Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17027, for Ammy Prince, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Prince, Army
S. 17027
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CONTENTS

Maine  Ammy Prince
of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Coombs of the Reg t commanded by Mason in the Mass line for 8 Mos. from May 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 - Dollars 66 Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sept 1832 and sent to Hon J Anderson Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep-1832 $ 39.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mo. 1833. 13.33
$ 53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book D
J H 6 / 12 Blair Clerk, Vol. 1 st Page 78

17.027 INVALID.
File No. 17527
Jimmy Prince Pr. War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 303
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Anny Bruce
N o 3015
PV
8 months
$26:66 per mth
$26:66 per annum
Stacy
Hon. J. Anderson Portland
Maine 27.240

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 thirteenth day of July , A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two
ON this thirteenth day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Anthony Prince a resident of Cumberland in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy nine 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
enlisted in May 1780 as a recruit's Officer named John Smithwick in Capt Peter Loon's Company to serve eight months, he believes it was in the Massachusetts State Service. That he was present with the army at Newbern having been inspected & marched to Newbern having been inspected by Gen. Hovey & Gen. Moultrie to Camden in South Carolina where he served out the eight months. That Nathaniel Weeks on the discharge of the Company took my discharge together with that of several other men of the same Company all being on one piece of paper & I never saw it after Weeks took it. I further say that Philip Oliver was an Adjutant & George Oliver an Adjutant & one Sherman an Ensign & Reuben Hadson an Ensign. I was born in that part of North Yarmouth now called Cumberland & have never resided there. - I have no record of my age. I am well known to Mr Brewster Esq to all persons in Cumberland & North Yarmouth & adjoining towns. I further say that I was one of the Capt Blunt's that went with Capt Penobscot in four whale boats & captured two British vessels. One called the Golden Ringer of four guns & four swivels. The other of four guns. He was with me all the time that I was also employed under Capt Henry Folsom in capturing a Schooner & two boats between the Penobscot & Kennebec Rivers during the raid of Admiral D'Anville during the war.
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
Anthony Prince
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 (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And that William Burston whose deposition is hereto annexed is personally known to the Court as a man of undoubted truth & veracity & that nothing is known against the credibility of Timothy Burston whose deposition is also annexed.
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Emory Prince — — — for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I William Burton of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged Sixty nine years in part declare that I have been acquain- ted with Fanny Prince from his infancy. that we were & have ever been neighbors. That in May 1780 or in April of that year I enlisted in Capt Peleg Preble's company to serve eight months & that said Fanny Prince was a private in said company marched for Thomaston & Camden in said District of Maine & he served out the said eight months at Camden & was discharged at the expiration of said service. Peleg Preble was the General in command. I know that said Prince was in service the whole period of the eight months for he was a private in the same company of which I was a Corporal. William Burton
July 30. 1832 Subscribed & sworn to Before
Asahel Wain Judge of the U.S. Dist. Ct. Dist. of Maine.

I Timothy Barstow of Portland in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Seventy years on oath declared that I have been acquainted with Jeremy Prince of Cumberland in said County for fifty years & more that I know he was a soldier in Capt Peter Leavitts Company at Camden under Brigadier Genl Peleg Wadsworth in the year 1780. I being a soldier in the same Company. & that said Prince served eight months & was regularly discharged & returned home in company with me. I was enlisted at Hallowell in said County & first met said Prince at Sherid Meadleys house Brunswick, in said County at the residence of Capt Leavitts where said Company was present & marching for Thomaston & Camden which was early in May 1780 & we were discharged in January 1781. I further declare that William Baxter Esq. was a corporal in said Company & served the same time with us.
Timothy Barstow
July 30. 1832 Subscribed & sworn to Before
Asahel Wain Judge of the U.S. Dist. the Dist. of Maine