Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 22494, Thomas Wasson, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wasson Thomas Mary
W 22494 B.L. Mt. 36534-160-55
CONTENTS

Admit
Musician 3 years
88
Leut. Clainard

Statement of Thomas Wason in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
I Thomas Wason of Brooksville in the county of Hancock & State of Maine on oath declare, that I have once been on the pension roll under the act of March 18. 1818 & dropped therefrom on account of property - that I served three years in the Army of the Revolution, as a piper in the fifth  tenth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Biglow. The evidence of which service together with my discharge are now at the War Department - That I now reside in the town of Brooksville county of Hancock aforesaid, & did reside there when I made my first application under the act of March 18. 1818
Thomas Wason
State of Maine } Hancock ss. } August 15 th A.D. 1832
Personally appeared Thomas Wason & made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed Before me Chas. Kirk Tilden Justice of the Peace
State of Maine Hancock ss. Contine August 15. A.D. 1832.
I Wm. Williams Register of the court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that Chas. Kirk Tilden is a justice of the Peace & that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the day & year aforesaid
Wm. Williams Register of Probate

2536.
Maine.
Mary Wasson, widow of Thomas Wasson.
Mass who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Musician -
Increased from $80 -
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Deducting former payments Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Oct 1849, and sent to
Hon. H. Williams Castine, Maine
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 43, Vol. 1
H. E. Robinson
219240

219.240 Act Mar 3/55 Oct 23/55
Mary Wasson and Thomas Wasson Thomas Wasson.
Ref 1036337/1/2 Hifer Rev. Mr.
Rev. Penn me July 48-2536
Rev. 1600a, p. 31/57 B. J. D. R.
A. W. Bates Rev. Mr.
Vol W = 1 = 20

3546 Maine
Thomas Wasson of Brooksville in the State of Maine who was a Musician in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the Regt commanded by Col Biglow in the Mass's line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Dec's 1832 and sent to Claimant Brooksville, Me
Arrears to 14th of Sep 1832 $ 1.32 Pension allowance ending March 1833 — 1.44
$1.76
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 101

"Lincoln Jt. This may certify that the following persons have been joined in marriage agreeable to the laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts for the solemnization of marriages since the month of April 1788 and that their return to William Webber Town Clerk for the town of Penobscot is a true copy of my record - viz
----- Thomas Watson & Mary Carter Decem r 16. 1788 -----
by me. Gabriel Johomet Justice of the Peace.
Penobscot April 30. th 1789.
The above a true copy - "W. WEBBER Town Clerk," State of Maine - Hancock Jt Clerk's office Ellsworth. I George W Brown Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court hereby certify that the foregoing is a true & exact copy of the original return of marriages as on file in this office, as far as relates to the marriage of the said Thomas Watson to Mary Carter.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of February A.D. 1844.
G. W Brown, Clerk of said Court.
Fees 50

A Record of the names and Age of John Watson & Martha Watson & their Children
John Watson was born Decem r y e 10 th day in y e year 1723 Died the Eighth day of October in the year 1706 Martha Watson was born Jan y y e 12 th day in y e year 1722 Died the sixth day of July in the year 1795
Mary Watson was born Feby y 10 th day in y e year 1745 Martha Watson Jr e was born March 15 th day 1747 William Watson was born Aug t 17 th day 1749 Anna Watson was born March 16 th day 1752 John S. Watson was born Decem r 12 th day 1754 Elizabeth Watson was born Oct r 19 th day 1757 Samuel Watson was born Jan y 12 th day 1760 Thomas Watson was born Feby y 8 th day 1763 Susanna Watson was born I cant tell when Died —
Mary Burnam of Bluehill died April y e 24 th 1820. Simeon Burnam of D r - died Dec r - 1820. Sam l Watson of Brookville. died y e 13 th of October - 1838.

Record of Births & Deaths of Grand Children in
Thaddius Shepardson -- born June the 21 st A.D. 1809. Mary Carter Shepardson -- D o Dec r y e 25 th -- -- 1811. Grace Fitch Shepardson -- D o July y e 16 th -- -- 1814. Eunice Shepardson -- D o Nov r y e 20 th -- -- 1816. Thomas W. Shepardson -- D o Feb y y e 8 th -- -- 1819. Otis Sewall Shepardson -- D o Dec r y e 8 th -- -- 1820. Lucy Hale Shepardson -- D o March y e 2 nd -- -- 1823. Lyman Shepardson -- D o Dec r y e 24 th -- -- 1825. Harriet Ch. Shepardson -- D o Aug t y e 6 th -- -- 1828. Elias Hart Shepardson -- D o March y e 9 th -- -- 1831. William F. Shepardson D o Feb y y e 18 th -- -- 1835. 
Grace Fitch Shepardson -- Died April y e 27 th A.D. 1834. William Fitch Shepardson -- D o Nov r y e 15 th -- -- 1838. Lyman Shepardson -- D o April y e 8 th -- -- 1839. Thomas W. Shepardson -- D o August y e 8 th -- -- 1839.

A Record of the Age of Edward Carter & Esther Carter & their Children
Edward Carter was born April 23 rd day 1743 Esther Carter was born Decem r 20 th day 1746
Edward Carter Jun r was born Decem r 17 th day 1765 died
Esther Carter Jun r was born Novem r 8 th day 1766
Caty Carter was born July 8 th day 1768
Isaac P Carter was born April 27 th day 1770
Mary Carter was born Feby 22 nd day 1772
Betty K. Carter was born Sept r 30 th day 1773
Edward Carter Jun r was born Aug t 8 th day 1775
Thomas Carter was born July 13 th day 1777
Susanna Carter was born Oct r 12 th day 1779
Jonathan Carter was born March 24 th day 1782
John Carter was born Decem r 21 st day 1784
Mary Carter married to Tho. Wapson Decem r 16 th day 1780
Esther Carter married to Jon s Holbrook Decem r 15 th day 1790
Esther Carter of Belmont, died April 27 th 1826 Isaac P. Carter of Ohio -- died Sept r 27 th 1826 Edward Carter of Belmont died March 25 th 1827 Jonathan Carter of Montville, died at Sea, 1833

No 195 11/7/41
BOUNTY LAND ACT, 1855.
Claim of Mary Wasson Widow of Thomas Wasson
Revolutionary War.
FILED BY
R. W. Bates Present

For a person who has never received Bounty Land.
STATE OF Maine } ss. COUNTY OF Hancock
On this tenth day of October A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Wasson aged 85 years a resident of said County & State
Maine who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Mary Wasson widow of Thomas who was Pensioned under Act Feb 2/48 at the rate of Eighty Eight Dollars per annum, as will be seen by reference to a copy of her Pension Certificate herewith filed the original original upon which said Pension was allowed being now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, to which she begs leave to refer in proof of her Marriage to the said Thomas Wasson as well as to his services in the Revolutionary Army that her husband entered the service on the day of the and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and upwards, and was honorably discharged and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land, under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Wm Bates of Washington City D. C. is hereby authorized to receive any warrant that may be issued hereon.
Mary Wasson
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES.
We
Thos Shepardson and John Jones Jr. upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above Mary Wasson in our presence, and that we believe from our personal knowledge of Mrs Mary Wasson who signed the above declaration that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we have no interest in this claim.
Thos Shepardson John Jones Jr.
MAGISTRATE'S CERTIFICATE.
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that I believe the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Charles H. Fildes J. P.
COUNTY CLERK'S CERTIFICATE.
STATE OF Maine } ss. I hereby certify that Charles H. Fildes Esq. COUNTY OF Hancock
before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is and was, at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this fifteenth day of October 1855.
P. W. Perry Clerk.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."
State of Massachusetts  Maine , County of Hancock } ss.
On this twenty sixth day of February in the year Eighteen Hundred & Forty- four Personally appeared in open court before the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for Hancock County in said State of Maine Mary Wason a resident of Brooksville in the county of Hancock aged sixty two years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following decla- ration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Thomas Wason who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War & was placed on the pension list September the seventeenth one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and belonged to the Mass- -achusetts Continental Line or Troops
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Wason on the twelfth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight ; that her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Wason died on the twelfth day of December A.D. 1840 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me,
Mary Wason
David M. Pond, Judge of Probate.
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