Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37220, for John Mathews, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mathews, John or Matthews
S. 37220
CONTENTS

6709/4
District of Maine Repealed Act 1828
John Matthews 14
of Buckfield, Oxford in the State of District of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the militia: line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 9 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of Feb'y 1819 and sent to Judge Parris - Paris Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep't 1818. 4 mos \frac{26}{30} 38.93 Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1819. 48
$ 86.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Cont'd
1890
March 10 F M Doble history
P 1105
[Faint vertical text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side:] The National Archives Revolutionary War Pension John Matthews 1818

I John Matthews a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Berkfield in the county of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that on the third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, I enlisted into the army of the United States of America on the continental establishment in the Massachusetts line as a private soldier in Captain Wentworth Stevens company in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment, numbered eighteen, in General William Heath's Brigade, for the term of one year, in which time I fully and faithfully served in said company, when said company was disbanded and I left the service. I further testify, that by reason of my reduced circumstances, in id I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, and that I am not borne on any pension list of the United States.
John Matthews

United States of America } District of Maine ss. }
To Samuel F Brown of Buckfield in said District —
Greeting —
Whereas at a special District Court of said United States for Maine District, held at Paris within said District on the ninth day of April A.D. 1810. Amos Mathews of Buckfield in said District presented himself and claimed a certif- icate of his having served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment against the common enemy, for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States agreeable to the provisions of An Act of Congress passed March 10. 1810. entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war: — and whereas in the course of the examina- tion here had, it appears that the testimony of Amos Brown of Buckfield 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 Samuel F Brown are hereby appointed and authorized, at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the deposition of the said Amos Brown 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 & Seal at Paris within said District this fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen
Albion K. Parris Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

I Amos Brown of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I was a soldier in the American Army during the war of the Revolution - that I belonged to the company commanded by Captain Wentworth Stewart, belonging to the Regiment, commanded by Col. Edmund Phinney and was stationed at Cambridge and Boston - that John Mathews then of Windham in the County of Cumberland, now of Buckfield aforesaid was a soldier in the same company and that he did to my certain knowledge continue to do duty as a soldier in said company for the term of one year, being the term of his enlistment and was discharged on the first day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven at Lake George, myself being discharged at the same time and went home in company with him. Neither of us received my written discharge at said termination of our services.
Amos Brown
Oxford ss. On the eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen the aforesaid Deponent was examined & cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken at the request of John Mathews and by the special appointment of the Hon. Abner K. Paris, Judge of the United States for District of Maine, and to be used

in an application by the said John Matthe made and now pending before the District Court of the United States now holden in Special Session at Paris within and for said District, for a certificate of his having served in the war of the revolution on the continen- tal establishment against the common enemy. For the purpose of his hereafter obtaining a pension from said United States agreeable to 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 —
Samuel F. Brown Justice of the Peace

John Matthews.
Admitted
John Matthews.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came John Matthews 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 deposition of Amos Brown, a fellow soldier with him in the revolutionary war, taken before Samuel F. Brown, a respectable magistrate appointed by Dedimus for this purpose, 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 John Matthews 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.
Albion L. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

John Mathews N o 6769.
March 1849
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lost to Thomas Black, Paris.
July 21. 1850 -

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. 1826. by adjournment A.D. 1826 before the Honorable Benjamin Green & Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
On this 16th 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. John Mathews aged eighty three - years, resident in Sumner - 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. Wentworth Stewart Jonathan Sawyer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Edmund Plummer & Samuel March 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 9th - day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 6760 - 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.
John Mathews -
Sworn to and declared, on the 16th day of June A. D. 1820.
Benjamin Green } Judah Dana }
BEFORE
Judges of said Court.
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: - no real estate - personal estate viz - 3 articles of Iron ware - 12 do Earthen ware - 6 do Wooden ware - one do Pewter - do - 2 do - tin - do - 5 chains - one chest of drawers very old - John Mathews -

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me John Matthews — who by occupation am a labourer which I am not able to pursue by reason of  a breach and the usual infirmities of old age —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Hannah my wife — 74 years  not able to contribute in any part by reason of her age & lameness  John Matthews —  
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 fifteen dollars and  15 00
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
John Matthews  $ 67 69

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
W.P.A.
August 19, 1926
Mrs. L. C. Holman 2036 Indiana Ave. Chicago, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 37220, it appears that JOHN MATHEWS (pensioned as John Matthews) while a resident of Windham, Cumberland County, Maine District, enlisted January 3, 1776, served as private in Captains Wentworth Stuart's and Jonathan Sawyer's Companies in Colonels Edmund Phinney's and Samuel March's Massachusetts Regiments and was discharged January 1, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine District.
In 1820 he was a resident of Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, aged eighty-three years and he then referred to his wife, Hannah, as being seventy-four years of age.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

(F37226) John Mathews
In April 1818 of Buckfield, Oxford Co Maine
Jonathan Sawyer }
We enlisted in Jany 1776 in the Mass Cont Line and Capt Stewart, & Capt y Col Edward Prentiss for one year, & as at the Siege of Boston being stationed at Cambridge - at which time Jonathan Sawyer a witness states Mathews Mathews was of Windham in Cumberland Co Me during at Lake George
In June 1820 of Summer Me aged 53 years stated his family consisted of his wife Hannah aged 74 years

37 220 INVALID. Rev
File No. 37 220
John Matthews His Heir
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 278
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1926 Aug. 19 list to Mrs. J. C. Holman W.C.S.
1926 Oct. 22 Mrs. J. C. Holman advised to stock date of death of soldier W.C.S.

Dorchester Jan 4. 1890
Miss
wrote for more data & mentioned John Walthers 2 as not identified Gen Green B. Raum
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Can you furnish me from the records of your Office, any information concerning John Mathews a soldier of the Revolutionary War, my Great grand father and a pensioner, who resided at the time of his death, in the town of Hartford, Oxford Co Maine,
I think he was wounded one fore finger being stiff from gun shot wound in the arm or wrist, but am not informed, whether the right or left, neither

am I sure that the pension was in consequence of such wound, but this much is certain, John Mathews a Revolutionary pensioner, lived and died in Hartford Maine, and none other of the name was living there at the time of his death.
What I wish to know is the Company & Regiment to which he belonged, and where he enlisted with such other information as may be found in the Archives of your Dept.
I have not been able to obtain the information desired from the Adjt Genls Dept as, the records of the Revolutionary soldiers are mostly in the possession of the several States to

which they changed. There are three, John Mathews, the roll of Massachusetts Soldiers of the Revolution, and in all probability one of them is the name desired, and when the said John Mathews drew his last pension he lived in the town aforemen- tioned, and I thought perhaps he could be located by that fact, I would suggest how- ever, that the said John Mathews may have enlisted in Falmouth Maine or Dover N.H. By complying with the above request - Oblige
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servant
56 Savin Hill Ave Francis M. Doble Dorchester { Soldier of the late Mass { War

P.S.
I have lately been informed that John Mathews moved from Poland Maine, to Buckfield Maine, and it is just possible that his Post-Office address when he died may have been Buckfield Oxford Co Maine, His father lived in Dover N.H. at one time.
Buckfield and Hartford are adjoining towns
893

Dorchester Mass Mar 3 rd 1890 MAH 8 1890 Dear Green B. Raum. Commissioner of Pensions. Dear Sir 1890 MAR 4
In reply to your letter, in answer to my letter of enquiry, relative to my great grand father a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I would state that in early life he lived in Dover, N. H. and that (John Mathews) later he moved to Falmouth Maine and married Hannah Knights whom I believe was also a native of New Hampshire.
She had two brothers, William and, Joseph, much older than herself, who figure somewhat prominently in the history of New Hampshire, some years before the Revolution, being

Captured and carried to Canada, by Indians William, on the way escaped and returned and gave timely warning of an intended attack and prevented a masacre of the inhabitants of a New Hampshire town.
I believe that John Mathews never lived in New Hampshire after 1818, it is possible he may have served in N H troops, he was probably born in Dover, and his father very likely lived earlier in Portsmouth and then Exeter, from Falmouth Maine, my ancestor moved to Poland Me, then to Buckfield, then Sumner, and last to Hartford, the last three adjoining towns, and all in Oxford Co He died about 1826 or 1828, he was certainly a Revolutionary pensioner, and one forefinger

was stiff from Gun Shot Wound I have forgotten whether right- or left. In the Archives of the Massachusetts Secretary of State there are three men bearing the name of John Mathews but 'tis impossible to tell if one of them is my Great grand father. He had three sons in the War of 1812, namely, John Jr., Samuel, my grandfather and Constantine. I think they all enlisted, in Buckfield Maine in Capt Chas Co and Col Clark's regiment; My grandfather was in one other organization during that War but I am not informed what it was, he, being a seaman very likely he may have been in a privateer. I have ascertained for a certainty that John Mathews died in Hartford Oxford Co Maine, as I have remarked, about 1826 or 1828 over eighty years of age. 56 Savin Hill Ave Dorchester Mass
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant - Francis M Doble

Chicago, June 23, 1926.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the record of John Mathews, Oxford Co., Me., who was a pensioner by reason of service in the Revolution.
Thanking you for your courtesy,
Yours truly,
L. C. Holman
Mrs. L. C. Holman, 2036 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
October 22, 1926
Lucy C. Holman 2036 Indiana Ave. Chicago, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the records of this bureau it appears that JOHN MATHEWS, S. 37220, died in 1826, the month and day not stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and possibly the exact date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Mathews, S. 37220, you should apply to the Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
JOHN MATHEWS or MATTHEWS, Certificate 6769, issued February 10, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 9, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, District of Maine Agency.
respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

2036 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, August 28, 1926.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly tell me how to get from the Treasury Department the last date of payment to John Matthews, or on his account, Revolutionary War pension claim S37220, applica- tion executed Apr. 9, 1818?
Yours truly,
Lucy C. Holman