Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,623, Joseph Barnes, Mass.
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(3-1776) 
SERVICE 
Mass. 
Barnes, Joseph 
or 
Barns 
Lydia 

NUMBER 
W. 24,623

CONTENTS
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Dead 
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the [illegible] April from 4 March 1838 to 28 May 1838 the day of his death - Agt notified 9  [illegible] 1839 

18,209 
Maine 
Joseph Barnes of Lubec in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat of the Mass line, for the term of 1781 - end of war. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of August 1819. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of July 1821 and Josiah Harris Esqr
Machias, Maine 

Arrears to 4th of March 1821 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1821

151.48
48
$199.48 

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
May 1. 1820
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Sent to Hon.
H. Hamlin 

Jany 11 49 
Let to [illegible] March 6/51
Reported 
Dec. 29/48 

2098 
Maine 
Lydia Barnes 
widow of Joseph Barnes 
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Dec 1848 and sent to Hon. H. Hamlin 
HofR 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2, Vol. 1.
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Joseph Barnes 

A Miller 
[illegible] 

Joseph Barnes of Eastport in the county of Washington and commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath
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I Joseph Barnes of Eastport in the County of Washington and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath do testify and declare that I enlisted into the continental army of the United States of America as Private soldier in the town of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland in the State aforesaid some time in the month of March in the year 1781 was marched to Boston there turned to Capt Alden, Company and marched to West Point in the State of New York was there turned to Captain Luther Bailey Company in Colonel Sprout's Regiment which was the second Regiment in the Massachusetts Line. The Brigade was commanded by Brig General Patterson. I was enlisted for the term of three years - I continued in the army and [illegible] duty at [illegible] [illegible] and think I discharged my duty as a soldier faithfully the whole of the time I served - I was honourably discharged by the Commander in Chief at West Point some time in September in the year 1783 - by misfortune I have lost my discharge. I am now fifty five years old am infirm and worn down by misfortune and sickness have never received pension or
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an emolument from my country and am very poor and stand in need of assistance from my country for support. Joseph Barnes 

Washington - August 7th 1819 then the above named Joseph Barnes made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed - before me James Campbell 
one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third eastern Circuit Mass - 

Note the applicant has been absent [illegible] [illegible] of not applying for the Pension before this time.
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This was returned for further evidence which will appear in two depositions herewith.
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30 
Joseph Barnes 
Massa Line 
Col Sproat 
701-2 yrs
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STATE OF MAINE. 
Eastern Circuit Washington SS. At the Circuit Court of Common Please for the Third begun and holden at Machias within and for the county of Washington on the first Tuesday of March A.D.  1821 before the Honorable William Crosby + James Campbell. Judges of said Court. 

On this ninth day of March in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Washington, Joseph Barnes aged fifty six years, resident in Lubeck, late of Eastport, in said county, who first being duly sword according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, wiz, as a private soldier. in the company commanded by Capt. Luther Bailey in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the seventh day of August A.D. 1819, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me. 

Joseph 
Sworn to and declared, on the ninth day of March A.D. 1821
BEFORE
Wm Crosby 
James Campbell
Judges of said Court. 

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:- 
Not any thing. I live with + am supported by my son in law. 
Signed Joseph Barnes
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SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Joseph Barnes who by occupation am a farmer, which I am not able to pursue by reason of infirmity by age, rheumatism, + other complaints. 

NAMES. 
My wife Lydia 

AGES. 
48 

Capacity of each to contribute to their support. 
Able to work a little - feeble contributor 

(signed) Joseph Barnes 

Washington, SS. 
I Josiah Harris, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Please for the 3rd eastern Circuit for said county of Washington do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said 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, is nothing dollars and cents. 

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 13th day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty one. 
Josiah Harris {Clerk if the Circuit Court aforesaid for said county of Washington

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Joseph Barnes 
Massa Line 
Col Sproat 
701- 2 yrs
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V 4262 
Lydia Barnes 
Widow of Joseph 
Me.
Act 7 July 38 

2yrs in 
80$ 

No deduction 

Nicholas Thomas 
Eden 
Me
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State of Maine 
Washington Co. 

On this twenty sixth day of October in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred + thirty eight personally appeared before the Honorable John C Talbot Judge of Probate within + for said County of Washington Lydia Barnes a resident of Lubec in said county aged sixty seven 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 July 7, 1838 entitled  An Act granting half pay + pensions to certain widows - that she is the widow of Joseph Barnes who was a private in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War - That she was not acquainted with her late husband till after the close of the war + can only state what she has heard him say as to his service. She now has his pension certificate in her possession numbered 18, 209 dated July 11, 1821 by which it appears that her said husband was entitled to eight dollars per month. She has no other documentary evidence than said pension certificate. 

She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Barnes in November in the year seventeen hundred + ninety three - that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Barnes died on the twenty eighth day of May last. - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service - but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred + ninety four viz: at the time above stated. 
Lydia Barnes
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sworn to + subscribed, in open Court, on the day + year first above written. 
J.C. Talbot 

I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Washington, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the whole proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Barnes for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 26th day of October A.D. 1838. 

Albert G. Lane, Register 

State of Maine 
Washington ss. 
I Aaron L Raymond Clerk of the Judicial Court held within the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that John C Talbot Esqr is Judge of the Court of Probate held within said county duly commissioned + qualified as such, and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hands and the seal of the Court of Common Please this twentieth day of November A.D. 1838 
A. L. Raymond, Clerk as aforesaid
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I Lydia Barnes wife of Joseph Barnes aged more than seventy one years do testify and say that on the seventh day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, I gave birth to two twin children, the one a son the other a daughter these were our first children we had after our marriage - which took place as I heretofor stated in my former declaration now in the pension office. 

Nicholas Thomas 
Lydia Barnes 

State of Maine 
Hancock September 9th 1842. Personally appeared Lydia Barnes a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth as the above deposition by her subscribed before me. 
Nicholas Thomas, Justice Peace

The word "June" in the third line was intended before signing by me Nicholas Thomas 

town Clerk for the town of Trenton
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Record of the family of Joseph Barnes and Lydia his wife. 
William Barnes and Mariah Barnes (twins) 
Born June seventh one thousand seven hundred and ninety four 
Mary Barnes, Born December fifteenth seventeen hundred and ninety six 
John Barnes, Born June fifteenth seven hundred and ninety eight 
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, 
William Barnes and Mariah Barnes (twins) 
Born June 7, 1794 
Mary Barnes, Born December 15, 1796 
John Barnes, Born June 15, 1798 

I John King depose and say that I held the office of town clerk for the town of Trenton County of Hancock State of Maine and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. 
John Kind, Town Clerk 
Trenton, September 10th 1842 

Hancock, September 10th 1842 
Sworn  to before me Nicholas Thomas Justice Peace 
Justice of the Peace
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I William Haynes of Trenton, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Hancock do testify and say that acting as a Justice and [illegible] in the capacity of a statesman in said Trenton for several years, and having occasion from time to time to examine the old town Records, I find them in a very imperfect state - I further testify that there is no record of any settled clergyman in said town and by inquiring of aged persons I find there never has been any such settled of any denomination whatever - and as to Baptism of children, it's rarely provided in this town and whenever it is, it is done by some travelling preacher - Some years past, I as a magistrate, took some deposition in a pension case of Lydia Barnes, widow of Joseph Barnes, and claim her justly entitled to a five year pension agreeable to an act of Congress. 

I further certify that by common [illegible] Joseph Barnes + Lydia Thompson were married by the Rev John [illegible] who afterward [illegible] into the [illegible] of New Brunswick where he died many years since. 

William Haynes 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine, 
Hancock, September 10th 1842. Personally appeared William Haynes Esqr credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. 
Before me 
Nicholas Thomas Justice of Peace 

The certificate of my official character as a Justice of the Peace is annexed to papers sent to your office sometime past, either in the case of Rebecca Soar or Alexander McKillis. 
Nicholas Thomas
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February 7, 1925. 

Alden K. Davis. 
552 Galena Ave., 
Pasadena, CALIF. 

Sir: 
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.24623, it appears that Joseph Barnes, while a resident of Harpswell, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (Maine) enlisted in March 1781, served as a private in Captain Alden's Massachusetts Company and Captain Luther Bailey's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged in September 1783. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 7, 1819, while a resident of Eastport, Washington County, Massachusetts (Maine) aged fifty-five years. He died at Lubec, Washington County, Maine, May 28, 1838. 
Soldier married at Trenton, Hancock County, Maine, in November 1793, Lydia Thompson. She was allowed pension on her application executed October 26, 1838, while a resident of Lubec, Maine, aged sixty-seven years. 
They had the following children:
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William and Mariah (twins) born June 7, 1794. 
Mary " December 15, 1796. 
John " June 15, 1798. 

In 1821 reference was made to a son-in-law, a resident of Lubec, Maine, name not stated. 
Respectfully, 
Acting Commissioner.
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Reported 
1785
Maine 
Lydia Barnes 
widow of Joseph Barnes who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 28 May 1838 of Washington in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain - of the Regt commanded by Col Sprout in the Mass line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Sept 1842 and sent to N. Thomas Eden Maine 

Arrears to the 4th of March '41
Semi-annual allowance ending 

400

[Act July 7, 1838] 
Recorded by Theo Smoody, Clerk. 
Book Vol. 1 Page 3.
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Rep. 84 
Maine 
Lydia Barnes 
widow of Joseph Barnes who was a private in the Massachusetts line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of May 1843 an sent to Nicholas J. Thomas 
Eden, Maine 

[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. a Page 2
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2698 
Maine 
Lydia Barnes 
widow of Joseph Barnes who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Incd from $80 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st of July, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of March 1837 and sent to S. Thayer Lubec, Maine 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 4, Vol. 1 

2
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Set Hon J. C. Noyes, 
[illegible] 2(?) 1839 - 
to N. Thomas Sep 3. 1842
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Solomon Thayer 
Lubec, ME
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Both for Rev Services 

[illegible] Chamber 
Jan 10 49- 

Dear Sir 
You forwarded the [illegible] day since two pension certificates - one in favor of Martha Gove - widow of Jacob Gove - the other in favor of Lydia Barnes widow of Joseph Barnes

I do not know to whom to send them - will you inform me of their residences, or the residences of their Atty or by whom the original [illegible] 
place in your files [illegible]

J L Edwards 
Refr H Hamlin
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17.887 
W Edwards 

Joseph Barnes 
Washington Co. Maine 

J. Harris 
Agt 
Machias, Maine 

Recd 25 Apl 1821

Admitted original settlement
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Washington, ss. August 7th A.D. 1819 
IT appearing to my satisfaction that Joseph Barnes - Subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration. I now transmit the testimony in the case with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War:? the testimony and proceeding in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this Certificate. 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and cause the Seal of the Circuit Court of Common Please, for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, to be hereunto affixed. 
James Campbell } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts. 

Washington, ss, August 7th A.D. 1819. 
I am satisfied that the above names Joseph Barnes by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support. 
James Campbell } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts. 

To the Secretary of Department of War
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Will the Comm. of Pensions give the information desired in this letter? 
Resp. Your H. Hamlin 
File 6/51

J.E. Heath 
Comm of Pen 


Hon Jas E. Heath 
Commissioner of Pensioner 
Washington D.C.
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Lubec Me Jan'y 29 1851 

Sir, 
Martha Gove widow of Jacob Gove + Lydia Barnes widow of Joseph Barnes now draw pensions of $80 per an by virtue of their husbands' Revolutionary service. Their certificates  end at 29 Dec 1848. Mr. Gove died in 1829 + Barnes 1838 + draw pensions by virtue of the act of 1818 of $96 each per annum. 

Are Mrs Gove + Mrs Barnes entitled, by any act or Resolve of Congress to a larger pension than they now draw _+ if so, how much  + what is the mode by which they can obtain the back deficiency that may be due them + a correction of their certificates. An answer communicated to the Hon H Hamlin, Senator or to me will greatly oblige you. Odt Sevt. 
Sol Thayer 

Hon. J. E. Heath 
Com. of Pensions
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Hon. J. E. Heath 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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Lubec Dec 16 1850 

Sir 
Your letter of the 11th [illegible] is [illegible] but I regret to say it does not meet my enquiry 'tho' it would do so if all the acts of Congress were accessible but they are not. 

I wish to know specifically if the widows Martha Gove + Lydia Barnes now drawing pensions of $80 per an. by certificate dated 29th Dec. 1848 are by any law entitled to a larger pension + if so what is the process for obtaining the [illegible] + the arrearages? 
Your obt svt 
Solo Thayer 

Hon J E Heath
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Payment to be made at Portland by William Woodbury Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Maine 

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under the act February 2d, 1848, Page 2, Vol. 1 
Leo Jenkins 
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
WIDOW'S PENSION. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Lydia Barnes widow of Joseph Barnes who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this 29th day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty eight 

W Marcy 
Secretary of War. 

Examined and Countersigned, 
J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pension.
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Eden, Me Sept 12th 1842 
Com. J. L. Edwards 
Dear Sir. Yours of Sept 8 was duly received in which you state [illegible] testimony. I sent you in the save of Lydia Barnes was not in your judgment sufficient to grant her the pension she claims and under the circumstances of the case your must require the highest grade of proof - her case is a hard one as I understand the oldest + first records of Trenton were kept with Jakob Foster whose dwelling house with all it contained were consumed by fire including all the records and public papers of said Town and Mrs Lydia Barnes who is now in Trenton on a visit to her friends having no house, at her request. I have taken her deposition as to the birth of her children and according to the best of my memory it fully agrees with the testimony taken in her case and now in your office with which you can compare. I I likewise send you the statement of William Haynes Esqr.
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made by him under oath which fully shows the sate of their present records, also a certificate of the Town Clerks which prove her statement to be correct. It appears by the record that somethings are recorded that ought not have been, while many marriages and other important transactions of said towns business have been neglected to be in any manner recorded. I have been to the [illegible] of seeing their Church Clerk but as his denomination are Baptist + do not baptize children I forebore to make the widow any expense on that point as it would be neither pro nor con. I have done all in my power to comply with the requisitions of your letter and can but hope the enclose depositions together with those in your office when duly reflected on by your Honor will give the widow a favorable result, as I believe it is out of her power to procure any more testimony except by mere accident. I find it is the general opinion that she is justly entitled to a pension by all the
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people acquainted with the case. 
Very Respectfully Your Most Obedient 
Nicholas Thomas
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Eden Me Hancock Co 9th Apl 1842 

Dear Sir, 
I herewith send you enclosed the declaration of Lydia Barnes taken before me, it being the first one of the one years pension I have ever taken or filled it may not be filled correct, but I hope it is. My father Nicholas Thomas was her agents to obtain her 5 years pension which she received in 1842. 
Very Respectfully Yours 
Nicholas J Thomas 

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
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Dec 18/48 

Hon H Hamlin
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Mr Edward 
Will you allow me to ask your every attention to the care of Mrs Lydia Barnes, also the care of Mrs. Martha Gove of Maine 
If there shall be any [illegible] of evidence please inform me. 

Yrs Truly 
H Hamlin 

Dec 15/48
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TEASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
Nov. 29th, 1839. 

Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Joseph Barnes, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838 to the 28th May 1838, the day of his death. 
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K Parris 
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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J. L. Edwards 
Com. of Pensions
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House of Representatives 
Feb 28, 1839 

Sir, 
The enclosed letter requests that I will call on you in person, but my engagements are so [illegible] as to render this impracticable; I therefore ask your attention to the several subjects referred to - I will only add that I am acquainted with the several persons mentioned as witnesses and believe them to be entitled to the fullest confidence. 

I am very Respectfully your obedient 
Joseph C [illegible]

Hon J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions
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Eden Me Aug 19 1842 

Sir. I herewith enclose to you sundry depositions taken at the request of this Lydia Barnes of Lubec in the County of Washington, Maine. She is the widow of Joseph Barnes who was placed on the Pension roll or list July 11 1821. Sometime, as she says, between 1835 + 38 she employed an attorney by the name of Solomon Thayer of Lubec to look up the proper testimony in order to obtain her pension. He resided more than 150 miles from Trenton, the town she was married to Joseph Barnes in. He wrote a letter to a Justice of the Peace to take the deposition of two or three persons therein named. The Justice did so and in taking the depositions of Phebe Hopkins a mistake was made in her deposition as I am informed by her husband Anderson Hopkins. He says his wife made the mistake by [illegible] up the age of their oldest child and subtracting that from the then present year 46. He said Mrs
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Hopkins has been dead several years had she been living I should have taken her deposition. All the time Mrs. Barnes and her husband lived in Trenton I lived within ? miles of them, and there are still many aged people still living all of whom that I have
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Lubec Dec 26, 1828 
Sir, 
I enclose the declaration of Lydia Barnes for pension with the accompanying proof which I hope with be satisfactory. 
Your Obt Sevt 
Sol Thayer
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Machias April 13th 1821 

Herewith are the pension papers of Joseph Barnes. His original declaration which was returned for evidence, two depositions, and his schedule & 
The papers in the base of Jonas Bond were sent to the Pension Office in Jan last but no returns have been received by me 
J. Harris
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I Nicholas Thomas of Eden, County of Hancock, State of Maine aged sixty two years do testify and say that in October or the first part of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety three I went with my father to the now town of Trenton in what was then called a Warry which was then a flat bottomed boat made of board as my fathers business was to purchase an ox. He was informed that one Jonathan or John Kent that the [illegible] with Joseph Barnes had one that he would sell. From [illegible] we received this information we proceeded about a mile on come to the dwelling house of said Joseph Barnes and their [illegible] [illegible] J Kent and bought an ox. We took dinner with a Mr Silas Cooledge & wife who lived in the same house. Joseph Barnes and wife took dinner another room the door between the two rooms was for the most part open and the women folks were passing from one room to the other. My father who was well acquainted with Lydia Thompson she having been at our house too [illegible] to say to him that she had a hasty marriage. She made some reply but what I do not remember we remained there two or three hours and then returned home. After our return my stepmother asked my father what sent of a bargain he thought Lydia had made in marrying Joseph Barnes. My father said he did not think she had done much or something like it or he seldom knew an old revolutionary soldier goof for anything on a farm, the reason that I am confident that the above transaction took place in 1793 is that in September of that year my two sisters died and were buried in one grave, and on the 5 of October a brother died. Also the purchase of the aforesaid ox together with all the above mentioned circumstances are still fresh in my mind as we have a record of the
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death that took place in our family that year and by that record I know the above statement to be correct as in December the small straight between Eden and Trenton is in most years frozen up with ice that there is no passing over to that part of Trenton by water. 

Nicholas Thomas 
State of Maine 
Hancock August 23, 1842 personally appeared Nicholas Thomas of Eden , a credible witness and made oath that the above statement by him signed is true. 
Geo Herburt Justice of Peace 

For the certificate of George Herburt official character as a Justice of the Peace you will find I attached to the papers of Alexander McKillis received at your office some weeks past. 
Nicholas Thomas
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I Benjamin Gaogins of Trenton County of Hancock State of Maine aged seventy years do testify and say that in the month of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, myself and Joseph Barnes formerly of this town ship on board the sloop pally of Boston Massachusetts. George Stredson Master we proceeded from Boston to the West Indies and arrived back to Boston in June of the same year. Joseph Barnes and myself were discharged in Boston and both he and myself went on Boon a sloop belonging to Beverly and in his we both returned to said Trenton in the aforesaid month of June we landed at a place in said Trenton called Oak Point and at the dwelling house of John Smith  there then lived a young woman by the name of Lydia Thompson. Joseph Barnes before mentioned greatly paid his addresses to her and they were married by common report in September or October of the same year. I am confidence that I visited them and saw them sundry times before the close of that year. I had tradings with Joseph Barnes from time to time, within nine months of the aforesaid marraidge said Lydia had a pair of twins born by common report Joseph Barnes has been dead for some years past his widow is still living at Lubec County of Washington Maine. It is the [illegible] belief that said Lydia is justly entitled to a pension. 
Benjamin Geogins 
the word entitled was intended before signing 

Hancock August 15, 1842 personally appeared the above named Benjamin Geogins, a credible and disinterested witness + made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition Before me 
Nicholas Thomas Justice of the Peace
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I Elizabeth Coolidge of the age of seventy five years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Joseph Barnes and Lydia Thompson. They both resided in Trenton in the County of Hancock State of Maine. In the year seventeen hundred and ninety three in the month of September or first of October of that year by common report the said Joseph Barnes was married to Lydia Thompson. I was at the time living about six miles from them. Within two or three weeks after their marriage myself and husband Silias Coolidge went and lived in the same dwelling house with them for the term of fourteen months. Why I am confident that it was in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three is that the spring following my son Josiah Coolidge was born at their house from the time I went to live with them to the time we removed out of their house in seventeen hundred and ninety four they lived together as husband and wife in June seventeen hundred and
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ninety four when saw Lydia had a pair of twins born. There are no doubts in the minds of all the aged people of this place but that said Lydia was married as above stated. 
her mark Elizabeth Coolidge 
Attest to the mark of Elizabeth Coolidge 
Nicholas Thomas 
Nicholas J Thomas 

Hancock ss. August 15th 1842. Personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Coolidge a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition. 
Before me Nicholas Thomas Justice of 

The Department will find the certificates of my official character as a Justice of the Peace in their office the last in the case of Rebecca Door some five months since. 
Nicholas Thomas
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I Polly Higgins of Eden County of Hancock State of Maine formerly Polly Barnes, widow of Nathaniel Barnes of Trenton, in said County, aged seventy four years do testify and say that I was married to said Nathaniel Barnes on the seventeenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, that sometime in the month of June of that year Benjamin Googins and Joseph Barnes of Trenton nephew to my husband, returned from the West Indies and landed at a place called Oak Point in said Trenton, at the dwelling house of John Smith were I then was. Said Benjamin Googins employed me to wash some clothes for him for which he gave me a pat of tamarand. I think they had some rum with them and made some tamarand punch, at said Smiths house their was a young woman living with Smith, by the name of Lydia Thompson the aforesaid Joseph Barnes kept company with her that night and sometime in the month of September or October following they were married by common report of the Nabourhood in which she and myself then lived, in the first part of the month of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety four she had a pair of twins born I went to see them said Lydia told me that some of the Nabours were making a great fuss about her twins because when they were born because when they were born she had not been married quite nine months. My first child was born in August seventeen hundred and ninety four, by which and the date of my marraidge of which I have a record and I am confident I cannot be mistaken in the above statement of the maraidge of Joseph Barnes and Lydia Thompson. 
Her mark 
Polly Higgins 

Attest Nicholas Thomas 
Nicholas J Thomas
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Hancock ss. August 15 1842. Personally appeared the foregoing named Polly Higgins a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition. 
Before me. Nicholas Thomas Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine 
Hancock ss 

I, Sewall Watson, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Hancock, do hereby certify that William Haynes, before whom the annexed depositions were taken, was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly appointed + qualified, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his, are genuine. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Please for said county of Hancock this nineteenth day of December A.D. 1838 

Sewall Watson Clerk of the Jud. Courts for County
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I Charity Murch of lawful age make affidavit  + say that I was acquainted with Mr Joseph Barnes + his wife Lydia Barnes in the year 1793 and lived with them about that time + was acquainted with them several years after. 
Charity Murch 

State of Maine 
Hancock ss - Trenton November 14, 1838
Taken signed + sworn to this day before me - I further certify that the above deponent Charity Murch is known to me to be a person of truth + veracity and that there can be no doubt of the correctness of her testimony. 
William Haynes Justice of Peace
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I Anderson Hopkins do testify + say that I was acquainted with Joseph Barnes forty five or forty six years ago. That he was married to Lydia Thompson about the year 1791 or 1792 - they lived in Trenton about six years after + moved away - I further say that they were published by Mr Greene of Ellsworth, know not whether any record can be found - The town clerks office was burnt about that time together with the records. Anderson Hopkins 

State of Maine 
Hancock ss - Trenton November 14, 1838 
To him signed and sworn to this fourteenth day of Nov 1838. 
Before me - I further certify that the above named deponent Anderson Hopkins is a person of truth + veracity.
William Haynes 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine 
Washington County 
SS 
On this twenty fourth day of October A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me Solomon Thayer a justice of the peace within + for the said county Lydia Barnes a resident of Lubec in the county of Washington aged seventy eight years who being 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 on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of person who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Joseph Barnes late of said Lubec who was a private in the army of the Revolution + drew a full pension for his services. She does not recollect the corps in which her husband served. She has drawn a pension of eight Dollars per annum by virtue of sundry Acts of Congress on account of the revolutionary services of her said husband up to the 4th of March 1848. 
She further declares she is still a widow. 
her mark 
Lydia Barnes 

Sworn to + subscribed on the day,
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Lubec Me Oct 24 1848 
I hereby certify that Lydia Barnes whose affidavit is on the other side written is personally known to me as having received a pension from the United States of eighty Dollars per annum up to March 4th 1848 for the revolutionary services of her husband the late Joseph Barnes of Lubec who was also known to me as having himself rec'd a pension up to the time of his death of $96 per an. 
Solo Thayer 
Justice of the Peace 

State of Maine 
Washington County ss. 
I Albert Pilsbury Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Solo Thayer is a Justice of the Peace in + for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 24th day of June A.D. 1847, and will expire on the 24th day of June A.D. 1854 and that his signature above written is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said County this 22d day of November A.D. 1848. 
Albert Pilsbury Clerk
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State of Maine 
County of Washington SS. 
On this twentieth day of November A.D. 1850, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for every County in said State personally appeared Lydia Barnes of Lubec in the county of Washington aged eighty three years

and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of Joseph Barnes who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, that she has drawn a pension since his death at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and is now a Pensioner under the Act of 2d February 1848 that she now asks for all arrears or increase of Pension to which she may be entitled under any of the Acts or Resolutions of Congress applicable to her case, viz 7th July, 1838; 3d March, 1843; 17th June, 1844; 2d February, 1848; Joint Resolution of 23d January, 1845; and 1st July 1848; that she now resides in said County and State. 
Witness 
Heald Davis 

her mark 
Lydia Barnes 

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written. 
Before me, Arthur McArthur 
Justice of the Peace. 
Throughout the State
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State of Maine 
County of Cumberland ss. 
Clerk's Office, 
Portland November 21st A.D. 1850

I, Charles C. Harmon, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Cumberland certify that Arthur McArthur is an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for every county of said State  - duly qualified to act as such, that the commission of the said McArthur is dated August 6th 1850 and will expire August 6th 1857 and that the foregoing 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, the day and year first above written 
C. C. Harmon CLERK.
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State of Maine 
Washington County SS. 
On this fourth day of November A.D. eighteen hundred + fifty, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in + for the county + state aforesaid Lydia Barnes who being first sworn doth depose + say on her oath in order to obtain an increase of pension that my be due her under the existing pensions laws of the United States. 
And this declaration states that she is the widow of Joseph Barnes who was a soldier in the Revolution + a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum which pension he drew to the day of his death which took place on the twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1838. She further states that she was married to her late husband Joseph Barnes prior to 1794 + that after his death she made application for the benefits of the existing pension laws of the Unites States and was placed on the pension roll at the rate of $80 per annum which pension she now draws. 
She therefore claims an increase of pension under the pension laws of the United States
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and the joint resolution of Congress of July 1 1848. Witness John A. Davis 
her mark Lydia Barnes 

Subscribed + sworn to the day + year first above written. 
Solo Thayer 
J. Peace
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402
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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 7, 1838, and the amended act of 23d August, 1842. 
State of Maine
County of Hancock SS. 
On this sixth day of April eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the County of Hancock in so State, Lydia Barnes a resident of Trenton, Maine in the County of Hancock aged seventy two 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 who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Joseph Barnes who served in the Revolutionary war and was placed on the pension list July seventh eighteen hundred and twenty one - commencement of pension August seventh eighteen hundred + seventeen. He served in the Massachusetts Line - She received a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1835. 
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Lydia Barnes 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
Nicholas J. Thomas, Justice of the Peace 

I hereby certify that the above named Lydia Barnes is personally known to me as the widow of Joseph Barnes. 
Nicholas J Thomas 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine 
Hancock ss 
Clerk's Office 
I George W. Brown Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for said County, hereby certify that Nicholas J. Thomas of Eden is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, and that full confidence is due to his official acts, and that his commission is dated Jany 30, 1840, and will expire Jany 30, 1847. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. 
G.W. Brown Clerk
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The Depositions of Seth Toothaker + John McIntosh
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I John McIntosh of lawful age testify and say that on the thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred + eighty one Joseph Barnes then of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland but now of Eastport in the County of Washington, I myself enlisted into the service of the United States in the company commanded by Luther Baylies and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat. And that said Joseph  continued with me till we joined the main army in the month of May and say, that he was in the army two years from the time of joining it, when the company he was in went to Philadelphia and I went with the company [illegible] to, to New York. During the two year aforesaid, said Joseph Barnes did his duty as faithful soldier - 
his mark 
John McIntosh 
Witness Peter O Alden
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Cumberland ss Brunswick Oct 7 1820 
Then the within named John McIntosh having been duly cautioned + examined + sworn made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him signed. 
Before me Peter B. Alden 
Justice of the Peace
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I Seth Toothaker of lawful age testify and say that for more than forty years past I have been acquainted with Joseph Barnes now of Eastport, but formerly of Harpswell in the County of Cumberland. In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred + eighty one, some time in the month of January, said Joseph Barnes enlisted into the service of the United States, in the company commanded by Luther Baylies in the Regiment under the command of Ebenezer Sproat. As I had enlisted into the same service, I marched from Boston towards the last of March of the year aforesaid or April, I am not certain which, in company with said Barnes and arrived at West Point and joined the main army in May following. I further testify and say, that Joseph Barnes aforesaid continued in the service of the United States till the army was disbanded in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred + eighty three, [illegible] all which time, I believe he did his duty as I never heard any complaint against him. 
Oct 7 820 
Seth Toothaker 

Cumberland ss Brunswick Oct 7 1820 The above named Seth Toothaker made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed before me, Peter. O. Alden Justice of the Peace
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O.W. and N. Division 
3-525. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C., March 13, 1906. 

MBH 
W.F. 24623 
Rev War 

Sir: 
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Joseph Barnes, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,  you will find below the desired information as continued in his (and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 
March 1781 

LENGTH OF SERVICE. 
Sept 1783 

RANK. 
Private 

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 
CAPTAIN.
Luther Alden Bailey 
COLONEL. 
Col. Sproat 2 regt 

STATE. 
Mass.  

Battles engaged in, none stated. 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Harpswell, Cumberland Co. Me 
Date of application for pension, August 7, 1819; this claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Eastport, Washington Co, Me; Lubec same co in 1821. 
Age at date of application, 55 years. 
Remarks: He died May 28, 1838. He married Lydia Thompson in Nov 1793, at Trenton, Hancock Co, Me; Her claim was allowed, children William and Mariah, twins; Mary; John. Soldiers uncle Nathaniel Barnes, is referred to in the claim. 
Very respectfully, 
Mr. George B Wooster 
c/o A. H. Berry Shoe Co. 
20581b3m44-05
#149-155 Middle St
Portland ME 

Commissioner
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Lakeside Press, Portland, ME. 
No - 

A.H. BERRY SHOE COMPANY, 
149-155 MIDDLE ST., 
PORTLAND, ME., 

BOSTON OFFICE, 
ROOM 428 ALBANY BUILDING. 

3/3 - 1906 

Pension Dept. 
Washington D.C. 

Will you kindly send me what you have in regard to the record of "Joseph Barnes" a revolutionary soldier, who enlisted in a Mass Regiment. 

He was a pensioner of the War of the Revolution, and died in Lubec Maine 1838. 

Yours very truly 
Geo. B. Wooster 
care AH Berry Shoe Co 
Portland 
Maine
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE 
JUL 30 1895
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A.H. Berry Shoe Co. 

Portland, Me 
July 29, 1895 

Pension Department 
Washington D.C. 

I would like to enquire in regard to the record of one "Joseph Barnes" a soldier of the American Revolution, he was also a pensioner. 

Any information regarding him in regard to birthplace, service, etc will be greatly appreciated. 

Yours very truly 
Geo. B. Wooster 
of A. H. Berry Shoe Co 
Portland Me 

P.S. He enlisted in Harpswell Me and died in Lubec Me.