Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23547, Malachi Bartlett, Continental. (Mass)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Bartlett, Malachi Mary
W 23547
B.L.H. 26806-160-55
CONTENTS

As; Wm Allen, Dec. 31 st 1855
10,048. Mar. 3. 1855.
Apr. 30. . . .
Mary Bartlett, widow of Malachi Bartlett, Priv.
No 26.806. ip Mar 2 1855
Revolutionary War. Pensioners.
Yrs Feb 48-2778
AW:160 aa me, 20/56 B.P. / R
William Allen. Norridgewock. Maine.
Vol. B. - 21. - 2

Maine 2770.
Mary Bartlett, widow of Majr Malachi who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Increased from $40.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96. Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th  12th day of March  July , 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of March 1851. and sent to
William Allen. Norridgewock Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 11. Vol. 1.
1889 History taken by M. M. Bartlett Prior

Me V. Re N. 462 90- a. m. Maine.
Malachi Bartlett,
of Oxford Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Mayhew of the Regt. commanded by Colonel Bondo in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year, from November 1775 to November 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 day of April, 1818. and
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of June 1819 and sent to A. H. Parris Wadsworth, Maine.
Restored to the Roll on 3 rd day of March 1829 and notification sent to Hon. S. H. Ripley at House of Reps. Pension commencing on the 18 of December 1828.
Amount due on 4th of September 1829
$68.67
{ Revolutionary Acts March 13, 1818, May 1, 1820.

Dalmouth June 14 th 1839 Sir, agreeable to your wish, I have searched the Dalmouth Records, to my satisfaction, and cannot find the marriage of Malachi Bartlet and Mary Coble recorded, but I find their Intention of Marriage entered May 25 th 1790
Very respectfully &c
Joseph Colley
A. K. Parris
Malachi Bartlet married to Mary Coble June 20 th 1790 Reuben Borne Friday July the 15. 1792 Joseph Borne September the 27. 1792 Elmira Borne Friday May 1 st 1795 Dolly Borne October the 9. 1797 Hannah Borne October the 16. 1805
the priests and people removed. Chap. II. II. that despise my name: and ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sa- crifice is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy per- son? saith the LORD of hosts. 9 And now I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he re- gard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. 10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine al- tar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place in- cense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible. 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a wearisome thing it is, and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hands? saith the LORD. 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. C H A P. II. And now, O ye priests, this com- mandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, be- cause ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts, and one shall take you away with it. 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace, and I gave them to him, for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his

Bounty Land Claim.
State of Maine } ss. On this fourth  fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Mary Bartlett aged ninety years a resident of Dead River Settlement in said county of Franklin who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Malachi Bartlett who was a private in the Massacusetts line of troops, in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner under the Act of March 18. 1818. Dropped under the Act of May 1. 1820, Restored Dec 7. 1825, and died Feb. 28 th 1832: — She further states that she was married to the said Malachi Bartlett on the 17 day of June A.D. 1798 by one Parsons Williams at the  her home and that her name before marriage was Mary Noble that her said husband died at Litchfield, in Maine on the 28 th day of February 1832. — and that she is now a widow; and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Feb. 2. 1848 entitled to receive Ninety six dollars per annum; that her pension Certificate is N o 2778. — She further declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under the Act approved March 3. 1855 or any other Act of Congress, nor made any application therefor; that she believes her said husband never received any bounty land.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3. 1855: and refers to the records and documents in the Pension Office and in the Office of the War Department in support of her claim.
Witness my hand and seal this fourth  fourth day of April 1855. Christopher C. Prout Michael B. Prout Her mark Mary Bartlett

We Christopher C. Proctor and Melchiah Proctor residents of Dead River Settlement in the county of Franklin, State of Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the said Mary Bartlett in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, as well as from our personal acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Christopher C. Proctor Melchiah Proctor
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year within written: And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in the claim.
Benjamin B. Mace, Justice of the Peace,
State of Maine
County of Franklin, ss. I, Isaac Tyler Clerk of the Courts in the county and State aforesaid, certify that Benjamin B. Mace before whom the above declaration and affidavit were made and executed was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Franklin, duly commissioned and sworn; and that his signature is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the county aforesaid this twenty first day of April, A.D. 1855.
Isaac Tyler Clerk

Malachi Bartlett
N o 11462-
7 June 1819
Not entitled
30 acres land
not entitled
Not entitled to pension under the act of Congress of 1 st May, 1820.
Notification sent to

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss. At a circuit Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the second Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 - and by adjournment before the Honorable Benjamin Green & Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
On this 15th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford - Malachi Bartlett aged sixty two years, resident in Hartford in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Mayhew in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Bond in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 14th day of April A.D. 1818 - , and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11462 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me.
Malachi Bartlett
Sworn to and declared, on the 15th day of June A.D. 1820.
BEFORE
Benjamin Green } Judah Dana }
Judges of said Court.
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: -
thirty acres of lands - a barn & house both valued at seventy dollars - one yoke of oxen - one cow - one swine - one harrow - one hoe and rake - one scythe - one sickle - one loom - six iron chains - one chest of drawers one chest - one pot - one kettle - one skillet - one spider - brockery ware valued at one dollar - two spinning wheels - two tables - one plough - In debt one hundred & twenty seven Dollars.
Malachi Bartlett -

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Malachi Bartlett who by occupation am a farmer which I am un able to pursue by reason of  the rheumatism —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Mary - wife of said Malachi — 56 - can perform no labour -   Mary - a daughter 20 able to labour -   Hannah - do - 14 can labour a trifle  
Malachi Bartlett
Oxford ss. I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford - do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is after deducting the sum he owes not anything dollars and  cents $00.00
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Thomas Clark { Clerk of the Circuit Court of Com. Pleas for said county of Oxford -

Additional declaration of Malachi Bartlett, private on Maine Roll No. to be restored
July 13. 1827.
Restore - per: to com: 18 Dec. 1828 Hon. James W. Ripley H.R. (rec. 6 Feb. 1829.)
R. C. Folsom
Augusta Me

I Malachi Pratt, late of Houlton, in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, now a resident of Dead River, Plantation in the said County of Oxford aged sixty nine years, & upwards do further upon Oaths declare, that in June 1820. I made my schedule under the law of May 1820 before Judge Green, at Paris Court, & the same was sent to the War Department, and my name was struck off of the Pension list on account of the property which I was supposed to possess - & in August 1823 I made a further schedule before Judge Whitman at the Court of Common Pleas, for Oxford County & stated therein that I had disposed of the Real Estate mentioned in my first schedule to pay my just debts. My property I sold to my son Joseph to whom I was justly indebted & in consideration that he would pay the debts against me, which he has done as will appear by his deposition forwarded to the Pension office. The sale to my son was bona fide and made after I had advertised my Real Estate for sale. No person appearing to purchase, he took it & paid my just debts. In January 1824. I removed to Dead River plantation where I now live, the same being one of the uppermost settlements in the County of Oxford upwards of eighty miles from Paris the County town of said County. I have furnished all the evidence in my power to produce in support of my claim to be restored to the Pension Roll. I am now poor and destitute of property of any kind, except a few articles of old house hold stuff which has been in use upwards of thirty seven years. I now earnestly request to be placed on the pension list of claim. Malachi Pratt
State of Maine
Kennebec ss July 13 th 1827. Subscribed sworn to and declared (the same being first read to him,
Before me Nathan Weston Just of S. J. C.

I David Lamson, aged fifty two years, upwards of Vespaboro, Kennebec County, Maine do upon Oath declare, that I am acquainted with Malachi Bartlett within mentioned, I have been at his place of residence on Dead River plantation so called and from my knowledge of the said Bartlett, the within statement made & subscribed by him before Judge Weston, is true. The said Bartlett sustains the character of a man of truth, Given at Saco State of Maine
Kennebec Co. July 13 th 1827.
Subscribed sworn to and declared (the deponent being to me known as a credible witness)
before me Robert C. Vose Just. Peace
State of Maine,
Kennebec Co.
The subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within & for the said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that the Wenatchee  Waltham Justice of the Peace, before whom the foregoing oath & declaration was made is one of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State of Maine & duly qualified as such; and I further certify that Robert C. Vose, Esq., before whom the above oath was made is a justice of the Peace within & for the said County of Kennebec & duly qualified as such;
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court this thirteenth day of July Anno Domini 1827. — R. C. Vose.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Somerset County, ss.
On this twenty second day of May A. D., 1839, personally appeared before the Dumoud Farnsworth Judge of Probate in and for the County of Somerset aforesaid Mary Bartlett a resident of Deer River in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged seventy four 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 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Malachi Bartlett a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States late of Vassalboro in the County of Penobscot and State aforesaid deceased That her late husband the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett was a Revolutionary soldier and served as a private according to her best recollection and belief for the term of fifteen months in the Maine troops during the War of the Revolution That she has no documentary evidence of his said service and refers to the evidence furnished by her late husband of his service to establish her claim
She further declares, that she was married to the said Malachi Bartlett on the seventeenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and ninety ; that her husband, the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett died on the twenty ninth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty two ; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. That she was married to
the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett at Falmouth Maine at the time above stated That the family records which she has caused to be hereto annexed has long been in her possession and is in the handwriting of her late husband the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett and is a true record of the events therein contained according to her recollection and belief in being taken out of a family Bible which has been in the family nearly fifty years
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
That her name before marriage was Mary Noble
Isaac Procter Samantha Procter
Mary Bartlett

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year within written before me by the witness Mary Bartlett and hereby certify that in my opinion the declarant on account of her age bodily infirmity and bad state of the goods was unable to attend a regular Court I therefore attended at her place of residence at Dead River so called. I further certify that satisfactory evidence was furnished to me that the declarant is a person of truth and very city and highly esteemed by her neighbours. I further certify that I took the family Bible in possession of the witness named Mary Bartlett.  D. Farnsworth Judge
STATE OF MAINE.
Somerset ss.  I the subscriber Deputy of Probate in said County hereby CERTIFY, That On D. Farnsworth before whom the proceedings were had, is Judge of Probate of wills within said County . I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Bartlett for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Twenty Eighth day of May A. D., 1839.
C. Bartlett Registrar

Malachi Bortlett (Private.) Bondi Mafit. Reg. 10 th Nov r 1775 for 1 year.
14 th April 1818-
See John Adm l Bortlett
United States of America District of Maine ss I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the several persons within named as witnesses are credible A. K. Harris U. S. Dist. Judge
Malachi Bortlett.

I Malachi Bortlett, a resident citizen of the United States of America, am in habitant of Hartford in the county of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that on the tenth day of November A.D. 1775 I enlisted into the army of the United States of America on the continental establishment for one year as a private in Capt. Thomas Mayhew's company, Col. W m Bond's regiment, Gen. Green's brigade in the Massachusetts line, which term of one year I fully served when I was honorably discharged. I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support and that I am not borne on any pension list of the United States. Malachi Bortlett
Subscribed and sworn to, before { Albion H. Parrie U.S. Dist. Judge de
I Moses Dunham of Hartford in the county of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war during the same period that the above named Malachi Bortlett served and was in the same company, and to my certain knowledge said Bortlett served the term of one year as he has above stated. Subscribed and sworn to before { Albion H. Parrie U.S. Dist. Judge de Moses Dunham
I Ebenezer Perkins, of Hebron in the county aforesaid do o ath declare, that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war and served in the same company as a private soldier with the above named Malachi Bortlett during his years service above mentioned and to my certain knowledge said Bortlett served said term of one year as he has stated in the above declaration by him subscribed.
Subscribed and sworn to { Ebenezer Perkins Before { Albion H. Parrie U.S. Dist. Judge de

Mr Malachi Bartlett the Bairner is an inhabitant of this town in poor circumstances and in my opinion deserving the bounty provided by the Gover- nment of the United States
Edward Blake one of the Selectmen of Portland April 18 1818
This may certify that Mr. Malachi Bartlett of this town by reason of his reduced circumstances in life through age and infirmity is in need of assistance from his country for support
James Pickering Selectman Noreida Hoveyland of Portland
to Bair ciu for

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Malachi Bartlett the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence The affidavits of Moses Dunham and Ebenezer Perkins, fellow soldiers with said applicant in the revolutionary war, made and signed in my presence, all which are hereunto annexed together with the certificate of James Bricker & others, municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relative to his circumstances in life.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Malachi Bartlett the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably 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 service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion L. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
And I do further certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction, that the above named Malachi Bartlett , in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Albion L. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge etc.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Malachi Bartlett . Med. File, 23547 , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his and widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 1 1776 1 year Pri. Thomas Mayhew William Bond. Mass.           
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Hartford ✓
Date of application for pension, April 18. 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Hartford Co., Oxford Co. Mass. (Me.)
Age at date of application, 62 years in 1820
Remarks: He died February 29, 1832, at Vassalboro, Me. He married Mary Noble; she at Falmouth Me. June 17 1793 was living in Settlement at Dead River, Franklin Co. Maine in 1851. 86 years of age. His claim was allowed Children: Wuben Wuben, a son Joseph, Elmira wife Isaac Proctor; Mary; Hannah.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1905 Nov 15 - History to Mrs B. C. Whitehill. M. 3 H. 1918, Mch. 28. To Mrs B.C. Whitehill - No service prior to Jan. 1, 1776. Fr. (See carbon)
1921, Apr. 22 hist. to B. C. Whitehill - En.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23.547. 23547
Mary Bartlett Wid of Malachi Bartlett Priv. Res. War
Act Feb 2 nd 1848.
Index: Vol A, Page 40
[Arrangement of 1870.]
26,806
Nov 1885

Melachi Bartlett Me 1818 When paid
d. 1832
H H B
Died 29 th Feby. 1832 paid No the all time -
J. H. H.
No 3786

2778 Name
Mary Bartlett, widow of Malachi
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars C
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Jan'y 1849, and sent to
Hon. H. Belcher Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2 Vol. 1
Reported Jan'y 3/49

2778
Moaine
Mary Bartlett widow of Malachi.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private increased from 40 dollars per
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
First July
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of March 1857 and sent to
William Allen
Norridgewock Maine
enors under act

11.462 Dist. of Maine
Malachi Bartlett,
of Oxford county, in the state of Massch ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bond, of the Massachusett line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. of June, 1819 and sent to Albion K. Parris, judge Paris, Oxford County, D. of Maine
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. 85.56.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 48 "
10 mo: 17/30 } 1819. } $133.56.
8 4/31 } { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled to a pension under the law of the 1. May, 1818 Application sent to Thomas Clark Esq. July Paris Maine

V 4997 Maine
Mary Bartlett widow of Malachi Bartlett who was a private in the Mass ts Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of Feby 1844 and sent to
W Allen Norridgeville Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 2
Dead. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 Sep 1840. to 4 March 1841. Agts Notified 6 Dec 1844

Letter to Hon. S. Severance 3. Und. 28. Feb 1844
Maine 3786
Mary Bartlett widow of Nathaniel Bartlett, dec. who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1832 of Somerset in the State of Maine who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Mayhew of the Regt commanded by Col. Bond in the Mass. line for 12 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Aug 2 1839, I sent and to Hon. A. H. Bangs Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $ 120.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Sep 39 20.00
$140.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. M. Rand, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 2.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838, State of Maine } ss. Somerset County } ss. On this thirty day of January 1844, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, and for the county aforesaid Mary Bartlett a resident of Dead river settlement in the county of Franklin aged seventy ninety years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Malachi Bartlett who was a private in the army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18, 1818; that she was placed on the pension list under the Act of July 7, 1838 and received her pension at the rate of thirty dollars a year during four years & a half up to the 4 th Sept. 1840 and that her pension for six months remains still due to her that her pension certificate was numbered 3784 and dated Aug. 7, 1839. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witnesses Samuel Holman Joshua Gairdner
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above before will be before me
Samuel Holman, Justice of Peace

State of Maine Somerset County } ss. I Joshua Gould Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Wyman is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Somerset duly commissioned and qualified and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said county at Norridgewock the thirtyfirst day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fortyfour Joshua Gould Clerk

THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
No 2778

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Mary Bartlett , widow of Malachi Bartlett , who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Forty dollars and   cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 3 rd day of January one thousand eight hundred and Forty nine ,
W. L. Mcrey.
Examined and Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Secretary of War.

5363 July 29 1844 Mr. Bartlett March 1845 5363 (Wethersfield, Conn. under seal of Feb 1843)
$40 per a
James Allen Norridgevoock Maine Wethersfield, Conn. East Columbia

Norridgewock Feb 1 st 1844
Col o James V. Edwards Comm r of Pensions.
Sir
I enclose the claim of Mrs Mary Bartlett, widow of Mahachi Bartlett for pension under the act of 3 rd March 1843 Please return a certificate to me when it is allowed
I am Sir
very respectfully
your obed Serv t
William Allen
Norridgewock Maine

increase of Pension on Resolute of July 1. 1848
Certificate to be returned to care of William Allen Norridgewock Maine
Due to 4th deg of separation Comng July 1848
Mr Allen Norridgewock Me
2222 Mrs B. Allen Pension 22222222

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office. March 8 th 1844,
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that when you shall have called at this Office, and taken the oath of attorney, a warrant for twenty dollars will be issued in your favor, as attorney for Mary Burtlett, being her pension from 4 Sept r , 1840, to 4 March, 1841, which will be sent to you from the Treasury Department.
With Great Respect
Your Ob t Serv t
John Hagan Aud
Hon Luther Severance House of Rep s
I made the required oath and have

received a draft for twenty dollars on the Merchants Bank of Boston, No 5635 on warrant No 7124. When I herewith enclose to you by mail Respectfully yours Arthur Severance
I have given my receipt to the Tre- asurer for the draft. Please notify me of your reception of the draft A. S.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
March 6 th , 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Mary Bartlett , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838 , has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840 , to the 4 th March 1841 .
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Augusta Me. Jan'y 29 th 1829.
Dear Sir,
I now enclose you additional evidence in support of Malachi Bartlett, formerly of Hartford in your District, now of Dead River Settlement - This claim was originally presented by Governor Lincoln, and at Mr. Bartlett's request, I called on the Govt and wrote at Portland and he claimed that I would send you the papers - Mr. Bartlett's claim was one that was suspended at the Pension Office, for the reason that there was not a contract in writing between the father & son for services performed by the latter for the former. The depositions prove fully that the transactions were bona fide between the parties and if there is to be any relaxation of former regulations, this case cannot fail of being admitted - The circumstance of Father & Son being obliged to flee to the wilderness on account of their poverty, (as will appear by the depositions), must convince any one who has a knowledge of this country that both are far from being wealthy - perhaps you know Dr. Blake, whose dep n . is in this case; if so, you can state his credibility, which Mr. Porter, omitted to certify - you know in our State the credibility of the witness is not usually testified by the parties before whom the dep n . is taken, nor is it required - I will thank you to prevent this

Claim to Mr. Edwards and write me the result.
I have just returned from Portland - the dominant party are piping hot not satisfied with what they have already done, it is believed by many that the Council intend to have new appointments in all cases that may come before them during the year -
I am very sincerely Yours
Robert C. Morse
Gen. Reply

no 23 Jan 1824
Honble
E. Lincoln
H Rep
Re Jan 30. 1824

Rev. Enoch Lincoln Esq. Bedfield Dec. 23. 1823
I write you last week inclosing several pension papers and now I take the liberty to trouble you a little further by inclosing to you care the papers pertaining to Malachi Bartlett's application soliciting the like attention to them which was requested to the other.
Joseph Bartlett lives now on Dead River and further I also lives somewhere in that vicinity so that it is quite inconvenient to have his certificate corrected by him. I have therefore taken the Dep o of Edmund Irish, as you will see, to prove the character of Bartlett, for with which I presume will be sufficient for that purpose. His disinterest- ness I cannot prove except by the old man (the applicant) as there is no persons in the family but the old Gentleman & wife that might be knowing to that fact, and the neighbors you will naturally perceive, cannot state as to the certainty of a fact of that kind. I hope the necessity of this proof may be dispensed with - If not, I will endeavor by some means to procure it.
Yours respectfully
Samuel H. Brown

Kennebec p
State of Maine
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Court within, and for the County of Kennebec aforesaid do hereby certify that William King Porter, Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Oxford and duly qualified as such, and that his signature at the end of said deposition is genuine. I am also acquainted with Edward Blake Esquire the deponent, he is a respectable magistrate & in my opinion a credible witness. In Testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the County Seal of the said County of Kennebec, this eighteenth day of December Anno Domini 1828 R. C. Vose.
Return -
Dep. of J. P. Blake in the case of Machach Balth

To all whom it may concern
This may certify that I Joseph Bartlett have purchased the farm on which Malachi Bartlett now lives or rather the farm was appraised to me in Dec. last said that I took a deed of the same at that time, for in pay for work which I did for the said Malachi Bartlett in the years of 1814 and 1815 and that the same was just and truly paid at that time save fortyfive dollars which I have paid to him by coming under bonds to pay certain debts which the said Malachi Bartlett owed in witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name the August 16 th 1823 Joseph Bartlett
Somerset ss. August 16 th 1823.
Then the above named Joseph Bartlett personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Tristram Dorton Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Somerset Co. I William Allen Jr. Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county of Somerset in the State of Maine do hereby certify and make known that the within named Frederick Weston, Esquire, was at the time the within certificate purports to have been made a Justice of the Peace within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified to act in said office and that the within is his signature.
In testimony whereof an act having been required I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, to serve and avail as occasion may require in Judicature and elsewhere. Done at Hennedgewock this fourth day of December A.D. 1823 William Allen Jr. Clerk.
I Edmund Fish of Bath in the County of Oxford State of Maine on oath say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Bartlett named herein & that his character for truth is as good as any young man of my acquaintance.
Oxford Co December 24. 1823 E. Fish Then the above named Edmund Fish to me will know as a man of truth & disinterested in the cause to which the paper pertains made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit as here signed before me Samuel H. Brown Just. Peace
Exrs 28 1/2

Selectmen of Hartford
Dep. Selectmen of Hartford in the case of Malachi Bauld

We the subscribers Election of Hartford, in the County of Oxford in the State of Maine, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Malachi Bartlett, an applicant to be restored to the Pension list - Said Bartlett, was for many years, an inhabitant of said Hartford. But by reason of his poverty, he removed to a remote settlement where, what is called the Dead River, being one of the other settlements in this County - Said Malachi is a poor man and destitute of property. We further certify that we are acquainted with his son Joseph Bartlett formerly a citizen of this of said Hartford, he sustains the character of a man of veracity & honesty.
Joseph Folsom
Daniel Hiltinton
State of Maine. Oxford ss November 17 1820 Personally appeared the above named Joseph Folsom one of the selectmen of Hartford who is in my opinion a credible and disinterested witness and he made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed before me
Danl Hiltinton Justice of the Peace
State of Maine. Oxford ss November 17 1820 Personally appeared the above named Daniel Hiltinton one of the selectmen of Hartford who is in my opinion a credible and disinterested witness and he made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed
Before me Edward Blake
Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Kennebec ss I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Daniel Hutchinson and Edward Blake Esquires, before whom the within proceedings were had, was on the said seventeenth of November 1828, and now are severally Justices of the Peace, within and for the County of Oxford, an adjoining County to this, and qualified as such & that their signatures within are their several hand writings. In testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the County Seal of the said County of Kennebec this eighteenth day of December A. D. 1828. R. C. Vose.

June 21, 1839
J. L. Edwards Esq., Sir,
I sometime since handled your a pension appli- cation from Mrs. Bartlett, widow of Malachi Bartlett. Perceiving that the proof of marriage was a family record entered on a leaf of a Bible I wrote to the Town Clerk of Falmouth, where the marriage was said to have been solemn- ized, inquiring if there is any proof of the marriage on his records - His answer I now send you - He is a man of truth and respectability, and it is submitted whether there is not now such proof as to establish the fact of marriage beyond a doubt

The applicant, Mrs. Bartlett, resides in the wilderness of Maine over one hundred miles from Falmouth —
Respectfully &c
Albin N. Parsons

State of Maine } ss. County of Franklin
On this seventeenth day of February A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me Bryan H. Munn one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid Mary Bartlett aged eighty five years a resident of Dead River settlement in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Mary Bartlett named in an original pension certificate in her possession of which I certify the following is a true copy "N o 2778, War Department... Widows pension... I certify that in conformity with the Act of February 2 d , 1848, Mary Bartlett widow of Malachi Bartlett, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of forty dollars per annum commencing on the 4 th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. Given at the War Office of the United States
Seal of the War Department
this 3 d day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of war.
Examined and countersigned,
J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions."
That she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the abovenamed Malachi Bartlett dec d . receiving the above pension of Forty dollars, only, a year; that by the Act of February 18. 1818, the said Malachi Bartlett her late husband was allowed a pension of ninety six dollars per annum; that by the Act of July 7 th 1835 to she is entitled to the same pension that her said husband would be entitled to if he were living. She therefore makes this application and claim for the increase of pension to which she is entitled under the Resolution of July 1 st 1848

to wit, from Forty Dollars to ninety six Dollars per annum and respectfully, refers to the papers and evidence filed by her in the War Department, as well as to the records and documents filed by her late husband under the Acts of March 18, 1818 and 1820 and the evidence thereunder.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written, by the above named Mary Bartlett a Revolutionary pensioner, a person by me well known and worthy of credit. I from personal knowledge that she is the identical person named in the pension certificate within described.
Benjamin Merrill Justice of the Peace vs. C. C. Procter and M. B. Procter of Dead River settlement in the State of Maine of lawful age depose and say that we live near and are well acquainted with the within named Mary Bartlett we know that she is the widow of Melachi Bartlett dec d who was a Revolutionary pensioner and that she is now receiving a pension at the rate of Forty dollars a year as widow of said Melachi Bartlett that she remains a widow and has not intermarried since the death of her said husband C. C. Procter M. B. Procter

State of Maine } County of Franklin } ss
I the undersigned Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the county, aforesaid do certify that Benjamin B. Moore Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Franklin in the State aforesaid and that the signatures to the annexed certificates purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Judicial Court of said county at Farmington this twenty first day of February A.D. 1851
G. H. Whitney } Clerk of } Courts of } Franklin Co
Norridgewock Maine March 13, 1851
The Original pension certificate No. 2278 is hereto annexed: and as additional proof of identity of the letter of Peter Hagner auditor to Luther Severance M.C. & M c Severance's letter to me is hereto annexed with a request that a new certificate be issued to Mary Bartlett directed to my care Norridgewock Maine
William Allen agent for Mary Bartlett
To James E. Heath Comm r of Pensions

Know all Men by these Presents.....That
I, Masachi Bartlett of Harford in the county of Exford yeoman
In consideration of the sum of two hundred and fifty Dollars paid by Joseph Bartlett of Dedham in our county of Cumberland
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Joseph Bartlett his
heirs and assigns forever a certain piece or parcel of land lying in said Harford, viz. all that part of the lot N o Six in the seventh range of lots in said Harford that lies on the east side of the county road that runs from say to Portland - except thirty acres taken off of the east end of said lot that is now owned by Barbara Dyer - containing about forty five acres be the same more or less.
To Have and to Hold the aforegranted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof, to the said Joseph Bartlett and his
heirs and assigns, to his & their use and behoof forever.....And I do covenant with the said Joseph Bartlett and his
heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises; that they are free from all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Joseph Bartlett
to hold as aforesaid. And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Joseph Bartlett and his
heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Masachi Bartlett
have hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED
IN PRESENCE OF
Joel Church Edward Blake
Masachi Bartlett (Seal)
Exford ss. November 7 th 1822 Personally appeared Masachi Bartlett and
acknowledged the above Instrument to be his - free Act and Deed. Before me,
Edward Blake - JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Exford ss. Nov. 7. 1822 and removed from the original Thomson Miller Register

Oxford ss. Paris May 13 th 1823 I hereby certify that the within is a true copy from Oxford Deeds from Book 22. Page 258 — Q  M. Hanson Mellen { Register of Deeds for said County
Copy of a Deed Melanchi Bartlett to Joseph Bartlett
State of Maine Oxford ss. Rufus King Goodenow Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in & for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Hanson Mellen Esquire , is now & was at the time of the date of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed, Reg- ister of Deeds for said County of Oxford, elected & qual- ified agreeably to the Constitution & Laws of this State & that he has this day acknowledged before me that the above is his signature. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this twenty second day of November A.D. eighteen hundred & twenty three Rufus King Goodenow

5314
Mary Bartlett Wid. of Malachi Me
- Ad July 7 1838 Married 1791 died 1832
Attended 12 m c pm $40 pr. am
Rev A. K. Paris Pres. ab-

Isaac Proctor age 52 years being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath testify and say that he was acquainted with Malachi Bart- -lette from his earliest recollection until his death which took place in Vespaboro Maine February twenty ninth Eighteen hundred and thirty two have often heard the aforesaid Malachi Bartlette speak of his service in the War of the Revolution and of his drawing a pension for his service Mary Bartlette within named is the Widow of the identical Malachi Bartlette who was a pensioner has lived with inf my family for nearly five years and has remained a Widow and unmarried since the death of her late husband the aforesaid Malachi Bartlette I live in an unincorporated place called Dead River in the county of Somerset Maine I married Elmina Bartlette a Daughter of the aforesaid Malachi and Mary Bartlette. The family record hereto annexed was taken from an old Bible in possession of the aforesaid Mary Bartlette and from my acquaintance with the hand writing of Malachi Bartlette I have not the least doubt but that the record was made by him Isaac Proctor sworn to and subscribed the day and year within written by Isaac Proctor a man by me well known and credible and good witness before me
D. Harnsworth Judge
Elmina Proctor age 44 years does on her oath testify and say that she is the daughter of Malachi and Mary Bartlette that her father the aforesaid Malachi Bartlette died the twenty ninth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty two have heard my father speak of his being in the War of the Revolution and of his being sick of the small Pox while in the service of the United States and of his drawing a pension My Mother Mary Bartlette lives with me and has never married since the death of my father the aforesaid Malachi Bartlette The family record hereto annexed I can well remember from my childhood and have no doubt but my father made it sworn to and subscribed the day and year within written before me and Elmina Proctor I certify that the deponent is a credible witness D. Harnsworth Judge

I Noah Staples a resident of a place unincorporated called Dads River in the State of Maine aged sixty years being first duly sworn as the deponent deponent does on his oath testify and say that I was acquainted with Malachi Bartlett for fifteen years last until his death which took place more than seven years since according to my best recollection have heard him say that he served in the War of the Revolution and have heard him say that he was a pensioner of the United States Mary Bartlett who lives in my neighbourhood is the widow Widow of the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett having never intermarried since the death of her late husband the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett I was at Vespasboro in the County of Kennebec Maine and was at the residence of the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett two years before his death according to my best recollection and heard the aforesaid Malachi Bartlett say that he had just obtained some pension money
Noah Staples
Sworn to and subscribed before me by the above named Noah Staples a man by me well known and of good character for truth and veracity this twenty second day of May 1889
D. Farnsworth Judge

Mary Bartlett application under Act of Feb 2, 1848 widow's claim
3786 20/100 4997 suf dead

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Franklin }
On this Eighteenth day of September A.D. 18 48 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, Mary Bartlett a resident of Dead river settlement in the County of Franklin aforesaid aged Eighty Four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Malachi Bartlett who was a servant in the U.S. service during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Malachi Bartlett at the rate of Forty dollars and  cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
C. C. Dooten
Michelle Dooten
Mary Bartlett mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME, Benja B. Mace
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Benja B. Mace
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. Franklin KENNEBEC COUNTY, B }
I, Hanson Caswell Clerk in the Courts of Franklin  Kennebec County, certify that Benja B. Mace is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 27th day of September , in the year 18 48 ,
H. Caswell
Clerk of the Courts of Franklin  Kennebec County.

Norridgeville, Maine, Sep r 30. 1848
To James L. Edwards Esq Secy Com ee of Penins.
If the within application is found correct, The applicant request a certificate sent to my care at this place
I am Sir
very respectfully
your ob t servant
William Allen

110,048.
Mary Bartlett widow's Claim for Bounty Land Act of March 1855
To the Com d of Pensions Presented by Wm Allen Norridgewock
Please return the warrant to William Allen Norridgewock Maine. from Mary the Bartlett widow mark C. C. Dyer

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. Court of Common Pleas August Term 1823-
On this twenty first day of August 1823 personally appeared in open court, being a Court of Records for the County of Oxford, proceeding according to the course of the Common law -  Having jurisdiction without limitation as to amount & the power of fine & imprisonment Malachi Bartlett resident in the County of Oxford, aged sixty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 10th March 1810, and the 1 st May 1820. That he, the said Bartlett enlisted for the term of one year on the first day of January in the year 1776 in the state of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Mayhew in the regiment commanded by Colonel Williams Bond in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the continental establishment: That he continued to serve in the said corps until January 1777 when he was discharged from the said service in Morristown in the state of New Jersey that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropt therefrom on account of his property -
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 10th day of March 1810: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" - passed on the 10th day of March 1810; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - viz - one cow & half - one swine - one hoe - one rake - one sickle - six poor chairs - one old chest of drawers - one old shirt - one pot - one kettle - one spider - one dollars worth of brockery - two spinning wheels & two tables - an obligation against Joseph Bartlett of thirty two Dollars & 40 cents -
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property -

   Property sold. To whom sold. Time of sale Amount & manner of payment -     Thirty acres of land afterwards found to contain more supposed forty five acres, with the house & barn thereon Joseph Bartlett November 7 1822 - Two hundred & fifty Dollars by a discharge of a debt that I owed said Joseph to amount of two hundred & seventeen Dollars and sixty cents & the balance by s d Joseph obligation to pay to sundry credi- tors of mine -   One Yoke of Oxen. Lucius Sporing November 1821 - Forty five Dollars by a discharge of my debt to John Sporing, by some necessaries out of said Sporings store, and by some mon- ey, which I have paid for sundry exigencies -   One Harrow Joseph Bartlett Winter of 1822 Three Dollars in cash   one Plough James Starbord November 1821 eight Dollars in work and necessaries -   one Spoons John Bartlett Jun March 1823 Three Dollars in peas & oats -  
My employment has generally been that of farming - but for these three years back my health has been such as to prevent me from labouring almost wholly, being subject to the gravel complaint. My family consist, beside myself of my wife who by weakness is not able to contribute much to her support - one daughter aged twenty three and one aged seventeen neither of good health and contribute no more, if so much as their own support - Malachi Bartlett -
Sworn to before me in open Court,
Ezekiel Whitman Chf. Justice of said Court -
I am satisfied the articles enumerated in the schedule in- cluding the obligation against Joseph Bartlett are not worth over sixty five dollars -
Ezekiel Whitman

State of Maine
Oxford ss. I Rufus K. Goodenow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within the County of Oxford, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oaths, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, does not exceed sixty five Dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 13 th day of October A. D. 1823 -
Rufus K. Goodenow, Clerk.

To whom it may concern.
We the subscribers inhabitants of Hartford having been acquainted with the person and circumstances of Malachi Bartlett of said Hartford, do hereby certify that we have known him for many years as a person of sober and industrious and steady habits that at the beginning of the late war he had two sons grown to the years of Manhood one entered the army the other Joseph a Mechanic whose term of apprenticeship had recently expired, was (as we believe, and as was commonly reported and understood among the neighbours at the time) requested by his parents to live with them, his father the said Malachi Bartlett at the same time making a verbal agreement to pay him for his labour, And we further certify that in November 1822 we were called on by the said Malachi Bartlett to approve his real and personal estate and a bond to his son Joseph a reasonable compensation for his services, which thing we attended to, and at the same time the said Malachi Bartlett conveyed by Deed to his son Joseph Bartlett his real estate, in consequence of his meritorious services, and a bond for the payment of his debts, and that we do believe that the conveyance and transactions connected therewith to be bonafide.
Hartford November 17th 1828
Isaac Churchhill & Hollings Thorne
State of Maine
Before me November 17 1828 Personally appeared the above named Isaac Churchhill & Hollings Thorne who are in my opinion credible & disinterested witnesses & they severally made oath to the above statement by them subscribed. Before me.
Barnes H. Kimball Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Kennebec ss
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the said County of Kennebec do hereby certify that Daniel Hutchinson Esquire, before whom the within proceedings were had, was on the day the same purport viz the seventeenth of November A.D. 1828 and now is a Justice of the Peace within for the County of Oxford and duly qualified as such that the within is his proper signature
In Testimony whereof I subscribe my name & affix the county seal of the said County of Kennebec this eighteenth day of December Anno Domini 1828.
R. C. Vose,
Dep o J. Churchill seal in the case of Malachi Boutet
Churchell v Hume

I Edward Blake moved into Hanover in the year of 1806. Malachi Bartlett was then an inhabitant of Hanover and I have been well acquainted with Bartlett & his family ever since in or about the year of 1813, Joseph Bartlett a son of Malachi, had served his time and as an apprentice & being of age his Father requested him to come home & assist him to get along & support his family - & that he would pay him for his services - Joseph accordingly went home & worked for his father & paid debts to a considerable amount. The family of Malachi being likely - Joseph continued to assist his Father in labour and in cash until about the year of 1822 when I was called on by Malachi Bartlett & his son Joseph to settle their affairs. Accordingly I accordingly attended and with the assistance of Major Jacob Churchill & Deacon Hollingsworth did settle their affair and we then found that Joseph had paid, and assisted his Father. More than his Father could pay him we apprised the small Homestead Farm that The old man lived on & what other property The old man had but the whole did not

pay Joseph what in our opinion he justly owed him. — afterwards The old Man being unable to support himself. Joseph sold what property he had and with his Father removed in to one of the upper settlements in Tom County. called Deal river settlement where they just make a living & in my opinion will have to be assisted by the on some other days if the old Man cannot be restored to the Pioneer list From my acquaintance with both the Bartlett and my knowledge of them here in and being called on to settle their claims as each other I have no doubt that the whole business was fairly transacted without the intention of injuring any one and that the whole could be fairly substantiated in a Court of Justice — and Melachi Bartlett Joseph Bartlett are reported to be steady regular men & of good reputation and from twenty years acquaintance with them, I believe they justly deserve to be so reported — Haverford Nov 20 th 1828 Edward Blake
Oxford S.S. Dec 18 th A.D. 1828 I have the above named Edward Blake personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
before William Porter (Custodian of the Prison)

O. M. H.
NOV 6 1905
State Centre, Iowa.
Nov. 4 - 1905.
Dear Sir—
Mrs Mary Bartlett of Jackson Plantation, Maine, drew a pension for several years prior to her death in June 1856, by reason of her husband's service in the Revolutionary War. I wish to get the proof of this said Malachi Bartlett's service, so that I may establish my eligibility to the "Daughters of the Revolution."

Will you kindly send me date of his death, place of enlist- ment, branch of service etc.
Thanking you in advance, I am
Mrs. B. C. Whitehill State Center Iowa

Iowa Soldiers' Home
B. C. WHITEHILL, Commandant
STAFF
J. C. LOPER, Adjutant H. J. BENNETT, Quartermaster G. A. MERSON, Surgeon H. O. PRATT, Chaplain
BOARD OF CONTROL
A. M. McCOLL, Chairman W. D. SHEEAN J. H. STRIEF F. S. TREAT, Secretary
Marshalltown, Iowa, Mar. 28, 1921.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Please send us the certificate of service of Malachi Bartlett, W, File number 23547, Revolutionary War.
Yours very truly,
Commandant.
BCW: IWS

Iowa Soldiers' Home
B. C. WHITEHILL, COMMANDANT
STAFF
J. C. LOPER, Adjutant H. J. BENNETT, Quartermaster H. P. DUFFIELD, Surgeon H. O. PRATT, Chaplin
BOARD OF CONTROL
W. J. DIXON, Chairman A. M. McCOLL J. H. McCONLOGUE F. S. TREAT, Secretary
Marshalltown, Iowa, Mar. 22-1918.
Pension Bureau Washington.
I have your record of the service of one Malachi Bartlett of Revolutionary Army, enlisted Jan 1-1776, captain, Thomas Mayhew, Plymouth - Mass.
I have reason to believe from family records that this Malachi Bartlett had a former enlistment, (April 20-1775) under Captain Jesse Harlow. Have you any record of this former enlistment?
Yours Truly, Mrs B. C. Whitehill - Marshalltown, Iowa

March 28, 1913
Mrs. B. C. Whitehill, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the twenty-second instant, you are advised that in the claim of Walachi Bartlett, W. File No. 23,547, Rev. War, it does not appear that he rendered any service prior to January 1, 1776, nor does it appear that he enlisted at Plymouth, Massachusetts, or that he ever resided there.
The said claim is the only one for any soldier of that name, found in the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.