Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,436, Morrell Hobbs, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hobbs, Morrell
S. 35,436
CONTENTS

Merrell Hobbs
of Harrison in the state  Dist of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Mass. line, for the term of one year .
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of April 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of April 1819 and sent to A. H. Parris, Esq. Paris, Maine .
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10 mo. 85.03 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819  48.00
$133:03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application of the late Merrell Hobbs for a pension from the State of Maine

Ms 203. Merrill Hobbbs
Copy
9415 17 April 1893
Sep 1819
Columbia
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixteenth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty first day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Merrill Hobbs aged sixty seven years, resident in Harrison in said District, 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. Howell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott 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 16th day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 9415 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.
Merrill Hobbs
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty first day of June . A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — Three acres of wild land in Harrison Personal estate — I have none — I and my wife live with a son — I have no income Morrell Hobbs
Sworn to June 21/1820
Before Albion K. Parrish U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Morrell Hobbs who, by occupation am a Farmer, which I am not able to pursue by reason of age and infirmity — having a rupture, which is troublesome and dangerous —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife Miriam .. living with my son as 63 a feeble woman — been under the Doctor's care ten years before stated Morrell Hobbs    Sworn to Before Albion K. Parrish U.S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, JUNR. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, 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 fifteen dollars and no more  cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of June , . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$15-

Morris Hobbs (Private)
Prencotti Mast. Regt.
1776 for 1 year -
(Maine)
16 th April 1810 -
See J. B. Merrill Admitted
United States of America
District of Maine, ss
I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the several persons within named as witnesses, are credible
A. K. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge Portland, Maine.
Morris Hobbs.

I, Morrell Hobbs, a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Harrison in the County of Cumberland and State of Massachusetts do testify and say, that in the month of May AD 1775 I enlisted into the army of the United States of America on the continental establishment for the term of eight months as a private soldier in Capt. Philemon Hubbard's company, Col. Gookin's regiment in the Massachusetts line, which term of eight months I fully served, when, without leaving the service, I again enlisted into said continental service for the term of one year as a private soldier in Capt. John Newhall's company, in the regiment of Col. Prescott in the Massachusetts line, which term of one year I also fully served in said company, when I received an honorable discharge.
I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support and that I am not boone on any pension list of the United States. Morrell Hobbs
United States of America District of Maine ss. April, 16. 1818
Sworn to and subscribed
Before
Albion F. Parris U. S. Dist. Judge, etc.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Morrill Hobbs the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the depositions of Moses Weymouth & Jonathan Vawclee, the former a fellow soldier, the latter the Captain under whom said applicant served in the revolutionary war, taken before William Hobbs a respectable magistrate appointed by Deddams for this purpose; also the certificate of Benjamin Chadbourn & others, municipal officers relative to said applicant's circumstances in life; all hereunto annexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Morrill Hobbs the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Alcion H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
And I do further certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction, that the said Morrill Hobbs , in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life does stand in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Alcion H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
May 1, 1897.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Horrell Hobbs , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 16, 1818, at which time he was residing at Harrison, Mass., (age not stated), and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hubbard and Col. Scammon. Place of his enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. F. J. Stubbs,
Portland, Maine.
c/o Cook, Everett & Pennell.

Harrison April 14 th 1810
This is to certify that in our opinion the Bearer, Mr. Morrell Hobbs by reason of his reduced circumstances and advanced age and bodily infirmity stands in need of relief from govern- ment and is entitled thereto under the act of Congress of the 10 th of March last as we understand the same
Benj a Chadbourne Charles Walbran John Woodburn
{ Selectmen of Harrison

United States of America } District of Maine ss. }
To William Hobbs or Joseph Prince of Berwick in said District, esquires, Greeting
Whereas at a special District court of said United States for Maine District, held at Paris within said District on the sixteenth day of April A.D. 1818, Morrill Hobbs of Har- rison in said District presented himself and claimed a certificate of his having served in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States agreeably to the pro- visions of an act of congress passed March 10, 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revo- lutionary war"; and whereas in the course of the ex- amination here had it appears that the testimony of Capt. John Newhall, Benjamin Deymouth, Moses Deymouth or Francis Deymouth, or of some other persons, whom the applicant may produce, is material and necessary in support of said application, Therefore to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the powers vested in this Court by the laws of the United States, you the said William Hobbs or Joseph Prince.

are appointed and authorized, at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of the person aforesaid, touching said application and the same when taken, together with this warrant, to certify and return to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay.
Given under my hand and seal, this seventeenth day of April A.D. 1818.
Alcibiades L. Parsons
Judge of the United States in and for the Dist. of Maine
York ss. Berwick April 29 1818
Pursuant to this Warrant I have this day taken the deposition of Major Jonathan Russell and Mr. Moses Weymouth both of this Town agreeable to the Order therein expressed
Wm. Hobbs

I Moses Weymouth of Lawfull age do testify and say that Morrell Hobbs of Harrison in the county of Cumberland was eight Months in the service of the Revolutionary war in 1775 at Cambridge under the command of Captain Phillip Hubbard, and in the same Regiment with me, which was commanded by Colonel James Scammons and that he was in 1776 twelve months with me in said service in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan Nor- -ell and in Colonel William Dinsmore's Regiment Moses Weymouth
York ss On the twentyseventh day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and eighteen the aforesaid deponent was examined, and cautioned and sworn agreeable to Law, to deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken by order of a Warrant from a special Dis- -trict Court of the United States for Maine District holden at Paris within said District on the sixteenth day of April A.D 1818. is the cause of taking this deposition
Wm Hobbs Justice of the peace

I Jonathan Newell of Lawfull age do testify & say That Morrill Hobbs of Harrison in the County of Cum- berland was eight months in the service of the Revolutionary war in 1775 under the command of Capt Phillip Hubbard and in the same Regiment with me, which was commanded by Colonel James Scammon — and that he was in 1776 in the service of the Revolutionary war twelve Months with me, and under my command as Captain of a company, in the Regiment commanded by William Colonel William Prescott Jonathan Newell
Yorks On the twenty seventh day of April in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & eighteen the aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to Law, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken by Order of a Warrant from a special District Court of the United States for Maine District holden at Paris within said District on the sixteenth day of April A.D. 1818. is the cause of taking this deposition
M orrill Hobbs Justice of the peace for York County

COOK, EVERETT & PENNELL. WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, PORTLAND, MAINE.
A
Portland Apr 13/1897
United States Pension Agency Washington D.C.
I wish to obtain a record of service of Morrill Hobbs . He served in a Massachusetts regiment in the Revolutionary war and was a pensioner at the time of his death, kindly send me all the record that is permitted and if possible a copy of his application for a pension and oblige
Yoursor
F. J. Stubbs
Portland Me
care Cook Everett & Pennell

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Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 436
Morrell Hobbs
Dis Per Mar
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]
May 1. 1897 History Mr. F. J. Stubbins c/o Cook, Everett + Penne Portland—Maine