Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21414, for Thomas Hutchins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Hutchins, Thomas Abigail
NUMBER
W.21414
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Maine 2102
Abigail Hutchins
widow of Munroe Hutchins decd.
Mass Feb who died on the 14 th June 1803 1 st Inf ty Co, in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hill of the Reg t commanded by Col. in the Mass. s one for Life care
S. H. Goodall March 2, 1857-
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 80 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of June 1838 and sent Hon. John Fairfield Secy of War.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1838 $ 560.00 Pemi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 1838 40.00
$ 600.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by Abel Addison Clerk, Book 11 Vol. 2 Page 8

State of Maine
County of York ss. On this first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate at Alfred in said County of York Abigail Hutchins a resident of Waterborough in said County of York aged eighty four 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. 1836: - That she is the widow of Thomas Hutchins late of said Waterborough who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution. That to the best of her knowledge and belief the said Thomas Hutchins enlisted in Captain - Jeremiah Hill's Company in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and went from Saco in said County, and joined said Army. - That Jacob Brown and Samuel Bridges both of said Waterborough enlisted at Saco at the same time with him; - That the said Brown and Bridges are not now living: - That she understood from the said Thomas that he was for some time stationed as a soldier at Cambridge Massachusetts; and at other places which are not now remembered. - That he there was

Thomas Hutchins was Fifty three years of age at the time of his decease:— That when the said Thomas first enlisted he served three years and then came home to said Waterborough and tarried about one year: That he then enlisted again and served in said Army nine months longer and returned home and went no more into the army:— That there is no old person now living who was with him in said army, to her knowledge:— That her name before her intermarriage with the said Thomas Hutchins was Abigail Gail:— That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Hutchins at Saco in said County of York on the twenty third day of December in the year of Our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy three by the Rev. Mr. Fairfield:— That there is no record of their intermarriage to her knowledge: That she well remembers that she was just twenty years old the same year she intermarried with the said Thomas Hutchins: That her birth day was on the third of October and her intermarriage with the said Thomas was on the 23 rd of December as aforesaid: That her husband the said Thomas Hutchins died on the fourteenth  ninth day of June  September in

the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three of a cancer in the eye. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
In presence of Wm. A. Hayes Re R. Larkins
her Abigail X Hutchins mark
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year above written
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County Maine
State of Maine.
York county ss. I William Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate of the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. Wm. A. Hayes is the Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid, and that his signatures herunto annexed, are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this first day of January 1838. Wm. Cutter Allen, Reg. Court of Probate, York county.

I Judith Henderson of Eaton in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire depone and say that I am seventy eight years old That I was born during the Revolutionary war That I am the only child living of Thomas and Abigail Hutchings who resided during all the time of their intermarriage at Waterborough in the State of Maine That I lived with them at said Waterborough until I married Jonathan  Aaron Henderson of said Waterborough and after my said marriage with him I moved to Eaton aforesaid after the decease of said Jonathan  Aaron that I removed to Eaton about thirty years ago and have been a widow ever since
I am old and poor and none of my children are able to support me. I have three children Samuel - Anna and Aaron Henderson who are all poor and unable to help me. That my father died without ever obtaining any pension That after his decease my mother obtained a pension of eighty dollars a year from July 4 1836 up to the time of her decease which was on the fifth day of December 1844. I therefore ask for all arrear of pension due my said father or mother and for the bounty bond which I am entitled to and that such certificate or certificates may issue to me as I am entitled to for pension money or bounty bond Judith her X Henderson mark
Attest Daniel S. H. B. Erastus Baker
State of New Hampshire Carroll County ss
January 31 AD 1857
Personally appeared Judith Henderson & made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is in her true belief true before me - And I certify that she is a woman entitled to full credit and belief
Erastus Baker Justice of the Peace

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21414
Abigail Hutchinson Widow of Thomas Hutchinson Rev. Rev. war.
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. 14 , Page 357
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mrs. D. Hutchinson Thomas Mrs. a 1830
FREE
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington District Columbia
Cole

Portsmouth NH July 12/57
To the Court of Pensions
Enclosed are applications of Judith Henderson for back pay & for bounty land etc. If you have not proof on file that Erasmus Baker is a justice - I will forward it say other proof required - I would like blanks of the different forms for pensions & bounty lands - if they could be forwarded me & would save me some trouble & perhaps the department. Direct papers in above case to me
Yours truly S H Goodall Portsmouth NH

Abigail Hutchins wid of Thos. Me.
Col. Wigglesworth, Capt Pamfield. 28 June 77. In 28 June 1780 on roll Maine. died 1803 Albany
28/6/80 per ann No deduction
Hor. In - Pamfield AR

To J. L. Edwards Esq
Limerick. Maine Feb. 12, 1838
Dear Sir
I herewith send you some papers in proof of Widow Abigail Hutchins claim to a pension - Her late husband Thomas Hutchins was in the Army Four years nearly - He intermarried with the said Abigail long before the commencement of the Revolutionary War - After his services in said Army expired he returned to Watertown where he resided until his decease in 1803 -
The circumstance of his having died at so early a period & the soldiers who served with him being also dead, renders the case a very difficult one to prove - I have caused the records at Sac to be searched, and have made diligent enquiring for the family records of Elder Fairfield who married them but cannot find them - yet I believe you will consider the proof amply sufficient as to that point; three or four witnesses having testified that they well knew they intermarried a kind together sometime before the Revolutionary war - Mrs Hutchins well knows the day of the month and the year of their intermarriage. The proof as to his services we think must also be conclusive - at any rate it is the best we can procure in the case. We hope you will be able to find his name upon the records, & that her claim will be allowed without delay.
Your Aff Servt
J. L. Edwards Esq
Robert Haverly

I Joseph Pillsbury of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, eighty two years of age and born in Newburyport in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, do depose testify and declare that I was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and for a number of years have received a pension for my services in said contemptuous army; and during my services I often met with Thomas Hutchins who enlisted as I understood at Saco and who afterwards lived and died in Waterborough in said State of Maine. I well knew the said Hutchins and saw him often during the time I was stationed at Cambridge Massachusetts. I first enlisted in December 1775 and was stationed as I think about one year at said Cambridge. I next was stationed at Gantutet, next went to Rhode Island, next to the North River below West-point. And was out in the said service in the whole three years and seven months. I well know that the said Hutchins was for some time a soldier in Captain Jeremiah Hill's Company. The said Hill went into the army from Pepperellborough, (now Biddeford) in said state of Maine and was afterwards a Major

in the army as I understood at the time. I well remember of frequently conversing with the said Thomas Hutchins while he before not served as a soldier in said Hill's Company in said Army of the Revolution; and have reason to believe and do believe that the said Thomas was a soldier of the Revolution for more than three years. There is no old person now living who was in the same company with him to my knowledge. He died in said Waterborough sometime in the year of 1803 as I understood. I first enlisted in Captain Moses Knowl's Company; and as I did not belong in the same company with the said Hutchins, cannot tell under whom he served after the said Hill was promoted to the office of Major.
Witness
Robert B. Caverly
Joseph Pillsbury
County of York }
State of Maine }
ss
On this thirtieth day of December eighteen
hundred and thirty seven personally appeared the
said Joseph Pillsbury a man of veracity and en-
titled to full credit and made solemn oath that
the above deposition by him signed is just and
true.
Robert B. Caverly
} Justice of the Peace } County of York } State of Maine

I Mary Earl of Limeick in the county of York and State of Maine seventy nine years of age do depose testify and say that I have for sixty years and upwards been intimately acquainted with Abigail Hutchins of Waterborough in said county of York, widow of Thomas Hutchins, late of said Waterborough; and well remember the time when it was reported that the said Thomas was married to the said Abigail; and have reason to believe and do believe they were intermarried sometime in the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy three or four. Previous to their intermarriage I lived at Berwick in said county; and remember the time more particularly from the fact of my removal to said Waterborough not long after their intermarriage. I also remember of living within one mile of the said Abigail when Falmouth (now Portland) was burnt in 1775 and well know that the said Thomas Abigail had lived together as husband and wife more than about two years prior to that time. I well know that the said Thomas Hutchins was absent and part of the time with my husband John Earl some six or seven years after the intermarriage of the said Thomas with the said Abigail, doing the duty as I understood of a soldier in the army of the Rev.

solution. And I have no reason to doubt and do not doubt that the said Thomas Hutchins was in the said army more than three years. He was there some two or three years before my husband was, and at the same time he was in said army as I understood, and belonged to the same company with him. The said Abigail's name before her intermarriage with the said Thomas was Abigail Carl. After the said Thomas Hutchins returned from said Army, I well know, they continued to live together as husband and wife until sometime in the year 1803, at which time the said Thomas died. And I well know that the widow Abigail Hutchins who now lives in said Waterborough with whom the said Thomas lived is the identical woman with whom the said Thomas lived until his death as aforesaid.
Witness Robert Blavely
Mary Carl
State of Maine County of York } ss On the twenty sixth day of September in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared the said Mary Carl a woman of truth and veracity and

entitled to full credit and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by her signed is just and true. The words - "two a Thomas," were inter- lined before sworn to.
Daniel Perry
3 Justice of the 3 Peace for the 3 County of York 3 State of Maine

Plus Depo. $100 00 cts — Clerks fee — 50 — $1 50 —

I George Sutherland of Saco in the County of York of lawful age do hereby testify and say that I am the Town Clerk of Saco in the County of York & State of Maine & that the Books and Town Records are & have been for a long time past in my possession & that I have at the request of Robert B. Lundy Esq. made diligent search to ascertain that fact whether a record of the intermarriage of Thomas Hutchinson to Abigail Cooke be found therein & cannot find any Record thereof, & the earliest record of any Return of marriages which I can find is that of date April 1 st 1796. & that I have reason to believe and do believe that no Records of marriages can be found in any of the Town Books prior to that time.
Saco August 24. A.D. 1837. George Sutherland T. Clerk State of Maine
County of York - On this Twenty Fourth day of August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty Seven the Vice George Sutherland a man of authority and testi- fied to all Credit & made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him signed is just & true & to my knowledge the Vice George Sutherland is Town Clerk of the Town of Saco.
Joseph W. Land Sister of the Revm for the County of York & State of Maine

I John Morrill formerly of Biddeford, now of Limerick in the county of York and state of Maine, ninety one years of age testify depose and say that for many years I was intimately acquainted with Thomas Hutchins late of Waterborough in said county deceased; that I knew him long before the Revolutionary war - and well know that the said Hutchins was absent from his family doing the duty of a soldier in the army of the Revolution, as I understood, for several years; - It was the common report at the time that the said Hutchins was in said army doing the duty of a soldier as aforesaid. After the said Hutchins returned from the army, I frequently hired him as a common labourer and he often told me about his services in said army, and I understood from him that he was out in said service for several years the exact time not recollected. The said Hutchins daughter also worked at my house as a kitchen maid soon after the close of the Revolutionary war - She was then I should think about fourteen or fifteen years of age - I was not present at the marriage of the said Thomas Hutchins, but I have good reason to believe and do believe that he intermarried with Abigail Carr some time before the commencement of the Revolutionary war - He then lived in said Waterborough in a neighbourhood

where I was well acquainted before and after the war. And it was the common understanding that the said Hutchins was married as aforesaid, and that he lived there in said waterborough at that time with his family both before and after the said war.
The said Hutchins as I understood died of a cancer in his eye I should think more than thirty years ago - About the last work the said Hutchins did, was done with me - His said wife was then living, and is now living at said waterborough as I understand.
In presence of Robert Cole Robert Blavely
his John Merrill Mark
State of Maine York County ss On the sixth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared the said John Merrill a man of veracity and entitled to full credit and made solemn oaths that the above affidavit by him signed is just and true.
Robert Blavely justice of the Peace for the county of York State of Maine

I Moody Brown of Cornish in the County of York and State of Maine, seventy two years of age and born at Old Orchard in said State of Maine do depose testify and say, that I was a soldier of the Revolution, that I enlisted in the year of 1781 and served until the close of the war - and have and am receiving a pension for my aforesaid services, that I was familiarly acquainted with Thomas Hutchins late of Waterborough in said County of York from the time I was seven or eight years of age until his decease in 1803; I well know the widow of the said Hutchins who now lives at said Waterborough - Her name before her inter marriage with the said Thomas was Abigail  Ellery Cool. I well know the time when it was reported that the said Abigail intermarried with the said Thomas , and well know it was sometime before the Revolutionary war. I then lived in said Waterborough within a half a mile of the said Hutchins and continued to live at said Waterborough until about thirty four years ago. I also well know that at about the commencement of the said war, the said Thomas Hutchins was absent from his family for more than three years doing the duty as I understood of a soldier in the army of the Revolution. I often conversed with the said Thomas after

his return from said Army; and heard him say he served in said Army more than three years. I also understood from my brother Jacob Brown that he well knew the said Hutchins in said Army; and that he belonged in the same Regiment with him. Jacob Brown is now not living. I have no reason to doubt, and do not doubt that the said Abigail is the lawful widow of the said Thomas Hutchins, and that he was in the Army as aforesaid. Interlined in five places before sworn to.
Witness.
his Moody X Brown mark
Daniel Giry Robert Blaberly
State of Maine }
County of York } ss On the thirteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared the said Moody Brown a man of veracity and entitled to full credit and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him signed is just and true.
Daniel Giry } Justice of the } Peace for the } County of York } State of Maine

N.B.
All communications to Mrs Abigail Hutchins may be directed to my care at Limerick Maine.
By her request Robert B. Gaverly
3333
M c J. L. Leland DR
State of Maine York County ss.
I Hiram H. Hobbs, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that Robert B. Gaverly, Joseph W. Leland and Daniel Perry are and were at the time when their names purport to have been subscribed to the foregoing affidavits, Justices of the Peace within and for said County of York, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs, are, in my opinion, genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal this nine-tenth day of February a. D. 1838.
Hiram H. Hobbs } Clerk of Judicial Courts for York Co.

State of New Hampshire Carroll County ss
Be it known that before me Erastus Baker a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Judith Henderson of Eaton in said County aged seventy eight years and made oath in due form of law that she is the only daughter & only child living of Thomas Hutchings a soldier of the Revolution who never obtained a pension and is now dead and Abigail Hutchings wife of said Thomas to whom a certificate of pension was issued which has been returned to the Treasury department 3 rd Auditor's office Washington - That the deceased pensioner resided in Waterborough in the county of York & state of Maine ever since the war of the Revolution up to the time of her death and that previous thereto the said Thomas & Abigail resided in said Waterborough Judith  her Henderson Sworn and subscribed this thirtyfirst March day of January AD 1857
Before me
Erastus Baker Justice of the Peace -
Attest Daniel S. Hobbs
Erastus Baker
I certify that the above named Judith Henderson is personally known to me and that in my belief she is the only child of Thomas and Abigail Hutchings the said Abigail Hutchings being the same individual who drew a pension as is stated in the foregoing affidavit. And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in obtaining the said pension
Erastus Baker Justice of the Peace