Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2577, for Thomas Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Shaw Thomas
W. 2577
Mass.
Lydia
B. L. Wt. 13869-160-55
CONTENTS

Maine Thomas Shaw
of Saudeford in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stearns of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney in the Infantry line, for the term of One Year & 8 Mos from May 17 th to 17 th
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 66 66 / 100 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th day of Mar 1832 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Augt 1832 and sent to John Moulton , Portland Maine
the Roll on  day of 1832 and notification sent to at Pension commencing on the of 1832
Amount due on 4th of Mar 1832 66.66 June  33.33 $100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }
June 1832 Recorded - Book 2 Vol 1 - Page 89

948. Maine
Lydia Shaw widow of Thomas Shaw who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Massachusetts
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $66 - Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July 1853 and sent to
J. K. Garrison Portland, Me.
796
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29-1842, Page 9 Vol. 24
February 1853
Large handwritten initials or signature
3 in 55 101.0

C. F. Bradford, Dec. 26/55
107.796
Ad Jan 3/55
12/30/55
Sydia Shaw Bridg Thomas Shaw
Sydia Shaw and Thomas
Pr.
Map: Cart. line, Rev. Samuel Penniman
13
Rev: War.
16 acres, Jan. 8 th 1856,
See Reg 53-1856-1857.
MS 81. page 74.
(M)
Greeman Bradford
Portland
Maine

William Lloyd W. Lloyd W. Lloyd W. Lloyd W. Lloyd
W. Lloyd
W. Lloyd W. Lloyd W. Lloyd
OFFICIAL NOTARY PUBLIC

Revolution of Lydia Shaw
Z. H. Harmon Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
PORTLAND, April 19th A. D. 185 3 } PROBATE OFFICE,
I, Freeman Bradford REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for the said County of CUMBERLAND, certify that Walob Hoodson Esq. is an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT AS SUCH; that the COMMISSION of the said Hoodson is dated July 11, A. D. 1848 and will expire July 11, A. D. 185 5
and that the SIGNATURE, his are GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford REGISTER.

State of Maine
Cumberland County ss On this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared Before the Hon. Isaiah Pease Judge of Probate within and for the County of Cumberland Lydia Shaw a resident of Standish in said County aged Sixty six years who being first sworn do upon oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed February 3 d 1855- and this declarant states that she is the widow of Thomas Shaw late of Standish deceased who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 4 th 1832 whose pension certificate the thumb was entered 17 August 1852 No 300 and that her said husband Thomas Shaw received a pension under said act at the rate of sixty six Dollars and sixty six cents per annum and this declarant believes her said husband's residence in Standish at the time he entered the service of the United States in the war of the rebellion and this declarant states she has never her husband say that

he served in Capt. Stuart's company and Col. Shinneg's Regt. and she has no doubt of the fact and for proof of her husband's service this applicant refers The Commissioner to the declaration of of her said husband Francis Shaeffer under the act of 1832
and this applicant further States that she was Married to the aforesaid Thomas Shane in Standish aforesaid by the Rev. Glener Lombard on the ninth day of March 1826 and that her said husband Thomas Shane died at said Standish on or about the twentieth day of October 1838 and this applicant further States that she is now a widow and has not intermarried since the death of her said husband Thomas Shane as will appear by reference to the testimony annexed hereby.
Isaac H. Pierce. Witness to Lydia Shaw's joining Lydia + Shaw mark
before me this 10 th . Day of March, 1853. Subscribed and sworn to before me
Josiah Pierce
Judge of Probate for Cumberland Co.

State of Maine I Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate for the County of Cumberland, do certify, that, in my opinion, the said Lydia Shaw is unable to appear in open Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, and that the foregoing declaration by her signed, was taken by me at her residence in Standish
Josiah Pierce Judge
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, ss.
OFFICE OF THE COURT OF PROBATE.
I, Freeman Bradford Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify, that Hon. Josiah Pierce whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificate, is JUDGE OF PROBATE, in and for said County and State, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of said State, that the annexed signature purporting to be his, is genuine, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given, to his official acts and attestations.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Official Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this nineteenth day of April A. D. 1853 Freeman Bradford Regr

State of Maine      County of Cumberland Town of Standish.
(a)
Thomas Shaw entered his name and purpose of marriage with Mrs. Lydia Partridge, both of Standish February seventeenth in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
of intention of marriage
I Certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures, as follows:—(b) Feby. 17 th A.D. 1826
John H. Philbrick      Town Clerk of Standish
I, John H. Philbrick — above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county, and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy of the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
John H. Philbrick } Clerk of the Town } of Standish
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this thirteenth day of April A. D. 1853
Caleb Stodden Justice of the Peace.
(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full. (b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.

Town Clerks Office Standish April 13 th 1853-
I hereby certify that I have examined the records of the town of Standish now in this office and can not find the marriage of Thomas Vhan to Mrs Lydia Norridge recorded-
John H. Wilbick - Town Clerk of Standish -

I Thomas Waine of Standish in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged sixty years do testify and say that in Winter or Spring of the year 1826 I was present at the Marriage of Thomas Shaw to Lydia Patrage they were married by the Rev. Ebenezer Lambane a Methodist Clergeman as he deceased and I further testify and say that the aforesaid Thomas Shaw and Lydia his wife lived together in said Standish as husband and wife until the decease of the aforesaid Thomas Shaw who died at said Standish about fifteen years since I do not recollect the exact time and I further testify and say that the said Lydia wife of the aforesaid Thomas Shaw is now a widow and has not intermarried since the death of her said husband Thomas Shaw left continuous his residence
Thomas Waine
State of Maine
Cumberland County on this third day of March 1858 Personally appeared the above named Thomas Waine a man well known to me of credibility and made oath to the truth of the above statement
Before me Caleb Hovey Clerk of the State

107,296
Claim of Sydia Shaw
To Bounty Land.
Act of March 3, 1855.
WAR OF the Rev.
Freeman Bradford
PORTLAND, Maine.

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, April 26 185 5 .
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Walter Hudson Esq.
is, and at the date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid,—and that the following Signature purporting to be his
W.H. GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
O. Cook CLERK.

State of Maine.
County of Cumberland ss.
On this twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1855 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Shaw a resident of Westbrook in said County and State, aged Seventy Eight years, who being duly sworn, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain Bounty Land, under the Act of Congress passed March 3 d , A. D. 1855.
And your declarant further states that she is the widow of Thomas Shaw late of Standish in the State of Maine deceased that her said husband Thomas Shaw was a Soldier of the Revolution, and a pen- sioner of the United States at the rate of sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per Annum which pension he drew till the time of his death which took place at said Standish on the 20 th day of October 1838. That he was first pensioned under the Act of 1818 at the rate of $96 dollars per annum and afterwards under the Act of 1832 at the rate of $66 66 / 100 per annum. She further states that she has not applied for or received bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress and she believes her husband never received Bounty Land in his life time.

YOUR DECLARANT FURTHER STATES , that she was married to the said Thomas Shaw on the ninth day of March A.D. 1826, at Standish in said State, and that her name before marriage was Sydia Patrage
And your declarant further states, that after the passage of the Act of Congress of February 3 rd 1853 she made application for a Pension, on which application a pension was granted her at the rate of Sixty six dolls & sixty six cts per annum, as will appear by her Pension Certificate, dated Nineteenth day of July A.D. 1853 No. 948
For proof of marriage, her husband's service in the Revolutionary War, and his death, and of your declarant's identity, she refers to her declaration and proof for a Pension, now on file in the Department of the Interior, at Washington.
She therefore claims Bounty Land under the act aforesaid, and states that she is still a widow.
And for the purpose of this application, I hereby appoint Francis Bradford of Portland my true and lawful Attorney in the premises.
Attest,
Chas. M. Plummer  Sydia X Shaw James L. Higgins  mark
Sworn to and subscribed, before me, the day and year first above written, and in my presence acknowledged
the Power of Attorney thereto subjoined, for the purposes above mentioned. And I hereby certify that I know  know the said Sydia Shaw to be the person whom  she rep-
the military service aforesaid, and to be of the age above stated. resents herself to be in her declaration & that I have no interest in this claim
Caleb Hodsdon
Justice of the Peace.

We Joseph M. Plummer and James L. Huggins both of Gorham in the County of Cumberland of lawful age on oath testify and say that we have been personally acquainted with the Lydia Shaw now a resident of Westbrook said Lydia Shaw is the widow of Thomas Shaw late of Standish deceased and is a pensioner of the United States at the rate of sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum and we know that the said Lydia Shaw has not intermarried since the death of her said husband Thomas Shaw but continues to be his widow and that she is the same person she represents herself to be
Jos. M. Plummer James L. Huggins
State of Maine
Cumberland ss April 25 th 1855 Personally appeared Joseph M. Plummer & James L. Huggins known to me of credibility and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit before me Caleb Woodman Justice of the Peace

Thomas Shaw's Application for a pension
Aug t 1832
to present to 20 mo.
$66:66 per ann.
26
Page 84
~ 300

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the first day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this first day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Thomas Shaw a resident of Standish in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Seventy eight 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 was placed on the pension list roll of the District of Maine Agency, and a certificate of pension granted to him on his application made on the 28th day of April 1818. That his name has been dropped from the pension list on account of his property. That he served as a private in the Company commanded by Capt Stowe, in Col Shannys Regt in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Continental establishment. That he now resides, in Standish, and that he lived there when he made his first application in 1818
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 Maine .
Thomas Shaw
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 that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I John Mufsey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this third day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Mufsey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

R/S
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25 Lydia Shaw Widow Thomas Shaw Mo. Rev. War.
Act. Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:—Vol. 71 , Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7,428
Maine
Thomas Shaw 4 of Sandwich in the Dist of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Beaufort line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of Apr. 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Mar. 1819 and sent to A.K. Davis, Esq. Davis, Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 - compr. 3/30/19. 81.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th  Sep. 1819 48.00
$129.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }

13.869
J. No Ans.

No 1269 Lydia Shaw widow of Thomas Mann
Let to G. R. Harmon June 25/53
Act H. Eby 8/53

Encl 53, No 1
95/100 100/100

No. 1,487 Capt. of Lydia Shaw widow of Thomas. Cumberland Maine 300 est 3 rd Feby. 1853.
Rev. Dear Sir, $66.66 2/3 per annu. commencing 3 rd Feby. 1853. H. K. Hammond Portland Maine
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

Pension Office July 15, 1853.
Sir,
Please certify the time to which within named pensioner was last paid; or (if the information be in your possession) the exact date of his death.
Very respectfully Your obed Servt J. M. Wood Commissioner
H Burd Esqr Present Died 29 th Oct. '38 Paid to his death. J B Burd. Executor.

Brief in the case of Lydia Shaw, widow of Thomas Shaw Cumberland County, and State of Maine act 3d February 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832
Marriage proved by parol testimony - - Witnesses certified to be credible
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Z. K. Harmon Esq. Portland Maine
Name and residence of Agent
A. Bodden
Examining Clerk.

Pension Office June 28 th 1803
Sir.
Before Mrs Lydia Shaw can be allowed a pension as the widow of Thomas Shaw she must prove, in the manner designated in the enclosed circular, that she is the widow of the identical pensioner described in her Declaration.
Very Respectfully L. M'Alas Commissioner
G. H. Warren Esq Portland Maine

Thomas Shaw
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, at the Commercial Bank, Portland, Maine.
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas Shaw, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Capt. Stuarth Colp Col. Phinney & Maj Sturdivant
7,428

Additional Evidence in Suspended Bounty Land Claim N o 107,796 Sydia Shaw (widow of Thomas) Act of March 3 d 1833 War of the Rev l
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
January 2 a 1856.
I Hereby Certify , That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Thomas Shaw is borne on muster roll of Capt. Wentworth Stewart's Comp. Col. Phinney's Regt. name borne on Cont roll dated Cambridge, Feb. No. 2. Oct. 26. 1775 as private from Parsons town.
Also on pay roll of Capt. Wentworth Stewart's Comp. Col. Phinney's Regt. from June 1. to Dec. 8. 1776. 11 mos. 8 days as private.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
PENSION OFFICE,
Dec: 26"
1855.
Sir:
The claim of Lydia Shaw for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855, No. 107,796 has been examined and suspended.
The revolutionary service of Thomas Shaw, the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.
The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."
Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.
Very respectfully,
J. MINOT,
Commissioner.
Upon referring to the Secty of State of Mass: att. Solon Allege deserved from Mar: 1775 to Dec: 1776, under Col. Thurber.
Freeman Bradford Esq.
On Hand,
One,

Z. H. Harmony Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
Cumberland County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Portland within and for said County, on the first Tues day of July A. D. 185 3 , being a Court of Record:
Satisfactory evidence having been offered to the Hon. Josiah Pierce Judge of said Court, that the facts hereinafter mentioned are true, the same are ordered to be entered on the Docket of this Court, and the testimony pertaining thereto filed, viz:— Cyrus  affidavits of  Watch  Hoodston  Esq. of Cambridge and George Maybury of Standish both credible witnesses, that Mrs  Sydia Shaw now residing in the town of Standish was the the lawful wife of Thomas Shaw late of said Standish who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. at the rate of about sixty six dollars  per annum that said Thomas Shaw died in or about the year 1835 and that the said Sydia has remained a widow to the present time is the widow of the identical Thomas Shaw the Revolutionary Pensioner aforesaid
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this Seventh day of July 185 3 .
Freeman Bradstreet Register of Probate.
STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Cumberland ss. PROBATE OFFICE,
I, Josiah Pierce JUDGE OF PROBATE for said County, hereby Certify, that Freeman Bradstreet whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is the REGISTER OF PROBATE for said County, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn: and that his said Certificate is in due form, and the facts therein stated Satisfactorily proved
Given under my hand this Seventh day of July A. D. 185 3 .
Josiah Pierce Judge.

We Caleb Hoodson of Berham and George Maybery of Standish both in the County of Cumberland of lawful age on oath do testify and say, that we have been personally and intimately acquainted with Mrs Sydia Shaw now residing in the town of Standish and know that she was the lawful wife of Thomas Shaw late of Standish who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. at the rate of about sixty six dollars per annum. We were acquainted with the said Sydia and Thomas both before and since they were married. The said Thomas Shaw died in, or about the year, 1838, and the said Sydia has remained his widow to the present time. She is now an applicant for a pension and is the widow of the identical Thomas Shaw the Pensioner aforesaid. We further testify that we have no interest in the result of this claim.
Caleb Hoodson
George Maybery
Cumberland County ss. July 6th 1853 Then personally appeared the above named Caleb Hoodson and George Maybery both known to me as men of strict integrity and who are credible witnesses and made oath to the truth of the affidavit by them signed.
Before me Freeman B. Bedford Just Peace.

State of Maine Cumberland County ss.
I Freeman Bradford Register of Probate certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the affidavit of Caleb Hoodston and George Mayberry on file in the office of said Court relative to the claim of Lydia Shaw.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 8th day of July A.D. 1858
Freeman Bradford Regr P.P.

Thomas Shaw. private Col Phinney Massachusetts line (May '78 till Dec '78.) April 28 th 1818
Admitted
see the judges certificate on file

To the Honble Abiah H. Parris Judge of the District Court for the District of Maine!
The Petition of Thomas Shaw of Standish in the County of Cumberland in said District, Cooper, humbly shews, that at the commencement of the Revolu- tionary war to wit (soon after the Lexington Battle) in the month of May 1775 he enlisted as a private in the Continental Army, in the Company then commanded by Capt Wentworth Stewart, Regiment of Col. Edmund Phinney where he served until the last day of December in the year 1776 making one year and eight months, and was discharged at Fort George in the State of New York!
Your Petitioner would further state, that he is now far advanced in years being in his sixty fifth year, and is very infirm and unable to labour, & in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support as provided by an act of Congress passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818. All which facts your petitioner is ready to substantiate by his oath, and such other evidence as is required by said Act. Wherefore your Petitioner prays that his evidence may be received and his claim to a pension be established, as pro- vided by said Act, and that your Honor would transmit the same to the Honorable Secretary at War - and as in duty bound will Pray
Portland April 20 th
1818 -
Thomas Shaw

District of Maine April 20 th 1840
Then personally appeared James Webb and made solemn Oath, that he was a sergeant in Capt Stewart's Company, and well knew the within named Thomas Shaw in said Company - and knew that he served as a private at least for the space of one year and verily believes that the statement sworn to by the said Shaw as within, is true. James Webb.
Sworn to before Albion L. Parrie
U.S. Judge
District of Maine April 28, 1840
Then personally appeared Thomas Cummings and made solemn Oath, that he was a private in Capt. Dumas company in the same regiment with the within named Shaw and well knew said Shaw and knew that he served as a private at least for the space of one year and verily believes that the statement sworn to by the said Shaw as within is true -
Thomas Shaw's Claim
attests Josiah Chase
Thomas his  Cummings Marks
Sworn to before
Albion L. Parrie
U.S. Judge