Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,629, Timothy Barstow, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Barstow, Timothy
S 16,629
Carded.
CONTENTS

Maine
Timothy Barstow
of Portland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Doots of the Reg't commanded by Major Almer in the Rebel line for 8 Mos. Sept 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sep r 1832 and sent to Hon J Underwood Portland Maine
  Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1832  $ 39.99    Penzant. allowance ending Dec 1831  13.33     $ 53.32  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. McMain Clerk. Book 2 Vol. 15- Page 49.

I William Buxton of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine Esq. aged sixty seven years on oath declare & say that I have been acquainted with Francis Buxton of Portland in said County for more than fifty years & knew that he was a private soldier in Col. Bates (comps company at Thomaston & Camden in the District of Maine in 1780 in the Revolutionary War, myself being a corporal in said said company & I testify that said Buxton served in said company eight months & was regularly discharged in January 1781. I further say that said Buxton was in the expedition to Belfast to rescue some families & was there engaged in a skirmish with the enemy, being one of the men who formed the expedition.
William Buxton
July 30. 1832
Subscribed & sworn to
Before
Asahel Wane
judge of the C. S. for the for the Dist. of Maine

Timothy Burstow
No 3017
P6
Aug 4 1832
same
$26:66 per ann
$26:66 per ann
Almea
Hon. J. Anderson Portland
Recd. Aug 4, 1832

I Anthony Prince of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged sixty nine years do hereby declare & say that I have been acquainted with Bristow Bristow of Portland in said County for more than fifty years having first been acquainted with him in April or May 1780. I testify that said Bristow was a private in Capt Peter Coombs company & served in said company from the first of May 1780 eight months when he was discharged & returned here in company with me - said Bristow marched with me from Chew Meadow (near Brunswick in said county) to Thomaston Camden. & then served eight months & was discharged in January 1781. Peter Madson was the General in Cumberland at Camden. & I have no recollection that we had any colonel. Philip Alner was Major. & George Alner Adjutant I believe we were in the State of Massachusetts - I have no memory of Massachusetts - that service Bristow was a faithful soldier & served out his enlistment
Anthony Prince
Subscribed and sworn to July 30. 1832 Before
Asahel Warr
Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the thirteenth day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this thirteenth day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Timothy Bangs a resident of Portland in the county of Cambridge in said Maine District, aged seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he
enlisted in April 1780 into Capt Peter Coombs Company at Hampden in said County to serve eight months as he believes in the service of the State of Massachusetts in the War of the Revolution. That he joined said company the first of May 1780 at said Capt Coombs House at their Meadows near Brunswick in said County & marched to Thomaston & Camden in said District of Maine where he served out the eight months & was discharged in January 1781. That Philip Allen was our Major & George Allen our Captain & Col. Smallwood our commanding general. In the time of said service he was transported in Boats to Penobscot in said District to remove some families that had been molested by the British. We there had a skirmish with the British troops got the persons we went for & returned. I further say that I was here in said Hampden in May 1762. I have a record of my age with the rest of my family. I was living at said Hampden when I entered the said service & was enlisted as before stated. I never had any discharge as I can recollect.
Timothy Bangs
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Timothy Bangs
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before.
Asahel Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And that William B. Dutton whose deposition is hereto annexed is personally known to the Court as a man of undoubted truth & veracity, and that nothing is known against the credibility of Amy Prince whose deposition is also annexed.
I, Solomon Hussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Simothy Barstow for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
Solomon Hussey
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

16629 INVALID.
File No. 16,629
Timothy Burston
Pre War War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 433
[Arrangement of 1870.]