Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24049, Abram Dean, Mass. R.I.

(8-1770)
SERVICE
SERVICE Mass. R. J.
NUMBER _____
Dear, Abram Nolly
No 2410419
CONTENTS
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8166 Maine
Abram Dean
of Oxford in the State of Me who was a Pri — in the Com pany by Captain Washburn of the Reg t comm nd by Col Cotton in the Mass s unfor t State Troops — 19 m Lett 5 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 93 Dollars 33 Cents per ann m to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Mar 1833 and sent Freeman Bradford Portland Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $186.66 Semi-ann l allowance ending Sep. 4. 33 — 46.66 $233.33
{ Revolutionary Claim { Act June 7, 1835
Recorded by E.D. Dyer Clerk, Book 9 Vol. 1 st Page 54

Machine - 919
- Molly Dean - widow of Abram Dean, dec. d who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th Jan 32 and who died on the 14 th Aug t 1836 of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a P o M st in the Co st commanded by Captain H ar kins of the Reg t commanded by - Batton in the M st line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834. 15 th Aug t 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Nov r '38, and sent to A. K. Parris P o M t
Arrears to the 4 th of Sep t - $180.34 Semi-annual allowance ending 44.16
$224.50
{ Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk Book A Vol. 1 - Page 7

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland  Minot , within and for said District, on the fourteenth  fourteenth day of August  August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two  two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this fourteenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Abiram Dean a resident of Oxford in the county of Oxford in said Maine District, aged seventy 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 Dean entered the service of the United States in the town of Farmton in the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts sometime in the Spring of A.D. 1777 and served one year in the company commanded by Capt Hopper in the regiment commanded by Col. Stannan the first part of the time and the latter part of the time by Lieut Col. Hawkins. and was stationed at Howlands Ferry at Newton. and was there during the time that the secret expedition was undertaken. That afterwards in A.D. 1778 he the said Dean again enlisted and served eight months in the company commanded by Capt Jacob Hodgkin? in the regiment commanded by Col. John Jacobs and was stationed at Slades Ferry before Sullivan's expedition and after said expedition at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island.
That he again enlisted sometime in the Spring A.D. 1779 and served one year in the company commanded by Capt. Jacob Hawkins, or Hodgkins aforesaid in the regiment commanded by Col. John Jacobs and was stationed the first part of the year at Slades Ferry. Mass. and in the latter part of the year at Newport. Rhode Island. That he served said term of time in the grade and capacity of a corporal. and was discharged at Howlands Ferry.
That he the said Dean again enlisted sometime in Summer of A.D. 1780. for the purpose of filling up the continental regiments and marched for New York a short time after the dark day and served six months. a part of the time in New York and a part of the time in New Jersey in the company commanded by Capt. James Cooper, in the regiment commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford. and was discharged at West Point.
That he the said Dean again enlisted sometime in the year A.D. 1781 as appears from the annexed warrant and served five months in the company commanded by Capt. Elisha Gifford in the regiment commanded by Col. William Turner and served in the State of Rhode Island said term of time as first Sergeant. That he has no written discharge from the service. That the affidavits and his Sergants warrants are annexed to answere.
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
Attest. James D. Dorrance
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Abiram Dean  the said Dean being absent of right by his Attorney J. D. Dorrance
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

That he the said Dean further declares that he was born in the town of Taunton in the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts A.D. 1762. and resided in Taunton when called into the service.
That he has no record but tradition - that he was living in Taunton aforesaid when called into the service and has lived in Hopedale now Oxford for about fifty years. (He volunteered at each term of service.)
Attest. James Donham
Abram Dean by his Atty J. Bradford  the said being one of his
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 Mufsey 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 Abram Dean for a pension. and that Simeon Perkins, Joshua Parsons & John Surner Esquires who took the annexed depositions and that Holmes Thomas Wm. Cushman & Sam Pratt, are Justices of the Peace duly qualified & that their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I 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 Mufsey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
I certify that the above named applicant being blind has hereto annexed his declaration by his attorney Freeman Bradford Esq. Abram Dean
The declarant has obtained proof for 31 months which he has annexed
Maine District U.S. District Clerk's Office December 27. A.D. 1832
In testimony that Giles Shurtleff, Simeon Perkins, John Surner and William H. Porter Esquires, whose genuine signatures are to the annexed documents are severally Justices of the Peace, duly qualified and that their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit, I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office the day and year last above written.
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. Courts

1005
Molly Dean, application for a Pension
Me
act 7 July 38
Married in 1784
Died in 1830
  adm d     Stno Serp  25.00    19 - pri -  63.33     $88.33  
Pen: Com: 15 aug '36 died. 10 aug '36
A.K. Paris.
Joseph L. Galt. Paris As found in the house

State of Maine
Oxford County ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August A. D 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County Molly Dean a resident of Oxford in said County of Oxford aged eighty seven years who being first 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 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Abraham Dean who was a private & Sergeant in the army of the Revolution - that he was a pensioner under the Act of June 7. 1832, that his certificate was dated March 13. 1833 and she refers to the evidence furnished by him on his application for a pension for the proof of his service
She further declares that she was married to the said Abraham Dean on the twenty fifth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four that her husband the aforesaid Abraham Dean died on the fourteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six 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 at the time above stated.
Molly Dean
Witness S. Emery
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Stephen Emery, Judge

State of Maine
Oxford ss. I the subscriber Register of the court of Probate in and for the said County of Oxford hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the court of Probate aforesaid. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Molly Dean for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this twenty Eighth day of August A 1838.
Levi Stowell. Register.

State of Maine
Cumberland Gs
I Charles Fox, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Cumberland and State of Maine do hereby Certify, that Joseph Foxcroft, as appears within, is a magistrate duly commissioned, to act as such, within and for the County aforesaid, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. And I do further Certify, that I am personally acquainted with Joseph E Foxcroft, the within deponent, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that he is a gentleman, of undoubted truth and veracity, and that to whom full credence can be given. —
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and Affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this Eighteenth day of August A D 1838. —
Charles Fox Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Cumberland.

I The Subscribed of lawful age testify & say that I have in my possession a book contain- -ing a record of marriages performed by the late Rev. Samuel Foxcroft of New Glou- cester in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, and in the said Samuel's own hand writing; wherein the following record is made in his hand writing „1784 July 25 Abraham Dean of N o 4 so called to Molly White of New Gloucester“ which figures Seventeen hundred & eighty four July twenty fifth I have have repeated in writing New Gloucester Aug. 17. 1838. Joseph E. Foxcroft
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. August 17 th 1838
Then Personally appeared Joseph E. Foxcroft and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed.
Samuel Foxcroft Just of Peace

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Abram Dean a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. 24049
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1777 1 year Hopkins Stanton Hawkins R.I.   1778 8 mos Pvt Jacob Perkins John Jacobs Mass   Apr. 1779 1 year Corpl. Jacob Perkins John Jacobs Mass   Summer 1780 6 mos Pvt James Cooper Gamaliel Brainard Mass   July 12 1781 5 mos 1st Sgt. Elihu Gifford William Turner  
Battles engaged in, Sullivan's Expedition.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Jaunton, Bristol Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 14. 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Oxford, Oxford Co. Maine.
Age at date of application, born  in 1762 in Jaunton, Mass. died Aug 14. 1836.
Remarks: He married in New Gloucester, Cumberland Co. Me. July 25. 1784 Molly White and she was al. pen. on an ap. re. Aug. 28. 1838 while a resident of Oxford Me. aged 78 years; she died May 10. 1839 +
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
† from Agency book

WILLIAM TURNER, the Colonel of a Regiment, raised by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to serve in the State of Rhode Island, for the Term of five Months.
To Mr. Abraham Dyer
GREETING,
YOU, being returned a Sergeant in Captain Ebenezer Gifford's Company, are hereby ordered to do the Duty, and to be obeyed, as such, during the Term above specified, for which this is your sufficient Warrant.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal this 12 Day of July 1862, and in the Sixth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
William Turner

N o 3232
Declaration of Abram Deane.
on Bradford rd in Talbot
admit 5 m o sere ~ 19 m o private £93. 33
7 Bradford Portland ms

Abraham Davis born App. of Daniel Pratt

I Dan Pratt of Turner in the County of Oxford and State of Maine Aged Twenty years, do testify and say that I was born in Taunton in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that I have been from youth up well acquainted with Abraham Dean, late of Oxford in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, but formerly of Said Taunton where he was said to be born, and where I know him to reside in his youth and during the War of the American Revolution, excepting the time that he was, as well as myself, engaged in the Service of his Country. I first knew him the said Dean as a Soldier in the American Revolutionary Army in the year 1778 where he served Eight Months , on and about Shadyside in Sullivan's Expedition, in the Company commanded by Capt Jacob Hopkins, and in Col John Jacob's Regiment. This was in the State Service. and also that Said Dean served Six months in the Continental Service. and joined the Army at a split point , and was part of the time in Hanover , he was in the Company commanded by Capt James Cooper, and in Col Garrison's Bradford Regiment. This Service was in the year 1780 and I also say that I know Said Dean to be the identical man named in the above affidavit. —
Dan Pratt
State of Maine
Oxford S. July 31. 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Dan Pratt, and made oath to truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me. and I can also testify that the said Pratt is in my opinion entitled to full credit as a witness.
John Turner Pastor of the Church

I the within named Dan Pratt, do further testify & say, that as to the within mentioned campaigns of eight months and of six months which I gave oath on the thirty first day of July last, I was, for both of those respective terms of service, a soldier in the same company with the within named Dean, and I knew him to serve those respective terms, as a private soldier, in those companies and regiments & under those officers, as is within specified by me. Dan Pratt
State of Maine
On this day personally appeared the above named Dan Pratt, & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me; and I do further certify that his reputa- tion for truth, is good. — William K. Porter Justice of the Peace

I John Tripp WE Hebron — — — and
a Clergyman residing in the town of
hereby certify that we are  I am well acquainted with Abrom Dean — who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 70 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 he  we concur in that opinion. John Tripp
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before
Adon Waterman U. S. Judge for Maine District.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Tripp who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of Hebron and that he is entitled to full faith and credit
who signed the same resident of the same town and creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Adon Waterman Judge

William Cushman's Affidavit

I William Cushman of the town of Hartford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine aged sixty eight years, on oath, say that I was a Soldier in the American army, during the revolutionary war, with Great Britain for one year with in the state service of Massachusetts - I enlisted in the town of Plympton Mass. in the spring of the year 1749 - in the company commanded by Capt Jacob Haskins who lived in Taunton in the County of Bristol, State aforesaid of Col. John Jacobs Regiment. I joined the company in Swansey - at Slades Ferry - in Mass, where we were stationed until the next October, the British having then the possession of Rhode -island, who at that time evacuated it, and we took the possession, and marched into Newport, and took up our winter quarters - we left Newport early in the spring and marched to Taunton at Slades Ferry in said State of Rhode Island, where we remained until we were dismissed, which was in the spring of the year in 1750 - And I further say that I well knew that Ephraim Dyer, who now lives in the town of Oxford, formerly part of part of Hebron, in the County of Oxford, was a Corporal in the same Company, and served with me the whole of the campaign - and I further say that I have lived in the town of Hartford upwards of thirty years, and have always been acquainted with the said Ephraim Dyer, and well know him to be the identical man who served with me as aforesaid W m Cushman
State of Maine - Oxford County So December 2 d 1832 then the above named William Cushman to me known as a man of veracity, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me.
Giles Shurteff Justice of the Peace

H. Mann Apprentice. A. Deoni Can.

I Hobbes Thomas of Hebron County of Oxford State of Maine aged seventy years do depose and say that in the year seven hundred and eighty one I was a sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt Braker in the Regiment of Col. William Turner which Company and Regiment were raised by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve in the State of Rhode Island for the term of five months and while in the State of Rhode Island I became acquainted with Abraham Dean of Norton County of Bristol State of Massachusetts who also was a sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt Elisha Gifford and said Dean was one of the first that came to Rhode Island and I was with him in the same Regiment three months and have since been acquainted with him and have no doubt but that said Dean served out his full time of five months.
Hobbes Thomas
State of Maine Oxford County July 31 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Hobbes Thomas whom I know to be a man of truth and make oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me Simson Perkins Jus of Peace

Abram Dean M c act y June 93.33 - when last p d !
[Handwritten signature/initials]
to Nov 38
Died 14 th Aug 1836 paid to that period
OH

Jan. 1833
Revolutionary Claims
Miss
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
FREE

1 Jan. 1833
Revolutionary claims
FREE
Agree
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.

The applicant's certificate if awarded or any other communication may be returned or directed to me.
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL BURLINGTON, MASS. ALBERT DONNELL, PASTOR
June 8. 1914.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir — The History of Oxford, Maine, says:
Abraham Dean , son of Josiah and Mary Dean of Taunton, came to Harn in 1794. He served with Mass. State troops in the Revolution. He died in Oxford, Aug 14, 1836. His widow Polly died March 10, 1839.
Did either Mr. Dean or his widow receive a pension because of his service in the Revolution? If so, what was the nature of the service for which he was pensioned?
Answers to the foregoing will be esteemed favor.
Yours Truly Albert Donnell.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 24049
Molly Dean Wid of Abram Dean Sergt Mass Line
Act Jnly 17 th 38
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1914 June 12: History to 9th (Rev) Albert Donnell