Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,922, Joseph Veazie, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Miss.
Veazie, Joseph
P 10,922
CONTENTS

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Joseph Veazie Cumberland Co. Maine
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Enlisted 1780 3 1st Capt. Abner Lord — Me — 68 Salmon Falls Me — Traditionary Living Witness  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. _____ who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND,
Octo. 17,
A. D. 1851
I,
Freeman Bradford
Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Josiah Pierce, is an
Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for each and every County throughout said State of Maine. within and for the County of _____ as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that _____ he is _____ DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Pierce _____ is dated May 2 d _____ A. D. 1850 and will expire May 2 d _____ A. D. 1851
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is _____ genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

State of Maine Cumberland ss. On this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the Hon. Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate in & for said County William Veazie a resident of Gorham in said County aged forty three years who upon oath makes the following de- claration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832
And this declarant states that he is one of the children of Joseph Veazie late of Portland aforesaid, deceased. He states that his said father was a resident of Falmouth (now Portland) in the time of the Revolu- tionary War and he has repeatedly heard his said father speak of his services in the War of the Rev- olution He believes that his father served in Capt Abner Bowles company a part of the year 1777 and 1778, and in Capt Pridis company in 1780 & in other tours of services for the protection of Fal- mouth, and that he performed one tour of duty as a substitute for his brother Jeremiah Veazie He refers to his father's declaration And to the proof on file in the Pension Office, and to the proof filed with his petition before Congress in 1837 and to the Report N o 166 H o of Reps; 25 Con- gress 2 d Session December 22, 1837. Your declarant be- lieves that his father served in said Bowles company

my 9 mos as a Matross and in Puder Company at least 7 mos as a private of Infantry making at least 16 mos in the whole under those two of- ficers and he believes that that service is fully proven.
He further states that his father Joseph Veazie died in Portland on the 7th day of December 1844 and left a widow Nancy Veazie who died on the 21. day of September 1847, and that William Veazie and Eliza Veazie are the children and only surviving children of the said Joseph Veazie deceased. He therefore claims the pension that was due his fa- ther under the act aforesaid from the 14 March 1831. to the 7th December 1844.
William Veazie
Signed and sworn by the said William Veazie on the day and year first above written
Before me
Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate

State of Maine, County of Cumberland ss.
Probate Office Octo. 17 th A.D. 1857
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate, hereby certify, that Hon. Josiah Pierce, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year first above written. Freeman Bradford Register

STATE OF MAINE.
PROBATE COURT, Cumberland County, ss.
Be it Known, That on this Sixteenth day of September 18 51 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Joseph Veazie late of Portland  was a  Pensioner of the United States, and that he died at said Portland on the Seventh day of December 18 44 . And that Nancy Veazie his widow survived him, and died at said Portland , on the twenty first day of September 18 47 , and that William Veazie and Eliza Veazie , are
the children and the only surviving children of the said Joseph Veazie deceased, and that he left no widow.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this Sixteenth day of September in the year 18 51
Josiah Pierce  Judge Register of Probate for Cumberland County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
October 14 1851..
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 Joseph Mazine is borne on a list of men in Capt. Joseph Reed's Co. 1st. Prime's Regt. Stationed at Falmouth in 1780. no length of service named: Said list is contained in an orderly book purporting to have belonged to William Moody, whose name is also on said list: the first entry on said book is Apr 30. 1780. & by the last entry it appears that the rolls of the several companies stationed in Falmouth that year, were made up to include the 6 th of December, then next ensuing: The orderly book & list of names appear ancient & genuine.
An act was passed by the Genl. Court, March 15. 1780. to raise 600 men in addition to 2 co's already raised to defend Sea-coast at Falmouth & eastward; to actually march as early as Apr. 10. & continue in service 8 mos. unless sooner discharged.
The only return of Capt. Abner Lowell's Co. for 1777 in this office, is dated Falmouth, July 31. 1777. Consisting of 80 men; the

Service of this Co. commenced May 1. 1777. there is no return of said Co. after the above date & the name of Joseph Peazie is not borne thereon. —
An act was passed Apr. 19. 1777. to raise a Co. of 60 men including 60 matrosses, to be stationed at Falmouth to serve till last day of December next unless sooner discharged & April 26. 1777. Abner Lowell was chosen Captain of the Company of Matrosses, to be stationed at Falmouth. —
An act was passed December 12. 1777 to raise in the province of Maine, a Co. to be stationed at Falmouth, consisting of 20 men, including 17 Matrosses, to serve four months. —
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.
Frederick Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

There appears to be no roll of said Company in this office.
On the 12 th of March 1778. the following resolve was passed, viz: "That there be raised in the province of Main. and stationed at Falmouth & Cape Elizabeth, eighty men including officers, viz: one Captain, two Lieutenants, two Sergeants, two Corporals, four gunners and sixty nine matrosses, to continue in the Service to the first of January next.
There appears to be no roll of said Company in this office.

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass.
The undersigned William Veazie a resident of Gorham & one of the children of Joseph Veazie late of Portland in the County of Cumberland deceased respectfully requests all the evidence of service performed by his late father in the war of the Revolution
And your applicant states that his late father was a resident of Falmouth (now Portland) in the time of the Revolution. He knows that his father was an applicant for a pension under the act of 1832 and his claim being rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions that he applied to Congress for relief and that his claim was once favorably reported upon but that no act was passed in his favor during his life time. That he claimed to have entered the service in 1777 under Capt Lowell and that he served in his company a part of 1777 and during the winter of 1777 & 1778 in a company of guards in Falmouth, that he served a part of the summer of 1778 in said Lowell's company and in 1780 he was in Capt Peide's company and in other short services thereafter. He believes that his services were fully proved by the testimony of witnesses who served with him but that there were no rolls to be found of Capt Lowell's company after 1777. He requests the Secretary of State to furnish all the evidence of his father's services in Capt Lowell's, Peide's & Reed's company's and whether there is any roll of said Lowell's

Company in 1778 in the Secretary's Office Mass- and whether the roll of said Lowell's Compa- ny in 1777 show the time of enlistment and the time of discharge. And for the purpose of this application and for the prosecution of this my claim for a pension I hereby appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland in the County of Cumberland my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and for the use of the only surviving children of the said Joseph Vezie to do and perform whatever is necessary to be done in the premises. And the said Bradford is authorized to appoint one or more sub- stitutes under him for the purposes above named. Hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my Attorney or his substitute may legally do in the premises.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of October A D 1851
William Vezie
State of Maine
Cumberland ss Oct tenth 1851 Then personally appeared the above named William Vezie and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed.
Before me
Josiah Pierce Just: Peace

Know all men by these presents that I the subscriber named in the foregoing instrument as Attorney for William Vearin do hereby appoint Francis A. Dickinson of Washington City D.C. my substitute and do authorize him to act in my place and stead in the prosecution of the foregoing claim.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of October AD 1851
Freeman Bradford

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the eleventh day of August September A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this eleventh day of August September aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge, the city of Portland , aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he enlisted, as private soldier, some time in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty, and as well he believes, in the spring of that year, in the military company commanded by Captain Ebner Lowell, which company was organized under the State of Massachusetts, and stationed in the town of Falmouth of which the city of Portland is a part after the destruction of said Falmouth by the British, for the protection of said town; which said company was raised about two years, before his said enlistment, that said company was not attached to any particular regiment, but organized commissioned under the government of the State of Massachusetts, for the purpose aforesaid; that he resided in said Falmouth at the time of said enlistment, and in that part of said Falmouth which now constitutes said city, and that he has ever since resided there; and said Veazie further declares, that he continued to serve as a soldier, as aforesaid, in the company aforesaid, and under the command of said Captain Lowell, until he was discharged by the peace of the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty three; and that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his said service; the said Veazie further declares that Daniel Cole belonged to the same company as a private soldier, and that he believes that Daniel Cole was a private soldier in said company at the time when he said Veazie was a private soldier in said company, and that Daniel Cole was of the city of Portland at the time of said enlistment, and that he believes that Daniel Cole remained in said company until the peace of the year 1783 aforesaid, and that if he rightly remembers, Josiah Tucker was a sergeant in said company, and Thomas Cole of said Portland was a private in said company. The said declarant further says that a Mr. Cannon, according to his best recollection was a lieutenant in said company, and that his memory does not furnish him with any further particulars concerning it, except that Daniel Green of the city of Portland was a private soldier therein.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Joseph Veazie
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

We Elijah Kellogg ————— a Clergyman residing in the city of Portland and Alvin Dillingham residing in the same city hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Veazie who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Elijah Kellogg
Witness J. B. Hopkins The mark of Alvin Dillingham
Signed sworn to before
Sept 10 1832 Alvin Dillingham
Judge the U. S. for the Dist. of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Elijah Kellogg who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the city of Portland and that Alvin Dillingham who has also signed the same is a respectable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, John Nussay Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Veazie ————— for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

And the said Joseph Veazie being first duly sworn according to law doth further de- on his oath declare that he was born in said Falmouth that there was a record of his age in his father's bible from which he transcribed it into his own bible about seven years ago which bible of his father's was then in the possession of a nephew of said Veazie who resides about fifty miles from Portland — and that he knows of no other record of his birth and said Veazie further declares that he now resides in the city of Portland formerly a part of said Falmouth — and said Veazie further declares that he voluntarily enlisted in said company commanded by said Captain Abner Lowell as he has declared upon oath — and that he was not drafted nor was he a substitute for another person according to his best recollection — and said Veazie further declares that he did not receive any discharge and that he remained a soldier in said company until it was disbanded — and that he verily believes that most none of the privates in said company who served in it until it was disbanded received any formal discharge Joseph Veazie
Subscribed & sworn to before me
June 13 th 1833
Abner Lowell
Judge of the United States for the Dist. of Maine
Marine District
Special District Court June 13. 1833
Filed in case of Joseph Veazie applicant for Pension.
Attest John Mussey Clerk

Washington, Oct. 21 st 1887.
Sir:
Enclosed we have the honor to present you the claim of the children of Joseph Vearzie, late of Maine dec d for arrears of pension due under the act of 7 th June 1832.
Said Joseph Vearzie claimed a pension during his life-time, and his claim was finally taken before Congress. The declaration and evidence filed by him, are doubtless now among the Congressional files; and we respectfully request that they may be sent for when the case comes up for examination.
Very respectfully Yourn obt. Servts Dickins & Coombs
J. E. Heath Esq Court of Pensions

Ho. Ap. Ap. 17. 1832
Sir -
I have been requested to ask the attention of your Department to the application of Joseph Keary Esq (Portland?) Maine, for a pension, which has been some time pending - As he is exceedingly necessitous, in his condition, an early disposition will confer a favor -
Most respectfully
Your obed serv
Francis C. J. Smith
J. L. Edward Esq
Pen. bldg.

Portland Decr 10 th 1844
Sir
I send herewith some further testimony in Mr Veasey's case which I wish you to lay before the Committee.
I send you also an original paper which I wish you to show to the Committee but which I wish you to return me after you have shown it, to the Committee. I have made a copy of it and annexed it to my letter.
I am very Respectfully
Your O bt Servt:
H. Bradford
Hon J Fairfield U. S. Senator Washington D.C.

War Department, Pension Office,
December 27. 1838.
Sir,
In relation to the case of Israel Hilton, of Maine, whose pension was stopped in the year 1834, I have the honor to enclose herewith an extract from a letter to the Hon. Thomas Morris, dated on the 5 th of June last, which will shew why his name has not been restored to the Pension roll by this Dept.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t . J. L. Edwards
Hon. F. Pierce, Senate U. States.

Portland June 7 th 1844
Dear Sir
Yours in relation to the application of Billy Brown was very gratifying intelligence to him.
Since the Senate rejected the claim of Joseph Vearie I have found an orderly book & Muster Roll of Capt Joseph Pride's Company in Col Pressn's Regt: on which Mr Vearie's name is borne. I also send to you the affidavits of Josiah Hobbs who served with him in 1780 & the Affidavits of William Tuley & Joshua Gammon who served with him in 1781. The service of 8 mos in 1780 is fully & conclusively made out I believe The service for his brother in 1781 cannot be less than two mos-
As the House have repeatedly reported favorably on this claim I hope that the Senate will act on this matter soon as I am convinced that the proof I send proves without the shadow of a doubt 10 mos service.
Yours Truly
J. Bradford
Hon John Fairfield U.S. Senate

Extract of a letter to the Hon. Thomas Morris, Senate U States, dated Pension Office, June 2 d . 1838.
"Isaac Hilton and Joseph Veazie claim for service in Capt. Abner Lowell's company, for nearly two years of continuous service, in the town of their residence. As there are no pay rolls of any such service in the very full rolls of the Massachusetts service, and as no law authorizing the enlistment of men for such long terms of service has been shown, the pre- sumption is a very strong one, that they constituted a part of a local police and patrol, which however necessary and meritorious, is not deemed a military service in the contemplation of the act of June 7, 1832."

Office House of Reps U.S. December 30 1857
Sir
Your letter of the 27 th instant has been received.
The papers in the case of Joseph Veazie of Maine are on file in the Senate
I am very respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
Paul. Buck
For John W. Forney
Clerk H o Reps U.S.
J. B. Heath Esq. Comm t of Pensions

Portland Dec. 24 1833—
Sir,
In consequence of the intimation in your letter to John Mussey Esq. of this city of Aug. 16 th last— I forward herewith all the further evidence which seems to be in the power of Joseph Veasey to support his claim on the government for a pension as a soldier of the revolution.
I hope it will prove satisfactory and effect the accomplishment of his wishes— I am Sir very respectfully Your obedt servt J. D. Hopkins.

Portland Sep 27 1834-
Sir,
Inclosed is the Pension Certificate of Isaac Hilton agreeable to your directions. The poor man was much surprized that instead of having the allowance increased he was in danger of its being diminished; but learning from your letter the reason he has diligently sought out the evidence to support the claim he originally made - and this further evidence is enclosed. I hope it will prove fully satisfactory to the War Department so that he may be considered entitled to the same allowance which his fellow soldiers in the same company have received on an equal period of service. -
I also enclose another deposition for the Joseph Veazie's case which is yet on file in the Department of War which I hope will entitle him to an allowance in proportion to the time served although not, according to his account, in proportion to his actual service. -
I am Sir with respect
Yr obed servt J. D. Hopkins
P.S. These persons wish to have their Certificates

Maine
Joseph Veazie
Suspended.
See letter to J. Mussey Augt 15. 1833 - Portland
See letter to J. E. Hopkins 31 Augt 1833
See also Hon. F. O. J. Smith Apr 21 st 1834 -
7 July
Additional affidavit made Oct 7. 34

Pet. of Joseph Vearzie.
2 8 th (long) 2 nd vrs S. 89.
Petition of Joseph Vearzie, for a pension.
1838 Dec. 19. Referred with Bill S. 89. to the Com: on Pensions,
" " 21, Bill reported adverse
1840 Jan leave to withdraw
1842 Jan. 18. Referred to the Com: on Pensions,
" Feb. 8. Report adverse
1843 Dec. 15. Referred with additional documents to the Com: on Pensions,
1844 Jan. 8. Report adverse
" 11 Report agreed to
1844 Dec. 16 Referred with additional documents to the Com: on Pensions,
1845 Jan. 13. Discharged,
Mr. Fairfield

To the Honorable The Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. -
The petition of Joseph Veazie, of the city of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, laborer, humbly shews, that he served as a soldier in the company, stationed at said Portland, then Falmouth, commanded by Abner Lowell, for more than two years, during the war of the American revolution, — that said company was in the Massachusetts line, and stationed at said Falmouth, for the express purpose of protecting its inhabitants against the enemy, to whom attacks the said inhabitants were exposed in an extraordinary degree, in consequence of a peculiarly hostile feeling of the enemy towards them; a large portion of said town having been destroyed by the enemy in 1775, and the inhabitants being in continual danger, and exposed to frequent alarms from the enemy, during the whole period aforesaid. Your petitioner further shews, that no law of the United States makes provision for a pension in his case, which he considers as meritorious as that of many, to whom pensions are awarded by existing laws, that he is very poor, and in need of relief. He therefore prays your Honors to take his case into consideration, & afford that relief, by extending towards him such a portion of the public bounty, as, in your wisdom, you shall see fit, and, as the circumstances of his case shall be found to require. — And as in duty bound will ever pray &c
Witness J. D. Hopkins.
mark The X of Joseph Veazie

✓ maine Joseph Keasie suspended
let D. D. Dole 2 Jan'y 1835 let same 5 March 1835 " same 29 July 1835 " same Aug 24 " " do to Hon. H. B. Smith Dec 10 1836 do to Hon. J. Morr June 5 1838
let Fisher & Coombs Sept. 6 1852 J. J. Combs Oct. 15 1853
act - 7 June 1858

No 22,395
Joseph Veazie Maine
Act June 7. 1832
Letter to Clerk of the House of Representatives Dec 27/57.

10,922
P. O. Joseph Veazie
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 . REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

War Department Pension Office
2 nd August 1833.
Be pleased to compare the enclosed declaration of Joseph Veazie, with the rolls in your office, and furnish me with a certificate of all the information you may possess, that may bear upon the decision of his claim. Was Captain Lowell's company in service for so long a time as is alleged by him? - And be pleased to inform me, (if there should be records of the service in your office), whether they be perfect.
I am, Respectfully, Your obedient servant J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions
E. A. Bangs esq. Secy of State Boston Mass. s

Portland Aug 26 1833-
Sir,
Your letter of 16 th instant to John Mussey Esq. in respecting Joseph Veazie's application for a pension, it has been put into my hands because he I made the application for him and obtained the evidence. As Veazie procured the testimony evidence pointed out by one of the statutes and the regulations of the War Department I thought that was sufficient but finding that a very respectable witness David Ropes could remember the fact that Veazie belonged to the company of Capt. Ebenezer Lowell I added to the evidence of his case the affidavit of Mr Ropes. When I saw the notice that Veazie should procure the evidence from the office of the Secretary of Massachussetts of his service in that company I applied there for information and to my perfect astonishment found that his name was not contained upon any of the rolls of Capt Lowell. At the same time I inquired for two others of this city under the like circumstances and had the same information in respect to them — nor as no person in this city so far as I know doubts that these persons actually served as they have all stated — the blame of negligence seems to attach to Capt Lowell's memory — but it is hoped that his neglect will not operate to the injury of poor pensioners whose truth & integrity is by no man doubted. Your letter before me states that the War Department is possessed of "evidence that the company was reduced to a serjeants guard in 1781 and that if Veazie were employed after that time he must establish it by satisfactory proof." Poor Veazie has no other proof than his own affidavit and the testimony evidence he has offered as to that fact and he hopes this will be sufficient — if it should not be received as such, in addition to his grievous disappointment he will have the additio

motification of seeing some of his old companions enjoying the bounty of the government, and the poverty of their latter days relieved, while he, from circumstances, which were never in his control, and have been always till now unknown to him is deprived of the boon,
I regret to say Sir that he has no other evidence to offer but I still indulge the hope that the poor man's flattering expectations will not disappoint him —
I am Sir respectfully Y r obed t serv t
J. D. Hopkins
J. L. Edwards Esq.

Washington, April 29. 1853
Sir:
I respectfully ask a re-examination of the claim of Joseph Veazie, decd. of Maine, under the Act of 7 th June 1832.
This claim was originally presented by the claimant in his life-time, who alleged service in an Artillery Company under the command of Capt. Abner Lowell, stationed at Fulmouth, for the protection of that place and the adjacent coast. There being no rolls of said Company in existence, the claim was proven by the parol testimony of witnesses who served with him. The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions of the House of Representatives of the Congress, examined the evidence and reported that they were satisfied of proved nine months service in 1777 & 178. But the Commissioner of Pensions rejected the claim, not because the service was not proven , but because "the presumption is a very strong one that they [Capt Lowell's Company] constituted a part of the local police and patrol, which however necessary and meritorious is not deemed a military service in the contemplation of the act of 7 th June 1832. [See letter to Hon. Thomas

of 5 th June 1838.) Now that was necessary to remove this objection, was to show that the Company of Captain Lowell was a regularly organized military company , and not a mere branch of the "local police and patrol," as the Commissioners of Pensions had "presumed" to be the case. Such evidence was presented by Dicks & Coombs, in the Fall of 1857. We presented the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, showing that a regularly organized Artillery Company was raised by authority of law in the Spring of 1777, for the protection of Falmouth, and that Abner Lowell was appointed Capt. of said Company. Does not this entirely remove the objection, that the service under Capt. Lowell, admitted to be proved , was not military?
Yet the Examining Clerk, who examined the case upon this additional evidence, on the 6 th Sept 1852, takes no notice whatever of this important additional evidence, but reiterates the objection that the service under Capt. Lowell was not military . He evidently entirely overlooked the additional evidence filed. There are no rolls of Capt. Lowell's Company in existence, after the Spring of 1777, - consequently the service in 1777 & 78, testified to by Solomon Sawyer, James Brackett

and Isaac Hiltos, can not be proven by record evidence.
In addition to all this, the Certificate of the Secy of State, of Oct. 1851, shows that the name of said Joseph Vearzie is borne upon a list of men in Capt. Reed's Company, Col. Prince's Regt., stationed at Falmouth, which company was in service from the 30 th April 1780, to the 6 th December next ensuing - over 7 months. In answer to this part of the testimony, said report to Dickinson & Coombs of Sept. 6 th 1852, takes the ground that "the Joseph Vearzie referred to in the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, - was evidently another and different man. "
I find, however, on a re-examination of the papers, a deposition of Josiah Hobbs, made in 1844, in which the witness states that he served from April to December 1780, in said Capt. Reed's Company, Col. Prince's Regt., stationed at Falmouth, and that he well recollects the said Joseph Vearzie as a member of said Company, and thinks he served the whole time that he (witness) did - about 8 months.
I think this testimony must also have been overlooked by the Examiner who made said report of 6 th Sept. 1852, or he would not have so confidently stated

That the Joseph Vezio who served in Capt. Reed's Company in 1780, was " evidently another and different man."
It is true that Vezio, in a very loose sort of declaration made in 1832, which is very much defaced by erasing, represents that all his services during the war was in the Company commanded by Capt. Lowell. As the Company of Capt. Reed in 1780, was stationed at the same place , and in the same kind of service, as that commanded by Capt. Lowell at an earlier date, it is very probable that it was, in fact, the same Company, or composed in part at least of the same men . It is not at all strange, that Vezio, or more likely the Agent who drew his declaration, should have omitted to notice the fact, that Capt. Lowell was succeeded by another Captain.
I think if the case shall be fairly re-examined, by some person who will take the trouble to read the testimony, the claim will be found to be fairly established for nine months service in 1777 & '78, and over 7 months service in 1780.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your obed Servt
J. T. Coombs
Dear L. P. Waldo
Comm d of Pensions

Portland 24th. Novr 1843 Hon: John Fairfield U. S. Senate.
Sir
The application of Joseph Vearie for a Pension by virtue of his services in the War of the Revolution has been before Congress. for at least three years. I believe it has passed the Ho: once or twice, but has been stopped in the Senate. I am not informed of the nature of the objections to the bill but I understood by Mr Fessenden that if he had had the enclosed affidavit last Session, he would have been able to get the claim through. This deposition was sent to Mr Fessenden last year but it did not reach him in season & was returned to me. Will you give it the proper attention. John McLean of Portland is in the receipt of a Pension which he obtained by a private Act of Congress for services performed under the same Capt but at a different period of the War. I believe you will find the testimony in Mr Vearie's case to be full and ample, and such as to entitle him to the favourable consideration of Congress. I have to request

in behalf of Mr Vearie that you will examine into the nature of his claim and give it the consideration it deserves. The old man is poor & in our Almshouse and if he could obtain what he is entitled to, might be enabled thereby to end his days in comfort.
Very Truly
Yours
H Bradford

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 10 1833.
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 I find no evidence of the service of Joseph Vearie. He claiming under Capt. Abner Lowell or Lovell — No roll of such a Captain are found — nor any others of Capt. Lowell or Lovell except Joseph Lovell, of which there are two, but Vearie's name is not in either of them.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

To the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
In presenting the claim of Joseph Kease, which has been before Congress several years, it will be seen that it rests upon testimony somewhat different from that which has been hitherto presented. This is owing to the indistinct recollection of the applicant as to the terms of his service, and the want of all record testimony fixing with any degree of precision the time he served or the company in which he was enrolled.
The testimony on which he now relies is of a definite character. The proof of his first term of service is contained in the affidavits of Enoch Moody, Josiah Hobbs & Thomas Pride, the first of whom authenticates the original Orderly Book of Capt. Pride in which the name of the applicant is placed. The other witnesses testify as to the length of the applicant's service and by them he proves about 8 months service in 1780. He has also produced a certificate from the secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass., showing that he was enrolled in 1780 from Sept. 1. to Dec. 6. th That is the only roll of Capt. Pride's Company, as will appear by reference to the certificate of the Secretary in the case of Lemuel Moody now pending before Congress, and to which the committee is referred. The evidence furnished

by the Orderly Book and that furnished by the certificate in this case as coming from the rolls in Mass. does not conflict therefore, but the one corroborates the other.
To show more conclusively by original papers that the testimony of the witnesses is correct as to the length of this service I have forwarded to the Hon. John Fairfield a paper bearing upon it the marks of antiquity, purporting to be a provision return for three days for the companies in Col. Pinni's Regt. beginning the 10 th June and ending the 13 th . This paper shows that Capt. Pinni's company was in the service as early as the 10 th of June 1780 and there can be no doubt but the service commenced the latter part of April, & that the applicant did serve that year between seven and eight months.
The testimony in relation to the service in 1781 in Capt. John Read's company is contained in the affidavits of William Tukey and Joshua Garrison both of whom served in the same company. They are credible witnesses and both are in the receipt of a pension for their services. I cannot account for the fact that his name does not appear upon the roll, on any other ground ( on any other ground ) than, as he was a substitute for his brother Jeremiah Read, he continued to answer to that name, which is said to have been no uncommon occurrence.

The applicant for many years past has been in the Alms House in Portland and the relief prayed for would be truly acceptable
Dec, 7 th 1844.
Respectfully yours F. Bradford
"A provision return for three days for the companies in Col Prime's Regt. beginning the 10th of June & ending the 13th"
   Companies No. of Men No. of Rations Pounds of Beef Pounds of Bread Pounds of Rice Qts of Potatoes Pints of Molasses Half Pints of Rice   Pounds Qts Pounds Qts Pounds Qts Pints Qts Pints Qts Pints Qts     Colo Mts 7 21 31 1/2 21 10 1/2 10 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2 3 1/2   Capt Davis 31 93 139 1/2 93 46 1/2 46 1/2 11 11 15 1/2 15 1/2   Capt Pride 47 141 211 1/2 141 70 1/2 70 1/2 16 3/4 16 3/4 23 1/2 23 1/2   Capt Clark 118 144 216 144 72 72 17 1/2 17 1/2 24 24   Capt Magdon 55 165 247 1/2 165 82 1/2 82 1/2 19 3/4 19 3/4 27 1/2 27 1/2   Capt Goodwin 35 105 157 1/2 105 52 1/2 52 1/2 12 1/2 12 1/2 17 1/2 17 1/2   223 669 1003 1/2 669 334 1/2 334 1/2 79 3/4 79 3/4 111 1/2 111 1/2  
The above as a true return of the officers & men in my Regiment & you are desired to issue thru days provision accordingly
To the Commissary of Issues."
The above is a copy referred to in the foregoing statement F. Bradford

I David Rops of the city of Portland in the State of Maine aged seventy nine years, depose and say that I have known Joseph Veazie of said city now applying for a pension ever since he was a boy and I will remember that he was a soldier in the military company commanded by Capt Abner Lavelle in the time of the American revolution and stationed in Falmouth for the defence of the town after its being burnt by the British in 1775 which company was organized & commissioned by the State of Massachusetts; but I am unable to state how long said Veazie belonged to said company, when he enlisted or when he was discharged therefrom and further depose & say that said Veazie has been considered and reputed by those who knew him to be a soldier of the revolution. And further say not
David Rops
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. On the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two David Rops above named personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true before me James D. Hopkins Just. Peace within & for the
And I do further certify & declare that county of Cumberland.
David Rops the deponent is personally known to me & that he is a man of respectable character & his declarations are entitled to full faith & credit. J. D. Hopkins Justice of the Peace as aforesaid.
Maine District
District Clerk's Office September 12 th 1832
In testimony that James D. Hopkins Esquire who took the above deposition is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and that his official attestations are entitled to full faith and credit I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year above written.
John Mussey Clerk U. S. Courts

I Joshua Gammon of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged seventy eight years on oath depose & say that I was born in said Cape Elizabeth and at or about the age of thirteen or fourteen I entered the service of the United States at Portland in the Company commanded by Capt John Reed who was then stationed at Portland and I did the duty of Captain's waiter. I served in said Company for the term of eighteen months and am borne on the pension Roll of the United States and receive sixty dollars per annum. About the time that I was in Portland under Captain Reed Capt Lowell had the command of a Company in Portland at the same time & George Vazie of Portland belonged to that company and did the duty of a soldier therein. I believe that there was no Col. at Portland at that time but the Col rs Quarters were at the mouth of the Kennebec River and I carried letters to the Col. from Capt Reed at that time. I think the name of the Col. was Mc Cobb. I am very sure that said Vazie was in said Company doing the duty of a soldier aforesaid at least seven or eight months. Joshua Gammon

State of Maine
Cumberland ss. February 20, 1843 Then personally appeared the aforesaid Joshua Gannow known to me as a person of truth & veracity and made oath to the truth of the aforesaid deposition by him subscribed before me.
Freeman Bradford
Just: Peace

I Thomas Price of Cambulana in the County of Cambulana on oath depose & say that I am 79 years of age and served in the Company of Capt Joseph Price Col Prisoner in 1780 eight months He in the service in this company I was acquainted with Joseph Venable who served with me in said Company as a private eight months. I am sure that said Venable served the same time that I served during the season of 1780 and I know the service was an eight months service. I draw a pension of $26.66 per an- num for my services in the company aforesaid. Witness Lavinia Rideout D. Price Cambulana ss. December 3 rd 1844. Then personally appeared Thomas Price known to me as a man of truth & veracity and made oath to the truth of the affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me,
Freeman Bradford J.P.

28 th Congl 2. Sess
Additional Documents relating to the claim of Joseph Veazie, for a pension.
1846 Dec. 23 Referred to the Com: on Pensions.
374
Mr Fairfield

I Josiah Hobbs of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland on oath depose and say that I was a Drummer in Capt Joseph Pridie's Company in Col Pridie's Regiment in 1780 and was stationed eight months in Falmouth. I recollect that Joseph Vearie as belonging to our company & I believe he served as walter during said enlistment for the 1st Lieut Burns. The company was stationed at Falmouth from the latter part of April till into the month of December of that year, and I enlisted for eight months and the service was called an eight months service. I am unable to state the particular day that I entered the service or the day that I was discharged. I have no doubt but said Vearie served the full term aforesaid as I find his name recorded on the Muster Roll of the company which I now have before me. I have no doubt that said Muster Roll which I now have before me is a true and just roll as I will recollect the most of the names which I find thereon. The Muster Roll is recorded in the orderly Book of Capt Pridie's Company & I have no doubt that it is the identical and original orderly book of the company. Josiah Hobbs
Cumberland ss. June 7th 1844 Then personally appeared the abovenamed Josiah Hobbs known to me as a man of truth and made oath to the

I Enoch Moody of Portland in the County of Cumberland aged fifty seven years on oath depose & say, That I have had in my custody and possession an ancient orderly Book which I have had ever since the death of my father William Moody, who died on the sixteenth of February 1821. This orderly book purports to contain all the General and other orders for Capt Joseph Pridie's Company in Col Joseph Pridie's Regiment from April 30 th to the 30 th of November 1780. Said Book is in the handwriting of my father from May 21. st 1780 to the close except in one or two instances & from April 30 th to May 21 st and the exceptions aforesaid, in the handwriting of my uncle Enoch Moody. I have been familiar with and known this Book for more than forty years. In this Book there is a Muster Roll of Capt Pridie's Company in the handwriting of my father on which Roll there is borne among other names that of Joseph Vearie as waiter. The name of Enoch Knight, as 1 st Sergt Major & William Moody as 2 d Sergt is also borne on said Book. The last order recorded on said Book is under date of Nov 30 th 1780 and among other things directs Capt Pridie's Company to be discharged on the fifth

day of December Then next ensuing -
Enoch Moody
Cumberland S.S. June 7 th 1844 Then personally appeared the above named Enoch Moody & made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true and I certify that the said affiant is a man of truth Heman Bradford J.P.

I Joshua Garrison of Portland in the County of Cumberland on oath say, That in addition to my former testimony given in the case of Joseph Vearie I am now able to recollect more particularly as to his service. In the year 1781 Capt John Reed commanded a company stationed at that time in Portland under Col McComb. I perfectly well recollect that during that year Joseph Vearie took the place of his brother Jeremiah Vearie and served for him a part of that time. I recollect seeing him upon duty and upon Falmouth service and that he was quartered with the company. His service in the company was the latter part of the season Joseph Vearie belonged to the company when they were discharged and he served according to my best recollection at least three months.
Joshua Garrison
Cumberland S.S. June 7 th 1844 Then appeared Joshua Garrison & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed Before me J. Bradford J. Pease

I William Tukey of Portland in the County of Cumberland on oath depose & say That I enlisted in Capt John Reed's Company in 1781. This service was called on eight months service . Jeremiah Vearie of Portland was a soldier in Capt Reed's Company for a part of that season. I recollect of seeing Joseph Vearie with the accoutrements of a soldier during that term of service and had the impression at the time & have always had since that he served for his brother. I do not recollect that he was on the roll of the company and I do not know how long he served for his brother. I have always known Joseph Vearie for more than sixty years & he has always been reputed to be a man an honest well meaning man & of truth. I also state that I recollect of seeing Joseph Vearie drawing allowance at the Commissary's store during the season of 1781 while I was in Capt Reed's Company.
William Tukey
Cumberland S.S. June 7 th 1844 Then appeared the abovenamed William Tukey known to me as a man of truth & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me H. Bradford J.P.

JOSEPH VEAZIE,
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 191.]
—♦— DECEMBER 22, 1837. —♦—
Mr. KLINGENSMITH, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT: .
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which were referred the petition and papers of Joseph Veazie, report:
That, from his statement, it appears that he is a resident of the city of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, State of Maine; that he enlisted as a private soldier in the spring of the year 1777, in a company of artillery commanded by Captain Abner Lowell, which company was organized under the State of Massachusetts, and stationed in the town of Falmouth, of which the city of Portland is a part, for the protection of said town; that said company was not attached to any particular regiment, but organized and commissioned under the State of Massachusetts for the purpose aforesaid; that he served as an enlisted soldier in said company during all the rest of the year 1777, and part of the year 1778. The affidavits of Solomon Sawyer, James Bracket, and Isaac Hilton, duly authenticated, prove nine months' service. The committee are satisfied with the proof of service, and think the petitioner justly entitled to a pension of nine months' service; and therefore report a bill. 1780
Thomas Allen, print.

Joseph Veasey Joseph Petition of Daniel Veasey to be to be placed on the list of revolution- ary pensions, & granted a pension
Dec r 12 1836
Ref to the Committee on Rev d Pensions
Jan. 24. 1837 Bill No 879.
Dec r 11 1837
Ref to the Committee on Rev d Pensions
Dec r 22 1837 Bill ————— No 191
Smith of Maine
Over 9 months

Revolutionary claim
I Solomon Sawyer of Cumberland in the county of Cumberland State of Maine of lawful age do testify & declare that I am well acquainted with Joseph Veazie of the city of Portland in the county aforesaid State aforesaid as an applicant for a pension as a revolutionary soldier, and that the said Veazie enlisted in the company stationed in the ancient town of Falmouth now Portland under the command of Captain Abner Sawell which company was in the Massachusetts line - the said Veazie enlisted as aforesaid in the former part of the month of April in the year 1776. I know said fact from the circumstance that I enlisted myself in the same company in the month of February of the same year; and further testify that I was discharged from said company on the last of November of the same year & that I left said Veazie belonging to said company & doing duty therein. I am not able to state how long said Veazie continued in said company after I left it as aforesaid, because immediately after my said discharge I left said Falmouth and remained was absent three months when I returned again I paid no attention to what was doing in the company or who belonged to it, but spent the then following summer at Gorham about twelve miles from said Falmouth Solomon Sawyer
State of Maine
Cumberland ss On the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three the aforesaid deponent personally appeared & made solemn oath that the deposition aforesaid is just & true in all its parts according to his best knowledge recollection & belief before me the undersigned And I do certify that I have known said Sawyer several years and consider his character to stand fair & unimpeachable and that his declarations under oath are entitled to full faith & credit. J. D. Hopkins Just. of the peace

I James Bracket of Westbrook in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine , Housewright of the age of eighty one years depose testify and say that I served as a Carpenter in the artillery company stationed in Falmouth now Portland in said county in the commanded by Captain Ebenezer Lowell during part of the year 1777 and part of the year 1778 for the term of nine months — that said company was, in the Massachusetts line — I do not remember the time particularly in the year 1777 when I enlisted but I think my nine months term of service aforesaid expired about the first of May 1778. I further testify depose and say that when my said term expired I enlisted in another company and went to White Plains. I further testify depose and say that when I enlisted as aforesaid in said company commanded by said Captain Lowell that Joseph Veazie of said Portland now an applicant for a pension was a matross in said Lowell's company & did the duty of a soldier therein during all the period of my service in said company as aforesaid and that he said Veazie remained a soldier in said company at the time my said term of service therein as aforesaid expired. I do not know how long before and how long after I left said Lowell's company said Veazie served therein but I have not the least doubt of his serving as a soldier in said Lowell's company all the term of my said service and both before and afterwards. — and further saith not James Bracket
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss
On the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three the above named James Bracket personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just & true in all its parts according to the best of his knowledge recollection & belief before me the subscriber — and I do hereby certify & make known that the said James Bracket is personally known to me that he is a man of fair & respectable character, and that good faith & credit is given, and his is due, to his declaration and testimony under oath.
J. D. Hopkins, Justice of the peace for & within the county of Cumberland in the State aforesaid.

Joseph Veazie of the city of Portland an applicant for a pension as a soldier of the American revolution aged seventy two years depose and say that in the application which I have made and which is now in the office of the Department of War, for a pension I have as I verily believe mistaken my age and that I am now sixty two years of age. — know Further depose I say that I know not how I made the mistake but suppose the error must have arisen from a mistake in the record or memorandum which I copied, or a mistake in copying the same. That I have made such a mistake I now verily believe, I am the more fully convinced of it after hearing old persons speak of my age who generally suppose me to be as much as seventy two years old instead of sixty nine as my said memorial states and further saith not Joseph Veazie
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss. On the twenty third day of December A.D. 1833 the above-named Joseph Veazie personally appeared & made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just & true before me
J. D. Hopkins best ple
Maine District
District Clerk's Office December 23 d 1833
In testimony that James D. Hopkins is a magistrate as above and within and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts

Joseph Vanzie
36-191 Frank Prida
Light 1 to Dec 6, 1980

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 10 1811
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 Joseph Weazie is borne upon a pay roll of Capt Joseph Ride, Col Prime from Sept 1. to Dec 6. 1780 as a private 3 mos & 4 days
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass:
To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is requested to furnish from the rolls in his office, the service of Joseph Vearie the undersigned, in a company commanded by Capt Joseph Pide in The Regiment of Col. Pume for the year 1780. The undersigned believes he was in the service in the winter of 1780 & 1781. and was employed as a guard at the Magazine & the lower battery at Falmouth. In consequence of the loss of memory he is unable to state his service more particularly. In 1781. Capt Reed commanded and I performed service in that company for my brother Jeremiah Vearie
Subscribed S.S. June 1. 4th 1844 Joseph Vearie Signed before me
Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace

additional Representation in the case of Joseph Vrazie a revolutionary soldier & applicant for a pension -
The said Vrazie further on oath declares in addition to his former declaration that he enlisted in the Company of Artillery commanded by said Abner Small stationed at Palmouth in the spring of the year 1777 & that he served in said company as an enlisted soldier during all the rest of the year 1777 and part of the year 1778 he being when he so enlisted sixteen years of age - and that he received his rations with the rest of the Company from Joseph Noyes Commissary, - Joseph N. Vrazie.
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss. On the seventh eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty four Joseph Vrazie above-named personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is just & true according to his best knowledge recollection & belief before me J. D. Hopkins Just peace
Marine District
District Clerk's Office Sept. 26. 1834
In testimony that J. D. Hopkins Esq. is a Magistrate as above & within 2 that the signature is in part right to be his one genuine I have hereunto set my hand & seal official the day & year last above written.
Am Mufsey Clerk U. S.
Dist. Court. Maine

I Isaac Hilton of the city of Portland aged seventy four do hereby testify and say that I belonged to the military company of Artillery in the Massachusetts line which was stationed at Palmecath in the county of Cumberland & State of Maine & commanded by Abner Lowell on an occasion that I belonged to said company in the years 1779 1778 & part of 1779 — and further do hereby say that Joseph Vezie of said Portland was an enlisted soldier in said company the principal part of the year 1779 — whether longer or not I am not able to recollect — that said company was a company of Artillery not attached to any regiment but and was regularly supplied with rations by Joseph Vezie Commissary during all the time aforesaid —
Isaac Hilton
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss. On the eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty four Isaac Hilton above named personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just & true according to his best knowledge recollection & belief before me the undersigned. And I do certify that the said Isaac Hilton's declarations under oath are entitled to good faith & credit.
J. D. Hopkins Just of the peace for the county of Cumberland.