Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 4 Dain-Ellis, 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:
Dain, John of Lisbon
Daisy, Mehitable (--) of Poland
Daisy, John of Poland
Damans, Abiah of Charlotte
Damans, Lucretia (--) of Charlotte
Danforth, Abner of Litchfield
Davenport, Jerusha (--) of Augusta
Davenport, Philip of Augusta
Davidson, Alexander of Edgecomb
Davis, Aaron of Warren
Davis, Allen of Minot
Davis, Benjamin of Belfast
Davis, Elijah of Bridgeton
Davis, Phebe (Whitney) of Bridgeton
Davis, William of Whitefield
Davis, Ezra of Ellsworth
Davis, Abigail (--) of Ellsworth
Davis, John of Cutler
Davis, Eliza (--) of Cutler
Davis, John of Thomaston
Davis, Eunice (--) of Thomaston
Davis, John of New Sharon
Davis, Joshua of Canton
Davis, Micah of Gardiner
Davis, Lydia (--) of Gardiner
Davis, Nicholas of Hollis
Davis, Abigail (--) of Hollis
Davis, Philip of Fayette
Davis, Samuel of Standish
Day, Nathaniel of Lovell
Deall, George of Waldoborough
Dean, Ebenezer of Madison
Dean, Edmund of Paris
Dearborn, Simon of Monmouth
Delano, Seth of Philips
Delano, Alpheus of Friendship
Delano, Margaret (--) of Friendship
Delano, Jabez of Livermore
Delano, Jonathan of Woolwich
Delano, Ruth (--) of Woolwich
Dennison, David of Freeport
Deshon, James of Waterborough
Dickey, Eleazer of Munroe
Didston, Benjamin of Starks
Dingley, Levi of Harpswell
Dix, William of Jay
Dix, Abigail (--) of Jay
Doane, Amos of Hampden
Dodge, Elizabeth (--) of Burnham
Dodge, Nicholas of Burnham
Dolbear, Benjamin of Freeman
Dole, Matilda (--) of Orington
Dole, Amos of Orington
Dorman, John of Kennebunkport
Dorman, Hannah (--) of Kennebunkport
Doughty, Nathaniel of Portland
Doughty, James of Harpswell
Doughty, John of Freeport
Doughty, Dorcas (--) of Freeport
Doughty, Ichabod of Brunswick
Douglass, John of Denmark
Dow, Joseph of Standish
Dow, Lucy (--) of Standish
Downing, John of Minot
Downing, Samuel of Minot
Doyle, Jotham of Bowden
Doyle, Huldah (--) of Bowden
Dresser, Jonathan of Denmark
Dresser, Elizabeth (--) of Denmark
Dresser, Richard of Saco
Drown, Stephen of Kennebunkport
Dudley, Nathan of Hebron
Dunbar, David of Penobscot
Dunham, Moses of Hartford
Dunham, Ammi of Freeport
Dunn, Joshua of Dixfield
Dunn, Christopher of Belgrade
Durham, Ammi of Freeport
Duron, William of Bootbay
Duron, Ruth (--) of Boothbay
Dwelly, Allen of Plantation No. 3
Dyer, Bicford of Baldwin
Dyer, Benjamin of Lisbon
Dyer, Hannah (--) of Lisbon
Dyer, Isaac of Cape Elizabeth
Dyer, Dolly (--)
Dyer, Ephraim of Sullivan
Dyer, Hannah (--) of Sullivan
Eastman, Hannah (--)
Eastman, Edmund of Limerick
Eastman, Zachariah of Scarborough
Eastman, Jacob of Parsonsfield
Eaton, Eliab of Strong
Eaton, William of Wells
Edmester, Noah of Dixmont
Edwards, Nathaniel of Parsonsfield
Edwards, Thomas of Portland
Edwards, Mary (--) of Portland
Eldridge, Phebe (--) of Standish
Eldridge, Daniel of Standish
Ellis, Mary (--) of East Machias
Ellis, Atkins of St. Albans
Ellis, Elizabeth (--) of St. Albans
Ellis, Samuel of East Machias
Whitney, Phebe
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
