Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,292, Abijah Bryant, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bryant, Abijah
S. 20.292
Carded
CONTENTS

10.247.
Spaine
Abijah Bryant
Resides in the State of Spaine He was a Private in the company command Captain Stam... of the  command in the Maine line for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Spaine at the rate of 20 Dollars  Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of Mar- 1833 and sent Joseph Gale Paris Maine
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1833 $210- Semi-ant. allowance ending 24 Sept " 10- $220-
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H C B Blair Clerk book 10, Vol. 12, Page 3.

200
He Over
Abiah Bryant Declaration.
1 month
6 Months
$20-
Joseph G Cole E Paris Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF
ss.
ON this 16 th day of October A. D. 183 , personally appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court now sitting, Abijah Bryant a resident of Hanford in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he entered into the service at Middleborough in the county of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts into the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Warren, of Plymouth in said county whose Regiment & Colonel he does not recollect for six months, and marched to Fresh Kill in New York thence to West Point thence to New Jersey & thence back to West Point, when he was discharged, after he had served his said term of six months through. During this service he was a soldier in the army at the time of Major Andros's execution & rode the plow of the same - This is the only way he can identify the time or period of his service - The said Bryant says he served one period of four weeks, beside the above at Rhode Island but cannot state or give the particulars & therefore makes no claim for the same - He further says that he was born in the year 1760 at in said Middleboro, where is a record of his age - That he lived in said Middleboro at the time of entering the service - Since when he has lived in Houlton in S. County of Oxford, whence he moved to said Hanford, where he has lived ever since - That he was drafted, he thinks, when he entered the service - He cannot recollect any officers of the army in the service at the time he served - He says that he received a written discharge, on a paper with two others, Stephen Dyer & Ephraim Dyer, but what became of the paper, he cannot tell. He & they drew their pensions on their return home by virtue of it. He gives the names of Isaac Fullington & Dunkard persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for honesty & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, not being able to give the name of any clergyman for that purpose there being none in his vicinity knowing to his reputation as a soldier & now living near him.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. (Witness S. Emery
Abijah his mark Bryant
Before
Stephen Emery, Judge

This case is continued for adjournment to the 27 th November 1832.
And now on this twenty seventh day of November A.D. 1832
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, he adducing in corroboration of his own declaration, the depositions of Deborah Dyer, Lewis Dyer, Benjamin Pratt & Stephen Bennett, and the certificate of Isaac Fuller Jr. & Job Dunham - all on oath duly administered, & all hereunto annexed, as is also the deposition of Jane Rowe.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elijah Bryant for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27 th day of November A. D. 1832
Clerk.
Joseph G. Cole Register

We Isaac Fuller & Job Dunham both residing in the town of Hallowell, county of Oxford State of Maine hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elijah Bryant of said Hallowell, who is about making application for a pension as a surviving soldier of the revolutionary war that we believe him to be seventy two years of age - that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Isaac Fuller Job Dunham
State of Maine county of Oxford ss. October 15. 1832. Then the above named Isaac Fuller & Job Dunham to me well known as men of veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by them subscribed, before me
Saml A. Brown Justice of the Peace

truth of the foregoing certificate by them Subscribed, before me
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOUGH, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Sam l H. Brown
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Isaac Fuller Jr & Job Dunkan is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this eighteenth day of December in the year A. D. 1832
R Goodenough
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

Denial 20 292 INVALID.
File No. 20,292
Abraham Bryant
Mass Regt
Act: June 7 th 1862
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 42
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Lewis Drew of Buckfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, Yeoman, aged thirty nine years, testify & say that I am son to Stephen Drew, late of said Buckfield Yeoman, deceased, & that while my said father was alive, he often told of his being in the American Army, as a soldier at West Point & in New Jersey & other places at different periods of the war.
I remember of his telling of going for one term of six months to West Point & that Abijah Bryant, who was then his neighbor, in Middlebury. Mass. & now lives in Hanton, in this County, went with him, as a soldier in the same Company and served said six months through & returned with him. I remember also of his telling about his seeing Major Andre hanged. Said Bryant has been in the habit of visiting in our family as long back as I can remember & I know him to be the same man of whom my father spoke as abovenamed.
Lewis Drew
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. October 17. 1832. Then the abovenamed Lewis Drew, to me well known as a man of strict veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed, before me, Samuel F. Brown Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Oxford County ss. I Rufus King Goodenow Clerk of the Judicial Court in for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Samuel F. Brown, whose genuine signature are annexed to the foregoing deposition of Samuel Drew Lewis Drew is a Justice of the Peace in for said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this fourteenth day of December in the year A.D. 1832. R.K. Goodenow Clerk of Oxford County, County

I Jane Horne, wife of John Horne, residing in the town of Paris in the county of Oxford State of Maine, aged seventy years, testify & say that I am sister to Abijah Bryant, who now live in Hattford, in said county—that we were both born & brought up together, in the town of Middleboro, in the county of Plymouth & commonwealth of Massachusetts. I further say that I am well knowing to the fact that my said brother did go into the Army, as a soldier, in the revolutionary war. I remember that he enlisted at said Middleboro, into Captain Warrens company of Plymouth, for six months and went away with Stephen Drew & other soldiers and came home with said Drew, who was our neighbor, after being gone over six months. I cannot tell the year that he went but it was some time after the war began. I well recollect it because I remember how very anxious I was at the time concerning him, more particularly because he was then not very well. I also remember that my said brother was drafted to go into the war another term, when he hired a man to go in his stead not being well himself. Witness Sarah Brown Jane X Horne Mark
Witney Jan 4 th 1800
Same X Rom Mark
State of Maine.
County of Oxford. October 16. 1832. Then the above named Jane Hove personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration. And of further certify that, she being a stranger to me, I have ascertained, by inquiry of respectable sources, that her reputation for truth, is unimpeachable. ————— Subscribed & sworn to before me Samuel T. Beaman Justice of the Peace

I, Janusha Drew, the residing in the town of Buckfield, in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, widow of Stephen Drew, late of said Buckfield, (deceased), aged seventy five years, testify & say that on the eighteenth day of July, in the year, I think 1780. my said late husband Stephen Drew, then residing in the town of Middleboro' & State of Massachusetts, left home to go into the American Army, as a soldier, in company with Abijah Bryant, who now lives in Hartford in said County of Oxford; they both having enlisted as soldiers, for the term of six months. I do not remember the name of the Captain under whom they served. They were gone six months before they returned & I understood from them then, that they went to West Point & other places. Said Bryant was a near neighbor to us, then in Middleborough and came home one day before my husband, he being detained on the way one day. I have often heard my said husband say that Bryant served the term of six months with him in the Army & was discharged with him and that he was present & saw the execution of Major Andre. I am well acquainted with said Bryant and know him to be the same man who went with my said husband into the Army as aforesaid. I recollect the time from the fact of its being soon after the birth of my oldest son.
Witness Samuel H. Brown Janusha Drew Mark
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. October 17 th . 1832. Then the above-named Janusha Drew, whom I know to be a woman of veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by her subscribed, before me Samuel H. Brown Justice of the Peace

Stephen Bennet for Abijah Bryant

I Stephen Bennet of Middleborough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a pensioner testify that I served about four years in the Revolution army & very well remember Majah Briant in said army, I think in the year 1780. for he was from the same town. Some years ago he moved into the state of Maine, & I believe he now lives in New Gloucester in said State.
Stephen Bennet Massachusetts. Plymouth p. Nov 14/1832 Then said Stephen Bennet subscribed and made oath to the truth of this depo- sition; and I believe him to be a credible witness
Lachar Barette Justice of peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Phoenix & Westmoreland (both of the Judicial Circuit for the County of Plymouth) heretofore by the late John Bartlett, Esquire before whom the within affidavit was sworn is a justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, and that his name therein subscribed is his true & proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the twenty-seventh day of November A.D. 1832
John Bartlett

I Benjamin Pratt of Garrow, Massa- chusetts testify, that being the Revolution- ary, & now a pensioner I well re- member that Abijah Bryant, then of Middleborough in said State, was a private in said Army with me at Westpoint - I think for six months, but know not in what year I have known him for many several years after the war, & till he moved in the State of Maine
Benjamin Pratt
I further testify, that we came from camp in company to our homes after said six months cam- paign.
Benjamin Pratt
Massachusetts Plymouth ss Nov 16 1832
Then said Benjamin Pratt subscribed and made oath to the above depositions & I be- lieve him to be a credible witness
Lachus Bartlett Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Nathaniel J. Spofford, Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of Plymouth hereby certify that Stephen Bartlett, Esq. before whom the within Affidavit was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, and that his name thereto subscribed is his true & proper signature.
Witness my hand and official seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on this twenty seventh day of December A.D. 1832.
Nathaniel J. Spofford
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