Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,466, for Richard Stubbs, Massachusetts

SERVICE
SERVICE mas
Stulbs Richard
NUMBER
S. 37.466
CONTENTS

File this slip with Rev's Bureau of Pensions. Soldier Richard Stubb File N o 37.466-
His widow Polly Stubb (her 3 d marriage) received a pension (File N o 25 2790) as formerly widow of Thomas Hill —

6772) 4
Dist: of Maine
Richard Stubbs
of Nor Yarmouth in the state of Dist of Maine who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Mass: line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of D of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 28 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of Feb y 1819 and sent to Judge Paris Paris Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818. 4 mos 2 / 30 33.80 Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1819. 48.00
$ 81.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

37 466 Rev INVALID.
File No. 37, 466
Richard Stubbs Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 1872
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 899
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Richard Stubbs Private Prinney's Mass. Regt Jan. 1 st 1776. Oregon Admitted on the within Certificate
April 28. 1818

To the Honorable Albion K. Parris, District Judge of the United States for Maine District.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Richard Stibbs of North Yarmouth in said Maine District, that he served as a Sergeant for the term of one year in the war of the revolution on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at North Yarmouth aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a Sergeant to Capt. Hill's Company of the 15th Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and that he left said service on or about the 20th day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he was honorably discharged thereupon by General order and that he is now seventy three years of age.
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Richard Stibbs
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, ALBION K. PARRIS, District Judge of the United States for the Maine District, Richard Stibbs the above named appli- cant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Richard Stibbs farther offered in evidence the affidavits of Mark Morse and Samuel Tice , signed and sworn to before me.
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Richard Stibbs served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of the assistance of his country for support. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for the Maine District, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Albion K. Parris

personally appeared Mark Morse and Samuel Gile and made oath that they and each of them were personally acquainted with the within named Richard Stubbs in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war and that we believe the within affidavit by him signed and sworn to is true in all its parts Mark Morse Samuel Gile

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Stubbs, Robert GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10474 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 20-1789 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.