Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21927, for Thomas Paine, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Paul, Thomas Anna
No. 21927.
CONTENTS

See letter to Hon. K. Bond Jan. 8. 1838
191- Maine ✓
Thomas Paine
of Portland in the State of Maine who was a sergeant in the 1st commanded by Captain Lane of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Alden in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 Years from February 1777 to 17
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 120 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of August 1832 and sent to John Mussey Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1832 $ 120 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept " 60 $ 180
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 th June 1832
Recorded Book 20 Vol 1- page 78

3918
Mary
Anna widow of James who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 12 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of July 1848 and sent to Wm. H. Miller Esq.
Recorded on Roll of Pensions under Act February 7, 1848. Page 10 Vol. 7
Mary Anna James Sergeant

Thomas Paine's Application for a pension.
July 1832
to Sergeant.
July 31 1832
Pension $120 per ann Office $120 per ann
copd. 7 Feb. 1777 Serg. 19 Nov. 1775 1 Feb. 1780
adm d act 7 June 1832

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty fifth day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this twenty fifth day of July , aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Thomas Paine a resident of Pownal in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Seventy Six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was placed on the pension list roll of the District of Maine agency, and a certificate of pension granted to him on his application made on the 28th day of April, 1818. That his name has been stricken, or dropped from the pension list by the law of May 1. 1820. He has not exhibited any schedule of his property under said law. He served as a Sergeant, in Capt. Lane's Company 1st Col. Union's Reg't in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment. That he lives in Pownal aforesaid - I lived there when he first made his application,  _____
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of Maine -
Thomas Paine
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I John Nussey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty sixth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
} Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

State of Maine
On this 30 th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven personally appeared before me the subscriber at her residence in Pownal in the County of Cumberland Anna Paine a widow aged 83 years who being first sworn doth upon oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 17 th 1847
And this declarant states that she is the widow of Thomas Paine late of Pownal deceased and that her husband was a soldier of the revolution and a pensioner of the United States and that he drew a pension under the act of 1832 at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum. And this declarant has reason to believe and has frequently heard her husband say that he was a native of Falmouth on Cape Bay and was a resident of that town in the time of the revolutionary war. She has heard him say and has also heard him frequently testify and that too within a few years past that he entered the service at the commencement of the revolutionary war and served the first year thereof in Capt David Bradish company, in Col Phinney's Regt - that he also served in Capt Lowell's company in the year 1776 and was stationed in Falmouth

and in 1777 that he enlisted for three years in the Continental Army and served under Capt Sam of Buxton. She has heard her husband make mention repeatedly of serving in the three years service with Sergeant John Dain and in the life time of said Dain she has frequently heard them talk of their Revolutionary services. She refers to the declaration of her husband the said Thomas Paine now in the Pension office at Washington.
And this declarant further states that she was married to the said Thomas Paine in Gorham on the _____ day of _____ 1788 by Mr. Dr. Dain and that her husband Thomas Paine died on the 11 th day of July 1847 and that she now is his widow as will appear by the testimony annexed.
Asahel Wren
China he  Paine. mark
Signed & sworn to before me this _____ day of October 1847
Asahel Wren Judge of the United States for the District of Maine

State of Maine
I William B Harding do certify and say that I am Town clerk of the Town of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine that, and that I am in possession of the Records of said Town of Gorham, and do certify that I as found in the Records of said Town, the following Entry. "Gorham Sept. 8 th 1781. Thomas Paine entered his name and purpose of marriage with Anna Haskell both of Gorham att d Justin Alden Town clerk."
The above extract is taken from the Records as it is entered on the Town Records, excepting the word clerk on the records is write blo d instead of being write in full. I find no certificate of the marriage - on the Records.
W m Harding Town clerk.
Cumberland ss. Sept. 8 th 1847. Then personal appeared William B Harding and made oath to the foregoing extract by him subscribed, as being true, I do further certify and say that I am acquainted with the said William B Harding - and that he is a man of truth and veracity, and that he is Town clerk of Gorham for the present year.
Elijah Hays Justice of the Peace

I, Harrison Brazier of Portland in the County of Cum- -berland and State of Maine aged Seventy one years, on oath depore and say, that I am well acquainted with Anna Paine of Portland (in the County and State aforesaid) Widow of Thomas Paine, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States,
The maiden name of Anna Paine was Anna Haskell before her marriage to the said Thomas Paine, and that she is the only wife of the Thomas Paine ever had and that I have been acquainted with them for many years, that I am an acquaintance with the children of said Anna Paine and Thomas Paine and do know that they have lived together as man & wife, for many years past.
Harrison Brazier
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss
On this Second day of June 1848. per- =sonally appeared the above named Harrison Brazier a person well known to me as a man of undoubted truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affida- =vite by him subscribed
Before me for State Justice of the Peace

I Henry L Warren of Pownal in the county of Bennington and State of Maine a govt fifty one years on oath depose and say, that I am acquainted with Anna Paine widow of Thomas Paine, who was a Revolu- tionary Pension of the United States, that I have known the said Thomas Paine & Anna his widow for the space of forty years past, that they have lived together as man & wife, and that they have been children living, that I am acquainted with all of them, that I live within the space of one mile from them & have lived for forty years past and that I have known Thomas Paine since last July Henry L Warren
State of Maine Bennington County ff.
On this fifteenth day of June 1848. personally appeared the above named Henry L Warren a person well known to me as a man of undoubted truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Joseph Eddy Justice of the Peace

United States
Maine District
District Clerk's Office.
I hereby certify that the Honorable Asahel Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were held, is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District, and that the sig- nature thereto purporting to be his, is his genuine signature
And I further certify that Elijah Haines and Joseph Hovey Esquires are Magistrates duly commissioned and qualified as such for the County of Cumberland in said District and that full faith and credit are due to their official attestations
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this fifteenth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty eight.
John M. Dufsey Clerk U.S. District Court Maine

No 583.
Anna Paine wife of Thomas Me
Oct 17 June 1844
Marrried 1781
Husband died 11 July 1847
Adm rs 2 years interest $120. 00 per
from 11 July 1847
Same for 2 years interest advised Hon. A. W. H. Clapp Hon. A. W. H. Clapp House of Reps

United States of America Maine District, ss.
District Court February 11th. 1848.
Be it known that on this eleventh day of February 1848 it has been satisfactorily proved in Open Court being a Court of Record, that Thomas Saine late of Pownal was a Pensioner of the United States, and that he died at Pownal on the eleventh day of July 1847: And that he left a Widow living at the time of his decease, viz: Anna Saine of said Pownal.
In testimony of which I have hereto affixed the Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this eleventh day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. (Duplicate)
Some more
John Mufsey Stevens Dist. Court, Maine #

August 5, 1938
Miss Leone B. Hall Green River Road Williamstown, Massachusetts
BA-J/AWF Ames Thomas Paine W.21927
Dear Madam:
Enclosed which follow concerning Thomas Paine were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, W. 21927, based on his military service in the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Paine was a native of "Falmouth on Casco Bay"; the date of his birth was not given, nor were the names of his parents shown.
While residing at said Falmouth, Thomas Paine served early in the Revolution, in Captain David Bradish's company in Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts regiment, and in 1778, served in Captain Lowell's Massachusetts company, definite dates of service not given. He enlisted February 7, 1777, served as sergeant in Captain Lane's company in Colonels Alden's and Brooks' Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged February 9, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-one years, and a resident of Pownal, Cumberland County, District of Maine. He was still living in Pownal, Maine in 1832, and he died there July 11, 1847.
Thomas Paine married in Gorham, Cumberland County, District of Maine, Anna Haskell or Hashill; the marriage license was dated September 8, 1781, and

they were both then of Gorham. The date and place of birth of Anna Haskell (Hashill) were not given, nor were the names of her parents stated.
The widow, Anna Paine, was allowed pension on her application executed October 30, 1847, at which time she was eighty-three years of age, and living in Pownal, Maine.
They had seven children living in 1848 in the vicinity of Pownal, Maine. Their names were not designated.
One James Paine was of Cumberland County, Maine in 1848; it was not stated that he was related to the family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Anna Paine, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Anna Paine, widow of Thomas Paine Certificate #3818 Issued February 16, 1848 Rate $120.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1848 Act of February 2, 1848 Maine Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2692f
Anna Paine widow of Thomas Paine Sergt Rev War
Act Feb 2d 48
Index: Vol. 16 , Page 116
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1918 Oct 8-Heck n. here - 1920s Regional auth. 1935 Aug 3- " miss Leonid R. Hall Aug 3.

504. Maine
Anna Paine widow of Thomas Paine who was a Private Serjt. in the Revolution Husband died 11 July 1847
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March , 1847. July
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June, 1848 and sent to
Hon. A. W. H. Clapp Secy of Reps
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book W Vol. 2 . Page 7 .

10,379 R Maine
Thomas Paine of Pownal District in the state of Maine who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alden of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1819 and sent to Hon. Wadsworth Esq. Portland, Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{3}{4} \frac{6}{10} \frac{3}{10} 11. 03 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 - 40. 00
Y: 129. 03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Cumberland Col.

Portland Febr 20. 1848.
Sir.
I submit Enclose you the declaration of Anna Paine widow of Thomas, for the benefits of the Act of 2 d February 1848. which if correct please forward me a certificate
Respectfully Yours Joseph Nesbitt
J. S. Dammas Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Thomas Paine Recd Act 7 June 1832 $120. per an
To what time was he last paid R.S.A.
Pension Office June 27. 48
Paid to 4 th March 1847. W.H.B.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, } PORTLAND, Sept. 20 th A. D. 1848 }
Chas. C. Harmon
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Jacob Bemis is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Bemis is dated March 2 a A. D. 1843, and will expire March 2 a A. D. 1850.
and that the following this are 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, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Harmon CLERK.

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss.
On this nineteenth day of September 1848, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Anna Paine a resident of Pownal in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged Eighty five 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 2 d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Thomas Paine who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution in Capt Bradiher's Capt. Lorne's, Capt. Dune Company in Col. Brooks Regiment.
She further declares that she is still a widow, and has received the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 17 June 1848 at the rate of One hundred & twenty dollars per year.
Witness, Jacob Berris } Anna her Paine James Paine mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written Before me Jacob Berris Justice of the Peace
Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me to be the identical person as stated above Jacob Berris Justice of the Peace

Thomas Paine Sergeant Col. Alclans Regt Mass. line 1777- 3 year die: 28 April 1818
Role
Enlisted 7 July 1777 Sergeant 79th Div 1779 and discharged 7 July 1780
Admitted -

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Thomas Paine of Portland in the Maine District, that he served as a man in uniform Officer to wit a sergeant in the war of the revolution for the term of three years on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being now only an owner of an
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a sergeant to the Laine's Company of the Massachusetts Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the seventh day of February one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he left said service on or about the ninth day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty the term of his enlistment having then expired and he having received an honorable discharge which has since been lost. After Col Alden was killed the regiment was reorganized by Col. Brooks
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this twenty eighth day of April 1818. Thomas Paine
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 28 day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Thomas Paine the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Thomas Paine farther offered in evidence
The description of for Thomas Paine is here with an attachment
WHEREFORE it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Thomas Paine served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 28 day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
William Widgery (Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. William Widgery, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, this 30th day of July A. D. 1818.
Geo Bradbury

I Joseph Thomas of Pownal in County of Ben- nington & I am now a citizen of the Commonwealth being now sixty years of age testify & say that I was in the army dur- ing the time when Thomas Paine served, that I have said Paine at that time I being in Col. Vose's Regiment & he belonged to Col. Brooks Regiment, and that I was well acquainted with him being quartered in the same place & have no doubt that he served his time out Joseph Thomas
Personally appeared the above I named Joseph Thomas & made oath that the description by him above signed is true.
Wm Wadsworth Judge of the

Thomas Paine.
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Portland, at the Cumberland Bank,
Maine.
Recorded at

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, 11 11
Thomas Paine — late a Serjeant 11 in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Dist: of Maine Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentyeighth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this sixth day of May — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
E. C. Cabaniss
Secretary of War.

730- 9th St. N.E. Mason City Iowa Nov. 3. - 1927
Pension Dept. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Have you a record of Thomas (Paine) Payne of the Rev. War? I believe he came from the state of Mass.
I am interested in the D.A.R. organization. Any data you can give me in regard to this man will be greatly appreciated. I am Sincerely Yours
Mrs. G. lady Robinson 730- 9th St. N.E. Mason City Iowa

Veterans Administration, Dear Sirs:—
As I am looking for ancestors and trying to connect the Paines of Conway, Montigue, Sandwich, etc., with those of Braintree, and Eastham, Cape Cod, would you kindly give me data, ( names of wives and children , etc.) of the following Paines, if they were granted pensions.
 1st, 25 Mass Joseph Ruggles Paine . Payne Mass who fought in the Revolution in Capt Benj. Phillips Co. Col. Elisha Porter's (Hampshire) Regt. - 1777  2nd, Payne Josiah Paine of Eastham, in Capt. Adijah Bang's Co. (Barnstable) dated Dorchester - 1776.  3rd, Payne - Mass Samuel Paine, Capt Joseph Smith's Co. 1776 roll sworn to at Eastham.  4th V.C. Nathaniel Paine, Capt. Solomon Higgings (Eastham) Co. 1775.  5th, 1 Mass Thomas Paine. Payne roll dated Montigue, Capt. Asahel Gunn's Co. Col. David Wells Regt. This looks like a jig 

order - but if they had pensions and you can give me names of wives and children it will solve many problems in my genealogy.
Most sincerely Miss Leona R. Hall Green River Road
P.S. Williamstown, Mass.
All these five Paines are of Mass. and fought in Revolution .
July 5, 1938.

August 4, 1928
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Miss Leone B. Hall Green River Road Williamstown, Massachusetts
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Joseph Ruggles Paine, Josiah Paine, Samuel Paine, Nathaniel Paine and Thomas Paine, Revolutionary War soldiers, all of Massachusetts.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based on the military service in the Revolutionary War of a Samuel Paine, who served in the Massachusetts troops nor of a Joseph Ruggles Paine or Josiah Paine, all spellings of the surname used in the search of the records. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.
You are furnished herewith the records of Thomas Paine, the only soldier of that name, or similar spelling, who served with the Massachusetts troops, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, and of Nathaniel Paine, the only soldier of that name or similar spelling, that is found on said records.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

awf
October 8, 1928.
Mrs. Gladys Robinson 730 9th Street N.E. Mason City, Iowa
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 21927, it appears that Thomas Paine was born, date not stated, at Falmouth, on Casso Bay.
While residing at said Falmouth he served in Captain David Bradish's Company, Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts Regiment, no dates given, and in 1776, served in Captain Lowell's Company, length of service not stated.
He enlisted February 7, 1777, and served three years as a sergeant in Captain Lane's Company, Colonels Alden and Brooks' Massachusetts Regiment. 7th
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, while residing at Pownal, Cumberland County, Maine, aged sixty-one years.
He died July 11, 1847, at said Pownal.

The soldier married, in September 8 , 1781, at Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, Anna Hill Haskitt , or Haskell, they were both then of said Gorham.
She was allowed pension on her application executed October 30, 1847 while residing at Pownal, Maine, aged eighty-three years.
It is stated that there were seven children alive in 1848, their names are not given.
Respectfully,
E.W.MORGAN Acting Commissioner.