Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,739, Ebenezer Buck, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Buck, Ebenezer Mary
N. 23,739
CONTENTS

Lot T. J. D. File, Aug 5/56
Reported Apl 25/49.
10.626.
Maine.
Mary Buck
Widow of Cheney  Cheney Buck of who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 19 Apl 1824. of _____ in the State of _____ who was a Lieut. in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 10 Dollars per month Cont. per annum , to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. September 1847.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25, day of Apl 1849 and sent to Caroline B. Hovey Bucksport Me
Total amount, Special act } 3 March 1849 } [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Geo. H. King Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 23.

No. 2. Town Clerk of East Thomaston Certificate of Publication

No. 2. Town Clerk of East Thomaston Certificate of Publication

East Thomaston, Nov. 10 th 1843.
Samuel Little Esq.
Sir.
Agreeably to a request from John O'Brien Esq. of this town, I have examined the town Records and find no record of marriage of Ebenezer Buck to Mary Brown; but I found the following Records of Publication, viz:
"Intentions of Marriage between Ebenezer Buck late of a place called Penobscot, & Elizabeth Mitchel late of Belfast now residing in this town, were entered with the Town Clerk October 17, 1779.
A true Record Attest David Hale Town Clerk."
A true Copy.
Attest, Walter E. Tolman, Town Clerk.
"Intentions of Marriage between Ebenezer Buck late of a place called Penobscot and Molly Brown of Thomaston were entered with the Town Clerk December 19, 1780. Attest David Hale Town Clerk."
A true Copy.
Attest, Walter E. Tolman, Town Clerk.
Respectfully Yours,
W. E. Tolman, Town Clerk.

No. 7 Declaration Mary Buck of Mary Buck Declaration
Me
Act 7 th July '38
June 29. 1818
Bill 548
Act
65 0. 0

Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 "entitled" "an act granting halfpay and pensions to certain Widows"
State of Maine
Hancock County ss. } On this sixth day of December in the Year of Our Lord eighteen hundred & forty three before me Samuel M Pond Esquire Judge of Probate for the County of Hancock and State of Maine Mary Buck a resident of the Town of Bucksport in the County of Hancock and State of Maine Widow aged eighty one years 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 7. 1838 entitled "an act granting halfpay and pensions to certain Widows" that she is the Widow of Eben- ezer Buck late of Bucksport in the County of Hancock and State of Maine Gentlemen, that said Ebenezer Buck was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the Colony or State of Massachusetts appointed by the Council of Massachusetts in July in the Year 1776 and very soon afterwards a Captain of said Militia which said Offices he held until he was honorably discharged That in the Year that is the Year 1777 or in 1778 he was residing in a place east of the Penobscot River called Number one in the County of Lincoln in Massachusetts and as Lieutenant he entered into the service of the United States with a part of his Company in the Regiment or forces commonly Col Allen and proceeded a part of way by water and a part of the way by land from said Number one to Machias that he started in the first part of the Month of August and returned the last of October all of which time he was in the service of the United States. That afterwards in the Year Seven teen hundred and seventy eight nine he was again detached as a Captain and marched with a part of his said Company in the Month of July from said Number one in the Regiment of Militia of Massachu- setts commanded by Col. Josiah Brewer and joined the Troops under General Lovel at Bigyduce at the time

of the then proposed seize of the Enemy at that place by Sallonsdale of the Navy and Lovel of the land forces. that she continued with said land forces from the time she marched in July until after the defeat of the Americans. when she retreated with his said Company and marched up the Rappahannock River and crossed the same and proceeded to Thoroughfare - when she joined General Wadsworth and that she continued in the service of the United States from that time until the nineteenth of December in the year seven seventeen hundred and eighty just seventeen months during all of which time she was in the service of said States under the said Brewer Lovel Wadsworth - which with two months in said service under Col Allen at Manassas nineteen months service. that all the Officers and soldiers who she can find now living who served with said Buck except one is dead. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Buck on the twenty fifth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one. That her Husband the afore said Ebenezer Buck died on the nineteenth day of April eighteen hundred and twenty four. 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 Mary Buck
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written Before Samuel M Pond Judge of Probate
State of Maine Hancock County ss.
I Samuel M Pond Judge of Probate for the County of Hancock certify that the above named Mary Buck cannot from bodily infirmity attend a Probate Court herein this day at Ellsworth in and for the County of

Hancock. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of December 1843. Samuel M Pond Judge of Probate
State of Maine
Hancock ss. Probate office, Ellsworth
I John D Richards Register of Probate within and for the county of Hancock, hereby certify that Samuel M. Pond whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing is now and was at the time of subscribing the same Judge of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Hancock: and that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this sixth sixth day of December A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty three.
John D Richards
Register of Probate

Elisabeth Durham of Belfast in the State of Maine Testify and say that my Fathers family in the time of the Revolutionary war resided near Clem Cove on the Penobscot Bay in what is now called Thomaston in the County of Lincoln and some time after the defeat of the United States forces at Bignyduce Ebenezer Bunk late of Bucksport who was an officer in the service of the United States and I was informed and who continued at Thomaston after the said defeat with General Wadsworth he there was published and married to my sister Mary Brown now the widow of said Ebenezer Bunk. I was present and saw them married. I cannot recollect the name of the person who married them. They were married at my Fathers house in Thomaston aforesaid and they immed- ately left my Fathers house after their said Marriage
Elisabeth Durham
State of Maine
Hancock County ss on This 27 th of July 1843 The above named Elisabeth Durham personally appeared and made solemn oath in due form of law that the above certificate her subscription is
true Before me Samuel Little Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Hancock ss. Probate office - Ellsworth
I John D. Richards Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County aforesaid. hereby Certify that Samuel Little whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing, is now and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace throughout the State

aforesaid. duly commissioned & qualified and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court. this Fifteenth day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred and Forty Three
John D. Richards { Register of the { Court of Probate
No 3
PP 6 unp 10

Feb 13 Caroline B. Horned
Caroline B. Horned & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit. Before me Thos. C. Woodman Jus: Com Vermont at Montpelier Vermont

I, Caroline B. Homan, on oath, do testify & say that I am a daughter of the late Ebenezer Buck of Bucksport, where I now reside, and that during my father's & Daniel Haniman's life time, I heard them frequently converse together about the service which they performed together in the war of the Revolution, and of their being at Thomaston. I have also seen at my father's house Telford Durham, who I understood was my father's Lieutenant, and Field Coombs of Fox Island, who was also at Thomaston with my father, as I understood, and, while there, have frequently heard them converse together about their services in said war - and the matter has always been talked about ever since my recollection, and I have no doubt of the facts. I do further say that I have always understood that my mother was at Thomaston, residing there in her father's family during the time my father was there.
Caroline B. Homan
State of Maine Kennebec ss. Dec r 8, 1847 - Then personally appeared Caroline B. Homan & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit. Before me
Thos B. Woodman Jus: Peace
She hereby certifies that Caroline B. Homan is the only surviving entitled to her father's estate. Thos B. Woodman Jus: Peace

Rev
WIDOW, &c.,
File No. 23739
Mary Buck Wid of Ebenezer Buck Heir
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 107
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9917
Mary Buck M rs
Let to Hon. W. H. Williams Jan'y 3. 1848.
Let to same Feb 22 '48
to same March April 3. '48
to same Apr. 110. '48
Act July 7 th 1838
9917. i
Mary Buck,
M rs
Undeveloped
Let to S. Sept Sept 26 '44
Letter to J Little Dec 16 th
Letter to Hon. Shepard Carey Jan. 15. '45
Same Feb 6. 1845.
Act July 7 th 38

No. 1 Massachusetts Records

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston: September 14 1817.
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 Olenzer Such is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt William Reed's company, in Col Jonathan Buck's regt for service at Machias, as a Lieutenant from August 19 to September 28 1777. 1 Month and 10 days.
Upon an Abstract of Pay due to his Company of Volunteers, in Col Josiah Brewer's regt, in Genl Lovell's Brigade in the Expedition against Penobscot as Captain from July 30 to October 22 1779. 2 Months and 23 days.
Not upon Rolls of Genl Wadsworth's Command
The above is all the evidence of service

of any one of the names as an Officer, or as having belonged to the State of Maine in any Capacity.
We do not know that we have all the rolls of Genl Wadsworth, nor have reason to suppose it.
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 appli- cation, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
J. G. P.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. P.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Bucksport July 22 1847. Mrs Mary Buck Attordam
Be pleased to file a declaration in this office agreeably to the accompanying regulations, and search will be made for the revolutionary service of Ebenezer Buck and the result forwarded to your address.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John G. Palfrey,

State of Maine.
HANCOOK, ss....CLERK'S OFFICE, ELLSWORTH.
I George W. Brown _____ Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock, hereby certify, that _____
Samuel M. Bond _____ whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Hancock, duly commissioned and qualified, and that as such, full faith and credit are due his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty Seventh day of July _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- Seven ,
Geo. W. Brown _____ Clerk of said Court for Hancock County.

The following REGULATIONS, to be observed in the examination of the Revolutionary Rolls in this office, have been rendered necessary under the rules which are established in the Pension Department at Washington, viz :
1. Every application requiring search, or certificate, must be made to the Secretary, in writing, by the claimant, or by some person duly authorized by the claimant; and the signature to the application must be attested by some magistrate.
2. The application must set forth, as fully as the circumstances of the case will allow, the residence and service of the soldier, and the names of the officers under whom he served; and no search will be made until after the filing of such written application.
“Regulations to be observed in the examination of the Massachusetts Revolutionary Papers in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.”
“The application must be made to the Secretary in writing, by the claimant, or by some person duly authorized by the claimant, by a written power of attorney, attested by a magistrate. The signature of the claimant must in all cases be attested in like manner.
“The application must set forth, as fully as the circumstances of the case will allow, the residence of the soldier, &c., at the time of the service, and the names of the various officers under whom he served, as well as the nature of such service.
“The certificate of the Secretary must show that the search was made, after the filing of such application, by himself, or by one of his Clerks alone, and must be accompanied by the original application of the claimant, or of his attorney, and by a detailed statement, under the signature of the Secretary, and the Seal of the State, of the circumstances which satisfied that officer of the identity of the party described in the application, with the individual who rendered the service.
J. L. EDWARDS, COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.”

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
State of Merine County of Hancock 16 Town of Bucksport
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Ebenezer Burks an officer in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Haverhill in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of  plantation  Number one now Bucksport in the County of Hancock and State of Merine (now Maine) in the year 1777 as a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain William Doot in the fifth Regiment of Militia  Lower  Penobscot and he served as follows, * viz:— In the year 1779 the said Ebenezer Burks arrived at a place called Loon Cove (now in Shamstown ) on the Penobscot Bay , and came to my father's house. He came there as an officer, and was addressed by the title of Captain, and said he had been with the American forces to Bigundue (now Castine ) and with others of the United States forces had been driven from that place, and units with forces under the command of General Macdowall , and was with General Macdowall a year or more. I always understood him to be in the employ of the United States , and that in consequence of his opposition to the British power that they sent a force to said Plantation No. one , and burnt his house & a mill and committed other depredations so that we were compelled to reside many months in a camp, and compelled to submit to many depredations occasioned by their laying waste the whole
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

they met with on the new plantation. I also learned that said Buck my late husband previous to his services at Bogue Chitto (now Bostwick) and after that, had been ordered and went to Warrenton under the American forces commanded by Gen. Allen. I have often heard him relate circumstances of his having once been taken prisoner by the British, and their threats of his escape from them after many days detention. I recollect while the forces were at Thomaston my said husband was sent to said plantation No 1 one, and there took three Tories named Sampson Mc Donald & Weaver and carried them to Thomaston & sent them westward.
I am now 85 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this Twenty Second day of July A. D. 1847.
Signed by said Mary Buck in my presence,
} Mary Buck mark.
Samuel Pond JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Thomaston July 22 d 1847 I hereby confirm leadline B Hanger to present the above & foregoing applications witness my hand and seal.
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of Samuel M Pond Justice of the Peace
for Mary Buck mark

Petition of Mary Buck of Bucksport Maine — widow of Ebenezer Buck deceased, praying for a Pension on account of the Revolutionary Service of her late husband. March 22, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Referred to the Com- mittee on Revolutionary Pensions
H. Williams

To The Hon. Senate & House of Representatives in Congress assembled
Humblly sheweth Mary Buck of Bucksport, in the County of Hancock, and State of Maine, widow; that her late husband Capt. Ebenezer Buck was, in the time of the Revolutionary war; a Captain of a company of Militia of Massachusetts, situated on the Penobscot River; and had also served, as Lieutenant & Ensign of said company; - that he was detached to serve in several expeditions against the then common enemy; - that he was actually in the service of the country, at various times, for at least eighteen months; that, in consequence of his employment, the enemy destroyed his house which he had built; & drove away his cattle; that; although he was thus employed in the service of the United States during the full term of eighteen months, she cannot at this time obtain evidence sufficient to satisfy the Commissioner of Pensions, that he served six months by any proof which will justify him in admitting her to the benefit of the act of 1838, for the relief of widows of Revolutionary officers, according to a petition by her made for a pension under said act. Yet she does believe that if the evidence she has exhibited to the commissioner may not be sufficient to justify that officer in admitting her to a pension under that act, that the evidence by her produced of the said services of her late husband, & losses sustained in consequence of them, are such as entitle her to a claim for the consideration of Congress. She therefore prays your Honors to take her case into consideration, & grant her such relief as in your wisdom is just; as in duty bound will ever pray Mary Buck by Caroline P. Homer

Report No. 689.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 548.]
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MARY BUCK.
JUNE 20, 1848.
Mr. HAMMONS, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT :
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Buck, praying for a pension, report:
That the petitioner sets forth and proves that she is the widow of Ebenezer Buck, and that she was married to him prior to January 1, 1794. She also states that the said Buck was a lieutenant and captain in the militia, in the war of the revolution; that, when lieutenant, he was with the forces commanded by Colonel Allen; and, when captain, he served under General Lovell, and also under General Wardsworth; under the former for a short period, and under the latter for about a year. It appears by a certificate from the secretary of Massachusetts that he served as lieutenant in Captain Buck's company, in 1777, one month and ten days; and in Colonel Brewer's regiment, in 1779, as captain, two months and twenty-two days. But she produces no record evidence of any service under General Wardsworth; she does prove, however, by several witnesses, that he did serve under General Wardsworth several months; and most of them think for about one year.
The committee, from the proof, have no doubt but said Buck did serve under said Wardsworth for a sufficient time to make the whole of his service amount to six months, at least; and, therefore, report a bill, granting her a pension of ten dollars per month.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Oct 23 1847.
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 Ebenezer Buak is borne upon a List of Commissioned Officers as 2nd Lieutenant in Capt Samuel Keyes's Company 3rd Regt. Lincoln County M. Service named. was Commissioned July 23 1776. Asahel Herriman was 1st Lieutenant in said Company. There is no roll of Capt Samuel Keyes in this Office.
The above information was not given in former certificate of Ebenezer Buak, issued from this Office the 20th September last.

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.
John G. Parsons.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

No. 12
Peter Harriman

I, Peter Harriman of Orland in the County of Hancock & State of Maine, on oath, do depose, testify & say, in addition to the facts testified to by me in a former affidavit, that I am now Eighty Eight Years of age and that I came from Pliston, Mass. to Bucksport, in this County, when I was eleven Years of age, that I was personally acquainted with Capt. Ebenezer Buck before & during the Revolution and until the time of his decease, our places of residence being within half a mile of each other, and I know positively that said Buck performed the service specified in my former affidavit, at Clean Cove, now Thomaston, because my brother Daniel Harriman was then an orderly sergeant, under said Buck, and was with him during the whole of said time which was from  near the  to During said time and while we were cutting meadow hay, I think during the last of September, the year after last time, then Bangor, was taken possession of by the British, said Buck & Dan l Harriman came up with another man and took the three Tories, Stephen Lamplim, M c Daniel & W m Weaver, and carried them in rows to Thomaston, & from there they were sent westward, at the same time they required me and my father to go with them, and we did go, and were at Thomaston about a fortnight

we went down Sunday night & left there a week from the next Saturday. While I was there Gen. Walworth was there several days, and after he left, Maj: Ulmer came there. There were parts of several companies there and I heard the Roll called frequently, my brother, who was orderly Sargent called the Roll and said Buck, was there present, in command of the company, I am certain that my brother and said Buck were together in the service, at least a year. Since that time, I have heard my brother frequently speak of the services above specified, and my own recollection of the facts is perfectly clear - My brother died about twenty years ago.
Witness The L. Woodman Catharine J. Ginn
Peter his Harriman Mark
Hancock County Ga. December 8 th 1847 Then personally appeared the above named Peter Harriman, who appears to be in full possession of his faculties, and whose declarations are deserving of entire credit, and made solemn oath to the foregoing statement by him above subscribed.
Before me
The L. Woodman
Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Wancock p.
Clerk's Office Orono
I George W. Brown Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within And for said County hereby certify that Theodore C. Woodman whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly Commissioned And qualified, and that as to all full faith And credit are due his Official acts, In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the Seal of said Court this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Seven,
Geo. W. Brown Clerk of said Court, ff for Hancock County

No. 5 Justin Soper
No. 8

1775 1778 I Justin Sisson of Orland in the County of Hancock and State Maine testify and say that I resided in Township No 2 now Orland at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war in 1775 and continued to reside there until after the defeat of the American at Bagaduce in 1778 (I think) I lived near to where we were acquainted with the late Captain Ebenezer Bunk of Township No 1 East of Penobscot River (now called Bangor) that I heard that a British ship of war was on the coast near the Machias River and it was feared she would distress some mills in that vicinity. that I saw said Bunk with about eleven men go on board a boat to proceed from the Penobscot river to Machias to join other American forces to defend the said Mills or other property on the coast from the depredations of said ship that the distance from the place where they started from Machias by water I suppose is about 100 miles They were absent many weeks but how long I do not remember
I was ordered out to the attack of the British at Bag- aduce and went to that place with said Bunk who was then a Captain in the Militia of Massachusetts and we continued with the American forces for and the whole time of the siege

when the Americans were defeated I made my escape and resided for a time on the River Kennebec I always heard after my return that Captain Buck then was absent from his home in the service of the United States for some time after & that he always was true to the cause of his country
Justus Soper
State of Maine
Hamilton County ss On this 26 th day of July 1843 the above named Justus Soper personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before
Samuel Little Justice of the Peace

I Jane Durham of Belfast Testify and say That I lived at Belfast on the Penobscot Bay in the then county of Lincoln and Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war. That I was then the wife and now the widow of Safford Durham. And I know that my husband started I think as a Lieutenant with Captain Ebenezer Dank of Tewkesbury (now Penobscot) in the year of our Lord 1777. for to go to New York with a company of Soldiers to protect some vessels and other property belonging to citizens of the United States. I know my husband was absent about two months on that Expedition. I know Safford Dank went with my said husband and returned with him and I always understood was his captain and that they were together during the whole time but as I was left at home I do only know of my own knowledge they left together & returned together. I further testify and say that at the Siege of Brandywine or Red Bank the said Dank and my husband were again absent in the service of the United States. That they were called away by some military order a short time before the defeat of the Americans and the destruction of the American Vessels in what is now called Red Bank. I think it was about three weeks before the defeat and that they continued there until the defeat. As soon as the defeat happened said Dank & my husband returned to Belfast & proceeded to what is called Clam Cove. I joined those of the forces and went with my husband to Clam Cove. And from this time forward I continued with my husband about one year while we were with the Militia or other forces under General M'Nutt I think, and I know that said Dank continued all the time I was at Clam Cove which was one year in the service of the United States. That I saw him very often there almost every day. He there was engaged to be married to my sister Mary Brown & was then married to her. I returned to Belfast left said Dank at Clam Cove, I further say not.
M rs J. Little
Jane Durham

State of Maine Hancock County ss.
On this 27 th of July in year 1843 the aforesaid John Durham personally appeared and made oath in due form of law that the above deposition by her subscribed is true
Before Samuel Little Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Hancock ss. Probate Office. Ellsworth V John D. Richards Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County aforesaid, hereby certify that Samuel Little whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing is now, and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace throughout the State aforesaid; and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said court this fifteenth day of December A D one thousand eight hundred and fortythree
John D. Richards { Register of the Court { of Probate
No. 8 Jane Durham

No. 9 Town Clerk Bucksport Death of E. French
1844

To whom it may concern I Nathan White Clerk of the town of Bucksport County of Hancock & State of Maine certify that the following death is recorded on the records of said town Capt Ebenezer Buck died April nineteenth Eighteen hundred and forty four
the above is a true copy of record with the exception of the date and age which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows "Capt Ebenezer Buck died April 19 th 1824 Aged 72. Years
Attest: Nathan White Clerk of the town of Bucksport Bucksport November twentieth Eighteen hundred and forty three
I Nathan White above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County town and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me Nathan White Clerk of town of Bucksport

I Peter Harriman of Orleans in the County of Hancock and State of Maine testify and say that sometime about the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight I resided with my Father in Plantation or Township No 1 & 8 citty of the Penobscot River now Bangor in the County of Hancock and State of Maine. That I was knowing that the late - Ebenezer Dink of said Township started from said Planta- tion to go to Machias as a Lieutenant I think with a number of Men then belonging to Township No 1 & Township No 2 and these forces went to Machias to protect some property which was in danger of being destroyed also of falling into the possession of the Enemy These Troops were under the command of Col Allen I think that said Dink was absent several weeks at that time as my neighbors left before the time of Haying and did not re- turn until it was time to harvest the potatoes - That after- wards I was knowing to his being ordered to go to Bangor (now called Castine) with such forces as he could collect to effect the Americans that he went as a Captain with such men as could be found loyal Subjects that he was absent from home from about midsummer as long as one year to my very best recollection that said Dink was at Bangor or Bangor and when the Americans were defeated and the loss the fleet of the United States and retreated and to the Place called Bangor or a Place near Bangor where is now called Thomaston where he remained nearly a or a year; certain I am he continued during the winter in the service of the State under General Hads worth That I know of his coming to No 1 from Thomaston late in the season and arresting three Men at Torrey and I went with said Dink from No 1 to Thomaston at that time and there said Dink - I further testify that said Dink had a new house which he had built a frame house which was outside finished and inside partially so destroyed by the British forces by fire and his oxen driven away all in consequence of the said services of said Dink to the United States Witnes, I Dink Peter Harriman mark

State of Maine
Hancock County ss. On this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three The above named Peter Harriman personally appeared before me and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit had been subscribed by him
Samuel Little Justice of the Peace
Peter Harriman
Sept
State of Maine
Hancock ss. Probate Office Ellsworth I John D. Richards Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County aforesaid, hereby certify that Samuel Little whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace throughout the State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this Fifteenth day of December A.D. 1843.
John D. Richards
{ Register of the Court of Probate
No. 4 Peter Harriman

I am Durham of Belfast in the State of Maine, widow of Goffin Durham late of Belfast deceased, aged eighty nine years on each other that I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Bink late of Bangsport now deceased from before the Revolutionary War to the time of his death - I know him to be the same man that was published in Thomaston Oct. 17. 1779 to one Elizabeth Mitchell whom he never married - Afterwards on the 19th of December 1780 he was again published in Thomaston to my sister Molly Brown & he afterwards married her & lived with her to the time of his death -
I further testify & say that I know him to be the same man named in the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts dated Sept 14. 1847 as having served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant 1 month & 10 days in 1777 & again 2 months & 23 days in 1779 - I well recollect it from this circumstance my husband was with him in the same service - I am certain that he afterwards served at Thomaston in 1779 & 1780 under General Walbridge & Major Adams -
I am her  your Durham mark
Witness. T. H. Loring

Waldo County ss. Nov. 19. 1847
Then personally appeared the before named Jane Durham who is well known to me & whose declarations on oath are entitled to full credit & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her signed before me
Nathl. M. Loring
Jus. Pease
State of Maine Waldo County ss.
I Wm H. Burpee Clerk of the courts for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Nathl. M. Loring is a justice of the Peace within & for said County & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the S. J. Court of said State this 19th day of Nov. 1847 Wm Burpee Clerk

I Am Black of Searsport in the County of Waldo and State of Maine of sane mind on oath do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Ebenezer Bunk of Belfast from my youth and that the bands of Matrimony between him and Elizabeth Mitchell were published at a place then called Blum Cove now Thomaston about the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine as near as I can recollect and that the following year he the said Ebenezer Bunk was published to Molly Brown to whom he was afterwards Married I further say that I was eighty two years of age last March Am her X Black mark
State of Maine Waldo ss July 18th 1847 then personally appeared the above named Am Black and made oath to the foregoing deposition by her subscribed before me
Benj r Noyes } Justice of the Peace
State of Maine:
Waldo ss.
I Charles Palmer Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify that Benjamin Noyes is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Waldo, duly Commissioned & qualified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of the Probate Court this nineteenth day of July A. D. 1847.
Charles Palmer } Register of Probate for the County of Waldo

AWR No 548 Mary Buck = 9917

9917
Decm 23 1843
Mr Mary D. Lusk 7 July 1836
Hon. J. P. Collins Correspondence of Business Washington
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Burkissport Dec 19 1843
Hon. J. S. Edwards
I enclose the application of Mary Burke for pension under the act of 1838 - Document 43
I am very respectfully Your Obed Servt
F. Little

No. 3 Certificate that Samuel Little was Justice of the Peace, since deceased.

the 16 STATE OF MAINE.
HUGH J. ANDERSON, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Samuel Little of Bucksport in the County of Hancock Esquire, was, on the twelfth day of March A. D. 1842 appointed and Commissioned, and on the eighteenth day of March A. D. 1842 qualified as a Justice of the Peace and Quorum within and for our said State State of Maine that he still continues to hold said office : _____
H. J. Anderson
And that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and hundred and forty- four in the sixty- ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
Philip L. Johnson , Secretary of State.

No 99175 Mary Buck Maine
Act 7. July 38
m 81-a 24 — Secy. d l in 77. lmo 108 Ep h 79. 2. 23

Ann. of Dep.
Dec. 29. 1847
Sir
I have the honor to enclose the Declaration & other Papers of Mary Buck, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension as the widow of a Revolutionary Officer -
Very Respect. Sir
Yr. Obs. Servt
M c Williams
Col. L. L. Edward -
Compt. of Pensions -

Hann of Oup. Mar. 17. 1848.
Dear Sir -
Will you have the goodness to return to me the papers which I some time since presented in the case of the Application of Mary Bucke for a Pension & etc. etc.
Very respectfully, Yrs.
Obs. Sub.
(M c William)
J. S. Edward Esq. Comp r of Pensions -

Dear Sir,
London, December 18th 1844
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. S. Edwards
Yours truly, J. S. Edwards
Hon. J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Customs
W. H. Smith

Barnesport Nov 14 1844
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pension Dear Sir
I presume the affidavit of Mrs 1 Durum. Peter Harriman wom yet examined on account that my authority as a justice of the peace authorized to administer oaths does not properly qualify. I now send the best evidence of that fact, - I also send additional certifi- cate of Capt. Brooks service at Machias.
Will you have the goodness to examine the case in order to give the widow an opportunity of knowing whether she can come within the act as soon as convenient that if she cannot sustain her claim she may ask aid of the Congress as her case is truly of great delicate consideration
I am Sir with much respect Your Obed Servt
S Little
Nov 14 1844
3/4

House of Reps. Apr 5. 1848.
Dear Sir; -
The letter to which I refer in my note of the 3 d inst., I now enclose - excuse my carelessness -
In reply to mine, some days since - asking for the papers in case of Mary Buck, you say if they are wanted for the purpose of being presented to the Committee of Pensions, you will return them to me - That is the purpose for which I want them -
Very respectfully yr.
Obs. Dut.
W. Williams
L. L. Edward Esqr.
Com te of Pensions -

House of Representatives, 30th December, 1844.
Sir:
I enclose you herewith two letters from S. Little, Esq. of Buchaput, Maine, in relation to the application of Mary Buck, widow of Ebenezer Buck, for a pension under the Act of 1838, to which I would respectfully call your attention.
Please furnish me with the desired information in the premises.
Respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Shepard Carray
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions.

10.626 Mary Buck, widow of Lieut. Ebenzer Buck, widow of Buckport, Maine, (residuary (roll act 1838)
$10 per month to commence 4 th Sep- tember 1847.
to continue during life .
Maine Roll
Special act 3 rd March 1849
Caroline P. Homer Bucksport Me

Pension Office,
April 25, 49.
Sir,
I shall be obliged for a copy of the latest for the relief of Mary Buck of Me., Chapra at the last session of Congress
I am, very respectfully Your Obt
W. S. Derrick Esq. Chief Clerk State Dept.

House of Representatives, 5th February, 1845.
Sir:
Will you please return me all the papers on file in your department relating to the application of Mary Buck & Buckspat, Maine, widow of Capt. Ebenezer Buck, for a pension, as I wish to present her claim for the consideration of Congress.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant
Shepard Cady
J. J. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.

Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Bucksport Dec 23, 1844
Hon J S Edwards Dear Sir
Yours of the sixteenth is received I am much obliged to you for your prompt attention to the last document sent on - You write that "it would appear from the certificate of the Town Clerk of East Thomaston that there were two per sons bearing the name of Mrs Buck's Husband The intention of marriage with Elisabeth Mitchell were entered with the Town Clerk on the 17 th Oct 1779 and with Molly Brown on the 19 th of December 1780 some evidence will be required to identify the person named in the Secretary's certificate with her husband - It being a notorious fact that has been established in the families that Capt n Buck was engaged to be marri- ed to Elisabeth Mitchell and afterwards was engaged to & published with Molly called Mary Brown the Applicant I have no doubt can be proved by two persons now in Belfast - But Sir if the proof that fact will give her her pension if you will so inform Mr Gary our Representative he will write me and I will have that evidence as soon as possible - I am thus situated that in case our proof is not sufficient to bring her within the act of 1858 I wish to file a Petition the present Session of Congress Yours Sir very respectfully Green Old S r S Little

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Bucksport (Maine) April 16-1849
Sir
Having been informed that a Bill for the relief of my mother Mary Buck passed both Houses of Congress at its late session and as she has vested me with full power to act for her in the premises will you please send me as soon as convenient a copy of the Bill and also inform me of the necessary steps to be taken in order to obtain the provisions of the said Bill
Very Respectfully yours Mrs Caroline B Holmer.