Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4208, Samuel Graves, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Graves, Samuel Mary
R. 4208
CONTENTS

Notification sent the 5 th July 1930, to Jeremiah Bailey Esq.
Wincaput Mines

6815 / 1
Maine
Samuel Graves
of Alna in the District of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Poor of the N. Hampshire ine, for the term of one year
scribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4. of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jan 9 1819 and sent to Jeremiah Dailly Esq Wiscasset, Lincoln.
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818  5 mo 30  40.26 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819  48.
80.26
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
4499
Coombe

Sam. Graves Private
Post. New Hamp. Regt
1776.
one year
See Bailey
Apr. 4. 1818
ments are entitled to credit & belief.

State of Massachusetts
I Samuel Grows a citizen of the United States now resident at Alma in the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare that in the war of the revolution in the first of the year 1776 (the month I have forgotten) I entered and was engaged in the land services of the United States on the continental establishments and served accordingly from that time to the end of my enlistment, being for one year, as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence. That I belonged to Capt. Titcomb's company in Col. Poor's regiment of the Massachusetts line line, - was encamped at Cambridge till the British troops evacuated Boston, was then marched to New York & thence to Tienderoga where we re- mained till November, and was then marched to the Jerseys - I was at the taking of the Hessian troops at Trenton, soon after which I left the service, having received an honorable discharge which I have lost - and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of as- sistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty four years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore al- lowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may or hath been so allowed
I was discharged the first part of January 1777 at Trenton -
Samuel Grows

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln ss. Be it remembered, That on this fourth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred & eighteen, Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made & passed on the 18 th of March A. D. 1818 personally appeareth before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the same being a court of record of said county, the above named Samuel Groves and after due examination, and caution to testify & declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, & subscribes the same in my presence, and on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jer Bailey
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named, & that his signature to this caption is genuine, & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court.
John H. Sheppard

I Thomas Cunningham of Newcastle in said County of Seneca on oath testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Sam- uel Groves the aforesaid Applicant, that I am knowing to his having enlisted in the revolutionary war the first part of January 1776 for one year, in Capt. Titcomb's company, Col. Poore's New Hampshire Regiment - that he faithfully served out said time of one year & was regularly dis- charged at Trenton in New Jersey - I belonged to the same company with him, & was discharged the same day with him - I recollect seeing said Groves' discharge -
Thomas Cunningham -
I James Kennedy of Leicestershire in said County of Seneca on oath testify & say, that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid Samuel Groves, that I served as a soldier in the same company with him, enlisted when he did - we served in Capt. Titcomb's company Col. Poore's New Hampshire Regiment said Groves enlisted in Nov. of Dec. 1775 to serve until Jan. 1. 1777 - during said one year service & towards the latter part of it, I was taken sick at Tienderoga & left there, said Groves marched away with his Regiment & in his said compa- ny, & I understood that he completed the year's service and received a regular discharge - James Kennedy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln ss. July 3. 1818. Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the aforesaid Court of Probate the aforesaid Thomas Cunningham & James Kennedy & after due examination & caution to testify the whole truth, they severally made oath to the depositions aforesaid by each of them respectively signed, which said depositions were each written by me & both signed in my presence, & each of the aforesaid deponents are credible persons & their statements are entitled to credit & belief.
Jer Bailey

65 Samuel Graves
6815
March 189
Baily

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this twenty first day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared in open court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Samuel Graves aged sixty six years, resident in Alna in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Wilcomb in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Poor in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the fourth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 1815 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Samuel Graves
Sworn to and declared, on the 21 st day of June A. D. 1820. }
Ebenezer Thatcher
BEFORE
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real estate - none
Personal - 1 box - 1 trunk - a little decayed furniture - no income except my pension - I owe not less than One hundred dollars and have no debts due to me
Samuel Graves
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Samuel Graves who, by occupation am a laborer which I am not able to pursue by reason of infirmity, sickness & debility
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife Mary 51 infirm & sickly   son John 22 common health   daughter Thankful 20 do.  
Samuel Graves
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk -
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

Mary Graves order of Samuel Maine. H999
Oct 7 July, 1858
J. Bailey Misceasnt Me

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7. th July 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Maine } ss. County of Lincoln }
On this twenty sixth day of February 1839. personally appeared before the Hon. Nathaniel Griston Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, Mary Graves a resident of Alma in said County of Lincoln aged eighty one 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. th 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." - That she is the widow of Samuel Graves late of Alma aforesaid deceased, who was a private in the army of the Revolution and served according to her best knowledge and belief in the following manner, to wit, that in the first of the year 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier on the continental establishment, in a company commanded by Captain Fitchcomb in Col. Poor's Regiment in the Massachusetts line she thinks, (it might have been the New Hampshire line, but she thinks it was the Massachusetts line) for one year, that he served the year out faithfully & at the end thereof was honorably discharged, having during said time served as a private soldier as aforesaid at Cambridge near Boston; at Ticonderoga; in New

Jersey, and at the battle of Trenton. He received a pension under the law of Congress of 1818. To the evidence then forwarded in support of his declaration made at that time she respectfully begs leave to refer.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Graves on the twenty ninth day of April 1777, that her name before she was married, was Mary Frow, - that her husband the said Samuel Graves died on the seventeenth day of January (#239) eighteen hundred & thirty one - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz, at the time above stated, - and that she has not since been married again.
Attest, W m Stacy Mary Frow
For Mary X Graves mark

State of Maine.
County of Lincoln ss. Be it known that on this tuesday sixth day of February A. D. 1839.
Personally appeared Mary Groves widow of Samuel Groves, before named, and caused the above foregoing declaration to be returned to writing and sub- scribed the same by her mark with her right hand and made solemn oath that the same is true. —
I further certify that said Mary Groves is so infirm with age that she is unable to travel to attend in open Court.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Probate Court the day and year before written.
Abiah Groot Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Lincoln
attest. Geo M Nichols Registrar of the Court of Probate for Lincoln County

State of Maine County of Lincoln ss
Be it known that on this twenty eighth day of March A.D. 1856 personally appear- ed before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid Joseph Groves of Wiscasset in said County and being duly sworn according to law that he is a son & one of the heirs of Samuel Groves deceased a resident of Alna in the County and State aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that Samuel Groves his father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain & that he was enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Titcomb and in the Regiment of Col. Poor on the Continental establishment and was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Maine Agency in the year 1818 as will appear by the records at Washington and he further certifies that said Samuel Groves was married to Mary Foss in Wiscasset by the Rev. Thomas Moore Pastor of the Church in said Town April 29 th A.D. 1777 and that she died July 12 th 1838 leaving a widow who died Sept. 18 th 1840 who was by law entitled as he is credibly informed to the pension aforesaid during her life and that said pension is now due to her heirs and he makes

this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the amount of pension due to said him by one year and eight months. — Joseph Greves
Lincoln ss
Personally appeared Joseph Greves and subscribed made oath to the truth of the declaration herein made. —
Before me
Samuel Page

1777
Married
April 29
Sam'l Groves and Mary Iron both of Roundboro (now Wiscasset)
Re me The Moore
A true copy of the Record.
Recorded vol 2 page 31.
Attest: James T. Dana Town Clerk
Wiscasset March 26 th 1856
Simsboro. March 26. 1856 Then personally appeared James T. Dana and made oath to the truth of of the certificate by him subscribed
Before me Samuel Page Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
County of Lincoln Ss
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Said State for Lincoln County that Samuel Grover of Wiscapet died about 17 th of January AD 1838, leaving several surviving the following named widow and children, and none other to wit, Mary Grover, his widow who died Sept. 8, 1840. his children being Samuel Grover, Nancy Purdie, Joseph Grover, Hannah Purdie, John Grover, Pamela Lowell now deceased, David Grover, now deceased, Thankful Bles now deceased, Mary Lowell now deceased.
It is further certified that Samuel Page Esq before whom the annexed affidavits were made was at the time of taking the same a duly qualified Justice of the Peace for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths, &c and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine, and further that in the within claim for pension I am in no degree interested.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court of said State for Lincoln County this twenty eighth day of March AD 1856.
Edmund B. Bowerman Clerk of said Court

4997 X No 4999 Mary Graves, Amherst Maine.
Set 7 July, 1838.
Rejected.
Let. to J. Bailey, June 4, 1839. " Samuel Page, April 17/56.
4208
ack- my to July 1838

Certificate of the death of Samuel Groves taken from the family Bible record in my possession. Samuel Groves died Jan 17 th 1839 Mary Groves widow of Sam l died Sept 8 th 1840 Robert Hoyle
I certify under oath the above dates of the said Sam l Groves and his widow were copied from his Family Bible and that I know that they each died at the time specified above as attended their funerals John Groves
Lincoln p. March 28 th 1856 Personally appeared John Groves & Robert Hoyle and made oath to the truth of the above stated certificate in — Before me Sam l Page Justice of Peace

State of Maine.
To all whom it may concern.
Lincoln, ss. I Jacob Smith, Clerk of all the Judicial courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Nathaniel Groom Esq. whose name is affixed to the annexed paper as a Judge of Probate, is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this 15 th day of March A.D. 1839.
Jacob Smith, Clerk,

I Ephraim Lowell, of Alma in the County of Lincoln State of Maine on oath depose and say, that I am well acquainted with the family of Sam- uel Groves late of Alma in the County of Lincoln State of Maine a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States deceased. The said Samuel Groves died at Alma aforesaid on the seventeenth day of January 1839 leaving his widow Mary Groves. The said Mary Groves his said widow is now living & resides in said town of Alma and has not again been married since the death of her said husband Samuel Groves, but is now a widow.
Ephraim Lowell
State of Maine.
County of Lincoln ss. March 13. 1839. Personally appeared the above named Ephraim Lowell before me Lemuel Bailey one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln and after being duly cautioned & sworn, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed in my presence. And I further certify that the above named deponent is a person of good credit & reputation in whose testimony confidence may be placed.
J. Bailey Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
County of Lincoln
Town Clerk's Office Wiscasset
March 14 th 1839.
I Edmund Dana the subscriber do hereby certify that it appears by the Registry of Marriages in the Town of Wiscasset in the County of Lincoln, & State of Maine, that on page 31 of one of the books of record of said town is contained under the heading or caption of the word "Marriage"
the following entry of marriages, to wit,
"Jan. 1 st One thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, Daniel Lambert and Elizabeth Farr of Pownalboro
"April 28 Samuel Williams of Woolwich & Anna Hilton of Pownalboro
"April twenty ninth, Sam l Groves & Mary Frow both of Pownalboro
"Pr me Tho s Moose"
That it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows,
"1777 April 29 th "
I Edmund Dana above named depose & say: that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the town of Wiscasset above named, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Wiscasset with the exception above named or certified by me. — Edmund Dana Clerk of said Town of Wiscasset

State of Maine County of Lincoln } ss. March 14 th 1839
Sworn before me
J. Bailey Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss—I JACOB SMITH, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Jeremiah Bailey Esq. whose name is affixed to the annexed papers as a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
IN TEST seal of t
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4208.
P. O. _____
Mary Graves
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Power attor for examining papers of Paul Graves Revolutionary pension State of Maine
Filed July 2nd 58
L. E. Haskell

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of Maine
County of Lincoln
William N. Litus
John Graves Graves
} Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace personally appeared
aged 54 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of Samuel Graves
who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Maine and that he died on the 17 th day of January 18 59 and that his mother named May died on the 2 nd day of September 18 40 and that they were married on the first day of April in the year 17 77 and that they were residents of Alna in the State of Maine and that they resided there 38 years, and that
he resides in Nicoasset and that furthermore He BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution—F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as his true and lawful Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due him as his or son of Samuel Graves who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF He has on this 17 th day of June 18 52 , hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal.
Ephraim Lowell John Graves
Witness:
Witness: David Lowell
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 17 th day of June 18 52 .
William N. Litus J. P.
At the same time personally appeared before me William N. Litus a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Ephraim Lowell and David Lowell residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Samuel Graves was a Revolutionary soldier and that John Graves was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the son of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Ephraim Lowell David Lowell
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
William N. Litus J. P.
State of Maine
County of Lincoln
} to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That William N. Litus Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this Eighteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Edmund B. Bowman Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the age and date of death of her husband."

Hon. J. L. Collins Commissioner of Pensions
Wisconsin March 29 1856
Sir - I herewith inclose the application of the Heirs of Samuel Greene for the pension of their mother while the widow of her deceased husband and request if allowed by law, you will please have the amount placed on the Pension rolls of the Madison agency and
Oblige you With Sincere Samuel Page