Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31475, Zebulun Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
★ Whitney, Gebuhr
NUMBER
S-31475
CONTENTS

18.223 Maine
Zebediah Whitney of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Parkin of the 1st Regt, commanded by Col. W. Adams in the Mass. Militia line for 14 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 22 Dollars 09 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of July 1833 and sent to Munjoy Portland
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $44.18 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 1833 - 11.04
$55.22
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 64

31475 Ray INVALID.
File No. 31475
Zebulon Whitney Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1821
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 449
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Zebulon Whitney
1816/70.
6 mos 19 days
22.08
J. D. D. Esq.
Portland
M t

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Gorham Portland , within and for said District, on the thirty first day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this thirty first day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Lebulun Whitney a resident of Gorham in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged eighty four 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 7th, 1832. That he
was a private in a company commanded by Capt. Parker in Col. Wade's Regiment of the Massachusetts' State troops; that he enlisted in said company in the month of June 1778. and was marched to Rhode Island; and was in the service for the term of six months, being the term for which he enlisted, and that he was then discharged, and returned to his home at said Gorham, where I have ever since resided. That the company in which he enlisted was, the latter part of said term, commanded by Capt. Lement. I was born in York in this State - my birth is recorded at said York. I resided at Gorham at the time I enlisted & have resided in said Gorham ever since the Revolutionary War. I did not receive a written discharge -
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Lebulun Whitney
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states And that Isaac Chase whose deposition is annexed is a person of veracity & worthy of credit
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Deborah Whitney for a pension. And that Josiah Pierce Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Isaac Chase is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Isaac Chase of Standish in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, aged seventy-five years do testify and say that in the year A.D. 1778 I was a private in a company of Massachusetts State troops commanded by Capt. Parker, at first, & afterwards commanded by Capt. Lemont in Col. ... Wadsworth's Regiment that I was marched to Rhode Island, and was in that service six months, being enlisted in July 1778, & discharged in January A.D. 1779 - and I farther testify & say that I then knew Zebulon Whitney of Gorham, who was also a private in the same company & Regiment that I was, that the said Whitney was out in the service at that time six months, being enlisted & discharged the same time I was and I farther testify and say that I have this day seen the said Zebulon Whitney and know him to be the same Zebulon Whitney that was with me in the Revolutionary army in the year A.D. 1778 - Isaac Chase Gorham July 26. 1832.
Cumberland ss. July 26. 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Isaac Chase and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true - before me
Josiah Paine Justice of the Peace.

Maine District
District Clerk's Office May 28. 1833
In testimony that Goriah Pierce is a Magistrate as within & that the signatures to the within purporting to be his are genuine I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the dayd year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts
June Chase Vermont

Leb. Whitney.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 13 th , 1833.
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 Debulon Whitney's name is borne on a Roll having served under Captain Benj. Lement in Colonel Nathaniel Wade's Reg. t from June 25 1778, and was allowed Six months & nineteen days, (including time for Travel) for service done at Rhode Island.
Edward D. Bangs Secy