Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37510, Lemuel Welch, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Welch, Lemuel Welch or
S. 375-10
B. L. Wt. 889-100
CONTENTS

Samuel Welch
— 889 —
private Col Sprouts D. Mass Reg
Samuel Welch —
Finland
private — 2 nd Regiment Mass: line
Warrant ipd March 31. 1820

State of Maine
I Lemuel Welch, aged sixty four years, a citizen of the United States, born in Harpswell, in Maine, now resident in Durham, in the State of Maine, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare, that I enlisted in March 1777 for the period of three years, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, into the Company commanded by Captain Nicholas Blasdell, in Colonel McEgglesworth's, Massachusetts Regiment; this period of three years I fully served out, and re-enlisted for during the war and served in the Company commanded by Captain Williams and Regiment N o 2 under the command of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, of the Massachusetts line; I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged from the said second regiment commanded by the said Colonel Sproat in June 1783. I was at the taking Burgoyne, the battle of Monmouth, the siege of York town, and taking of Cornwallis. — My discharge is lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty land promised to me on the part of the United States: —
Therefore Know all men by these presents, that I Lemuel Welch, before named, do hereby constitute and appoint the Honorable James Parker, now a member of Congress from the State of Maine, to be my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same, a Warrant for the quantity of land due me, as aforesaid, and upon receipt thereof to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor. And I further affirm and declare that I made my declaration, as near as I can recollect, on the 28 th day of April 1818, before Judge Widgeon of Portland for the purpose of obtaining my pension under the law of the 18 th of March 1818; and not having heard from my claim I further hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply at the Pension Department, and to receive my pension certificate, and for me and in my name to sign any receipt for the same, in as full and ample a manner as I could do were I personally present. Herby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney may do in the premises. Witness my hand and seal at Augusta, this sixteenth day of March, A D 1820. —
Signed sealed in presence of
Robert Vow
Lemuel Welch

I Henry Sewall of Augusta, State of Maine, late an officer in Col. Sprouts regiment, within mentioned, do hereby certify, that I have examined Lemuel Welch within named, & from a variety of facts by him stated, I am satisfied that he served in the regiment & company & for the full period mentioned in his declaration. & that he was honourably discharged at the close of the revolutionary war in June 1783.
Attest, R.C. Vose
H. Sewall, now a M. Gen. in the Militia of Maine
Before me Robert C. Vose, of Augusta, Kennebec County and State of Maine a Justice of the Peace within mentioned said County of Kennebec, personally appeared the within named Lemuel Welch, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise personally appeared Henry Sewall, Esquire late a Captain in Col. Sprouts regiment, who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the deposition by them respectively.
Subscribed this sixteenth day of March 1820.
Robert C. Vose, Justice of the Peace
Department of War Section of County Lands April 1 st 1820
I James Parker a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify, that Robert C. Vose above named was a Justice of the Peace in the State of Maine, on the sixteenth day of March eighteen hundred & twenty
James Parker

14.350
R District of Maine
Lemuel Walch
Deem in the state of  District of Me. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sprent of the Mapachysetts line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Sep 1818 and Lt William Wagerly Esq. Bathland D. of Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  129.80 Semi-ann. all'ce ending, Mar. 1820 . 48.00 16 mo. 7/30  $177.80
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notif a  Charles R. Evans Esq — Augusta. Me. 11 July 1820

A true copy
Attest. John D. Dows Clerk
Maine
H. C. Dows, Augusta
March 1840
15 Sept 1840
14,350.
Maine
General Wells
38
86

(Copy.)
State of Maine.
I, Lemuel Welch within named do solemnly swear  affirm that on the twenty eighth  twenty eighth day of April 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge Wedgery , and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency. And I, the said Lemuel Welch , do further solemnly swear  affirm 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Lemuel Welch
KENNEBEC, ss.
ON this sixteenth day of May 1820, Lemuel Welch before named, after being duly cautioned and examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing affirmation  oath , before me,
Nathan Weston  Judge
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas.

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, Ken- nebec 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 Fifty  five dollars and  cents ; 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 Fifty five dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of of Kennebec

Deposition of Thomas Pool.

I Job Pool of Salemath being now fifty five years of age testify and say that I enlisted into the service of the United States in the revolutionary war the first day of January 1781 for the term of three years and that I belonged was in the Company commanded by Capt James McLean in the Regiment commanded by Col Sprout and that I was well acquainted with Samuel Welch now present that when I joined the aforesaid Regiment at West Point Samuel Welch above named was in the Company commanded by Capt Abraham Williams in said Sprouts Regiment that I knew said Welch from the time that I joined the Regt until peace took place at which time said Welch was discharged he being a deserving man Job Pool
Cumberland Co August 12 th 1819 the above named Job Pool personally appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed I know the said Pool to be a man who is to be believed in the said which is poor and needs the aid of Government for support - James W. Dodge Esq. Judge
sworn to before me August 12

I Thomas Pool of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Lemuel Welch of Durham when a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution - that the said Welch and myself belonged to Captain Nicholas Blaisdell's Company in Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's Regiment - that the said Welch was a member of Capt Blaisdell's company for the term of three years and that during that time he was attentive to duty and conducted himself like a good soldier. - Thos Pool
Cumberland Jt. Personally appeared Thomas Pool and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. -
Before David Dunlap Just. Peace

Deposition of Thomas Pool.

Samuel Updegraff Private Col. Sprouts. Regt a Mar. line 1779-4 years dec. 28 th April 1815
Not on Roll
on Roll, as the applicant states admitted
Rejected

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Samuel Welch of Derry in the Maine District, that he served as a Private Soldier in the war of the revolution for During and the term of the war on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Derry aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a Private Soldier to Capt Williams Company of the second Regiment, Col Sprague of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the first day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine and that he left said service on or about the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, which was the end of said war and that he was discharged therefrom honorably. Said Welch is now sixty two years of age
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions 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," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 20th day of April 1818. Samuel Welch his mark
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 28 day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Samuel Welch the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Samuel Welch farther offered in evidence
the deposition of John Brown, an Officer in the revolutionary army
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Samuel Welch served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 28 day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Wm Widgery
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. William Widgery, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 30th day of July A. D. 1818.
Geo Bradbury

Personally appeared John Rowe late an ensign in the eighth Regiment in the Massachusetts line, in the revolutionary war and made oath that he was well acquainted with the officers named in the within affidavit and that by the particular statement made within that has verily believe, the facts therein stated are true in all its parts.
John Rowe
Cumberland - Personally appeared the above named John Rowe & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed - this 28 th day of April 1818 - Henry Wadsworth Judge etc