Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17995, Edmund Hammons, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hammons, Edmund or Edmond
S. 17995
CONTENTS
carded

9063-
Maine
Edmund Edmond Hammond Cornish in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hubbard of the Regt commanded by Col Frost in the Massachussetts Militia for 13 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 50 Dollars 0 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Decem 1832 and sent to Joseph Howard. Simmerick. We
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1832 $ - 75 Semi-ann. allowance ending Mar 1833 - 2 5 $100
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Erast D. Bullock Clerk Book J Vol. 1 st Page 47

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File No. 17995
Edmond Hammonis
Die Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Application for a Pension - Edmond Hamon Declaration 7140.
admitted
15 m o private
$50 -
sent Lorch Howard
Limerville
Me
July 10/10

I William. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the appropriation of Edmund Hammonds for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

State of Maine
County of York ss. On this tenth twelfth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate in & for the County of York now sitting at Limerick Edmund Hammond a resident of Cornish in the county York &
State of Maine aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated - I enlisted in Kittery the County of York & State of Maine, in December 1775. for one year under Captain Philip Hubbard, Nathaniel Coffin was our Lieutenant - John Frost I think was Colonel - We were stationed at Kittery Point in said Town of Kittery during all our time, There was but one Company stationed there - We had no Battle - I was discharged at said Kittery Point - I know of no witnesses nor living who were then with me - Most of those who were with me were older than I.
Afterwards in August 1777 - I enlisted in said Kittery for three months - under Captain Elisha Shopleigh Silas Dore Lieutenant Jonathan Hammond & Lieutenant Littlefield was Major I think - Hovey was our Colonel; On the thirteenth day of August 1777 we started for the
Northern army. We marched to Bennington Vermont & staid there a few days when there joined by others from other counties till our force was said to amount to eight hundred - Then we marched to Still water New York & there joined General Gage's Army, & afterwards in October was engaged in the Battle which preceded the taking of Burgoyne - I saw Burgoyne much from his encampment down through Albany New York - I served my time out, & was discharged. but I have no written discharge - I was born in Kittery aforesaid & moved from Kittery to said Cornish when I have lived for the sixty six years past - I have no record of my age - I do not know of any witnesses by whom I can prove my last service

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension authority except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. EDWARD HAMMON H. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Before Wm. H. Way, Judge of said Court
We Elias Libby a clergyman residing in the town of Limerick Maine and Richard Cole residing in the town of Cornish hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edmund Hammond who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty-one years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Elias Libby Richard Cole
H. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Elias Libby who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Limerick Maine and that Richard Cole who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Cornish Maine and is a respectable person that their statement is entitled to credit.
clerk of the
do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter
for a pension
of the application of In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office this day of August 2 nd 1882
(over)
Pension