Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 3 Burrows-Cushman, 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:
Andrews, Abigail of Lowell
Belknap, Lois of Sebec
Burrows, Elizabeth (--) of Lebanon
Burrows, Jonathan of Lebanon
Bussell, Isaac of Columbia
Butler, Phineas of Thomaston
Butler, John of Turner
Butler, Dolly (--) of Turner
Campbell, Mary (--) of Minot
Campbell, Alexander of Minot
Campbell, James of Monmouth
Carl, John of Unity
Carl, Lois (--) of Unity
Carlton, Ezra of Plantation No. 2
Carlton, John of Frankfort
Carter, Hubbard of Lowell
Carter, Abigail (Andrews) of Lowell
Carvell, Mercy (--) of Lewiston
Carvell, Henry of Lewiston
Cary, Luther of Turner
Cash, John of Raymond
Chadbourn, Lucy (Edwards) of Gorham
Chadbourn, Silas of Gorham
Chamberlain, Jeremiah of Nobleborough
Chamberlain, Sarah (--) of Nobleborough
Chamberlain, Joshua of Bangor
Chamberlain, Moses of Norridgewock
Chamberlain, Anne (--) of Norridgewock
Chamberlain, Silas of Minot
Chamberlain, Susannah (--) of Minot
Chandler, Deborah (Glidden) of Winthrop
Chandler, Mary (--) of Fryeburg
Chandler, Moses of Fryeburg
Chandler, Joel of Winthrop
Chapman, Nathaniel of Starks
Chapman, Sally (--) of Starks
Chase, Lois (Belknap) of Sebec
Chase, Ezekiel of Sebec
Childs, Anna (--) of Hallowell
Childs, Amos of Vassalborough
Childs, Jonas of Hallowell
Chipman, William of Hebron
Choate, Ebenezer of Bridgton
Church, Charles of Phillips
Churchill, Jabesh of Buckfield
Chute, Josiah of Windham
Chute, Mary (--) of Windham
Clark, Thomas of Alna
Clark, John of Whitefield
Clark, Lydia (--) of Whitefield
Clark, Joseph of Wiscasset
Cleaves, William of Cumberland
Clugh, Benjamin of Monmouth
Cobb, Rowland of Union
Coburn, Moses of Newry
Cochren, Agnes (--) of Newcastle
Cochren, John of Newcastle
Coffin, Nicholas of Lincoln
Colbrough, Daniel of Hartford
Colbrough, Elizabeth (--) of Hartford
Colby, Samuel of Portland
Colby, Sylvanus of Westport
Cole, Polly (--) of Albion
Cole, Burnet of Windsor
Cole, Eli of Buxton
Cole, Olive (--) of Buxton
Cole, Isaiah of Waldoboro
Cole, John of Albion
Cole, Samuel of Lewiston
Collins, Lemuel of Industry
Collins, Benjamin of Vassalboro
Colson, David of Bath
Colson, Mary (--) of Bath
Cone, Judith (--) of Lovell
Cone, Samuel of Hampden
Cone, Elijah of Lovell
Conn, Jonathan of Bethel
Cook, Sarah (--) of Lebanon
Cook, Abram of Lebanon
Cool, John of Waterville
Cooledge, Elizabeth (--) of Trenton
Cooledge, Silas of Trenton
Coombs, Samuel of Bowdoinham
Coombs, Rachel (--) of Bowdoinham
Coombs, Joseph of Brunswick
Cornish, John of Brunswick
Couch, George of Readfield
Couch, Ann (Norton) of Readfield
Couch, Jane (--) of Hallowell
Couch, John of Hallowell
Cousins, Samuel of Sedgwick
Cousins, Pamela (--) of Sedgwick
Crane, Abija of Fayette
Crawford, William of Gardiner
Crediford, Ruth (--) of Kennebunkport
Crediford, Abner of Kennebunkport
Cree, Asa of Canaan
Cree, Love (--) of Canaan
Creech, Richard of Leeds
Creech, Elizabeth (--) of Leeds
Crescy, Benjamin of Falmouth
Crockett, Samuel of Cape Elizabeth
Crosby, Charles of Garland
Crosby, Mary (--) of Garland
Croxford, John of Newburgh
Croxford, Wilmot (--) of Newburgh
Cummings, Thomas of Cutler
Cummings, Mary (--) of Cutler
Cunningham, Sarah (--) of Newcastle
Cunningham, Samuel of Newcastle
Cushman, Lucy (--) of Winslow
Cushman, Andrew of Leeds
Cushman, Joshua of Winslow
Edwards, Lucy of Gorham
Glidden, Deborah of Glidden
Norton, Ann of Readfield
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
