Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13044, William Boswell, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Boswell, William
NUMBER
R. 1,044
CONTENTS

State of Maine } Waldo County ss }
On this 4 th day of August 1857 personally appeared Mary Bangs the only child of Wm. Boswell late of Belfast in said county a Revolutionary Soldier deceased - aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare that her Father William Boswell was a Matross in the Company commanded by Capt. Abner Lowell & served in the war as a private in said Company from July 17, 1776 to April 1st. 1777 8 months & 12 days - That the said William Boswell died at Belfast on the 15 th of March 1840 that when he died he left no widow & left me only his only child - That he never received any pension during his life thereby all which is well assured by the evidence hereto annexed -
She makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which her Father was entitled by the act of June 7 th 1832 to the time of his death -
Mary Bangs
Signed & sworn to before me
Joseph Miller Judge of Probate

State of Maine } County of Waldo } ss.
I Boshan P. Field Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Waldo hereby certify that on the Fifth day of August A. D. 1851 Joseph Miller was the Judge of said Probate Court, and the within is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this Ninth day of October A. D. 1854 Boshan P. Field Register

Richard Clark V over a black

I Reuben Clark and Oscar P. Clark of Kennebec on oath declares that we ware well acquainted with William Boswell late of Belfast a Revolutionary Soldier deceased that the said William Boswell died at Belfast on the fifteenth day of March 1840 that when he died he left no widow but one child whose name is Mary Bangs who is now living in Kennebec
Alst. August 4th 1851 Alfred McAlister
Reuben Clark
Oscar P. Clark
State of Maine
Waldo County
Then personally appeared the above named Reuben Clark & Oscar P. Clark
Who are well known to me as  are persons of Truth and their declarations on oath are entitled to full credit & I made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them Signed before me
Alfred McAlister Justice of Peace

State of Maine.
County of Penobscot, fs.
On this twenty eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Penobscot, Arvida Wayford, a resident of Bangor in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares, that he was well acquainted with William Boswell, late of Belfast in the County of Waldo, and State aforesaid from or about the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, up to the time of said Boswell's death, which occurred in March, A.D. eighteen hundred and forty. That he lived in the same house and family with said Boswell for a period of eleven years immediately preceding said Boswell's death, and that said Boswell died at the house of him said affiant , on the fifteenth of March, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty, at Belfast aforesaid, That he frequently heard said Boswell say that he served in the war of the Revolution, under Captain Lowell, and that he never heard him make any contrary statements. That he said Boswell was generally reputed in the neighborhood where he lived and died, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that was a matter of general notoriety and belief in said neighborhood that said Boswell served as aforesaid, and that he said affiant concurs in such

opinion and belief. That said Boswell frequently said to said affiant, and to other persons in his presence and hearing, that he said Boswell enlisted as a soldier in said war of the Revolution, at Falmouth, then in the State of Massachusetts, now in said State of Maine, and that after the war, he removed to, and resided in a place called Pequaw=ket, and from thence removed to the town of Unity in the State of Maine, and from thence to Belfast aforesaid. And he further swears that he is a disinterested witness.
Arvida Haysford
Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year first above written. And I certify, that I am acquainted with said Arvida Haysford, and that he is a credible witness.
Edmund W. Fogg Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine, County of Washington
I Nathaniel Patterson Clerk of the Superior Judicial Court of the State of Maine for the County of Washington do hereby certify that before Me Albin whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in for the County of Washington; and also that Edmund H Slagg whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time there of a Justice of the Peace in for the County of Penobscot and each one of them duly com- missioned and qualified
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court the 17th day of October A.D. 1852.
N. Patterson Clerk

State of Maine Waldo County County ss On this the twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty four personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace within and for the State and county aforesaid Wm. G. Walker aged seventy one years a Resident of Thorndike in said county who being duly sworn according to law on oath declares that he was born in the town of Troyburg then State of Mass now in the State of Maine and that his first acquaintance with William Boswell was in the town of Bartlett in the State of New Hampshire and the said William Boswell then lived in the town of Conway N.H. and that he said depon- -ent moved into the town of Unity about the year Eighteen hundred and one and that his first Recollection of said Boswell after his said Boswells removal from Conway was in the town of Knott and that the same William Boswell that he was acquainted with in the town of Bartlett and afterward Unity and Knott Moved into the town of Belfast and there he died and that he left one child Mary Bangs who now lives in the town of Unity and he frequently heard said Boswell say that he served in the Revolutionary War over

and he further swears that he is a disinterested Witness Timothy Walker                      Wm G Walker Alfred Moallister
State of Maine Waldo county ss Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written and I the said Justice do hereby certify that Wm G Walker is a credible Witness and is disinterested
Alfred Moallister Justice of Peace

State of Maine.
County of Waldo Co.
On this second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, Alfred McAllister, of Montville in said County, of lawful age, who being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares, that he was present at the Probate Court within & for said County at some time during the year 1851, when Mary Bangs, the heir at law of William Bowell, late of Belfast in said County, made a declaration before said Court, for the purpose of obtaining a pension due her as the heir of said Bowell; that he was employed by said Mary, to bring her before said Court, that after the declaration was made, N. H. Courney, Esq., of said Belfast, the attorney of said Mary, thought it proper to not to send the same to the Pension Office, until certain affidavits proving the identity and death of said Bowell, could be procured. Said Mary requested him said affiant to obtain said affidavits, but as she did not furnish the requisite funds for the purpose, and as one of the persons by whom the fact of said Bowell's death, resided at a distance, there was no further attempt made to procure said Pension. That the original declaration and an

affidavit in the case remained in the possession of said Louney, until sometime during the last summer, when he said affiant not casually met one of the persons whose testimony he was important in the case, and requested him to make affidavit to the facts within his knowledge, which he did. That he said affiant then obtained the declaration from said Louney, who for nearly a year now last past has been so unwell as not to attend to general business, and caused all the papers in the case to be forwarded to the Pension Office. And he further swears that he is a disinterested witness.
Alfred McAllister
Waldo p. Subscribed and sworn to before me on the year and day first above written. And I certify that said Alfred McAllister is a credible witness.
J. Williamson. Justice of the Peace

State of Maine, County of Washington. I Nathaniel Putnam Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine for the County of Washington do hereby certify that Joseph Williamson & Alfred W. Littleton whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing & following certificates are now and at the date thereof Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified.
In testimony whereof I have here set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 27 th day of February A.D. 1888.
N. Putnam Clerk.

State of Maine Waldo County Is on this thirtyth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me one of the justices of the Peace within and for the State and County aforesaid Brodstreet Scribner aged Seventy five years a resident of Unity in said county who being duly sworn according to law on oath declares that he was born in the Town of Wakefield New Hampshire and that his Father Moved in to the Town of Bartlett and State of Vt. at the age of fourteen of said deponent and that at his fathers house in Bartlett he first became acquainted with Wm Boswell who was a Revolutionary soldier and it was generally believed in the neighborhood where said William Boswell lived that he served in the Revolutionary war and at the time of said de- ponents acquaintance with said Boswell he said Boswell lived in the Town of Conway in what is called the Pigeonkeat country in the State of New Hampshire and that the said Boswell Moved in to the Town of Unity about 1800 and that the said Deponent moved in to Unity in the year 1807 and while living in Unity he saw the same Wm Boswell that lived in Conway and that the said Boswell moved in to the Town of Belfast and over

lived there untill his death which was in the year eight hundred and forty and he frequently heard said Boswell say that he served in the Revolutionary War and that he left a widow and only one child whose name is Mary Bangs who now lives in the town of Unity and he further swears that this is a disinterested witness
Attest Thomas J. McAlister
has
Daniel McScribner
Broadstreet Scribner mark
State of Maine Walde county ss Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written and I the said Justice do hereby certify that Broadstreet Scribner is a credible witness and is a disinterested
Alfred C. Heathcote Justice of Peace

William Boswell died 15 March 1840
Mary Bangs, only child,
Reuben Clark, Oscar P Clark, Arvida May { Mitropoulos Jew, Alfred McAlister, W G Walker, & Schiller

Conway Dec 21 - 1854
Joseph Williamson
Dr Sir
Yours of the 12th inst was duly rec d requesting me to examine the records of this town & inform you if the name of William Boswell is to be found thereon &c
I find the records of tax payers is not well preserved previous to 1794 - I can find no records previous to 1781 - I find William Boswell on the records as paying a Poll tax in 1781, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796.
Resp Yours L. S. Morton Town Clerk of Conway.
P.S. There are some of the family now living in this town -

Beggar? March 16, 1855.
Sir:
In your letter of 9 th inst d in answer to my letter inclosing additional evidence in the case of the heirs at law of William Boswell, of Maine, a revolutionary soldier. you make some allusion to the case of Stephen Damon and to a letter written by you Oct 13. I have never had any agency for a man of the name of Damon, and think you have sent me the wrong letter.
You say that as the Serv t of Mass cannot state the place of his enlistment, the service must be proved by witnesses who knew of it? This is just such as a case Boswells. Am I to understand that you require evidence of this kind in every case? So the claimant devarred because the witnesses all dead? Will not traditional evidence, or the testimony of persons who knew the alleged soldier in his life time, that he was generally believed and

reputed in the neighborhood where he lived to have served in the Revolution, be admired?
Yours respectfully J. Williamson
To The Commissioner of Pensions.

William Powell Mar 2nd 1832
W
Penion Burrough
To the Commissioners of Penins.
Washington.
9.6.

Pension Bureau.
Thomas Thompson
Me - sus 1832
William Boswell
Me - Original
Watts, Esq. Superintendent of Pensions.
Washington
D.C.

William Boswell
Mar 1832
Pension business.
Mr. Boswell
to the
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington.
D.C.
1832

No 38820
William Boswell
Dec d , Maine
Williamson Belfast, Me. Octo 13 1854
Same March 9 1855
Same March 24 1855
1044
June 7 1832

_____ Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1044
P. O. William B. Powell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

William Boswell dec d . Maine adm d June 7 1832 Sm o W th p ri $27. 32 per annum from 4 March 1831 to 15 March 1840 When he died Pay to Mary Bangs only Child ,
Cert. to Williamson Esq Belfast Me.

Belfast, Me. Feb. 28. 1855.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Sir;
I am requested to forward the inclosed additional testimony in the case of William Boswell of Maine.
The certificate of Secy of State, Massachusetts, showing that said Boswell's location in the Co wherein he served is not given on the original payroll.
The affidavit of the Town Clerk of Conway, N.H., showing that he was a tax payer in said town. The affidavits of W.G. Walker and Broadstreet Scribner, who knew Boswell in Conway, & afterwards in Belfast, where he died.
The affidavit of A. McAllister, showing that the poverty of Boswell, and his inability to furnish funds, were the reasons why his application was not sooner forwarded.
Yours &c
J. Williamson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Nov. 11 th 1854.
I Hereby Certify , That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of William Bozwell is borne on pay roll of Capt Abner Lowell's Comp. stationed at Falmouth in the County of Cumberland from July 19. 1776 to March 31. 1777. 8 Mos. 12 days. as Matros. Roll dated Falmouth - Cumberland County. Location of the soldiers not given.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wrigg Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Borax
38820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
July 17. 1857.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of William Boswell is borne on payrolls of Capt. Abner Lowell's Matross Co., stationed at Falmouth; as Matross, paid from July 19. 1776 to Apr. 1777. 8 mo. 12 days.

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Service Made by one of the heirs of Wm m Boswell who Rendered the Service in the Revolutionary War State of Maine County of Waldo Town of Unity S t Mary Bangs Request the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass to furnish Evidence from the Rolls in his office of the Service of Wm m Boswell of Cape Elizabeth in the war of the Revolution he was a native of Cape Elizabeth in Cumberland County State of Massachusetts he was drafted from the town of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland State of Mass in the year 1778 as a private in the Company Commanded by Capt and under Col Bagley the Captain's name I cannot recollect but he served six months the Service being done at Buzzards Bay and one tower of three years at different places Plattsburg & Trenton The names of the officers of the Last Service She cannot recollect
Mary Bangs
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
Alfred McCallister Justice of Peace

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
William H. Wells Secretary of the Commonwealth.

~ State of New Hampshire. ~
Carroll County, ss.
On this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Carroll, L. S. Norton, of Conway, in said County, who, being duly sworn according to law, on oath deposes, and says that he holds the office of Town Clerk, in the town and State aforesaid, and that from an examination of the records of said town, he finds that the records of tax payers in said town before the year one thousand seven  eight hundred and ninety four are not well preserved, and that the records previous to the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, and that on the records of tax payers in said town for the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, ninety, ninety one, ninety three, ninety four, ninety five, and ninety six, the name of William Boswell appears as paying a poll tax, and that the said records contain the name of but one William Boswell. And he swears that he is a disinterested witness.
L. S. Norton
Carroll, ss.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, on the year and day first above written. And I certify, that said L. S. Norton is a credible witness.
Isaac Eastman
Justice of the Peace.
State of New Hampshire
County of Carroll ss. I Francis R. Chase Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Joel Eastman Esquire before whom the above affidavit was made, was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned, qualified and authorized by law to administer oaths, and that his signature thereunto is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 8 th day of February A.D. 1855.
Francis R. Chase Clerk