Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,174, John Faxon, Mass.

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(8-1776)
Service 
Mass.
Faxon, John
           Lydia
Number

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15,761 District of Maine
John Faxon of Lubec in the state of (crossed out) D of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel P.D. Sergeant of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8  Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of Sep 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Nov 181[illegible] and Sent to James Campbell Narraguanses Dist Maine arrears 4th of Mar 1819 47.16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
5 mos 23|30  4|31  $ 47.16

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

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Maine 1,399
Lydia Faxon
[illegible] w of John Faxon
was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 who died on the 15 April 1826 Washington Co. in the State of Maine who was a Musician in the company commanded by Captain --------- of the Regt commanded by Col. Sergeant in the Mass line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 44 dollars - Cents  per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13, Day of Dec 1835 and sent to Mrs Mary Mae Rea, Newport, R. Island 
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '38 132.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 6 May'39 22.00
$154.00
Act July [illegible] 1838
Recorded by D. Brown Book [illegible] Vol 1 Page 9 
Letter to Solo Thayer &  to Pension Agent 18 May 1839 same apl 17.1840

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John Faxon Private Declaration Sept 7th 1819
77 to 77 Sergeant Maptes Regt P Admitted

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I John Faxon of Lubeck in the county of Washington & state of Massachusetts, aged fifty-two years, as on oath, testify, declare & say that on January in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six I enlisted into the service of the United States, in the revolutionary war at Braintree, in the same state of Massachusetts, as a musician in Capt. John Yinton's company of foot, in the sixteenth regiment  in the Massachusetts line., commanded by Paul Dudley Sergent Esquire,[illegible] continued to serve in said company. in said regiment during all that year seventeen hundred & seventy six, at the end of which year I was honourably discharged therefrom, which discharge I have lost or mislaid; that I am now in reduced circumstances, & need the assistance of my country provided by the late act of the con

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gress of the United States; & I further testify & declare that I have never received any pension from my country. 
John Faxon
Washington [illegible] September 8-1819 when above named John Faxon made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him signed before me James Campbell Judge. C.C. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Washington, u. September 8 -  A.D. 1819
IT appearing to my satisfaction that John Faxon, Subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the Revolutionary against the common enemy as stated in the said declaration. I now transmit the testimony in the case with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the direction 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:" the testimony and proceeding in the premises being the declarations aforesaid, [illegible] the accompanying documents marked together with this Certificate.  (2) 
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Circuit Court of Common Please [illegible] the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, to be hereunto affixed.
James Campbell }Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts
[Illegible] u. September 8 A.D. 1819 [illegible] satisfied that the above named John Faxon by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support.
James Campbell }Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts. 

To the Secretary of Department of War.

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3269
Lydia Faxon
widow of John 
Act  7 July '38 
Solo.m Thayer Esq
[Illegible] Ma

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State of Maine
Washington County [illegible] [illegible seal]
I Aaron L Raymond, clerk of the judicial Courts, held within the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify, that John C. Talbot Esquire, is Judge of the Court of Probate, held in the Country aforesaid having been duly commissioned and qualified, and that this signature within written is genuine. Given under my hands and the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas. this thirteenth day of November A.D. 1838
A.L. Raymond Clerk as aforesaid.

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State of Maine 
Washington Cty
On this twenty sixth day of October A.D. 1835 personally appeared before the Hon John C. Talbot of Washington Lydia Faxon a resident of Lubec in said County of Washington  agree rightly [illegible] years who being first duly sworn according to law cloth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress Journal July 7.1838 entitled," an Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows,' that she is the widow of John Faxon late of said Lubec who was as she had frequently heard him say & verily believes was a soldier in the army of the Revolution. In what capacity & how long he served she has no means of knowing. [illegible] He obtained pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 but it was taken from him by the Act of My 1st 1820. The pension certificate is lost. She has no documentary evidence. 
She further declares that she was married to the said John Faxon at Newport R Island on the twentieth day of December in the year seventeen hundred & eighty nine - that her husband the aforesaid John Faxon died on the fifteenth day of April 1826 - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above states. 
Lydia Faxon
Sworn to & subscribed on the & year above written
J.C. Talbot       

State of Maine 
[illegible seal]
Washington Cty I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County aforesaid  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains all the proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Faxon for a Pension. 
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my name and the Seal of the said Court of Probate. 
Albert G. Lane Register.

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Revy WIDOW, &c. [illegible]
File no. 24174
Lydia Faxon
Wid of
John Faxon
Musician Mass Line
Act of July 7th 38
Index Vol. A , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Lubec May 10 1829
Sir,
Last December you sent Mrs. Lydia Faxon a certificate of Pension for forty four Dollars per annum. These [illegible] of [illegible] have been made out following the supplied form, Once the magistrate was a witness & it was sent back -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 the certificate copy of provision was sent signed in discussion  of a   witness - I then sent it 2 Comptrollers  & he sent in a new set of blanks. I made out another - now forsooth it is again denied  - the agent at Portland writing -"The return  [illegible] made clear to the pension agency in that Lydia Faxon is entitled to $23.33 per ann. & sent 3/44"
I hope the Government will never grant any more provisions  - with the multiplied  instructions in daily change in the form the trouble with [illegible multiple words] all that will be [illegible]. The bounty of the Government is a cross. 
Yours etc  Sol. Thayer

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1399 Lydia Faxon Widow of John Faxon Musician 1 yr $44 per annum Act 7 July '38 Maine Roll -
Send cert to:  Mrs. Mary MacRae, Newport  R. Island -

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Lubec April 7 1840 
Sir
The Pension Certificate of widow Lydia Faxon is No 1399 & is for forty four dollars. " [illegible] [ illegible ] pension.' The Agent at Portland will pay but ($20) twenty dollars semiannually & says he is instructed to pay but $40 per annum and not $44 - Who is in fault?  Your Obt Svt Solo Thayer 
P.S. The first instructions to the Agent in Portland from your office own that Mrs. Faxon's certificate was for $ 22,12. she was notified &  I supposed it was now right but it seems otherwise

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To L Edward [illegible]
Com. of Pensions

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Lubec Dec 5 1828
Sir, I return Mrs Faxon' application & form to request you to send your printed  rules [illegible] widows Pensions to Mrs Mary MacRea  Newport R. Is. This is Mrs Faxon' daughter & was the one that processed & forwarded the old new form & papers of Jan'y 1790 in which Mrs Faxon's marriage was announced. Mrs MacRea is the widow of Col. Wm McRea  [illegible] col of the 2d of artillery U.S. Army & is the daughter of Mrs. Faxon by a previous marriage. - She was six years old at the time of her mother's second marriage - The marriage  was at Mrs. Faxon's own house & by a magistrate & no more of it can be found - 
I have written to Mrs MacRea that the papers have not been rec'ed by you, If you will send her the printed rules & say that proof  of the time of the marriage of MRs. Faxon is still wanting you will greatly oblige Mrs. Faxon. Yours, Obt Svt, Sol, Thayer 
I L Edward Esq

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Newport 27th, November 1838
Sir
In September last I received a letter from my relative, Mr. Thayer of Lubec, Maine , requesting my assistance in procuring evidence of the marriage of John Faxon with the widow Lydia Champlin late in the year 1789, that she might be able to draw the pension to which she is entitled by a late law of Congress in favour of the widows of those who served in the Revolutionary war. The testimony I procured was collected and forwarded to you by Henry M. Cranston, attorney at law, brother to the Representative from this state and was mailed at the post office, Newport and must have been received by you early in October last. The evidence offered was a copy of the marriage, as published at that time ( in January 1790) and the testimony of Christopher Ellery, formerly a Senator from this state, who was an intimate friend of Mr. Faxon's.  If I am not mistaken, Sir, you were an acquaintance of my deceased husband, the late Colonel MacRea of the U.S. Army - you will oblige me by giving immediate attention to the business above mentioned as I have a real interest in the parties concerned.  Mr. Robbins, our Senator, left  Newport yesterday for Washington, and promised to see you on the subject; but I should suppose the testimony offered was ample to the purpose. Very Respectfully, your Obt Srvt, Mary MacRea

Mr. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

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Newport R.I. 4th October 1838
Hon Joel R Poinsett
Sir
At the request of SolmThayer Eq of Lubec, Maine, I enclose the depositions of Chris Ellery & I [illegible intial] Parker as evidence in the case of Mrs. Faxon, formerly Mrs. Champlin, an applicant for a pension. 
I have the honor to be , Sir, 
Your Obt. Sert. Henry Cranston

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Hon Mr Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir 
A widow in Rhode Island now by the name of Faxon, but who before her [illegible] marriage with Faxon, was the widow of Oliver Champlin, an officer of the revolutionary army, informs me that she is an applicant for a pension; that her papers long ago were sent onto your Department; but that she has rec'd no answer to her application  Will you be pleased to inform me whether her papers have been lodged and now,1.  are in you Department; 2 what (if any thing) has been done with regard to them? 
[illegible] [illegible] yr ob.ser Asher Robbie
Dec. 10, 1838

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I Sol Thayer of Lubec State of Maine do on oath testify that I was acquainted with  [illegible] John Faxon for about eight years prior to his death which took place on the fifteenth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred & twenty six - His widow Lydia Faxon is still living in Lubec & unmarried & is the same person that appeared before Judge Talbot on the twenty sixth of October A.D. 1828 & made her declaration in order to obtain her pension certificate.
I further say that the[illegible]Faxon had a pension under the Act of 1818 which was discontinued by the Act of 1920 - that the certificate was in my possession for  several years but cannot now be found.  Sol. Thayer
State of Maine Washington} On this thirteenth day of November A.D.  Eighteen Hundred and thirty eight personally appeared that above named Solomon Thayer Resident of Lubec in said County known to me as a person of truth and veracity who being duly sworn declares that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true Sabr Mowry Justice of the Peace

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State of Maine
Washington County js.
I Aaron L Raymond clerk of all the judicial courts held within the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that [illegible] Mowry Esquire is a Justice of the Pearce in and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature within written is genuine. Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas, this thirteenth day of November A.D. 1838.  A.L. Raymond, Clerk
[Illegible seal]

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I Paul D. Sargent late a Colonel in the Revolutionary Was of the United States of America do on oath testify and say that John Faxon of Lubeck in the County of Washington and Commonwealth of Massachusett was a musician in Captain John Denton Company in the Regiment commanded by me and in that capacity served through the year 1776 -or the term he enlisted for. 
Paul D Sargent Col of the 16th Reg

Washington js: September 18 -1819 when the above named Paul D. Sargent made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. I further state that he is a credible witness and full faith is to be given him as such -
James Campbell Judge Circuit Court of Co Ps,  third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts.

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I, John H. Barber of the town and county of Newport, Printer, on solemn oath, declare as follows: 
I am one of the Publishers of the Newspaper called the  "Newport Mercury", which has been published in this town for the last eighty years; and I have been one of the publishers of that Newspaper for the last twenty years. I have examined the files of said paper now in my possession, and find that following notice of the marriage of John Faxon to have been first published the 6th of January 1790, in the following records: viz. "Married. On the 20th December last, John Faxon Esq Attorney at Law to Mrs. Lydia Champlin, widow of the late Capt. Robert Champlin. " J. H. Barber

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State of Rhode Island
& County of Newport
In Newport on this the twenty sixth day of September A.D. 1838- Personally appeared the before written John H. Barber, and after being duly sworn, gave the foregoing Deposition containing a copy of an extract taken from the Newport Mercury as published in the year seventeen hundred and ninety - said Barber being a person of good credibility & subscribed the same Before me, Joseph Josten, C.Jus C.C of Pleas, Newport.

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I, Christopher Ellery, of the town and county of Newport late a United States Senator in my seventieth year, on solemn oath, declare as follows:  About the year seventeen hundred ninety, John Faxon came to this place, and was employed here as a Teacher. I become acquainted with him at that time and continued to be acquainted with him a number of years. After having read law with William Channing, said Faxon intermarried with Lydia Champlin, a widow; which marriage took place between them soon after said Faxon came to Newport. I was intimately acquainted with Faxon & his wife, and visited them while in Newport, and I always understood from him that he had served in the Army of the United States as a

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fifer in the War of the Revolution. And I have no doubt of the fact; for, in addition to his own account of himself, he had several accomplishments which he undoubtedly acquired in the Army. Christ. Ellery
State of Rhode-Island & County of Newport
In Newport on this the twenty sixth day of September A.D. 1838 - Personally appeared the above written Christopher Ellery, a Gentleman of good credibility and after having  been duly sworn, gave the foregoing Deposition, and subscribed the same with his own hand, Before me, Joseph Josten, C Jus. C. C. Pleas, Newport

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late of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas Country of Newport I Daniel C. Renham Clerk of said Court of said County  do hereby certify that Joseph Josten is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport and that his signature afore written is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto  set my hand and the seal of said Court this Fourth day of October A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty eight. Daniel CV. Renham, Clerk
[illegible seal]