Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,945, William Coombs, Mass.

SERVICE
Coombs, William
NUMBER _____
d. 30.945
CONTENTS

No. 18245 Maine
William Coombs
of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Larabee of the Regt., commanded by Col. Phinney in the Maine Troops time for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of August 1833 and sent to J. Mussey Portland Me.
  Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 53.32   Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep. 1833 13.33   $ 66.65 
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E. Vol. 1 Page 8
Direct South west on A.B.
He letter to Burt of N. d. Q. Bank Portland Maine Sept. 17. 1833

N o 5110
William Coombs Application for a pension
Aug. 1832
le privote,
P 6
Alone
8 mo's
$26.66 2/3
Jamessey Esq. Portland Me
✓

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the first  second day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two  three before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this first  second day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge William Coombs a resident of Harpswell in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy  seventy 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; viz, That early in the Spring of the year 1775 at said Harpswell he enlisted as a private  as a private soldier in a company of militia in the state service, commanded by Capt. Larabee. Isaac Snow was Lieutenant and Kingsbury Eastman orderly Sergeant. That immediately he enlisted he was sent with said Company to that part of Falmouth, now called Portland, to be mustered - that they were there mustered and then joined Col. Phinney's Regt. - That he with said Company was then ordered back to the mouth of New Meadows river near Brunswick, to a small fort, called Fort Higgins, where we served as a guard to keep the enemy from going up the river - and continued to serve there and in that vicinity till Falmouth was burnt in October - then he with the others of the Company was called off to help build a fort on Falmouth neck, now Portland, where we continued about three weeks and then were sent back to Fort Higgins, where he served till Christmas, when he and the Company were discharged. That he enlisted as Volunteer and served as a private - That he was born in Brunswick March 28. 1753 - That he has no record of his age, his parents removed to Harpswell, when he was a child, and that he has always resided there to the present time. That John Coombs is the only person now living that he knows of who can testify to his said service - and that said John Coombs served with him. That he had no written discharge.
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
William Coombs
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

John Coombs of Warrenton, do testify and say that I well know William Coombs who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that he served eight months in Capt. Larabees Company of Militia in the State Service, at Falmouth and Fort Nippins - in the year 1775 - as he has stated. I was a soldier with him in the same Company - & served for the same term of time.
John X Coombs mark
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year above before A. S. Wan { M. S. Justice for the District of Maine
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Coombs for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this third day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that John Combs whose affidavit is on the opposite page is a man of truth & veracity; & that it has been to me proven that there is no clergyman resident in the town where the petitioner lives.
Portland April 29. 1833
Adams Wheeler Dist. Judg.

September 25, 1934
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Mrs. Blanche Coombs Copp Cedar Street Brunswick, Maine
WILLIAM COOMBS S. 30945 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Coombs, of Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine.
The record of William Coombs is furnished below as found in pension claim, S. 30945, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
He was born March 28, 1753, in Brunswick, (state not shown), also names of parents not given. When a child, he moved with his parents to Harpswell, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (Maine).
While residing in said Harpswell, Massachusetts, he volunteered early in the spring of 1775 for eight months, served as private in Captain Larrabee's company, Colonel Phinney's Massachusetts regiment, was stationed at Fort Higgins serving as a guard, assisted in building a fort on Falmouth Neck (later Portland), and was discharged at Christmas of that year.
William Coombs was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, while a resident of Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine.
No reference was made to wife or children.
In 1832, one John Coombs was a resident of Harpswell, Maine, no relationship to soldier given.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

Brunswick, Maine,
Sept 4, 1934
U.S. Pension Office Revolutionary War Dept. Washington D.C.
Will you please send me what family data you have on ✓ William Coombs, Res. Harpswell Cumberland Co, Maine If not too much trouble his War service service also.
Thank you for any information you can give
Sincerely
Mrs. Blanche Coombs Bopp.
Cedar St
Brunswick, Maine.

1934 Sept. 25 - Host 6-7 PM. Blanche Coombs Capp - mkt B
30945 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30,945-
William Coombs
Rev Rev 7/20
Act: June 1932
Index: - Vol. 9 , Page 82
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Office Bank N.E. Portland
J. J. Edwards Esquire Comm. of Pensions Washington

Office Bankers Portland Sept 12 1833
J. G. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington Sir
Should not the names of William Coombs 18245 at 26.66 per annum Seth Morse 180574 and Benjamin Russell be inscribed on our Roll for act of June 7. 1832.
I am, very respectfully Your oblt Servt
J. Wmgate Jr, agent By A. N. Bugbee
18145 - Less chore $64.64
308- Rep? Sept 12th 1833 See letter that date

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Coombs, William GRADE Private "in the LINE Invalids"
WARRANT NUMBER 12943 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 16, 1797 to — not shown —
*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.