Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 31,787-160-55, Thomas Weeks, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Weeks, Thomas Ruth
BLWt 31.787-160-552
CONTENTS

162.011. Arch. 3. 3 June 7. 3-3
Civ. W.R.R. Apr. 12/56
Ruth Weeks wid. of Thomas Private
Capt. Joseph Jones Col. Wm Jones Map. Chie.
Col. June 29. 1779 Det. July 16. 1779
Revolutionary War Private Col Jones Map Chie The no papers
Ad. 160 acc June 26/56 (Dodge)
Joseph Weeks Jefferson Maine
bal W=1=94

Patent Office, April 12 th 1852.
Sir:
The bounty land claim of Ruth Weeks, has been examined & suspended.
Evidence must be filed which will clearly identify her husband Thomas Weeks, as the Soldier whose services are described in the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, which is filed in support of her application.
Yours Respectfully, C. H. Klett
✓ Joseph Warren Esq. 452 for Commission. Jefferson. Me:

State of Maine } County of Lincoln } ss
personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the county of Lincoln aforesaid. Mary Waters aged eighty-eight years and of age being duly known according to law declares that she is the sister of the within named Thomas Weeks whose widow has applied for county land and she well remembers that her brother Thomas was detached and served in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain in the company commanded by Capt William Jones in Col William Jones Regiment at Camden in said State and was gone from Maine about twenty days, and she has no doubt that he is the Daniel person named in the contract of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts as there was no other Thomas Weeks in Capt Jones Company nor in the County of Lincoln at that time according to her best knowledge and belief
Her Mary Waters mark
Subscribed and sworn to this fifth day of May 1856
Joseph Weeks justice of the peace

State of Maine } 35 County of Lincoln
Personally appeared before me Winthrop Weeks aged eighty six years and after being duly sworn according law declares that he is the brother of Thomas Weeks the within named deceased that he knows and well remembers that his brother Thomas Weeks was detached and served in the revolutionary war with Great Britain in Capt William James Company in Col William Jones Regiment that he marched to Camden in said State and was gone from home about twenty days, or thereabouts, and no doubt in his mind that he is the identical person as named in the certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts as there was no other Thomas Weeks in said Company according to my best knowledge and belief. and that he is disinterested
Winthrop Weeks
Subscribed and sworn to before me this fifth day of may 1836 Joseph Weeks Justice of the Peace

22 0 State of Maine.
Lincoln, ss.
I, EDMUND B. BOWMAN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Joseph Weeks
whose name is affixed to the annexed papers as a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, was on the day of the date of thereof, legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such; and that the Signatures to the annexed papers purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, this sixth day of May , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
E. B. Bowman CLERK.

State of Maine County of Lincoln ss.
On this Twenty Third day of May A D one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive personally appeared before a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln Ruth Weeks aged ninety one years a resident of the Town of Jefferson in said State of Maine who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thomas Weeks who was a soldier in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Jones in Col William Jones Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain. That he was a drafted soldier and actually served at Camden in said State of Maine from June 24 th to July 16 th 1779 as will appear by the accompanying Certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts and served as a private, and was Honorably discharged at Camden aforesaid, and that her said husband and that her said husband never received any written or printed discharge that can be found, she further states that she was married to the said Thomas Weeks in New Castle in said State of Maine on the 23 rd day of December A D 1785 by one Woodbridge a Justice of the Peace, and that her marriage before her said marriage was that she says that her said husband died at Jefferson aforesaid on the eleventh day of January A D 1846 and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the county land to which she may be entitled under the act aforesaid March 3 rd A D 1855. She further states that she has never received nor applied for county land under this or any

other act, and she prays that her warrant may be sent to Joseph Weeks of the Town of Jefferson in said State of Maine.
Ruth Weeks
We Joseph Weeks and Benjamin Weeks residents of the Town of Jefferson in said State of Maine upon our oaths declared that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledg- ed by Ruth Weeks in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance, and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Joseph Weeks
Benj Weeks
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. George B. Dyer Justice of the Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
Lincoln, ss.
I, EDMUND B. BOWMAN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that George Babb whose name is affixed to the annexed paper as a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, was on the day of the date thereof, legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such; and that the signature to the annexed papers purporting to be his one genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five
E. B. Bowman
Clerk.

Thomas Weeks and Ruth Taylor, Married December 23 d 1785
Thomas Weeks born February 4 th 1762
Ruth Weeks born February 3 d 1764
Thomas Weeks Died January Eleventh A.D. 1846
I Samuel J. Bane Clerk of the Town of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine do hereby certify that I have charge of the marriage records of said Town and the foregoing is a true copy of said records
Attest
Samuel J. Bane (29)
Town Clerk of Jefferson
Subscribed and sworn to on this twentyfourth day of May A.D. 1885 before me and I certify that I know said Samuel J. Bane to be clerk of the Town aforesaid and a credible person.
George Babb Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 17 th 1855
❧ Hereby Certify , That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Chas. Doret , was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
T. M. Wing Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 17 th 1855.
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 Thomas Weeks is borne on pay roll of Capt. Joseph Jones Comp. Col. William Jones Regt. from June 29. to July 16. 1779 17 days as private. Service in Lincoln Co. at Camden
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES,
Made by the Widow  Son of the party who rendered the service.
County of Lincoln State of Maine Town of Jefferson
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Thomas Weeks in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine
He enlisted from the Town of Jefferson then called Bethlehem in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine in the year 1779- as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Jones in Col. William Jones Regiment and he served as follows,* viz:—
* Here describe, as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

I am now 62 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand, this Seventeenth day of May A. D. 1856 Joseph Weeks
Signed by said in my presence,
John D. Root JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

162.011
April 56
Ruth Weeks
and Thomas
Boston
Notice to J.E.
Commissioner of Pensions
Stephen Kepp 9

The Centipeds for the within applications are to be sent to Joseph Weeks of the Town of Jefferson State of Maine County of Lincoln
Joseph Weeks

Rev. Walter L. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

31.787
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Her Amys

Ruth Weeks
Mother of Thomas
# 162,011
31,757-160

Jefferson Sept 25-1858
State of Maine County of Lincoln,
W. B. Hale
Dear Sir, I wish to make a request of you which if you comply will probably be out of the ordinary course of your procedure but is an extreme case which I present, which is as follows, the application of Ruth Weeks widow Thomas who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army with Great Britain, which you will see by referring to the application No 162,011 for County land under the act of March 3-1858. There probably be a long time before term will come, I have represented to you that she is sixty-five years old as will appear by the said application, she lost all the house she had about two years since by fire, and has ever since been living dependent upon her children giving her some to have, and her children are in much circumstances with large families of their own, if Ruth Weeks could have her warrant now she could sell it and get something to help her make a comfortable living in her old age, if you would grant the request and take her case, as all the proof accompanies the application which I obtained from the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, and being a case of a Revolutionary claim, and probably you have not many of any such an extreme case, I thought probably you might consider to examine the case and send her papers by so doing you will confer a great favor on that aged widow.
Yours respectfully
Isaac Weeks

J. Stuart Ely Commissioner of Pensions

State of Maine
County of Lincoln Town of Phippsburg - May 7 - 1836
I Miss Mary Louisa Weeks of Phippsburg do hereby certify that the evidence of Nathaniel Weeks and Mary Waters are persons to me well known and credible persons and their testimony can be relied on for truth and veracity - and that Thomas Weeks whose widow Ruth Weeks has applied for bounty land no doubt is the Daniel person named in the certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts - as I examined the roll of Capt William Jones under whom he served - and there was no other Thomas Weeks on said roll - and I have made diligent enquiry and cannot learn as there was any other Thomas Weeks in the County of Lincoln at that time - I also have heard Thomas Weeks frequently relate the incidents which occurred during the time he served at Camden in the Revolutionary War have heard him say when he was at Camden he went in a barge to Castine then Bogaduce, and the British fired at them and the balls struck the water near them and some of the soldiers were much frightened - The old widow Ruth is very feeble and needy and dependent on her children for support and it is very desirable that she should have her land warrant as soon as possible to help her through the short time she may live
Yours Respectfully Joseph Weeks