Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25090, Thomas Hill, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Will Thomas Stubbs Ruth
N 25090
Former widow
CONTENTS

State of Maine Cumberland ss. Probate Office Portland April 4, 1857
I Josiah Pierce, Judge of Probate in and for the County of Cumberland, hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily proved before me that Ruth Stubbs late of Cumberland, deceased, had three husbands, viz. Jacob Allen, Thomas Hill and Richard Stubbs, all deceased. That Thomas Hill died on the 22 d January 1811, that Richard Stubbs was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96. per annum, and died on the 21 st January 1820, and that the said Ruth survived him and died at Cumberland, on the 18 th July 1841. That Edward Allen, the last surviving child of the said Ruth Stubbs, his mother, died at Gray, Maine, on the 6 th September 1842, and that Esther the widow of said Edward survives, and that she is now a widow, and that there are no surviving children of the said Ruth Stubbs deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal Official of said Court to be affixed the day and year first above written. Josiah Pierce. Judge.

County of Cumberland ss.
State of Maine Probate Office March 4, 1857
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate, hereby certify that Hon. Josiah Pierce, is Judge of Probate, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal official of said Court the day & year above written.
Freeman Bradford Regr

11.081,
Maine
Ruth Noble, dec d .
Widow of Thomas Hill who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the — of — in the State of — who was a private in the — commanded by Captain — of the — — commanded by — in the — line for 2 yrs
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Apr 1851 and sent to Dickins Coomb,
Total amount, $ Present
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by N E Robinson Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 17

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND:
I, Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate for said County, hereby certify, That at a Court of Probate held at Portland, in and for said County, on the third Tuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Daniel W. Green of Gray in said county, Esquire, was duly appointed and commissioned Administrator of the estate of Rich Stubbs, late of Cumberland, in said County, deceased.
; that he has accepted the trust and given bond pursuant to the laws of the State; that he remains at the present time Administrator as aforesaid, and that full faith is due to his legal acts in that capacity.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Name and affixed the Seal Official of said Court, this twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
Freeman Bradford Regr

State of Maine
At a Court of Probate held at Portland within and for the County of Cumberland on the third Tuesday of September (being the seventeenth day of said month) A.D. 1850
Personally appears in open Court Daniel W. Green Administrator of the goods and estate of Ruth Stubbs late of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland and State aforesaid deceased, and upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the arrears of Pension due to the said Ruth Stubbs deceased by virtue of the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 and March 3 rd 1843,
And this declarant states that the said Ruth Stubbs was formerly the widow of Thomas Hill who was a resident of Falmouth in the time of the revolution. He believes that the said Hill served in the Revolutionary war four years and eight months, that he enlisted in the first place in Capt Knight's Company and served in Falmouth in 1775, in 1776 he believes that he served in Capt Heat Williams Company Col Phinney's Regt. and that in 1777 he enlisted for three years in Col Marshall's Regt.

and served out his term in the Continental army and was honourably discharged. He believes that said Hill enlisted from North Yarmouth for the last three years and that said town and also Falmouth were included in what was anciently called Casco Bay.
And this declarant further states that the said Ruth Stubbs was married to Thomas Hill on the twenty second day of January seventeen hundred and eighty two and that her said husband Thomas Hill died in North Yarmouth on the 22 nd January 1817. that afterwards to wit on the day of December AD 1812 she was married to Richard Stubbs and that said Stubbs died on the 21 st day of January 1820 leaving the said Ruth a widow and that she died on the 18 th day of July 1841. He therefore claims the pension from March 4 th 1836 to March 4 1841.
Dan d M c Green
September - third Tuesday 1850
Sworn to by Daniel W. Green before me Josiah Pierce. Judge of Probate

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss. Probate Office Portland September 24. (A.D.) 1850
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate hereby certify that Hon. Josiah Pierce, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, in behalf the late Ruth Stubbs, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal Official of said Court, the day and year first above written
Freeman Bradford Reg r .

State of Maine.
Probate Court Cumberland County ss }
Be it known, That on this first day of October A.D. 1850, it has been Satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Thomas Hill, late of Cumberland, died on the 22 d day of January A.D. 1811, and left a widow by the name of Ruth, who was married to Richard Stubbs a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that the said Ruth Stubbs survived her last named husband, and died at said Cumberland on the eighteenth day of July A.D. 1841, and that the said Ruth Stubbs was never afterwards married.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this first day of October A.D. 1850
Freeman Bradford { Register of Probate for Cumberland County

Portage unpaid

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth Mass. Application for the Revolutionary services of Jacob Allen and Thomas Hill
The undersigned a Grandchild of Ruth Stubbs who was formerly the widow of Jacob Allen and also the widow of Thomas Hill respectfully requests the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass to give a certificate of the ser- vices of said Allen and Hill in the Army of the Revo- lution
Jacob Allen was a resident of Falmouth and enlisted for during the war of the Revolution and served in Col Gaston's Regiment and died before the end of the war Thomas Hill was also a resident of Falmouth in the time of the Revolution He served in 1775 in Capt Knights Com- pany six mos or more and three years or more in Marshall's Regiment. This applicant is unable to state more partic- ularly respecting the service of the above named soldiers and requests all the evidence that can be identified with the persons above described
Escheviance Allen
Cumberland Ys Feby 20 th 1849 Signed before me A. Waterhouse Justice of the Peace

No. 14276
Ruth Stubbs, dec d .
widow of
Thomas Hill
Act. 7 July 1838 & 5 March 1845
Cumberland Co Maine
Will you please to tell the State in was pensioned on
Filed by
Dickins & Coombs
5 Oct 1857.
Bank of New Sweden
Shomer Note

The following is a List of Sundry Persons joined in Marriage by the Revd Ebenezer Williams Minister of the Gospel in Falmouth Viz,
Thomas Hill and Ruth Allen Jan'y 22 d . 1782
Falm. Jan'y 29 th 1785 Recorded from the return on file and therein compared by John Frothingham Town Clerk.
A true Copy from Falmouth Records book 3 d . page 235 & 236
Attest John Frothingham Town Clerk,
Recorded by Sam l Freeman Clerk
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss. Clerk's Office Judicial Courts Portland September 16 th A.D. 1850
I Charles C. Harmon Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County and Clerk of the Court of County Commissioners which succeeds the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Cumberland aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing marriage appears in the List of marriages returned to the Clerk's Office of said Town of Falmouth by the Rev. Ebenezer Williams Minister of the Gospel for the year 1782 as appears by the certificate of said Town Clerk and recorded in the "Sessions Records" by Samuel Freeman Esquire Clerk of said Court of General Sessions in Book

No. 2 page 252. And I further certify that the foregoing is a true extract from said Records and that "Jan'y 22 d 1782" is plainly and legibly written, and means when written out January twenty second Seventeen hundred and eighty two.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Sup. Ind. Court of said State this sixteenth day of September A.D. 1830.
W. W. Harmon, Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
February 27 th 1849.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Thomas Hill is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Samuel Knight's Company, stationed in the County of Cumberland upon the Sea Coast at Falmouth, as a private from July 9 1775, 6 months, 1 week & 1 day.
Upon an Account in Army Books, as a private of Casco Bay in the Lt. Colonels Company, Col Marshalls Regt, and there credited by his service, from January 20 1777 to December 31 1779, 35 months and 11 days at $4 of per month. Enlisted for 3 years.
Upon another account in said Books as a private in the Lt Colonels Company Col Marshalls Regt, and there credited by his service from January 1 to 20 1780, 20 days, at $4 of per month.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M. Calhoun , Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Feb. 27 th 1849.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is no evidence of the service of Jacob Allen in Col. Greatear's Regt. —
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M c Callum,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Re: 7 March 1851.
898
Pension Office, March 6, 1851.
Gentlemen:
I have examined the claim of Ruth Stubbs, decd, formerly widow of Thomas Hill, for the benefit of the act of July 7, 1838. Before it can be admitted, satisfactory evidence must be filed to show that the said Ruth was the widow of Richard Stubbs on the 7 th of July 7, 1838, and to identify her as the widow of the Thomas Hill who, in 1775, entered the service from the town of Falmouth. The first should be established by the evidence of the party who made Richard Stubbs' offer, or that of the minister who performed his obsequies; and the latter by the testimony of old and respectable residents of Falmouth.
Very Respectfully Your Obs. Servt. H. S. Evans
Messrs. Dickins & Coombs, factors of Pension, Present.

14.216
Ruth Stubbs, dec d widow of Thomas Hill
Me
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1782.
Has died 22 d Jany 1811.
Adm t 2 yrs prior to £80. commg 4 March 1836 & ending 4 March 1841.
Payable to
Daniel W m Green, Administrator for the benefit of the legal representatives of Edward Allen, dec d
Dickens Hoombs Present

Ref  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25090
Ruth Stubbs
Widow of Thomas Keill
Br. Rev War
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 249
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Bureau of Pensions.
The husband of Polly Stubbs (her 3 d marriage) Richard Stubbs rec d a pension. File no 37.466 Rev y war

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hill, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4425 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 22, 1790 To Richard Platt
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.