Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25122, for Prince Strout, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental (Mass.) Stout, Prince Christiana
W 25/22
CONTENTS

10.380
Q
Maine
Prince Street
of Raymond in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prince of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1819 and sent to Mrs. Bridget Prince Portland, Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 \frac{8}{10} \frac{4}{31} $1.83
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 40.00
$129.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Cumberland County

John Wm. Wm. Portland Maine

Prince Street Private Col. Phinnegs Regt of Naps. Line 1776-1 year acc 28 th Oct 1777
Admitted.

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Prince Street of Raymond in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of one year on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Raymond aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being now only four years of age
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to Col. Starks Company of the 1st Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the fifteenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and that he left said service on or about the fifteenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven the term of his enlistment having been then  ended  an honorable discharge which was by general order of the War Department
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.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 28 th day of April 1818.
Domenech J. Scott
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN , that on the 28 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Prince Street the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Domenech J. Scott farther offered in evidence
The subscription of the foregoing application which was sworn to as true.
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Prince Street served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that his reduced circumstances in life
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 28 th 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. all which is hereby certified and true in fact
W. Widgery
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY , is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 30 th day of July A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

I Thomas Cummings of Standish in Maine District being now sixty three years of age testifying that I am horizontally accom- panied with Prince Street was present that he enlisted into the company of Colt Stewart as will as I can recollect at the same regiment to which I belonged when I was Col Phineas, that he enlisted for twelve months and served his time out in the regiment with me
Thomas Cummings mark
Second oath to before me 22 March 1818
Wm Wedgery Judge etc
I James Webb of Westbrook in Maine District being now sixty three years of age testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Prince Street within named while in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and that he enlisted for the term of one year and that he served out the full period for which enlisted and that in Col Phineas Regiment and Capt Stewart's Company and that he was in the same regiment and served as a Sergeant therein, but that I believe that Captain Stewart died before the term of one year had expired and the said Street was transferred to the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Sawyer
James Webb
Sworn before me
Personally appeared the above named James Webb and made oath that the above description by him subscribed is true 17 July 1818.
Asahel Dummer Jur. etc.
I certify that the above named James Webb is a credible witness Asahel Dummer Jur. etc.

223 Prince Street
Cohy
10. 380 (6 May 1879)
(Sept 1879)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland . within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty second day of June . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty second day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Prince Strout . . . aged sixty six years, resident in Raymond . . . in said District, who being first duly sworn  affirmed according to law, doth on his oath  affirmation declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. Stewart & Sawyer . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 28 th day of April . . . A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10.300 . . . was granted. And I do solemnly swear  affirm 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.
Prince Strout
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second day of June . A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — I own none — Personal estate — two cows — one horse — three sheep one swine — a few necessary utensils in the house where I live — I have no income — am justly owing about fifty dollars —
Prince Strout
Sworn to June 22 1920
Before
Albion H. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Prince Strout . . . . . who, by occupation am a laborer . . . which I am not able to pursue by reason of constantly; by reason of the asthma — which I have so bad that I cannot sleep in bed, at times —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife Christiana . . . 63 almost helpless   William . . . 20. { a weakly child, unable to earn his living, or to work   Eliza . . . 9 { a Grand child — able to wait on her Grand mother  
Prince Strout
Sworn to
Before
Albion H. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, 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 fifty four dollars and twenty cents, and no more -
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of June , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$54.20

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Death date not on GR
Maine 1078 Christiana Strat widow of Prince Stratde?
who died on the 3 rd July 1834 of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company comm d by Captain Sawyer of the Regt. commanded by C ol Phinney in the Mass. s line for 1 year
Enscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of $40 32 Dollars July 1834 Cents per annum. to commence on the 2 nd day of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 1837 and sent Hon. Mr. Anderson Portland Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1837 $241.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 20.00.
$261.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by N. H. Addiam Clerk! Book 4. Vol. 1. Page 18

Christiana Stout widow of Prince
Me
on Sawyer's roll. of Dunning's regt.
adm'd
12 mo pri
40 $
old case - died 3 rd July 1834 - paid up
Hon. John Anderson Portland Me

State of Ohio Columbiana County } ss.
On this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Honorable Stephen Webb one of the justices of the Court of County Commissioners in & for said County Christiana Stout of Raymond in said County widow 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 act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of Prince Stout late of said Raymond deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and a Revolutionary pensioner at the time of his decease & as he believes had been from the year 1819.
She further declares that she was married to said Prince Stout on the first of January  the Revolutionary War  in the The Revd. Payson Clark and before the expiration of the term of his first married service in the Revolutionary War year Seventeen hundred and seventy four  in the  at Cape Elizabeth in said County. That her husband the aforesaid Prince Stout, died in said Raymond on the first seventeen day of July in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty seven: and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Christiana her X Stout
Sworn to and subscribed on the Mark day and year above written before
Stephen Webb Jr
{ One of the justices of the Court of County Commissioners in & for said County
I hereby certify that it is satisfactorily proved to me, that the above named Christiana Stout was married to the above named Prince Stout before the expiration of the last period of his service in the Army of the Revolution That said Prince Stout was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution & was a pensioner at the time of his decease, & that he died on the first seventeen day of July A.D. 1834 & that said Christiana has ever since & now remains the widow of said Prince Stout. I further certify that by

reason of age and bodily infirmity said Christian is unable to attend in Court.
Stephen Webbs { One of the justices of the Court of County Commissioners with you Dane County

Be it known that I do hereby depose and say that I, Deborah Stout of Laymond, was present at the Marriage of the now Widow Christiana Stout, when she the said Christiana was married to Prince Stout now deceased I have ever been acquainted with them, & do know the said Prince & Christiana, till his death, and do know that they lived together as Husband & Wife from the time of their Marriage till his death; They have had a family of Children.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this sixteenth day of February A.D. 1887 at Laymond
Deborah her Stout mark
Joseph Symsends Justice of the Peace
Be it known that I, George Small of Laymond do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Prince Stout & his now Widow Christiana Stout from the time of their Marriage till his decease; which was in the summer of A.D. 1884. They ever lived together as Husband & Wife and had a family of Children; and I never had any reason to doubt their being lawful Husband & Wife George Small
Subscribed and sworn to at Laymond this 16 th day of February A.D. 1887
before me
Joseph Symsends Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Deborah Street within named is a person of good character for truth and veracity & her statements entitled to full credit. E. Raymond April 21 1837
Joseph Symonds Pastor of the Church
I hereby certify that the within named George Small is a person of good character for truth & veracity; & his statements entitled to full credit. E. Raymond April 21 1837
Joseph Symonds Pastor of the Church

I Prince Street of Raymond in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged Fifty nine years. on oath testify & say that I was, as I have ever understood & believe born at Cape Elizabeth in said County on the 27 th day of December in the year Nineteen hundred and seventy seven. That Prince Street late of Raymond aforesaid a Revolutionary Revolutioner who died on the first or second day of July 1834 & who, I am certain, was buried on the 3 rd day of July A.D. 1834. was my father & Christiana Street now of said Raymond widow of said Prince Street deceased is my mother. I have ever understood from my childhood both from my said father & mother that they were lawfully married & never heard or had a suspicion to the contrary, nor do I know or believe that any person ever doubted but they were lawfully married in the first of the Revolutionary war & that my father was enlisted into the service of the Revolution & served as a soldier after his said marriage to my said mother. I further testify that my said mother has remained a widow & now so remains since the death of my said father & that her mind & memory is greatly

impaired by age & infirmity. That I have applied to the town records of said Cape Elizabeth to obtain a record of their marriage but am informed that part of their records are not to be found & could only obtain a copy of the record of their establishment.
prince Stuart
Cumberland Is April 24 th 1937
friends here & abroad to help me
John Brudeen
just of the House
I further certify that I am acquainted with the abovenamed defendant & that he is a man of trust & his statements entitled to full credit.
John Brudeen
just of the House

Be it known that I Christiana Stout of B. sayd do depose & say; that I was lawfully married to Pinner Stout (then belonging to Cape Elisabeth) in the first of the Revolutionary War; that we ever lived together as Husband and Wife till the death of him, the said Pinner Stout, which was in the month of July A.D. 1834. We had a family of ten Children.
Subscribed & sworn to this 18th day of March A.D. 1837 at August
her Christiana + Stout Mark
Joseph Simonds Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Cumberland ss.
1921 I Charles Cobb Clerk of the Judicial courts in said county, certify that Stephen Webb Jr. is a justice of the court of county commissioners, being a court of record, and that Joseph Simonds and John Anderson are magistrates as appears within, and that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. And I further certify that it does not appear in the records of said county, that any return of marriage from the town of Cape Elisabeth was made prior to the year 1780.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial court this eleventh day of May A.D. 1837.
Charles Cobb Clerk

A Purport of marriage between Mr. Prince Sturtevant and Miss Christiana Dyer both of Cape Elizabeth was entered March 18th 1776.
David Sturtevant District Clerk
True Copy of Record
Attest James Dyer Town Clerk.
I James Dyer abovenamed do hereby declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine and that the above is truly copied from the Town Records now in my possession. I further declare that David Sturtevant was District Clerk as appears by the Records until Cape Elizabeth was incorporated as a Town & after that was Town Clerk & that I do not find that he, in any instance recorded the Marriages which occurred in said District Town, but in all instances recorded the intention of marriage & that said Sturtevant was Town Clerk up to 1785 when he was succeeded by Amos Sturtevant.
Attest James Dyer Town Clerk.
Cumberland ss May 11th 1834 Subscribed & sworn to from me John Andros Justice

October 19, 1936.
Mrs. George Montgomery 585 East Claremont Street Pasadena, California.
BA-J/ILL Prince Strout W. 25122
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Prince Strout who lived in Raymond, Maine.
The data given herein were found in pension claim, W. 25122, based upon service of Prince Strout in that war.
Prince Strout, while a resident of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, District of Maine, then Massachusetts, enlisted January 15, 1776, served as private in Captain Stuart's and Jonathan Sawyer's company, Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts regiment until January 1, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he resided in Raymond, Cumberland County, District of Maine. He was then aged sixty-four years; the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
Given by family - Buried July 31
The soldier died July 1, to 2, 1834 in Raymond, Maine.
Prince Strout married "at the first of the Revolutionary War" Christiana Dyer, also of Cape Elizabeth, Massachusetts; they were married by a minister. Their intention of marriage was entered March 18, 1775 on the town records of Cape Elizabeth, Massachusetts, by David Strout, then District Clerk, but later Town Clerk of Cape Elizabeth; no relationship to Prince Strout was stated.
Christiana Strout, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed April 20, 1837, at which time she resided in

Raymond, Cumberland County, Maine; Christiana Strout gave her age then as eighty-one years, but did not state the names of her parents, nor the date and place of her birth.
Prince Prince Strout and his wife, Christiana, had ten children: James Strout, their son, was born December 27, 1777 and was a resident of Raymond, Maine, in 1837; he was born in Cape Elizabeth. A son, William, was living at home in 1820 with his parents, aged then twenty years. No other names of their children were designated. One grandchild, Elisa, aged nine years in 1820, was living with her grandparents then; the names of her own parents were not stated.
In 1837, Deborah Strout, of Raymond, Maine, stated that she was present at the marriage of Prince Strout and Christiana Dyer, but she did not state any relationship to them.
One James Dyer was Town Clerk of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine, in 1837; no relationship to the widow, noted above, was stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of Christiana Strout, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Record Division, this city, and cite the following:
Christiana Strout, widow of Prince Strout Certificate #1078 Issued June 27, 1837 Rate $40 per annum Commenced July 3, 1834 Act of July 4, 1836 Maine Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Prince Strout a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. F. 25,122.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 15, 1776 to Jan. 15, 1777. Pri. { Stewart Jonathan Sawyer Plummer Mass   (Cont.)   (Capt Wentworth Sturtevant - died - succeeded by Capt. Jonathan Sawyer  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 26, 1818. His cl. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Raymond, Cumberland Co., Dist. of Maine.
Age at date of application, 64 yrs. He died July 3, 1834, at Raymond, Maine.
Remarks: He mar. at Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, during his term of service, Christiana Dyer; she was al. pension on her ap. ex. Apr. 20, 1837, while 81 yrs. old and a resident of Raymond, Cumberland Co., Maine. They had ten children, the only names stated being Prince, born Dec. 27, 1777 and William who was 20 yrs. of age in 1820. Respectfully,
Commissioner.

585 EAST CLAREMONT STREET PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Sept. 21. 1936
Veterans Administration Washington.
Gentlemen:
Can you give me any information about Prince Strout , OK Capt Elizabeth, Me. who mtd Christiana Dyer. I think Private in Capt Jonathan Lawyers Co. Soldiers & Sailors Vol 15, p. 203. He may have lived Raymond, Me.
Thank you.
Yours truly
(Mrs George)
Alice P. Montgomery 585 E. Claremont St Pasadena. Calif.

A7-1
Chicago, Ill., January 20, 1915.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen--
Will you kindly furnish me a certificate of my ancestors who drew pensions for service in the Revolutionary War?
Jabez Churchill b. Bridgewater Mass. in 1759 married at Hebron Me. in 1785 and pensioned in Oxford Co., Maine.
Prince Strout pensioned while residing in Cumberland Co., Maine.
Would be very grateful to have all the records show about them, particularly the death and place of same, as I want to file applications under them for the D.A.R. and am compelled to ascertain the above before they will accept it.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Rosalie Nickerson Long, Room 1333 Stock Exchange Bd Chicago.

Reg
WIDOW, &c.
1915 Jan. 25. History to Mrs. Rosalie M. Long. L.H.
1916 Oct. 19. Hist. to Mrs. George Montgomery L.H.
File No. 25122
Christiana Stout Widow of Prince Stout Rev Rev War
Act July 4 th 1839
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 249
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Prince Shout. M o act 1818. when last paid?
G.W.C. June 27. '37
Since 3 rd July 1834 paid into that period. 1/6

1921
Miami July 30 3 rd fl.
FREE
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Revenue Washington D.C.

Portland May 11 th 1837
Sir - I herewith transmit the advertisement & evidence in support thereof, of Christian Stuart widow of Pierce Stuart late of this State for a pension. Pierce Stuart was a pensioner at the time of his decease & I presume the deposition of the son of said Pierce & Christian who was born in 1777, together with the copy of Record of the establishment duly authenticated will be satisfactory as to the marriage having taken place before his service expired.
I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect Your obedient Servt John Andrews
To Honble Edward Common Pleas
Washington D.C.