Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,931, Seth Hinckley, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hinckley, Seth
N. 23,931
Mayo, Gineb
(Former Widow)
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Reported
1217 Name
Genet Mayo widow of Seth Hinckley Esq who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Officer
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of August 1848 and sent to
G. M. Morton Augusta Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 22 Vol. 1,

I Deborah Higgins of Eden County of Hancock State of Maine aged seventy two years do testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Seth Hinckley who came here from some part of Cape Cod in the State of Massachusetts. He was a fifer and said he had served as such in the Revolutionary War. I was present at his wedding it took place in the now town of Eden but was then called Mount Desert. He was married to Gennett Higgins on the seventeenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Why I particularly remember the day of the month and year is because he was married the next day after I was married to my present Husband Stephen Higgins. both Seth Hinckley and myself were married by the Rev. John Wright long since dead. I further testify that Deacon Elkanah Higgins and his wife Hannah Higgins then of this town but now of Pittsfield were likewise present at the marriage of said Seth Hinckley. I further testify that said Seth Hinckley was drowned in Eden, and within two or three years after, his Widow Gennett Hinckley was married to Joseph May who is now likewise

dead and she still remains his Widow - attest to the mark of Deborah Higgins her Mercy Higgins Deborah L Higgins Nicholas Thomas mark
Hancock Is. September 2 d 1843. Then the above named Deborah Higgins a credible and disinterested witness personally appeared and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed before me Nicholas Thomas State Justice of the Peace

10,193
Genet Mayo formerly widow of Seth Hinkley
Me
Acts 7 July 38 23 Aug. 42
Rolls. Life 1 Jan 77. 3 year - life insur 20 Feb 80 -
2 year Life
$88
Nicholas Thomas Eden Me

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows." and the amended Act of August 1842.
State of Massachusetts , ss.
County of Somerset
On this Sixth day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared in open Court before the undersigned Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Somerset in said State  Mrs. Mary Bennett Mayo a resident of Dayton in the county of Somerset aged Seventy 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, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Joseph Mayo deceased, that she was the wife and likewise the Widow of Seth Hinckley of Harwich Cape Cod in the State of Massachusetts deceased and that her former Husband Seth Hinckley was a private soldier and a fifer in Colonel Shephard's regiment of Massachusetts continental troops; that she ever understood by him that he first enlisted for three years all of which time he faithfully served as a soldier & fifer & fife major, and at the end of said three years he was honorably discharged, she further declares that her first Husband Seth Hinckley came to his death by being drowned in the town of Ellen County of Hancock State of Maine in January 1792 that she has no documentary evidence whatever but has to rely solely upon her feeble memory -
She further declares that she was married to the said Seth Hinckley on the twenty third day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety ; that her husband, the aforesaid Seth Hinckley died on the twenty third day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-two 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. That subsequently she was married to Joseph Mayo who died the twenty third of March Eighteen hundred & forty three & still remaining his widow. Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, Genett L. Mayo
C. Crane Judge of Probate Thomas C. Jones Register of Probate for the County of Somerset certify that Charles Greene is Judge of said Court & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court this Sixth day of June Eighteen hundred & forty three Thomas C. Jones Register of Probate

V 10.193 Genet Mayo, formerly widow of Suh Hin Kiew Me.
let to A. Thomas, Aug. 24 '43.

I Nicholas Thomas of Eden County of Hancock and State of Maine aged over sixty three years do hereby and say, That when a Boy I was well acquainted with Seth Hinckley, he was for one month with my Brother soon after he came to this place, as he said from Cape Cod in Massachusetts, he was a fifer and the first tune I ever heard played on a fife was played by him, he said he had been a fife Major and had served a long time in the Revolutionary War. I was well acquainted with his wife Gennett Higgins as before her marriage to said Seth Hinckley she lived with her Brother Eleazer Higgins a distance from my father's house about three quarters of a mile. In January seventeen hundred and ninety two he the said Seth Hinckley was around near a saw mill owned in part by my father within one hundred rods of my Father's dwelling house. I further state that soon after the Widow Gennett Hinckley was married to Joseph Mayo and they removed to Fairfield in the State of Maine and in May last past she applied to me to assist her in obtaining a pension on her on account of her first Husband Seth Hinckley being a Soldier and fifer as aforesaid. I forthwith proceeded to Mount Desert where the old town records were kept before Eden was set off from the same and there carefully examined said records but could not find any record of the marriage of Seth Hinckley to Gennett Higgins, the records are very imperfect and in bad order. I find since my return from Pittsfield where I took the deposition of Elkanah Higgins and wife that there are several in this town that were at the wedding of said Seth Hinckley and Gennett Mayo but as the aforesaid Elkanah Higgins and wife attested to the fact for the present I

have omitted to take any more depositions believing the two above mentioned will be fully satisfactory to the Department.
Nicholas Thomas
Hancock So. June 18th 1848 Personally appeared the above named Nicholas Thomas a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me Nicholas J. Thomas Justice Paris
For my official character see copy of certificate sent to your office with the papers in the pension case of Lydia Barnes — Nicholas J. Thomas.
State of Maine
Hancock ss —
Clerks Office Ellsworth.
I George W. Brown Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock hereby certify that Nicholas J. Thomas, whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hancock, duly commissioned & qualified, to take depositions, and as such just faith and credit are due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fortythree. G. W. Brown Clerk S.J. Court Han. Co.

Coleen Maine May 10. 1844.
Dr. Sir.
I enclose you the declaration of Sarah Mayo for a one years pension and doubt not that you will forward her a certificate for the one years pension soon as her term comes agreeable to the Act of Congress passed March 1843 -
Most Respectfully Yours
Nicholas Thomas

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23931
Yemut Mungo Former wid of Seth Hinckley Pris Rev War
Act Feb 28  1/48
Index: Vol M , Page 11
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4724
Maine
6 Sept 1843
Genet Mayo, farm d widow of Seth Winckley who was a Private & S t Fifer in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Jan y 1844 and sent to
Nicholas Thomas Ellen Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 33.

Report
7990.
Maine
Genet Mayo formerly widow of Seth Winckley, who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the 23rd Nov 1792 of Somerset in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Shepard in the Mass. Col. for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 88 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Decr 1840 and paid to Nicholas Thomas, Cedar, Maine.
Total Amount, $440.-
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos Humphreys Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 11.

Ellen Co of Hancock Maine June 16, 1843
Dear Sir:
I herewith enclose to you the declaration of the Widow Genett Mayo formerly wife of Seth Hinckley deceased, and whereas I understand that the Massachusetts bills have been returned from Washington I do not know your regulations now in regard to pensions but have proceeded in this case as heretofore.
In a letter from you in the case of Mary Butler you state that there was no certificate of the official character of the Justices of the Peace that took the deposition in that case. Now Sir, as the case is I wish for information from you on the subject, as on the ninth day of February last past I was appointed a State Justice for each and every County of the State of Maine with full power and authority to take depositions in any and in all places within said State and was duly qualified to execute the duties imposed on me by said commission. I procured a copy of said commission from the Secretary of the State of Maine and transmitted it to your department. I now wish to know if there is any need of my procuring a certificate and sending it to you of my official character as a Justice so long as you have a copy of my commission in your office. It makes me trouble and cost to go to the Shire Town and procure a certificate from the County Clerk on each case, when if you would look on the copy in your office I believe you would be fully satisfied, and in so doing you

awards save me much trouble and some cost.
After you have examined the case of Mrs Mayo formerly Mrs Hinchley please write me at Eden Maine
Most Respectfully Yours
Nicholas O'Shane

Dear
H. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington D. C.

Cochin Co. of Hancock Maine Sept. 7 th 1843
Dear Sir,
Yours of August the 24 was received together with annuity depositions and the declaration of Anna Smith for a one years pension. you state that the certificate of my Official Character now in your department is not sufficient without the certificate of the County Clerk and the seal of the County. This has come altogether unlooked for as I was at the trouble and cost of procuring a copy of Certificate of my Commission as a State Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, by virtue of which, I am duly qualified to administer Oaths take depositions to be used in every town and plantation in the State of Maine, a copy of which was made out by the Secretary of State and sent to your department, and heretofore when I took depositions to be used in any case before you I did or intended to put on the same, that a certificate of my Official Character was in your department, supposing that that would be satisfactory to you, and in some cases it appears that it has, but agreeable to the last information from you I have been to the Clerks Office 12 miles distant and got certificates affixed to all such papers as by your letter I think you may require

I therefore now presume the papers are all right but feel sorry to have to make so much cost in such small cases. I likewise again enclose to you the deposition of Elkanah Higgins. Deborah Higgins, my own, and likewise the deposition of Deborah Higgins who cannot be mistaken as to the time Seth Hinckley was married to Deborah Higgins as she has a family record of her marriage and the birth of her children which record I examined and found it to agree with her deposition. She told me her husband was at Hinckley's wedding but as he was absent I could not see him. The deposition of said Deborah Higgins I took as she was at such a remote part of this town that I could not have obtained any Justice short of fifteen miles, unless I took one of my near connections and fully believing as I do that you would not wish a poor Widow to pay more cost than was actually necessary I have omitted to call on any other Justice. I have been in commission more than 20 years and believe I have always given satisfaction to the Public, at least I have heard no complaint. I agree with you that when there was a very doubtful case pending it might be considered a stronger case if taken by a Magistrate who was not collecting the

Pension for the Widow, but in the case of Gerrit Mayo when she was married three years before 1794 and living witnesses making Salomon Cask to that fact of Seth Hinckley and serve in the Revolution (as I have no doubt he did), I trust you will make out that she is justly entitled to a pension without being at the trouble and expense of sending over 100 miles to employ some other Justice to again take her deposition.
Your letter respecting the supposed mistake in Mrs. Hilton's certificate was received and appeared satisfactory — Most Respectfully Yours
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Nicholas Thomas

Genett Maye
ad 4724
Admitted
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Somerset } ss.
On this Twenty ninth day of July A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, Genett Mayo a resident of Fairfield in the County of Somerset aged 79 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 second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Seth Hinkley who was a Musician during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Seth Hinkley at the rate of eighty eight dollars and  cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
Henry S. Lobe Orson Mayo
Genett X Mayo marks
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Henry S. Lobe
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Henry S. Lobe
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, KENNEBEC COUNTY, } ss.
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Henry S. Lobe is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 31 st day of July in the year 1848.
W. M. Stratton
Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

5168
Genet Mayo-family Hickney Hinckley

State of Maine Somerset County ss
On this Tenth, day of January eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Subscription Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Enet Mayo a resident of Fairfield in the County of Somerset 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 benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd March 1843 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the Widow of Joseph Mayo formerly the Widow of Seth Hinckley who was a Soldier, and 14 Fifer in the Revolution and that she received a pension certificate for a five years pension dated at Washington the Twenty eight day of December eighteen hundred and forty three, and recorded in the Pension Office in Book 8. Roll 1 st Page 11. Enet her Mayo Witness George W. D. Thomas Mark
Seth H. Mayo
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before
Nicholas Thomas Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the

before named Gust Vayo and that she is the identical person who receives a pension certificate for a five years pension as expressed in her declaration —
Justice of the Peace

I Abubah Higgins of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine aged Seventy four years do testify and say that I was acquainted with Seth Hinkley while I lived in Eden he was a fifer and said he formerly belonged to some part of Cope's band in Massachusetts and had been a revolutionary soldier I was present when he was married to Jennett Higgins which marriage took place in January one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Soon after his marriage he and his wife came and lived in our house about two years, and while there in 1791 his wife had a child born, I further testify that said Seth Hinkley was drowned in Eden, and in a few years after his death the widow of said Hinkley was again married to Joseph Mayo and they and myself removed to Girard, Maine and in March last past the said Joseph Mayo died and that his said wife is now a widow.
Attest to the mark of Abubah Higgins) Abubah Higgins Nicholas Thomas mark Sarah Higgins
Somerset County ss.
Personally appeared before me Abubah Higgins a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn oath that the above deposition by her subscribed is true in all its parts -
Nicholas Thomas, Justice of the Peace for each and every County of the State of Maine
A certificate of my official character is now on file in your Office dated Feby 9 th 1843, and to continue 7 years, Nicholas Thomas

I Elkanah Higgins of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine aged Seventy three years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Seth Hinkley who said he formerly belong to Newick or some place on Cape Cod in the State of Massachusetts that he enlisted in the United States Service as a Soldier and a fifer in the Revolutionary war I was present at the wedding of said Seth Hinkley and saw him married to Garet Higgins by the Rev John Bangs of the New town of Ellsworth I further testify that said Marriage took place in Eden in the County of Somerset State of Maine in January one thousand seven hundred and ninety. I further testify that my wife Azubah was likewise present at said wedding said Seth Hinkley used often to play tunes on his pipe which he said were the same he used to play in the Army he was discharged in Eden in January 1792 I further testify the Widow Garet Mayo of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine is the same Gentile person that I saw married to the aforesaid Seth Hinkley Elkanah Higgins
Somerset ss June 7 th 1843
Personally appeared before me Elkanah Higgins and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true in all its parts. He is a Deacon of the Baptist Church in Pittsfield and is a credible witness Andrew Nicholas Thomas - Justice of the Peace for each and every County of the State of Maine

State of Maine.
Hancock
Clerk's office Ellsworth.
George W. Brown
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock hereby certify that Nicholas Thomas whose name appears subscribed to the certificates hereunto annexed is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting justice of the Peace, within and for each and every of our Counties through the State; duly commissioned and qualified to take depositions, and that as such full faith and credit are due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. G. W. Brown Clerk.

State of Maine.
HANCOCK, ss...CLERK'S OFFICE, ELLSWORTH.
I George W Brown _____ Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County of Hancock, hereby certify, that _____
Nicholas Shumase _____ whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the  each several  County of Hancock  in said State , duly commissioned and qualified, and that as such, full faith and credit are due his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this Seventh _____ day of January _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four ,
G W Brown { Clerk of said Court for Hancock County.

Jan'y 16 1844
1/16
Mr G. Mayo!
March 1843
$88 per a
Nicholas Thomas
Eden
Mary
Free
Pay
Occasional money for Printing
Washington
W.C.

Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir I herewith enclose to you the decennial of Genl Mayo for a one year pension in Canterbury You will please direct to me at Eden, County of Hancock Maine
Nicholas O Thomas