Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8601, William Churchill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Churchill, William
W 8601
Mary
B.L. Wt. 50.860 - 160-55
or Polly
CONTENTS

Increase
46
Name
Mary Churchill widow of William Churchill who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars or cents per annum, to commence on the 31 February, 1853.  for 8 periods made since 27 July 1868
Certificate of Pension issued 3 d day of Nov r 1868 and sent to O L Currier New Sharon, Maine
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 163 Vol. H
J M Smith CR

Ord P
254. 472 ad mar. 3. 11 auf. 15. '56
Mary Churchill. wid. William Churchill. fri.
Private 50.860 Dec 22/56
Recv. war.
Pen P. Me. agency.
July 53- 4628
ad. 160 a's Dec 18/56 Bodged
Isaac Strickland. North Turner Bridge Me.
Vol 6-1-116

18009 Maine
William Churchill of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Woods of the Regt: commanded by Col. Benning in the Mass: line for 15 mos 17 ds.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 57 Dollars 87 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1837 and sent to R. C. Vose Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $103.74 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 25.93
$129.67
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by
Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 7

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 ninth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, William Churchill a resident of Wintrop in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged sixty 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 1777 or 1778 With Captain Wood and served in Col. Stewart's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Wood Captain and
Sprout Col. That he enlisted in December 1777 or 1778 in the war of the revolution as a private and served three months and was discharged in the month of March following at Updeike Newtown in Rhode Island. That not long afterwards, the exact period not recollected, he enlisted and served six months as a private in Capt. Washburn's company, and under Maj. Goodwin, then being two companies attached to Col. Garrison's Mass. reg't. At this period he served at Boston guarding prisoners thence marched to Providence, where he was dismissed at the end of his term.
That afterwards he enlisted and served as a private for another six months in 1779 in Capt. Sparhawk's company and Col. Peabody's regiment of the Massachusetts. That he served out this period at Providence and its neighborhood and was then dismissed at the end of his term. That due to the interrogatories proposed under the instructions of the war department he answers that in Middleborough in Massachusetts in 1763, where he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension corresponds to number 7 of record.
That at that time he resided in the town of his birth in the County of Middleborough and State of Maine, and now resides in said Middleborough. That since the revolution he has lived in Habbam, Buckfield and Wayne in Maine and in Wintrop aforesaid about twelve years, where he now lives. That all his services aforesaid were by enlistment - not by a draft or as a substitute for any one. At this period does not remember the names of other officers. That he further served six weeks under Capt. Patridge and 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, except as aforesaid. and six weeks longer under Capt. Pever Churchill and Col. not recollected. That his lieutenant was Benson. And 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.
William Churchill
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before me
Nathan Weston Jun Just S.J. Court
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

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 William Churchill for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 15 th day of October
A. D. 1832. J. A. Chandler
I Jabez Beman of Wayne Kennebec County Maine, aged seventy years. do upon oath testify that I well know the within named William Churchill that I have known that he served in the company of Col Jacob's regiment from May 1779 to December of the same year as he has stated. The said Churchill is a man of veracity entitled to full credit. Jabez B. Beman
Subscribed and sworn to, July 10 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before Nathan Weston Judge. Mark S.P.C.
Attest 15 mo 17th day 1832. J. A. Chandler
William Churchill 25 984
Jabez Beman
Nathan Weston
15 17
9
1 13
6
4 25
3

 Declaration of Widow Mary Shnehell For Pension Set Feb. 3 1853 Revolutionary War
25

State of Maine Probate Court Oxford County ss
On this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Probate Court of said County being a Court of record at Turkey in said County Mary alias Polly Churchill a resident of Livermore in said County aged sixty five years who • being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following de- -claration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress • passed February third eighteen hundred fifty three. That she is the widow of William Churchill who was a private and pensioner of the United States and drew the sum of fifty dollars per annum residing at Livermore and received his pay at the general agency for paying pensions for the State of Maine at Portland in said State
She further declares that she was married to the said William Churchill on the twenty sixth day of March year eighteen hundred thirty five and that her husband the aforesaid William Churchill died on the

twenty eighth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and forty seven that she was married to him at the time above stated
She further swore that she was a widow at the passage of the act and is still a widow and that she has never before made applica- tion for a pension
Sw
Mary Churchill
Sworn to and subscribed in open court being a court of record the day and year first above written
Before me Timothy Sudden Judge
State of Maine Oxford County Ss
I hereby certify that Timothy Sudden Esq before whom the foregoing declaration was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Judge of the Probate Court of said County being a court of record duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of May year Eighteen hundred and fifty three
Rev. B. Pheasant Register of Probate for the County of Oxford

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
FORM OF DECLARATION
To be made by the Widow of an Officer or Soldier of the Revolutionary War.
STATE OF Maine } ss. COUNTY OF Lincoln }
On this twenty fifth day of April A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Polly alias Mary Churchill aged 66 years, a resident of Livermore in the State of Maine , who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of William Churchill , deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War , and drew a pension of fifty one dollars and eighty seven cents per annum at the General Agency for paying Pensions for the State of Maine at Portland in said State .
She further states that she was married to the said William Churchill in Scarborough on the 26th day of March A. D., 1835 by one Stephen Williams a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Polly Taylor and that her said husband died at Livermore on the 28th day of May A. D., 1847 and that she is now a widow at the date of executing this her declaration.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. And she refers to her declaration on file at Washington for a pension under the Act of 3rd February A.D. 1853 for evidence of her marriage &c. and her said husbands service. She also declares that her friends & acquaintance sometimes call her by the name of Mary & sometimes by the name of Polly
Mary Churchill
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES.
We, Ephraim Taylor and Orintha M. Packard residents of Livermore in the State of Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs Polly Churchill in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Ephraim Taylor Orintha M. Packard
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.
Deac S. D. Daly J. P.

BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
784. 1072
Mrs. Polly Churchill
Widow of William Churchill
Presented by Isaac Strickland North Turner Bridge Maine
Presented by J. T. NEELY Attorney, Washington City, D.C.
NOTES.
The declaration to be executed before a Justice of the Peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes. In the blank in the declaration the claimant must set forth according to the best of her knowledge or belief, the name and rank of the person on account of whose service the claim is presented; the day, month, and year, (if possible,) when he entered the service, and the time when he left the same; and, if under more than one engagement, the claimant must specify the particular periods; and the rank and name of the officers under whom the service was performed; the town or county, and State in which he was engaged; the country through which he marched, with such further particulars as may be useful in the investigation of the claim; and also, produce the best proof of the case will allow, as to the service of the deceased officer or soldier, and the time when he died. It must be clearly shown in what troop or company, and regiment or corps, he served, and the grade he held. Proof as to service must be had, either from the records of the War Department, the muster rolls, the testimony of commissioned officers, or the affidavits of persons of known respectability.
If the fact be so that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim, set forth such facts in the declaration. But if the soldier was a pensioner then simply describe him by giving the amount of pension he drew, the place of his residence, and the agency at which his pension was paid, instead of a description of his service.
This declaration must be accompanied by satisfactory proof of the marriage, of the husband's death, and the present widowhood of the claimant. If there be a public record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of it should be forwarded, if possible. If there be none but a private or family record, such family record, or a certified copy of the same, should be forwarded, with the affidavit of some disinterested person proving the genuineness of the original and the correctness of the copy. If no public or private record of the marriage exist, or can be procured, that fact should be set forth in the declaration, after giving her maiden name; and in such case, other evidence—such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to cohabit as husband and wife, and to be so reputed—will be admissible.
In no case, however, will the mere statement of witnesses that the claimant is the widow of the deceased be taken as evidence of the marriage; but the witnesses must state facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is the widow of the deceased. If the claimant draws a pension under any act, instead of proving her marriage again simply set forth the fact in her declaration, and refer to said papers for proof of her husband's service and her marriage.
The affidavit of two witnesses must be taken to establish the identity of the claimant.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all men by these presents, That I, Polly Churchill of the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine and the widow of William Churchill deceased, who was a soldier in the service of the United States, do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint JOHN T. NEELY, Esq., of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute and receive from the United States the Bounty Land certificate, or warrant, due me by virtue of my deceased husband's service in the United States, under existing laws granting Bounty Lands to the officers and soldiers, or their widows and minor heirs, for services rendered in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, an attorney, or attorneys under him for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises, as much so as if present myself.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this _____ day of _____ 185 _____
Polly Churchill
***** * SEAL. * *****
Acknowledged and subscribed before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Androscoggin and State of Maine this twentieth day of April 185 _____
Isaac S. Daly
***** * SEAL. * *****
STATE OF Maine } ss. COUNTY OF Androscoggin }
I, J. D. Pillsifer Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify, that Isaac S. Daly whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration, affidavit, and power of attorney, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court, is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
GIVEN under my hand and Seal of Office, at Halifax this fifteenth day of July 185 _____
A. D. 185 _____
Clerk.
BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Mrs. Polly Churchill
7 F.L. 172
Widow of William Churchill
Presented by Isaac Strickland South Turner Bridge Maine
Presented by J. T. NEELY Attorney, Washington City, D. C.
NOTES.
The declaration to be executed before a Justice of the Peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes. In the blank in the declaration the claimant must set forth according to the best of her knowledge or belief, the name and rank of the person on account of whose service the claim is presented; the day, month, and year, (if possible,) when he entered the service, and the time when he left the same; and, if under more than one engagement, the claimant must specify the particular periods; and the rank and name of the officers under whom the service was performed; the town or county, and State in which he resided when he entered the service; whether he was drafted, was a volunteer, or substitute; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged; the country through which he marched, with such further particulars as may be useful in the investigation of the claim; and also, produce the best proof the nature of the case will allow, as to the service of the deceased officer or soldier, and the time when he died. It must be clearly shown in what troop or company, and regiment or corps, he served, and the grade he held. Proof as to service must be had, either from the records of the War Department, the muster rolls, the testimony of commissioned officers, or the affidavits of persons of known respectability. If the fact be so that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim, set forth such facts in the declaration. But if the soldier was a pensioner then simply describe him by giving the amount of pension he drew, the place of his residence, and the agency at which his pension was paid, instead of a description of his service. This declaration must be accompanied by satisfactory proof of the marriage, of the husband's death, and the present widowhood of the claimant. If there be a public record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of it should be forwarded, if possible. If there be none but a private or family record, such family record, or a certified copy of the same, should be forwarded, with the affidavit of some disinterested person proving the genuineness of the original and the correctness of the copy. If no public or private record of the marriage exist, or can be procured, that fact should be set forth in the declaration, after giving her maiden name; and in such case, other evidence—such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to cohabit as husband and wife, and to be so reputed—will be admissible. In no case, however, will the mere statement of witnesses that the claimant is the widow of the deceased be taken as evidence of the marriage; but the witnesses must state facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is the widow of the deceased. If the claimant draws a pension under any act, instead of proving her marriage again simply set forth the fact in her declaration, and refer to said papers for proof of her husband's service and her marriage. The affidavit of two witnesses must be taken to establish the identity of the claimant.

I John G. Brown clerk of the town of Starks on oath say that I have in my custody and keeping the Books of Records belonging to said town; In one of the books purporting to be a record of marriages is the following entry:
Starks March 5, 1853.
To John G. Brown clerk of the Town of Starks. This may certify that I solemnized the marriage between Mr. William Churchill of Livermore and Miss Mary Gaylor of Starks on the twenty-sixth day of March
eighteen hundred and thirty-five (1835)
Stephen Williamson
A true copy. Attest, J. G. Brown, Town clerk
State of Maine, Somerset county, town of Starks March 5, 1853. This certifies that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures as follows: "twenty-sixth day of March 1835." I John G. Brown above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town clerk in the town county and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Starks with the exception above named as certified
by me,
John G. Brown } clerk of the town of Starks.
Somerset ss. March 5, 1853 - Personally appeared the above named John G. Brown and made oath that the above by him subscribed is true.
Cyrus Rogers } Justice of the Peace -

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See Ann

D Churchill
Deposition for W m Churchill

I Dinah Churchill of Hontford in the County of Oxford and State of Maine. I testify and say that I am seventy four years old. that I was born and brought up in Middleborough in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts and continued to live there until the year AD 1801. at which time I removed to Hontford aforesaid where I have since then lived. that William Churchill who is now before me who now lives in Wayne in the County of Penobscot a State of Maine. lived in the same house and family in Middleborough. with me through the whole of the war of the Revolution. Except what time he was in the service of his Country that I was well knowing to him the said William Churchill enlisting a young man several times into the Army that he once went under Capt North Wood of Middleborough also once under Capt Sparre of Middleborough also once under Capt Washburn of Bangor once also once under Capt Churchill this was quite a short time of service I also recollect that he enlisted under Capt Patridge of Dixborough and went to the State of Rhode Island and was there six weeks according to my best recollection and further your deponent saith not
Mrs. Dinah Churchill x Marks
State of Maine
Oxford ss August 24 th AD 1832
Then the above named Dinah Churchill (who is well known to me as a person of veracity) personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by her subscribed.
Edward Blake Justice of the Peace
Edward Blake Esq is a Justice of the Peace Nathan Williams

I Nathaniel Shaw of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged eighty seven years, testify & say that I served in the American army, during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for several periods, among which was one of six weeks, in the state of Rhode Island, under the command captain Perez Church of Middleborough in Massachusetts; the year I do not recollect, but I know it was at the time that the French troops were there on the Island. And I further say that William Churchill, now resident in the town of Wayne, County of Kennebec, State of Maine, was then with me in the same company and served with me for said period of six weeks, when we were discharged - I have been acquainted with said Churchill for thirty years past and in fact more in life from his youth till now & I well know him to be the man who served with me as aforesaid. Nathaniel Shaw
State of Maine. County of Oxford July 12. 1832. Then the above named Nathaniel Shaw, to me known as a man of truth, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Samuel Brown Justice of the Peace
Samuel T Brown Esq is a Justice of the Peace. Nathaniel Winton Jr

I, Gideon Cushman of Hebron in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged eighty one years, testify and say, that I served in the American army during the rev- -olutionary war with Great Britain for several periods, — among which was one of three months in the state of  at Rhode Island, under the command of Capt Nathaniel Wood of Middleborough in Massachusetts; Colin Sprague's Regiment in the winter of seventeen hundred seventy seven & seventy eight, (hav- -ing enlisted in the month of November seventy seven) the company was stationed at Oldike's Newtown — and I, with six others was ordered to North Kingston to guard a provision store. And I further say that William - Churchill, now resident in the town of Wayne & County of Kennebec & State of Maine, was then with me in the same company, and served with me for said period of three months, when we were dismissed. I have been acquainted with said Churchill more or less from his youth to the present time, and I well know him to be the man who served with me as aforesaid —
Gideon Cushman
State of Maine County of Oxford July 13 th 1832 the above named Gideon Cushman personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
Gideon Cushman Jr Justice of the Peace Gideon Cushman the Ely is a Justice of the Peace, and I am satisfied the document is in with him. Nathan Weston Jr

State of Maine.
THE David Thurston a Clergyman, residing in the town of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and Samuel Wood residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Churchill who has sub- scribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
David Thurston Samuel Wood
State of Maine.
Kennebec ss.—Sworn and subscribed this nineteenth day of July
A. D. 1832
Before me,
Seth May Justice of the Peace.
Seth May Esq. is a Justice of the Peace. And the Rev. David Thurston is a Clergyman residing in Winthrop . And Samuel Wood Esq. is a Justice of the Peace & a credible person, and their statement is entitled to be believed.
Nathan Weston

Revolution. Massachusetts
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8601
Mary Churchill
Wid.
William Churchill
First Rev. War
Act: February 3 d  1853
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870.]

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and held at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 27 th day of March A. D. 1833.
PERSONALLY appears in open Court William Churchill by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7 th , 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the 9 th day of July 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 S. 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 William Churchill for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 27 th day of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

28 May 47
Pension Office Oct 18/54
Sir: Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner Your etc. etc.
R. J. Atkinson D. Cole Band for comm. Print
William Churchill died 28 May 1847. pd in full
Colr J. Stevenson Anchor

Increase 4.628 Brief in the Case of Mary Churchill, Widow of William Private Resolution New Sharon Franklin County and State of Maine 2 sec Act Feb. 3. 1853.
Augusta
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
A pension on the roll of Maine at $5.87 per Annum. She returns her certificate with application for increase as provided by Act of July 27. 1868.
Personal identity & Continued Widowhood properly shown
Admitted Oct 27. 1868 to a pension at $96.00 per Annum to commence July 27. 1868 deducting payments since.
Name and residence of Agent.
C. L. Currier New Sharon Maine.
W. C. Trask Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 2, 1832.
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 William Churchill served in Capt. Abraham Washburn's company in Col. Jacob Ferriss's regiment from July 27 th to December 21 st 1778 & was paid for four months & 25 days service including time allowed to go home.
Edward D. Bangs Secy
And I further certify that it appears by a pay roll of "Capt. Perez Churchill's company in Col. Ebenezer White's regiment of Militia that marched to Rhode Island" that said William Churchill served in that company from Augt. 1 st to Augt. 9 th 1780 & was paid for nine days service.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

Wm Churchill

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 8 th , 1833.
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 William Lechuchel is borne on a pay roll of Capt. Calvin Partridge's company in Lt. Col. Samuel Pierce's regt. raised from the County of Plymouth & stationed at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island, as having served as a private from May 21 st , 1779, one month & 13 days, & was paid accordingly.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

June 24. 1853
App d of Mary or Polly Churchill widow of William Churchill
Maine $50 18009
Act 3 d Feb y 1853
Rev:
M rs J. L. Neely Present
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

Commissioner of Customs Washington
DC
Recd Oct 17th 1894

Ms o 2137
Mary Churchill, wid. of W m —
Set to p o : T. Neely. Aug. 29 th 53 Ad. $ 57 87 / 100 per annum To com. Feb. 3. 1853
Act. Feby. 3 d 1853,

Washington D.C. Oct 16/54
Sir.
Enclosed please find additional evidence in the case of Polly Churchill widow of W m Churchill a Reval. Soldier & Pensioner at $50 per annum under act 1832, for a Pension under second section of the act of 3 d Feb 1853.
Yours very respectfully
To Commr. Pensions & Present
J. M c Keely

Washington City D.C. June 23 rd 1858
Sir,
Enclosed please find the declaration of Mrs. Polly Churchill widow of W m Churchill, who was a Revol. Soldier, and a Pensioner from the State of Maine, for a Pension under the 2 d Section of the act of 3 rd Feby 1853,
Yours Very Respectfully E. S. Kelly
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Brief in the case of Mrs. Mary Churchill widow of William Oxford County and State of Maine act of February 3, 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") Allowed $ 51 87 / 100 per annum to commence February 3, 1853
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Documentary & parol Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Marriage proved by public record
Death of husband shown by auditor's report
Identity & widowhood proved by four credible witnesses
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Husband a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832 and paid to his death May 28, 1847 & received $ 51 87 / 100 per annum
Papers in due form
Name and residence of Agent
John H. Neely Esq. Washington D.C.
Examining Clerk. H. Gray

Payment to be made at Portland by
George S. Emery ,
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
Maine.
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
3
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 3-, Vol. A,
W. R. Wilson.
Clerk.
T. P. [unclear]

Department of the Interior.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of Feb- mary 3, 1853, — Mary Churchill , — widow of — William Churchill, Deceased , — who was a — Private — in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension at at the rate of — Fifty-one dollars and eighty-seven 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 Twenty first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and Fifty- four.
G. C. Whiting
Actg. Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
S. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions.

Declaration for increase of Pension act July 27. 1868 Sec. 12.
Mary Churchill, widow of William Churchill. Private Revolutionary War - deceased.
Former Pension certificate No. 11,628 issued under act Feb. 3 rd 1853. Sec. 24, herewith surrendered.
Post-Office Address New Sharon, Maine.
Presented by O. L. Currier Applicant's Atty. New Sharon, Maine.

State of Maine County of Franklin ! ss.
On this Twentyfirst day of September A.D. 1868 before me Simeon H. Lowell as I am clerk of the supreme Judicial Court in and for the county and state above mentioned, personally appeared Mary Churchill aged Eighty one years, a resident of New Sharon in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn by me according to law on oath declares that she is the identical Mary Churchill to whom was granted pension certificate No. 4,628, payable at Portland Maine at fifty one dollars and eighty seven cents per annum, issued under the act of February 3 d 1853. That she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of her pension to which she is entitled under the Thirteenth section of the act of July 27 th 1868. My Post Office address is as follows: New Sharon, Me.
Mary Churchill
Also personally appeared at the same time and place Mary T. Merrill a resident of New Sharon and George W. Bailey a resident of Farmington in the county and state aforesaid, persons well known to me and whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn on oath say they were present and saw Mary Churchill who is well known to them sign her

name 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.
Mary G Merrill, George W. Bailey
Sworn to and subscribed by said declarant, and by said affiants before me this Twenty first day of September A.D. 1868. And I certify that I have no interest direct, or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal on the day and year aforesaid.
Simeon D. Lowee, Clerk.

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No. H, 628.
Maine.
May Churchill, — widow of William Churchill, who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.
Rep. D
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 57 dollars 87 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 21 st day of Oct., 1854, and sent to John S. Neely, Present.
Re Pensioners under act
Ms. A. 4. 72

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judicial Court.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, THAT
Cyrus Rogers Esq.
was at the time of the annexed attestation, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE , within and for the COUNTY OF OXFORD  SARATOGA , in said State,
duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements 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 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
Sixteenth day of June
A. D. 185 8
Elisha Wm. Winters
CLERK OF SAID COURT.

STATE OF MAINE. OXFORD COUNTY.
} ss.
CLERK'S OFFICE, SUP. JUD. COURT.
Elish Winter Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, within and for the COUNTY OF OXFORD, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, hereby certify that
Isaac S. Daly Esquire,
was on the Seventh day of August 1854, ever since has been, and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly authorized to administer OATHS , and take the acknowledgement of DEEDS and other Instruments; and that I believe that the signature to the instrument hereunto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine, official signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of our said Court, this Smith day of August 1854
E. Winter Clerk

State of Maine } County of Oxford }
On this first day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three person-ally appeared before me Isaac S. Daly a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Churchill a resident of Livermore in the County of Oxford & State of Maine aged sixty five years who first being duly sworn according law, declares that her name, previous to her being married to William Churchill on the twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1836, was Mary Taylor, that her friends sometimes called her by the name of Polly as being identical with the name of Mary
She makes this declaration in compliance with the direction of the Pension & Acting Commissioner (S. Cole). Dated August 9th 1853 (Viz) "It is advisable that she file her own affidavit, containing her name previous to her marriage".
Attest
Mary Churchill
Cordelia C. Carver Larnad H. Murray
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written and I hereby certify that I have no interest or concern in the case
Isaac S. Daly - J.P.

State of Maine County of Oxford
On this seventh day of August A.D. on thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me Isaac S. Daly a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to ad- minister oaths within and for the county and State aforesaid XXXX Hannah Ramsdell & Hazeremah Deaper of Livermore in the county of Andros- gin and State of Maine, who being duly sworn ac- cording to law, do testify and say that Mrs. Mary Churchell is the widow of W m Churchell late of Livermore deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner, and that she is still said Churchell's widow, and is the identical Mary Churchell who was claims Pension under the act of Feb. 3 d 1853. They further testify that they know the above statement to be true from their having lived in the same neighborhood with the said W m & Mary Churchell And they swear that they are disinterested witnesses
Hannah Ramsdell Hazeremah Deaper
Subscribed & sworn to the day and year first above written And I hereby certify that Hannah Ramsdell & Hazeremah Deaper are disinterested & credible witnesses and that I have no interest nor concern in the case
Isaac S. Daly - J. P.