Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23554, Ichabod Benson, Continental. Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Benson Ichabod Abigail
N. 23554
CONTENTS

18.563 Maine Schabod Benson of Oxford Co in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Benson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cotten in the Mass. line: time for 15 mos 19 ds.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 52 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Sept. 1833. and sent to J. H. Brown Chandler's Home
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833. $130.25 Pension allowance ending Sept. 1834 - 26.05
$156.30
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 4

Ichalva Benson
8338.
75. 3.4 to 1 aug. / Beam 78 July 98 chunche

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 17 th day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Deborah  Wenson a resident of Chandler Gore in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 75 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 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 enlisted on the nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, seventeen hundred & seventy five, at Middleborough, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, into a company, commanded by Captain Isaac Wenson , of Col. Theophilus Cotton Regiment, of Massachusetts troops, for eight months and marched to Roxbury, near Boston, where he served out said eight months and when that time was about expiring he enlisted again into a company commanded by the same Captain Wenson , at Roxbury for the term of one year & continued to serve in said company there at Roxbury till the twenty sixth day of March 1876 when he hired one Solomon Raymond to take my place in said company & was himself discharged.
That very soon after he was discharged as aforesaid, he enlisted again into service, into a company commanded by Captain A. Pierce of Col. Nelsons Regiment at said Roxbury for the term of three months and was stationed at Dorchester, where he served said term though & was discharged.
That in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight, he again enlisted into the service at said Middleboro into the company commanded by Captain Pug Churchill , of Col. Spencers Regiment, for the term of six weeks to go to Rhode Island and marched there & was stationed at Fogland

was stationed at Dorchester, where he served said term through & was discharged.
That in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight, he again enlisted into the service at said Middleboro into the Company commanded by Captain Pung Churchill, of Col. Sparre's Regiment, for the term of six weeks to go to Rhode Island and marched then & was stationed at Fogland Ferry where he served said term through and was dismissed -
Said Benson says that he was born in the year 1757, at said Middleborough, where the record of his age is to be found - that he lived in said Middleboro, when called into the service - that he marched from said Middleboro, to Bristol in S. Main thence to Winslow in the County of Kennebec, in S. Main - thence to Vassalboro in S. Kennebec - thence to Livermore in S. County of Oxford & then to his present residence in Chandler's Gore an unincorporated place adjoining S. Livermore - that he was always a volunteer in the service - that he recollects General Putnam, Genl. Lee, General Thomas, Col. Bailey's Regiment - Lieut. Col. Alden of his own Regiment - That he never received any other than a verbal discharge -
He gives the names of John Loring Esq. & Stephen Burn both of Westbrook in said County of Oxford to whom he is known in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution -
Isaac Benson

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.
Ichabod Bangs
Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate

John Loring Esq. We Nathanial Shaw a clergyman residing in the town of Brookfield in the County of Oxford & State of Maine & William Hoagford Respectable persons of said Brookfield hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Benson who has subscribed hereto to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 75 years of age - that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he lives, to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
John Loring Sworn to & subscribed in open Court 1832. Hoagford Stephen Emery, Judge
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. Said applicant having adduced in corroboration of his own declaration the testimony of John Loring & William Hoagford, two respectable & credible persons; also his original application for a pension before the United States District Court, for Maine District, the evidence furnished before said Court, & the adjudication of said Court thereon - which is herunto annexed. also the deposition of Nathanial Shaw, on oath duly administered, and also the deposition of Asa Benson. 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 Ichabod Benson for a pension. IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of August A. D. 1832. CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

8338
Schabod Benson
9 th April 1833
Obt 18 8338
P. 327
Admit 15 mo 19 d
  104.20  209    26.05     130.25   
S. F. Brown Esq. Harmont Chandlers. Gov. E Oxford Co. Conn

BRIEF in the case of Ichabod Benton of Chandlers Gore in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.   Years, Months, Days.     19 April 1775 8 Private Capt Benson Col. Gotten   resided in Saco 3 7 " "   1776 3 " Capt Prince - Col. Nelson   78 1 12 " Capt Churchill Col. Sparreus   15 19  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Old a aleburgh Old a aleburgh  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Nicholas Examining Clerk.

Maine H 53
Abigail Benson
of Kennebec in the State of Maine
who was a Miss in the commanded
by Captain of the commanded
by in the
widow of Ichabod Benson dec. late a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 28 Dollars 12 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 5th day of March, 1831 and to
the annuity rate to 1st Aug. 1833 to be deducted
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Feb. 4
1837 and Lieut Genl Geo.
Evans No 0 of Rep's
Arrears to the 5th of Sept 1836 $154.66
Female allowance ending Feb 1837 14.00
$168.72
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832, }
Recorded by Wm Addison Clerk, Book 4. Vol. 1. Page 2
lit

No 527
3. Inc. Abigail Benson widow of Ichabod
Marries 13 Feb 77 pr. record of Town
on Bensons roll 75- 8mo 40 78. Church 9 8. 13
adm'd 8mo 13. deduct - died 1 aug 1833. Paid up
Hon Geo. Evans. Mr Ward 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 11 th day of October A. D., 1836, personally appeared in Open Court before the Supreme Judicial Court of said State Abigail Benson , a resident of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy eight 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 Schabod Benson late of Chandler's Grove was Livermore, Oxford County, deceased , who applied for a pension under the Act of Congress of June 4 th 1832. I was pensioned, or she was pensioned as his widow, but which she does not distinctly recollect. That she received the amount of pension that was due to said Schabod up to the time of his death. She refers to the papers now on file in the War Department for evidence of said Schabod's services. That she was married at Plympton , (now Carn- Massachusetts . Her maiden name was Abigail Griffith . She further declares, that she was married to the said Schabod Benson on the twelfth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven ; that her husband, the aforesaid Schabod Benson died on the first day of August , eighteen hundred thirty three ; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. That she has no record of her marriage.
Test M c Watt
Abigail X Benson mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, Before me,
Nathan Weston Ch. Just. S. J. C.

I Ezekiel Holmes of Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, do upon oath say, that I am well acquainted with the within named Abigail Benson; that I was also acquainted with the within named Ichabod Benson, who died at Chandler's Gore, now Livermore, in the County of Oxford, on the first day of August 1833, that the said Abigail was the wife of the said Ichabod, I now remain his widow, not having intermarried since his decease. I fully believe the within declaration to be true,
Subscribed and sworn to Oct o 11 1836 the deponent being known to me to be a credible witness, before me,
Ezekiel Holmes.
Nathan Weston C.J. S.P.C.
State of Maine
The applicant within named, Abigail Benson, formerly Abigail Griffith, has furnished proof satisfactory to me, that she was married to Ichabod Benson, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, on the 13th of February, 1777; that her said husband died on the first of August, 1833, and that she has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C.J. Pres. of said state.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber clerk of the courts for said County, hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State. I also CERTIFY, That the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abigail Benson for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 4 th day of November A. D., 1836,
J. A. Chandler

I, Lewis Bradford of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, do upon oath state, that I am Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton, having the custody of the Town Records, and that upon examination I find that Ichabod Benson and Abigail Griffith were joined in Marriage February the 13 th A.D. 1777, by the Rev. John Howland, at that time the Minister of the Church and Congregation of the then South Precinct of Plympton, Ms.
Plympton, October 20. 1836. Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton.
Plymouth ss. Oct. 21. 1836 Then the above named Lewis Bradford, appeared and made Oath, that the above Certificate by him subscribed, was true — I further certify, that the said Lewis Bradford, is Town Clerk of the said town of Plympton —
Wm. H. Soule Justice of the Peace

September 5, 1935.
Mrs. Ralph H. Conant 10 High Street Augusta, Maine.
BA-J/ILL Ichabod Benson W. 23554 Jabez Delano S. 35345
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Ichabod Benson and Jabez Delano, both of whom died in Livermore, Maine.
The records of these two soldiers are furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
ICHABOD BENSON-W. 23554.
Ichabod Benson was born in the year 1757, in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; the day of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Middleboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted April 19, 1775, served as private in Captain Joshua Benson's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's Massachusetts regiment at Roxbury, and just before the expiration of eight months, re-enlisted and served in the same company until March 6, 1776. Not long after this, he enlisted and served three months as private in Captain A. Pierce's company, Colonel Nelson's regiment, stationed at Dorchester. He enlisted in 1778 and served six weeks as private in Captain Perez Churchill's company, Colonel Sparrow's Massachusetts regiment, stationed at Fogland Ferry, Rhode Island. (No relationship between Captain Benson and Ichabod was shown).
The soldier moved from Middleboro, Massachusetts, to Minot, Maine, thence to Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine, from there to Vassalboro in that same county, thence to Livermore, Oxford County, Maine, and from there to the adjoining town, Chandler's Gore.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, at which time he resided in Chandler's Gore, Maine. He died there August 1, 1833. This town Chandler's Gore was called Livermore in 1836.

Ichabod Benson, the soldier, married February 12, or 13, 1777, in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Abigail Griffith.
Abigail Benson, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed October 11, 1836; she was then a resident of Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, aged seventy-eight years. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
Asa Benson, a resident of Middleboro, Massachusetts, in 1832, stated he was then aged seventy-eight years, and that he was in the service with Ichabod Benson early in the Revolutionary War, but he did not state any relationship between them.
JABEZ DELANO-S. 35245.
Jabez Delano enlisted February 1, 1777 and served three years as private in Captain Pettengill's company, Colonel James Wesson's Massachusetts regiment. The place of his residence at enlistment is not shown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 12, 1818, at which time he resided in Plantation Number One, Oxford County, Massachusetts (later Maine). He was then aged fifty-seven years; the date and place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
In 1820, the soldier's family living at home consisted of the following: his wife, Grace, aged fifty-four years; his daughter, Sally, aged thirty-four years; his daughter, Sophia, aged sixteen years; and his son, Isaac , aged thirteen years. The maiden name of said wife, or date of their marriage are not shown.
Jabez Delano died August 24, 1848.
The names of the soldier's children who survived him were shown as follows: Zebadiah Delano, Abial Delano, Rhoda Delano, William Delano, John Delano, Jabez Delano, Junior, Abigail Delano, Sophia Delano and Daniel Delano. The son, John Delano, resided in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine, in 1853. There are no further data regarding soldier's family.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Schubert Benson Col. Cotton. Mass. line private April - '75 to Mar '76 23 rd April 1878
Not on the Continental establishment
Rejected

I Ichabod Benson of an unincorporated place called Chandler's Gore in the County of Oxford & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty one years on oath declare that on the month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five I entered the army of the United Colonies of America in the company commanded by Captain Joshua Benson in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cotton in the Massachusetts line stationed at Roxbury & served in said company in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment to the last of March A.D. 1776 when at said Roxbury I was duly discharged by a verbal order & left the service.
I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support, am a resident citizen of the United States & am not borne on any pension list.
Ichabod Benson
I Benjamin Chandler, of Paris in the county aforesaid do testify and say that I am well acquainted with the above named Ichabod Benson, and that, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Benj. Chandler
I John Bartlett of Hartford in said County do testify that the above named Ichabod Benson served during eight months as above stated & am satisfied that he served the full term stated in the foregoing declaration.
John Bartlett

I Levi Bryant of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that I was a soldier in the American Army in the war of the Revolution - that I served through the first eight months service at Roxbury near Boston, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five and belonged to the company of Captain Pileg Wadsworth of Col. Mapple- ton's Colliers Regiment; when and where I became well knowing to the fact that Ichabod Benson, now resident in Chandler- Gore so called, in said County, was also a soldier in the same Regiment belonging to the company commanded by Captain Joshua Benson; and I am confident that said Ichabod Benson did serve through the whole of said eight months service as I was constantly in the habit of seeing him in said service during said term - And I further state that having enlisted for and served myself through a period of three months service after the expiration of the said eight months, I well remember that the said Ichabod Benson did continue in said service during the whole of said three months at the end of which I left him in said service, he having enlisted as I understood for twelve months

and that during this last term of three months the said Benson and myself were engaged with the troops in duty on Dorchester Heights and thunder-bouts.
Levi Bryant
Oxford G. On the twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen, the aforesaid Deposition was examined and cautioned & sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken at the request of Ichabod Benson of Chandler Gore in said County, and by special appointment of the Hon. Abner H. Parris and Judge of the United States for Main District and to be used before the District Court of the United States now in special session at Paris within the said District in an application then pending by the said Benson made for a certificate of his having served in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishment against the common enemy, for the purpose of receiving a pension from the said United States agreeable to the provisions of an act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 entitled An act to

provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in Revolutionary War — taken and sworn to before me
Saml. F. Brown.
Justice of the Peace
ght nto the my

United States of America
vs. District of Maine ss.
To Samuel H. Brown of Buck- field in said District, esq.
Greeting
Whereas at a special District Court of said United States for Maine District held at Paris within said District, on the twenty third day of April A.D. 1818, Ichobad Benson of Androscoggin in said District presented himself and claimed a certificate of his having served in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 entitled "an act for providing for certain persons engaged in

the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war; and whereas in the course of the examination here had it appears that the testimony of Levi Bryant of Buckfield or Isaac Fuller of Hartford in said District is material and necessary in support of said application; Therefore to the end that the testimony of said may be had, and by virtue of the power vested in this Court by the laws of the United States, you the said Isaac L.
Brown are hereby appointed and authorized, at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the deposition of the said Levi Bryant or Isaac Fuller and the same, when taken together with this warrant, to certify and return

to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay.
Given under my hand and seal at Paris in said District, this twenty fourth day of April 1818.
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Samuel F. Brown Esq
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Nathaniel Shaw & Nathaniel Chase 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 23 d day of April in the year A. D. 1833.
R. K. Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I Nathaniel Chase of Bethfield, in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, a Clergyman, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Schabed Benson of an unincorporated place in D. County, called Chandler Gore, who has made application for a pension from the United States Government pursuant to the Pension law of June 7. 1832, as I am informed, that I believe him to be 75 years of age - that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that I concur in that opinion. Nath l Chase
State of Maine: Oxford County ss. April 22. 1833
Then the abovenamed Nathaniel Chase, to me known as a Clergyman in regular standing, personally appeared & made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Saml Brown Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Shaw of Winfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty seven years, do hereby say that I was a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for several terms of time, one of which was in the year 1770, at Fogland Ferry in the State of Rhode Island, in a company commanded by Captain Pery Churchill of Col. Sparre's Regiment for the term of six weeks, into which Company, I enlisted in Middleborough, in Massachusetts, and served that time through. I cannot tell the time we enlisted, but I remember when we were going to the place of service the black cherries were ripe - And I further say that Ichabod Benson, now residing on Chandler's Gore, near Hartford River in the County of Oxford, was a soldier with me - that he enlisted at the same time into the same company & that he served the term through & we were discharged together - Nathaniel Shaw
State of Maine - County of Oxford ss.
August 6. 1832 Then the above named Nathaniel Shaw, to me known as a man of truth, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration before me
Edward H. Brown Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Shaw of Winchfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty seven years, do hereby say that I was a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for several terms of time, one of which was in the year 1778, at Fogland's Ferry in the State of Rhode Island, in a company commanded by Captain Perez Churchill of Col. Sparre's Regiment for the term of six weeks, into which Company, I enlisted in Middleborough, in Massachusetts, and served that time through. I cannot tell the time we enlisted, but I remember when we were going to the place of service, the black cherries were ripe - And I further say that Ichabod Benson, now residing on Chandler's Gore, near Hartford River in the County of Oxford, was a soldier with me - that he enlisted at the same time into the same company & that he served the term through & we were discharged together - Nathaniel Shaw
State of Maine - County of Oxford ss.
August 6. 1832. Then the above named Nathaniel Shaw, to me known as a man of truth, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration before me.
Edward H. Brown Justice of the Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Samuel F. Brown
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Nathaniel Shaw & Ichabod Bensen 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 28th day of August in the year A. D. 1832.
R. K. Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That William H. Soule Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation is in due form, and by the proper Officer.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty first day of October, A. D. 1836, and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Edward Everett

Ichabod Benson Maine. Act 1832 - $52:10. pr. an m when last paid
G.M.B.
June 31. 37.
To the 1st. of August, 1833 the day of his death.
Third Aud. Office
Jan. 31. 1837
A. D. Lynde
June 33

Augusta, Me. Nov. 4 th 1836.
Sir:
With this you have the application of Mrs. Abigail Denson for a pension, under the 3 d section of the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836.
Very respectfully Your obedt Servt M c Naughton
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm d of Pensions Washington D.C.

Jan 20
Abigail Benton
527
Market
James L. Evans
Geo. Evans H.R.
10527 P.M. of Portland.
Mr. A. B. Benton

Ho. Rep. Jan. 18. 1837
James L. Edward Esq. Comm.
Sir, Will You have the goodness to inform me, whether the application, & papers of Mrs Abigail Benson - for a pension - forwarded by Wm. Wentworth Esq., of Augusta, Maine, have been recd, & decided upon - & if any objection exists to the granting the pension, what are the obstacles!
Very respectfully
Your obedt servt
Thos. Evans.

Academyville Aug 21 - 18 3/4
Mr Samuel F Brown Buckfield Maine

I Asa Benson of Middleborough Mass. to of law- ful age to give evidence, testify & say that I am seventy eight years of age: that in the year 1775 in the month of April or May in that year I enlisted into a company in the United States Ser- vice commanded by Joshua Benson, Sergeant  First & William Thompson subalterns, all then of Middleborough aforesaid, but who are now all dead. I thereupon marched with said company to Roxbury & there served the term out (viz eight months for which I enlisted. I well remem- ber that Ichabod Benson then of Middlebor- ough but now of Livermore in the state of Maine enlisted into the same company at the same time & did march & served the term out & was dismissed when I was. we had no written discharges. Said Ichabod Benson was a man that I was familiarly acquainted for with from his youth until he moved to Maine aforsaid, say about thirty years ago, & fur- ther the deponent saith not. Asa Benson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Plymouth ss. August 4 th 1862.
Then personally appeared Asa Benson who subscribed the foregoing affidavit, a per- son well known to me, and made oath to the truth of said affidavit.
Before me Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate & Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Plymouth ss. August 1862.
This certifies that Wilkes Wood whose name is subscribed to the foregoing cer- tificate is the Judge of the court of Pro- bate and a Justice of the Peace of & for the county of Plymouth aforesaid. - In witness where- of I do hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court the day & year last above men- tioned
Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate

1935-Sept. 5- Hax. to Mrs. Ralph H Conant - J.L.L.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 28554
Abigail Benson wid of Ichabod Benson Pri New War
Act July 4 th 36
Index: Vol A , Page 44
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MRS. RALPH H. CONANT GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 10 HIGH ST., AUGUSTA, MAINE
July 31, 1935.
Vererans Administration; Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs;-
Will you please give me the service record and date and place of birth of Ichabod Benson , who died in Livermore, Maine, Aug. 1, 1833 a 76 y. 8 m.
I would also like to have the service record and place and date of birth of Jabez Delano , who died in Livermore Aug. 24, 1848, a. 87.
We are to place bronze markers on the graves of these two Revolutionary soldiers, and want to have all data possible as a matter of record.
Yours truly,
Ethel Gerby Conant