Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,901, William Brackett, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Brackett, William
NUMBER
S. 30,901
B.L.W. 34,970-160-55-
CONTENTS

N o 18244 Maine
William Brackett
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine who was a Pr. V. Serjt. in the company commanded by Captain Brackett of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hitchcock in the Mass. Troops time for 20 months Pr. — 66.66 Lt. " Serjt. — 20.00 $ 86.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 85 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of August 1833 and sent to J. Clark Paris Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 173.32 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sep 1833 43.33 $ 216.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E. Vol. 1 Page 4

214 787. age 3 mar. / Sept 29 55.
Peter Brackett minor child of Wm Brackett soldier of the Revolution
Non per Phil Sergeant Revolutionary war. Prisoner.
Me June 32-18244
Ad 116000 per 28/56 B V Jnt D
E. F. Packard Auburn Maine
Vol. B2-76.

He has no documentary evidence to prove any of the services as aforesaid except that of eight months as aforesaid, that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to said several services last mentioned - He was born at said Falmouth on the 21 st day of August 1752, his age is recorded in his family bible - He lived at said Falmouth, in that part now called Westbrook during the revolutionary war and until the year 1815, when he removed to Penn his present residence. He enlisted as aforesaid. The officer he has previously stated - Gen. Washington commanded at Cambridge - He has no recollection that he ever received any written discharges. - He refers to the Hon. Cornelius Holland and Henry Farnette Esq.

William Brackets. 11.077
Thomas Clark, agent,

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 10th day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate - now sitting, William Brackett a resident of Peru - in the county of Oxford - and State of Maine, aged 80 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 as a private, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. in April 1775. at his then residence in Falmouth, now in the State of Maine, then in Massachusetts, for the term of eight months, in the company commanded by the company commanded by Capt John Brackett in the regiment commanded by Col Edmund Phinney, he marched directly to Cambridge near Boston, and was there attached to Gen. Putnam's division - and was there verbally discharged at the expiration of said term - He again enlisted in said service as a private in the Spring of 1777 - for the term of nine months, in the company commanded by Capt. Abner Lowell in the regiment under the command of Col. Mitchell - Maj. Daniel Hovey commanded the battalion - was stationed at said Falmouth - and Portland - was verbally discharged at the expiration of said term - In May or June 1780. he again enlisted for the term of four months in the company commanded by Capt William Cobb, in the regiment commanded by Col. Mitchell, in Gen. Wadsworth's brigade - participated with the expedition (called the Penobscot expedition) to Castine, where he was stationed about three months and then returned to said Falmouth where he served the remainder of said term - and was verbally discharged there - the last term he was appointed & served as a sergeant - In the summer or fall of the year 1778 - he enlisted at said Falmouth for the term of four months in the company commanded by the same Capt. Lowell, under the command of Maj. Daniel Hovey, and was stationed at said Falmouth, where he served the term aforesaid, and was there verbally discharged at the expiration of said term.
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.
Wm Brackett
Before,
Stephen Emery. Judge

We Cornelius Holland, a member of Congress, and John Hearsey Esq. both residing in Canton, near the residence of William Brackett, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said William Brackett, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be eighty years of age, - and that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution - and that we concur in that opinion - which has never been doubted - & that we believe him to be a man of truth and veracity -
Cornelius Holland
John Hearsey
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - before.
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 adducing in corroboration of his declaration, the depositions of Job Knight, Joseph Johnson & John Noble, as also the certified examination of John Borrett & John Merrill, regular & skillful Surgeons, all on oath duly administered. Said applicant is well known to the Court as a man sustaining a fair reputation for truth & veracity.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph Glote 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 William Brackett for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of September A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph Glote Register
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity from the government, and I declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, and that he has not been admitted to the benefits of any act providing for the relief of soldiers of the revolution who have not been provided for by any other act.

State of Maine Anchorage County ss - On this thirty first day of July A.D. 1855 personally appear and before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Peter Brackett aged eighteen years, by his brother and nearest friend Amos S. Brackett both of Auburn in the County and State aforesaid who on their oaths declare that the said Peter Brack- ett is the only Minor child of William Brackett late of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and formerly of Peru in the County of Oxford and State of Maine. That their said father was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army and a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1832 at the rate of $86.66 per annum. That the said William Brackett died some Nine years ago at Westbrook, leaving no widow his wife having died whilst he lived in Peru. That the said William Brackett had been twice married. That there are five children living by the last marriage all of whom are of full age excepting Peter above named. They further declare that their father did not apply for a pension any County and under any act of Congress and that no one has applied for or received any same his decree for his and service. And the said Peter Brackett by his brother and friend afore

makes this declaration, in order to obtain the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3 d 1855.
And for the purpose of this application we the said Peter Brackett and Amos S. Brackett do hereby constitute and appoint E Franklin Packard of Auburn in the county aforesaid our true and lawful attorney, for us and in our name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the Interior, a warrant for the quantity of land due said Peter Brackett as aforesaid; hereby ratifying and confirming whatever our said attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Peter Brackett
Amos S Brackett
We Meriam Brackett and Nancy Brackett residents of Auburn in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, depose and say that the foregoing declaration and power of attorney was signed and acknowledged by Peter Brackett and Amos S. Brack- ett in our presence and we believe that from the appearance and statements of said ap- licants and our personal knowledge of them for many years past, that they are the persons they represent themselves to be in their decla- -ration,
Meriam Brackett
Nancy Brackett
Subscribed and sworn to before, on the day and year first above written by, Peter Brackett and Amos S

Bruckett the claimants - and by Miriam Bruckett and Nanny Bruckett witnesses above named and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimants are the persons they represent themselves to be, and that I have no interest in the claim. Jacob H. Smith Just. Jus.

11.077
William Brackett
April 20 th 1833.
Obt 10.
Int 7.
Adm. issued
P. 318
Adm C
  Hms. Suf.  20.-     20.. priv.  66.66      $ 86.66   
Thomas Clark Esq. Paris Maine
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11.077
BRIEF in the case of  William Brackett  County of Oxford  in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 80.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1775 April 0 6 * 0 private. Gen. Capt. S. Brackett Col. C. Phinney   do. 1777 Spring " 9 " ditto. Gen. Putnam   do. 1778 Fall " 4 " ditto. Capt. A. Lowell, Col. Mitchell, Major D. Ely   do. 1780 May " 4 " Sergeant. Capt. Lowell, Maj. Ely, Capt. W. Cobb, Col. Mitchell, Gen. Wadsworth  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Falmouth, Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Credible Witnesses & Traditional.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
* Only this tour is proved by the witnesses.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 11. 1833.

30.901
Rev INVALID.
File No. 30,901
William Brackett
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Maine
Cumberland ss — I Job Knight of Westbrook in said County do testify and say that in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventyfive William Brackett of (Falmouth now Westbrook) enlisted as a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army in a company commanded by Capt John Brackett who were then quartered in said Town of Falmouth — that in the month of June 1775 the said William Brackett marched with the company commanded by the said John Brackett for Cambridge in order to join the Regiment in the revolutionary army commanded by Col Edmund Phinney — two of my Brothers Enoch and Joseph Knight belonged to the same company and when the company commenced their march I went with a horse and assisted in carrying Raggage the first day on which they marched — Soon after his return from the army he made me acquainted with a tumor in his right ham about the size of a small hens Egg which he then said was produced by a strain while in the Service and by examining said tumor many times afterwards I found that it increased very fast and now has grown to a very great size
Job Knight
Cumberland ss Westbrook February 10 th 1832 Personally appeared Job Knight abovenamed and made oath to the above deposition before me William Torrey, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Job Knight is a man of truth and veracity
William Torrey

State of Maine Cumberland ss.
I William T Vaughan, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Cumberland Certify, that William Torrey is a Magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signature purport- ing to be his I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this thirteenth day of February in the year 1832.
William T Vaughan

We the Subscribers practicing Physicians & Surgeons of Portland, having, in compliance with the foregoing Com- mission to us directed by Ashmun War Judge etc. care- fully examined into the case of William Brackett of Pen- in the State of Maine, find that he is disabled as follows: a large encysted tumor situate upon the inner side of the right thigh, & firmly attached to the tendons of the Semi tendinosus & Semi membranous. The tumor originated from an injury received by Said Brackett while in the Service of the United States, it is now of a large size, weighing probably 4 or 5 pounds. Its magni- tude is such as to render walking extremely difficult and fatiguing. The Said Brackett is constantly suffering from pain, more or less severe, in the right thigh. From all the circumstances of the case we are of opinion that the degree of disability under which he, the said William Brackett, labors at present is total.
John Banett M.D. J Merrill, M.D.
Cumberland ss: Feby 15th - Sworn & subscribed to before me - Joseph Pope, Jus: of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with the Surgeons who have signed the above certificate and that they are reputable in their profession. Joseph Pope, Jus: of the Peace H

State of Maine Cumberland County, ss.
I R d M c Vaughan, Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County, certify, that Joseph Pope is a Magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said County this second day of May in the year 1833.
R d M c Vaughan

To John Harris & John Barnett both of Portland in the State of Maine. Physicians & Surgeons
Know you that I reposing special trust & confidence in your skill learning & integrity do hereby appoint and authorize you to examine William Bouchette of Pecos in said State, who obtained from a pension from the United States in consequence of disability received in the war of the revolution; and you will particularly examine into the cause & nature of the his disability & into the degree in which it disabes him from gaining a livelihood by manual labor & what your opinion is writing under oath & transmit your report together with this commission & the last herewith heretofore sent for his consideration in the business
Given at Portland under my hand & seal this 10 th day of February 1832
Abner Ware
Judge of the United States for the Dist. of Maine

I John Webb of Westbrook in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine do testify and say that Majr William Brackett of Peru in the county of Oxford and State aforesaid was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war in the company under the command of Capt John Brackett for the term of eight months at Cambridge and was then discharged the term of his enlistment having expired - Said Brackett when discharged at Cambridge was quite disabled and lame inasmuch that it brought his pack and baggage as he was unable to carry any burden The Regiment was commanded by Col Phinney The Brigade by General Putnam John Webb
Cumberland ss February 3 d 1832
Personally appeared John Webb and made affir- mation to the truth of the above instrument by him signed
Before me Silas Leighton for justice of the peace I certify that the above named John Webb is a man of truth and veracity Silas Leighton for

State of Maine Cumberland, ss.]
I William T Vaughan, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Cumberland, Certify that Silas Leighton Jr is a Magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this thirteenth day of February, in the year 1832.
Wm T Vaughan
Deposition of John Webb

State of Maine
Cumberland ss - I Joseph Johnson of lawful age do testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, I was a soldier in the company of Capt John Brackett of the Regiment commanded by Col Edmund Phinney and I was acquainted with Wm Brackett the and there being a soldier in the same company with me and he was lamed in the right ham in the United States service to my knowledge and he was exempted from duty for a space of time while in the service and I was with him eight months in the service and he had the honor of being a good soldier, likewise I have always known him ever since that time and he has always been in consequence of said lameness
Joseph Johnson
Cumberland ss. Otisfield February 7 th 1832
Personally appeared Joseph Johnson above named and made oath to the above deposition before me
James Sanborn - Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Joseph Johnson is a man of truth and veracity James Sanborn

State of Maine
Cumberland, ss.
I N athan G reen Vaughan, clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Cumberland, Certify that James Sanborn is a Magistrate as within, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this thirteenth day of February in the year 1832.
Nathan G reen Vaughan

FREE
To the Commission of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
3 Clams for country house Oct. 18/55
114.418

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State of Maine.
ANDROSCOGGIN, ss.
Auburn, Sept 21 1855.
I, Stetson S. Hill. Registrar of Probate, for said County of Androscoggin, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that David Henick
is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereunto annexed, was an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for the County of Androscoggin, as appears by the paper hereunto annexed—that he is duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and take acknowledgements of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the county aforesaid, and that the following signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court for said County, the day and year first above written.
Stetson S. Hill, Registrar,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Dec 29 th 1854.
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 William Brackett is borne on pay roll of Capt. John Brackett (Crisp. Col. Edmund Phinney's Regt. Name borne on Cont roll dated Cambridge Fort. No. 2. Oct. 24. 1775. as private from Falmouth. Also on Muster roll of Capt. William Cobb's Comp. Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. from Cumberland County, on an expedition against Penobscot from July 8. to Sept. 25. 1779 2 mos. 17 days as Sgt. from Presumpscot.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts Cynthia W. Warren Child of William Brackett deceased, who was a Soldier and officer in the Army of the Revolutionary war, requests evi- -dence of her said father's service therein.
This applicant avers that said William Brackett was a native of Falmouth in the State of Maine and resided there in the time of the Revolution, and that he entered the Army from that place. Also that he was a Pensioner of the United States on account of his Revolutionary services, but she thinks he did not receive the amount of Pension to which his services entitled him, She therefore respectfully requests the Secretary to cause the Rolls and Revolutionary Documents in his office to be examined and a Certificate granted, setting forth all the Revolutionary services of her said father William Brack- -ett of Falmouth and the grade of his services
Cynthia W. Warren
State of Maine, Anchorcoggin Is subscribed and sworn before me Dec. 25 th 1856. Jacob Henrik Just. Pres.

Peter Bruckett Minor son of Wm Bruckett claim for country land — Revolutionary war out of Mch 1855.
214.781.
E. F. Packard Attorney Auburn Maine

We Meriam Brackett and Nancy Brackett both of Auburn and State of Maine of lawful age on oath depose and say that we are well acquainted with Amos S. Brackett and Peter Brackett residents of Auburn in the County of Androscoggin and State aforesaid. That our acquaintance commenced from our childhood in Peru in Oxford County and State of Maine. That they are children of William Brackett de- ceased who formerly resided in Peru above men- tioned and who died in Westbrook some nine or ten years ago — That the said William Brackett left no widow, his wife who was his second wife having died whilst he lived in Peru. That the said William's children by his last wife are five in number all of whom are of full age excepting Peter Brackett, who is under twenty years of age. We also depose and say that the last wife of said William Brackett and Mother of Amos S. Brackett and Peter Brack- ett above named was Judith Smith previous to her marriage.
Mariam Brackett Nancy Brackett
Subscribed and sworn to before me the 31 st day of July A.D. 1855 and I hereby certify that the above named affiants are witnesses of respectability

and veracity and that I have no interest in the claim to which their affidavit relates.
Jacob Henrik Just. Jr.