Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2229-100, Jesse Gustin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Gustin, Jesse
B.L.Wt. 2229-100
CONTENTS

Jesse Gustin
N o 2229.

Authenticated Certificate of Heirship.

United States of America. Maine District ss
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for Maine District on the twenty ninth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty eight - before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of said Court.
Upon an examination of the testimony contained in the depositions of Samuel Moody and Samuel Moody -
It has been satisfactorily proved in Court that Jesse Gustin late of said Portland was a Soldier in the Massachusetts' Line in the Revolutionary War: - that he died in some foreign place soon after the close of said war leaving no issue: - that the following persons are the Sisters and only heirs at law of the said Jesse Gustin deceased viz Sarah Powell, Mary Johnson, Lucy Baker, Rebecca Bryant and Susan Sweet.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said District Court the day and year just above written.
John Mussey Clerk of U. S.
Courts. Maine
Ashur Ware

I Samuel Moody of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged in the sixty ninth year of my age, deposeth say I was born and brought up in Portland formerly called Falmouth.
I was formerly acquainted with Jesse Gustin of said town of Falmouth, that it was always reported and believed that said Jesse Gustin enlisted and served as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that he served as a musician. I can recollect frequently being present where said Jesse performed on the drum in said Falmouth after the Revolution. that said Jesse Gustin was an unmarried man, and that it was always reported and believed that he went to sea and died in some foreign part soon after the Revolutionary war. — that at the time of his death he left five sisters him surviving, whom according to the best of my knowledge are all living, and are by name as follows Viz: Sarah Powell, Mary Johnson Lucy Baker, Rebecca Bryant, and Susan Sweat and that the aforesaid Sarah Powell Mary Johnson Lucy Baker, Rebecca Bryant and Susan Sweat are the sisters and only heirs at law of said Jesse Gustin deceased. Sam l Moody

State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss. May 28 th . 1838.
Then personally appeared the within named Samuel Moody, well known to me as a respectable inhabitant of Portland in said County, and made solemn oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me,
A. W. True, Justice of Peace.

I Lemuel Moody of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged Seventy one years, depose and say that I was born and brought up in Portland formerly called Falmouth—
that I was formerly well acquainted with Jesse Gustin of said Falmouth— that it was always reported and believed that said Jesse enlisted and served as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and that he served in the capacity of a Musician. I can recollect frequently being present where said Jesse performed on the drum in said Falmouth after the Revolution—
that said Jesse Gustin was an unmarried man, and that it was always reported and believed that the said Jesse went to sea and did in some foreign part soon after the Revolution— that at the time of the death of said Jesse he left five Sisters him surviving, who according to the best of my knowledge are all still living whose names are as follows Viz: Sarah Powell Mary Johnson, Lucy Baker, Rebecca Bryant & Susan Sweat, and that the aforesaid Sarah Powell, Mary Johnson Lucy Baker, Rebecca Bryant and Susan Sweat are the Sisters and only heirs at law of said Jesse Gustin, deceased.
Lemuel Moody.

State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss.
Portland May
28th A.D. 1888.
Then personally appeared the within named Lemuel Moody who is well known to me to be a respectable inhabitant of Portland in said County, and made solemn oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me.
A. M. True, Justice of Peace
Lemuel Moody's affidavit

Heirs of Jessie Gustin

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of Maine Cumberland County. } ss.
I, Sarah Powell a Sister and one of the heirs at law to Jesse Gustin deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, Jesse Gustin aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the ter- mination thereof, from the First Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose and when he was a Drummer
I further testify that my Brother, said Jesse Gustin was a seafaring man, and sailed from Portland with Capt. Samuel Shaw , soon after the termination of the Revolutionary War and died in one of the West India Islands before his return, and was an unmarried man at the time of his death. I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Jesse Gustin aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
Therefore, KNOW All Men By these Presents, that I Sarah Powell aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Boston in the State of Massachusetts my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land due me & the other heirs at law of Jesse Gustin aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 28 day of May in the year 1838.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of
Mary Mc. Powell.
Sarah Powell
Cumberland County, ss.
Be it known that on this 28 th day of May in the year 1838 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Sarah Powell subscriber to the above de- claration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be her free act and deed; dated at Portland in said County the day and year above mentioned.
A. W. True
Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine Cumberland - County. } ss.
I, Charles Fox Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County, do hereby certify, that A. W. True — before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Cumberland — duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name at Portland this 28 th day of May in the year 1838.
Charles Fox Clerk