Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,623, Abraham Winslow, Continental. Mass.

SERVICE
SERVICE continental. Mass.
★ Winslow, Abraham Elizabeth
NUMBER _____
W. 26. 6 23.
CONTENTS

Maine
3198
Elizabeth Winslow widow of Abraham Winslow, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of . . . . . and who died on the . . . . . 1806, of Falmouth in the State of Maine who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain . . . . . of the reg t commanded by Col Brooks in the Mass s Cont l line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 10 Dollars . . . . . Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of June, 1839 and Eben D. Smith Brunswick Maine
Arrears to the 14th of March 1839 $ 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39 40.00
$ 280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by J. M. Curley Book A. Vol. 1. Page 2

Abraham Winstow  Soldier in the American — Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the twentieth Day of June
1784
By the General's Command, H. G. W. B. B. B.
C. Seldorn  Capt  Q.M.
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Charles Seldorn Adjutant

State of Maine Cumberland ss.
I Charles Golt Clerk of all the Judicial courts in said County certify that Ezekiel Whitman is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, and that Richard Belcher and Eben t Everett are Magistrates as appears upon the foregoing papers, and that the several signatures purporting to be theirs, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eleventh day of March A.D. 1839.
Charles Golt Clerk

I John Webster of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine. on oath do testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Abraham Winslow late of Freeport. aforesaid who was reputed to be a soldier of the revolution and that he died as I think on the seventh day of February eighteen hundred and six in said Town of Freeport. his death was caused by an injury received by the falling of a tree. I further recollect of making a charge on my book against said Winslow after he was hurt before his death and I think the day before he died and I find by referring to my book charge against said Winslow that it was on the sixth day of February A.D. 1806 that the charge was made and I further testify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Winslow. The widow of said Abraham Winslow. who now remains a widow and lives a near neighbour to me in said Town of Freeport.
John Webster
Cumberland Fe February 28. 1839
Personally appeared John Webster Esq. and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Richard Belcher Jus. of the peace
Freeport February 28 th 1839
I here by certify that the above John Webster Esq. The deponent is a person of truth and veracity. Richard Belcher Jus. of the peace

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Elizabeth Winslow wid of Abraham
Me Act Aug 7. 1838 Married 1789 died 1806
Allow 2 if peramb $ 80 per annum Maf. contine Col. Brooks
Eliza Locutt Brunswick Me

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF Cumberland ss.
On this sixth day of March A.D. 1839 personally appeared before Bezziel Whitman Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, legally held at Portland in said County on this first Tuesday of March and in open Court. Elizabeth Winslow a resident of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Abraham Winslow who was a private in the army of the revolution and she makes the following declaration according to her best knowledge, belief, that the said Abraham Winslow enlisted into the service in the year seventeen hundred & eightyone that he then resided in that part of North yarmouth in said County, which is now Freeport ; that the said Abraham continued in the service until June 30 th 1784. when he was regularly discharged as appears by the annexed certificate of his discharge, which was left in her possession by her said husband at his decease; but the officers under whom he served her recollection does not serve her; and she refers & the other evidence herunto annexed D.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Abraham Winslow on the twelfth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine and that her husband, the aforesaid Abraham Winslow died on the seventh day of February A.D. 1806 , 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.
Witness Seth Bailey  Elizabeth W. Winslow John Prescott  mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written:
Before me
Bezziel Whitman Chief Justice of the C. & C. Pleas for said State

I Annie Dunham late of Brunswick, now of Freeport in the State of Maine, aged seventy four years on oath declare, that I am a pensioner of the United States having served in the revolutionary army in the 7th regiment in the 1st Brigade of the Massachusetts line, under Col John Brooks; that I have been acquainted with Abraham Whistler, late of Freeport, now deceased, from my childhood until his decease. I enlisted in the year 1781 from that part of North Yarmouth which borders on what is now Freeport & the said Abraham Whistler enlisted in the class of recruits next after me, he then residing in that part of North Yarmouth, which is now Freeport. I knew the said Abraham Whistler in the service at Newberg, Westport & other places on the Hudson or North river, as much as two years or more we being during almost the whole of that time stationed very near to each other. I cannot state from recollection positively in what regiment or company he served, my impression is that he served in the sixth regiment of the third Brigade. I knew the said Abraham afterwards till his death which happened twenty or thirty years ago at Freeport, occasioned by the falling of a tree. I am also well acquainted with his widow Elizabeth Whistler of Freeport, now an applicant for a pension of their family, having known her both before & since her marriage. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Welch & she lived in that part of North Yarmouth, which is now Freeport. The said Abraham and Elizabeth intermarried not long after he left the service in the revolutionary army, and I have no doubt it was before the beginning of the year 1794 & they lived together till the decease of the said Abraham. I am still acquainted with the said Elizabeth who ever since has resided at Freeport aforesaid & still remains the widow of the said Abraham. Annie Dunham
State of Maine Cumberland ss. Brunswick February 26. 1839. Then the above named Annie Dunham, a person of fair reputation for truth & veracity, was duly sworn to the truth of the

foregoing declaration before
Abner Everett
Justice of the Peace.

"The following couple were married by me the Subscribers vizt.
February twelfth. Abraham Whislone and Elizabeth Welch both of this town, Seventeen hundred and eighty nine.
David Mitchell Just. Peace.
Recorded for David Mitchell Town Clerk.
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the record of marriages for the town of North yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows,
"Feb 12"
"1789"
Samuel Sweetser Clerk of the town of North yarmouth
I Samuel Sweetser above named depose and say, that I hold the office of clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Samuel Sweetser Town Clerk
State of Maine Cumberland ss } March 6. 1839.
Sworn before me
Bliss D. Dett Justice of the Peace.

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File No. 26,623
Elizabeth Winslow Wid of Abraham Winslow Brn Mass line
Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol M , Page 347
[Arrangement of 1870.]