Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7100, for Isaac Mehuren, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass
Mehuren, Isaac
R. 7100
Mary
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Maine
18267
Isaac Morrison
of Oxford Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wood of the Regt. commanded by Col. _____ in the Mass'ts line for 9 mos?
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of August 1833 and granted to James Starr. Jay.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $ 60.00 Semest. allowance ending 4 Sept. 15.00 $ 75.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book E Vol. 1 Page 34
(Dead)
Late James Starr, now 29-38 -
D. July 12 - 1837

Isaac Ilchuron
1900.8 v

State of Maine.
County of Oxford ss.
On this 19 th day of September 1832. personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Isaac Mehuren a resident of Jay in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In the summer of 1776, at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he entered the service by enlisting in a company commanded by Capt. Wood of Middleborough in said County of Plymouth, the day and month he has forgotten, also the names of the other officers of the company, he with the company marched from Bridgewater to Roxbury, adjoining Boston, this was the fall of the year. after it was evacuated by the British Troops, where he was stationed about two weeks, then marched to Dorchester heights, on the south easterly side of Boston harbor, where he commenced in pulling down the old fort that had been built the winter before with fasciens, and erected a new one in the same place more permanent, after it was completed he assisted in hauling up the cannon which was done by the soldiers, when they were mounted, he with the same company were marched on to Castle Island, situated in Boston harbor, where he was stationed till the term of his enlistment expired, the employment that he and the company was in while there, beside being on guard, was in cleaning and piling up bricks that had been in the castle or fort, that the British Troops blew up when they left Boston, that he enlisted for three months and served that time out, and was discharged on Castle Island with the

Company, but he nor the other soldiers did not receive a written discharge, neither can he recollect the day or month that he was discharged - That he has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to this service - He also states that in January 1770, according to his best recollection, he enlisted again at Bridgewater aforesaid, for three months, in a Company comm d by Capt n Abraham Washburn of the same town, that the names of the other company officers he cannot recollect, the company was attached to a Regiment comm d by Col l Sprout of Middleborough in said Plymouth County, that he with the Regiment was marched to North Kingston, in the state of Rhode Island where they were stationed three months, that the British troops had possession of New Port on the Island, and a number of their ships of war were lying in New Port harbour, and had the command thereof, while he was there an American privateer call d Columbus ran ashore at a place call d Point Jude, about three miles from where he was stationed, to prevent being taken by the British, he with the Reg t marched there to protect the privateer - and to prevent the British from taking her, they had one 24 pounder which was hauled with from their encampment oxen, & one field piece, these with the musketry of the Reg t was used in the skirmish he was in, in trying to save the privateer, the British opened a fire from their ships on the Reg t he was in, which compelled them to retreat, which covered their Galley & Boats from our troops, so that they succeeded in burning the privateer, at the end of the three months he with the Regiment were discharged, not by any written document - Jacob Southrop a resident of Canton in said County of Norfolk, served this campaign in the company with him - That at Bridgewater aforesaid he enlisted again for three months in a Company comm d by Capt n Cobb of Abington, in said County of Plymouth the other officers of the Company he cannot recollect, without it is the Lieut. which he thinks was a Bapett, he with the Company was marched to Bristol in the state of Rhode Island, where he was stationed during the term of his enlistment, their duty was to defend

This Town, as it is situated on the northerly side of New Port harbour, and about two miles from a Fort on the North Easterly end of the Island on which New Port is situated, where the British had a Fort and Troops stationed he was discharged at the end of three months for which he enlisted at Bristol, his discharge was a verbal Nathan wearren of Bristol in the state of Maine was in the company with him during this campaign that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no way in which to prove it, where testimony he can procure, who can testify to his first three months service as he has stated he was born in Bridgewater in the state of Massachusetts in 1762 that he believes his age is recorded on the records of said Bridgewater that he lived in Bridgewater till after the revolutionary war since that time he has lived in Sumner & Jay in the state of Maine. That he volunteered in the service, that he cannot state any other officer than those he has named. That the Hon Cornelius Holland of Canton, Thomas Phinney, Samuel Jackson and Dea Silas Alden Rev. Joseph Adams & James Harr of Jay who can testify as to his character for veracity, and the belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity excepting the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Army of any state. I do hereby certify Sworn to & Subscribed, the day & year aforesaid
Before
Stephen Emery, Judge
We the subscribers of Jay & Canton in the County of Oxford & State of Maine hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Melanson who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 70 years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed, in open Court, by said Holland, Phinney, Alden, Jackson, & Harr, the day & year aforesaid.
Stephen Emery, Judge
Joseph Adams Cornelius Holland Thomas Phinney Silas Alden Samuel Jackson James Harr

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states, he adducing the deposition of Jacob Lotterbach on oath, & the certificate of Joseph Adams my nephew, & the Rev. C. Melius Hulland father well known to the Court as credible persons, in corroboration of his own declaration, also the deposition of Nathan Warren Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register of the Court of Probate hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Melhusen for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19 th day of September A.D. 1832
Joseph G. Cole Register
Isaac Melhusen
Isaac Melhusen
190061

K 2272
Mary Michuren
mo act 7 July 38
Mr. 81.
no 24 p 13 - 3 mo Castle P.L. of Capt A. Washburn. X notes vol. 1, p 139 - on Colb. 2 mo 407 vol 23 - p 192 - Capt A. Wood 108 76 at Roxbury Dist. m.
James Starr of Jay in the County of Oxford P.M. Agent.
7,100

State of Maine.
Oxford County ss.
On this Eighteenth day of September A. D. 1830. Personally appeared before me Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate for said County, Mary Mahuron of Jay in the County of Franklin, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1830, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Isaac Mahuron late of Jay, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution in the Massachusetts Continental Troops; that her said Husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7 th 1832, that his Certificate of Pension was dated the third day of August 1833, and numbered 18,267 - and she refers to the evidence furnished by him on his original application for a pension for the proof of his services.
She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Mahuron on the eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty one that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz, at the time above stated.
Witness S. Emery
Mary her Mahuron mark
Sworn to & subscribed by the above named Mary Mahuron the day & year first above written
Before Stephen Emery, Judge.
And I, the said Judge do certify, that the said Mary Mahuron, by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to attend personally in Court - and that her residence is within one mile of Oxford County. That said Jay, till recently, belonged to Oxford County, & that no judge of Franklin County could attend without inconvenience & increased expense.
Stephen Emery, Judge

State of Maine
Oxford ss. I the subscriber Register of the court of Probate in & for said county hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the court of Probate aforesaid. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Mary Mahan for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this second day of October A.D. 1838.
Levi Stowell. Register.

The following is a copy from the Book of Records of Marriages belonging to the Town of Bridgewater in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
January eighteenth seventeen hundred and eighty one Isaac Melanson & Mary Allen were Married by the Revd Samuel Ayer
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1781 Jan. 18."
Mitchell Smith Town Clerk
I Mitchell Smith above named, do hereby certify, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me
Mitchell Smith Town Clerk of Bridgewater Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss: September 24th 1838
Sworn to before me
Philo Leach Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Seig: Offic. Sept. 24. 1838.
I hereby certify that the above Philo Leach is a Justice for the County of Plymouth with the Seal of the State.
John P. Bigelow
Seig of the County

31858 Rev INVALID.
1906 Aug. 20 Hist. to Mrs. Ella G. Mehurin.
File No. 31,858
Isaac Mehurin
Rev Rev vac
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1906 Aug. 20 - History to Mrs Ella G. Mehurin - c
None of July 19, 1906, and March 31, 1906.
REJECTED
P. O. _____
Henry Mehuren
Service: widow
Isaac Mehuren
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Jay Illaine June 22 1855
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Sir. In the "Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims," stating those that apply to the claim of Francis McChuron, which ought to have been Isaac McChuron , as it was returned to me accompanying his claim for a pension, and the only objection which I discovered in his case was that of No. 10. relative to the Clerk's Seal, also referred to Deed 16. which have been as you will see by the seal affixed to the original affidavits in the case, properly amended. And hope according to the requirement of your regulations - I am Dear Sir respectfully your obt. Servant
James Parr.

Oct 8 Paris (Me) Oct 3
2272 2273 me 7 July 1838
for
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department City of Washington D.C.

Jay Me. Oct r 2. 1830. J. L. Edwards Esq r
Dear Sir
I here send to you the declaration of two widows, Mrs. Mary Melhuem and Lydia Keep. I wish you would have the goodness to enclose their Pension certificates to me, as I am agent for them. I have understood you do not forward Pension certificates to agents unless you have a knowledge of their responsibility; for that information I would refer you to the Hon. Albion K. Darris, 2 nd Comptroller in the treasury department.
I am with much respect your Most Ob t Serv t
James Harr.

I Nathan Warren of Maine in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, do testify & say That at Bridgewater in the State of Massachusetts, the Town, in which I was born. I became acquainted with Isaac Melcher who lived in said Bridgewater That he the said Melcher & myself enlisted for three months at said Bridgewater in the State Service in a Company commanded by Captain Edward Cobb and I think the Lieut. name was Conant, the ensign name I have forgotten, said Melcher marched from Bridgewater in said Company with me to Bristol in the State of Rhode Island where we were stationed during said term of three months at the end of which we were discharged with the Company but no written discharges were given as I was out five or six campaigns during the Revolutionary war. I have forgotten the years this service was done, but it was in the fall of the year, I have also forgotten the name of the Col who commanded the Regt. to which our Company that we were in was attached. Said Isaac Melcher now lives in Jay in the County of Oxford State of Maine, and is the identical man who served with me as I have above stated. Nathan Warren
Cumberland County ss, on the 4 th day of September 1832 personally appeared Nathan Warren who I am acquainted with & who is a reputable witness and subscribed & made made solemn oath in clear for of that the foregoing deposition is true.
Before me Asaph Howard
Justin Dyer

Nathan Warren.
Deposition
State of Maine Cumberland county ss.
I, W m S. Vaughan, Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland county, do certify that Asaph Howard is a magistrate as within - and that the signature, purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
W m S. Vaughan
Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County

I Jacob Lothrop of Canton in the County of Oxford do hereby certify and say that at Bridgewater in the State of Massachusetts in January 1778. I was drafted into the State Service of Massachusetts and joined a Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Washburn in Col. Spratt's Regiment that we marched from there to North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island where the Company was stationed three months which was the term of time that I was drafted for. That Isaac Melcher who then lived in said Bridgewater, enlisted into the Company that I was in and served three months with me and was discharged at the same time that I was but there was no written discharge given - and he is the same Isaac Melcher who now lives in Jay in said County of Oxford.
Jacob Lothrop
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. On the ninth month day of September 1832 personally appeared Jacob Lothrop with whom I am acquainted and is a respectable witness and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true.
Before me James Harr. Justice of the Peace
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
James Harr Esq.
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Jacob Lothrop is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 17 th day of October in the year A. D. 1832
M Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.