Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], Turner Oliver, Mass.

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Name 18.203
Oliver Turner
of Turner in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Regt: commanded by Col. Jacob - in the Mass: Mil- itia for 10 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 21 Dollars 10 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of July 1833 and sent to J. T. Brown Brattlefield
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $42.20 Sem-ant. allowance ending Sept. 10.55
$52.75
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 1 Page 59

Oliver Surner Declaration
18833
V
Oliver Surner

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 28 th day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the now sitting, Oliver Tufts a resident of Gamewell in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 67 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. He first engaged in a
Company commanded by Captain John Hemen of Penobscot in the County of Exe . Plymouth Haverhill and vicinity of Massachusetts of Col. Brooks Regiment and marched to Cambridge near Boston. And was stationed there & employed in guarding the prisoners taken under Genl. Burgoyne and was in service there two months and then dismissed by another man taking his place - He cannot state the time of this service otherwise than by the above named fact of Burgoyne being here -
After this he enlisted again into a company commanded by the same Capt. Hemen of Col. Brooks Regiment for three months and went to Rhode Island and was stationed there at Bully Hill Fort, where he served through said campaign in said company. This was while the French Fleet & Troops were at Rhode Island. He cannot otherwise identify the time.
That after the foregoing he engaged again & entered the Company commanded by Captain Cook of Situate whose Colonel Regiment he has forgotten, for forty days to go to Rhode Island and marched there & was stationed near said Bully Hill Fort where he served through said forty days and was dismissed, having been employed in guard duty chiefly

Said Turner says he was born in Pembroke in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the year 1764. when there is and also in the town of Turner in the County of Oxford may be found a record of his age - that he lived in the Pembroke when called into the service & has lived in the towns of Hiram, Green, Turner, North Salem, Hiram in the Maine, since the war and now lives in said Turner - that he was always a volunteer in the army. He does not now recall any names of regular officers or regiments with him.
And said Turner gives the names of David Sherburne, Stephen of said Turner & Aaron Spung of said Turner in said County as persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood & who can testify as to his character for honesty & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
Oliver Turner

He 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.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before Stephen Emery, Judge
Oliver Turner

W. David Thurston Stephens, a clergyman residing the town of Sumner County of Oxford State of Maine & Adam Turner of Paris in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Turner who has subscribed oath to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 67 years of age - that he is respected & believed in his neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we con- cur in that opinion - David T. Stephens
Adam Turner Subscribed & sworn to in open Court
Stephen Emery, Judge
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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. he having ad- duced the certificate of David T. Stephens, a clergyman of said Sum- ner of Adam Turner, brother of the applicant - credible person, & the deposition of said Adam Turner & of Jonathan Runk, on oath duly administered, in corroboration of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Turner for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of May A. D. 1833.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

I Adarn Turner of Paris in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged sixty three years, on oath say that I was born & brought in Pembroke in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts - that Oliver Turner, who now resides in Sumner in said County of Oxford, is my brother. that I well remember of said Oliver, enlisting into the army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain - into a Company commanded by my Uncle John Turner, of said Pembroke, to go to Cambridge to guard Benjoins army then prisoners there - I don't recollect how long he was gone but think it was most of the winter. That afterwards, but I cannot tell the year, he enlisted again under said Captain Turner to go to Rhode Island & went there & served three months as I suppose, for that was the time he enlisted for & he came home with the rest of the Company its Captain - That afterwards he enlisted again into another Company and went to Rhode Island for forty days, which term he served as I suppose for I know he was gone that time & came home afterwards. His Captain in this term, I cannot remember.
County of Oxford. State of Maine August 29. 1842 Then the foregoing abovenamed Adarn Turner, to me well known as a man of truth personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Samuel P. Mason Justice of the Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW , Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Samuel F. Brownrigg
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Adam Turner & Jonathan Record is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 18th day of May in the year A. D. 1833
RK Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I Jonathan Reed of Rockfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty two years, do hereby say that I was a soldier in the American Army during the revolutionary war for several periods, one of which was in the Company of Capt John Turner of Pownal Massachusetts of Col. Jacob's Regiment for three months, at Rhode Island, when we were stationed at a near Brattle Hill, on the Island, when a fort was building. I further say that I well remember that Rev. Turner, who now lives in Turner in said County of Oxford, was a soldier in said Company, he being written to Captain Turner, & that he served for said term according to my best recollection. I have often seen said Turner since & know him to be the same man who served with me as above mentioned -
Jonathan Reed
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. August 29. 1837. Then the above named Jonathan Reed to me known to be a man of strict veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me David Brown Justice of the Peace

31439 Rev. INVALID.
File No. 31439
Oliver Lumer
Li Rev. Rev
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 424
[Arrangement of 1870.]

16.833
Oliver Turner
8 May 33
Olj. 16.
Admitted
6 Mos 100s
21.09
J. F. Brown Bucksport Maine
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BRIEF in the case of Oliver Turner of Sumner in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 67 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Gardiner Barracks Prisoner In 17 - 2 Private Col Turner. Col Brooks   3 Col Turner Col Jacobs   1 10 Col Curtis  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pembroke Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attached as reg d 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutts Examining Clerk.