Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,145, Benjamin Woodbury, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
★ Woodbury Benjamin Woodberry or
8 35145
CONTENTS

8422 / Maine
Benjamin Woodbury Dist. of Maine of Bridgeton in the state of Maine who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hatchinson Tappan of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of March 1819 and sent to W m Widgey, Esq. Portland - Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 4 / 30  4 / 31 02. 09 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 - 40. 09 $ 130. 09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

35 145 Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 145
Benjamin Woodbury Serg Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 464
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mr Benjamin Woodberry of the County of Massachusetts Esq r Neigement St. In the Service of the United States of America,
Given Under My Hand, At
Volauvay this fifteenth, of Nov. 17 th A.D. 1782
Berry Supper club
Billy Porter Capt

Benj a Woodbury Sergeant Colonel Hutchin- son's Regt. Mass s Line
1775 to 1778 1778 to '81 - 3 years. due 27 April 1818
Admitted.

Buy a Woodbury.

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Benjamin Woodbury of Bridgeton in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier and corporal & sergeant in the war of the revolution for the term of five years service on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Bridgeton aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being now seventy two years of age.
AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private corporal & sergeant to the First Company of the eleventh Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the fifteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and that he left said service on or about the twenty second day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty one the term of his enlistment having then expired & he having received an honorable discharge which has since been lost, having been appointed sergeant in the Rev. 1780  when and his warrant is herewith annexed. He also served in the in the company of Col. Kimball & the regiment of Col. Hutchinson one year & eight months from about the first of July 1776 to January 1778
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this twenty seventh day of April
1818.
Benj a Woodbury
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Benj. Woodbury the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Benj. Woodbury farther offered in evidence
a warrant of his appointment as sergeant which is herewith annexed
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Benj. Woodbury served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy. and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. All which is herewith certified & transmitted
Wm Widgery
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY , is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 27. day of June A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury