Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23516, Samuel Bates, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bates, Samuel Susannah
W. 23516
CONTENTS

Maine 873
2
Susannah Bates
widow of Samuel Bates dec d Mass
who died on the 28 October 1817 of Somerset in the State of Me.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Brooks in the Mass a . line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of $80— Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of May 1837 and sent Geo. W. Morton Augusta Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $480.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 40.00
$520.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by H. Addison Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 2

Lot to G W Morton 22 Nov 1836
Case A Susannah Bates.
N o 520
3. Sec.
abm d
2 years pri
80 A
Original - no deduction died in 1827
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Me.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress, of the 4th July, 1836.
State of Maine.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this thirteenth day of October A. D., 1836, personally appeared in open court before the Hon d Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine Susannah Bates a resident of Fairfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Seventy seven 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 4th, 1836; That she is the widow of Samuel Bates, late a Resident
Soldier of the Army of the Revolution, that her said husband enlisted for three years into Capt Eddy's company & Colonel Bradford's regiment in the year 1777 and as she believes served fully the period of his enlistment. that her said husband afterwards enlisted in 1780 or 1781 for three years as she believes into Colonel Brooks regiment of the Massachusetts line. his discharge from the last three years service is herunto annexed, and which discharge was always in his possession during his life time and was left among his papers at his decease.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Bates on the tenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty ; that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Bates died on the 28th day of October A.D. 1817 ; and
that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. she doth further depose and say that her name before marriage with said Samuel Bates was Susannah McFarlin and that the said Bates was a resident of Wiscasset Mass a
Susannah Bates
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me,
Nathan Weston Ch. Just. S.J.C.

State of Maine. Susannah Bates, the applicant within named, has satisfied me that her late husband Samuel Bates served as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, for the period of three years in the fourth regiment of the Massachusetts line, his honorable discharge from which service is herunto annexed. She has further satisfied me that her maiden name was Susannah McFarland Forlin, and that she was married to the said Samuel Bates on the tenth day of December 1790, that her said husband died on the 20th day of October 1817, and that she has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston
Ch. Just. of the S.J. Court for said state.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Court County of Kennebec hereby CERTIFY, That Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is Chief Justice of Sup. Jud. Court for said State I also CERTIFY, That the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Susannah Bates for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 2 day of November A. D., 183 6
J. F. Chandler

I John Bates of Fairfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine aged fifty years and upwards, do testify and declare upon oath that my father Samuel Bates died at said Fairfield on the twenty eighth day of October 1817. that before his decease I had understood always by him that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution for several years. and that his discharge was found among his papers after his decease. that my oldest brother now living is now in his fifty fifth year of age. that since the decease of my father my Mother Susannah Bates has lived in the same neighborhood with me. and that she has remained unmarried ever since the death of my said father.
John Bates
State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss
Augusta. Oct 13. 1836
Subscribed & sworn to. and I certify the deponent is a respectable man & credible
Witness
Before me
Geo. W. Morton. Justice of Peace.
George W. Morton Esq is a justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec Waltham Western Ch. Just. S. J. C.

Middleboro' Ms Sept 1
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George W. Morton Esq Augusta Maine
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Middleboro, Mass. Aug. 31st 1836
Sir
Yours of the 24 th came to hand the 29 th ; & agreeable to your request I have searched the Records & find the following, viz.
January 29 th 1780. Then I Published a Purpose of Marriage between Mr Samuel Bates of Wareham and Mrs Susanna McFarlin of Middleboro, (sign'd) P r Abner Banows Town Clerk
Dec r : 10 th 1780. Then Mr Sam l Bates of Wareham and Miss Susanna Mc. Farlin of Middleboro, was — married by me — (sign'd) Eben r Sproutt Justice of Peace
The above is a true copy of the Records of the Town of Middleboro, Book No 4 Pages 38 & 141.
August 31st 1836 — Attest Allen Shaw Town Clerk
Fee & Trouble for the above 1 $ A Shaw

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23576
Susannah Bates
Wid of
Samuel Bates
Pri Rev War
Act: July 4 th 36
Index:—Vol. d , Page 40
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine Susannah Bates Widow of Sam l Bates suspended - See Let. to G. M. Norton 22 Nov 1836.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Samuel Bates Soldier — — — — — in the fourth Massachusetts — — Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the thirty first Day of Dec r
1783
By the General's Command,
H. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John Hovey Reg t

Commonwealth of } Town of Middleborough Massachusetts. } Mass April 12 th 1837. I Allen Shaw do on Oath declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Middleborough County of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, and that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, that it appears by said Records that Mr Samuel Bates of Wareham and Miss Susanna M c Farlin of Middleborough were Married by Ebenezer Sproatt Justice of Peace December the 10 th 1780. Allen Shaw Town Clerk.
Plymouth Jr. Then personally appeared Allen Shaw, Subscriber to the above Certificate and made solemn oath to the truth of the above, before me Chad Thompson Justice of the Peace Middleborough April 13 th 1837

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, April 13. 1837.
I hereby certify that the within names Abner Thompson is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in the State. Witness my hand & the Seal of the State.
John P. Bigelow
Asst. Secy. to the Commonwealth.

I, Simon Simpson of Winstow in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged Seventy Years and upwards a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do testify and declare upon oath, that I well knew Samuel Bates a private of Capt. Kings company and Colonel Brigadier  Brady regiment, that I joined the said company at West Point where I found the said Bates then a private in said company. I understood that the said Bates belonged in some town in the State of Massachusetts. I believe the said Bates was discharged from the Army a few days before myself, that after my discharge from the Army I remained in the State of Mass a a few months, and then went to a place called Winstow in the then District of Maine, that immediately after my arrival at said Winstow I saw the said Samuel Bates who informed me he had moved from Mass a proper into the District of Maine with his wife, that during the life time of said Bates I frequently saw him he living in the town of Fairfield a few miles from my residence where he died a few years since, and that his widow Susannah is now living in said Fairfield. SIMON SIMPSON

State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss. April 21. 1837. The within affidavit was published & sworn to on the twenty ninth day of December 1836 before me. I certify the deponent a disinterested & credible witness
George Morton Justice of the Peace
I, John A. Chandler, clerk of the Judicial Courts for Kennebec County, certify that George W. Morton is a Magistrate as above & that the above signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office (and subscribed my name this twenty first day) of April A.D. 1837
J. A. Chandler

Augusta, Me, April 21. 1877
Sir
Enclosed is transmitted you the certificate of the clerk of the town of Middleborough Mass a , relative to the marriages of Samuel Bates and Susanna McFarlin. also the affidavit of Mr. Lincoln Simson relating to the Revolutionary services of the said Bates. Similar papers were sent you by me on the 10 th day of December last supposed to be burnt with the General Post Office. The above mentioned papers to be used in support of the widow Susanna Bates  Farlin claim to pension under Act of Congress of July 4. 1836 whose application is now on file in your Office as will appear by your letter of Novr 22. 1836
Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt Geo. W. Morton
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.