Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,099, Nathaniel Hathorn, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hathorn, Nathaniel
S. 31,099
CONTENTS
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N o 18231 Maine
Nathaniel Hathorn of Lincoln Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Gould of the Reg't. commanded by Genl. Heath in the Mass. Troops time for 18 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 60 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of August 1833 and sent to N. Coffin Wiscasset Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 120.00 Penst-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833 30.00
$150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 1 Page 21

Nathanial Hathorn
28.
N 2,696.

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the two annexed papers signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, containing the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Bath in said county, by me Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court on the eleventh day of August A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Hathorn for a Pension. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14 th day of August A. D. 1832.
Nath l Coffin CLERK.
the United States in the Militia at Wilmington, in Massachusetts in the winter of 1776 on or about the first day of January, under Capt. Gould of Reading, and marched to Saratoga & Kingsbridge in the State of New York, and served three months. Had some skirmishing with the British near Kingsbridge, Genl. Heath was the commander; returned in April as he believes - in this campaign he served three months. He further on on the depositions, that he again enlisted under Capt. Foster of Reading in the summer of the year 1777, and marched to Bennington Vermont, and arrived there soon after Genl. Stark defeated the Germans under Col. Baren, saw the German Prisoners in Bennington Meeting house, and there to Lake George, there had an engagement with the British at Lake George Landing, and took about sixty or seventy two or three hundred prisoners, and thence to Still Water, and there joined Genl. Gates' army, and was in the battle before Burgoyne surrendered, was present when he surrendered the Army to Genl. Gates in October 1777, after the capture of Burgoyne marched with British prisoners to Albany and thence to White Plains, and was there dismissed at the close of the campaign of 1777, and returned to Wilmington, having served that campaign four months. He further says that after returning from the capture of Burgoyne, in 1777, he again enlisted under Capt. Holmes, at Wilmington and marched to Cambridge Massachusetts and served during the winter of 1778 in guarding Burgoyne's troops, then prisoners at that place, he was dismissed in the month of March of that year and returned home to Wilmington, his time of service at that time was three months. In the summer of 1778 he enlisted at Wilmington and served

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF LINCOLN SS.
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Beth in said County on the eleventh day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court, before JOHN RUGGLES , Esq. one of the Judges thereof,
Nathaniel Huthorn a resident of Dresden in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the Militia at Wilmington, in Massachusetts in the winter of 1776 on or about the first day of January, under Capt. Gould of Reading, and marched to Saratoga & Kingsbridge in the State of New York, and on three nights had some skirmishing with the British near Kingsbridge. Genl. Heath was the commander; returned in April as he believes - in this campaign he served three months . He further on oath declares, that he again enlisted under Capt. Foster of Reading in the autumn of the year 1777, and marched to Bennington Vermont, and arrived there soon after Genl. Stark defeated the Germans under Col. Baren, saw the German Prisoners in Bennington Meeting house, and then to Lake George, there had an engagement with the British at Lake George Landing, and took about sixty or  three hundred prisoners, and thence to Still Water, and there joined Genl. Gates' army, and was in the battle before Burgoyne surrendered, was present when he surrendered the Army to Genl. Gates in October 1777, after the capture of Burgoyne marched with British prisoners to Albany and thence to White Plains, and was there dismissed at the close of the campaign of 1777 and returned to Wilmington, having served that campaign four months . He further says that after returning from the capture of Burgoyne, in 1777, he again enlisted under Capt. Hooten, at Wilmington and marched to Cambridge Massachusetts and served during the winter of 1778 in guarding Burgoyne's troops, then prisoners at that place, he was dismissed in the month of March of that year and returned home to Wilmington, his time of service at that time was three months . In the summer of

Massachusetts and served during the winter of 1778 in guarding Burgoyne's troops, then prisoners at that place, he was dismissed in the month of March of that year and returned home to Wilmington, his term of service at that time was three months . In the summer of the year 1778 he again enlisted at Wilmington and marched to Albany on the Hudson and thence to the Mohawk river, and there served three months , and was then dis- missed and returned to Wilmington. He further on oath declares that he again enlisted in the service in the year 1779, under Capt Richardson of Watertown Mas- sachusetts, in the month of August of that year and mar- ched from Reading Massachusetts towards West Point on the Hudson river and arrived there and went into service and there served till the month of April 1780, was discharged at Ver Plank's point, and returned home on foot to Wilmington making a term of actual service at this enlistment of eight months , making his term of land service during the war of the Revolution  Eighteen months . He was born in Wilmington Massachu- setts, on the 19th day of January 1755, has no record of his age but knows it by accounts from his parents. He lived at Wil- mington Massachusetts when he first went into the service, removed to Dresden Maine soon after the Revolutionary war, and has lived there ever since, and now lives there, he is known to Jacob Eames & John Shaw of Woolwich who can testify to his services as a soldier and to his char- acter for truth and veracity, there is no minister of the Gospel in Dresden.
Isaac E. Hattorn
J. Keagle H.C.P.

We Thomas Kimball, and Joseph Stockbridge, residing in Bath in the county of Lincoln hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Hathorn of Dresden who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. — that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is upright & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war, and that we concur in that opinion.
Thos. Kimball
Joseph Stockbridge
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. McCaggles J. G. C. P.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states and the court further enquires that it appears to them that Thomas Kimball and Joseph Stockbridge residing in Bath who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to full credit and belief —
I, Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Hathorn for a pension.
Attest Nath. Coffin Clerk
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this day of A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County.
Court of Common Pleas. Lincoln County. Dec Term 1832. The Court hereby certify that Jacob Eames & John Shaw who have been administered oaths to, affidavits in behalf of Nathaniel Hathorn, the applicant, are both credible persons, and that their statements under oath are entitled to full credit & belief. J. McCaggles J. G. C. P.

I Jacob Eames of Woolwich in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine aged seventy six years on oath declare that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel H. Athorn of Dresden, that I believe him to be seventy seven years of age. I knew him before the war of the Revolution was born in Wilmington Massachusetts, in the same town with him. I know he was out in the service almost every year during the war of the Revolution, - I know the time he went out under Capt Foster of Reading, and have known him ever since he removed to Dresden in the State of Maine he lives a neighbor to me now, and and I have always known him he is a man of truth & veracity and I have no doubt but he was a soldier as long as he states during the war of the Revolution. subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid J. Ruggles J. C. C.
I John Shaw of Woolwich in the State of Maine, in the seventy third year of my age, on oath declare that I have known Nathaniel H. Athorn of Dresden since the commencement of the war of the Revolution in 1775. I saw him at Saratoga in 1777. at the time Genl. Burgoyne surrendered to Genl. Gates. I was in the continental army at that time and Nathaniel H. Athorn was also a soldier, I know that he was a soldier at different times during the war of the Revolution, and as long as eighteen months, he is a man of truth and veracity and to be believed on oath. John Shaw.
Signed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid in open Court J. Ruggles J. C. C.
Attest Nath. Coffin Clerk

Adm. 18 mos $60.-
N. Groton Bath Me
N. Coffin Esq Kennebec Me

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Nathaniel Hothorn which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
no - see letters 16
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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31099 Rev INVALID.
File No. 31,099
Nathaniel Hathorn
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

207 Nathaniel Hathorn,
2 a application,

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Wiscasset in said county, by the Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court on the 26 th day of December A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Hathorn for a Pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 26 th day of December A. D. 1832.
Nath Coffin CLERK.
the re- lation herewith annexed. the purmer— that he cannot now recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment that Capt. Gould's company was attached to, as the company marched by land from Reading in Massachusetts to Saratoga & Kingsbridge, separate from any Regiment until he arrived there, at this time one James Faggett of Wilmington Massachusetts was a Lieutenant in Capt. Gould's company, he served three months at this time, he was dismissed by Capt. Gould but had no written discharge at this time — He further on oath says that he again enlisted under Capt. Foster of Reading in the summer of the year 1777. the month he cannot recollect, he believes the name of the Lieutenant was Kimball of Woburn Precinct, marched to Bennington Vermont, as before stated, at the skirmish at Lake George, he says he was detached from his company with two others, but does not recollect who commanded. He on oath declares that he served four months in the year 1777, and was dismissed as stated before but had no written discharge, but was discharged & returned to Wilmington in Massachusetts, as stated. He cannot now recollect the particular officers in this latter campaign, as he was in the militia and was called to act under different commanders, during the campaign of the capture of Burgoyne. He was in the battle

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF LINCOLN SS.
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Wiscasset in said County on the Tenth day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, personally for the appeared in open Court, before JOHN RUGGLES, Esq. one of the Judges thereof, of December second day of the Term being the 26 day of Month Nathaniel Hathorn a resident of Dresden in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as he has stated in his original application hereto annexed. He further on oath declares that he cannot now recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment that Capt. Gould's company was attached to, as the company marched by land from Reading in Massachusetts to Saratoga & Kingsbridge, separate from any Regiment until he arrived there, at this time one James Fayquith of Wilmington Massachusetts was a Lieutenant in Capt. Gould's company. He served three months at this time, he was dismissed by Capt. Gould but had no written discharge at this time - He further on oath says that he again enlisted under Capt. Foster of Reading in the summer of the year 1777. The month he cannot recollect, he believes the name of the Lieutenant was Marshall of Woburn Precinct, marched to Bennington Vermont, as before stated, at the skirmish at Lake George, he says he was detached from his company with two others, but does not recollect who commanded. He on oath declares that he served four months in the year 1777, and was dismissed as stated before but had no written discharge, but was discharged & returned to Wilmington in Massachusetts, as stated. He cannot now recollect the particular officers in this latter campaign, as he was in the militia and was called to act under different commanders, during the campaign of the capture of Burgoyne. He was in the battle B.

Was in the militia and was called to act under different commanders, during the campaign of the capture of Burgoyne. He was in the battle immediately preceding the capture of Burgoyne with Genl. Gates, and of seeing him & Genl. Burgoyne at the surrender. After he returned he enlisted under Capt. Holmes of Wilmington, one Hazard of Wilmington was Lieutenant. This enlistment was in December 1777 or January 1778, and was for the purpose of guar- ding Burgoyne's troops then prisoners at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He marched immediately to Cam- bridge and there served as a guard three months. At this time Genl. Heath commanded as he believes as he sent in the passes. He was dis- missed as he knows at the end of three months, at Winter Hill and returned to Wilmington, - He further on oath declares, that he enlisted again under Capt. Richardson of Watertown as stated in his first application marched immediately as then sta- ted, served from August 1779 to April 1780, at West Point and throughout on the Hudson river. He was all this time under the command of Captain Richardson but does not now remember who was the colonel as he was in the militia. He was dismissed at Fort Poughkeepsie in April 1780, but had no written discharge from this service. He further on oath declares, that he cannot in state his services more partic- ularly than he has done in the statements he has already made. He kept a journal when in the service, which he has lost many years ago with all the

he has alreadys made. He kept a journal when in the service, which he has lost many years ago, with all the money he took for his services, which was in continental paper money. — At his age, he does not possess any further recollection of his services, he now lives Two hundred miles or thereabouts from the place of his birth, and does not know of a single witness living who was with him in the service. Jacob Eames, was not in the service, but at that time knew of this applicants going into the service. John Shaw of Woolwich was in the continental service and this applicant saw him at Saratoga in 1777. — These two persons are the only living witnesses he can produce — In the
This applicant further on oath declares that he knows the Revd. Freeman Parker the last settled minister of the Gospel in Dresden. That Mr. Parker has removed from Dresden to Wrentham a neighboring town, — that said Parker will testify to his character for truth & veracity, & his reputation as a revolutionary soldier.
Wath. Hathorn
Signed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before
J. Ruggles J. C. C. P.

State of Maine.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
LINCOLN, ss— I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that Warren Rice Esq. whose name is affixed to the annexed paper, as a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE is legally commissioned and duly qualified to act as such, and that the name so affixed is his own proper signature, to me well known.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this 22 day of December A. D. 1832.
Nathl. Coffin CLERK.
Lincolns Dec 22. 1832. Then the above named Freeman Parker personally appeared & made oath that the above declaration is true according to the best of his knowledge & belief before me
Warren Rice Justice of the Peace. Court of Common Pleas
Lincolns Dec 26. 1832. Personally appeared Nathl. Grotton above named, and in open Court made oath that the above declaration is true according to the best of his knowledge. Sheriff
Attest Nathl. Coffin Clerk
Certificate of a clergyman residing in Pratt, and that their statement is entitled as follows. Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
A. Ruggles J. C. C. P. Attest Nathl. Coffin Clerk
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this day of A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County.

Freeman Parker a clergyman, residing in the town of Wiscasset living the town of Dresden & Nath Grolon residing in Bath Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Washburn, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age — that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we con- cur in that opinion.
Freeman Parker Nath Grolon Lincolns Dec 22. 1832. Then the above named Freeman Parker personally appeared & made oath that the above declaration is true according to the best of his knowledge & belief before me
Court of Common Pleas
Warren Rice Justice of the Peace.
Lincolns Dec 26. 1832. Personally appeared Nath Grolon above- named, and in open Court made oath that the above declaration is true according to the best of his knowledge & belief.
Attest Nath Coffin Clerk
Certificate of a clergyman residing in Bath, and that their statement is entitled as above. Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
S. Ruggles J. C. C. P. Attest Nath Coffin Clerk
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this day of A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Freeman Purdie who signed & made oath to the foregoing certificate is a clergyman residing in Wisconsin, & Nathan Grooten is a justice of the Peace residing in Pratt, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
S. Ruggles J. C. C. P. Attest Nathan Grooten Clerk
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this _____ day of _____ A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
Clerk of the Courts of Record and Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County.