Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,333, Young Booker, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Booker, Young Ann
W 17,333 B.L.Wt 13,708-160-55.-
CONTENTS

4012
Maria
Ann Booker widow of Young Booker who served in the Revolutionary Mass war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Feby 1849 and sent to
Hon H. Belcher Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2 Vol. 1
Reg 3 m 55-44333

Cir. G.W. Morton Sept 16/55 Me
July 48 - no 4012
Vol. Bk 5. [Signature]
4433 3 rd March 3/55
April 6/55
Ann Booker widow of Young Booker
Private [Signature] Ent. Ind. [Signature] Lois. [Signature]
Rev. Vol. 1 var
Rev. 3 rd Dist. Pension no
Buyton
Ad. V. S. acc. Jany 3/56 [Signature]
[Signature]
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine

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.
Kennebec
County, ss.
On this ninth day of August A. D., 1839, personally appeared before the Hon. Asa Redington sole judge of the State of Maine Circuit Court, for the middle circuit comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec & Somerset in open Court, at a regular term of said Court. Ann Booker a resident of Gardiner in the County of Kennebec 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 Young Booker late of said Gardiner , deceased, whom she has reason to believe, & does believe, served during the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. that in 1779, he served as a private three months, in Capt. Allen's Battery, or some other company, that was in what was called the Bangor Expedition . That afterwards, in 1782, the said Young Booker served nine months in Capt. John Read's company, in Col. J. H. Hunt's regt, on the coast of Maine . From both of said services which were in the Massachusetts troops, he was, honorably discharged. She refers to the rolls for evidence.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Young Booker on the not recollected day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three ; that her husband, the aforesaid Young Booker died on the fourteenth day of June eighteen hundred fourteen , at Gardiner ; 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, and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Young Booker . And further states that she was married at Bowdoin by the Rev. M. Folsom , her maiden name being Ann Dyer , but does not know of any record of her marriage, which she thinks was on the 20 th day of October 1783.
Then
Ann Booker mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
A. Redington Jus. Dis Court Mid. Dis.

I Nicholas Booker of Gardiner in the County of Kennebec, and state of Maine, aged forty six years on the 17 th day of April last, upon oath state, that my Father, the within named Young Booker, died at said Gardiner on the 14 th day of June 1814. That my Mother, the within named Ann Booker, has ever since remained unmarried. That I have two sister, now living, children of the said Young Booker & Ann Booker, one of whom is fifty three years of age & the other forty eight years of age.
Nicholas Booker
State of Maine,
Kennebec p: I have subscribed this 9 th day of August 1839. the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me Mr Woodard for Justice of Peace.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the courts for said County, hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon: Asa Redington before whom the proceedings were had, is Judge of the District Court for the Middle District in said State. I also CERTIFY, That the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ann Booker for a pension. I further certify that Am. Bachelde Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Daniel Cunningham was sworn, was at that time now is a Justice of the Peace for said County, & that the
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 19 th day of August A. D., 1839.
J. A. Chandler

Ann Barker
Kennebec Co. State of Maine
I the subscribed Clerk of the Courts for said County, hereby certify that William D. North, before whom the annexed affidavit was sworn to at that time, now is a Justice of the Peace for said County. That the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State. This 19th day of August 1839.
L. A. Chandler

44388
Ann Foot widow of Young Foot.
Claim of _____
TO BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
has not rec d any bounty land. Revolutionary Pensions Act. Feb. 2. 1848.
PRESENTED BY
GEO. W. MORTON,
ATTORNEY, AUGUSTA, MAINE.

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Sagadahoc
On this twenty seventh day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, Cyrus Kindrick a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Ann Becker aged eighty eight years, a resident of Richmond in the State of Maine, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical person now in receipt of a pension under the Act of February 5, 1848, at the rate of thirty two dollars per annum, in account with the Revolutionary War Department, and that she is the identical person named in application certificate, of which the following is a true copy.
It is Department, War Office, No. 111. I certify that in conformity with the Act of February 5, 1848, Ann Becker, widow of Young Becker who was a private in the Revolutionary War, is inscribed on the pension list at thirty two dollars per annum, in account with the Department, in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Department of the United States, this 24th day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
W. L. Marcy Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned J. H. Hunt, Jr. Commissioner Bureau of Pensions
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the BOUNTY LAND to which he may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855." She also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Ann X Becker
We, Edward Peacock and Hiram King residents of Richmond in the State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Ann Becker in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that they are personally acquainted with her.
I know that the foregoing declaration was made by Ann Becker, and that she is the person described in and who executed the same.
Edward Peacock Hiram King
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above 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 this claim.
Cyrus Kindrick Justice of the Peace.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all men by these presents. That I, Anna Brooks of Hallowell in the County of Sagadahoc and State of Maine, have constituted and appointed GEO. W. MORTON, of the City of Augusta, in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute and receive from the United States the Bounty Land Certificate, or Warrant, due me under existing Laws granting Bounty Lands for services rendered in the United States in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attorneys under him, for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do, or cause to be done, in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty seventh day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five
Witness: Cyrus Kinsdick
Anna X Brooks
1855
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Kennebec ss:—On the twenty seventh day of March personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County Anna Brooks and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be free act and deed.
Cyrus Kinsdick
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Kennebec } ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that Cyrus Kinsdick before whom the within declaration, affidavit, and power of attorney, were made and executed, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County aforesaid, this 31st day of March 1855
J. M. Stratton
CLERK.

977 Ann Booker
Maine
Augusta
Geo. W. Morton
$32:76 per am
6
Geo W Morton
Augusta
Maine.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF MAINE, } County of Kennebec ss. } On this fifth day of April A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Ann Booker a resident of Gardiner in the County of Kennebec 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 benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Young Booker who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Young Booker at the rate of thirty two dollars and seventy six cents per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Young Booker having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Witness Cyrus Windick Albion at Windsor
Ann Booker Mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me, Cyrus Windick Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Young Booker deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Cyrus Windick Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine Kennebec County S.S.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held for and within the said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Cyrus Kendrick, in a Justice of the Peace as within stated, and that the within signature pur- porting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine the fourteenth day of April 1843
A. R. Nichols

Augusta, Me. Augt. 19. 1839,
Sir
I send you herewith the application of Ann Booker for a pension under the Act of Congress of Febry 7, 1838. It is believed that the evidence in this case is amply sufficient, or I would procure the affidavit of some other person who was present at the wedding of the parties.
The pension certificate may be sent to me,
I am Sir very respectfully Yr Obed Servt Ann Booker
J. L. Edwards, Esq., Commr. of Pensions, Washington, D.C.

Anne Booker-
Grading
ad
1125
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine

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 Wenatchee }
On this First day of September A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Wenatchee and State of Maine, Ann Booker a resident of Gardiner in the County of Wenatchee 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 Young Booker who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Young Booker at the rate of Thirty two dollars and Seventy five 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:
Cyrus Windick George Peabody
Ann X Booker marks,
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Cyrus Windick 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.
Cyrus Windick Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Cyrus Windick 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 5th day of Sept. in the year 18 48 .
W. M. Stratton Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

Claim No. 44.323 Additional Evidence
Ann Barker, Widow of Young Barker, for bounty under Act of March 3, 1855.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
December 28. 1855.
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 Young Booker is borne on pay roll of Capt. Asa Patten's (comp. Col. Daul. Mc Cobb's Regt. from July 6. to Sept. 25. 1779 2 mos. 19. days, as private.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Augusta, Maine
Sir,
Dec 29. 1855.
I herewith send seven Certificates of the Scty Assess ts of Revolutionary claims, Pension, in support of the following named persons, for bounty land under Act March 3. 1855. viz
  Claim No 22670  Margaret Whiting  widow of John Whiting    43664  Lydia Shepard  " Levi Shepard    44333  Ann Booker  " Young Booker    47974  Polly Robinson  " Jedediah Robinson    69480  Hannah Tappan  " Michael Tappan    80215  Patty Wills  " James Wills    104687  Lydia Kenney  " Benja Kenney  
Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt
Geo W. Norton
Hon J. D. Sleeper Comp d Pensions Washington D. C.

13.708.
160 acres.

4.335
2
Maine
Ann Booker- widow of Young Booker decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 14 June 1814 of Kennebec Co. in the State of Me. who was a Private in the Comp y . commanded by Captain Patten of the Regt. commanded by _____ in the U.S. line for 9 Mos 425 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Me. at the rate of 32 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Oct r . 1839 and sent Mr. Wart Jr. Augusta Me.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1839 $114.66 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. 4 th . 16.38
$131.04
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by W. Addison Clerk, Book 9 Vol. 15 th Page 3

44333
Ann Booker - wid Young Me Feb 08 - 4012
104687
Lydia Kenney - wid Benjamin Me Feb 58 - 2003
47974
Polly Robinson - wid Jedediah Me July 46 - 954
43664
Lydia Shepard - wid Levi Me July 53 - 584
69480
Hannah Lapham - wid Michael Me July 53 - 573
22670
Margaret Whiting - wid John Me July 53 - 1068
Patience Mills - wid James Me July 53 - 399
Additional Evidence Claims for Bounty No 22670 43664 47974 69480 104687 44333 47974 69480 104687

1125 Maine
Ann Booker
widow of Young Booker who was a Private
, in the Mass. line
for 9 mos & 25 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 Dollars & 7/8 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of July, 1843 and sent to
Geo. W. Horton Augusta, Maine.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 2.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17333
Mrs. Booker Widow of Young Booker Dr. Rev. M.
Act: Feb. 22. 48
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5994 Ann Booker Act July 7 1838.
Me
M. 83-
Pool 37. 111-79 pri. 2.19 36. 204. 82. - 7. 6 9. 25
adm 9 mo. 25 ds pri
$32:76-
No deduction
Ann Mearns Augusta Me

JOHN FAIRFIELD, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS,
GREETING:
Know Ye, That Johnson Jacques and David Adams both of Bowdoin in the county of Lincoln, Esquires, whose names are borne upon the papers hereunto annexed, are Justices of the Peace, for our said County of Lincoln, and that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
duly nominated and appointed, commissioned and qualified; and that to their — Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at AUGUSTA, this nineteenth — day of August — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine and in the sixty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
J. B. Nichols , Secretary of State.

I David Perry of Richmond in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy six years upwards, found a pensioner on the Maine Roll under the act of Congress of June 7. 1832. do upon oath state: that I formerly lived in Bowdoin in said County, lived there at the time of the Revolutionary War, & well knew Young Brother of the same town, that I always understood & believed that said Young Brother served at Bagaduce several months in the year 1779, & presume it was in the company of Capt Patten of Topsham an adjoining town to Bowdoin. That afterwards, I think in 1782, the said Young Brother served with me, nine months in Capt. John Read's company in Col. James Hunter's regiment of Massachusetts troops on the coast of Maine. I well knew that he served with me in that company for that period. That the said Young Brother married Ann Niles of the same Bowdoin, & she is now living at Gardiner (adjoining Richmond) as the widow of said Young Brother. The said Young Brother died at Gardiner more than twenty years ago.
State of Maine
David Perry
Remedies, Jr: Subscribed & sworn to this 8 th day of June 1839, the deponent being well known to me to be a credible witness. Before me W m M c Cart y Justice Peace.

I Washington Potter of Bowdoin Lincoln County State of Maine upon Oath states that I am town Clerk of said town I have the custody of its records that I have held said office for two last Aprils past I have been applied to for evidence for the records of said town of the Marriage of Young Barker to Ann Niles which it is said was solemnized in between seventeen hundred eighty three but all this I have diligently searched the records from the incorporation of the town in seven- teen hundred eighty six up to eighteen hundred twenty I do not find any record of said Marriage or of the Portioners of Marriage or of the births of any of the children of said Young and Ann I don't know of any records in town prior to its incorporation there being no record of the Marriage of said parties does not raise any presumption against said Marriage the Country was new it is very probable that no record was preserved of the fact and I have been informed that they were Married at the previous year state or thereabout in seventeen hundred eighty three they lived together as Man and Wife and brought up a family of children I never heard it questioned by any one
Washington Potter Clerk of Bowdoin
Bowdoin August 14th 1839

State of Maine Lincoln Co., Subscribed and Sworn to by the within named Washington Potter Town Clerk of Bowdoin this 17th day of August 1839
David Adams
Justice Peace

I Catharine Graves of Sohier in the County of Lincoln & state of Maine aged. seventy years upon oath state that I was present at the dwelling house of Daniel Cunningham in Bowdoin in said County In the fall of the year seventeen hundred & eighty three I witnessed the solemnization of the Marriage of Young Booker to Ann Niles by the Rev. Mr. Orhart Young that I was afterwards well acquainted with said & Ann who lived together as man & wife & brought up a family of children that said Young Booker died at Gardner In Kennebec County many years ago and his widow the said Ann is now living in that Town
Catharine Graves
State of Maine Lincoln ss. subscribed and sworn to this 14 th day of August A.D. 1839 the defendant Being a credible witness.
Before me Johnson Agassiz Justice of the Peace

I Daniel Cunningham of Pitchfield in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged seventy nine years upon oath I state that young Booker Hale of Gardiner in said County deceased. Lived in the family with me during the Revolutionary War and was absent from home for two periods for service and served as I understood at Bangor and on the coast of Maine. That in seventeen hundred eighty three I think in October of that year the said young Booker was married at my house by the Rev. Mr. Corhart to Ann Miles and they afterwards lived together as man and wife and brought up a family of children. That the said young Booker died at said Gardiner many years ago and the said Ann is now living in that town.
Dan l Cunningham
State of Maine
Kennebec Co. Subscribed and sworn to this
Thirteenth day of Aug 1839. The deponent being a creditable witness.
Before me
Asa Bachelder Justice of Peace