Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,988, Nathaniel Harlow, Mass

SERVICE
Mass
Harlow, Nathaniel Mary
NUMBER _____
W. 17.988
CONTENTS

No. 201 Nathaniel Harlow
Nathaniel Harlow of Penobscot in the dis: state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Band of the Mass. line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Sep: 1819 and sent to Mr. Winsley Esqr Penobscot D. of Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819 $ 134. 40
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1820 48
16 mo 24 / 30 $ 182. 40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
not stated

6113
MAINE
Mary Starlin widow of Nathaniel Starlin who was a Private in the Mass. Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Septm. 1843 and sent to
J. B. Hill Bangor Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 4
let to J. B. Hill a p. 9. 1845
2 Cts. 1838 5 rep d 1843 5 rep d

Math h Harlow Private Leal Bond's Regt 1776 one year
Corrected & Admitted

I Nathaniel Starlow of Bangor in the County of Penobscot Block-Maker do hereby testify & say that On or about the first of November 1778. I enlisted into Cap. Thomas Mayhew's Company, & W m Barr's Reg t . for one Year: I joined the Regiment at Winter Hill in Cambridge: I continued there till the British evacuated Boston, (I think in March). We then marched to New York: From there we marched to Albany & into Canada, on to the River Sault: We retreated to Ticonderoga, at which place I received my discharge; having served one full year: I have lost my discharge: I am now under reduced circumstances & need the assistance of my country for support. — I hereby relinquish all claims to any previous pension. on account of my said services. — Nath l Starlow
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NOBSCOT, ss.
ON the 11 th day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot: Personally appeared Nathaniel Starlow who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Nathaniel did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed McKinley Esquire, Judge of the Court as aforesaid.

0022 act 1843
10388
Mary Harlow
Me
Act 7 July '38
wmd?
12 mo pri
$40
also act 3 March
43-
$40
Mr Hill End Bangor Me

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1835 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of Maine }
County of Penobscot, p. On this twenty fourth day of December A D 1843 personally appeared before the Honorable Samuel Gane, Judge of Probate of Wills &c. for the County of Penobscot, at a Probate Court held before him at Bangor in said County, Mary Harlow a resident of Bangor in the County of Penobscot aged eighty three 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, 1835, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Nathaniel Harlow who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That he served in the Company of Capt. Mayhew in the Massachusetts Troops, but that she cannot from memory or recollection, state the name of the Colonel or of any other officer under whom he served, nor can she state the day, month, or year when he entered the service, nor the time when he left the same, nor whether under one or more engagements, but she can and does state that he resided when he entered the service in the town of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts, that she cannot state whether he was a chas- ed or was a volunteer, or a substitute , nor the through which he marched country, nor any particulars of her service, except that his service was be- fore the year 1782. She further states that he was a pensioner of the United States as she recollects and be- lives, under the act of March 18, 1818, and for proof of his service, and for a specification of the same she refers to the declaration and on file of her said husband, and other proofs, on file in the Department; and to such other proofs and documents as she shall be able to produce. She fur- ther states that she has no documentary evidence in sup- port of her claim, except the certificate of the publication of the intention of marriage between the said Nathaniel Har- low and herself, bearing date "Plymouth Nov. 2 nd 1782"
She further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Harlow on the ninth day of December 1782. that her husband the said aforesaid Nathaniel Harlow died on the tenth day of May A.D. 1825; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of Jan- uary seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
Mary Harlow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Yand Cory } Judge of Probate

State of Maine
Penobscot, ss.
Probate Office Bangor December 26th A.D. 1843.
I do certify that Samuel Cony Esquire is sole Judge of Probate within and for the County of Penobscot in the State of Maine, and that the signature of the Judge is genuine, and that the seal hereunto affixed is the seal of said Court.
John Williams Registrar of Probate for the County of Penobscot

Anglo.
25 R
J. B. Hill Esq.
Bangor.
Maine.

Extract from the Records of Marriages of the First Church in Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Chandler Robbins, Minister of the Gospel. Nathaniel Harlow & Mary Shaw both of Plymouth
A true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows "1782 Dec. 9th."
Albert G. W. Briggs, Junior Pastor of the First Church in Plymouth
George W. Briggs above named on oath depose and say that I hold the office of junior pastor of the first church in Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as such have the keeping of the church records of the said Parish and that the above is an extract from the records of said Parish with the exception above named, as certified by me.
I further testify that the Rev. Chandler Robbins was minister of said Parish from the year 1760 to the year 1799. That the said records were kept by him as such minister and that the copy of which the above is a copy as presented is in his hand writing.
Geo. W. Briggs, Junior Pastor of the First Church in Plymouth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
April 3. 1844
Sworn before me
Jacob H. Lord Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the Rev. George W. Briggs who signed the foregoing deposition and that full credit is to be given to his testimony.
Jacob H. Lord
J. Pease

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth. Clerk's Office April 17 1944
J. M. Morrison Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth do hereby certify that: Jacob H. Lord appeared before where the annexed depositions of George W. Briggs & Esperanza Hayward were taken as to further of the hearing in the said County of Plymouth aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified & acting under the authority of said Commonwealth. And that his signature to the final thereof is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day 2 years aforesaid.
J. M. Morrison Clerk

I Experience Hayward of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, under- aged Eighty one years on oath depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Mary Barlow, widow of Nathaniel Barlow of Bangor in the State of Maine, that she is my sister, that her name before she was married was Mary Shaw - I was also well acquainted with the said Nathaniel Barlow, that both the said Mary and Nathaniel formerly lived in Plymouth aforesaid, that I knew them before they married, that I was present when they were married, and saw them married, that they were married by the Rev. Ebenezer Robbins, who was then the Minister of the First Church in Plymouth, that the marriage took place on or about the 9th day of December 1782, that from that time till the death of the said Nathaniel Barlow, which took place about twenty years ago they lived together in the marriage state, and that I know that Mary Barlow widow, now residing in Bangor aforesaid to be the same person who by the name of Mary Shaw, was as I have above stated married to the said Nathaniel Barlow, in Dec 1782.
Experience Hayward
Plymouth J. April 3. 1844 Then the above named Experience Hayward personally appeared & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me and I certify that she is well known to me to be a credible person.
Jacob H. Lord
Justice of the Peace

This to publish Intention of Marriage Between Mr. Nathaniel Horton & Miss Mary Shaw, both of Plymouth.
John Spooner Town Clerk
Plymouth Nov r 2 nd 1782.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17988
Mary Harlow Wid. of Nathaniel Harlow Priv. Rev. War
Act: March 3. 1843
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 313
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10.388
Mary Harlow wid. Jonathan Me
Suspended Sub J. B. Hall, Sept 2. 1844
n. 17988
Act July 7 th 38

8715 Maine
Mary Harlow widow of Nathaniel Harlow who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 10 May 1820 of Penobscot in the State of Maine who was a Pri in the Co commanded by Captain commanded by Col Bond of the the Mass line for one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sept 1844 and sent to J.B.M. Bangor, Maine,
Total Amount, $200 00
RECORDED [July 7, 1838.] Recorded by J. B. Mann, Clerk, Book Vol. 1 Page 17

Sept 11 44
Small
George me Mr. Brunk Esq. Adolph Haddow Mary Haddow Astoria term of Pension Pension Office Washington
FILE

Bangor Sept 7 1844
George W. Cump Esq,
Mr. Sir
Yours of 2 o Sept in reference to the Pension of Mrs Mary Howland Widow of Nathaniel Howland requiring the cer- tificate of the Publication of notice of marriage to establish substantively the date of the marriage to be forwarded to the department. I accord- ingly enclose the original certificate, & will merely add that the date of the marriage will also appear by reference to the dispensing Rev Mr Briggs, giving the entry of the marriage in the Parish Register, which will be found on file in the department with the papers in the case. I hope all will be found satisfactory & that I shall soon receive the pension certificate.
I am very respectfully yours
A. M. Merrill

Bangor April 17 1844
Hon J. D. Edwards
Dear Sir
Enclosed I forward the deposition of George A. Briggs and of Express Hayward proving the marriage of Mrs Mary Harlow Widow of Nathaniel Harlow, and the identity of the applicant. The said Nathaniel Harlow, was a pensioner under the act of 1818 and when declaration & the papers & proofs on file in the department I must refer for proofs of the length of time & other particulars her success. I trust all will be found conformable to law & the requirements of the department & that the applicant's name will be put on the list and the certificate forwarded to me as soon as a date as may be
I am very respectfully yours
J. B. Hill

I Benjamin Warren of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I was first Lieutenant in Cap t Thomas Mayhew's Company in Col. Bond's Regiment of the Revolutionary Army, & that Nathaniel Harlow then of said Plymouth, in the latter part of the year seventeen hundred & seventy five enlisted as a private soldier in the same company for the term of twelve months & accordingly was in the Expedition into Canada, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, and I am knowing to his having performed more than nine months of said service previous to my return the latter part of said year on furlough to raise a company for the year following. —
Ben y Warren SF
I Josiah Cotton of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I was Ensign in Cap t Thomas Mayhew's Company in Col. Bond's Regiment of the Revolutionary Army, and that Nathaniel Harlow, then of said Plymouth, in the latter part of the year seventeen hundred & seventy five, enlisted as a private soldier in the same company for the term of twelve months & accordingly was in the Expedition into Canada, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, and I am knowing to his having performed twelve months service agreeably to the term of his enlistment. —
Josiah Cotton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss July 12 th 1819 then the above named Benjamin Warren & Josiah Cotton well known to me the Subscriber as men of undoubted veracity severally made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement or deposition by them respectively subscribed. —
Before me Bena Hayward Justice of the peace. —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss I John B. Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County of Plymouth hereby certify that Bena Hayward Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within & for the same County duly commissioned and

to administer oaths & take depositions and that the signature to the foregoing attestation is the true signature of the said justice
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Courts this Thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
W. B. Thomas
Depositions of Benj a Warner & Josiah Cotton
(Signature)