Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5313, Benjamin Hubbard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hubbard, Benjamin Abigail
A. 5313
CONTENTS

A185 Declaration of
Abigail Hubbard for a pension
Maine Dec 28
4 July 1836
act '36
m70 d 1810 - Vol 15 p 33. Not on -
Pension certificate may be forwarded to Wm H. Hayes South Berwick Me

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that William A. Hoag is Judge of said Court of Probate and that said William A. Hoag and Charles N. Cogswell are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight .
John Skeele
} Register of Probate York County.

State of Maine
County of York ss. On this first day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty eight, personally appeared before the Hon. William A. Hayes, Judge of the Court of Probate, being a Court of Record within & for the County of York, in the State of Maine, Abigail Hubbard a resident of North Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine aged Ninety four years, who by reason of her great age & bodily weakness is unable to travel and attend Court, and who being first duly & justly 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 4th 1836 - That she is the widow of Benjamin Hubbard late of Berwick in said County of York, who was a private in the army of the Revolution. In the early part of May A.D. 1775 the said Benjamin Hubbard enlisted in his father's Capt. Phillip Hubbard's company of Massachusetts troops - Col. James Scammons Regiment, and marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts and served there & in that vicinity for eight months, the term of his enlistment - against the common enemy. She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Hubbard on the twenty second day of December in the year seven hundred & seventy; and that her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Hubbard died on the sixteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten - and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Witness. Wm. A. Hayes - Dominicus Hubbard Abigail her Hubbard mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Wm. A. Hayes, Judge of Probate York County, Me
I certify that the said Abigail Hubbard by

reason of great age and bodily infirmity is unable to travel and attend court
Wm H. Hayes Judge of Probate Yarmouth, Maine

Extract from the records of the town of Berwick in the county of York, and state of Maine, under the head of marriages solemnized by the Rev. Jacob Easton Minister of the gospel in said town of Berwick, is the following entry viz, December the twenty seventh, seventeen hundred and seventy, Benjamin Hubbard and Abigail Heath
I Joseph Prime Clerk of the town of Berwick aforesaid, certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record, with the exception of date, which is expressed on the records in plain legible figures of letters as follows viz "December 27 th 1770"
Joseph Prime Town Clerk
I Joseph Prime above named deposes testify and say that I hold the office of town clerk in the town aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of the same town, with the exception aforesaid as certified by me
Joseph Prime Town Clerk
State of Maine
County of York ss On this second day of Novem- ber A.D. 1838. Then personally appeared the said Joseph Prime Esquire, who is well known to me, and whom I certify to be a man of truth and veracity, of whose statements under oath are entitled to full credit, and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just and true.
Before me Wm H. Hayes Just Peace

I Jonathan Hubbard of Aroon in the county of York and State of Maine aged Seventy Six years testify depose and say that I am the son of the late captain Philip Hub- -bard formerly of Berwick in said county of York — that I am the only surviving child of said Phillip Hubbard out of a family of ten sons and four daughters (fourteen in all) of whom, my brother Benja- -min hereinafter spoken of was the oldest child —
In the spring of the year, Seven ten hundred and seventy five, my father the said Philip Hubbard, went out from Berwick as Captain of a Company in the Revolutionary War, this Company went to Cambridge, and there served against the common Enemy, for the space of eight months at Cambridge in Massachusetts and that vicinity — My Brother, Benjamin in before named, went out as a private in said Company, under my father — and was gone from home eight months, or thereabouts — I have no doubt from the fact of his absence and from all I heard on the subject but that he there served eight months against the common Enemy — I know that he went away, with the Company, and re- turned about the same time with the rest of the Company —
My said brother Benjamin was a married man when the war broke out, and had a wife, when he went into the service; who is now living, as his Widow, and I am well acquainted with her, and have seen her this day, and know her to be the same individual Abigail Hovey to whom my said brother Benjamin Hubbard was married before the war

broke out
and further saith not Jonathan Hubbard
State of Maine County of York ss. October 3 d . 1838
Then personally appeared Jonathan Hubbard, who is well known to me, and whom I certify to be a man of truth and veracity; and whose state- ments under oath are entitled to full cred- -it, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me Chas. N. Leavitt, Justice of the Peace

I Scammon Chadbourne of South Berwick, in the county of York and State of Maine, aged eighty two years, testify, dispose and say, that I served against the common enemy, in the Revolutionary War for the term of eight months in a Company of which Ebenezer Sullivan was Captain, Nathaniel Lord was Second Lieutenant, and Thomas Butler was Lieutenant  first . We went out from Berwick in the month of May 1775, and marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts and served out the term of eight months there, and in that vicinity - during which time we were in the battle of Bunker Hill - Our Compa- ny formed a part of Col. James Scammon's Regiment -
About the same time, in the month of May 1775, another Company went out from the same town of Berwick, under the Com- mand of Capt. Philip Hubbard, formerly of Berwick now deceased, this Company formed a part of the same Regiment as the Col. Scammon, and served against the common enemy for the same period to wit eight months -
I for the State that I well knew Benjamin Hubbard, formerly of said Berwick now deceased, and that I well know that he was a member of and belonged to the said Company, command- ed by said Philip Hubbard - And I know that he served for the period of eight months, against the common enemy, in the Company and Regiment, before named - at Cambridge in Massachusetts and that vicinity - I often saw him while on duty there, as a soldier in the said Company.
The said Benjamin Hubbard was the oldest son of said Capt. Philip
Hubbard

who commanded the Company to which said Benjamin belonged
Witness
his
Chas. A. Cogswell
Scammon
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Chadbourne
mark
Ebenezer Goodwin
State of Maine York County ss October 3d. 1838. Then personally appeared Scammon Chadbourne who is well known to me, and whom I certify to be a man of truth and veracity and whose statements, under Oath, are entitled to full credit, and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed.
before me Chas. A. Cogswell Justice of the Peace

I Dominicus Hubbard of North Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine yeoman aged fifty seven years and more, depose testify and say, that my father Benjamin Hubbard died on the sixteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred & ten, and my Mother Abigail Hubbard, whose maiden name was Abigail Hunk is now living & has lived with me ever since the decease of my father, her said husband, single & unmarried - I always lived with my father, the said Benjamin Hubbard till he died, from my infancy - After my fathers decease I purchased out the shares of my brothers & sisters in his small farm, and ever since his decease my said Mother has lived with me - I have often heard my father speak of his being out in the army at the first of the revolutionary war at Cambridge and in that vicinity - I have also often heard my father & mother say that my eldest brother Benjamin Hubbard was born while my father was in the army in 1775 - My mother although Ninety five years old still well remembers this revolutionary service of her husband, my father
Dominicus Hubbard
State of Maine County of York ss. On the first day of November A.D. 1838 personally appeared the said Dominicus Hubbard, who is well known to me, whom I certify to be a person of true & veracity, of whose statements under oath are entitled to full credit, and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true.
Before me Wm. A. Hayer Just Peace

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5313 REJECTED
P. O.
Heigil Stubbard
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

See V. Young A. Hayes, May 27 '39.
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