Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2100, Edmund Coffin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Coffin, Edmund
A.2/100
CONTENTS

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, SS.
ON this nineteenth day of October 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Maine  Edmund Coffin a resident of Hiton in the county of York and State of Maine . aged seventy three 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 years 1776 with Capt Philip Hubbard and served in the Company regi-  ment of the said Hubbard line, under the following named officers: Philip Hubbard of Berwick commanded said Company at Kittery Point in Maine Nathaniel Coffin my father was Lieutenant of said Company and said Edmund was there eleven months as a waiter to my said father Nathaniel - there were there building a fort and guarding that post - I do not recollect that we had any 2d Lieutenant and I cannot say that the Company commanded by said Hubbard at Kittery-Point , was attached to any Regiment - Benjamin Goodwin then of Berwick aforesaid - but now living in Shepleigh in York County aforesaid was a soldier there Jonathan Hubbard of Hiton was a waiter to his father Philip Hubbard , I also recollect Simeon Applebee of Berwick & I think his brother Thomas Applebee also served a while in said Company - My said father served as Lieutenant one year, but one month of the time I was absent from the Company and no more I joined said Company in the month of May I think & left in the month of March or April 1777 I was eleven years old when I joined the Company
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency in the State of Maine  Edm. Coffin
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
before me Deerfield  Whitman  Clifford of said Court
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I, Clerk of the do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of

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Lot. J. S. Kintale,
Jan 12: '39 -
2100
act 7. June 32

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2180
P. O. _____
Edmund Coffin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Resolutory Claim Nov 26 The Edm. Coffin Act 1832
James L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Lebanon, Maine, Nov 21. 1878
Hon James L. Edwards
I herewith forward to your Department the application of Edmund Coffin of Hibron for a pension. Mr Coffin has been a man doing much business and a man of large property until of late he has become poor by un- foreseen accidents and perhaps want of foresight in his old age. He has ever declined till now to ask for a pension from the government although by law, he ever considered himself entitled to it. An early answer to this case is very desirable. You will please communicate to me
J. S. K. call

I Simon Applebee of North Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine age seventy eight years old testify and say that I served in the War of the Revolution at Battery Point under Capt Phillips Stub- berd then of Berwick. Nathaniel Coffin was first Lieutenant of said Company. Edmund Coffin now of Acton in said County served as a writer to his father said Nathaniel Coffin all the time I was a soldier under said Phillips Stubberd being so monthly, I took the place of my Brother Thomas Applebee who left that post for Providence Rhode Island as a soldier. Said Edmund was a lad of ten or twelve years but large of his age and very active & sprightly. I have always been well acquainted with him ever since we were soldiers together, I was then about 16 years old this was in the summer and fall of 1776 I think that I was a soldier with said Edmund in the month of Jany 1777. S. Applebee State of Maine York ss October 27, 1838 Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Simon Applebee Before me
Innocent S. Kimball Justice of the Peace I Innocent S. Kimball a justice of the Peace in and for the County of York aforesaid, Certify, that I am well acquainted with the above named Simon Applebee and know him to be a person of truth and veracity and a credible witness and statements made by him are entitled to full credit
Innocent S. Kimball justice of the Peace

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Jonathan Stubbs of Hinton in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy seven years do testify, depose and say that I am a Revolutionary pensioner that I served in the Revolutionary War at Hitting Point in Maine six months in the year 1782 under my late father Capt. Philip Stubbs. Nathaniel Coffin was Lieutenant of said Company, his son Edmund Coffin now of said Hinton served as writer to said Nathaniel Coffin all the six months while I was there It was in the summer and Fall that I served as above stated - Said Edmund & I have ever since said service been near neighbors and he considered well off in the world as to property until of late he has become poor & needy. He was younger when he served as writer to his father Jonathan Stubbs State of Maine } November 3 d 1878 County of York } Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Jonathan Stubbs Before me Jonathan H. Kimball
I Jonathan H. Kimball a justice of the Peace in and for the County of York, certify, that the above named Jonathan Stubbs is well known to me to be a man of truth and veracity and statements made by him are entitled to full credit Jonathan H. Kimball Justice of the Peace

W 34,756 Edmund Coffin The abt. June '32
Vol 36 p. 8. g. h. s. n.

I Benjamin Goodwin of Sheepscot in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty four years, testify and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution twelve months at Kittery Point under Capt Phillip Stubbard of Berwick. I went there as a soldier in the month of March I think in the year 1776. In 1775 I served eight months at Cambridge Mass. Nathaniel Coffin then of Kittery, Maine, was Lieutenant of said Stub- bards Company at Kittery Point - we had here at Kittery Point as soldiers about one month when Edmund Coffin son of said Nathaniel our Lieutenant, came and joined the Company as waiter to his father Nathaniel - and remained there as a soldier so long as I did; and was there I think about eleven months - said Edmund was about 10 or 12 years old at that time large of his age - I am positive as to his being there from an altercation that took place between me and the Lieutenant his father, soon after he came there - they were building a fort; I ordered said Edmund to help heave up the tarp upon the fort - his father said he should not do it - I asked why, he said he should as he was paid for his turn as well as I - the Lieutenant threatened to chastise me for my insolence, but did not - In about eight years from that time Edmund and his father moved into Sheepscot where I had moved to - I have known Edmund well ever since I served with him at Kittery and he is now neither poor, though he has been wealthy - He now lives in that part of Sheepscot called Hesper; it was former- ly all called Sheepscot
Witness Myr Goodwin
Benjamin his X Goodwin mark

State of Maine } ss. November the 12 th , 1838 County of York } Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Benjamin Goodwin Before me Increase S. Kimball Justice of the Peace I Increase S. Kimball a justice of the Peace in and for the County of York aforesaid, certify, that I am well acquainted with the above named Benjamin Goodwin, and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and statements made by him, are entitled to full credit Increase S. Kimball Justice of the Peace
State of Maine York ss. I Hiram H. Hobbs. Clerk of the Judicial courts within and for the County of York, certify that Ezekiel Whitman is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of said State, and that the foregoing signa- ture purporting to be his, is genuine; and that Increase S. Kimball is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of York, and that the foregoing signatures, purport- ing to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas this sixteenth day of No- vember A. D. 1838.
H. H. Hobbs. Clerk