Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24531, Consider Turner, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Turner, Consider Lemont, Sarah
No. 24531
Former widow
CONTENTS
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Reported
Mar 6816
Sarah Lemont Jan 4 widow of Amos de Jan 4 who was a Pte & Capt in the Pensylvania
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 82 Dollars 14 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1843 and sent to Annie P. Mitchell, With the
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book June 17. 1844. Vol. 2 Page 6.

11730 ad 43 7136
ad 44 409 ad 44 409 at San Jacinto 673
Re Feb. 28, 1845.
Sarah Lemont wid Consider Turner
Re at 7. July 38 m 85. d. 00.
adm o 17. 16. pri 6. 14 corpl
82. 14
also at 3 march 43 x 17 June 44
Ammi R. Mitchell Bath NR

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I, Jacob Smith, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts
within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby CERTIFY that
Hon. Nathaniel Grooton whose name is affixed to the annexed paper as
Judge of Probate is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such; and that the name, so
affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the SEAL of the District Court for the Middle District.
Given this twenty second day of February
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty five -
Jacob Smith CLERK.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of congress of the 7 th July 1838, and of the 23 d August 1842, and the 3 d of March 1843, and 17 th June 1844,
State of Maine . . . . . Lincoln County S.S.
On this Eighteenth day of February  March Eighteen hundred & forty five; personally appeared before Nathan Grooter  Nathan Grooter Judge of the Court of Probate for said County Sarah Lemont, a resident of Bath in the county of Lincoln, aged seventy seven 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 provision made by the acts of congress passed July 7, 1838, and the 23 d of August 1842, and the 3 d of March 1843, and the 17 th June 1844, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Consider Turner who was a private and corporal in the army of the revolution, that he entered for different terms of service, commencing with June 8 th 1776 and served the most of the time to the close of the war, or to April 14 th 1780. That he served under Capt s Haskell and Brown, and Col s Marshall & Bigelow. That he resided in the town of Harvard county of Worcester and state of Massachusetts. That he and his eldest son were drowned in the Kennebec River at Georgetown, county of Lincoln and state Maine, the fifth of September Eighteen hundred.
She also declares that she was married to the said Consider Turner on the  day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty four; that her husband the aforesaid Consider Turner died on the fifth day of September Eighteen hundred; 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 and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated. She further declares, that after the death of the husband aforesaid, she was married to Adam Lemont on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and four; and that he died the Thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and forty four; and that she is still a widow.
Sarah Lemont
Wife of Nathan Grooter
Ammi R. Mitchell
subscribed and sworn to before me.
Nathan Grooter Judge of Probate

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I, Jacob Smith, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts
within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby CERTIFY that
Amasa R. Mitchell esq
whose name is affixed to the annexed paper as
a Justice of the Peace
is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such; and that the name, so
affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
SEAL of the District Court for the Middle District
Given this twenty second day of February
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty five .
Jacob Smith
CLERK.

I David Shaw of Bath, County of Lincoln & State of Maine, in the Eighty first Year of my age, depose and say, that I was born in said Bath August 1764, being then the second Parish in Georgetown; that I was well acquaint- ed with the Parents of the present Sarah Lemont, and that previous to her Marriage to Consider Turner her name was Sarah Springer, Daughter of Nathaniel Springer, who was killed in the time of the American Revolution, in the Kennebec River — and I further testify that agreeably to the present Town Records, the said Sarah was married to Consider Turner in September 1784, and that they lived to- gether till the time of his Death, which was by being drowned near the mouth of the Kennebec River, on the fifth day of Sep- tember 1800 — they had seven Children born unto unto them in this Town, who are all on Record, the oldest was born April 27 th 1785 — I cannot say that the Family were on Record previous to there being burnt, which was in Feb y 1838, although I have kept the Books from March 1803 to the present time, still the impression on my mind is that they were, — I was one of a Committee appointed by the Town at a legal meeting thereof , to collect such of the Town Records as could be obtained from copies and authentic documents, and in particular from Family Records of Births & Deaths, where the same were regularly kept, and from my own knowledge, I believe the time of the marriage of Sarah Springer to Consider Turner, as above stated is correct — the said Sarah was married to Adam Lemont Jan y 1804. said Adam died in 1824. David Shaw Town Clerk.

State of Maine                      Lincoln ss.
Then the within named David Shaw Esq r clerk of the Town of Bath, on the nineteenth day of February A.D. 1845 Subscribed and made Oath to the within
Before me Ammi R. Mitchell Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named David Shaw for about Forty years & that he has been Town clerk & a Justice of the Peace for about that time, and is a man of great credibility & strict integrity
Ammi R. Mitchell Justice of the Peace

I Adam Lemont of Bath in the county of Lincoln & State of Maine; aged seventy one years, do on oath, testify & declare, that I have every reason to believe, that I am the son of the late Deacon James Lemont of said Bath, by his first wife; and that my father, the said James Lemont married for his second wife, the widow Springer, who had by a former husband, a daughter named Sarah Springer: and I hereby testify & declare, that said Sarah Springer, lived in my father's family untill untill the time of her marriage to Consider Turner, when I was about ten years of age; that I have a distinct recollection of their being married in my father's house, and I am confident that I could not have been two years from ten years of age (either way), at that time; I was personally acquainted with said Consider Turner from the time of his marriage to the time he was drowned in eighteen hundred, and knew that he lived with said Sarah, and had by her seven children, that I am well acquainted with said children, some of whom are now living, that their eldest child (now the Widow Joanna Haley) has always lived very near me, and is now fifty nine years of age. I further testify & declare that I have been personally & well acquainted with said Sarah, from before her marriage as aforesaid up to this day, and that after the death of her first husband, (the said Consider Turner,) she married the second time to Adam Lemont (a cousin of mine) who died the past year. And I further testify that said Sarah (now Sarah Lemont) is an exemplary character, a professor of religion & worthy of the confidence of all persons. I believe there is no other person living that was present at the wedding but myself & the widow. Adam Lemont
Subscribed & sworn to, this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1845 Before me Ammi R. Mitchell Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Adam Lemont for more than thirty years, and believe him to be a man of strict integrity, and to be fully credited in what he declares Ammi R. Mitchell Justice of the Peace

Reported
9239.
Maine
Maria Vemont family
widow of Cousin Durner who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 5th Sept. 1800 of Lincoln Co. in the State of Me who was a First Corp in the Company commanded by Captain Washburn of the Regt commanded by Col. Marshall in the Revolution for 17.16 2/3 per. m. 6. 14. Cts
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensions at the rate of 82 Dollars 14 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April, 1843 and sent to Sumner Machias Port, Me
Total amount, $ 410.70
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos Humphreys Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1. Page 11.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
No. 24,5-31
Sarah Lemont formerly Widow of Consides Turner Coupl New Mar
Act: March 2 d 43 rd June 17 th Ho
Index:—Vol. A , Page 431
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nov. 18 '49
Philip F. Turner Portland Maine
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Feb. 6 th 1815.
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 Consider Turner of Harvard is borne as a private upon three several pay Rolls of Capt s Andrew Haskell, Col. Thomas Marshall for different terms of Service from June 8 to Dec r 1 st 1776, comprising a period of 5 months & 25 days, including an allowance of 7 days for travel; — as private and Corporal, from April 14. 1777 to Dec r 31. 1779 — 29 mo s 17 days as private, and 3 months as Corporal, under Capt s Brown, Col. Bigelow; — and as Corporal in the "Col s Comp y " same Reg t , from Jan y . 1. to April 14. 1780, 3 months 14 days. as

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. Sawyer; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

1002
Oxalis  immodica Cy. 79.0

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE BY THE Widow OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my first Husband Consider Turner in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Harvard in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts . He enlisted from the Town of Harvard in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 17 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain in Regiment and he served I believe
as follows, viz:— First for three months — then nine months — then for three years & then entered during the war. He was in the battles at the taking of Generals Borgoine &, Gen. Cornwallis — I think he must have been under the command of Capt. or Col. or Gen. Morgan , whom he often spoke of as a fine officer — my husband was raised to an orderly Serjeant I think.
I am now Seventy seven years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully than above stated. he having died in 1800
WITNESS my hand, at Bath, (Maine) this third day of February A. D. 1845
Sarah Lemont
Signed by said Sarah Lemont in my presence,
Ammi R. Mitchell
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Please send by mail & direct to A. R. Mitchell Bath (Maine) as soon as ascertained.

State of Maine.
County of Lincoln ss. Be it known that on this 18 th day of February A. D 1845. Person- ally appeared before me Nathaniel Grotone judge of the Court of Probate for said County, the said being a Court of Record - Sarah Lemont known to me to be the person described in and who executed the accompanying de- claration - and being first sworn to tell the truth, made solemn oath that the same is true - I further certify that thru' age and infirmity, said Sarah Lemont is unable to travel and attend in open court, to make her de- claration.
No testimony whereof I have hereunto caused the seal of said Court to be affixed and subscribed my name the day & year first above writ- ten.
Nathaniel Grotone Judge of said Court -

James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Washington District of Columbia

Barth (Maine) Feb y 24 th 1845
James L. Edwards Esq t . Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
I herewith forward you the declaration of Sarah Sement widow of Consider Turner who was in the army of the revolution. The records from the rolls do not show as much time , as the widow believes he was in the army, not, what Turner told his wife, of his being a sergeant . The records of this town having been burnt, I cannot produce record proof of the marriage - but I trust the proof furnished will be satisfactory. I hope you will feel authorized to allow her a pension under all the different acts mentioned in her declaration, for she is truly a worthy woman; and being quite sick, it is feared she will not continue long in the land of the living, to receive the favours of her country.
Yours, with much respect.
Ammi B. Mitchell

German American Insurance Co. of New York.
PHILIP F. TURNER, Special Agent, No. 48 Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
Nov. 16, 1899.
To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., My dear sir:
I write you some two months since inquiring about the matter below stated, but have received no reply. My great-grandfather, Conside  Turner of Bath Me., in 1784 was married to Sarah Springer of Bath  said Bath Me. (County of Lincoln). In Jan'y 1798 he moved to Georgetown. In Sept. 1799 he was drowned at that place by overturning of his boat. He left several minor children. In 1804 his widow married an Adam Lement of Bath. Some children were born to them. I believe that a pension was applied for by the widow because of service of said Conside in the Revolutionary war . Will you kindly advise me what your records show respecting it and greatly oblige me.
Sincerely yours Philip F. Turner above address.

German American Insurance Co. of New York.
PHILIP F. TURNER, Special Agent, No. 48 Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
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Sept. 7. 1899.
Dear sir;
My great grandfather, Consider Turner, was drowned in 1799 (about Aug. or Sept.) at his home in Georgetown, then Lincoln County, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts.
I have an idea that he served in the Revolutionary army, but am not sure where he enlisted from. I base this idea on the fact that I know or have been told an effort was made to get a pension for his widow, Sarah Turner, {and} his children.
Will you kindly advise me please if the records show anything relating to it and if so advise me the details?
Respectfully,
Commissioner of Pensions {Philip F. Turner. Washington D.C.}