Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35126, Benjamin Winslow, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass-
Winslow, Benjamin
S 35/26
CONTENTS

6709
4 Maine.
Benjamin Winslow
Private. 9 mo. Capt. White
Mass. Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jan. 1819 and sent to Sarah, Widow of
Wiscasset, Lincoln
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 mo 21/30 37:60
Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1819 48
61-20 $85:60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Wiscasset, Lincoln
Maine 4 March 1819
Continue
Mr. Grafton, Esq. Wiscasset, Maine Sept 1818 I have the honor to inform you that the within is a true copy of the original as shown to the Hon. Mr. Grafton, Esq. by me, your obedient servant, J. H. [?] Sept 1818

No. 2247 Wiscasset Me. Nov 17/47
Enactus Roots &
Mrs Mary Windlow su- bited to a pension.
F. No. see Nov 20/47 Pension Office W. Ames
Free H To the Hon Secretary of War Washington City D.C.

Free. III
To the Hon Secretary of War. Washington City D. C.
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Wiscasset, Maine. Nov 17. 1847.
To the Hon Genl of War. Sir -
Benjn Winslow of this Town was a Revolutionary Pensioner, he died within six mo's of March 1834. He drew his usual pension until his death - His wife Mary Winslow lived some years after he died. They were married in 1780. I now wish to propose a few questions. 1 st Would not she be entitled while she lived to 1/2 his pension? 2 d . If she was entitled to it, but thro' ignorance of her right neglected to apply for it, while she lived, would not her legal heirs by right be entitled to the same amt which was due her at her decease. Will you have the kindness to inform the heirs thro' me, & thus do a favor to a number of destitute survivors of a Revolutionary soldier & oblige
Your Obedt Servant Prastus Foote Jr "

I, Elisha Winslow Aged fifty two Years on oath do testify & declare that I am the son of Benjamin Winslow Who Was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Wiscasset Lincoln County, Maine. and died on the 19 th day of March A. D. 1835; that Mary Winslow the Widow of said Benj. Winslow lived a Widow until August 1837 that I believe there is a balance of Pension due the Children of said Mary Winslow and that I call on the Proper Department of the U. States for a Copy of the Declaration of the said Benjamin Winslow which he filed in the Pension Office at the time the said Benjamin Winslow was placed on the Pension Roll. in order that the heirs of said Benjamin and Mary Winslow may obtain the Pension Money due at the death of the said Mary Winslow and to send the same to Walter Nichols of North Searsport, Maine.
Dated on this 6 th day of March A. D. 1851
Witness Walter Nichols Rosina Nichols
Elisha his Winslow mark
State of Maine
Waldo County ss. March 6 th 1851
Sworn to and Subscribed before Me.
Walter Nichols. Justice of the Peace

4 Benjamin Winslow
6709.
March 1819
W. L. Grah

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the  day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this twentieth day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared in open court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Benjamin Winslow aged sixty one years, resident in Wiscasset in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Private in the company commanded by Capt. George White in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Pepper in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the fourteenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 6709 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Sworn to and declared, on the 20 th day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Benjamin Winslow Josiah Stebbins { One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real estate, none, Personal property, a little household furniture, all in one room
Benjamin Winslow
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Benjamin Winslow who, by occupation am a laborer which I am unable to pursue by reason of ill health
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Mary Winslow 60 wife of said Benjamin, who has lost the use of one hand, five years since   Eli Stickney five years an orphan grand child who shares in our poverty  
Benjamin Winslow
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is ten dollars and cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

Ben m Winlow Private Tupper Mass. Reg t June 1778. - 9. mo.
adm d
April 14. 1818 Enlisted June 19 1778 Discharged March 19 1779

State of Massachusetts
I Benjamin Winslow a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Leicester in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of May 1778
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the con- tinental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to June 18. 1778 being the time I passed muster at Fishkill until the 19 th day of March 1779 being nine months being the time for which I enlisted. — as a private soldier — against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. White's Company Col. Trefren's Regiment, Massachusetts Line as I supposed —
and that I left the service on the 19 th day of March 1779 at least Point where I received an honorable discharge which I have lost — and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty nine years — for our march to Fishkill after we enlisted being about four hundred miles, I never received any payment, nor for our march home the same distance —
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
In presence of Jere Bailey Lincoln ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
his Benjamin X Winslow mark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the same being the Court of records. —
the abovenamed
Benjamin Winslow
I after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jere Bailey —
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court above named, that his signature to this caption is genuine that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court
John H. Sheppard

35126
Day INVALID.
File No. 85-196
Benjamin Winslow
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 459
[Arrangement of 1879.]

North Searsport, Maine.
March 6 th 1851
Sir,
I herewith enclose to you the declaration of Elisha Winslow in order to obtain a Copy of the declaration of Benjamin Winslow that the heirs may obtain the arrearages of Pension due in right of Mary Winslow widow of said Benjamin. or all is requested is his statement of the services he performed that the heirs may know whether to take the advantage of the act of July 4 th 1836 or July 7 th 1836
You will please to enclose the same to me
Yours Respectfully Walter Nichols North Searsport, Maine
Hon James E. Heath Com. of Pensions City of Washington D. C.
P.S. Benjamin Winslow & Mary Kincaid were married September 15 th 1780. Was he in the service after that date?