Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,822, for John Nason, Massachusetts

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State of Maine
County of Waldo SS.}

On this fourteenth day of August AD. 1832 personally appeared be me Alfred
[Lemont] Judge of the Court of Probate at [Lincolnville] in sd County, John Nason of
Hope in sd County, aged seventy four years, who being first duly work according to
law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, being unable toa [appear[ at Court for this purpose. Viz

That he was born in Woolwich County of Lincoln in this State Oct 15. 1757. that he has no record of his age in possession but believes that there is one at Woolwich where he was born, that he was living in the town of Woolwich when called into service, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated, 
viz that he enlisted under Capt John Hinckly [at] Georgetown in Col McCobbs Regiment in the month of June 1779 & marched
to Boothbay in the State of Maine & from thence to Bagaduce (now Castine) where he was placed under the command of Genl Lovell and
was there at the seige & battle of Bagaduce, & was discharged in the month of Oct after having served four months, that in the month of April 1780 he again enlisted in a Company [ ] Massachusetts State Troops commanded by Capt Solomon Walker in Col. Burtons Regiment under the command of Genl Peleg Wadsworth & marched to Camden on the Penobscot Bay & was there & at St George stationed until the month Jany 1781 when he was discharged after having served eight months - 
that he was a private soldier during both the aforementioned campaigns, that he resided at sd Woolwich from his birth to the time of his enlistment & at that time where he continued to live until the yar 1788 when he removed to Canaan, now sd Lincolnville, & then resided until the year 1808 when he removed into the neighbouring town of Hope in the County of Waldo where he now resides.
In addition to Capt Hinckley, Col. McCobb & Genl Lovell whose names are mentioned above he remembers Col Mitchell

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who commanded a Regiment at Bagaduce, William Stanton the adjutant of the Regiment, Lt Wm Porter, & ensign Wm Lee of the company to which he belonged & many other officers of State troops in the first service he performed; & in the second term of service Col Barton who commanded the Regiment, Major Philip Ulmer, adjutant George Ulmer & there were no other troops but the Regiment to which he was annexed doing duty with as at his second term of service. 
Our duty was to guard the coast on the Penobscot Bay which at that [period] was a frontier. 
He never received any written discharge but at the expiration of his term of enlistment, he was verbally discharged by his commanding officer. He has no documentary evidence. As to his character for veracity & their belief of his services in the war of the Revolution he refers to the Rev. Ebr. Cox & the Rev. Lemuel Rich, & [parties] McLane, Bartre, Crane, Hope, & all his neighbors & townsmen.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State
his Mark X John Nason

signed in presence of
James Knight
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me 
[ ] Johnson  Jr Judge

The Ebenezer Cox a clergyman residing in sd Hope; Thomas McKenney a Clergyman residing in Lincolnville are well acquainted with John Nason residing in sd Hope who has subscribed & sworn to the above
declaration, that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reported & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have 
been a soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that [opinion]
Eben Cox
Thomas M..
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me [ ..]