March 18, 1818, that his pension was paid to him at the said agency up to the 4th day of March 1840.  She rec’d. the pension as his widow and that she reports a declaration made by him of his services in the Army of the Revolution in support of her claim.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Abraham Talbett on the twentieth day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Abraham Talbett died on the eleventh day of Jun 1840 at Augusta, State of Maine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place pervious to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, that her maiden name was Mary Dunbar and that their marriage was solemnized in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and that ever since his death she has remained unmarried.
Mary Talbett 
X her mark
Attest
Asa Redington
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
Asa Redington
Judge of Dist. Court of Maine 
Middle District, the same being a Court of Records
Page 9

State of Maine, Kennebec County Ss.  June 9, 1843.
The within named Mary Talbet resides twenty five miles from the place of (illegible) the Court.  She is totally blind and unable, through great infirmity of body to attend the Court and is very poor indeed.  She has through the larger part of her long life been, according to the statement of her neighbors, an exemplary and pious woman – all of whose statements are entitled to full credit.  Her husband died June 1860 while on a journey from his own home to get his semi-annual pension.
Asa Redington, Judge, Dis. Court
Mid. Dis.

STATE OF MAINE
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County hereby Certify, That the Hon. Asa Redington before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of the Middle Dist. Court of Maine.  I also Certify, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said (blank) in the matter of the application of Mary Talbett for a pension.  I also certify that Asa Redington is a Justice of the Peace for the several Counties of the State of Maine and that the annexed signatures purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this second of August A.D. 1843
A.	R. Nichols
Page 10

I Ambrose Sewall, aged 55 years, of China in the County of Kennebec, State of Maine, do depose and say that I knew Abraham Talbet fifty years ago, & ever since that time up to his death in 1840.  He was many years a pensioner of the United States for services as a Soldier in the revolutionary war.  I also have been acquainted with Mary his wife fifty years up to this time.  They lived together all that period of time as man & wife and had eight children.  I never doubted that they were duly married to each other, not heard it doubted.  She has remained unmarried since the death of said Abraham and is yet his widow.  She has always been considered of excellent moral character, of truth & veracity.
Ambrose Sewall

State of Main, Kennebec Ss,  June 9, 1843
The above named Ambrose Sewall, to me well known as a man of truth and veracity, made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me.
Asa Redington
Justice of the Peace, throughout the several counties of the State of Maine.
Page 11

Abraham Talbett
private Col Wepon's
Mass. Reg. 1778 to 17779
9 mo.
April 28, 1818
Admitted
Page 12

Abraham Talbart
Page 13

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Abraham Talbart, a citizen of the United States, aged sixty one years, born in Bridgewater in the state of Massachusetts, now resident in China, in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that in May 1778, I enlisted as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment for the period of nine months after I should arrive at Fish Kill, in the State of New York.  I arrived at Fish Kill, and on the tenth day of July following was mustered and joined Capt. Coyswill’s company and Col Wepon’s regiment of the Massachusetts line.  The period of my enlistment I fully served out, and tool my final and honorable discharge from the Army at Fish Kill, in March 1779.  This was my last and only continental service.  My discharge was burnt, in and with my house about seven years since.  Suring the most of my service I was stationed in New York near West Point.  From my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my county for support.  And I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever.  I request that I may be place upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Abraham Talbet

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Kennebec Ss.
On the twenty eighth day of April A.D. 1818, the above named Abraham Talbart, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him (illegible)
Before me
S. S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud. Court
For said Comwlth.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I John Faye, aged fifty-nine years, of Augusta, in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the above named Abraham Talbart.  I well knew of his enlisting into the revolutionary army as a nine months man, and of his returning home after his term of enlistment had expired.  I lived at that time a near neighbor to him and fully believe that he served as he had above stated.  I know of his having his house burnt about seven years since.  From his reduced circumstances in life his is in need of assistance from his country for support.  He sustains the character of a man of truth.
John Faye
X his mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec, Ss.
On this twenty eighth day of April A.D. 1818, the above named John Faye, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him (illegible)
Before me,
S. S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud. Court
For said Commonwealth
Page 14

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. 
I the subscriber, bring one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to certify to your Honor that Abraham Talbart, a citizen of the United States, now resident in the District of Maine within the said Commonwealth, on the twenty eighth day of April AD 1818 made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and (...) other evidence as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same and the proceedings to be had thereon, to your (...), 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 AD 1818, which declaration and the other evidence produced by said applicant is hereunto annexed.

And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the said applicant, and a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me, that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that, from his (...) circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and have caused the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, to be hereunto offered, the twenty eighty day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

S. S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud. Court for (...)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The (...) Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, (...) Certified, that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esqt. before whom the foregoing proceedings, were had, is one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, and that by the direction of the said Judge. I have affixed unto His Certificate, framing his signature, the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court.

In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hands. Dated at Augusta, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred + eighteen. 
John Davis
Page 15

Jan. 19
135
Abraham Talbet
6169
(illegible)
March 1819
R. C, Vose, Augusta, Maine
Page 16

State of Maine
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 Seventy-seven 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 twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec
Page 17

135
State of Maine.
Copy
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty fifth day of May, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice of 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 for fine and imprisonment, Abraham Talbet aged sixty three years, resident in China in the County of Kennebec 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 Cogswell and Regiment commanded by Colonel Wesson of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of nine months
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twenty eighth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6,169. And I, the said Abraham Talbet do further solemnly sweat, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Abraham Talbet

The following is a Schedule of my who Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:  one acre of land in China with a small hut thereon both of the value of thirty dollars. One swine of the value of five dollars.  Old household stuff besides necessary bedding not exceeding five dollars in value.
Farming utensils of the value of two dollars.
Then thousand of poor bricks in a kiln of the value of twenty five dollars.  I have debts due to me that can be collected not exceeding ten dollars and owe as much as one hundred dollars.  The income derived from the above property does not exceed the interest I pay annually.
My (illegible) is that of (illegible); but from infirmity I am to labor very little, the flesh of my left leg being withered and perished.
My family at home consists of myself, my wife Mary aged sixty-two years sick and under the doctors hands.
Page 18

Except the foregoing, and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no estate or income whatever.
Abraham Talbet
Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath & schedule on the twenty fifth day of May 1820.
Before me
Nathan Weston J. G. J
C.C.G. Pleas
A true copy
Attest John Davis Clk.
Page 19

(illegible)
Augusta, ME

Stamped: CHINA  AUG 24

Along right side: Mary Talbett

Along left side:  
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta 
Maine
Page 20

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled 'An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."

State of Maine, County of Kennebec.
On this Twenty Second day of August A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Mary Talbert, a resident of China in the County of Kennebec aged ninety two years, who, being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Abraham Talbert who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Talbert (or Talbett) at the rate of thirty dollars and --- cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Witness: Robert Fletcher
Ambrose Sewall
Mary (her mark) Talbott

Sworn to and subscivred, on the day and year above written,
Before me, Robert Fletcher Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Robert Fletcher Justice of the Peace

State of Maine, Kennebec County
I, William M Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Robert Fletcher is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 24th day of August in the year 1848. 
W M Stratton, Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County
Page 21

Mary Talbett
$30 per ann.

Upside down:
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine

At bottom:
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine

Stamped: CHINA
(illegible)
Page 22

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July, 1838.

State of Maine, County of Kennebec. 

On this tenth day of November A. D. 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, Mary Talbett a resident of China in the County of Kennebec aged eighty eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Abraham Talbett who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Abraham Talbett at the rate of thirty dollars and --- cents per annum, under the act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the state of Maine. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Abraham Talbett having remained unmarried ever since his death. 

Witness
Caleb Parmenter    Mary Talbett
Ambrose Sewall

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
before me, Caleb Parmenter Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Abraham Talbett deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.

Caleb Parmenter Justice of the Peace
Page 23

State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss.
I the undersigned, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the county of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Caleb Parmeter is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec – and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the state of Main this fifteenth day of November A.D. 1843
A. R. Nichols
Page 24

Augusta, Maine
Nov. 15, 1843
Sir,
I herewith enclose a declaration of Mary Talbett, for the purpose of having her claim to a pension under the Act of March 3, 1843.  Also declaration of May Jewett, one of which is to obtain the Arrears of Pension due her under Act of July 7, 1838 from March 4, 1836 to Sept. 14, 1836, the other for the purpose of establishing her claim to a pension under the Act of March 3, 1843.  Should the papers be satisfactory, I would respectfully request you to allow their respective claims, and send me for them such certificates as you (illegible) in like claims.
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Serv’t.
Geo. W. Morton

James L Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
City of Washington 
D.C.
Page 25

4783
Maine

Mary Talbett widow of Abraham Talbett who was a private in the Massachusetts Line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of January 1844 and sent to G W Morton Augusta Maine.
[Act of March 3, 1843]

Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 10
Page 26

Maine
Mary Talbett widow of Abraham Talbett who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 11th June 1840 of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain ___________ of the Regt. commanded by ______ in the Mass. line for 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars ____Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Oct. 1843 and sent to G. W. Morton, Augusta, Maine
Total amount, $150
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho Sumpkin, Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 24
Page 27

9376
Mary Talbett
Maine
Act July 7 '38
Adm
9 mo.
priv
______
$30 per an


G. W. Morton Esq.
Augusta
Maine
Page 28

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22369
Mary Talbett
wid of
Abraham Talbett
Priv   Rev    War

Act Feb 2nd /48
Index: Vol. M, Page 265

[Arrangement of 1870]
Page 29

See statement in pension claim, W.9911, Luther Jotham, (colored) made by Ezekiel Talbott (colored) in regard to his father, Abraham. EEL