Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 2 Bates-Burrill, 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:
Bates, Samuel of Fairfield
Bates, Susanna (--) of Fairfield
Bates, Lebbeus of Windsor
Bayley, Joshua of Woolwich
Bayley, Josiah of Woolwich
Bayley, Sarah (--)
Bean, Josiah of Mt. Vernon
Bean, Lois (--) of Mt. Vernon
Beckler, Elizabeth (--) of Greenwood
Beckler, Daniel of Greenwood
Bemis, Thaddeus of Fryeburg
Benjamin, Betsy (Decker) of Whitefield
Benjamin, John of Whitefield
Benner, Christopher of Dennysville
Bennett, Andrew of Troy
Berry, George of Green
Berry, Joseph of York
Berry, Nathaniel of Gardiner
Berry, Peletiah of Gray
Berry, Louisa (--) of Gray
Berry, Samuel of Auburn
Berry, Ruth of Auburn
Berry, Timothy of Cornish
Bisbee, Elisha of Sumner
Black, Josiah of Limington
Black, James of Thomaston
Black, Elizabeth (--) of Thomaston
Black, Henry of Kittery
Blair, James of Woolwich
Blaisdell, Elizabeth (Coffin) of Brunswick
Blaisdell, Jonathan of Brunswick
Blake, Willing of Warren
Blake, Benjamin of Brownfield
Blake, John of Brewer
Blake, John of Gorham
Blake, Deborah (--) of Gorham
Blake, John of Brunswick
Blake, Jane (--) of Brunswick
Blake, Joseph of Gorham
Blakeley, Pero of China
Blasdel, Daniel of Phippsburg
Blasdel, Phebe (Howard) of Phipsburg
Blithen, Increase of Philips
Boaz, James of Portland
Bogs, Samuel of Warren
Bogs, Susannah (--) of Warren
Boies, Mary (--) of Skowhegan
Boies, John of Skowhegan
Bolton, Hannah (--) of Augusta
Bolton, David of Augusta
Bond, Jonas of Lisbon
Booker, Sarah (--) of Bowdoinham
Booker, Isaiah of Bowdoinham
Boothby, William of Limerick
Boston, Thomas of Kennebunkport
Bosworth, Daniel of Dennysville
Bowden, Theodore of Penobscot
Bowden, Amos of Castine
Bowker, Levi of Machias
Bowles, Hannah (--) of Machias
Bowles, Ralph of Machias
Brackett, James of Westbrook
Brackett, John of Harrison
Bracy, James of York
Bradford, Peabody of Minot
Bragdon, Aaron of Corinth
Bragdon, John of Kennebunk
Bragg, Lydia (--) of Vassalboro
Bragg, Joab of Vassalboro
Bray, Joseph of Anson
Bridges, Daniel of York
Bridges, Edmund of Castine
Briggs, Jesse of Paris
Briggs, Abigail (Seavey) of Starks
Briggs, Adin of Starks
Briggs, Naomi (--) of Paris
Britton, Jonathan of Otisfield
Brooks, Samuel of Porter
Brooks, Lucy (--) of Porter
Brown, Samuel of Hebron
Brown, Moody of Cornish
Brown, Elie (--) of Raymond
Brown, Amos of Limington
Brown, Hannah (--)
Brown, Andrew of Litchfield
Brown, David of Boothbay
Brown, Enoch of Sebec
Brown, Jacob of No. Yarmouth
Brown, Judith (--) of No. Yarmouth
Brown, Jacob of Hiram
Brown, Rhoda (--) of Hiram
Brown, James of Palermo
Brown, Aseneth (--) of Palermo
Brown, James of Kittery
Brown, James of Parsonfield
Brown, Jesse of Raymond
Bryant, Daniel of Saco
Buck, Hannah (--) of Sumner
Buck, Moses of Sumner
Bumpus, Shubael of Montville
Burbank, Elezer of Belgrade
Burgess, Sylvia (--) of Fairfield
Burgess, David of Fairfield
Burnham, Susannah (Stone) of Lyman
Burnham, Joseph of Lyman
Burr, Daniel of Mercer
Burr, Elizabeth (--) of Freetown
Burr, Simeon of Freetown
Burr, Susannah (--) of Mercer
Burrell, Benoni of Fairfield
Burrell, Lydia (--) of Fairfield
Burrill, Humphrey of Milburn
Coffin, Elizabeth
Decker, Betsy
Howard, Phebe
Seavey, Abigail
Stone, Susannah
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
