Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11746, Enoch Wiswell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wiswell, Enoch Jane
R. 11746
CONTENTS
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11.746
P. O. Heirs of Jane Wiswell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr

No. 8204.
Heir of Jane Oswell,
Me:
23 March 1836
11726
act 1836,

STATE OF MAINE.
Cumberland County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Portland within and for said County, on the Sixteenth day of June A. D. 1857, being a Court of Record:
Satisfactory evidence having been offered to the Hon. William G. Barrows Judge of said Court, that the facts hereinafter mentioned are true, the same are ordered to be entered on the Docket of this Court, and the testimony pertaining thereto filed, viz:— Enoch Wiswell formerly of Portland Maine was a soldier in the American Army during the War of the Revolution and died at Portland on Feb 22 1811. Jane Wiswell wife of said Enoch died at Portland in Feb 1837.
Abigail Wood of Portland aged seventy three years, heir at law to said Enoch and Jane Wiswell is the only child of said Enoch and Jane now living.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this Sixteenth day of June 1857.
Aaron B. Holden Register of Probate.
STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Cumberland , ss.
PROBATE OFFICE,
I, William G. Barrows JUDGE OF PROBATE for said County, hereby Certify, that Aaron B. Holden , whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is the REGISTER OF PROBATE for said County, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn: and that his said Certificate is in due form.
Given under my hand this Sixteenth day of June A. D. 1857.
William G. Barrows, Judge

Portland April 16 th 1838.
To,
Hon Commissioner of Pensions -
The undersigned, a resident of Portland in the State of Maine, respectfully represents that she is the only surviving child of Enoch Westwell, formerly of Portland, who was a Revolutionary soldier, as will appear by the certificate herewith enclosed, from the Secretary's Office Commonwealth of Mass - she therefore asks that such pension, and back pay may be granted to her as the Laws of the United States may allow - Any communications upon the subject may be addressed to C. B. Merrill Portland. Me.
Margaret Wood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
May 11 1853.
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 Enoch Wiswell is borne on a roll of Capt. John Lanes Co. stationed at Gloucester from June 16. to Nov. 1. 1775. 4 mos. 25 days includg travel; as private from Falmouth (now Maine).
On Army books. Col. Sprouts Regt. Majors Co. as Co. S. & Sergt. of Falmouth, from Janu. 1. 1777 to Dec. 31. 1780. 4 mos. 30 days as Co. S. 42 mos. as Sergt. Enlisted for during war.
On records of Final settlement certificates No. 15.996. becoming due Janu. 1. 1783 was issued to him in Col. Sprouts Regt.
His heirs, among whom was the within Applicant, received of this State the bounty of $20. granted for the above service, Warrant drawn in their favor May 7. 1822.
A certificate of the Selectmen of Portland of that date certifies that the then applicants were children of Enoch Wiswell, above.

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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.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Abigail Wood of Paris, county of Oxford & State of Maine on oath says that she is the only surviving child of Noah Wiswell late of Portland county of Cumberland deceased; that said Wiswell was a revolutionary soldier, & served in the continental line & in the Massachusetts Militia - that he died some time in February 1811 leaving a widow named Jane Wiswell - that her mother died in 1837 - her mother never obtained her pension & it now descends to said Abigail - her father was in the militia in the vicinity of Portland & she respectfully requests that the Massachusetts rolls may be examined & a certificate given of what service can be found of said Wiswell on the Massachusetts rolls - Paris April 26 th 1853 -                      Abigail Wood
Oxford ss April 26 th 1853
subscribed & sworn to before me
Levi Whitman Justice of the Peace