Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 49262-160-55, for Ephraim Lawrence, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lawrence, Ephraim Sarah
B.L.Wt. 49262-160-55
CONTENTS

2416. 4130
Cut Mar. 3. '11
May 27. '16
Sarah Laurence, wid.
Ephraim Laurence, pri.
John Porter.
Cyprian Howe.
— Mass. Ave. —
admits 160 acres
Livingston, W.Va.
Dec 11 1858
Niplett
The Two Papers
[Signature]
Z. K. Haiman.
Portland.
Me.

Additional Evidence in the claim of Sarah Lawrence - N o 246,430 Act 3 March 1855
War of Revolution
J. K. Harmon Portland Maine

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, October 31. 1856 }
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland , being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
William Rolfe Esquire
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 is 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. G. Cook
CLERK.
to William Lawrence's father

I Rhoda Nutting of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath do depose and say that I am ninety three years of age have resided in this town for sixty one years last past and previous thereto resided in the town of Grafton Massachusetts. I was born in Pepperell Mass. moved to Grafton in the year 1781. I was a near neighbor to Ephraim Lawrence and Sarah Sartell before they were married and while they lived in Grafton I have heard him and others say that he was a Soldier of the Revolution and have seen him with his uniform on in the time of the revolutionary war and have known doubt he served as a Soldier in said war The name of Ephraim Lawrence's father

was Asa. Ephraim Lawrence moved to Otisfield from Grafton in the year 1801 He resided in Otisfield three or four years then he removed to Waltham where he lived about one year and then removed to Gray where he lived to his death which took place about nine years ago. Sarah Lawrence is still the widow of Ephraim Lawrence is still living I knew of no other Ephraim Lawrence in Grafton. but was acquainted with one Doctor Ephraim Lawrence in Popple No. 25
Skobada Setting
Cumberland S. October 23 d 1856 Then personally appeared the above named Deborah Nutting known to me to be a person of trust and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed
Before me William D. Coffe Justice of the Peace

2416.4130
Sarah Lawrence Bounty Land Claim Act March 1855.
Revolutionary War
Z. H. Harmon Portland. Maine

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, May 23. 1856 }
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland , being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Ezra Tobie and Freeman Bradford Esquires
are  is , and at the date of his  their Certificate to the paper hereto annexed was , an  were
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for
the County of Cumberland
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that they  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  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. G. Cook CLERK.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston. May 19 th 1856.
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 Ebenezer Lawrence is borne on pay roll of Capt. John Foster's (Comp. Col. Cyprian How's Regt. R. Island service, from July 25. 1780 B. mos. 10 days) as private, and 80 miles travel.
Soldier on same roll from Groton and Pepperell.
Be. She in Gr A. I
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland ss.
On this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid,
Sarah Lawrence aged eighty four years, a resident of Gray in the County and State aforesaid, who, being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares that she is the widow of Ephraim Lawrence deceased, who was a Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain John Porter in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Cyprian Howe in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the eighteenth day of June, 1812.
In the war of the Revolution
That he entered the service at Groton Mass. on or about the 25 th day of July  1780 for the term of an indefinite period and continued in actual service in said war for the term of three months & over and was honorably discharged at Rhode Island on the first day of November A. D. 1780 as will appear by the Muster & pay Rolls of said Company and the Certificate hereto annexed
She further states, that she was married to the said Ephraim Lawrence in Groton Mass. on the 30 th day of April A. D. 1788 by Rev. Daniel Chaplin a Clergyman , and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Hartell ; that her said husband died at Gray on the 13 th day of June A. D. 1847 and that she is now a widow . She declares that she has never

before applied for or received Bounty Land under any Act of Congress, and that her husband never received Bounty Land in his life time.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act of Congress, approved March 3d, 1855.
And for the purpose of this application, I, the said Sarah Lawrence do hereby constitute and appoint J. M. Harmon 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.
Sarah  her  Lawrence , mark
We Ephraim Lawrence and Warren Libby 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 Sarah Lawrence abovenamed in our presence, and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, and our personal knowledge of her for many years past, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be in her declaration.
Warren Libby Ephraim Lawrence
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me, on the day and year first above written, by Sarah Lawrence the declarant above named, and by Warren Libby and Ephraim Lawrence witnesses above named, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Ezra Tobie Justice of the Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex Town of Groton.
(a)
List of marriages returned by the Rev. Daniel Chaplin. April thirtieth A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty nine. Ephraim Lawrence to Sally Sartell.
I Certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the Marriage of said parties, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures, as follows:—(b)
April 30 th . 1889.
Geo. D. Brigham Town Clerk of Groton.
I, Geo. D. Brigham above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county, and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy of the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Geo. D. Brigham } Clerk of the Town } of Groton
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this twenty first day of May A. D. 1856,
Bradford Ripley , Justice of the Peace.
(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full.
(b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.

We Ephraim Lawrence aged 68 years, & Alpheus Frank aged 61 years, both of Gray in the County of Cum- berland & State of Maine on oath depose and say that we lived neighbors, H. C. Ephraim Lawrence of said town for many years before his death, and were intim- ately acquainted with him and all his family for over fifty years; - said Ephraim Lawrence was always reputed to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and we have frequently heard him say that he served a tour in said war, and have heard him relate in- cidents connected with his service, and we verily believe that said Ephraim Lawrence was a soldier of the Revolution Said Ephraim Lawrence died in this town about ten years ago, and left a widow Sarah Lawrence

who has remained a widow since the death of her hus- band aforesaid, and is now living. We have no interest in the claim she may have to Bounty Land.
Ephraim Lawrence Alpheus French
Cumberland ss: May 23 d , 1856. Then personally appeared the a- bove named Ephraim Lawrence and Alpheus French who are credible respectable wit- nesses and persons of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed
Before me
Ezra Tobie Justice of the Peace

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts
The subscriber Ephraim Lawrence of Gray in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine requests the Secretary of State Massachusetts to examine the rolls and documents in his office relative to service in the war of the Revolution and to certify to him the evidence of the service of Ephraim Lawrence his father.
Said Ephraim Lawrence was a native of Groton Mass: and resided in said town in the time of the war of the Revolution. He was the son of Capt Asa Lawrence who commanded a company of Militia from Groton and was frequently in actual service during the war.
The said Ephraim Lawrence was also in actual service and your applicant has heard him say that he enlisted for and served at one time three months and was stationed at Cambridge or Rhode Island and he has heard his father say that this service was performed at a time when Lafayette had command of the troops. I have also heard my father say that he was on board the Dean Frigate and that he was in the Naval service about six weeks. He has also heard his father say that he was in the service

at other periods of the war as a waiter for his father Capt Asa Lawrence. He requests thee for a careful examination of the Rolls as he is unable to name the captain under whom the said Ephraim Lawrence served in the three months service. This application is made for and in behalf of Sarah Lawrence who claims Bounty Land under the act of March 3 1855 Ephraim Lawrence
State of Maine
Cumberland ss May 17th 1856 Signed by said Ephraim Lawrence in my presence
Freeman Bradford jus Peace

✓ 49.262
S Mrs Ann

OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Bounty Land Claims.
Hon. J. P. Waldo, Minister E. P. WALDO,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D. C.
246.430

Addl. Evidence
246430
Sarah Lawrence
wid
Ephraim
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Boylston