Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28701, Samuel Davis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass-
Davis, Samuel
S. 28701
B.L. Wt. 828-160-55
CONTENTS

Maine ✓
Samuel Davis
of Standish in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Pope of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppards in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 2 Years from 10 March 1781 to 17
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eighty Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of August  1832 and sent to John Moulton  Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1832 $ 80 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept " 40
$ 120
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Recorded Book D Vol 1 page 54

895 Samuel Davis Copy
1012.20
[Signature] Clerk of the U. States District Court
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty the said Court, on this 27th day of March
total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 8,400 I do hereby certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the foregoing certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are true copies from the I JOHN MESSER, Jr., Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that
not entitled 8,400 27 March '19

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the eighth — day of June . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this eighth — day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having “the power of fine and imprisonment,” and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Samuel Davis — aged fifty eight — years, resident in Standish . . . in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. Pohe . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 17 — day of April . . . A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8400 . . . was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Samuel Davis
Sworn to and declared, on the eighth day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — Ninety five acres land in Standish a house and barn — one yoke of oxen, two cows — fifteen sheep, one hog, one horse, three young cattle one heifer in the Meetinghouse — a few articles of ordinary furniture and a few farming tools — no income — no money due me — I owe three hundred and eighty three dollars & fifty cents
Samuel Davis
Sworn to
Before
Albion H. Parris
U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Samuel Davis — who, by occupation am a farmer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of old age and infirmity
~~~~~ NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Mary, my wife 53 unable to work   Elizabeth, daughter 35 able to work part of the time   Sarah, do 33 able to work   Mary, do 31 unable to work   Isaac, son 30 able to work part of his time   John, do 22 unable to work — ruptured   Joanna, daughter 20 able to work   Sabitha, do 19 able to work half the time   Mark, son 17 able to work   Martha, daughter 15 able to work   Hannah, do 14 able to work   Caroline, do 12 a child  
Sworn to Before Albion H. Parris — U.S. Dist. Judge Samuel Davis

John Mussey Junr. Clerk MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one thousand & fifteen dollars and fifty - - - cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth - - - day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$1015:50

Sarah Davis,
Application
for pension -
July 1832
Pension July 31 Office } 1832
Private See other Papers
$80 per an
$80 per ann.

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 twenty fifth day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two - before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty fifth day of July — aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Samuel Davis a resident of Standish — in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy — 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 was placed on the pension list of the Maine Agency and a certificate of pension granted to him on his application made on the 17th day of April 1818. That his name was stricken from the pension list on account of his property. That he served as a private in that Company commanded by Capt. Dorr, in Col. Sheppards Regt. That he now lives in Standish aforesaid, and resided there when he made his first application for a pension in April 1818. That his discharge was signed by Genl. Knox, & forwarded to the War Department with his original application.
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 Maine .
Samuel Davis
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware } U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
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 Nussey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty sixth day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

10.534 Dec March 2/58 " 22/58
Samuel Davis Prob
Capt Isaac Pope Lient Chapin Col Shepherd Rev. War
Ent bis
Wint 160 acres June 8 th 1855, Boylston
828 is June 8/55 to Arthur M c Arthur Sunnington Me
Inc acc 12 no 203
Vol. D-1.
11

STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland ss.
On this sixteenth day of March A. D. 1855, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Samuel Davis — a resident of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged ninety two years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which he is entitled under an Act of the United States passed March 3d , 1855—entitled, "An Act in addition to certain acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States,"—That he served is a Revolutionary Pensioner under the law of June 7. 1832 .—that he served in the war of the Revolution for the term of three years in the company of Capt Isaac Pope afterwards commanded by Lieut Chaplin in the regiment of Col. Shepherd and for proof of his service would refer to the papers originally filed in his case and now among the files in the Pension Department at Washington .
—that he has never received any Bounty Land under any law of the United States, nor is he entitled to the same under any act but the one under which he now applies,—that he has not assigned, nor in any way disposed of the Land Warrant to which he is entitled under the aforesaid act.
Witnesses David Chase  Samuel Davis Isaac Davis
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written,—before me,
Joseph Sanborn
Justice of the Peace.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Samuel Davis of Steundish Maine in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine do hereby constitute and appoint Arthur M c Arthur of Limerickton, Maine my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to demand and receive from the Department of the Interior of the United States the Warrant or Certificate to which I am entitled, for my Military Services, as mentioned in the foregoing declaration; and for good and sufficient reasons do hereby revoke and countermand any, and all other Powers of Attorney or other authority, that I may have given to any other person for such purposes, and vest the same wholly and irrevocably in my said Attorney.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, on this sixteenth day of
March
A. D. 1855.
ATTEST, David Chase Isaac Davis
Samuel Davis
STATE OF MAINE. County of Cumberland } ss.
On this sixteenth day of March
A. D. 1855, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace authorized by law to take acknowledgments in and for the County aforesaid, Samuel Davis subscriber to the foregoing, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Joseph Sanborn
Justice of the Peace.

AFFIDAVIT.
STATE OF MAINE. County of Cumberland } ss.
On this sixteenth day of March
A. D. 1855, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared David Chase - a resident of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged sixty two - years, and Isaac Davis - of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine - aged sixty four / years, who both being duly sworn according to law, depose and say, each for himself, that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be those of Samuel Davis
are genuine, and were made by the said Samuel Davis in their presence; - that they are acquainted with the said Samuel Davis  Standish in and that he resides in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine and is the identical person he represents himself to be in the aforesaid declaration; - that the aforesaid declaration is true, as they verily believe; - and further, that they are wholly disinterested in the claim of the said Samuel Davis for Bounty Land.
Witness
Wm M. McArthur
David Chase
Isaac Davis
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED, on the day and year first above written, - before me,
Joseph Sanborn
Justice of the Peace.

CERTIFICATE OF THE MAGISTRATE.
I certify, that Samuel Davis — the aforesaid declarant, resides in the place, and is of the age stated, and I believe him to be the identical person who performed the service declared;—and I further certify, that David Chase — and Isaac Davis — who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit, are respectable persons and credible witnesses, and are residents of the place and are of the age named in said affidavit;—and further, that I am not interested in the claim of the said Samuel Davis — for Bounty Land, nor concerned in its prosecution.
Joseph Sanborn
Justice of the Peace.

February 29, 1940.
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Mr. Charles W. Munson South Windham Maine
BA-J/ADY Samuel Davis S.28701
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Davis of Massachusetts, possibly of Lee or Gorham, Massachusetts, whose wife, was Mary Gorham.
With the information furnished by you, no record could be identified, definitely, as that of the Samuel Davis in whom you are interested. The record has been found of a Samuel Davis of Maine District, Massachusetts. His record follows as shown in the papers on file under S.28701, which it is hoped will aid you in your research.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Samuel Davis are not shown.
Samuel Davis enlisted, place not stated, March 14, 1781, served as private in Lieutenant Chapin's Company and in Captain Isaac Pope's Company, Colonel Shepard's Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged December 31, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 17, 1818, at which time he was fifty-six years old and a resident of Standish, Maine District.
March 16, 1855, he applied for bounty land, at which time he was living in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine. He was allowed one hundred sixty acres of bounty land, on account of his Revolutionary War services, on warrant No. 828, under the Act of March 3, 1855.
In 1820, his wife, Mary, was aged fifty-three years, her maiden name not given, and his children, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Isaac, John, Joanna, Tabitha, Mark, Martha, Hannah and Caroline were age respectively thirty-five, thirty-three, thirty-one, thirty, twenty-two, twenty, nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, fourteen and twelve years. Said Isaac was living

in Standish, Maine, in 1855. There are no further family data.
Samuel Davis, the soldier, died January 22, 1856, place not stated.
For information in regard to the location of the land, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C., and furnish that official the number of the warrant, acreage, and the date of the act.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

No. 10.53 x
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Mar 22, 18 55
Samuel Davis. Capt Isaac Pope Revt. War.
Warrant No 828-16-55
Arthur McArthur Lexington. Maine

28 701
Rev INVALID.
File No. 28,701
Samuel Davis
Hi Rev War
Act: 7" June 32"
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 102
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Jan'y. 5-1904, Sk. 856 Ezra N. Wheeler new Dorchester mass,
1940 Oct. 29. Hist. to Charles W. Munson A.S.Y.

Musteration 1st 26 June 1820 to Father Murphy Esq. District of Maine
8400 Maine
Pamuel Davis of Standish  Dist. in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Greaton? of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 2 years .
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of April 1810 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of March 1819 . and sent to Wm. Widgeon, Esq.  Portland - Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{14}{20 \cdot 31}  84.76 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept. 1819 . 48.00
$: 132.76
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
not - a new

Am: Oct 3 rd , Me Buxton,

5 8.28
S
160 acres

Oct 10 1709. Payment recd by Peter Osgood 25 61 90
Samuel Davis
File 28,701. Samuel Davis Mass.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Samuel Davis Soldier in the South Berkshire Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Thirtyfirst Day of Decr
1783
By the General's Command,
H. Knox Genl
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
D. Smith Cond. Adj. Q.M.

Samuel Davis.
Private 4 th Regt. Mass Line. 1781 - 2 years
dec. 17 th April 1818
Admitted.

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....
Samuel Davis - of Standish in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution three years & upwards in continuation on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Standish 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 fifty six years of age
AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to the Capt. Greenleaf's Company of the fourth Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the fourteenth day of March - one thousand seven hundred and eighty one and that he left said service on or about the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty three the war being closed and he having received an honorable discharge which is herewith exhibited.
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 seventeenth day of April 1818.
Samuel Davis
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the seventeenth day of April 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, Samuel Davis 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
Samuel Davis - farther offered in evidence his original discharge which is hereto annexed and herewith.
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Samuel Davis - served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is 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 seventeenth day of April - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. All which is herewith certified & transmitted
W. 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 27 day of June
A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

10.524

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
PORTLAND, March 15 1850. }
I, OBADIAH G. COOK,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court,
for said County of Cumberland, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that
Joseph Sanborn
is, and at the date of his certificate to the paper hereto annexed was, an
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY COMMISSIONED and qualified to administer Oaths and take acknowledgments of Deeds and other instruments in writing, in the County aforesaid, — and that the following Signature , purporting to be his
is GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court , for said State, the day and year first above written.
O. G. Cook CLERK.

8400
203

DA Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
My Dear Sir
I desire Very Much to get the Soldier Records of one Samuel Davis of Gorham, Maine (at that time Mass.) a Soldier of the War of the Revolution, date of Enlistment. Company. Regt- And Officers of the same, date of discharge. date of issue of his Pension certificate And cancellation same. I think, perhaps the Records in Pension office could give the above from the Old Pension Records. The Mass. Records does not make it plain.
If you can furnish me with above Records I shall feel Very grateful to you for them
Very Truly Yours Ezra H. Wheeler
268 Normandy St- New Dorchester Mass

HEADQUARTERS The Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
PRESIDENT
ROY A. EVANS, KENNEBUNK
VICE PRESIDENTS
PAUL D. SARGENT, PORTLAND ELBERT D. HAYFORD, FARMINGDALE PHILIP Q. LORING, PORTLAND
SECRETARY-TREASURER
WILLIS B. HALL, WINDHAM
REGISTRAR
CLARENCE E. EATON, PORTLAND
HISTORIAN
EDWARD K. GOULD, ROCKLAND
ORGANIZED 1891
INCORPORATED 1929
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WILLIS B. HALL
PORTLAND, ME.
LIBRARIAN
WILBUR W. PHILBROOK, SO. PORTLAND
CHAPLAIN
REV. WM. DAWES VEAZIE, PORTLAND
FLAG BEARER
JOSEPH S. WHITE, PORTLAND
BOARD OF MANAGERS
OFFICERS, PAST PRESIDENTS AND HOMER E. ROBINSON, ROCKLAND BLYNN O. GOODRICH, WATERVILLE WALTER F. HASKELL, WESTBROOK CHARLES J. NICHOLS, PORTLAND HERBERT G. FOSTER, WINTHROP
South Windham, Maine. Feb. 8. 1940.
United States Pension Bureau.
Washington, D. C.
My dear Commissioner:
Samuel Davis, Sr. , is stated in McClellan's History of Gorham Me. as a Revolutionary pensioner. He was born in 1734.
Was he of Lee Mass? Did he receive his pension at Gorham Me?
And what year did he die?
His wife's name was Mary Gorham. Any information about him — I may have his early residence wrong — will be greatly appreciated.
Very sincerely
Charles W. Munson
Graves Registrar
Sons of American Revolution