Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,014, Joseph White, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
White Joseph Jane
N. 26014
B.L.Wt. 19818-160-55
CONTENTS

3190
Maine
✓ (406)
Joseph White
of Syman in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Fanning of the Reg't commanded by Col Benner in the N York time for 9 Mo —
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Dec 1832 and sent to B — Palmer Kennebec Me
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 45 Pension allowance ending Feb 1833 — 15
$ 60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Erast D. Bullock Clerk, D Vol. 1 st Page 101 —

Joseph White
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of February next, in Portland, at the
Cumberland Bank
Andrew

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Joseph White late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 9 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and Twenty
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 21 st day of
June one thousand eight hundred and Twenty
J. L. Edmards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
May 5, 1829.
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. Joseph White Care of B. Palmer Esq Kennebec, Me.

Joseph White
No - 98
admiral
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B Palmer

Maine District
Special District Court of the U. States
Shennebec August 7. 1832
I Joseph White a resident of Lyman in the county and state of Maine testify and declare, that I entered into the continental service, about the fourth of Jan 1778 in James Dorrings company, in Col. Duncans Regt for the term of nine months, at Fishkill, in the state of New York, and was placed on the pension list, of the United States, of the state of Maine agency, under the law of Congress, of the 18 th of March, 1818 - but have been stricken therefrom on account of property. My services, in said Regiment, are more fully set forth in my original application, for a pension under said law, I resided at Lyman, in said county of York, when I now reside, at the time my said application was made. I applied to be restored to the pension list, under the last construction, which Genl Porter, gave to the pension law in the year 1829 - but was not successful. I had a written discharge from the service, at the time I left the army which discharge, was sent to the war Department when I first applied to be placed on the pension list.
Joseph White
Signed & sworn to in open court to day & same attested before
John W. Moore
Judge of the U. S. for the Dist. of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states
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 said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph White for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this seventh day of August 1832
John Nussey Clerk

Joseph White's Application for Pension.
$650- not entitled Sep 19

State of Maine.
County of York, ss.
ON this 12 th day of February 1829 in open Court, being the Court of common Pleas held at Alfred within and for the County of York on the seventh Tuesday of February A. D. 1829 Present the Hon. Ebenezer Whitman Justice of said Court; said Court keeping a record of their proceedings, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having the power to fine and imprison, and being a Court of Record in said county, personally appeared Joseph White of Lyman resident in said county aged seventy years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Joseph White enlisted for the term of Nine months about the first of May in the year 1778 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by captain James Merrill in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the _____ Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps until the fourth day of March when he was discharged from the said service, in West-Point in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 ; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner 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 18th day of March 1818 ; 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.
Joseph White

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
I have about sixty acres of Land in Lyman exceedingly poor & much covered with rocks. I have an old one-story house and old Barn standing on the land both much out of repair and the house never fully furnished. I have two cows and one heifer and one Yoke of small oxen. I have also an old horse worth but little or nothing, and no other property.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Joseph White who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of old age and infirmities
Joseph White
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Myself 70 Much infirmity age   Same My Wife 50 Good health  
THAT since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
No essential difference in my property since my first schedule was exhibited only that my buildings, fences & more out of repair by age and I have no help to assist me in repairing and keeping them in order.
SWORN to and declared on the twelfth day of February 1829 before
Ezkiel Whitman
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Joseph White did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said 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 is six hundred & fifty dollars and the income thereof  thereof thirty nine dollars & no more yearly
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this second day of May 1829
Jere. Bradbury CLERK of the C.C.P.

5320
Maine - Jane White - widow of Joseph White NY who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 35 dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 2 d day of July 1853 and sent to
Arthur McArthur Lewington Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 171

State of Maine. County of York ss.
On this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1855 Joshua Hubbard personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County who on oath said that he is town Clerk of the Town of Wells, the current year duly chosen & qualified to act as such, that he has the care and custody of the Books of Records of said town which is recorded the records of Marriages; that he has examined the said books and finds the record of the Marriage of Capt. Joseph White of Lyman & Miss Jane Littlefield of Wells, by Jonathan Greenleaf Pastor of the 1 st Chh. in Wells, On the eighth day of Sept A.D. One thousand eight hundred & eighteen in words and figures as follows to wit. Sept 8 th 1818. Capt. Joseph White of Lyman & Miss Jane Littlefield of Wells.
Wells May 16 th 1855.
Attest, Joshua Hubbard } Town Clerk of said town of Wells.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above stated, & I hereby certify that the said Joshua Hubbard is a person known to me, & is entitled to credit and in my belief has testified truly.
Samuel Mildram
} Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
County of York, ss.
I, Francis Paxon Register of the Court of Probate for said County, hereby certify that, at a Court of Probate held at Kennebec within and for said County, on the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty forty six. John Roberts of Lyman in said County, was appointed
Guardian of Jane White of said Lyman, an insane person.
and gave bond to the acceptance of the Judge of said Court, for the faithful performance of said trust according to law.
I do further certify that it appears by the Records and Files in the Probate Office of said County of York, that said appointment remains in full force, and in no wise revoked, reversed or annulled.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at the Probate Office aforesaid, this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five ,
Francis Paxon
Register as aforesaid.

STATE OF MAINE. COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
Court of Probate, Term, A. D. 1855.
May day of May
BE IT KNOWN, That on this eleventh day of May A. D. 1855, it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Joseph White
late of Lyman in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that he died at said Lyman on the first day of January A. D. 1844. and that
he was the late husband of Jane White of said Lyman who is applicant for a pension. in the proof of which facts, as offered to said Court, being contained in the paper hereto annexed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty five.
Francis Dacour
Register of the Court of Probate, York County.

We John L. Smith & Bradford Raymond both resi- dents of Lyman in the county of York & State of Maine depose testify and say that we were well acquainted with Joseph White late of said Lyman deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and was the late husband of Jane White of said Lyman who is applicant for a pension & that said Joseph White died at said Lyman on the first day of January A D 1844 that we were present at his house on the day of his death. Witnesses John Raymond                      Bradford Raymond Japhet Hill                                          John L. Smith
State of Maine
York County ss: On this Eleventh day of May A D 1858 personally appeared John L. Smith and Bradford Raymond above named who are to me well known and who are credible & respectable witnesses and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by them subscribed before me and I certify that I am not interested in the pension claim of the said Jane White for which this depo- sition was taken nor am I concerned in its prosecution.
Simon Roberts Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
York County ss: Probate Court May Term A D 1855.
On this seventh day of May A D 1855 before me Joseph T. Dye Judge of the Probate Court within and for the county of York in the State of Maine being a court of record in open court personally appeared John Roberts aged fifty five years a resident of Lyman in the county of York & State of Maine guardian of Jane White a resident of Lyman aforesaid aged seventy five years & who is an insane person and under the said John Roberts guardianship by the appointment of the Judge of Probate for said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed February 3 d 1853 giving pensions to certain widows; That the said Jane White is the widow of Joseph White late of Lyman in the county of York aforesaid deceased who was a revolutionary soldier and pensioned & served as set forth in his original declaration to obtain a pension under Act 7 June 1832 & under which Act he was pensioned at the rate of thirty dollars per annum and was paid at the pension agency at Portland in the State of Maine, that he served as a private in the Massachusetts Continental line and that

he performed as your declarant testified often services in said revolutionary war in the army and in the Navy for which he was never pensioned
He further declares in behalf of said Jane White that the said Jane White was married to the said Joseph White on the eighth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen. That her name before her said marriage was Jane Hilliard and that her said husband Joseph White died at said Lynden on the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred & forty four and that she is now a widow - And that the said John Roberts guardian of said Jane Roberts hereby appoints Arthur M. Allen of Limington, Maine, his attorney to prosecute the aforesaid claim for a pension & to receive any pension certificate which may issue on the aforesaid application.
Witness
John Roberts
Horace Bodwell
Alex d Dennett
Sworn to, subscribed & acknowledged before me on the day and year first above written Joseph T. Nye - Judge

State of Maine County of York ss.
I, Francis Paine, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, hereby certify that Joseph P. Nye is Judge of said Court of Probate, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated March 29, A.D. 1854, and will expire March 29 A.D. 1861. and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Francis Paine. Register as aforesaid.

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
Alfred,
May 29
A. D. 18 55
} }
I, James O. McIntire,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
In and for said COUNTY OF YORK, certify that
Samuel M. Dithmars is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for
the County of
York
as appears by
the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his Commission is dated
May 2
May 2
A. D. 18 57
A. D. 18 50 and will expire
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.
James O. McIntire
Clerk.

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Arthur Mc Arthur Farmington

State of Maine } County of York } ss On this seventh day of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County & State aforesaid John Roberts aged fifty five years a resident of Lyman in the State of Maine & guardian of Jane White of said Lyman an insane person & widow of Joseph White deceased aged seventy five years who being sworn and pledging to law on oath declares that the said Jane White is the widow of Joseph White late of Lyman in the County of York deceased & who was a private in the Massa- chusetts line & served over fourteen days in the Revolutionary war & served as set forth in his original declaration to obtain a pension under act of 7 June 1832 and under which he was pensioned for the sum of thirty dollars per annum and paid at the Patent Maine agency as will appear by his said declaration on file in Pension office He further states that she was said Jane White was married to the said Joseph White at Wells in

the State of Maine on the eighth day of September A.D. 1818 by one Jonathan Greenleaf a congregational clergyman that her name before her said marriage was Jane Littlefield; that her said husband died Lyman, Maine, on the first day of January A.D. 1844 and that she is now a widow.
He makes this declaration in behalf of said Jane White and as her guardian for the purpose of obtaining the County Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3 1855. and he hereby appoints William M. Fitts Esquire of Farmington, Maine his attorney in the premises to prosecute the claim and obtain for the benefit of the claimant any County Land warrant to which she may be entitled when the same may issue.
John Roberts
We, Alexander Durnett & Charles D. Staples, residents of Saco, Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above-mentioned John Roberts in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be & that said Jane White is now a widow.
Alex d Durnett Chas D. Staples
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year first above written and certify that I know the affidavits to be true and correct in form and that the above-mentioned claimant to the interest herein he represents himself to be that I have no interest in this claim. Stillman B Allen, Justice of the Peace

The Certificate of John Roberts guardianship of Jane White is filed in his application for Revolutionary Pension his declaration taken and in equal time with the premises.

State of Maine.
YORK, SS.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
Alfred,
May 29.
A. D. 18 55 }
I, James O. McIntire,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
In and for said COUNTY OF YORK, certify that
William P. Allen is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for
the County of
York
as appears by
the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his Commission is dated
January 20
A. D. 18 59.
A. D. 18 52 and will expire
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be
his
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.
James O. McIntire
Clerk.

Joseph White M.F 26014 Mass.
J. White

West Point March 4. th 1877,
This may certify that Joseph White a nine months man, who serv'd in Capt. Ja. Donnell's company; did not draw any Blanket, while in said company,
Sim d Remick, Lieut.
To whom it may concern,

West Point March 24 th 1779 John Reswell John Wentworth and Joseph White are Discharg'd the Service of the United States and are Permitted to Return to their place of residence in Massachusetts
Colonel General May Issuing commissaries will supply them with provisions on their way
By order of Genl. Paterson
E. M c KELL M c D

They Within Men are saved with Provision up for 7 Int. Sould. For B. Ballard M.C. West Point Mar 4. 1779 } Rev. Mearns
Joseph White's Discharge
Joseph White. W.F. 26014 Mass

Free
158345- June 4
Loren P. Waldo Esq. Comm r . of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Bounty Land -at 3 March 1855

Ph: Oct 153. me:
R. P. G.

Pen Off. June 26 1853
Sir
Please inform me when Joseph White of Me. act 32 at $30 a year was last paid.
Very Respectful G. Cole Chf Clerk
R. D. Atkinson Esq 3rd Auditor
19 May 44
Duplett

Joseph White died 1 January 1841 paid in full
Robert Johnson
Executor
June 28/55

me Jane White wid Joseph
12/18/33 Loren P. Waldo Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.
Free
Revolutionary Pension

✓ 19.818
5 (Mrs. A. A. A.)

Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26014
Jane White wid. of Joseph White Prin. Rev. nat.
Act Feb. 3 rd 1855.
Index: Vol. W , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6758 Jane White wid: of Joseph.
A. McAlpin junr. 8/15 53.
Oct 15 53

12.080 R
Maine Joseph White
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a _____ in the regiment commanded by Colonel _____ of the _____ line, for the term of 9 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1817
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of June 17 and sent to Rev. Thacher Biddeford, Maine
Arrears to 4th of July 1817 Semi-annual acct ending _____ 1/24  38.93 1/30  38.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
$650 Discontinued
Specification sent to Barnabas Palmer Esq. Tennant Maine, 5 May 1819.

Nathan Edwards W. Nathan Bradford Rayman J. S. Smith
20 Jany 1/8241
John Roberts, guardian of Jane White

Sir,
Gimington June 20 1855
I herewith forward you the additional evidence required to be filed in the Revolutionary Pension case of Guardian of Jane White widow of Joseph by your letter of June 5 1855.
Hon. Lorin P. Water, Com r . of Pensions Washington D.C.
I am very respectfully Your O b t serv t
Arthur M. Arthur

Ginnington June 1 st 1855
Sir,
I herewith forward you papers in the case of John Roberts Guardian of Jane White widow of Joseph White deceased. for Revolutionary Pension
I am very respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t Loren P. Waldo Esq r Comm ee of Pensions Washington D.C.
Arthur M c Arthur

Brief in the case of Jane White widow of
County and State of Maine
act 3 rd July 1853
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7/1833 at $30 a year (service proved in his papers)
Record of marriage
Her identity as the widow of the pensioner, his death at the present
(If for increase.)  Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
widowhood proved by Nathan D. Dorr, Nathaniel Bradford Ray, man of J. H. Merrill proof certified
Name and residence of Agent Arthur McClellan Esq Lewiston Me
Thornton Ripley Examining Clerk.

Jane White Widow of Joseph Maine
adm d . Feby 3 1833
9 m th pri $30.
per annum from
3 rd Feby 1833
Cert to Arthur M c Arthur Esq r Lemington, Maine

Livingston March 1 1855.
Sir,
I herewith forward you the application of John Roberts Guardian of Jane White widow of Joseph White deceased for Bounty Land under Act 3. March 1855.
The copy of Certificate of his appointment as guardian is filed in her application for Revolutionary Pension under Act 3 Feb 1853 sent to the Pension Office simultaneously with the inclosed.
Loam P. Waldo Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.
I am very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t . Arthur M'Arthur

Additional evidence in the Revolutionary Pension case Guardian of Jane White widow of Joseph White

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court, Alfred, June 16. A. D. 18 55 }
I, James O. McIntire,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT,
In and for said COUNTY OF YORK, certify that
Joshua H. Nickols is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of York as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his Commis- sion is dated February 21 A. D. 18 55 and will expire
February 21. A. D. 18 62
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.
James O. McIntire Clerk.

We Nathan Edwands of Lyman, and William J. Witham of Alfred, and both in the County of York & State of Maine, said Edwands of the age of forty six years and said Witham aged forty years, dispose, testify & say that we were acquainted with Joseph White late of Lyman deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner and are acquainted with Jane White his widow who survived him and has ever since remained his widow and is now unmarried.
Witnesses George S Herrick
Nathan Edwands Wm J. Witham
Hannah F. Herrick
State of Maine. York County, S.S. On this fifteenth day of June, A.D. 1855, personally appeared Nathan Edwands and William J. Witham to me personally known and who sustain a good character for truth and veracity, and are two credible & disinterested witnesses, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by them in my presence subscribed, and in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses, and I certify that I have no interest in the pension claim for which said deposition was taken nor am I concerned in its prosecution.
Before me, Joshua Herrick Justice of the Peace

Joseph White-
Joseph White private Col Brewers Regiment Massachusetts Line 1778-9 months
Correct by Roll admitted

I Joseph White of Lyndon in the County of York & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, & a citizen of the same, aged fifty nine years, declare & say I engaged in the month of at Alfred County, aforesaid may 1778 I engaged to serve in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War for the term of nine months from the time I joined the army, & then was marched to Fish-kill, & was turned into Captain James Donnell's Company of Col. Mearns Regiment & Patterson Brigade of the Massachusetts Line. I continued to serve till my time expired on the fourth day of March 1779, & I received an honorable discharge which is hereto annexed. I further declare that I have no pension & am in such reduced circumstances that I stand in need of assistance from my country for my support - 9 April 1819 Joseph White
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, Before me George Thatcher one of the Justices of Supreme J. Court within & for the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared the above named Joseph White & in my presence subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him made in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the late Revolutionary war; and it appears to my satisfaction from the said declaration & the discharge hereto annexed that the aforesaid Joseph White served for the term of more than nine months viz. from the month of May 1778 to the fourth day of March 1779 in the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment against the common enemy. And it also appears to my satis-

fact that the said Joseph White is in such reduced circumstances, that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
And I hereby certify the testimony and proceedings in the case to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the abovementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, & hereunto set my hand this ninth day of April 1819—
George Barker