Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,409, for Simon Record, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Record, Simon
S 29409
CONTENTS

N o 11,858
Maine
Simon Record
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hamlin of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Bailey in the Mass. Troops time for 18 months & 12 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 61 Dollars 31 Cents per annum. commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. day of July 1833 and sent to S. F. Brown (Bucksfield Me.)
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 122.62 Semi-ant. allowance ending 14th Sept. 1833 30.65
$153.27
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book E. Vol. 1 Page 48

Simon Records
Application
14,072.
✓

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 17 th day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Simon Root a resident of Bethel in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 79 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That in the month of April in the year 1775, he enlisted, at Pembroke , in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts , into a Company commanded by Captain Eliza Hamilton , of Col John Hebley's Regiment, of Massachusetts Troops, for eight months, & marched to Harvey's , near Boston , where he served out said term of eight months and was discharged. During which said term assisted to personally set fire to burn a Granite House of the enemy on Boston Neck used to a Picquet on Governor Island . That after the foregoing, in the year 1777, about the middle of July , he enlisted again at Bethel in said Massachusetts , into a Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Sumner of Col Carpenter's Regiment & marched to Rhode Island and was stationed at Southern Ferry , in Lincoln and was afterwards marched to Providence & Patuxent and was discharged there after, serving out the term of his enlistment, & being there accordingly;
That after this, & he thinks in the year 1778, he enlisted again at said Bethel , into a Company commanded by Captain Morrison of Col Brattle's Regiment, of Light Infantry , for six weeks and was stationed at Southern Ferry & there served through said term of six weeks & was discharged

He was of Col. Butcher's Regiment, of Inf ry , for six weeks and was stationed at D'Feyslands Ferry & there served through said term of six weeks & was discharged That after the foregoing the year, he cannot now remember, he enlisted at D'Feyslands again into a company, commanded by Captain Dix, of Rhode Island, & he thinks of Col. Nicholls Regiment, for the term of three months and was stationed at Bath Hill Fort & was a while employed in taking care of the sick; and after ward, drafted into the boat service & after their serving through said term, was discharged at said D'Feyslands Ferry.
That he again enlisted into the service, at D'Feyslands, in July, he thinks but is not certain, as is the as to the year, but believes it to be the year 1780, into a company commanded by Captain Matthew Wendal, (but he has forgotten the name of the Colonel), for three months and went to Rhode Island, where he was stationed near D'Feyslands Ferry, and there served out said term, chiefly in guard service & was there discharged.
His Recd says that he was born in the year 1753, at Pembroke in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts; & he knows of no record of his age - That he lived in said Pembroke & D'Feyslands, when called into service and moved to said Bedford about the close of the war, where he has lived ever since - That he was always a volunteer in the service - that he recalled General Thomas Gage & Spencer at R. Island but no other at present as him, in the service where he served. He recalls the French troops & Gen. La Fayette on Rhode Island - that he never received any written discharge. And he states the names of the Rev. Nathl. Chas. & John Denny, Benjamin Spalding, & Sam l D'Feyslands of D'Feyslands, as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood who can testi- fy to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
Simon Root

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. James Raper
Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate

We Nathaniel Chase a clergyman residing in the town of Brookfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Simon Record who has subscribed hereto to the above declaration - that we believe him to be seventy nine years old and that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, & have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Nathl Chase
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid John Loring
Stephen Emery, Judge -
This case is continued from the 17th August to the 25th September 1832 - And now on this 25th day of September A.D. 1832
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. Said applicant having adduced in corroboration of his own declaration, the certificates of Nathaniel Chase, a clergyman of said Brookfield, & of John Loring, passing well known to the Court as men of truth & veracity on oath; also the depositions of Jacob Bates, Jonathan Reed & Martha Lathrop, on oath duly administered.
Stephen Emery, Judge -
Joseph G. Cole Register
Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Simon Record for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK
Joseph G. Cole Register

Jonathan Rees of Buckfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine aged eighty two years of age, testify say that I am brother of Simon Rees of said Buckfield, who has applied for a pension that although I never served in the same company with Simon in the army, yet I am well satisfied that he was in the army as a soldier for several periods - He has often told me he was, long before the pension act had been passed by Congress of 1818, and since - and has told me many facts that took place in the army that I think he could not know unless he was there - He lived in Easton & in Penobscot, Mass. so that I don't not know when he went into & came home from the army - He has told me that he was at the Black Island under Captain Randall when the French troops came there & he has told me of circumstances that I know took place when I was there on the Island myself as a soldier - Jonathan Rees
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. September 1. 1832 Then the above named Jonathan Rees to me well known as a man of personally appeared veracity, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Samuel D. Brown Justice of the Peace

16.012
Anna Annual Report Maine
16.06 March 22 1833
L. 311.
140 12
Admitted
18 mo. 12 3/4
$61.21
S. F. Brown Esq. Buckfield Me
Joseph G. Cook
E. E. Reese H. H.

BRIEF in the case of  Samuel Prescott  County of Oxford  in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79  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.     April In 1795 enlisted 8 Private Capt Hamlin Col DAILY   July 1797 enlisted 3 " Capt Leonard Col Carpenter   1798 " 1 12 " Capt Stowe Col Dutton   "after the last year" enlisted 3 " Capt Dick Col Mitchell   "Belarus in 1799 he entered" 3 Capt Randel  
18 - 12
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? County of Plymouth Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional. Three living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The latter periods are not exactly given — The papers are not attested agreeably to the regulation 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George J. Dighton
Examining Clerk.

29409 Rey INVALID.
1917 Nov. 9 Hist. to Mrs. J.C. Zeller
File No. 29,409
Simon Record
His Wife Mary
Act: Jan 7 th 189 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 337
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Maine
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Samuel F. Brown
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Jonathan Reed Martha Lathrop Jacob Bales is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this first day of October in the year A. D. 1832
RK Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

Our Aim:
Select Seeds, Scientific Methods, Choice Products, Purebred Animals, And the Exaltation Of Country Life.
J. C. Zeller
Rev Sec 84
Freight Address:
Sims, Miss. for Prepaid Freight (Eden, Miss., When Not Paid)
Express Office:
Eden, Miss.
Post Office:
Vazoo City, Miss. (R. F. B. No. 2)
Vazoo City, Mississippi Nov. 5 1917 R. F. B. No. 2 (Sims, Miss.)
Pension Dept. Washington D. C. Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly furnish me with any records you have concerning Simon Record of Oxford County Maine a Revolutionary Soldier who received a pension? If there is any fee attached to this service kindly notify me and I will remit at once.
Yours truly (Mrs. J. C.) Alice Bryant Zeller.

I Martha Lathrop wife Joseph Lathrop of Brookfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged seventy-two years, testify & say that I have been acquainted with Simon Root who now resides in said Brookfield from the time or soon after he served his eight months campaign in the army at Haverburg in the revolutionary war, up to this time and I well remember of said Root going into the army as a soldier at her different times to Rhode Island and returning. I remember that while he was gone the first time his wife got to bed with her first child and I was her nurse, she being my sister. I cannot tell the particular year of her service nor certainly how long he served, but I am pretty certain that his last service, that I recollect to Rhode Island, was for three months. I remember also that he enlisted under his brother Dominicus who was her his Lieutenant.
Witness Saml. F. Brown
Martha Lathrop Mark
State of Maine County of Oxford. September 10. 1832. } Then the above named Martha Lathrop to me well known as a woman of undoubted veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed, before me.
Samuel F. Brown Justice of the Peace

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
17.29409
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Simon Record a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1775 8 mos. Pvt. Ebenezer Hemenway John Bailey Mass.   July 1777 3 mos. Charles Leonard Carleton   July 1778 6 mos. Glenn Barstow   July 1779 3 mos. Dix Witcomb   July 1780 3 mos. Matthew Randal ✓  
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pembroke, Bristol Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 17. 1834. He was at
Residence at date of application, Bucksport, Oxford Co. Maine
Age at date of application, born in 1753 at Pembroke, Plymouth Co. Mass.
Remarks: Soldier's wife and "first child" are referred to but no names are stated, and there is no data on file as to other children.
Respectfully,
Documents Record of Jonathan Record soldier's brother & also David
see claims Commissioner for for for

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. April 8. 1833. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace, for said County, Simon Pease, of Bridgewater, in said County, who, being duly sworn, deposes and saith, as amendment to his declaration heretofore made for a pension from the United States, as a Revolutionary Soldier, and especially in answer to the fourth objection to his said declaration, of the Commission of Pension, that the second, third, fourth & fifth terms of service, as named in his declaration, were served in the years 1777-1778-1779 & 1780, successively and that the commencement & termination of each of said terms, was in the month of July, but the particular day he cannot now state, - that he served during the term mentioned first in his declaration, eight months, for his second term, three months, - for his third term, six weeks - for his fourth term, three months & for his fifth term, three months and that in all, he served eighteen months & one half, for which he claiming a pension.
In answer to the 17th objection of the Department, partially made, said Pease says he can make no further statement. He does not recollect of ever seeing any record of his age anywhere made, but thinks there may be one made and may now most probably find among the records of the town of Pembroke, named in his declaration Simon Pease
Samuel F. Brown justice of the Peace

State of Maine Oxford ss. Rufus Roodenaw Clerk of the County of Oxford County hereby certify that Samuel F. Brown is a Jus- tice of the Peace as above & that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix my seal of office this ninth day of April in the year 1833. R. Roodenaw Clerk of Oxford County 60418

I Jacob Bates of Alliont in the County of Cumberland State of Maine, yeoman aged seventy three years, testify & say that I was a soldier in the American Army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, in different periods, one of which was in the eight months service at Boston near Boston, under Captain Elyon Hamlin of Col. John Bowley's Regiment in Massachusetts temp. I enlisted at King- ston in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, for said eight months, which term, I served through and was discharged. This was in the year 1775.
I further say that I am well knowing to the fact that Simon Reed, now residing in the town of Beckford, County of Oxford, State of Maine was a soldier in the same company with me & that he served for the same period, he having enlisted in the town of Pembroke, in the County of Plymouth. I have known said Reed ever since having lived a neighbor to him for more than fifty years & will know him to be the same man who served with me as aforesaid.
Jacob Bates
State of Maine, County of Oxford, ss. July 21. 1850. Then the above named Jacob Bates to me well known as a man of truth, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me. Samuel H. Brown Justice of the Peace

The father named Jacob Bates further says that it was a soldier in the service in the year 1878 at Klondike Islands in a company commanded by Captain Bob of Wilmington Mass. as a part of six weeks service during the recent expedition with Gen. Spenser which term I served through. And I can recall of seeing the other named James Brown there in another company a soldier for the same campaign. I do not remember his Captain but I frequently saw him & have no doubt of his seeing said Brown officer locally through Jacob Bates
State of Maine
County of Oxford. On September 1. 1882 then the above named Jacob Bates made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Samuel D. Brown Justice of the Peace
Jacob Bates Defo.