Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 6975, John Davis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass -
Davis, John Mary
W 6975
CONTENTS

707. Maine.
Mary Davis widow of John Davis Maj who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Nov r 1837 and sent to
J. G. Berret Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2/1848, Page 2 Vol. 1
July Burt A
Reprinted

State of Maine Oxford County } ss On this twentieth day of August AD 1850 before Hon. Job Prince Judge of the Probate Court within and for the county of Oxford aforesaid being a court of record in said State personally appeared Mary Davis a resident of Denmark in the county of Oxford and State of Maine 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 benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 29, 1848 entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers" "and soldiers of the revolutionary army; that she is the widow of John Davis late of Sanford in the county of York & State of Maine that he was a private in the army of United States in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain and served eight months in 1775 in Captain Philip Hubbards company in Col Janis Scammons Regiment in the Massachusetts line; that he enlisted as a private, I believe in 1781 in the last three years service & served three years in the Massachusetts continental line. I believe that in some portion of the first or last tour of service or in both he was

a drummer although of this last part I am not certain.
She further declares that she was married to the John Davis on the thirty first day of May in the year seventeen hun- dred and ninety four; that her husband the aforesaid John Davis died on the twenty fourth day of July in the year sixteen eighteen hundred and seven; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service nor prior to the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, eighteen hundred, viz: at the time above stated.
Witness Abigail Allen
her Mary X Davis mark
State of Maine
Oxford County. ss.
Subscribed and sworn to, on the day and year first above written, by the aforesaid Mary Davis, she being unable from bodily infirmity to attend court. Before Me
Colo Prince { Judge of Probate for said County.

State of Maine.
Oxford ss—
I, the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Oxford, it being a Court of Record, hereby certify that Job Prince, whose proper signature is affixed to the following declaration of Mary Davis, and deposition of Abigail Allen, is Judge of said Court, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such in and out of Court.
Given under my hand with the seal of said Court affixed, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & fifty—
Geo. B. Shaw, Reg.

I John Frost of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts Esquire do depose testify & say that I was born in the town of Sanford State of Maine in the year AD 1785. that when I was nine or ten years of age I was acquainted with Mary Davis widow of John Davis of said Sanford deceased, that she was frequently at my father's house, before she married said Davis & sometimes for weeks together, and it was there that said Davis became acquainted with her, he was a House joiner and was at work for my father, that while he was paying his addresses to her, he bought or took a lease of a lot of land upon which he built a house, where they lived together as man & wife Mrs Davis' maiden name was Gower & lived with a brother who made much opposition to her marriage with said Davis. From all the circumstances I am satisfied that they were married in the latter part of the year 1794 or early in the year 1795.— And further your Deponent saith not
John Frost
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss. Plymouth April 4. 1850.
Personally appeared the above named John Frost, and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed,

is true -
(Before me)
Gustavus Gilbert , Justice of the Peace.
Plymouth ss. April 4. 1850. I certify that I am personally acquainted with, John Frost, the affiant, and that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity -
Gustavus Gilbert , Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Gustavus Gilbert Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified: And that his signature to the jurat of the foregoing deposition is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fourth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
John B. Thomas

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6975-
Mary Davis Wid
John Davis Asst Rev War
Act: July 29 th 1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Abigail Allen of Denmark in the county of Oxford and State of Maine aged thirty four years depose testify and say that Mary Davis of said Denmark, who is applicant for a pension for the revolutionary services of John Davis is a very aged lady and supposed to be over eighty years of age that she has resided with me several years that she has a bible called her family bible & from it I tore the leaf hereunto annexed on the day of making this deposition in affirmation of oath by Judge Prince on which is recorded the marriage of Mary Davis & John Davis & in said bible is recorded deaths & births which indicate it to be a family bible Witness William Allen & Abigail Allen
State of Maine
Oxford County ss. August 20th 1850 Then personally appeared Abigail Allen a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed Before me -
Col. Prince, Judge of Probate for said County

Sanford May 31 st A 1794.
John Davis } Married Mary Davis }

Washington 28 Aug: 1850
Rev: J. L. Edwards Comm: of Pensions Sir;
I have the honor to enclose herewith Mrs. Mary Davis' declaration claiming a Pension under the act approved 29 July 1846.
Yours most Respectfully James G. Berret

No 827.
Mary Davis, mid- y Ichr Me - Aa 29 - July - 1848 - Sa? 2 yrs Pri - $80 - per ann. from 4 - Mar 1848 -
Recd. sum to J. H. Burritt Present -

263 ) Dec y of Mear certificate Dated Jan 9 1850 Rec d Jan 12 1850

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
January 9. 1850.
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 John Davis is borne on rolls of 8 mo. service in 1775. in Capt. Philip Hubbards lev. Col. James Scammons Regt. as a private, from Berwick; order for delivery of his coat dated Dec. 21. 1775.
On a return of the Selectmen of Berwick, dated Sept 8. 1781 that they had paid John Davis £60. for enlisting in Continental Service for 3 years, according to resolve of General Court, Dec 2. 1780. Also a receipt of John Davis for the same, dated Berwick May 1. 1781.

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.
W. H. Cullen
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application of Mary Davis of Denmark in the county of Oxford widow of John Davis late of Sanford in the county of York & State of Maine for evidence of her late husband's service in the War of the Revolution.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the services of John Davis my late husband in the Revolutionary War.
My late husband John Davis was a native of Berwick in the county of York and State of Maine & resided there when the services were rendered.
I believe he enlisted as a private in some company of Infantry in the Massachusetts line in 1775 for eight months & served the term of his enlistment.
I believe he enlisted a second time in the three years service & served in Massachusetts line that term but under what officers & in what company or regiment either of the said forces of service were I am unable to say.
My age is eighty four years and my recollection does not enable me to state my late husband's services more correctly. Witness my hand this 19th day of December A.D. 1849 Signed by the said Mary F. Davis Mary Davis in my presence Arthur M'Arthur Justice of the Peace.

I John Quint of Sanford in the county of York and State of Maine, aged Eighty three years depose, testify and say that I was acquainted with John Davis late of Sanford, deceased, previous to the revolutionary war, that we both then lived in the town of Berwick in said county of York, that said John Davis went into the Army as a soldier in the Revolutionary war with some others of my acquaintance, and was always considered or supposed to be by all that afterwards knew him, to be a revolutionary soldier. I also knew this same John Davis after said war, and that it was supposed he married Mary Gowan afterwards Mary Davis his wife, and now widow Davis of Denmark in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, that they always lived together as man and wife as long as he the said John Davis lived, it was about the year 1794 that they were married or the report was that they were married, I was not present at the wedding. Dated at Sanford January 16 th A.D. 1850.
Witness. Asa Low John Quint Jr
his mark John Quint
State of Maine, York ss. January 16 th 1850. Sworn to. Before me
Asa Low Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Quint the within named Affiant, and that he sustains a good character for truth and veracity. January, 16 th 1850.
Asa Low. { Justice of the Peace.

I, Charles O. Lord of Sanford in the county of York and State of Maine, depose testify and say that I am town Clerk of the town of Sanford, aforesaid, duly chosen and sworn, and that I have the custody of the Record of Marriages solemnized, in said town, and that I have made search in said Records, and there is no record of the marriage of John Davis, deceased, and Mary Govey, now Mary Davis, widow, in said Records. Dated at Sanford this 15 th day of January A. D. 1850. Witness Asa Gove, James Johnson Charles O. Lord
State of Maine. York ss. January 15 th A. D. 1850. Sworn to before me. Asa Gove, Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Charles O. Lord the above named Affidavit, and state he is town Clerk of Sanford aforesaid, and sustains a good character for truth and veracity.
Asa Gove, Justice of the Peace

I, Timothy Gowen of Sanford in the county of York and state of Maine, aged sixty nine years, depose, testify and say that I was acquainted with
John Davis late of Sanford, deceased, who was supposed to be a revolutionary soldier, and was also acquainted with
• Mary Gowen before she was married to said John Davis, and now Mary Davis his said John's widow, resident now at Denmark in the county of Oxford and state of Maine, and that the said
• John Davis was, supposed to be married to the then
• Mary Gowen, but now Mary Davis about the year A. D. 1794, they the said John & Mary, thereafter, lived together as man & wife as long as said John lived, and had four children, and she the said Mary Davis still remains his, the said John Davis widow, Dated at Sanford January the 16 th A. D. 1850.
Witness
Asa Low
Elijah Witham
Timothy Gowen
State of Maine. York ss. January 16 th 1850. Sworn to Justice Before me, Asa Low, of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Timothy Gowen, the above named affiant, and that he sustains a good character for truth and veracity Asa Low, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
I, J. M. Dufresne Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, do hereby certify that Asa Loomis of Sanford in said county of York, is a Justice of the Peace
in and for said county, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated March 7. 1844 and will expire March 7. 1851.
and that the accompanying signature purporting to be his own genuine,
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this seventeenth day of January Anno Domini 18 50
J. M. Dufresne Clerk.

State of Maine County of York ss
Court of Probate
January Term AD 1850
Be it known that on this seventh day of January AD 1850 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court being a Court of Record that John Davis late of Sanford in said County was supposed to be a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States, that he died at Berwick in said County on the twenty fourth day of July AD 1807 and that he left a widow, whose name is Mary Davis
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
William Hammond } Register of the Court of Probate } York County