Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23272, Joseph Varriel, Continental (Mass.)

Leavitt Joseph _____ W23272 Leavel Leavell
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Leaviden, Elizabeth Leaviden (Former widow)
This woman's alleged first husband was a pensioner, see John Davis, Mass. 129747

Left side
Widow of Penelon (deceased) the day of June 19 1880
Deakin & Smith
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act January 8, 1848, Page 14 Vol. 1

Ms 15195 Margaret Davis widow of John
Mr Oct 7 July 1838
Revolutionary War Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

State of Maine.
Cumberland ss.
Clerk's Office Judicial Courts Portland March 22 d A.D. 1849.
I Chas. C. Harmon, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, in and for said County of Cumberland, certify that Freeman Bradford and Thomas P. Howard are acting Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland, as appears by the papers hereto annexed, that they are duly qualified to act as such, that the Commission of said Bradford is dated May 28 th A.D. 1846, and will expire May 28 th A.D. 1853, - and that the Commission of said Howard is dated March 21, 1842 & will expire March 21 st 1849.
And I further certify that Samuel Kimball and Oliver L. Gurnier were acting Justices of the Peace within & for the Counties of Kennebec & Franklin at the time the papers hereto annexed were executed by them and that they were duly qualified to act as such, that the Commission of said Kimball was dated March 10 th A.D. 1842, and expired March 10 th A.D. 1849. - and

that the Commission of said Currier was dated Oct. 23 d A.D. 1841. and expired Oct. 23 d A.D. 1848. and that the following signatures of said Justices purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. H. Cannon. Clerk.

State of Maine
Oxford Co.
Be it known that on this 15 th day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Hon Job Prince Judge of Probate in and for said County Elizabeth Davis otherwise called Elizabeth Warlden a resident of Turner in the County of Oxford & State aforesaid aged seventy eight years on the 6 th October 1845, who being first duly sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. March 3 d 1843. & June 17 th 1844.
And this declarant states that she is the widow of John Davis late of Waterville in the State of Maine and she has heard her husband say that he was a Drum Major in the Army of the Revolution and that he served therein for the whole or nearly the whole of the war. Her said husband was a resident of Maine at the commencement of the Revolutionary war was a foreigner by birth and was brought over to this country when a child. She further states that her said husband John Davis was a pensioner of the U.S. under the act of 1818 at the rate of $8 per month.

and that he continued to draw said stipend till after the passage of the Act of 1832 when he relinquished his pension under the Act of 1818 and received the benefits of that of 1832. And this declarant further states that her said husband John Davis died on the 14th September 1835. And for proof of her husband's service & grade she refers the Commr of Pensions to the declaration made by said John Davis her husband for the benefit of the Act of 1832.
And this declarant states that she was married to John Davis aforesaid at Bangor then called Kenduskeag on the eighth day of July 1785 and that she was 17 years of age at the time of her marriage. She further declares that her husband the said John Davis deserted her shortly after the marriage aforesaid and that she never afterwards saw him. That finding herself abandoned by her husband she returned to her native town Gloucester Mass and afterwards married Joseph Varrell with whom she lived until the time of his death. She further declares that after the death of her second husband she married William Harrison who died on the fourth day of Sept 1839 and that she is now a widow, as will appear by the testimony annexed.
Elizabeth her Davis Mark

State of Maine
- Oxford ss. - June 15 th 1846
Personally appeared Elizabeth Davis, who from bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscription -
Before Me
Job Prince Judge of the Court of Probate for said County
State of Maine
Oxford County ss: I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County hereby certify that Job Prince, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, and whose genuine signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Davis for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty six.
Geo. F. Emery Register

We the undersigned Selectmen of the town of New- Sharon in the county of Franklin and State of Maine hereby certify that we are acquainted with Capt John Trask who is about seventy years of age as we believe, also with Mr Thomas Buswell who is as we believe about seventy five years of age, and also with Mr Mary Tolman who is as we believe more than sixty years of age The above named persons reside in this town, and sustain in this community irreproachable characters for truth and verac- ity, and we have no hesitation in saying that their statements under the sanction of an oath are entitled to full faith and credit
• NewSharon January 1847 Kittridge Cram } Selectmen Warren Bullen } of NewSharon
I Joseph Proctor Town Clerk of NewSharon hereby certify that the above named Kittridge Cram, and Warren Bullen are Selectmen of the town of NewSharon - that they have been duly chosen and legally qualified to act as such agreeably to the laws of the State. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twenty third day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty seven
Joseph Proctor Town Clerk of NewSharon

J. Bradford Esq
Portland

Gloucester Feb. 2. 1846
Dear Sir -
I find by the Records in my possession the following viz
John Gourdou & Elisabeth Hadlock were recorded for Marriage Feb. 18. 1758 & were married Feb. 16. 1759 Their Children. John Born April 16. 1759 Daniel " Nov. 18. 1761 William " May 11. 1764 Moses " Nov. 3. 1765 Elisabeth Dennen Oct. 6. 1767 Mary June 8. 1770
I cannot find by the Record that the John Davis mentioned in your letter was ever recorded in this Town.
The books were carried out of town for safety from the beginning of the revolutionary war to the year 1782 from which time they have been kept in regular order - should the time & trouble of searching the Records & furnishing the info be worth it - you can forward it.
I am respectfully your
William Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester
A Bradford Esq.

I John Trask of Upper Sharon in the County of Frank- -lin aged sixty six years on oath depose and say. that I was born in Edgecomb Maine & when I was up a boy and in a year or two after the Revolutionary I became acquainted with John Davis who was said & reputed to have been a drum major in the Revolutionary War. I left Edgecomb when I was eight years of age and resided in Farmington till I was twenty one years of age. In the year 1801 I came to the Town of New Sharon and there found residing the same John Davis whom I knew when a boy. In 1807 8 I commanded a com- pany of militia in New Sharon & it was the invariable practice for several years to him and Davis to drum for the company, muster days and frequently on train- ing days. He has showed me repeatedly his Drum Major's Warrant & I think he showed it to me when he obtained his pension under the act of 1818. I have heard William Hodge of Edgecomb say that John Davis was brought over to this coun- try when a boy and purchased by him said Hodge to pay his passage. He resided with said Hodge to about the time of the Revolutionary war when he left him, & enlisted into the Army as said Hodge has informed me. In the year 1807 or 8 as near as I can recollect I met with a young man in the town of

Monmouth. Acain, who enquired of me particularly whether I knew a man by the name of John Davis residing in New Sharon. I informed the young man that I did know such a person & that he then resided upon one of my farms in that Town. He then informed me that this same John Davis was his father, and he had left his mother soon after the marriage & had not lived with her since. Learning from me that his father was poor he sent by me to him a sum of money say $3 or $5. The precise sum I don't now remember. I carried this sum to Deacon Major Davis as he was familiarly called, and commenced conversation with him as to his first wife. At first he denied having a former wife but when questioned by me more closely he confirmed that he had been married to another woman previous to the woman he then lived with, & that he had left her shortly after the marriage. He did not state the reason for his leaving his wife, but said that he had become involved in some transaction on account of which he was obliged to leave her & after -wards falling into bad company he had married another woman. He requested me at the time of this conversation to keep the matter of his first marriage a secret from his family. I have no doubt but John Davis was lawfully married to a woman previous to the time of his marriage to the woman

with whom he lived at the time of his conversion as aforesaid. I have heard some of the children of the 2 d woman say that their father John Davis had been married to a woman previous to the time of his mar- riage to their mother, & that they had seen their half brother. Some years before said Davis left New Sharon it was a matter of general belief that said Davis had a lawful wife living, and that the woman with whom he then lived, John Davis died about ten years ago as near as I can recollect. The woman with whom said Davis last lived and by whom he had a family of children died before he died
John Frost
State of Maine
Franklin Co. August 13 th 1845 Then appeared John Frost known to me as a man of Truth and ver- acity & made oath to the truth of the above affida- vit by him subscribed
Before me Oliver L. Currier justice of the Peace

I Thomas Buswell of New Sharon in the County of Franklin on oath depose & say that I am seventy three years of age was a native citizen of Brattleboro Mass. and have resided in this Town (New Sharon) thirty nine years last past. When I came to this town John Davis who was reputed to have been a Drum Major in the Revolutionary War resided here. I was well acquainted with said Davis all the time he lived in Town which I believe was about 24 years after I first came here. He worked for me for ten or a dozen seasons after I first came here and during the time lived in my house about three years. of the time John Davis frequently told me that he had another wife beside the woman he then lived with somewhere to the Eastward of this place and I believe on the Penobscot River. He said he left her shortly after the marriage. My impression is that said Davis told me that he had a son by the first wife & that he had received letters from him and frequently expressed a desire to see him. I have no doubt but John Davis had a lawful wife living at the time he lived with the woman in New Sharon, and other than the person reputed to be his wife, at the time he made the confession to me above stated. & said Davis has frequently compared the woman with

whom he lived in New Sharon, with his wife whom he had deserted, and frequently spoke of his first wife with tears. It was the general reputation in New Sharon that said Davis had a wife living whom he had deserted or left shortly after the marriage to her.
State of Maine
Thos! Buswell
Franklin Co. August 14 th 1845 Then appeared Thomas Buswell known to me as a man of truth and veracity & made oath to the truth of the above affidavits by him subscribed
Before me Oliver L. Currier justice of the Peace

I Mary Tolman of New Sharon in the County of Franklin of lawful age on oath depose and say that I have resided in the Town of New Sharon forty five years. John Davis who was called Dream Major Davis resided here in this town when I came to New Sharon. I have always heard that said Davis had a wife other than the woman with whom he lived while I knew him. John Davis & the woman with whom he lived are both dead. I have heard the woman with whom said Davis lived in this town say that her husband's first wife was a Cousin to Annelle Gordon of this Town. It was generally reported & believed for many years that John Davis had a lawful wife living at the time he lived with the woman in New Sharon. I have been present when John Davis was accused of having been married to some other person than the woman with whom he lived, & he did not deny it. & I have frequently heard the woman with whom he lived here, accuse said Davis of having been previously married, & have never heard him deny the fact. John Davis then and he now resides in Edgcomb.
State of Maine
W. B. T. P. P. M. A.
Franklin County ss. August 13 th 1845 Then

affirm Mary Spencer known to me as a person of truth & made oath to the truth of the above affi- davit by her subscription.
Before me Oliver D. Cushman Justice of the Peace
1811/11/19

I, John Taylor of New Sharon in the County of Frank- -lin of the age of forty nine years on oath depose and say that I was acquainted with John Davis, who was repu- ted to have been a Brann Major in the army of the revolution, for thirty years previous to his death. John Davis died at West Waterville in the spring of 1806 as near as I can recollect. He resided in the town of New Sharon for the most of his life after he came out of the revolutionary war - He the said John Davis was reputed while he lived in New Sharon to have had a wife which he married in Penobscot in the early part of his life & which he afterwards left and married again to another wife with whom he lived & brought up a family of children. I have no doubt but John Davis who was a pen- sioner of the U.S. did marry a woman in Penobscot with whom he lived but a short time & I believe that former wife to be now living in Auburn. It was general report & reputation in the town of New Sharon and particularly in the family and among the children of John Davis that he had been married to a former wife whom he left soon after the marriage to her.
John Taylor
Franklin Co. August 13 th 1855 Then personally appeared the above named John Taylor known to me as

a credible witness to a man of truth and veracity and make oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Oliver L. Garrison Justice of the peace

I. Asa Davis of Bangor in the County of Penobscot & State of Maine on oath depose & say that I am forty six years of age & the son of John & Hannah Davis I have always understood & heard my Father say that he was a Union Major in the Army of the Revolution & that he served during the war He was a Pensioner of the United States & died in the town of Waterville in the fall of 1835 My Mother died before my Father My Father resided in New Sharon the most of his life It was the current report in the town where my Father resided that he was married in Kenduskeag now the city of Bangor before he was married to my Mother & that the name of his first wife was Loveline & that he had a son by this first wife by the name of John Davis I knew John Davis the reputed son of my father by his first wife I went to school to him when I was about nineteen years of age at Monmouth academy in Maine at which time John Davis was Principal John Davis at this time informed me that he was my half brother About this

time I had some conversation with my father about this John Davis & stated to him what said John Davis had told me & then asked my father whether this John Davis was or was not his son My father did not deny it or acknowledge it but seemed reluctant to have any conversation in relation to the matter My mother informed me that this John Davis was the son of my father & that my father had been married before he was married to my mother & that my father had left her John Davis my reported half brother was never considered an illegitimate I have received letters from this John Davis in his life time He was older than I was & I should judge he would be about sixty years of age if he were now living I have no doubt but my father was lawfully married to the Cleveland woman previous to his marriage to my mother I heard my father say that he had a wife before my mother & that the reason for his leaving her was best known to himself This was long after I attended school at Mount Vernon Asa Davis

Penobscot ss. Jan'y 8 th 1847 Then personally appeared the above named Isaac Davis known to me as a man of truth & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed
Joseph Porter Justice
State of Maine
Penobscot ss.
A. Mellicent T. Hilliard Clerk of all the Judicial courts for said County of Penobscot hereby certify that Joseph Porter whose name appears in the foregoing instrument is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I set my hand and affix the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
Wm. T. Hilliard Clerk

Copia
I Susannah Taylor of Somerville in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Widow, on oath depose and say that I am seventy eight years of age and am the daughter of John & Elizabeth Gordon who were residents of Cape Ann now Gloucester at the time of my birth. I am the sister of Elizabeth Davis otherwise called Elizabeth Harridan who is now a widow and resides in the town of Turin or Auburn Me. She is nearly three years older than myself.
When my sister was young she went to live with a lady in Cape Ann who soon afterwards removed to Kenduskeag now Bangor Me. with her husband and took my sister Elizabeth with her. This lady and gentleman soon afterwards died in Kenduskeag and then my sister went to live with a widow lady by the name of Haines. While living there she was married as I have been told and never had any reason to doubt the fact, to a man by the name of John Davis. She was then about eighteen years of age. No one of my acquaintance, or any one else, did I ever hear express a doubt as to her marriage.
After the marriage of my sister she came to Gloucester and said she had been married and that her husband had left her and that she had not heard from him for some time. My aunt Elizabeth Gordon now dead told my mother and myself that

She had seen a person belonging to Kenduskeag with whom she was acquainted, who told her of the marriage of John Davis & my sister Elizabeth, and he stated that he was present at the wedding and saw them married. By this first marriage she had one son by the name of John Davis, and who would now be about sixty years of age if he was living. This John Davis was born within a year from the time my sister was married.
Further, with regard to my sister's marriage, there lived in Braintree Massachusetts a few years ago, a man by the name of Coburn who was a friend to John Davis and whom John Davis visited after he was married to my sister. Davis then reported his marriage, and also stated that he had deserted his wife or had left her.
Sometime after my sister returned to Gloucester she went to Maine in the State of Maine and was there married to a man by the name of Lyff Verrill with whom she lived some years, when he died. After his death she again married a man by the name of Harridan who is also dead, and my sister is now a widow and lives in the town of Auburn or Turner Me.
There never was any question that my sister Elizabeth was lawfully married to John Davis, and I never heard any one express a doubt of that fact. I have another sister living, older than myself, who resides in the town

of Troy Me. formerly called Jay. She is the wife of Nehemiah Fletcher. Witness J. L. Nuttall
Susannah X Taylor's Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suffolk B. Oct 4 th 1847.
Then personally appeared Susannah Taylor the person above a person of truth & veracity named, and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true.
Before Me J. L. Nuttall Jus. Peace.

I Adam G. Davis of Waterville in the County of Kennebec on oath depose testify and say that I am thirty five years of age. My father John Davis resided with me the latter part of his life. He was a pensioner of the U.S. and he has informed me in his life time that he was a Brn Major in the army of the Revolution. My father died at my house in Waterville on the fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty five and was about 90 years of age at the time of his death. I was present at the time of his death. His second wife my mother died before my father and the report has always been in the family that my father had another wife whose maiden name was Groom before her marriage. I have heard my father say that he was married to his first wife some where in the Penobscot. I have heard that my father first wife is still living. Heldre G. Davis  Kennebec ss. May 30th 1846 Then personally appeared Adam G. Davis known to me as a person of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
Sam l Kimball, Justice Peace

I Elvira Davis of Waterville in the County of Kennebec on oath depose and say that I am thirty five years of age. John Davis the father of my husband, Isaac G. Davis, lived with us at the latter part of his life and he died at our house. He died on or about the 14th day of September 1835. I know the time of his death from the age of one of my children who was one year old on the 19th of Sept 1835. I believe that my father died a few days before his birth day. John Davis was a pensioner of the U.S. and lived but a short time after he drew his last pay in the month of Sept 1835.
Elvira Davis
Kennebec ss. May 30th 1846. Then personally appeared the above named Elvira Davis known to me as a person of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
Sam: Kimball, Justice Peace

I, Sarah Verrill of Minot in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, on oath depose and say that I am eighty five years of age and upwards, was born in New Gloucester and resided there till I was married in 1950 and have lived in Minot ever since that time. In seven or eight years after I was married James Hodgkin a neighbor to us went to Cape Ann on a visit and when he returned he brought with him Elizabeth Davis a woman who had a little boy about two or three years old called John Davis. It was said that Mr. Hodgkin took the child off the town in Cape Ann and agreed to bring it up. The mother of this child married in a year or two after she came to Minot then called Bakerstown, Joseph Verrill a man much older than she was with whom she lived and had one child a girl. After the death of Joseph Verrill this woman married a man by the name of Herridan. I have been informed that he is dead I have not seen him for many years. John Davis the son of Elizabeth Davis received an education and by prudence and industry obtained some property in his life time which he left to his mother. John Davis has been dead many years and if living would be about sixty

years of age. He was about the age of three years of age when he came to Hiram, with Mr. Houghton & when he came down my son John was less than a year old. My son John was born Jan'y 15. 1858, according to the record in my bible.
Sarah Verrill
State of Maine
Cumbulance Jp. October the 11 th 1847 Then personally appeared before me Sarah Verrill known to me to be a person of strict truth and integrity and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscription
Freeman Bradford Justice Peace

I Thomas Johnson of New Gloucester, County of Cumberland & State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of New Gloucester aforesaid, that I have in my possession and keeping the Books of Record of said town and that in the book containing the records of Marriages in said town I find the following, to wit, "A record of a marriage performed by Isaac Parsons justice of the Peace, - Joseph Varrill to Elizabeth Davis' both of a place called Bakerstown April twenty seventh seventeen hundred & ninety Recorded by me Nathl. Egleton Town Clerk
I certify that the above is a true copy of the original with the exception of the date of the marriage which is in fair legible figures thus "April 27 th 1790". New Gloucester Attest Thomas Johnson July 19. 1847 - Town Clerk of New Gloucester Thomas Johnson
Cumberland ss. July 19. 10. 1847 Personally appeared before me William Bradbury Justice of the Peace the above named Thomas Johnson and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him signed W m Bradbury Justice of the Peace

I Ruth Berry of Auburn, in the County of Cumberland aged ninety one years on oath depose and say that I have resided in Minot & Auburn for about fifty four years, previous to that time I resided in Bath where I lived a little more than seven years, My husband removed from Gardner to Bath in 1785 as I believe, and very soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, When I first moved into Minot which was fifty five years ago, I became acquainted with the wife of a Mr. Darrel who had a small boy by the name of John Davis, This boy was reputed to be  by the name of the son of Mrs. Darrel by a former husband and it was then said that this Mrs. Darrel had been married to a man who had run away and left her, This boy was brought up in Minot and lived for many years a neighbor to me. He received an education taught school for the most of the time and died in Minot about sixteen years ago, This boy was two or three years older than my son Charles who is now fifty six years of age. After the death of Mr. Darrel Elizabeth his widow married a man by the name of Harridon who is also dead, This same woman is now living a few miles from me as I believe I have never heard of her death, I have no doubt but Elizabeth Davis otherwise called Darrel & Harridon, was married to John Davis, and that the son of this woman was born in lawful wedlock, Mrs. Harridon lived within a few rods of me a year ago and from all the circumstances that have taken place since which have come to my knowledge I have never had any reason to doubt that she was married to John Davis, John Davis the son of Mrs. Harridon was never considered an illegitimate, he left some property which his mother
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inherited, Elizabeth Harrison is now a widow, Witnes Ruth Bury Oliver M Bury (the mark of) Ruth Bury mark
Cumberland Ys, Dec, 12th, 1846. Then personally appeared the above named Ruth Bury, known to me as a person of truth who made  solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed. Before me Thomas F, Howard Justice of the Peace

I Charles Berry of Auburn in the County of Cumberland on oath depose and say that I am fifty six years of age and have resided in Minot near Auburn for the last fifty three years. Ever since I have lived in Minot and as far back as I can recollect any person I have known Mrs Elizabeth Harridon who was reputed by the neighbours to have been married to John Davis. It has also always been said that John Davis had deserted her soon after she was married to him. She had a son John Davis who was two or three years older than myself and with whom I was intimately acquainted from his boyhood to the time of his death. John Davis the son of Mrs. Harridon died about sixteen years ago as near as I can recollect and his mother inherited what property he left. John Davis lived within two miles of me, when not employed in teaching school, he was a person of good education and taught in the Academy at Monmouth, (Maine) at one time as he has informed me. and I have reason to believe, Elizabeth Harridon his mother is now a widow her last husband having been dead several years. Charles Berry
Cumberland ss Dec, 10 th , 1846. Then personally appeared the above named Charles Berry known to me as a person of truth and a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Thomas J. Howard Justice of the Peace

I Releif Taylor of New Sharon in the County of Franklin aged forty one years on oath depose & say that my father John Davis was a drum Major in the Revolutionary war and a pensioner of the U. S. He died in West Waterville in the spring of 1836 as near as I can recollect. For the most part of his life he resided in New Sharon. My father was reputed & it is my belief that he was married to a woman in Penobscot whom he left shortly after he was married to her & by whom he had one son. My father was afterwards married a second time & brought up a family of whom I am one. I have heard my mother say that my father had told her that he had been married to a woman previous to his marriage with my mother with whom he lived only a few months. My mother is now dead. I have seen letters addressed to my father from John Davis the son of his first wife and I have heard my father asked if he had been lawfully married to any person other than my mother, to which he would reply evasively - and from the way and manner of his replies I had no doubt, but that he had a wife other than my mother. The first wife of my father I never saw - but I have heard that her

Christian name was Elizabeth. I have heard my father say that when he left his first wife she was living at a widow Hains in Penobscot. I do not know that my father had any fixed place of residence during the war of the Revolution in this country. I have heard it stated that he was in the British army & captured with Burgoyne and afterwards entered the service of the R. S. & remained to the end of the war. I believe that the first wife of my father is now living in Auburn. Relief Taylor her mark Witness.
Joseph Bullen
Franklin Co. August 13 th 1845. Then appeared the above named Relief Taylor known to me as a person of truth & veracity & gave oath to the above affidavit by her subscription. Before me
Oliver L. Cushman justice of the Peace

I Ashmeah Packard of Auburn in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 83 years on oath depose and say that I enlisted for during the war in the month of March 1777 as Drummer. and I believe I was first Mustered in Capt Pillsbury's Company Col Wigginworth's Regt & served under said Capt Pillsbury & Capt Frost to the end of War and received an honorable discharge. My discharge was granted to me provisionally, in the month of June 1780 & to take effect as a discharge, after the ratification of the Peace. While in the Army I was well acquainted with John Davis who was Drum Major in Col Vose Regiment for at least a part of the time he was in the service I believe the whole of the time. From the appearance of this John Davis & from his accent & speech I always supposed that he was a foreigner by birth. This John Davis served to the end of the war as a Drum Major. I have never seen this John Davis since I left the service. About one year ago a widow woman by the name of Elizabeth Harmon enquired of me whether I knew a man by the name of John Davis, who was a Drum Major in the Army. I informed her that I did know such man. She then told me that she was married to him, & that he had left her shortly after the marriage. The description she gave of the person

to whom she said she was married in Bangor satisfy me that John Davis the man whom I knew in the army as a Drum Major was the person to whom she said she was married. The description which she gave of the person, satisfy me that she had at some time been acquainted with John Davis who was in the army with me.
Nicholas Packard
State of Maine Cambridge Co. August 16. 1825 Then personally appeared Nicholas Packard above named known to me as a person of truth & veracity & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Freeman Bradford Jus. Peace

NATIONAL ARCHIVES I Elizabeth Moore of Auburn in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose & say that I am fifty four years of age and am the daughter of Joseph Merrill & Elizabeth his wife. My mother has always informed me that she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Gordon and that she was born in Gloucester Mass. Commonly called Cape Ann and resided there in her younger days. She has also informed me that she went to Kenduskeag before she was married, with a gentleman & lady to whom she had been given when young and that upon the death of the person to whom she had been given she went to live with a widow Haines and while there was married to John Davis who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war. She has also often told me and I have been told the same by others that her first husband deserted her soon after the marriage. By this first marriage my mother had one child named John Davis and who resided in Minot the most of his life and died there on the 18 th of July 1830 At the time of his death John Davis my half brother was 44 years of age on the 27 th of April the year of his death, I have often heard my half brother speak of his father John Davis and he has told me in his life time that he had seen some of his half brothers, Children of his father by his second marriage. My mother has told me and I have heard others say the same that after she was deserted by her first husband that she

went to her native town Gloucester and soon afterwards moved to the town of Minot. She married for her second husband my father with whom she lived about 4 years. My father died in Minot at which time I was about 2 years and a half of age. After the death of my father my mother married William Garrison with whom she lived till 1887 the time of his death. My mother is now a widow and resides at the present in the town of Turner and near the town of Auburn and in the same neighborhood where she has resided for the last 2 years of her life. She still remains a widow, I never heard any say that my mother was not lawfully married to John Davis at Kenduskeag, and it was always so reported by the neighbors. Elizabeth Moore witness Royal J. Bradbury
Guernseyland Is 55 P.M. 16th 1847 Then personally appeared Elizabeth Moore known to me as a person of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed. Before me John C. Briggs Justice of the Peace

I Nehemiah Fletcher of Inuy in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged Seventy one gave the thirteenth day of next November (1844) on oath upon my That I have been acquainted with the family of the late John & Elizabeth Gordon of Cape Ann for the last fifty three years of my life. The children of John & Elizabeth Gordon were John, Daniel, William, Moses, Elizabeth Mary & Susanna and they are all dead except Susanna & Elizabeth I married Mary Gordon who died the twentieth day of July last. Then sister Elizabeth now Elizabeth Harriden I think of Inuy in this State is Older than my late wife and I think she must be over Eighty years of age - The tradition & common report in the family has always been that Elizabeth Gordon when quite young went to Kenduskeag now Bangor and while there was married to John Davis and as I have understood by the family that said Davis immediately after his marriage to said Susanna Elizabeth abandoned her. She always said Elizabeth had a son by the name of John by her first husband whom I think if living must be about sixty years of age - I understood that the said John Davis the husband of said Elizabeth had been a Brann Major in the Revolutionary war - after Elizabeth was deserted by her first husband she went to her family in Gloucester as I have heard say & went to Minot in this State where I have understood she has resided the most of her time since she was married again to a man by the name of Verrill who died many years ago and after the death of Verrill she again married a man by the name of Harriden who is also dead Elizabeth if living is a widow as far as I know there was given any question that I ever heard of but that Elizabeth Gordon was legally married to John Davis. It was believed by my late wife and the family of the Gordons that the marriage of Elizabeth Gordon was legally married to John Davis my wife was I believe seventy seven years old the 8th eighth

day of June last - my late wife informed me that when Elizabeth Gordon went to Kinderhook, now also Rogen and married to John Devo she was about twenty fourteen years of age
Nehemiah Fletcher
Wales ss October 25 th 1847 Then personally appeared Nehemiah Fletcher above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
Robert Woodhouse Justice of the Peace
This certifies that Mr. Nehemiah Fletcher of the town of Troy in the County of Wales & State of Maine according to the best of my knowledge is a person of sober life & conversation and sustains a good moral character
Robert Woodhouse

Ms. A. 9. 2. 28
Elizabeth Harrison Mary Davis or Julia in law Bridgeton of South Berwick
Me
Act 7 July 1838

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND,
September 11, A. D. 1851 }
I,
Freeman Bradford
Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Peter Noyes, is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the Commission of the said Noyes is dated June 10th A. D. 1848 and will expire June 10th A. D. 1855
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

State of Maine Cumberland County ss. On this twenty eighth day of July A.D. 1851 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Herriken, a resident of Auburn in said County, aged 83 years and upwards, who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of July 7th. 1838, March 3 d . 1843, June 17. 1844, and Feby 2 d 1848.
And this declarant states that she is the same person who made a declaration for the benefits of the acts afore- said by virtue of the services of her first husband John Davis, a Drum Major in the Revolution, and whose case has been rejected on account of proof of her marriage to the said John Davis. — She now makes a claim for a pension under the acts aforesaid by virtue of the Revolutionary services of her second husband Joseph Varriel, and she believes that he was a soldier of Artillery in the Revolutionary War. She refers the Commissioner of Pensions to her former declaration and to the proof therein, and states that she was married to the said Joseph Varriel at New Gloucester on the 27 th April 1790, as will appear by the certificate of the town Clerk of said New Gloucester, on file with her papers now in the Pension Office at Washington. She further states that her third husband William Herriken to whom she was mar- ried in 1798, died in 1837 and that she is now a widow.

She refers to the proof of service herewith to be affixed in support of her claim.
Witness Timothy Baily Elizabeth her  of Heniden mark
Then personally appeared Elizabeth Heniden the above named declarant, and made oath that the foregoing declaration is true according to her best knowledge and belief.
Peter Boyes Dist. Pierce.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
September 3 1857.
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 Joseph Varil (or Varioul) is borne on Army Books, as a Matross in Col. Lamb's Regt of Artillery from March 17, 1777. to Jany 1. 1780. 33 mos. & 14 d. & as a Sergt. in same Regt. from Jany 1. 1780. 12 mos. - enlisted from Marblehead for the term of During the war.

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.
Susan Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application for a certificate of the Revolutionary services of Joseph Vriel made by the former widow of the party who rendered the services - State of Maine
County of Cumberland Town of Auburn. The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of the said Joseph Vriel in the War of the Revolution
She was a native of Cape Ann or otherwise called Gloucester Massachusetts and resided in said Gloucester or some other town in that vicinity in the time of the war. She believes that he enlisted for during the war and served as an Artillerist in the army of the Revolution. She is unable to state under what Capt he served as her said husband has been dead many years and long before any thing was said concerning revolutionary pensions. She requests all the service that may be found on the Military rolls of said Office as a soldier in the Artillery on Continental establishment.
Witness my hand this 28 th Day of July A.D 1851.
Elizabeth Harrington her Mark
Cumberland ss. July 28 th 1851 Signed in my presence
Peter Boyden: Clerk.

In first declaration Elizabeth claims as former widow of John Davis whom she alleges she married at Bangor Me. in July, 1785. He who deserted her soon thereafter. Claim rejected lack of proof of marriage.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23272
Elizabeth Hernandez Formerly wife of Joseph Parrish Sgt. P. M. M. M.
Act: March 2 nd 1/48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 327
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9.157
Name
Eliz M Berriden widow of Jos. Varniel who was a Sergt. 4th Infy in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 110 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Jan 1842 and sent to Dickins & Coombs
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 5

Maine
Elizabeth Ferriden Joseph Varnum
widow of who died on the of who was a by Captain by line for
in the State of
of the
commanded commanded
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of the at the rate of 110 Dollars and Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. day of Jany. 1852 and sent to Dickson & Gomb
Stares to the 4th of Semi-annual allowances ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by Book
Vol.
Clerk. Page
K. M. Chase
9

Freeman Bowdoin Esq. of this city has been employed by Elizabeth Harrington to assist her in ob- taining a license, & having collected the evidence in support of her claim has submitted it to me & requested in behalf of the applic- ant issue a certificate as I am given in favor of her application.
I am able to state & do say that I have been personally acquainted with Mr Bowdoin for the last twenty years & from his known honor & integrity I say without any hesitation that I do not believe that he would have any concern in an attempt to obtain a license for any one by false & fraudulent testimony, even if he had attempted to obtain one if he did not believe that the applicant was entitled to it by law. I have from him considerable information as well as otherwise of the manner in which the testi- mony has been obtained, & I believe that the witnesses to be persons of character & veracity & that their testimony is to be relied upon. The testimony to prove the marriage of the testator with John Davis is such as would be admissible under the circumstances in a court of law to prove the marriage, & taken together it would if not con- tradicted be sufficient to authorize a court or jury to infer that there was an actual marriage between the parties.
Asheboro Mass
Portland March 23. 1849.
Sir: In answer of the L. S. for the Secy of M. in C.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Portland, July 10. Probate Office, } A. D. 1850 }
8, Freeman Bradford
REGISTER OF PROBATE.
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Thomas J. Howard is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the Commission of the said is dated May 26, A. D. 1849 and will expire May 26, A. D. 1856
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

I Jacob Bradbury of Auburn in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am 61 years of age and upwards and have resided in this town from my birth. I am well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Harriden the widow of William Harriden late of Auburn, deceased. For many years I resided a near neighbor to Mrs. Harriden who had a son by the name of John Davis and who died in the year 1830 and at that time about 44 years of age. The general reputation among all who knew Mrs. Harriden was that she was a native of Gloucester Mass. and that she was married to John Davis who before the marriage had been a musician in the army of the Revolution, that said Davis her husband deserted her, that she had a son John Davis by that marriage, the same person above alluded to who died in 1830, that said Elizabeth the widow of said John Davis came to this town when her son was young that she there intermarried with Joseph Varril for her second husband and after his death with William Harriden. The said Harriden is now dead and his widow still survives. With John Davis the son of Elizabeth Harriden I was intimately acquainted for many years before his death. By his own individual exertions he obtained a collegiate education and after receiving his education he taught school. He was employed as the Preceptor of Monmouth Academy for two or three years and he related to me

The circumstances of becoming acquainted with a half brother of his who resided in New Sharon and who attended the Academy at Monmouth while he was the teacher there. I have always understood that the family of John Davis of New Sharon fully recognized John Davis as born in lawfull wedlock and I know that he was never regarded as an illegitimate child. The tradition or knowledge of the first marriage of Elizabeth Harriden has been handed down from old people who were acquainted with her in her native town and who brought her with her son John Davis into this town many years ago, and I never heard it said, and never heard a doubt expressed that she was not lawfully married to John Davis who was a musician in the Revolutionary Army. The John Davis of New Sharon has been the reputed husband of this Elizabeth Harriden for more than 60 years past.
Jacob Bradbury
Cumberland Is. July 8 th 1850 Then personally appeared the above named Jacob Bradbury known to me to be a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Thomas S. Howard Justice of the Peace.

I Lewis Bradford of Auburn, aged forty six years on oath say that I have known Elizabeth Harriden the widow of William Harriden for more than thirty years last past. Ever since I knew her I have been acquainted with her history as handed down by old people who were intimately acquainted with her in early life, and that history being somewhat out of the usual course is well rem- -embred by me. Her history in this community has been as follows viz that Elizabeth Harriden was a native of Gloucester Massachusetts, commonly called Cape Ann, that when young she went to Kenduskeag now Bangor to live. that while there she was married to John Davis who had been a Drum Major in the Revolution - that her husband deserted her - that she returned to her friends in Gloucester and had a son by this first marriage - that she and her son was brought to Minot, by a man by the name of Hodgkins who resided in the center part of this town, and that she married Joseph Varriel, who died in a few years after the marriage and that she then married Wm. Harriden. I know she lived with said Harriden as his wife and that she had several children by him I never heard any one express a doubt but she was lawfully married to John Davis and it has been asserted for the last thirty years that this John Davis lived in New Sharon in this State.
With her son John Davis who died in this town 1830, I was acquainted He taught school and was a man of respec- -tability and highly esteemed in this community.

Mrs Herriden has resided near me for the last six or seven years and ever since the fact of her first husband's death has been known to her, she has asserted her claim to a pension. It is the belief in this community that Mrs. Herriden was lawfully married to John Davis late of New Sharon and that belief antedates all pension laws made in favor of the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers.
Lewis Bradford
Cumberland 1st July 8 th 1850 Then personally appeared the above named Lewis Bradford known to me to be a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Thomas L. Howard Justice of the Peace
Lewis Bradford

I Asaph Howard of Auburn in the County of Cumberland on oath do certify and declare, that I have resided in this town formerly a part of Maine for fifty years last, and during my residence in said town have been one of the Selectmen of the town about twenty years, have represented said town in the Massachusetts Legislature two years before the separation of Maine from Mass; was one of the Delegates to form the constitution of this State, was two years in the Maine Legislature and two years one of the Senators from this County, and have been five years one of the Judges of the Session's Court.
I have known for many years Nathaniel Packard of said town a revolutionary pensioner and do state that he is a man of good reputation and unimpeachable for truth and veracity, I know also Mrs. Varril the widow of late Samuel Varril who has testified as I am told in the case of Elizabeth Harriden for a pension and do certify that she is a person of truth and of good reputation, I also certify to the good reputation of Jacob Bradbury and Lewis Bradford of Auburn whose testimony I have heard read and is herunto annexed and to the good reputation of Ruth Berry and Charles Berry whose testimony has been taken in the above named application of Elizabeth Harriden, as I am informed. I further certify that I have known by reputation Mrs. Elizabeth Harriden of this town for many years and

have understood that she is an applicant for a pension. I also had some slight acquaintance with her son John Davis who died in this town about twenty years ago and know that he was a man of good reputation. His mother Elizabeth Harriden is a woman of good reputation for truth and I never knew of any thing against her character and know of no reason why she should not be entitled to full credit.
The general reputation and belief in this community is and ever has been, that Elizabeth Harriden was married to a man by the name of John Davis in the eastern part of this State by whom she had one son named John Davis and the same person I have mentioned above, that her first husband deserted her soon after her marriage, that she came to Minot then called Bakerstown when that child was young and married Joseph Varriel by whom she had one child, that upon the death of her husband Varriel, she married a Mr. Harriden who died several years ago and that she is now a widow.
The general reputation and belief in this community is, and I am fully persuaded that it is true that Elizabeth Harriden was lawfully married in early

life to John Davis and that John Davis formerly of this town was born in lawfull wedlock. The said John Davis of this town was never considered illegitimate
Asaph Howard
Cumberland Yr, July 8 th 1850 Signed and sworn to by the above named Asaph Howard before me
Thomas S. Howard Justice of the Peace

Rec. 2d Jany 1852
16 52
Portland Jany 16th 1852 Miss Dickinson Hoombs Gens.
Enclosed please find additional testimony in the claim of Elizabeth Herridon which I hope will be satisfactory in her case. You wrote me that the case was laid aside without any formal report to be taken up as soon as the additional testimony was filed. I hope that will be the case for the old lady is now quite unwell and it would gladden her to know that her claim was allowed.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt: Freeman Bradford

Washington, July 15 th 1850.
hi,
Enclosed we have the honor to transmit additional evidence in support of the claim of Elizabeth Harriden, formerly widow of John Davis, for a pension on account of the revolutionary services of the said John Davis, her first husband. I understand from Freeman Bradford Esq. who puts the claim into our hands, that the only objection which has been made to the claim is, as to the sufficiency of the evidence to establish the marriage of the claimant with the said John Davis, who was a Drum Major in the revolutionary war. The testimony now enclosed, applies to that point only. We beg leave to call your attention to the letter of Judge Ware, of the U. S. District Court, giving an opinion as to the sufficiency of the evidence to prove the marriage.
We have the honor to be in J. S. Edwards Esq. } Dickens & Co.-ly Country Business. }

Elizabeth Henshaw formerly widow of Joseph Henshaw
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Dickins & Co

Washington, Sept. 8 th 1851
Sir:
Enclosed you will please find the declaration of Elizabeth Harriden, formerly widow of Joseph Harriden, claiming a pension under act of 1838, and subsequent acts.
This is the same woman who has heretofore claimed a pension under the act of 1836, as the widow of John Davis, a Sumner member, but which claim was rejected for want of satisfactory proof of her marriage with said Davis.
She refers to the evidence on file in her former application, for proof of all the facts necessary to establish this claim.
Very Respectfully Mary Ott Davis Dorkins & Co. - W
J. S. Heath Esq Comm r of Pensions
1851 Sept 8 Mary Ott Davis
Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 1 p. 1

Elizabeth Meriden formerly widow of Joseph Varnel
Dickins & Co. only

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, December 20th A. D. 1851
I, Charles C. Harmon, _____ CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Freeman Bradford
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated May 28th _____ A. D. 1846 and will expire May 28th _____ A. D. 1853
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is _____ Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon , CLERK.

I Nathaniel Haskell of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, on oath say that I am 85 years of age was born in Gloucester Massachusetts, lived there forty six years from my birth and since I removed from said Gloucester have lived in Boston 20 years in Virginia 5 years, and in this place for the last four years. I was acquainted with a family of Varriels when I was young, who resided in Gloucester about five miles from my father's. Joseph Varriel was several years, say more than ten years older than myself, according to my best recollection, and in the time of the Revolution resided in Cape Ann called Gloucester or vicinity.
He was a Soldier in the Army, and was reputed to have served in the Revolutionary War, and I have no doubt of the fact. The said Joseph Varriel removed Eastward to New Gloucester, Maine, soon after the Peace of 1783. and from that time I have not heard from him. I knew of no other Joseph Varriel, except the one above named, and knew of none of the name of Varriel except the family which originally belonged to Gloucester, Massachusetts, most of whom moved to the Eastward many years ago.
I also knew a family of Gordons and several

girls of the name, but what became of them I know not. Nathaniel Haskell
State of Maine
Cumberland Co. December 20th. 1857. Then personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Haskell, a man of truth, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me! Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace.

Elizabeth Berrien, formerly wife of Joseph Varrel Maine
Acct 7 July 1835-
Ad. 12 mo S t duty $ 60 12 mo Pri. " 50 $110
for annu from 4 Oct 1836-
Cash sent to Dickins & Coombs Penns

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Kerridan County and State of Maine - act 7 July 1835 -
Claim, ("original," and for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Of a will, record evidence - By marriage, record -
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
De Witt & Colman Present -
J. P. Allen
Examining Clerk.

I William French of Auburn in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose testify and say that I am 55 years of age and have been acquainted with the family of Mrs Elizabeth Herriden of Auburn for more than 30 years past. The tradition in the family and the general reputation is that she was formerly the widow of Joseph Verrill who was a native of Cape Ann Massachusetts and a resident of Cape Ann or some town in the vicinity thereof in the time of that Revolution, that he was said to have been a soldier of the Revolution, that he came to this town after the revolution & married said Elizabeth Davis as she was then known and called about the year 1790 by which marriage there was one child-born, that said Joseph Verrill died about fifty years ago or more, that his widow married a man by the name of Herriden who died about 12 years ago, and that the said Elizabeth Herriden is now a widow. William French
Cumberland ss. January 16 th 1852 Then personally appeared the above named William French known to me as a man of truth and

Made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed before me
Peter Mays Just: Pease

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Probate Office, PORTLAND, January 16, A. D. 1852
I, — Freeman Bradford — REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
— Peter Noyes is an —
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Noyes is dated June 10 A. D. 1848 and will expire June 10 A. D. 1855.
and that the following SIGNATURE b , purporting to be his are
GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the SEAL OFFICIAL of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

I Hannah Bradfords of Auburn in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 87 years and upwards on oath say that I was acquainted many years ago with Joseph Varrell who in the first place came to New Gloucester from Cape Ann or from some place in its vicinity and that he resided in New Gloucester a short time, then removed to Bakerstown now Minot where he died more than fifty years ago. Joseph Varrell married Elizabeth Davis now called Elizabeth Harriden, who resides a short distance from where I now reside and is a widow.
Elizabeth Harriden has lived in this town ever since she was married to said Joseph Varrell. Joseph Varrell died over fifty years ago, and his widow married a man by the name of Harriden who has also been dead several years. I never had a particular acquaintance with said Varrell or with the woman whom he married but knew the man and the woman and saw them frequently while they resided in Minot. I do not have any recollection of hearing said Varrell called a revolutionary soldier while he was living as little or nothing was said about such things at that time, but latterly he was reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier, and

I have no doubt of it as he was old enough to have been a soldier of the revolution. Hannah her Bradford mark Witness, Peter Mayes
Cumberland ss Jan 15-1852. Then personally appeared the above named Hannah Bradford a person of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed.
Before me
Peter Mayes justice of the Peace

I Sarah Verrill of Minot in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on Oath declare and say that I am eighty eight years of age, and upwardly being born 1763 February 18 th , I moved into this town in 1781 I have lived here ever since that time. I knew a man by the name of Joseph Verrill who came from Cape Ann or vicinity, and who married Elizabeth Davis as she was called, who was also a native of Cape Ann, and who came into this town in about the year 1790, as near as I can recollect. Joseph Verrill and Elizabeth lived as man and wife for eight or ten years during which time one child was born to them. Joseph Verrill was then has been dead about fifty years or more, and his widow married a man by the name of Harriden, and she is a widow now living in the town of Auburn as I believe. Joseph Verrill was old enough to have been in the Revolution , but I know nothing particular as to Revolutionary Service. Latterly the name is spelt Verrill but in former times the name was spelt Variel - and my husband always wrote his name Variel. Sarah Verrill
Cumberland ss January 15-1872
Personally appeared Sarah Verrill above named known to me as a person of truth and integrity, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed before me Peter Noyes Justice of the Peace