Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16927, for Eliakim Libby, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass
Libby, Eliakim
NUMBER
S16927
buried
CONTENTS

587. Maine
Eliakim Libby
of Scarborough in the State of Maine who was a Serjt in the Co. Heavy Artillery commanded by Captain Rice of the Reg't commanded by Col. Phinney in the Wash line for 8 Mos. from May 1775.
Enrolled in the Roll of Maine at the rate of Forty Dollars per Annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sept 1832 and paid to Mrs. Anderson Portland Maine
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 60 Pension allowance ending 21 Dec 33 20 $ 80
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. N. Main Clerk. Book D Vol. 1 st Page 67.

16927 INVALID.
File No. 16927
Elizabethton Libby
Sept 1900 No 21
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Eliakim Lihlin N o 42 P 2
$40 per ann.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WAINE DISTRICT SS.
AT a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twelfth  twelfth day of August  August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two  two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this twelfth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Elazarkin Gilchrist a resident of Scarborough in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Eighty Seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entitled with the Continental
make the following declaration in order to satisfy the world. That he passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted into the Continental service in the War of the Revolution in May A.D. 1777 in Capt John Rice Company at said Scarborough to serve eight months. His Sergeant of said Company was Lieut. & Edward Milliken of said Scarborough was Sergeant all of whom are dead. He marched with said Company to Cambridge Massachusetts. There joined Col. Edmund Phinney's Regt Patterson's Brigade & served with the eight months. That he was employed in keeping guard at Lee's Corner post near Boston & in digging trenches - throwing up breast works. That he was made Sergeant & served the whole eight months as such. That Sergeant Milliken of said Scarborough was the oldest Sergeant of said Company & he said likely was the youngest Sergeant. That he never had a written discharge as he can remember. And said likely further says he was born at said Scarborough on the 20th of April O.S. A.D. 1745. has ever resided at the same place. He has a record of his age at his house & he believes it is also at the Town Records of said Scarborough.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Elizkim Libby
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before me,
A. N. Warner
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And that it appears to said Court that Samuel Milliken & Jonathan Berry whose depositions are annexed are entitled to belief as men of truth & veracity.
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Glavin Sibby for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this first day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
10/1/1832

I Bernard Mellicker of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Eighty four years do hereby declare that I was a Sergeant in Capt John Rice Company in the year 1865 in the War of the Rebellion Col E. P. Dineen's Regt that we served Eight months at Cambridge in Massachusetts & that Elihu Lebbey of said Scarborough was also a Sergeant of said Company & served as Sergeant eight months having the service of the enlistment. I further say that he was a faithful soldier & that I have known him all my life.
Bernard Mellicker
Signed & sworn before
Aug. 1. 1882
Aspen Warr
Judge of the United States for the Dist. of Maine

I Jonathan Berry of Breton in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy six years on oath declare that I have been acquainted with Elihu Hibby of Scarborough in the County of Sagadahoc & State of Maine from my youth. that I was a private in Capt Isaac Hussey's Company Col Edmund Hussey's Regt in the War of the Revolution in the year AD 1775 & served from May 1775 to January 1776 & that said Hibby was a sergeant in Capt John Pierce's Company of the same Regt for eight months which was the period of his enlistment & that he served out said eight months at Cambridge in Massachusetts.
Jonathan Berry
Signed & sworn to before
Asahel Wain
Aug. 1. 1892
Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Maine