Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23470, William Atkinson, Mass.

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Mass
Atkinson, William
              , Anne

W 23470
B.L.Wt. 29033-160-55

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Maine

William Atkinson
of Lewistown in the district of Maine 
Who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusetts 
line, for the term of two years
War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine district
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to  commence on 
the 28 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
26t of July 1819
and Sent to Wm Widgery Esq
Portland Maine

Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10m 3/30 31- 
                                                                64:83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819    48:
                                                            = 129:83

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Contd

Modification sent to Hon J. Holmes
30 Mar 1822
Senate (illegible)

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William Atkinson
Private Col. Vose Mass
Line 1781-9 years
dec. 28th Apl 1818

The depositions of two credible & disinterested witnesses duly to be taken & authenticated (or the certificate of an officer the Regt) to prove the service of applicant, is required.

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To he Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY, of the Associate Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . RESPECTFULLY SHOWS.  William Atkinson of Lewistown in the Maine District, that he served as a privit soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of two years & about nine months on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Lewistown aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. 

AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private Solider to Capt Williams Company of the first Command Regiment Col Ware of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the fifteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty one and that he left said service on or about the fifteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and was discharged there from by Major Knap and that he has lost his discharge. 

WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions 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," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States. Dated at PORTLAND, this 20th day of April 1818. William Atkinson 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAINE DISTRICT, ss. 
BE IT KNOWN that on the 28th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, William Widgery, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, with the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District- the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Wm Atkinson the above named applicant, and made oath the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Wm Atkinson farther offered in evidence the Deposition of Apr4 Dec here which is herewith committed. 

WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Wm Atkinson served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy [inserted: & that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the support of  his country for support] 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this day of Mari in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second, also artifie truth. Associate Judge of the Circuit Court W Widgery of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts aid county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is own proper signature. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court, this first of Augt A.D.1818.
Geo Bradbury

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Cumberland ss. April 28th 1818 - personally appeared before md Ami Dunham of lawful age and made oath that he knew William Atkinson to be in the army of the united States two years & about nine months, according to his statement with in- 
Amo Dunham 

Sworn to before me this this 28th day of April 1818 Wm Widgery Judge &c- 

I William Hans being now sixty three two years of  age testify and say that I personally know William Atkinson now prept that in 1781 in the services said Atkinson joined Col Vose regiment & Capt Williams company to which I then belonged, & he served in the same company to which I belonged till June 1783 when I was discharged, he remaining in the army. I have received my pension certificate. 
Attest Ashur Ware
William his X mark Hans

Signed & Sworn & before me June 9. 1819 Ashur Ware Just Pac


I certify that the above named Hans is a credible disinterested witness 
Asher Ware

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State of Maine.

Close

Kennebec County, ss. 
ON this thirteenth day of December, 1820, personally appeared [crossed out] in open court before the 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 of fine and imprisonment, William Atkinson aged sixty years, resident in Green 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 John Williams - and Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose on the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years, and was in various skirmishes with the enemy, particularly at White Plains - that his original declaration was made before Judge Widgery on Hthe twenty eighth day of April 1818; that he is now on the [crossed out] Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 12841. And I, the said William Atkinson do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident 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 to thereby so 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 eighteen hundred and eighteen; 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. 
/Signed/ William Atkinson
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
One yoke of young steers of the value of fifteen dollars.
One cow of the value of ten dollars. _
6 sheep _ ,, _ six dollars. _
One swine _ ,, _ five dollars. _
Old house hold stuff (besides bedding) of the value five dollars no debts due to me, and owe upwards of fifty dollars. _ my occupation is that of Marriner, but having nearly lost the use of my left arm and shoulder and being subject to the Rheumatism am unable to follow the seas, or do but light labor, my family consists of nine persons, myself, my wife Anna aged fifty seven years, always of feeble health, and for the most part of the time under the care of the Doctor; my daughter Mary aged twenty two years, works out summers

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Summer, and is at home winters; my son William nearly out of his time, my son John aged fifteen; my daughter Amy aged thirteen; Alvira aged eleven years; my son Moses aged nine, and my son George aged four years - except the above and my necessary bedding and clothing I have no estate or income. _
Subscribed and sworn to oth the oath of schedule in open Court this 13th day of December AD 1821. _
Before Sanford Kingsberry } A Justice of the C.C.C. [illegible] for the Kennebec Circuit } William Atkinson
A true Copy
Attent, John David Clerk

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[signed] Maine
[signed] Ann Atkinson
widow of
William Atkinson
who served in the Revolutionary
[signed] [illegible]
war, as a [signed] private [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
[signed] 96 Dollars '' ''
Cents per annum, to commence on
the [crossed off] 4th day of [crossed off] March, 1849
[signed] fifth, July 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the
[signed] 18 day of [signed] March, 1857
and sent to
Dickins, Coombs

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Anne Atkinson
widow of William
Mc.
[illegible] February 1848
Married
1791
[illegible] June 5, 1849
[illegible] 2 years [illegible]
$80 [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] 5 June 1849

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District of Maine f.f.
On this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & forty nine, personally appeared before the Hon. Ashur Ware Judge of
the U. S. for said District Anne Atkinson a
resident of Lisbon in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of 2d February 1848.
And this applicant states that she is the widow
of [illegible] William Atkinson late of Lisbon who
was a pensioner of the U.S. And this declarant
believes that her late husband was a resident of Nath Yarmouth in the time of the Revolutionary War. That he was in the company commanded by Captain Williams in the first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose and served for the full term of three years
She further declares that she was married in
the town of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on the twentieth day of April 1791.
by Rev. Mr. Johnson of Freeport
She further declares that her late husband
William Atkinson died on the fifth day of June
1849. at Lisbon in the County and State aforesaid
She further declares that her late husband William

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Atkinson was a pensioner of the U.S. under the
Act 18th March 1818, at ninty six dollars per ann
and has drawn his pension to the day of
his death
She therefore [illegible] to the proof on file in the Department at Washington for proof of her husband service.
[signatures] [illegible] Anna Atkinson
Signed + sworn [illegible] on this [illegible] day of Sept. 1849
Ashm Ware
John G Tibbits of [illegible]
I certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to us by the testimony of a credible witness that the above named Anna Atkinson was the wife of Wm Atkinson [illegible] of Lisbon in
the State of Maine & a pension of the United States, that said William died on the tenth of [illegible] widow [illegible]
Ashm Ware
Justice [illegible] U.S. for
the District of Maine

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United States of America
Maine District
&
First Circuit [across 3 lines] }ss:
I Geo. F. Emery Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States within and for the District and Circuit aforesaid, hereby certify that,
Ashm Ware.
before whom the foregoing proceedings were had has, at the time thereof, and still remains, Judge of the District Court of the United States within and for said Maine District, duly commissioned and qualified, and full faith and credit are de to his acts as such, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Anne Atkinson for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Circuit Court this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and forty nine.
Geo. F. Emery Clerk.

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STATE OF MAINE. 
CUMBERLAND, SS. 
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, 
Portland, August 17th A. D. 1849.
I Chas C. Harmon
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said County of Cumberland, certify that
Ebenr Wells is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the commission of the said Wells is dated Jany 22nd A. D. 1846, and will expire Jany 22nd A. D. 1853. 
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is Genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written. Chas. C. Harmon Clerk.

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Mr William Atkinson was married to Miss Anne Davin in Freeport April the twentieth seventeen hundred ninety one. The foregoing is a true copy of the Record of the Town of Freeport with the exception of the date which is expressed in legible characters thus April 20th 1791.
Attest Nehemiah Thomas; Town Clerk
I Nehemian Thomas on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine duly chosen and sworn, that the Record of said Town are in my custody - That the above certificate was taken from said Records and is a true copy of the same, with the exception above named. Nehemiah Thomas
Personally appeared the above named Nehemiah Thomas and made oath to the foregoing certificate before me Ebenr Wells Justice of the Peace

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168.337

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State of Maine.
ANDROSCOGGIN, SS.

CLERK'S OFFICE, SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
AUBURN, June 21 185.

I, Josiah D. Pulsifer, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said County of
Androscoggin, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that

[signed] Nathaniel L Ingersoll

is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereunto annexed, was an ACTING JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Androscoggin, as appears by the paper here-
unto annexed - that he is duty commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and take
acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid,
and that the following signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.

[signed] J.D. Pulsifer CLERK.

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State of Maine.

Clerk of Androscoggin SS:
On His twenty-first day of June, A.D. one thousand eight-hundred and fifty-five, personally, appeared before me, a Justice of the peace within and for
the County and State afoundaid, Ann Atkinson,
aged eighty-seven years, a resident of Lewiston in the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine, who, being duly sworn according to laws, on oath declares that she is the widow of William Atkinson, late of Lisbon in said State deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a Unites States pensioner. And she further declares that she is a pensioner of the United States under act of 1848,
at the rate of of ninety-six dollars per annum commencing on the fifth day of July, 1849, that her certificate is dated the eighteenth day of March, 1857, and numbered 5289, as will appear by the records at the department of the Interior. And she further declares that
she is still a widow and that her name before marriage was Ann Davis. And  for proof of the service of her said husband, her marriage to him, and his death she refers the commissioner to his and her declaration and accompanying papers on file at the pension department; she also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other act of congress nor made any other application therefore; and believes that

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her said husband never applied for nor received boun-
ty land under any act of congress in his lifetime,
The [illegible] this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the county land [illegible] which the may he
emitted under the act of congress, approved March
3, 1877. and for the purpose of this application [illegible], the
said Ann Atkinson [illegible]
appoint Nathaniel L. Ingersoll prior of [illegible]
, in the county and State [illegible], my
[illegible] and lawful attorney, for me and in my
name, [illegible] declared and receive from the [illegible]
of the [illegible], a [illegible]
of land due me as [illegible] said - and [illegible]
[illegible] and empower him [illegible] and appoint
me a more [illegible] made him for the purpose
[illegible], [illegible] my and confirm-
ing whatever my attorney a his [illegible]
may lawfully do in the permiss-
ion
Anne + Atkinson
March

we, Mary Jordan
and Mary A Briggs [illegible]
of [illegible] in the
County of Androscoggin and State of Maine
[illegible] oath [illegible] and [illegible] that the [illegible]
declaration and [illegible] attorney [illegible]

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[illegible] and acknowledged by Ann Atkinson of
[illegible] in the Country of Androscoggin and State of
Maine in our [illegible] and we believe from the
appearance and [illegible] of the applicant
and our person of knowledge of her for many years
past, that she is the identical person she 
[illegible] herself in her declaration

[signed] Mary Jorgan
[signed]Mary H Briggs

[illegible] and sworn [illegible] before me, on the day,
and [illegible] - above written by Anne
Atkinson the declaration above [illegible]
and by Mary Jordan - and 
Mary A brings  [illegible]above
[illegible], and [illegible] that I know the [illegible]
the [illegible]; that the [illegible] is the person
the [illegible], and that I have  [illegible]
in this claim.
Nathaniel L Ingersoll  [illegible]of the [illegible]

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[signed] [illegible]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. [signed] 23470
[signed] Anne Atkinson
[signed] Wid. of
[signed]William Atkinson
[signed] Priv. [illegible] Was
Act [signed] Feb. [illegible] of 1848
Index: Vol. [signed] [illegible], Page  [illegible] 21
[Arrangment of 1870.]

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[added by hand] 5284
[added by hand] Maine
[added by hand] Anne Atkinson
widow of [added by hand] William Atkinson
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a [added by hand] Private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
[added by hand] 80 Dollars ____
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1849] [added by hand] 5th day of June 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the
[added by hand] 31st day of [added by hand]  Decr 1849.
and sent to
[added by hand] Joseph Ilsey
[added by hand] Portland
[added by hand] Maine
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 9, 1848, Page [added by hand] 1. Vol. [added by hand] 1.

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State of Main
I [signed] John Davis - Clerk, for the County
of [signed] Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for
the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Ken-
nebec 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 [signed] [illegible]
one dollars )sapce [crossed off] and cents, and deductions therefrom
the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property
in the opinion of said County is (space) dollars
Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and [illegible] the seal of the said
Court, on this [signed] eighteenth day of [signed] December 1820.
[signed] John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of [signed] Kennebec.

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[handwritten] Ann Atkinson [end handwritten]

Payment to be made at [handwritten] Portland Me [end handwritten] by

[handwritten] Wm Woodbury Esq [end handwritten] 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency
of [handwritten] Maine. [end handwritten]

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 1. Vol 1. 

[handwritten] Henry Robinson [end handwritten] Clerk.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848,
[added by hand] Ann Atkinson   
widow of [added by hand] William Atkinson 
who was a [added by hand] Private in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of [added by hand] Eighty dollars
and [added by hand] ___ cents per annum, commencing on the 5th of June 1849 [crossed out: 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 Department of the Interior
this [added by hand] Thirty first day of [added by hand] December
one thousand eight hundred and [added by hand] forty Nine
D. Ewing [signature]
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned
J L Edwards [signature] 
Commissioner of Pensions.

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A. Atkinson

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, Boston, May 12th 1856. 
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 William Atkinson is borne on Continental Army Books in Capt. John William's Comp. Col. Joseph Vose's Regt. from March 15. 1704 to Dec. 31, 1782. 21. mos. 16 days, as private.

 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written F De Witt Secretary of the commonwealth.

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To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the undersigned Ann Atkinson widow of William Atkinson, [illegible] who was a soldier in the war of the revolution, requests the Secretary of State of Massachusetts to furnish her with the certificate of the service of her said husband in the war of the revolution.

And this applicant informs the Secretary aforesaid, that she thinks her said husband the said William Atkinson served in Captain Williams Company and under Col. Vote in Massachusetts Continental [illegible] 81,2 [illegible] 3 - She therefore respectfully requests the Secretary to examine the role of said company, and if not then to give a thorough examination of all the roles and other records in your office touching the [illegible] of soldiers in the war of the revolution and for their [illegible] of this application

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Danville Maine May 14th 1856
To the commissioner of pensions. 
Dear Sir, enclosed I send you the certificate of Secretary State [illegible] of the services of William Atkinson late husband of Ann Atkinson who has applied for bounty land under act of 1855, her claim being numbered 168,337 and suspended our warrant of the name of William Atkinson not being found on any roll or word in your department
Very respectfully your obedient servant
N L Ingersoll

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME [handwritten] Atkinson, William [end handwritten] GRADE [handwritten] Private [end handwritten] LINE [handwritten] Virginia [end handwritten]

WARRANT NUMBER [handwritten] 11876 [end handwritten] ACREAGE [handwritten] 100 [end handwritten] ISSUED [handwritten] March 26, 1792 to Francis Graves, assignee [end handwritten]

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-quent dates. Other records relative to the application for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.