Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16963, for Lemuel Milliken, Massachusetts

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Continental Mass
Milliken, Lemuel
S. 16963
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Maine
Samuel Stilliken of Scarborough in the State of Maine who was a First Lieut in the Company commanded by Captain Rice of the Reg t commanded by Phinney in the Mass + Continental line for 12 mos July 1 st - 3 mos Lieut- from April 1775. at
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 110 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sept r 1832 and sent to Hon J Anderson Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 65- Semi-ant. allowance ending March 4 th 1833 55-
$220
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book 6
Vol. 1 st
Page 71-
J H McBlain Clerk.

16.963 INVALID.
File No. 16.963
Samuel Milliken
Saint Peter Mass
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 257
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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 first day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this first day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Samuel Stillikens a resident of Scarborough in the county of Lincoln in said Maine District, aged Eighty four 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 at said Scarborough in the month of April AD 1775 into the Continental Service in the Revolutionary War. That he was enlisted by Capt John Rice of said Scarborough & served first eight months out in said Company as a Sergeant. said Company was attached to Col. Colborne's Brigade. That soon after his enlistment he marched with said Company to Cambridge Massachusetts & served until the Eighth month at said Cambridge. That he was regularly discharged at the expiration of his enlistment but was left or mislaid the order so that he can not now find it. That immediately on his discharge as aforesaid he again enlisted into the Continental Service under the same Captain & Regiment & Brigade to serve for one year as a Sergeant & served at said Cambridge & as a recruiting office until last of June of 1776 when his health became bad & he was regularly discharged. This discharge as was also the first was signed by Col. Colborne & he believes both discharges are destroyed as his house was destroyed by fire in March 1777 & in 1780 his house was again destroyed by fire. In 1779 a draft was ordered for the service of the State of Massachusetts to go on an expedition against the enemy at Penobscott, called the Penobscott Expedition. He volunteered in Capt. M'Ginnis's Company of said Continental. Col. Mitchell's Regt. marched to Portland then called Falmouth & sailed for Penobscott. He believes the 10th of June 1779 had an engagement with the enemy on Penobscott & Penobscott Point where called Castine. He believes the enemy drove off the enemy. He was present & returned himself safe after a service of three months. He further states that he served as Lieutenant all of said three months in said Company, having been chosen by the Company & received a commission as such from Gen. Loring who commanded the land forces. That the Commission he believes was burned with his house in 1780 as he has never seen it since.
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
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
And the said Stillikens says he was born in said Scarborough the 28th of June AD 1749 & has ever resided in said Scarborough. I have a record of my

age in a Family Bible at the time of said death death.
Samuel Milliken.
Signed & sworn to below
Asa W. W.
Aug 1. 1882
Judge of the United States for the Dist. 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 it appears to said Court that that in Sibley & Jonathan Barry whose depositions are annexed are entitled to belief as men of truth & veracity.
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 Samuel Milliken for a pension. And that John Anderson Esquire who took the annexed depositions is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland & that full faith is due his official attestations.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fourth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Seth Libby of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged Seventy Seven do hereby declare that I have always been acquainted with Samuel Mitchell of said Scarborough. & I declare that I was orderly Sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Labaree Company in the expedition to Penobscott in 1779 against the British in the Revolution and was called the Bangor expedition. & I declare that said Mitchell was in said Company & was 2 d Lieutenant of the said Company & remained through the whole term being in the whole three months -  Seth Libby
Cumberland ss August 1. 1832 Subscribed & sworn to by the above named Seth Libby - And I hereby certify that said Libby is a person entitled to full faith & credit as a witness -  John D. Sleeper Justice of the Peace

4 McMillan
No 4213
16 Supt.
3 Licut.
$110 per ann
$110 per ann

I Elisha Libby of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Eighty Seven on oath declare that I have been acquainted with Lemuel Milliken of said Scarborough from his infancy. & I testify that in May AD 1775 I enlisted as Sergeant in Capt John Pierce's Company in the War of the Revolution & when I enlisted said Milliken was a Sergeant in said Company & was the first or oldest Sergeant & I was the 4 th or youngest Sergeant. That I knew said Milliken served in said Company at Cambridge in Massachusetts until the enlistment was out which was eight months service & being as before stated a Sergeant all the while in said Company.
I further say that it was generally said & reported that said Milliken was in the Baggaduce expedition. I know that he marched with Capt Larrahees Company & have no doubt of the facts as it was so believed & reported at the time.
Elisha Libby
Signed & sworn to below
Simon Warren
Aug. 1892
Judge of the Superior Court for the Dist. of Maine.

I Jonathan Berry of Benton in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy six years do hereby declare that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Milliken of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State aforesaid & have been acquainted with him from my infancy. I know that since Milliken was first Sergeant in Capt. John Pierce Company, Col. Phineas Pierce in the War of the Revolution in the year A.D. 1775 at Cambridge & that he served there as Sergeant eight months, I myself being a Private in Capt. Abraham Tyler Company in the same Regiment & served at Cambridge the same period.
Jonathan Berry v
Signed & sworn to before
Arthur Warr
Aug. 5. 1832
Judge of the Probate for the Dist. of Maine