Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24563, for Robert Libbee, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
or
Libbee, Robert
W 24563
Libby
Rebecca
CONTENTS

Maine
Rebecca Sibbee.
widow of Robert Sibbee, deceased - who was a pensioner under the Act of June, 1832 and who died on the 29th May, 1835 - of Cumberland Co in the State of Maine - who was a private in the Compny - commanded by Captain Tyler - of the Regt - commanded by Col: Pinnerf in the Mass: - time for 1 year -
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine - at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of June 1839 and sent to Gov: Pope, Portland, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $120.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept - 20.00 $140.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Intyre Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 14

Robert Libbie Application for a pension
July 1832
a Private
July 31, 1832 Central Office
$40 per ann.
act 7 June 1832

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty sixth day of July - A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this twenty sixth day of July - aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Robert Libbee a resident of Scarborough in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was placed on the pension list roll of the Maine Agency, and a certificate of pension granted to him on his application made on the sixteenth day of October 1819. That he has been dropped from the pension roll by the law of May 1. 1820. That he served in the company, commanded by Capt. Tyler in Col. Phinney's Reg't in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment one year. That he now lives in Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and resided there when he made his first application for a pension in 1819.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of Maine .
Robert Libbee
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before.
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
John Muzzey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Muzzey } Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

4873
Application of Rebecca Libby for wid of Robert a pension
Act July 7. 1838
Manned 1792
deed 1835
Allow of 40 per ann
J. P. Pope Portland Me

STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland, ss.
ON this twenty sixth day of February A.D. 1839 personally appeared before me Ezekiel Whitman Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, Rebecca Libby a resident of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State or District 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 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Robert Libby — who was a private in the War of the Revolution and a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 and his name was placed on the pension list roll of the Maine agency at the rate of forty Dollars per annum. That she is not able to state the particulars as to his service, or under what officers he served but would refer to his declaration on which his said pension was granted. She further declares, that she has not been married since the death of said Robert Libby, but still remains his widow.
SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Robert Libby — on the first twentyth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and Ninety two and that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Libby died on the twenty ninth day of May 1835 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.
Rebecca Libby
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. by the said Rebecca
BEFORE me, and I certify that she is a person of credibility and that by reason of age and infirmity she is unable to attend court and that therefore the above declaration was taken at her place of residence in Scarborough in said State. Ezekiel Whitman

I Abraham Milliken Town Clerk of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State of Maine do certify that in the Record of Marriages in Said Scarborough by the Rev Thomas Lancaster late Minister of Said town the Marriage of Robert Libby & Rebecca Trickey is Recorded as follows VIZ Robert Libby & Rebecca Trickey was Married in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two (no date of Month or day) by the Rev Thomas Lancaster & Recorded by Robert Hasty Town Clerk
I Abraham Milliken above named depose and say that I held the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Scarborough aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of Marriages in Said town with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Records in fair legible figures as follows 1792
Abraham Milliken Town Clerk State of Maine.
Cumberland ss November 20 th 1838 Personally appeared Abraham Milliken just above named who is Town Clerk of Scarborough and he is a credible and respectable witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me Letth Storer Justice of the Peace

I Samuel Higgins aged forty seven years testify and say that I was acquainted with Robert Sibley of Scarborough in the State of Maine. That he died in the spring of eighteen hundred and thirty five and that his widow Rebecca Sibley is still living in said Scarborough.
Samuel Higgins
State of Maine Cumberland's -
On this twenty sixth day of February I am eighteen hundred and thirty nine per- sonally appeared the above named Samuel Higgins a person of credibility and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me
Ezekiel Whitman Chf Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State State of Maine
And so I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial courts in said County certify that Ezekiel Whitman is chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, and that Seth Storer is a magistrate as appears above, and that the several signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas this first day of March A.D. 1839 Charles Cobb Clerk

M c 1792 1859  ad 1835
Maine
Robert Libbee
of Scarborough in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Tyler of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shinney in the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year from December 1775 to December 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum  month , to commence on the 4 th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of August 1832 and sent to John Drupey Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $ 20 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep r 20
$ 60
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
June 1832
Recorded Book 2
Vol 1 page 67

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,563
Rebecca Giblee
Widow of
Robert Giblee
Dear Mass line
Act July 1 th 1838
Index: Vol. A , Page 438
[Arrangement of 1870.]

15.995 Maine. R
Robert Libbee.
of Scarboro in the state of Maine who was a private — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney — of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year.
Inscribed on the Roll of — name at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of Oct r 1817.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Nov 1817. and sent to Geo. Thacher Esq. Biddeford, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820. . $36. 12. State of Maine
4 mo. 16/31.
$36. 12.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

3164
1835
mc
Susannah Brown Beyah deed Aug 10 1839
2 10 71 Birt

Robert Libby
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Portland, at the
Bank of Cumberland
Robert Libby

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Robert Libbee.
late a Private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 30 day of November one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen .
E Van de Velde Acting Secretary of War.

Robert Libbee
16. Oct 1819.

Robert Libbee of Scarboro in the County of Cam- berland & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged septy two years, do testify & declare that I enlisted in the American Army on the Continental Es- tablishment, about the first of December 1775 in Capt. Tyler's Company & Col. Phinney's Regt. Mas- sachusetts Line, for one year & was discharged at Fort George on the last day of December 1776 - During said time I was stationed at Cambridge, Boston, Nycontagoe, & Fort George, where I was discharged, but not in writing - I have no pension, & from my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support - I am a native Citizen of the United States - Robert Libbee.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Be it known that on the sixteenth day of October 1819 Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts personally appeared the above named Robert Libbee who being duly sworn, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him, in my presence. Subscribed in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled an act to make provision for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war therein which declaration signed & sworn to as aforesaid, I George Thacher one of the Justices do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Robert Libbee did serve in the Revolutionary war

war as he has stated in his said declaration, against the Common Enemy: And that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support — And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony laid before me to the Sec- retary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions in the afore- mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this six- teenth day of October Anno Domini 1819
George Thacher

Portland Oct r 16 th 1819
I W m Hasley of Scarborough aged 66 on oath do testify and say that I was of age at in Capt. Abraham Tyler Company and Col o Edmund Phinnes Regiment in the year Service in the Revolutionary war & that I engaged in said Regiment some time in December in the year 1785 and was Discharged some time in December 1786, and that I well knew Robert Libby to be a Soldier in said Company and said Regiment and say that he the said Robert did serve for the term of one year as a good Soldier and was discharged with the rest of the Regiment, there was no written discharge given in said regiment at that time and that I further say that I have known this man for 55 years, and do know him to be the same man that has made the above application Oct r 16 1819 W m Hasley
Portland October 16 th 1819
I Lebulon Libby of Scarborough aged 62 on oath do testify and say that I was a Soldier in Capt. Abraham Tyler Company & Col o Edmund Phinnes Regiment in the year Service in the Revolutionary war and that I engaged in said Service some time in December in the year 1785 and was Discharged some time in the year 1786 and that I well knew Robert Libby to be a Soldier in said Company & Regiment and say that he the said Robert did serve for the term of one year as a good Soldier and was discharged with the rest of the Regiment and I further say that I have known this man for 55 years and do know him to be the same man that has made the above application Lebulon Libby

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - York ss. October 16 th - 1919 - Then personally appeared the above named William W. & Lebulon Libby & being each disinterested & credible witnesses were duly sworn & made solemn oath to the truth of the above declarations & testimony by them in my presence respectfully Subscribed
Before Me
George Thaxter Judge of the S.J. Court of Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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