Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,603, for Micajah Lunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass. Privateer
Lunt, Micajah Mary Marah
N. 24,603 B.L.Wt. 34952-160-55
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219.239 Act Mar 3/55
Oct 23/55
Mary Lunt and Micajah Lunt Sent. Prov
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Ad: 16000 per 29/56 By [signature]
for Mr Bates Present
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Rev. J. D. Fuller June 3/53
Repaired
Dec 21/48
Anna Wiswell Sept 25/53
219239
2533
Name Mary Gunt widow of Micajah Gunt who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 38 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Dec. 1848 and sent to
Wm H. Williams Hoff R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 21 Vol. 1.

State of Maine.
HANCOCK, ss....CLERK'S OFFICE, ELLSWORTH.
I George H. Brown , _____ Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock, hereby certify, that _____ Charles H. Tilden , _____ whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Hancock, duly commissioned and qualified, and that as such, full faith and credit are due his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this Twenty fifth day of June _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- five
G. H. Brown , _____
Clerk of said Court for Hancock County.

State of Maine
Hancock Co. — Town of Deer Isle — Clerk's Office — June 10. 1845.
Extract from the records of births of the Town of Deer Isle opposite —
Children of Micajah & Mary Lunt
Sarah Lunt - born February six Seventeen hundred eighty six
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record with the exception of the date which is left space on the record in fair legible figures as follows
Sarah Lunt born Febry 6 th 1706
W m S. Green
I W m S. Green above named do hereby certify that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Deer Isle aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named, as certified by me — I further certify that Micajah Lunt late of Deer Isle, as appears by record died on the sixth day of June 1828 — W m S. Green } Clerk of the Town of Deer Isle aforesaid —
Hancock Co. — June 10. 1845.
Sworn before me Charles Kirk Liddon Justice of the Peace

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act or Congress of the 7th July 1838 -
State of Maine
Hancock Co. ss -
On this thirtieth day April A. D. 1845 personally appeared before the Subordinate Judge of Probate in & for the County of Hancock aforesaid Mary Lusk a widow of David Lusk in said County aged eighty one years widow of Micajah Lusk late of said David Lusk deceased, 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. 1838 entitled act granting half pay & pension to en- listed widows" - That she is the widow of Micajah Lusk late of said David Lusk, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, that he enlisted as above in the State of Massachusetts as well as I can recollect in the year 1778 in Capt. Evans Company & served at that time more than six months That he afterwards again enlisted, at said Charlestown in the year 1780 I can not state the length of time of this service but according to the best of my knowledge it was five  nine or six or months - after his service in the Army he served several months in Navy

She further declares that she was married to the said Micajah at Vintham then in said county before Mr. Kneel, then being no Magistrate there in Dec. 1822, on the first day of May 1784 - That her husband, the aforesaid Micajah died at said Dec. 1822 on the 22 d day of May 1828 - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the said, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, nineteen hundred and twenty four viz - at the time above stated - She further declares that it is her belief that her said husband served several months more than above stated but can not state the par- ticulars from the date thereof or the Company to which he was attached -
her Mary unk  unk  unk
subscribed & sworn to on the day & year first above written -
Before Samuel M. Povee Judge of the Court of Probate

12019 Mary Lunt
Decl n for Pension
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State of Maine - Kennebec Co. -
I John D. Richards, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Kennebec aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Samuel M. Pond Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine -
In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand & seal of office, this thirtieth day of April A.D. 1845 -
John D. Richards Register of the Court of Probate

No 197 719239
BOUNTY LAND ACT, 1855.
Claim of Mrs Mary Sunt widow of Macijah Sunt
Revolutionary War
FILED BY
R W Bates Present

For a person who has never received Bounty Land.
STATE OF Maine } ss. COUNTY OF Hancock }
On this Sixth day of October A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Lunt, a resident of said County & State aged 95 years who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Mary Lunt (widow of Micajah) who was Pensioned under the act of Feb 28th the rate of $38.33 per annum, as will be seen by reference to the copy of her Pension Certificate herewith filed the original papers upon which said Pension was allowed being now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, to which she begs leave to refer in proof of her marriage to the said Micajah Lunt as also for his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army that her husband the said Micajah Lunt entered the service on the day of the and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and upwards, and was honorably discharged and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. He 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.
RTW Bales of Washington County D. C. is hereby authorized to receive any warrant that may be issued hereon.
Mary Lunt mark
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES.
We Thomas Fifeild and Avery Fifeild upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above Mary Lunt in our presence, and that we believe from our personal knowledge of Mrs Mary Lunt who signed the above declaration & from her statement that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we have no interest in this claim.
Thomas Fifeild Avery Fifeild
MAGISTRATE'S CERTIFICATE.
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 I believe the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Charles R. Liden J. P.
COUNTY CLERK'S CERTIFICATE.
STATE OF Maine } ss. I hereby certify that Charles R. Liden Esq. COUNTY OF Hancock }
before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is and was, at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this fifteenth day of October 1855.
Parker W. Pease Clerk.

Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Nicajah Lunt wid File 24603
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 July 16 1778 6 mos. 1 day Priv. Jonathan Coans Isaac Smith Mass.   July 3, 1780 5 mos. 14 days Isaac Smith    After above shipped on board the Sloop of War Barn commanded by Capt. Tucker, & continued in service on said vessel until he was captured, & carried to Halifax & then to Boston, where he was exchanged.   
Battles engaged in, ✓ Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Newbury Mass. Date of application for pension, Apr. 30 1845 Residence at date of application, Deer Isle, Hancock Co. Me. Age at date of application, He was 81 yrs old.
Remarks: Soldier married at Newbury, Hancock Co. Me. May 1 1780 Mary. He died at Deer Isle Me. May 25 or June 6, 1822. Daughter Sarah A. Feb 6, 1826
Very respectfully,
* Church not used because that service was not recorded & printed records do not show that officer in service in 1776

1910 Aug 16 Hist. Soc. Mrs. W. M. Fernald. V.P. Sec.
New
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,603
Mary Gunt Wid. of Micajah Gunt Priv. Rev. War
Acq Feb 2 d 1848.
Index: Vol A , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Issue a new certificate under the act of July 7. 1838, and send it to the Hon. Hezekiah Williams, House of Representatives.

Washington
June 16. 1845
Sir
I feel confident, that the certificate for a Pension to Mary Hunt for five years pay from March 1836, has not been rec d by the Agent - I would respectfully ask that a duplicate may issue for the same -
Very respectfully O. B. D.
W. J. Williams.
Col. L. Z. Edwards Comp r of Pensions

House of Reps. Feby 5 th 1853-
Sir
Mrs Mary Sunt of Hancock Co: Me desires information, if she is not entitled to to an increase of Pension
She is the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, and aged 89 years, & is in the receipt of a pension of $36. per year at present -
Any information from the Department of sum to her will confer a favor
In your Ob. Servt
J. D. Fuller
Hon. J. E. Heath Com Pensions Washington DC

Castine - Me - June 28. 1845
Sir -
I herewith present the Declaration & other evidence to establish the claim of Mary Lunt of Penobscot in this County for a Pension - The Certificate when issued you will please forward to me & oblige
Very Resp'tly. Yrs Sub. Sub.
M c G. Williams
J. L. Edward Esq. Comf g of Pension -

Ellsworth Maine, June 14, 1853.
Hon. L. P. Waldo:
Sir,
The legal representatives of Micajah Lunt of Deer Isle in this County wish to apply for pension money due him. His widow, Mary Lunt (still living) has drawn a pension some time from 1840 to 1844 to the present time; and if you can with propriety, I wish you to send me the evidence, or a copy thereof, of the service of her husband filed in her application.
I will pay all charges upon receipt of the above evidence, or before, if notified as to the amount.
Very resp't
Your obed't Servt Arno Wiswell.

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State of Maine
Waldo Co -
Town of Vinalhaven -
Clerk's Office March 14th 1845
I the undersigned do on oath declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Vinalhaven aforesaid & that I have the custody of all the records of said Town & that it appears by said records that no records of marriages were entered therein prior to the year 1785 -
Rufus L. Aldenwood { Town Clerk of the Town of Vinalhaven aforesaid
Waldo Co - Vinalhaven March 14th 1845
Then personally appeared the undersigned to the above Certificate & made oath to the truth of the same
Before me -
Perez Babbidge
Justice of the Peace -
State of Maine
Waldo Co
I William H. Sumner clerk of the Judicial Court within & for said county certify that the above named Perez Babbidge is a Justice of the Peace within & for said county duly commissioned & qualified & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 21 st day of May A.D. 1845
W H Sumner clerk

W. N. R.
3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. hae D. 11/8/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Mary
Soldier Mirajah Lunt
Service me.
Additional Service Rn.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
Wit. 7. 2 4, 6 0 3

W Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
I wish to get information as to a pension granted to Mrs. Mary Lunt, widow of Mr. Micajah Lunt, of Deer Isle, Maine, on account of service in the navy of the United

States, during the War of the Revolution. I wish also to get the dates, if possible, of his joining the service, and of his Honorable discharge there- from, and any other dates which may be given in the pension records, such as those of his birth and death. Will it be possible to get this information through the Pension Bureau? I wish to join the D.A.R.

and these dates would help me very much in making out my papers.
Thanking you in advance for your trouble
I am
Very truly yours
Flora K. Fernald
August 8. 1910
Mrs. W. M. Fernald
217 Wakelee avenue
Ansonia
Conn.
AUG 10 1910

✓ 24,952
} New Am

Maine 7202
Mary Smit widow of Micaiah Smit who was a Private in the Revolution for 11 mo 15 d.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Thirty Eight Dollars thirty three Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the Eighth day of August 1846 and sent to Hezekiah Williams, Castine Me
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A June 1844 Vol. 2 Page 6

Duplicate certificate issued to Hon. H. Ezekiah Williams, House of Representatives, 16 th June 1846
Maine 9532
Mary Sant widow of Micajah Sant who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the 22 nd May 1828 of Hancock Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Evans of the commanded by — in the Massachusetts Militia for 11 mo 15 d
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 38 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of August 1845 and sent to H. Ezekiah Williams Esquire Mr
Total amount, $ 191.66
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Book D
Geo B. Ames
Vol. 1
Clerk, Page 11

719.738
Second
Payment to be made at Portland
by
William Woodbury Esq. Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Maine
Payable on the 4 th of September and 4 th May
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act Feb. 1. 1845 Page 21. Vol 2
Clerk
✓

War Department Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 28 1848 Mary Gant widow of Macafah Gant who was a Private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of thirty eight dollars and thirty three cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th of March, 1848, 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 War Office of the United States this 21 st day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
Wm L. Marcy Secretary of War
Examined & countersigned J. G. Edwards Commissioners of Pensions

Mary Lunt.
(Declaration for a Pension to be continued
94 7202

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 d February, 1841, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution."
State of Maine } County of Hancock. }
On this twent  twenty eighth day of September - personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Spent, a resident of Deer Isle in the county of Hancock, aged Eighty four - years, who being first duly sworn, according to the law, did 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 2 d of February, 1841, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Micajah Lunt who was a private in the Revolution & died May 22 nd 1828 - That the annual amount of her Pension under the act of June 17, 1844 was thirty three Dollars
Witness: Henry Fifield
Mary her  mark Spent
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Charles M. Liden      Jus. Peace

I do hereby further certify that the foregoing declarant is personally known to me
Charles K. Liden Justice of the Peace
State of Maine Hancock County } Sep. 28. th 1848.
I do hereby certify that Charles K. Liden is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned & qualified & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine Wm. Williams U.S.

Power attorney Mary Surt act 1848 marne
filed 2 d August 1852
Ex - F. E. Hasler attorney

AND I HEREBY CERTIFY, that at the same time, personally appeared before me Thomas Fifield and Ebenezer S. Fifield known to me, to be two credible witnesses, and who being duly sworn, deposes and says, each for himself, that the above named Mary Spence now present, is to their knowledge, the identical person named in the above deposition, and that the said affidavit is correct, as they verily believe; that they are acquainted with the said Mary Spence and that they are, each, wholly disinterested.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, upon the day and year first above written.
Charles H. Tilden Justice of the Peace
Thomas Fifield Ebenezer Fifield
State of Maine County of Hancock { ss :
I hereby certify, that Charles H. Tilden Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court , (a Court of Record,) this 23 d day of July A. D. 1852
P. H. Perry Clerk.
*The Pension Certificate must be attached to this paper by a piece of tape passing through both, and the ends placed under the seal of the County Clerk, and if the evidence is taken before a Notary Public having a seal of office, the same, but then the County Clerk's certificate is not required.

State of Maine County of Hancock
Be it known that before me Charles W. Liden a Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County and State, duly authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared
Mary Spunk — aged Eighty nine and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person named in an original Pension Certificate* hereunto annexed, No. 2533 , and bearing date the Twenty first day of December 1840, and signed by W. L. Marcy Secretary of War and that she now resides in Deer Isle and has resided there for the space of 44 years past—and that she makes
this declaration for the purpose of obtaining any arrears of pension that may be due her, under the laws of the United States; and that by these presents she does constitute and appoint F. E. HASSLER, of the City of Washington, her true and lawful attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution for her and in her name, place and stead, to ask and receive of and from the United States, any bounty land, extra pay, pensions, money or moneys that now is or are due her on account of services rendered by her deceased husband; advances made, property destroyed or taken by the Government, or any claim arising from intercourse between the United States and any foreign nation, and the Indians, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in her name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such bounty land, pensions, patents, claims, and money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatsoever nature she may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, or any legally established commission of the United States, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts that she might or could do, were she personally present at the doing thereof, she hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever her said attorney shall do in and about the premises, by virtue hereof.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto
Signed, sealed and delivered } Two witnesses. in the presence of
set my hand and seal this Sixth April — day of April — 1852.
Thomas Fifield Ebenezer Fifield
her Mary Spunk 
State of Maine } ss. County of Hancock
On this Sixth day of April 1852, personally appeared Mary Spunk before me, and acknowledged the fore- going power of attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein contained.
Charles W. Liden J. P.

Applications for certificates of Revolutionary Services, made By the widow of the party who rendered the Service
State of Maine County of Hancock Town of Deer Isle
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of my husband's services in the war of the Revolution
Merciah Spunt
He enlisted from the town of Newburyport in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts in the year 1776 as a private in the company commanded by Captain in Col. Jacob Cushing
Regiment and served as follows
Six months and one day in the company of Capt. Jonathan Evans from July 6 th 1778 to January 1 st 1779 — that he also en- listed and served nine months in the Regt. of Col. Jacob Cushing That after the expiration of his services in the army he shipped on board the Sloop of War Thoms or some other vessel commanded by Capt. Tucker and continued in service on board said vessel until he was taken and carried to Halifax and from thence to Boston where he was exchanged
I am not certain as to the name of the vessel, but think the vessel sailed from Salem or Gloucester, cruised in the Bay of Chaleurs about six months; was then captured and carried to Halifax, and kept at Halifax about six weeks
I am now Eighty one years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully than above stated
Witness my hand this Seventh day of May A.D. 1844
Signed by said Mary Spunt
in my presence
Charles Kirk Tilden - Suter of the Court
Merciah Spunt

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 27 1841.
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 Micajah Lund of Newbury is found upon a pay roll of Capt. James Evans from July 6. 1778 6 months & 1 day and upon the pay roll of the town of Newbury from July 3. 1780 2 mos 14 days. There are no rolls of the Thermo. Col. Tucker in this Office.
The rolls of Col. Badlam for 1776 who succeeded Col. Garish do not bear the name of said Lund.

Henry J. Smith
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 which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm. D. Briggs Sept. 23 Secretary of the Commonwealth.