Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 5 Emery-Goodwin, 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:
Billington, Patience
Bradford, Hannah
Card, Sarah
Emery, John of Bloomfield
Emery, Abagail (--) of Fairfield
Emery, Patience (--) of Anson
Emery, Samuel of Ripley
Emery, Stephen of Newry
Emery, Ruth (--) of Newry
Emery, Jesse of Newry
Emery, Nathaniel of Anson
Emery, David of Fairfield
Erskine, Huldah (--) of Portland
Erskine, Alexander of Bristol
Erskine, George of Portland
Erskine, Mary (--) of Bristol
Everton, Lephaniah of Thomaston
Ewer, Jonathan of Vassalborough
Fairfield, Hannah (--) of Kennebunkport
Fairfield, William of Kennebunkport
Fairfield, John of Kennebunkport
Fairfield, Mary (--) of Kennebunkport
Fall, George of Lebanon
Farnham, Jonathan of Boothbay
Farnham, Dorcas (--) of Boothbay
Farrin, John of Bath
Farrington, Abner of Warren
Fenderson, John of Parsonsfield
Fenderson, Pelatiah of Scarboro
Fickett, Abigail (--) of Cape Elizabeth
Fickett, Nathaniel of Cape Elizabeth
Fickett, Vinson of Lewiston
Field, Rachel (--) of Greenwood
Field, Daniel of Greenwood
Fifield, John of Fryeburg
Fillebrown, Thomas of Winthrop
Fish, Eben of Bristol
Fish, Jane (--) of Bristol
Fisher, Jacob of Kennebunk
Fisher, Ebenezer of Brewer
Fisher, Elijah of Livermore
Fisher, Sarah (--) of Brewer
Flagg, Samuel A of Nobleboro
Fletcher, John of Sumner
Fletcher, Elizabeth (--) of Sumner
Flood, Jemima (--) of Buxton
Flood, Henry of Buxton
Fogg, Charles of Brownfield
Fogg, George of Wales
Ford, Miles of Clinton
Ford, Susannah (--) of Clinton
Foss, Elias of Limington
Foss, Zachariah of Scarboro
Foss, Joseph of Buckfield
Foster, Parker of Eliot
Foster, Benen of Portland
Fowler, Matthew of Unity
Frank, Hannah (--) of Gray
Frank, Thomas of Gray
Freeman, Hannah (Bradford) of Minot
Freeman, Samuel of Minot
Freethy, Joseph of Sedgwick
Freeze, John of Bowdoin
Freeze, Sarah (Card) of Bowdoin
French, Jacob of Jay
French, Mary (--) of Jay
Frost, Nathaniel of Eliot
Frost, Sarah (--) of Eliot
Frost, Samuel of Wayne
Frost, Patience (Billington) of Wayne
Frost, Mark of Belgrade
Frost, Elliot of Eliot
Frost, Simon of Kittery
Frost, Jane (Morrill) of Kittery
Frost, Stephen of Berwick
Frye, Nathaniel of Fryeburg
Frye, Dolly (--) of Fryeburg
Fuller, Polly (--) of Hebron
Fuller, Andrew of Warren
Fuller, Hannah (--) of Warren
Fuller, Barzillier of Hebron
Fulmer, George of Bangor
Fulmer, Nancy (--) of Bangor
Gaitskill, William of Sidney
Gaitskill, Dorcas (--) of Sidney
Gammon, Joshua of Cape Elizabeth
Gammon, Moses of Oxford
Gardiner, Elijah of Dennysville
Gardner, John of Hebron
George, Thomas of Newport
George, Francis of Leeds
Gilpatrick, Joseph of Kennebunk
Glass, Consider of Guilford
Glass, John of Gardiner
Glidden, Arnold of Chester
Glidden, Hannah (--) of Chester
Goff, James of Minot
Goff, William of Sumner
Goff, Anna (Tucker) of Sumner
Goldthwait, Timothy of Augusta
Goodale, Zachariah of Wells
Goodale, Mary (--) of Wells
Goodwin, Reuben of Lebanon
Goodwin, George of Avon
Morrill, Jane
Tucker, Anna
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
