Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28897, for Jonathan Sturgis, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Sturgis, Jonathan
828897
CONTENTS

Maine N o 27,365
Jonathan Sturgis
of Gorham in the State of Maine who was a private in the Comp y . commanded by Captain Williams of the Reg t commanded by Col. Phinney in the Massachusetts line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per m th to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Sept r 1834 and J. Mussey Portland
Arrears to the 14th of Mar. 1834. . . 79.93 Sem st . allowance ending 4 th Sept r . . . 13.38
$ 93.31
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book E . . Vol. 1 . . . Page 55.

28897 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 28 897
Jonathan Sturgis
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 395
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Sh o private 26.66
I Mifflin Sq Portland
Me

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 8, 1833.
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 Hart Williams is on "A Muster roll as Captain, of Men that march'd from Gorham immediately upon the Alarm at Lexington fight, & after ward join'd the Army; all march'd the 21 st of April, 1775." enlisted May 15 th , & was allow'd, Twenty four days "to be paid for." Jonathan Sturgis Claim Eight months service in 1775, under Capt n Hart Williams in Col o Phinney's Reg t but no other roll for either, is found in this Office.
Edward D Bangs

Jon a Sturges
7/16/72.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Gorham  Portland , within and for said District, on the thirty first day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this thirty first day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Jonathan Sturgis a resident of Gorham in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged ninety 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 enlisted in the month of April
1875 as a private in a company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Hart Williams for the term of eight months, which company belonged to Col. Camund Shennys Regiment in the line of Massachusetts ; that said company marched immediately from Gorham to Cambridge and there joined said Regt. and remained there and in that neighborhood for the said term of eight months, and then they were all discharged & that he returned to his home in Gorham. That during said term they spent their time in throwing up redoubts, and preparations of defence; but were not engaged in any battle. I was born in Barnstable in Massachusetts . I lived in Gorham at the time of my enlistment. There is a record of my age at Barnstable . I have lived in Gorham ever since the Revolutionary War. I had a written discharge when I left the army but lost it many years since. Prince Hamlin was my wife Mr Watson was in the service with me
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
Jonathan Sturgis
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 And that Prince Hamblin whose deposition is annexed is a person of truth & entitled to belief
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 Jonathan Sturgis for a pension. And that Joseph Rootes Esquire who took the annexed deposition is a Justice of the Peace & his official attestations entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Daniel Whitney of Gorham aged seventy eight years do hereby say that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Sturgess who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration That early in the Spring of the year 1775 - at Gorham he enlisted in a company of State troops commanded by Capt. Hart Williams, and in Col. Phinney's Regt and went to Cambridge with said company I was there stationed, and served there as I verily believe for eight months. I was discharged about Christmas time of that year - I enlisted & served the same time with said Sturgess at the same place, & in the same company, & will remember his being with us, during the whole of said eight months.
Daniel Whitney
State of Maine, Cumberland ss
Nov. 15. 1833
Subscribed & sworn to before me the said Daniel Whitney, before me he is a credible Inspectable Witness Joseph Pope, Jus. of the Peace
The said Jonathan Sturgess further states, that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot be particular as to the very day he enlisted or was discharged, but he is confident that he marched from Gorham in April 1775, in Capt. Hart Williams Company, & in May following, joined the Troops in Cambridge under command of Col. Phinney, - and served there and in that vicinity not less than eight months, & for that service he claims his pension - After the company commenced their march in April 1775 & had proceeded as far as Saco they were ordered back to wait till called for, which was the reason they did not join the troops at Cambridge till about the middle of May - 1775 -
Jonathan Sturgess
Cumberland ss. Dec r 28. 1833
Subscribed and sworn to by said Jonathan Sturgess,
before me Joseph Pope, Jus. of the Peace

Maine District
District Clerk's Office January 1. 1834
In testimony that Solomon Robie & Joseph B. Dyer are Magistrates as within & that the signatures thereto purporting to be theirs are genuine I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office the day & year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts

I Prince Hamble of Gorham in the County of Cumberland do testify and say that I was acquainted with Jonathan Sturgis in the year 1775. That he enlisted as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Williams in Col. Phinney's Regt. of which company I also belonged. When we marched from Gorham to Cambridge when we served out the term of eight months for which we enlisted, and we were both of us discharged, I returned to Gorham - That I have ever since been acquainted with the said Sturgis, and that he is the identical Jon a Sturgis who has this day made his application for a pension - Dwne Hamble
Cumberland Jp. July 31. 1832.
Then Personally appeared Prince Hamble and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true.
Before me Tappan Robie Just. Peace