Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29518, Thomas Tukesbury, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. N.H.
Tuckersbury, Thomas
S. 29518
CONTENTS
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 12 th 1832.
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 Thomas Tewksbury is borne on a Muster roll of Capt. John Dodge's company, Col. Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards from the 1 st day of April 1778 until July 1 st as having been paid for three months & three days service.
And that the name of Thomas Tewksbury is borne on a "Roll for States pay due to Noncommissioned Officers & soldiers in Capt. Dodge's company, Col. Jacob Gerrish's regiment for ten days from the second of July 1778 to July 12 th 1778" as having been paid for ten days service.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy.
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Rev Sec
Wichopen R. P. D. 15 April 4 th 1919
Department of the Interior Boston Mass
Can you please give me any data concerning Isaac - Jacob - or Thomas Newbury serving in the Revolutionary war - Did either receive a pension and under what form of service Any information you could furnish me will be thankfully received.
Yours Respectfully Mrs Evelyn Ellsworth

TOWN OF CAMDEN, MAINE JOHN L. TEWKSBURY, TOWN CLERK
Camden, Me. July, 1, 1922
Dear Sirs-
I am particularly anxious to locate the names of the parents and birth place of an ancestor of mine, Thomas Tukesbury .
Thomas Tukesbury served in the New Hampshire State Militia in the Revolution and is listed as a pensioner in the 1835 list at that time 77 years of age and residing in Penobscot County, Maine. Any information you may be able to give me will be gratefully received. Thanking you most sincerely I am
Very truly yours,
John L. Tewksbury

29 578 Rev INVALID.
1919 Apr. 15 - History to Mrs. Evelyn Ellsworth & John L. 1922 Aug. 23 hist. to John L. Forkbury - En.
File No. 29,578
Thomas Forkbury
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index: - Vol. 9 , Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870.]

11.998
Name
Thomas Dukeburg
of Humboldt in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company comm. by Captain Leavitt of the Regt. command by Duke of Germain in the M ch H ts no. line for 6 mos 21 ds. 2 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 22 Dollars 31 Cents per mo. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Vose Present
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $44.62 Pension allowance ending Sept. 11.15
$55.77
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 58

Thos. Fikesbury. 23934
Private New Hampshire troops
Lowett's Co: on 13th Drake's regt } 3 5 3/4 monthly { Mass. troops. Dodge's Co: Gertrick's regt. } 3 " 3.3 same ————— 10 days
Applicant has no evidence of service in New Hampshire troops - E.D. Bangs' certificate proof of 3 months & 13 days in Massachusetts troops.
3 months & 13 days as per written On 13th 3 mo 8 days Bangs 3. 13 6 21 per c
Adm d 3 mo 21 days per R. C. Vose.
Augusta, me

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY,
ON this 4 th day of June A. D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Thomas Fikesbury a resident of Atkinson, in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Lovett, and served in Col. Drake's regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers: viz, Lovett (Capt), the Col. That in July 1777 he enlisted as a private for five months in that company. That this period he served out & was verbally discharged at New Windsor, West point in December 1777. On the first of April 1778 he again enlisted as a private for three months in John Dodge's company in Col. Jacob Gerrish's regt. of Guards. That this he fully served out at Cambridge in guarding the Hessian prisoners, & was verbally discharged at Cambridge the 1 st of July 1778. That after his discharge and at the request of his officers he continued to serve as a private in same company for the period of ten days longer, employed in the same & was then verbally discharged at Cambridge, Mass'ts. He was born in Newton, New Hampshire in 1758, where he presumes his birth as and where his home was during his revolutionary services. That in 1814 he removed to Atkinson, Maine, where he now lives. That he never took a written discharge. That he was not drafted or received as a substitute. That in his first service, he was in the taking of Burgoyne, & in his second & third was employed in guarding the Hessian prisoners at Cambridge. That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in in the County of and State of Maine, and now resides in prisoners at Cambridge. And he does not know of any person living by whom he can prove his service. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
attent R. C. Moore
His Thomas H Fikesbury mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nathan Weston met S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Oct 1. J. C.

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judge , before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court Judge, in the matter of the application of Thomas Tukesbury , — for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 17 th . day of June
A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas Tuckbury a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
only one of any spelling or any christ- in name
S. 29.518
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1777 to Dec. 1777 Private Leavitt Drake N.H.   Apr. 1, 1778 to July 12, 1778 John Dodge Jacob Garrison Mass.        
Battles engaged in, taking of Burgoyne. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Newton, New Hampshire. Date of application for pension, June 4, 1833. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Atkinson, Penobscot Co., Maine. Age at date of application, born in 1758 at Newton, New Hampshire. Remarks: he moved from Newton N.H. to Atkinson Me. in 1844.  There is no family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.