Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21920, for Nathan Parkhurst, New Hampshire

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.
Parkhurst, Nathan
Sarah
or
Sally
NUMBER
W. 21920
CONTENTS

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6306
Maine
Sally Parkhurst, died
widow of
Nathan
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
who served in the Revolutionary 
N.H.
war , as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
00 Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848. & end 
29th September 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of December 1854 and sent to
A. H. Markland
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
February 2, 1848, Page 30  Vol. A

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9576
Maine 
Sally Parkhurst decd
widow of Nathan
who was a private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued
the 11th day of Decem'r 1854
and sent to
A. H. Markland
Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and
June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
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STATE OF MAINE.
Cumberland County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Portland within and for said County, on the fifth day of September A. D. 1854, being a Court of Record:
Satisfactory evidence having been offered to the Hon. Josiah Pierce Judge of said Court, that the facts hereinafter mentioned are true, the same are ordered to be entered on the Docket of this Court, and the testimony pertaining thereto filed, viz:--
by the testimony of Elisha Parkhurst of Unity a brother of Nathan Parkhurst deceased, and of Ephraim Murch & Lucinda Murch of said Unity in the County of Waldo, and State of Maine disinterested and credible witnesses, that Sally Parkhurst widow of Nathan Parkhurst, a reputed Revolutionary Soldier died at said Unity, on the 29th day of September 1853, and that Elisha Parkhurst, Hale Parkhurst and Elbridge Parkhurst are the children and only surviving children of said Sally Parkhurst deceased, and that the said Sally
Parkhurst remained a widow to the time of her death.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this fifth day of September 1854
Aaron B. Holden Register of Probate

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY of Cumberland, ss.
PROBATE OFFICE,
I, Josiah Pierce JUDGE OF PROBATE for said County, hereby certify, that H. B. Holden
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing
Certificate, is the REGISTER OF PROBATE for said County, duly appointed, commissioned
and sworn; and that his said Certificate is in due form, and in conformity to the facts
proved before me
Given under my hand this fifth day
of September A. D. 1854.
Josiah Pierce

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State of Maine
County of Waldoss
Be it known that on this 31st day of August
A.D. 1854, before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for
the County and State aforesaid,
personally appeared Elisha Parkhurst a resident of Unity in said County aged Sixty one years
and made oath in due form of law that he is one of three surviving children of Sally Parkhurst late of said Unity deceased
that the said Sally Parkhurst was the widow of Nathan Parkhurst, & that she made application for a pension in her life time, and that the
papers relative thereto, are filed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. to which your affiant refers. Your affiant verily
believes that said claim ought to be allowed and in order to have the necessary proof relative
to said claim presented, I hereby

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constitute and appoint Freeman
Bradford of Portland Maine my true
and lawful Attorney for me and in
my name, and for my own and the use of the other surviving children of the said Sally Parkhurst to prosecute the aforesaid claim for
the amount of the pension due.  And
for the purpose of establishing said
claim I hereby authorize my Attorney or his substitute to apply for and obtain from the Secretary of State New Hampshire or elsewhere proof of such service.  I also authorize and empower my said Attorney or
his substitute to examine all papers and documents in relation to the service of Nathan Parkhurst my father for service in the Revolutionary war now on file in the Departments in Washington or elsewhere,
to file additional evidence and to
receive the Certificate of pension
should any be granted, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein

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expressed, and to do all things that I
might or could do were I personally
present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming
all that my Attorney or his substitutes may lawfully do in the premises.
And your declarant further states that his mother said Sally Parkhurst ever remained a widow and died at Unity on the 29th day of September A.D. 1853, and Elisha Parkhurst, Hale Parkhurst, and Elbridge Parkhurst, 
are the children and only surviving children of said Sally Parkhurst deceased.
Elisha Parkhurst
Waldo County ss. August 31st 1854 
Then personally appeared the above named
Elisha Parkhurst who is known to
me as the person he represents himself to be, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed.
Josiah Harmon Justice of Peace ┃

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We Ephraim Murch and Lucinda
Murch, both residents of Unity in
the County of Waldo and State of
Maine being of lawful age
and in the matter of the claim
of Sally Parkhurst's heirs for a pension 
disinterested witnesses, as oath depose and say that we have been well and intimately 
acquainted with Sally Parkhurst deceased, the said Ephraim for more than fifty years and
the said Lucinda for more than thirty years, said Sally Parkhurst was the widow of Nathan
Parkhurst who was reputed to be a Revolutionary Soldier, and his widow said Sally was a claimant for a pension in her life time,
We further testify and say that said Sally Parkhurst died in this town on the 29th
day of September A.D. 1853, we were present at her death and attended her funeral, we
also further state that Elisha

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Parkhurst, Hale Parkhurst and
Elbridge Parkhurst are the children
and only surviving children of said Sally Parkhurst
deceased, and that said Sally Parkhurst remained a widow till the time of her death
Ephraim Murch
Lucinda Murch
Attest
J Harmon
Z. K. Harmon

Waldo County ss. August 31st 1854.
Then personally appeared the above
named Ephraim & Lucina Murch
who are known to me as persons of
truth and veracity and credible
and respectable witnesses and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed
●
Before me Josiah Harmon Justice of Peace

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Joseph Parkhurst
affi-
Sally Parkhurst
Me ss 1838
Cole
A H Markland Co
Recd Novr 30th 1844

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State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court
PORTLAND, Sep 4 A D h 1848
I. ROBERT A. BIRD,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Josiah Harmon Eqr
is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed, was an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
within and for [Blank] the County of Waldo
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY 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
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.
Robt. A Bird CLERK.
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I Elisha Parkhurst of Unity in the
County of Waldo and State of Maine
on oath depose and say that I am
Eighty six years of age and upwards,
and am a brother of Nathan Parkhurst late of this town deceased.
In the time of the Revolutionary war
my father lived in Grantham
New Hampshire, his name was
Jonathan.  I had four brothers in the Revolution born in the order named.
George, Samuel, Nathan
Jonathan;  George was away from home at work in the town of Surry when he enlisted, he & my brother Samuel were both in the battle of Bunker Hill.  Samuel came home on a furlough after the Battle.  I can remember when they went
away, George promised me some of his clothes if he never came back again, my Brother George was in the whole of the war eight years
in all as a Sergeant, and drew a pension before he died in Fairfield

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this State.  My Brother Nathan and
Jonathan were not in the first part of
the war.  Nathan enlisted under
Capt. House or Howes as I believe,
he served as much as three years
in all, he was at home all one winter
sick with the camp disorder
which he had contracted in the
Anny, after he got well he went
back in to the Army again, he was
out in the Army when Burgoyne
was taken.  My father was also out at the
taking of Burgoyne and walked home in one day & brought his pack & gun, he was the only
man that got home in one day.  My Brother Samuel died in the Anny, my brother Nathan was with him in the Army when he died, & saw him buried without any other coffin but his blanket.  Nathan brought home his pocket
book, which I now have in my possession, my brother Jonathan was the youngest and when he first went out into the war he went as a
waiter to Capt. Stephens or Stevens

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of said Grantham, I don't know whether Jonathan got a pension or not, as he moved into the Western States many years ago.
Sally Parkhurst who was the 2nd wife of my brother Nathan, made an effort to obtain a pension for many years before her death. 
Nathan died before the pension
Acts passed.  Said Sally Parkhurst
remained a widow, and died in this town on the 29th day of September 1853.  I was
present at her funeral.  I further state that Elisha Parkhurst, Hale Parkhurst, and
Elbridge Parkhurst are the children and only surviving children of said Sally Parkhurst
deceased & that I have no interest in their
claim for pension.
Elisha Parkhurst
J Harman
Waldo County ss. August 31st 1854.
Then personally appeared the above
named Elisha Parkhurst who
dictated the foregoing affidavit in

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my presence and having had the same
read to him subscribed it in my presence and made oath that the same is true and
I do certify that said Elisha Parkhurst is known to me as a man of truth and veracity,
and an intelligent and credible witness.  I also certify that I have no interest whatever in
the claim that said Sally Parkhurst heirs may have to pension.
Josiah Harmon Justice of Pea(ce)

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10
Mr George W. Minton
Augusta Me
from the clerk
of Newcastle

(Stamp reads)  
NEWCASTLE ME
NOV 23

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STATE OF MAINE.
Waldo ss.  Nov. 1st 1841
I the subscriber [Blank] hereby CERTIFY
That Jonathan Thayer before whom the proceedings were had, is Judge of Probate within & for the County of Waldo.  I also CERTIFY, That the Declaration contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sarah Parkhurst for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my seal of said Court, this first day of 
November A. D., 1841
Bohan P. Field Jr.  Register of Probate

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No 8182
Sally Parkhurst wid of Nathan Parks or Parkhurst
Waldo Co. Maine
Act 7. July 1838

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State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss.
On this thirtieth day of January
A.D. 1854. Before me, Asaph R. Nichols,
a Notary Public, for the County aforesaid,
duly appointed, commissioned and sworn
and residing in the City of Augusta in said
County, personally appeared Hale Park
hurst, to me well known as a reputable
person and made oath to the truth of
the the within declaration by him subscribed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office the
day and year first above written.
Asaph R Nichols,
Notary Public.

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Sally Parkhurst
widow of Nathan
Maine
1838 Suspd
A. H. Markland