Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23899, Stephen Curtis, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Curtis, Stephen Martha
NUMBER
N 23899
CONTENTS
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Maine — 4898
Martha Curtis. widow of Stephen Curtis, dead.
1155 who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the 17 th of May, 1817 of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a captain in the company commanded by Captain Porter of the Reg t commanded by Col. Lappan in the Maine line for 2 years Casual
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Janu- ary 1840 and sent to John L. McGuire, Portland, Me.
Arrears to the 14th of March, 1840 $352:00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th 44 00
$396.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by Book A
Vol. 1,
Page 5.
Clerk.

“ This may certify that Mr Stephen Curtis of a place called Paul's Gore, and Miss Martha Lovett of Cape Elizabeth, were lawfully married May fourth, eighteen hundred eighty five. Attest Ephraim Clark Pastor of a Church. Recorded for
( David Root Towner Clerk )”
I certify that the above is a true copy of Record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures, as follows viz, “ May 4 th 1785.” Attest James Dyer Town Clerk.
I James Dyer above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland and State Maine, and that the above is a true extract from the records of the said Town of Cape Elizabeth with the exception above named, as certify by me
James Dyer Town Clerk,
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss. September 13 th 1839. Then the abovenamed James Dyer made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed, before me. John L. McGregor, Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF Cumberland ss.
On this Thirteenth day of November personally appeared before
Ebenezer Shepley Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court
Martha Curtis alias Patty Curtis a resident of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Stephen Curtis who was a private Soldier in the army of the Revolution; she verily believes, that he enlisted several times, that he served as a private between two and three years, and afterwards, served as a corporal about a year, she so believes because she has often heard him speak of his enlistments and services in the revolutionary war. She has heard her said husband name many of the officers under whom he served, but it is so long ago, she does not now remember. She has no documentary evidence of her husband's services, she has heard him speak of having received an honorable discharge, but it has long since been lost or mislaid - She has often heard her said husband say he was at the taking of Burgoyne
She further declares, that she was married to the said Stephen Curtis on the same day of May, or in the early part, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five and that her husband, the aforesaid Stephen Curtis died on the Seventeenth day of May eighteen hundred & seventeen, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Witness Stephen Curtis Martha J. Curtis
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before
On this Thirteenth day of November 1839 personally appeared Martha Curtis above named before me at her

residence in the town of Cumberland being unable by reason of age and sickness to appear in open court and subscribed this declaration by making the sign of the cross and being sworn on oath declared that the same was true according to the best of her knowledge and belief.
Thos Shepley Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.

I David Dennison of Freeport in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged seventy nine years, on oath testify and say, that I know and was well acquainted with the late Mr Stephen Curtis, who formerly lived in North Yarmouth in the State of Maine and in that part of said North Yarmouth which is now Freeport; And I well know that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, that he enlisted in seventeen hundred and seventy seven for three years or during the war; that he served three years in that war in Genl. Glover's Brigade, & I think in Col. Nourse's Regiment, in which Regiment I also served three years - The said Stephen Curtis served in said Brigade during the three years I served and I was intimately acquainted with him; we having been acquainted with each other several years previously to our entering the service and we both lived together in North Yarmouth previous to the war; and after the peace we both lived in the same town and until it was divided and that part of North Yarmouth, where we lived was incorporated into the town of Freeport, where he lived till he left the town & went into Ellsworth, some twenty years ago or more - When I was discharged and left the Army in 1780, I left him in the army - The said Stephen Curtis was at the taking of Burgoyne — and at the battle of Monmouth and also at Sullivan's defeat in R. Island.
Soon after the peace said Stephen Curtis returned to North Yarmouth and lived there and he brought home a woman with whom he always afterwards lived as his wife and by whom he raised a family of several children, five or six - I think - This woman who now lives in said Freeport and is known as the widow of said Stephen Curtis, was before her

living with Mr. Curtis, as his wife, was called Patty Curtis, she was a widow at the time of her marriage with Mr. Curtis and she has always remained a widow since the death of Mr. Curtis. I always understood and believe that prior to her coming to North- Yarmouth with said Stephen, she lived in the Town of Cape Elizabeth in Cumberland County I cannot state the year of Mr. Curtis' marriage, but the oldest son of the said Stephen and Patty Curtis, with whom I am well acquainted and who now lives in said Freeport, is more than fifty years, and I should think he was fifty four or five years of age.
David Dennison
State of Maine } Cumberland County, ss. On the twelfth day of September A. D. 1839, personally appeared the above named David Dennison and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing statement, before me: and I certify that the said Dennison is a highly respectable man and credible witness.
John L. Dolegg, Justice of the Peace.
I David Dennison in addition to what I have stated in the foregoing deposition for on oath testify and say that there is a place or section of the town in said Freeport, formerly a part of North Yarmouth which was and still is called and known by the name of " Prout's Gore ", and that the Stephen Curtis named in the foregoing deposition formerly where he was a young man lived in what is called " Prout's Gore " - and that subsequently he moved to another part of the same town and lived near where

I lived, near Bartlett's landing as it was called. David Dennison
State of Maine } Cumberland County } On the ninth day of October A. D. 1839, David Dennison personally ap- peared & made oath to the second state- ment above by him subscribed, before me John L. Megginer. Just Peace.

Rev WIDOW, &c.  am
File No. 23899
Martha Curtis Widow of Stephen Curtis Corpl Massachusetts.
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 163
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stephen Curtis - Mass. Line - Did he receive Bland G.M.P.
Mr Gordon
Land bounty was granted on the 1 st Aug t 1789 to Thos. Cushing Assignee of Stephen Curtis, a soldier of the 3 rd Reg t Mass s Line
W. Gordon

4 June 8-9mo Porter - (Col. Trefler)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 14 1839.
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 Stephen Curtis is borne on an account in the Army books in this Department as a Private from Templeton in Capt. Smith's Company, Col. Smith's Regt. and credited by service from June 2 d 1779 to 31 st Dec. 1779. 30. Months 29 days c 40/ per. Month. The above name stands also as a Corporal in Capt. Smith's Comp. y Col. Smith's Regt. & credited by service from Jan. 1. to 31. Dec. 1780. being 1. Year c 40/ per. Month.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.

6359 me July 7 1838 Nov 20.
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r Pensions Washington City D.C.

Portland Nov. 14. 1839
Sir
Enclosed I send you sundry documents, as evidence to establish the claim of Martha Curtis to a pension under the Act of 1838 - I hope you will find no difficulty in adjudging the evidence amply sufficient -
I have the honor to be, with respect
Yr. Obt. Servt.
Hon J. L. Edwards Com. Pensions }
John L. Megquier

6359
Martha Curtis Me
ad 7. July '38.
m 80- d 17
rolls
2 June 77. trans. (over) July 80
adnd 2 yrs lease $88
6359
No deduction
M c L Cheggier Portland Me

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that, Ebenezer D. Dyer is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State; that John L. Megquier is a Magistrate
as appears by the papers hereto annexed; that they are duly qualified to act as such; that the said Megquier's Commission is dated the 6th day of February A.D. 1838 and will expire the 6th day of February A.D. 1845
and that the several following signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this fourteenth day of November, Anno Domini 1839.
Charles Cobb Clerk.