Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23948, for Elijah Mc Farlin, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mc Farlin, Elijah Mc Farling Mc Farland
W 23948
CONTENTS
Sarah

8080
Maine
Elijah M c Farland
of Fairfield in the Dist e of Maine who was a Private in the regiments commanded by Colonels Bailey & Jad of the Me. Vols line, for the term of one year & 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of March 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of March 1819 and sent to R. C. Vose Esq r Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  89.54 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 1819  48.
$ 137.54
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
E. P. Lander Esq r
Notification sent December 20. 1818 Robert B. Hale Augusta, Maine

Maine 242
Sarah M c Farland of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Major in the by Captain of the by in the widow of Elijah M c Farland late a private in the Newtun
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Nov 1836 and sent to Martin Augusta Me
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $440.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Mar 37 40.00 $480.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by addison Clerk, Book Vol. 1 Page 13
Dead 2 Paid at the Treasury Under the Act of April 1838, from 4. Sep to 15 Dec 1840. Agt notified 21 Oct 1844

Elijah W Farland
pr. Cob. Bayley's
Mep. Reg. Jan'y 1776
to Feb'y 1777. 1 year,
six weeks longer. —
pr. Cob. H. Jackson's Mep
Reg 1781. to Dec 1783:
3 years
March 30 th 1818
Proof of Service wanted
No 14 043 $60.40
Fairfield
Adm c

Elijah McFarland

I Elijah McFarland, aged sixty seven years, born in Plympton, in the District of Massachusetts Maine, but now of Fairfield in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that having previously served for eight months in the revolutionary war, on the first of January A.D. 1776 I enlisted as a private into the continental service of the United States into the company commanded by Capt Samuel Bradford and regiment commanded by Col. John Bayley of the Massachusetts line. Under this enlistment I served out the year, and then by the request of His Excellency Genl Washington I remained six weeks longer, and was engaged with the enemy at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and was before at the battles on Long Island at Harlem heights and at White Plains, and was twice wounded. In February 1777 I was honorably discharged at Chatham in East Jersey. If the discharge do have not received. In April 1781 I again enlisted as a private in the continental service for three years, into the company commanded by Capt Joseph Edes and regiment commanded by Col. Henry Jackson being the ninth of the Massachusetts line.
I served in the army under this last enlistment through the war, and took my honorable discharge from the army at West Point, in December 1783.
The discharge, I have not more in my possession. I am indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government - And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every other pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any.
Elijah McFarland

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the thirteenth day of March A.D. 1818 Elijah Mc Farland, within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him submitted - Before me, Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice C. Court Plus, Second Assistant Clerk
I James Mc Farland of Fairfield in the District of Maine of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with the within named Elijah Mc Farland I am knowing to his having served as within stated by him. I know him to be indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government, and that he sustains the character of a man of veracity.
James Mc Farland
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the thirteenth day of March A.D. 1818 James Mc Farland above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him submitted - Before me,
Nathan Weston Esq.
Chief Justice C. Court Com. Plus, Second Assistant Clerk

No 31 Sarah McFarland widow of Elijah McFarland
J.A.
adm? 2 yrs pri
80.
no deduction - died 7 Nov 1827
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of Maine Kennebec County ss.
On this eighteenth day of August AD 1836 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of said State now sitting in Augusta in said County, Sarah McFarland a resident of Waterville the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836. That she is the widow of Elijah McFarland who was a private soldier in the years 1776 & 1777 in Capt Bradford's Col y & Col y Bailey Regiment for more than one year, and in the year 1781 enlisted for three years into Capt Eder's Col y and Col y H. Jackson's Regiment and received a discharge in the month of December 1783. that her said husband Elijah McFarland was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of 18th March 1818. that the evidence of his service was furnished the War Department to establish his claim to benefit of said act, to which she refers having no additional proof to offer. She further declares that she was married to the said

Elijah McFarland in the town of Plympton, State of Massachusetts on the twelfth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four that her said husband the aforesaid Elijah McFarland died at the town of Fairfield, County of Somerset, State of Maine on the seventh day of November 1827 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sarah McFarland
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid the deponent being a credible person
Before
David Perham Judge Court Common Pleas.
State of Maine
Kennebec County ss
I John Chandler clerk of all the Judicial courts held within and for the County of Kennebec hereby certify that the Hon d David Perham before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of said State. I do certify also that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Sarah McFarland for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this eighteenth day of August A.D. 1836. J A Chandler

I, Lewis Readford Town-blek of Plympton, Massachusetts, do hereby certify upon oath, that according to the Records of said town of Plympton, Book 2. page 350, Elisha Mackfailing and Sarah Marshall, both of the town of Plympton, in the county of Plymouth, & state of Massachusetts, were joined in marriage May 12. A.D. 1774, by the Rev. Jonathan Parker, Minister of the Gospel in Plympton aforesaid.
Plympton aforesaid Lewis Bradford Your Clerk of Plympton Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss
Glympton, November - 10 th . 1836
Be it known, That on this tenth day of November 1836 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for S r County, personally appeared Lewis Bradford, Town clerk of Plymouth, to me well known as a credible person, & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year above mentioned.
Jonathan Packer Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
I Jacob H. Lord, clerk of the Probate Court of Plymouth County, certify that the within signature of a man which as understood that the within signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office & subscribed my name, this tenth day of November A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord Clerk of the Court of Probate Plymouth County
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Feb'y 18 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The child ren of Sarah Mc Farland, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of — eighty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. to the 14 th Dec. 1840.  Respectfully, yours,
William B. Harris Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

47
Elijah W Sterling Frankford Somerset Mr Garland County
0080
Sept 1849
GW
P.L. Vase. Augusta

(Copy)
State of Maine.
267
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this second day of June , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston  Junior chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Elizah Mc Farland aged fifty nine years, resident in Fairfield in the County of Somerset within 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. in the Company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Dyer and Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of Three years, having previously served during the year 1776 in Capt. Bradfords Company and Col Baileys regiment of the Massachusetts troops, and was in the battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, and received two seven wounds, that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the thirteenth day of March 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 8080 . And I, the said Elizah Mc Farland do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.
Elizah Mc Farland
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz :
One cow of the value of fifteen dollars, Seven sheep and nine lambs of the value of twenty dollars , One sow and six pigs of the value of seven dollars, Old household stuff, besides necessary bedding, not exceeding ten dollars in value, One axe worth one dollar, one shovel worth one dollar, and I have five dollars in money, I have no debts due to me that can be collected and I owe as money one hundred and fifty dollars upon interest. My income from the above property is not equal to the interest of the money I owe. My occupation was that of a farmer, but from age and infirmity and being a cripple am totally unable to labor. My family at home consists of myself, and my wife, aged sixty eight, who has lost the use of her left arm, and is otherwise very infirm. Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no property or income whatever.
Elizah Mc Farland

Subscribed Sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule, on the second day of June 1820 Before me Nathan Weston Junior, C.I. C.C.C. Pleas
A true Copy. Attest James Davis Clerk
County of Somerset Clerk's Office at Porneycourt
The foregoing is a true copy of the original oath and schedule filed in this office the eighth day of November A.D. 1820 Attest Wm Allen Clerk of C.C.C. Pleas Somerset
J.P. Law. August
0880
Eliza Westling for Frank
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March 10, 1932
BA-J/MCS
Mr. E. Taber McFarlin 100 Franklin Street Boston Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of February 18, 1932, requesting information in regard to Elijah McFarlin, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data contained herein are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 23948, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Elijah McFarlin.
He was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, date not given.
He enlisted in 1775 and served eight months, names of officers not given. He enlisted January 1, 1776, as private in Captain Samuel Bradford's Company in Colonel John Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, and was twice wounded and was discharged in February, 1777. He enlisted in April, 1781, as private in Captain Joseph Edes' Company in Colonel Henry Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in December, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 30, 1818, at which time he was sixty-seven years of age and was living in Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine.
He died November 7, 1827, in Fairfield, Maine.
The soldier married May 12, 1774, in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Sarah Marshall, and both were residents of that place.

On account of the Revolutionary War service of Elijah McFarlin, his widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 18, 1836, at which time she was eighty-five years of age and was living in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine.
Sarah died December 14, 1840, leaving children, their names not stated.
One James McFarlin was living in Fairfield, Maine, in 1818, but it was not stated that he was related to the soldier.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

1922 Mar. 10. hist. to Mr. E. Taber McFarlin, M.C.A.
Rev
WIDOW, & C.
File No. 23948
Sarah McFarland
Wid of
Elijah McFarland
Rev. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sarah M c Farland M c
enq? see letter to Geo. W. Clinton 1. Sep. '36 Same Oct. 20 — "
act. 4 July 1836

When was Elijah M c Farland pri. 8¢ p mo last paid at M c ajeny act 1815 2 G.W.C.
Dec r 7 th Nov 1824 prior to that period Nov 24. 1836 JH
1826 75 61

State of Maine.
William Allen Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is fifty  ninety dollars and not  cents, and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is fifty nine dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Eighth day of November 1820.
William Allen Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset

Mary Tinkham of Waterville in the County of Kennebec & State of Maine, age Seventy six years and upwards, do testify upon oath, that I am the sister of Sarah M c Farland, who is the widow of Elizab d M c Farland, who, prior to his decease was a pensioner of the United States; — that my said Sister, whose name before mar- riage with the s d Elizab d M c Farland was Sarah Marshall was married to the s d M c Farland in the town of Plympton, State of Massachusetts — myself being present at the marriage — by the Rev. Jon a . Parker settled Minister of the Gospel in the town of Plympton, — & that I perfectly recollect that her s d husband was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, subsequent to their marriage; — that I was with her during the absence of her husband in the army after their marriage, — & that the s d Sarah M c Farland has remained a widow ever since the death of s d Elizab d M c Farland. —
Mary Tinkham Subscribed State of Maine. Kennebec County ss
Subscribed and sworn to this eighteenth day of August A.D. 1836. The deponent being a credible witness
Before me Geo. W. Morton Justice Peace.

State of Ohio
Knox County ss
I John A. Chandler, Clerk of the Court of Knox County, certify that George Morton is a Justice of the peace for the County of Knox and that the entire signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this twenty fourth day of August A.D. 1896
(Clerk of the Court of Knox County) J. A. Chandler

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Elijah Mc Farland , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Fairfield , in the said County of Somerset , in the District of Maine, on the thirteenth day of March , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier  until the end thereof , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  John C. North C. C. C. Pleas 2 o E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis

M c Farland me 4 July '36 add. ptt
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Augusta, Me. Nov 17. 1836
Sir
I enclose the Certificate of Lewis Bradford Esq., town clerk of Plympton Mass s , authenticated before a magistrate, in support of the claim of Sarah McFarland for a pension under Act of Congress of July 4. 1836, in compliance with the requisition of your letter of 20 th ult.
Very Respectfully Your obedt Servt Geo. W. Morton
A. S. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington City

Sept 12
proof act 4 July 36
Addt. evidence J. W. Garland Sarah M c Garland
FREE
J. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Augusta, Sept. 6 th 1876
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
I enclose the certificate of the town clerk of Plympton, Mass. of the marriage of Elijah McFarland & Sarah Marshall, in support of her claim for pension under Act of Congress of July 4. 1876 as the widow of said Elijah McFarland
Respectfully Your Obt Servt Geo. W. Morton

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Washington City

Augusta August 24. 1876 J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
I send with this the declarations of the widows of Elijah M c Farland and David Philbrook, who are applicants for pension under the Act of Congress of July 4. 1876. Should the documents be satisfactory to you in support of their claims, you will be pleased to transmit to me certificates for them.
Respectfully Your O bt Servt Geo. W. Morton

I John Arnold of Augusta in the county of Kennebec and state of Maine aged sixty one years & upwards do testify upon Oath, that I have been acquainted with Sarah McFarland for upwards of forty years last past, that her husband Elijah McFarland was a pensioner of the United States and that he died in the town of Fairfield in county of Somerset & State aforesaid in or about the year 1827. that the said Sarah McFarland has remained a widow ever since the decease of the said Elijah McFarland, and that she is now living in the town of Waterville county of Kennebec and State aforesaid, being the adjoining town to the said town of Fairfield above mentioned the said Sarah McFarland is of respectable character.
John Arnold
State of Maine
Kennebec county ss. Subscribed and sworn to the nineteenth day of August 1836. The deponent being a credible witness.
Before me
Geo. W. Morton. Justice Peace

State of Maine Kennebec County ss
I John A Chandler Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County certify that George W Morton is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec, and that the within signature pur- porting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribe my name this twenty fourth day of August A D 1876
J A Chandler Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County

BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO. 100 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON
Feb. 18, 1932
Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Refer BA-5/14/32
Gentlemen.
Referring to the last paragraph of your kind letter of Feb. 9 th I would give you the following information.
Elijah McFarlin married Sarah Marshall May 12, 1774. The Vital Records of Plympton, Mass. give that information. I also know that he was a private in Capt. Samuel Bradford's company, 23 rd Regiment Continental Troops.

If this record will enable you to give me any additional information in regard to him I shall be greatly obliged Very truly yours,
E. Daber Mc Farlin