Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 56,855-160-55, for Benjamin Rand, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass
Trand, Benjamin Mary
B.L.Wt. 56.855-160-55
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236. 269
Act Mar. 3. '55. Feb. 26. '56
Nath. L. Ingersoll. Feb. 15/57 End. P.
Mary Rand, wid. Benjamin Rand, fri.
bequeath. Samuel Sanderson. " Jun th Probate. led. Books. & Jun th Probate.
New Eng. war.
Ad: 1600a, Mich. 10/57
No Paper B. 1857
[Handwritten signature/initials]
Nath. L. Ingersoll Danville. Pa.
Vol. R. 12. 5

State of Maine.
ANDROSCOGGIN, SS.
CLERK'S OFFICE, SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, AUBURN, February 15 1856.
I, JOSIAH D. PULSIFER, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County of Androscoggin, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Samuel Homer of the County of Oxford Samuel Foxcroft of the County of Cumberland and Nathaniel D. Ingersoll of the County of Androscoggin are, and at the date of their several his certificates to the paper hereunto annexed, were was an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for their several the Counties of Oxford & Cumberland & Androscoggin, as appears by the papers hereunto annexed — that they are he is duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and take acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the several Counties aforesaid, and that the following signatures purporting to be their are his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
J. D. Pulsifer CLERK.

State of Maine. County of Oxford ss:
On this thirty first day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Ox- ford and State aforesaid, Mary Rand, aged eighty-eight years, a resident of Peru in the State of Maine who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Benjamin Rand late of Danville in said State, de- ceased who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution that he served under captain Samuel Lamson in his com- pany as a private of Weston from April 19 th , 1775 - three days - Upon a Muster Roll of Capt. Jonathan Fish's Com- pany of Weston in Col. Brooks' Reg't. a private from March 4 th 1776, five days - Upon a Muster Roll of the Trav- el of Capt. Charles Shiles' Company in Col. Jonathan Reeds' Reg't. from Ticonderoga as a private of Weston 185 miles travel
She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Rand on the eighth day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine by Peleg Chandler Jr. a justice of the Peace - That her name before marriage to said Rand was Mary Smith - and that the said Ben- jamin Rand died, on the thirtyone fourteenth day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred 8 and that she has not in- married since the death of her said husband but has continued and is now a widow - She also declares

That she has never applied for nor received under the act of 1855 or any other act of Congress any Bounty Land Warrant - and her husband the said Benjamin Read served in said Revolutionary War including travel of 185 miles as appears by the accompanying Certificate of Secretary of Massachusetts more than fourteen days - She therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed in March, 1855 - and for the purpose of prosecuting her claim before the Commissioner of Pensions she here by appoints Nathaniel L. Ingersoll of Danville in the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine, Esquire, her lawful Attorney.
She also declares that she thinks and believes that her said husband never received any bounty land or land warrant for his services in said war during his lifetime.
Mary X Read mark.
We, Jonathan Haskell and Mary Haskell, residents of Peru in the County of Oxford and State of Maine on oath depose and say that the foregoing declaration and Power of Attorney were signed and acknowledged by Mary Read in our presence and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant and our personal knowledge of her for many years past that she is the identical person she

represents herself to be in her declaration, Jonathan Haskell Mary Haskell
State of Maine Oxford ss
Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year first above written by Mary Hoard, the declarant above named and by Jonathan Haskell and Mary Haskell, witnesses above named. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons - that the claimant is the person she repre- sents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim -
Samuel Holmes
Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine, County of Cumberland, Town of New Gloucester "Married by Peleg Chandler Jr. April the eighth "seventeen hundred and ninety nine Benjamin Rand of "Poland in the County of Cumberland to Mary Smith of "New Gloucester in said County -"
I certify that the above is a true copy of the records of the Marriage of said parties with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures, as follows;= "April 8, 1799"
E. H. Moseley Town Clerk of New Gloucester
I, E. H. Moseley 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 of the records of said town, with the exception above named as certified by me.
E. H. Moseley Clerk of the Town of New Gloucester
Cumberland ss December 15 1855
Personally appeared Elias H. Moseley above named Town Clerk of New Gloucester and made oath that the foregoing Certificate by him signed is true
Before me
Samuel Foxcroft Just Peace

State of Maine.
ANDROSCOGGIN, SS.
Clerk's Office, Sup. Jud. Court,
Auburn, Feb 18 1857.
I, Josiah D. Pulsifer, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County of Androscoggin, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Jacob Henrik and Nathaniel Sn- gersoll
are, and at the date of the  their certificate to the paper hereunto annexed, was  were  an ACTING JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Androscoggin, as appears by the paper hereunto annexed—that they  are duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and take acknowledgements of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the county aforesaid, and that the following signatures purporting to be theirs  their's are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court for said County, the day and year first above written.
J. D. Pulsifer
, CLERK.

I Joseph S. Farbox of New Gloucester in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged fifty years - on oath testify and say that I was well acquainted with Benjamin Rand. The deceased husband of Mary Rand. That I have repeatedly heard him say that he served in the Revolutionary Army and it was generally believed by the people in this vicinity that said Rand did serve in the war of the revolution I have heard said Rand say where he came from where he came into this vicinity but cannot now recollect the name of the town I do remember that it was from some town not a great many miles from Boston. I have no doubt that said Rand did serve some in

Said man, I was also well acquainted with said Nands wife now a widow. She was his second wife.
Attest
Joseph S. Tarbox
Harriet S. Ingalls.
State of Maine Androscoggin ss February 18th 1857. Personally appeared Joseph S. Tarbox and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true before me, and I certify that said Tarbox is a credible witness. Nathaniel H. Ingalls Justice The Peace.

I Lydia G. Farbox of Danville in the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine aged fifty two years, on oath depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Benjamin Rand deceased, his second wife was sister to my Mother, when I was eight years old I went to live with my uncle Samuel Farbox late of said Danville, that I well recollect of my uncle Farbox having Benjamin Rand to whom have to ascertain whether Rand could obtain a pension, I have heard Rand and my said uncle talk about said Rand, serving in the Revolutionary army and that it was generally believed in this vicinity that said Rand did serve in said army, that I continued to live with my said uncle

Jar box from the time I was about eight years old until I was thirty nine, and have lived in the same house where my said uncle Jar box lived and died, and from the conversation of my uncle Jar box and Uncle Benjamin Rand I have have no doubt that said Rand did serve in the army of the Revolution witness, Rebecca Stinchfield
Lydia G. Jarbox
State of Maine, Androscoggin ss.
February 17 th 1857, Personally appeared before me, Lydia G. Jarbox, and made oath that the above deposition by her signed is true and I certify that she is a credible witness, and that I am not interested
Nathaniel L. Ingelow Justice of the Peace

I John Witham of New Gloucester, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged Seventy two years. On oath testify depose and say that I was well acquainted with Benjamin Rand who married with Mary Smith of New Gloucester aforesaid. I well recollect when they were married. said Rand worked out by the day for a living. He had worked with me more than one hundred days. I have very often and repeatedly heard him say that he served in the Revolu- tionary army, and you have no doubt that he did serve in the war of the Revolution and it was the general belief among the people in this vicinity that he did serve as aforesaid, he was always

resided in this vicinity to have been a soldier of the Revolution. I have heard said Rand tell where he came from when he came into this vicinity, but I cannot now recollect the name of the town. I perfectly well recollect of hearing him say, and tell where he came from, and well remember that it was from some town in the western part of Massachusetts, not a great many miles from Boston. Mary Smith was Rand, second wife.
witness. Ruth Witham
John Witham
State of Mass. Androsscoggin 35.
February 17 th 1857. Personally appeared before me John Witham, and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true and

and I certify that he is a credible witness. and also that I am disinterested,
William L. Brigham Justice The Peace

I Rebecca Stonefield of Danville in the County of Androscoggin, and State of Maine, aged fifty nine years. On oath testify and say that when I was forty years old I went to live with my uncle Samuel Forbax, whose second wife was a sister to the widow Mary Rand, widow of Benjamin Rand deceased. Said Rand frequently came to my said uncle's a visiting, and to work by days works. I have often and repeatedly heard said Rand say he served in the Revolutionary army, and it was believed by me and the people in this vicinity that he did serve in said army. I well recollect that my said uncle Forbax garnished the said Rand to Wadsworth to ascertain whether he could get on to the pension list or not. rebecca m. me

Mary Rand widow of the said Benjamin Rand was his second wife, her name before marriage was Mary Smith, I have often heard said Rand say that he came from some Town not a great way from Boston I do not recall the name of the Town, altho I have heard him mention the name of the Town, many times, I have no doubt that said Range served some in the Revolutionary Army, veteran
Rebecca Stonefield
Lydia G. Tabor
I Rebecca Stonefield above named further testify that I have heard Rand above named talk with my uncle Tabor about his Rand, going to Scituate- royal, and that Rand did say he went there in the time of the

Revolution, my Uncle Starbuck was a pensioner of the United States and had a great deal of conversation with the said Benjamin Rand about the war of the Revolution.
Attest
Rebecca Stinchfield
Sylvia G. Starbuck
State of Maine
Androscoggin ss. February 17th 1857. Personally appeared Rebecca Stinchfield above named and made oath that the above deposition by her signed is true, and I certify that she is a person of truth and veracity, and that her statements are entitled to full credit & that I am not interested. Nathaniel L. Ingersoll Justice of the Peace
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I Nathaniel L. Ingersoll of Danville in the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine aged sixty six years with depre- and say that I am a native of New Gloucester and lived there untill 1814, when I removed to Danville a town adjoining to New Gloucester  Danville , where I was engaged in trade for some time. I was well acquainted with Mary Smith who afterwards married Ben- jamin Rand. She lived within seventy five rods of my father's home in New Gloucester. I was also well acquainted with her late husband the said Benjamin Rand. He moved to Danville before I did and was one of my customers at that place. He was at my store frequently and I have often heard him relate things which occurred whilst he was in the Revolutionary Army. He frequently spoke of serving under Col Brooks. He was respected and beloved by the community and his acquaintance in this vicinity to have been a Revolutionary soldier used to have served some in the

Revolutionary army. I have no doubt myself that he served as aforesaid. Some time after his death, his widow Mary Rand applied to me to obtain for her a pension for her husband's Revolutionary services. I then sent a request to the Secretary of State Massachusetts for a certificate of his services. After receiving the Certificate I found there was not service enough to obtain a Pension on. I always kept said Certificate in my possession untill I sent it to the Commissioner of Pensions with the said Mary Rand's application for bounty land. I was acquainted with said Rand from the time he was married to Mary Smith to the time of his death. I have been one of the Select men and Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Danville nearly twenty years and during that time the said Rand's family have received support from the Town as paupers. at one time. Rand was always a poor man and in his days of health had no other way to gain his subsistence but by working out by the day. Nathaniel L. Gessner

State of Maine Anchorage ss Feb. 16 th 1857. Personally appeared Nathaniel S. Hyr- -roll who has subscribed and the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same before me, and I hereby certify that said Hyrroll is well known to me as a witness of veracity whose statements are entitled to full credit and belief. Also that I am disinterested.
Jacob Herrick just. peace.

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Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
236.269

Additional Evidence in the Case of Mary Board for Bunty Land. No. 236.269. Act of 1855-
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True Commissioner of Pensions - Washington, D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
March 16th 1847.
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 Benjamin Rand is borne upon a Master Roll of Capt Samuel Lamson's Company as a private of Weston from April 19 1775, 3 days.
Upon a Master Roll of Capt Jonathan Fish's Company of Weston in Col. Brooks's Regt, as a private from March 4 1776 5 days.
Upon a Master Roll of the band of Capt Charles Miles's Company in Col. Jonathan Reed's Regt from Tienduezga, as a private of Weston - No service named. 185 miles traveled.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the military records in this Office.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
March 18 th 1847.
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 Benjamin Rand is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Samuel Lamson's Company as a private of Weston from April 19 1775, 3 days.
Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Jonathan Fish's Company of Weston in Col Brooks's Regt, as a private from March 4 1776 3 days.
Upon a Muster Roll of the band of Capt Charles Miles's Company in Col Jonathan Reed's Regt from Tienduezga, as a private of Weston - No service named. 185 miles travel.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the military records in this Office.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. Calhoun,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

3681 4

Application of Mary Rand for the services of her late husband Benjamin Rand in the war of the Revolution
To the Secretary of State Commonwealth wealth of Massachusetts, the undersigned Mary Rand of Perry in the County of Oxford and State of Maine requests the Secretary to furnish her from the Rolls and other documents in his department the services of her late husband Benjamin Rand in the Revolutionary war, this applicant states that her said husband served in the Massachu- setts line, & she thinks he mustered out in the vicinity of Portland (then Casto), the officer naming under whom he served she cannot now recollect, and for the purpose of this application she has appointed Nathaniel L. Ingalls her attorney to whom she wishes return to her residence Oxford July 26 th 1844 Mary X Rand Signed before me and Mark Samuel Holmes } Justice Peace

Danville, Me, Feb. 19 th , 1857.
Dear Sir,
I now forward you five Depositions to be used in the Case of Mary Rand for bounty land. I suppose it would be a hard matter to find a man now living that served with Benjamin Rand in the Revolutionary Army. Therefore I hope the proof forwarded will be satisfactory. No. of Claim, 236.269.
I am Sir very respectfully,
Your Ob t . Serv t -
Nathaniel L. Ingersoll Jr.
Date of notice of suspension of Claim, Feb. 5 th , '57 -

I Lydia G. Tarbox of Dummer in the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine aged fifty one years, on oath testify and Say that Mary Rand of Peru in the State of Maine is my aunt that I have been acquainted with her for more than forty years and that she was the wife and is the widow of Benjamin Rand formerly of Dummer upon the said Mary Rand lives with her son in Law Jonathan Husken of Peru, and that the said Benjamin Rand died in 1834, he died at my Fathers house in New Gloucester, I attended his funeral and saw him after he was dead,
Lydia G. Tarbox
State of Maine
Androscoggin County -
Subscribed and sworn to by Lydia G. Tarbox on this fifth day of February A.D. 1856, before me, and I certify that she is a credible witness,
Nathaniel L. Ingalls Justice Peace

I Rebecca Stinchfield of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable and State of Maine. On Oath testify and say that I am fifty nine years of age, that I was well acquainted with Mary Rand who now lives with her son in law Jonathan Haskell of Peru that she was the wife and is the widow of Benjamin Rand formerly of Sand Barnstable that I have been acquainted with her for more than fifty years. I further testify that said Benjamin Rand died in 1834.
Rebecca Stinchfield
State of Maine
Barnstable County Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Rebecca Stinchfield on this fifth day of February A D 1856 before me, and I testify that she is a credible witness. Nathaniel L. Gurnell Justice of the Peace