Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 772, for Levi Leathers, New Hampshire

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NUMBER
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Leathers, Levi Sarah
W. 772 B.L.W. 9195-160-55,
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11:437 Abam 116
Sept 1829 Levi Seathers
of Phipsburgh in the state of Me who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of June 1819 and sent R. C. Vose Esqr Augusta Maine
arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 10 mo \frac{6}{30} \frac{4}{31} = 82.63 emi-anl. all'ce ending 1 Sep: 1819 48,,
59.20  $130.63 Lincoln
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Reinstated by Hon. Secy of War 14 Feby 1821.
Cont.
Revolutionary War Long  Marshall of War on the 14 Feby 1821 2 notification sent same day to Hon. M. L. Smith, M. R. H. S.

1,288. Maine.
Sarah Leathers, widow of Levis , Leathers who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Pirate . W. K. Lins
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 13th. day of Aug. '53, and sent to
Sam. D. Reed, Bath, Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page C Vol. A

74,958 } Act March 3/53 April 16 "
Sarah Leathers Widow of Levi Leathers Sarah Leathers wife Levi. per.
Was in the war of the Revolution — 7 refers to her Pension Certificate dated Aug 13 th 1853 N. H. Smith line.
10/19/95 10/16/95 acre, Oct. 25 1885. July 53 — 1288. H. Smith.
Boynlon P. J. H.
Samuel D Reed Bath
Vol L, page 49

184 Levi Seathers
[Large cursive signature] [Signature]
829 not entitled
March 19
Fore. Bailey Wiscasset Maine ag t Bailey
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STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER , Judges of said Court.
ON this eleventh day of July — in the year 1820, personally appeared in open court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Levi Leathery aged fifty nine years, resident in Wiscasset in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Cherry in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11. 437 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Levi Leathery
Sworn to and declared, on the 11 th day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Josiah Stebbins { One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real Estate 60 acres of poor land, great part of it not under improvement, with a small one story house thirty years old & decayed, never shingled but battored with slabs $100.
Personal One yoke of oxen $50. two cows $30. two hogs $4. a little old furniture $5. one old horse $25. one half of a fishing boat $25. I owe not less than one hundreds & ninety four dollars I have nothing due to me. and I have no income except my pension Levi Peathers
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Levi Peathers who, by occupation am a husband man which I am not able to pursue by reason of great infirmity & lameness.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     my wife Nancy 64 infirm, not able to work   my sister Mary Peathers 62 lame & a cripple   daughter Betsey Peathers 24 weakly, not in good health   nephew Levi Soper 13 common health —   Levi Peathers    Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is forty four two hundred dollars and thirty nine Dollars cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July — A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat Coffin
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

State of Maine.
Lincoln County ss
Probate office May 3 d A.D. 1853
On this third day of May personally appeared before Arnold Blaney Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Lincoln and State of Maine the same being a court of record. Sarah Leathers a resident of West Bath in the County and State aforesaid aged sixty three years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the third February 1853. Granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Levi Leathers deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States for the services of war and drew his pension at the pension agency at Portland Maine, the act at which he was pensioned she cannot say, but for proof of her husband's Revolutionary Services she refers to evidence on file at the department whereby he obtained his pension.
She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Leathers in Bath, on the eighth day of October eighteen hundred and twenty six, that her said husband died at Phippsburg on the second day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two.

that she was not married to him prior to the Second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time within stated, and has been a widow ever since the death of her late husband Luis Leathers of misdie and is now a widow
Sarah Leathers
Lincoln p at a Court of Probate held at Wisconsin within & for said County on this third day of May A D 1853 Personally appeared the above named Sarah Leathers and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscribers in open court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate the day & year above written
Arnold Meney Judge.

Bath Me May 24 th 1833
Sir
I herewith remit the application of Sarah Leathers widow of Levi Leathers late of Phippsburg a Revolutionary Pensioner. Please send the certificate which will entitle her to a pension and also arrears of pension to me at Bath Maine. Very Respectfully Yours &c
Sam l C. Reed
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Levi Leathers. Phippsburg, Pr. Col. Hale Recd. N.Y. Sept June 1776 to June 1779 & then to the end of War
April 25. 1818
Judge's Certificate as to claimants, in circumstances wanted additional proof of voice also
May 11. 1829
Judge Certificate & David Kenniston and Barton Packard depts proceed — R.C. Vose
Admitted.
Ap. 25

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } COUNTY, ss. }
To the Hon. Isaac Robbins one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, (called the Second eastern circuit ) which is a Court of record in the State of Massachusetts.
The Declaration under Oath of Levi Southworth formerly a Private Soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the town of Thesbury county of Lincoln - and State of Massachusetts, respectfully sheweth, THAT the said Levi Southworth enlisted into Captain Cherry's Company in the 2d  Hampshire Regiment , commanded by Col. Root in the Month of June 1778 for three years and continued to serve faithfully until June 1779 at which time he re-enlisted into the same Company and Regiment and continued to serve until the peace of 1783 at which time he was honorably discharged at Thesbury  New York in the State of New York  New York which discharge was lost about twenty five years ago, and he has not been able to find it since.
And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Levi Southworth is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the town of Thesbury county of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts, and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support
That he is fifty six years of age, and was at the Battle of White Plains with Gen Sullivan
Therefore the said Levi Southworth conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests your Honor will examine into the the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit

the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided.
Levi Lathrop
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } Personally appeared Levi Lathrop Lincoln COUNTY, ss. } of the town of Wiscasset county of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn and subscribed before me this } 25 th day of March April 1818, }
Josiah Stebbins, Judge of the Court aforesaid.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } Lincoln COUNTY, ss. } Personally appeared Samuel Rollings and being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say that he is — personally acquainted with Levi Lathrop the aforesaid Declarant, and served with him in the army, and knows that he served to the close of the war — his Samuel + Rollings mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this } 25 th day of April, 1818, }
Josiah Stebbins, Judge of the Court aforesaid.

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, Lincoln COUNTY, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Josiah Stebbins one of the Judges of the the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, called the Second eastern circuit of Massachusetts, which is a Court of record, personally appeared the aforesaid
Levi Seathers
who being by me duly sworn, testifies to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Declaration and Samuel Rollings also testifies to the truth of the affidavit aforesaid
WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Levi Seathers did serve in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the said Court,
I certify that Levi Seathers is in reduced circumstances, and needs assistance from his country for support. this twenty fifth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Josiah Stebbins.
Apr. 23. 1819. J. Stebbins.
Lincoln ss. Clerks Office April 25. 1818
I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County of Lincoln do certify that Josiah Stebbins is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Hancock & Somerset & that the above is his signature In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court Nathl. Coffin

711958

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Sagadahoc
On this fifth day of April A. D. 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State, aforesaid Sarah Leathers aged 64 years, a resident of the town of West Bath in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Levi Leathers deceased, who was a Revolutionary in the Company commanded by Captain Pontiac in the Regiment of commanded by Colonel in the War with Great Britain, declared by the United States, June 18th, 1812; that he was ordered out at on or about the day of A. D. and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days; that he was honorable discharged verbally, no written discharges were granted the Company.
She further states that she was married to the said Levi Leathers in Bath the Eighth day of Octo. A. D. 1826 by one Vilas Nunn a Clergyman and that her maiden name was Sarah Dyer and that her husband died at Philomene on the Second day of June A. D. 1832 and that she is now a widow. She now draws a pension from the United States as the widow of Levi Leathers a Revolutionary Soldier for proof she refers to the application by which she received a pension Certificate No 1288 dated August 13th 1853 She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Sarah Leathers
Personally came Sarah Brown and Silas S. Holbrook residents of the town of West Bath in the State of Maine, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Leathers in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statement of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Sarah M Brown Silas S Holbrook
Personally came Silas S. Holbrook residents of the town of West Bath of the State of Maine , upon our oaths, declare that they well know the above named Sarah Leathers and his said wife Sarah Brown and knew them to have lived together as husband and wife, and were so considered, and that the said Levi Leathers is dead, and that Sarah Leathers who herewith makes application for Bounty Land, is the identical widow of the said deceased, and is now a widow, and that they are neighbors of the aforesaid widow.
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, this fifth day of April 1855; and I certify that I believe the claimant to be the identical person she represents herself to be, that the witnesses are credible persons, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Edwin Noyes Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE:
COUNTY OF Sagadahoc } scil.
I hereby certify that Edwin Noyes Esq., before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is, and was at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine.
Witness my hand and Seal of the Court of Probate for said State for Sagadahoc County, this Sixth day of April A. D. 1855.
J T Thompson Register of Probate
Please send Mrs Leathers a certificate to me at Bath Me

Leon P.
H. H. H. H. H. H.

War Department,
N o 11437
PENSION OFFICE,
10 Nov r 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Levi Leathers Shipburg Maine
Care of J. Bailey Esq re Wiscasset Me

Leather

Brief in the case of Sarah Leathers of here aged 63 Yrs Lincoln County and State of Maine act of Feb 3 rd 1853
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a private Revolutionary War & Pensioner act 1818 at $96 per annum. Marriage proved by credible witnesses
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death, by Aud te certificate Identity, credible witnesses
Name and residence of Agent
Samuel D Reed Bath Maine
Examining Clerk.
J H Gray

May 27. 1853
M t 1860
App t of Sarah, Leathers widow of Rev. -
mt.
0.19
Act 3 d Feb y 1853
Rev:
Allowed $96 per annum Com. Feb. 3 d 1853
Saml. D. Reed
Bath
mt.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Book

Phila. Oct 15 th . 1853. Pres. B. H. H.

Pension Office August 10/23
Sir Please report time of last payment to or death of last payment Wittiro named pensioner
Respectfully be F Burt Esqr. Secretary 3rd Presnt for Court
Levi Leathers, act 1818. $8.00 p.m. Died 2 nd June 1832. Paid to his death.
F Burt Auditor

Rev May
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 773 Sarah Leathers. Widow Levi Leathers. Pris. Rev. Wm.
Act. Feb. 3. 1853.
Index :—Vol. A , Page 426
[Arrangement of 1870.]

74958
A B APR 13 H Me
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, SS.
I, EDMUND B. BOWMAN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Samuel D. Reed whose name is affixed to the annexed papers as a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, was on the day of the date thereof, legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such ; and that the signatures to the annexed papers purporting to be his are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three
Edmund B. Bowman CLERK.

✓ 9.195
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Nov 1995

I David Hinmaston of Boothbay in the County of Lincoln Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Levi Leathers of Phipsbury in said County - that we were about four years together in the Revolutionary war - I know that he served in the second New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. George Reed from the year 1779 to the eighth of June 1783 when said Leathers was regularly discharged - I am not certain what com- -pany he served in, but I have a recollection that he served part of the time in Capt. Cherry's Company in said Regiment - but I am sure that he served as a private soldier in said second Regiment about four years, as I was always acquainted with him & saw him often in the army - I served in the Revolutionary war during all the above mentioned time of four years in Capt. Livermore's Company which belonged part of the time to the first New Hampshire Regiment part of the time to the third  second New Hampshire Regiment - David Hinmaston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln ss. April 15. 1819 Personally appeared the within named David Hinmaston and after due examination, & caution to testify & declare the whole truth he maketh oath to the deposition aforesaid in my presence, and upon careful enquiry I am satisfied that said deponent is a person of credibility, & to be believed.
Jere Bailey Just. Peace.
I hereby certify that Jere Bailey aforesaid is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Lincoln. Josiah Stebbins Judge. C.C.C.P. 2 d E. Circuit. April 23. 1819.

Levi Leathers

I Barton Pollard, a resident in Fairfax, Kennebec county District of Maine, upon Oath testify and declare that I well knew Levi Leather a Continental Soldier in the War of the revolution the said Leather served to my knowledge more than two years at the close of the war, though I was not present when the said Levi Leather was discharged at Newburgh, yet I have no doubt he was discharged at the place & time above mentioned by him - I belonged to the New Hampshire line during the war of the revolutionary war was an orderly sergeant in Capt Dennis's Company in the same Col Reed's Regiment - I am now on the pension list for the District of Maine
Barton Pollard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit. - On this seventeenth day of April A.D. 1819. the aforesaid Barton Pollard, having been duly cautioned and examined made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed - the said Pollard being in my opinion a Credible witness Before me
Josiah Stebbins, Judge C.C.C.P. 2 d E. Circuit.

State of Maine County of Lincoln ss.
On this third day of May A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me Samuel D. Reed a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Sprague and William Hutchins of Phipsbury in the State of Maine two disinterested and credible witnesses who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that they were well acquainted with Levi Leathers late of said Phipsbury deceased a revolutionary Pensioner and also knew his widow Sarah Leathers and knew them to have lived together as husband and wife and were so considered in the neighborhood, and we know that the aforesaid Levi Leathers died in Phipsbury aforesaid on the second day of June A.D. 1832 and we attended his funeral, and we also know that the aforesaid Sarah Leathers who now makes application for a pension, is the identical widow of the aforesaid Levi Leathers deceased, and she is still a widow and has been ever since the death of her late husband Levi Leathers aforesaid.
Elizabeth Sprague Wm. Hutchins
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that the deponents are credible witnesses Samuel D. Reed Justice of the Peace

Married by the Rev: Silas Stearns October eighth eighteen hundred and twenty five "The Life and Letters of Philip Freneau to Mrs Sarah Brown of Bath" a true copy of Record with the exception of the date which is in figures as d o . 8. 1825
State of Illinois } Lincoln County ss } I William Torrey above named depose and say that I hold the office of City Clerk for the City of Bath in said County and State and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said City with the exceptions above named and expressed by me William Torrey City Clerk
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this nineteenth day of April A.D. 1853. Saml D. Rice Justice of the Peace
I certify that William Hutchings + Elizabeth Sprague are credible persons + that full faith and credit should be given to their testimony
Alexander Blaney Judge of Probate Lincoln Co.

State of Maine County of Lincoln Town of Shipshurg.
Mr. Levi Seathers, died June second eighteen hundred thirty two. Age about 70 years. Thos. M. Reed Town Clerk
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows. June 2, 1832
Nathl. C. Reed } Town Clerk } of Shipshurg
I Nathaniel C. Reed abovenamed, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town County, and State aforesaid and that the above is a true copy of the records of said town with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
Nathl. C. Reed } Clerk of the } Town of Shipshurg
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this twenty ninth day April 1833
Samuel Reed Justice of the Peace

1288 D. A. Ains Sarah Leathers widow of Levi
who served in the Revolution war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1818.
3 rd February 1833 Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Aug t 1825, and sent to
Paul J. Keer Bath N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1818, Page 6, Vol. A
3 rd February 1833
1818
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