Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24310, Increase Graffam, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Graffam, Increase Elenor
NUMBER
W 24310
CONTENTS

Reported...
Maine 3060
Eleanor Graffam widow of Increase Graffam who was a Private in the Massachusetts line for 7 Mo 24 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the first day of December 1843 and sent to
Daniel Wentworth Buxton Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 5

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 rd of July 1830 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"—
State of Maine
County of York ss.
On this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Simeon Strout Esquire one of the Justices of the Court of County Commissioners, being a Court of Record within and for said County of York in the State of Maine,
Eleanor Graffam, a resident of Buxton in the said County of York widow, aged eighty two 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 3 rd 1830 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"— That she is the widow of Increase Graffam, late of said Buxton deceased, That the said Increase Graffam served against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War, That he entered the service of the United States, in or about the month of June in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine as a substitute for his Father Josiah Graffam who was drafted into the service of the Massachusetts Militia for the term of two months, That the said Increase Graffam went from Scarborough (his place of residence) at the time above stated under the command of William McLaughlin a Sergeant from said Town, to Falmouth, from thence he was conveyed by water to Penobscot Bay and was stationed on the Banks of the Penobscot where he remained until the Massachusetts forces were defeated by the British then stationed at a place called Biguiduee, He then returned agreeable to the command of his officers to Falmouth where he remained in the service to the end of the two months from the time he entered the

said service and was discharged. Under what officers he served, the said Elenor Graffam has not the means of knowing. She further declares, That on the ninth day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty, the aforesaid Increase Graffam again entered the service of the United States as a private in the Massachusetts Militia to which service he engaged (as a substitute for some person who was drafted;) for the term of eight months, but for whom he was engaged, the said Elenor has not been able to learn. That he (the said Increase Graffam) Marched from Scarborough to Thomaston, from thence to Camden, from Camden he was conveyed by water to Machias, where he remained until he had completed the eight months service and was then discharged, having served ten months in the whole. The Company to which he belonged was commanded by Jonathan Andrews of Scarborough, Enoch Poore of Gorham was the Lieutenant. The Regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Colonel Allen. No documentary evidence of the services of the said Increase Graffam was left by him at his decease.
She further declares that she was married to the said Increase Graffam on the eighteenth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty nine, That her husband the aforesaid Increase Graffam died on the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight, That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four; to wit. at the time above stated. That since the decease of her said husband she has continued unmarried and now remains his widow.
She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that her name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State
Witness
Daniel Wentworth
Jeremiah Hathaway
Simson Stuart
Elenor
her X Graffam mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year before written, Before me
Simeon Strout
{ One of the justices of the Court of County Commissioners in and for the County of York and State of Maine
And I the aforesaid Justice hereby certify that all the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration were satisfactory proved to me. And I further certify that the said Eliza Graffam by reason of age and bodily infirmity is not able to attend in open Court, the nearest Court-House being more than fifteen miles from her place of her residence in said Buxton.
Simeon Strout
State of Maine County of York ss
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Court of County Commissioners for said County of York, being a Court of records, hereby certify that Simeon Strout is Chairman of said Court and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said Court this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty
Jer. Bradbury, Clerk

I Debinton Berry of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, do on oath declare, that I was well acquainted with Increase Graffam, formerly of said Scarborough, That said Graffam entered the service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a private Soldier some time (I think) in the month of June in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy nine - That he entered (as a substitute for his Father Josiah Graffam who was drafted from the Militia of said Commonwealth) for the term of two months - That said Increase Graffam left home under the Command of William M c Laughlin a Sergeant, with the foregoing facts I was personally acquainted. I further testify, That according to the history the said Increase Graffam gave me of his services (of the truth of which I have no doubt) he went to Falmouth under the Command of Sergeant M c Laughlin, from there he was carried to Penobscot Bay - That he was on the banks of the Penobscot, under the Command of the Officers of the Massachusetts forces stationed at that place when they were defeated by the British forces, then stationed at a place called Bigoudene. The name of the Officers under whom he served, I do not recollect - That after the defeat above mentioned, the said Increase Graffam returned to Falmouth where he served the remainder of the two months, when he was discharged and returned home. Goll Harmon, Elias Harmon and Nathaniel Moses were his associates from this town, the two former are dead and the latter is partially deprived of his reason, I know of no other person living, that was with him in the service above specified.
I further testify and say, that on the ninth day of May Seventeen hundred and eighty, the said Increase Graffam, having again entered the service of Massachusetts as a private in the Militia, marched from said Scarborough, in company with myself and others to Falmouth where we passed muster, we then marched to Thomaston under the Command of Captain Jonathan Andrews of said Scarborough, and Lieutenant Enoch Frost of Gorham.

We remained at Thomaston a short time and then marched to Camden; at the end of about two months from the time we left home, we were carried by water from Camden to Machias where we remained about six months, we were then discharged, having served eight months, the length of the term for which we were engaged. The said Increase Graffam was my messmate the whole time I was in the service. We were in Colonel Allen's Regiment. Peleg Wadsworth was the General. Said Increase Graffam entered the service as a substitute, but for whom I do not recollect.
I further testify and say, That the said Increase Graffam was (in my presence) joined in marriage to Elenor Berry of said Scarborough some six or eight years after he left the service last above mentioned. I do not recollect what year. After said marriage he established his residence in Buxton in the County of York, where he died about twelve years ago, leaving the said Elenor Berry (now Elenor Graffam) a widow — That the said Elenor Graffam is still living in said Buxton and since the decease of her husband, the aforesaid Increase Graffam, she has continued unmarried and now remains his widow.
Methuss S. Woodman Isabell Berry
State of Maine. York ss. July the 20th 1840 Then personally appeared before me Isabella Berry who subscribed the above, and who is well known to me as a man of truth and veracity, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me S. Woodman Justice of the Peace

"Seventeen hundred and eighty nine June eighteenth Inenease Gooffarn and Eileenor Berry"
I Daniel Moulton Jr Deacon of the second Church in Scarborough in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, do on oath declare, that I have in my keeping the Book of Records of said Church, which Book contains the records of marriages solemnized by Benjamin Chadwick, former Pastor of said Church.
And I testify that the above extract is a true copy of the said records with the exception of the date; which on the records is expressed in fair legible figures as follows viz. "1709 June 10"
And I do on oath declare that, the above is a true copy of the records of marriages solemnized by the Pastors of said Church with the exception aforesaid
Daniel Moulton Jr
State of Maine York ss. February 11 th 1840
Then personally appeared before me the subscriben the above named Daniel Moulton, known to me as a man of truth, who made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence
Daniel Wentworth Justice of the Peace

Roy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24310
Elmer Groffman wid of Increase Groffman Prio Rev. line
Act: Marh. 3 rd 1844 B.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 292
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine. 5596
Eleanor Graffam, widow of Increase Graffam, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the 8 th of April, 1828. of York co. in the State of Maine - who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Andrews of the Reg t commanded by Col. Allen in the Mass s M il lived for 7 years 24 days private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of July, 1840 and sent to Daniel Wentworth, Esq. Buxton, Maine.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept r 1840 — $ 117. Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar 41. 13
$130:00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk. Book A Vol. 1 Page 18.

7084 May 28, 1840
ME MAY 23
me July 7, 1838
3 3/4 3 3/4 2 1/2
2 3/4 2 3/4 2 1/2
Elenor Graffam mid! of Increase
free
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington Dist. of Columbia

Ebenezer Graffam Payment to be made at Portland
$26 by A. Newhall, Esq. Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine.
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year. First payment to be made on the 4th day of September — next.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A, Vol. 1, Page 10, by
Danl. Wentworth Baxter M c A. Elliot Clerk.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of Congress of July 7. 1838
State of Maine
County of York ss.
On this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Daniel Wentworth a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of York in the State of Maine
Elenor Graffam
a resident of Bangor in said County of York aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Increase Graffam who was a private in the Militia of Massachusetts and served in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Allen. That the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7 1838 was twenty six Dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness Enoch B Hobson Elenor her  X Graffam mark
H O Wentworth
Daniel Wentworth
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Daniel Wentworth Justice of the Peace

And I the aforesaid Justice hereby certify that the above named Elenor Grafton is personally known to me
Daniel Wentworth Justice of the Peace
State of Maine. County of York, ss.
I, William Drafton, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, for said county, do hereby certify, that Daniel Wentworth is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the second day of February 1837, and will expire on the second day of February 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this fifth day of August, 1843.
William Drafton, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Eleanor Graffam, of Maine, — widow of Increase Graffam, deceased, — who was a private in the Revolution — and died on the eighth — day of April, 1828, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Twenty-Six dollars and — cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this ninth — day of July, — one thousand eight hundred and forty.
W. P. Dinnick
Secretary of War.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
Examined and Countersigned. }

7084
Eleanor Graffam
Me
at 7. July 38
m 89. d 28
no. 35. 241. on pri. 7mo 24 d
no officers for 79.
adm
7mo. 24
26 $
no deduction
Daniel Wentworth esq.
Buxton
Me

Stephen Woodman Justice of the Peace
Commission dated March 19th, 1835
State of Maine County of York ss.
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify, that Stephen Woodman is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly com- missioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the nineteenth day of March 1835 and will expire on the nineteenth day of March 1842 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this twenty third day of May Anno Domini 1840
Jere. Bradbury, Clerk of Judicial Court York Co.

Daniel Wentworth Justice of the Peace
State of Maine County of York ss.
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the County of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel Wentworth is an acting Justice of the peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first second day of February 1837 and will expire on the second day of February 1844 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this twenty third day of May Anno Domini 1840
Jere. Bradbury, Clerk - Jud. Court York County

I Isaac Libby of Buxton in the County of York and State of Maine, do on oath declare, that I was well acquainted with Increase Graffam of Buxton in said County of York. That on the ninth day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty, the said Increase Graffam entered the service of the Massachusetts Militia as a private Soldier and marched from Scarborough, (his place of residence at that time) to Stephen's Plains in Falmouth where he passed muster, whether he went as a substitute for some person that was drafted, or engaged as a volunteer I am not able to state. From Falmouth he marched to Thomaston in company with myself and others under the command of Captain Jonathan Andrews of Scarborough, & Lieutenant Enock Frost of Gorham. From Thomaston we marched to Camden and from thence we were carried by water to Machias. Sometime in the month of September (I think) in the year above named a part of the company to which we belonged, were carried to Frenchman Bay, whether the said Increase Graffam whether was one of the number who went with us to that place or not, I do not recollect, but I well recollect that he was with us from the time we left Falmouth until the company was divided as above stated. The said Increase Graffam was engaged as one of the eight months men and I have no doubt that he served that length of time.
I further declare that said Increase Graffam died some ten or twelve years ago leaving a widow named Eleanor Graffam, (formerly Eleanor Berry) who now resides in Buxton in said County of York and still remains the widow of the said Increase Graffam.
Isaac Libby
State of Maine County of York ss. May 17 th 1840. Personally appeared Isaac Libby above named who I certify is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence.
Before me Daniel Wentworth Justice of the Peace