Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6018, for Abraham Kneeland, Massachusetts

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Kneeland, Abraham R. 6018
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Abraham Kneeland
Oct 1832. —
Sussex
Maine
Abraham Kneeland

State of Maine County of Penobscot
Be it Known, that on this twenty fifth day of October A. D. 1852 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared David Kneeland and Louisa Patterson residents of Lincoln in said County, and made oath according to law that they are children & legal heirs of Abraham Kneeland who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 1818 that they are directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanning and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, he hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Abraham Kneeland for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. Louisa Patterson David Kneeland
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said David Kneeland & Louisa Patterson to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical parties therein alleged.
John Tobin } Justice of the Peace
State of Maine County of Penobscot
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Supreme  Supreme Judicial Court for said County that Louisa Patterson & David Kneeland the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the the legal heirs of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that John Tobin Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office,
this thirteenth day of November 1852.
Wm T. Hilliard Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address.—3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," &c., &c.—4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature.—10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

Abraham Kneeland (29478) Maine unadorned
Ans: Mr. G. Parks May 8 th 1834 A.D. 1834
Horatio S. Burleigh day of April
ss.—I, Horatio S. Burleigh hereby certify that the copy of the original proceedings of the said Court before whom the within proceedings was had, is a true and correct copy of the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Abraham Kneeland for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 8 th day of April
State of Maine.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that the Rev. Samuel D. Merrill who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the State of Maine and that the Rev. Samuel D. Merrill who has also signed the same, is a resident of the State of Maine and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William D. Williams - Judge with the seal
State of Maine.

State of Maine.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ira Fish who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Lincoln and that Henry Campbell who has also signed the same, is a resident of the Town of Ayer and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William D. Williamson Judge as within said
State of Maine.
ss.—I, Alexander Savage Register of Probate for the County of Penobscot hereby certify that the William D. Williamson before whom the within proceedings was had, is Judge of Probate of Penobscot County of said State ; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Abraham Hurlbut for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this second day of April
A. D. 1834
Am. Dr. S. D. D. March 8 - 1834
Alexander Savage
Abraham Hurlbut (29478) Maine unack

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. Penobscot
ON this Second day of April A. D. 1837 personally appeared
before the Hon Wm D Williamson Esq. Judge of Probate of said State, Abraham Knowland a resident of Lincoln in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged seventy six years 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 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States, in the year 1782 with Captain Adams and served in Col. Swell regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers:
He enlisted the first of April 1782 as he thinks at Ansonbury (Mass) and a recruiting went to Boston, passed muster there and was then ordered to West point - where he was placed in Capt Adams's company - New York Regiment being the 1st Company 5th Regt of Mass's troops. The general officer stationed there was Putnam. He continued from 1st April to the middle of December and then hired a substitute and went home. He may be mistaken in the year. He knows of no one living by whom he can prove his service. David Clark of Bridgeton, who was the last survivor who knew of my service, is now dead - having received his pension -
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
He was Born in Ipswich Mass in the year 1761 He presumes the time of his age to be there. He was living in Bridgeton Maine when called into the service. He has lived in Bridgeton Waterville since. He now lives in Lincoln in the County of Penobscot He enlisted into the service. He recalled Genl Putnam, - He never received a discharge He brings forward Henry Campbell and Ira Fish who testify as to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services
He hereby Relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. in open Court Abraham Knowland William D. Williamson Judge of Probate for the County of Penobscot
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. William D. Williamson Judge of Probate as aforesaid

State of Maine.
WE Ira Fish a resident Clergyman, residing in the town of Lincoln in the County of Piscataqua and Henry Campbell residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Knutland who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Ira Fish Henry Campbell
STATE OF MAINE.
Subscribed ss. Sworn and subscribed this 2 day of April A. D. 1834
Before me;
John Appleton Justice of the Peace.
I hereby certify that no clergyman resides within the Town of Lincoln John Appleton
I Alexander Savage Registrar of Probate full County of Piscataqua certify that John Appleton is a justice of the peace for the County of Lincoln and that the above is his true genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at this Court this 2nd April 1834 Alexander Savage

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov 25 1853
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 there are no rolls of the Company of Capt. Madsen, nor are there any rolls in this office upon which the name of Abraham Howland appears.
The name of Michael Houdon is borne upon the books of the 25 Regiment under Col. Brigolet as Lieutenant Captain, but the name of the said Howland does not appear in said Regiment.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Isa: A. Dole
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Lincoln August 29 th 1853
I Abraham Hneeland of the town of Lincoln aged eighty one years the eleventh of June last do testify and say that I was born at Ipswich Mass My parents moved to Bridgton state of Maine and Co of Oxford when I was six years old and lived there until after the close of the war I think it was about My eighteenth year that Lt Col Wm Emerson of Bridgton was at Hemsbury in Mass and the town was called upon to furnish a certain number of soldiers and got their number excepting one Mr Emerson told them he thought when he got home he could send them one he proposed to me to go I was a minor and My parents very unwilling for me to go but I was determined to go and left home poorly clothed with very little money and went to Hemsbury there I signed a paper presented me by Christopher Sargent a man appointed by the town to take me to Boston and see if I could pass muster I was a very little deficient in height and they hesitated about taking me but finally did take me. the recruits were put under command of a sergeant at Boston by the name of Greene his christian name I do not recollect he marched us from Boston to Westpoint we were entitled to rations but I never received anything at all on the way I paid my own expenses and was so short of money that I was able to get only two meals per day while travelling there. when I arrived at Westpoint I was put into Capt Huddangs company it was the first Co and fifth Reg. or fifth Co. and first Reg. and I do not recollect which but think I am certain those were the two numbers

in the mess with me were Corporals Potter and Discomb from old Andover Mass. two men from S d Sainton Mass the name of one Richardson the other Bennett there was another man in the mess but I cannot recollect his name and I do not know their christian names was always in the habit of hearing them called by their surnames we arrived at west point about the first of May about the first of Dec we went into winter quarters at Fishkill about sixty miles up the river and remained there until spring I think the peace was proclaimed while we were there I recollect the soldiers enlisted for during the war were discharged about the time we came back to west point among the men discharged was one David Clarke of Bridgeton who for several years previous to his enlisting in the Army had made his home at my Father's house after he had received his discharge he came to me and told me he was going home I wanted to go with him the war was over. but I enlisted for three years and would be held for that time but I knew my Father was poor had a large family only one son beside myself and him a small boy I felt that my duty to my family required me to go home as the war was over I talked with Clarke he said he thought I might easily procure a substitute as there so many disbanded I then went to Capt. Hildang and told him the circumstances and asked him if he would take a substitute if I could get one he said he would if I got a good able bodied soldier Clarke said he thought he could get one for me and accordingly did get one and bring him to me to see if we could arrange the matter between us I offered him all my back wages having never received one cent of pay He thought that was not enough to induce him to stay and I finally gave him up my gun and equipments blanket all the clothes I had received from Government and wore the old clothes home that I left home with

I think the Capt erased my name from the rolls and put the name of Bennett in the place but I may be mistaken as to the name I do not know that I ever saw him before or since never to my knowledge excepting about three quarters of an hour it took to transact our business. When I left the army I had not one cent of money I sometimes got food for asking but many times asked and could not get it I stopped and worked a few days at a time and got my pay and then went as long as it lasted and then worked again and in that manner got home I think I served over a year
Abraham Kneeland
Penobscot ss. Lincoln August 29 th 1845. —
Then personally appeared the above named — Abraham Kneeland and made oath that the above statement by him signed was true to the best of his recollection and belief —
As from me John Leighton justice of the Peace
This may certify to whom it may concern that I have been acquainted with the above named Abraham Kneeland ever since November 1830 to this time, and I have no doubt in my mind but that the above statement is true —
John Leighton justice of the Peace information directed to Israel Gould Lincoln centre Penobscot Co. Me.

416 7 Abraham Street - To be examined at once - The appli- cant is a pauper. - No fee to be charged except .25 which is paid - This will be entered for by a Mrs. Heald on Monday P.M.
Homewood Homewood
nothing found -

Boston. Dec: 8. 1843.
To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir.
This paper has been put into my hands, with a request that I would forward it to you, that an examination of the proper records in your department might be made, with a view to obtain a pension for the within named Abraham Ruclard, if he be entitled to one. I have ascertained that he served in the 5 th Mass. Regiment. Col: Putnam, at under Capt. Haudin, which is a French name, commonly pronounced, Hurdang, as it is spelled in the affidavit. We have no records at our State department later than 1781 - Should you find the applicant entitled to a pension, by what appears on your Records, a communication to that effect will oblige yours friend & servant
7. Court Square Boston } J. Giles
P.S. This paper may be put on file in your office. }

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
July 20 th 1837.
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 Abraham Kneland is borne on the following receipt, viz. "Boston July 9 th 1782. Received of Capt. Christopher Sargent of Capt No. three for the Town of Amesbury the sum of Seventy Five Pounds, lawful Money, as a Bounty to serve in the Continental Army for the term of Three Years. Witness my hand - Abraham Kneland."
In Testimony Whereof,, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
A. D. Merrill
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

This certifies that we the undersigned have been personally acquainted with Mr. Abraham Hunsard during some ten or twelve years, that he sustains a good character that he is a person of truth and veracity, that in our opinion his word or oath ought to be relied upon, We further state he is poor and destitute, so much so, that the town helps support him. Lincoln Oct 30th 1843
Richmond Hayward Selectmen Aaron W. Wentworth of Lincoln

Washington D.C. 2 May 1844
Mr. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
Will you be good enough to inform me whether you have rec d . any papers on the subject of a pension for a Revolutionary Soldier named Abraham Kneeland; & if so, whether they have been acted on. —
Resp s Your Ob t Serv t .
Rob t C. Winthrop

A. B. Thursday
J. L. Edward Esq
Dear Sir,
The papers of Abraham Kneeland were forwarded by Mr. Giles (Joel Giles) of Boston.
Respg from O. B. Lord
Robt. C. Winthrop.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6019
P. O.
Abraham Knudsen
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
See 6018 for same case
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges:

Main
Abraham Kneeland
— Suspended —
in ht. Hn. G. Parks
May 8 th 1834
6018

35164
Abraham Kneeland Mass
Set to Hen R. C. Michels May 11. 1844
7 June 1832

Important index attached

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
6018
P. O.
Hiram Knowland
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
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