Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1341, Jesse Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Whitney, Jesse Charity
N 1341
CONTENTS

5691. Maine
Jesse Whitney Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to George Thacher Esq. Judge Saco. Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $11. \times \frac{2}{3} = 40:53 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:—
63-20 Cumberland $88:53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Continued —
Notification sent to John Murray Jr. Portland Maine July 14. 1820
Saco —

Jesse Whitney
[Faint mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]
Jesse Whitney Private
1 Jan'y '76 1 year Phinnery 77. 3 years, under Capt Maybury, Francis reg. Massachusetts line
Adm?

I Jesse Whitney of Saco in the County of York and State of Massachusetts of sixty one Years of Age do testify and declare that I was a private soldier in the American Revolutionary War and served as follows. viz. first I enlisted for one Year from Jan'y 1 st 1776. under Capt. Hart Williams in the Regiment commanded by Col n Edmund Finner in the Massachusetts Line and Continental Establishment and served out the term and was discharged at Fort George 1777. I then enlisted for the term of three Years under Capt. Richard Mabery in the Regiment commanded by Col n Francis his Christian name I have forgotten in the Massachusetts Line and Continental establishment and served out the full term and was discharged at West Point, I had a written discharge which I have since lost. and am a resident citizen of the United States and have never had a pension from the United States. Jesse Whitney
April 3. 1818
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Is This third day of April 1818. The above named Jesse Whitney personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed { One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - ss Be it known that on the third day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts personally appeared Jesse Whitney of Saco County of York & Commonwealth aforesaid aged sixty four years. who being sworn according to law made oath to the truth of the declaration by him subscribed on the other side of this leaf 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 revolu- tionary war. From which Declaration thus signed sworn to as aforesaid together with the affidavit of Stephen Bryant also sworn to before me as appears on the right hand page of this paper.
George Thatcher Justice as aforesaid Do hereby certify that it appears to my satis- faction that the said Jesse Whitney did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in his said Declaration against the Com- mon enemy - And that he is in named circumstances & circumstances in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the afore- said Act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this thirtieth day of May In the Year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen
George Thatcher

I Stephen Bryant of Lancaster are truly and say that I have heard the declaration of George Whitney and know it to be true as I was in the room at the time & saw him and Whitney there several times and that he has no property to support him and is in need of assistance from his country Stephen Bryant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss - April 3. 1818. The above named Stephen Bryant personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him sub- scribed.
George Thaxter { One of the Justices of the S. J. C. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

200 Jesse Whitney
Copy
Special Dist. Court
July 1 st A.D. 1820
York County
Contin d
5891
23 Jany 1889
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the eighth — day of June — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this eighth — day of June — in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having “the power of fine and imprisonment,” and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Jesse Whitney — aged sixty three — years, resident in Saco — in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revo- lutionary War as follows, viz. as a Private — in the company commanded by Capt. Mayberry — in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Francis & Suffer in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 3 d day of April — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pen- sion, numbered 5591 — was granted. And 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Jesse Whitney
Sworn to and declared, on the eighth day of June A. D. 1820. }
Before
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — none
Personal estate — One cow — a few articles necessary in the house — I have no income but have received assistance from friends
Jesse Whitney
Sworn to Before
Albion H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Jesse Whitney . . . . . who, by occupation am a Sawyer. . . which I am not able to pursue by reason of sickness
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife Prarity 30 been sick two months   Oliver — 13   Eliza — 10 children unable to   Mary — 4 support themselves   Susan — 1    Jesse Whitney  Sworn to Before  Albion H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge

United States of America District of Maine ss
At a Special District Court begun & holden at Saco, within the County of York, in said District on the first day of July A.D. 1820. - before the Hon. Almon K. Parris, Judge of said Court.
And now the original declaration & schedules whereof the foregoing are true copies having been here presented in Open Court and duly considered & fully examined, It is here now considered and adjudged in Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is twenty five dollars and no more. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this first day of July A.D. 1820.
John Mussey Junr U.S. Dist. Clerk
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the 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 twenty five - dollars and no more cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth . . . day of June . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$25-

Henry Whitney and Isaac Whitney served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private Massachusetts Line
scribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1848. 3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July 1853 and sent to
E. V. Loring Paco Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act January 2, 1848, Page 11 Vol. 4 February 1853

State of Maine County of York } ss
On this eleventh day of March A.D. one thou- -sand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me, Moses Emery a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Charity Whitney aged seventy one years, a resident of Biddeford in said County and State, who being duly sworn, according to law declares, that she is the widow of Jesse Whitney late of Saco in said County deceased, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, a private she thinks, and received a pension for his services in said War of Eight dollars per month under the act of Congress of the 18th of March A.D. 1818 she thinks. She says that her said husband was a resident of Saco (she thinks) when he entered the service as she has been informed thereunder, - that he was a volunteer enlisted she believes, that the times of his entering the service and of his discharge, the company & regiment in which he served, the names of his captain & colonel and the other particulars of his said service are not fully remembered by her, but are fully set forth in his declaration and accompanying documents on which said pension was allowed him; now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, to which Declaration and Documents she asks leave to

refer and pray that they may be regarded as a part of this declaration.
She further says, that she was married to the said Jesse Whitney at Biddeford aforesaid on the sixteenth day of July A.D. 1817 by one Jeremiah Dill a justice of the Peace; - that her husband the aforesaid Jesse Whitney died at Saco on the nineteenth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, - that she has not his pension certificate in her possession, and believes it was given up to the Pension agent in Portland, when the allowances of his pension were drawn after his death. She further says, that she is now a widow and that she has since before made application for a pension, and that she is unable by reason of bodily in- firmity to attend court or to appear before any judge or justice of a court of record to make her declaration. None living within many miles of her.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act passed February 3d 1850, and of the acts of Congress previously passed for the benefit of widows of officers and soldiers of the war of the Revolution.
Attest - Wm H Claves Jesse Whitney
Charity H Whitney mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Moses Emery Justice of the Peace.

Extract from the Town Records of Biddeford
"Return of all marriages solemnized by me
the year past viz.
1817 July 18 } Jesse Whitney of Saco & } Charity Norwell of Biddeford
A true extract of Record April 30 th 1844
Jerrell Hall Justice Peace
True Entry, Attest Edmund Coffin. Town Clerk
I Frederic D. Edgerly of Biddeford in the State of Maine do hereby declare, that I am Town Clerk of said Biddeford and as such have the books and records of said Town in my possession and keeping. I further say, that the above is a true copy of the record of the marriage of said Jesse and Charity taken from said books, by me
Frederick D. Edgerly Town Clerk
State of Maine, County of York, ss. March 15 th A.D. 1853. Subscribed & sworn to by the above named Frederic D. Edgerly.
Before me, Moses Gurney Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine. County of Cumberland. ss.
March 31 st 1853
I. George F. Emery, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States, for Maine District
Certify that Mons Emery Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of York, in said State, duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates, purporting to be his are genuine.
Geo. F. Emery } Clerk Circuit Court } at S. for } Maine District
S. V. Loring. Agent. } } } Saco. Maine }

I John D. Scammon of Bangor in the State of Maine on oath declare, That I was well acquainted with Jesse Whitney named in the foregoing annexed declaration, that he was the identical Jesse Whitney, who drew a pension for military services in the War of the Revolution, that I and my partner for some time had his pension certificate in our possession for several years and as his agents drew his pension for him by virtue of the same certificate, that said Jesse Whitney died many years ago, and that the declarant Charity Whitney was his wife, and is still a widow.
March 30
John D. Scammon
State of Maine County of York ss. March 30th A.D. 1853, Then personally appeared before me, The Rev. John D. Scammon and subscribed the above affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same. And I certify that the affiant is a disinterested and credible witness.
Moses Emery
Justice of the Peace.

I Richworth Jordan of Saco in the State of Maine do hereby declare that I am and have been for many years well acquainted with the declarant, and was acquainted with her husband, the said Jesse Whitney, deceased. He died many years ago and was a pensioner, and she is still a widow. . . . . Richworth Jordan Attest. S. V. Loring, Nedim Pease.
State of Maine, County of York } ss. March 30th A.D. 1853. Then personally appeared before me, Richworth Jordan and subscribed the above affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same. And I certify that the said affidavit is a disinterested and credible witness.
Moses Gove Justice of the Peace.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & H. Div. F. S. M. R. C.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 4, 1895.
Sir:-
Referring to your communication of March 27th requesting additional information relative to one Jesse Whitney, whose military history during the Revolutionary war has already been supplied you by this Bureau, you are advised that in his application for pension he made the following statement relative to his services, etc.
"I, Jesse Whitney of Saco in the County of York and State of Massachusetts of Sixty one Years of Age do testify and declare that I was a private soldier in the American Revolutionary War as served as follows, viz. First I enlisted for one Year from Jany. 1st 1776, under Capt. Hart Williams in the Regiment commanded by Coln. Edmund Finney in the Massachusetts Line and Continental establishment and served out the term and was discharged at Fort George 1777. I then enlisted for the term of three years under Capt. Richard Habery in the Regiment commanded by Coln. Frances his christian name I have forgotten in the Massachusetts Line and continental establishment and served out the full term and was discharged at West Point. I had a written discharge which I have

since lost, and am a resident citizen of the United States and have never had a Pension from the United States."
It may be seen from the above that no reference is made to his ancestors and the date and place of his birth. The date of his marriage, and to whom, has already been supplied you. The marriage ceremony was performed at Biddeford, Maine (the bride's place of residence) by one Jeremiah Hill, a Justice of the Peace. The soldier died at Saco, Maine, January 17, 1832.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. A. M. Dyer,
Hastings on the Hudson,
New York.

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
F. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
M.H.C.
Washington, D. C., March 1, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Jesse Whitney --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. Jan. 1776 1 yr. Pvt. Hart Williams Phinney Mass. Jan. 1777 3 yrs. Pvt. Richard Mayberry Francis Mass.
Battles engaged in, None mentioned. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Gorham, or Saco, Maine. Date of application for pension, April 3, 1818. Residence at date of application, Saco, Maine. Age at date of application, 61 years.
Remarks: He married Charity Nowell July 16, 1817, and died January 17, 1832.
Very respectfully,
A. M. Dyer, Esq., Hastings on the Hudson, New York.
1004b1m
Commissioner.

N o 790 Charity Whitney widow of Jesse. Maine
Set to S. V. Loving 2 o June
Act Heby 8/03

Indian River Washington 9.2

App. of Charity Whitney widow of Isaac - York Co: Maine
m. 19
Act 3rd Febry 1853 of 96th Per Conn commencing Feb 3rd 1853. Maine.
S. 19. Loring Saco Maine.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

FREE
[Large, stylized signature, possibly "J. H. [illegible]"]
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

1341
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(3-469.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Application No. _____
Certificate No. _____
NAME OF SOLDIER,
Jesse Whitney Co. Mass Levine
INFORMATION DESIRED.
Rev. war
Alegapoo

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
1341
Charity Whitney, Widow.
Jesse Whitney, Prison. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:—Vol.
32
Page
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Return of Marriage solemnized by Rev. Hill. Justice of the Peace.
" 1817 }
July. 16 S.
" Jesse Whitney of Saco and Charity Nowell of Biddeford "
A true copy: from the records of the Town of Biddeford.
Attest: Fred. D. Edgerly Town Clerk

Brief in the case of Charity Whitney, widow of Jesse, York County and State of Maine, act 3 d Feby; 1853,
Claim, ("original," on "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner, under the act of 18 th March, 1818, & Cont d . Record evidence of marriage,
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
J. V. Loring Esq., Baco, Maine, Name and residence of Agent
S. C. Bayntun Examining Clerk.

Harlings on Hudson
Feb 22 95
Chas. P. Bureau
Dear Sir:
I wrote some time ago concerning the pension application of Jesse Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier on the Massachusetts line Residence Saco, Maine who drew a pension of $8 a month for many years, but have had no reply. Can I have a memorandum on the papers on file in the department in his case?
Sincerely,
A. M. Dyer

EMM
at
1341
Hastings on Hudson
7.95
Comm. v Pensions
Dear Sir:—
Can you supply
me with a memorandum of the Revolutionary pension application papers of Jesse Whitney entitled Jan 1 1776 Col E. Phinney Regiment Captain Hart Williams Company at York County Maine. Recruited Jan. 1777 Col. Francis Regiment captain Richard Maybury's Company. was discharged at West Point Jan 1780. Also, what the cost of

copies & sketches papers now
Sincerely
A. H. Dyer

Atkins or Hudson
Compt. of Pensions.
Dear Sir:
Referring to your
kind answer to my inquiry dated March 1. in relation to the Revolutionary War pension of Tracy Whitney of York County Maine whose application dated April 3. 1818 you have on record I respectfully ask if it is not inconsistent with the rules of the department that I may have a copy of the said application If this can be

W.H. ...
your check for cost of copying on receipt & memorandum of the rules of the department do not permit such copy to be made I shall be obliged to you for a word in what effect
Yours Sincerely A. H. Dyer

Comm d Pensions Washington.
March 27 Dr Sir:
Further in regard to the matter referred to in yrs of March 19 in reply to my inquiry of March 5 herewith enclosed. The information I seek which I presume is to be found in the papers of Jesse Whitney of Maine, is the reference he may make in his application for a pension to his family history, his ancestors, birth place, day and date of birth, marriage, and so forth. Also what mention is made of his service other than the company, regiment, date of enlistment and discharge and names of commanders. If it is consistent with the rules of the department to make known these

particulars or to state whether or not such particulars appear in the papers. I shall be glad to have you furnish me with a statement thereof. I am a great grandson of Jesse Whitney and I want these facts for the information of members of my family and for no other purpose.
I notice you say the rules in regard to papers being copied were made because the pursuing of copies interferes with the work of the bureau. Do the rules prohibit the inspection of papers by the public. Or could I employ a copyist to go there and make a transcript.
Sincerely
A. M. Dyer

Pension Office, 27 th June. 1853.
Sir,
Sepe Whitney, was inscribed as a private, in the War of the Revolution, upon the Maine roll. Pensioned under the the Act of 18 th March. 1818. at the rate of $96. 00 / 12 per Annum. Pray to inform me to what time he was paid.
I am the honor to be, Sir Respectfully your Ht. Servt. J. Cole for the Commissioner,
Died the 19 th January 1832, Paid to death. F. Burch Auditor.
Thomas Gust. Eng. their Auditor of the Treasury,

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd Section of the act of 3d February 1853 State of Maine Cumberland County } ss
On this twenty first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the County & State aforesaid, being a Court of Record of said State, Charity Whitney a resident of Biddeford in the County of York in the State aforesaid aged seventy one years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Jesse Whitney who was a private in the army of the Revolution on the continental establishment and enlisted at Gorham in said County of Cumberland, or at Saco in said County of York, served out the term of his enlistment being, as she believes, more than two years, was honorably discharged from the service, and afterwards received a pension for such service under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, which he drew semi-annually at the Portland (Maine) Agency, being ninety six dollars per year, until his death. She further says that the time when her said husband entered and left the service, and the rank and names of the officers under whom he served are unknown to her, but are as she believes fully set forth in the application on which said pension was granted to him on file in the Pension Office at Washington, to which application, and the papers and proofs which accompanied the same, and also to the proofs accompanying her declaration named in the annexed letter from the Commissioner of Pensions,

She respectfully refers for the particulars and the evidence of her present claim.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Whitney on the sixteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and that her said husband died at Saco aforesaid on the seventeenth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty two, that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, she further declares that she is now a widow.
Attest J. Pierce
Charity
her Whitney mark.
Signed and sworn to in open Court, Before me
Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, ss.
OFFICE OF THE COURT OF PROBATE.
I, Freeman Bradford Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify, that Hon. Josiah Pierce whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificate, is JUDGE OF PROBATE, in and for said County and State, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of said State, that the annexed signature purporting to be his, is genuine, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given, to his official acts and attestations.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Official Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this twenty fifth day of June A. D. 1853
Freeman Bradford Reg

Com. of Pensions - Charity Whitney.
June 2, 1853 -

Pension Office 2 June 1853.
Sir.
The rules of this Office require that the declaration of a claimant for a pension under the 2 d Section of the Act of 3 rd March 1853, should be made "before a court of record". If the declaration is unable to appear in open court her declaration must be made before a judge or justice of a court of record & such judge or justice of the court must certify that from bodily infirmity the claimant is unable to appear in open court.
The declaration of Mrs Charity Whitney who claims a pension as the widow of Jesse Whitney not being in accordance with this rule her claim is necessarily suspended.
Very Respectfully
Stearns Commissioner
S. W. Loving Esq Dear Madam