Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,907 1/2, Samuel Colby, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Colby, Samuel Mary
NUMBER
W. 20.907 1/2
CONTENTS

4164
32.944
William
Samuel Colby deceased
of Lincoln in the State of Maine who was a Corporal  Artillery in the company commanded by Captain  of the Regt commanded by Col in the Revolution line for 10 mo Artillery  Inf 14 a Corporal
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 111 Dollars 24 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 3 Cts 9 February 1 st 1847 (he died)
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Nov r 1857 and sent to Dickens & Coombs
Arrears to the 4th of Present
Semi-annual allowance ending advertising former pays at $96 per ann: under act 18 March 1818
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. R. Weightman Clerk, Book E . Vol. 1 . Page 10

4484 Marine
Mary Sally aced widow of Samuel who died on the 1 st Febry 1841 of Lincoln in the State of Maine who was a Corporal Artillerist in the Comp y commanded by Captain Wiley of the Reg t commanded by Col. Jackson in the Revolution time for 10 mo Artillerist H ts
14 " Corporal Ins d bet on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 111 Dollars 24 Cents per annum, to commences on the first day of March 1841 February 4th 1841 October 13 th 1841
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Nov r 1851 and sent to Dickens & Coombs
Amount to the 4 th of Present Semi-annual allowance ending
Amount from $80 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by Wightman Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 332
C. 1. 3

105_00021 State of Maine County of Lincoln ss:
On this 23 d day of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Edmund Colby a resident of Westport in said County aged 40 years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of pension due his father under the act of 1832, also an increased rate of pension due his mother under Act of 1836. And this declarant states that he is one of the children of Samuel and Mary Colby late of Westport in the County of Lincoln both deceased. And your declarant as he verily believes states that his father Samuel Colby was a resident of Edgecomb Maine in the time of the Revolutionary war and that he enlisted into the Revolutionary Army from that town in the month of March 1777 and that he served in Captain John Willey's Company, Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment, and after that in Capt. Pierce's Company to the close of the war except for the time he was in Col. Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers as stated herein.
And this declarant stating from his best knowledge information and belief says

that while his said father was under Capt. Wiley in the year 1778 he was detached from his company to perform duty in a Company of Artificers under the command of Capt. Jacob Love in Col. Baldwin's Regiment and that he served in said company nearly ten months after which he returned to duty in his own Company.
This declarant has heard his father & mother say that he the said Samuel Colby was a during the War man, that while he was in the service he was promoted in the first place to a corporal and afterwards to a Sergeant, and he believes that his mother's pension was not computed for any service higher than that of Private. He further states that his father prior to his death made a declaration for an increase of pension as will appear by said declaration hereto annexed that the same was entrusted for a while to Col. James Lennan now deceased, and that the same was never presented to the Commissioner of Pensions.
His father the said Samuel Colby died at Westport on the First day of February A.D. 1827, that his mother the said Mary Colby survived him and remained a widow to the time of her death that she was a pen-

sioner under the act of 1836 at the rate of $80 per annum and that she died on the fif- teenth day of October A.D. 1849, and that William Colby, Benjamin Colby, Cornelius Colby, Edmund Colby and Rosanna Plum- mer are the children and only surviving children of the said Mary Colby deceased. Witness
Z. H. Harmon
Edmund Colby
Signed and sworn by the said Edmund Colby on the day and year first above written.
Before me
Orasmus Dole
Justice of the Peace Quorum throughout the State of Maine.

29 Maine Samuel Colby
(6716)
SWAN
March
1871
Lincoln 67
Bailey

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss..... At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment  from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this twentieth day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared
in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Samuel Colby aged fifty seven years, resident in Edgcomb in said Circuit, 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. Wiley in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson 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 fifteenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 6716 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.
Sam. Colby
Sworn to and declared, on the 20 th day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
} One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real estate - 19 acres poor rocky land without woods - a small house 35 years old out of repair - a small barn 22 years old rotten Personal - 2 heifers - 1 pair steers - 6 sheep - 1 swine - a little worthless furniture no income except my pension I am indebted to the amount of $35. and have no debts due to me Samuel Coleby
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Samuel Coleby who, by occupation am a fisherman which I am not able to pursue by reason of infirmity and lameness in both my arms.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife Polly 53 infirm   son Cornelius 18 common ability health   daughter Mary 15 do   " Rosanna 13 do   son Edmund 9 usual health    Sam d Coleby  Mess Nat l Coffin Clerk
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, 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 hundred thirty seven dollars and
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat Coffin
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the 3 d Section of the Act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836.
State of Maine ss. On this twenty fifth day of February eighteen hundred and forty seven, personally appeared before the Hon. Asa Redington one of the Judges of the District Court for the State of Maine, the same being a Court of Record, Mary Colby a resident of Westport in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine aged eighty years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of Samuel Colby who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution, that he enlisted in the war of the Revolution in April 1777 under Capt. John Bayley in the Continental service for three years and marched to Albany and was there turned over to Capt. John Wiley of the eighth Massachusetts Regiment Col. Michael Jackson on the Continental establishment and continued in said Company & Regiment until his time was out in 1780 when he immediately and without returning home enlisted for and during the war as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Silas Pearce in the same Regiment and continued in said Regiment until peace was declared in 1783, during the time of service he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne and also at the battle of Monmouth, and at the surrender of Cornwallis. At the end of the war he received an honorable discharge in writing which he sent to Washington annexed to his application for a pension in 1818. — The said Samuel

Colley made application for, and received a pension under the law of 1818.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Colley at West Point on the eighteenth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty two, where he was stationed, after our marriage he served in the army about thirteen months and was discharged in June 1833 I think. We were married by the Rev. Cross Hitchcock a Chaplain in the army, whose original certificate we have always kept, and which is herewith annexed as proof of our marriage, it being the only evidence that can now be procured; that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Colley died on the first day of February 1847, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed.
Said Mary Colley refers to her late husband's written discharge before mentioned, as proof of his services in the army after her marriage.
her Mary Colley mark
State of Maine. Waldo Co. District Court - Middle District -
February Term 1847 - on the 3 day of the Term. In open Court, sworn to and subscribed, on this third day of the term, being the twenty fifth day of February 1847, by the said Mary Colley who is proved to me to be a person of good credit. Before me J. H. Redington, Judge of said Court. it being a Court of record.

State of Maine
On this blustery day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty, Did personally appear Samuel Colby of Westport in the County of Lincoln aged 85 years and upwards, who being first duly sworn doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of pension and arrears due to him under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
And this declarant states that he entered the service in the town of Edgcombe in the then District of Maine in the month of March 1777 and was at that time in the 17th year of his age and continued in the service under different Commanders to the close of the Revolutionary war and was honorably discharged. For the first three years of the war he belonged to Capt John Wileys Company in Col Michael Jackson's Regt: and at the close of the war he received the gratuity and his final settlement certificate as belonging to that Company first Regt. While in the service he was frequently detached to perform other duties and in other Corps. In the year 1778 and while he was at West Point and in that vicinity he was detached from his Company and

transferred into a Company of Artificers under the command of Capt Low where he served nearly ten months when he was discharged from said corps and returned to his former Company. He served in Capt Colby's Company and in Capt Low's aforesaid three years or till 1880 when he went into the Company of Capt Silas Pierce and during the year 1880 was promoted to a Corporal and during the last part of his service and this declarant believes for nearly two years of his service preceding his discharge he served as a Sergeant having been regularly promoted for his long and faithful services.
And this declarant states that he believes that under the act of 1832 he would be entitled to a higher pension per annum than he now receives and also that the records of the war department will show the length of time that he had served in the several capacities aforesaid he therefore claims a pension to be computed agreeably to the services thus rendered.
Witness Edmund Colby Daniel G. Gurnee
James
Not X Colby Mark
Lincoln ss.

Westport June th 11, 1846
Personally appeared Samuel Colby and made oath to the foregoing declaration by him subscribed in making his mark before me
James Leaman Justice of the peace

I Edmund Colby of Westport in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine aged thirty six years on oath depose and declare, that Mary Colby who on the 25 th day of February 1847 in court before the Hon. Judge Redington petitioned for a pension, is my mother, that my father her husband was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the law of 1818, and died on the first day of February 1847 leaving the aforesaid Mary Colby his widow, and that she is still living and remains his widow, and has not since been married.
I further depose and say, that the keepers certificate of her marriage which she has annexed to her petition for a pension, I have often seen in her possession as long ago as I can remember, and that she always has been very careful to preserve it.
Edmund Colby
State of Maine
County of Lincoln ss. April 20 th 1847 Personally appeared the above named Edmund Colby before me Jeremiah Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln, and after being duly cautioned & sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the within & above deposition by him subscribed in my presence, and I further testify that the above deponent is a person of good credit & reputation in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
Jeremiah Bailey Justice of the Peace

This certifies that Simon Colby, soldier in the 8 th Mass ts Reg t . and Mary Swinn, were joined in Marriage this day before me.
West Point May 18 th 1882.
Ezra Hitchcock Chaplain 2 nd B ty
29

1st page-Sylvanus Colby-no carbon put in this claim of Samuel.
is in his claim & this is the last part of his history.
Dorcas Colby, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed September 14, 1838, at which time she was seventy-four years of age; the date and place of her birth are not shown. She resided then in Westport, Lincoln County, Maine, which place was her residence in 1850.
At the time said Dorcas Colby made application for pension, Samuel Colby, brother of Sylvanus Colby, and his wife, Mary, stated that they were present at the marriage of Sylvanus and Dorcas, and that they had then been married about two years.
### In 1850, Edmund Bailey was a witness to the signature of Dorcas Colby, soldier's widow, in Westport, Maine; there is no statement, however, to identify him as the grandson to whom the soldier referred in 1820.
NOTE
Miss Mary Pelham Hill Box 68 Topsham, Maine-
*****
March 10, 1933.
BA-J/ILL
Sylvanus Colby-W.22830
Samuel Colby -W.20907½
2 histories furnished
Samuel Colby- W. 20907½
The record of Samuel Colby, furnished also, is obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 20907½, based upon his military service in that war.
Samuel Colby resided in Edgcomb, Lincoln County, District of Maine, at the time of the Revolutionary War.
He enlisted in March, 1777, then in the seventeenth year of his age, as a fifer in Captain John Bayley's company, was transferred and served as private in Captain John Wiley's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's 8 th Massachusetts regiment, was detached and served about ten months in Captain Jacob Low's company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment of Artillery Artificers, returned to his own regiment and continued to serve until the expiration of three years for which he had enlisted; he reenlisted immediately, in 1780, served as corporal and sergeant in Captain Silas Peirce's company, 8 th Massachusetts regiment until June, 1783, when he was discharged at New Windsor, New York. During these years of service, he was at the taking of Burgoyne, in the battle of

Monmouth, and at the taking of Cornwallis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which time he resided in Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine District. He gave his age then as fifty-five years, the date and place of his birth not stated.
In 1820, the soldier stated that the following children were living with him: Cornelius, Mary, Rosanna, and Edmund, aged eighteen, fifteen, thirteen and nine years, respectively.
Samuel Colby died February 1, 1847 in Westport, which was formerly Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine.
The soldier married May 18, 1782, at West Point, while in the service, Mary S--ms (record torn, not legible); the wedding was performed by an Army chaplin, then also on duty there.
Mary Colby, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed February 25, 1847, at which time she was eighty years of age. She resided then in Westport, Maine. She died there October 15, 1849.
The following children survived their mother: William Colby, Benjamin Colby, Cornelius Colby, Edmund Colby of said Westport, and Rosanna Plummer.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.

✓ No 38,234 Samuel Colby -
Private M. Jacksons Mass ts Reg t March 10 1777. W th an
Adm d 1777
April 14 1818
1818 553 0281

I Samuel Colby of Edgecumbe, in the County of Lincoln, District of Maine & State of Massachusetts aged fifty five years do testify & say, that in April 1777 I enlisted in the war of the revolution as a fifer under Capt. John Bayley in the continental service for three years, & as marched to Albany - I was then turned over to Capt. John Willey in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson on the continental establishment - I continued in said Regiment & Company till my time was out in 1780 - I then immediately & without returning home enlisted for & during the war with Great Britain as a private soldier under Capt. Silas Pearce in the same Regiment & continued in said Regiment until Peace was proclaimed in 1783 - During my period of service I was at the taking of Burgoyne & Saratoga also at the battle of Monmouth & had an honorable discharge at New Windsor in New York State dated June 1783 which discharge I sent to Boston about 12 years since & have never had it returned, & believe it to be lost - From my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support. -
Samuel Colby
April 14. 1818 - In presence of J. Lee Bailey, -

Since making the foregoing declaration I have sent to Boston & have been fortunate enough to procure the original discharge mentioned in my foregoing declaration & I now annex the same, it was found in the Secretary's Office for the Commonwealth:
And I also hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may be or have been so allowed. —
Jared Colby
10 Jan 1845

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln ss.
Be it remembered that on this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen, Pursuant to a law of the United States entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18 th of March A.D. 1818 personally appear before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the same being a Court of record, the aforesaid Samuel Colby, and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth he makes oath to the declaration aforesaid and subscribes the same in my presence: And, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appears to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true —
Jeremiah Bailey
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named, and that his signature to this caption is genuine that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court —
John H. Sheppard.
1818 Apr 14

I know all men by these presents that P. Edmund Colby of Westport in the County of Washington State of Maine, one of the chil- dren of Samuel and Mary Colby late of said Westport both deceased do hereby constitute and appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland in said State and Francis A. (Dickens) of Washington City (D. C.) my true and lawful Attorneys for me and in my name and for my use to present my claim for an increase and arrears of Pension due me as heir of Samuel and Mary Colby deceased under the acts of Congress passed on and since the 7th of June 1832, and on and since the 4th of July 1836, and for the purposes aforesaid my said At- torneys or either of them are authorized and required by me to obtain whatever proof may be necessary relative thereto thereto, and they or either of them are authorized to examine any papers relative to said claim now in the Pension Office or any other department at Washington, and generally to do and perform any other act or thing in the same manner that I might do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirm- ing whatsoever my Attorneys or either of them may lawfully do in the premises.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 23 d day of August A.D. 1851.
Witness J. H. Warman
Edmund Colby
State of Maine County of Lincolnss August 23 d A.D. 1851. Then personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized to admin- ister oaths take acknowledgements of deeds Powers of Attorney and other instruments the above named Edmund Colby and ac- knowledged the above Power of Attorney by him subscribed to be his free act and deed.
Fraser Foss Justice of the Peace of the Lincoln throughout the State of Maine

Power of Atty
M Cole
Aug 29 1851
Mary Colby Mar 2 56
Ex by J. J. Coombs Aug 30 - 51

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, August 20th A. D. 1851.
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Ebenezer Doolittle Esq.
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for each & every the County of - said State — as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated February 4th A. D. 1848 and will expire February 4th A. D. 1855
and that the foregoing following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Harmon , CLERK.

6932
Mary Colby Me
Act. 4 July '36- adm d 2 yrs pri
$80. from 12 aug 45. - 47 when her husband died -
Jeremiah Bailey- Wiscapet Me

State of Maine
Lincoln ss I, Edmund B. Bowman clerk of all the judicial courts for the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Mrs Redington whose official signature is herewith affixed to the certificate herewith annexed is a Justice of the District Court for the Middle District for said State and that said court is a court of Record. And that the signature affixed to the annexed certificate is the genuine signature of said Mrs Redington
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the District Court for the Middle District for said State this twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven
Edmund B. Bowman Clerk

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND, August 26th A. D. 1851
I, Freeman Bradford
Register of Probate,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that the Hon Josiah Pierce by whom the within certificate is signed is Judge of Probate in and for the County of Cumberland duly Commissioned and qualified according to the laws of the State. That James Gennan was at the date of the within attestation by him made an Acting Justice of the Peace in the County of Lincoln. And that Evaskus Root also is an
Acting Justice of the Peace, in each and every
County within and for the County of State.
as appears by the papers hereto
annexed, that he is Root
DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the
is dated February 14th
COMMISSION of the said Root
A. D. 1850 that
A. D. 1848 and will expire February 14th the Commission of the said Gennan was dated March 23rd AD 1843 and expired March 23rd 1850
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be theirs are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

155_00051 State of Maine Cumberland ss. Probate Office
Portland August 26 1851
I Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate for said County hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily proved before me that Samuel Colby late of Westport Maine was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that he died at said Westport on the first day of February 1847. that Mary Colby was the widow of said Samuel and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. that she died in said Westport on the fifteenth day of October A.D. 1849 and that William Colby Benjamin Colby Cornelius Colby Edmund Colby and Rosanna Plummer are the children and the only surviving children of the said Mary Colby deceased.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of said Court to be affixed on the day and year first above written.
Josiah Pierce Judge --

Jeremiah Bailey
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, Edmund B. Bournan Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that Jeremiah Bailey
is an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for said County, as appears by the papers hereunto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission is dated February 16 th 1844, and will expire February 16 th 1854; and that the above signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judiciary Court for said State, this twenty sixth day of April Anno Domini 1847.
Edmund B. Bournan Clerk.

Hon. James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Wiscasset, Maine, April 29. 1847
Sir,
I herewith enclose the Declaration of Mary Colby a widow, in order to obtain a pension under the act of July 4. 1836. -
Proof of her marriage, and her being now a widow is also herewith forwarded.
Very respectfully,
Your most ob t serv t Jeremiah Bailey
Hon. James L. Edwards, Comm r of Pensions.

Hon. James L. Edwards Com tee on Pensions
Washington 

Wiscasset, Maine, July 20. 1847
Sir,
I lately had the pleasure of receiving the enclosed certificate, which I herewith return for the purpose of correcting a mistake, if there be one.
Upon examining her declaration and an accompanying deposition which were forwarded by me in April last, I think it will be found that she stated her husband's death to have been on February 1 st 1847.
If it was intended that her pension should commence at the time of his death, it seems by inspecting the enclosed certificate that she will take too much; his death there (in the certificate) stating to have been on 12 th August 1845.
A return of certificate is respectfully requested at your earliest convenience.
Very respectfully
Yours most ob t . Serv t . Jeremiah Bailey
Hon. James L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions —

Brief in the case of Samuel & Mary Colby , Lincoln County and State of Maine , acts June 7, 1832 & July 4, 1836 .
Claim , ("original," or "for increase.") for Pension.
Proof exhibited , (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
He was pensioned under the Act of 1818 at $96 per annum. Record evidence has been produced that he served ten months as an Artillery and fourteen months as a Cavalry.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
Dickens & Coombs Present
Examining Clerk.
Ebenezer Niles

Sam l Colby M c act 1848 - last paid?
G.M.C. 17. May.
Died 12 th Aug t 1845.
Paid to his death,
B.L.B.
The widow of Sam l Colby died in her residence that her husband died July 1845 Please examine the records of the cure again
Sam l Colby one of his sons with wife - H. you will find it given in the records
There is two pensioners on the Maine Roll of the name above - Sam l Colby 2 d died 1 st Feb. 1847 and - the other as above stated. - if you had said Sam l Colby 2 d you would have got the correct answer

Mama Rosa,
Samuel Colby, as who was an Antigua & Caspian Mts. tract, As June 1, 1832
for 10 mo Antigua $60.00 14 mo Caspian 51.24 $111.24
To Col. March 4, 1831 two Feb. 1, 1847, when he said - former payments under the act of March 18, 1818, to be deducted —
Payable to William Colby, Benjamin Colby, Cornelius Colby, Edmund Colby, & Rosanna Hummer. as children to Dickins & Coomb. Present.

Groton
Nathan Root
Mary Colly, de widow of Samuel, who was an Atty and Conferee, Nathan Root.
Set July 4, 1836.
Ad 10 mo Atty - $60.00 14 mo Conferee 51.24 $111.24
To com. Feb. 1, 1847, and end Oct 15, 1849, when the due, former payments at the rate of $80 to be deducted,
Payable to
William Colly, Benjamin Colly, Cornelius Colly, Edmund Colly, + Rebecca Thurston, as children &c Dickins & Coombs, Execut.

Terrin Office, Oct. 28, 1851.
Sir,
Your letter of 14 th of July 1851, to the Hon Secretary of the Interior has been referred to this office for a reply; and you are informed that it is now in the hands of the proper authorities.

Payment to be made at Portland by W. Woodbury Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of Maine
Issue a New Certificate in the  and under the act 4 July 1831 $80 00 per Ann. Commencement 1 st February 1847 - and the pension agent to correct his book, a cer- -tificate - and send it Recorded in the Pension the Certificate to Office, in Book 6 Vol. 1. Jeremiah Burley Page 3 by Wisconsin J. B. Wood Mr. Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th of July, 1836, Mary Colby _____ of Maine _____ widow of Samuel Colby _____ who was a Private in the Mass. Line and died on the 12 th August 1845, _____ is entitled to receive Eighty _____ dollars and _____ cents per annum during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 12 th August 1845, when he died, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
W. L. Sturges.
Secretary of War.
J. L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.
Examined and Countersigned. }

Maine. 4464.
Mary Colby 11.00 widow of Samuel Colby 2 1st Feb 1847. who died on the 12th August 1845. of Saco in the State of Maine who was a Prio. in the Co. commanded by Captain Wiley of the Reg. commanded by Col. Jackson in the Rev. War time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 12 Aug 1845 when he died. 1st Feb. 1847 when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of May 1847 — and sent to Serenah Bailey, Wiscasset, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk, Book C Vol. 1 Page 3 .
Rep.
New Certificate in? 6th August, 1847, cor- recting mistake as to the date of the husband's death in this case and reported same date see letter and sent to Serenah Bailey Wiscasset, Maine

6716 / Maine
Samuel Colby. Private. March 10 th 1777 War- Mass s Line.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818
Mass & Continental Service. Records of
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of February Jan y 1819 and sent to Gen l Bailey Edge- Wiscasset, Lincoln
Arrears to 4 th of Sept r 1818. 4 mo 21 da 37 60 semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st March 1819 48 11
$ 85 11 60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18 th March, 1818. }
Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine.
Continued.
Rev. Genl. Ap l 28 th 1819 H. B. Bailey Esq r Wiscasset, Maine.

Washington, Aug. 30 th 1857
Sir:
Enclosed you will please find the declaration of Edmund Colby, one of the children of Samuel and Mary Colby, late of Maine, etc. Claiming an increase of the pension granted to his said father under the act of 1832, and also of the Pension granted to his mother under act of 1836.
Among the papers enclosed, you will also find a declaration made by said Colby in his life-time claiming an increase of said pension.
The claim for an increase is founded upon alleged service as a Corporal and sergeant, - the suppose and some ten months service as an Artificer, in Capt. Law's Co. Col. Baldwin's Regt.
We suppose that there are rolls in the pension office which will show whether he served as Corporal and Sgt. as is alleged. There are rolls of Capt. Law's Co. of Artificers on file in the case of John Stanford, now pending in the office, which will show his services in that company, and to which we beg leave to refer you.
Very respectfully &c
J. E. Heath Esq Comm. of Pensions.
Dekins & Govey

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof James [?] in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States Six years & three months and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the
Nineteenth of June 1783
E. H. [?]
By His Excellency
Command,
William [?]
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Francis [?]
Adjutant.

HEAD-QUARTERS, June
1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Sam d Colby Edgcomb 20 th June
Sam d Colby Edgcomb 20 th June
Wid File 20907½ Samuel Colby. Mass.

Feb. 27-1902 Alma R. Barker Malden Mass
1933 - March 10 - Hist. to Miss May Palham Hill - J.R.R.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20907 1/2
Mary Colby Revolutionary War
Act July 14 th 1836
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

File No. 20.907½
Maine
Mary Colby
Widow of
miss
Samuel Colby
Revolutionary War
Mafae tt
Rank Artificer & Corporal
Company (Capt Wiley)
Regiment Col o Jackson
Rate per month Ann r $ 111 24
Commencing Feby 1. 1844
Ending Oct 15. 1849
Certificate dated Nov 4 1851,
and sent _____ 18
Payable at Portland Agency.
Dickens Hombt Attorney.
Act 14th July, 1836
Book _____ Vol. _____ Page _____
11.1

20907 1/2 Samuel Colby
Apr. 14, 1818 Edgecomb Me 55
Apr. 77
Mass
Capt Geo. Bayley Col Michael Jackson Batt 3
so Capt Silas Pearce Col. do
3
Rev of Benjamin X Monmouth, Yorktown
Richd. 6 yrs. 3 mo. June 13, 83
Wid app. Feb 25, 1847 Westport Me. 80
mar. Mary Dimes
May 15, 1782 West Pt N.Y.
Died Feb 1, 1827
She died Oct. 15, 1849

RECORDS.
CHANGE TO BE MADE.
CORRECT.
State, Maine W. File No. 20,907 1/2 Class, Widow Name, Samuel Colby Service, Mass & Continental
Company, Regiment, &c., should be invariably specified.
INCORRECT.
Mass. ✓ AM Montuente Feby 4, 1904.

15-155_00075 MISS MARY PELHAM HILL BOX 68, TOPSHAM, MAINE ORGANIZING PRESIDENT, MAINE SOCIETY CHAPTER FOUNDERS OF THE D. A. R.
February 18th., 1933.
To the Veteran's Administration Dept, Dear Sirs; -
Will you kindly give me from your records on file, all the information you may have regarding the person, and family of two Revolutionary Soldiers and pensioners, viz; -
✓ Samuel Colby Private, @ 79yrs, in 1840 when he applied for pension.
Resided Lincoln County, Town Westport, Maine.
✓ Sylvanus Colby, Private, died Feb. 2, 1833, of Lincoln County Maine. (town Westport?)
I have given you all the information I have of these two men. Both pensioners.
I am very truly yours,
Mary Pelham Hill

Malden Jan 29 th 1902. Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir
Being a descendant of Samuel Colby I am desirous of obtaining his war record.
I wrote to the War Record at Washington and they wrote me that there were a number of Samuel Colby's that fought in the Revolutionary War and they thought if I wrote to you I could get his war record. Because he

received a pension.
he belonged in Maine but at that time it was all Massachusetts. he received his Pension at Wiscasset Maine his wife received it after his death her name was Mary Colby.
he was a very young man when he enlisted and I have been told he was a drummer boy when he first entered the war. but of this I am not sure. he served through the entire war for which he received a pension and his wife also received it after his death now if you can send me his War Record from what I have written

I shall be very grateful yours very respectfully
Mina R. Barker
Malden Mass
21 Laurence St.
great grand daughter of Samuel Colby.
P.S There could not be but the one Samuel Colby Revolutionary Soldier who received a Pension at Wiscasset Maine, and his wife Mary Colby too receiving it, after his death.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Colby, Samuel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3971 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Apr. 3, 1797
to Ezra King
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.