Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,744, Eleazer Burbank, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Burbank, Eleazer Mary
W. 23,744
CONTENTS

1202 Jellaine
Eleazer Burbank
of Belgrade in the State of Maine who was a Musician in the Company commanded by Captain Watkins of the Regt commanded by Col. Peirce in the Massachusetts line for 1. year and in Captain J. Burbank's company in Col. Dyer's Regiment 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars — Cents per year to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of October 1832, and sent to R. C. Vose Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $132. Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 1833 44
$176
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk. Book 2 Vol. 17 Page 49
Copd for Land agt

2002.
Elaine
Elizabeth Burbank widow of Eleazer Burbank who was a Musician in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Sept. 1843 and sent to G. W. Morton Augusta Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book e 4 Vol. 1. Page 2.

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John A. Chandler-Cluett
musician 88 yrs sent R 6 rose Augusta
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this fourteenth 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, Ebenezer Burbank a resident of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn  affirmed , according to law, doth on his oath affirmation make the following declaration, 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 1776 with Captain Watkins and served in Col. Putnam's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz Watkins Capt & Putnam Col. that he enlisted on the first of January 1776 as a Musician for one year & served until August of the same year when he was left in Boston with the small pox. That in January 1777 he enlisted & did duty as a Musician in Capt. Ebenezer Burbank's company & Col. Samuel Brewe's regiment of the same troops for the term of three years & was discharged the last of December 1780.
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5872 and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, and now resides in the same town .
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
Ebenezer Burbank
Affirmed
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, (the applicant being sworn about taking an oath) Before me
Nathan Weston Jun Asst 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 Jun

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 Eleazer Burbank for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this fourteenth day of July A. D. 1882
John A. Chandler Clerk
Meridian 88 fr ing sent B G Rose Augusta
He from B G Rose Augusta Me 27 Sept
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Scarboro March 7
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George W. Morton Esq
Augusta
(Me)

Sir
Scarborough March 6 th 1843
I received yours of Feby 27 th this morn give you the following Certificate
I Abraham Milliken Clerk of the town of Scarborough County of Cumberland & State of Maine do certify on Oath that I have examined the Records of Marriages of said town and find as follows viz Eleazer Burbank and Mary Brackett were married September Twenty-Seventh day Seventeen hundred and Eighty eight By the Rev d Benjamin Blackwell
The above is a true Copy of the Records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures Sept 27 th 1788
Abraham Milliken Clerk as aforesaid
State of Maine
Scarborough ss. Personally appeared the above Abraham Milliken who is Town Clerk of Scarborough and a credible & respectable witness & made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me February March 5 th 1843
Simon Milliken Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Werned of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Ken- nebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and that the original was exhibited in open Court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Five hundred  fifty four dollars and  cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Five hundred and nineteen dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Werned

(Copy)
State of Maine.
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KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty third day of May , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston  Esquire  Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Burbank aged fifty five years, resident in Belgrade in the County of Meigs within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn  affirmed according to law, doth, on his oath  affirmation , declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain
Burbank and Regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years ; that he was at the taking of Burgoyne ; Also served in the year 1776 in Capt. Matthews Company and Col. Phoenix Regiment, Massachusetts line
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the Seventh day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5872 . And I, the said Ebenezer Burbank do further solemnly swear  affirm , that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Ebenezer Burbank
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
The right to the possession, but not the property, that being in another person, is about seventeen acres of land, mostly unimproved in Belgrade of the value of thirty dollars, One horse of the value of thirty dollars, One yoke of oxen of the value of fifty dollars Four cows of the value of sixty dollars Fourteen young cattle including some yearlings of the value of one hundred and forty dollars Four sucking calves of the value of ten dollars Thirty sheep with a few lambs of the value of fifty dollars Six swine of the value of twenty four dollars Old Furniture, besides necessary bedding of the value of twenty dollars Implements of husbandry of the value of twenty dollars Cart and Sled of the value of twenty two dollars Sleigh and harness of the value of twenty dollars
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I have debts due to me that may be collected to the amount of seventy dollars; and I owe about thirty five dollars.
The income of the above property does not exceed sixty dollars a year. I have also the income and improvement during life of a farm of one hundred and seventy four acres of land in Ridgeway with an old house with two old barns thereon much out of repair and the fence poor. The fair net income does which does not exceed fifty dollars a year.
I am by occupation a farmer, but from infancy having received an injury by a strain many years since, and my eyesight having been much injured by the small pox in the revolutionary service am only able to do light work.
I have in family residing with me eleven in number. Yes myself, Mary my wife fifty three years of age, quite feeble in health, and has been for five or six years, my son John aged thirty one quite feeble and infirm and on that account exempted from Military duty. My daughter Hannah aged twenty eight out of health and now under the doctor's hands. My daughter Mary aged twenty two years. My daughter Elizabeth aged eighteen years, My son Caleb aged fifteen years who does not enjoy health having a swelling in his throat, My son David aged fourteen, My daughter Sarah aged eleven, troubled with the asthma badly, my son Amos aged eight years and my son Samuel aged six years.
Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no other property or income whatever.
Eleazer Burbank
Subscribed affirmed to and declared both the oath and schedule, on the twenty third day of May 1820. Before me
Nathan Weston Junior C.L.
not entitled C.C.C. Pleas
Attest John Davis Clerk
True Copy
Eleazer Burbank

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." (and an act to amend the same approved Aug 23. 1842.)
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this twenty-seventh day of February A. D., 1843 personally appeared before the Hon. William Emmons, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, in open court the same being a Court of Record Mary Burbank a resident of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy five 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 An Act to amend the same approved August 23. 1842; That she is the widow of Elazar Burbank, late a pensioner of the United States under the Act of 7 th June 1832; that he was paid at the Agency in Portland Maine, where we was paid up to March 4, 1840; That she received the pension as his widow from that time up to the 31 st of August 1840, the time of his decease; She refers to the declaration made by her said husband in support of his claim to a pension supposed to be in possession of the War Department.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Elazar Burbank on the not mentioned day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Elazar Burbank died on the thirty first day of August 1840 - at Belgrade, Me.; 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, - that she was married in Scarborough Me, by the Rev. W. Chadwick, settled minister of Scarborough, and that her maiden name was Mary Bracket.
Mary Burbank
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
William Emmons Judge of Probate in & for the County of Kennebec.

8728 Mary Burbank
July 7, 1838
Act 7. July 28
In 88 & 40
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2 yr Musician
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Geo W. Morton
Angela
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I John Burbank of Belgrade, in the county of Kennebec, in a State of decline, aged forty four years, do upon oath say that I am the oldest child of the late Elazer Burbank and Mary Burbank his wife, that the said Elazer Burbank was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and died on the thirty first day of August 1840 that my mother, his widow is now living in said Belgrade. they lived together as husband and wife from my earliest recollection till his death, and brought up a family of eleven children, since his death, his widow has remained unmarried. John Burbank
State of Maine Kennebec County ss
Subscribed & sworn to this 27 th February 1843. Before me
Erastus B. Southwick, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above John Burbank is a person of truth, whose statements are entitled to full credit — E. B. Southwick, Jus. Peace
State of Maine.
Secretary's Office, Augusta March 13, 1843.
I hereby certify that Erastus B. Southwick of Augusta in the County of Kennebec, and Simon Milliken of Scarbro in the County of Cumberland, whose names are subscribed upon these papers, were at the dates of their several attestations, Justices of the Peace within and for the Counties in which they severally reside, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified; that to their acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Witness my hand at Augusta this fourteenth day of March A.D. 1843, and in the sixty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Philip L. Johnson, Secretary of State.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." (and An Act to Amend the Same approved Aug 23. 1842.)
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this twenty-seventh day of February A. D., 1843 personally appeared before the Hon. Williams Emmons, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, in open court the same being a Court of Record Mary Burbank a resident of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy five 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 An Act to Amend the Same approved August 23. 1842; that she is the widow of Elazar Burbank, late a pensioner of the United States under the Act of 7 th June 1832; that he was paid at the Agency in Portland Maine, where we was paid up to March 4, 1840; That she received the pension as his widow from that time up to the 31 st of August 1840, the time of his decease; She refers to the declaration made by her said husband in support of his claim to a pension supposed to be in possession of the War Department.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Elazar Burbank on the not recollect day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Elazar Burbank died on the thirty first day of August 1840 - at Belgrade, Me.; 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, - that she was married in Scarborough Me, by the Rev. Mr. Chadwick, settled minister of Scarborough, and that her maiden name was Mary Bracket.
Mary Burbank
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
Williams Emmons Judge of Probate in & for the County of Kennebec.

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss. I the subscriber _____ hereby CERTIFY, That the Rev. W. Emmons before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of Probate Court as within stated I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Mary Burbank for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Twenty Seventh day of February A. D., 1843
Francis Davis Register of Probate Kennebec County Maine

man Dept
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WIDOW, &c.
Sold perusd to Sept 24/90 a B Sole R T offud war J W 13 Rec I 28655-
File No. 23744
Mary Burbank Wid of Eleazer Burbank Musician Mass Line
Act: Mar 3rd 1843
Index:—Vol. A , Page 107
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Verification sent to R.C. Vose Augusta Me 11 July 1829
5072.
Maine. S
Eleazer Burbank Musician.
Massachusetts line - 374
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8. Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Jany 1829 and delivered to R.C. Vose Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4 mo 27/30 39. 20 Semi-annual all'ee ending 4 th March 1819. 48. 00
$ 87. 20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Belgrade Discontinued

Maine - 7204 -
Rept May 2
Mary Burbank widow of Eleazer Burbank who was a pensioner under the Act of June, '32 and who died on the 31st: August, 1830 of Kennebec Co in the State of Maine who was a Musician in the Company — commanded by Captain Watkins of the Regt: — commanded by Col: Phinney — in the U.S. Army: — time for 2 years —
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 — Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd — day of May — 1843 and sent to Geo: W. Morton Augusta, Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
$440.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Abel Stearns Clerk, Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 3 —

Eleazar Burbank

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, Nov r 9 th 1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Eleazer Burbank served as a Soldier in Capt. Burbank's Company, and Col. Sproat Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Jan y -first 1777 to Dec r 1. 1779, being two years and eleven months, & was then discharged.
Helen Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Eleazer Burbank, Wennebec County, Maine.
Musician - Phoenix Mass. Regt. From Jan'y. 1776 to Augt. 1776. 1 year
Musician. Brewer Mass. Regt. 3 years.
On Maine Roll 5,872.
R. C. Vose Augusta Maine

Eleazer Burbank
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, at the Cumberland Bank of Portland Maine
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Eleazer Purbanks late a Musician in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

I John Carl, now a resident in Unity in the County of Kennebec upon Oath testify and declare that I well knew Eleazer Burbank a Continental Soldier, - the said Eleazer Burbank enlisted in the month of January 1777, for three years into Col. Silas Burbank, Company, and Col. Brewer afterwards Col. Sprouts Reg. 12 th Mass t line the said Burbank served as a fifer, the full period of three years and was to my knowledge honorably discharged at Fish Kill in Dec. 1779. I am sixty three years of age John Carl
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. -
Kennebec County ss.
On this twelfth day of September 1818
the above named John Carl, appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed - and I certify that I am acquainted with the said John Carl, and that he sustains the character of a man of truth - _____ Before me
Robert C. Vose Justice of the Peace
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Robert C. Vose Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec.
Nathan Weston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Elazer Burbank , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Belgrade , in the said County of Kennebec , in the District of Maine, on the seventh day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a musician , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  per C. West C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties 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 presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
A handwritten signature in cursive script, reading "J. M. Davis", positioned to the right of the attestation text.

Eleazer Burbank, Belgrade Kennebec Co. M c . Col. Sprouts Mass. Reg. 1777. to 1780
April 8. 1818.
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Elazar Burbank aged fifty three years, born in Scarborough in the District of Maine, a citizen of the United States now resident in Belgrade in the District of Maine, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare, that on the first of January 1776 I enlisted as a musician in the war of the revolution in the service of the United States, upon the continental establishment against the common enemy for the term of one year in Capt Washburn's company and Col. Phinney's regiment of the Massachusetts Troops. I served until August 1776, when being taken sick, I had permission from my officers to return home on account of ill health. And remaining sick, I did not afterwards join my regiment under this enlistment. On the first of January 1777 I again enlisted as a musician in the war of the revolution, in the service of the U. States, upon the continental establishment, against the common enemy for the period of three years, in the company commanded by Capt Silas Burbank and regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Brewer of the Massachusetts line. This period I fully served out, and took my final and honorable discharge from the army at Fishkill in December 1780. My discharge is not to my knowledge now in existence. I was in the retreat from Ticonderoga, in battle at Fort Anne, and at the taking of Burgoyne. By reason of reduced circumstances, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge, borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Elazar Burbank
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co
On the seventh day of April A D 1818 Elazar Burbank above named, after having been carefully examined, made affirmation, under the pains and penalties of perjury, to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him submitted.
Before me
Nathan Weston Esq
Chief Justice C. C. C. Plus Second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I John Penny of Dearborn in the District of Maine of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Elazar Barba the within named. From reduced circumstances, he is in need of assistance from this country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth.
John Penny
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Kennebec ss
On seventh day of April A D 1818, John Penny above named after having been carefully warned, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed — Before me,
Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice C. Court Common Plus Second Eastern Circuit

2205 Mary J. Burbank
$88 per ann
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF MAINE, }
County of Kennebec ss. } On this twelfth day of June A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Mary Burbank a resident of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec aged seventy five 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Eleazer Burbank who was a Musician during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Eleazer Burbank at the rate of Eighty eight dollars and cents per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine . She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Eleazer Burbank having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Witness John Burbank Mary G. Burbank
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,
Gerwinton
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Eleazer Burbank deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Gerwinton
Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine,
Kennebec County, S. S.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held for, and within the said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that George W. Merle is a Justice of the Peace as within stated, and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the twenty third day of June A. D. 1843.
A. R. Nichols