Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,905, Ezra Davis, Continental Me Agency And Residence

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Continental          Davis, Ezra                                                         W.22.905
                                       Abigail
                             Me. Agency and residence

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6083
Maine
Ezra Davis
private
Massachusetts line-3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Mae
at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on
the 30th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of January 18
and dele
R. C. Vose, Augusta Maine
to 4th of Sep. 1818. 5 mo. 2/31 4/30 - 41.57
l'ce ending 4th March 1819               - 48.00
                                                            $89.57
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

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Ezra Davis, Pittston,
pr. Col. Sherburne's Mass.
Reg. 1777 to 1779
March 30, 1818
Admitted
disch Apl

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ezra Davis, aged sixty two years, a citizen of the United States
born in Woolwich, in the District of Maine, but now of Pittston in said
District, upon oath testify and declare that on the tenth of March A.D.
1777. I enlisted as a private into the continental services of the United States, against
the common enemy, for the term of three years into the company commands
by Cap. Benjamin Burton, and regiment commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne
of the Rhode Island line. I fully served out my said term of three years, and took
my honorable discharge from the Army at Morristown in March 1780. The
discharge I have not preserved. I was in the Battle at White Plains, and 
at the battle on Rhode Island. I am indigent, and in need of the bounty
of the Government. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every
pension, heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any,
but I am not to my knowledge born on any pension with whatever
and I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for 
the District of Maine-Ezra Davis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co
On the thirtieth day of March A D 1818 Ezra Davis, above
named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth after fore-
going declaration, by him submitted
Before me Nathan Weston Jr Chief Justice C. Court O.
Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I David Moores, of Pittston, in the District of Maine, of lawful
age do declare and solemnly affirm, and declare that I am well
acquainted with the above named Ezra Davis. I know that he
served in the Continental Army, against the Common Enemy-he is
 indigent and in need of the bounty of Government. He sustains the 
the character of a man of veracity. The said Davis served
in the continental army three years.
David Moores
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co
On the thirtieth day of March A D 1818 David Moores above
named, after having him carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the 
foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me Nathan Weston Jr Chief Justice C. Court O.
Pleas Second Eastern Circuit

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I Ezra Davis, aged sixty two years, born in 
Woolwich, in the District of Maine, but now of 
Pittston in said District, upon oath testify and declare
that on the tenth of March A.D. 1777 I enlisted as
a private into the continental services of United States
for the term of three years into the company com-
manded by Capt. Benjamin Burton, and regiment
commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne of the Rhode Island
line. I fully served out my said term of three
years, and took my honorable discharge from the
army at Morristown in March 1780. The
discharge I have not procured. I was in the 
battle at White Plains, and at the battle on Rhode Island.
I am indigent, and in need of the bounty of
the government. And I do hereby relinquish
all my claim to every pension, heretofore allows
me by the laws of the U. States, if any.
Ezra Davis

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I Nathanial Berry of Gardiner in
the District of Maine of lawful age upon
oath testify and declare that I am well
acquainted with the within named Ezra
Davis. I know that he served three years
in the continental service. He is indigent
and in need of the bounty of the government.
He sustains the character of a man of 
veracity.
Nathanial Berry
Sworn to March 30,

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Ezra Davis
(6083)
(March 1819)

R. C. Vone, Augusta, Maine.

[flipped upside down]
Nathan Weston, Jus. P.
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Please

A true Copy

Attest John Davis Clerk

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I, Ezra Davis, of Pittston in the County of Kennebec aforesaid, a pensioner on the maine roll, under the law of the United States, entitled, “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th of March, 1818, do hereby exhibit the following schedule of my whole estate and income (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted), viz;

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The possession only, but not the property, to one hundred acres of lands, in said Pittston, with an old house and barn thereon, both very much out of repair, all of the value of one hundred dollars.

Three sheep and two lamb of the value of five dollars.

Furniture, besides necessary bedding, of the value of ten dollars.

Farming utensils of the value of three dollars

I have no debts due to me, and I owe as much as thirty dollars.

I have no income direct from property, trade or profession, except what may be derived from the little property before mentioned, which may be twenty dollars a year, but not  exceeding that sum; and from age and infirmity, being sixty-three years of age, I am wholly unable to labor.

Except the above, I have no estate or income whatever, my necessary clothing and bedding excepted.

Ezra Davis. 

A true copy

Attest John Davis Clerk 

[round black ink shape on the left, possibly a seal?]

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(Copy)

[typed]
State of Maine.
I, Ezra Davis within named do solemnly swear, that on the thirteenth day of March 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge Weston, and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency. And I, the said Ezra Davis, do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

[signed]
Ezra Davis

Kennebec, ss.

On this eighteenth day of May 1820, examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath, before me,

[signed] Nathan Weston Jus P
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas

A true Copy
attest John Davis Clerk [signed]

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I Ezra Davis within named do upon oath further declared that I am sixty five years of age, that I am by occupation a laborer, but by reason of infirmity and having been wounded in the right leg in the war of the revolution, am able to do very little labor. My family at home consists of myself, my wife Abigail aged forty five, who does not enjoy health, my daughter Hannah aged eighteen, and my grandson Ezra aged eleven years. 
Subscribed and sworn to Augt 1, 1820
[signed]
Ezra Davis
Before me Nathan Weston 
Just. P. J.C.

[handwritten upside down]
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Ezra Davis
(6083)
(March 1819.)

R.C.Vose, Augusta,
Maine

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State of Maine

County of Penobscot

Newburg February
25th 1841

On this twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty one Abigail Davis of Newburg in said County of Penobscot and State of Maine personally appeared before the subscriber aged eighty nine and who being sworn duly according to law doth on her oath depose and say and doth on her oath make the following decleration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July fourth Eighteen hundred and thirty Six. That She is the widow of Ezra Davis who was a private in the Revolutionary War. She further declares that she was married to the Said Davis according to the best of her recollection in [illegible] Seventeen hundred and eighty  that she was married at Bagaduce now Castine by Robert Pagun a Justice of the Peace  that her husband died She thinks in October in the year of our Lord

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Eighteen hundred and twenty six and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.  that her husband was a revolutionary pensioner  And that she resided in Pittston in the County of Kennebec until his death when she removed to Newburg in the County of Penobscot.  that her husband died a pensioner of a number of years before his death of a service in the Revolutionary War. that she does not know the service her husband performed in the Revolutionary War nor the time when he entered the service, or left it. Nor the rank or names of officers  he served

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 under as it has long since gone from her recollection – but that she knows her husband was in the revolutionary war
Subscribed be her mark in the presence of 
Abigail Davis
her mark +

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above named
Before Me
Fred H. Allen 
Jud Dist Court for E. Dist

I Frederick H Allen Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District in the State of Maine and in the County of Penobscot where the above named declarant resides do hereby certify that the above named Abigail Daivs is unable to attend the Court of which I am the Judge from debility and helplessness occasioned by old age and I do not think She will be able to attend the court above named at the next Session thereof And I do further certify that the above named Abigail Davis is a credible person and her declaration entitled to credit and belief

Fred. H. Allen

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[handwritten]
Maine 4134
Abigail Davis
[typed and handwritten form]
widow of Ezra  Davis
Mass
who was a Private
in the Massachusetts line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
Eighty Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the
2nd day of January, 18[streak]r
Geo W Martin
Augusta Main
[Act of March 3, 184[smudge]]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 12

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[handwritten]
State of Maine
County of Penobscot
Bangor
Feby 28 1841

I Rhoda Inman of Newburg in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am the oldest daughter now living of Ezra Davis and Abigail Davis of Pittston in the County of Kennebec  My brothers & sisters are all dead except one brother who Some years Since removed to the State of Ohio & two sisters who now reside in this State. I was born in what was then an unincorporated place a few miles [illegible] the present city of Bangor. My parents afterwards removed to Pittston of aesaid where they lived together as husband & wife until my fathers death. Since that time my mother has resided with me in Newburg and I know has remained the widow of Ezra Davis ever since his death.

The family bible was wet and spoiled many years Since in removing

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from part of Pittston to another part of the Same town. My mother now has the remains of it at my house in Newburg. More than two thirds of it are gone. It contained neither births ages or marriages or deaths. I can recollect this bible as Early as I can recollect any thing. I always understood that it was a seccond hand bible. Neither my father or mother or any the family could read [struck through] write. My father received a pension many years before his death.
Mr. Daniel Maun [Mann?] who as my mother now says went with her to Castine when she went to be married has been dead many years. He died before my father died
Signed in the presence of [illegible] Mcrillis
Rhoda Inman	
her mark X
State of Maine
County of Penobscot
On this Twenty third day of February in the year of Lord Eighteen hundred & forty one, personal appeared the above named Rhoda Inman before me the subscribed and made [illegible] oath that the above deposition by her subscribed is

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[handwritten]
true
Before me
Wm H. McCrillis
Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the afenamed Rhoda Inman is a reputable and credible person and her deposition entitled to belief 
Wm H. McCrillis
Justice of the Peace

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[handwritten]
Pittston April 7th 1806

Henry Davis Son of Ezra and Abigail Davis was born August ninth seventeen thousand and eighty eight
John Smith Davis was born December eighth seventeen thousand and eighty one
Rhoda Davis born August  twentieth seventeen hundred and ninety
Enoch Davis born April eleventh seventeen hundred and ninety four
Sarah Davis born March twenty seventh seventeen hundred and ninety six
Levi Davis born October seventh seventeen hundred and ninety eight
Hannah Matilda born October tenth eighteen hundred and five.

I John Dow Town Clerk of the town of Pittston certify that the above is a true copy of the records of the town of Pittston in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine with the exception of the dates which are expressed in fair legible figures as follows
Henry Davis Son of Ezra and Abigail Daivs was born Augt 9th 17088
John Smith Davis was born Decm 8th 17081
Rhoda Davis born Augt 20th 1790
Enoch Davis born April 11th 1794
Sarah Davis born March 27th 1796
Levi Davis born Oct. 7th 1798
Hannah Matilda born Oct 10th 1805

I John Dow depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County and State aforesaid and the above is true extract 
[bottom of page cut off] of said town of Pittston with the

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Pittston April 7th 1806

Henry Davis Son of Ezra and Abigail Davis was born August ninth seventeen thousand and eighty eight
John Smith Davis was born December eighth seventeen thousand and eighty one
Rhoda Davis born August twentieth seventeen hundred and ninety
Enoch Davis born April eleventh seventeen hundred and ninety four
Sarah Davis born March twenty seventh seventeen hundred and ninety six
Levi Davis born October seventh seventeen hundred and ninety eight
Hannah Matilda born October tenth eighteen hundred and five.

I John Dow Town Clerk of the town of Pittston certify that the above is a true copy of the records of the town of Pittston in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine with the exception of the dates which are expressed in fair legible figures as follows
Henry Davis Son of Ezra and Abigail Daivs was born Augt 9th 17088
John Smith Davis was born Decm 8th 17081
Rhoda Davis born Augt 20th 1790
Enoch Davis born April 11th 1794
Sarah Davis born March 27th 1796
Levi Davis born Oct. 7th 1798
Hannah Matilda born Oct 10th 1805

I John Dow depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County and State aforesaid and the above is true extract
[bottom of page cut off] of said town of Pittston with the

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which are expressed in fair legible figures as follows
Henry Davis Son of Ezra and Abigail Daivs was born Augt 9th 17088
John Smith Daivs was born Decm 8th 17081
Rhoda Davis born Augt 20th 1790
Enoch Davis born April 11th 1794
Sarah Davis born March 27th 1796
Levi Davis born Oct. 7th 1798
Hannah Matilda born Oct 10th 1805

I John Dow depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County and State aforesaid and the above is true extract
from the records of said town of Pittston with the exception above named as certified by me.
John Dow Town Clerk of Pittston
sworn before me Moses B. Bliss Justice of the Peace

P.S. The two first births as recorded are undoubtedly
a mistake of the town clerk as will be perceived
of a date that could not exist. The first undoubtedly 
ought to be 1778. The second 1781.

John Dow Town Clerk

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[starts mid-sentence, typed and handwritten]
sion on file in this Bureau 
Wid. File 22905 Ezra Davis 
[table with following columns]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers under Whom Service Was Rendered/Captain/Colonel/State
March 1777/Mar 1780/Pvt./Benjamin Burton (captain)/Henry Sherburne (colonel)/Continental 

Battles engaged in, White Plains and Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [blank]
Date of application for pension, Mar. 30. 1818. His Claim Allowed
Pittston Dist. of Maine
Age at date of application, Born in Woolrich Me 62 years old in 1818. *died [illegible] 1826 or 1827 [death information struck out]
Remarks: Soldier married at Bagaduce now Castine Me. Nov 1780 or 1781 Abigail Ayers. She was allowed pension on an application 
Their children were Henry b. Aug. 9. 1788; John Smith b. Dec. 8. 1781; Rhoda b. Aug. 20. 1790. Mar. – Inman; Enoch b. Apr. 11. 1794; Sarah b Mar. 27. 1796; Levi b. Oct. 7. 1798. Hannah Matilda b. Oct. 18. 1805

Very respectfully,
 Mrs. L. G. Armstrong [signature]
Hebbardsville, Ohio
27225b3ml-07
*Date of death not furnished because Agency book given Sept of 1826

Commissioner.

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[handwritten top left corner]
Mrs. L. G. Armstrong
in Ohio

[handwritten top right corner]
1907 Nov. 4 Hist. to 
Hebbardsv [page is cut off]

Rev
WIDOW, &c

No. 22905
Abigail Davis
Widow of Ezra Davis
Dis Rev War
Act March 3d 43
dex: Vol A, Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Abigail Davis
Wid of Ezra
Me
July 4 1836: [illegible]
Hn Geo Evans [illegible]
March 1841. do
W. H. McCrillis Apl 17 1841
same April 20, 1841
Do Hon. Geo. Evans 17 Mar. 42
Act 4 July 1836

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[printed document with fill ins]
[left side]

6662

Maine
==============
{Abigail Davis}
widow of  {Ezra Davis decd}
who was a pensioner under the Act of {1818}
and who died on the { 8th October 1827}
of {Penobscot Co. } in the State of {Maine}
who was a {Private} in the {Compy} commanded
by Captain {Burton} of the {Regt} commanded
by {Col. Sherburne} in the {Mass^a.}
line for {2 years}
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Inscribed on the Roll of {Maine}
at the rate of {80}  Dollars {00} Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
====================
Certificate of Pension issued the {26th} day of {May}
{[illegible] & sent to [illegible] H.  McCovillis
Bangor Maine}
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Arrears to the 4th of {March 1841  $?400.00}

[crossed out]
Semi-annual allowance ?ending
=====
{$400.00}
======

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by {D. D. Addison} Clerk.
Book  {A}   Vol. {1st}   Page {&}

[right side handwritten]
Reported
[illegible] July 2. 1842.

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3-595
O.W. and N. Division
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Oct. 22, 1907
Searched by Gill
Original No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant, [blank]
Soldier, Ezra Davis
Service, Mass. Service  Rev. War
Remarks: No claims as above except Wid 22,905

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[handwritten]
I Mahitable Page of Pittston County Kennebec (Maine) – Depose & Say that Abigail Davis of Newburgh widow, of Ezra Davis, is my sister & was always said to be, two & a half years older than myself, and that I was Seventy Seven years old the ninth day of last October. that she lived with said Davis till his death and then she removed to Newburgh to live with her daughter Rhoda  I have Seen her both in Pittston & New2burgh

Pittston March 29th 1841
Attest Peter Cooper
 Mahitable Page
Her mark X

Sworn to before me
[signed] Moses B. Bliss – Justice of Peace 

I Thomas Cass of Pittston County of Kennebec Maine, Depose & Say that I know Abigail Davis wife of Ezra Davis formerly of Pittston over 50 years ago & I Should judge that she was than from twenty-five to thirty years of age & that she removed to the Penobscot about twenty years since
Thomas Cass [signed]
Pittston March 29th 1841

Sworn to before me
[signed] Moses B. Bliss – Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

To the honorable the Secretary of the Department of war of the United States.

I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Ezra Davis, a citizen of the United States, now resident in

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Kennebec, SS:

The Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable Nathan Weston, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Please, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

[signed] John Davis

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[printed form completed in handwriting]

State of Maine.

I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is One hundred eighteen dollars, and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is eighty dollars.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.

[signed] John Davis
Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec

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[handwritten] 

I W.H. McCrillis of Bangor in the County of Penobscot of lawful age to testify depose and Say that I accompanied the Hon Frederick H. Allen to the residence of Mrs. Rhoda Inman in Newburg for the purpose of taking the declaration of Mrs Abigail Davis
her mother who resides with her. I found her a very aged woman and extremely infirm in mind and body  She was when first Enquired strongly impressed with the belief that she was Ninety nine years of age – but after reflection and a recurrence to the aged of her children she became satisfied that She was Eighty nine years of age instead of ninety nine as she first supposed.  Her appearance is such as to leave no doubt upon my mind that she is as old as She represented herself to be.
B[illegible] April 5 1841
[signed] William H McCrillis
Sworn to Before me
[signed] Fred H. Allen Just. Dist Court
for East. Dist. Maine

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[handwritten] 

I Jonathan G. Hunton now of Dixmont in the County of Penobscot, depose and say That Something like two years ago. I was applied to to assist in obtaining a pension for a Mrs. Davis, now of Newburgh in the County of Penobscot, Widow, and said to be the wife a Mr. Davis, late of Pittston in the County of Kennebec State of Maine, deceased, and for that purpose have had one or two interviews with her  I found her in a verry decrepit & in [illegible] state, both in mind and body. She was apparently to all & unintelligible, was as likely to say she was ninety years old as Eighty.  and by her appearance and all I could gather from the family in which she lived & from the views of the Town of Pittston of the birth of Davis Children she must now be between eighty five and ninety years of age.
And I further depose and say she is now and for a long time past, unable to go out & attend Court, to make her declaration there.

[signed]
J. G. Hunton

State of Maine. Penobscot {illegible} April 1st 1841

Then the above named J. G. Hunton personally appeared before me Frederick A. Butman one of the Justice of the Peace in sd County and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statements by him
Subscribed
[signed] F. A. Butman, Jus Pa

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State of Maine.

Penobscot
Clerk’s Office of the Judicial Court of Bangor, April 2d A.D. 1841.

I Charles Stetson Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in and for Said County of Penobscot. certify that Frederick A. Butman – Esquire. is a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature on the next preceeding page purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of our Supreme Judicial Court the day and year above written.

Charles Stetson  Clerk.

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I Frederick H. Allen of Bangor in the State of Maine of lawful age depose and say, that as Justice of the District Court I took the declaration of Abigail Davis at the hands of Rhoda Inman her daughter of Newburgh with whom she resides – that the said Abigail was [illegible] with the idea that her age was ninety nine but on reflections She Said She was eighty nine years of age. I further say, that her appearance shows that she is far advanced in life – and any one, who should see her, could not but be satisfied that she had lived more than eighty years – and that her statement of her age & probably correct
[signed]
Fred. H. Allen

April 7th 1841
Sworn to Before
[signed]
Wm. H. McCrillis, Justice of the Peace

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No. 8287

Abigail Davis
Me
Act 7 July ‘38

[illegible]
2 yrs pri
80$

No deduction
W. H. McCrillis
Bangor Me

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State of Maine

Penobscot County ss

On this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty two personally appeared before this Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District Abigail Davis a resident of Newburn in Said County of Penobscot aged Eighty four years who past being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July Seventh in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty eight Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widow. that she is a widow of Ezra Davis who was a private in the Militia in the Revolutionary War and performed service Some years in said War.

She further declares that she was marries to Said Ezra Davis  she thinks in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three and that her husband the aforesaid Ezra Davis died on the Eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seven  that She was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service – but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred

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and ninety four at the time above Stated.
Abigail Davis
her mark X

[illegible]
Wm H. McCrillis

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written and I do further certify that said Abigail Daivs by reason of bodily infirmity and extreme old age was unable to attend the Court of which I am judge and therefore I attended her place of residence and administered the [illegible] oath. 
The words “she thinks” were interlined before signing. I further certify that in consequence of her extreme old age her memory of certain facts, and especially of her age & indistinct. 

[signed]
Fred. H. Allen
Just. Dist. Court
for the East. District.

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State of Maine

Penobscot S. S.

I William T. Hilliard Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said County of Penobscot hereby certify that Frederick H. Allen Esquire whose name appears in the foregoing instrument is a Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District in said State & Said District comprising within its limits the County of Penobscot aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine 
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two

[signed]
William T. Hilliard
Clerk

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No. 8287 May 24 1842
Maine
July 7. 1838,
Ab. Davis

[black round stamp]
Bangor Me
May 20

[handwritten]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

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[handwritten]

Bangor May 19 1842

Hon J L Edwards

Sir

About one year Since I received from you a letter which you said that in the case of Abigail Davis a new decleration must be filed
My business has been such & through some neglect, the certificate & decleration 
has never been obtained until now. I have the honor of now enclosing it to you .

All the other papers were on file in your department. 
Truly yours
with much Respect

Wm H McCrillis

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[handwritten]

Pension Office
Patt[illegible] June 28. 1842

Sir,

I forward you herewith the papers of Moses B. Bliss Guard. of Abigail Davis for examination agreeable to your letter of [unknown symbol] past.

Respectfully yours
Joseph Ilsley
Clerk

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington

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4055
 Abigail Davis
by her Guardian
Moses B. Bliss

4134
12


$80 per ann

Geo W Morton
Augusta Maine

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Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843. granting Pensions for one year to certain widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7. 1843

State of Maine
County of Kennebec. On this twenty first day of August A. D. 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine Moses B. Bliss a resident of Pittston in said County of Kennebec, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration. in order to obtain for his ward Abigail Davis the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress on the 3d March 1843, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That he was legally appointed and still continues to be the guardian to Abigail Davis the reputed widow of Ezra Davis. that the said Abigail Davis was pensioned as the widow of the said Ezra Davis under the Act of July 7. 1843 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum which was paid to him as her guardian at the agency in Portland, Maine. He further states that from evidence in his possession the said Abigail Davis was living in the town of Newburg in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine on the 15th day of August 1843. She has remained unmarried ever since the death of her reputed husband the said Ezra Davis.

[signed]
Moses B. Bliss

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State of Maine
Kennebec County SS
On the twenty first day of August A. D. 1843 the within declaration was subscribed and sworn to by Moses. B. Bliss. [illegible] to me as a reputable person and entitled to credit and belief.
[signed]
Geo W Morton Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Kennebec County S.S.
I the subscribed Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held for and within the said County of Kennebec do hereby certify that Geo W Morton is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec, and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the twenty second day of August A. D. 1843.
[signed]
A. R. Nichols

State of Maine.
Kennebec County SS
I the subscriber Register of Probate for the Said County of Kennebec. do hereby certify that Moses B. Bliss is the Guardian of Abigail Davis. a person non-compos. mentes as appears of record in this office.
Witness my hand and seal official this twenty first day of October AD 1843
[signed]
Francis Davis

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J. L. Edwards Esq
Ge Morton

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Senate C W
Washtn Mar 8 1841
J. L. Edwards Eq
Com [illegible]
Sir – May I ask the pain [?] of your attention to the case of Abigail Davis , whose paper, I herewith send, within 2 or 3 days so that I may have the results this week –

Your R’t Servant
Geo. Evans

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Hon  J. L. Edwards 
Washington City

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Bangor Me April 5 1841

Hon J. L Edwards

The Hon Geo Evans transmitted to me your letter of March 9th 1841 in relation to the Pension of Abigail Davis. You say that the marriage having taken place after the term of the husband since expired in the army should have been asserted under the act of July 1838. but I infer from the tenor of your letter that the main objection to the allowance of the Pension arises from the discrepancy between her decleration, and that made by her late husband some twenty years since as to her age – he having then declared that she was but 45 years of age and consequently born in 1775. and she now declaring that She is 89 years of age

Herewith I have the honor of transmitting to you the depositions of the Hon Jonathan G Hunton late Governor of

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of Maine and Hon Frederick H Allen Judge of [illegible due to ink blot] District Court. together with Some others. These & the records of the Town of Pittston which show She had Children in 1781. I think will Sufficiently show that Mrs. Davis is correct or about so as to her age.  

Why her late husband should have made a different decleration Some twenty years Since I am unable to Say. It must Either have been his mistake, or clerical error. It certainly wants to doing an aged, destitute, and meritorious woman. a great injustice to deprive her of the bounty of government on account of Such a decleration of her late husband under what circumstances made no one knows anything. With So much liability to error, and so great an opportunity for a misunderstanding and perhaps a clerical error, provided She now Satisfied the department She is correct and that he was incorrect

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In regard to the decleration being made under the act of July 1836 instead of that of July 1838 if necessary of course it can be altered.

Will you be Kind Enough inform me what other Steps are necessary and particularly of a new decleration under the act of July 1838 is indispensable

I have the honor to
Remain thy obt Servant 
[signed]
Wm H McCrillis

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Mar 16 1842
Maine
Davis

Hon Geo Evans 
Senate U. S. 

J L Edwards 
Commissioner
Pension Office

Geo Evans


Abigail Davis
Me

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Senate CW
Mar 15. 1842

J. L. Edwards Eq
Commsrr

Sir,
Some time ago, application was made to you for a pension for  Abigail Davis, of Maine, which was rejected for insufficiency of proof – chiefly I believe, to the fact & time of her marriage – I have some recollection about that her declaration was imperfect, ro’d not describe the act under which the claimed. I have just rec-d a letter saying new proof was filed – a new declaration. Has it been rec-d? If so, are the difficulties [illegible]? If not, where is the trouble?

Very resp-e
Your ob’t Serv’t
Geo. Evans.

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 Augusta, Maine
Oct 21. 1843

Sir

I herewith enclose a declaration of Moses  B. Bliss guardian to Abigail Davis, in order to have her claim to a Pension under the Act of March 3. 1843 allowed. Also a declaration of Mrs Lois Wood claimant for Pension under the same act, and would respectfully request, if satisfactory, to have their respective claims allowed, and certificates, sent me, for them

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
[signed] Geo W. Morton 

 James L. Edward, Esq
Comm-r of Pension
City of Washington
DC.

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[Printed form completed in handwriting]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary’s Department, July 6- 1818

By this I certify, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Ezra Davis served as a Soldier in Capt. [blank] Company, and Col. Sherburne Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment.) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, From May 1 1777 to Dcer. 31 1779, being two years and 7- months & 21 days & transferred
[signed] Holden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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No. 5293
Abigail Davis 
Me.
Act. 4 July ‘36

Hon G Evans
Senator.

[written in different script and horizontal on the page]
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of our said Court the day & year last above written.

[signed]
Charles Stetson. Clerk

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I Abner Tebbets of Exeter in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine aged Eighty five years on oath depose and Say that I am acquainted with Abigail Davis of Newburn in the Said County of Penobscot the wife of Ezra Davis late of Pittston in the County of Kennebec in Said State of Maine. Abigail Davis has remained the widow of Ezra Davis ever Since he died about fourteen years Since. My first acquaintance with Ezra Davis was in Said Penobscot County on what was then an unincorporated place a few miles above the present city of Bangor. I was acquainted with him when he first came to Penobscot and lived near him Sometime. I knew Abigail Ayers who was afterwards his wife and she is the said Abigail Davis before mentioned.  also She lived in our immediate neighbourhood. About two and half years after I knew Ezra Davis he  married  Abigail Ayers. The facts I know are as follows. It was expected in our neighbourhood and generally understood that Ezra Davis was Engaged to Abigail Ayers and was to be married as Soon as he came out of the Army. In the Summer of the year seventeen hundred and Eighty or seventeen hundred and Eighty one Ezra Davis came home and to be married. Robert Pagan Esq was only individual in this quarter who then solemnized marriages. All in this vicinity who were married were obliged to go Castine were Pagan lived. There was not road by land that was

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passable. The journey was usually performed by water. Soon after Ezra Davis Came home he Abigail Ayers Started to go Castine to be married by Said Pagan. I was present when they started and heard them say that they were going there for that purpose. Ezra Davis Abigail Ayers Sarah Davis Daniel Maun [or Mann] started to go by water to Castine. I come down as far as Bangor or Hampden where I had business that detained me So that I could not go but the others Continued on the way. On the next day but one they all returned home. I hear Sarah Davis Abigail Davis the wife of Ezra. and Said Ezra described the marriage. They all said that Abilgail Ayers & Ezra Davis had been married by Esq Pagan. I was then engaged to be married to said Sarah Davis and afterwards married. her. I have often heard her speak of their marriage oath at the time when she returned and afterwards. Said Ezra and Abigail always lived to gether as husband and wife until the death of Said Ezra. They Continued to live in my neighbourhood Eight or nine years and several children. They then remooved to Pittston aforesaid and I have been frequently at their house while they lived there.

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I never heard it doubted by any one that they were married. I never heard any thing said about it by any one. I have no doubt that they were married.

Sarah Davis and Daniel Mann was the only individuals who went to Castine with S Abigail Ayers & Ezra Davis when they went to be married. Sarah Daivs who was afterwards my wife as before named has been dead twenty seven years and Daniel Maun (or Mann) has been dead many years. 
[signed]
Abner Tibbets

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me
[signed]
Wm H McCrillis Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Abner Tibbets is an reputable and credible person and his deposition is entitled to belief
[signed]
Wm H McCrillis Justice of the Peac

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State of Maine
Penobscot S. S.
Clerks office of the Judicial Courts of Bangor
March 1st. A. D. 1841

I Charles Stetson Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Penobscot certify that Frederick H Allen Esquired is a Justice of the District Court for the Eastern District in and for said County of Penobscot, dule commissioned and qualified. and that the two signatures to papers hereto annexed are genuine and that said Court is a Court of Record.

I further certify that William H. McCrillis Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Penobscot. duly commissioned and qualified and that the three signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of our said Court the day & year last above written.

[signed]
Charles Stetson. Clerk

[crosswise writing]
No. 5293
Abigail Davis
Me.
Act. 4 July ‘36
Hon G Evans
Senator

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State of Maine
County of Penobscot
Bangor April 24h 1840

I Joseph Mansell of Bangor in the County of Penobscot on oath depose and say that I am ninety five years old  that from the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine until after the revolutionary war was closed I was acquainted with Robert Pagan of Bagaduce now Castine. I done business frequently with Said Pagan and knew him well. I know that Said Pagan acted as a justice of the Peace  He was ^the only justice of the Peace in this Section of the Country. All of who were married at that time went to him to have ceremony performed. I have appeared before him while he acted as justice of the Peace once as a witness and twice as a party. I have given my deposition before this case for Mrss Turtillatt who was also placed on the Pension list. Stating these facts. I knew Ezra Davis who married Abigail Ayers  they lived within a mile and half of me for several years. They had a family

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of children. Ezra Davis and his wife Abigail always lived together as husband and wife and I was always acquainted with them and the whole family until they remooved to Pittston in the County of Kennebec  I never heard it doubted that they were married and I have as no doubt they were. I knew Daniel Maun (Mann) and he has been dead twenty years. He lived in this vicinity. I was Soldier in the revolutionary war and now draw a pension
[signed] Joseph Mansell

In the presence of 
[signed] Wm H McCrillis

State of Maine
County of Penobscot

On this twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before me the above named Joseph Mansell and made solemn oath that the above named deposition by him Su[illegible]ted is true
Before me
[signed] Wm H. McCrillis Justice of the Peace

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I certify that the above named Joseph Manseel is reputable and credible person and his deposition Entitled to belief

Wm H McCrillis
Justice of the Peace

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I Francis Flitner of Pittston in the County of Kennebec State of Maine, Depose and say that I Knew Ezra Davis & Abigail Davis & that they lived together as husband & wife in Pittston aforesaid for a number of years. & had several children born while they lived in said town & I never heard anyone question the fact of their being Married
[Signed]
Francis Flitner 
Pittston Feb 19th 1841

Sworn to before me [signed] Moses B. Bliss – Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Day of Pittston County Kennebec State of Maine, Depose and say that I knew Ezra Davis & Abigail Davis who lived in this town between thirty & forty years as husband and wife & had several children born in this town & I heard Mr Davis at one time state that he took his girl to Casteen & was there married to her – the said Abigail
[signed]
Thomas Day

Pittston Feb 19th 1841
Sworn to before me [signed] Moses B. Bliss – Justice of the Peace

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Edward Kent.
Governor of the State of Maine.
To all who shall see these presents, 
Greeting. 

Know Ye, That Moses B. Bliss of Pittston in the County of Kennebec, Esquire, was, on the ninth day of March A.D. 1837. appointed and commissioned, and on the fifteenth day of March A.D. 1837 qualified as a Justice of the Peace within and for our said County of Kennebec, that he still continues to hold said office:

[signed]
Edward Kent

and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at Augusta, this twenty second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the sixty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor
[signed]
Saml. P. Benson, Secretary of State.

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Breeder of
Standard Bred Trotters,
Saddle Horses, Shetland Ponies, 
and Short Horn Cattle [Stationary header]

E.B. Armstrong [stationary header]

Hubbardsville, Athens Ga., Q., Oct. 19th, 1907

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions - Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir

Will you kindly furnish me records of the services of Ezra Davis, Mass. Colony. John Grant Mass. Colony. These I think were from the town of Berwickk Maine in the then Mass. Colony. Also of Sergt. Nathl Cury and Joseph Lyon. These have all been traced [illegible] additional points. I would also like the record of Charles Pomeroy. 

Yours respectfully, 
Mrs. Lona Grant Armstrong
[illegible][illegible] [illegible] Lee Ames Chapler 
Daughters American Revolution, Athens GA