Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,358, Joseph Weston, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Weston, Joseph Sarah
R 11,358
B.L.Wt. 36557-160-55.
CONTENTS

160627 et et mar 3
June 16 1855
Sarah Weston via Joseph Weston. Paris.
Lt Joel Whitney
Col. Foster
Private Col Foster
Comp. Map. Mila de 21
Rev. War
(Capt. born. for pension)
July 38 Sus
ad. 160 ad July 29/56
48 Dtzp.
Eusebius Weston
Skobhegan. Main
Oct 4/56 - let to up
Vol W=1-96

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution. State of Maine } Somerset County } ss. On this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me Charles Green Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills within & for said County of Somerset (it being a Court of Record) in open Court Sarah Weston a resident of Bloomfield in said County of Somerset & State of Maine aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the Acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution. That she is the widow of Joseph Weston who was a private in the War of the Revolution by enlistment & served in the Company (as she believes) of Lieut Joel Whitney & in the Regiment of Col. Benjamin Foster, said enlistment commencing in the spring of 1777 & she thinks she has heard him speak of being in Rhode Island and returning by Massachusetts & that he was not discharged so soon as he was entitled to be & that when he went then from Maine he went to the left of Boston in the State of Massachusetts & was discharged there or in that vicinity.
She further declares that she was married the said Joseph Weston in the month of December A.D. 1779 & that her husband the said Joseph Weston died in the Town of Bloomfield in the County & State aforesaid on the 22 nd day of March A.D. 1838 since which time she has remained a widow - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Army but that said marriage took place previous to January 1794 as before stated herein. She further states that she was married in a new & unincorporated Township (the same which now Bloomfield) where she

(where she has lived ever since) by a clergyman who was temporarily resident there & that there are no records of said marriage known to her & no persons now living who were present at the time - said marriage took place at the house of Capt Isaac Smith one of the first settlers of said Town who with his wife & some others were present - and from want of memory on account of her great age she is unable to state more fully what she has known of her hus- bands services. Said Clergyman's name was Emerson.
Sarah H Weston Mother
I was at & subscribed the day & year above written
C. Greene, } Judge of the Court of Probate
State of Maine Somerset ss
I Thomas C. Ponds Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Somerset, hereby certify, that the Hon. Charles Greene, before whom the foregoing Proceedings were had is Judge of the said Court of Probate for the County of Somerset, and that the above signature is genuine
Given under my hand, and the Official Seal of the Court of Probate for said County of Somerset this Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thous- and eight hundred and forty eight
Thos C. Ponds, Reg. of Probate for said County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
November 3 1846.
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 Joseph Weston, is borne upon a Pay Roll of Lt Paul Whitney's company in Col Benjamin Foster's Regt, from the County of Lincoln for Service at Machias, as a private, 2 months and 19 days ending October 7 1777. The only Roll of Col Joseph North in this Office is the one showing evidence of 2 days Service from September 10 1777, upon which the name of said Weston is not borne. Not upon any roll with officer Stratton. Not upon Rolls of Capt Joseph B. Varnum or Col Bailey. — No roll of Genl J. B. Varnum. — No evidence of Service of any one of the names in Rhode Island.

I am now Eighty four years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
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WITNESS my hand, this First - day of October A. D. 1846. Sarah H Weston mark
Signed by said Sarah Weston in my presence, }
Ebenezer Weston
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

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. Foster;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Joseph C Adams of Bloomfield County of Vermont & State of Maine aged sixty six years do testify & say that I came to this Town in 1797 or 8 - and in 1799 I came here to reside and during that winter I lived in the family of Mr Joseph Weston & Sarah his wife and that my knowledge of their family & family connections goes back to the time of my first visit to the Town then called Canaan and I further say that I have known the said Joseph & Sarah Weston to live together as man & wife from my first acquaintance as aforesaid to the time of said Weston's Death which took place about 1838 & that she the said Sarah Weston has remained a Widow ever since and I further say that the said Joseph & Sarah have reared a family of children within my knowledge according with the annexed record which is a true transcript from a record kept in the family Bible in the hand writing of said Joseph Weston and I further say that they have always lived where they first settled in a central part of the Town and I have never heard an intimation that they were not legally joined in marriage but have always understood from them & others that they were so —
"Record of Joseph Weston & Sarah his wife their family —    Eunice Weston born  September 16 th  1780    Joseph Weston born  Jan'y 26 th  1783    Sarah Weston born  July 19 th  1785    Susy Weston born  April 4 th  1787    Hannah Weston born  March 16 th (twin of the twins)  1789    James Weston born  June 2 nd  1791    Eliza Weston born  March 25 th  1795    Two twin boys born  July 5  1798    Paulina Weston born  Aug t 24 th  1800  
These stand together with various record of the ancestry of the said Joseph Weston & Sarah Weston J. C. Adams
Bloomfield Nov r 20 1846

State of Maine Yorke County ss. Be it known that on the twentieth day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty six personally appeared before me the within named Deponent Joseph B Adams & made oath to the truth of the affidavit by him signed Ebenezer Weston Justice of the peace
Affidavit of Jos B Adams 1846

I John White of Skowhegan County of Somerset & State of Maine aged eighty years do testify & say that I was acquainted with Joseph Weston late of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset and Sarah Emery as long ago as the year 1778 and I can now entertain no doubt that they were joined in marriage as early as 1779 and it is within my knowledge that they the said Joseph Weston & Sarah Emery settled down about that time on a farm in a central part of the Town afterwards called Ga-naan & now called Bloomfield as man & wife and there lived in that in that relation until the decease of said Joseph Weston which took place about 1838. I further say that I lived on a farm with only one between that & the one owned by him for some years & in the Town side about 1806 and I never heard any intimation that the said Joseph Weston & Sarah Weston who is now his widow were not lawfully married but have uniformly understood that they were so married - I further say that it is within my own knowledge that said Joseph & Sarah Weston reared a family of children and I have no reason to doubt the catalogue annexed is a true record record of their family as kept by said Weston -
"Record of Joseph Weston & Sarah his wife & their family" -
  Eunice Weston born Sept 16 th 1780  Joseph Weston born Jan'y 26 1783    Sarah Weston born July 19 1785  Lucy Weston born April 4 th 1787    Hannah Weston born March 16 1789 (being one of the twins)  James Weston born June 2 nd 1791    Two twin boys born July 5 1798  Pamela Weston born Augt 24 1800  
Skowhegan Nov - 21 st 1846
John White

State of Maine
Penobscot County p. Be it known that on this twenty first day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty six personally appeared before me the within named Deponent John White & made oath to the truth of the affidavit by him signed —
Ebenezer Weston Justice of the peace
Affidavit of John White
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Affidavit of Joseph Weston Dear S. Morton Widow

I Joseph Weston of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset State of Maine of lawful age do testify & say that I was well acquainted with Joseph Weston late of Bloom- field aforesaid deceased & it is within my knowledge that he died on the twenty second day of March 1838 that he lived in the house with me at the time & that I so recorded his decease in the Family Bible heretofore kept by him - I further say that I have seen a transcript of said record so far as the Family is concerned & that said in the affidavit of Joseph G Adams which I know is correct - Joseph Weston
State of Maine } Somerset County } Vs. Be it known that on the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty seven personally appeared Joseph Weston above named & made oath to the Affidavit by him signed Eunice Weston Just in of the same

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Sarah Weston
Wife of Joseph
Mr
Act 29 July 1848

I, Nathan Weston, of Augusta, in the State of Maine, aged sixty five years, upon oath declare, that my father now deceased, who was born, as I understand and believe in 1740, was as I believe well acquainted with the origin and ramifications of his family, which he communicated to me. There were Westons, distant relatives of his, residing as I understand, during the revolutionary war, in that part of the county of Lincoln, which now constitutes the county of Somerset in Maine. I have never heard of any Joseph Weston of the county of Lincoln, who could have served in the revolutionary war, except Joseph Weston of the Somerset family, none I understand deceased. I give it as my opinion, that if it appears from the military rolls, that Joseph Weston of Lincoln served in the war of the revolution, he must have had his domicile in that part of the county of Lincoln, which is now the county of Somerset.
Nathan Weston
State of Maine.
Penobscot County. S. S. On the twenty seventh day of March, 1848 personally appeared the Hon. Nathan Weston and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit, by him subscribed, according to his knowledge & belief.
Before me.
Geo. H. Morton Clerk of the Peace

Declaration
State of Maine Somerset County ss On this ninth day of June AD 1855 before me a Justice of the peace in & for said County personally appeared Sarah Wes- ton aged ninety three years a resident of the Town of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset State of Maine who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Joseph Weston deceased who was a soldier in the command of Lieut. Joseph Whitney in the Reg t of Col. Foster in the war of the Revolution - That her said husband en- listed & served several years before her marriage with him & the lapse of time & her age have effaced much of her knowledge from her mem- ory & she never learned much of his service but supposes he enlisted at Winslow in the County of Kennebec about 1777 - for the term of three months & continued in said war for nearly that time & was honorably discharged at Cambridge as she supposes and reports to testimony adduced on a former occasion She further states that she was married to the said Joseph Weston in the Town of Bloomfield then Canaan on about October day of the Rev. Mr. Emerson — AD 1779 by the Rev. Mr. Emerson a resident minister of the Gospel but finds no record made by him of it and that her name before said marriage was Sarah Emery and that her said husband died on the twenty second day of March AD 1838 & that she is now a widow — She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty due to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress approved March 3 rd AD 1855
Sarah her Weston - Mark -

We Esther P Linnell & Joseph Weston residents of the Town of Bloomfield in the State of Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration & affidavit was signed & acknowledged by the said Sarah Weston in our presence & we believe from her appearance & statements that she is the identical person she represents herself to be —
Esther P Linnell Joseph Weston
The foregoing Declaration & affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in Herk County on the day & date above mentioned & I declare that the affiants are credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim —
Ebenezer Weston Justice of the peace
State of Maine
Somerset County ss. I George A Hobbs Clerk of the Judicial Court of the said County do certify that Ebenezer Weston is a Justice of the peace & was at the time & date of the foregoing documents duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature above written is genuine —
Given under my hand & the seal of Supreme Judicial Court of said State on this 12 th day of June AD 1855 —
Geo. A. Hobbs Clerk aspiris

September 2, 1914.
Miss Mabel E. Howard,
Dexter, Maine.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 28 th ultimo, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that Joseph Weston served as a Private in Lieutenant Joel Whitney's company, Colonel Benjamin Foster's Massachusetts regiment, a tour of two months and nineteen days, ending October 7, 1777.
He married in October or December 1779, at Bloomfield, (then Canaan) Maine, Sarah Emery; he died March 22, 1838, at Bloomfield, Somerset County, Maine, and she was allowed 160 acres of bounty land (Warrant No 36,557) for his services, on her application executed June 9, 1855, at which time she was a resident of Bloomfield, Maine, and ninety-three years of age.
Their Children were:
Eunice - - - - born September 16, 1780. Joseph - - - - " January 26, 1783. Sarah - - - - " July 19, 1785. Lucy - - - - " April 4, 1787. Hannah - - - - " March 16, 1789. James - - - - " June 2, 1791. Eliza - - - - " March 25, 1795. Two twin boys - - - - " July 5, 1798. Pauline - - - - " August 24, 1800.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman acting Commissioner

Eusebius Weston Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Somerset County ss.
I Shuellyn Riddell Clerk of the Judicial courts for the County of Somerset and State aforesaid hereby cer- tify that Eusebius Weston whose signature is written above is an acting justice of the Peace duly qualified to act as such within for the County of Somerset, that the date of his Commission is June 28 1844 and that it will expire in June 1851 Witness my hand. And the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court at Norridgewock this 21 st day of October A.D. 1848.
Shuellyn Riddell Clerk of Judicial courts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
January 19 18. 50.
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 Joseph Weston is borne on a pay roll of Lt. Joel Whitney's Co. Col. Benjamin Foster's Regt in Co. of Lincoln. Service at Machias, as a private - discharged Octy. 1777. 2 mos. 19 days.
There is no evidence of any other service by any person of the name living in the eastern part of the State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. P. Kirtland
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Hon ble J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Yrs
Enclosed is the Declaration of Sarah Weston for a pension under the Law of 1836 As she states she is can give no better proof of her marriage than the affidavits of persons long acquainted with her man & wife & the record of the family kept by the soldier himself - With regard to the service it will be seen she recollects very imperfectly on account of age & constitutionally having a bad memory - Mr Weston's service was short & he was not communicative on the subject I lived on the next farm for years & never heard him say any thing of it except some anecdotes of the service & his doing tailor work for the men in leisure hours & that he came home by way of Boston & served near there a short time & I think he said he was not discharged when his time was out - she thinks he told her that he was in Rhode Island & went to the left of Boston to get there which must have been by water - William Stratton Esq m who lives near where he enlisted & was born then (now sixty years old) says his father enlisted & went Eastward as he has understood from him & returned from Massachusetts, Yarmouth which it would seem that they did go to Machias & then to Rhode Island where there was trouble that year & came home by way of Boston to Kennebec River by water as the old man always said - I have obtained an affidavit kindly given by Hon ble Nathan Weston who is quite a genealogist but of another family as to the Westons in the State of Maine at that early date - so few settlers had sat down in Maine (then District of Maine) that Judge Weston's father knew all of them & he knew all the Westons as soon as old enough to have ever seen - John Weston of Reading Mass ts in his Genealogy of Westons finds none to correspond with this Joseph but the one in question - Should the original record of the Bible be any better than the affidavits, I can send it - That is if the marriage is proved or acknowledged - It is notorious to all knowing the persons that they were man & wife, that Parsons Emerson who was about them years after would not have permitted them to reside as such won't not so & assisted in forming a church there with Sarah Weston in it & that said Joseph was gone as a soldier and the

Short time she will have to draw that I hope the utmost lenity will be allowed in the case & with these remarks submit it to examination with sincere & respectful Esteem
Ebenezer Weston
P.S. I might say that I have no personal interest nor ever had in any case before allowed in my life only have pay for services to assist the applicants
I will remark that I am aware that the regulation as to the Court Seal is not literally complied with but we have a new Clerk & is as he thinks right & very tenacious of his opinion - I therefore have to send it as he says —

5 No. 557
5 Miss Cams

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Sarah Weston
- Mrs
Let. to Eusebius Weston June 26. 1849
" to Eusebius Weston Nov. 1849
" Hon. F. L. D. Fuller 28 th Dec r 1849.
" " " " 26 July 1850
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at 7 July 1838

To The Hon. Mr. Commissioner of Pensions
additional answers to questions cases of Mrs. Weston & Weyman
Washington City
D.C.

Stow Mtn Sept 18 th 1856
Dear Sir
Yours of the 5 th inst requires that I send the No & time of sending of Sarah Weston's claim - The No is 170627 & was sent June 12 th „55—
Also Sarah Wymans case Sept 6 th _____ No time time of sending not known - Original case in the hands of Mother _____
Evidence sent to third Auditor March 5 th „56
Very respectfully yours as ever
Ebenezer Weston _____
Sarah Wymans case No 64034

Washington D.C.
House of Reps
Jan'y 26 80
Sir
Can you inform me whether Hannah Weston of Jonesborough, (Me), has ever made application for a Pension for Revolutionary services & whether any papers are on file in your office touching such application
I have the honor
to be Respectfully
Yours truly
J. D. Sleeper
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office

Sarah Weston
W-Ames
Please to answer now
29 Aug
Assured in relation to the way are to be included in the Dor. Mr. Weston
to persons they order free
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
to be sent to the Dor.

Dear Sir
As I am sending on some documents for Ireland's case (which I finish badly having just returned from a somewhat exciting scene) - I write just the fact that Mrs Lydia Hayden's papers have never been rec'd tho' sent on last Fall - These poor old infirm Widows find it extremely bad to get along without their money & I am obliged to advance her some to keep & evide the Government a rather tall business than I can support respectably - I mention this that it may be known if sent there has been miscarriage or loss - Sincerely & truly yours
Augt 23 rd , 49
Eusebius Weston
Dear Sir
In the case of Mrs Sarah Weston who failed for want of evidence of sufficient Service I made all the preparations before I ascertained the length of his service on the records & knowing he was out over six mos I expected it would come so, as it was I tho't I would send & it might be worth looking up some day -
Yours as before -
Eusebius Weston
Henry L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

Skowhegan June 12 th 1855
To the Hon ble Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
170625 Some years ago I applied for a pension for Mrs Sarah Weston widow of Joseph Weston deceased supposing I could prove all the service which we had heard him state he performed which would be a little over six m os - but on application to the Office of Sec y of State of Mass s could only obtain evidence of 2 m os & 19 days for Joseph Weston but several terms of service credited to Joseph Westson a name which we all bore (sic) my ancestors for a century - It was Weston in 1645 & Wesson in 1765 when or when changed I have never learned - I have no doubt but one of them was my uncle & the husband of this widow making the six m os he always said he served It will be seen that Joseph Weston is enlisted from Lincoln Co. for which reason I sent the affidavit of Judge Weston of our Supreme Court - I could obtain no record evidence of their marriage & then sent the affidavits of Mr John White & one of the contemporary settlers in this place with uncle Jo - & Capt J C Adams an old acquaintance of the family showing their habits of life - The marriage was in the infancy of the settlement in this Town - I might have mentioned that Judge Weston is a distant connection & he & his father before him were somewhat antiquarian Joseph Weston the Jun r & son testified to the Birth record made by himself to which I could swear any where by the writing - I live in the County of Somerset but in '77 Lincoln Co. embraced Lincoln part of Hancock Saco & Rock Hanna bee & Somerset - These papers Mrs Weston wishes to have taken into the present case to save expense of new ones to the same effect - There is a bible given to daughter (married) which may contain a record if so I will forward it - There was no incorporated Town above Augusta = Kennebec & Wiscasset incorporated in '88 - At first I thought the location might possibly mean Town of Lincoln adjoining Concord - Maple when Jo Weston came from but no place known. I then it was not set off from Concord so early - & Co. must mean County of Lincoln which

No other Jos Weston ever set foot but this one at that early date as Judge Weston I think he states - No other Westons lived in the then District of Maine but his father & my Grand Father & their children - Thus much I write explanatory & cor- roborative of the main testimony & I now present a claim for Bounty Land under the act of March 3 rd 55 depending (if any thing more be wanted than what is attached to the Declaration) on what is above referred to presented several years ago for pension & hope the old lady will succeed as she thinks so do I that she was entitled to pension & has lost it for want of proper returns or misspelling the name
Very respectfully & truly yours
Ebenezer Weston

Rev. War Section.
November 30, 1914.
Miss Achsa Moore, 2261 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 19 th instant, you are

Dexter, Aug. 28, 1914.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me the war record of my great Grandfather Joseph Weston, Private, Joel Whitney's Co. I wish to know if he saw service in the Rev. War.
Respt yours
Mabel E. Howard
Dexter
Maine
one 2 cent stamp envelope received FHL OK Russ

1914, Sept. 2. History to Mabel E. Howard. Fr. 1914, Nov. 30. History to Miss Achsa Dware. Fr.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11.358
P. O. Sarah Weston
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

November 19, 1914.
Commissioners of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me the war record of one Joseph Weston, born January 17, 1757, Salem, Massachusetts, Married Sally Emery December 16, 1779.
Also have you a record of John Emery, also of Salem? Both men served in the War of American Revolution at Machias, Maine.
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Adela Moore
2261 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Cal.