Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 6 Goodwin-Hobbs, 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:
Chamberlain, Bethiah
Goodwin, Mary (--) of Lebanon
Goodwin, Simeon of Lebanon
Gordon, Benjamin of Camden
Gordon, Joseph of Belfast
Gordon, William of Fryeburg
Gordon, Bethiah (Chamberlain)
Gordon, Miriam (--) of Augusta
Gordon, Caleb of Augusta
Gove, Martha (--) of Lisbon
Gove, John of Limington
Gove, Lois (--) of Limington
Gove, Jacob of Lisbon
Gowen, Mary (--) of Wells
Gowen, John of Wells
Grant, Elisha of Wiscasset
Grant, Lydia (Hilton) of Wiscasset
Grant, Abigail (--) of York
Grant, Joshua of York
Green, Daniel of Readfield
Green, John of Scarborough
Green, Elizabeth (--) of Scarborough
Green, Jonathan of Jackson
Green, Rebecca (--) of Jackson
Greenlaw, John of Brownfield
Greenleaf, Enoch of Westport
Griffith, John of Livermore
Griffith, Mary (--) of Livermore
Guilford, John of Hollis
Haines, Simeon of Belfast
Hale, Isreal of Waterford
Hale, Benjamin of Waterford
Hall, Judith (Shackley) of Machias
Hall, Charles of Standish
Hall, Enoch of Buckfield
Hall, Mariam (--) of Buckfield
Hall, Jabez of Readfield
Hall, John of Machias
Hall, Luther of Brunswick
Hall, Levi of Bangor
Hall, Elizabeth (--) of Brunswick
Halloway, Mary (--) of Windsor
Halloway, William of Windsor
Ham, Margaret (Staples)
Ham, Joseph of Kennebunkport
Ham, John of Leeds
Hamblin, Joseph of Gorham
Hamblin, Bethiah (--) of Gorham
Hamilton, Jonathan of Sanford
Hamilton, William of North Yarmouth
Hamilton, Richard of Searsmont
Hamlin, Africa of Waterford
Hamlin, Susanna (--) of Waterford
Hammond, Paulipus of Peru
Hancock, William of Buxton
Hans, Thankful (--) of Portland
Hans, William of Portland
Hans, Hannah (--) of Portland
Hans, James of Portland
Hanscom, Reuben of Berwick
Hanscom, Alice (--) of Berwick
Hanscom, Lucy (--) of Elliot
Hanscom, John of Litchfield
Hanscom, Catherine (--) of Litchfield
Hanscom, Nathaniel of Elliot
Hanscomb, Gideon of Kennebunkport
Hanscomb, Mehitable (--) of Kennebunkport
Hardy, William of Wilton
Harlow, Josiah of Munroe
Harlow, Olive (--) of Munroe
Harmon, Polly (--) of Buxton
Harmon, William of Standish
Harmon, Thankful (--) of Standish
Harmon, Abner of Buxton
Harmon, Josiah of Thorndike
Harmon, Samuel of Dixmont
Harmon, Thomas of Buxton
Harmon, Mary (--) of Buxton
Harriman, Simon of Bangor
Harriman, Elizabeth (--) of Bangor
Harris, John of Litchfield
Hartwell, Oliver of Stetson
Harvest, Adams of Waldo
Harvest, Anna (--) of Waldo
Harvey, William of South Berwick
Haskell, William of China
Haskell, Rebecca (--) of Topsham
Haskell, Rhoda (--) of China
Haskell, John of Knox
Haskell, Mary (--) of Knox
Haskell, Josiah of Thomaston
Haskell, Stephen of Topsham
Hatch, Jemima (--) of Dresden
Hatch, Jane (--) of Gorham
Hatch, Simeon of Dresden
Hatch, Asa of Gorham
Hawes, Joseph of Minot
Haynes, Ephraim of Eden
Hazen, Jacob of Bridgton
Heald, Oliver of Madison
Heath, Hannah (--) of Mount Desert
Heath, William of Mount Desert
Heavner, Charles of Waldoboro
Hicks, Clarissa (--) of Portland
Hicks, Samuel of Portland
Hill, Ruth (Stubbs) of Cumberland
Hill, David of Waterborough
Hill, Thomas of Cumberland
Hill, Daniel of Buxton
Hill, Phebe (--) of Buxton
Hill, Parnal (--) of Waterborough
Hilton, Moral of Wiscasset
Hilton, William of Solon
Hilton, Lydia
Hilton, Mary (--) of Wells
Hilton, Edward of Wells
Hinckley, Seth of Eden
Hinckley, Genett (--) of Eden
Hinds, Samuel of St. George
Hinds, Anna (--) of Madison
Hinds, Benjamin of Madison
Hine, Richard of Turner
Hine, Abiah (--) of Turner
Hinkley, Nehemiah of Blue Hill
Hobbs, Josiah of Falmouth
Shackley, Judith
Staples, Margaret
Stubbs, Ruth
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
