Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,368, for Enoch Hutchins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Hutchins, Enoch Mary
N. 23,368
CONTENTS

8385 4
Maine
Enoch Hutchinson
of York Dist: in the state of Maine who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year -
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist: of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of March 1819 and sent to B. Green & Esquire South Berwick, Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 12 1/2 30 31 85.83
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819. 40.00
$135.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued York County
Application sent to Dan L. Noble Esq. 25/4 October 1820. Perchuck Mc

Job Fluchins

I Job Hutchins of York in the County of York and State of Maine aged Seventy Seven years depose and say that I am a brother of Enoch Hutchins late of York, who was a pensioner for services performed in the war of the Revolution and who died in the month of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
We were both born in York aforesaid and have ever lived within half a mile distance of each other, I am well acquainted with the service he performed in the war of the revolution, - In the year 1775 he served in the Company commanded by Captain Edward Grew eight months, on the Sea-board in York and Kittery - In January 1776 he enlisted in the Com- pany commanded by Captain Samuel Derby, in Col. William Prescott's Regiment for one year and served for that term, and in the summer of 1779 he enlisted in the Company of Volunteers, under Captain Samuel Young, in what was called the Penobscot expedition, and left York and took ship- ping on board a vessel for Penobscot, - The Army was defeated and the shipping destroyed or taken by the enemy, and the said Enoch Hutchins with others returned by land through the then wilderness, between the Penobscot and Kennebec - It was about four months from the time of his enlistment till he returned home to York according to the best of my recollection.
I further testify and say, that Mary Hutchins who now lives in York, and who is about making application for a pension under the Act passed at

at the last Session of Congress, entitled "an act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows," is the widow of the said Enoch Hutchinson, — That I was well acquainted with her before her marriage to the said Enoch, that her original, or Maiden name was Mary Glasson, and that she was married to the said Enoch Hutchinson in the year 1780, and has never married to any person since, but remains the widow of said Enoch Hutchinson & and now resides in the same house in which the said Enoch Hutchinson lived and died.
York August 3 d 1838.
Job Hutchinson
witness
Alex. W. Intire
State of Maine } ss. York County }
On this third day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared Job Hutchinson (who I hereby certify is a man of truth and veracity, and sustains a good moral character) and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Alex. W. Intire Justice of the Peace

Feb 27. 1843
Me. E. Hitchings.
Free
Edward Esgin Commr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Ellen Me, July 21 1870
Dear Sir,
I have received a letter from the Heirs of Enoch Hutchins of York Co. Me whose father was a Revolutionary soldier, he died about eleven years since and leave a pension bill his death. There was paid to his widow sixty seven Dollars. Will you have the goodness to inform me whether the 67 Dollars was the amount of the pension due to her Husband Enoch Hutchins or did she claim that as a pension for herself on account of services performed by her late Husband, and if she lived after 1885 and never claimed a five years pension cannot the Heirs now claim? -
Very Respectfully Yours Nicholas S. Thomas

I John Haven, Pastor of the first Congregational Church and Parish in York in the County of York and State of Maine, do hereby certify on oath, that on the records of said Church in my keeping, and in the well known handwriting of Rev. Isaac Lyman who, as it appears by said records, was Pastor of said Church from the year 1749 to the year 1810 and under the head or caption "Marriages consummated by Isaac Lyman", the following is recorded "December fourteenth one thousand seven hundred and eighty, Enoch Hutchins & Glasson"
which I certify is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair and legible figures, as follows, "Dec r 14. 1780"
John Haven Pastor of the first Church in York
I John Haven above named, do now and say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Congregational Church in York in the County of York and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church, with the exception above named as certified by me.
John Haven Pastor of the first Church in York
State of Maine } County of York } ss.
August 14. 1834
Sworn to before me
Ch. O. Emerson, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine } S.S.
County of York }
On this sixteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before William D. Magee Judge of the Court of Probate, being a Court of Record within the County of York, State of Maine. Mary Hutchins a resident of York in the County of York and State of Maine, aged seventy eight 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 is the widow of Enoch Hutchins late of York in the County of York and State of Maine, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, under the Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818, for services performed as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution, as she believes in 1775 in a company commanded by Captain Edward Grow, in 1776 & 1777 in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Derby in Col. William Prescol's Regiment and in 1779 in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Young, as may appear by the evidence by him produced, upon which his pension certificate was granted, which evidence may be found in the Pension Office at Washington, reference thereto being had: that she has no documentary evidence in her possession to prove said service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Enoch Hutchins on the tenth  11th fourth day of December, Seventeen hundred and eighty, that her aforesaid husband died on the fourth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty two; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
Witness Mrs. A. Hayes - Mary Alex. N. Intire
hen X Hutchings Marks

Subscribed and sworn to by the within named Mary Hutchings on the day and year before written. Before me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County, Maine,
I William A. Hayes the before named judge of Probate certify that the said Mary Hutchings by reason of great age and bodily infirmity is unable to travel and attend court Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate

No 34.
Enoch Hutchins.
York
Massine
Has the Puffine in other property - How does he keep life present distance is done 6 March 19
Enoch Hutchins
835
York
From the Clerk at
Bank

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first — Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday of July being the fourth day of July  and by adjournment  from day to day, on the  day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice  Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County  Enoch Hutchinson aged sixty two years, resident in York in said Circuit  county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Derby in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Prescott in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the thirteenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8,385 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me. Enoch Hutchinson,
Sworn to and declared, on the 4th day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE Benjamin Greene
G. Justice { One of the Judges of the said Court.
Att. Daniel Sewall, Clerk

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
4 sheep 6
  household furniture - 1 old pine bureau, no locks or brasses } partly split to pieces 1.50 - 2 old tables 3.67  5.17    4 old chairs 1.33 - 1 old spinning wheel, 1 linen d o 1.33  2.66    1 old trunk, 1 old meal box .50 - 1 iron pot, 1 wash tub .75  1.25    1 looking glass, 1 coffee pot, quart bowl. .88  88    2 jugs, one iron shovel  50     16.46  
York ss. Aug t . 8, 1820. Jeremiah Weare ju r a neighbour of the above named Enoch Hutchins, made oath that in appraising the above articles, he acted faithfully & impartially, according to his best judgment. Before Daniel Sewall, Just. Peace }
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Enoch Hutchins who, by occupation am a labourer which I am unable to pursue by reason of lame-ness
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Polly Hutchins, wife 58 unable to labour   Lucinda 20 able to labour   Clarissa 22 d o .   Christiana 14 d o .   Enoch Hutchins.  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York ss. Daniel Sewall, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of York do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said 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, is sixteen dollars and forty six cents . IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of August , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
16.46
Daniel Sewall, { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York.

Aug. 8, 1820. This Pensioner has neither house or land he lives indeed in a small house as tenant at will; and all the furniture he owns is of little value, not exceeding in amount the sum of ten Dollars & forty six cents.
Benj a Greene.
A copy, Atty. Daniel Sewall, Clerk.
6. 10.46 16.46

Enoch Hutchinson
Enoch Hutchinson (Engl) Col. Prescott's Regiment Mass. line 1776-1778 Died April 13. 1818.
Admitted.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this twelfth day of April
A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Enoch Hutton is now sixty five years resident in York in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"—
That in the said month Hutton on the first of January 1775, enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental Army for the term of one year, under Capt Samuel Derby in the Reg t commanded by Col. Prescott of the Massachusetts Line, & was immediately appointed a sergeant, & continued to do his duty in said Comp y Reg t , & was in the retreat from New York, at the battle of Harlem Heights &c. — at the expiration of the above-mentioned term of one year he was discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York, but has lost his discharge —
And in proof of the foregoing declaration, deponent further saith that in January last past, he personally appeared before me first duly sworn according to law, they being upon their oaths deposed, that the said Enoch Hutton did serve in the continental army under Capt. Derby of Col. Prescott's Regiment for the full term of twelve months as he has testified that they served with him during the whole of said term & that he was appointed a sergeant and did his duty as such until the expiration of the term for which he was enlisted —
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj t Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Enoch Hutton did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
twelfth
day of April
Anno Domini, 1818.
my seal

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23368
Mary Hutchins wid of Enoch Hutchins Dis Rev War
Act July 8 th 88
Index: Vol. A , Page 360
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Let to Nicholas J. Thomas, Mar 14 1843
Maine - 943
Mary Hutchinson widow of Engel Hutchinson, dec. who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th Dec r 18 th and who died on the 4 th Feby. 1832 - of P er in the State of Maine who was a P er in the County commanded by Captain  of the R gt commanded by P er in the  line for 
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Nov r 28, and signed A. McIntire P er , Me 2
Arrears to the 4 th of Sep r - $100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 20.00 $120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk bk A Vol. 1 - Page 11

Mary Hutchinson M c 40 th - at 7. July 38 last paid ?
14 March 43.
Em P. B.
Died 8 th Nov r 1838. Paid 1 st gr. 1839 to day of death.

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that
William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Alexander M. Intire and Charles C. Emerson are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
John Skeele
Register of Probate York County.

1135
One out 7 July 38 Married in 80 Died in 32 adm'd 12 mo pri 40 $
No deduction
A. M. Galt York Me

I Jeremiah Ware of York in the County of York and State of Maine, aged Eighty one years, depose and say, that I was born in said York and have ever resided in said York — That I was well acquainted with Enoch Hutchinson late of said York who was a revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818, having lived a near neighbour to him all my days, and having served in the war of the revolution with him one year, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Derby in Col: William Prescott Regiment. Said Enoch Hutchinson died in the month of February 1832, as it appears on a diary or journal of events kept by me.
I further testify and say that I am also well acquainted with Mary Hutchinson the widow of the said Enoch Hutchinson — The said Enoch Hutchinson and the said Mary were married during the War of the Revolution as I have always understood, and have no reason to doubt, and they have lived together as husband and wife from the war of the Revolution to the death of said Enoch at the time aforesaid. That the said Mary, before her marriage with the said Enoch, was Mary Gossom — She is still living and remains the widow of said Enoch Hutchinson, and has not been married since the death of her said husband, and resides in the same house in which the said Enoch resided at his death.
August 20 th 1838. Jeremiah Ware
State of Maine } York County } ss.
On this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared Jeremiah Ware, who I hereby certify is a person of truth and veracity, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me
Alex. M cIntire Justice of the Peace

I Lucy Weare of York in the County of York and State of Maine, widow of Jeremiah Weare of said York aged eighty four years, depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Mary Hutchins of said York, whose name before marriage was Mary Glos-son. She is the widow of Enoch Hutchins late of said York, who was a revolutionary Pensioner under the law of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818. The said Enoch Hutchins and the said Mary Glos-son were married some time dur-ing the War of the Revolution, as I have al-ways understood and which I have no doubt was a fact, and they lived together and reared up a large family of children. The said Enoch Hutchins and Mary his wife lived together as husband and wife, about fifty years previous to the death of said Enoch, which took place in february 1832. Said Mary Hutchins is still living in the house in which the said Enoch Hutchins resided at the time of his death, and is still the widow of said Enoch Hutchins, as she has not married since the death of her said husband.
August 20 th 1838
Lucy Weare
State of Maine } York County } ss.
On this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared Lucy Weare, who I hereby certify is a person of truth and veracity, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed before me
Alp. M c Intire Justice of the Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hutchins, Gabriel GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8392 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 8, 1789 To Samuel Putnam, assignee
*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.