Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,063, for Jacob Merrill, Massachusetts

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Merrill, Jacob Bowe, Hannah (Former Widow)
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12500 Hannah Rowspence Poet widow of David  July 1838  Merrill Mr act 7 July 1838
H. Bradford Portland Maine
Ms A 9

State of Maine
Lincoln ss. On this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before the Hon Nathaniel Groton Judge of Probate for the County of Lincoln Hannah Bove a resident of Topsham in & for the County of Lincoln aged 84 years who being first cautioned and sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 March 3 d 1843 and Janu 17 th 1844.
And this declarant states that she was formerly the widow of Jacob Merrill who was a soldier as she believes in the war of the revolution. She does not now recollect the names of the officers with whom her husband served or the length of his service but she has heard her husband say that he served in the war under several enlistments. Her said husband was at the time of the war of the revolution a resident in Freeport and vicinity. The father of my first husband resided in Lewiston at the time of the war and I have heard my husband say that he lived in Falmouth & Freeport during the war. Said Jacob Merrill my first husband settled in Freeport after the war and lived there about eight years to the time of his death. And this declarant further states that

She was married to said Jacob Merrill on the Eighth day of March 1787 by the Revd Mr. Gilman of North Yarmouth and that her said husband died on the fourth day of July A.D. 1792 and that she afterwards married Benjamin Curtis who died on the 10th day of May A.D. 1810 and that after the death of Benjamin Curtis she was married to Alexander Bower who died on the first day of February 1832 and that she is now a widow -
Witness to signature of Hannah Bower, Hannah Nickerson witness Nellie Groot her Hannah X Bower mark
Subscribed to me to the day and year first above written
Before me Nellie Groot Judge of Probate

State of Maine.
County of Lincoln ss. Be it known that Hannah Bowe of Topsham, in our family widow, on this eighth day of December A.D. 1845. Personally appeared before me. The im- designed Judge of Probate for said family and the Probate Court filing a list of Records and the said Hannah Bowe , being first duly sworn and examined as to the truth of the parts set forth in the foregoing declaration she made her mark thereto, being unable to write her name, and too feeble and infirm to leave her house and attend in open court for the purpose, and said declar- ation having been read to her understood by her as the same is written she made oath with that the same is true. —————
In testimony whereof I have hereunto caused the seal of said Probate Court to be affixed, and sub- scribed my name the day and year first above written.
He Groom Judge of said Court

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 12 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jacob Merrill is borne as a private upon a muster roll of Capt n James Merrill's Comp y of Militia in Cumberland County, for the work of fortifying Falmouth in Nov r 1775 - 6 days; — Upon a pay roll of fifteen men, Falmouth volunteers, in Capt n Jesse Partridge's Comp y Col. John Greaton's reg t for service at the North River, from April 1 st to Nov r 30, 1778, — 8 months; — as Jacob Merrill jun r upon a pay roll of Capt n John Pray's Comp y in Col. Jonathan Mitchell's reg t for service in the expedition to Penobscot from July 7 to Sept r 12 1779 — 2 months, 6 days; — Upon a pay roll of Capt n Adam Martin's Comp y in Col. Nathan Tyler's reg t (Jacob Merrill as a serg t ) for service at R.I. from Sept r 21 to Oct r 1, 1779, — 2 months,

10 days;— The name of said Jacob Merrill is further borne as a serg. from Falmouth in the same comp y . and service as last named, for the month of Dec r 1779, including allowance for 200 miles travel, — 1 month, 10 d. There is no one of the name from Shrewsbury, (Falmouth being in the same county) and no other person of the same name than is herein described, from that part of the country, shown by any of the records in this office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
1062

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts The Secretary of State is requested to furnish from the rolls, and other revolutionary documents in his office the evidence of the service of Jacob Merrill who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. Your applicant Hannah Bowe now a resident of Topsham in the County of Lincoln and the first wife of said Jacob Merrill believes that her husband served three or four years in the Revolutionary war but she is unable to state the precise length of his service or the Company or Regiment to which he belonged. She believes that her husband was a resident of the place now called Freeport in the County of Cumberland when he entered the service, but she does not know when he enlisted or was mustered into the service. Her husband as she believes was in the Continental line, but she has a certificate of all the service of said Jacob Merrill, which can be identified with the service of the applicant's former husband.
And for the purposes of this application I hereby appoint Freeman Bradford my attorney
Hannah
Bowe
Lincoln ss Feb. 21, 1845, 21 signed in my presence John H. Thompson Justice of the peace

State of Maine.
Cumberland ss.
Clerk's Office
Judicial Courts Portland.
I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said County, hereby certify, that the following marriage appears in the list of marriages, returned to this Office by Rev. Tristram Gilman, Minister of the Gospel, for the year 1787. and recorded in the "Sessions Records" for said County, to wit;
"Jacob Merrill & Hannah Pitchfield, March eighth A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven."
And I further certify that the foregoing is a true Extract from said Records of said Marriage, excepting the words "March eighth A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven," which are plainly and legibly expressed in the words and figures following to wit. "1787 Mar. 8."
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this nineteenth day of June A.D. 1845.
Charles Cobb Clerk.

12500 Hannah Davenport Po 1 widow of David Maria Mr act 7 July 1838
H. Bradford Portland Maine
Certificate in the case of Andrew D. Davenport vs Hannah D. Davenport

State of Maine.  (Cont.) County of Lincoln. Be it known that On the 8th day of December A.D. 1845.
Before me the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate for said County; the same being a Court of Record. And at the resi- dence of the widow Hannah Bowe in Yarmouth in said County. The said Han- nah Bowe being at sworn to travel & attend in open Court or to leave her home. It was satisfactorily proved. By the testimony of credible witnesses. That said Hannah Bowe , was formerly the wife of Jacob Merrill late of Freeport in the County of Cumberland. That after his death she was his widow & afterwards mar- ried one Benjamin Curtis who died and left said Hannah Bowe his widow and that afterwards for the third & last time she married one Alexander Bowe , who is now deceased and she remains his widow.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto caused the seal of said Court to be affixed and subscribed my name the year & day first above written.
Attest Prothon Judge of said Court

State of Maine.
Cont
County of Lincoln. Be it known that On the 8th day of December A.D. 1845.
Before me the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate for said County; the same being a Court of Record. Came at the resi- dence of the widow Hannah Bowe in Yarmouth in said County. The said Han- nah Bowe being then infirm to travel & attend in open Court or to leave her home. It was satisfactorily proved by the testimony of credible witnesses. That said Hannah Bowe , was formerly the wife of Isaac Merrill late of Freeport in the County of Cumberland. That after his death she was his widow & afterwards mar- ried one Benjamin Curtis who died and left said Hannah Bowe his widow and that afterwards for the third & last time she married one Alexander Bowe , who is now deceased and she remains his widow.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto caused the seal of said Court to be affixed and subscribed my name the year & day first above written. Nathan Proctor Judge of said Court.

Hannah Bowe
Mr Cole June 13 th 1881.
Mrs Dickinson's Compts which are in the papers.
Mrs Dickinson's Compts request that this case may be re-examined as Falmouth & Freetown were one and the same place. —
June 13

17 STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, May 23 A. D. 1851, }
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
David Henick Esq
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated July 21 A. D. 1848 and will expire July 21 A. D. 1851
that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his and Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas C. Harmon, CLERK.

Know all men, that I Zacharias L. Curtis of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, for myself and in behalf of Jacob Merrill, Moses Merrill, Hannah Nickerson, Sophia Fernald all children and only surviving children of Hannah Bowe late of Topsham deceased, do hereby constitute and irrevocably appoint Messrs Dickinson and Coombs of Washington D.C. our attorneys for us and in our names to prosecute a pension claim which we hold against the United States in right of our said Mother Hannah Bowe. And we hereby authorize our said attorneys to do all and any act which may be lawfully done in the premises in the same way and manner as we ourselves might do were we ourselves present. I witness whereof I for myself and the children above named have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22 d day of May 1851.
Zacharias L. Curtis
State of Maine, Cumberland ss May 22 d 1851 Personally appeared Zacharias L. Curtis and acknowledged the above power of attorney by him signed to be his free act & deed, before me, May 22 d 1851 Jacob Merrill just. pac.

I, Zebulon L. Curtis of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged fifty one years on oath depose and say that the late widow Hannah Borne of Topsham was my Mother, that the said Hannah in her life time made application to the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her first husband. That the said claim was never finally adjudicated, but left open for further proof — I also depose and that it is in the power of the affiant to obviate some or all of the objections of the Commissioner of Pensions raised against said claim at the time it was presented. He can prove that the Towns of Freeport and North Yarmouth at the time of the Revolution were both one Town by the name of North Yarmouth and that the town of North Yarmouth adjoined Falmouth. Also that he can prove by one William Litchfield — that Jacob Merrill the said Hannah's first husband lived during the Revolution in Falmouth, North Yarmouth, & what is now called Freeport, at different times, and that said Merrill was thirteen or fourteen years of age at the commencement of the Revolution.
Z. L. Curtis

100554_00045 State of New Cumberland ss May 22 d 1858 Personally appeared Gabriel L. Lutter and made oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him signed was true before me, and I hereby certify from my own knowledge that the said Lutter the affiant is a witness of respectability and veracity.
Jacob Herrick just peace.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, August 15th A. D. 1851
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Jacob Henrick
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated July 27th _____ A. D. 1848 and will expire _____ July 27th _____ A. D. 1855
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are _____ Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon CLERK.

I Richard Belcher of Freeport, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, in oath before and say that I am Town Clerk of said Town of Freeport duly chosen and sworn — That the Records of said Town are in my custody from the incorporation of said Town to the present time. The first Record on the books of said Town is the act of Incorporation, from which it appears that said Town was incorporated by an act of the General Court of Massachusetts on the 16 th day of February 1789. It also appears that previous to said act of Incorporation said Town of Freeport was partly a part and parcel of North Yarmouth and partly Bowdoin so called. I also depose and say that previous to said incorporation the Town of North Yarmouth was contiguous to and adjoined the Town of Falmouth, and at a still earlier period was a part of the same.
Richard Belcher
State of Maine Cumberland ss August 7 th 1858 Subscribed and sworn before me,
Jacob Henrick Just. Jus.

I John A. Badger of Brunswick, County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged forty five years or oath before me say that I was well acquainted with Mrs Hannah Borne late of Topsham deceased, who was formerly the wife of Jacob Merrill a reputed soldier of the Revolutionary Army — I am also well acquainted with her surviving children. Said Hannah Borne died on the twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. I attended her funeral, preached a sermon and officiated in the other solemnities of the occasion, by virtue of my office as a regular Clergyman of the Baptist Denomination. I also in like manner before me say that Jacob Merrill, Moses Merrill, Hannah Nickerson, Sophia Kimball and Zeruiah L. Curtis are the only surviving children of said Hannah Borne.  J. A. Badger
State of Maine Cumberland ss August 8 th 1851 personally appeared John A. Badger above named who is known to me as a regular Clergyman of the Baptist denomination and made solemn affirmation that the above affidavit by him signed was true before me,  Jacob Merrill Justiciary.

1930 Sept. 13. Photos mailed to Winifred R. Holman, see Isaac Lewis, S.9748.90.7
Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1063
RECEIVED
P. O. Hannah Rowe formerly widow of Service: Jacob Merrill
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Washington, Aug. 21, 1857
Sir:
Enclosed please find additional evidence in support of the claim of Mrs. Hannah Borne, of Maine, formerly widow of Jacob Merrill, dec d for Revolutionary Pension.
Very Respectfully Your obed t Serv t
Dickins & Hopkins
J. E. Heath Esq. Com te of Pensions

12,500
N 12500
Hannah Rowe
Mr
Given to H. Bedford May 5 th 1840 D. S. Hays & Combs. Nov 7/1851
1863
act my 7 Feb 1838

See order in Isaac Lewis, S.9748.
Bureau of Pensions. Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
September 5, 1930.
541
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Rev. War claim for pension of Jacob Merrill, File No. R.1063.
Actual 1 of each page.
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$1.20.....8 pages
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The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

List: Winifred L. Holman.
  Wid. Decl. Dec. 8 - 1845  2 pages.    Wid. req. to Sec. of Mass. Feb. 21 - 1845  1 "    Z. L. Curtis power of atty. May 22 - 1851  1 "    Z. L. Curtis affid. May 22 - 1851  1 "    Glendale - "Commencement of the Rev."  1 "    Richard Belcher's affid. Aug. 7, 1851  1 "    John A. Badger's affid. Aug. 8, 1851  1 "    John Nickerson's affid. Aug. 8, 1851  1 "  
List of papers of Winifred L. Holman
kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 in. at top of each page and return papers in each case as follows with corresponding name and number. The word "only" omitted in pencil on these pages which are not to be counted.