Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35508, for John Kilborn, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Kilborn, John
S 35508
CONTENTS

5606
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John Hilborn
Capt. Welch                      Private
May 3
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist: of Columbia at the rate of 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1815
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jany 1819 and sent to Judge Parrish - Paris Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Apr 1818. Am ts  13/30 35. 46 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48
8 83-46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

John Kilborn
Private
Prescot Reg.
Masso Line
276-1 year
77 to 80 3 years
22 April 1818.
Admiral

I John Gilborn of Bridgeton in the County of Cumberland & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath declare that on the nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five I enlisted into the army of the United States of America in the company commanded by Captain Asa Larrad in the Regiment commanded by William Prescott in Genl. Nixon's Brigade in the Massachusetts Line & served in the same in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment for the term of eight months which was the term of my enlistment, as a private soldier, at the expiration of which term without leaving the service I again enlisted into the army aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Patch in the regiment aforesaid & served as aforesaid the term for which I enlisted being twelve months, on the expiration of which I received a written permission to leave the service signed by Colonel William Prescott & quitted the army & that in the month of January A.D. 1777 I again enlisted into the army aforesaid for the term of three years in the company commanded by Captain Moses Greenleaf in the regiment commanded by Col. Ebenezer Francis, in Genl. Patterson's Brigade in the Massachusetts Line & served in the same as aforesaid in the same company the term of my enlistment, being three years when I received an honorable discharge from Colonel Noah M c Littlefield & left the army, having lost the discharge aforesaid-
I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. that I am a resident citizen of the United States, & am not borne on any Pension list of the United States.
John Gilborn,

I Jacob Howe of Paris in the County of Oxford & Commonwealth aforesaid testify that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine, I frequently saw the said John Kilborn in as a soldier in the service of the United States & am satisfied that he rendered the three years, service stated in the declaration above by him subscribed.
Jacob Howe
To the Hon Abner K. Parris
We the subscribers hereby certify that John Kilborn an inhabitant of this town, by reason of sickness in his family a few years past, and his own indisposition under which he has laboured for about three years, has been reduced from a comfortable situation, to be in our opinion in needy circumstances, and justly entitled to the provisions of an act passed by Congress in March last, providing for the relief of certain persons engaged in the the revolutionary War.
Phineas D. Dingley } Selectmen John Purley } Bridgetown
April 20 th 1818
John Kilborn

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
I Phinehas Whitney on oath do testify that John Hilborn who now resides in Bridgeton County of Cumberland served in the year 1776 in the con- tinental service in a company commanded by Capt Samuel Patch; in the said Regiment I was a soldier during the same year and frequently saw and was well acquainted with said Hilborn said Regiment was commanded by Col. Prescott. I further testify that said Hilborn served in Capt Moses Greenleaf's company in the Regiment of Col Eben F. Francis during the years 1777, 1778 and 1779 —  Phinehas Whitney
Oxford — May 5. 1818 — Then personally appeared the above named Phinehas Whitney and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was wholly true —
Before me Charles Whitman J. Peace
Walpole May 5. 1818 — I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Phinehas Whitney and believe him to be a man whose credibility ought not to be doubted —
Charles Whitman J. Peace

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
I Daniel Barker on oath do testify that John Kilborn who now resides in Bridgton in the County of Cumberland enlisted in a company on or about the first of January A.D. 1776 commanded by Capt Samuel Patch of the Regiment of Col. William Prescott, then in the Continental service; that he served as a private in said company until the month of May of that year, when he was promoted to a corporal in which capacity he served in said company until the first of January A.D. 1777 at which time he was honorably discharged — Daniel Barker
Oxford p. May 5. 1810. Then personally appeared the above named Daniel Barker and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was wholly true —
Before me Charles Whitman J. Pease
Watford May 5. 1810 —
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Daniel Barker and believe him to be a man whose credibility ought not to be doubted —
Charles Whitman J. Pease

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
To Calvin Larrar esq re of Waterford and Isaiah Ingalls esq re of Bridgeton or Charles Whitman esq re of Waterford in the District of Maine
GREETING.
WHEREAS, at a special District Court of said United States for the Maine District, holden at Paris in said District, on the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen John Hilborn of Bridgeton in said District presented an application to the Judge of said Court, setting forth that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, on the continental establishment against the common enemy, and requesting that an enquiry may be instituted into the circumstances of his case, and that such further proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by An Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," in order that he may be placed on the Pension List of said United States:—And whereas in the course of the examination here had, it appears that the testimony of sundry persons, who served with the applicant in the revolutionary army, at present residing in or near the towns of Waterford and Bridgeton aforesaid, is necessary and material in support of said application:—
THEREFORE, to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the power vested in this Court by the laws of the United States, you or either of you are hereby appointed and authorized, at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of such persons as he may cause to come before you, touching the application aforesaid, and in particular as to the time when the applicant entered the service, the time and manner of his leaving it, the company, regiment and line to which he belonged, and whether the service was performed on the continental establishment or in the militia of either of the States; and such depositions, when taken, and your certificate of the administration of the usual oath and of the credibility of the deponents, together with this Dedimus Potestatem, you will certify and return to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at Paris in said District, the day and year first mentioned.
Alcion H. Paris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came John Kilborn the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the affidavit of Jacob Flome, made and signed in my presence, and the Depositions of Daniel Barker & Phineas Whitney, taken before Charles Whitson, a respectable magistrate appointed by Deddums for this purpose, all fellow soldiers with said applicant in the revolutionary war; also the certificate of Warren Ingalls & John Parley municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relating to his circumstances in life, all hereunto annexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said John Kilborn the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion L. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

19. John Kilborn
no. 100
5606. 22 Jan. 1829

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 six Tuesday, being the sixth day of June  and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this sixth 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, John Gilborn aged sixty four years, resident in Bridgeton 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. Greenleaf in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Francis 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 second day of April A. D. 1810, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5505 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.
John Gilborn
Sworn to and declared, on the sixth 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 - One hundred acres of land in Bridgeton with a small house and half of a barn frame on it; fifteen acres of which I cultivate & improve - ten acres more is suitable for improvement - the rest & residue of said land is swamp & bog & not worth cultivating, nor can it be -
Personal estate - one old horse, one ox, two cows, two young heifers - two small shoats, six sheep, and no other estate - nor have I any income or money due me - but am owing one hundred and ten dollars
John Kilborn
Sworn to Before Alvion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me John Kilborn . . . . . who, by occupation am a Farmer . . . which I am not able to pursue by reason of a strangury, being most of the time in great distress
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife, Mary Kilborn years 65 a feeble old woman   Jacob, a son . . . 31 been sick a great deal, and had a leg amputated & now confined & helpless   Robert Collingill 9 a boy who is able to do chores, but does not earn his living    John Kilborn  Sworn to Before Alvion 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 four hundred & four dollars and no more .
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fourteenth day of June , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "John Mussey Junr.", with a decorative flourish underneath.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

July 10, 1939.
Mrs. Waldo H. Sanborn Raymond, R.F.D. 1 New Hampshire.
BA-J/ILL John Kilborn S. 35508
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Kilborn who was born, you believe, in Cumberland County, Massachusetts, and enlisted in Rowley, that state.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and the claim for pension found of one John Kilborn, variously spelled, of Cumberland County, Massachusetts, later Maine. His record is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 35508.
The date and place of birth, and the names of the parents of John Kilborn are not shown.
He enlisted, the place not stated, April 19, 1775 and served eight months as private in Captain Asa Larrad's (evidently meant for Lawrence's) company, Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts regiment, enlisted January 1, 1776 and served one year as private in Captain Samuel Pa'ch's company, Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts regiment, enlisted January 1, 1777, served as private and sergeant in Captain Moses Greenleaf's company, Colonel Ebenezer Francis' 11th Massachusetts regiment, afterwards served in Captain Thomas Francis' company, Colonel Benjamin Tupper's 10th Massachusetts regiment and continued until January 1, 1783.
John Kilborn was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, at which time he resided in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, Massachusetts, later Maine. On June 6, 1820, the soldier gave his age as sixty-four years, and that of his wife, Mary, as sixty-five

years; he did not state the date and place of their marriage, nor the maiden name of his wife. A son, Jacob, aged thirty-one years, lived at home then. No other names of children were given. A boy, Robert Collingill, aged nine years, lived with the soldier and did the chores at the house, in 1820.
Under the Act of 1820, the name of John Kilborn was stricken from the pension roll, as he was then in possession of too much property to entitle him to pension.
He applied August 9, 1828, for pension under the Act of May 15, 1828, at which time he resided in Bridgeton, Maine. Certificate #523 was issued August 3, 1829, rate $120 per annum.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly the date of death of hit pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following: John Kilborn, Certificate #523, rate $120 per annum, issued August 3, 1829, as sergeant, Act of May 15, 1828, Maine Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

35 508
Recy INVALID.
1939. July 10 - test to Mrs. Fonda S. Sanborn - etc.
File No. 85 508
John Felborn Rev Rev Ind
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index: - Vol. 2 , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mrs. W. H. Sanborn
"The Farm" Raymond, New Hampshire R. F. D. No. 1
June 30, 1939
Pension Department:-
Sometime the last of April I wrote you for some information, and up to date have heard nothing from you. I will repeat my request, & hope for an immediate answer, as I am being held up for your information. I asked for all the information about a John Kilborn (or Kilbourne) who fought in the Revolutionary War, that you could give me - dates etc.
I think he was born in Cumberland

County Maine, but unlisted from Rowley, Massachusetts. I am a direct descendant, but in order to fill out my D. A. V. P. papers I must have dates, and also would like to know his rank. Kindly give this your attention with as much information as you can, and as soon as possible.
Yours truly
Marian G. Sanborn
Mrs. W. H. Sanborn
Raymond
New Hampshire

Mrs. Waldo H. Sanborn
"The Farm"
Raymond, New Hampshire
R. F. D. No. 1
Pension Bureau:-
Washington D.C.-
To whom it may concern:-
Will you
kindly send me all the information, service record, etc, that you have of a John Wilbourn (or Wilbourn ) who was in the Revolutionary War. I believe he was born in Cumberland County Maine, but enlisted from Trowley Massachusetts. I am a direct descendant & am tracing the line down in order to join the D. A. R. Kindly send me dates etc that would help.
May 2, 1939
Sincerely
Marian G. Sanborn

Not filed Settlement Treasury
Count with original file 35.588.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Aug t 9 1828
John Kilburn, of Bridgeton, in the County of Cumberland, in the State of Maine has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain Francis 10th (Col Tappan's) company, in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dinkins,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
12 th August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to _____ in the _____
It further appears that _____ is now on the pension list of the _____ agency, and has been so since the _____ at the rate of _____ dollars per month.
The name of John Kilburn cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line to whom certificates for the gratuity of eighty dollars were issued. It appears however from the muster rolls of the Massachusetts line that John Kilburn enlisted in Col t Tappan's Regiment for the war on the 6 th February 1777 and that he was appointed a Sergeant in said Regiment on the 1 st of December 1777. He also appears to have had certificates issued to him for his pay up to the 1 st January 1783. There is a man by the name of John Kilburn now on the Mass s pension roll. P. Hagner Adm

John Hellen was struck from the Pension List of the Maine Agency under the act of March 1, 1870, and has never been restored.
Wm Dyer
Pension agent
March 4, 1870
B. H. Brace

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution", approved on the 15 th of May, 1828. — I, John Kilborn of Bridgeton, in the County of Cumberland, in the State of Maine, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a Sergeant in Captain Thomas Francis's Company, in the tenth regiment (commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper) of the Massachusetts line. And I also declare that I do not now recollect that I ever received the a certificate entitling me for a reward of to which I was entitled eighty dollars, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15 th of May, 1778.
And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March, 1828. on the pension list of the United States.
John Kilborn
Cumberland ss June 26 th 1828.
Then appeared personally the above named John Kilborn, and made oath that the above declaration, by him signed, is true.
Roscoe G. Crane Jus. Peace.
Cumberland ss Before me the Inverness Ingalls, Justice of the Peace in said County of Cumberland & State of Maine. personally appeared this day Abner Gage & Jonathan Gage, of said County, who did severally make oath that John Kilborn, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been an honor commisioned Officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this second day of July in the year of our Lord 1828. — Inverness Ingalls

[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to be a formal letter.]

I Abediah Trew of Pennmark in the County of Oxford & State of Maine. I testify & say, that I was a Soldier enlisted into Capt. Daniel Wheelwright's Company in the year 1777. afterwards transferred into Capt. Moses Greenleaf's Company being the company in which Sergeant John Kilburn was then a noncommissioned officer and at that time I became acquainted with him. said Company belonged to the Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Ebenezer Francis. afterwards in the tenth Massachusetts Regt. commanded by Col. Benjamin Dyer. & I continued acquainted with said Kilburn until the close of the War. and know him to be a Sergeant in Capt. Thomas Francis company into which we both entered during the war. I should judge the said Kilburn to be seventy years old & upwards.
Abediah
his + Trew Mark
State of Maine
Oxford Jan 30 th A.D. 1828
Personally appeared the above named Abediah Trew and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed
Before Me
Samuel Gibson Justice of the Peace

Cumberland, ss.
I William T Vaughan, clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Cumberland, do hereby certify that Roscoe G Greene, Theodore Ingalls, Thomas B Watson Samuel Gibson & Deader Pearce, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, were at the time Justices of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer Oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight.
Wm T Vaughan

State of Maine
Cumberland ss June 25 1820
I hereby certify that I have this day examined some of the pay rolls kept by the late Nathaniel C. Allen pay Master of the Tenth Regiment in the service of the United States commanded by Colo Benjamin Dinsmore in which Regiment Capt Thomas Francis is enrolled as commanding a Company and said rolls contain the name of Sergeant John Hilborn, as a non Commissioned Officer in said regiment which pay rolls are made up for the year 1780 - 1781 - 1782 this certificate I make at the request of Mr John Hilborn of Bridgeton in said County and I further state that the said Nathaniel C. Allen died six years since or more, I should judge the above named Hilborn to be rising seventy years of age
Samuel F. Beane
Cumberland ss June 25 1820
Personally appeared the above named Samuel F. Beane and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me.
Dexter Beane Justice of the Peace

Portland July 17 th 1828
Sir - I enclose you the evidence, taken agreeable to the published regulations, to enable Mr. Kilburn to receive the benefits of the act for the relief of the officers & soldiers who enlisted in Vermont during the Revolutionary war. Kilburn says he was on the first pension act but as he could not take the oaths required by the subsequent acts, as to property, has not received a pension since the passage of the limiting acts. I will thank you to inform me whether any further evidence is wanted to place him on the list.
Very respectfully your obedient Servt. &c. John Anderson