Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35496, for James Keen, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Nass-
Keen, James
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 35496
CONTENTS

Record August 7. 1821 and sent to Thomas Clark Paris, Maine
11.467 R Dist n of Maine.
James Keen, of Oxford Co n in the state of Massach tts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey, of the Massach tts line, for the term of
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist n of Maine, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. of June, 1819. and sent to Albion H. Parris, judge Paris, Oxford County, dist. Maine
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819.  - 86.36.     Semi-ann. all ce ending 4. Sept. 1819.  48 "     $ 20   } $134.36.    10 mo: 30     8 4/31     Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

James Keene.

State of Maine -
Oxford ss.
At a Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Paris within and for the County of Oxford on the third Tuesday of August, and by adjournment, on the fourth Tuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three - before the Honourable Ezekiel Whitman Judge of said Court -
On this 23 d day of September in the year 1823, 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 County - James Keen aged seventy three years, resident in Sumner in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 10 th March, 1818, and the 1 st May 1820, that he, the said James Keen enlisted for the term of three years in April or May of in the year 1775 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt s William Reed & others in the regiment commanded by Col o John Bailey in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until January 1778 when he was discharged from the said service in Fishkill in the State of New York - that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropt therefrom on account of his property - And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 10 th 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 10 th 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 herunto annexed - and by me subscribed:
That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property -

   Names of the persons to whom sold - Time of sale. Amount of money, or description of property, received in return -     The right of redeeming the farm mentioned in my former schedule was a mistake made by the person who drew up my application. the land referred to was conveyed by Deed to Francis Keen - March 1. 1819 - The amount of consideration in said Deed to Francis Keen, is one hundred Dollars. which I received of said Francis in the board of myself & wife -   The oxen aforesaid were on said farm, but never were my property. in the fall of 1822 for $12.00 in support of myself & wife -   Andrew Keen - one Cow do - 1821. for $13.00 in a demand due to said Brocker. The yearling heifer has been expended in my family & I have no other property whatever.   Thos. Brocker - one Cow -  
Attest Thomas Clarke
James his X mark Keen
Schedule of the family residing with me James Keen who, by occupation am a farmer, which I am unable to pursue by reason of a severe injury caused by the fall of a tree - deafness & also by the infirmities of old age -
   Names. ages. Capacity of each to contribute to their support     Sarah Keen my wife 60 years afflicted by the rheumatism, and unable to do anything towards her support -  
Attest Thomas Clarke
James his X mark Keen
State of Maine.
Oxford ss. I Rufus K Goodenow Clerk of the Judicial Court within the County of Oxford, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the Court of Common Pleas: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court, that the said James Keen has no property whatever. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this 28 th day of September A. D. 1823.
R. K. Goodenow

We the undersigned Selectmen & overseers of the poor of the town of Sumner, do hereby certify that James Reen of said town of Sumner, has his (the said Reen's) maintenance, wholly by said town of Sumner from the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty two, until the date hereof inclusive; And that we, the said overseers, having made diligent search for property, can find none, nor can we find any right of redemption to any property whatever, which the said James Reen now has, or heretofore has had, since he the said Reen became chargeable to the town of Sumner as a pauper - & that we, in the capacity of Selectmen or overseers of the poor of said town, have received no rent, nor the avails of any right of redemption which the said Reen has had or now has, nor do we know of any belonging to him whatever.
Sumner Sept 19. 1823.
Increase Robinson Stephen Ellis James Hensley Jr.
Selectmen & overseers the poor of Sumner
State of Maine
Oxford ss Personally appeared the above named Increase Robinson, Stephen Ellis, and James Hensley Jr., Selectmen and Overseers of the poor of the town of Sumner and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Certificate by them signed this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three before me
Simson Barrett Justice of the Peace

State of Maine -
Oxford ss. I Rufus K. Goodenow Clerk of the Judicial Courts within the County of Oxford, do hereby certify, that Simeon Barrett Junr. Esquire, within named, is a Justice of the Peace, for said County of Oxford, acting under the authority of the State of Maine & that full faith may be given to his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, on this 20th day of September A. D. 1823 -
R. K. Goodenow

State of Maine -
Oxford ss. I Rufus K. Goodenow Clerk of the Judicial Courts within the County of Oxford, do hereby certify, that Simeon Barrett Junr. Esquire, within named, is a Justice of the Peace, for said County of Oxford, acting under the authority of the State of Maine & that full faith may be given to his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, on this 20th day of September A. D. 1823 -
R. K. Goodenow

Know all Men by these Presents.....That
I James Thurn of Sumner in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman
In consideration of the sum of One hundred Dollars paid by Francis Thurn of Paris in said County Yeoman -
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Francis Thurn - his -
heirs and assigns forever A certain piece or parcel of land situated in Sumner aforesaid Viz. the whole of lot numbered one in the seventh range containing one hundred and thirty six acres be the same more or less. -
To Have and to Hold the aforegranted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof, to the said Francis Thurn his -
heirs and assigns, to his & their use and behoof forever.....And I do covenant with the said Francis Thurn - his -
heirs and assigns, that I lawfully seized in fee of the premises; that they are free from all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Francis Thurn -
to hold as aforesaid. And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Francis Thurn - his
heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said James Thurn -
have hereunto set my hand and seal this first - day of March - In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty  Nineteen -
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF Stephen Emery
James X Thurn mark
Oxford ss. May 16 th 1819 - Personally appeared The above named James Thurn acknowledged the above Instrument to be his free Act and Deed. Before me,
Enoch Lincoln - JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Oxford ss. Nov. 10 th 1820 and recorded from the original Hanson Wells Scribe

Oxford ss. Paris Sept. 26. 1823 I hereby certify that the within is a true copy from Oxford Records from Book 19. Page 53 - M. Hanson Miller Prognitor
copy of a Deed James Hearn Francis Hearn -

The foregoing declaration & statement is sworn to in open Court before me this 23 d September 1823.
Ezekiel Whitman Chf. Justice of said Court -
Attest copy.
Attest -
R. H. Goodenow, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within & for said County of Oxford

35 496 Rev INVALID.
File No. 85-496
James Keen Wm Rev D.D.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 220
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine
James Keen, private
1 year - 1776.
1 st Schedule June 1820
The right of redemption upon one farm, which right is valued at $120 - 1 yoke of oxen - 2 cows - 1 yearling, and a little furniture - amt of schedule $105,50
2 nd Schedule Sept 23. 1823
no property whatever -
He says "that the right of redeeming the "farm mentioned in my former schedule was "a mistake made by the person who drew up "my application - the land referred to was "unconveyed by Deed to Francis Keen, "March 1. 1819" - a duly authenticated copy of Deed within - acknowledged
May 14. 1819 & Recorded Nov. 10. 1819
The amount of consideration in said Deed is $100, which I recd.
of said Francis in the Board of myself & wife.
1 cow, sold in the fall of 1822 to Andrew Keen, for $12. in support of my wife -
1 cow, sold in 1821 to T. Brookes for $13 to pay admeasurement -
His age 73 - in firm Wife 68, unable to labor
Thomas Clark
Paris,
Maine
Sep 19
Reston d Oct. 21. 1823

Rec d Oct 8 1822
1 March 1822
Manuscript
James Monroe
Sept
1822
Washington
Secretary of the War Department
Hon. John C. Calhoun.

Paris Sept. 20 th 1823.
Hon John C. Calhoun Sec t . of War — }
Sir,
At the request of the overseers of the Poor of the town of Sumner. I enclose the applica- tion of James Keen to be reinstated on the Pension Rolls - and am Respectfully - Yours
obb sent
Thomas Clarke

United States of America, District of Maine ss. }
To Simon Barrett Jur. d of Summer in said District
esq.
Greeting -
Whereas, at a special District Court of said United States for Maine District held at Paris within said District on the eleventh day of April, A.D. 1810
James Keen of Summer in said District presented himself and claimed as certificates of his having served in the war of the Revolution, on the continental establishments, against the common enemy for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States, agreeably to the provisions of An Act of Congress, passed

March 18. 1818. entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"; and whereas, in the course of the examination here had, it appears that the testimony of Hezekiah Stetson and Meshack Green both of Sumner in said District is material and necessary in support of said application; — Therefore to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the power vested in this court, by the laws of the United States, you, the said Simon Barrett, are hereby appointed and authorized, at the proper expense of the applicant to take the depositions of the said Hezekiah Stetson and Meshack Green touching the application aforesaid

And the same, when taken, together with this warrant, to certify and return to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay. —
Given under my hand and seal, at Paris, in said District, this eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. —
Albion K. Parris Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine
for

James Keen (private) Bailey's Mast. Regt. 1 st Jan'y 1776 for 1 year.
11 th April 1810.
John Bullett's case. Adm 2
See John Bullett's case
United States of America District of Maine, ss.
I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the several persons within named as witnesses are credible.
A. K. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge
James Keen.

I James Keen a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Sumner in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that on the first of January A.D. 1776, I enlisted into the army of the United States of America on the continental establishment, for the term of one year as a private soldier in Captain William Reed's company, Colonel John Bailey's regiment and Gen. Putnam's brigade in the Massachusetts line, which term one year I fully served, when I was verbally discharged, no written discharge were given, and I left the service. I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support and that I am not on any pension list of the United States.
Witness. A. K. Parris
James his Keen
Sworn to, before A. K. Parris marks
I, Benjamin Cose of Sumner in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war during the same period that the above named James Keen served, and was in the same company, and to my certain knowledge said Keen served during the time and in the manner he has above stated. I further testify that said Keen is in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. Subscribed and sworn to, before A. K. Parris
Benjamin Cose U.S. Judge etc. I, Elizabeth Stetson of Sumner aforesaid, on oath declare that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war, and served in the same company with the above named James Keen during his six months service and during eleven months of his service, & to my certain knowledge said Keen served these terms as he has stated in the above declaration by him subscribed
Subscribed and sworn to Before, Albion K. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge etc.
Elizabeth Stetson

I, Elisha Bissell of Sumner, of said on oath declare that I was in the continental service in the revo- lutionary war with the above named James Keen during eleven months of his year's service above men- tioned, & served in the same company, & to my certain knowledge said Keen served said town as he has stated in the above declaration by him subscribed, & I doubt not he served the remaining months he was left side at King's Ferry, New York.
Elisha Bissell
Subscribed, and sworn to
We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Sumner in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Mr. James Keen of said Sumner is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for Support
Sumner April 13 A 1818
Calvin Bissell Stephen Ellis

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came James Keen the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence The affidavits of Benjamin Cox, Hezekiah Peterson and Elisha Bisbee, made & signed in my presence; and the deposition of Meshick Keen, taken before Simon Bonett a respectable magistrate, appointed by DeWitt for this purpose; also the certificate of Calvin Bisbee & Stephen Ellis, municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relative to his circumstances in life; all which are hereunto annexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said James Keen the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official - Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Alcion H. Panis
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
And I do further certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction, that the above named James Keene , in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support. Alcion H. Panis U.S. Dist. Judge de

Albion K. Harris Esq. Judge of the District Court of Maine
Harris _____

I Meshach Keene of Sumner, of lawful age do testify and say, that James Keene of Sumner aforesaid enlisted into the united States army some time in the month of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, under Capt William Reed of Abington in the County of Plymouth, and was attached to Colonel John Bailey's Regiment of Hanover for the term of one year, and that I saw the said James Keene in the Hospital at Pitts-kill in the state of New York, on the Hudson Riv- er some time in the Month of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred - and seventy seven - And that I further testify that said James Keene served the term of one year agreeable to his contract and was Regularly discharged -
MESHACH KEENE
United States of America.
Osford ss.
On the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the aforesaid Meshach Keene was duly cautioned and sworn to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me
Simon Barstow Just. Peace

Ms. N. 9 v James Keene N o 11467- Oxford
5 th July 21. 1820
Discon d August 7. 1821 and sent to Thomas Clark Paris, Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss. At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the second Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 before the Honorable Benjamin Green & Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
On this 14th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford James Keen aged seventy years, resident in Oxford in said county, 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. William Reed & others in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Bailey 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 11th day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 18467 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 below, also subscribed by me.
James his Keen mark
Sworn to and declared, on the 14th day of June A.D. 1820.
Benjamin Green & Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
BEFORE
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:—
one yoke of oxen - two cows - one yearling one table - brocken ware to the amount of two Dollars - one tea kettle - one pot - one spider - one axe - The right of redemption upon one farm, which right is valued at one hundred and twenty dollars -
James his Keen mark
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SCHEDULE of the family residing with me James Keen — who by occupation am a farmer — which I am un able to pursue by reason of a severe injury, caused by the fall of a tree — also  by the infirmities of old age —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Sarah Keen wife of said James 65 afflicted by the rheumatism unable to do much — his James + Keen mark  
Oxford — ss. I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford 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 one hundred  sixty five dollars and fifty cents. $165 50
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty .
Thomas Clark { Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford