Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 1 Abbot-Barton, CD
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The Revolutionary War 1775-1783, one of the seminal events in our country’s history, has generated a truly gargantuan amount of historical analysis of all stripes, persuasions, and quality. Untold millions of today’s three hundred million Americans have at least one ancestor who served in the war, and genealogists have always savored the joy of documenting even one more such ancestor.
At the end of the war the questions of pensions and land grants were soon discussed. Beginning in 1789, the Federal government began to grant both cash pensions and land warrants. Most of the individual states soon followed suit - almost always using land rather than cash. Soon even individual counties within the various states joined the act. There were a large number of changes made to the various laws, Federal, state and county, in succeeding years, in all cases easing eligibility requirements for former soldiers (the militia was excluded entirely from the first Federal laws, for instance and later was entirely included) and broadening the classes of potential claimants. By the 1830s the surviving soldiers were mostly over age 70 and their numbers had fallen sharply. At the same time the number of potential claimants (widows, children, grandchildren) had risen sharply, as had the number of potential voters (nieces, nephews, other relatives, etc.) affected. In a democracy the outcome was pre-ordained. By 1832 conditions had relaxed so much that it no longer was necessary for a veteran’s widow to have married him before or during the war in order to receive a pension, and some veterans and their families soon realized that a 75-year-old veteran marrying a 15-year-old-bride would create a Federal pension which would survive the veteran’s death by as much as two or three generations. Beyond this sort of obvious self-interested marriage planning, outright fraud, always a part of any government entitlement program, also increased. In what is now West Virginia so many fictitious units were created by men testifying for each other about fictitious military service that special examiners had to be dispatched to investigate and deny the worst applications. Yet all in all most applicants were more than deserving, even when their memories of events which took place 50-60 years before were not too exact.
Picton Press is very pleased to bring you on these CDs the original records of the Maine Land Office Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications (both those applications which originated in Massachusetts before Maine became a state in 1820 and thus were shifted over to Maine in 1820; and also those applications which originated in Maine after 1820), as well as the Hancock County, Maine Court of Common Pleas Revolutionary War Pension Applications. There is an enormous amount of worthwhile information contained here which you will not find in the 2,670 rolls of microfilmed Federal Revolutionary War Pension Applications.
This particular CD contains, in Adobe PDF format, the following applicants:
Abbot, John of Boothbay
Abbot, Rachel (--) of Boothbay
Abbot, John of No. Berwick
Accrow, Silas of Portland
Accrow, Sarah (--) of Portland
Adams, Jedediah of Bowdoinham
Adams, Rebecca (--) of Bowdoinham
Adams, Joseph of Jay
Adams, Samuel of Bowdoin
Adams, Samuel of Bath
Adams, Abigail (--) of Bath
Adams, Solomon of Farmington
Adams, Hannah (--) of Farmington
Additon, Thomas of Green
Adley, Peter of Hallowell
Albee, Johnathan of Wiscasset
Alld, William of Hollis
Alld, Hannah (Clark) of Hollis
Clark, Hannah of Wiscasset
Allen, Amos of Dresden
Allen, Daniel of Winthrop
Allen, Ebenezer of Hampden
Allen, Hezekiah of Bowdoinham
Allen, Susannah (--) of Bowdoinham
Allen, Isaac of Minot
Allen, Jacob of Scarborough
Allen, Job of Pownal
Allen, John of Thomaston
Allen, Eunice (--) of Thomaston
Allen, John of Harwick
Allen, Bethiah (Berry) of Harwick
Berry, Bethiah of Harwick
Allen, Joseph of Gray
Allen, William of China
Allen, Jane (--) of China
Allen, Wright of Denmark
Allen, Ruth (--)
Alley, Ephraim of Boothbay
Ames, Samuel/ Samuel Buck of Norway
Andrews, John of Minot
Andrews, Betsy (--) of Minot
Andrews, Samuel of Lowell
Andrews, Hannah (--) of Lowell
Arno, John of Leeds
Arno, Meriam (--) of Leeds
Arnold, Robert of Starks
Atherton, Joel of Waterford
Atkinson, William of Lewiston
Austin, Benjamin of York
Austin, Abigail (--) of York
Austin, David of Alna
Austin, Judith (--) of Alna
Austin, Jonah of Windham
Austin, Sarah (--) of Windham
Averill, Ezekiel of Wiscasset
Ayer, Benjamin of Winthrop
Babb, Peter of Buxton
Babbige, Courtney of Vinalhaven
Babbige, Catherine (--) of Vinalhaven
Babcock, Seth of Milton
Babcock, Abigail (--) of Milton
Bacon, Timothy of Gorham
Bailey, Daniel of Woolwich
Bailey, Susanna (--) of Woolwich
Bailey, Ephraim of no town
Bailey, Hudson of Portland
Bailey, Sarah (--) of Portland
Bailey, Israel of Minot
Bailey, Lucy (--) of Minot
Bailey, John of Vassalboro
Bailey, Abigail (--) of Vassalboro
Bailey, John of Turner
Bailey, Lucy B (--) of Turner
Bailey, Josiah of Woolwich
Bailey, Mary (--) of Woolwich
Bailey, Prince of Leeds
Bailey, Samuel of Lincoln
Bailey, Eleanor (--) of Lincoln
Baker, Amos of China
Baker, Elizabeth (--) of China
Baker, Samuel of No. Yarmouth
Baker, Mary (--) of No. Yarmouth
Baker, Silas of Strong
Baldwin, John of Tewksbury of MA
Baldwin, Esther of Tewksbury of MA
Ball, John of Concorde
Ball, Rachel (--) of Concorde
Ballard, Jonathan of Temple
Ballard, Betty (--) of Temple
Ballard, Uriah of Fryeburg
Bangs, Joshua of Danville
Bangs, Anna (Woodbury) of Danville
Woodbury, Anna of Danville
Banner, Christopher of Dennysville
Barker, Daniel of Bethel
Barker, Rachel (--) of Bethel
Barker, James of Westbrook
Barnes, Josephs of Lubec
Barnes, Lydia (--) of Lubec
Barrett, Nathaniel of Fairfield
Barron, Oliver of Boston of MA
Barron, Mary (Devenport) of Boston of MA
Devenport, Mary of Boston of MA
Barrow, Jotham of Topsham
Barrow, Mehitable (--) of Topsham
Barrows, Abraham of Cornish
Barrows, Margaret (--) of Cornish
Barrows, Peter of Camden
Barstow, Benjamin of Nobleborough
Barstow, Susannah (--) of Nobleborough
Bartlett, Joseph of Whitefield
Bartlett, Hannah (--) of Whitefield
Barton, Ebenezer of Windham
Barton, Dorothy (--) of Windham
Barton, John of Salem
Barton, Abigial (--) of Salem
Barton, Libley of Portland
Barton, Lucretia (--) of Portland
Akley, Samuel of Tompsham
Allen, Daniel of Bowdoin
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
