Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19423, for Zebulon Pease, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Pease, Zebulon
S. 19423
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CONTENTS
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order to pay Nov. 24. 1836. See letters to P. A. G. & R. M. Int. Sec.
2590
Maine
Zebediah Pease of Parsonsfield in the State of Maine who was a Pirate in the Coonjig commanded by Captain Pike — of the Regt commanded by Col Senter in the Passamaquoddy time for Militia — for 6. mo. 5. d.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 25 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Decem 1832 and sent to R. M. Int. Sec. House of Representatives
Bal. due to 4th of Sep. 1832 $ 30 79 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept 1832 10 26 $41.05
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Erast D. Bullock Clerk Book 2 Vol. 11 Page 78

State of Maine County of York } ss
On this thirteenth twentieth-day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty-two personally appeared before the Supreme  of Probate Court now holden at Wiscasset in & for the County aforesaid. Debulous Pease a resident of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy one 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 7, 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.
That some time in the month of June 1777 he enlisted as a volunteer in a company of New Hampshire Militia commanded by Captain Robert Pike in the Regiment commanded by Colonel - Genter - He enlisted & served during the full term of his enlistment for the term of six months, - & left the service on the first day of January 1778 - That at the time he entered the service he resided in the town of Rockingham  Wiscasset in the County of Wiscasset  York State of New Hampshire - He marched from Exeter in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire - by way of Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Providence in the State of Rhode Island & from thence to Warwick & to Little Compton.
There were four companies of militia raised in the State of New Hampshire at the time aforesaid which
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were continued together during the aforesaid time of service & were occasionally joined by other Militia - From the fact that the four companies so enlisted were from the State of New Hampshire he infers that they constituted one of the New Hampshire Regiments but he does not know where the commanding officer Colonel - Seaton resided. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
And further states that he was born in the Town of Newmarket in the State of New Hampshire on the fifteenth day of January 1761 & has no record of his birth - that he was living in said Newmarket when called into said service and has lived in said Parsonsfield where he now lives since the Revolutionary war - He had no written discharge when he was dismissed & has no documentary evidence of service but can prove the service by Nathan Wiggins & Dudley Hilton two respectable men then - now his neighbors & who served with him during the said term. Robert Orr Pease
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
Deborah H. Hays & Judge of said Court
We Nathan Wiggins & Dudley Hilton depose and say that we lived in the State of New Hampshire in 1777 & 1778 and were well acquainted with Zebulon Pease then of Newmarket in N.H. & now of Parsonsfield in the State of Maine, and know that he served under Capt Robert Clapp in the service of the United

States for the term of six months, from June 1777 to January 1778. He marched from Exeter N.H. through Massachusetts to Rhode Island where the service was principally performed. We know this from our personal knowledge having served in the same company during the term aforesaid Aug. 20 - 1832. -
✓ Nathan Wiggins
✓ Dudley Hellon
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
Before Wm. A. Hayes judge of said court
I Rufus McIntire residing in the Town of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Pease of said Parsonsfield, & have been so acquainted for the last fifteen years and believe him to be forty one years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that I concur in that opinion - That I am well acquainted with the Town records of said Town having had charge of them for several years & know his name appears in them among the early settlers in that Town and am satisfied he is a man of strict veracity.
Aug 20 - 1832
Rufus McIntire
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before Wm. A. Hayes judge of said court

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Lebulon Pease was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Nathan Wiggins Dudley Hilton, & Rufus McIntire are all resident in Parsonsfield in the county of York & state of Maine, the said Rufus McIntire being a member of congress from this district, that they are all credible persons & their statements are entitled to credit.
James M. Hays Judge of said Court.
I William. Cutter Allen Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lebulon Pease for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of August, A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

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Zebulon Pease.
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Rev War
19.4213
INVALID.
File No. 19.4213
John L. Pierce Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 317
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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BRIEF in the case of  Debulton Pease  of Parsonsfield 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? 71 years  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.     In 17 77 6 As a Private Gen. Col. Senter's Regt Col. Pike's Com  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newmarket  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. D. Bullock Examining Clerk.

Nov 23 Pamphlet lot 17.
Free
John L. Pease General
L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Parsonsfield, Me. Nov. 17. 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Everard is the affliction of Rob. Pease for his petition which has been suffered to be in arrears for three full years - It found satisfactory according to the late regulations please to return it to my care & oblige
Yours &c
Rufus White