Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22578, for Moses Stevens, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass,
Stevens Moses Weeks Persis
W 22 578
Former widow
CONTENTS

Maine
Persis Weeks, formerly widow of Moses Stevens who was a Private in the Mass. line
for 12 mo 1789, Private 10 " 5 " 1790
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 93 Dollars & 38. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of July, 1843. and sent to
E. E. Burne Kennebec, Maine,
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book - 4. Vol. 1. Page 11.

— State of Maine — York County ss.
On this twentieth day of September eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine Persis Weeks, a resident of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, and the Act explanatory of said Act passed March 3 d 1837. That she was married to Moses Stevens of Arundel, who was a private in the service of the United States in the company of Captain Jesse Dorman of Col Scammons Regiment, eight months in the year 1775 at Cambridge —
She has reason also to believe that he was in the service at the same place, two months and a half immediately after, in a company commanded by Capt. Daniel Littlefield —
Said Moses Stevens was also orderly sergeant ten months in 1776 in the company commanded by Capt Tobias Lord, at Portland —
He was also orderly sergeant , three or four months, in the company of Capt James Perkins, of Col Frosts Regiment, on the North river in the State of New York — in the last

of 1776, and the winter of 1777— After this— she was in the service of the State of Connecticut, but she knows not under what officers, or during how long a term—
Said Moses Stevens was also in the service in the Penobscot expedition two and a half months in the year 1779— in the company she thinks of Captain Samuel Sawyer, or of Capt Nathaniel Bowditch— Daniel Littlefield she thinks was Major—
After she was married to said Moses, she again enlisted in the service in the beginning of the year 1780, for the term of eight months, but she knows not any of the officers of the company or any person living who was with him— He was stationed at Cape Porpoise (in Mendel) and was engaged in building a fort— He served said eight months, and was honorably discharged— She believes he was almost constantly in the service from the beginning of the war, until her marriage, and during the said eight months afterwards— She has no documentary evidence in support of her claim—
She further declares that she was married to said Moses Stevens, on the twenty seventh day of January seventeen hundred and

eighty, and that her husband the aforesaid Moses Stevens died on the fifteenth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three That she was afterwards married to John Weeks who died in June eighteen hundred & sixteen and that she was a widow on the on the fourth of July 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed  Witness E E Bourne Benja Guff  Persis X Weeks Mark  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before -
John Guff Supreme Judicial Court

I Christopher Littlefield Clerk of the Town of Wells in the County of York and State of Maine certify that under the head "The following persons joined in marriage" in the Records of said Town is the following "Seventeen hundred and eighty January twenty seventh Moses Stevens & Pissis Stevens" and the same is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows. - "1780 Jan y 27 Moses Stevens & Pissis Stevens"
Christopher Littlefield } Clerk of the Town of Wells
I Christopher Littlefield above named do hereby certify that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said Town of Wells in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me. -
Christopher Littlefield } Clerk of the Town of Wells
State of Maine York County ss. Sept 17 th 1842. Personally appeared Christopher Littlefield who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed -
Before me -
Edward E. Bourne Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Tripp of Kennetbark in the County of York and State of Maine, Thus handman, do on oath testify and declare That I well knew John Weeks of Arundel in said County, deceased - Said John Weeks died in June eighteen hundred and fifteen - being killed in sailing a boat. I was present when the acci- dent happened - I further testify That he left Persi Weeks as his widow, and That said Persi has remained a widow ever since - I further testify That I always understood, and have no doubt of the fact, That she was formerly the widow of Moses Stevens. - Benjamin Tripp
State of Maine York County ss. Sept. 20 th 1842 - Personally appeared Benjamin Tripp who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me Edward E. Bourn Justice of the Peace

(5663.)
Persis Weeks formerly widow of Moses. Stevens-
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I Nathan Thompson of Kennebec, Port formerly Arundel, in the County of York and State of Maine, Husbandman, aged eighty seven, do on oath testify and declare that I was a soldier in the Company of Captain Tobias Lord at Portland, now in the year 1776 - I enlisted for one year and served ten months when I was honorably dis- charged. I further testify that Moses Ste- vens of Arundel, was orderly sergeant of said Company during said time, when all were discharged together. Said Moses Stevens has been dead many ten years, his leaving his widow Pessie Stevens who after- wards married John Weeks - who has also been dead many years - Nathan Thompson
State of Maine
York County ss Sept 15 1842 - Personally ap- peared Nathan Thompson who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed.
Before me
Edward E Bourne Justice of the Peace

I Daniel Hough of Kennebec Port, formerly Arundel, in the County of York and State of Maine, Husbandman, aged eighty nine years, do on oath, testify and declare, that I was a soldier in the company of Captain James Perkins of Col. Frost's Regiment, three months from December 1776 to March 1777, on the North river in the State of New York. - I further testify that Moses Stevens of Arundel, was orderly sergeant in said company during said term, when he was honorably discharged - Afterwards said Stevens went into the service in Connecticut - I further testify that said Stevens died many years ago - and that his widow afterwards married one John Weeks, who has also been dead many years.
Daniel Hough
State of Maine
York County ss. Sept 15 1842 - Personally appeared Daniel Hough who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me Edward E. Bourn Justice of the Peace

State of Maine. York County. set 3.
I William Traphon, Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Oliver Shepley is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State aforesaid. Know that Edward E. Bourne is an acting Justice of the Peace, in said aforesaid county, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the twentyfifth day of June 1841, and will expire on twentyfifth day of June 1848, and that the signatures of said Shepley and Bourne to the papers herunto annexed are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, this twentieth day of September, 1842.
William Traphon, Clerk.
No 5662

Oct. 1838
No 8459.
Perseus Weeks - formerly widow of Moses Stevens
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C. E Bourne Esq Kennebec M o

State of Maine
York County ss.
On this twentieth day of September eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, Persis Weeks, a resident of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she was the widow of Moses Stevens of Mendel, who was a private in the service of the United States in the company of Captain Jesse Dorman, of Col. Scamman's Regiment, eight months in the year 1775 at Cambridge.
She has reason also to believe that he was in the service at the same place, two months, and a half immediately after, in a company commanded by Captain Daniel Littlefield of Col. Littlefield's Regiment.
Said Moses Stevens was also orderly sergeant ten months in 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Lord, at Portland.
He was orderly sergeant, three or four months in the company of Capt. James Perkins.

of Col Frost Regiment, on the North river in the State of New York, in the last of the year 1776, and the winter of 1777. After this, she was in the service of the State of Connecticut, but she knows not under what officers or dur- ing how long a term.
Said Moses Stevens was also in the service in the Penobscot expedition two and a half months in the year 1779 - in the company she thinks of Capt Nathaniel Cousens, or Capt Samuel Sawyer, under Major Samuel Littlefield.
After she was married to said Moses he again enlisted in the service in the beginning of the year 1780 for the term of eight months but she knows not the names of any of the officers of the company, or of any person living who was with him - He was stationed at Cape Porpoise (in Maine) and was employed in building a fort - He served said eight months and was honorably discharged. She believes he was almost constantly in the service from the beginning of the war, until her marriage, and was also in the service eight months afterwards. She has no documentary evidence in sup- port of her claim.
She further declares that she

was married to said Moses Stevens on the twenty seventh day of January seventeen hun- dred and eighty 1 and that her husband the aforesaid Moses Stevens died on the fifteenth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three. That she was afterwards married to John Weeks who died in June eighteen hundred and sixteen and that she was a widow on the seventh day of July 1838 and remains a widow hav- ing been so from the death of said John Weeks as will appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Witness
E. E. Bourn
Bernard Gouff
Percy X Weeks
Sworn to and marked subscribed on the day and year above written — Before —
Edith Shepley Justice Supreme Judicial Court
State of Maine
County of York p.
I, William Dufton Clerk of the Judicial Courts within the for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edith Shepley is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, this twentieth day of September Anno Domini 1842, William Dufton, Clerk.

case of Peter Meeks.
The attention of the commissioners of the seas is specially & respectfully requested, to the with. letter —
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Thennantville, Nov 24 1842.
Dr Sir,
Supposing as I do, that the Commision cannot personally examine claims and evidence under the pension laws, I take the liberty to request your attention to the case of Persis Weeks, knowing from long intercourse with the Department in the way of business, that rules or principles have been applied to her claim, which have never been brought to bear, or with so much rigour, to cases which have ever been presented by me heretofore - I spend also, from conversation with another gentleman of high standing in the law, who can well judge of the bearings and effect of evidence, that evidence which seemed to his mind conclusive, and sufficient in any court of law, has been regarded by the Clerks, as altogether inadequate to establish the fact of service - I doubt not that their decisions of the Clerks, have their origin in a scrupulous, perhaps over scrupulous fidelity, to their oaths, and the duties enjoined by the rules of the office.
The case of Persis Weeks is as follows. Her husband was out nearly all the war until '81. She is undoubtedly legally entitled to a pension under the Act of '36. But, as yet, I have been entirely unable to furnish the testimony of service subsequently to the marriage, any one being able whom she supposed to have any knowledge of the service. Therefore the claim under that Act was very properly rejected - She then claims under the Act of '38 - Two of the services claimed have been allowed and a certificate issued - The services unallowed are 4 mo under Capt James

Perhaps in New York in 1777, and 7 1/2 months in the Pen- nysylvania Expedition in '79.
The first was proved by the deposition of Samuel Huff, who is receiving a pension for the same service - proved probably by only one witness - which in courts of law would be sufficient, even in case of murder. Huff's mind and memory are perfectly good as to all the scenes of the Revolution, and his credibility beyond all question. To this claim the reply was that there was , that there was no such Captain in the service - In a case some years since, I re- ceived the same reply - But I immediately answered by a reference to certain cases, which were then on file and the claim was allowed without fur- ther objection. In this case I also answered that Samuel Huff, Ezekiel Wakefield, Benjamin Thompson, and probably others had been receiving a pension for that service - Wakefield and Thompson are dead - Probably their services were also proved by other witnesses. To this, I re- ceived the answer, that all these men were "unquestionably mistaken" , as to their Captain's name - The reason given was, that his name was not found in the Index of the officers names - Now, I suppose, that such a reason would not, in the view of the Commissioners of the Pensions, justify the conclusion of the Clerk, when it is known, that the index does not contain, perhaps more than half the names of officers in the service - In this very case, it is said in Allen's reply, that there was no such man as Capt Sawyer in the Peninsular service, & no such officer as Amos Town, Capt Samuel Little field at Cambridge - Capt Sawyer was in the Pen-

scot expedition with a large company from Hills was in the boat with Maj. Daniel Littlefield when he was killed - and was then appointed Major in his place - Daniel Littlefield was a Capt in the Coast guards in 1775 - was 2 mo and 15 days in the service at Cambridge at the beginning of 76 - his original letter, I think are on file in the office in the case of Hannah Eldridge written at the time - he was also a Captain in Col. Hale's Reg't in Vermont in 77 - was Major in the Penob- scot Expedition in 79 where he was killed - Amos Young was a Lieutenant in several services, all ended on the fall of the Department - These quar- ters are all immaterial now - except as showing the fact of the imperfection of the rolls - I could have more service notices, by almost any number of witnesses - But as it was stated that no fur- ther allowance to be made could be on the ground that the witnesses were unquestionably mistaken as to the name of the Captain, as soon as I could take the time, I have taken the testimony needed as to how to obviate that objection - I could have left but one man, who was in the ranks - but I could obtain any quantity of testimony from others that may be deemed necessary - I suppose that the ex- tracts from the History of Penobscot Port written by one who never had any thing to do with the Penobscot line, and without any reference to per- sons for a 6 years since, would be sufficient but I have also added the deposition of James Thompson, an intelligent respectable citizen, who called at my office, having travelled five or six miles, to see that no injustice might be done to the orphan children in his neighbourhood, whom he feared, a neighbour was trying to drive out of their property - His mind, as

in such circumstances, fact will be supposed not much impaired - I send also the deposition of Abraham Currier, son of the lieutenant - under Capt. Niles Although such suggestions may not comport with the usual tenor of correspondence with the Department, I add, merely to establish the character of the wit- nesses, as one of the clerks in the Dept. informs the standing of the persons named, that Currier is the father of the wife of Thos Lord - Thomas Lord married a daughter - I can send both their depositions - I can send also the deposition of the children of James Perkins, that their father was in the service as stated - However, I will not pre- sume such evidence to be needed -
In regard to the Penobscot, since as I have been accustomed to receive testimony, it seems to me that the proof is equally good - I send you the deposition of Edward E. Bourne only, in addition to that before furnished - I say nothing about his credibility - I remark only that he is a lawyer; and therefore, as that pro- fession have the reputation of perhaps, "lying a little occasionally," his statements are to be received with a little caution - Still, as he is certified by the magistrate to be a credible witness, his statements are to be re- ceived as true, until rebutted by other testi- mony - If they are true, I know of no more conclusive evidence - circumstantial evidence is sometimes far better, than positive testimony of eye or ear witnesses - and I think it must be so considered here. - The circumstances stated, could not exist, without the existence

of the fact alleged — But Stevens testimony alone, it seems to me, cannot but be considered as sufficient — I do not understand that the Rolls of the Warrent are in the Pension Office and that Stevens name does not appear there. If such were the fact, it would, to be sure, be somewhat of a matter, though being inserted into the service part as the frigate was decommissioned, it might not have been added to the Rolls. This business of imprisonment in the frigate Warrent, I fear, is supported by history —
I am aware that I have pressed this case with some zeal — but still I feel confident, that the Government will agree with me, that the case fully justified it — Stevens was in the service nearly all the war — and I could be hardly justified in abandoning the case on an allowance of service less than 2 years — It would be a great labor to establish the Connecticut service —
I am also fully satisfied in regard to the service subsequent to the marriage, and shall endeavor at some time subsequent time to make such a search among the Massachusetts bills documents, as the case requires — but at present, I can only claim under the Act of '58, and I cannot doubt that under that Act, the Department, will allow all the service claimed.
Hon J L Edwards Clerk of Pension
Respectfully Yours at Service E E Brown

21 as then
Oct 26. 1842.
Incus.
versus the
on J L Edwards
com. of Pensions
Washington
24 1723 6:9

Thos. Church Me. Oct. 22 1842
In Sir
I have just rec'd the Pension certificate of Persis Weeks without any accompanying explanatory letter - I am apprehensive there must be some mistake in the calculation, or an oversight of the depositions of Daniel Huff and Jonathan Stone - As I can conceive of no better evidence than that which their depositions afford -
By the first letter rec'd, ten months as sergeant at Portland was allowed and 8 months a private at Cambridge - which I suppose makes up the amount of the certificate $76.72 - There was also the deposition of Daniel Huff, who received a pension for the same service, that Stevens was orderly sergeant in his company four months in New York in 1777 in the company of James Perkins - others also rec'd here a pension for the same service -
Then also I sent the deposition of Jonathan Stone, that he was a sole seaman on board the frigate Warren at Penobscot giving the same account in substance which she had given to me, though I supposed

That the soldiers went by water, and that he was probably in Capt Cousins company and so declared -
I have had over 100 pension cases and have never before failed in establishing a single service claimed - making it a rule to have no laggery in obtaining a pension unless I was fully satisfied that all was right - and feeling as I do that the evidence in this case would be the conclusion in any court of justice on the same question - and that it as strong- ly establishes the claim of the Affiant to as any case which I have had, I should think myself negligent of duty in not requesting a re-examination of it - At the time when the law of 38 was passed I could have procured her case by several methods - It would seem to be hard now, that she should suffer when she has the positive testimony of two honest men, and the only one man who swears, who was in their service -
Yours Respectfully, E E Bourn
Rev J L Edwards Com of Pensions Washington D.C.

I Jonathan Stone of Kennebec Port in the County of York and State of Maine, aged seventy eight years do on oath, testify and declare that I was a soldier in the Company of Capt Nathaniel Cousins in the Penobscot expedition in the year seventeen hundred and sixty nine, two and a half months - I further testify that Moses Stevens of said Kennebec Port, then called Arundel, was also in said service. He was in Boston, and was pressed on board the frigate Warren. When they arrived at the Penobscot, he and Samuel Titcomb came on shore to recruit. I remember as well what he said when I met him, on the as though it was said to day - That it was well for Titcomb that he was on board, they imposed upon him so, being a green hand. The Warren was burnt with the rest, and they all had to come home by land. We were well acquainted - having been born and brought up near each other and always went to the same meeting Jonathan his Stone Mark
Witness
E. E. Dorrance
James A. Merrill
State of Maine
York County ss. 2 October 7 th 1842
Personally appeared Jonathan

Stone, who is a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed -
Before me
Edward E. Bourn Justice of the Peace

Thennadunk Me. Sept 21 1842
Dear Sir
I herewith send the declaration and evidence of Persis Stearns  Weeks formerly widow of Moses Stevens of Trumbull. for a pension under the Law of 1836 The case has been under my care for three or four years. But I could find no proof of the service subsequent to the marriage - and have in consequence, been waiting until this time, for the return of the documents belonging to the State of Massachusetts, which I have been assured would to be returned - I had no doubt, that when I could at once find the proof of the service - as from the Affidavits account of it, I could have no doubt of the fact of such service - But as she is entitled to the 5 years pension under the last allocation of the law, I have thought it not worth  worth to wait any longer - Though I am not yet sure her rights under the Law of '36, until I find her claim cannot be sustained - Then
There is no doubt that Stevens was in the service all the time until her marriage - But death has made such havoc among the old soldiers during the last five or six years, that it is now difficult to prove any service -
In regard The first alleged service of 8 mo will be found, I presume on the Rolls - Every man in the Company is dead - a month ago I could have furnished evidence by an Officer - But he said without my knowledge that he was not
I have a copy of the Roll, the original of which I sent to the department, in which is the name of Stevens -
The second service alleged may not have been performed - The declaration was

founded on the declaration of Erskine Watrous as I have it, in the statement of his claim for a pension that after the expiration of 8 Mo "they would not to stay 8 Mo longer" and almost all and to 2 months & 15 days" - and from the certificate of Capt Dorman on the back of the Roll, I sent to the Department with the papers of Abner Dyer, which certificate speaks of the men returning here as follows, and among them Stevens and Watrous - Perhaps Stevens was not in Littlefield's company after the return but in some other of the Reg't -
The 3 d Service in N.Y. is proved - Some I have called it a 3 - and some a 4 Mo service - I know not which is right.
The service in the Poughkeepsie expedition. I merely will be proved by the Rolls in the Department - He was Orderly Sergeant or a higher officer - In the papers of William Lewis I forwarded an old book, which I think con- tained the names of a part or the whole of his Company -
Up to this term she says he was constantly in the War, but I have not been able to par- ticularize any other service -
In regard to the service after the marriage there can be no doubt of it - after the papers were all done or in the making to her it did not appear, she remarked that her husband was Lieutenant in the last 8 Mo after the marriage - I asked her if she wore the epaulettes She at once replied, yes - These epaulettes are

listed to guard the deacon, were scattered all along shore - so that it is not strange that she should not know the officers - Perhaps Amos Town - Samuel Wheelytt - Capt Hooper - James Perkins - or Lieut. Waller had the charge of it - Still I can as- sign none with any certainty - There were only about half a dozen men stationed there - But that her husband served there the 8 Mo, there is no doubt - She says he used to come home about once a month, by permission, though only 4 miles from her - In any other business, and he would have probably returned oftener, it being but a short time after marriage -
As I presume it is the wish of the de- partment to give all proper aid that persons for whom the law was designed, may have the benefit of it and as we are not permitted to examine the Rolls, which in part belong to the state of Maine - I hope that such an ex- amination will be had, as that there can be no doubt on the question whether the service was performed or not - True, we cannot fur- nish, perhaps, the usual data, from thence to date the usual start in an examination - But the service will undoubtedly be established, I think by the Rolls of the sea coast since 1780 - The character of the woman precludes at once the idea that her statement is not cor- rect -
Very Respectfully, Your obedient E. B. Bourn

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Penna Washington D.C.

Thermopolis Oct 8 1842
Le Sir
Your letter of Sept. 28 th relative to the claim of Persis Weeks for a pension was duly rec'd - Entertaining as I do the fullest confidence that she is entitled to a pension under the law of 1836, it is with much regret that I find it necessary to abandon that, for the 5 year pension under the Act of 1838 - Her memory is so accurate in regard to every thing else, and she details so particularly the facts connected with the service of 1780, that I cannot for a moment doubt that it was actually performed - Still as I cannot furnish any proof, I must abandon it, though I suffer the right will still remain under that law, if I should at any time hereafter succeed in obtaining the evidence -
To be prepared for this contingency I had the declarations made and sworn to at the same time so as to use that under the law of 1838 in case it should become necessary. It is inclosed -
With regard to the evidence - it appears from your letter that the Cambridge service of 7 mo. 23 days - and the Portland service of 10 mo 5 days as sergeant is proved to the satisfaction of the department.

In regard to the 3 d series of 4 mo under James Perkins, it is said there was no such conflict in the series" - There probably is some mistake at the Department in relation to this, as several pensions have been granted for this series - The widow of James Perkins applied to me sometime since - and brought with her her commission, for this same series - but this was the only service once therefore she was not entitled to it -
It will be seen that it is proved by the deposition of Daniel Huff , who was in the series, which was probably overlooked.
Daniel Huff received a pension for the series under Capt Perkins - Ezekiel Wakefield also received a pension for the same series - Beryman Thompson also -
In regard to the series in the Penobscot expedition, the enclosed deposition will at once settle the difficulty - I supposed the deponent to be dead when the papers were and forwarded and that therefore there was no one living here who was in that series - but by an incidental remark of some one about his removal to another part of the town I learned otherwise - The widow stated to me the same fact, about his being pressed on board a vessel, but I did not think that he went as a seaman - but merely went on board for transportation to the Penob-

scot. - I presume you have the Rolls of the Navy and therefore know the deposition may be unnecessary - As he was Captain of a boat in which he was pressed I hope it will be found he was something higher than a seaman as he was alleged in the declaration to be in the Penobscot service, I suppose no additional declaration could be necessary
The whole claim as I understand it is
  Then -  7 Mo 23 days - at Cambridge  $350.00     18 Mo 5 days - Sergeant at Portland  210.00     4 Mo - 50 - in New York  50.00     2 1/2 Mo  Penobscot  
I may here suggest that the service of 1780 might not have been of the called that of the Coast guards - There were 4 companies that year stationed at Portland under Col Pierre - Captain Daniel Clark's com- manded one company - I had the names of the other 3 but have lost them - Perhaps some of these companies might have scattered along the coast - Many are receiving pen- sions for that service - I may also add I ought not to be surprised now that there is a mistake about Captain Sawyer not being at Penobscot - Many have been in Penobscot for several weeks there -
Yours Respectfully E. E. Bourn
Wendell Edwards Clerk of Penobscot

✓ Pension Weeks
Me
act 7 July 38
increase Spouse certificate
12 mo. 1707/12
10. 5. Sept.
$93.38
Deduct what has been paid
E. E. Purne Esq Kennebec Me

I Abraham Burner of Kennebunk Port in the County of York Gentleman aged eighty three years do on oath testify and de- clare, that Capt Samuel Perkins of Ken- nebunk commanded a company in the State of New York four months in 1777 - My Father Edmund Burner was a lieutenant in the same company - I do not know who the other officers were - Most of the men were from Kennebec - I knew the fact at the time as well as though I was in the company -
Witness
Abraham Burner his mark
Lydia Burner E. Bourn
State of Maine
York County ss. Nov 23 1842 -
Personally appeared Abra- ham Burner who is a credible wit- ness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Edward E. Bourn Justice of the Peace

I James Thompson of Hambleton Port in the County of York and State of Illinois do on oath testify and declare that James Perkins of Hambleton was a captain in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, under or- der of General Washington in 1777 - I was not in the company - but I know all about it from the following facts - I set out to enter with him myself - was very un- willing to go and did about it because my brother Benjamin would not let me - But my brother Benjamin went, and before he got back, I went and en- tered in the service for three years just to spite him - Benjamin Thompson, also under Thompson, David Hall, William Cleaver, Moses Stevens, David Brantam, The above men were all my brothers of mine, and went in said company. I believe Abraham Lord and Enock Cluff were also in said company - I am now nearly one year of age - James Thompson
State of Illinois York County ss Nov. 22 d 1847 - Personally appeared James Thompson who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed - Before me Edward E. Bourns - Justice of the Peace

A William D Jewell of Hennepin in the County of York and State of Illinois, Counsellor at Law, do on oath testify and declare that that I have now in my possession a History of Hennepin Port, a Book published by Charles Bradbury in 1837 - and the following are true Extracts from said Book -
Page 289
" A list of Officers and soldiers known to have been in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war from the town of Mendel
Captains
Tobias Lord died about 1807 aged 84 Daniel Merrill died about 1809 or 15 Joshua Mason died about 1809 James Perkins died Nov 9. 1825 Jesse Dorman died about 1800"
(Lieutenants and Ensigns omitted)
" Sergeants
Benjamin Miller dead Daniel Durrell died at Farmington Moses Stevens died about 1800 Eastman Hutchinson & Colber - then 193
privates -
Page 293 - A list of 23 names marked thus "drafted October 1776" among the list the names of Daniel Huff and James Cleaves. The Book proceeds.
" It is known that Daniel Huff and James Cleaves, whose names are in the above list, were drafted into the company of common

ed by Captain James Perkins for three months in the Regiment commanded by Col John Frost which marched from Maine Decem- 1776 to Pillskill in the State of New York - It is probable that the others were drafted for the same service and in the same company - The officers of this Regiment were Col Frost of Killery Edward Grew of York was Lieut Colonel; Jacob Munse of Berwick Mayor - Andrew P Fernald of Killery Adjutant - John Grant late of Vermont then of Berwick, Quarter Master; Daniel Fernald of Vermont, then of York Quarter Master Sergeant
Page 295
" Captain James Perkins commanded a company in the Regiment commanded by Col John Frost on the North river in 1776-7"
Page 297
" Benjamin Thompson in 1775 a soldier in Captain Guttery Company at Portsmouth N.H. in 1776 in Captain Tobias Lord's Company at Port- land - In the company commanded by Capt James Perkins of Col Frost's Regiment at New Point - and in 1777 in Capt Joshua Mason's com- pany at Saratoga"
" Daniel Huffer, in Captain Noah H. Little- field's company raised for the defence of the seaboard in 1775 - and in Captain James Perkins company on the North River in 1776"
William B. Swall
Yak 58 Nov 24 1842 Personality of Captain William B. Swall who is a credible

written and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
E. David & Pease Judge of M. Peace

I Edward E Bourne of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine counsellor at Law, do, on oath, testify and declare, that, when I drew the declaration of Persis Weeks for a pension, that in giving me the account of all she knew of her husband, Moses Stevens, services in the Revo- lutionary war, she stated to me that her hus- band was pressed into the service for the Pe- nobscot expedition, while at Boston - and that he was sent down there in a vessel - Suppo- sing then that he was put on board, merely to be transported as one of the pirates of a land company, I did not state the fact in the declaration -
I further testify, that on the receipt of the letter of the department, notifying me that he was not on the rolls of any of the companies named, I called on her again, and she could refer me to no one whom she supposed could give any infor- mation as to said service, as she supposed all were dead who knew anything about it - By mere accident I learned that Jonathan Stone whom I supposed to have been in the expedition was alive - but had no memory about seven miles from his former residence - I immediately went to see him - I asked him if he was in the Penob- scot expedition - His reply was yes - I next asked him if he knew Moses Stevens - He

July was - Yes - We were boys together - and at ways went together to the same meetings - I then asked him, was he in your company in the Israel Root expectation - He answered im- mediately, No, He came down here in the Frigate Warren - He was in Boston the last time of a loaner and was pressed on loan of her, and then added the conversation stated in the deposition - He then remarked "I have understood my widow was alive" I further testify that I called on Persis West, again, after the reception of the last letter from the department, and asked her, if she knew Jonathan Stone - Her reply was that she never knew him, or saw him that she knew of - I am fully satisfied, that such was the fact - I am also fully satisfied that no communication was ever had between them in regard to this service, but that each of them made their declarations from their own personal knowledge
Edward E. Bourne
York p. November 24 th 1842. Personally appeared Edward E. Bourne above named who is a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed -
Before me U.S. District Justice of the peace
This evidence being merely cumulative, I have not thought it worth while to send for any certifi- cate of magistracy - E E B

783 Persis Weeks
Adams, priv & Berg $93.38.
Maine Agency
Send to
E. E. Bourne
Hennebunk
Maine

State of Maine York County ss.
On this seventeenth day of April 1863, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of York, Persis Weeks of a resident of Kennebunk in the County of York aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March 1843, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war - That she was formerly widow of Moses Stevens who was a sergeant and private and served as stated in her declaration for a pension under the Act of July 7 1838 under which she secured a pension of ninety three dollars & thirty eight cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow Witness my hand and seal this 17 th day of April 1863 Persis Weeks Mark
Sworn to, and subscribed in the day and year above written, said declarant being personally known to me
Edward E. Bourne
Justice of the Peace

State of Maine York County ss
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Edward E. Benne Esq. is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the 25th day of June A.D. 1841 and will expire on the 25th day of June A.D. 1848 and that his signature hereindefore written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court thirteenth day of April A.D. 1843
Wm Hammond Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York

Maine 6827
Reported to Agent J. A. C. C. B. ... Same Dec. 2, 1842
Ross's Weeds, formerly widow of Moses Stevens
who was a pensioner under the act of and who died on the 15th day 1783 of York Co., in the State of Maine who was a P. S. ... in the company commanded by Captain ... of the reg't. commanded by Col. ... in the Maine line for 7 months 23 days time for 10 " 8 days ...
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 76 - Dollars 72 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of October 1842 and sent to E. E. B. ... Kennebec, Maine
Due to the 1th of March 1841 $ 383.60 Pension annual allowance ...
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book A. Vol. 1. Page 27

Maine 6891
Passport and letter to P. L. ... } 1838
Pensions to the family widow of Moses ... who was a prisoner under the Act of and who died on the 15. May 1780 of York ... in the State of Maine who was a ... in the Company commanded by Captain ... of the Regt ... commanded by Col. ... in the Mass. ... for ...
Presented on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 75. Dollars 38 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Increased from $ 76.12
Certificate of Pension issued the 5. day of Dec: 1840 and sent to E. E. Barnes Esq. Kennebec, Me
Annual to the 4th of March 1841. Semi-annual allowance ending at ... pay ... 466.90
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by ... Clerk. Book ... Vol. 1. Page 57.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22578
Persis Weeks
Former Wid. of
Moses Stevens
Sergt. Rev. War.
Act: March 3 d 1843
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 323
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5663. M. Lt to E. E. Bourne Jp. 28. '42
E
act H July 30

Daniel S. ... (reclaim)
This warrant taken from clerk of ... (ms. A. 22.98)

State of the Massa- chusetts - Bay.
The Field Officers, To Daniel Sewal Genl. grating.
10 th Decem r 1776
We, reposing trust and confidence in your Ability and good Conduct, do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the said Daniel Sewal to be Quarter Master Serjeant of a Regiment drafted out of the Militia of this State to reinforce the Continental Army at or near New-York, whereof John Frost Esq r is Colonel.
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Quarter Master Serjeant in said Regiment, in all things appertaining thereto, observing from time to time such Orders and Instructions as you shall receive from your superior Officers according to Military Rules and Discipline established by the American Congress, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given under our Hands and Seal at Hiltory, the thirteenth Day of December, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy six.