Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,855, for Wentworth Ricker, New Hampshire

SERVICE
Ricker Wentworth
NUMBER _____
S. 28855
CONTENTS

Maine 27.523
Wentworth Ricker
of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a private in the Comps commanded by Captain Wentworth of the Reg commanded by Col Poor in the and in other line of N.H. 10th Infantrys 13 th reg and 8 th private of Artillery
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of July 1834 and sent John Audenon Portland
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834 230.000 Semant. allowance ending 6 Sept 38.33 $268 33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Re E. C. Clerk, Book 1/2 Vol. 1 Page 49

Then from the Richer main
18 p.m. Puff 8 p.m. Artillery
Pirate of ship Artillery
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33.33
24 78.66

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 Twelfth day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- three before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this twelfth day of September aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Wentworth Pricker a resident of Cumberland in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Eighty 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
enlisted at Somersworth in the
Colony of New Hampshire in April AD 1775, to wit in the war of the Revolution, for eight months in Captain John Wentworth's Company, Col. Wood's Regt. was marched to Winter Hill near Boston where he arrived on the 24th of June & then served out the eight months & was honorably discharged verbally & returned home to Somersworth .
He again enlisted, after being at home two days, for two months in Capt. Sinclair's Company at Dover in New Hampshire. Col. Wentworth's Regt. was marched back to said Winter Hill & then served out said term & was honorably discharged verbally & returned home to Somersworth .
In April AD 1776 he again enlisted at Fort Sullivan in Portsmouth harbor in Capt. Ephraim Danks Company of Artillery for Eight months & served out said term at said Fort & was honorably discharged.
In December AD 1776 he again enlisted at Kittery near Portsmouth, a term then of twelve months and a half in Capt. John Holbrook's Company, Col. Frost's Regt. Massachusetts Militia for three months was appointed Sergeant & marched to New York to East Chester where he had to kill & at the various & served out the term in marching from place to place in the North River & was honorably discharged verbally & served all the three months as Sergeant.
He was born in said Somersworth on the 11th June AD 1753 & moved to the Island of Great Bear in said Cumberland in 1777 where he still resides. He knows of no one living by whom he can prove his service & refers to the Rules of New Hampshire for proof that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the State of New Hampshire . All health & the difficulty of getting from the Island on which he resides to the State of New Hampshire is the reason he has not before made his application.
Wentworth Pricker
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Amos Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mudgett Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Wentworth Richey for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
John Mudgett { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

28 855
Rev  INVALID.
File No. 28,855
Wentworth Ricker
Rev Rev Mr
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2636
Wentworth Rocker
Maine
act 18 March 1818.
Claim Rejected
advised act June 1839
did not serve
9 M.P.

Wentworth Ricker
Suspended
Not on list of establishment
2636
W m Widgey
Portland
Maine.
rec d Nov 4 1818
Not entitled - enlisted in May 1775 ; for a mo th & immediately after having served out that term, enlisted for one month more .
6 th June 1821

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....
Wentworth Miller of North Yarmouth in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of nine months & more on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at North Yarmouth 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 sixty four years of age .
Rev 1808
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to Colt's Wentworth Company of the first  Massachusetts Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line , that he entered said service on or about the last day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and that he left said service on or about the first day of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy six having enlisted for eight months and after serving that time he entered again for one month more and served till that month was expired when he was discharged by general order it is not in his power to produce the discharge.
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 29 th day of April 1818.
Wentworth Miller
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 29 th 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, Wentworth Miller 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 Miller farther offered in evidence
that he has no other evidence in his power to offer
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Wentworth Miller served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy.
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 29 th 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.
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 28 th day of October A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 29 th 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, Wentworth Riker 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 Riker farther offered in evidence
That he has no further evidence to his said offer
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Wentworth Riker served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy.
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 29 th 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.
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 seventh day of October A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

I Stephen Bennett of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland and Clergyman residing on the Island of Great Sebecz attached to said Cumberland by its incorporation and Solomon Sawyer of said Cumberland residing on said Island yeoman on oath declare that we have been acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Prichard of said Island for more than twenty years & believe him to be eighty years of age old. & we on oath certify that it is commonly reported & believed in the neighbour- hood where said Prichard resides that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war - & we fully concur in that opinion & belief - we further certify that said Prichard has ever sustained an unblemished character for truth, honesty & piety
Stephen Bennett Solomon Sawyer
Cumberland ss. Dec 21 st Then the above named Prichard & Sawyer made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by them signed before me John Anderson Mayor of Putnam

31.465
13 rd Jan 1865 8 th Jan 1865
76.66
Dr. J. Audena msq Pollard msq
18. 2. 33
Wentworth Beck Maurice organs

Scuttsville Dec 21 st 1833
Sir. I enclose the application of Wen T. Smith Richer for a Pension - Mr Richer lives on an Island detached some distance from the main land & is quite unfamiliar which is assigned as the reason of his late application - I am not personally acquainted with Richer other than listening to his statements, but his appearance is much in his favour & James Pherson Esq. whose deposition is enclosed is a highly respectable man & I have the utmost confidence in his statements
I leave the decision to be Sir, with great respect your obedt Servt John Underwood
Wen Jas L Edmonds Commissioner of Pensions.

I James Johnson of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine do depose testify & say that I have known Wentworth Ricker for fifty years that I was a near neighbor to him for twenty years that I have often heard said Wentworth recount his services in the Revolution, as we were both there - He stated to me often that he was at Winter Hill near Bunker Hill in Massachusetts and served there eight months in the year 1775 - that he marched there immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill to sustain the troops - He has stated to me that he served under Capt. Smealain and Col. Wingate two months after the foregoing service of eight months - He has also stated to me that he served on Scavoy's Island near Portsmouth in Fort Sullivan under Capt. Daniels of Portsmouth for a term of eight months - That he served as recruiting sergeant in the Massachusetts line and enlisted eight men & went on with them to New York to join the army - I know said Wentworth to be an honest man & he has been a member of the church of Christ for about forty years - That he has always sustained a good character for truth and I have no doubt his statements above may be relied upon - James Johnson
State of Maine Cumberland ss. Augt. 21. 1833 Then said Johnson appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the above - Before me Josiah W. Mitchell just pear
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named James Johnson for twenty five years & that he is a man of truth & veracity Josiah W. Mitchell just pear.

Maine District
District Clerk's Office September 12. 1833
In testimony that Jonah W. Mitchell is a Magistrate as within and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written.
John Mussey Clerk S.C. Maine
Depo. of James Johnson for Newcastle Prison