Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,535, for Nathan Page, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Page, Nathan
S 18535
Carded.
CONTENTS

8167
Maine
Nathan Page
of Jackson in the State of Me who was a Pri. in the Co. commanded by Captain Haskell of the Reg. commanded by Col. Bradford in the Massa line for 6 Mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of March 1833 and sent to Nath l M Sweeney Belfort Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $ 40.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep 33 10.00 $500.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Rillack Clerk Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 78

BRIEF in the case of Nathan Pove of Jackson in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     Done In 1720 6 Private Col' Washburn Col' Broadfoot  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Concord Meets  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The Clerk's certificate that Francis Dootle is an acting justice of the peace is wanting— 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Nicholas D. Gutt Examining Clerk.

Declaration of Nathan Page
10831
✓

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -
State of Maine
Waldo County ss
On this third day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. Alpheus Johnson for justice of the court of Probate now sitting. Nathan Page of said town in the County of Waldo aforesaid aged sixty nine years last April who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 under the following named officers -
At Concord in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in June 1780 he enlisted into the Continental Service for six months & served that length of time in Captain Haskell's Company in the 14th Regiment commanded by Col. Bradford -
From Concord he marched to Springfield, thence to West Point New York, thence to New Jersey, thence back again to West Point where he was discharged at the expiration of said six months and received a written discharge which he has since lost -
At the time he enlisted into the service he lived at said Concord - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Nathan Page
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me A. Johnson
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states
A. Johnson
Judge
I Nathl M. Loring Register of the court of Probate for the County of Waldo hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Nathan Page for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this third day of September A.D. 1832
Nathl. M. Loring Register Probate

February 18, 1937
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BA-J/MCS Nathan Page, S.18535
Mr. H. B. Johnson 7001 Waterman Avenue St. Louis Missouri
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of February 4th, requesting information relative to a Revolutionary War soldier, Nathan Page or Pease who served from Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine, and was living at Jackson, Maine, at time of his death.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 18535, based upon the military service of Nathan Page, the only soldier of that name who received pension while living in Jackson, Maine, that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He was born in April, 1763. The place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
While living at Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in June, 1780, and served six months as private in Captain Haskell's company in Colonel Bradford's Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment.
Nathan Page was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was living in Jackson, Waldo County, Maine.
The papers on file contain no data relative to the family of Nathan Page.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Nathan Page, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data: Nathan Page, Certificate #8167, issued March 14, 1833, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maine Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

I
18535
INVALID.
File No. 18535-
Nathan Page
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 426
[Arrangement of 1870.]
May 17 99
Mrs L. Schumacher
Division Bureau
1937, Feb. 18. List to Mr. H. B. Johnson. M.C.D.

Mr Charles Hanley.
Affidavit

I Charles Handley of Acton in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Do hereby depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Nathan Page of Jackson in the County of Waldo in the State of Maine, that in the year AD 1780 in the month of June said Page and myself then living in the town of Concord, enlisted into the continental service for the term of six months from Concord we marched to Springfield and from Springfield we were marched to West Point, from there to New Jersey, from there returned to West Point and there discharged after the expiration of said six months. In Capt Haskell's Company In the 14 Regt Col. Bradford Commander
Acton August 6 1832
✓ Charles Handley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. August 6, 1832 Then the above named Charles Handley personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was just & true
Before Me
Francis Tuttle Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Charles Handley that he is a man of truth and respectability
Acton August 6, 1832
Francis Tuttle Justice of the Peace

Nathan Page
March 1780
6 m.
admiral
6 th private
20
Nath l de Lowny
Belfast
Me

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Nathan Page Jackson Maine which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? u If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? u Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? u XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? u XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? u XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Is the name of Nathan Page of the Mass Troops or Colony on the Pension Rolls

J N.P. 185-35-
16587 H

Record of ? John Glidden Served 28 days in Capt Chase Taylor's Co., Genl. Stark's Brigade engaged July 22, 1877.
afterward Sergeant Served 3 months 8 days, in Capt. Moses Leavette Co. Col. Abraham Duke's Regt or Col. Thomas Stickney's "
discharged Dec. 15, 1877.
Is name on Pension Rolls.
L. Schermerhorn Section D.
So. Div. —

L. W. B. I. 18535.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
May 18th, 1899.
Madam:-
In compliance with your request a very careful examination of the Revolutionary war pension and bounty land records has been made and a John Glidden, identical with the one you describe, has not been found thereon.
Nathan Page made an application for pension on September 3rd, 1832, at which time he was 69 years of age and residing in Jackson, Waldo County, Maine, and his pension was allowed for six months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Concord, Mass., and served under Capt. Haskell and Col. Bradford.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Louis Schermerhorn,
Southern Division,
Pension Bureau.

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4, 1937.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am inclosing herewith correspondence with the War Department relative to Revolutionary War service of my great grandfather, Nathan Page, who served in that war either from Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine.
The only record I could find in the Public Library here showed one Nathan Page as a pensioner, and our family records show that my great grandfather received a pension. The Library record showed the pensioner as being a private in a Massachusetts Regiment, hence I assumed that my Nathan Page must have enlisted in Massachusetts. However, we know that he married in Ringe, N. H., and must have lived there at least until 1790, as his family is shown in the First U. S. Census of 1790. Later he removed to Lisbon, Maine, and finally to Jackson, Maine, where he lived with my grandfather, Cyrus Johnson, until he died, his wife dying about 1840, in Jackson.
The information I want particularly is the information in your files covering the application for pensions of my Nathan Page and the various places where his pension checks were sent. In this way I hope to identify him with his original place of residence, and with the family he came from.
Any information that you can give me from your records will be greatly appreciated, and will, no doubt, prove helpful.
Yours very truly
H. B. Johnson,
7001 Waterman Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
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