Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35507, for Trueworthy Kilgour, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Kilgour, Trueworthy or Kilgore
S 35507
CONTENTS

35 507
Very INVALID.
File No. 35,507
Truworthy (Algon) Pr Rev Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5773.
Maine
Trueworthy Kilgour Capt Smith Private Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of January 1819 and sent to William K. Parris Paris Oxford County Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818  4 mos 30  33 86 Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st Mar 1819  480 $81 86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 13th March, 1818. }
Con.
July 31. 1821
sent to Mrs Massey Jr Portland Maine

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170. Trueworthy Kilgore
5773
Sussex
Con d July 31. 1821 and Jointly John Massey Jr. Portland, Maine

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 first Tuesday, being the sixth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this fifteenth 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, Brinsley Gilmore aged sixty years, resident in Brinsdale 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. George Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Dose 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 eighth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5773 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.
Brinsley Gilmore
Sworn to and declared, on the fifteenth day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Hirons 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 — I have none —
Personal estate — a small house, a few articles of old household furniture — I am in debt for two hundred dollars for the necessaries of life — Trueworthy Philogene
Dwomto June 15. 1890
Before Albron H. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Trueworthy Philogene who, by occupation am a Carpenter, which I am not able to pursue generally by reason of the rheumatism
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Easter Philogene (wife) 42 very feeble & unable to work generally Trueworthy Philogene   Dwomto Before Albron H. Parris 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 one hundred fifty four dollars and thirty . . . cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth . . . day of June . — A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

Tracworthy Kilgour , Private
Wifes m st Reg t
August 3 d 1777
1 st August 3 d 1780
April 28 th 1818

To the Honorable Albion K. Parris, District Judge of the United States for Maine District.
Truworthy Hilgore
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
of Brunswick in said Maine District,
that he served as a Private
in the war of the revolution
on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Brunswick aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a Private Soldier to Capt Smith Company of the first  Commanded by Regiment, Col / Rose of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the third day of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he left said service on or about the third day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty and that he was discharged therefrom by Col Rose and that he has lost his discharge and that he is fifty nine years of age at that time was in the battle of White Marsh also Rhode Island
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Truworthy Hilgore
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, ALBION K. PARRIS, District Judge of the United States for the Maine District, Truworthy Hilgore , the above named appli- cant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Truworthy
Hilgore
farther offered in evidence the
affidavit of James Noble, an officer in the Revolutionary army, taken and sworn to before me
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Truworthy Hilgore served in the
revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for the Maine District, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Albion K. Parris

personally appeared James Webb and made oath that he well knew the witness named Trueworthy Helgum in the army of the United States, and that he was an Ensign in the same Company and that he verily believes that the affidavit by him the said Helgum signed and sworn to within is true in all its parts
James Webb