Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,910, for Richard Plumer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass
Plumer, Richard or Plummer, Patience
NUMBER
W 26,910
CONTENTS

Maine - 1847.
Patience Plummer, — widow of Richard Plummer
who died on the 18 th July 1887 — of York R.C. in the State of Maine who was a Serjt. in the Compt commanded by Captain Hubbard of the Regt commanded by Seamon in the M ch . time for 8 months
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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 — 9 th day of March 1828, and sent to J. S. Kimball, Lebanon, Maine.
Arrears to the 14th of June. $ 320.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mo. 20.00
$ 340.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R. Bussey Clerk, Book A - Vol. 2. - Page 14.

Declaration of Catherine Blumner
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

State of Maine
County of York ss.
On this 18 th day of September  October A.D. 1837 personally appeared before the judge of the Probate Court in and for the County of York and State aforesaid, Patience Plummer a resident of Sanford in the County of York and State of Maine aged ninety eight years last February, the 2 nd day of said month, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July the 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Richard Plummer late of Berwick in said County a soldier of the Revolution deceased. My said Husband held the rank of Sergeant in the Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Philip Hubbard at Cambridge Mass. eight months. My said Husband enlisted at Berwick in the last part of the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five and mustered soon after under said Capt Philip Hubbard and received good will of said Berwick Lieutenant Moses Roberts ensign. He joined Colonel Scammons Regiment at Cambridge as he ever told me, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill the 17 th of June 1775. He returned to said Berwick to his family in January seventeen hundred and seventy six. One Simeon Lord was Clerk of the Company commanded by Capt Hubbard.
She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Plummer at Dover, State of New Hampshire by Rev Parson Cushing then a Congregational clergyman over the first Parish in said Dover, the eighteenth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and fifty seven. Her maiden name before her intermarriage with the said Richard Plummer, was Patience Neal; that her Husband the said Richard Plummer died at said Berwick on the eighteenth day of July seventeen hundred and eighty seven. She was present at his death and made a record of his death which I now have; she further declares that she has remained a widow ever since that

period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, being
Witness
HENRY J. P.
Wm. A. Hayes - Ebenezer Plummer
marks Patience Plummer
State of Maine County of York ss. On this eighteenth day of October A.D. 1837 - the said Patience Plummer personally appeared and swore to & subscribed the foregoing Declaration before me, and do certify that by reason of her great age and bodily weakness she is unable to travel and attend court -
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County, Maine
State of Maine.
Certificate. I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate of the county and State aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. Wm. A. Hayes is the Judge of said Court of Probate and that his signatures herunto annexed are his genuine signatures; I further certify that Increase Kimball Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county and that his signatures herunto annexed are his genuine signatures.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 6th day of November, 1837.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Reg. Prob. Court.

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Patience Plummer.
vol. 15. p. 33. Sno Sengt. 75
adm
Sno Sengt
40-ff
no deduction
J. S. Kimball Lebanon Me

I Moses Plummer of Sanford in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy nine years, do testify depose and say, that I am the son of Richard Plummer late of Berwick in said County of York who died July the 18 th 1787 at Berwick aforesaid and left my mother Patience Plummer a widow who has lived with me since said Richard died, and has never been married since the decease of her said husband Richard Plummer I further say, that in the month of April or May 1775, my father Richard Plummer enlisted in the War of the Revolution under Capt Phillip Hubbard then of Berwick aforesaid. I was then living with my father Richard Plummer at said Berwick and was about seventeen years old, I remained at home with the family of my father whilst he served as aforesaid eight months. He returned in January 1776 - I was at home when father started to go and join the Company of Capt Hubbard and I was also at home when he returned from the service. He was the second sergeant in the Company - Moses Plummer
Sanford Sept 25, 1837
York ss September 25, 1837 - then the above named Moses Plummer personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me
I also certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Moses Plummer he being a neighbor to me, and that he is a credible witness and a man of truth and veracity.
Increase S. Kimball justice of the Peace

Recd
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 269/10  Plummer
Patience Plummer
Widow of Plummer Richard Plummer
Sergt New War
Act July 4 th 86
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Nov. 28.
Me 4 July 1836 30 fee Revolutionary Claims
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Lebanon, Maine Nov 21, 1897 J. L. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions Sir. Enclosed
I forward the claim of Patience Plummer of Sanford, to a pension under the Act of Congress of July 4, 1896 - The evidence of her being the widow of Richard Plummer deceased & of said Richard's services in the Revolution accompany the declaration. The records of Parson Lushing of Dover who joined in marriage the said Richard and Patience, are left supposed by the old people in Dover to have been destroyed in the time of the Indian depredations etc. etc. Please return an answer concerning these papers as soon as possible.
J. S. Kimball

I Benjamin Goodwin of Sheepscot in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty three years, do testify depose and say that I served in the War of the Revolution at Cambridge in 1775 eight months under Capt Phillip Stubbs of Berwick in said County of York wherein Goodwin was Lieutenant of said Company and Moses Roberts ensign both then of said Berwick. Lieutenant was first Sergeant and Richard Plummer later of Berwick afterwards deceased was Second Ser- geant, we enlisted in May 1775 and served eight months and returned in January following. Said Richard died at said Berwick in the year 1787 and left a widow Patience Plummer who now lives with her son Moses Plummer in Sanford in York County. I served with said Richard Plummer eight months. I am now a prisoner. Said Patience the widow of said Richard has never married since her said husband Richard died but has ever lived with her son Moses, a widower. Sheepscot Nov 4 1837      Benjamin his Goodwin Mark Henry M. Dinsmore
York S. Nov 4, 1837 Then the above named Benjamin Goodwin personally ap- peared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me I said justice further certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Goodwin who signed the above affidavit, and know him to be a cred- ible witness and a man of truth and veracity. Increase S. Kimball justice Peace