Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,211, for William Stone, Massachusetts

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Stone, William
S 18211
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N o 18392 Maine
William Stone of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company comman- by Captain Hubbard of the Rgt. comman- by Col. Scammon in the Maine Troop time for 18 1/2 months Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 61 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. day of Aug. 1833 and sent to Mrs. B. Nelson Alfred Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 132.3 Pension allowance ending Sep. 1833 30.8 $163.
{ Revolutionary Ch. Act June 7, 18.
Recorded by D. Brown Book E. Vol. 1 Page 54

Holmes.
William Stone

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, SS.
ON this twenty second day of August 1832 appeared in open court, before the
personally Court of
Probate now sitting at Alfred William Stone in the county of York and State of Maine aged eighty six 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. I was born in Berwick in said County of York and have resided there since the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Soon after I enlisted in a company of United States Troops commanded by Capt. Philip Hubbard - one Jeremiah Goodwin was lieutenant and - Robert Purdie. The company belonged to Col. Seaman's Regiment. I enlisted for eight months & served most of the time in Boston and Cambridge and was on the battle of Bunker Hill at the expiration of the eight months I returned to Berwick and enlisted after two or three months in a company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Goodwin who had been promoted from the Lieutenantcy in a company of U. States Troops in a Regiment commanded by Col. Roberts who had been promoted from the rank of Purdie. I marched to Boston & was encamped
of Alfred in Boston and in the vicinity where I remained three or four months the time for which I enlisted. I then returned to Berwick and enlisted again under the same officers - marched up to Piscataqua & to the Lake and was in one of the gun-boats in an engagement on Lake Champlain - I was in service under this last enlistment six or seven months & was then discharged with the rest of the company - and have resided in Berwick in the County of York ever since. My discharge have all been lost.
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, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Maine except as aforesaid -
Witness Hon. A. Hays SWORN TO, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Witness W. B. Holmes William Stone
WE, John Bohun a clergyman, residing in the town of Alfred and Wm B Holmes a magistrate, residing in the town of Alfred aforesaid, who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Stone  Eighty 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.
SWORN TO, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
J. Bohun Wm. B. Holmes

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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that
John Holmes , who has signed the preceding certificate, is a United States Senator, resident in the town of Alfred Maine , and that Wm. B. Holmes , who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Alfred and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Wm. Cutter Allen, Register , clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid , do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Stone for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-second day of August , A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

18211 INVALID.
File No. 18211
William B...
18211
Act: June 7 th 1872
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I believe I had known of Lyman's testimony to say that I knew William Stone of the of high & he was a soldier in Capt Jonathan Stone's Company 1 (Col. John Frost's) regiment during the revolutionary war & that said Stone served three months, I believe to said Company. We were both discharged at Heckschick in N. York. We were discharged in March 1777. Simeon Chadbourne
York 23 d August 1832
Subscribed & sworn to before John ... J. P.
State of Maine.
York ss. I William Walter Allen, Register of Probate for the county of York, do hereby certify that John Kidnes is a true copy of the peace as above stated, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Walter Allen Register of Probate

I certify that the within named Simon Chadburn is well known to me & he is a credible witness & a respectable man of high moral character & is fully entitled to be believed on the premises as well as in general.
Johnathan J. P.

11-1-1893 I Benjamin Goodwin of Shapleigh in the county of York and State of Maine, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I am in my seventy ninth year of age; that I have known William Stone of said Shapleigh aforesaid, for over sixty years last past; that said William Stone and I both enlisted as private soldiers in Capt. Philips Hubbards company, at Berwick in said county, on or about the first of May, 1862 for the period of eight months, and we both served that period in Capt. Hubbards company in Col. James Seammans Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, at Cambridge, at Prospect Hill, and the vicinity of Charlestown, Massachusetts: And I am certain said William Stone served in said company & regiment the full period of eight months as a private soldier, for the time and I was discharged at the same time, at Cambridge, about last of December 1862 or perhaps in January 1863. Witness: Jeremiah Goodwin. Benja + Goodwin mark
State of Maine - County of York, ss. May 8, 1883. Then personally appeared the aforesaid Benj + Goodwin and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed by his mark in my presence. And hereby certify that said Benjamin Goodwin is known believed to be a credible witness. Jeremiah Goodwin, Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine.
Yah 10. I Mr. Curtis Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county hereby certify that Jeremiah Goodwin is absent out of the peace as within stated and that no signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of June A.D. 1835.
Mr. Curtis Allen, Register of Probate.

(34) I Simeon Ricker of Lebanon in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy eight years, on oath testify, depose, and say, that in the year 1776 on the 22 d day of July of said year, I marched from the Town of Berwick in York County as a soldier in the Company of Capt. Jeremiah Goodwin of said Berwick - first Lieut. Isaac Cowell - Second Lieut. Josiah Parsons - William Stone, then of said Berwick, but now of Shalbaugh in said County, marched with me a soldier in said Company - from Berwick we marched to a place called 104 from there, after the rest part of the Regiment to which we were attached joined our Company, we marched to a place called Ticonderoga in the State of New York Our Regiment remained at Ticonderoga till the last of November, when we took up our march for Albany where we arrived the first of December of said 1776, and was Dismissed from the service of the American Revolutionary War at Albany in the first part of the month of December the day of the month I cannot now recollect - Our Col. was a Edward Spiglesworth from Newburyport James Roberts of Berwick aforesaid was Major of said Regiment and acted as Lieut. Col. after the death of Col. Faxon who died at 104 - William Stone aforesaid who is now in my presence was my sub- -mate and served in said Company with me, as a private, during the whole of said Campaign, and was a good soldier.
York N. June 11. 1855
SIMEON RICKER Then the above named Simeon Ricker person- ally appeared, and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed, is true.
Before me I hereby certify that I certify that said Simeon Ricker is a credible witness and a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac N. Kimball Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
For as Mr. Luther Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county, hereby certifies that Increase Skinner is a native of the peace as within states, and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this seventeenth day of June A.D. 1833.
M r . Luther Allen, Register of Probate.

I Ralph Farnham of Acton in the County of York and State of Maine, upon oath do testify and declare, that I well knew Mr. William Stone a soldier of the War of the Revolution, said William Stone served in the company of Philip Hubbard Captain and in Colonel James Linnun Regiment of Infantry in the year A.D. 1775 at Cambridge Massachusetts and was discharged at Cambridge aforesaid the last day of December the same year and I the said Ralph Farnham knew the said William Stone a soldier as aforesaid eight months he served as a private soldier
Ralph Farnham
York ss. June 7 th 1833.
The said Ralph Farnham is well known to me to be a credible witness and uninterested and a man of truth and veracity and on the day month and year above named the said Ralph Farnham per- sonally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me John Bodwell Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
York ss. I Mr. Gustav Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county hereby certify that John Bodwell is a Justice of the peace as above stated, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this seventh June A.D. 1833 seventeenth day of June A.D. 1833.
Mr. Gustav Allen, Register of Probate.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of Ulster County of York - and State of Maine - William Stone of Skaneateles in said County, who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he was born in Berwick in said County, that soon after the beginning of the Revolutionary war - the 18th of May 1775, he enlisted a private soldier for the term of eight months in Capt. William Stoddard's Company, Col. James Seaman's Regiment (Massachusetts Militia) Lt. Col. Service - Jeremiah Goodwin was a Lieutenant and - Robert Paton - was  was the captain of said Company and served that term at Cambridge and the vicinity of Charlestown Navy Yard, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill - At the end of the eight months, he returned to said Berwick, and after two or three months, enlisted again as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Goodwin who had been promoted from the Lieutenantcy in the Regiment of Col. Roberts who had been promoted from the rank of Ensign, and marched from said Berwick to Roxbury and was there and at other places in the neighborhood of Boston in active service with said Company for the term of three months for which he enlisted - That he then returned to said Berwick and again enlisted a private in the same service under the same officers or in Capt. Jeremiah Goodwin's Company in July 1776 He said 'Col. Roberts' was a major in the said Regiment, but he acted as Lieut. Colonel on the death of Colonel Fuller - and Josiah Parsons was one of the Lieutenants of said Company. He then marched with his Company (Capt. Goodwin afterwards) from said Berwick to a place called 'Number Four', near Charlestown -
1st Service 8 months
2nd Service 3 months
3rd Service 4 1/2 months

on Connecticut River. From thence after being joined to the rest of the Regiment he marched thence to Simsbury and after remaining there until the end of November he thence marched to Albany and arrived there the last first of December 1776. When where he was discharged with the Army He was in service in the Revolutionary War under this last enlistment four months and a half. And Wigglesworth was Colonel of the Regiment 4 th Service That afterwarde and sometime in January 1777 (he was resident 3 months) He says he again enlisted as a private in Capt. Jonathan Hamilton Company Col. North Regiment as in the 1 st & 2 nd Service. Revolutionary War and served there three months and was discharged in March in the same year 1777 at Peekskill in the State of New York.
And he further depose and says that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state as to his services in the Revolutionary War more particularly than he has herein stated, nor as to the second named service is he or has he been enabled to obtain any evidence to substantiate. He is now in his eighty third year of age is quite infirm - and since his declaration of the nature of his service contracted within a few weeks of the present time, he has not been able to obtain more evidence of the nature of his services, declared for stopping the payments there to have been made or real remembering them if there His records are all lost, but according to the best of his recollection he served for the period above named and declared for each time each time amounting in the whole to eighteen months and a half, and for each service he claims a Pension
Witness Otis F. Kendall H. H. Holmes
Alp. York to 13 June 1833 -
William his Stone mark
York ss. Personally appeared William Stone this 13 th day of June

eighteen hundred and thirtythree and make oath that the foregoing declaration by him signed is true -
Before me
William B Holmes
Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William Stone - That he is universally reported to have been a soldier of the Revolution - That at the time of making his oath affidavit there was no clergymen in the place where his at the time where they were taken who was acquainted with him or with the reputation he has of his Revolutionary Services.
W B Holmes Justice Peace
State of Maine.
York ss. I Mr. Luther Albee Registrator of the Court of Probate for said county; hereby certify that Mr. W. B. Holmes is a Justice of the Peace as above stated and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. I also certify that the signature of John Holmes to the additional affidavit on the deposition of Simon Chadburn is genuine.
In witness whereof I have here - unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this seventeenth day of June A.D. 1845.
Mr. Luther Albee. Registrar of Probate