Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,324, Thomas Flint, Mass. Sea Service Navy

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(3-1776)

Service: Mass. Sea Service. Navy.

Flint, Thomas

Number: S. 36.324

Contents:

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8401
Maine
Thomas Flint
Dist.
of Portland in the s of Maine,
who was a Mariner in the patient commanded
Capt. Manly of the U.S. Navy
for the term of nine months
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 28th of April 1811
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of March 1819
and sent to Wm Wragery, Esqr
Portland, Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 1022, 81.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819
48.00
129.83
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
not entitled
John
Portland
July
Name.
Messey J
Do
Notif⌨ sent

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170. Thomas Flint
Copy 8401 7 Mar 
Sep 1818 

not entitled

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United States of America District of Maine, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the Honorable Albion K Parris, Judge of said Court.
On this nineteenth day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for Said Maine District, Thomas Flint aged sixty seven years, resident in Portland in said District who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. s a mariner on (next several words blacked out) U.S. armed vessels as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 28th day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8401 was granted.  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 by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in 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 on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Thomas Flint
Sworn to and declared, on the nineteenth day of June A.D. 1829 before Albion K. Parris, U.S. District Judge for the District of Maine

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Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscribed, viz:
Real estate, a lot of land in Portland about fifty feet square with a small unfinished house on it in which I live -- Personal estate ---a few ordinary and necessary articles of furniture in the house -- I have 
no income -- and am justly owing three hundred and thirty dollars.  Thomas Flint
Sworn to before Albion K. Parris, U.S. Dist. Judge

Schedule of the family residing with me Thomas Flint, who by occupation am a mariner .. which I am not able to pursue by reason of age and infirmity
Name                    Ages         Capacity of each 
                                               to contribute to 
                                               their support

Sarah         65               A sickly woman has not worked for six years
Polly     30
Nabby   28
Sally      22
Sukey    20    Able to support themselves when they find employment to work out
Thomas Flint before Albion K Parris U.S. Dist. Judge

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I, John Mussey, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, 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 five hundred & ten dollars and twenty-five cents and no more.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this nineteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.  John Mussey Junr Clerk of U. States District Court for Maine District

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To the Honorable William Widgery one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Thomas Flint on oath respectfully shows that he is a resident citizen of the United States at Portland in the county of Cumberland that he served in the war of the revolution as a seaman in the naval service of the United States for the term of nine months and [illegible] that he is now sixty four years of age and that by reasons of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support that in the service aforesaid he first enlisted as a seaman on board the sloop of War Wolfe whereof Capt Freeman was commander about the first day of June 1777 and after being out about fourteen days they were captured by the [illegible] after forty five minutes action and was sent into New York and afterwards having been a prisoner about three months made his escape from the Diamond Frigate on board of which he had been put as a prisoner.  He effected his escape by swimming a mile.  Afterwards in November 1778 he entered on board as a seaman the Hancock Frigate commanded by Capt Manly on board of which he served over nine months and cruised in company with the Alliance and Boston Frigates along the shore and off Halifax in the

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In the fall of the year 1779 the fleet engaged the fox and Flora frigate and took the Fox and the Flora being about to strike and the Boston frigate having taken herself off and the Rainbow fifty gun ship having come up and the reasonable sixty gun ship having {?]  in sights and the Hancock being very much cut up was obliged to strike and your applicant was again taken prisoner and after three months was exchanged and on return was discharged which was verbal only.  Wherefore he prays the evidence in his case may be duly certified and transmitted in order that he may be placed on the pension list of the U States under the 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.
Your applicant further states that he is not able to produce any other or further evidence than his own oath.  Dated at Portland this 28th day of April AD 1818.  subscribed & sworn to this 28th day of April 1818. Before me Wm. Widgery Judge [illegible]

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May 11 History to 
M. E. Chapman
Brooklyn W
F.S.
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27/93 Sent Hist to Mrs. G G Ropes
10 Morris Are, Morristown N.J. 
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Oct. 1496 Sold pens to Eben Putnam, Salem, Mass
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1925 March 21. Edw R Gould of 375 Main St Rockland Me. refd of cost of Copies see letter re Eliphany Healey. W24431
1025 James 6 copies make to Edw. R Gould. 
See receipt for payment Eliphany Healey. 


Invalid
Navy
File No. 36324
Thomas Flint
Mariner
Frigate Hancock
Revolutionary

Act March 18th 1818

Index: Vol. Page 
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Thomas Flint
Mariner
Frigate Hancock Capt Manly
1778 9 months
Dec 28 April

Admitted.

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said 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 his own proper signature. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court this 27th day of June A.D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN that on the twenty eighth 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 Common wealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland , in said Maine District the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Thomas Flint the above named applicant , and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Thomas offered no farther evidence being unable to produce any but the character of the applicant for truth is unimpeachable being personally acquainted with him. 

WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Thomas Flint served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy that by reason of reduced circumstances in  life he is in need of assistance from 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 twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight twenty hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second all which is hereby certified & transmitted 
Wm. Widgery {Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}

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[sideways on left] COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CUMBERLAND, SS. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said 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 his own proper signature.  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court this 27th day of June A.D. 1818. Geo. Bradbury  [right side] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAINE DISTRICT, ss. BE IT KNOWN that on the twenty eighth 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 Common wealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland , in said Maine District the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Thomas Flint the above named applicant , and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Thomas offered no farther evidence being unable to produce any but the character of the applicant for truth is unimpeachable being personally acquainted with him.   WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Thomas Flint served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy that by reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from 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 twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight twenty hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second all which is hereby certified & transmitted  Wm. Widgery {Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}

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Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate) 

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK 
Job No. 2034    Date June 13, 1925 

Subject Thos. Flint, Rev. S. 36324
1 copies of 3 pieces consisting of 6 pages to forwarded when completed to the Rev. Ware Set SectDivision 

Remarks: See receipt for payment in Eliphay W 24431 
W. E. Wilson 
Chief Clerk.

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SALEM, MASS Sept 21 1896 

Dear Sir:
Charles G Culham of Cleveland Ohio writes to me that his ancestor Charles Inael Putnam was a Revolutionary Soldier & drew a pension after his removal from Conn to NY state Oneida Co.

Can you give me the facts regarding his service & place of residence 
OLD WAR

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EBEN PUTNAM, GENEALOGIST.  Searches conducted in person or by representatives in America, Holland and France.  Publisher and Compiler of Family and Town Histories. 21932  "PUTNAM'S" ANCESTRAL CHARTS.
SALEM, MASS _____ 189

Thomas Flint of Reading was a surgeon on a private armed ship from Mass during the Revolution Have you records of the officers or men in such ships
 
Very truly Eben Putnam
36324 
35311

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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs
Will you be kind enough to render me a statement of the military history of Dr. Thomas Flint? a surgeon of the Revolutionary War. He was [underlined]not Thomas Flint of Portland Me an ordinary soldier

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but a Doctor Thomas Flint came from mass may have been Andover but I am not sure. he was first in British Navy during war with the French - 1755- 1763 
When our Revolutionary war broke out he went privateering. I cannot ascertain the name of vessel. He work prizes and with his money  thus obtained he bought a large part of land in

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Nobleboro Maine, which may  have been called Walpole at  that time. as maine was only a district then   under the control of Massachusetts - he was called Dr Thomas Flint and served during the Revolutionary war as a surgeon. I shall he greatly obliged if you will given me of the facts you have concerning him. 
Mrs A.G. Ropes 
S. Ropes 
10 Moses Son Morristown New Jersey, Nov. 7.

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To the Pension Office in Washington D.C. 

Have you any record of a surgeon in the private Navy, (in a privateer) during our Revolutionary war by the name of Thomas Flint? I do not in whether he lived in Maine Massachusetts at the time, but he finally lived in Maine where he bought land with prize money. 
And have you any record of Joseph Knowlton who served in Washington's

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Army for three years? He was in the battles of Saratoga, Trenton and a number of others. I think in each General engagements besides skirmishes. We should like  to have the information as they were ancestors of in family - and shall be by grateful for it. 
[postmark US PENSION OFFICE MAR 16 1893]
Respectfully E. Chapman 
March 14 - 1893 - 

Miss M.E. Chapman 13 Montague Tenace Brooklyn, New York