Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26918, for Jonathan Powers, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass. N. 16.
Powers Jonathan Oliver
NUMBER _____
W. 26918
CONTENTS

Maine 5578.
Let to Hon. N. Clifford July 6. 1840.
Ave Powers widow of Jonathan Powers, decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 23 November 1819 of York in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bagley of the regt commanded by Col Scammon in the Mass. Militia line for Can. Gds.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 21 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of June 1840, & sent to Hon. N. Clifford , House of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $84.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 sep r 40 10.50
$94.50
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. M. Curley Clerk, Book A Vol. 1. Page 19.

3356 Oliver Powers Application for Pension, under act of 7th July 1838. , 3356
Mr W. C. Allen Col Allen Alfred me

I John Sayward of Alfred in the county of York and state of Maine, of lawful age testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Powers of said Alfred deceased; that said Jonathan died at said Alfred, some time in the month of November A.D. 1819; that I am well acquainted with Olive Powers who was the wife of said Jonathan; that said Olive is the widow of said Jonathan and has never been married since his decease.
John Sayward
Witnesses Wm. C. Allen.
State of Maine
York county ss.
Subscribed and sworn to this nineteenth day of November, 1838, before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace for said county, who hereby certifies that the above named deponent, John Sayward, is a credible witness and a man of truth and veracity.
Wm. C. Allen
Justice of the Peace, York Co.

State of Maine.
York county ss.
On this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before the Hon. Wm. S. Hayer, Judge of the Court of Probate, being a Court of Record within and for the County and State aforesaid, Olive Powers, of Alfred in said County, aged seventy-six years, who by reason of her great age and bodily weakness is unable to travel and attend Court, and who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Pensions made by the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows", that she is the widow of Jonathan Powers, late of said Alfred, deceased, who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution; that the said Jonathan in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six enlisted at Fort Washington at Portsmouth in the state of New Hampshire into the company commanded by Capt. James Arnold, for the term of one year, and did duty therein during all that term; that the company was afterwards stationed at Ticonderoga, to which place he marched with his company, from Portsmouth aforesaid; that she does not recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment, but that John Sullivan was the commanding General; that after serving and doing duty in the company aforesaid, against the common enemy, he was honorably discharged; that she has no documentary evidence of his service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Powers, by the name of Olive Swammon, by the Rev. Pelatiah Fingley, at Sanford, in the County and State aforesaid, in the month of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty; that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Powers, died at Alfred aforesaid, on the 23d. day, twenty-third day of

November, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen; that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four; to wit, at the time above stated, and that she has remained single and unmarried ever since the decease of her said husband, Jonathan Powers.
Witness
Wm. A. Hayes - Abiah Powers
Oliver
her + Powers Marks
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me,
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate Yorks Co. N.Y.
I hereby certify that the above named Oliver Powers, by reason of her great age and bodily infirmity, is unable to travel and attend court.
Wm. A. Hayes Judge -

I Dennis Johnson of Waterborough in the county of York and state of Maine aged eighty two years, on oath testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Powers late of Alfred, deceased, that he enlisted into the same company in which I served; we both enlisted at Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire into the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Merrill; we marched from Portsmouth to Scituate, where we did duty for the term of twelve months, and at the expiration of said term the said Powers and myself were both honorablely discharged. I do not recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment, but John Sullivan was the commanding General. The service above stated was performed in the war of the Revolution in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six.
By William Jones Dennis Johnson 2 wits. Eunice Johnson
State of Maine York ss. Subscribed and sworn to this tenth day of November, 1838; and I hereby certify that the above named Dennis Johnson is a credible witness, and a man of truth and veracity.
Henry Hobbs Justice of the Peace

I Mehitable Harmon of Harmon in the county of Cumberland and state of Maine, aged seventy years, testify, and depose that when I was a young girl, I think not more than twelve years of age, Mr. Jonathan Powers and Miss Olive Harmon both of Sanford in the county of York, came to my father's house in said Sanford and were joined in marriage by Elder Petatook Tingley, a minister of the Gospel, who then resided at my father's house in Sanford aforesaid. I well recollect of seeing them married and of hearing the marriage ceremony performed.
Mehitable Harmon
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss.
Subscribed and sworn to this 17 th day of November, A.D. 1838; before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Cumberland; and I hereby certify that Mehitable Harmon, the above-named deponent, is a credible witness, and a woman of truth and veracity.
Charles Walker Jr Justice of the Peace

I Stephen Gower of Sanford in the county of York, and State of Maine, aged eighty-five years, testify and depose that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Powers, formerly of this town and late of Alfred, deceased, that said Jonathan Powers enlisted into the Army of the Revolution about the year 1776, being about a year previous to the time in which I enlisted which was in the year 1777; that said Jonathan was absent from this place, and in the Army as I understood about one year; that I saw the said Jonathan immediately after his return, and understood from him that he had been doing duty in the Army, but I did not understand under what Captain or Colonel. I continued to be acquainted with the said Jonathan until his death and always understood that he had been in the service for the period above mentioned. I also further testify that he married Olive Harmon, as was understood, and I know that they always lived together as man and wife until the decease of the said Jonathan. I have heard it said many years since that they were married by Elder Pelatiah Finley, an ordained minister of the Calvinistic Baptist denomination; that the said Finley performed the marriage ceremony when I was joined in wedlock myself.
Witness, Wm. G. Allen.
Stephen Gower
State of Maine. York county ss.
(Nov. 17, 1838)
Subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid this seventeenth day of November, 1838; and I hereby certify that the deponent, Stephen Gower, is a credible witness and a person of truth and veracity.
Wm. G. Allen, Justice of the Peace for York county.

I Timothy Shaw, Town Clerk of the town of Sanford, in the county of York and State of Maine, testify and say that I have examined the Records of said town from the year 1774, to the year 1774 seventeen hundred and ninety three, and that among the Records of Publications and marriages within that time I find but two or three Records or entries of marriages solemnised in said town; that I do not find on said Records the entry of any marriage of the late Jonathan Powers. The town Records in relation to marriages are very imperfect, the only minutes of any consequence kept upon that subject, was, as I have understood, those kept by the Ministers who performed the ceremony.
Witness, Wm. C. Allen.
Timothy Shaw
State of Maine.
York county ss.
(Nov. 17 sworn) Subscribed and sworn to before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for said county this seventeenth day of November, 1838; and I hereby certify that the above named deponent, Timothy Shaw, is a credible witness, and a man of truth and veracity.
Wm. C. Allen, Justice of the Peace, York county.

I Remick Cole, of Alfred in the county of York and state of Maine of lawful age, testify and depose, that Elder Pelatiah Singley, who is reported to have performed the marriage ceremony between Jonathan Powers and Olive Harmon, has, according to information which I have received been dead for a number of years; that I have, for Mrs. Olive Powers, made inquiry to find his Record of marriages, if he kept any, but have been unsuccessful in said pursuit; that I have long since heard that said Singley died in Watertown in the county of York, that he was a minister of the gospel of the Calvinistic order of Baptists, and whether he kept any Record of marriages is uncertain as none to my knowledge have been found.
Remick Cole
State of Maine
York county ss.
Subscribed and sworn to this nineteenth day of November, 1838, before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county, who hereby certifies that the above named Deponent, Remick Cole, is a credible witness and a person of truth and veracity.
Wm. C. Allen,
Justice of the Peace, York Co.

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that
William A. Hages is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Charles Walher Jr. is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Cumberland, and that Henry Cobbs and William G. Allen are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, York and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight .
John Skeele
} Register of Probate York County.

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26918
Oliver Powers
Wid. of
Jonathan Powers
Rev. Rev. War.
Act July 7 th 1838.
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3352 Olive Powers - Maine Let to Ch J Allen
9 May '39
act 1838 - W. C. Allen
9 Jany 1840
Me. act '38

Oliver Powers wid of Jonathan Me
Ad July 1838
Married 1780
died 1819
Allaw 6 mo 9 day
$21 per ann
Mass militia cap
Bragdon Col Scammon
Hon. S. Clifford
HR

July 6. 1840
Not olive Peron's Cane Nelson's Is.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr of Rev Washington City D.C.
H. H. Clifford 1772

I will thank you to return to me the letter which I forwarded with the papers of Olive Powell as I have forgotten who sent them to me
Yours truly
W. L. Goss

Mrs Alice Powers's Pension Papers.
23 June, 1840.
Please to address to Wm. E. Allen, Alfred, York Co. Maine.
Hon. Nathan Clifford W 2
Wm. E. Allen, Hon. Nathan Clifford Pension Papers

State of Maine.
York ss.
The additional declaration of Olive Powers, widow of Jonathan Powers, late of Alfred, family Sanford, deceased, in order to procure the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 7th. 1838.
The said Olive further declares, that since her former declaration the original discharge from Capt. Brazdon's company, then under the command of Lt. Lewis, Col. Scammon's Regiment, has been found among the papers of the said Jonathan in the house of his late brother, with whom he boarded many years after he came out of the service; and the said original discharge is herunto annexed; that from the certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is herunto annexed, it appears that said Jonathan enlisted the 5th of July 1775, and was discharged on the 12th day of September 1775, and that said enlistment was in the company of Captain Johna Brazdon in the 30th Regt. of foot commanded by Col. James Scammon, in the army of the United States; she therefore testifies that she verily believes that the said

Jonathan served in the company aforesaid, two months and seven days in addition to his service under Capt. Arnold, as testified to by Dennis Johnson whose affidavit accompanied her former declaration; that she verily believes, from what she has heard her husband say in his lifetime, that he was in the service about a year in company with Dennis Johnson, but that the said Johnson was careless in stating the different officers under whom they served together, and she has reason to believe that if the said Johnson were now living he would so correct his statement as to show that in addition to the four months served together under Arnold, a further service together under a different commander. For the second evidence of the second service of her late husband, with this explanation, the declarant refers to the papers on file in the pension office, annexed to her former declaration.
Witness
Levick Cole W. C. Allen.
her Olive X Powers mark.
Forfs. Subscribed and sworn to by the above-named Olive Powers, this 23d. day of June, 1840, before me, Wm. C. Allen, Justice of the Peace.

Wm. G. Allen, Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine York County ss. I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Judicial Courts, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William G. Allen is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the thirteenth day of March 1838 and will expire on the thirteenth day of March 1845 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this twenty third day of June Anno Domini 1840
Jere. Bradbury Clerk Jud. Courts York County

Jonathan Paine. Capt of Lewis Comp Col Scammons Regt is hereby Discharged from any further service in the Continental army by order of the Genl. & I do allow him to get home. I return Mr. Aida Camp Septv. 6. 1775

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 12 th 1840.
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 Jonathan Powers is borne on a "Return of Captain Joshua Bragdon's Company in the 30 th Reg t of foot Commanded by Col l James Scamman belonging to the Army of the United Colonies of North America, with an abstract of the pay due to said Company to the last day of July inclusive," that he enlisted July 5 th and discharged September 12 th , and that he belonged to the town of Sandford. the return is signed by "Lt Morgan Levi"
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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RECEIVED JAN 18
me me me
me Powers & Johnson Hon. Nathan Clifford, House of Representatives, Washington City, D. C.
Hon. N. Clifford H. Q.
Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 8, p. 111

Alfred, Jan. 1, 1840
Dear Sir,
In September or Nov. 1838, I forwarded to the Pension Department the declaration and application of Olive Powers, widow of Jonathan Powers, late of this town, deceased, for a Pension, accompanied with the deposition of Dennis Johnson of Waterborough that said Powers served with him six months or more in Capt. James Arnold's company in Col. Cogswell's regiment. In May 9, 1839, the Dept. answer that there was no such Col. in the N. H. line as Cogswell; that the name of Powers and Johnson is found on the roll of Arnold's company, but that this company did not serve more than four months. Between the time of my sending on the papers and the receipt of an answer from the Dept. Johnson, the person by whom the service was proved, died. Mrs. Powers is a very respectable lady and I should have great confidence that her statement that her husband was out more than six months is true, but that as to the officer under whom he served she was dependent upon the memory, in some measure, of Johnson; Johnson, as you know, was a very respectable man and I have full faith that Powers served with him more than six months, but as Johnson and Powers were in service together at different times, he probably made a mistake in supposing that six months service was performed under Capt. Arnold, and his recollection of the true name of the Col. also probably failed him; by his death Mrs. Powers is unable to get these mistakes rectified, as I have no doubt they would have been, upon further recollection, if Johnson were living. Mrs. Powers has been unable to find any other person living who was

with her husband, and also unable to ascertain by what witnesses Johnson passed his service; the same witnesses were probably knowing to the service of Powers. Johnson passed his service May 18, 1818, and his certificate is numbered 17,339; the most of his service was under Capt. Joshua Benson of Col. Joseph Vose's regiment.
What we want to ascertain is, 1. The names of the persons by whom Johnson's service was passed; this I suppose can be done by reference to the original papers corresponding to the above number; 2d. whether Powers's name is not borne on the roll of Capt. Benson's company or on the roll of any other company in which Johnson served; 3d. whether it is certain that Capt. Arnold's company did not serve more than four months and 4th. under what Colonel Capt. Arnold did serve.
By the delay of the Sept. which I have no doubt was unavoidable, to answer, for more than six months, Mrs. Powers's application, she has lost the benefit of Johnson's explanation, and put me under the necessity of putting you to more trouble than I should have felt at liberty, under ordinary circumstances, to impose upon you.
I enclose to you the answer of the Sept. which after using, you will please to return to me.
With much respect, Your friend &c.
Wm. C. Allen.