Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,544, Squier Bishop, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bishop Squier or Squire
S 19,544
CONTENTS

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 4th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this thirty first day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Squire Bishop a resident of Mount Vernon in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following dec- laration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Captain John Blunt and served in Col. McCobb's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Blunt Captain, McCobb Colonel , that in June 1779 he enlisted as a private, in the war of the revolution, for the term of one year. That he served, in that company and regiment, eleven months, until May 1780, when he was discharged verbally at Cox's head, at the mouth of Kennebec river, being then sick.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
That he was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1755, where, if any where his age is recorded, that in 1764 he removed with his father to what is now Winthrop, Maine, where his home was during his revolutionary service. That in 1790, he removed to Mount Vernon, Maine, where he now lives.
That he never took a written discharge. That he enlisted, was not drafted or received as a substitute. That he served in the expedition against Baggaduce where Gen l Lovell commanded the army - Patterson the fleet. That Col l Howard was his lieut d colonel. There was there also Gen l Pyley (Wadsworth). That at that time he was taken prisoner, carried to Nova Scotia, returned home in a cartel and discharged as above. That John Allen and Thomas Small will testify to his being in service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and his invalid pension, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as an invalid pensioner.
Squire Bishop
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston not S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston
BISHOP, SQUIRE
July 31

Squire Bishop
R. B. Morse
Augusta
Me
State of Maine
I John Allen, a soldier of the revolution, aged seventy three years, upon oath testify and declare, that being a soldier myself in the same regiment company, I know that Squire Bishop then of Winthrop served in 1779 as a private in Capt John Bent's company, and that he was in the expedition at Bangor and was there wounded. That I did not personally know the facts of his being taken prisoner, but understood at the time that he was. his John Allen mark
Subscribed a credit
and sworn to, July 31 1832 the deponent being with us.
Before
Nathan Weston
not s.p.c.
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Squire Bishop for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 31 st day of Feb y
A. D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler

From
Massachusetts to Maine on 28 Oct from 4 Sep r 1820.
Squire Bishop, Jr.
private In the army U.S. during Rev d War
Inscribed on roll of Massachusetts at $3. 33 1/3 increased by Law of 24 th April, 1816, to $5. 33 1/3 . Transferred to Maine on the 28 th October, to take effect from the 4 th of Sep r 1820
Increased by Secretary of War on the 28 th Oct r 1820, to $8 per month to take effect from 28 th Feb y 1820
Formal certificate issued 28 th October, 1820, and sent to R. C. Vose, Esq r . Augusta, Maine.
Diff ce between Original & 27 increased pension from 28 th
Feb y 1820 to 4 th Sep r 1820 } $16.44
Six mo s ends 4 th March 1820 } 48. —
$64.44

28 February 1820 Testimony Completed.
282 Squire Bishop, an applicant for a case of pension.
It will be necessary for the party to send the origi- nal certificate of pension to the Dep. if in his posses- sion, if not, he will have to make affidavit agree- ably to the accompanying form Send the same, properly au- thenticated, with these pa- pers to the War Dep.
Pension Office July 28. 1820
Sep. 2. 1820 The original Certificate was left in the Pension Office by Hon. W. Gay. & Mr. Edwards, knowing the fact, agreed to admit this claim upon the Testimony being taken by devises - The affidavit of Bishop is not witnessed by any one - Rec. 11 Sep r 1820 A. C. Wase Esq. Augusta, Maine

Declaration of Squire Bishop
R.C. Vose
Am. Hist.
S. Bishop, a man of peculiarly gentle character his last will was left in the office by Hon. William W. Edward in an unsealed envelope.

Law of the 18 th of April 1874, requires that all evidence in these cases be taken before a Judge & authenticated by the Cert: Seal of the clerk of the Court whereof the said Judge is a Member. —
It will therefore be necessary to obtain the testimony of Doctors Tappan & Ellis authenticated in this way, giving a particular description of the nature of the wound and stating the degree of the disability which which has been occasioned exclusively by said wound.
War Department Pension Office Dec: 16 th 1879. Testimony not conformable to law
Squire Bishop, an app n for increase of pension under Laws of 10 th April, 1806 and 3 rd March, 1879.
April 8. 1818
If the present increased disability under which Squire Bishop is labouring according to the certificate of Doctors Tappan & Ellis, proceeds from old age in the party and not entirely from the wound which he received while in the service of the United States, then an increase of the pension he now receives cannot be granted; but if the disability of the applicant has augmented from the wound and he will produce the evidence of two credible persons to establish the fact & send the same with the testimony of two reputable Surgeons or Physicians taken before a Judge to determine the degree thereof to the War Department, a decision will be made on his claim to an increase. — These papers must be returned.
War Department, Pension Office Oct: 21. 1879 R.C. V.M.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec ss.-
The subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, held within the County of Kennebec, does hereby certify, that the Honorable Samuel Sumner Wilde, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth; that, the Honorable Nathan Weston Junior, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts; and, that Robert C. Vose & Nathaniel Rice are Justices of the Peace for the County of Kennebec. And I do further certify that the papers herunto annexed bear the proper signatures of the respective officers above named. — In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal, at Augusta, in the said County of Kennebec, this 20th day of November AD 1809. — John D. DAVIS John D. DAVIS Clerk of the Courts at Kennebec

I Squire Bishop of Mount Vernon, in the County of Kennebec, District of Maine, State of Massachusetts, being a native citizen of the United States, and from reduced circumstances, being in need of assistance from my country, do on oath testify and declare that I served as a private in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution. I enlisted at Winthrop in the District of Maine, in May previous to the Penobscot expedition, into a company commanded by Captain John Blunt, of Col. Mc Cobb's Regiment, of the Massachusetts Troops. Twenty days after my enlistment I marched for Camden where I joined the main body. On the twenty eighth day of July in the 1779 according to the best of my recollection, we made an attack on the Fort at Majoribagaduce, where I was wounded in the body and in consequence of my wound I now draw a pension from government of twenty shillings per month. I was left on the east side of the Penobscot among many others of the sick and wounded, when the American Army made their retreat; and not being able to effect my escape was taken prisoner by the British, and sent to Halifax in Nova Scotia, where I was detained for about two months, I think. Being exchanged, I was put on board a cartel bound for Boston, which put into the mouth of Kennebec River for provisions and water. In consequence of my inability to perform duty, from the bad state of my wound, I was permitted to return home in order to procure a substitute. Mr John Pullen did duty as such until the expiration of my term of service. I did duty and was a prisoner for the term of about eight months, and should have performed personal duty for the remainder of the term for which I enlisted, had it not been for my wound. The said Pullen after the expiration of my term of service, enlisted during the war & is now dead.
Squire Bishop
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec ss, On this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen, the above named Squire Bishop personally appeared before me, & after being carefully examined touching the premises, made solemn oath that the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, are all of them true.
Before me
S. L. Wilde J. P. J. Justice

United States of America District of Maine ss. }
To Enoch S. Tappan and Joel R. Ellis, two reputable physicians and surgeons, residing in the town of Augusta in said Maine District -
Greeting
Pursuant to an Act of Congress passed the tenth day of April, 1806, entitled "An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war" - and of sundry other acts of Congress refering thereto, - You are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Squire Bishop of Mount Vernon in said District who is inscribed on the pension lists of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conformably to the fifth section of the act aforesaid; - and you are to report in writing and on oath

in affirmation, which oath the Hon. Nathan Weston Jun r is authorized to administer, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; - and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
Given under my hand and seal at Portland, this twenty fourth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty -
Alcion H. Parris Judge of the United States in and for the Maine District

The undersigned Physicians & Surgeons, Fellows of the Mass. Med. Society do hereby certify, that we have examined Squire Bishop, late a soldier in the Revolutionary war & now inscribed upon the United States Pension list, and are satisfied that he received a wound in the year 1779 at a place called Bragg-adice, by a musket ball which entered just beneath the shoulder blade & came out near the backbone & which as he says & we believe, shattered the first named bone so that several fragments were afterwards extracted. From the injury occasioned by said wound he was placed upon the pension list of this State; & is now & has been for the year past, wholly in consequence of said injury, entirely disabled from obtaining subsistence by manual labor.
E. Sawyer Tappan.
Joel R Ellis
County of Kennebec. On this twenty eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared before me the subscriber, chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the second Eastern circuit, Enoch Sawyer Tappan and Joel R Ellis, to me well known as reputable physicians and surgeons of the town of Augusta, in said county, and they made oath to truth of the above certificate, by them respectively subscribed; they being the persons named in the foregoing instrument to them directed. And I do certify that said deponents are credible witnesses. —
Nathan Weston Jur.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec ss.
I John Davis, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, held within the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that the Honorable Nathan Weston Junior, before whom the annexed proceedings were had, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts:
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the County Seal, at Augusta, this twenty eighth day of February, A.D 1820.
Nathan Weston
Feb. 28. 1820 Judge Weston before me
R.C. Hove Augusta Me.

U.
I Polly Carson of Rome in the County of Kennebec, District of Maine, State of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify and declare that I am acquainted with Simon Bishop of Mount Vernon in said County of Kennebec; that the said Bishop enlisted into the army of the United States for the term of one year in the month of May in the year of our Lord seven hundred & seventy nine, according to the best of my recollection, and marched from Winthrop in about twenty days. And I further testify and declare that the said Bishop returned home in the Autumn of the same year, wounded in the body, and in consequence of his being so wounded, he was confined until the spring of the year AD 1780 under the care of a physician: And I further testify and declare that the father of the said Bishop hired one William Patten of Winthrop to do duty as a substitute for his son, for the remainder of his time of service.
Notary Public Doley X Carson mark
Attest Moses Gilman Betsy M c Intosh Kennebec Jp.
May 13 1818 Then personally appeared the above named Polly Carson, and after a careful examination touching the premises, made solemn oath that the facts contained in the above affidavit by her subscribed are all true.
Before me E. Vath: Vice Justice of the Peace
of Salem me the sub- Aunt, Esq. physician

E. Sawyer Tappan, M.D. & Joel R. Ellis, Physicians and Surgeons, and Fellows of the Mass. Med. Society do hereby certify, that we have examined Squire Bishop, late a soldier in the Revolutionary War and are satisfied that he received a wound the year 1779 at a place called Bragadue a musket ball which entered just beneath the shoulder blade & came out near the backbone & which as he says & we believe shattered the first named bone so that several fragments were afterwards extracted. From the injury occasioned by said wound he was placed upon the pension list of this State: and is now & has been for the year past in con- sequence of said injury & the infirmity of years rendered in our opinion wholly disabled from obtaining subsistence by manual labor.
E. Sawyer Tappan. Joel R. Ellis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
November 1st April 11 th 1889.
Personally appeared the within named Ernst Sawyer Tappan M.D. and Joel R. Ellis, two reputable physicians and surgeons and they. Personally made oath to the truth of the within certificate as then signed.
Before me
Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace
3
Robert C. Vose Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec; and the within documents are Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and highly respectable in their profession.
Nathan Weston Jun. C. Med. C. C. C. Phys.
We have further examined and believe that the whole of the within document is wholly attributable to the reasons as received as specified in our within certificate.
E. Sawyer Tappan Joel R. Ellis
Kennebec County October 18 D o
Subscribed and sworn to
Before me Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace

We John Hovey and Ansel Kimball , both of Augusta County of Kennebec, Esquires - do hereby certify and declare that we have for many years been acquainted with Squire Bishop within named, we have seen his wound which he alleges to have received in the war of the revolution - we have no doubt from our acquaintance with the said Bishop of the truth of his within declaration - and in our opinion the disability he now complains of arises from his wound received as aforesaid - and in our opinion he is fairly entitled to the allowance granted to revolutionary pensioners for full disability as is expressed by the pension certificate
John Hovey Ansel Kimball
Kennebec County ss. November 18. 1819
Personally appeared John Hovey and Ansel Kimball Esquires to me well known to be credible and disinterested witnesses and they severally made oath to the truth of the within deposition -
Before me Robert Vose Justice of the Peace
I John Allen aged fifty nine years do upon oath testify and declare that I well knew Squire Bishop within named to my knowledge he served and was wounded in the company and regiment by him stated - I belonged to the same company and was well knowing to the said Bishop being wounded in the manner stated at the time he within states - The said Bishop resides in the same county with myself and am knowing to his having received his pension in consequence of said wound for many years - and he is in my opinion at the present time justly entitled to an increase of pension as testified in this case in consequence of said wound -
John Allen mark
Kennebec ss. Nov 20. 1819
Subscribed and sworn to before me, and the deponent is in my opinion a credible witness Nathan Weston Esq. C.J. C.C.C. P.H.S.

J.L.M. Rev. War Section.
June 10, 1912.
Mr. C. C. Whittier, No. 374 Blue Hill Ave., Boston, Massachusetts.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 30 th ultimo and received the 1 st instant, you are advised that from the papers in the claim Ser.F. 19,544. Rev. War. it appears that Squire Bishop was born at Rehobeth, Mass., in 1755, and while a resident of Winthrop, District of Maine, Mass., enlisted at that place May, 1779, as a Private in Capt. John Blunt's co., Col. Samuel Mobb's regt. Massachusetts troops. He was in the Penobscot Expedition where he was wounded in the shoulder blade, then taken prisoner and carried to Halifax, and, after two months, was exchanged; he was put on board a cartel, returned home and was discharged MAY, 1780. He was pensioned for the above disability from June 22, 1792. In 1818, he was a resident of Mt. Vernon, Kennebec Co., Maine.
Very respectfully,
J. L. Klavenport Commissioner.

Squire Bishop Junr
19 5/2 17 1/2
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District of Maine These Certify that Squire Bishop Jun r of the plantation of Washington in the County of Lincoln & district of Maine made application pursuant to the Act of Congress of March 1792 to be placed on the pension list of Invalids. That upon considering the disability He recieved while in the service of the United States. It was my Opinion that He ought to be placed on the pension list of Invalids at the half pay of a private Soldier. And that He ought to recieve a further Sum of Two hundred Dollars for arrearages of Pension. This Opinion with the written documents on which it was founded, were Certified to the Secy of War, the 22 nd day of June 1792. Given under my hand and Seal this 5 th day of April 1792.
David Sewall Judge of the District Court of Maine
BISHOP, SQUIRE

374 Blue Hill Avenue, Boston, Mass., May 30, 1912.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me the pension record of Squier Bishop, who served in the Mass. line during the Revolution. He was living in 1840, and probably died at China, Maine.
Yours very truly.
§ 19,544 C. C. Whittier.

New Year 19544
1912 June 10 Hist. To Mr. C. C. Whittier V.L.M.
INVALID.
File No. 19544
Ebenezer Bishop
Dec 10, 1888.
Act: _____
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ex'r.
INVALID
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
863 REJECTED
P. O. Juan Cisneros
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____
Discharged: _____
Application filed: _____
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Squire Bishop aff. duit 5337
1 1 1 1 4 6 8 48.28 1.06 3149.34 316.44

State of Maine Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that John P. Elias Esquire, certificate was subscribed and sworn to as a Justice of the Circuit Court of  Peace with and Common Pleas , for the Superior Court of the County of  and  of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have  affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Court Seal. Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this 10th  Twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Seventy
J. M. Davis

Mon Refp d Oct 28 th 1820
The allowance of the within named pensioner is hereby authorized to be increased from the sum of $5 33 1/3 to which it was raised by the Law of the 24 th of April 1816, to the rate of eight dollars per mo: to commence from the 28 th of February, 1820.
J. P. Calhoun Sec y of War
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of Kennebec ss.
On this Twelfth day of August 1820; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Kennebec personally appeared Squire Bishop who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Blunt in the regiment commanded by Colonel She Webb in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the Tenth day of March 1818, at at  Hallowell in the county of Kennebec was delivered to Rufus E. Page , who he alleges that it is not now in his possession, — said certificate is not now in existence to my knowledge.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. }
Squire Bishop
Joel R. Ellis } Justice of Peace
NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 13 th , 1832.
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 Sylvester Bishop is borne on "a pay roll of Capt. John Blunt's company in Col. Sam d . M c Cobb's regt. of Militia in the expedition against Bagaduce Penobscot, commencing the 28 th of June & ending the 28 th of Sept r , 1779" as having been paid for three months service.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

May 2, 1906
ut. skg

Bishop, Jun., Squire
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Maine, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 86.
Rank : Private
Regt : Col. McCobb's
Disability : Wounded near the back bone by a musket ball; was taken prisoner.
When and where disabled : 1779, Penobscot
Residence : Washington
Monthly allowance : $3.33
Arrearages : $200
Remarks : There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence complete.

Mar. 24, 1906 aw W. J. S.

Bishop, Jun., Squire
His name appears on a list of invalid pensioners returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Maine, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 60.
Rank: Private
Regt: Col. S. Webb
Disability: Badly wounded by a musket ball, at the expedition against Penobscot, 1779.
Date of commencement: June 22, 1792
Monthly allowance: $333 1 / 3
Arrears due: $200.00