Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,232, for Thomas Murray, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER
W 23.232.
Murray Thomas Hatch, Mary Former widow
B.L.Wt. 15441-160-55-
CONTENTS

Civ: J. H. Harmon. Jany: 23/56.
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Vol M 2, page 55.
Act March 3/53 107,910 Apul 30 "
Mary Hatch, formerly widow Mary Hatch formerly Melony Thomas Murray Pri: Thomas Murray Adm
Capt Revolutionary War Rev War Claim - a Pension Act 1838 & refused Evidence on file Dis Mass. State Troops
Act 160 ac. Feb: 7/56 One Feb 1856
Co. G
J. H. Harmon Portland Maine

4438
Name
Mary Hatch formerly widow of Thomas Murray who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Feb 1849 and sent to
M rs A. Hayes South Berwick Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 13 Vol. 1.
Reg 8 m 55-107910

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Claim of Mary Hatch
To Bounty Land.
Act of March 3, 1855.
WAR OF the Rev.
Z. K. Harmon
PORTLAND,
Maine.

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, April 26 185 5 .
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 Trafton 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 York 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 York ss.
On this twenty third day of April , A. D. 1855. personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Hatch a resident of Alfred in said County and State, aged over 87 years, who being duly sworn, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain Bounty Land, under the Act of Congress passed March 3d, A. D. 1855.
And your declarant further states that she was formerly the widow of Thomas Murray late of Lebanon in the State of Maine that her said husband, Thomas Murray was a Soldier of the Revolution, and died in the year of our Lord, 1809. She then intermar- ried with one Stephen Hatch, who died on the 31st. day of August, 1835, that she has not applied for or received Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress, and that she believes her said husband, Thomas Murray never received Bounty Land in his life time.

YOUR DECLARANT FURTHER STATES, that she was married to the said Thomas Murray on the twenty eighth day of November A.D. 1787 , at Lebanon in said State, and that her name before marriage was Mary Lord .
And your declarant further states, that after the passage of the Act of Congress of 1838 she made application for a Pension, on which application a pension was granted her at the rate of twenty six 66/100 dollars per annum, as will appear by her Pension Certificate, dated the twentieth day of March A.D. 1849 No. Recorded in the pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under the act of February 2 o 1848, page 13 Vol. 1.
For proof of marriage, her husband's service in the Revolutionary War, and his death, and of your declarant's identity, she refers to her declaration and proof for a Pension, now on file in the Department of the Interior, at Washington.
She therefore claims Bounty Land under the act aforesaid, and states that she is still a widow.
And for the purpose of this application, I hereby appoint H. H. Harmon of Portland my true and lawful Attorney in the premises.
Attest,
Porter Willard
Joseph E. Willard
Mary
her X Hatch mark
Sworn to and subscribed, before me, the day and year first above written, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subjoined, for the purposes above mentioned. And I hereby certify that knows
the said Mary Hatch is the identical person to be the person who performed she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration, and the military service aforesaid, and to be of the age above stated. that I have no interest in this claim.
William Trafton
Justice of the Peace.

We, Porter Willard of Sanford and Joseph E. Willard resident of Alfred in the county of York and state of Maine, on oath depose and say, that we are personally acquainted with Mrs. Mary Hatch of this town; she is now a widow and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and is the identical person she represents herself to be in her declaration for bounty land, which declaration she has this day signed and acknowledged in our presence, and that we have no interest whatever in the claims said Mary Hatch may have to bounty land.
Porter Willard
Joseph E. Willard
State of Maine. York, ss. April, 23, 1855.
Then personally appeared the above named Porter Willard, and Joseph E. Willard, who are credible and respectable witnesses, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed. Before me,
William Trafton, Justice of the Peace.

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State of Maine in county of York ss
On the thirteenth day of December A.D. 1844, personally appeared before William A. Hays Esquire a justice of the Peace within and for said county of York Mary Hatch a resident of Alfred in said county of York aged seventy seven 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 Act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Thomas Murray who was a private in Capt. Jedediah Goodwins company Col. Joseph Brims Regiment, and Col. Wadsworths Brigade of Massachusetts forces and served eight months in the town of Salmon the Maine from the first part of May A.D. 1780 to the first part of January A.D. 1781 - and that she is entitled to receive as has made her declaration in order to obtain twenty five Dollars of sixty two cents pension on account of her said husband

under the Act of Congress of July 7 th 1838- she then declares that she is still a widow
Witness -
Wm. A. Hayes
Mary
X Hatch
George Mumey
marks
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me - Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace
I certify that the said Mary Hatch the above named declarant is personally known to me -
Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace
State of Maine
York County ss.
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and state aforesaid do hereby certify that William A. Hayes Esquire is the acting Judge of Probate within and for said County duly commissioned and qual- ified and that his commission signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of March A D 1845
Wm Hammond
Register of the Court of Probate for the County of York

Extract from the Records of the Town of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine
"Marriages solemnized by the Presb" "Matthew Merriam" " Seventeen hundred & eighty seven November" " the twenty second. Thomas Murray with" " Mary Lord both of Berwick " A true extract - Frederick A. Lord Clerk Seven clerks of said Berwick.
I Frederick A Lord clerk of said town of Berwick certify that the foregoing is a true extract as it is on the records except the dates, which are expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz "1707. Nov r 22 d Thomas Murray with Mary Lord both of Berwick"
Frederick A. Lord, Clerk of said town. I Frederick A Lord above named do hereby testify and say that I hold the office of clerk of said town of Berwick, and that the above is a true extract from the records of the same town with the exceptions aforesaid.
Frederick A Lord York ss January 1 st AD 1845 Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Frederick A. Lord. Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace I William Allen Hayes the above named

magistrate of Justice of the Peace, hereby certify that Frederick A Lord who is well known to me is a man of truth & veracity, and his statements whether under oath or not are entitled to full credit. I further certify that to my knowledge he is town clerk of said town of Berwick
Wm. H. Hays Just Peace

STATE OF MAINE, }
York County, ss. }
I, William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William A Hayes Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1839, and will expire on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1846 that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of March A. D. 1845.
William Hammond }
Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York.

Jedediah Goodwin of South Berwick in the County of York & State of Maine Esquire aged sixty three do hereby testify & say that I have often heard my father say that he command- ed a company of Massachusetts Militia in the year 1780 & marched with them to Falmouth and to the Kennebec River in Maine & that he was out on this town eight months. The paper herunto annexed is an original Roll of his said company in his own hand writing. He made the whole Roll, and his name on the back thereof is in his own hand writ- ing. My father died about twenty five years ago, but his hand writing is very familiar to me, & I am confi- dent that Roll is an original Roll in his own hand writing & that his signature on the back thereof is his & made with his own hand
Jed th Goodwin
State of Maine
York ss March 10 AD 1845. Then personally appeared the above named Jedediah Goodwin the Deponent who is personally well known to me to be the person hereby certified that he is a man of truth & veracity, and that

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his statements are entitled to full cred and made solemn oaths that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me Wm. H. Hayes Just Peace

his statements are entitled to full cred and made solemn oaths that the foregoing deposition by him submitted is true
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace
STATE OF MAINE, }
York County, ss. }
I, William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William A Hayes Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1839, and will expire on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1846 that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this twelfth , day of March A. D. 1845
William Hammond }
Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York.

I George - Thomas Murray of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine, Yeoman aged fifty five years do hereby testify and say that I am the son of Thomas Murray who was a soldier in the revolutionary war, I have often heard my father say that he served eight months in Capt. Jedediah Goodwins company at Portland then called Salmon's - My father died on the nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and nine - My mother remained a widow till the nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen when she married to Stephen Hatch of Alfred. I was present & saw her married to said Hatch by Elden Lockwood Dilleno a minister of the Gospel, I well remember that she was married to said Hatch just nine years after the decease of my father the said Thomas Murray. I have searched the records of Lebanon and can not find her marriage recorded. The records show that she was published to Stephen Hatch the twenty second day of March A.D 1818 - The following is the record viz: "List of Publications 1818 March 22 Stephen Hatch of Mary Murray"

The said Stephen Hatch died the first of August in the year eighteen hundred of thirty five, on about that time - I was present at his funeral - My mother the said Mary Hatch has remained a widow ever since and is now living -
The word Thomas in the first lines erased & the word George interlined before being signed.
George Murray
State of Maine
York ss - January 20 - 1845 - Then personally appeared the above named George Murray and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him signed is true.
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace
I William A. Hayes the magistrate above named do hereby certify that the above named George Murray is personally well known to me, that he is a man of truth & veracity & that his statements are entitled to full credit.
Wm. A. Hayes Justice of the Peace

The said Stephen Hatch died the first of August in the year eighteen hundred of thirty five, or about that time - I was present at his funeral - My mother the said Mary Hatch has remained a widow ever since and is now living -
The word "Thomas" in the first lines erased & the word "George" interlined before being signed.
George Murray
State of Maine York ss - January 20 - 1845 Then personally appeared the above named George M.
STATE OF MAINE, }
York County, ss. }
I, William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William A. Hayes is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1839. and will expire on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1846 that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of March A. D. 1845
William Hammond }
Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York.

I Charles G. Clark of Berwick in the county of York & State of Maine aged Eighty years do depose testify and say that about the first of May A.D. 1780 I enlisted as a common soldier to serve eight months in Capt Jedediah Goodwin's company Col. Joseph Brine's Regiment of Peleg Wadsworth Brigade of the Massachusetts forces - I marched to Salisbury near Portland served the eight months for which term I enlisted except a short time I was at home sick for this service I never drew a pension Thomas Munny enlisted & served in the same company for the term of eight months with me - He returned home about the first of January after having served out his term of enlistment & having been honably discharged - I have been shown a roll of the company as made out July 1 st 1780 which is a true and original roll of the company. I knew Mr Thomas Munny well, after he left the army he was married to Mary Lord, And after his decease his widow married Mr Stephen Hatch of Alfred then Charles G. Clark Witnesses: Lucia J. Linnell Wm. A. Hayes - Marks.

State of Maine
Yorks ss. January 1- 1845 Then personally appeared the above named Charles G. Clark who is well known to me, and who was formerly known by the name of Charles Clark, and whom I know to be a man of truth & veracity & his statements under oath are entitled to full credit, and made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him signed is true
Before me Wm A. Hayes Justice of the Peace
STATE OF MAINE, }
York County, ss. }
I, William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William A Hayes is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1839 and will expire on the twenty fifth day of January A. D. 1846 that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of March A. D. 1845
William Hammond }
Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York.

Mary Hatch's Declaration for Pension five years Act July 7-1838.
Re March 24. 1845.
Forward the certificate to Wm A. Hayes & Benwick. M c R.

State of Maine
county of York ss-
On this thirteenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred of forty four personally appeared before the Hon. William A. Hayes judge of the court of Probate within and for said county of York, Mary Hatch a resident of Alfred within said county of York, of state of Maine aged seventy seven 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 Act of Congress July 7 th 1830. entitled "An Act granting half pay of pensions to certain widows" And the Act of August 23 rd 1842. That she is the widow of Thomas Murnay, who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and served eight months in Falmouth, Me., near Portland from about the first of May 1780 to about the first of January 1781. in Capt Jedediah Goodwins company in Col Joseph Brims Regiment of Peleg Wadsworths Brigade of Massachusetts forces
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Murnay on the twenty second day of November in the year

seventeen hundred & eighty seven and that her said husband the aforesaid Thomas Murray died on the Nineteenth day of April A.D. 1809 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services, but the marriage took place, previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz: at the time above stated. That she was married to Stephen Hatch on the Nineteenth day of April A.D. 1810 and that Stephen Hatch died on the first day of August A.D. 1835 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period.
Witness, Wm. A. Hayes Mary her X Hatch George Murray Marks
Sworn to and subscribed on the day of year above named
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York Co. Maine
I certify that the said Mary Hatch by reason of her great age & bodily infir- mity is unable to travel & attend court Wm. A. Hayes Judge

State of Maine. York County ss
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the county of York and state aforesaid do hereby certify that William A Hayes Esquire is the acting Judge of Probate within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this is thirteenth day of March A D 1845
Wm Hammond } Register of the Court of Probate } for said county of York

State of Maine.
YORK, SS.
I, William Trafton,
Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts in said County, do hereby certify that
William H. Hayes is an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for said county,
as appears by the paper hereto annexed ; that he is duly commissioned and qualified to act as such ; that his commission is dated the second day of July A.D. 1846, and will expire on the second day of July A.D. 1853.
and that the
his are following genuine.
signature purporting to be
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the
Seal of the Supreme Judicial
Court for said State, this Sixth day of November
Anno Domini 1848.
William Trafton, Clerk.

State of Maine County of York, ss.
On this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before William Allen Hayes Esquire a justice of the Peace within & for said County of York Mary Hatch a resident of Alfred in said County of York aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth 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 second day of February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Thomas Murray who was a private in the army of the Revolution, as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension on which a pension certificate numbered 6843 for Twenty five Dollars & sixty six cents per annum was issued to her - said certificate was dated April 30th AD 1845. under the Act of June 17th 1844
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness Wm. A. Hayes - Mary X Hatch George Murray Marks
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me, Wm. A. Hayes Just. Peace
I William A. Hayes a magistrate as before stated, hereby certify that the above named Mary Hatch is personally well known to me, & that she has drawn a pension stated by her in the above Declaration.
Wm. A. Hayes Just. Peace

Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Agent
Washington - D. C.

South Berwick, Me, March 20, 1845
Hon J. L. Edmands.
Dear Sir,
Accompanying this I send you the declarations of Mary Hatch for a pension. As the applicant is very old I beg your early attention to the case -
You will please to forward the pension certificate to me
With great Respect
I am Sir Sir
Yours &c
Wm. H. Hayes

9260 Maine
Mary Hatch, formerly widow of Thomas Murray who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 19 th Ap r 1809 of in the State of Maine who was a Pri in the Com commanded by Captain Goodwin of the regt commanded by Col Prine in the Mass line for 8 Mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Ap r 1838 and sent to Wm. A. Hayes, South Berwick Maine
Total amount, $133.30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. L. Swann Clerk, Book Vol. Page 27

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23232
D Mary Heath
Formerly wid of Thomas Murray Prin Ruler
Act Feb 2 d 1848.
Index: Vol. A , Page 317
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6843
Maine
2 Cents — 1 act 1838, 1 " 1843 V. 4. Repo
Mary Hatch, formerly widow of Thomas Murray who was a Private in the Massa. Line,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Apr. 1845 and sent to
H m A. Hayes South Berwick Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.] June 17. 1845
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 4

Hon Wm. Ramsay
letter to at No 101 - 15441 - 160 - 35 the Murray land
sent regulations
of Jacob Coper's land not yet as and
See the within
15 Apr 1828
Respectfully

Washington, Bounty land office
15 ap l 1828
The Honble
William Ramsay
Sir
I find upon examination that Thomas Murray of the Penns a line in the revolutionary war, whose claim for bounty land was referred by you to this office, has been returned as entitled to bounty land, and I now send you the necessary regulations with which his heirs must comply and return duly authenticated.
Jacob Coven or Koven has not been returned of the same line as having served to the end of the war, & is not entitled to bounty land - If he ever obtained, as the letter to you states, any warrant for any land it must have been from the State of Penns a & not from the United States.
Yrs & Robert Taylor

Miss F. H. 48, Me,
Boston

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Nov Aug.

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Mary Hatch Thompson Murray
Boynnton
Additional Evidence in Suspended No 107.910
OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Bounty Land Claims
Hon. L. P. WALDO
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.

Additional Evidence in Sus: Bounty Land Claim of Mary Hatch (widow of Thomas Munay) N o 107.910 Act of March 3. 1855. War of the Rev o
Z. K. Harmon Portland Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, January 31 st 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 Thomas Murray is borne on pay roll of Capt. Jedidiah Goodwin's Comp. Col. Joseph Pium's Regt. from May 3. to Nov. 20. 1780. 6 mos. 18 days, as private.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. D. Witt
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
PENSION OFFICE,
January, 23 d , 1856.
Sir :
The claim of Mary Hatch , for bounty land under the act of the 3 d March, 1855, No. 107,910, has been examined and suspended.
The revolutionary service of Thomas Murray , the formerly husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.
The 3 d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."
Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.
IT SHOULD BE OBSERVED, that the recorded action of this office, admitting a revolutionary soldier to the list of pensioners upon parole proof, is not considered "record evidence" of service within the meaning of the act aforesaid. In all applications for bounty land under this act, the papers of the soldiers, or their widows, who have applied for or received pensions, as well as the rolls in this office, are carefully examined for record evidence of service, before this circular is issued.
Respectfully,
J. MINOT, Commissioner.
E. K. Harmon Esq., Portland, Me.
Upon are referred to the Secy of State Map as the before alleged he served in '79 or '80. Right months under Capt. Knowlton's Col. Prime. Mass. Troops.