Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,822, for John Nason, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Wash.
Nason, John
NUMBER _____
S. 28.822.
CONTENTS

Maine N o 27,399
John Nason
of Hopi - in the State of Maine who was a private in the Coombs commanded by Captain Sinclair of the Reg t commanded by Col l McEwen in the Massachusetts line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of May 1834 - and from Jos. Hall A.R.
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1834 120.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sept 20.00 $140.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk Book E Vol. 1. - Page 38 -

John Kason's
Declaration
No 1531
For Geo. Hall H. B.

State of Maine } ss. County of Waldo }
On this nineteenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Alfred Jemison a Judge of the Court of Probate at Lincolnville in said County, John Hanson of Hope in said County, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to laws, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, being unable to attend the Court for this purpose. Voz
That he was born in Woolwich County of Lincoln in this State Oct 15. 1757, that he has no record of his age in connection but believes that there is one at Woolwich where he was born, that he was living in the town of Woolwich when called into service that he entered the service of the United States under the following named off- & served as herein stated, viz that he enlisted under Capt John Hinkley at Georgetown in Col M'Cobb's Regiment in the month of June 1779 & marched to Brookbay in the State of Maine & from thence to Baggaduce (now Lin- coln) where he was placed under the command of Genl Lovell and was there at the siege & battle of Baggaduce, & was discharged in the month of Oct after having served four months, that in the month of April 1780 he again enlisted in a company of Massachusetts State Troops commanded by Capt Solomon Walker in Col. Burtons Regiment under the command of Genl Rleg Wadsworth & marched to Camden in the Penobscot River & was there & at St George stationed until the month of Jan'y 1781 when he was discharged after having served eight months - that he was a private soldier during both the aforesaid campaigns, that he resided at Woolwich from his birth to the time of his enlistment & at that time where he continued to live until the year 1788 when he removed to Canaan, now Lincolnville, & then resided until the year 1808 when he removed into the neighbouring town of Hope in the County of Waldo where he now resides, In addition to Capt Hinkley, Col. M'Cobb & Genl Lovell whose names are mentioned above He remembers Col Mitchell

who commanded a Regiment at Badaugue, William Henson the adjutant of the Regiment, Lt. Wm. Porter, & Ensign Wm. Lee of the company to which he belonged & many other Officers of State troops in the first service & performed it in the second term of service Col. Barton who commanded the Regiment, Major Philip Ulmer, adjutant George Ulmer & there were no other troops but the Regiment to which he was annexed doing duty with us at his second term of service. Our duty was to guard the coast on the Pond & Great Bay which at that time was a frontier. He never received any written discharge but at the expiration of his term of enlistment, he was verbally discharged by his commanding officer. He has no documentary evidence. As to his character for veracity & their belief of his service in the war of the Revolution I refer to the Rev. Elisha Cox, the Rev. Samuel Peck, & justices M c Lane, Barstow, Crane, of Hope & all his neighbours & towns men.
We hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State.
his John H. Henson mark
Signed in presence of
James Peck
Sworn to subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me Alfred Johnson Judge
We Ebenezer Cox a clergyman residing in Hope; Thomas McKenney a clergyman residing in Lincolnville are well acquainted with John H. Henson residing in Hope who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reported & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Cox Thomas McKenney
Sworn to subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me Alfred Johnson Judge

Joseph Derry of Thomaston in county of Lincoln state of Maine aged seventy one years do testify depose & say that I was a Soldier in the Militia of the of state of Massachusetts in the war of the Revolution in the years 1778 & 1780 that I served in the same troops and under the same officers with John Vason then of Woolich in the county of Lincoln now of Hope in the county of Waldo. that I was well acquainted with said John Vason and that the said John Vason served as a private Soldier in a company commanded by Capt John Hinkley in Coln McCobb's Regime. and under the command of General Lovell from the month of June 1778 to month of October 1778 being about four months that the said Vason was during that period at the siege of Major Bagadus now Eastern that in April 1780 the said John Vason entered for eight months in a company under the command of Capt Solomon Walker of Woolich and marched to Camden where we was under the comm. and of General Gentry M'Nairn and there continued in service until January 1781 being then discharged I further testify and say that the said Vason was a faithful Soldier during the whole time of both services
Joseph Derry appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace Thomaston county of Lincoln state of Maine and testified to the above.
Wm Derry Jr Justice of the Peace
Thomaston July 30 1832
I hereby certify that Wm Derry Jr is a Justice of the Peace & that I have no doubt the signature above is his proper signature.
Nathl M. Lowrey Register of Probate

And the said Judge of Probate does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Thomas McRaney of Lincolnville residing near the residence of the said John, the applicant, & Ebenezer Cox of Hope in said County, who have signed the preceding certificate are clergymen & credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit - also that the above John upon the applicant is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend the Court.
Alfred Shumont Judge
Nathl M. Lowrey, Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that Alfred Shumont is the Judge of Probate for said County & that the signature above is his proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1882.
Nathl M. Lowrey Register of Probate Waldo County
1788
United
owing
one resides,
Genl Lovell who
members Col Mitchell
inney

28 822 Ruy INVALID.
1930 Apr. 29. Photos mailed to Edw. H. Gould See David Kelloch, W7976 9.10.7.
File No. 28 822
Chas. Mason
Rev. Rev. 1870
Act: "James 82"
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 994
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Lincolnville May 5 1834
Hon Secretary War Department Washington
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Nason for forty-five years have lived in the immediate neighbourhood with him for many years in Lincolnville and he now lives in two and half miles from me in the Town of Hope where I have frequently had an opportunity of seeing and conversing with him and can say that he is a man that his word is taken for truth and veracity among all classes of people as quick as any man in this place - and I have every reason to believe that there is not any person that knows him but what will confirm this assertion
I further say he has frequently told me that he was at the defeat of Bragadine (or Castine) that his Captain John Hinckley was killed, where he was placed under the command of Genl Lovell - and what he has stated in his declaration is what he has always stated to me - when he had no thought of a pension He is a poor man not been able to labour has been here for nearly twenty years If any more evidence is wanting after referring to Joseph Perry Deposition that is attached to John Nason's Declaration if you will be pleased to inform me I will try to get such as will be satisfactory to enable him to get his pension for his services for 1779
Your obedient servant Ephraim Fletcher

E. Nason Maine
Admiral Pmo p 40
42 Joseph Hall R

J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm d of Reserves Washington

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, April 28 th 1834.
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 John Nason, as a private, is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. Solomon Walker's Company, in Col. Prime's Regt. where he is allowed from April 25 th to Decem r . 26 th 1780. eight Months and two days. m. do 8-2
John Nason claims for services under Capt. John Hinckley, in 1779; but the roll is not found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

House of Representatives
12th May 1834
I have been acquainted with Mr John Nason and Ephraim Hatcher Esqr for more than twenty years and I am assured to whom it may concern, that they are men of great moral worth and integrity of Character and that full credit should be given to their declaratory. Mr Hatcher was an Elector of President and vice President at the last election is known to many and for respectability of Character, no man in the county where he resides, in the estimation of his Fellow Citizens —
I am very respectfully
Yr Obed Serv
Joseph Hall

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.
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April 22, 1930.
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