Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 19754-160-55, for William Libby, Massachusetts

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Libby, William
B.L.W. 19754-160-55.
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154.994 { Act March 3/55 May 31/55
Wm. Dibley, Priv
Capt. Merrill Col. Mitchell Ben. Wordsworth
Ent. July 7. 1779. { Me dis. Sept 25. - { Mile
Revolutionary. Mear.
Private G. Mitchell M. Mear
Ad. 160 acs. Apr 2/55 Dorset
Vol L. page 92
Wm Freeman Bradford, Portland, Me.

154.994
Claim of William Sibby
To Bounty Land.
Act of March 3, 1855.
WAR OF the Rev.
Freeman Bradford
PORTLAND,
Maine.

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND,
May 26th 1853
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Jacob Clark, Esq.
is, and at the date of his Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take Acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid,—and that the following Signature , purporting to be his
are GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
O. Cook CLERK.

STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland ss.
On this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid,
William Libby aged Ninety two years, a resident of Gray in the County and State
aforesaid, who, being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares that he is the identical William Libby who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Nathan Merrill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Mitchell in the Brigade under Gen: Wadsworth in the war of the Revolution
That he was drafted at Gray on or about the seventh day of July 1779 for the term of an indefinite period and continued in actual service in said war for the term of two months & a half and was honorably discharged at Portland on the 25 th
day of September 1779 A.D. 18 as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said Company on file in the Department at Washington  and the Certificate annexed to which he refers for evidence of his service;
he states that he never received any written discharge. to the best of his recollection. That on his return to Portland he went as a guard with some prisoners to Portsmouth N.H. He states the above is the only Military service he ever performed
And your applicant states that at the time he entered the service aforesaid, he was residing in Gray in the County of Cumberland and State of Mass: Now Maine. ) He also declares that he has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which he may be entitled under the Act of Congress, approved March 3d, 1855.
Wm Libby
And for the purpose of this application, I, the said William Bibby do hereby constitute and appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior, a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid; and I fully authorize and empower him to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose therein expressed, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my Attorney or his substitutes may lawfully do in the premises.
Wm Libby
We Barzillai Goff and John Muchemore residents of Gray in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say, that the foregoing declaration and Power of Attorney was signed and acknowledged by William Libby above named in our presence, and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, and our personal knowledge of him for many years past, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be in his declaration.
Barzillai Goff John muchemore
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me, on the day and year first above written, by William Libby the declarant above named, and by Barzillai Goff and John Muchemore witnesses above named, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Jacob Clark
Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 25 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 William Libby is borne on pay roll of Capt. Nathan Merrill's (Comp. Col. Jonathan Mitchell's) Regt. from July 8. to Sept. 25 1779. 2 mos. 17 days as private, from Gray.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State Mass:
The undersigned William Sibby a resident of Gray in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 92 years says that he was drafted at Gray on or about the tenth of July 1879 and served in Capt Nathan Merrill's Company in Col Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment in the Penobscot Expedition and was honorably discharged in September or October 1879 at Portland after having served about three months -
He therefore applies for a certificate of said service to be used as evidence for a claim for Bounty said under the act of 1855. Wm Sibby
State of Maine Cumberland ss May 22 d 1855 Signed by the said William Sibby in my presence Jacob Clark Jus Peace