Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2695, for William Nickels, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Nickels, William Redington, Hannah (Former widow.)
No. 2695
CONTENTS

52100
Maine
William Nickels
of Lincoln in the State of New York who was a Private  Sergt in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Regt commanded by Col. Cargill in the Noyes line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 15 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Feb. 1833 - and to Mrs. Abby Augustus
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $67.50 Semi-annual allowance ending Feb. '33 22.50
$90.00
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. State Clerk Book Vol. Page 74

William Nickels
adm d
9 mo  Aug th
R. E. Vose, Augusta Me

I Robert Turner of Penobscot formerly a part of Maine in the county of Lincoln & State of Maine aged seventy six years on oath do testify & say that in the year of our Lord 1776 or 1777 William Sickels of Bristol aforesaid was a sergeant in the service of the United States in a company commanded by Capt. Caleb Turner which lasted for nine months & I think he served that term of time I cannot be certain which of the aforesaid years he served as I was there both of them & he but one I belonged to the same company with him. We were stationed at Penobscot fort. Robert Turner
Lincoln ss. July 26 th 1832 Then the above named Robert Turner was examined & questioned & sworn to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed taken at the request of William Sickels
Before me
Pearlee M. Wells Just. of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Turner is in my opinion a man of veracity and a disinterested witness
Pearlee M. Wells
Pearlee M. Wells Esq. is a justice of the Peace Nathan Weston Jr.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Lincoln, STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this eleventh day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before Peaselee M. Wells a Justice of the Peace for the County of said Lincoln in State, William Nickels a resident of Bristol in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following dec- laration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Caleb Turner and served in Col. Garghills regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Turner
Capt Garghills Col. That he entered in that Company & regiment in April 1777 as a sergeant for nine months. That this period he fully served out, & was verbally discharged at Pemaquid in January 1778.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
That he was born in Bristol, Me., in 1751, where he supposes his age is recorded & where his home was during his revolutionary services, & where he still resides. That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute. That he never took any written discharge. That while in the service he was employed in guarding the coast of Islands near Penobscot. That George Rogers was his first Lieutenant. Thomas Thompson was his second Lieutenant. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
William Nichols
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, (the applicant being in firm and unable to go from home and there being no other man who could visit him to receive his declaration) Pease M. Wells Clerk of the Court. And the said I do my  do hereby declare my  his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And I further certify that Pease M. Wells Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, and that I am satisfied the applicant is unable to go from home.
Nathan Weston Esq. Not S.P.C.

William Nichols Maine
adm d )
R C Vose Agent

County of Lincoln  BRIEF in the case of  William Nichols  in the State of Maine.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Justice of Peace  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? yes  3. How old is he? 81  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.     Alma In 17 '77 9 Sergeant Capt Turner Col Gargill  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bristol Me.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional documentary and living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

953
Mrs
Hannah Wedington, family widow of William Nickels.
who served in the Revolutionary
Colts war, as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 45 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
21 st day of July 1852
and sent to
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 9 Vol. 4 .

No Hannah Redington formerly widow of William Nickels for Pension As July 29. 1848
Maine
888 Gov. N. Morton Augusta Maine.

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 29th of July 1848.
State of Maine,
Penobscot County, ss.
On this thirteenth day of March A.D. 1852, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Judge of the District Court of Maine, it being a Court of record, Hannah Redington, a resident of Hampden in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged Seventy six 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress approved July 29, 1848, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain sur- viving widows of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army." That her first husband William Nichols was pensioned under the Act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of Forty five dollars per annum, that his name was enrolled at the Agency of the United States for paying pensions in the State of Maine, that the pension was paid to her as his widow, from March 4, 1831, to August 19, 1832 at the said Agency, that he was a resident of Bristol in the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine. She further states that her maiden name was Hannah Child, that she was married to the said William Nichols at Bristol in the County of Lincoln, in the then District, now State of Maine, on the nineteenth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six that he died in the town of Bristol on the nineteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
that

That she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the army of the Revolution, in support of her claim, presumed to be in possession of the War Department. That she intermarried with Samuel Redington of Vassalborough in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine on the 7th day of December A.D. 1838 and that the said Redington died on the 27 th day of October A. D. 1851, since which time she has remained unmarried. That she was not married to her first husband the said William Nichols prior to her leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the second day of January, eighteen hundred, viz. at the time within stated. She further swears, that she is now a widow and that she never before made any application for a pension.
Mannah Redington
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written
Before me Joshua W. Hathaway
I hereby certify that, by reason of bodily infirmary, the above named Mannah Redington is unable to attend in open court - Joshua W. Hathaway

I, A. H. Redington of Augusta, Maine, formerly judge of the Court of Common Pleas, throughout the State, and now Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, depose that my uncle, Samuel Redington died on the 27 th Oct. 1851, at the house of his son, the Mayor of this city; —
That, for his second wife, he married, Mrs. Hannah Nichols; I was personally acquainted with her, and consider her a person of the strictest truth; —
That before her said marriage, she was reported to have been for many years the widow of William Nichols, and to have remained so until her marriage with my uncle.
That since the death of said Samuel Redington, she has, to this time, remained his widow.
The attested certificate of her marriage, issued by the clerk of the town of Bristol had never  not been seen or known by her. The time of her marriage, as stated in her declaration made before Judge Hathaway, was from her memory alone. The certificate was obtained afterwards. Her first husband, I believe, spelt his name, Nickels. There can be no doubt she was, (until her marriage with my uncle,) the widow of William Nickels, who was prosecuted under the Act of June 7. 1832.
A. H. Redington
State of Maine,
Kennebec County ss. On the 19 th day of March 1852. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Kennebec afterwards Hon. A. H. Redington, being a reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Gov. A. Morton. Justice Peace

State of Maine, County of Lincoln, Town of Mistol
(a) Mr. William Nickels to Miss Hannah Glulce both of Mistol July nineteenth one Thousand seven hundred & ninety eight
I CERTIFY that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows:—(b) July 19 th 1798
William Henry
I, William Henry above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk, in the town, county and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certi- fied by me.
William Henry Clerk of said Town.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this eleventh day of February A. D. 1852
Peabody M. Wells Justice of the Peace.
(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be given in full. (b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.

State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss
I, William M. Shatten, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that Hon. Joshua W. Hathaway is sole Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District in said State, the same being a Court of record; — I further certify that Geo. H. Morton Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Kennebec, and Peasee M. Wells Esq. for the County of Lincoln, duly commissioned and qualified, — and that the signatures hereon purporting to be the signatures of the said Hathaway, Morton & Wells respectively, are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this nineteenth day of March Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty two.
W. M. Shatten.

June 4, 1897.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning William Nickels and Alexander Campbell, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, you are advised as follows:
William Nickels made an application for pension on August 11, 1832, at which time he was 81 years of age and residing at Bristol, Me., and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a sergeant in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Turner and Col. Carghill. He enlisted at Bristol, Me.
Hannah Redington, former widow of William Nickels, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Alexander Campbell made an application for pension on April 7, 1815, at which time he was 65 years of age and residing at Minot, Mass., and his pension was allowed for three

years' actual service as a private in the Massachusetts' troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Jackson and Col. Crane. Place of his enlistment not stated. His widow, Mary, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Frank C. Nickels, Minneapolis, Minn.

Rev.  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2695
Hannah Redington Widow William Pickard Sgt. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 153.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 4. 1897—History to Mr. Frank C. Stickels Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Main Agency
Hannah Redington, former of William Nickels, who was a Sergeant Mch Troops
She died July 28. 1848.
$ 45 per ann.
born March 4. 1848.
She died Aug. 18. 1832.
Maries July 18. 1898.
Geo. W. Morton, Augusta, Maine.

No 1.115
Hannah Rodgers
for. m. a. is William Nichols
July 29, 1848.
G. W. Morton.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 14 th 1832.
* 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 William Nickels is borne on "A muster roll of the company in the service of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay under the command of Caleb Turner capt." as having served as a Sergeant from March 21 st to December 7 th 1776, & was paid for nine months & 14 days service including "what time he billeted himself before the commissary was ready."
Edward D Bangs Secy

Brief in the case of Hannah Redington - for. wid of Mr. Michael Pinchot - County and State of Maine.
act
July 28. 1848.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband's pension act June 7. 1832. Record evidence of marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
J. W. Morton, Augusta, Maine.
Examining Clerk.
Osborn Pile

Respectfully Submitted to the Comm ee of Pensions March 23/52
Roll Girdenow H. R.

Augusta Maine
March 19. 1852
Dear Sir
William Nickels was pensioned under the Act of June 7. 1832 for $45. per annum, and died August 19. 1832 - his widow Hannah to whom he was married July 19. 1798 (is still living), after his death married with Sam l Redington who died in October 1851 - She is a claimant for pension under Act of July 19. 1840 on account of the revolutionary services of her first husband William Nickels. Should the papers accompanying this be deemed sufficient to prove her claim to a pension I would respectfully request you to transmit the papers to the Comm r of Pensions and have her claim allowed and send to me, as her agent, a certificate for her.
Very Respectfully
for the Secy.
Geo W Morton
Hon. Robert Goodenow M.C. Washington

LADD & NICKELS, REAL ESTATE, LOANS, INSURANCE AND RENTALS. 1, 2 & 3 LOAN & TRUST BUILDING. 311 NICOLLET AVE.
RENTAL AND INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
H. E. LADD. F. C. NICKELS.
ESTATES OF NON-RESIDENTS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION. PROPERTY IMPROVED AND RENTED SO AS TO YIELD THE LARGEST RETURNS. FIRE INSURANCE WRITTEN IN BOARD COMPANIES. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO PROPERTY INTERESTS IN MINNE- SOTA AND DAKOTA. MONEY LOANED AND REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Feb'y 27th-197
To The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear sir :-
For geneological and family historical purposes only, I would like to know what services William Nickels and Alexander Campbell of Lincoln )afterwards call- ed Washington ) County, Maine, rendered to the Government during the Revolutionary War or afterwards, upon which they or their widows received pensions.
By giving me such information in full, you will oblige,
Yours very truly -
Frank O'Nichols
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