Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21371, Benjamin Horsum, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Horsum, Benjamin or Horsom or Horsome
W. 21,371
CONTENTS
Dorcas

5942
Maine
Benjamin Horsum
of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Nowell of the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year from January 17 th 1818 to January 17 th 1819
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of eight Dollars per month, commence on the 15 day of April and 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of January 1819 and sent to B. Green South Berwick Me.
Continued on the Roll on 10 th day of May 1821 and notification sent to Ichabod Butler at Sanford, York Co. Maine Pension commencing on the 10 th of May 1821
Amount due on 4th of Sept. 1831 } $ 30.73.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }
See letter Apr. 28. 1832 to Hon. J. Holmes.

New Hampshire - 359.
Dorcas Hovey, widow of Benjamin Hovey,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18: Mar. 18 and who died on the 7: November 1826 - at Strafford in the State of N. H. who was a Pw. in the Comp y commanded by Captain N. Hall of the Reg t commanded by Prescott in the N. H. M ty line for 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 19: day of Sep r 18, and sent to David D. Darrow, Somersworth, N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep r $ 132.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 23.33
$165.33
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 42

State of Maine County of York ss.
At the Supreme Judicial Court begun and held at York within and for the County of York on the last Tuesday of April A.D. 1830
On the twentyeighth day of April 1830, personally before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, in and for the County of York aforesaid, being a court of records, Benjamin Horson, resident in said County, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make, the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820; that he the said Benjamin Horson enlisted as a private soldier for the term of eight months, on or about the thirteenth day of April 1775, in the State of Massachusetts (now the State of Maine) in the company commanded by Captain Philip Hubbard, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Schamel, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the first continental establishment Then at the expiration of the aforesaid term of eight months, he the said Benjamin Horson enlisted anew for twelve months, in said State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan Nowell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nathaniel Prescott; that he continued to serve in the corps during the whole term of twelve months, when he was discharged from the service, in the State of New York, on the highlands; that he enlisted a third time, in said Massachusetts during the war, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Grant, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Story - Then after the taking of Burgoyne, was discharged by General Lincoln and returned home to Berwick, in said Massachusetts (now State of Maine) - That he hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension except the present, that his name has been placed upon the pension list; that the number of his pension certificate is three, and that he never has exhibited a schedule of his property nor knew the need of one; because living in a remote part of the Country and being ignorant of the publick transactions, he never knew for what reason his pension was discontinued, he had employed persons to write on to Washington for information, who pretended they had, but he could gain no answer - and was about giving up the whole for lost,
when

Sworn to and declared on the twenty eighth day of April 1830
before Nathan Weston J d one of the Justices of said Court.

I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the said Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Benjamin Hoorson, did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath & declaration thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the said Benjamin Hoorson has no property of any value, excepting the bedding and clothing mentioned in said declaration.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said court this Fifth day of May 1830
Jere. Bradbury Clerk, Sup. Jud. Court
Lebanon August 13 th 1830
I have here in sent to your office the certificate of the officers who swore Benjamin Hoorson out of jail - find he is worth no property - and has had no permanent property since his pension was discontinued - if he is now entitled, please to forward his certificate -
I am Your Ob t Serv t E. Labell
Respectfully to the War Department
W.B. Please to direct as usual to
Enas Labell Esq.
Lebanon Maine

Dorcas Housum Mdm of Bangor
West Hampshire act of July 38
5 years Married in 1780
Abm d 28 mo fri 66. 66.
deduct. died 7. Nov. '37 pen: com: 8 Nov. '37
David Sanborn Somersworth N. H.

An extract from the Records of the town of Berwick in the county of York, and state of Maine, under the head of marriages solemnized by the Rev. Mathew Manniam Pastor of the second Parish in said town viz; "April the thirteenth seventeen hundred and eighty, Benjamin Hanson, and Dorcas Richens both of this town."
I Joseph Prime clerk of said town certify, that it's a true copy of the record except the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz: "April 13th 1780"
Joseph Prime Town Clerk
I Joseph Prime above named depose and say that I held the office of town clerk in the town, county of state aforesaid, of that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exceptions above named as certified by me,
Joseph Prime Town Clerk
State of Maine
county of York ss - August 8th A.D. 1830 -
Sworn to & subscribed by said Joseph Prime
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just. Peace
I William A. Hayes the above named justice of the peace certify that the above named Joseph Prime who is well known to me is a person of truth & veracity, & his statements are entitled to full credit.
Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace

State of Maine.
York ss. I John Sheele Register of the court of Probate within and for the county of York, being a court of Record, hereby certify that William A Hages is a justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signatures to the papers herunto annexed and purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
John Sheele Register of Probate York county

State of Northampton } Strofford ss }
vol 15-33 on file 8mo 75 Capt Phil. Hubbard
On this sixth day of August A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me Ezekiel Hume one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, Dorcas Henson a resident of Somersworth in said county aged seventy nine 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 Benjamin Henson who enlisted a soldier in the Revolution and who entered the service in the month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and served eight months in the a company of Massachusetts troops commanded by Capt. Samuel Grant. She further declares that said Benjamin Henson immediately after the expiration of the first eight months enlisted and served for the space of twelve months more as a soldier in the army of the Revolution and served the last named time in a company commanded by one Capt. Howell and that he left the service as near as she can recollect in the month of January A.D. 1777 and she further states that said Benjamin Henson enlisted the third time for five months in the year 1777 and served in the company (to the best of my recollection) commanded by Capt. Goodwin at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne and that he resided in the town of Berwick in the (then) State of Massachusetts at the time he enlisted, and that he was in the first of his serving at the battle of Bunker Hill and afterwards was at New York. That said Benjamin was a prisoner several years and paroled off at Portland in the State of Maine, and she further states declares that she was married to said Benjamin Henson on the thirteenth

any of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. That her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Herson died on the Seventh day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty so that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz; at the time above stated her Witnesses Nathan Russell Dorcas Herson David Sanborn mark
Sworn to before me on the day and year above written, before me
Ezekiel Hurd
I certify that from bodily infirmity the above named Dorcas Herson is unable to attend court Ezekiel Hurd Justice of the court 541 of common Pleas
State of New Hampshire
Shofford county ss
I Francis Cogswell clerk of the court of common Pleas for said county hereby certify that Hon. Ezekiel Hurd is a justice of said court and that the above sig- natures purporting to be his are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this eighth day of August Anno Domini 1838.
Cogswell, clerk.
Francis Cogswell Clerk

Declaration of Dorcas Hudson
I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Hon. Ezekiel Durd is a justice of said Court and that the above notice purporting that he is a genuine - in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of August Anno Domini 1838. Cogswell, Clerk.
Shelburne
State of Vermont
541
of Common Pleas

Spence
Pens. Off'ce 25 th June, 1840.
Lebanon Me 19 th June
John H. Eaton Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington City

Lebanon, Maine. June 18 th 1830
J. H. Eaton Esquire
Sir. Enos Cobb a transient person in the County of York, of doubtful veracity, pretending to have instructions from the War department for his direction for having entered as pensioners certain soldiers of the revolution as entitled to receive pensions applied to me for copies of certain deeds of real estate conveyed to me by Benjamin Henson a soldier of the revolution, I consented for said Cobb to copy said deeds, and made certificates upon the backs of them as to the manner of conveyance &c.
As it respects the farm mortgaged to me which was redeemed by Mr. Henson & his daughters (as will appear should said Cobb send it to your department) it is a good farm, worth at least one thousand dollars, and Mr. Henson has a life estate in said farm from his said daughters, by which he is entitled to his maintenance by them or he has the control and income at his option, which fact undoubtedly is not generally known,
As a duty I owe my country. I feel it incumbent on me to inform you that it is generally believed that said Cobb is a nuisance to society, that could he become agent in obtaining pensions he would be most likely to swindle the pensioner and appropriate the money to his own use, and it is well known that he is continually traveling from place to place and living upon the credulous, sometimes imposing himself on them as a physician, sometimes as authorized to draw pensions for revolutionary and infirmed soldiers of the late war, or any other feible that will do to gain him admittance for a meal or a nights lodging, If sir, you wish anything to corroborate this statement I can send you the signatures of many respectable citizens of York County
Yours with sincere respect
Mark Wood.

Benj. Hornum - Private Jan'y 76 to Jan'y 77 Prescott's Massachusetts line
15 April 1878.
3 creditable witnesses one of them applicant Capt. Repose before judge
Adon P.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } ON this fifteenth day of April — A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Benjamin Horsum aged sixtyfour years — resident in Lebanon in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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!" —
That he the said Benjamin Horsum in the month of April A D 1775 enlisted as a private soldier in the continental army under Capt Jonathan  Jonathan  Phillip Hubbard of the Reg t commanded by Col Seamons of the Massachusetts line for eight months and served in said company & Reg t until the time for which he enlisted had expired; when he immediately enlisted under Capt Jonathan  Nowell , in the Reg t commanded by Col Prentiss of the Massachusetts line for twelve months and continued to serve in said company & Regiment in the various places in which they were stationed until the twelve months for which he had enlisted expired, which was in the month of January A. D. 1777 when he was honorably discharged at a place called the Highlands in New York, but that long since lost his discharge if he was such one in writing — And in evidence of the truth of the foregoing declaration made by the said Benj t Horsum the above named Jonathan Nowell, Capt. Prentiss, and Deborah  their credible witnesses personally appear & being first duly sworn, do on their oaths testify & say that the declaration aforesaid made by the said Benj t Horsum respecting his enlistment, time of service & discharge are substantially true — that they well knew the said Horsum while in the army & that he was accounted a good soldier — of the said Benj t Horsum for the testimony & declaration.
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj t Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benj t Horsum did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of June Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj t Greene

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.
21371
Dorcas Hoxam
Widow of
Benjamin Hoxam
Dis. New Was
As
July 25 38
Index: Vol
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Page
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

5942.
Maine
Benjamin Norsum Private Jan'y 76 - 1 year M ch 1 st line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Jan'y 1819 and sent to Benjamin Greene Esq r South Berwick M e .
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4m s  \frac{20}{30} $ 37. 33 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.
$ 85. 33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Lebanon, York Co. M e .
In letter 1 March 1830 to Mrs. Cobb do 20 May 1830. do. to M c Wood June 26. 1830: do. to E. Cobb, 7 f July 1830. see do. to E. Cobb. 20 f August 1830. do. to same Sept. 21. 1830.

Benjn Horsum M c act 1818. when last p d . Sep 17. 1838.
[Signature]
Due 7 th Nov r . 1836 paid to that period JH

We the Selectmen of the town of Lebanon, in the County of York & State of Maine, do hereby certify that to the Secretary of War that Benjamin Hanson, who here in claims a renewal of his Pension from Government, is a resident in our town, that in our opinion he is a man destitute of property, and we believe him to be a man of truth, and that full confidence may be placed in his declaration. Lebanon March 18 th 1830
Sam l Pray } Selectmen Elisha Hayes } of Thomas Wentworth } Lebanon

Lebanon Me 15th. Sept.
Free
Secretary of War Pension Office Washington City —

Respectfully to the Secretary of War — Respecting Mr. Benjamin Harson's Certificate, it was a mistake of his in calling it number three — I have procured the Certificate, and herein Returned it to your Department
I am Your Obedient Servant E. Cobb
Lebanon Sept 14 th 1830
P.S. Please to forward the Returns as usual to Enos Cobb Esq. Lebanon Maine

Exon Offm May 10. 1851
Wm Lloyd pen: to con. May 10. 1851 J S Edwards Esq Washington
John Lloyd Esq Washington
Very respectfully yours J S Edwards

Sanford York County Maine
May, 4, 1831
J. L. Edwards Esq War Department Pension office Washington Sir
I have in compliance with your suggestions, submitted the papers, in the case of Benjamin Horsome, an applicant to be restored to the Pension Roll to the Honorable Rufus McIntire, a Representative from our district in Congress, and have procured his opinion in writing, which opinion you will find among the papers that I have herewith returned unto you.
I have also called upon the Clerk of our Judicial Courts, and have from him procured a more particular certificate, than the one formerly transmitted you, which new Certificate you will also find among and annexed to the papers sent.
I have also shown said Clerk your objections as to the manner in which he had attached the papers to each other and sealed them together, all which he has endeavoured to obviate by connecting the accompanying papers together in such manner, and sealing them in such form as to preclude the possibility of any paper or papers being taken from or added to the number.
I do hope that Mr Horsomes case will be

immediately attended to, and I cannot but flatter myself that his papers will now be found unobjectional, and that I shall receive an early notice that Mr. Horseman is restored to the Pension Roll
Respectfully
Yours,
Ichabod Butler

Honorable John H Eaton Secretary of War Washington

Sanford York County Maine
Hon d John H c Eaton.
Secretary of War
Washington.
I herewith transmit the papers (required by the regulations of your department) of Mr Benjamin Horsome, an applicant to be restored to the Pension Roll, wherefrom his name has been stricken on account of profligacy.
Your early attention to the case of Mr Horsome (weightier affairs permitting) is most earnestly requested.
I have this day written to the Honorable Rufus McIntire the Representative from our District in Congress, requesting him to make such explanations and give such information as may be in his power relative to the application of Mr Horsome, which request I willingly believe Mr McIntire will cheerfully comply with.
February, 24, 1831
I am Respectfully your most Obedient & humble Servant
Jehalad Butler
A schedule of the papers that are herewith sent will be found mentioned on the inside of this sheet.

Papers that accompany this
No 1 Statement and Schedule sworn to before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas February Term 1831 - York County, a copy from the Records 2 Mr Horsomes former certificate (original) No 5,942 3 The Copy of the certificate and other papers of the Magistrate - before whom Mr Horsome took the poor Debtors or Insolvent oaths 4 Mr Horsomes Mortgage Deed to Mark Wood Esquire 5 Mark Woods quit claim deed to Mr Horsome 6 Mr Horsomes Warrantee deed to Sally Horsome & Lydia Horsome
No 8 Samuel Pray Deposition No 2 Ebenezer Howells — do — No 4 Moses Rollins — do — No 3 Ichabod Butters — do — No 1. Jedediah Wentworths do No 5 Sally Horsome & Lydia Horsome, do — No 7 Mark Woods — do No 6 Timothy Fergusons — do — No 9 James Jones — do —

Leclerc's Venturi (Deposition)

Iedediah Wentworth of Lebanon in the county of York & State of Maine Yeoman, of lawful age, makes oath, declares and says, that he from the Eleventh day of November AD 1828 to the thirty first day of December No. 1 AD 1830, as the agent of and for Benjamin Horsome of said Lebanon Yeoman, take a Revolutionary pension, settled and paid for the said Horsome the following sums due from him to the several persons, to whom respective names said several sums are affixed, to wit, -
  Hanson Wiggins $14.78 Moses Hanson $77.80 $92.58   Levi Stock 85. Benjamin Ricker 19.50 104.50   Iedediah Pray 8. Benjamin Horsome Jr 36.50 44.50   Oliver Worcester 15. John Wood 11. 26.   Sotham Weyman — — — 4.20   $181.78 
making in the whole the sum of one hundred and - Eighty one dollars and Seventy eight cents -
And the said Iedediah Wentworth on his oath says. further, that the several aforesaid debts or claims against the said Benjamin Horsome originated in the manner and under the circumstances herein after following, that is to say.
The said Hanson Wiggins claim of $14.78 originated for services performed by the said Wiggins in the summer of 1826 for said Horsome in cultivating a piece of Land - That sum was the amount of the said Wiggins wages - The above named Moses Hansons claim of $77.80 against said Horsome, was for the like services of those of said Wiggins, and were rendered the said Horsome in the subsequent year AD 1827 -
The claim of Levi Stock $85.00 - The claim of Benjamin Ricker of $19.50 - the claim of Iedediah Pray of $8.00 & the claim of Benjamin Horsome Jr of $36.50 aforesaid were actually paid by me him all originated between the years AD 1824 and AD 1830, and were for labour performed by said individuals in cultivating the soil for said Benjamin Horsome and necessary articles furnished him by them
That the aforesaid sum of $15.00 paid the said Oliver Worcester, as well as the aforesaid sum of $11. - paid the said John Wood, were for articles, such as he the said Horsome needed, delivered him the said Horsome from the stores of them the said Worcester and Wood -

The sum of $4.20 as mentioned to have been paid to the said Nathan Weyn, was paid for shoes made by the said Weyn for him the said Harsome.
And the said Dedekiah Wentworth on his oath further says, that the said several sums, mentioned & named in the first part of this affidavit, as due to the said several individuals there named, were justly due them from the said Harsome, for services by them done and performed for the said Harsome as well as for articles by them delivered him, and such  were such articles, as the health and situation of said Harsome required. That each of said several individuals was paid by him, the said Wentworth from the money he from time to time received from said Harsome, and that arose from the mortgage and sale of said Harsome's real and personal estate, that the full amount of the sums perfix to their respective names was by the said Dedekiah Wentworth paid each of them. And he the said Dedekiah Wentworth on the twenty day of November A.D. 1828 married Lydia Harsome the daughter of said Benjamin Harsome, that since the marriage of him the said Dedekiah the said Benjamin Harsome and his wife has lived in the same house with, and have been taken care of by him and his said wife Lydia to the present time. That the said Benjamin Harsome is now wholly destitute of property of any kind, and that neither he nor his wife has been for a number of years able to perform any kind of manual labour however simple it may be, that he the said Harsome and his said wife too, must have long before this time, been chargeable to the town for support had not his connections assisted in supporting them, that the connections of said Harsome possess but little property, and are far from being able to support him comfortably in his old age.
Yedekiah Wentworth
State of Maine York ss February 1 st 1831 Personally, this day appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for and within said County of York Dedekiah Wentworth whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit and made solemn oath that the same is true
Ichabod Butler

No 1 I Ebenezer Powell of Sanford in the county of York and State of Maine Gentleman on my oath do declare and say that some time in the month of December A D 1829 I bought or purchased of Benjamin Horsome of Lebanon in said county Yeoman, late one of the United States Revolutionary Pensioners,
One cow and six young cattle for all of which I paid Moses Rollins of said Lebanon trader, being the sum of $22,50, which sum was allowed by the said Rollins towards a claim he then had against the said Horsome, said sum being the purchase money for said stock or cattle And I the said Powell further declare and say that I believe that the payment above made to said Rollins was made fairly and in good faith.
And I the said Ebenezer Powell on my oath do further declare and say that I now am one of the deputy Sheriffs for said county of York and am by law authorized to serve and collect all executions emanating from the several courts of said State in said county, that some time in the month of June A D 1832 was placed in my hands a writ against said Horsome in favour of one Jonathan Clark Roy whose claim against said Horsome was about the sum of six dollars, that after making diligent search for property of said Horsome and not being

able to find any, pursuant to my order I arrested the body of said who Horson, procured a note signed by his Daughter Belsey  Lydia for the Amount of said claim payable in about three months to save himself from imprisonment.
I the said Nowell do further declare and make oath that from my knowledge of the situation and circumstances of the said Horson, I believe he has no property of any kind, and were it not for the assistance he receives from his friends and connections he would now be chargeable to the public for support.
Ebenezer Nowell
February 10, 1831
State of Maine
York ss February 10th 1831 Then personally appeared Ebenezer Nowell whose name is above subscribed and made oath that the foregoing the Certificate of affidavit by him subscribed is true
before me Ichabod Butler Justice of the Peace

No 3
Ichabod Butte of Sanford in the County of York and State of Maine Councillor at Law on the on the Schedule Horses one of Lebanon in said County Yeoman & state one of the revolutionary Pensioners, on the twenty-first day of June AD 1826 paid him the sum of Fifty two dollars and eighty five cents for services rendered by him and other Shepley Esquire of Saco in said County in defending in the several courts a suit brought against him the said Benjamin Horsesone by Thomas Leigh of South Berwick in said County Esquire, to recover the amount of a note of hand to the said Leigh for about two hundred dollars; in which suit said Benjamin Horsesone was prosecuted as the surety of his late son Jonathan Horsesone deceased, and in which suit said Benjamin Horsesone finally prevailed
And the said Butte further on his oath says and declares that he is acquainted with the said Benjamin Horsesone and knows that he now is poor extremely poor, destitute of property of any kind and unable to perform manual labour of any kind, and now is in a great measure if not wholly dependent on his connections for a support of himself & wife -
And the said Butte on his oath further declares that the above mentioned sum so paid him the said Butte as foresaid by him the said Benjamin Horsesone, would fall far short of the

of the extra costs and expenses that said Benjamin Horsome paid out in defending the said suit of said Leigh v him -
Ichabod Butts
State of Maine
York ss February, 14, 1831 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County Ichabod Butts whose name is above subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavits
Timothy Shaw

No 2 4 I Moses Rollins of Sebagon in the County of York and State of Maine do hereby on oath do declare and say, that I am by trade a Grocer, and that I furnished from time to time from my Store in said Sebagon Benjamin Horsome of the same Sebagon late one of the Revolutionary Pensioners, articles in the Grocery line to the amount of $92 11 / 74 , that said articles were delivered said Horsome between the last day of June AD 1820 and the last day of December AD 1829, and were such as his state of health and station in life required, that my chief reliance for payment was an expectation that said Horsome would again be restored to the Pension Roll, that after some difficulty and after commencing a suit against said Horsome I received payment of the above sum from the proceeds of a sum of money raised by said Horsome on a Mortgage of his Real estate and the sale of his only cow and some young cattle, that all the articles amounting to said sum of $92 11 / 74 were none other than the necessaries of life and were sufficient for the sole use and benefit of said Horsome and his family and for the use of no other person or persons whomsoever,
I the said Moses Rollins on my oath do further declare and say that said Horsome is an Inhabitant of the same town with myself, that I have known him for the twenty years last past, that for the last ten years Mr Horsome has been considered Poor, more especially for the last five years, that he and his wife both have both for

The test mentioned ten years ago , by reason of age and infirmities, been incapable of performing any kind of bodily labour, and that she has is and for a long time has been partially if not wholly supported by the manual labour of his children, and must have ere this time had it not been for their assistance chargeable to the public for support.
And I the said Rollins on my oath do further declare and say, that I am acquainted with the parcel of real estate that said Horsome on the 6th October A.D. 1825 1825 conveyed in mortgage to Mark Wood Esq. of this town to secure the payment of two hundred dollars, which sum is a larger sum than said real estate could have been sold for at any subsequent period - that said real estate to my knowledge was all that said Horsome was then the owner of, that said Mortgage was made by said Horsome to said Wood, as I solemnly believe, honestly and in good faith and without any intent whatever on the part of said Horsome to be again restored to the list of Pensioners -
Lebanon 10th Feb'y 1831
Moses Rollins
State of Maine
York ss February 10th 1831 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of York, Moses Rollins Esquire whose name is above subscribed and made oath to the truth of the forgoing Certificate or Affidavit David Jones

No 5
Sally Horsome and Lydia Wentworth wife of Jedediah Wentworth both of Lebanon in the County of York and State of Maine, both the Daughters of Ben r the said Benjamin Horsome of the same Lebanon Yeoman, and late a Revolutionary Pensioner, and both of lawful age on their oath do say testify and declare, that the former is now aged thirty eight years and that the latter is now aged forty two years, — That they some time in the month of March A D 1836 (they then being, and for a long period before that time having been out of service on wages) they paid their said father or delivered to him the sum of fifty dollars, to be paid by him to Mark Wood Esquire towards redeeming the farm of their said father which was then under a mortgage to said Wood to secure the payment of two hundred dollars — from the proceeds of their wages, — That they the said Sally and Lydia the said afterwards on the day of A D (the said Lydia being then as well as at the date last mentioned single and unmarried), to prevent their said father from being turned out of doors (as the said Wood had frequently threatened to foreclose said Mortgage) from their own earning paid the said Wood the sum of fifty dollars in cash and gave him their notes for the sum of one hundred fifteen dollars which sums together made one hundred and sixty five dollars, which said sum was the balance and interest due said Wood on said Mortgage, —
The said Sally and Lydia on oath further say and declare that at the same time that said last mentioned payment was made to the said Wood he the said Wood by his deed of quit claim of that date relinquished all his right and title in the mortgaged premises to their said father Benjamin Horsome, and to the said Benjamin Horsome, in consideration that they the said Sally and Lydia would pay him the further sum of one hundred dollars by his deed of Warranty of that date conveyed the mortgaged premises aforesaid to them the said Sally and Lydia
They the said Sally and Lydia on oath further say that the sum to be paid by them of three hundred dollars aforesaid for said mortgaged premises or said farm greatly exceeded the value thereof — that they the said Sally and Lydia have since the conveyance of said mortgaged premises to them as aforesaid, well and truly paid their said father said sum of one hundred dollars, and have paid and taken up all their said notes they gave to the said Wood towards discharging said Mortgage, That they the said Sally,

and Lydia had no other inducement in discharging said Mortgage and taking a conveyance of the said Mortgage premises to themselves, than to provide a home for a short time for an aged infirm & indigent Parents. That the same mortgaged premises would not now sell for Two hundred dollars.
And they the said deponents further say that both their said Father Benjamin Harsome and his Wife their Mother (who is now living) are by reason of old age and bodily and mental infirmities unable now and have for the last ten or twelve years past been unable to do or perform any kind of manual labour that their said Father is extremely poor, and has for the last five or six years been in a great measure dependent upon his connections for support and that they have within the period of time last mentioned, furnished and supplied him their said Father with small sums of money and necessary articles of provision to an amount over and above the sum of one hundred dollars paid by them to him towards the mortgaged premises exceeding one hundred and twenty dollars arising from their earnings by manual labour, that both their said Father & Mother are now wholly dependent for support on their Children all of whom obtain their lively living by manual labour.
And the said Sally and Lydia on their oath further depose, declare and say that both their said Father Benjamin Harsome and his said wife, would be now, were it not for the aid and assistance afforded them by their Children, chargeable to the said town of Lebanon for their support. Sally Harsome
And the deponents further say that she the said Lydia was married to Lideidah Wentworth on the Eleventh day of November A D 1828, and that said Wentworth is now living.
Lydia Wentworth Sally Harsome
State of Maine York ss February 18 th 1831 Then personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County of York Sally Harsome and Lydia Wentworth wife of Lideidah Wentworth, whose names are above subscribed and made oath that the foregoing deposition is true. Mark Wood Justice of the Peace

No 6
No 3 on Schedule
I Timothy Ferguson of South Bewick within county of York and State of Maine do hereby depose certify that Benjamin Henson of Scarborough in said county, late a Revolutionary Pen- sioner was in the year 1817, indebted to me in the sum of One hundred and eighty eight Dollars for goods sold & delivered for the benefit of his family, which account was then settled by his promissory note to me for that sum — and that afterwards in the year 1818, Jonathan Henson the said Benjamin was indebted to me in another sum of One hundred & forty seven Dollars for goods sold & delivered him, and that Benjamin Henson with said Jonathan gave me their joint and several note for the sum last named and that by the death of said Jonathan soon afterwards, the said Benjamin was compelled to pay the note last named
And that afterwards in the year 1821 the said Benjamin Henson paid me both said notes amounting with interest to more than three hundred & fifty Dollars — I understood that he hired the money to pay said debts of our Mark Wood Esqr
Tim s Ferguson
South Bewick Feby 16 1831
York Feb. 21 st 1831. Then personally appeared Timothy Ferguson Esq. and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed was true before me Chas. C. Goodwin J. Peace

No. 7 Mark Wood of Lebanon in the County of York and State of Maine Esquire, on oath says and declares that from the first day of May A D 1824 to the sixth day of October A D 1825, has delivered from his store in said Lebanon, and advanced money to Benjamin Horsome of the same Lebanon Yeoman, late a Revolutionary Pensioner, to the amount of the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars, and also in that time paid for the said Horsome to Timothy Ferguson of South Berwick in said County Esquire the sum of seventy dollars towards a debt due from said Horsome to said Ferguson. The whole amount paid by him the said Wood for him the said Horsome, up to the said sixth day of October A D 1825 being Two hundred dollars, on which said sixth day of October A D 1825 said Horsome made and executed to him the said Wood his the said Horsome's Mortgage deed, to of that date to secure the payment of said sum of two hundred dollars, reference to an authenticated copy of said Mortgage deed to be had, which accompanies this deposition. That after the making of said Mortgage deed, said Horsome within the period of one year from the date thereof, paid him the said Wood the sum of fifty dollars towards the sum of Two hundred dollars aforesaid, That some time in the month of March A D 1827. the said Benjamin Horsome being unable to pay the residue of said sum of two hundred dollars and to discharge said Mortgage, his two daughters Lydia and Sally Horsome paid him the said Wood the balance - then due him being One hundred and fifty dollars together with the interest thereon  upon the whole partly in cash and partly by giving him the said Wood their Notes of hand, whereupon he the said Wood discharge said Mortgage deed by quitting his claim to the premises therein mentioned to him the said Benjamin Horsome, and that the said Benjamin Horsome at the same time by his Warranty deed conveyed all his right & interest in said premises to his said daughters Lydia and Sally - all which conveyances or rather certified copies of the same make a part of this deposition.
And the said Wood on his oath further declares and says, that the goods and articles sold said Horsome from his said store were necessary articles and such as said Horsome's situation and station required. And that all the moneys advanced and paid by him the said Wood to him the said Horsome

were appropriated by him the said Horsome to the payment of his just debts, and for no other purpose except it might be for the purchase of necessaries for himself and wife —
And the said Wood on his oath further declares and says that the said sum of fifty dollars paid by him the said Horsome towards redeeming said Mortgage was furnished by his the said Horsomes daughter Lydia and Sally (according to the best knowledge and belief of him the said Wood) to their said father Benjamin Horsome for that purpose —
And the said Mark Wood further states that to his knowledge and belief the whole of the aforesaid sum of two hundred dollars was applied to the exclusive use and benefit of him the said Benjamin Horsome — Mark Wood
State of Maine
York ss February 14th, 1831 Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of York the above named Mark Wood and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Ichabod Butler

No 8
Samuel Pray of Lebanon in the County of York and State of Maine, on his oath declares and says - that within about two years  the anterior to the 24th day of July A D 1838, he furnished Benjamin Horsome of Lebanon aforesaid, late a Revolutionary Pensioner, from his store in said Lebanon, certain small articles of Grocery, to the amount of $15.71. and gave him a credit for the same, believing all the time that Horsome would get as restored to the Pension Roll, and knowing him to be an honest man, he placed reliance on his expected Pension as a fund for payment, that being disappointed in that for fund he the said Pray hoping that some of the connections or friends of Mr Horsome might aid and assist him in the payment of said sum, caused a suit to be instituted against him, on which judgement was recovered and execution thereupon sued out, for that sum, and the sum of $2.54 costs, on which execution said Horsome was committed to Prison and discharged therefrom by taking the oath for the relief of Poor Debtors.
And the said Pray on his oath further says and declares that all the several items making said sum of $15.71 by him supplied said Horsome were absolute necessaries and such as his station in life and health required.
And the said Pray further says & declares that said Horsome is now extremely destitute of Property of any kind, and would now were it not for the friendly aid and assistance of some

of his neighbours and connections be chargeable to the public for support—
Samuel Pray
State of Maine
York ss February 10th 1831 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of York Samuel Pray whose name is above subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit or certificate.
Truly A. Pease Justice

Jan 18 th 1891 Affidavit

No 2 on the schedule James Jones of Lebanon in the County of York and No 9 State of Maine Yeoman of lawful age makes oath of affidavits and says that he received of Benjamin Horson of said Lebanon, late a re- volutionary Pensioner, on the thirty first day of March A.D. 1829 the sum of forty dollars, which sum he the said Jones endorsed on a note he held against the said Horson payable and due on that day for fifty dollars and interest, that said note of said Benjamin Horson to him the said Jones was dated and given Sept. 31 st 1828 and made payable to one Thomas Worster or order for fifty dollars in six months of interest, that the consider- ation of said note was a horse sold by him the said Worster to him the said Horson for said sum of fifty dollars, which note said Jones still holds against said Horson, with said endorsement thereon and no other, leaving a balance still due said Jones of all said note and interest except said forty dollars — James Jones
York ss. Feby. 18 th 1831 Personally appeared the above named James Jones and under oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true before me Mark Wood, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine County of York ss.
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that Ichabod Butler, Mark Woods, Timothy Shaw, David Jones, Hawley A. Keay, and Charles H. Babbitt who have certified the several depositions thereto annexed, are each of them Justices of the Peace in and for said County of York and that the signatures respectively purporting to be theirs are genuine —
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas, this twentyfirst day of February A.D. 1831 —
Jer. Bradbury Clerk

York County State of Maine May 3. 1831
The application of Benjamin Hosmer of Lebanon in this county to the War Department for restoration to the Pension Roll and the evidence & papers accompanying it have been submitted to me for examination for my opinion as to the character of the transactions especially that portion of them relative to the con- veyance of his real estate to his daughters Lydia & Sally, and in addition thereto I have examined Judith Wentworth and Mark Wood & Deborah Butler as to the circumstances attending the whole transaction & of the means the daughters had to make the purchase and of the value of the property. I am personally acquainted with the deponents Mark Wood, Deborah Butler, Deborah Moulton, Timothy Frazier & Samuel Pray & know their testimony would not be questioned in our courts of law & that it is entitled to full credit. The other deponents I know only by reputation and from that I know nor have heard anything why they should not also be

Sam l Pray Deposition

York County State of Maine May 3. 1831
The application of Benjamin Hornum of Lebanon in this county to the War Department for restoration to the Pension Roll and the evidence & papers accompanying it have been submitted to me for examination for my opinion as to the character of the transactions especially that portion of them relative to the con- veyance of his real estate to his daughters Lydia & Sally, and in addition thereto I have examined Judith Wentworth and Mark Wood & Deborah Butler as to the circumstances attending the whole transaction & of the means the daughters had to make the purchase and of the value of the property. I am personally acquainted with the deponents Mark Wood, Deborah Butler, Ebenezer Moulton, Timothy Fergus- & Samuel Pray & know their testimony would not be questioned in our courts of law & that it is entitled to full credit. The other deponents I know only by reputation and from that I know nor have heard anything why they should not also be

be entitled to belief.
From a careful examination of all the evidence & circumstances in the case I am satisfied that the transactions generally & in particular the sale & conveyance from Benjamin Hosmer to his Daughters were bona fide, without any intention either to defraud creditors or to procure for him a pension, and such as his circumstances required him to make.
Though the consideration paid by the Daughters for the real estate is in my opinion less than a full price yet the difference is no greater than is frequently made in sales under the circumstances of pressure he then felt, and less than was within the last month made in an estate sold by myself & others as trustees to close a concern between creditors & heirs.
The consideration expressed in the deed of Hosmer to his Daughters is high & was not intended to express either the estimated value or the sum agreed on but as Mr Wood who wrote the deed says, it was

was inserted at random taken from an affidavit of Mr. Hosmer that if he was not obliged to sell he should be un- willing to sell for a less sum than the than the round sum mentioned.
The proceedings in administering to Mr. Hosmer was before the poor debtors vatt on his commitment in the execution of Samuel Pray are regular under the laws & practice in this state & then before the proper authority.
Rufus W. White

Know all men by these Presents, that I Mark Wood of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine, trader, in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars paid me by Benjamin Horson of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine, yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby quit all claim, right and title which I have unto a certain tract or parcel of land lying in said Lebanon, being lot numbered fourteen in the fifth rage in the third division of lots in said Lebanon, which land was deeded to me by mortgage on the sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, by the said Benjamin Horson, he the said Benjamin having paid the full consideration as aforesaid. And I do covenant with the said Benjamin, his heirs and assigns, that the above premises are free of all incumbrances from me, that I have good right to convey the same to the said Benjamin, his heirs and assigns, in manner aforesaid, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming under me.
In witness whereof, the said Mark Wood have hereunto set my hand and seal, this eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Dacey Riches, Lydia Horson. Mark Wood
York ss. September 9, 1828. Then the above named Mark Wood personally appeared and acknowledged the above written instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and deed.
Before me, David Jones. Justice Peace.
Recorded according to the original, received February 12, 1831.
Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register.
copy of Record, book 138, page —
Attest,
Jeremiah Goodwin, Register of Deeds.

State of Maine.
Yorke, ss:
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of York aforesaid hereby certify that Jeremiah Goodwin who has certified the within, is Register of Deeds for said County of York, and the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State this twenty first day of February A.D. 1831.
Jere. Bradbury Clerk

Copy No 5 Deed. Mark Wood
To Benjamin Horsum, of Lebanon.
Copy - 872

Know all Men by these Presents,
THAT Benjamin Horson of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine , yeoman,
in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars paid by Mark Wood of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine , the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bequeath , sell and convey unto the said Mark Wood , a certain tract or parcel of land lying in Lebanon aforesaid, being lot range five numbered fourteen in the third division of lots in said Lebanon , bounded as follows viz. beginning at the road near the northeast corner of Moses Pierce's land, and running westwardly by the land of said Pierce & Moses Ricker to the southwestwardly corner of said lot, thence northerly to widow Emeline Horson's thirds of her deceased husband's estate, thence eastwardly by said Emeline Horson's thirds to the road or highway, thence by said highway to the place of beginning, being the farm on which I now live.
To Have and to Hold, the aforegranted and hereinafter premises, with all the rights and appurtenances to the said Mark Wood , his heirs and assigns, to him & their use and behoof, forever....And I do covenant with the said Mark Wood , his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises; that they are free of all incumbrance; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Mark Wood , his heirs and assigns ....And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Mark Wood , his heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
PROVIDED NEVERTHELESS, that if the said Benjamin Horson , his heirs, executors or administrators, pay to the said Mark Wood , his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, the sum of two hundred dollars, with lawful interest, in twelve months from the date hereof,
then this deed, as also a certain note bearing even date with these presents, given by the said Benjamin Horson to the said Mark Wood , to pay the sum of two hundred dollars at the time aforesaid, shall both be void, otherwise shall remain in full force.
In witness whereof, I the said Benjamin Horson have hereunto set my hand and seal, this sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of us, Paul Ricker , Amos Pray .
Benjamin Horson his mark
Copy of Record, book 120, pages 94 & 95. Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register of Deeds.
York, ss. October the 25, 1825. Personally appeared then the above named Benjamin Horson and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed. Before me,
Recorded according to the original, Enoch Wood , Justice of the Peace. received January 18, A.D. 1826. Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin , Register.

State of Maine.
County of York, ss: I, Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said county of York, hereby certify, that Jeremiah Goodwin who has attested the within to be a copy from the Records of Deeds for said County, is Register of Deeds for the said County of York; and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of York, this twenty seventh day of December, A. D. 1830.
Jere. Bradbury Clerk
Copy No. 4 Mortgage Deed Benjamin Norcum to Mark Wood.
Search Copy, &c. 1830

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That
I Benjamin Hoorson of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine, yeoman, in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars paid me by Lydia Hoorson & Sally Hoorson of Lebanon in the county of York and state of Maine
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain sell and convey unto the said Lydia & Sally Hoorson, a certain tract or parcel of land lying in Lebanon aforesaid, being part of lots numbered fourteen in the fifth range and third division of lots in said Lebanon, and lot numbered fourteen in the sixth range and third division of lots in said Lebanon, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the corner of lot range five, and bounded by land of Moses Pierce and others, & running westwardly to land of Andrew Hoag, then northwardly by land of said Hoag to land of widow Eunice Hoorson being her thirds of her deceased husband's estate, thence eastwardly by said Eunice's land to the road leading from Daniel James' duck house to land of Moses Pierce, thence southwardly by said road to the place of beginning; containing fifty acres, more or less, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
To HAVE and to HOLD the said granted premises to the said Lydia & Sally, to them & said Benjamin Hoorson their heirs and assigns, to them & their use and behoof, forever.
AND I the said Benjamin do covenant with the said Lydia & Sally Hoorson that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted premises; that they are free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same with said in manner aforesaid, unto the said Lydia & Sally Hoorson.
AND that I the said Benjamin will warrant and defend the same premises to the said Lydia and Sally Hoorson, forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons, whomsoever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Benjamin Hoorson
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us, Mark Wood, Druce Ricker
} Benjamin X Hoorson mark
York, ss. March 11 th 1829.
THEN the above named Benjamin Hoorson to be his acknowledged the above instrument to be subscribed by him free act and deed—before me,
Recorded according to the original, David Jones, Justice of the Peace. received February 12, 1829. Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register.
Copy of Record, book 158, page 1. Attest Jeremiah Goodwin, Register of Deeds.

State of Maine.
Yorks, ss: I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of York, aforesaid, hereby certify that Jeremiah Goodwin who has certified the within, is Register of Deeds for said county of York, and that the within signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, this twenty first day of February, A. D. 1831.
Jere. Bradbury, Clerk.

Copy No. 6, Deed Benjamin Horson To
Sally & Lydia Horson, Lebanon.
Copy, 872

County of York ss
State of Maine
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of York aforesaid hereby certify, the that Ichabod Butler, Mark Woods, Timothy Shaw, David Jones, Hawley A. Pease, and Charles N. Gage well, who have certified the annexed affidavits of Frederick Wentworth, Ebenezer Nowell, Ichabod Butler, Moses Rollins, Lydia Wentworth & Sally Hosson, Timothy Ferguson, Mark Woods, Samuel Pease & James Jones, hereto annexed, are Justices of the Peace for said County and were so at the time, and that the signatures purporting to theirs are genuine, and the certificate of Hon Rufus McIntire was written by him in my presence and is also annexed.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my name and affix the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this third day of May Anno Domini 1831
Jer. Bradbury Clerk

Mark Woods Deposition

Yimo Sargunus. Affidavit

Sally Horsome and Lydia Wentworth Deposition

Moses Rollins Deposition

Ebenezer Butts Deposition

Ebenezer Knowlton Deposition

Respectfully to the War Department.
Your Letter of the 21 st of September, concerning Benjamin Hanson, is before me, and I much regret that it becomes my duty (intrusted to me by him) to trouble the Department further upon the subject of his claim for a Pension. I had concluded that when I had forwarded a Certificate from the Magistrate, who swore him out of jail, that all was finished and done, as it respects proving him a man destitute of property — in addition I have sent you a Certificate from all the Selectmen of the town where he resides, showing that he has no property.
Your Department inform me that a "communication" is lodged in the Office stating that he has a life estate in property held by his daughter. Nothing of that kind is shown on the Books of our County Register, and the fact is well known here that the property which was once his is now owned by as many as eight or ten different persons, who have bought it and paid for it, and that the old gentleman has been compelled to sell it in paying his necessary expenses, a cow to one — sheep to another, a spot of land to another and so on, without any design connected with his claim on Government, but solely to keep him from prison and to furnish him the necessaries of life — I conclude the "communication" mentioned in your letter is from some of this poor old man's enemies, who have been continually endeavoring to injure him — Clark Ward — The same "Mr. Ward" who kept a Petty Grog Shop in the neighbourhood, is a bitter enemy to him and to me, and the old gentleman has been informed that he has remonstrated against him, & that is the reason he has not received his bounty from government — I think myself that the communication emanated from him or some of his grogshop inmates — He is a quarrelsome meddling fellow & an enemy to many and no friend even to himself, and considered a man of Bad Principles and Habits — He beat a man by the name of Benj. Goodwin with a knotted rope, till he nearly took his life — not long ago he was obliged to pay a Bill for beating a Mr. Grant with a hot iron — I have prosecuted him to our next County Court for misconduct, and he and his grogshop acquaintances are very bitter against me; — and believing that Mr. Hanson and his family are my principle witnesses against him, he and his clan of comrades are doing all they can to injure me and them. I wish to do no more nor less than my duty when business is intrusted to my care, and have paid great attention to the subject of this old gentleman's claim, and it seems to be unjust that he should be kept out of it by the influence of such men as Clark Ward and his associates — I may be deceived in my conjectures concerning

the authorship of this said "Communication" — However I wish you to send me an attested copy of it, and then I shall be enabled to impeach the veracity of the Author concerning it let him be the one I surmise or not — if I cannot do that, I shall decline troubling the Department any further concerning Mr. Henson's Claim — I have continued writing to your Department more than ten months upon the subject of this man's claim — I have always thought it my duty so to do, as all the respectable testimony which has appeared goes, to show him regularly entitled to his claim according to law so far as I can understand the law — I sent to your Department a large list of names of persons who have improved me as Witnesses , — I have been able to finish the papers for some and others must wait for new laws — This man has been continually a claimant on my list — and I have been to much trouble and expense to satisfy the Department of his claim — But I have found he had some enemies in his neighbourhood who were working secret plots against him, and being a man passed helping himself, they have got his property away from him in so many various ways, that it would be as much impossible for him to account for it all, as it would be for a Butcher to gain a certificate from each customer that he had sold a piece of meat to on fair day ten years ago.
I Am Most Respectfully your O bt Serv t
C. Cobb
P.S. Please to direct to me as usual —
I noticed in your last letter that you omitted my usual title — it may be from something in the communication Clark Wood has reported that I forged my Commission — for that and other bad conduct I have caused a suit at law to be brought against him —
Lebanon October 1st 1830
C.C.

State of Maine
County of York ss. I Jediah Wentworth of the town of Lebanon in said County, aged forty one years, do on oath testify that I live on the farm formerly owned by Benjamin Harrison - That I carry it on under the directions of the present owners - That the said Benjamin Harrison has no Right nor Claim to any life estate in said farm nor has he any other property - or any estate or income of any kind - The property which he once owned has been sold a little at a time to pay his necessary expenses - I have seen a letter from the War Department of September the 21st where in it is stated that a communication has been lodged in that Department stating that the said Benjamin Harrison has a Life estate in property conveyed to his daughter - That statement I know to be without foundation in truth - The property sold to Mr Wood no doubt has an allusion to a small Wood lot which was the last property the said Harrison ever owned, which was sold to pay sundry small debts to keep him from prison - I can further testify that Samuel Pray, Oliver Hays and Thomas Wentworth were the legal Selectmen of the town of Lebanon when they prefixed their names to their certificates and that I was present when they signed it - I furthermore testify that one Mark Wood and some of his associates in the neighborhood where the landed property lies which was formerly owned by the said Harrison who are the objectors against Mr Harrison's claim, are such men from their general conduct in this affair as ought not to be believed
County of York ss. Lebanon October 1st 1830 Jediah Wentworth The above subscribed Jediah Wentworth personally appeared before me and made oath that this Affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me David Jones Justice Peace

State of Maine
Yorke ss.
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of York hereby certify that David Jones, who has certified the within affidavit of Gedediah Wentworth, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine —
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State this second day of October A.D 1830
Jere. Bradbury Clerk

copy - of work in the case of
Benjamin Morison
a poor debtor

State of Maine.
York, ss.
The Twelfth day of August A. D. 1830 AT a Court holden before us, Jere. Bradbury and Henry Holmes Esquires, two of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county of York, and both of the Quorum, at the dwelling house of Samuel Leighton, Esq. in Alfred, in the County of York, being the prison house at said Alfred - at the request and on the application of Benjamin Horsaon of Lebanon in said County of York, is common
a poor prisoner in said prison, standing committed upon execution bearing date the 26th day of July, A.D. 1830, issued on a judgment recovered against him on the 24th day of July, A.D. 1830, at a court holden before Alexander Worcester, Esq. a Justice of the peace of said County of York, by Samuel Pray of Lebanon aforesaid, Esquire.
for the sum of thirteen dollars and seventy one cents, debt or damage, and two dollars and fifty four cents, costs of suit; and Twenty five cents for one writ of execution. And the said Horsaon the debtor, being desirous of taking the oath allowed by law of said State for the relief of poor debtors; and having caused the said Samuel Pray, Esquire the creditor, at whose suit he was so arrested and confined, to be notified, according to law, of the said debtor's desire of taking the oath and benefit allowed by law "for the relief of poor debtors," and the time and place when and where he intended to take the same, in order that said creditor might be present and object, if he pleased.
The said Holmes, Justice of the peace and of the Quorum as above- said, did adjourn the hearing of said Horsaon's application from eleven of the clock A.M. of said twelfth day of August to two of the clock P.M. of the same day.
After having examined the return of said notification, and carefully examined and cau- tioned the said Horsaon
it appears to us the said Justices, and it is our opinion, that the said Benjamin Horsaon hath not estate sufficient to support himself in prison or pay prison charges, except the goods and chattels by law exempted from at- tachment and execution; and that he hath not conveyed or concealed his estate with the design to secure the same to his own use, or to defraud his creditors; We have, therefore, after due consideration of the premises, thought proper to administer, and have accordingly administered to him the said Horsaon the oath prescribed in "An Act for the relief of poor debtors."
Witness our hands, at said Alfred this Twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Jere. Bradbury Henry Holmes
A true copy of record Attest
Jere. Bradbury } Justices of the peace Henry Holmes } and of the quorum of the County of York

541 N.H. Aug 21 7 July 1838, Horsm
James L. Richards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

I Sydie Worster of Somersworth in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire fifty nine years old - Depose and say that I have been personally acquainted with Benjamin Herson late of Lebanon  Limington in the County of York & State of Maine. I always understood that the said Benjamin Herson was a Soldier in the Revo- -lution & have every reason to believe he drew a pension before his death. I have also been personally acquainted with Doreas Herson, Widow of the said Benjamin Herson, since the days of my youth. The said Benjamin died within two years past and Doreas Herson of said Somersworth is the identical Widow of the said Benjamin Herson has not been married since the death of the said Benjamin. Lives in the same Village  house with me and acknowledges the declaration made by her for a pension on the sixth day of this August 1830. Witness Richard Russell Polly Austin Sydie her + Worster Mark
State of New Hampshire Strafford p. } August 16. 1830 Then personally came before me. Sydie Worster a credible witness and made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is true. Before me Richard Russell Justice of the Peace

Somersworth N. H. August 16. 1830
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir. Will you please to direct your answer to the enclosed papers, made out to establish the claim of Donet Harrison to a pension, to the address of David Sanborne of Somersworth N. H. Very respectfully - David Sanborne.

I Moses R. Wooster of Somersworth in the County of Shafford  York and State of New Hampshire sixty five years old do hereby affirm and say that I was acquainted with Benjamin Henson late of Lebanon  Lebanon deceased in the County of York and State of Maine deceased, ever since I was a boy, lived in said Lebanon  Lebanon within one and a half mile of the said Henson about eleven years. understood that the said Henson was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and drew a pension before his death. said Henson died about two years ago. I have been personally acquainted with Doreas Henson, his widow, for many years past; that she has not been married since the death of her husband the said Benjamin Henson and now lives in the same village & street with myself and is the same person who was the wife of the said Benjamin Henson & now the said widow of the said Henson. The said Doreas Henson is now present and says that the declaration by her subscribed for a pension before Hon. Ezekiel Hand on the fourth  fourth day of August, present, was done by her.
Witness
Richard Ruspell
Moses R. his X Wooster Mark
Polly Austin
State of New Hampshire Shafford ss. { August 16. 1838 Then personally came before me. Moses R. Wooster a credible witness to me well known and made oath that the above affidavit by his subscriber is true Before me Richard Ruspell, Justice of the Peace

Copy No. 11.
Benjamin Horoon's application for a Pension.

State of Maine.
York, ss:
At the Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at Alfred, within and for the County of York, on the second Tuesday of February, being the eighth day of said month, Anno Domini 1831,
Present the Honourable Ezekiel Whitman, Chief Justice.
On the tenth days of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-hundred and thirty one, personally appeared in open Court, said Court being a Court of Record according to the laws of said State, the proceedings whereof being according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and with a power to fine and imprison, and keeping a record of its proceedings—Benjamin Worsome of Lebanon in said County of York, yeoman, aged seventy eight years, who first being duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th. of March, A.D. 1818, and the first day of May, A.D. 1820, that he the said Benjamin Worsome, for the first time enlisted for the term of eight months, on the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, in the State of Massachusetts, in the Company commanded by Captain Phillip Hubbard, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Scamman, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the first Continental establishment, and that he continued to serve in said Regiment of said Scamman until the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, on which day or on a few days anterior to that day, he the said Benjamin Worsome again, in the town of Roxbury in the County of Middlesex in said Massachusetts, at Fort Number One, enlisted for the term of twelve months, in the Company commanded by Captain Jonathan Novell of York in said County of York in said Massachusetts, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nathaniel Prescott, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the first Continental Establishment, that he the said Worsome continued to serve in said last-mentioned corps until the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, when he the said Worsome was discharged from service in the Highlands

in the State of New York, whence he the said Worsome returned to his then home in Berwick in said County of York, and there continued about the period of eight months, at the expiration of which time, he the said Worsome, sometime in the month of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, enlisted for the term of five months, unless sooner discharged from service, in the State of Massachusetts, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Grant, in the Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colonel John Story, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the first Continental establishment, that he the said Worsome continued to serve in said last mentioned corps until the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, when he was discharged from service, in what State, or at what place, he the said Worsome (such is the age and such are the infirmities of him the said Worsome) is not now able to recollect. And he the said Benjamin Worsome hereby on his oath doth further say and declare, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name has been placed on the Pension List, that the number of his Pension certificate is 5942, and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he the said Worsome says that the several agents and persons by him employed to aid and assist him to be restored to the Pension Roll since he has been stricken from the same, thought it unnecessary and not required by law.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May, A. D. 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th. day of March, A. D. 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 to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 eighteenth day of March, A. D. 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

contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the 18th. March, A. D. 1818, the following changes have taken place in my property.
   Description of my (Benjamin Worsome's) property, on the 18th. day of March, 1818. Names of persons to whom disposed to since that time to Feb. 10, 1831. Time of Sale. Amount of money & description of property received in return.     1. One half of a small farm in said Lebanon, about 40 acres of land - a one story house thereon, but partly finished. The other half of said farm was sold my son Jon: Worsome in the month of Jan. 1815. Mark Wood, Esq: in mortgage, to secure the payment of 200$. October 6, 1825. Part $ received in cash, part $ appropriated to the payment of a debt due from me to said Mark Wood.   2. The right of redeeming the above real estate mortgaged by me to said Mark Wood, Esq: Lydia Worsome & Sally Worsome, for 100$ Feb. 8, 1828. Who paid the debt of 200$ & interest due Wood. Part $ then due and part $ received in cash.   3. 1 yoke six feet oxen See depositions No 8, & 7. James Jones for $40. 50. Oct. 31, 1829. Appropriated to the payment of a note due from me to the said Jones, or to the part payment of the same.   4. 1 Cow (See No 2) 6 young cattle. Ebenezer Newell for $22. 50. December 1829 Paid Moses Collins towards a claim due from me to him   5. 1 Cow I killed for my own use. Oct. 18, 1828.   6. 3 sheep. Ebenezer Dymon, I sold two for cash $4. 50 None I killed eat. Dec. 1828. Received the cash $4. 50 for the two sold.   7. One Cow - three sheep One half old plough " old harrow 3 chains 36 lbs. and a few articles of household furniture mentioned in the annexed schedule. I sold this 18th. day of Feb. 1831 - the cow and three sheep are exempt from attachment and execution, as also is the articles of furniture.  

From the proceeds arising from the sale of the foregoing enumerated property, I the said Benjamin Horsome have paid and discharged the following debts on demand.
   Moses Collins. See deposition No. 1. $ 92. 74.   James Jones - " " No. 2. 40. 50.   Timothy Ferguson " " " 3. 287. 82.   Ichabod Putnam " " " 4. 52. 85.   Hanson Huggins See deposition No. 6. 14. 78.   Moses Hanson 77. 80.   Levi Nock 85. 00.   Benjamin Bicker 19. 50.   Jediah Pray 8. 00.   Benjamin Horsome, Jr. 36. 50.   Oliver Worcester 15. 00.   John Wood 11. 00.   Jotham Wynn 4. 20.   Jedediah Wentworth ---   Sally Horsome See deposition No. 8   Betsy Horsome " " " 9  
Samuel Pray - On whose demand I the said Benjamin Horsome was on the 27th. day of July, 1830, committed to prison, said last mentioned demand being $18. 50. (Def No 8)
Witness: Ichabod Putnam.
His Benjamin X Horsome. Mark.
Sworn to and declared in Court, on the 10th. day of February, 1831.
Ezekiel Whitman.

Schedule.
The annexed is the schedule referred to in the foregoing declaration or affidavit made by me the subscriber Benjamin Worsome under oath.
I the aforesaid Benjamin Worsome have not at this time, that is to say this 10th. day of February, A. D. 1831, any real estate, in possession, remainder or reversion of any kind or description whatsoever, nor does any person whomsoever hold any estate of the like kind in trust for me.
Now have I any personal estate in possession or that is holden in trust for me except the following, to wit:
1st.
One home made bed, bedstead and bedding, together with my clothing and the clothing of my wife, and sundry articles of household furniture barely necessary for the use of me and my wife, all too trifling to enumerate, and all exempt from attachment and execution ————— $12.00
2 d .
One loom exempt from attachment and execution $10.00
3 d .
Three sheep exempt from attachment & execution $4.50
4 th .
One old plough unfit for use $0.25
5 th .
One half of an old wooden tooth harrow and } three chains about 36 lbs. ————— $1.00
I the said Worsome am by occupation a farmer, but by reason of age and bodily infirmities (being subject to rheumatic complaints) have not been able to pursue that calling or do any kind of manual labour for the twenty years last past.
My wife, whose name is Dorcas, is now living, and is aged seventy five years — she has for the eighteen years last past been decrepit and unable to do any kind of labour, or even to take care of me or herself.
I the said Benjamin Worsome have now living seven daughters and no sons — five of my daughters are married and

and two remain single, all of whom are twenty one years of age and upwards, and the whole are dependant on their manual labour for a livelihood, having no property of their own, nor hath any of their husbands any more than will their labour is necessary for the support of themselves and families. All my daughters are living absent from me except Lydia Wentworth now aged 42 years, and who is now married to one Jedediah Wentworth, who resides in said Lebanon, and in whose family I and my wife now live. My whole means of subsistence depends on my said son in law Jedediah Wentworth (who is now poor and destitute of all kinds of property) and my two unmarried daughters Betsey and Sally, both of whom have hitherto appropriated to my support a part of their wages (both being employed as spinners in the Great Falls Manufactory, an establishment in our neighbourhood.
My circumstances were such and such were the insfirmities of myself and my wife in January, A. D. 1815, that I was under the necessity of selling to my son Jonathan the one half of my then stock and farm, (being the one half of all the property of every kind I was then the owner of) for the sum of two hundred dollars. My son Jonathan aforesaid died on the eleventh day of March, 1823, insolvent.
I do not now hold any bond, obligation, note, or any document of a debt for the payment of money or for the performance of any thing whatsoever against any person whomsoever - Nor is any person whomsoever indebted to me in any sum of money or any other thing whatsoever to my belief or knowledge.
Witness: Ichabod Fuller.
His Benjamin X Horsome. Mark.
Declared and sworn to in Court, the tenth day of February 1831.
Ezekiel Whitman.

I, Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Benjamin Worsome did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oaths and schedules hereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of 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 twenty seven dollars and seventy five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventeenth day of February, A. D. 1831. Jere. Bradbury { Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.

No. 2 Record of the case of Benjamin Horsome a poor Debtor -
(copy) Record in the case of Benjamin Horsome a poor debtor

State of Maine County of York ss-
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of York do hereby certify that Henry Holmes & Jeremiah Bradbury whose names appear are on this and the annexed papers are each Justices of the Peace and of the quorum for said County of York - and their signatures certifying the annexed papers do copies are genuine - and also that Samuel Leighton is Keeper of the County Jail in Alfred in said County.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court of Common Pleas this twenty eighth day of December 1830
Jere. Bradbury Clerk
State of Maine County of York ss

State of Maine County of York ss
State of New York - County of York ss - I, Jeremiah Bradsbury Clerk of the County Common Pleas for said County of York do hereby certify that Henry Holmes & Jeremiah Bradsbury whose names appear above this note the annexed papers are each copies of the Deed and of opinion for said County of York - and their signatures certifying the same is hereby certified as genuine - and also that Jeremiah Bradsbury is Clerk of the County Court in York in said County in witness whereof I have unto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Conesville this twenty eighth day of December 1830 Jer. Bradsbury Clerk

Sam l Pray vs. Benj m Hovey
York ss July 27-1830 By virtue of this execution and for want of goods & chattels or land of the within named debtor by him shown unto me or found within my precinct to the amount of the within said creditor to satisfy this execution I took the body, the body of the within named Hovey and committed him into the jail in Alfred in said County and delivered him into the custody of the keeper together with an attested copy of this execution
Ebenezer Jones, Constable of Lebanon
  Fees Billage  54    Service  25    Travel  48    Blank & copy of  25    return     mercy & expenses  1.50     $3.02  
A true copy, Attest
Ebenezer Jones, Constable of Lebanon
A true copy of the paper lodged in my office as the copy of the execution Samuel Pray vs. Benjamin Hovey
Samuel Leighton
(Keeper of the jail at Alfred within named)
This is a true copy of the paper submitted to us as the execution Pray vs. Hovey return thereon Attest
Geo. Bradbury } Pres. of the peace and of Henry Holmes } the Inferior Cr. County

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....To the Sheriff of our said County of York or either of his Deputies, or the Constables of the town of Lebanon County, or any, or either of them, within our said
GREETING.
WHEREAS Samuel Pray Esq. of Lebanon in said county
on the 24th day of July 1850, before Alexander Wooster Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid, recovered judgment against Benjamin Norcross of said Lebanon
$15.71 for the sum of fifteen dollars and seventy one cents, debt or 2.50 damage, and two dollars and fifty four cents, for charges of suit, as to us appears of record; whereof execution remains to be done.
WE COMMAND YOU, therefore that of the money of the said Debtor, or of his goods or chattels within your precinct, at the value thereof in money, you cause to be levied, paid and satisfied to the said Creditor, the aforesaid sums, being eighteen Dollars and twenty five cents in the whole; and also that out of the money, goods or chattels of the said Debtor you levy twenty five Cents more for this writ, together with your own fees. And for want of such money, goods or chattels of the said Debtor, to be by him shewn unto you, or found within your precinct, to the acceptance of the said Creditor for satisfying the aforesaid sums—We command you to take the body of the said Debtor, and him commit unto our gaol in Alfred in said County of York and we command the keeper thereof accordingly to receive the said Debtor into our gaol, and him safely keep until he pay the full sum abovementioned, with your fees, or that he be discharged by said Creditor or otherwise by order of law.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this writ, with your doings therein, unto our said Justice, within sixty days next coming. Witness our said Justice at Lebanon the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
(Signed) Alex. Wooster

Notification
Benjamin Henson to
Sam l Pray, mg

A true copy of the application by me made to Henry Holmes Esq. a justice of the peace of the County of York, his notice to the officers return and the magistrates certificate thereon as on the files in my office.
Attest
Samuel Leighton
{ Keeper of the gaol at Alford in the County of York (Maine).
York ss 12 Sept r 1830 We hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the application of the keeper of the gaol at Alford to Henry Holmes Esq. a justice of the peace of said county, the said justices notice to said Holmes esquire - the officers return of said notice and the certificate by us made.
Geo. Bracton
Henry Holmes
{ Justice of the peace and of the Quorum of the County of York and who admin- istered to said Holmes the poor debtors oath.

State of Maine.
To Henry Hobbs Samuel Leighton Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the County of York.
Esquire, one of the Justices of the
I, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX , keeper of the prison in Alfred, in said county, represent that Benjamin Morrison of Lebanon in the County of York yeoman
now a prisoner in said prison, in which he stands committed by force of an execution, issued on a judgment obtained against him at a justicia Court held before Alexander Weston Esq a Justice of the Peace, which was begun and held at Lebanon on the twenty fourth day of July A D 1830
by Samuel Pray of Lebanon in the county of York aforesaid Esquire
for the sum of fifteen dollars and seventy one cents damage, and costs of Court taxed at two dollars and fifty four cents, with twenty five cents for one writ of execution, and cost of commitment taxed at three dollars and two cents, hath complained to me that he hath not estate sufficient to support himself in Prison and pay prison charges.
I do therefore, in his behalf, and at his request, apply to you the said Justice to make out a notification to the said Samuel Pray the creditor aforesaid, agreeably to an act of the State, entitled "An Act for the relief of poor debtors;" thereby signifying to said creditor his, the said Benjamin Morrison's desire of taking the privilege and benefit allowed in and by the act above referred to. Dated at Alfred aforesaid, the twenty seventh day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty  thirty
Samuel Leighton
Seal
York, ss... To Samuel Pray of Lebanon in the county of York Esquire
GREETING.
WHEREAS the foregoing application hath this day been made to me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said county of York: You are there- fore hereby notified of the same; and that Thursday the twelfth day of August 1830, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, is intended for the caption of the oath (or affirmation) allowed by the act therein referred to, at the prison aforesaid; when and where you will be present if you see fit.
Given under my hand and seal, at Alfred, the twenty seventh day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty  thirty
Henry Hobbs
York ss. July 26 th 1830
I have this day served the above notification upon the above named Samuel Pray by reading this notification to him
Ebenezer Jones, constable of Lebanon
N. B. The officer will fill up the blank for time of taking oath, giving at least / 5 days notice.
Fees, Service, 25 Travel, 13 miles, 52 177
Deputy Sheriff
YORK, ss. August 12 th
1830 Having examined
the above return, and duly cautioned the said Benjamin Morrison
We have administered to him the oath or affirmation, allowed in the act above refer- red to; and made out a certificate thereof in the form therein prescribed.
Jno. Bradbury Henry Hobbs
} Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum.

No 37. Bishnugga
Benja. Norton of Lebanon 12 Aug. 2 1838.

A true copy of the oath administered to Benjamin Housman and of the certificate required by law as lodged in my office
Attest Samuel Leighton
Keeper of the seal at Alfred in the County of York Maine
York ss 12 Sep: 1830 - We hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the oath by us administered to the within named Housman and of our certificate thereof, and, of what is by law required
Jere. Breckbury Henry Housman
Justices of the peace and of the quorum of the County of York State of Maine authorized to administer said oath &c

I, Benjamin Hossom do solemnly swear, before Almighty God, that I have not any estate, real or personal, in possession, reversion or remainder, sufficient to support myself in prison, or to pay prison charges, except the goods and chattels by law exempted from attachment and execution; and that I have not, since the commencement of this suit against me, or at any other time, directly or indirectly, sold, leased, or otherwise conveyed or disposed of, to, or entrusted any person or persons whomsoever, with all or any part of the estate, real or personal, whereof I have been the lawful owner or possessor, with any intent or design to secure the same or to receive, or to expect any profit or advantage therefor; or have caused or suffered to be done, any thing else whatsoever, whereby any of my creditors may be defrauded. SO HELP ME GOD.
Witness H. Holmes
his Benjamin Hossom mark
York ss....To Samuel Leighton the Keeper of the gaol at Alfred in the County of York
WE, the subscribers, two Justices of the Peace for the said County of York and each of us of the Quorum, hereby certify, that Benjamin Hossom a poor prisoner, confined upon execution for debt, in the gaol at Alfred aforesaid, hath caused Samuel Pray — the creditor, at whose suit he was so confined, to be notified according to law, of his the said Benjamin Hossom's desire of taking the benefit of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of poor debtors;" that, in our opinion, the said Benjamin Hossom hath not any estate, real or personal, sufficient to support himself in prison, except the goods and chattels by law exempted from attachment and execution; and that he hath not conveyed or concealed his estate, with design to secure the same to his own use, or to defraud his creditors; and that we have, after due caution to the said Benjamin Hossom , administered to him the oath prescribed in "An Act for the relief of poor debtors."
Witness our hands and seals, this Twelfth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty
L. Bradbury Henry Holmes
(Seal) (Seal)

State of Maine.
York, ss.
The twelfth day of August A. D. 1830
AT a Court holden before us, Jus. Bradbury and Henry Holmes Esquires, two of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county of York, and both of the Quorum, at the dwelling house of Samuel Leighton Esq. in Alfred in the County of York being the prison house at said Alfred —
at the request and on the application of Benjamin Horsaon of Lebanon in said County of York yeoman
a poor prisoner in said prison standing committed upon execution bearing date the 26 th day of July A D 1830 issued on a judgment recovered against him on the 24 th day of July A D 1830 at a court holden before Alexander Webster Esq a Justice of the peace of said County of York by Samuel Pray of Lebanon aforesaid Esquire
for the sum of fifteen dollars and seventy one cents, debt or damage, and two dollars and fifty four cents, costs of suit; and Twenty five cents for one writ of execution. And the said Horsaon the debtor, being desirous of taking the oath allowed by law of said State for the relief of poor debtors; and having caused the said Samuel Pray Esquire the creditor, at whose suit he was so arrested and confined, to be notified, according to law, of the said debtor's desire of taking the oath and benefit allowed by law "for the relief of poor debtors," and the time and place when and where he intended to take the same, in order that said creditor might be present and object, if he pleased.
The said Holmes , Justice of the peace and of the Quorum as above said did adjourn the hearing of said Horsaon's application from eleven of the clock A. M. of said twelfth day of August to two of the clock P. M. of the same day and no person appearing to appear After having examined the return of said notification, and carefully examined and cautioned the said Horsaon
it appears to us the said Justices, and it is our opinion, that the said Benjamin Horsaon hath not estate sufficient to support himself in prison or pay prison charges, except the goods and chattels by law exempted from attachment and execution; and that he hath not conveyed or concealed his estate with the design to secure the same to his own use, or to defraud his creditors; We have, therefore, after due consideration of the premises, thought proper to administer, and have accordingly administered to him the said Benjamin Horsaon the oath prescribed in "An Act for the relief of poor debtors."
Witness our hands, at said Alfred this Twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
(signed) { Jus. Bradbury Henry Holmes
A true copy of the record by us made attest
Jus. Bradbury } Justices of the peace & of the Henry Holmes } Quorum of York County Maine —