Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,329, for Abijah Tarbox, Massachusetts

Mass
Tarbox, Abijah Hooper, Sarah
W. 23 329
Former widow
CONTENTS

1486 William ... widow of ... who lived in the Revolutionary war, as a ...
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 10 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of ... and sent to A. C. ... March 1848
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 1, 1848, Page 148

V 8.499
Sarah Hooper - Mc
act 7. July '38 -
m 79. a 02. 2 m 09 a 26 -
See Bundle 25. No 1.
1 year service p
Admitted
1 year priv
$40 per an.
E. E. Bown Esq Humbolt, Maine

State of Maine
York County ss.
On this eighteenth day of October 1842 before the District Court for the Western District personally appeared Sarah Hooper aged eighty one years, resident in Beddeford in the County of York, who being duly sworn, 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, and the Act of August 23 1842 -
That she was the widow of Abijah Tarbox of said Beddeford, who was a Private in the Company of Captain Jeremiah Hill, twelve months in 1775 and 1776 - During all the time, said company, she thinks, was in the neighborhood of Boston and Charleston - She has often heard him say, that his company was the first which entered Boston, when the British were driven out on 15-28-X was 1776 - at Boston
She further declares that she was married to said Abijah Tarbox on the thirteenth day of December seventeen hundred and seventy nine; And that her husband the aforesaid Abijah Tarbox died in June eighteen hundred and two - She was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but on the thirteenth day of December seventeen hundred and seventy nine as aforesaid.
She was again married to George

Hooper of said Bradford in May eighteen hundred and nine, and said George Hooper died in November eighteen hundred and twenty six, and she has remained a widow ever since the decease of said George Hooper. She has no documentary evidence in sup- port of her claim. Sarah X Hooper
Witness
E. B. Bourn Sam l Hooper
Sworn and subscribed in open court
Before Daniel Goodman Jus. Dist. Court Western District

I Persia Bickford 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 well acquainted with Abijah Tarbox late of said Biddeford in said County - Said Abijah Tarbox died many years ago - over thirty years - perhaps forty - leaving Sarah Tarbox his widow - Said Sarah Tarbox afterwards married Captain George Hooper, who also died fifteen years since or more - Said Sarah Hooper has been a widow ever since
Persia Bickford
State of Maine
York County ss.
Personally appeared Persia Bickford 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
State of Maine, York County, } set.
I, William Drafton, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel Goodenow is Judge of the District Court for the Western District, and that Edward E. Bourne is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of June, 1841, and will expire on the 25 th day of June 1848, and that the signatures of the said Daniel Goodenow and Edward E. Bourne in the above and foregoing instruments are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said District Court, this seventh day of November, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
William Drafton, Clerk

I Samuel Hooper of Biddeford in the County of York, Husbandman, aged thirty seven years, do on oath, testify and declare that I am the son of Sarah Hooper widow of George Hooper late of said Biddeford deceased I further testify that my father, said George Hooper, died in November eighteen hundred and twenty six - and said Sarah Hooper has remained a widow ever since - I have always understood, that my mother was previ- ously, the wife and afterwards the widow of Abijah Farbox of said Biddeford deceased. Sam d Hooper
State of Maine
York ss. Oct 20 1842 - Personally appeared Samuel Hooper, who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Eduard E Bourne
Justice of the Peace

I William Smith Clerk of the town of Biddeford in the county of York and State of Maine certify that in the head of Marriages in the records of said town is the following November twenty fifth seventeen hundred and ninety nine Abijah Tarboy and Sarah Gilpatrick both of Biddeford and the same is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows November 25th 1779 Abijah Tarboy & Sarah Gilpatrick both of Biddeford —
William Smith } Clerk of the } Town of Biddeford
I William Smith above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said town of Biddeford in the county and State aforesaid and the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me
William Smith } Clerk of the } Town of } Biddeford
State of Maine
Yorl ss. Nov 3 d 1842 Personally appeared William Smith who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me —
Edward V Bourn Justice of the Peace

I Miriam Gelpatuch of Bradford in the County of York widow, eighty seven years of age do on oath testify and declare that I am a sister of Abijah Tarbox late of said Bradford deceased - I further tes- tify that said Abijah Tarbox was in the service of the United States, in the Revolution- ary war in the company of Captain Lem- uel Hill - That he and my brother Hann- Tarbox enlisted as volunteers, for one year, and were gone from home more than a year - They were at Cambridge when the British left Bos- ton - My brother Abijah was sick of the small- pox in Boston - I do not know where else they went - All the facts relative to their going off and coming back are perfectly familiar to my mind - I went to Kennebec in Janu- ary 1777 to attend the wedding of my brother Thomas - and while on the road I met a man who told me that my two brothers had got back as far as Waterville in Kennebec I got home next morning, and found my brothers - and great joy there was in our family - as my mother was a widow, depending on them for support - She had tried every way to prevent their going, but

she could not stop them - Capt Hill came home once on a furlough and brought me a letter - I do not remember the month in which my brother enlisted, but I am sure he was gone more than a year - A great many were in Captain Hill's company from my neighbor- hood, but they are all dead - Bellamy Slover was a sergeant - Captain Hill's brother a corporal -
Witness
William J. Gellatly rick
Hannah Greenwood
State of Maine
Yorh ss February 27 th 1843. Personally appeared Miriam Gellatly, who is a credi- ble witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscription
Before me
Edward E. Bourne Justice of the Peace

Large
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23329
Sarah Hooker
formerly Wife of
Arijah Parbooe
Pin Br. wid.
Act: Feb. 2 d  1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 361
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
I,
William Trafton,
Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts in said County, do hereby certify that
Edward E. Bourne.
is an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for said county,
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is
duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated the fifteenth day of June A.D. 1848, and will expire the fifteenth day of June A.D. 1855
and that the
following
signature purporting to be
his
genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the
Seal of the Supreme Judicial
Court for said State, this twenty second day of August
Anno Domini 1848.
William Trafton,
Clerk.

State of Maine } York County ss.
On this twenty first day of August A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me Edward E. Bourne a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Sarah Hooper a resident of Farmington part in said County of York, aged Eighty six 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 the 2 nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she was formerly widow of Joseph Taylor a private who served as stated in her original declaration for a pension. That she received under the act of Congress of June 17 th 1844 a pension of forty dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness Dorcas Hooper
Sarah her + Hooper mark
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written
Before me Edward E. Bourne justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Sarah Hooper, is personally known to me and is the same person who received a pension under the act of June 1844
Edward E. Bourne

2341
Sarah Hooke
$40 —
35 24 1/2
6
E. E. Bourne Kennebec Me
Bourne

State of Maine York County ss.
On this twentieth day of June 1843 personally appeared before me Edward E Bourne a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of York, Sarah Hooper a resident of Biddeford in the County of York aged eighty one 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 the widow of Abijah Farley, who was a private in the company of Captain Jeremiah Hall's one year in 1776 - and under the act of July 7. 1838 she received a pension of forty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow
Witness
E E Bourne
Saml Hooper
Sarah X Hooper Mark
State of Maine
York ss. June 20 1843 - Subscribed and sworn to before me - The said Sarah Hooper being personally known to me
Edward E Bourne, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine, ss. York County, ss.
I, William Trafton, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, within and for the county of York, do hereby certify that Edward E. Bourne is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of June 1841, and will expire on the twenty fifth day of June 1845, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this twenty ninth day of September, 1843.
William Trafton, Clerk.

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Oct 4 1843
Mr Sarah Noopm.
act 1843
Return cause
FREE
Hon. J L Edwards.
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Thermopolis Wyo. Sept 30 43
Dr Sir
I return the enclosed declaration, certified according to directions, by the clerk of the Sup. Court —
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
E. E. Bourn
Wm H Edwards
Com. of Pension
Washington D.C.

Wrentham Feb 28 1843
Dr Sir
I herewith send you the deposition of Miriam Gullpatrick, for use in the case of Sarah Hooper widow of Abijah Farbox - It appears to me to be sufficient to establish the claim - Every person who was in the company, so far as I can learn, is dead - The deponent lived in the neighbourhood of Capt Hill, and was well acquainted with a great many in the company - I have found no woman of her age, in all my pension business, whose memory was more complete, in regard to the transactions of that day -
Yours Respectfully E E Bourne
Hon J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions
P.S, I learned from Mr Gullpatrick, that Pelatiah Moon referred to in the former papers, did not go out until Farbox returned - Capt Hill was first in the 8 Mo service at Cambridge - The year, service I presume began on the 1 st of Jan y 1776 - My impressions are, though I am not certain, that George the Jacobs, who rec d a pension under the Act of '18, was a Lieutenant in Hills Company

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apl 3 1845
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Sarah H. Hunt
Hon. J. L. Edwards
com. of. Pensions
Washington 86.

Kennebec Me March 27. 1843.
For Sir
Your letter of the 21 st inst, contains only this sentence in relation to the case of Sarah Hooper.
"The unauthenticated deposition of the sister in law of Sarah Hooper, is not available evidence of her first husband's service".
I cannot determine what the objection is, from this expression - though I suppose it is, that it cannot be used, because, it has not the certificate of magistracy - I had been led into the belief from the practice of the department, in relation to my own business, that after the proper certificate was furnished of the magistrates authority and signature, with the original papers, that subsequent depositions taken by the same magistrates in the same case were not required to be thus authenticated - I could refer the department, I think, to several cases, of a practice of this kind - My design and wish has always been, to comply with the rules of the department, in all my business of this character - I believe that they are no more rigid than the public interest requires - and I do not wish that any paper of mine should be received without a compliance with them.
As the deposition is not returned to

me, I do not know, but that it is intended to say that it is not sufficient, even if duly authenticated, to establish her claim - I hope however, that such is not the fact - I do not know, a single pension now alive in my neighbourhood, who was in the year's service of 1776 - all of Captain Hill's company, I believe, are dead - It would seem to me, under these circumstances, to be a case where, agreeably to Gen Cass Regulations under the law of 32, a relaxation should be made of previous requirements - It is not our fault that the Roll has not been presented - It would seem then, that the best evidence which the nature of the case would admit of, as in judicial proceedings, might consistently, with the views of Congress in their enactments for the benefit of their widows, be sufficient for the establishment of their claim - Of the actual service of the husband, I can have no doubt - I hope and trust that the Department have come to the same conclusion - and that the only objection is, as I understand the letter, that the papers are not duly authenticated.
I was not before aware of the fact - But I perceive by the list of pensioners, that Capt Jeremiah Hill was a pensioner under the law of 18 - Perhaps a Roll may be found with his papers - as his daughter after long searching, has found a Roll of the 8 mo in the preceding - If he had kept the one for 76, he probably would have forwarded it -
Hon J. L. Edwards.
Com of Pensions
Very Respectfully, Your Obed. servant
E E Bourne

I Abigail Eaton of Wells in the County of York, widow, do on oath testify and declare that I am the widow of William Eaton late of Wells, a Revolutionary Soldier, deceased - Said William Eaton was in the year's service in 1776, and also in the three years service following - In the year's service in 1776, he was in the Company of Capt. Watkins of Col. Phippen's Regiment - During his life time I so often heard him speak of his service, that they are well remembered by me - I do further testify that many times, when Mrs. Pope a daughter of Abijah Farber of Bedford, has called at our house, she has told her how well acquainted she was with her father, in consequence of having been with him in that the service of 1776 - I do not remember that he ever mentioned whether he was in the same company with himself or not - But that he was with him in that year's service, I have as much confidence, as of any fact ever stated to me by my said husband. Witness Joseph Dennet E. W. Dorrance Abigail Eaton
State of Maine York County ss

April 24 1843 - Personally appeared Abigail Eaton who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscribed -
Before 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 R Bourne Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that his commission was dated on the 25 th day of June A D 1841 and will expire on the 25 th day of June 1848 and that his signature hereinbefore written is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26 th day of April A D 1843
W m Hammond Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York

May 1. 1843
Maine.
Sarah Hooper
Hon J L Edwards.
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Le Su
Newburyport Mar 26 '43
I send you an additional deposition in the case of Sarah Hooper widow of Abijah Farley — It was obtained more accident in naming to her while preparing her own papers. This case of Sarah Hooper — Galt Hill was in house or Phinnery Right —
Very respectfully
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Clerk of District Court, Washington D.C.
Yours Obedient Servt E. E. Bourne

Thermopolis Nov 7, 1842
Dr Sir
Accompanying this is the declaration of Sarah Hooper formerly widow of Abijah Farbox, and evidence to obtain her pension under the acts of 38 & 42. No evidence of the service can be obtained; every man in the company of Capt Hill, being supposed to be dead. I trust the Roll is in the Pension Office - She says Nat Pelatiah Moore who rec'd a pension under the act of 18 was in the company with her, she thinks, as they were always talking of their services together - Reference to his papers will probably show where Farbox was,
Respectfully
Hon S Edmonds,
Your Obedt Servt
E E Bourn
Comr of Pensions
Washington

Kennebunk Me. June 10. 1843
Le Sir
I enclose you another deposition in the case of Sarah Hooper, which with the others before transmitted I trust will be sufficient to establish her claim. Though the deponent is called of Kennebunk, yet he has not been here except occasionally for some time - his children living in Hills & Lyman - And supposing that he knew nothing about the services of soldiers from this neighbourhood I never thought suitable to ask him what part my office about ten days since, of enquiry of him in relation to any case of which I had the charge - so that I was much surprised as well as gratified that he knew what he has stated, in relation to this case & that of Ruth Burbank - Though he is 95, as he says, he still walks to see his children about nine miles -
Very Respectfully Hon J L Edwards, Com. of Pensions Your obedt Servt E E Dorr
P.S. I find that Capt Hill was a pensioner under the Act of 18 - His declaration will probably show something in relation to the accuracy of the deponent - I did not know before that they continued so long in the neighbourhood of Boston

I Benjamin Evans of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine, aged ninety five years, do on oath testify and de- clare, that I was in the service at the Revolu- tionary war, in 1775 and 1776 at Cambridge in the company under the command of Capt. Sullivan - I further testify that I well knew Abijah Farbox - though I did not know the town he lived in - He was in the com- pany of Capt Jeremiah Hill, which camped right by the side of our company - This was in the service of 1776 - after the expira- tion of the eight months service, most of Hill's company had left, and while with us they were recruiting, and filling up their ranks - Some time in the spring before my four months was out, Hill's company left us and marched down to Roxbury, for the purpose of completing their numbers - After they went there I knew nothing further of their service - I was well acquainted with Hill after the war, but I do not remember that I ever met Farbox again - Hill's company I understand to be then engaged in a twelve months service - I be- lieve the company was in Col. Phinney's Regiment - My own company consisted

of security, and I could then call over the names of every man without the Roll.
Witness Nathaniel Evans E. Elbourne
his Benjamin Evans mark
State of Maine
Yorh ss. June 8 1843 To Personally appeared Benjamin Evans who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the fore- going declaration by him subscribed —
Before me
Edward Elbourne
Juror of the Plea

STATE OF MAINE, } York County, ss. }
I, William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward E Bourne is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of June A. D. 1841 and will expire on the twenty fifth day of June A. D. 1848 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifth day of June A. D. 1843
Wm Hammond
} Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York.

Thennelunk Me June 24 43
Dr Sir
I enclose the declaration of Sarah Hooper for the one year pension
Very respectfully Your Obedient
E. E. Bourne
Hon J. G. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Post Office
Washington D. C.

Reynolds
Maine 3544
Sarah Hooper former widow of Abijah Tarbox who was a Private in the Massachusetts line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Fifty — Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the Ninth day of December 1843 and sent to E. E. Bourne Kennebec Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 11

Repo Friend 15 letter to E.E. Bourne Sept. 16. 1843-
Maine-7333
Sarah Hooper, formerly widow of Abijah Tarbox who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the of June, 1802 of York Co in the State of Maine who was a private in the company — commanded by Captain Hill — of commanded by the Stapachty : — line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th — day June 1843 and sent to E.E. Bourne Kennebec, Maine —
Whole amount due $200.00 —
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by Whitcomb Clerk
Book A Vol. 1 — Page 12