Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37607, for William Leaver, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
NH
Leaver, William
S. 37607
CONTENTS

Albany 27. 184-
William Leaven Lyman in the State of NY who was a private in the by Captain — of the Regt by Col Reed in the N. H. C. line for
2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Feb 1836 and Serr- Hon R. McIntire Y. of R
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833 $ 20 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 4 34 4
$ 24
{ Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 32

31. William Beaver
Copy  Walter Borag
(10.425)
Con
Sept 199
for [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]
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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 ninth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day , on the  seventh — 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 seventh — 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, William Leaver — aged sixty — years, resident in Waterborough in said District, 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. James Norris in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Poor — 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 twenty fifth day of April — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10,425 — 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.
Witness Jos. Pope
William his X Leaver mark
Sworn to and declared, on the seventh 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 have none — I live in a house I hire — I have one pig — a few articles of household furniture very poor — I have no income and am in debt —
Witness Joseph Pope William  his X Leaver mark
Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me William Leaver — who, by occupation am a Laborer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of a broken arm, and a wound I received in the army
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife Sarah years 50 — able to do some household work rather blind   Witness Jos. Pope William  his X Leaver mark   Sworn to, before Albion H. Barris 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 twenty five — dollars and no more —
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh — day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$25-

William Leaver
Application to relinquish Pension under law of 1818 -
and
Accept the the provisions of of law of 1832 -
Also to have his invalid pension restored to him being for a disability recd. in revolutionary war -
admit
$80 -
Dear R McIntire
HR
Notifies agent to drop from roll under act of 1818 Special report to Pres d Maine Board

I William Seaver of Lyman in the County of York testify and declare that I was placed on the Pension list of the United States as a revolutionary soldier under the law of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 2 and continued a pensioner under the law of 1820 to the present time. At the time I was placed on the Pension list under the laws referred to I resided in the Town of Waterborough in the State of Maine in the said County of York. and to obtain said Pension under said law of 1818 2 I relinquished an invalid Pension which I was then receiving from the United States of Four Dollars per month amounting to Forty Eight Dollars a year for a disability I received while in the service of the United States in said revolutionary war. which invalid Pension was granted me under the directions of the War Department about the year 1811. It being for a wound received at the battle of Still Water just previous to the taking of General Bergoins Army by the Americans at Saratoga in the year 1777.
My services in the revolutionary Army are perhaps fully set forth in my application for a pension under the law of 1818 2 . I was a private soldier in said Army and served four years in said war. I ran away from my master and enlisted into the Army in the New Hampshire line at Somersworth under Captain Jonathan Wentworth for one year I think in February 1778 in Col Roos Regiment. I was then in the sixteenth year of my age. At the expiration of that year I enlisted again into the service for three years .

under Capt Colcord last served in Capt James Morris company in Col Reeds Regiment and General Poors Brigade of the New Hampshire line - I was at New London - New York - Albany - Lake George - Still water - Saratoga & Valley Forge in said service and was wounded at Still water as afore said and was finally discharged from the Army at Danbury in the State of New York.
The original Certificate by which I have up to the 4th day of September 1833 received my pension under the law of 1818 - has been lost - and I now wish to relinquish and do hereby relinquish my pension under said law of March 1818 - to avail myself of the benefit of the provisions of the law of the 7th of June 1832 - and to receive in addition to the provisions of the law of June 1832 as afore said, the Gratuity for the disability under a former law as I received and relinquished at the time I applied for a pension under the law of 1818 -
I was born at Somersworth in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1759, and am now in 75th year of my age, and resided at Waterborough in the State of Maine at the time I applied for a pension under the law of 1818 - afore said. I am not a pensioner of any State or country other than as above specified. Witness Abiel Nellyson William Mrs Leavitt

And I William Leaver as aforesaid further testify and declare that the original disability for which I was placed on the pension list as an invalid pensioner still continues to exist to the full degree as when I first applied for said Pension -
Witness Abiel Nelly & William Leaver mark
State of Maine
York ss Kennebec November 14 th 1833
Then personally appeared William Leaver of Lyman in said county and made oath to the truth of foregoing declarations by him signed -
Before me
Barnabas Palmer Justice of the Peace
We the subscribers, practicing physicians of the town of Alfred, do hereby certify, that after a careful examination in the case of Wm. Leaver, who has applied to be restored to his invalid pension, and who is now on the pension roll, under the law of 1818, we are of opinion that his disability does still continue, and that the injury he sustained by a ball passing through his wrist remains in the same state.
And further, that the degree of disability under which he laboring at present is in no respect less than the original degree of disability for which he was placed on the pension roll.
Giles Hall
John E. Farnum
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this twenty second of Nov. A.D. 1833. I certify that the defendants are practicing physicians in Alfred, and are credible persons, in their profession. -
Porter Larned Jas of Peace

State of Maine.
County of York, ss. I, Jeremiah Bracbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the county aforesaid, certify that Ramabas Palmer and Porter Lambert are acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County, and that the within Signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, this thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1833.
Jere. Bracbury Clerk
William Leven

War Department Pension Office Oct 14. 1833
Sir,
In reply to Yours of the 7 th inst. respecting the case of William Leaver, I have to inform you that the act of June 7, 1832 is not construed to conflict with any claim asserted by the laws providing Invalid Pensions. The one is a gratuity for disabilities incurred in the Service, and the other a pro rata stipend for the Service itself.
Very respectfully Yours Ob t Serv t
G. H. Crampton Acting Com d . of Pensions
Barnabas Palmer, Esq., Kennebec Maine

37607 REGY INVALID.
File No. 37607
William Leaver His Rev. Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 503
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Payments to be made at Portland by Ches. of the Maine Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine
Atty Genl decides that such cases are not within act 14 Feby 1853
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book (O Vol. 1 Page 32 by W. D. Bullock Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, William Leaver of the State of Maine who was a Private during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18 day of February — one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four (Cancelled by order of the General)
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

Evidence to be applied in the case of William Seaver - an applicant for a pension under the law of June 1832, and to be restored to an invalid - pension under act of Congress, of 1812 -
Invald pension by act of 1811 restored at 4 per mo commencing 4 th March 1832 2nd certif te D
Hon R W Hinton
H. R. restored by act 19 Feb 1833
2nd certificate of invalidity
Pat. A.

Pennsbury Me. Feb. 7 th 1834
It is hereby certified that William Laver of Lyman apparently about seventy five years of age and who represents himself to have been a soldier in Capt. (Wentworth's) company in Col. Peabody's Regiment one year - and in Capt. James Norris' company in Col. Read's Regiment four years in the Revolutionary war in the New Hampshire line. Is rendered incapable of obtaining a livelihood by manual labor by reason of a wound inflicted upon him while in the aforesaid service.
My satisfactory evidence it appears that the said Laver was at the battle of Still Water in the year 1777 that while he was engaged with his company and Regiment with a portion of the British General Burgoyne's Army in the state of New York he received a Musket ball which passed through his right arm at the wrist joint and lodged in the upper part of the thigh near the groin. It further appears by course of examination that James

The wound at the wrist fractured the bone, which caused a stiffness of the joint and has rendered the thumb of the right hand in part useless.
It also appears that the wound of the thigh near the groin has produced a stiffness in the hip joint and is attended with pain at times. All which in the opinion of the undersigned that he is one half disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.
James Dorrance Phys t Surg t
Jacob Fisher Phys t F t June 1 st
State of Maine York ss Kennebec July 8 th 1834. Then personally appeared James Dorrance and Jacob Fisher both practicing physicians and surgeons in said town and respectable in their profession and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by them signed - and I hereby certify that they are credible witnesses and their testimony entitled to full belief.
Before me
Barnabas Palmer
Justice of the Peace

I William Leaver of Lyman in the County of York a revolutionary pensioner under the law of Congress of 1818- testify and declare that the pension certificate issued to me under said law has been lost. I had the certificate and it was sent to the U.S. Branch Bank with my power of attorney, for the pension due me up to the 4th day of September 1833- Since which time it cannot be found. The person with whom I entrusted it with my power of attorney must have left it at the Bank or somewhere in Portland. I have inquired not only to him but to the Bank and other places where it might have been accidentally left, but can find no traces of it. The agent alluded to is Dr. Frown here he has no recollections of the certificate after he received the money in Portland in September last, he thinks it must have been left at some place where he stopped or done business in Portland and has rendered me every assistance in his power to find it but wholly without success.
His
William Leaver
State of Maine York ss Feb 8- 1834 Then personally appeared William Leaver and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed - Before me -
Barnabas Palmer Jus Peace
1834

The line District
District Clerk's Office February 10. 1834
In testimony that Barnabas Palmer Esquire is a Magistrate as within annexed and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. Courts
opercum

War Department Pension Office January 31. 1834
Sir
The application of William Leaver to relinquish his pension under the Act of 18 th of March 1830, and receive an Invalid pension in pursuance of the Special Act of Congress of 5 th of July 1812, and a pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832 has been received and placed on file.
The pension certificate of Mr Leaver not having been forwarded in consequence of his allegation of its loss. Similar evidence of the circumstances under which the loss took place is required as is necessary to obtain a new certificate.
The Invalid pension cannot be restored to Mr Leaver excepting upon proof that his disability for which he was originally placed on the roll continues as is pointed out in the accompanying blank form
I am Respectfully Your. Obed. Servant J. L. Edward
B. Palmer Esq Hennibunk Maine

W m - Leaver
Private
Colored N. H. Regiment
1777 - 3 yrs
On Roll
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Oxford
On this twenty fifth day of April A D 1818- before the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said County and first Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern circuit in sd Commonwealth, personally appears William Leaver a Resident of Waterborough in said Circuit who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war - that he the said William Leaver enlisted for a year about July A D 1776 into the company commanded by Capt. J. Wentworth in Col o Poor's Regiment in N. H. Line, that he served out that time & again enlisted during the war there for three years into Capt. James Morris Company in Col o Rusk's Regiment & Gen l Poor's Brigade N. H. Line, that he served out said three years & had a discharge which is mislaid or lost. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support sworn to and declared the day & year aforesaid before me Judson Dana Judge etc.
I Judson Dana Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Leaver did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy, for the term of nine

months, on the continental establishment; that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Hon Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Smyrna this tenth day of NOV r 1818 JUDAH DANIEL JUDGE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Byford I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County do at Smyrna in said county on this tenth day of November 1818 certify & make known that the Hon Judah Dana who signed the foregoing certificate is Judge of said Court of Probate & is first Associat Justice of the Circuit Court of Com- mon Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth & that said insinu- is under the seal of said Court of Probate. Attest Simon B. Good Register of Probate

March 6 th 1834
dup: certif d ip so Hont- (the d Mr Elu), to the Hon. Mr. McIntire of Congress on the same day —
See let r B. Palmer Jany. 31. 1834
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See letter B to McIntire March 1834

10.425 R Maine
William Leaver
of Dist. Waterborough in the state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of May 1819 and sent to Judah Dana Esq Frederick Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 \frac{4}{30} \frac{6}{30} 82.66 \frac{2}{3} Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819 6 mo 48.
$130.00
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }