Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,848, Nathan Coombs, Mass.

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SERVICE                                             NUMBER            
Mass.         Coombs, Nathan       W. 23,848 
                            Sarah

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Maine, No 4312
Sarah Coombs, deceased.
widow of Nathan Coombs, Mass
who died on the 18 November 1828, of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a private and corporal in the company - commanded by Captain Curtis - of the Regiment commanded by Col. Cargill - in the Mass: line for 10.5 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 36 Dollars 60 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. on 30 January 1841.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Dec: 1845 and sent to A McArthur, (illegible town), Maine.

Arears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

$369.17
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3-

Recorded by Will Stewart, Clerk
Book - Vol. 1 - Page 3 -

12th - Dev. 45. Refd: to

Agt: [crossed out]

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State of Maine
County of Cumberland SS: On this twenty eighth day of October AD 1845 personally appeared before me Hon. Barret Potter Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine being a court of record in said State in open Court John E. Coombs of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged sixty two years who being first duty sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration for himself and in behalf of Jane Cummings of Brunswick aforesaid and Mary Sanford of Bath in the County of Lincoln all children and only children of Nathan Coombs late of said Brunswick deceased and children and only children of Sarah Coombs late widow of said Nathan in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of July 4 1836 that the said John E. Coombs and said Jane Cummings and Mary Sanford are the children and only children of Nathan Coombs late of Brunswick aforesaid and the children and only children of Sarah Coombs late widow of the said Nathan Coombs and the said Sarah Coombs was the widow of the said Nathan Coombs who I believe was a corporal

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in Captain James Curtis' company from May 17 to August 9 1775 three months including allowance of 165 miles travel - as a corporal in Captain James Curtis' company in Col. James Cargill regiment from August 9 1775 five months and five days. - as a private in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company in Col. Nathaniel Wade's regiment from first of September to the first of November 1778 two months. 
He further declares that the said Sarah was married to the said Nathan Coombs on the eighth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid Nathan Coombs died on the eighteenth day of November eighteen hundred and twenty eight and that she remained a widow from the time of the death of her said husband until the time of her death which was on the thirtieth day of January eighteen hundred and forty one as will more fully appear by the proof here unto annexed
Witness B. Potter. 
John E. Coombs

Subscribed and sworn to on this day and year first above mentioned. 
Before me
Barret Potter, Judge

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6612
Nathan Coombs
Sarah Coombs Decd
Widow of Nathan
[illegible]
Act 4 July 1836

Married 1778
Husband died 18 Nov 1828
Widow died 30 July 1841

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State of Maine
Cumberland ss.
Clerk's Office
Jud: Courts Portland [underlined]

I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said County, hereby certifies that the following marriage appeared in the list of marriages returned to this Office by the Town Clerk of the Town of Harpswell for the years 1773 to 1778 and recorded in the "Sessions Records" for said County to wit:
"Nathan Coombs & Sara Ewing, March eighth Anno Domini seventeen hundred and seventy eight."

And I further certify that the foregoing is a true Extract from said Records of said marriage, excepting the words: "March eighth Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and seventy eight," which are plainly and legibly expressed in the words and figures following to wit: "Mar. 8, 1778."

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, this first day of July AD 1845.

Charles Cobb, Clerk

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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23848
Sarah Coombs
Widow of Nathan Coombs
Corpl Rev War
Act July 4th 1836

Index: Vol (blank), Page (blank)
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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No 6612
Sarah Coombs Decd.
Widow of Nathan
(illegible)
Act. 4 July 1836

(illegible)
8 mo 5 days Corpl $29.94
2 mo Priv " " "
(total) $36.60
from 4 March 1821 to 30 January 1841 the day of her death, payable to John E Coombs, Jane Cummings and Mary Sanford only surviving children of Sara Coombs decd. 

Arthur McArthur
Limington Maine

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State of Maine
Cumberland
I CC Tobie, Register of Probate for said County hereby certify that the Hon Barrett Potter has been duly appointed and commissioned Judge of Probate for the County and State aforesaid that he remains such at this time, that full faith and credit are due to all his acts in said capacity of Judge and that the within signature purporting to be his is the true and genuine signature of the said Barrett Potter. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court for said County, this third day of November AD 1845.

C. C. Tobie, Register.

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90 Secy of Mass certif.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Sep 25 1845

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 Nathan Coombs of Brunswick is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt. James Curtis' Company as a Corporal from May 17 to August 9 1775. 3 months. including allowance of 165 miles travel. Upon another of the same Company in Col James Cargill's regiment as a corporal from August 9 1775 5 months and 5 days. Upon a Pay Abstract of Capt. Benjamin Lamont's company in Col. Nathaniel Wade's regiment as a private from the 1st of September to the 1st of November 1778. 2 months. The above is all the evidence of service of any one of the name as shown by the records in this office.

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And I further certify, that, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth

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To the Secretary of State Massachusetts
John E. Coombs, son and heir at law of Nathan Coombs late of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine a soldier in the war of the Revolution requests evidence of the services of his said father in the Revolutionary Army. - He believes that his father served eighteen months in all - That he performed that he performed that service at various times - This applicant believes that his father served eight or nine months at Cambridge under Capt. Lamont - He believes that his father served another tour in New York but is unable to state under what Capt. he was enrolled -
He therefore requests the Secretary to (illegible) the rolls and Revolutionary documents in his office to be examined and a certificate granted of all the services of the said Nathan Coombs (who enlisted from Brunswick) in whatever Companies said services may have been performed.
[signature] John E. Coombs

Cumberland ss. signed in my presence the 13th day of June 1845.

Jacob Herrick Justice of Peace
Arthur McArthur, Limington, Maine, Attorney

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State of Maine.
Probate Court,
Cumberland County, s.s.

Be it Known, That on this fourth Tuesday of October 1845 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Nathan Coombs late of Brunswick in said County died at said Brunswick on the twenty eighth day of November 1828. And that Sarah Coombs was the widow of said Nathan Coombs, and continued his widow until the time of her death which was on the 30th day of January AD 1841 and that John E. Combes, Jane Cummings, and Mary Sanford are the children and the only children of the said Nathan & Sarah Coombs, deceased. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto, affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this twenty eighth day of October in the year 1845. 
C. C. Tobie
Register of Probate
Cumberland County

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Limington Nov. 7 1845

Sir,
Enclosed are documents in the application of Sarah Coombs for pension.

I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Arthur McArthur

Hon. James N. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Payment to be made at (blank) by (blank) 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of (blank)

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book C Vol. 1 Page 3 - by Clerk.

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No 4312
War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th of July, 1836, Sarah Coombs, deceased, who was the widow of Nathan Coombs, who was a private & corporal, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $36.60 per annum. [illegible] on the 4th of March 1831 and ending the 30th January 1841 the day of her death which will will be paid when the proclamation of the proper (illegible) to John E. Coombs, Jane Cummings and Mary Harford only surviving children. 

To be paid at Portland, Maine

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 11th day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

Secretary of War. 
Examined and Countersigned
Commissioner of Pensions

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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-9-41
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Division of Veterans' Administration


Coombs, Peter
Private
Line: New York

Warrant Number: 6936
Acreage: 100
Issued: Oct. 5, 1790
to John Tilman, assignee

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 subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications 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.