Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24747, for Dominicus Record, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Record, Dominicus Jane
W. 24747
CONTENTS

1 Maine 4691
Rep 2 .
Jane Record
widow of Dominicus Record
who was a Sergh & Lieut.
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 89 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. day of Jan. 1844 and sent to Sam l F. Brown Bucksfield, Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 10.

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF Penobscot
ss.
On this 10th day of December personally appeared before me Stephen Emery , Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Penobscot
a resident of Bethel in the County of Penobscot and State or District of Maine, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Dion D. Dorr who was a Soldier of the Revolution and, according to her last knowledge thereof, served in the American Army as adult Sergeant , eight months at Boxbury in the beginning of the war and as Private and six months at Rhode Island . She has no personal knowledge of these services, but derives her information chiefly from repeated conversations with the said Dion Dorr at his last residence . She can not recollect the names of any officers under whom he said he served. She will remember of his saying he served for eight months & for six months as Discharged & that while in the last named service, the Dion Dorr was shot for drinking & leaving the soldiers , condemned for the same, very severely . She recollects well how he said he obtained his discharge . Being Master of a Sloop & having many hands under his superintendence , he offered to them that if they would enlist he would go with them everywhere and he soon filled up a company & was rewarded with a commission of Lieutenant .
She further declares, that she was married to the said Dion Dorr on the twelfth day of November , in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and that her husband, the aforesaid Dion Dorr , died on the fourth day of February 1880, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Stephen Emery
Jane D. Dorr
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written: Before
Stephen Emery, Judge

State of Maine
Oxford ss. I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the fore- going proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Jane Record for a Pension
I also further certify that Samuel H. Brown before whom the seven annexed Depositions were taken and whose proper signature is affixed to the same is a Justice of the Peace within said County, duly appointed and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this fourth day of October A. D. 1838
Levi Stowell. Register

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I Jonathan Record of Buckfield, in the county of Oxford, and State of Maine, do hereby testify, and say, that I was well acquainted with Dominicus Record late of Buckfield aforesaid, deceased, who died in the year 1810 & who was the husband of Jane Record late of said Buckfield, who died in 1843 and was a revolutionary pensioner for the services of her said husband; that said Dominicus Record entered the service in the Revolutionary army, Massachusetts line in 1775, and was appointed sergeant & in the same year was promoted as lieutenant & put in charge of the furnaces at Easton, near Boston, and remained there several years, during the whole war, all the time having the superintendence & holding the rank of lieutenant in the line. His first service was as sergeant & lieutenant in the field, and was appointed to the superintendence of the furnaces or foundry on account of his skill in casting cannon and shot & double headed shot & shells and implements of war that could be manufactured at this foundry. I worked at the foundry with Dominicus Record off and on for several years, during which time he had the superintendence and bore the rank of lieutenant. We cast guns,

shot and shells for the army and also for ships of War and Privateers. We were both born in Pembroke, Plymouth county, Massachusetts & moved to Parkfield Maine, I coming a year or two first and I was acquainted with him till he died. He retained an old sword in his possession, which he wore in the army, until his death.
Witness
Domènus Record
Jonathan Record
State of Maine
Oxford ss: On this thirteenth day of November A D 1851. personally appeared Jonathan Record above named and made solemn oath to the truth of foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me Arthur M c Arthur justice of the Peace throughout said State
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Jonathan Record the affiant & that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity.
Arthur M c Arthur justice of the Peace throughout said State. ▶

I Josiah Parris of Buckfield in the county of Oxford & State of Maine depose testify and say that I was well acquainted with Dominicus Record late of said Buckfield deceased who was a sergeant & Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. We were born in the same town of Pembroke Plymouth  Bristol county, Massachusetts & both of us in the service in the Revolutionary War. At the commencement of the war said Record was engaged at the foundry at Easton in Bristol county near Boston casting shot shells and guns. At the battle of Lexington he stopped the operation and lost his musket. He served afterwards as a sergeant and was appointed a Lieutenant and served. His first service was in the field and when Lieutenant was placed in charge of the Foundry, still holding the rank of Lieutenant in the line and from his skill & knowledge in casting Cannon shot & shells he was retained & stationed at the Foundry near Boston for several years for more than two years & nearly through the war.
Witness
Sarah Parris
Josiah Parris
State of Maine
Oxford County ss On this thirteenth day of November A.D. 1851 personally appeared Josiah Parris above named and made solemn oath to the truth of foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace throughout State of Maine.

I further certify that I am personally acquainted with Jonah Paris the affiant & that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity & I further certify that the words "Bristol" & "Plymouth" in body of deposition & the alterations of words there made were made before the final reading & before the signature made by affiant.
Arthur M. Arthur Justice of the Peace throughout the State of Maine

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Jane Record widow of Domenico
MC
abt July 3 rd
Married in 1786 Died in 1810
adul Mmo. Ser th 110 3 mo. 21 d th 49.33 89.33
No deduction
2k Paris- 2 Com th

A record of the Marriages made by the minister of Lurn are as follows (viz) This certifies that I have joined in marriage the following persons in the year 1785 & 1786 to April 30 1786 John Strickland Minister of Gospel Plantation (viz) Benjamin Patten gill and Mary Briggs July 17 th 1785 I have followed several other Marriages which I omit and then follows the following Dominicus Pierce and Jane Warren January nineteenth one thousand seven hundred and eighty six.
I Hira Bradford abovenamed depose & say that I had the Office of Town Clerk for the town of Lurn in the County of Oxford State of Maine and that the foregoing is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz January 19 th 1786 January 19 th 1786 I Also certify that the Plantation called Sylvester above named was incorporated in the name of and is now the town of Lurn in the County of Oxford Hira Bradford Town Clerk of Lurn.
State of Maine County of Oxford ss. September August 10. 1838. Then the abovenamed Hira Bradford made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed before me Samuel Folsom Justice of the Peace

I Jonathan Reed of Bethel in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty eight years, depose & say that I was a soldier in the American Army, for several periods, during the Revolutionary War, for which I now receive a Pension, my Certificate being numbered 18576. That one period of my service was at Rhode Island for three months, in a Company commanded by Capt. John Stevens, at which time my brother Dominicus Reed, late of Bethel, in said County of Oxford deceased, was then as a soldier. I well remember of hearing our Lieutenant White, say he was there, but I do not now recollect of seeing him there myself. He was not in our Company, but was Lieutenant in another Company. During this campaign there was a man shot for deserting, & I understood some others were whipped. My said brother then belonged to Easton Mass. & I to Pownal Maine — Jonathan Reed
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. September 17. 1838. Then the above named Jonathan Reed to me well known to be a person of known respectability, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed before me, Leonard H. Pierce Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Spalding of Brookfield, in the County of Oxford State of Maine aged ninety years old now and say that I am well acquainted with James Merrill, who has made the declaration on the other side of this sheet that I have lived a neighbor to her ever since she was married to Dominicus Merrill and knew her to be the widow of Dominicus Merrill, late of said Brookfield Esquire deceased. I well knew her said husband, living as a neighbor to him, a long time before his said marriage and was with him when he died, which I think was about the year 1810. I often heard him tell of being in the American Army, during the war of the Revolution, and my present impression is that he was, for some time, an officer. I think I have heard some of the old revolutionary soldiers call him Lieutenant. Benj. Spalding
I further say that said James Merrill has, to my knowledge, never married since the decease of her said husband, Dominicus Merrill. Benj. Spalding
State of Maine
County of Oxford September 20. 1850. Then the undersigned Benjamin Spalding, to me well known to be a person of known respectability, personally appeared and was oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, before him subscribed, before me James Merrill Justice of the Peace.
Benj.

Jan Record Widows of divinity ens. Maim Roll act of 1838
R. W. Young att

State of Maine
County of Oxford
} ss.
Be it known, that on the 16 th day of October A. D. 1851, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Dominicus Record of Buckfield in said county and made oath according to law, that he is the child of Jane Record late of said Buckfield deceased —widow of Dominicus Record deceased (who was an officer of the War of the Revolution,) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ per annum; that he has reason to believe that the said pension ought to be increased and that he is directly interested in the same, and makes this affidavit to be filed by his attorney, with any additional evidence or arguments he may deem necessary in the prosecution of said claim.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned, before me
Arthur M'Arthur
Justice of the Peace, throughout the State
Dominicus Record
State of Maine
County of Oxford
} ss.
Be it known, that before Arthur M'Arthur a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, personally appeared Dominicus Record of Buckfield in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that he is the child of Jane Record late of said Buckfield deceased , widow of Dominicus Record deceased (who was an officer in the War of the Revolution,) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ per annum, that he now makes this declaration to recover any inarrear arrears of pension, that may be due, on account of the services of Dominicus Record deceased as aforesaid, for the benefit of Dominicus Record the applicant & Jane Brown under any acts or resolutions of Congress applicable to the case.
Sworn and subscribed this 16 th day of October
1851 before me.
Arthur M'Arthur
Justice of the Peace, throughout said State
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Dominicus Record of Buckfield in the county of Oxford State of Maine  Jane Record late of said Buckfield deceased , widow of Dominicus Record deceased (who was an officer in the War of the Revolution,) do hereby constitute and appoint Robert W. Young of Washington D.C. my true and lawful attorney for me, and in my name to prosecute my claim to any increase and arrears of pension that may be found due on account of the services of said Dominicus Record deceased as aforesaid; and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers and documents touching my claim, on file in the departments at Washington or elsewhere and file any additional evidence or arguments he may think proper, to ensure the recovery of the same.
Witness my hand and seal this 16 day of October — A. D. 1851
Signed and sealed in the presence of
WITNESS,
Charles Sooney
Dominicus Record
{ L.S. }
WITNESS,
John Taylor
State of Maine
County of Oxford
} ss.
On this 16 th day of October — A. D. 1851 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Dominicus Record above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
Arthur M'Arthur
Justice of the Peace
throughout the State

State of Maine
County of Oxford
ss.
Be it known, that on the 16 th day of October A. D. 1851 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Clarinda Spaulding and William Cressy two disinterested and respectable witnesses, and made oath according to law, that they are well acquainted with Jane Reard  late of Bucksport in said county, deceased, widow of Dominicus Reard late of said Bucksport (who was an officer in the Revolutionary War,) and that Dominicus Reard and Jane Reard are her only surviving children. And that she the said Jane Reard departed this life on the 20 th day of June A. D. 1843.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned, before me,
William Cressy Clarinda Spaulding
Arthur M. Arthur
Justice of the Peace throughout the State.
Charles C. Harmon
and State of Maine clerk of Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Cumberland do hereby certify that Arthur M. Arthur Esq. before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the county duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and his name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 17 th day of October A. D. 1851.
Chas C. Harmon, Clerk as aforesaid,

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Gene Record, dec? $89:33 m as
Land F. Brown Buck field Name

To J. L. Edwards Esq
Commencement of Pensions
Dominicus Reard of Buckfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine and Jane Brown, wife of Samuel S. Brown of said Buckfield, respectfully state that they are the only children & heirs of Jane Reard late of said Buckfield, widow of Dominicus Reard, deceased - that said Jane Reard was a pensioner under the 5 year law of 1832 and was thereby entitled to the benefits of the widow's pension act of 1843, but that she died on the twentieth day of June 1843, before she had succeeded to establish her claim therefor.
The undersigned, considering that they, as her heirs, are entitled to receive what of Pension would have been her due, at the time of her death, had her name been placed on the Roll under the act of 1843, respectfully request that an order may issue to the Pension Agent in Portland Maine, to pay the same to them.
Buckfield Me May 3. 1844.
Dominicus Reard Jane Brown Sam. S. Brown

This folder had brothers David & Jonathan (twins) See few claims David N. 22044 Jonathan N. 11114 also brother Simon S. 29409

Buy  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24747
Same Record wid of Dominicus Record Lieut New York
Act March 3d 48
Index : Vol. B Page 157
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Letter to Sam l H. Brown 13 June 1843.
Maine - 671-
Land Record widow of Cominicus Record, who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 4 th Feb y 1818. of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a Sgt & C o in the Capt y command by Captain Turen of the Reg t command by _____ in the _____ time for 11 mo 21 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 89 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Oct r 38 and with it and A. K. Paris Pension
Arrears to the 4 th of Sep t $ 223.32 Semi-annual allowance ending 44.66 $ 267.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Brainerd Clerk Book A Vol. 1 Page 22.

main Jan Record
100 of Dominican Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, November 14th A. D. 1851
I, Charles C. Harmon, _____ CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that _____
Arthur M c Arthur of Limington in the County of York _____
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for every the County of the State aforesaid as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated August 6th _____ A. D. 1850 and will expire August 6th _____ A. D. 1857
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are _____ Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon, _____ CLERK.

State of Maine
Oxford County ss. To the Subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate within & for said County hereby certify that it has been proved in open court, it being a Court of Record, this second day of January in the year of our Lord eight hundred & forty four, that Jane Record late of Buckfield in said County deceased was a Pensioner of the United States - that she died at said Buckfield on the twentieth day of June last past & left the following surviving children & heirs, & the following only - viz: Dominic Record & Jane Brown Wife of Samuel F Brown -
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand - the seal of said Court this second day of January aforesaid - Geo. F. Emery Register -

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Apr 17 1843
me
Mar 3 1843
Jane Recd
St. Elizabeth Cambridge Massachusetts

Buckfield Me. Sept 12. 1815
Miss A. Edwards
Converses of Prisons
Dear Madam I have several other applications in case of preparation but send this forward to see if it be all correct Please communicate to me at the same and yours &c J. G. Burdick

I. Job Packard now residing in Buckfield, in the County of Oxford State of Maine, do hereby say that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, for which service, I now receive a Pension from the Government of the United States. That one period of my service was at Rhode Island, in the year, I think, 1780, in the Company commanded Capt. Matthew Randall of Col. Mitchell's Regiment. For this particular service I enlisted for three months at Easton, in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, under Capt. Randall and served the same term of three months through at Brattle Hill or Rhode Island & was there discharged, at the end of the term. I further say that I well remember that Dominicus Placid, then resident in said Easton but later of said Buckfield, deceased, was a Member of the same Company with me, and was in the Office of Lieutenant of the same, acting in that Capacity for the whole of said three months and was discharged with me, he having enlisted at the same time as myself, at Easton. My impression is that I saw him afterwards as a Lieutenant but am not certain as to that.
At this time my residence was in Bridgewater & was not a very distant neighbor to said Placid and I well recollect of hearing about his being at Roxbury in the eight months service, but I was not there & therefore do not certainly know

that he served in that campaign but I have no doubt that he did.
Land Records afterwards moved to Maine to what is now Breckfield where he married his second wife, then Jane Warren and when he died many years ago Job Packard.
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. September 1 1820. Then the above named Job Packard, to me known as a person of known respectability, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me,
Samuel S. Prentiss Judge of the Court

I Simon Record of Buckfield, in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty five years, do hereby say that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and served in the American Army, for five different terms, for which I was received a pension from the Government of the United States. Since One period of my service was at Roxbury, in the year 1775 for eight months, in a Company commanded by Capt. Elisha Haskins, in Col. Bailey's Regiment, and another was at Rhode Island, in the year 1779 for three months, in a Company commanded by Capt. Mathew Randall & I think Col. Mitchell's Regiment, and I will remember that my brother, Dominicus Record, late of Buckfield aforesaid, deceased, was in the same service & served for the same several periods of eight & three months. In the eight months campaign at Roxbury he served as Orderly Sergeant, in the Company com- manded by Capt. Abiel Mitchell and at Rhode Island he served as Lieutenant, in same Company as myself - Captain Randall - I know all this well for I was constantly with him, or near him & know he served said periods through. And Dominicus might have served more, but at present I do not recalled any further service of his, in the Army, but he was generally engaged in a farnace catching Canoe for the Army, during the former part of the war, when not in actual service.
In the year 1782 my said brother moved from East- when he then lived, to the plantation which is now called Buckfield aforesaid, where he lived till his decease. During his residence in Buckfield & before the year 1790, he married, as his second wife, Jane Warren, of Buckfield, who he left a widow at his death & who is still living in said Buckfield. I have been a neighbor to them during their whole residence in Buckfield & will know the fact I have stated above. I was present at their

wedding, the marriage ceremony being performed by Mr. Stickland, the Minister of Gospel!
Simon Record
I have been told that my said brother Dominicus stated while relating the incidents of the war, to which he was a witness (that one Duncan was executed for desertion while he was in the army at Rhode Island, as Lieutenant, but of such a circumstance look place I think it cannot have been when I was not there for I have no recollection of it. Simon Record
State of Maine
Oxford County ss. August 11. 1838 Then the above named Simon Record to me known as a person I know reasonably personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, before me,
Samuel H. Brown Justice of the Peace

I, Dominicus Reed of Buckfield, in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, depose and say that Dominicus Reed, late of said Buckfield Esq., deceased, was my father. That I have frequently heard my said father converse about the Revolutionary War and of being in the army. I remember well of his telling of being in the Newburg Campaign, of eight months, when he served as orderly sergeant in, as I think, Captain Mitchell's company and afterwards, at Rhode Island, in Capt. Kendall's company, but whether for three, or six months, I cannot remember. In this Rhode Island service he served as Lieutenant. I now have the sword which he said he used in said service. We have had it in the family as long as I can remember. My father told me how he tried the temper of it, when he first received it & said that was the rule, by which all swords, for the army, were tried.
My said father died on the fourth day of February, 1840; and my mother, Jane Reed is still living, his widow in said Buckfield.
Dominicus Reed
State of Maine County of Oxford ss. September 19. 1838. Then the above named Dominicus Reed to me well known as a man of truth, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Walter G. Brown Justice of the Peace
Sep. 19.

I hereby certify that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, for several periods of service, a part of which was performed at Rhode Island, when I was in the Company commanded by Capt. Seth Hovey and Col. Robinson's Regiment, when I did duty for six months. For this and other services I now draw a pension from the Government of the United States, by the law of 1832, my Certificate being No. 468.
I further say that I well recollect that Darius Read, late of Brookfield in said County of Oxford, Esquire, deceased, was also there in the same service. He was a Lieutenant in one of the Companies. He served in that capacity for the term of six months, while I was there & I think in our Regiment, but I am not positive, but that he might have been part of the time in another Regiment. I well remember of said Read, commanding a party of us, one time when we performed an evolution called whipping the snake. Said Read then belonged to Easton, Massachusetts & moved afterwards to what is now Brookfield, when he died before the pension acts were passed by Congress. He married as his 2nd wife, Jane Warren, who is now his widow, living in Brookfield. They were married by the Rev. Mr. Stickland of Farmington in the same County and I was present at the wedding.
Witness Harriet M. Hollis Meshack Keen Mark State of Maine County of Oxford ss. August 8. 1838. Then the above named

Messrs Keer, to me known as a person of known respectability, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, before me
Samuel H. Branson Justice of the Peace