Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17190, Timothy Wentworth, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Wentworth, Timothy
NUMBER
S. 17190
CONTENTS
carded

Maine 21. 752
Timothy Wentworth York Co in the State of Maine who was a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Woodwin of the 1st Regt commanded by Prime Col in the Mass line for 8 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of $16 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Oct 1833 and Seat Wages Colwell Jack Berwick Me
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $266.67 Semi-ant. allowance ending March 4 - 53.33
$320.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ad D. D. D. D. Clerk. Book E Vol. 1st Page 64
Report
Sir Hon. J. Wentworth at 10/30

Timothy Wentworth
8 mo.
N o 5462

State of Maine } County of York } ss On this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hun- dred & thirty two personally appeared in open court before
the Court of Probate now sitting at South Berwick within & for said County of York Timothy Wentworth a resident of Berwick in the County of York & State of Maine aged eighty five years, who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the United States service under the following named officers and served as herein stated - In the year eighteen hundred & eighty, I being a Lieutenant of a company of Militia belonging to said Town of Berwick, was drafted to serve in the United States service for the term of eight months in the month of April early in the month, the precise day I do not recollect, the company so drafted mustered at Blackberry Hill Meeting house in said Berwick for inspection - & from that day I drew my pay as a Lieutenant from the State Treasury of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - On the fourth day of May in the year eighteen hundred & eighty I started with the company to which I belonged to go to Falmouth now Portland, in the state of Maine, and arrived at Falmouth on

the sixth of the same month our company while at Falmouth was employed all the time in building Forts on Fort Hill and another on Brimham Hill - In the month of September of the same year viz: 1780 I marched with my company to the Kennebec river in the state of Maine, at Pownalborough the company was divided, a part under Jeddiah Goodwin our captain remained at Pownalborough, and the residue about thirty in number was under my command & marched to Fort Weston now Augusta, on the Kennebec River. A man by the name of Jones, who was called Black Jones was a tory & had enlisted a company of sixty men - This Jones had seized Brigadier Gen. Cushing and carried him off to Halifax & had destroyed much valuable property belonging to citizens who were attached to the cause of the United States. I was stationed at Fort Weston to protect the citizens & especially Col. Howard from the ravages of Jones & his men - The last of November in the same year 1780 I with my men left Fort Weston & marched back to Falmouth the company was there mustered & on or about the twenty third day of the same November I with the company to which I was attached was discharged & the next day viz the twenty fourth of November 1780. I reached home in Jeddiah Goodwin

of Berwick was our captain - our Willard of Sanford was drafted as Ensign, but did not serve - Col. Joseph Paine of Berwick now dead was our colonel - He remained all the time in Portland, then Salmonth - General Wadsworth was our General in The most of the company to which I was attached are now dead - I can recollect the following persons now living who were out with me in service before described viz: Ephraim Cobb, Charles G. Clark of Berwick, Timothy Rich, Caleb Sessel of Waterville, John White of Alfred, Daniel Wadsworth & Joseph Wilkinson of Sanford, Benjamin Sullivan of Waltham  Waltham field N. H. & Samuel Clark in Vermont & Samuel Hanson of Lebanon Maine - These all served during the time before described in the company to which I was attached - I was born in Berwick on the farm which I now own & on which I live - I have lost the commission which I received as a Lieutenant in the Militia of Massachusetts & have no written evidence by which to prove that I was an officer, or rendered the service aforesaid - but I can prove the facts stated by all the persons before named now living who served with me. My commission as Lieutenant I received in the year 1775 or 1776 by the hands of Col John Shapleigh of Kittery, but by whom signed I do not recollect - The time of my birth is recorded on the records of the Town of

Bethel - viz Jan'y 24. 1747 old style -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year
foresaid
Timothy Wentworth
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
I, Ephraim Tabbett, resident in the town of Bethel, county of York & state of Maine Esquire hereby certify, I am well acquainted with Timothy Wentworth, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, & I believe him to be eighty five years of age; that I know that he rendered the services for eight months as by him set forth, because I served under him he being the Lieutenant of the company to which I belonged - Ephraim Tabbett
WE, Joseph Hilliard, a clergyman, residing in the town of Bethel, and Ephraim Tabbett, residing in the town of Bethel Esquire hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Timothy Wentworth, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
SWORN TO, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Hilliard - Ephraim Tabbett
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that
Joseph Hilliard, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman in the town of Bethel, and that Ephraim Tabbett, who has also signed the same, and also another certificate, is a resident in the town of Bethel, a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm. Cutton Allen, Register of the Court of Probate of Bethel, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Timothy Wentworth for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutton Allen, Register of Probate.

Washburn August 3/80
Sir:
Please inform me of the place, time of death & age of Lieut. Lowry Wentworth, of Mass State Troops, on the Yukon  Le Maine, rolls for 1834. And also inform me if his widow now has a pension.
If alive please state where he now lives.
Yr Obd Servt.
J. Wentworth Edward Eng.

Timothy Wentworth
1762
Timothy Wentworth Maine
Seven 8 Months
Left Goodwin's Company last Primis Regt (Mass)
11
1853
80.
26.67
106.67 3/4
213.34
53.33
260.67
Messrs Hayes & Cogswell South Berwick Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 15 th 1833.
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 Timothy Wentworth, as a Lieutenant, is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. Sedidiah Goodwin's Company, in Col. Joseph Prime's Regiment, under the command of Brigadier General Wadsworth, in 1780, where he is allowed from April 14 th to November 20 th seven months and seven days.
m. d. 7-7
Ex. M.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

Timothy Wentworth Lent $106.67 per annum
At his death — Nov. 22, 1842

Job Benwick Sept 11
Free Mason Sept 16 1853
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Washington
(Revolutionary Claims)

State of Maine ~
South Berwick, Sept. 10 - 1833 ~
Hon. Lewis Cass.
Sir,
Inclosed we send you the Declaration of Timothy Wentworth for a pension. - Inclosed also is the evidence of service from the Secy of State of Mas- sachusetts. This shows but seven months & seven days service, but there is proof of eight months service, should not he be allowed the eight months, as the residue of the time was probably taken up in travel to & from the place of duty. - Please forward the certificate to us as soon as may be -
Respectfully
Yours &c
Harvey G. Cogswell

17.190 INVALID.
File No. 17.190
Timothy Wentworth Lieut. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 400
[Arrangement of 1870.]