Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,584, for John Morgan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Morgan, John Fitz, Abigail (Former Widow)
P 3,584
CONTENTS
Widow was allowed pension for services of her second husband - See Abraham Fitz. P.D., N. File 24, 189.

3584
1880 The Residence L.A. L. L. L. L. Apr 17 1887
all of the house needs

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5084
REJECTED
P. O.
Original File
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Augusta, Me. Sept. 22 d . 1838
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Abigail Fitz for pension under Act of July 4 th 1836, as the widow of John Morgan who served during the Revolutionary War as Gloucester Sharpshooters. You are respectfully referred to the rolls for the length of time he served. Should her claim be allowed, please transmit me a certificate. Your early attention is solicited in her case, she is old, infirm and extremely poor.
I am with respect
Your obed Servt
Geo. W. Morton
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

3819 Abigail Fitz Application for pension under Act July 4 th 1836
me
Vol 36 - 11 on for 2 mo 18 days - from 1 Sept to 18 Nov - 76-
Vol 36 - 13 not on as late as last May -
Act 4 July 36
Joint res n -
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine

"John Morgan and Abigail Bray were married October twenty ninth Seventeen hundred and Seventy two by Rev d Samuel Chandler Minister first Parish in Gloucester."
I William Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "October 29. 1772"
William Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester.
I William Saville above named, do hereby say that I hold the office of Clerk in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
William Saville Clerk of the Town of Gloucester.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex, ss. On this 14th day of September, 1838, personally came William Saville who made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal on the day and year above written
William Ferson, Not y Public

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress, of the 4 th July 1836.
State of Maine.
Kennebec,
ss:
On this third day of September 1838, personally appeared before the Hon: Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, Abigail Fitz a resident of Litchfield in the County of Kennebec, State of Maine, aged eighty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4 th , 1836. That she is the widow of John Morgan who served during the year 1776, or 1777, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the thinks Col. Foster's reg t at least six months, but she is unable to state the exact length of time or the name of the Captain. She well recollects that said Morgan served a period of at least six months, but does not recollect the particular. That the said John Morgan was afterwards lost at sea in Seventeen hundred & eighty. She further declares, that she was married to the said John Morgan on the not recollected day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four; that her husband, the aforesaid John Morgan died on the _____ day of _____ 1780 (Seventeen hundred & eighty) and that she afterwards married one Abraham Fitz in the year 1790, who died on or about the year 1829, at Gardiner in said County of Kennebec, & that she has remained a widow ever since that period, & of course was a widow on the 4 th day July 1836.
Abigail Fitz Mark
36. 13. from last letter to...

And the said Abigail Fitz further states that her maiden name was Abigail Pray. She was married at Gloucester, Massachusetts, by the Rev. Mr. Chandler.
Abigail his X Fitz mark
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year before written, before me (the applicant being from age and infirmity, unable to appear in open court)
Nathaniel Weston C.J. S. J. C.
State of Maine
On the third of September, 1838, Abigail Fitz, the applicant before named, was examined and sworn, as before stated. I am satisfied, that she was married to John Morgan, late a revolutionary soldier of the United States, on the twenty ninth day of October 1772, although she, from defect of memory, states it to have been two years later, that the said John Morgan deceased in 1790, that in 1790 she married Abraham Fitz, that in 1829, the said Abraham Fitz died, and that she has ever since remained his widow. Nathaniel Weston C.J. S. J. C.
I Joseph Collins of Gardine, Kennebec County, aged eighty three years upwards, upon oath state, that I well knew the within named John Morgan that he served at Gloucester as within stated. I think however that he served longer than six months. I am a pensioner on the Maine Roll under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
his Joseph his X Collins mark
State of Maine
Kennebec, ss: Subscribed & sworn to this 14 th day of September 1838.
The deponent being a credible witness.
Wm West J. Esq. is a justice of the peace for Kennebec. Nathaniel Weston Wm West J. Esq. Justice Peace,

I Ammi Morgan of Litchfield, Kennebec County, aged fifty eight years, do upon oath state that I have read the foregoing declaration of my Mother Abigail Fitz, fully believe the same to be true, I believe myself to be the son of John Morgan within named, & that I was born before the same year that he was lost at sea, being seventeen hundred eighty, That my said Mother afterwards in 1790, married Abraham Fitz who died at Gardiner on or about the year 1829, & that my said Mother Abigail Fitz has remained a widow ever since that period, as she has stated.
Ammi Morgan—
State of Maine,
Kennebec, ss: Subscribed & sworn to this 3 rd day of September 1838, the deponent being a credible witness, before me,
Nathan Weston C.J.
S.P.C.

I Robert Low of Limerick, Oxford County, Maine, aged seventy eight years, and a pensioner on the Maine Roll under act of June 7, 1832, upon oath state that the within named John Morgan served a certain period which I do not recollect, in Capt. Giddings company in the within named Col. Root's regt. at Gloucester in 1775. I served with him & well recollect that he left the company & went on board a State vessel with others.
Robert Low
State of Maine,
Kennebec ss
Sworn & subscribed this 17 th day of September A.D. 1838, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me M c Cutcheon J. His Pacy
State of Maine.
Kennebec ss
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Court for said County hereby certify, that the foregoing extract on parchment upon which the proceedings were had, is the true & correct copy of the original proceedings of the said Court of said State. I also certify, that the foregoing and annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abi Fitch for a pension. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this twenty first day of September A.D. 1838
Thos Swan

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Morgan, John GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 3300 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 22, 1792 to John Peck, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.