Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2732, John Davis, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Davis, John
R. 2732
CONTENTS

34363 In o Davis
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Ad. Mr. Fine
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Original clm

State of Maine Cumberland County ss Town of Gorham I John Davis of Buxton in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy six years . Do testify and say, that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War - in the Massachusetts troops in the Penobscot Expedition under Generals Solomon Lovell & Peleg Wadsworth - in Col. Mitchell's Regiment and Captain Alexander McLellan's Company - I marched with said company to Bigoudene and was in said service five months - and I am now aged & needy - and have lately had my thigh broken - & have many infirmities - and am greatly in need of a pension - I therefore pray that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States - I enlisted at Gorham aforesaid in said McLellan's company -
Dated at Gorham Cumberland Co. John Davis Maine - November 11. 1837.
State of Maine - Cumberland County ss Nov: 11. A.D. 1837 - Then the above named John Davis personally appeared and made oath that the above statement by him signed is true according to his best knowledge & belief -
Before me Josiah Pierce Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court,
Alfred,
February 1 st
A. D. 18 55 }
I, James O. McIntire,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.
In and for said County of York, certify that
Robert Wentworth Esq. in court
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for
the County of
York
as appears by
the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his Commis-
sion is dated
June 30 th
A. D. 18 52 and will expire
A. D. 18 59
and that the 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.
James O. McIntire
Clerk.

know all men by these presents, That I James Davis hereby constitute and appoint Arthur M c Arthur of Limington, Maine to prosecute the claim for a revolutionary pension of the children of my late Father John Davis . and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the departments at Washington or elsewhere To file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent shall do lawfully do in the premises. Witness my hand and seal this twent fourth day of January A D 1855
Digned & sealed in presence of Robert Wentworth
James Davis
State of Maine, County of York ss. on this twenty fourth day of January A D 1855 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared James Davis and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his free act and deed Before me Robert Wentworth Justice of the Peace

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
9532
P. O.
John Davis
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

34, 363 Wame — 1832
John Davis, rejected Let Hon F.O.J. Smith 18 Jan'y 1838 A. McClellan, Feb 26/55
2732
acc'd by June 1832

John Davis Me - July 1832
Free
Loren P. Waldo Esq. Comm r of Parisians Washington D.C.

State of Maine Cumberland County - Nov: 11. 1887 -
I James Murch of Buxton in the county of York and State of Maine aged seventy seven years do testify & say that I was a soldier in Captain Alexander McLellan's company - in Col. Mitchell's Regiment under General Solomon Lovell in the Penobscot expedition in the year A.D. 1879 - and I then well knew John Davis then of Gorham, (but now of Buxton in the county of York) - and I know that said John Davis was a soldier in said McLellan's company & that he marched with said company to Bangor - & that he served in said Penob- scot expedition - but I cannot tell how long he served - I further testify and say - that I have this day seen said John Davis & heard him give in his declaration under oath before Josiah Pierce Esq. of Gorham, and I know him to be the same John Davis that belonged to Capt. McLellan's company in the year and expedition before named.
Witness Josiah Pierce
James Murch
Cumberland County Maine
Nov: 11. 1887 - Then the above named James Murch personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true according to his best knowledge and belief - Before me Josiah Pierce, Justice of the Peace

Limington Feb. 16 1855.
Sir,
I herewith forward you the power of Attorney of James Davis of Maine a son of John Davis late of Benton York County Maine deceased who when living was an applicant for a pension under the Act of 7 June 1832. The children now believe they will be able to prove his service and ask the department a copy of so much of the original declaration as specifies the service of their father.
I am very respectfully Your Atty. servt.
Loren P. Waldo Esq. Comm. d of Pensions Washington D. C.
Arthur M'Arthur

Cumberland State of Maine County Town of Gorham -
I John Phinney of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged seventy five years old testify and say that I was a private soldier in Captain Alexander McLellan's Company in Col Mitchell's Regiment under General Salomon Lovell in the Penobscot expedition in the year A.D. 1779. I then well knew John Davis then of Gorham, (but now of Buxton in the County of York) and I know that John Davis aforesaid, was a soldier in said McLellan's Company & that he marched with said Company to Bigoneche and that he served through that expedition. I know he was a soldier in that year at least three months. & I believe longer I further testify and say that I have this day seen said John Davis and heard him give in his declaration under oath before Josiah Pierce Esq. of Gorham, and I know him to be the same John Davis that belonged to Capt. McLellan's company in the year and expedition before named.
Cumberland County Maine John Phinney
Dec: 16. 1837 -
Then the above named John Phinney personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true according to his best knowledge & belief.
Before me
Josiah Pierce Justice of the Peace