Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,221, for Jacob Lothrop, Massachusetts

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Lothrop, Jacob
S 31, 221
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18.286
Maine
Jacob Lotthop
of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Washburn of the Regt: commanded by Col. Sprout in the Mass: militia time for service.
Entered on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of August 1833 and due to Jat. Starr. Pay.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $40.00 Sem-ant. allowance ending Sept - 10.00 $50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 32

Jacob Luthorp
f.
19010
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STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 19th day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate — now sitting, Jacob Lothrop a resident of Canton in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 77 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In January 1770 at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts he was drafted for three months in the state service, joined a company commanded by Capt. Abraham Washburn of Bridgewater. Ensign James Lunt, the Ensign rank he has forgotten. This company joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Sprout of Middleborough. He marched with the Regt to North Kingston in the state of Rhode Island, where he was stationed three months, the British Troops were then in possession of New Port and what was called Rhode Island harbor, while he was there an American Privateer called Columbus ran ashore on Point Judith where she was captured to prevent being taken by the British ships of war that lay in said harbor. He with the Regt marched there to prevent the British from taking her, the British opened fire from their ships on our Regiment, which covered their Gally & boats of troops that they sent to capture the Privateer. We had a skirmish with them for some time, with a 24 pounder, one field piece and musketry, but they succeeded in burning the Privateer. At the end of three months he with the Regiment were discharged at North Kingston, but had no written discharge. He as otherwise a resident of Jay in said County of Oxford served this campaign in the company with him — That at said Bridgewater at the last of June or first of July 1781, he enlisted in the Continental service for three months, and joined a company commanded by Capt. Nathan Packard of Bridgewater, he with the company marched to Springfield, in said Massachusetts where they were to receive orders, to go to Gloverick, to defend our frontier against the Indians, after marching two days orders were received for the company to go to Rhode Island where we arrived in two or three days more. The company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Commandant John Jacobs, our employment during this campaign was in building Brattle Hill Fort, at the end of three months he with the company were discharged but without receiving any written discharge. The names of the other Officers of the company & Regiment he has forgotten. In Bridgewater also where & in what year was you born  he has forgotten In said Bridgewater also, Jay and Canton; and before did you have a pension from the state  he has forgotten First service he was drafted, the last time he enlisted, — He Hays, Jacobs & Hays; as before stated. Did you know Jeremiah Stevens and James Stern to prove his character as to truth.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jacob Lothrop
Before
Stephen Emery, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. he adducing the depositions of Isaac Mellen, of Talcottville, and with duly administered in corroboration of his own declaration, also the depositions of Asaph Lathrop, of Danie, Thistle, Stephen Emery, Judge.
I Joseph Glade Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Lathrop for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19 th day of September A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph Glade Register

19061
Isaac Hilliard
County of Plymouth State of Massach ts 1761. — have you any record of Hasson is located in the County of Oxford & State of Maine — State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served General Cornwall or Cornwall, Col s Sergeant of the Mitchell never discharged he refers to the none but verbal discharges — Hon ble Governor Holland. Jr and variety

19010 Jacob. Lothrop Maine
15. May 33 Obj. 16.
P. 397
19,010 6 mos $20.
Mr. Starr
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BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Southrop  vs. of Oxford  in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? of unbound  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Day. In 1778 drafted 3 private Capt Washburn Col Shroud   Cont. Troops 1781. entered 3 " Capt Packard, Col Jacobs  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Plymouth. Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Three Living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  The papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George D. Dyer
Examining Clerk.

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss... Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Oxford Jacob Lothrop a resident of Canton in said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and infirmity and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to Col Sprague, named in his declaration made before the Probate Court for said County of Oxford on the nineteenth day of September last; in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7 1832, whether it was Col Ebenezer Sprague of the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment or not, but according to his best recollection his name was Ebenezer Sprague and his impression has ever been that he was a Militia Col at the time he served in the Regt. under him, as he has stated in his said declaration, and he has no recollection of hearing any member attached to his Regiment at the time he performed his service under him
Jacob Lothrop
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty fourth day of June A.D. 1833 James D. Southwell Justice of the Peace
STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford County, ss
I RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
James Starbuck
whose genuine signature
is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Jacob Lothrop is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this fifth day of July in the year A. D. 1833
Handwritten signature of Rufus King Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts

Jan - 1 25
Leaves Deposition
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I hereby certify that I Amasa Friban of Minot in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, do testify and say that I am Seventy two years of age, that in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven or seventy eight or partly in each of said years, Jacob Lothrop was a soldier in Capt Abraham Washburn company Colonel Ebenezer Sprague regiment. in which company & regiment I was a soldier and served with him three months at North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island. and I also say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven I lived in Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts. Amasa Friban
August. 24, 1832
Cumberland ss August. 24 th 1832 then personally appeared the above named Amasa Friban and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit signed by him before me
Asaph Howard justice of the peace
I also say the aforesaid Amasa Friban is a person well known to me a man of truth and veracity.
Asaph Howard
Asaph Howard

I hereby certify that I Danielkinsley of Minot in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, do depose testify and say that I am seventy three years of age, that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight I lived in Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts, and that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or seventy eight or partly in each of said years, Jacob Lotthrop was a soldier in Capt. Abraham Washburn Company Colonel Elnathan Sprague's regiment, in which company and regiment I was a soldier and served with him three months at North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island, - also that in the year seventeen hundred eighty Jacob Lotthrop was a soldier in Capt. Nathan Parkard company Colonel John Farber's regiment, in the same company & regiment I was a soldier and served with him three months at Rhode Island.
Danielkinsley
August 24, 1892
Cumberland ss August 24 th 1892. Then personally appeared the above named Danielkinsley and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit signed by him before me.
Asaph Howard Justice of the peace
I also say the aforementioned Danielkinsley is a person well known to me a man of truth and veracity.
Asaph Howard

State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss. I W m T. Vaughan, clerk of the courts of Cumberland, do certify that Asaph Howard is a magistrate as within - and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine, as I believe -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
W m T. Vaughan { Clerk of the courts of Cumberland County

I Isaac Melchurcn of Jay in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, do testify and say, that in January according to my best recollection 1748 I enlisted for three months, at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in a Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Washburn of the same town, the other officers of the Company I have forgotten, the Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Sproat of Middleborough in the County of Bristol; Jacob Lothrop now of Canton in said County of Bristol, was a private soldier in the same Company, we marched with the Regiment from Bridgewater to North Kingston, in the State of Rhode- Island where we were stationed three months, I was well acquainted with said Jacob Lothrop before our entering into the service at this time, and we quartered in the same house during this campaign, and was with him in a skirmish we had at Point Judith, about eighteen miles from North Kingston, in trying to protect an American Privateer, called Columbus, which ran on shore to avoid being taken by the British Men of War that was lying near there, they with their Negroes and boats succeeding in burning the Privateer said Lothrop with myself and others were discharged at the expiration of three months, at said North Kingston. we had not a written discharge, but was informed that the term of our enlistment had expired, and we were disbanded & returned home, I have been acquainted with said Jacob Lothrop from that time to the present,
Isaac Melchurcn
State of Maine, County of Oxford ss. On this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832 Personally appeared Isaac Melchurcn, with whom I am acquainted and is a respectable witness, and made oath in due form of law, that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true, —
Before me
James Parr Justice Peace

I Isaac Melcher of Jay in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, do testify and say, that in January according to my best recollection 1740 I enlisted for three months, at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in a Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Washburn of the same town, the other officers of the Company I have forgotten, the Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Sproat of Middleborough in the County of Bristol, Jacob Lothrop now of Canton in said County of Oxford, was a private soldier in the same Company, we marched with the Regiment from Bridgewater to North Kingston, in the State of Rhode- Island where we were stationed three months, I was well acquainted with said Jacob Lothrop before our entering into the service at this time, and we quartered in the same house during this campaign, and was with him in a skirmish we had at Point Judith, about eighteen miles from North Kingston, in trying to protect an American Privateer, called Columbus, which ran on shore to avoid being taken by the British men of war that was lying near there, they with their boats succeeding in burning the Privateer said Lothrop with myself and others were discharged at the expiration of three months, at said North Kingston. we had not a written discharge, but was informed that the term of our enlistment had expired, and we were discharged & returned home, I have been acquainted with said Jacob Lothrop from that time to the present.
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
James Harrington
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Isaac Melcher
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 17 th day of October in the year A. D. 1832
RK Goodenow Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

Job Packard of lawful age do testify & say that I now live in the town of Buckfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, & am well acquainted with Jacob Lothrop now resident in Canton in said County - During the Revolutionary war, the said Lothrop belonged to Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was born there & we were both play mates & brought up in the same neighborhood - In July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty, or about that time he enlisted into the Militia service, & served in the company commanded by Capt. Nathan Packard of said Bridgewater in Col John Jacobs Regiment, & was stationed upon Butts Hill on Rhode Island. He enlisted for the term of three months & served the whole of that period - I was personally knowing to the foregoing facts, because I enlisted into another company, to wit, the company commanded by Capt. Mathew Randall of Easton (Mass) in Col. Abial Witchell's Regiment, which company & Regiment last named were stationed during the same period upon said Butts Hill on Rhode Island aforesaid - And I there saw the said Lothrop engaged in the service as aforesaid almost or quite every day during the said term of his enlistment and we were discharged at the same time & returned home together - The said Lothrop is, believe, a little older than myself, but about my age - I was seventy years old on the 12th of Decr A.D. 1832
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Reuel Washburn
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Job Packard
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 17th day of October in the year A. D. 1832
R. King Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts

Job Packard of lawful age do testify & say that I now live in the town of Buckfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, I am well acquainted with Jacob Lothrop now resident in Canton in said County - During the Revolutionary war, the said Lothrop belonged to Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts He was born there & we were both play mates & brought up in the same neighborhood - In July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty ... or about that time he enlisted into the Militia service, & served in the company commanded by Capt. Nathan Packard of said Bridgewater in Col John Jacobs Regiment, & was stationed upon Butts Hill on Rhode Island - He enlisted for the term of three months & served the whole of that period - I was personally knowing to the foregoing facts, because I enlisted into another company, to wit, the company commanded by Capt. Mathew Randall of Easton (Mass) in Col Abial Witchell's Regiment, which company & Regiment last named were stationed during the same period upon said Butts Hill on Rhode Island aforesaid - And there saw the said Lothrop engaged in the service as aforesaid almost or quite every day during the said term of his enlistment And we were discharged at the same time & returned home together - The said Lothrop is, believe, a little older than myself, but about my age - I was seventy years old on the 14th of July A.D. 1832 - Job Packard
State of Maine
Oxford ss. July 28. 1832 Personally appeared the said Job Packard & made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, is wholly true
Before me
Heuel H. Hildreth Justice of the Peace

J. L. Edwards Esq r .
Jay Maine. July 9 1832
Dear Sir.
I here return the papers in the case of Jacob Lathrop, claims for a pension. I could not discover any objection to the admission of them, only the certifying officer had failed to properly annexing his certificate to the affidavits, which is now done according to the directions, excepting , the question was asked, "was it Col Eben t Sprout of the 12 th Vt s regiment under whom he performed his first service" I have taken the applicant's affidavit respecting that, his answer does not come fully to the question, it not being in his power to decide that, he is much broken down with sickness since I have taken his affidavit. I have seen Daniel Kimsey whose deposition is in this case, he says Col Eben t Sprout whose regiment Lathrop performed his first service, was father to Col Eben t Sprout who commanded the 2 nd regiment but he has no knowledge of his commanding the 12 th regiment - I was not in a situation to take his affidavit to that fact, but should you require further proof as to that, I write you would be so good as to inform me, and it shall be obtained
Very Respectfully your Most
Alt. Serv t
James Herr.

31 221 Rev INVALID.
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Jacob Lothrop Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
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[Arrangement of 1870.]