Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35682, Starbird Turner, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Wass.
Turner, Starbird Starbard or
S. 35682
CONTENTS

6161. Maine
Starbird Turner, Capt Still Sergeant, Massachusetts line 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of May 1818. —
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of January 1819 and del d R. C. Vose. Augusta, Me.
arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 3 mos 21/31. 4/30 30. 47 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
$ 78.47.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Rome
Not entitled Reinstated 1 st Apr l 1820 see letter
Notification sent the 10 th July 1820, to R. C. Vose, Esq. Augusta - Maine

Jan 19.
185
Starland Turner
6/51
Discontinued
(March 1849)
P. Nore Augusta. Maine.

State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Wennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec 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 one hundred twenty three dollars and seventy five 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 Ninety three dollars and seventy five 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.
J. Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Wennebec

165 State of Maine.
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KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty sixth day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathaniel Weston  Esq. Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Starbird Turner aged Sixty seven years, resident in Rome in the County of Kennebec within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Hill and Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years, and was in the battle of Monmouth
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the eleventh day of May 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6161 . And I, the said Starbird Turner do further solemnly swear, 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.
Starbird Turner
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: I have the right of redeeming eighty acres of land which I mortgaged in said Rome; but it is not worth so much as there is due on the mortgage. Three cows of the value of forty eight dollars. One yoke of oxen of the value of forty five dollars. Ten sheep and four or five lambs of the value of twenty dollars. Old household stuff, beside necessary bedding not exceeding four dollars in value. One old plough share value one dollar. One old axe worth twenty five cents. Two pigs worth five dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected, and I owe upon the mortgage aforesaid two hundred dollars for which I pay interest; and I owe as much as thirty dollars besides. My income from the foregoing property does not exceed twenty four dollars a year. I am by occupation a farmer; but from age and infirmity am unable to labor. My family at home consist of myself, my wife Saphira, aged sixty eight years a cripple in both feet.

and the bone of her right wrist dislocated not able to sit up half her time.
Except the foregoing, and necessary clothing and bedding, I have no property or income whatever
Starbird Turner
Subscribed, sworn to and declared, both the oath and schedule, on the twenty sixth day of May 1820.
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr
63. 666 Pleas.
A true copy
James M c Davis Blk.

Starbird Turner Bona
Sergt. Col. Vose's. Mass.
Reg. 1777. to 1780.
✓ May 11. 1818
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Starvid Turner , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Rome , in the said County of Kennebec , in the District of Maine, on the eleventh day of May , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Jun C. Just C.C.C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Starbird Turner, aged sixty three years, a citizen of the United States, born in Harpswell in the District of Maine, now resident in Rome, in the said District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that in January 1777, I enlisted as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for the period of three years, in Capt Stills company and Col Joseph Vose's regiment of the Massachusetts line. — This period I fully served out and took my honorable discharge from the Army at a place called the High Lands in the state of New York in February 1780 — My discharge I delivered to one Thomas Pinkham the next year after my return from the army, for the purpose of obtaining the arrears of pay then due me, which discharge the said Pinkham informed me he deposited in the office of the board of war at Boston; This was my only continental service — I was at the battle of Monmouth and at the battle on Rhode Island under Gen. Sullivan — From my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine — Starbird Turner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Js.
On the eleventh day of May A D 1818, Starkord L... within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the written declaration by him subscribed.
Perjure me, Nathan Weston Esq.
Chief Just. of Court C.
Plus Second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I John Jacobs, aged sixty years, of Mount Vernon in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Starbuck Turner within named. I know that he served as a continental soldier, in the war of the revolution, the three years by him within mentioned, as I served in the same company and regiment with him.
JOHN JACOBS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Remedies.
On the nineteenth day of May A.D. 1815 John Jacobs above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed. Before me,
Nathan Weston Hon. C. Just. C. Court C. Pleas 2 d Eastern Circuit.

35682
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35682
Starbird Turner
Serg Rev War
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 425
[Arrangement of 1870.]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
July 6
1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Starbord Turner Company, and
Col. Rose's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in
the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Jany 20 1777 to Jany 17 th 1780, being two years and 11 months. 18 days
Helen Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

165 Harold Turner
28 Jany 1819

N o 6161
War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
10 July 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Starbird Twinning
Rome
Maine

Real & personal $173- age 67 - farmer - served 3 years
wife 68 - "crippled in both feet & the bone of her right wrist dislocated - not able to get up half her time"
Real Estate is mortgaged for its full value
residence
Send a copy of the mortgage
Worthen to August 7. 1821
See copy of mortgage within.

evidence that the land is mortgaged
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State of Maine.
Kennebec County Register of Deeds office June 27 th , 1871
I the subscriber hereby certify, that it appears by the records in said office that a part of a lot of land in the town of Rome in the County of Kennebec containing seventy five acres and being the same lot on which Starbuck Turner now lives, was mortgaged mortgaged by said Starbuck Turner to John Samuell Esq. of Boston on the 8 th day of August 1816 for the sum of one hundred and thirty Dollars, and it does not appear that said lot of land is redeemed by said Turner or any other person.
John Harvey Register of Deeds for Kennebec County John Harvey Esq. is register of Deeds for the county of Kennebec.
Nathan Weston Secy. Inst. S. J. C.

Copy of Deed S. Turner to J. Laurell
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KNOW all Men by these Presents, That I Harbard Turner of Kennebec county of Kennebec State of Massachusetts gentleman In consideration of one hundred thirty dollars paid by John Sawell of Boston county of Suffolk State aforesaid Enquire
(the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge) do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said John Sawell his heirs and assigns forever all that piece or parcel of land situated in Kennebec and bounded as follows, Beginning on the north line of A one where the east line of land conveyed to Richard Furbish intersects the same; thence east south east one hundred seventy six rods to the shore of the pond; thence southerly and westerly on the shore of said pond until it meets the north line of land formerly in possession of Diadema Blunt, thence west north west on said north line until it meets the line of Richard Furbish; thence north north east to the first mentioned bounds containing seventy five acres more or less.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said John Sawell heirs and assigns, to his & their use and benefit forever. AND I do covenant with the said John Sawell his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises—That they are free of all incumbrances—That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said John Sawell And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said John Sawell heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons. Provided Nevertheless, That if the said Harbard Turner his heirs, executors, or administrators, pay to the said John Sawell his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars in five years with interest annually
then this deed, as also a certain certain note bearing even date with these presents, given by the said Harbard Turner to the said John Sawell to pay the same sum and interest at the time aforesaid, shall be void; otherwise shall remain in full force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Harbard Turner
have hereunto set My hand and seal this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of John Rockwood Charles Vaughan Harbard Turner (Seal)
Kennebec ss. August 28 1816. Then the above named Harbard Turner personally acknowledged this Instrument, by him subscribed, to be his free Act and Deed, before me, John Rockwood Justice of Peace.
Kennebec ss. Received Sept. 3. 1816, entered and compared with the original by John Harvey. Register of Deeds
I hereby certify that this is a true copy as appears of Record in the Registry of Deeds for the County of Kennebec, and that no part of the annexed condition appears to have been discharged. John Harvey. Register of Deeds for the County of Kennebec August 14th 1821