Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25913, Aaron Warren, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
6000
Warren, Aaron Teziah
NUMBER 11 25913
CONTENTS

Maine - 1248
Keziah Warren -
widow of Aaron Warren, dec. d who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March 18 th , and who died on the 25 th March 1821 of York in the State of Maine who was a P er in the Comp y commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded by [blank] in the [blank] line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Jan y 38, and sent to S. J. Kimball Librarian M c
Arrears to the 14th of Sept r - $ 75.00 Semi-annual allowance ending
15.00 $ 90.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Brainerd Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 26

10. 431 Maine
Aaron Warren
of Shapleigh in the Dist state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Nine months.
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of September 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of May 1819 and sent to Benj a Greene ag t South Berwick — Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 5 \frac{9}{31} \frac{17}{30} 45.56 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 6 mos, 8.
$93.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Off-10 Oct 1820, under two 1 st May 1820 - Note of interest to Daniel Small, Kennebec, Maine

Stannus Hunt

I Hannah Huntress of Shapleigh in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty four years do depose, testify and say, that I am a sister to the widow Keziah Warren of said Shapleigh who was the wife of Aaron Warren late of said Shap- leigh deceased. said Keziah was married to said Warren in my father's house at Berwick in said County by the Rev. Matthew Merrill a minister of the gospel of said Berwick
I was present and saw them married Her name before marriage was Keziah Huntress. They were married on the fourth day of March seven hundred & eight ty two, by Matthew Merrill a minister of the gospel said Aaron died at Shapleigh aforesaid on the twenty fifth day of March 1821
Said Keziah is still the widow of said Aaron and has never been married to any person since said Aaron's death I have ever lived a near near neighbour to said Keziah my said sister
Hannah her Huntress mark
Darling Friends State of Maine County of York ss. Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Hannah Huntress Before me I mean S. Kimball justice of the Peace in and for the County of York certify that Hannah Huntress above named who is well known to me is a person of truth and veracity and her statements are entitled to full credit I mean S. Kimball justice of the Peace

State of Maine } ss County of York } On this third day of September A.D. 1838 personally appeared before Wm A. Hayes Esq m judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of York aforesaid Kesiah Warren a resident of Shapleigh in the County aforesaid aged Seventy eight years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the 7 th 1838 entitled An Act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows
That she is the widow of Aaron Warren late of said Shapleigh who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and obtained a pension of the United States under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818
She further declares that she was married to said Aaron Warren in the town of Berwick in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two
That the said Aaron Warren her said husband died on the twenty fifth day of March 1821 at said Shapleigh
That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four - viz at the time above named. She was married by the Rev John Thompson a minister of the Gospel of said Berwick her
Kesiah X Warren mark
Witness William Lewis J. S. Kimball

Subscribed & sworn to on, the day & year first before written by the said Bezalel Warren in open court.
Before me Wm. A. Hayer Judge of the Probate Court York County Maine 3

Aaron Warren
to me the following are the only and true copies of the original and true copies of the original
1812
Due for M c awards not entitled 824-50 M c gill Hapner May 19

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the First Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York — on the first  tuesday being the fourth day of July — and by adjournment ad Alfred from day to day, on the nineteenth day of July — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene Chief Justice Judge of said Court.
ON this nineteenth day of July — in the year 1820, personally appeared
in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County  Aaron Warren — aged sixty years, resident in Shapleigh in 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. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Silas Burbank in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Brewer — 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 fourteenth day of September A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10.431 — 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 hereunto 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 herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Aaron Warren
Sworn to and declared, on the 19 th day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Benj a Greene Ch: Justice W m Daniel Sewall , Clerk
Constituted the Judges of the said Court
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate - A small farm containing about sixty acres of ordinary land - situated in said Shapleigh - a small hut thereon - & no barn or other building
Personal estate - 4 small steers - 1 cow -
Household furniture - a few necessary articles not exceeding four dollars in value -
The debts which I now owe exceed those due to me in the sum of three hundred & fifty dollars
Aaron Warren

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Aaron Warren who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of imbecility of body & old age
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Kezia Warren - wife 60 Unable by reason of a long & severe sickness to contribute any thing towards her support -   Bernice Russell daughter & her two children Rosamond & Benjamin 24 } 7. & 5 - } Her husband killed in the late war. - daughter & both of her children entirely dependant on me for support Aaron Warren  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, W. B. Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit , within the county of York 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 two hundred forty one dollars and fifty cents . - & debts 350.00 cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
W. B. Sewall { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York
241. 50  own 350. -

Aaron Warren, Private Col Brown's Mass ts Regiment 1778 - 9 months
On roll Admitted

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this fifteenth day of September . A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Aaron Warren aged sixty years resident in Maplehurst in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration 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 and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War:"—
That he the said Aaron Warren in the Month of June A.D. 1778 enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States for the term of nine months, joined the army and served part of the before mentioned term in a Company under the command of Ensign Bruley , from which he was transferred to a Company under the command of Capt. Silas Burbank of the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Brewer ; and continued to do his duty in said Company & Regiment until the full term for which he had enlisted expired when he was honorably discharged. — (And in proof of the foregoing Declaration made by the said Aaron Warren  William Frost a disinterested and credible witness personally appears & being first duly sworn according to law, testifies & says that he was first Lieutenant of the Company under the command of Capt. Silas Burbank of the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Brewer . That on the twentyeighth day of May A.D. 1778 the said Aaron Warren enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental army for the term of nine months, and joined the army at Fishkill in Col. Nicholson's Regiment & proceeded down the River to Ferry Town with the officers of that Regiment & was enrolled in the Company commanded by the said Capt. Burbank & continued to do his duty in said Company until the full term of nine months for which he had enlisted had expired, when the said Aaron Warren was honorably discharged on the eighth day of March A.D. 1779 all which appears by the several Rolls now in the possession of the aforesaid Deponent.
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. excepting the Certificate annexed. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj. Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Aaron Warren did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of September Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj. Greene

2346
Keziah Warren
Me act. 7. July 1838
m. 1782.
d. 1821.
Abner
1 mo Pri
30 d
No deduction
H. Kimball Lebanon Me

Extract from the Records of the Town of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine under the head of Marriages Solemnized by the Rev d Matthew Merriam Minister of the Gospel in said Town is the following entry Viz t Seventeen hundred and eighty two March the fourth Aaron Warren with Phebea Plumbess both of Berwick. I Joseph Prime Clerk of said Town of Berwick certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows Viz t 1782 March 4 th
Joseph Prime Town Clerk
I Joseph Prime above named depose testify and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of the same Town with the exceptions aforesaid as certified by me Joseph Prime Town Clerk
State of Maine
County of York ss
above named Joseph Prime
Subscribed and Sworn to by the
before me
No Hubbard J. Peace
J. John Hubbard Justice of the Peace certify that Joseph Prime above named who is well known to me is a man of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to full credit Jno Hubbard

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
Ills. mis. file 25 913 Rev.
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Aaron Warren , 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.     May 28 78 9 mos. Pvt- Silas Burbank Samuel Brewer Mars   dis   Feb. 16 79 Col. S. S.   at Fort H.  
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Sept. 14 1818.
Residence at date of application, Shapleigh, York Co., Me.
Age at date of application, 60.
Remarks: Sol. man. Berwick, Me. Mch. 4, 1782 Keziah Huntress
He d - Mch. 25, 1821 at Shapleigh
Wid. appln - Sept. 3, 1838 ae 78
res. Shapleigh.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
1820 wife Kezia ae 60 dau { Eunice Russell 26 husband killed in war 1775 her two children Rosemond + Benjamin 7 yrs - 5 yrs -

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Increase S. Kimball and John Hubbard are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight .
John Skeele
Register of Probate York County.

This may certify that Aaron Warren A nine month soldier who served his full time in Capt Silas Burbank's Company in the late Col. Samuel Brewer's Regt Did not nor money for a blanket Draw any blankets whilst in said Company
West Point March 4 th 1779
Ad! Warren Esq.

2346 Revolutionary Claim Oct 10
Me 7 July 1838.
Hon James A. P. Adams Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Lebanon Oct 14 1898
Hon J. L. Edwards Sir Enclosed is the application for a pension of Mrs. Keziah Warren of Shepherds. You will have the goodness to direct all communications concerning said application to the subscriber at Lebanon, Maine
I am, Sir, Your Obedt. Servt, J. S. Kimball

Rev
1907 Jan. 24. History to Miss Bertha Francis. C
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 257913 Keziah Warren widow of Aaron Warren. Pri Mass Line
Act July 7 th 38 Index: Vol. W , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Salmon Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions
Will you kindly send me the record of Aaron Warren of Berwick Maine who served as a private in Captain Silas Pierbank's Company, 12 Mass Regiment, commanded by Col Samuel Brewer, Revolutionary War and oblige
Jan 13 1907
(Miss) Bertha Francis Newton Kansas