Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24379, Nathan Hancock, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hancock, Nathan Sarah
W. 24379
CONTENTS

Maine - 3557.
Sarah Hancock, widow of Nathan Hancock, who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th Mar. '18 and who died on the 1 st October 1823 of Cambridge in the State of Maine who was a Fifer in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by Bose  in the  line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of July 29, and sent to Joseph Pote, Portland, Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar. $ 264.00 Semi-annual allowance ending  44.00
$ 308.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. Bussey Clerk Book A Vol. 15 Page 12 .

11. 414
District of Maine
Nathan Hancock
George in the state of D. Maine who was a Major in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusett he, for the term of Four Years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of June 1818 and sent to Ebenezer Thatcher Esq. Lincoln District of Maine
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 86. 63   Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48. 00   10 Mo. \frac{21}{30} \frac{4}{31}   $134.63 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Letl. Derby + Anderson, Dec 21- '36 - (Wisconsin)
Notification sent to Thos. M c Crath Esq r 25 Oct 1870
Wiscapet Me

I Nathan Hancock of St George in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts aged fifty nine years testify & declare that I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army in the War of the Revolution on the 14 th day of June A D 1770 in the 1 st Massachu- setts Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Vose & in the Company commanded by Capt John Mills & continued to serve in the same company & Reg- iment aforementioned actually & faithfully against the common enemy until the close of the War - when I was honorably discharged by General John Patterson at a place called Rattle shake hill about two miles back of New Windsor on North River in the State of New York I was in the Battle of Monmouth and in the Siege of Lord Cornwallis at York-Town - have never received any pension from the United States - & am in reduced circumstances by reason whereof I am in need of assistance from my Country for sup- port & therefore respectfully ask that I may be placed on the Pension list of the United States in pursuance of an Act of Congress passed 18 th March A D 1818 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - Nathan Hancock

I James Blackinton of Thornton, County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I enlisted in the Service of the United States, to serve in the Revolutionary War (so called) in the Month of April (as near as I can recollect) A. D. 1780. That I belonged to Col. Nourse's Regiment - That Nathan Hancock was in said service & belonged to said Regiment at that time and that I knew him to continue in said Service for more than two years -
James Blackinton
State of Massachusetts -
Lincoln ss. July 31. 1818
Personally appeared James Blackinton & declared solemn oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true
Before me D. S. Hale, Notary Public

III Nathan Glancock
11/6/19
St. George
Am
March 19
at. the McLoate
IN REVENUE MATTERS, I have herewith the seal of the said Court on the proper exhibited in the foregoing schedule. I do hereby certify that the said Court has the said seal and that the same is a true and correct copy of the seal of the said Court. Witnesseth my hand and the seal of the said Court this 19th day of March 1919.
STATE OF VERMONT
JOHN D. HILL

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 eleventh day of July 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 eleventh day of July - 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, Nathan Hancock aged Sixty One years, resident in St. George 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 Musman in the company commanded by Capt. John Mills in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the tenth day of April . A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11414 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.
Nathan Hancock
Sworn to and declared, on the 11 th day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Josiah Stebbins
{ 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 :
I claim one cow, now in contest in Law. & have household furniture to the value of not more than four dollars. I owe about sixty eight dollars on execution & about thirty dollars on another, I have no income but my pension.
Nathan Hancock
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Nathan Hancock who, by occupation am a Fisherman which I am un able to pursue by reason of a disorder effecting my kidneys.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Sarah Hancock 58 my wife, rheumatic, not able to support herself   Irenia Hancock 13. daughter, good health    Nathan Hancock  Attest Nat. Coffin Clk
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 cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 1th day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

5121
Sarah Hancock's application for a pension
act July 7 1838
Me.
m 84 d 23.
adm.
2 years ffer
$88
No deduction
Joseph Dope Portland Me

STATE OF MAINE.
County of Cumberland, ss.
On this twenty third day of March A.D. 1839 personally appeared before Emil Whitman Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for 1 st State  Sarah Hancock , a resident of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged seventy four 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 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Nathan Hancock who was a Officer in the Army of the Revolution , and served as she believes for the term of four years - that she has always understood that he entered for and during the War that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of March 18. 1818 - and his name was placed on the roll of the Maine Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month - That she has not been married since the decease of said Nathan Hancock , but still continues his widow.
That she was married by Rev. Buck of Bucksport and formally lived in No. 2 Township in the County of Penobscot . That she has no documentary evidence to prove the service of her said husband nor can she tell under what Officers he served.
SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Nathan Hancock on the seventeenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four and that her husband, the aforesaid Nathan Hancock - died on the first day of October 1823 - 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 and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated.
Sarah Hancock
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
BEFORE me. The above named Sarah Hancock by reason of age and ill health being unable to attend court the above declaration was taken at her place of residence in said Westbrook and I certify that she is a person of credibility. Emil Whitman

State of Maine.
Cumberland County P: —
I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all Judicial courts of said State within and for said County of Cumberland, do hereby certify that Ezekiel Whitman Esquire, is the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of said State, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature. I also certify that the annexed signature of Joseph Pope is his genuine signature, and and that he is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said State this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Charles Cobb Clerk

I William Kenney Junr. of Westbrook do testify and say that Sarah Hancock named in the foregoing application for a pension is the Widow of Nathan Hancock named in said Declaration, and that she has not been married since the death of said Nathan Hancock, but still remains his widow and now resides in Westbrook — and that said Nathan Hancock died on the first day of October eighteen hundred and twenty three.
William Kenney Jr.
State of Maine Cumberland County ss.
Subscribed and sworn to by said William Kenney Junr. before me — and I certify that he is a credible and respectable witness. —
Joseph Pope, Just. of the Peace

Published No two Townships June seventeenth seventeen hundred and eighty four. Then was joined in marriage covenant Mr Nathan Hancock and Miss Sarah Grage both of No two Townships.
By me Jonathan Buck Jus. Peace. I Samuel M Pond depose and say that I held the office of Judge of Probate, and that the above is a true copy of record in my office with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in four legible figures, viz June 17 th 1784, and the following is a true copy of their publication, viz. This may certify that Mr Nathan Hancock & Miss Sarah Grage both of No two Townships in 8 th district have been lawfully published. Jonathan Buck Jus. Clerk. Samuel M Pond
State of Maine
Hancock County ss March 8. 1839 Subscribed & sworn to Before me
Samuel Little Justice of the Peace
I further depose and say I have in my possession between forty & fifty records of marriages by Jonathan Buck Esquire, and they all have the appearance of ancient records, and are made in a similar form of the one above copied - that is, the records of marriages are made on the back of the certificate of publication by the town Clerk, and that I verily believe that these were filed, and have been preserved by the late Jonathan Buck Esquire who was at the time of some of the marriages "Jonathan Buck Junior town Clerk," and were among his papers at his decease; and that I verily believe them to be true and original records.
Samuel M Pond Judge of Probate
State of Maine
Hancock ss I Joseph A Dorne Clerk of the Courts for the County of Hancock, certify that Samuel M Pond is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, and that Samuel Little is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County this ninth day of March A.D. 1839. Jos A Dorne Clerk of the S. J. Court for Hancock County

10 th April 1810
Nathan Hancock of St George
Enlisted 14 th June 1778 in Col Vols Recd in Massach ts Service
Served to the end of the War.
1780
22 July enlisted for 6 Mo
29 Discharged after War
Phoebe Thatcher Spon
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Nathaniel Hancock , a citizen of the United States, now resident in St George , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the tenth day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this tenth day of August in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Ebenezer Thatcher
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset , in said County of Lincoln , this tenth day of August in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Nathl. Coffin

I Elisabeth Partridge of Orland in the County of Hancock Widow aged seventy four years do testify and say that about fifty four years since I attended the wedding of Nathan Hancock and Sarah Craigie at the House of John Craigie in said Orland and I saw said Hancock & Craigie were married at that time and place by Jonathan Buck late of Bucksport deceased That said Nathan Hancock is the only person of that name I ever knew or heard of and further your deponent saith not Witness, S. Little      Sarah W Partridge James Buck                      next
State of Maine County of Hancock ss On this tenth day of January, A.D. 1839 Personally appeared Sarah Partridge above named and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me is true and I further certify that she is a credible and a reputable Witness.
Samuel Little Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that I wrote her name to the above affidavit at her request and helped her mark as above                      Samuel Little J. of the Peace

United States Maine District
District Clerk's Office April 2 d 1839
In testimony that Samuel Little Esquire is a Magistrate as within set forth in the within certificate and as such is entitled to full faith and credit I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the District Court of the United States for said District the day and year above written
John Nufsey Clerk U.S. Dist. Court. Maine
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

Pattand April 5. 1839-
J L Edwards Esq. 7 Commr. of pensions,
Sir
I forward herewith the application of Sarah Hancock Widow of Nathan Hancock decd. for a pension under act July 7. 1838. Her husband was a Hifee in the Army of the Revolution.
Please forward to me a certificate of pension, if her claim is satisfactory, and oblige
Yours very respectfully
Joseph Pope,
J

Dec 19
F
Genl. J. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Department Washington D.C.

State H Boston Dec 14 th 36
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington
At the request of Mr John Hancock a relative of the late John Hancock a former President of Congress we write to request some information relative to the late pension law & more particularly as it bears upon the claim of his aged Mother Sally Hancock widow of the late Nathan Hancock of St Georges Maine a officer of the revolution.
Nathan Hancock served four years as a private during the revolution. He had enlisted to serve until the close of the war and after the battle of Yorktown, he was permitted to return home on furlough & continued liable to be called into active service until the conclusion of peace. In 1783 before peace was concluded he married Sally Hancock above named. He obtained a pension under the act of March 1818.

& deed at his residence at St Georges Maine about 1824, at which time he was in receipt of his pension. His widow the said Sally Hancock married him & still remains unmarried. =
The question now is whether she is entitled to a pension. =
You will perceive that having engaged to serve until the close of the war "his term of service" had not expired when he married. = In answer will oblige us
We remain Yours Very Respectfully Derby & Andrews

Rev. War
(3-469.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Filed Application No. 24379
Certificate No.
NAME OF SOLDIER, Nathan Hancock Capt. Mass. Co. 1 st Reg't Mass.
INFORMATION DESIRED.
Papers for Hancock
Returned July 27 1893
said to have been a pensioner

Keep WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,379
Sarah Hancock Wid of Nathan Hancock Brister Mass line
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. A , Page 318
[Arrangement of 1870.]