Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,557, for Samuel Tarbox, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Tarbox, Samuel
820.557
Carded
CONTENTS

Sent to W. Bradbury Oct. 2 18 - do. to same & P. Agt No. 1826 -
To Amos Pen Agent July 6, 1840.
to F. Aford 4. May 1846.
11.218 Maene
Samuel Parbox
of Cumberland Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Haskell of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Massachusetts Militia
Yrs Truly & $ 23.33
Entered on the Roll of Maene at the rate of 23. Dollars - 33 - Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of April 1838. Sent to J. and Muesy, Portland. One.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 46.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 11.66
$58.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. D. Sprague - Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 58 -

State of Maine Cumberland County ss.
At a Probate Court held at Portland within and for said County on the first Tuesday of April (it being the first day of said month) A.D. 1851
Personally appeared in open Court, the same being a Court of Record, William Bradbury Esquire of New Gloucester, Executor of the estate of Samuel Tarbox late of Danville in said County, deceased, who in his capacity aforesaid, makes the following declaration in order to establish the claim of said Tarbox for a pension under the act of 1832, and to obtain the arrears of Pension from the time of his suspension to the time of his death, and for an increased rate of pension.
And this declarant states that Samuel Tarbox was a Soldier of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States. He believes that it was proved by testimony adduced by said Tarbox a short time before his death, that he served in the Company Benjamin Hooper in 1775, six months, and in the Company of Capt. Merrill in 1779, 2 months & 17 days, for which services, and for one further service under Capt. Haskell in 1776, for about three months, this declarant believes said Tarbox should have been pensioned agreeably to his own claim.

And this declarant states that the said Samuel Tarbox was pensioned under the act of 1832 at the rate of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum, which pension he received from the 4th of March 1831, to 17th March 1840, and that he was suspended from the pension list on or about the sixth of July 1840, as he believes, and was not after that restored to the pension list. He further states that the said Samuel Tarbox died on the 17th March 1846, and that his widow Sarah Tarbox survived him and died on the ninth day of August 1848, and that they left no children.
He therefore claims an increase and arrears of pension to be computed agreeably to the testimony on file deducting former payments under the act aforesaid, for the time he was in the receipt of a pension as aforesaid. Wm Bradbury
Signed and sworn to on the day and year first above written. Before me,
Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate

Cumberland ss.
State of Maine
Probate Office
Portland May 16, 1851
Be it known, That on the second day of April, 1851, it was satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Samuel Farbox was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that he died March 17 th A.D. 1846 - that Sarah Farbox his widow survived him, and died on the ninth day of August A.D. 1848, and that they left no children.
I further certify that Hon. Josiah Pierce, before whom the foregoing declaration was made on the matter of Pension of the late Samuel Farbox, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal Official of said Court the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register of Probate for Cumberland County

Samuel Farbox
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at New Gloucester within and for said District, on the thirteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this thirteenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Samuel Farbox a resident of Danville 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 served in the Revolutionary war against the British which service he entered as a volunteer and private in a company of Militia of the Massachusetts line, commanded of Nathan Merrill (Capt.) of New Gloucester in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six - that the war ended at Saratoga with a place called Tarrytown - that he with said company left New Gloucester on the third day of said December for said Tarrytown - that he and the company went by the way of Boston where they tarried several days and then proceeded to said Tarrytown to which place they arrived in about twelve days from the time they started - that after having arrived at Tarrytown he and the company were attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Hugg - that the company reserved in said company - that he was the first part of the line after arriving at Tarrytown near King's Bridge - but did not long at any one place - that he was the longest at Fort Clinton being then about six weeks - that General Clinton was the chief command - that he continued for three months service which time he did not leave and was discharged at Peek's Kill and returned home - He doth further declare that in the first part of the month of June seventeen hundred and seventy nine he again entered the Revolutionary war in a company of Militia of the Massachusetts line, commanded by Capt. Nathan Merrill of said New Gloucester - that he volunteered a private in said company to serve for four months - that the first work in July said company was ordered to Portland in said County where they went & he with them - that he and company were attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Mitchell of North Yarmouth in said County - that from Portland they were ordered to Bagaduce, now Castine - that at said Bagaduce he was engaged in a skirmish with the enemy - helped take from them a fort but were unable to hold it - that they then withdrew from them through the wilderness and returned again to Portland and there remained for the remainder of the four months at the expiration of which time he was discharged and returned home - He was born in Gloucester before Ann, Massachusetts, in the year seventeen hundred and fifty eight - that he has a record of his age in his bible and thinks that is a record of his age in the town record of said Gloucester - that he was living in New Gloucester at the time when he entered the aforesaid service at each of the aforesaid periods - That he removed with his father's family from Gloucester to said New Gloucester when he was about three years old - resided at said New Gloucester about twenty four years - and then moved to where he now lives in Danville which was then called Pejepscot, where he has ever since resided - that he was a private and volunteered each of the times he served as aforesaid - that at Bagaduce the Militia were commanded by Gen. Lovell - and the shipping by Commodore Saltonstall - that in addition to the officers named in his first claim - he also served at New York - he remembers Gen. Clinton
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 Massachusetts
Samuel Farbox
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 (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Sarbosc - for a pension.
And that Godfrey Grevener Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Moses Davis is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

On the fifth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before me Nathaniel D. Ingalls a justice of the peace within and for the County of Cumberland Samuel Tarbox a resident of Danville within said County aged eighty six years who upon his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of June 7 1832 and he also claims to be entitled to the pension roll of 1834 under said Act. And your declarant states that he was a resident of New Gloucester in the State then province of Maine in the year 1776 and during that year he enlisted into the service and served as a sea coast guard and was stationed at Portland. That he belonged as he believes to Capt Benjamin Hooper's Company and he believes that one of the Officers under said Hooper was named Booge. The reason that he never before made a declaration of this service was that he knew of no one who served in said Company with him who could testify as to this service and he did not know that any record concerning the service of the soldiers of the Revolution.
He further states that he served in Capt Haskell's Company as stated in his former declaration and in the Company of Capt Nathan Merrill in the Penobscot expedition in 1779 as stated in his former declaration and proved by the testimony of John Musgrove.
He now claims a pension under the act of June 7th

1832. and asks that his pension be computed to include the 6 mos service in 1775 under Capt Hooper in addition to the other service on which he first drew a pension. witness Samuel Dyer
Forrester's House
Cumberland Ys. March 5 th 1845 Personally appeared Samuel Tarbox known to me as a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me S. L. Ingersoll justice of the Peace.
We the subscribers select men of the Town of Danville hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Mr Samuel Tarbox the above said declarant for more than thirty years last past. Mr Tarbox has ever sustained an up- right and irreproachable character and his declaration under oath is entitled in our opinion to entire confi- -dence & belief
Ebenezer Witham Selectmen S. L. Ingersoll of Danville

Danville Green, Hampshire County Maine March 5 th 1845
I Andrew Robinson, Giddings of Danville opinion aged eighty one years. Hereby testify that I have lived in said Danville fifty eight years in said next and all the time within about one mile of Samuel Dorr's before named that I have held the office of Town Clerk and Selectman, and that I have been an acting Justice of the Peace in said Danville for more than thirty years of the time, and that Samuel Dorr above mentioned has ever been considered an honest man, and a man of truth as much so as any man in the Town
And R. Giddings
Hampshire County ss March 5 th 1845 Then the above named Andrew R. Giddings who is well known to me to be a man of truth having lived within sixty rods of him for more than thirty years, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above certificate by him signed is true before me Nathaniel L. Ingalls Justice of the Peace

On this ninth day of November in the year 1844 personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in & for said County of Cambridge Samuel Parbox a resident of Sandwich in the County aforesaid aged eighty six & on oath says that he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and has heretofore received a pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832 but the same has been suspended.
In 1776 in the month of December I enlisted under Capt. Nathaniel Haskell of New Gloucester for the purpose of filling up General Washington's Army. Our company commenced their march from New Gloucester the last of December and we joined the Army at Vannyltown in the State of New York and was attached to Gen. Lincoln's Brigade. This declarant continued in the service at least three months under this enlistment.
In July 1779 I again enlisted into Capt. Nathan Merrill's company and was in the Penobscot Expedition. After the troops returned to Falmouth which was in the month of September the company of Capt. Merrill was returned then until the last of October and a part of the time was under Col. Mitchell and a part of the time under Col. Jordan. I believe our company was under Col. Jordan at least one month. The whole of my service in that Expedition was at least three months, & one half.
The said declarant makes this additional declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of June 7 th 1832.

and declares himself to be the same person who was pensioned under the act of 1832 as per pension certificate issued to him bearing date
and that he was suspended from said pension on the sixth day of July 1840. I therefore claim to be restored to the pension list for any sum as above stated computing the pay as a private
Samuel Darby.
Cambaland Yd. November 9th 1844 Then the above declared signed & made oath to the above affidavit declaration before me Freeman Bradford Just Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Jan y . 2. 1815.
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 Samuel Starbuck is borne upon a Muster Roll of a Company raised to defend the Sea Coast, under Capt n Benj a Hooper, from July 17. 1775, 6 mo s . as a private; — Upon a Muster Roll of Capt n Nathan Merrill's Company, raised in Cumberland County for an expedition against Penobscot, and served in a detachment under Col. Jon s . Mitchell, from July 8 th to Sep r . 25. 1779, — 2 months 17 days; — also on a Mileage Roll of the same Officers, 28 miles homew d (to New Gloucester). — There are no rolls of Nath l Haskell as Capt n ; — he was 2 d Lieut. in 1775. The preceding is all the evidence which appears in the case.

54 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. Sawyer; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Portland Jany 4 1844
Sir
I herewith forward to you the additional declaration of Samuel Tarbox together with the certificate of the secretary of State and the affidavit of John Muggford who served with him in the Penobscot Expedition. As he was suspended in consequence of the term of service in the Penobscot Expedition being two months and seventeen days, it is believed that the direct testimony of Mr Muggford explains that service and shows that there was a continuation of it for one month after the Expedition was broken up and the troops had assembled at Falmouth. The same kind of testimony and from the same persons was allowed in the case of the widow of Lieut Anderson, and it is believed that it fully establishes 3 1/2 mos service for Mr Tarbox in 1779. He only claims to be restored to the pension list computing his service as a private for 6 mos 1776, three mos under Capt Haskell & three months seventeen days under Capt Merrill. I am not aware that he claims to have served under Capt Hooper in 1775.
I am Very Respectfully Yours F. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, SS. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Freeman Bradford , REGISTER OF PROBATE for said County, hereby certify, That at a Court of Probate held at Portland, in and for said County, on the third Tuesday of June , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Six .
William Bradbury of New Gloucester in said County, Esquire was duly appointed and commissioned Executor of the last Will and Testament of Samuel Tarbox late of Danville in said County, deceased, that he has accepted the trust and given bond pursuant to the Laws of the State; that he remains at the present time Executor as aforesaid, and that full faith is due to his legal acts in that capacity.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Name and affixed the Seal Official of said Court, this Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty fifty one
Freeman Bradford Regn
STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland, ss.
Probate Office.
I Josiah Pierce JUDGE OF PROBATE for said County, hereby certify, that Freeman Bradford whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is the Register of Probate for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn: and that his said certificate is in due form.
Given under my hand this Sixteenth day of May A. D. 18 51
Josiah Pierce Judge

Feb. 16. 1896 Samuel Farbox
to
Samuel Farbox
to be restored to the Roll.
B

Portland Feby 14 th 1846
Sir
I enclose the declaration of Samuel Tarbox who claims to be restored to the Pension list of the maine Agency under the act of 1832.
I am very Respectfully your Obt Servt H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mrs Davis Deposition

I Moses Davis of Poland in the County of Cumberland and a State of Maine of lawfull age do testify and say that in the years One Thousand Seven hundred & Seventy nine I was called on in the month of June to go a tour of four months to Waggadues and my orders were to muster in Portland in July following I turn out as one of six from Bakerstown and we mustered in Portland in July our Col n was Mitchell of North Yarmouth our capt. was Nathan Merrill our lieut. was Edward Anderson & our Ensign Peter Grafton and Samuel Parson of New Gloucester was a soldier in the same company. I stayed at Portland about three weeks waiting for the vessel from Boston to take us to Waggadues and my brother Aaron came to Portland and took my place for two days and I was to return which I did but the vessel came the night I left and before I could get back the company had left after the company return I went down to Portland and took my place again and made out the four months remains Sam l Parson was with the company then and remained the four months and I have no doubt he was in the service on that company from South, although I did not go to Waggadues with him and further the deponent saith not
Moses Davis
Cumberland ss. I met July 26-1832 Personally appeared Moses Davis and after duly cautioned and sworn made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed before me. Geoffrey Greenough Justice of the Peace

State of Maine Cumberland ss July 16. 1892
Personally appeared Moses Davis with whom I am personally acquainted and who is a credible witness and made oath that this deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me Geoffrey Gossamer Esq. Ream

W. H. Gloucester) me (Oct 14)
free
Oct 19
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Sam. Harbo
General
1217
Washington D. C.

Upper Gloucester Oct. 19. 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Sir I request you to direct the enclosed petition to be paid to me and return to me the necessary documents, directed to Upper Gloucester Maine.
Yours Respectfully Wm. Bradbury

Samuel Taylor
J. Bradford Portland Maine

I Otis Nelson of New Gloucester in the County of Cumberland aged forty nine years , on oath say that I have been well acquainted with Mr Samuel Parsons of Danville for more than thirty years last past. Mr Parsons has always sustained an irreproachable and unblemished character for truth and integrity and such is now and always has been his reputation in the neighborhood where he has resided. I now reside about four miles and one half from him - Otis Nelson
Cumberland ss. March 10th 1845. Then appeared the above said Otis Nelson known to me to be a man of truth & integrity and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me F. Bradford J.P.

(Copy) adm.
Pension Office, May 9. 1846.
Sir:
The additional testimony in the case of Samuel Farbox has been examined and filed. It is not considered sufficient to remove the objections pointed out in my letter to you of Mar. 1845, or as strengthening the claim.
Freeman Bradford Portland, Me.
51 letter

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND,
August 8, A. D. 1851
I,
Freeman Bradford
Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Thomas Johnson 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 the
COMMISSION of the said Johnson is dated Nov. 20 A. D. 1846 and will expire Nov. 20 A. D. 1853
That the said Johnson is duly qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments of Deeds, Powers of Attorney and other Instruments in writing
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

Know all men by these presents that I William Bradbury Executor of the last will and Testament of Samuel Parbox late of Danville in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine deceased, having made, before the Judge of Probate for said County of Cumberland, a declaration claiming arrears of Pension and an increased rate of Pension as due to said Parbox at the time of his death, hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of Washington City D.C. my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name and for the benefit of the estate of said Parbox, to prosecute said claim now before the Commission of Pensions; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to call for and examine all the papers in said case now in the Pension Office, and to call for & procure such further evidence as may be deemed necessary by him in said matter, and generally to do and perform whatever becomes necessary in and about the premises. Hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of August in the

Year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty one.
Witness
Thomas Johnson
W m Broadbury
Cumberland Co. August 4 th 1851 Then per- sonally appeared the abovenamed William Broad- bury and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney by him signed to be his free act & deed
Before me
Thomas Johnson Justice of the Peace

James E Heath Esq Sir
Washington May 22 1857
Enclosed you will please find Application of the Legal Repre- sentatives of Samuel Tarkif, for arrears of pension alleged to be due him at his death.
Very Respectfully Yours obedt Servt Geo. B. Ames

20557 INVALID.  (am)
File No. 20557
Samuel Parbox
Br. Perry War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 412
[Arrangement of 1870.]

G. B. Ains, Present
July 24, 1857
Sir. You are respectfully informed that before the application of the Executive of Samuel Tarsop, for an increase of the pension which was granted to him under the Act of June 7, 1832 can be examined, the first and fourth of the within regulations must be complied with.

Washington 11 th Aug. 1851
Sir,
I enclose herewith a Power of Attorney, duly executed, of William Bradbury, Essecu- tor of Samuel Tarbox, and ask that you will allow me to examine the papers rela- ting to the case of the said Samuel Tarbox.
I am very respectfully Your obedt. Servt. G. C. Ames
Hon. J. E. Heath. Commissioner of Pensions

Edward Sheffield Dec 28th 1845 same May 9. 1846. S. C. Davis, July 29/51 Lay over for decision of Secy in cases of Ex Post Adm.

Nov 2 nd Upper Gloucester Oct 28 free
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Upper Gloucester Maine Oct r 27, 1836
Sir, Yours of the 20 th Inst. is duly rec d , informing me, "you could not under any payment to be paid on the vouchers I sent in the case of Samuel Durban, as you are not satisfied that the signatures, purporting to be his are in his own hand writing, and that the papers might remain on file until satisfactory proof be produced." I am unacquainted with this business, & do not know the kind of proof required in such cases - but I will say to you that I have from my youth been acquainted with Mr. Samuel Durban the pensioner, that he is a worthy good man, lives about thirty miles from Carlton and so informs that he cannot well go to Carlton himself, and his pension being small he does not wish to be to the trouble to draw sensibly. He is an old friend of mine, & do this business for him gratis; and I say also that I saw him sign the power of attorney which I sent you, but his hand so trembled that the Magistrate took hold of it to steady his hand, which will account for the difference in his signature now, and at the time he applied for his pension. A few years will even alter the signature of a person, who holds a steady, a minute a good hand. Your signature to the letter you sent me, and your signature to the

Parson's certificate, I think they do not fully resemble, but I doubt not the genuineness of the same -
Have you the satisfactory proof of the truth of what I have stated. I was a class mate & room-mate of the Hon. Levi Woodbury Secy of the Treasury; and the Hon A. W. Norris 2 d Comptroller is generally acquainted with me, & with Mrs Durbin the Pensioner, and if convenient, and not too much trouble, I would refer you to them.
Respectfully your Obed Servt Wm Bradburn
J. L. Edmonds Esq Commissioner of Pensions

H. Bradford Portland Maine

I John Magford of Windham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States aged Eighty three the seventh day of March last in oath say that I served in the war of The revolution two periods - the first was in The Penobscot Expedition and the second on continental establishment from August 1780 to January 1783 - The Penobscot service was in 1779 and I enlisted sometime about the tenth of July and served the whole of that campaign under Capt Nathan Merrill Col Mitchell while at Penobscot. After the expedition was broken up the troops returned to Falmouth and after we returned to Falmouth which was the last of September. The Company to which I belonged continued in Portland about one month longer as an attack was expected by the enemy upon that town James Johnson was Major of our Battalion while in Portland and I believe Col Jordan commanded while in Falmouth Samuel Farley who now resides in Danville was a soldier with me both at Penobscot and Falmouth as I have stated above and served the whole time with me.

We were discharged at Falmouth in the last of October in 1779. John Mugford
Witness
Oliver D. Haskell
Cumberland ss January 4 th 1845 Then person ally appeared the above named John Mugford Known to me as a man of truth & veracity and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him signed
Before me Freeman Bradford J.P.