Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,415, for Joseph Tarbell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Farbell Joseph
S 38,415
CONTENTS

Notes sent to Rev. Augustus 13 July 1820
5157 Maine
Joseph Tarbell, Private Capt Brown Massachusetts line, 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
scribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of January 1819 and D. W. R. L. Voss, Augusta Me
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4 mo 12/30 - 35.20 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
$ 83.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Woodstock,
Discontinued

State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of W Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Ken- nebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Sixteen hundred  fifty two dollars and  cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is one thousand & two dollars and  cents .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of W Somerset

Copy)
State of Maine.
205
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty ninth day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junior Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment. Joseph Farbell aged sixty two years, resident in North Berwick in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Brown and Regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson , of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years , after having served the first eight months , was in the battles at the taking of Burgoyne and the Battle of Monmouth .
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twenty third day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6157 . And I, the said Joseph Farbell do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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.
Joseph Farbell
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
One hundred and fifty acres of rough land in Norridgewock, about thirty acres under improvement, with a house unfinished a new barn and an old one just ready to fall to the ground thereon, all of the value of eleven hundred dollars.
The right to the possession but not the property, which is in another person, of about fifty acres of land in East pond settlement plantation with a barn thereon of the value of one hundred dollars.
One half in common and undivided of eighty acres of land in the same plantation, the possession merely not the property, of the value of forty dollars.
One horse of the value of forty dollars.
Five cows of the value of seventy five dollars.
One pair of oxen of the value of fifty dollars.
One heifer three years old of the value of fifteen dollars.
Four yearlings of the value of twenty dollars.
Four

Four cows of the value of eight Dollars Twelve sheep and twelve lambs of the value of twenty eight dollars Swine of the value of fourteen dollars Old household stuff besides necessary bedding of the value of thirty dollars, not exceeding Implementing of husbandry of the value of eighteen dollars Old plough and harness worth eight dollars one wooden clock, worth twelve dollars Part of a set of Blacksmiths tools of the value of fifteen dollars Debts due to me that could be collected not exceeding seventy dollars, and some as much as six hundred and fifty dollars Loan a Gally Run in Norridgewock meetinghouse of the value of twenty dollars My income from the foregoing property deducting the interest of what I owe does not exceed seventy five dollars a year I am by trade a blacksmith, but from age and infirmity having a rupture, am able to do very little My family at home consists of myself, my wife Miriam, aged sixty two years, my son William aged twenty six, my son Jesse aged twenty one years, having a lameness in his knee, my daughter Mary aged thirty years and Eliza Harvey aged sixteen Except the foregoing, and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no property or income whatever
Joseph Tarbell
Subscribed sworn to and declared, both the oath and schedule, on the ninth day of May 1820
Before me Nathan Weston Justice C.P. C.C.C. Pleas
A true Copy
Attest Sam Davis Clerk
Joseph Tarbell
157/100 157/100 157/100
Joseph Tarbell

Joseph Tarbell, Wound -work - Col. M. Jackson's Mass. Reg. 1777 to 1780
✓ April 23. 1818
Adm Med
Joseph Tarbell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Joseph Tarbell aged fifty years a citizen of the United States born in Pepperell Massachusetts, now resident in Norridgewock Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that in April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishment for the term of eight months, in Capt John Nutting's company and Col. William Prescott's Regiment of the Massachusetts troops. I fully served out the term of this enlistment and was verbally discharged at Cambridge in January 1776. In June 1777 I re-enlisted for three years upon the Continental establishment in Capt. Benjamin Brown's company in Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line. I served until January 1780 and then took my final and honourable discharge from the army at West Point. My discharge is now lost or is not to my knowledge in existence. From my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support, and I hereby relinquish all my claims to every pension heretofore granted me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed on the pension list for the District of Maine: I was in both the battles at the taking of Burgoyne I was in the battle at Monmouth: and spent one winter at Valley Forge
Joseph Tarbell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset ss.
On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1828 Joseph Tarbell above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition or declaration, by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Jun. C. Dist. C. Court C Plus & Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Obadiah Withersall of Norridgewock Maine late a Lieutenant in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment in the war of the Revolution upon oath testify and say that I am well ac- quainted with the above named Joseph Tarbell. I knew him as a Continental soldier in the company to which I belonged and know that he performed the services as by him above stated
Obadiah Withersall

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Somerset p.
On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1810 Obadiah Wiswell within named, after having been carefully examined made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Esq. C. Just C Court C Pleas & Eastern Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Joseph Farwell , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Norridgewock , in the said County of Somerset , in the District of Maine, on the twenty third day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentysixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  per C. Butt C. C. C. Pres 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis

38415
INVALID.
Ray
File No. 38415
Joseph Farbell His Rev. Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 570
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apr. 16/66 S. H. Cummings N. H. Blake, Grand Rapids Mich. M. E.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
July 5 th
1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Joseph Furbell served as a Soldier in Capt. Brown's Company, and Col. M. Jackson's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from 5 th Feb y 1777 to 28 th Jan y 1780, being about 3 years and — months.
Colonel Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A. E. Worden, Pres. W. D. Falford, V. Pres.
Wm. M. Butts, Secy. W. L. Freeman, Treas.
Directors J. O'Brien, Chas. W. Garfield, Chas. F. Hood, A. Fred. Avery, W. F. Blake.
Worden Grocer Co. Wholesale Grocers Cor. Fulton and Sonia Sts.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
April 7 th 1896.
Hon. William H. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of ascertaining if you can and will furnish me a record of the services of Joseph Tarkell , a soldier of the Revolutionary War , who died at Woodstock Me. He was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 but was, I believe, dropped under the Act of 1820 which retired from the pension list all except those who were absolutely in need of the pension to live on so I am informed. I think he was enlisted at Pepperell Maine and served at various times from 1775 to 1780. I would like a copy of the service as filed with the original application for pension.
Very Respectfully Yours
W. F. Blake
#214 S o College Ave Grand Rapids Mich.

OLD WAR & NAVY APR 16 1896 FILES,
U.S. PENSION OFFICE APR 11 1896
NAVY SURGEON APR 14 1896 DIVISION

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Tarbell Nathan GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8783 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 7, 1789 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.