Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29724, Lemuel Colbath, Mass.

SERVICE
Colbath, Lemuel
NUMBER _____
NUMBER P-29724
Mass.
CONTENTS

29724 INVALID. Recy
File No. 29,724
Samuel Colbath
His Res ins
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]

18.158 18.158 Maine
Samuel Cobbath
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Plummer of the Regt; commanded by Col. M. Cobb in the Mass s - ma line for 10 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July 1833 and sent to R: C. Vose Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40.00 Pension allowance ending Sept. - 10.00
$50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 7

Lemuel Colbath
Private - Mass. troops
Plummer's Co. Mc Cobb's Regt. 6 months.
N o 6425.
Declaration in full court? March 26. 1853.
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Re. b. Rose, Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this fourteenth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Lemuel Colbath a resident of Grand Isle , in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged fifty nine 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 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Captain Benjamin Plummer and served in Col. McCobb's regiment of the Massachusetts Line or troops under the following named officers: Plummer Capt.  George Ulmer Adjutant , Philip Ulmer Major , McCobb Col. That he enlisted in that Company & Regiment as a private in May 1779 for six months. That he served in Maine at Camden & Ellam Cove, was in the expedition to Bagaduce up the Penobscot river, retreated up to Marsh bay & then thru the woods & arrived at Townsend, & after serving out the full term of his enlistment was discharged at Farmington (where his Captain lived) in the month of November of the same year.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the War Department, he answers:
That he was born in Durham New Hampshire in the year 1762 where he believes his age is recorded. That during his revolutionary services his home was at Boothbay, Maine. That he afterwards lived in Mount Kennebec ten or fifteen years, then in Rome about ten years & thence removed to said Grand Isle where he has lived about a year. That he has memory such of his officers as he now recollects. That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute. That he never received a written discharge. That any of his neighbors where he has lived will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Lemuel X Colbath
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Nathan Weston Jun. 1. f. c.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun.
Aug 14

I James Rollins of Richmond, Me., a revolutionary soldier, aged sixty nine years, do upon oath testify I declare that being myself a soldier in the same Company & regiment at the same time, I well knew that the within named Samuel Colbath served six months in Capt. Plummer's Company of Col. M. Cobb's regiment in the year 1779 as he was within stated.
James Rollins
State of Maine ss. Sworn I subscribed to this 14th day of August 1832. Kennebec ss: the deponent being a credible witness. Nathan Weston Jun. mtk S. J. C.
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Samuel Colbath for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 14th day of August
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 26 th day of March A. D. 1833.
PERSONALLY appears in open Court Samuel Colbath by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the 12 th day of August A. D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Just P. J. C.
I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Colbath for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 26 th day of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler