Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,949, Obadiah Wetherell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Wetherell, Obadiah Witherell "or" Obediah
S. 28.949
CONTENTS

142 Maine
let to Hon. C. Sawtelle Dec 12 '46
Obediah Witherell
Wormagawick in the State of Maine who was a Quint in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Packson in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 yrs from the year 1777 to the year 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of $ 320 Dollars per month  annum , to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of Aug. 1832 and sent to the claimant Wormagawick Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1832  320. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1832  160
$ 480
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
June 7 1832.
Recorded Book D- Vol. 1. page 101

O Withnell app d for Pension

Declaration of Obadiah Witherell of Norridgewock
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of Maine County of Somerset ss. On this ninth day of July 1832, personally appeared before me William Allen Esq. a Justice of the Peace for the county of Somerset of Obadiah Witherell a resident of Norridgewock in said county who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he is the identical person who served first as Ensign and then as Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war in the company commanded first by Capt Benjamin Brown and then by Capt Thomas Hails of the Regiment commanded by Col. Micah Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts, upon the Continental establishment more than two years and that he had previously served as Ensign in Capt. Patch's company in Col. Pheasant's Regiment more than one year; in the States troops belonging to Massachu- setts; that he was born in Temple in 1747 and is now Eighty five years old; that he enlisted into the service first at Cambridge in Massachusetts 1775 and remained in the service till September 1780 and was then discharged near Fort Lee in the State of New York; that he received a pension under the act of March 18, 1818, but his name was dropped from the pension roll in 1820 on account of the amount of his property; that his original Commission and discharge thereon was sent with his papers

to the War Department when I first applied for a pension and I have not seen it since, my Ensigns Commission was lost in the engagement on Long Island that I was in battle at White Plains and at Monmouth and at the taking of Burgoyne — Immediately after I left the service I came to the miller and has resided in Norridgebrook ever since —
I made a declaration and schedule of my property in order to be continued on the pension list June 29. 1820 but failed; I also renewed my application March 18. 1829 under the regulations of the War Department of December 26. 1828 but did not succeed; the last set of papers having been returned to me are herewith forwarded in support of my claim and I hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Obadiah Wetherell
Sworn to before me this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
William Allen Jr
Justice of the Peace

We Samuel B. Withell a clergyman residing in the town of Norridgewock and Asa Clark residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Obadiah Withell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty five years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolu- tion and that we concur in that opinion —
Sam l B. Withell Asa Clark
Sworn I subscribed the day and year aforesaid William Allen Jr Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
Pomeroi P.
I James Dinsmore Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the County of Pomeroy State of Maine do hereby certify that William Allen Jr. Esquire before whom the above declarations and affidavits were made is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Pomeroy, duly qualified to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of Common Pleas of this County, This with day of July A.D. 1832.
Attest James Dinsmore Clerk

No 47 Obadiah Withnell Norridgepark
6104 March 1818

State of Maine.
Somerset
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty ninth day of June, 1820, personally appeared before in open Court before Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Obadiah Witherell aged twenty three years, resident in Norridgewock in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Patelk  John Brown and Regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott then Major Jackson as an Ensign then Lieutenant of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years and eight months . And was in the battle at White Plains , and at the battle at the taking of Burgoyne and at Monmouth battle.
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the fifteenth 22 day of May  April 1818; that he is now on the Pension Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6104 . And I, the said Obadiah Witherell do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.
Obadiah Witherell
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: I have no real estate whatever having conveyed the same about five years since to my children, viz. in the year 1815. Old house lot & furniture (besides bedding) of the value of twenty five dollars. I have debts due me which may be collected to the amount of four hundred dollars and I owe as much as forty Dollars. I have no income besides my pension from the Government and what I receive from my children towards my support. I have no trade or profession; my occupation has been that of a farmer, but by reason of age infirmity and a rupture of the worst kind, which has been once operated upon by the surgeons and is now very painful renders me wholly unable to labor or do any kind of business. My family consists of myself; my wife Mary aged sixty four years, who is quite infirm and has the dropsy; and Marrit Church aged fifteen a girl we have taken

to live with us. Except the above and my bedding and clothing I have no estate or income whatever.
Obadiah Witherell
Simsbury J. Subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and declaration this twenty eighth day of June 1820 before me Eben Hotchkiss a Judge of the C.C.C.P. Eastern Circuit

Obadiah Wetherell Noridgewick. Lieutenant Col. M. Jackson's Mass. Reg. 1777 to 1780
April 22. 1818
Committed
Obadiah Wetherell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Obadiah Withwell , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Norridgewock , in the said County of Somerset , in the District of Maine, on the twenty second day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Obadiah Withwell , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Norridgewock , in the said County of Somerset , in the District of Maine, on the twenty second day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a commissioned officer , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and as testified by the oath of the party and a respectable witness that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston C. J. C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Wm Davis

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Obediah Wetherell Gentleman Greeting . We, Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you, to be a — Lieutenant in the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such — from the fifth day of January 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant — by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as — Lieutenant — And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest Ben Woodest Secretary of the Board of War
Witness His Excellency Samuel Huntington Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia — the 29th day of March — 1780, and in the Fourth — Year of our Independence.
Sam. Huntington President

I certify that Lieutenant Obadiah Wethrell of the eighth Massachusetts Regiment has at his own request obtained permission from the Com- -mander in Chief to Resign his Commission in the Continental Army
R. H. Meade H. D. C.
Head Quarters New Bridges Sept r 14 th 1780

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Obadiah Witherell aged seventy two years, a citizen of the U. States, born in Pepperell Massachusetts, now resident in Norridgewock Maine upon oath testify and declare that I served as a Sergeant in the first eight months service of the revolutionary war. In January 1776 I was commissioned by the continental congress an Ensign in Capt Samuel Patch's company, and Col. William Prescott's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops. Under this commission I served in the army upon the continental establishment until January 1777 when upon the new arrangement of the army I was commissioned as a Lieut (this commission is herewith forwarded) and served in Capt Benjamin Brown's company and Col. Michael Jackson's regiment in this capacity until Sept 14. 1780, when in the trenches near the Hudson river, I had the permission of my officers, and retired from the service honorably. My first commission I lost in the retreat from Long Island, and it is not now to my knowledge in existence. I was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Harlem heights, White Plains and at the taking of Burgoyne, and in the battle of Monmouth. From my reduced circumstances, I am in need of the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Obadiah Witherell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Somersel Jp
On the twenty second day of April A D 1818, Obadiah Witherell above named, after having been carefully warned, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed—
Before me, Nathan Weston Esq. (Chief Justice C. Court Com. Plus, Second Eastern Circuit.)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Josiah Spaulding Esq. of Norridgewock in the District of Maine of lawful age upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Obadiah Witherell above named. From his reduced circumstances, he is in need of the assistance of his country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth.
Josiah Spaulding

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Somerset Is
On the twenty second day of April A D 1818, Josiah Spaulding within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the within deposition, by him subscribed —
Before me, Nathan Weston Jur
Chief Justices C. Courts C. Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit.

M rs Withnell's case

Pleasable Withersell - } Norridgewock - }
DECLARATION
In order to be restored to the Pension List under the Act of March 1, 1823, drawn up in conformity with the regulations of the War Department of the 26th December, 1828.
State of Maine
County of Somerset ss.
Capt Benj Brown Capt Thos Hartshorn
On this Eighteenth day of March 1829, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Somerset the undersigned Obadiah Withersell , a resident of said county, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is the same person who served in the Revolutionary war in the Company commanded by Captain Brown & Hartshorn of the regiment commanded by Colonel Micah Jackson of the line of the State of Massachusetts: that he received a pension under the act of March, 18, 1818, but his name was dropt from the Pension Roll on account of the amount of his property, which was valued at less than $960, and he now applies to be restored in consequence of the regulations of the War Department of the 26th December, 1828, having at this time the following named property, being worth no more than the sums below mentioned. He also swears that he has before applied to be restored, but his claim has been rejected, on account of the amount of his property.
Schedule.
a now of hand for one hundred Dollars 100 and fifty Dollars $150 a few articles of old house hold furniture worth not more than twenty five Dollars 25 I have no other property except my bed and bedding and necessary clothing I have no family my wife has died after a long and distressing sickness, since I made my first application for a pension. I am in the eighty second year of my age, and incapable of labor, and live with one of my sons Obadiah Withersell
Sworn to before me, this Eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine William Allen Justice of Peace
The official character and signature of the Magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
State of Maine
I James Dinsmore Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset, State of Maine do hereby certify that William Allen Esq before whom the above declaration and affidavit was made is a Justice of the Peace for said county of Somerset duly qualified to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court at Augusta this Eighteenth day of March 1829 James Dinsmore Clerk

6104.
Maine
Obadiah Wetherell, Lieutenant,
Massachusetts line - 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 20. Dollars per month, to commence the 22 d of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Jan'y 1819 and del d R. C. Vose, August - Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4 mo 13/30 - 88 40 Semi-ann. all ce ending March 4. 1819 - 120. 00
$208.40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Norridgewock,

see letter to R.C. Dore April 11, 1832 do do to Mr. Melville 12 " do do to Hon. S. Bateman H. Jan. 6. 1831. do to Hon. S. Wrayne Feb. 27. 1832
9- " R. 7. L
Ditto 21, March 1832.
Inspection and July 20. 1832. Robert Wrayne

State of Maine.
I William Allen Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is four hundred eighty five dollars and cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is three hundred eighty five dollars and cents .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of June 1820.
William Allen Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset

War Department
Pension Office
January 6. 1831
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 3 d inst t I have to inform you that the enclosed paper does not contain proof sufficient to authorise this Department to restore the name of Obadiah Wetherell to the Pension List. The regulation of the 26 th December 1828 has been revoked. The enclosed printed sheet will shew what evidence is wanted.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Ob t . Serv t .
J. L. Edwards

Obadiah Withach
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March — next,
at the Commercial Bank
of Portland Maine
Cancelled
Recorded
142

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, — — — — —
Obadiah Witherell ————— late a Lieutenant ————— in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine ————— Agency, at the rate of twenty ————— dollars per month, to commence on the twenty second — day of April ————— one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen —————
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Ob. Wetmore Merle 32 Conner's Land.
H. C. Sawelle Vt.

28 949 Rev INVALID.
1911, Aug. 23. Hist. to Miss Elma Dean Shaw
File No. 28,949 Abiah Witherell Lieut Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 457
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Winthrop Maine
Aug 16. 1911
Bureau of Pension Dept.
Dear Sir:
Please can you give me any information relative to the service of Maj. Abadiah Wetherell in the Rev. War? He was born Aug 22. 1746. Married Mary Bursell (or Bussell) March 22. 1784.
Mary Bursell born June 5. 1755
Abadiah Wetherell lived in town of Albion Me. in his later years, with William Benson Shaw born Dec 4. 1784 Middleboro, Mass, who married Abadiah's daughter Cynthia, born March 22. 1795. Abadiah was son of Charles Wetherell, died May 18. 1804, age 84 years.
Has his Chas. Wetherell any record of service in Rev. War? Many thanks for past favors.
Yours Truly.
Miss Elma Dean Shaw.
Winthrop
7 Central Street.
Maine

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Obadiah Metherill 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.
S. 28,949
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 8 mos. Sgt. Not stated ✓ ✓   Jan. 1776 1 yr. Ensign Samuel Patch William Prescott Mass.   Jan. 5, 1777 to Sept. 14, '80 Sergt. Benjamin Brown Thomas Hartshorn Michael Jackson 8 Mass. regt.  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill, Harlem Heights, White Plains, taking of Burgoyne and Monmouth.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ Enlisted at Cambridge, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 22, 1818. Ch. cl.
Residence at date of application, Norridgewock Somerset Co., Me.
Age at date of application, b. Pepperell, Mass. 1747.
Remarks: In 1820 Mary, his wife, was sixty-four years of age. She died prior to 1829, at which date soldier lived with one of her sons—name not stated. No further family data.
Very respectfully,