Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21999, for Nehemiah Porter, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Porter, Nehemiah Joanna
W 21999
CONTENTS

11.251 Maine
Nehemiah Porter
of Cumberland Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt commanded by Col Rud. in the New Hampshire Militia
9 Mo Private - $ 30
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of April 1833 and sent to J. Mussey, Portland, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 30 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 1833. 15
$ 45 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John P. Sprague - Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 42

No 2,804
Nehemiah Porter
Application for a pension
Aug t 1832
to private
Admitted
9 mos
Private
$30.-
Macey
Portland Me

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 seventeenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the HONORABLE ASHUR WARE , Judge of said Court.
On this seventeenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Nehemiah Porter a resident of North Yarmouth in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated viz: That in April 1775. at Ridge in the State of New Hampshire he enlisted as a private soldier for nine months in a company of militia, commanded by Capt. Philip Thomas in a Regiment commanded by Colonel James Reed , in the New Hampshire line , and served in said company for the term of nine months for which he had enlisted. That he was stationed with said company at a place called Winter hill near Boston - where he performed his said service - that he was in the battle of Bunker hill , and discharged seventeen rounds in said battle - That he had no written discharge but was dismissed with the rest of the company & returned home having served nine months. -
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
Nehemiah Porter
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Asher Ware } U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

The said Nehemiah Porter further states, That he was born at Ringe, N.H. on the fourteenth day of December 1757. That he has a record of his age at home in North Yarmouth. That he resided in Ringe of course when he first entered the service, - in the year 1780 he removed to North Yarmouth, in the state of Maine, and has resided there ever since, and now resides there. -
Nehemiah Porter
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid before _____ U. S. Judge for the District 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
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 Nehemiah Porter for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth 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 John Harper formerly of the Town of Goffney State of New Hampshire now of the town of Radman in the State of New York do testify and say that I engaged in the Revolutionary war in the year one thousand Seven hundred and and Seventy five on the twentyth day of April as a Lieut under Capt Philip Thomas then Commanding the Seventh Company in Col James Reed's Regiment of the New Hampshire Line and that Jeremiah Porter was a private in the said Capt Thomas Company and Served for the term of nine months
John Harper
State of New York Jefferson County
Radman Feb 10 th 1819
Then personally appeared the above named John Harper and made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth
I certify that the above named John Harper is a credible witness before me as I am acquainted with him
Before me Return Russell Justice of Peace

Clerk's Office
Jefferson County New York Feb 15 th 1819
$80,50
to certify that the within named Return of Arrest before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day when the same was taken a Justice of the peace in & for this county and duly qual- ified to act as such Witness my hand and seal of said County
Benjamin Skinner Clerk
Mark L. Doolittle

On this tenth day of January 1833. Personally ap- peared the aforsaid Nehemiah Porter and amended his declaration, and now states, that about the 25 th of April 1775 he enlisted in a Comp y now Hampshire of militia, first commanded by Capt. Hale, who was promoted to be a Major in two or three weeks after I enlisted - and then Capt. Philip Thomas had command of the company - in Col. James Reeds Regt. That he first enlisted for eight months, & served during the eight months in the vicinity of Boston - was in Bunker Hill Battle and that he was discharged the last of December at Winter Hill so called near Boston - But did not leave the service then for he im- mediately enlisted at the same time in the same company under the same Captain Thomas in the year service - and served at Winter Hill till into February 1776 - when my brother Sylvanus Porter came & took my place, and I returned home - having served the full term of nine months, or more - without intermission from the time I first enlisted in April 1775. —
Nehemiah Porter
Subscribed & sworn to this 10 th day of Jan y 1833.
before
John Warr
Judge of the Superior Court for the Dist. of Maine

Repealed July 21 st 1849
1848 Hawaii
James Kamehameha King of the Hawaiian Islands and served in the Revolutionary War as a Private
Enrolled on the Roll at the rate of 10 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of January and sent to J. Kamehameha P. O. Box 100
Approved on Roll of Pensions under the Act of March 3, 1848, Page 100, Vol. 1

10 385 Joanna Porter wid of Nehemiah Me act 17 June 44 Married 1782 husband died Feb'y 1846
adnd 9 mo. 1 m $30 00 per m Mar 20 July 1846
Hand M. H. Clark House of Reps

United States of America
On this twentyfirst day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Hon Asahel Ware judge of the U.S. for the District of Maine Joanna Porter a resident of North Yarmouth in said District aged eighty two years and upwards who being first duly sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 17th 1844.
And this declarant states that she is the widow of Nehemiah Porter late of North Yarmouth deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 and received a pension under said act at the rate of $30 per annum. She has heard her late husband say that he was a native of the Town of Scituate Massachusetts and she believes that he removed from said Town before the war of the Revolution to the Town of Rindge New Hampshire. She has heard her husband say that he was a soldier in Capt Thomas company and in Col Reed's Regt. She refers to her husband's declaration under the act of 1832 for the proof of his services and the particulars relating thereto. This declarant further states that she has heard her husband say that he removed from said Rindge to Falmouth Maine or in its immediate

ate vicinity a short time before the close of the Revolutionary war but she believes that his services were performed while he resided in New Hampshire.
She further declares that she was married to said Nehemiah Porter at Gray Maine by the Rev d Mr Nash on the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty two, that her said husband the said Nehemiah Porter died on the 20 th day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty six and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed.
Witness
Eliza D Porter
Grandma her X Porter Mark
Sworn to before me this 21 st of November
Asahel Wren
Dist. Judge of the D. C. for the District of Maine.
1266

State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
I do hereby certify that from an examination of the Records in this office relating to military service in the War of the American Revolution I find the name of Nehemiah Porter borne on a
"Pay Roll of Capt. Phillip Thomas Company in Colo. James Reed's Regiment to the 1st August 1775 - Time of entry, April 30"
I also certify that on the list of "Guns & lost at Bunker Hill 15. June 1775" is found the following account - "Capt Thomas Co - N. Porter, 1 Bayo l 0.6.0"
I also certify that the name of Nehemiah Porter is borne on a list of "The mens names that has found their own their own Blankets in Cap tn Thomas Company in Colo. Reed's Regiment" - to which list is attached the following receipt -
"Winter Hill ye 11th of Sept. 1775 - Recd of Timothy Walker Jur. twenty six panna eight shillings in full for ye men on this list being 44, for blankets at 12/ each, by me
Phillip Thomas Capt."

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State at Concord this sixth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven
George L. Dugg - Secretary of State

I Jacob Clark Town Clerk of Gray in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine on oath say that I am Town Clerk of said Town having been duly chosen and legally qualified to act as such agreeably to the laws of the State. I have in my possession all the Books of Record belonging to said town and in one of the ancient Books purporting to contain the records of Marriages and intentions of Marriages I find the following viz -
"April ye. Thirteenth Seventeen hundred and eighty two Publisht Mr Nehemiah Porter of Northyarmouth & Mrs Joanne Barber of Gray. Date publishd April twenty eighth seventeen hundred & eighty two,"
The above is a true transcript from the Record with the exception of the dates which appear in fair legible figures thus "April ye 13. 1782 & April ye 28. 1782"
I also find on the opposite page of the same book the following. viz.
"Married by ye Revd Mr Samuel Nash Mr Nehemiah Porter & Mrs Joanne Barber"
To the last extract there is no date. The above are true extracts from the Records in my possession with the exception as aforesaid and the same was made at the solicitation and for the benefit of Mrs Joanne Porter of North Yarmouth County of Cumberland and the widow

of Nehemiah Porter late of said Town deceased.
Jacob Clark. Clerk of Gray
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss. Be it known. That on this first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hun- dred and forty seven personally appeared Jacob Clark Town Clerk of Gray and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed
Before me James Ford Justice of the Peace

I William Hamilton of North Yarmouth and county of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am now fifty five years of age, that I am well acquainted with Joanna Barbour of Gray Porter in said town and county the widow of Nehemiah Porter who was a Revolutionary pensioner in the United States that said Nehemi- ah Porter died on the twentieth day of February 1846 at North Yarmouth and that said Joanna Porter is still living and resides at said North Yarmouth in said county of Cumberland. The maiden name of the said Joanna Porter was Joanna Barbour before her marriage to the said Nehemiah Porter and that she is the only wife of said Porter ever had, and that I have been acquainted with her for the last sixty five years. William Hamilton
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. March 19, 1849. Personally appeared the above named William Hamilton a person well known to me as a man of undoubted verac- ity and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me,
Edw d G. Buxton, Jus. of the Peace.

I Jacob B. Lufkin of North Yarmouth county of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am sixty nine years of age, that I am well acquainted with Joanna Porter in said North Yarmouth and county & state aforesaid, the widow of Nehemiah Porter who was a Revolutionary pensioner in the United States, that said Nehemiah Porter died on the twentieth day of February 1846 at North Yarmouth and that said Joanna Porter is still living and resides in said North Yarmouth, county of Cumberland, the maiden name of the said Joanna Porter was Joanna Barbour before her marriage to the said Nehemiah Porter and that she is the only wife the said Porter ever had, and that I have been acquainted with her for the last fifty nine years.
Jacob B Lufkin
State of Maine,
Cumberland ss. North Yarmouth March 18, 1846. Personally appeared the above named Jacob B. Lufkin a person well acquainted known to me as a man of undoubted veracity, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me,
Edw. G. Buxton, justice of the Peace.

United States Maine District
Circuit Court Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that the Honorable Arthur Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District and that the signature there- to, purporting to be his, is genuine -
And I further certify that James Ford and Edward G. Buswell Esquires, are Magistrates duly authorized and commissioned as such for the County of Cumberland in said District and that full faith and credit are due to their Offic- ial attestations.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this twelfth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty eight.
John Melsey Clerk U.S.
Circuit Court Maine

Rev.&1812 Wars Section
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Arthur Butler Graham National Association Bldg., Twenty-five West Forty-third St., New York City.
June 9, 1926
Arthur Butler Graham National Association Bldg., Twenty-five West Forty-third St., New York City.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 21999 it appears that Nehemiah Porter was born December 14, 1757 in Rindge, New Hampshire.
While a resident of Rindge, New Hampshire he enlisted April 25, 1775, served as a private in Captains Hale and Phillip Thomas' Company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire Regiment, was at the battle of Bunker Hill and was discharged in February 1776.
In 1780 he moved to North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine where he was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832. He died February 20, 1848 in said North Yarmouth.
Soldier married April 13, 1782 in Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, Joanna Barbour or Barber of said Gray. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 21,

1848 while a resident of North Yarmouth, Maine aged eighty-two years.
June 4, 1882
Respectfully,
Soldier had bro. Silvanus
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. mae S. 29/11/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Joanna
Soldier Nehemiah Porter
Service -----
Additional Service ..... Rev. .....
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191____
No claim, combination records -----, 191 ---
REMARKS:
REMARKS: Wed. Feb. 21, 1899 { N.H. me Joanna

Boston Nov 24 - 1897.
Dear Sirs, -
OLD WAR & NAVY NOV 29 1897 FILES
I have been referred to you at our State House in Boston for facts concerning the following :-
Will you kindly inform me if you have any record of services rendered by the following men in the Revolutionary war. or did they, their wives or descendants receive pensions

for services rendered in the War - 1861-65
1st.
Reverend Nehemiah Porter graduated from Harvard College 1745. Pastor for 34 years from 1774-1808 of the Congregational Church Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Orphan in General Gates' (1777) Army in the Revolutionary War as appears from Town Records and was at the front at Saratoga, Fort Ticonderoga and

Bennington. These facts are certified to be Henry S. Ranney Town Clerk of Ashfield Mass
2nd
Dea Porter (son of above Rev. Ebenezer Porter) probably born at Ipswich, Mass. Lived for many years at Ashfield Mass and married there May 29-1777. Abigail or Abel Flagg. Was Deacon there in the Congregational Church. Lived and died when over 90 in

Lebanon, New Hampshire New York. He is said to have lived when he applied for a pension. He fought at the battle of Bunker Hill.
3rd
Major Lemrock or Lamrock Farmer of Ashfield Mass. His daughter Rachel married above said John Porter Respectfully Yours Mrs Mary E. Southwick 31 Wassa Street Ave Boston. Mass

Rev 21-999
WIDOW, &c.
M rs H. Porter
File No. 21999
Josiah Porter wid of Nehemiah Porter Priv Rev war
Act Feb. 2 nd  1/48
Index: Vol 286 , Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec. 16 Sent
197 - To Mrs. Mary A. Wick, Boston, Mass.
1910 Dec. 2 Hist. To Joseph Foster, V.L.M.
1926 June 9 - Hist. To Arthur B.

Nehemiah Porter, me act 7 June 1832. $20 00
To what time was he last paid? E.G.A.
Pension Office June 27. 48
Died 20 th Feb 1846, Paid to his death,
13813.

Maine
Joanna Porter widow of Nehemiah Porter who was a Private in the Penobscot Harbor Feb 20 th 1846
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 20 th day of March Feb y , 1846
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June, 1848, and sent to
Wm. A. W. H. Clapp Webb of Dept.
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book R Vol. 2 Page 7

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Jeremiah Porter N.F. 21999
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 25, 1775 9 mos. Pvt. { Hale Philip Thomas James Reid N.H.                                                   
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ridge N.H.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 17, 1832. He was alive.
Residence at date of application, South Yarmouth, Cumberland Co. Me. Dist.
Age at date of application, born at Ridge N.H. Dec. 14, 1757
Remarks: He died Feb. 20, 1846 at South Yarmouth. Soldier married at Gray Me. Apr. 13, 1782 Joanna Barbour, or Barstow. She was allowed pension on an application executed Nov. 21, 1846, while a resident of South Yarmouth aged 89 years.
Very respectfully,

L. W. B. W. 21999. W. 17477.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV..
REVOLUTIONARY.
December 16th, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Lamrock Flower, John and Nehemiah Porter, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you are advised as follows:
A very careful search has been made and from the data given the name of Lamrock Flower has not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension records on file in this Bureau.
Newhemiah Porter made an application for pension on August 17, 1832, at which time he was 74 years of age and residing at North Yarmouth, Maine, and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Thomas and Col. Reed. Place of his enlistment not stated. His widow, Joanna, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
John Porter, made an application for pension on August 7, 1832, at which time he was 78 years of age and residing at New Lebanon, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for seventeen months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Dodge and Col. Doolittle. He enlisted at Ipswich, Mass. His widow, Mabel, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Mary A. Southwick, 31 Mass. Ave., Boston, Mass.

ARTHUR BUTLER GRAHAM COUNSELOR AT LAW
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION BUILDING TWENTY-FIVE WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET NEW YORK CITY
JOHN G. DONOVAN
CABLE ADDRESS ARTHAM
April 2, 1926
Pension Bureau War Department - Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Mr. Nehemiah Porter, according to my family records, resided in North Yarmouth, Maine or Scituate, Massachusetts, at the time of the War of the Revolution, and Mr. Rufus Porter resided at the same place at the time of the War of 1812, and each saw military or naval service.
Will you kindly tell me whether there is any record of these two men on the Pension lists? Mr. Rufus Porter died in New London, Connecticut, in the latter part of the last century.
I have a record to the effect that Rufus Porter was a member of the Portland, Maine, Light Infantry in the War of 1812 and that Nehemiah Porter was in Captain Philip Thomas's company in 1775.
Do you wish any further information from me in connection herewith?
Thanking you,
Yours very truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive script that reads "Arthur Butler Graham". The signature is written in dark ink and is positioned below the closing "Yours very truly,".
ABG:A encl.

PM
Foster, Joseph
Peterborough N.H.
26 Nov 1910
Regarding record of Nehemiah PORTER Revolutionary Soldier

26 Middle ST. Portsmouth, N.H. Nov 26, 1910.
Sir:
Will you please give me the military record of the Revolutionary Soldier
NEHEMIAH PORTER, born Scituate (Mass.?) Dec. 14, 1758, lived in North Yarmouth, Maine, and died February 20, 1846. His widow, Joanna Porter , died March 31, 1854.
Please inform me par- ticularly whether he was in the battle of Bunker Hill, as claimed.
Respectfully
Joseph Foster
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

PM
Foster, Joseph
Palmersville N.H.
26 Nov 1910
Regarding record of Nehemiah PORTER Revolutionary Soldier
NOV 29 1910

Home of Rep. Washington
June 22. 1848.
Sir
I enclose the papers of Joanna Porter of North Yarmouth and Anna Paine of Pownal, Maine for the purpose of obtaining a Pension Certificate, if correct, please enclose the certificate to me, and
Oblige most
Yours sincerely
N. W. H. Clapp.
J. L. Edwards Esq Commission of Pension -

Mr Cole 506-44 all
Joseph Isley Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, September 4 A. D. 1845 }
I
Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Daniel Hall is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland, as appears by the paper hereto
annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the
COMMISSION of the said Hall is dated May 2, 1846
A. D. 184 , and will expire May 2nd, A. D. 1853
and that the his are following Genuine.
SIGNATURE purporting to be
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.
Chas. C. Harmon, CLERK.

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss.
On this thirtyfirst day of August 1848, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. Joanna Porter a resident of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eightyfour years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2 d day of February 1848. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War. that she is the widow of Nehemiah Porter, who was a private in the Revolutionary War in Captain Thomas Campay
She further declares that she is still a widow, and has received the benefits of the Act of Congress - passed - 17 June 1844 at the rate of Thirty dollars per annum
Witness my hand and seal this day and year above written Emmor Rawson, Jr. Mark Before me Daniel Hall Justice of the Peace
I Certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me and that she is the individual as stated above Daniel Hall Justice of the Peace