Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17186, John Watson, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Watson, John
S. 17186
CONTENTS
carded

Maine 21. 546
John Watson of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stewart of the 1st by Col. Kinney in the Mass line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of a Name at the rate of 26 Dollars 67 1/2 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sept 1833 and sent John Messiah Portland Maine Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $66.67 Semi-ann. allowance ending Feb 4th 34 - 13.33 $80.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by John Watson Clerk Book 2 Vol. 1st Page 4

17,186 INVALID.
File No. 17,186
John Watson Pr. Geo. M.
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 396
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ino Watson
7/16/74.
Private 8 March
Capt Stewart's Company
Col Phinnegy's Regt
Mass
  26  64    53  34    13  33    66  67  
John Mussey Esq. Portland Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Gorham Portland , within and for said District, on the thirty first day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this thirty first day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge John Watson a resident of Gorham in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged ninety one 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 a noncommissioned officer in the company commanded by Capt. Stuart in the Regiment commanded by Col. Edmund Phinney of the Massachusetts line; that he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1775, for the term of eight months, and immediately marched from Gorham to Cambridge, and there joined said Regt. - That they served out full eight months there and in that neighborhood, and that he was then discharged and return'd to his home in said Gorham. That they were not during said term in any battle - That he was born in Gorham and has always lived in he has a record of his age in a family bible - that he has always lived in Gorham - Darius Whitney & Jonathan Sturges both of Gorham were with him in the service.
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
John Watson
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District 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 that Jonathan Sturgis whose deposition is annexed is a person of veracity & worthy of credit
I, John Nussey 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 John Watson for a pension. And that Sophron Robie Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Jonathan Sturgis is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestation are entitled to full faith & credit. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Jonathan Sturgis of Gorham in the County of Cumberland do testify and declare that John Watson of said Gorham enlisted as a non-commissioned officer in the month of April 1775 in the company commanded by Capt. Stuart in the Regt. commanded by Col. Edmund Phinney of the Massachusetts line; that said company marched two or three days after the company to which I belonged from Gorham to Cambridge, and there both companies joined said Regiment, and that said Watson served out his full term of eight months for which he enlisted and then was discharged.
Jonathan Sturgis
Gorham July 27. 1832.
Cumberland ss. July 27. 1832. Personally appeared Jonathan Sturgis, above named, and made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true.
Before me - Tappan Robie Just. Peace. Gorham July 15. 1833. I hereby certify that the above named deponent Jonathan Sturgis is a man of truth and veracity, he being personally known to me. Tappan Robie. Justice of Peace.
Maine District
District Clerk's Office July 17. 1833
In testimony that Tappan Robie is a Magistrate as above & that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine I have hereto set my hand & seal of Office the day & year last above written.
John Mussey Clerk U. S. Courts

I Thaddeus Pomeroy of Gorham in the County of Cumberland do testify and say, That I am well acquainted with John Watson, a member of my Parish, who has made application to the Government of the U. States for a pension for his revolutionary services, that he sustains an unimpeachable character for truth and veracity, and that I have no doubt the statement he has made in said application in relation to his revolutionary services is strictly true, it being generally reported of him that he was in the service.
Thaddeus Pomeroy
Cumberland ss. July 15. 1833. The above named deponent, Rev. Thaddeus Pomeroy, a respectable Clergyman of Gorham, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above.
Before me
Josiah Robie. Justice of the Peace