Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 26266, for Benjamin Milliken, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Milliken, Benjamin Lydia
W 26266
CONTENTS

Maine
3059
Sydia Milliken widow of Benjamin Milliken who was a Private
in the Massachusetts line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars Sixty Six Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the first day of December 1843 and sent to
Joseph Isley
Portland Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
Page 7
Enlisted & lived in Scarborough Me

V 408 Lydia Milliken's Application for a pension Act July 7. 1838.
No roll Capt Rice for 1775
no paper
did not serve in Capt. B. Sarrabee Co. in 1779 Rev roll vol 37 page 89
admitted
Pension $26.66
Col Rice Col Phinney.
Mass. died 28 Aug 1824
Act 7 July '38
Joseph Pope Portland (Maine)

STATE OF MAINE.
District of Maine } County of Cumberland, ss. }
On this thirteenth day of August 1838 personally appeared before Asher Ware Judge of the United States District Court  Lydia Milliken a resident of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged Seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision 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 Benjamin Milliken who was a Private & Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution — That in the year 1775 he enlisted for eight months in a company commanded by Captain Rice and in Colonel Phinney's Regiment , and marched to Cambridge in said company & served there as she believes for said term of eight months — That in the year 1779 he again enlisted at Scarborough for the term of three months in a company commanded by Captain Larrabee in Colonel Mitchell's Regiment and went with the said company and served that time out in what was called the Eastern Coast service — That he served in all as she verily believes not less than eleven months — She also declares that she was not married since the death of said Benjamin Milliken , but still continues his widow.
SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Benjamin Milliken on the sixth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty — and that her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Milliken died on the twenty eighth day of July 1824 . 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.
Witness Hugh Milliken Joseph Dope
her Lydia Milliken mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
BEFORE
Asher Ware

United States Maine District
District Court August 13 th 1838.
I hereby certify that the within proceedings were had in Open Court before the Honorable Ashur Ware Judge of the United States in and for Maine District as therein set forth — And I further certify that James Barrabee and Seth Storer Esquires whose of- ficial certificates are borne on the several depositions hereto annexed are respectively Magistrates as thereby stated and as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said District Court the day and year above written
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. Courts

I Abraham Milliken Jr Town Clerk of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine do hereby certify that in the Record of Marriages in said Scarborough by Rev Benjamin Chadwick late Minister of said town the Marriage of Benjamin Milliken & Lydia Milliken is recorded as follows viz Benjamin Milliken & Lydia Milliken both of Scarborough was married July 6 th Seventeen hundred & Eighty by the Rev Benjamin Chadwick and Recorded by Thomas Libby Town Clerk
I Abraham Milliken Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Scarborough aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of Marriages in said town with the exception of the date which is expressed of on the Record in fair legible figures as follows July 6 th 1780
Abraham Milliken Jr Clerk as aforesaid
State of Maine Cumberland ss August 10 th 1838 -
Personally appeared Abraham Milliken Jr above named, who is Town Clerk of Scarborough and is a credible and reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me Levi Storer Justice of the Peace

In case of Lydia Milliken's application for a pension
File with Lydia Milliken papers ass't. com.
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I Lemuel Millikin of Scarborough of lawful age Depose and say, that I had the commission of Ensign in the Company commanded by Capt Benjamin Barron which was drafted from this town, for the public service. I was well acquainted with Benjamin Millikin late of said Scarborough, he volunteered into said Company, and was appointed a sergeant; this was in June 18 eighteen hundred and seventy nine. We then went on said service to Braggadue, near Eastport, after said Millikin had been there with us some time. He went into the service of one of our Government vessels, and one Robert Hosty from Scarborough took his place in the Company by agreement, and this Robert Hosty was made a sergeant in our Company and he finished the term for which Millikin was drafted. Three months there were forty sail of our vessels, and thirty nine of them were burnt. said Millikin was on board that one that was saved. said vessel left there and returned to Newbury Port, she belonged there. In her cruise at Union River my brother Benjamin Millikin now deceased, was then in the British service, was taken prisoner and carried into Braggadue. He told me that Benjamin Millikin was on board the vessel that took him - and I went on board of said vessel myself and saw him there - and did not again see him, until after I returned home and about four or five days after, he got home from Newbury Port as he told me. The sergeants of our Company, were Seth Libby, Isaac Davis, Nathaniel Millikin and Benjamin Millikin - and afterwards Benjamin Millikin went on board the Public Vessel in exchange for Robert Hosty as above said, and said Hosty was made a sergeant in his place - I served my full term of three months - said Millikin went when I did, and

- Did not return home until a few days after I did - attest Hugh Milliken Samuel his Millikin mark
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. Personally Samuel Millikin above named, who is a credible and reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me, this twenty third day of October A.D. 1838 - Seth Storer Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. I Charles Fox Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Cumberland & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Seth Storer Esq. is a magistrate, duly appointed, and Commissioned to act as such within and for the County aforesaid and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas; third day of December A.D. 1838.
Charles Fox Clerk of the Judicial Courts, in & for the County of Cumberland.

I John Dornell of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland of lawful age depose and say that I was acquainted with Benjamin Millikin late of Scarborough he died about the year eighteen hundred and twenty four leaving a Widow Lydia Millikin, she lives less than one mile from me, she has not been married since the decease of her husband Benjamin Millikin, and still is a widow -
John Dornell
State of Maine -
Cumberland ss. October 23 rd A D 1838 - Personally appeared John Dornell above named, who is a credible and reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me Seth Storer Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. I Charles Fox Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Cumberland & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Seth Storer Esqr is a magistrate, duly appointed and commissioned to act as such, within and for the County aforesaid and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this third day of December A D . 1838
Charles Fox Clerk of the Jud. Courts within & for the County of Cumberland.

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26266
Lydia Meilliken Wid. of Benjamin Meilliken Pine Gap line
Act: Mch 3 rd 1842.
Index:—Vol. IV , Page 53
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Maine  Lydia Milliken. widow of Benjamin Milliken, Decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 28th: July 1824. of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Rice — of the Reg t — commanded by Col: Phinney — in the Mass: line for 8 Months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 \frac{2}{3} Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of June 1839 and sent to Joseph Pope, Portland, Maine —
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $79.98 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept — 13.33 $93.31
{ Act July 7, } { 1838. }
Recorded By Am Stearns Clerk, Book A Vol. — Page 15 —

I Eliakim Libby of Scarborough in our County of York and State of Maine, am in the ninety fourth year of my age. now dispose and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, there were two companies of Militia under the command of Captains Dyer and Rice went from Scarborough to Cambridge into the Public service. for the American Colonies. General Washington arrived at Cambridge in a few days after we got there. I was the youngest Sergeant in Captain Rice's company in both. Col Phinney commanded our Regiment. Benjamin Milliken late of Scarborough died, was in Captain Rice's company with me. he left Scarborough when I did in said company, and served in that company eight months — Eliakim Libby Attest to the signature of Eliakim Libby James Larrabee

Subscribed (p. August 11. 1838)
Then personally appeared Christian  Christian  Libby  Libby within named - This is a credible and respectable citizen and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition and by him subscribed before me
James L. Libby for B.C.
Subscribed

I Samuel Millikin of Scarborough in our County of Cumberland State of Maine, am in the Ninetieth year of my age depose and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five there were two companies of Militia under Capt. Tyler and Captain Rice went from this town to Cambridge, into the Public service. General Washington arrived at Cambridge a few days after we arrived there. I was the orderly sergeant of Capt. Rice's Company Col. Phinney commanded us. Benjamin Millikin late of Scarborough now deceased was in Capt. Rice's Company with me - he left Scarborough when I did in said Company and served in that Company eight months - In the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine I was in the Company of Captain Benjamin Dorrance of Scarborough and in that Compa- ny went in the Public service to Baggaduce Colonel Mitchell was in command of us - Benjamin Millikin named above was attached to said Company as a Sergeant of it - Millikin and myself continued in that service three months and then returned home - Samuel Millikin attest to the signature of } Samuel Millikin } Hays Millikin

State of Maine - Cambridge August 10th 1838
Personally appeared Lemuel Milliken within named - He is a credible and reputable witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed to forenoon Let the above justice of the peace
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I Nathaniel Moses of Scarborough, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, am now eighty years of age, depose and say that in the revolutionary war, I was drafted as one of the militia from Scarborough, to go to Baggaduce - Benjamin Larchee was our captain - Mitchell was our colonel - Benjamin Millikin late of Scarborough, now deceased, was the sergeant of our company, he lived in Scarborough, he was in the service in this company for three months the same time that I was - he went, tarried and came home when I did - Nathaniel Moses
State of Maine - Cumberland ss August 10 th 1838
Personally appeared Nathaniel Moses above named - he is a credible and reputable witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me - Leff Storer Justice of the Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
Cambridge County.
On this Twelfth day of August 184 3 Personally appeared before the Subscription Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cambridge
Lydia Milliken
a resident of Scarborough in the County of Cambridge aged Eighty two years—who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress pas- sed on the 3d of March, 1840, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War—That she is the Widow of Benjamin
Milliken who was a Private in the Revolutionary War and died on the 28th July 1824. She also declares that she has received five years pension under act of 7th July 1838. at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and Sixty six cents
she further declares that she is still a widow
Lydia Milliken Mark
Witness Laura Milliken
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Before me and I do hereby certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the Identical person she declares herself to be
Joseph Gentry Justice of the Peace
NOTE—After “who was a” insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy or militia, as the case may be, and the regiment, corps or vessel in which he served, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts in said County, certify that,
Joseph Hovey is a Magistrate
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission is dated February 9 th A. D. 1843 and will expire February 9 th A. D. 1850
and that the following signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this Seventh day of August Anno Domino 1843.
Charles Cobb Clerk.

Portland J. August 7. 1843
Sir I enclose you herewith the applications of Mary Snar and Lydia Milliken for the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 3 March 1843. granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. which if correct please forward me the certificates.
Respectfully Yr
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Joseph Puley

No 3283

WAR DEPARTMENT.
No. 3283.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Lydia Milliken, widow of Benjamin Milliken, Decd: who was a private in the Revolutionary War and died on the 28 th day of July, 1824 — is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Twenty six — dollars and sixty six — cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 22 d day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Lydia V Millikin Maine
Suspended
Per 26 Spt. 1838 to J. Pope
Act 7 July 1838

I, John Libby Junr of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland, Maine do depose and say that I well knew Benjamin Milliken late of said Scarbo- rough dec d , and am also well acquainted with Lydia Milliken the widow of said Benjamin Milliken - and saw her this morning before I came to Portland, and that she has not been married since the death of her said husband who died in July 1824 - I should think she was near eighty years of age - she has applied for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 - as I have been in- formed and as I believe. - Her son told me last evening that she was seventy seven years of age - and that he expected she would have a pension.
John Libby Junr
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss: Oct. 4 th . 1838
Subscribed & sworn to before me, and I certify that said John Libby Junr. is a credible and respectable witness.
Joseph Pope Jr. of the Peace