Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,815, John Dillingham, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dillingham, John
S. 15815
Carded.
CONTENTS
alw 1832

P
15815
INVALID.
15815
File No. 15815
John Dillingham
Pre Civil War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 97
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Portland April 27, 1833
Sir Here with an returned the papers of John Dillingham of Minot who has made application for a Pension. Mr Dillingham made his declaration in August last which was drawn by me since he manifests at that time the most scrupulous regard not to have his declaration in force more time than he actually served. He has long been known to me as a man of good morals and strict integrity.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J Bradford
J. S. Williams Esq Comr of Pensions
571

Revolutionary claim
Adm C
6 Mar 1885
2131
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.

Portland April 27/53
Sir
The pension certificate of the applicant Mr John Dillingham may, if unawarded be returned to me.
J. L. Edwards Washington
Very respectfully your obed Servt. J. B. Woodford Portland

N o 18085 Maine
John Dillingham
Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine
He was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Partridge of the Reg t commanded by Col. Rand in the Mass. Troops time for 6 months & 12 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 21 Dollars 31 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1833 and sent to F. Bradford Portland Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 42.62 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep. 1833 10.65
$ 53.27
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 11

Declaration of John Dillingham N o 6375.
A Bradford Portland Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Minot-Portland , within and for said District, on the fourteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this 14. th day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge John Dillingham a resident of Minot in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, 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 7th, 1832. That he
The said Dillingham entered the service of the U. States sometime in the fall of 1777 and served six weeks in the company commanded by Capt Partridge of Duxbury he thinks. James Best was one of the privates of said company. and was stationed at Bristol during said six weeks in the state of Rhode Island.
That he the said Dillingham again entered the service of the U.S. sometime in the fall of 1779 and served two months in the company of which Mr Hale was lieutenant. Jonas Gilbert was a private of said company, and was stationed a part of the time on Castle William and part of the time on Governor's Island near Boston - and was discharged at Gov. Island late in the season of the same year.
That he the said Dillingham enlisted at Brookfield sometime in the year 1780 and served three months in the company commanded by Capt. Puge in the reg. commanded by Col. Rand. and was stationed at West Point most of the time. a small part at Fishkill in New York. That he has no positive proof of his service and knows of no person who can testify for him.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
John Dillingham
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier pensioner , and served as he states
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I John Nussey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
(Lt. John Hale see Mss book)

That he the said Dillingham was born in Duxbury Mass in A.D. 1763 and has a record of his age in a family Bible That he was living in Duxbury aforesaid the first time he was called into the service. The second and third time in Brookfield Worcester County Mass - and has lived in Maine about fifty years since the revolutionary War. That Jonathan Nash can testify as to his character - and others.
John Dillingham Ashur Ware Judge of the U.S. for the Dist. of Maine
WE George Rich - Miyo - and Jonathan Nash - a Clergyman residing in the town of of the same town
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dillingham - who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 69 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.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before Ashur Ware U.S. Judge for Maine District. George Richer Jonathan Nash
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that George Richer who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of Miyo and that Jonathan Nash of the same town
who has signed the same are residents of the same town and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Ashur Ware Judge
Whereby certify that George Richer who has subscribed the above certificate is a clergyman and also that Jonathan Nash is a respectable person whose statement may be relied on Freeman Bradford Jr. Pa
Maine District.
District Clerk's Office April 25. A.D. 1833
In testimony that Freeman Bradford is a magistrate and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine. I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year last above written.
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Court