Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18754, Jonathan Byram, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Byram, Jonathan
8 18754
CONTENTS
Carded

270 Maine
Jonathan Dymam of Freeport in the State of Maine who was a Pri — in the Com y commanded by Captain — of the Reg t commanded by Col Phinney in the M ss — time for 28 Mo and Continental
old case
Inscribed on the Roll of Me — at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27-day of Feb 1833 and sent to Hon. W. C. Anderson House of Reps
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1832 $99 99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Nov 1833 33 33 Increased from $66.66. 8 / 3 to $80 per annum — $133 32
October 2 d 1833 - and ip d new certif — { Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk, Book D Vol. 17 Page 76
October 2 d 1833 Increased $66.66 per annum $80 per annum & ip d new Certif: Same day - see let ter to Agent notifying him of the same Oct. 4 th '33. Sent Certif to Hon. Wm. Anderson Portland Maine —

for & Bygraria to be restored to Peninsular Roll
Old case

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the seventeenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this seventeenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Jonathan Byram a resident of Freeport in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he
enlisted at Nuttall in Connecticut in said County that he was of the Revolutionary & served in the two war  for  months & was on the Pension  Roll of the U States under the Act of the 18th of March 1818. That he first enlisted at said Nuttall in May or June 1775 for eight months under Capt. John  Worthley . Col. Phinney's  Regt. was marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts & there served out his time & was honorably  discharged . That immediately after he was discharged as aforesaid he again enlisted in Boston in the beginning of 1776 for one year under Captain  Hill of Col. Phinney's  Regt. was marched to Lake George & Lake Champlain & there served out the year & was honorably  discharged . He again enlisted at said Nuttall in 1778 for eight months under Capt. Abraham  Tyler  marched to West Point in New York & there served out said eight  months & was honorably  discharged . But never had a mutton  discharge at any time as he remembers . & For evidence of his said services in said three  enlistments making two years & four months he refers to his papers on file at the War Department at Washington .
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before, Jonathan Byram { U. S. Judge for the District of Maine. Ashur Ware
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I John Nufsey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventeenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nufsey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

March 10, 1931.
Mrs. Clint Hart 313 South 7th Street St. James, Minnesota.
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section ILL
Dear Madam:
Spelled - Worthley also from Mass. St. J. You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 18754, that Jonathan Byram enlisted in North Yarmouth, District of Maine, the last day of April, 1775 and served eight months as private in Captain John Worthly's Company, Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts Regiment. Immediately following, he enlisted January 1, 1776 and served one year as private in Captain Hill's Company, Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted in May, 1778 and served eight months as sergeant in Captain Abraham Tyler's Company, Colonel Thomas Poor's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 11, 1818, while a resident of Freeport, District of Maine, aged sixty-three years. In 1832, soldier was living in said Freeport which was then in Cumberland County, Maine.
Soldier's brother, Melzar Byram, was a resident of Freeport, District of Maine, in 1818; he was then fifty nine years of age.
It is not stated that soldier ever married.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

18 7 54 INVALID.
1931- Mar. 10 - Hist. to Mrs. C. Hart. Ild.
File No. 18 7 54
Jonathan Byram Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]

See letter to Hon. J. Andersen 18 March 1829.
12,844 R Maine
Jonathan Byram of Freeport in the district of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 Year and 8 Months and Continental.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of May 1818 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of July 1819 and sent to William Widgeon Esq.
Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. amt. $ 25 / 31 — 78:45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 — 48: —
$126:45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1892 Letter of Inquiry

See Bylaw
410
Payments to be made at Portland — by Pres. W. L. Br. Park, Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Maine —
Recorded by E. L. Bullock Clerk, in Book I Vol. 1 st page 76 —

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Jonathan Byram of the State of Maine who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 27-day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-Three
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }

Pens. Office 12. Feb. 1829.
Hon. P. B. Porter War Department

House of Reps Feb 11 1879
Sir I have the honor to lay before you the enclosed applications for restoration to the Bona Fide List.
I am personally acquainted with the signers of these & know them to be men of high character & whose statements are entitled to full confidence.
I have the honor to be very respectfully Yours Wm H. D.
John Anderson

John Anderson Member of Congress for Maine hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Jonathan Byram of Freeport in the County of Cumberland in said Maine & know that he is living - I made out his application for a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 & sent the same to the War Office in Sept r or Oct r last - which papers it is now said are mislaid
John Anderson
Washington Feb 26 1833

Port and Sept 25 th 1833
Sir - I enclose the new application of John Byrnes & his Certificate & hope you may be able to look at his case before the meeting of Congress, when you will be bothered to death by members -
You may perhaps recollect that we could not find the papers in Byrnes case & at your suggestion I made a certificate that he was living & filed it with his papers made out under the Act of 1818. But as he did not
state the whole of his service in his application in 1818 he is not presumed so high as he ought to be - On my return from
Washington last spring the Clerk of the U.S. Court for this Dist. handed me Byrnes application returned for proof of last mentioned service which proof I never sent you. It was probably
sent to the Clerk while I was on my way to Washington & accounts for its not being found in your office last winter - As Byrnes is
poor I advised him to draw what he could before he returned his present certificate, trusting a new one would issue before the next semi annual payments. I would also request
your attention to the case of Jos Bryant whose papers I sent in some weeks ago certified by the Clerk as directed by your letter
With great respect I am Sir your obed Servt When Understood
for L. Edmonds Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Depo. of John Dunning for Jonathan Byram.

I John Dunning of Freeport in the State of Maine and County of Cumberland yeoman do depose, testify and say, that I was a soldier in the revolutionary army and marched from home to Fishkill in the state of New York in the year 1778. - we left home the first of May and arrived there in June  June , and there joined the Reg t of Col o Thomas Poor - we served under Capt l Abraham Tyler of Scarboro in this State in his company - we did duty at Fishkill, White Plains & Westpoint - I did duty there till the last of February 1779 when I was discharged - I do know that all this time Jonathan Bygum of Freeport was in said company doing duty as one of the sergents of said Company and was discharged at the same time that I was - John Dunning
State of Maine
Cumberland ss May 21. 1833 Then personally appeared the above named John Dunning and made oath to the truths of the above deposition by him signed
Before me Josiah W. Mitchell J. Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named John Dunning for twenty five years and he is known to me as a man of truth and veracity
Josiah W. Mitchell Just peace.

Maine District District Clerk's Office Sept. 25. 1833
In testimony that Jeriah W. Mitchell is a Magistrate as within and that the signatures within purporting to be his are genuine I have hereto set my hand & seal of office the day and year above written
John Mussey Dist. Clerk

Jonathan Bynum private Col. Pinney, Regt Mass Line 1775-1 year & 8 months Dec: 11 th May 1818
See Peter Coyes Cash Due -

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Jonathan Byram of Freeport in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of one year and eight months on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Freeport aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being now sixty three years of age.
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to Col. Worthley's Hills Company of the Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the last day of December A.D. 1775 one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and that he left said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven the term of his enlistment having then expired and he received an honorable discharge. The first eight months being in Col. Worthley's Company & the last year in Col. Hills.
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 11 th day of May 1818.
Jonathan Byram
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 11 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Jonathan Byram the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Jonathan Byram farther offered in evidence
the deposition of Melzer Byram not which is herewith annexed
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Jonathan Byram served in the revolutionary war as alleged in his application, against the common enemy. and that he is in reduced circumstances and of no means of his country for subsistence.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 11 th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. attestation is hereby certified to be true.
Wm Widgery { Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 12 th day of August A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

I Melzar Byram of Freeport in Maine District being now fifty nine years of age testify and say that Jonathan Byram, now present, is my brother that he enlisted in an immediate duty after Lexington battle in April 1775 into the Continental army army for eight months and was absent from home during the whole eight months in the army. Before his term expired I enlisted for one year & joined the army at Cambridge where I saw him. After his eight months expired he enlisted for a year in the same regiment with me and our regiment remained in Boston till the latter part of the summer 1776 when the regiment left Boston for New York state; during this whole time my brother remained in the regiment & moved away with it. I was left at Boston sick with the small pox.
Melzar Byram
Signed and sworn to before me. Wm Widgery Judge etc May 11. 1816
I Peter W. Brown being now sixty six years of age testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Jonathan Byram now present. That in April 1775 I enlisted in Col. Phinney's regiment and left Waltham Waltham then Waltham and served in the same eight months, said Byram served with me in the same company and regiment during the whole period. At the end of that enlistment I re-enlisted with said Byram into Col. Phinney's regiment, I in Col. Wetherbee's company, said Byram in Col. Hall's company of Col. Phinney's regiment. Said Byram served the war out and was discharged at the same time with me at Fort George & we both returned together. We were discharged in December 1776.
Albert A. Ware.
Peter W. of Brown marks
Signed & sworn to before May 2. 1819
Arthur Ware first Pa:
I certify that said Brown is a widower and his intestate intestate. Arthur Ware

I James Toole being now sixty five years of age testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Jonathan Bryan now present and have known him since he was a boy, that in the last part of December 1775 I enlisted in Col. Phinney's Regiment Vt. Hills company. Said Bryan belonged to the company when I enlisted and we served together in said company during the war, I have been discharged a few days before him at Fort George.
James Toole
Signed & sworn to before me May 10. 1819
Arthur Wason Just. Pe.
I certify that said Toole is a man of disinterested interest. — Arthur Wason

St James Minn Feb 16-31
I am anxious to trace my people back to the Revolutionary War. My father was a civil war vetran his name is Reuel Byram - & my great grand father (Jonathan Byram) was a soldier in the Revolution is there any way to get papers to that effect so I am eligable to the D.A.R. They tell me I can get them thru the pension dept. at Wash. please let me know.
Yours truly Mrs Clint Hart 313. 57th street St James Minn

My great grand father Jonathan Byron either lived at Portland Maine or North Yarmouth Me. and enlisted from one of these two places. I think

SERVICE
Mass.
Byram, Melzar Allen, Alice or Else.
NUMBER
W.695 B.L.Wt.13.867-160.-55
CONTENTS
Former widow

32.945 Maine Melzar Byram dec d ,
of _____ in the State of _____ who was a private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Revolution line for _____
Increased from $30 66 / 100 .
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland , at the rate of 62 Dollars 20 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and end 22 d May 1832.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Nov r 1836 and Sent to
Arrears to the 4th of Freeman Bradford .
Semi-annual allowance ending Portland Me!
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. Getty Clerk, Book No. Vol. 1 . Page 52 .

2.219 Increase
Shaine
Alice Allen, formerly widow of
Melzar Byram who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a
Private Portland Wolf Series
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
27 th July 1868. Ded. subseq. payts.
Certificate of Pension issued
to Dec 16/68 16 th day of Oct. 1868. and sent to Claimant Freeport, Cumberland Co., Maine.
Act July 27/68.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page, 161 Vol., H

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113611 Acmar 5/54
2/55- May 23
Alice Allen Jones wid. Melzar B. Jones Drip.
Map 13867
Rev n avas Rev n pensiones
Me Feb 53- 2219
AD 160 ACrs May 10/56.
R. J. B.
Vol. B-183. 2
John N. Ayer North Pownal Main

Alice Allen widow of Melzer Byram dis d pensioner under act. 1818 Maine Agency. — Claim for a Revolu- -tionary pension under act 3 Feb. 1853
J. A. Bickins Atty.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of Feb'y 3 d , A. D. 1853.
State of Maine.
Cumberland Co. S.S. Freeport Feb'y 19 th /53. On this nineteenth day of February, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace & Notary Public, within and for the county aforesaid, Alice Allen, former widow of Melzar Byram a pensioner of the U. S. at 96 per annum a resident of Freeport in County of Cumberland aforesaid, aged 69 years who being duly duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision and the act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of February, A. D. 1853. That she is, the widow of Silas Allen, former widow of Melzar Byram who was a pensioner at 96 per annum act of May 7 th 1819 aged 61 years a resident of Freeport, and drew his pension at Portland, Maine agency. — She further declares, that she was married to the said Melzar Byram on the 6 th day of November, A. D. 1825, and was married to her last husband Silas Allen on the 6 th of November 1834. That her last husband Silas Allen died on the 5 th of March 1843. — She further declares that she was lawfully married to each of her aforesaid named over
This Officer, will show the allowance, of this pension.

husbands, and that they are both dead, — She fur- ther swears that she was a widow at the passage of the act of Congress of Feb'y 3 d , A.D. 1853, & now remains a widow, that she made application for the pension of arrearage due her first hus- band Melzar Byram, under act of Congress passed on the 7 th of June, A.D. 1832, about 1850 or 51, the particular time she cannot positively state, she swears that she never made application for to be pension her self on account of the late date of her marriage to said Melzar Byram aforesaid. She respectfully refers the Commissioner, to her original decla- ration for the more particular of identity of her- self, as to dates of her marriages, & dates of her husbands deaths, & being identified in full — She also states that her husband's pension was allowed Dec, 1851, Paid in Nov Jan'y 1852. Witness
Hannah M. Maxwell
Geo. W. Hurnowill
Alice Allen  Allen marks
State of Maine, County of Cumberland, S.S. February 19 th , A.D. 1853. Then personally appeared the above named, Alice Allen, former widow of Melzar Byram who has been granted a pension due her husband Melzar Byram when living, & made oath to the declaration by her subscribed in due form of law before me A t Waterhouse Notary Public & Justice of the Peace

I Hannah M. Maxwell, of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 31 years, On oath Testify and say, That I have been very intimately acquainted with Alice Allen who was the former widow of Melzar Byram a prisoner of the United States as I always understand by our folks & neighbors, That the said Alice Al- len lived with Silas Allen as man & wife that said Silas Allen is dead, & the said Alice Allen is now a widow not having intermarried since her said last husbands death, I have been well acquainted with the said widow Alice Allen who was former widow of Melzar Byram for the last 25 years, & further deponent saith not, Hannah M. Maxwell
State of Maine County of Cumberland S.S. Feby 19 th 53 1853. Then personally appeared the above named Hannah M. Maxwell well known to be a credible Affiant, or witness, and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing is true before me
As Waldo Justice of the Peace & Notary Public

I Asi Waterhouse on oath Testify and say, that I am well acquainted with your deponent, Alice Allen, former widow of Melzar Byrom a revolutionary pensioner. That she is now a widow, — Asi Waterhouse .
I, George W. Hume will of Danville in Co of Cumberland, and State of Maine of lawful, age on oath testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Alice Allen former widow of Melzar Byrom a pensioner of the W. S. is now a widow and has been ever since her last husband's death. Mr. Silas Allen, — Geo. W. Hume will
State of Maine Co. of Cumberland S.S. April 12 th 1853. Then personally appeared the above named Geo. W. Hume will and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me,
Asi Waterhouse J.P. & S
Notary Public

F. Bradford Portland Maine

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss.
On this 21 st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record Melzar Byram of Freeport in said County Executor of the last Will and Testament of Melzar Byram Senr. deceased, who being duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension that was due the said Melzar Byram from the 4 th March 1831 to the 22 d May 1832 by virtue of the provision of the acts of June 7 th 1832 and July 4 th 1836
And this declarant states that his late father Melzar Byram was a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818, and drew a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month for nearly two years and was then suspended on account of possessing some property. That when he was placed upon the Pension list he resided in Freeport in said County of Cumberland and died at said Freeport on the 22 d day of May 1832 as above set forth. He further states that his father left a widow Alice who married a man by the name of Allen in less than one year from the time of the said Melzar Byram's death, that her husband

Allen is also now dead that the said Alice Allen formerly the widow of Melzar Byram is now living and is a widow. This declarant further states that the children and only surviving children of Melzar Byram are Susan Haws Elizabeth Ward Dulensa Allen Catharine Bailey Savina Bailey and Melzar Byram As Executor he claims the Pension that was due his father under the laws aforesaid and for proof of service he refers to the said Melzar Byram's declaration for the benefit of the act of 1818.
Melzar Byram
Signed and sworn before me the subscriber on the day and year first above written.
Josiah Pierce Judge.

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss.
Probate Office } Portland May 21, 1851 }
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify, that Hon. Josiah Pierce, before whom the foregoing declaration was made in the matter of Pension of the late Melzar Dyrain, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand, and seal official of said Court the day and year above written.
Freeman Bradford Regr

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd day of March A.D. 1855, granting Bounty Land to widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary war, —
State of Maine
County of Cumberland, S.S.
On this 22 nd day of March A.D. 1855, eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid Alice Allen former widow of Melzar Byram, aged seventy years a resident of Freeport, in the county and state aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Silas Allen, and former widow of Melzar Byram, both deceased, who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was pensioned under act of 1818, for whose service this applicant was pensioned, and is now receiving a pension at the rate of thirty dollars and sixty six cents per annum and for evidence in support of her present claim for bounty Land under the aforesaid act she refers the pension department to the proof on file in support of her claim by which over

she obtained her pension, and that her said pension was granted on the 30 th day of September A.D. 1853, and recorded by V. E. Robinson Clerk, in page 1, vol. 16, or, a, I cannot discover which of the letters is made. Her certificate is numbered 2,219, — She also declares, that she never before made application for any Bounty Land under any other act except the present, — She makes this declaration for to obtain the benefit of the act of March 3, A.D. 1855, granting Bounty Land to widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary war, — and she requests that all communication may be sent to John M. Ayer at North Pownal Maine,
Witness, Hannah Maxwell Gospey G. Harnawille
Alice her Allen mark
We John Gillmore and Hannah M. Maxwell Residents of Freeport in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Alice Allen in our presence, and that we believe from the statements, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Witness A. Waterhouse Gospey G. Harnawille
Hannah M. Maxwell
John Gillmore

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed by the said Declarant, and affiant, before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the said affiant to be a credible person, that the claimant is the person in the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in the claim herewith presented. — A. Waterhouse — Justice Peace
I further certify that I have been well acquainted with the foregoing applicant Alice Allen for many years, and I do know that she is a Revolutionary pensioner, and paid at Portland and that she has not again married and is now a widow to my certain knowledge. A. Waterhouse J. Peace

Maine District for Office of the Clerk C.C. U.S.
I Geo. F. Emery Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for Maine District hereby certify that Mr. Nathan House, who purports by the papers hereto annexed to have acted as a Justice of the Peace, was, at the several times he so purports to have acted, a Justice of the Peace for the Counties of Cumberland and Androscoggin in the State of Maine, duly commissioned and qualified, fully authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments, and all the signatures on the annexed papers purporting to be his are genuine,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 23 d day of April A.D. 1855
Geo. F. Emery
Clerk Circuit Court U.S. for Maine District

Extract from the Record of Marriages in the town of Danville in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine
"Melzer Bynum of Freeport to Else Maxwell of Danville, November fifth eighteen hundred and twenty six by Elder Joseph Roberts"
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date and figures, which are expressed in the record which are expressed in fair legible date and figures as follows viz "November 5 th 1826"
Ebenezer Witham Clerk of said Town
I, Ebenezer Witham above named, do hereby certify that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Danville, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, and that the above is a true extract from the Record of Marriages in said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me
Ebenezer Witham Clerk of said Town State of Maine.
Cumberland County, S.S. August 20 th 1853 Subscribed, and sworn to before me, A. Waterhouse
Justice of the Peace,

United States of America Maine District ss.
District Court August 23. 1853.
I hereby certify that Ai Waterhouse is and was at the time of administering the foregoing oath a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine, and as such is duly authorized to administer oaths, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said District Court the day and year above written.
W m P. Preble Jr Clerk
U. S. Dist Court. Maine

Melzar Byram
private lot Phinnery, Rest
Map June 1795 - year - dec
11 th May 1818
Col Putnam's regt
78. g m. —
on roll

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Meets Byram of Portland in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of three years and six months on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Portland aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being now sixty five  seventy five years of age.
AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to Col. A. Watkins Company of the Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the twelfth  10th day of December  November one thousand seven hundred and seventy five  seventy six and that he left said service on or about the first day of October  November one thousand seven hundred and seventy six  seventy seven having enlisted for the term of a year & being left at Boston by the regiment on its  on the march to the south from which was the reason of his being discharged before the term of his enlistment expired. In May 1778 he enlisted for nine months in Capt. White's Company Col. P. Paton's Regiment Mass. Line & joined the regiment at White Plains, and served in the same for nine months when he was honorably discharged, which he has since been out. WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this twelfth  10th day of November  May 1818.
Melzar Byram
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 10  11 day of May  May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Meets Byram . the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Meets Byram farther offered in evidence the deposition of Jonathan Byram which is herewith communicated.
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Meets Byram served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 11th  11th day of May  May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. which is hereby certified to be true
Wm Widgery
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in
said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 12th day of August A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradburn

Jonathan Byram of Frankfort in Maine District being now sixty three years of age testify saying that Mehel Byram now present is my brother that he en- listed into the Continental army in December 1775 in the main service that he joined Col. Peabody's, to which I be- longed at Cambridge. He remained in the regiment till at  we marched to New York which was some time I think in September when he was left at Boston with the small force. That in May 1778 he enlisted again for nine months in the Continental army. I volunteered at the same time in the militia, we marched together to Puckerskill in New York, I remained in the service eight months, but was attached to a different corps from that to which my brother belonged, and did not see him after the shooting from him at Puckerskill, but I frequently received letters from him while in the army. He did not return home until his nine months expired, about a month after I returned.
Jonathan Byram
Signed and sworn to before me Wm. Widgery Judge May 11. 1816

U.C.S. Dm
June 16, 1926
Lucy E. Doughty Bay City, Route #1 Oregon
Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 695 , that MELZAR BYRAM enlisted in Cumberland County, Maine District, Massachusetts, December 1, 1775, as private in Captain Nathan Watkins' Company, Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged September 20, 1776.
He enlisted in May, 1778, and served nine months as private in Captain White's Company, Colonel R. Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 11, 1818, at which time he was fifty-nine years of age and was living in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine District.
He died May 22, 1832, at Freeport, Maine.
While living in Freeport, Maine, he married November 5, 1826, Else or Alice Maxwell of Danville, Maine. She married November 4 or 6, 1832, Silas Allen. He died March 9, 1843.
Else or Alice Allen was allowed pension on account of the service of Melzar Byram on her application executed August 6, 1851, at which time she was sixty-six years of age and was living in Freeport, Maine.

In 1851 it was stated that the following were the only surviving children of Melzar Byram: Susan Haws, Elizabeth Card, Dulensa Allen, Catharine Bailey, Lavina Bailey and Melzar Byram.
In order to identify a particular soldier of the War of 1812 by the name Doughty the first name is essential and you should furnish as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and first name of widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
1876 June 16 wish to Lucy E. Doughty See letter in case Gabriel Rogers 1877 572. U.S.
File No. 695
Alice Allen former
Widow
Melzar Byram Br. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 13, 1853
Index:—Vol. A , Page 7
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2219
Maine
Alice Allen for widow of
Melyar Byram, who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Increased from $30.66
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 62 dollars 20. cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
27 th day of Nov r 1856
and sent to
A. Bradford
Portland,
Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 141, Vol. 26.
Ag.

2219.
Name Alice Allen (for) widow of Melzar Byram who served in the Revolutionary war, as a pirate
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Feb 1853 and sent to J. Coombs Parent
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 1 Vol. C
Heeman Braden July 23 1856

32.945 Maine Nathan Byram deed of Cumberland Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col _____ in the Revolution for 9 mo: 6 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 30 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & Enny 22? May 1832.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Novr 1837 and sent to Freeman Bradford Portland Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by M c Intosh Clerk, Book E. Vol. 1. Page 6

see letter to Hon John Anderson 18 March 1829 do. to Hon. J. Anderson Feb. 3 1832
Let. to Bradford, July 18/51
10. 4/18
Maine
Melzar Byram
of Dist Westbrook in the state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Mass line, for the term of nine months
Inscribed on the Roll of the List of Maine at the rate of 87 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of May, 1819 and sent to Hon. Wadsworth Esq Portland, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 9 mos. 25/31. 78.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 48.00
$126.45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Melzar Boyce Died 22 May 1832

1878 - Capt Watkins, Col Phoenix 20 Dec '78, to 10 Oct '79 " " White " Putnam May '78 - 9 mos = 9 mos & 20 days

Sept 1, 1853.
Appel. of the Alice Allen, in own of Melzen Byram, Cambridge Co., Maine.
Act 1853.
Rev. Adm. $30.66 3/4 per Ann Com. 3 rd Feb 1853 J. J. Coombs, Present.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Pension Office, Official Book

May 9. 1853
App. of Alice Allen widow of Melzar or Melzer Cumberland Co. Maine
32945
Act 3d Feby 1853
Rev.:
Francis A. Dickinson
Present.
Suspended for removal of Star in open Court. 25 July 1853 - R. M. C. Circ. to Atty-
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

Post Office Not called for Specially.
Department of the Interior,
PENSION OFFICE.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Thos. C. Cox
Commissioner.
Mrs Alice Allen Freeport Cumberland Co Me.

Melzar Bagram Me 18 March
Mr. Lord
THOMAS F. BOND
James E. Heath Esq.
Conner of Persons Washington
D.C.

Pension Office 25 July, 53
This case is respectfully referred to the 3 d Auditor for date of death of Pensioner and date of last payment.
Respectfully
J. Cole Chief Clerk
L. D. W. C. (See other side.)
on Military Walter Payman, dec. Act 7 th June 1832. - Died 22 d May 1832, and paid to his death.
J. Birch Auditor.

Miss Allen Mrs. Melzar Byram ad 55-2219
Oct 1933
Hon. J. P. WALDO, Minot
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Return to Sender if Undelivered

Mr. A. A. 153, Me; B. B. B.

↓ 13.867
3
Mar 1887

Claim of Alice Allen under act of 3. March 1855 for Board , Send Revolutionary war.
(113611)
John M. Ayer Agent North Pownal Maine

We Harriet Hannawill and Phebe Polister in The Towns of Durham, and Danville in The County of Androscoggin and State of Maine of Law- ful age on oath Depose and say that we were well acquainted with Alice Allen of Street in The county of Cumberland and State of Maine who is a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that we have know her for many years passed, because we are intimate acquaintance and we do know that she is the widow of Silas Allen deceased and the former widow of Melzar Byram deceased that she is still living, and has not again married since the death of Silas Allen her last husband and that she is now a widow.
Witness, Goupy J. Hannawill , Harriet, C. Polister.
Harriet Hannawill Phebe Polister
State of Maine
County of Androscoggin S.S. April 13 th A.D. 1855, Then personally appeared the above named Affia- nts, (and is) well known to me to be credible wit- nesses and made oath that the above affidavit by them signed is true before me
Si Waterhouse Justice of the Peace

Brief in the case of Alice Allen, widow of Melzar Byram Cumberland County and State of Maine. act 3 d February 1853.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Claimant was allowed arrears of pension due her husband at the time of his death at the rate of $30. 66 / 100 per annum under the act of June 7. 1832
Marriage proved by verified copy of Town Records.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Identity of claimant and death of her second husband proved by Thomas Kilby and Phoebe Kilby - certified to be credible witnesses
J. J. Coombs Esqr. Present
Name and residence of Agent
K. G. Dyer Examining Clerk.

33 80 Pensions

Declaration For Increase Of Pension.
State of Maine } County of Cumberland } ss.
On this 29 th day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, personally appeared before me Judge of the Municipal Court for the town of Brunswick within and for the County and State aforesaid Alice Allen aged 81 years, a resident of Freeport in the State of Maine, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical person to whom was granted pension certificate N o 2219 payable at Portland Maine, at the rate of sixty two dollars and twenty cents per annum, issued under the act of Feb'y 3 rd 1853 "2 nd Section"; that she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July 27, 1868 My post office address is as follows Freeport Maine.
Witness, to Alice Allen's mark,
Alice Allen her mark
Wants Signature
Mary A. Litchfield,
Lydia Litchfield
Also personally appeared Mary A. Litchfield and Lydia Litchfield residents of Freeport County of Cumberland, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Alice Allen make her mark to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and

that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim
Signatures of Witnesses } Mary A. Litchfield, Lydia Litchfield
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29 th day of September A.D. 1868 and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
Official signature } C. C. Humphrey
Judge of the Municipal Court for the Town of Brunswick, in the County aforesaid.

Brief in the case of Melzar Byram, dec d , County and State of Maine act 7 July June 1832 -
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service; Record.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
J. Bradford Portland Maine
H. F. Kimb Examining Clerk.

W. H. Clance Payment to be made at
Portland
by
J. S. Emery, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of OCT 9 1853
W. H. Clance
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 111. Vol. 36
G. T. Gelly Clerk.
Report 30 year Danville

(Make up in Blank. No. 5 "E")
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that, in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853,
Nice Allen formerly widow of Melzar Pyram , who was a private , _____ in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of Sixty two dollars and twenty — cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. (Deducting former payments at the rate of $30,66 per annum).
Given at the Department of the Interior, this 27 th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.
W. L. C. Claib Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and countersigned.
Geo. W. Lut Commissioner of Pensions.

Declaration bad before a Justice
In former Declaration made 6 Aug 1850 formerly widow of Melzar Bryan Seal married to him 4 Nov 1826 -
That he died 22 May 1832
On the 4 Nov 1832 She intermarried with Silas Allen - who died on the 9th March 1843 -
From Certificate of Court - they have Satisfactory Evidence that Melzar Bryan was a Rev Pensioner of the U States - under the Act of 1818 - that under the act of 1820 his pension was suspended -
That he died 22 May 1832 who left a Widow Alice, who after death of said husband intermarried with Silas Allen who died 9 March 1843. and that said Alice Allen has remained a Widow ever since -
Certificate dated 5 August 1857 -
Pension allowed for 9 mo 6 days 1820 to her annuity from 4 March 1831

Declaration bad before a Justice
In former Declaration made 6 Aug 1850 formerly widow of Melzar Bryan Seal married to him 4 Nov 1826 - That he died 22 May 1832
On the 4 Nov 1832 She intermarried with Silas Allen - who died on the 9th March 1843 -
From Certificate of Court - they have Satisfactory Evidence that Melzar Bryan was a Rev Pensioner of the U States - under the Act of 1818 - that under the act of 1820 his pension was suspended -
that he died 22 May 1832 who left a Widow Alice, who after death of said husband intermarried with Silas Allen who died 9 March 1843. and that said Alice Allen has remained a Widow ever since - Certificate dated 5 August 1857 -
Pension allowed for 9 mos 6 days at $30.66 per annum from 4 March 31 to 22 May 1832 when he died

Portland July 9th 1856
Hon J. Minot Sir
I herewith send you the application of Alice Allen formerly the widow of Melzar Byram for an increased rate of Pension due her late husband from the 4th March 1831 to the 22 d May 1832. also for an increased rate of Pension under the Act of February 3 d 1853. The Pension certificate of Mrs Allen is herewith remitted. She claims an increase under both acts for 9 mos 20 days additional service proved as per certificate of Secy of State Mass: annexed.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t !
Freeman Bradford

Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston. July 18 th 1856
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 Melzer Byram is borne on pay roll of Capt. George Rogers Comp. Col. Mitchell's Regt. Cumberland Co. serving on the Fort in Nov. 1775. 6 days, as private.
Also on pay roll of Capt. Nathan Watkins Comp. Col. Edmund Phinney's Regt. from Dec. 1. 1775. to Sept. 20. 1776. 9 mos. 20 days, when he was discharged.
The service in Capt. Watkins Comp. was not in this office when the certificate of former date was given.
Also on list of men raised in the County of Cumberland for the purpose of filling up and completing the fifteen Battalions of Continental Troops, for the term of 9 mos. from their arrival at Fishkill, from North Yarmouth, from June 29. 1778.
Endorsed - "July 29. 1778" "Received Jonathan Warren, Commissioner, fifty five men, included in the above list, for the purpose therein mentioned." "R. Pulnam. Colonel."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis D. Will Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Maine
County of Cumberland On this second day of July AD 1856 personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Alice Allen of Freeport in said County who being duly sworn on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed February 3 rd 1853.
And your declarant states that she was formerly the widow of Melzar Byram late of Freeport in the County of Cumberland deceased. That said Byram was a soldier in the Revolutions and made application for a Pension under the act of March 18 th 1818 and was placed on the Roll of the Maine Agency at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum and was stricken from the roll in 1820. She further states that said Melzar Byram was in the service in 1775. and 1776 as will appear by the certificate of the Secretary State on file in her claim for arrears of Pen- sion due her husband under the act of 1836 on which claim a pension was granted to her at the rate of $30.66 N o 32945 from the 4 th of March 1831 to the 22 d of May 1832. Your declarant believes that her husband the said Melzar Byram served in Capt Watkins Company from December 1775 to the latter part of September 1776 as she hopes now to prove

and as he stated in his declaration.
She further states that she has heretofore made application for the benefit of the act of February 3 d 1853 and now receives a Pension under said act at the rate of thirty dollars and sixty six cents per annum. She refers to her declaration on file in the Pension office for proof of marriage and identity and declares she is now a widow. She therefore claims an increase of Pension in conformity to the proof annexed under the act of 1836 and the act of 1853
Alice her X Allen We Lewis Litchfield & Eliza mark J Litchfield residents of Freeport in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that the foregoing declaration was signed and sworn to by Alice Allen in our presence, and we know that she was formerly the widow of Melzer Byram, that she is now a widow Pensioner of the United States and that she is still a widow
Lewis Litchfield Eliza J Litchfield
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible per-

Sons: that the declarant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim
Seth Bailey for Mrs. Pease
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, SS.
OFFICE OF the Court of Probate
I, Hereby Certify That Seth Bailey
was at the date of the annexed attestation a Justice of the Peace, within and for
Said County of Cumberland
duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments of deeds, and other instruments in writing, and that the signature to the certificate annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine, and that to his 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 hereunto affixed the Official Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this ninth day of July A. D. 1856
Chas. M. Harris Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office Boston Sept. 2 nd 1856.
I certify that it appears of record in this office; that a resolve was passed April 20. 1778 requiring the several towns in this State to furnish the number of men, specified in a list appended to said resolve, by lot draft or voluntary enlistment, to fill up the 15 Battalions directed to be raised in this State, to serve for the space of nine months, from the time they shall respectively arrive at Fishkill, on Hudson River. It appears that Jonathan Warner, Brigadier, was appointed a Commissioner, to repair to Fishkill on Hudson's River, and there reside for the purpose of receiving the men procured as aforesaid, from this State, and of delivering them over to such Continental Officers as may be appointed by the Commander in Chief there to receive them and also to give receipts for said men.
It also appears of record that the quota of men to be raised in the Town of North Yarmouth, pursuant to said Resolve was ten. The muster rolls of Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. for the period of this 9 mos. service are not in this Office.
Witness the Seal of the Com- monwealth this Second day of September A.D. 1856.
Chas. M c Lovett.
Depty. Secretary.

Mayo 1853

Washington 9 May 1853
Sir,
Enclosed I have the honour of presenting to you the claim of Alice Allen widow of Melzar Bryan dec d and late a pensioner, under the act of 1818 Maine Agency. - for a Revolutionary pension under the act of 3 rd Feb. 1853.
Yours respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
To the Commissioner of Pensions.

Portland Sept 4 1851
Sir
Herein are enclosed the papers in the claim of Alie Allen formerly the widow of Melzar Byram. The subject matter of this claim was presented to the Commr by the Executor of said Byram in May last, and the claim as then presented was rejected as will be seen by Official letter of July 19 1851. This claim is only for the amount of Pension due from the March 1831. to the 25 th May 1832 the time of Melzar Byram's death. The claim is now asserted by the widow under one of the sections of the act of 4 July 1836.
I am Very Respectfully Your Ob t : Servt Freeman Bradford
James E. Houghton Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Increase 2219 Brief in the Case of Alice Allen, Family Widow of Melzer Byram. Freeport  Portland Cumberland County and State of Maine. 2 o 600 Act Feb 3. 1853
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
A pension roll of Maine, at $62.20. per ann Certificate returned. The claim increased as provided by act of July 27, 1868.
Personal Identity & Widowhood shown.
Admitted Oct 13. 1868 to a pension at $96.00 per ann to commence July 27. 1868 deducting pay since
Name and residence of Agent.
Claimant as above
WE Wash Examining Clerk.

Melzar Byram dec d Maine
In d June 7 1832 - $62 20 a year from 4 March 1831 to 22 May 1832, when he died , to deduction, $30 66 a year - and pay to Alice Allen his widow -
adm d to her under the Act of Feb y 3 1833 making the same deduction,
Leah to " " Freeman Bradford Esq Portland Maine

Brief in the cases of Melzar Byram dec d and Alice Allen his widow of Maine under the Acts of June 7 1832 & Feby 3 1853-
Byram was pensioned under the Act of 1818 at $46 a year. He claimed to have served 9 months & 20 days from 20 Dec 1775- and 9 months from June 1778- He was not continued under the Act of 1820 because he was not indigent and he died May 1832 before he had an opportunity of applying under the Act of 1832- After his death and that of her second husband - Allen - his widow applied for the arrears of pension due from Febch 1831 to 22 May 1832 and the Office followed the endorsement upon the back of his papers under the Act of 1818 and allowed her for the 9 months only - (Nine months gave as high a pension as 7 years service under the Act of 1818 and it was therefore only important to endorse that much service upon his papers) Under the Act of 1853, of course, she was only allowed the same amount as was granted her under 1832-
Record evidence is now furnished from the Office of the Secretary of State Mass s exactly corroborating her husband's dec- laration made in 1818 - even to the date of entry into service as he claimed - She is, therefore, allowed for 18 months & 20 days or $62 20 instead of $30 66 - Her Certificate of Pension has been returned & cancelled,
Freeman Bradford Esq (agent) Portland Maine
Thomson Drippett Examiner

✓ No 38.21.9 Melzar Byram dec d . Maine
Act 7 June 1832.
9 Mo 6 dys per - $30. 66. per An. from 4 Mch '31 to 22 May 1832 when he died.
Payable to Alice Allen, formerly his widow.
Freeman Bradford, Portland, Maine.

Pension Office July 23 rd 1856
Sir:
If it is shown that the company raised in Cumberland Co. North Carmonth from June 20 1778 to serve for 9 months did serve the term of Enlistment the Code of Alice Allen will be increased.
I am Reply Your Obedient
Minot Cannon
Freeman Bradford Esq Portland Maine

Alice Allen
Payment to be made at Portland by E. H. Emery Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Me
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 1 Vol. 1
H. C. Robinson Clerk.
Allen

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of Feb- mary 3, 1853,
Alice Allen, formerly widow of Melzar Bryan, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Thirty dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, 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 Department of the Interior, this 20 " day of September one thousand eight hundred and 53 ,
W. L. Allen
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
L. D. Wallace Commissioner of Pensions.
30 66 5 153 30

United States of America Maine District ss.
District Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that the Honorable Ashur Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District and that the several signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said District Court this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty three.
Wm P Preble Jr Clerk.
U.S. Dist Court Maine

We Thomas Kilby and Wife Phebe Kilby both of Freeport in the Co. of Cumberland, and State of Maine of Lawful age. On oath Testify and say that, We was well acquainted with Mr. Melzar Byram a Revolutionary pensioner at 96 dollars per annum, and also acquainted with his wife Elsie Maxwell of Danville before Their marriage by Elmer Roberts, that they were respectable people as husband wife, and lived as such, until his death which was, on the 22 nd day of May, 1832, to our perfect knowledge, leaving said Elsie, his wife a widow, that she afterward Married Mr. Silas Allen, and that her last husband Mr. Silas Allen died about the 9 th day of March eighteen hundred and fifty three, leaving his wife a widow, who was the former widow of Melzar Byram, the Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. to our certain knowledge, and that she is now a widow and was a widow, on the 3 rd of February 1853.  2 Witnesses. Melinda Polister A. Waterhouse  Thomas Kilby Phebe Kilby
State of Maine County of Cumberland, S. S. August 22 nd A. D. 1853. Then personally appeared the above named Thomas Kilby & wife Phebe Kilby, who are known to me as credible witnesses, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed before me, A. Waterhouse a Justice of the Peace, and Quorum, & Notary Public

Else Allen, formerly wid. of Melzar Byram
Maine, Act 3 d Feb 1853 2 d sec.
1853
Rev.
J. H. Gains Present

United States of America, Maine District, S.S. —
Revolutionary claim, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of February A.D. 1853. On this 24 th day of August, A.D. Eighteen hundred, and fifty three, personally appeared before the Hon. Asbury Ware, Judge of the U. S. in and for the District of Maine. Else Allen, a resident of Freeport in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, Aged 69 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of February A.D. 1853. That she is the widow of Silas Allen, and former widow of Melzar Byram who was a Revolutionary pensioner, of the U. S. at 96 dollars per annum, under act of 1818, and was paid at Portland the agency of Maine, She further swears, that she was married to the aforesaid Melzar Byram, on the 5 th day of November A.D. 1826, and that her husband Melzar Byram died on the 22 d day of May, A.D. 1832, That she was married to him at the time above stated, She further swears, that after the death of her aforesaid husband as death Melzar Byram, she married Silas Allen, and that he died about the 8 th of March 1843, further that she has not married since Mr. Silas Allen's death, and is now a widow, and the former widow of Melzar Byram the pensioner over

and was a widow on the passage of the act of February 8 th 1853. That she claims the same amount of pension that her former husband Melzar Byram drew, under act of 1818, 96. dollars per annum.
She refers the Commr. of Pensions to the proof herunto annexed to establish her claim for a pension. for further proof she refers the department to her aforesaid husband Melzar Byram's original declaration, by which he was pensioned. She hereby irrevocably Appoints as her legal Attorney in the premises Mr. J. J. Coombs of Washington, D. C. or his assistant in her claim. She further swears that her name before her marriage to Melzar Byram was, Else Maywell. of Danville, Me.
2 Witnesses: A. Waterhouse! Aspen Ware
Else her + Allen mark
Be it remembered that on this 24 th of August 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned the above named Else Allen & made oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing declaration. And she said Else on account of her age & bodily infirmities being unable to attend court her declaration was taken & the oath administered by me at her place of residence.
Aspen Ware Dist. Judge of the Dist. Ct. for the District of Maine

Abner Byram Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Portland, at the Camden and Bangor
Edward not

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Melzar Byram late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the eleventh day of May , one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Cumberland County ss.
State of Maine
Probate Office Portland, May 21. 1857 }
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate in and for said County, hereby certify, that it has been Satisfactorily proved in open Court being a Court of Record, that Melzar Byram who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, died at Freeport in said County of Cumberland on the 22 d day of May A.D. 1832, that he left a widow Alice Byram who thereafter married a man by the name of Allen, that said Allen is now dead, and the said Alice is still living, and a widow, and that Susan Hawes, Elizabeth Ward, Dulensa Allen, Catharine Bailey, Lavinia Bailey and Melzar Byram, are the children and only surviving children of said Melzar Byram deceased.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal Official of said Court the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Regr

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND:
I, Freeman Bradford Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify, That at a Court of Probate held at Portland, in and for said County, on the first Tuesday of September — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Melzar Byram — of Freeport in said county. — was duly appointed and commissioned Executor of the last Will and Testament of Melzar Byram, late of said Freeport, deceased.
— ; that he has accepted the trust and given bond pursuant to the laws of the State; that he remains at the present time Executor — as aforesaid, and that full faith is due to his legal acts in that capacity.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Name and affixed the Seal Official of said Court, this Fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Freeman Bradford

State of Maine Cumberland ss. On this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared in open Probate Court being a court of record before the Hon Josiah Pierce judge then of Alice Allen a resident of Freeport in said County aged 66 years who upon oath makes the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of June 7, 1832 and also for the benefit of the 6 th section of the act of July 4, 1836.
And this declarant states that she was for- merly the widow of Melzar Byram deceas- ed She states that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States , under the act of 1818, and was struck from the roll of Pensioners on account of possessing property and that he never was restored to said roll, afterwards. She states that she was married to the said Melzar Byram at Danville on the 14 th day of November 1826, and that the said Melzar Byram died on the 22 d May 1832 That after the death of her late husband By- ram, to wit on the 14 th day of November 1832 she intermarried with Silas Allen and that the said Silas Allen died on the 9 th

day of March 1843, and that she has re- mained a widow ever since that time, She therefore claims the pension that her hus- band would be entitled to receive from the 4th March 1831, to the 22 d May 1832, the time of his death.
Jonathan Morgan
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Signed before me on the day and year first above written, and sworn to in open Court.
Josiah Pierce Indp

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss. Probate Office Portland Aug 7. 1857
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate hereby certify that Hon. Josiah Pierce, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, and by whom the annexed Certificate was signed, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature to the declaration of Alice Allen, and his signature to the following Certificate are genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

State of Maine Cumberland County ss. Probate Office
Be it known, That on this fifth day of August A.D. 1857, it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Melzar Byram, late of Freeport in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818. That his Pension was suspended under the act of 1820. That he died May 22, 1832, and left a widow, Alice, who after the death of her said husband Melzar Byram, intermarried with Silas Allen, that said Silas Allen died on the ninth day of March 1843, and that said Alice Allen has remained a widow ever since.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of said Court to be affixed the day and year first above written.
Josiah Pierce { Judge of Probate Cumberland County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
September 3. 1851.
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 Melzar Byram is borne on a roll of Capt. Rogers Co. at work on the fort at Fulmouth November 1775 as private 14 days. —
On a roll of men to serve 9 mo. — from North Yarmouth — arrived at Fishkill June 20. 1778. Rolls of the year's service in 1776 are not in this office. —

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts, The undersigned Alice Allen formerly the widow of Melzar Byram late of Freeport deceased,
Whereas application has been made for the pension that was due Melzar Byram from the 14 th March 1831. to the 22 nd May 1832 the time of his death, he having been a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818, and it is alleged that the said Byram stated in his declaration that he was in the years service in 1776, and also in the 9 mos service in 1778, the first under Capt Watkins Col Phoebe's Regt, and the second service under Capt White Col Putnam's and that a certificate of said service should be procured from the Secretary in Mass. I therefore request a certificate of all the service of the said Melzar Byram and state that the said Byram was a resident of North Yarmouth or Freeport in the time of the Revolution.
And I hereby appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland my attorney in the premises.
Melzar Byram      Eliza her  Allen mark
Cumberland ss. August 6. 1857 Signed in my presence. Josiah Pierce Justice of the Peace

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Frederick Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

F. Bradford Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND, Sept. 4, A. D. 1857
I, — Freeman Bradford — Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
— Josiah Pierce, is an —
Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for each and every County throughout the State of Maine, within and for the County of _____ as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is Pierce DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said is dated May 2, A. D. 1857 and will expire
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.