Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 301, for Benjamin Kenney, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kenney, Benjamin Lydia
H 301 B.L.Wt. 13709-160-55
CONTENTS

104.68 3/4 Set Mch 3/55 Appd 28/
Cir G. W. Morton Dec 19/55
Lydia Kenney, Mother of Benjamin Kenney, Par Rev. War.
Capt. Col. Private Mail. Lieut. 1st Prince Lieut. 1st Mass Troops Mar Rev.
Now a Pensioner of the U. States
One Feb 53- 2003
Ad. 160 a/c's Jan 3/55 W. D. L.
Mr
G. W. Morton, Atty Augusta, Maine.
Vol. K-18. 3

18.285
Maine
Paper copy of Land at H. Maine, by Worme, Apr 21. 1839
Benjamin Kenney of Lincoln in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain McAlister of the Regt: commanded by Col. Burton in the Me. Militia line for 18 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of August 1833 and sent to Isaac G. Reed Waldoboro'
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 - $120.00 Pension allowance ending Sept. 30. 00
$150.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 28

2003 Marie Lozia Kenney widow of Benjamin Kenney who served in the Revolutionary Capt McAllister Mass war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
36 Filing 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sept 53 and sent to
G.W. Weston Augusta Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 5 Vol. A
Filing 38/53
1827
Reg 5 m 85-104687

Lydia Kenney widow of Benjamin Kenney. for Pension 2 d Sec. Act Feb. 3. 1853.
3 3 3
Rev W. Morton Atty Augusta Maine.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefits of the 2 d Section of the Act of 3 d February 1853.
State of Maine,
Wenatchee County. S.S.
On this twenty first day of June A. D. 1853, personally appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, Lydia Werney a resident of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln, and State aforesaid aged Seventy four years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 d February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of per- -sons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Benjamin Werney who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Jan y 7. 1832 at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum, that his pension was payable at the U. States Agency for paying pensions in the State of Maine, when it was paid to September 4. 1835 during his life time, the balance due at the time of his death was paid to her. She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Werney on the 28 th day of December eighteen hundred and fifteen, that her said husband died on the second day of January 1837, that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow, having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Lydia our  Werney mark

Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court, the day and year first within written, viz June 21, 1853
Richard D. Rice
Justice of said Court.
State of Maine - Kennebec County ss
I the undersigned, clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. Richard D. Rice before whom the foregoing declaration of Lydia Kenney was sworn to in open court on the 21 st day of June instant, is, and was on said 21 st day of June, one of the Justices of the Sup. Jud. Court of Maine, duly commissioned & qualified and acting as such; and that his signature above affixed is genuine.
I further certify that Peter Duntun & George W. Morton Esqrs before whom the annexed affidavits were made, were, at the dates thereof respectively Justices of the Peace, the said Duntun for our County of Lincoln and the said Morton for the said County of Kennebec, duly authorized to administer oaths &c. and that the signatures thereto purporting to be theirs respectively are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of our said Sup. Jud. Court for the County of Kennebec, this twenty-fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
W. M. Stratton.

Jefferson June 18 th 1853
I Joseph Ross Jr Clerk of the Town of Jefferson do hereby certify that among the Records of the intentions of Marriages and certificates of the same for said town I find the following
November 28. 1845
Benjamin Kenney } both of Jefferson intend Marriage & Lydia Decker }
Elisha J. Ford Town Clerk
A. True Copy of Record Attest
Joseph Ross Jr Town Clerk of Jefferson
I hereby certify that an intention of marriage hath been entered with me fourteen days prior to this date between Benjamin Kenney & Lydia Decker both of Jefferson and published according to law
Given under my hand this 26 th day of Dec. 1845
Elisha J. Ford Town Clerk
A true Copy of Record Attest Joseph Ross Jr Town Clerk
State of Maine. Lincoln County. SS. - June 24 th 1853. personally appeared Joseph Ross Jr. and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit certificate by him subscribed
Peter Dunton Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify in the month of December A. D. 1815 or in the month of January A. D. 1816. that J. Gideon Ford of Jefferson County Lincoln was Present at the Marriage of Benjamin Winney and Lydia Deeken. and they were joined in Marriage by Nathaniel Bryant Esq.
I further would state that in 1835 I was appointed Guardian for the said Benjamin Winney who had been judged non-competent and that I obtained his Pension to the time of his Death which took place on the second day of January A. D. 1837 and then I surrendered his Pension certificate and obtained the arrearages due him by his widow Lydia Winney signing the necessary papers
Gideon Ford
State of Maine Lincoln County ss. on the twenty-fourth day of June A. D. 1853 personally appeared before the subscribers a justice of the Peace in and for said county Gideon Ford, he being a respectable witness, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Peter Dunton Justice of the Peace

I Daniel Voyes of Jefferson, in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, do depose and say that I was well acquainted with the late Benjamin Kenney. I well knew that he was a pensioner of the United States, he died in said town of Jefferson about the year 1837, leaving a widow named Lydia Kenney who now resides in said town of Jefferson, having remained unmarried ever since his death, they lived together as husband and wife ever after their marriage in the same neighborhood with me. I was well acquainted with both of them before and ever after their marriage, they had a family of two children one of whom is now living. I understood that he was pensioned at sixty dollars per annum, they were respectable persons.
Daniel Voyes
State of Maine. Penobscot County S.S.
On this twenty first day of Jan 1853.
Personally appeared the above named Daniel Voyes, he being a reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me
Geo. W. Morton Justice of the Peace.

11.224
Benjamin Kenney
18. Apr. 1833
Obj. 14. 16.
P 313
18 mos
$60.-
Isaac G. Reed Waldoboro' Me
E

11224
BRIEF in the case of  Benjamin Henney  County of Lincoln  in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? e  3. How old is he? 75.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1780 Spring " 11 - As a Waiter to Gen. Capt. A. M. Alliston Col. Benton   — 1781 — " 6 " Private Capt. M. Alliston Col. Benton   — 1782 — " 1 " Private Capt. S. Pinckham, Genl. Wardson  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Boothbay, H. B. Maine  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & Witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not attached to the seal as required. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 13., 1833.

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Penobscot }
Pension Certificate. "Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under Act of February 3, 1853. Page 5. Vol. 6."
On this twenty fifth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five personally appeared before me, Darius Cutting a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Kenney aged seventy six years, a resident of Gardiner  Penobscot in the State of Maine, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical widow of Benjamin Kenney who was a private in the Revolutionary War, and that she is receiving a pension from the United States for his services in the Army of the Revolution under 2 d Section of the Act of February 3, 1853, and the identical Lydia Kenney named as a former  petitioner of which the following is a copy. Vis.
"No 2053. Department of the Interior. Widow's Pension. I certify that in conformity with the 2 d Section of the Act of February 3, 1853, Lydia Kenney widow of Benjamin Kenney who was a private in the Revolutionary War, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum, commencing on the 3 d of February 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. "
Given at the Department of the Interior this seventeenth day of September One Thousand eight hundred and fifty three R. McCallum, Secretary of the Interior.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the BOUNTY LAND to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855." She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor. and that she is still the widow of the said Benjamin Kenney.
Lydia Kenney her mark
We, Martin Stephenson and Sean Stephenson residents of Gardiner in the State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lydia Kenney in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents her self to be, and we further state that from personal knowledge the said Lydia Kenney is a pensioner of the United States as stated by her, and is still a widow having been and a widow ever since the death of her late husband Benjamin Kenney.
Martin Stephenson Sean Stephenson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents her self to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Darius Cutting Justice of the Peace.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all men by these presents. That I, Lydia Kenney of Greene in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, have constituted and appointed GEO. W. MORTON, of the City of Augusta, in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute and receive from the United States the Bounty Land Certificate, or Warrant, due me under existing Laws granting Bounty Lands for services rendered in the United States in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attorneys under him, for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do, or cause to be done, in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 25 th day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five
Witness: Martin Stephenson
Lydia X Kenney
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Kennebec ss:—On the 25 th day of April 185 5 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County Lydia Kenney and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed.
Daniel Nutting Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Kennebec } ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that Daniel Nutting before whom the within declaration, affidavit, and power of attorney, were made and executed, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County aforesaid, this 26 day of April 185 5 Y. M. Straton CLERK.
114.687
Lydia Kenney, late husband, was a Private in the Penobscot Battery.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. has not been paid.
TO BOUNTY LAND.
Claim of _____
Lydia Kenney widow of Benjamin Kenney
GEO. W. MORTON,
PRESENTED BY
ATTORNEY, AUGUSTA, MAINE.

Benjamin Kenney
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Ex
Reed P. 1.50 to Ind P. 2.50 to blank
Isaac G. Root

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss— I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Waldoboro in said County, by the Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court on the Seventh day of September A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of Benjamin Kenney for a Pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this Seventh day of September A. D. 1832.
Nathl Coffin CLERK.
Abner Dyer was stationed and served eleven months as a waiter to Captain M c Alister. His discharge was for nine months, but he continued in the service as aforesaid two months after the term of his discharge. The expired and then received a verbal discharge. The Captain several times visited his family in Bath, and now called Jefferson and took this application with him, as is testified by his son Richard M c Alister, whose deposition accompanies this. Moses Brock of Damariscotta in the County aforesaid served with me Thomas Trask also served with me, as they are disposed. In 1801, I also served in said M c Alister's company, six months, at Boothbay in said State, at the expiration of which term I was honorably dismissed, but never received any written discharge. I also served one month as a private in Col. Schobad Pinkham's company of a Militia in the year, I think, 1802, as a private soldier, in guarding Col. Head & Dunn's circuit in said County. I also served in said company in this State served in said company at the same time last mentioned as he has testified.
Capt. M c Alister's company aforesaid belonged to a Regiment under the command of Col. Benjamin Button & of which George or Philip Ulmer was a Major. under the command of Genl. Wardsworth. and he does not know to what or whose Regiment, if any, Capt. Pinkham's Company belonged or was attached.
That Thomas Trask and Pinkham knew both of said Jefferson and are well acquainted with him & will testify to his character for truth & also to the truth of his present declaration.
The record of his age is in the town record in Boothbay aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the army of any State.
Benjamin (Signature) Kenney.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.
State of MAINE, } 38. COUNTY OF LINCOLN, }
In this Seventh day of Sept r 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in open Court , Benjamin Kenney
a resident of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged Seventy five years,
who being 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 was born in Dover in the State of New Hampshire in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 79 and in his infancy was carried to Boothbay where he continued to reside until the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 80 when early in the spring of that year he was drafted into the Company commanded by Captain Abiah Dyer of Bath in said County for the defence of St. George's River and Camden , where he was stationed and served eleven months as a waiter to Captain Mr. Allister . His draft was for nine months, but he continued in the service as a forsook two months after the term of his draft expired and then received a verbal discharge. The Captain several times visited his family in Bath , and now called Jefferson and took this applicant with him, as is testified by his son Richard M c Allister , whose deposition accompanies this. Moses Brook of Dedecombe in the County aforesaid served with me and Thomas Trask also served with me, as they are disposed. In 1801, He also served in said M c Allister's company, six months, at Boothbay in said State, at the expiration of which term He was honorably dismissed, but never received any written discharge. He also served one month as a private in Col. J. T. Peabody's Company of Militia in the year, 1802, as a private soldier, in guarding Coy. Head & Dunbar's cotta River in said County. He also served in said Company, but never received any written discharge. He also served in said Company at the same time last mentioned as he has testified.
Capt. Mr. Allister's company aforesaid belonged to a Regiment under the command of Col. Benjamin Bur- ton & of which George or Philip  Adams was a Major. under the command of Genl. Wadsworth . and he does not know to what or whose Regiment, if any, Col. Pinkham's Company belonged or was attached.
That Thomas Trask and Phinehas Ames both of said Jefferson are well acquainted with him & will testify to his character for truth & also to the truth of his present declaratory.
The record of his age is in the town record in Boothbay aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Benjamin (Signature) Kenney
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year in foregoing.

The record of his age is in my own in Providence Providence. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Benjamin (Prenhurst his signature) Kenny. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. J. Ruggles J. 6. 6. P.
We, Thomas Trask and Phinehas Ames residing in the town of Jefferson hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Kenney of said Jefferson, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be a man of truth and about seventy five years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Thomas Trask Phinehas Ames
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid J. Ruggles J. 6. 6. P.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Thomas Trask and Phinehas Ames who have signed the preceding certificate, are inhabitants of the town of Jefferson and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Ruggles J. 6. 6. P. J. 6. 6. P. J. 6. 6. P.
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clerk

Lincoln ss. Nathaniel Coffin Clerks of all the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Lincoln, Certify that the several papers connected with this seal are part of the Original Record as alrea- dy certified by me, & the Testimony thereof. I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas,
this seventh day of May A.D. 1833 -
Nath. Coffin

May 3, 1928.
Mrs. C. M. Jackson, 27 Newton Street, Brockton, Massachusetts.
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 301 , it appears that Benjamin Kenney was born in 1757 at Dover, New Hampshire, when quite young he moved to Boothbay.
While a resident of said Boothbay, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
From the spring of 1780, eleven months in Captain Archibald Mc Allister's Company, Colonel Benjamin Burton's Regiment; in 1781, six months in Captain Archibald Mc Allister's Company; and in 1782, one month in Captain Ichabod Pinkham's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, while a resident of Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. He died there January 2, 1837.
Soldier married December 28, 1815, Lydia Deeker, they were both of Jefferson, Maine.
She was allowed pension on her application executed June 21, 1853, while living in Jefferson, Maine, aged seventy-four years.

In 1853, it is stated that they had a family of two children," one of whom is now living". Names of children not given.
In 1855, the widow was living in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine.
The names of soldier's parents are not mentioned.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

1928 may 3-11 ad to memo C.M. Gackston and
301
Rey WIDOW, &c.
File No. 301
Lydia Kenny Widow
Benjamin Kenny Br. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 23, 1853
Index:—Vol. A , Page 390
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MRS. C. M. JACKSON
27 NEWTON STREET
BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS
U.S. Bureau of Pensions July 29-1927
I am told that my g-grandfather, Benj. Kenney of Boothbay Me. and later of Jefferson Maine served in the Rev. War, and received a pension. Can you give me his birth place and who his father and mother were if it is recorded. He died 1834/5 age 84, and is buried in H. Whitefield Me.
Respectfully,
C. M. Jackson.

Pension Office
Sept 12/53
Sir Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner
Respectfully
F. Burt Esq.
3 Aud
Present
J. Cole for Comm r
Benjamin Kenney, Act y to June 1832 $60.00 per annum. — Died 2 d January 1837, Paid to his death. —
F. Burt Auditor.

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July 1, 1853. N o 2521. App. of Lydia Henney, Widow of Benj. Henney, Lincoln co., Maine.
60 18285 Act 3 d Feby., 1853.
Rev. Allowed $60 per annum Com. Feb 3 - 1853
Geo. W. Morton, Augusta, Maine.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BU
Com

Claims, No. 104,687 Additional Evidence
Lydia Kenney, widow of Benj. Kenney, for bounty lands Act of March 3, 1855.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
December 28 th 1855.
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 Benjamin Kenney is borne on pay roll of Capt. Archibald McAllister's Comp. Col. Fins's Regt. from April 24. to Dec. 25. 1780. 8 Mos. 2 days, as private.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M c Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

104.687

Augusta, Maine
April 26. 1855.
Sir,
I herewith transmit fifteen applications for bounty land under Act of March 3. 1855. viz.
James Linn — Lot Chadwick — Jeremiah Douran
William Bartlett — David Smiley — Ralph Woods
Josiah Doe — James Pullen — Nathl. L. Weston
David Prindle — Elias Whiting — John Libby
Susanna Webber widow of Joseph Webber  a revolutionary soldier
Lydia Kenney " " Benjamin Kenney  a revolutionary soldier
The above fourteen cases the claimants have not rec d any bounty land.
John Evans has rec d 40 acres Act March 22. 1852.
Should the claim be patenting on the examination of the papers — I respectfully request to have land warrants sent to me for them.
Very respectfully
Your obed Servt
Geo W. Morton
L. P. Waldo Esq Pensions Washington. D.C.

Augusta, Maine
June 28. 1853
Sir,
I herewith forward papers in order to have Lydia Kenney , widow of Ben d Kenney , allowed a pension under 2 o Sec. of the act of Feb 3. 1853, her late husband was pensioned under act of June 7. 1832 at $60. per year, he died June 2. 1837, his pension having been paid to Sept 4. 1836. The balance due at the time of his death was paid to his widow, viz from Sept 4. 1836 to June 2. 1837. His pension was payable at the U. States agency in the State of Maine.
Should the accompanying papers be satisfactory I would respectfully request that a Pension Certificate may be sent me for her.
Very respectfully Your obed Servt Geo W. Morton
Hon L. P. Waldo Commr Pension Washington D.C.

Kernay

Brief in the case of Mrs Lydia Kenney widow of Benjamin Kennebec County and State of Maine act of Feb. 3. 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 at $60 per annum
Pr.
(If for increase.) Marriage bond cr. withs.
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death and rep.
Identity Cr. withs.
Name and residence of Agent
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine
Examining Clerk.
H. H. Gray

State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Isaac G. Reed Esq. whose name is affixed to the annexed paper, as a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature to me well known. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this seventh 29 th day of September  May A. D. 1832. 3.
Nathl Coffin CLERK.
Andrews says that he is sure that he

I, Thomas Trask of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine do depose and declare, that Benjamin Kenney of said Jefferson, aged about seventy-five years, was a private sol- dier in Captain Archibald M c Alister's Company of a Militia of the Massa- chusetts Troops raised for the defence of St. George River, Camden &c. That he served at Thomaston, Camden &c nine months or more, in the year 1780. He also served six months in said Capt. M c Alister's Company, the next year, at Boothbay in said State and County. I was also a private in said Company at the same time. Said Kenney was at that time an inhabitant of Boothbay - but since the Revolu- tion, some years ago, has removed to and resides at said Jefferson. We had no written discharges from but were dismissed verbally.
Said Kenney is a man of good character for truth and veracity is generally believed in his neighborhood to be so. (I have stated). Lincoln ss. Thomas Trask Sept. 7. 1832. Personally appeared Thomas Trask & made oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true. Before me Isaac G. Reed Just. of Peace

Lincoln City And now on this twenty eighth day of May in the year 1833, I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named defendant Thomas Frank, who is a person of good character for truth & veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit. Isaac Weld Justice of the Peace.
Dep. of Thos. Frank in Breach of Warranty of Affection etc.
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State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Lewis Sharp
Esq. whose name is affixed to the annexed paper, as a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE is legally commissioned and
duely qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this seventh
day of September A. D. 1832.
Nath. Coffin CLERK.

Lincoln Co. Boothbay March 1 st 1832
Whereas Benjamin Kinney of Jefferson in said County & State of Maine has requested me to take the deposition of Ichabod Tibbitts of Liberty in the County of Waldo in said State of Maine certifying that he served one Month in Capt. Ichabod Pinkham's Company as a guard in Boothbay in the Old Revolutionary War
Ichabod Tibbitts
Lincoln Co. Boothbay March 1 st 1832
personally appeared the above named Ichabod Tibbitts & made oath that the above by him signed to be the truth before me Levi Thorp Justice Peace Lincoln Co.

Lincoln D.C. May 30 th 1883.
And now I further certify that the writer named defendant Ichabod Tibbets is a man of good character for truth and veracity and entitled to credit.
Lewis Thorp { Justice of the Peace
Def ts of J. K. Tibbets in case of M c Guinness

Dep o of Recd. W. Allister Bng. Fennerys cash

I Richard McAlister of lawful age do testify and say that in the year Seventeen Hundred Eighty my Father was a Captain in the service; that in the course of that year he was at home several times; that Benjamin Herney was with him two or three times in the course of the year and termed at his house during my Father's stay; that he has stated that the above named Herney was his waiter that he was a very faithful lad  August 10 th 1832  Then personally appeared the above named Richard McAlister & made oath to the foregoing before me John White Jr. Penn
Lincoln Co. Clerk's Office Sep. 7. 1832. I am assured that the above named John White is a Justice of the Peace in Waldo County, but am not able to certify the same officially Nathl Coffin Clerk

I, Moses Trask of Edgecumbe in the county of Lincoln do testify and declare on oath , that I served as a private soldier in the company of Militia, commanded by Capt. Archibald M c Alister in the Revolution- ary War, in the year 1780, and was station- ed at Camden on Pinhook bay in the State of Maine and on George's River in said State and that I continued in said service there nine months and I further declare on oath, that Benjamin Kenney now of Jefferson in the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid was draft- ed into said Company at Boothbay in said County where he then resided, as a private soldier, that he served in said Company as a private, and as waited to the captain, for the term of eleven months, and we were both verbally dismissed, but received no written or printed dis- charges. Said Kenney and I were drafted for the term of nine months, but both continued to serve in said company two months longer. Said company was under the command of Major Allen, Col. Buxton and Genl. Wadsworth, but was not during any continued in it for the term of the war. Said Kenney is about seventy-five years of age and is a man of truth & veracity.
Moses Trask
Pinhook Is! Aug. 7. 1882. Personally swore Moses Trask and made oath, that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just & true.
Before me, Isaac G. Reed Not. of Peace

State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Isaac G. Reed Esq. whose name is un affixed to the annexed paper, as a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name, so affixed is his own proper signature to me well known.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this seventh 29 th day of September May A. D. 1832. 3
Nathl Coffin
CLERK.

Lincoln Jct. May 29. 1883. I further certify that Moses Trask, who gave the within dep- osition, is a person of good character for truth & veracity and that in my opinion his statements are entitled to full credit.
Isaac G. Reed, Inst. of Peace
Dep: J. M. [?] in case of Rev. J. [?]