Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 7 Hodgdon-Killsa, 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:
Bean, Betsey
Colby, Elizabeth
Crooker, Hannah
Hodgdon, Thankful (--) of Sumner
Hodgdon, Jeremiah of Sumner
Hodge, Joseph of Minot
Hodges, Ezra of Hallowell
Hodgman, John of Plymouth
Hodgman, Mehitable (--) of Plymouth
Hodsdon, Stephen of Rumford
Hodsdon, Samuel of South Berwick
Hodsdon, Ann (--) of South Berwick
Hoit, Catherine (--) of Standish
Hoit, John M. of Standish
Holden, Daniel of Sweden
Holden, Richard of Saugus of MA
Holden, Abigail (--) of Saugus of MA
Holden, Samuel of New Charleston
Holland, Park of Orono
Hollis, Stephen of New Sharon
Hollis, Abigail (--) of New Sharon
Holmes, Gersham of Minot
Holt, Esther (--) of Fryeburg
Holt, William of Fryeburg
Holt, John of Bethel
Holt, Lydia (--) of Bethel
Holt, Darius of Norway
Horsom, David of Berwick
Houston, John of Sanford
Houston, Samuel of Belfast
Howard, Joseph of Brownfield
Howe, Betty (--) of Sumner
Howe, Jacob of Sumner
Hudson, Timothy of Clinton
Hudson, Jane (--) of Clinton
Huff, Moses of Edgecomb
Huff, Daniel of Edgecomb
Hunnewell, Elizabeth (Colby) of Embden
Hunnewell, Thomas of Embden
Hunt, Eunice (--) of Unity
Hunt, Ichabod of Unity
Hunton, Hannah (--) of Wiscasset
Hunton, Jonathan of Wiscasset
Huston, John of Sanford
Hutchins, Betsy (--) of Alfred
Hutchins, Benjamin of Minot
Hutchins, Levi of Alfred
Hutchins, Simeon of Kennebunk
Hutchins, Eastman of Alfred
Hutchins, Nancy (--) of Minot
Hutchins, Abigail (--) of Waterborough
Hutchins, Thomas of Waterborough
Hutchins, Joseph of Hartford
Hutchinson, Israel of Hallowell
Ingalls, Phineas of Bridgton
Jackman, Richard of Wayne
Jackson, Roanna (--) of Jay
Jackson, Sarah (--) of Raymond
Jackson, Henry of Raymond
Jackson, Nathaniel of Jay
Jacobs, John of Mount Vernon
Jacobs, George of Sanford
Jacobs, Hephsibeth (--) of Sanford
Jenkins, Thankful (--) of Buckfield
Jenkins, Lemuel of Bowdoin
Jenkins, Samuel of Buckfield
Jennings, Eliphalet of Farmington
Jewett, Jonathan of Bath
Jewett, Hannah (Crooker) of Bath
Johnson, Jasper of Pownal
Johnson, Rebecca (--) of Pownal
Johnson, Dennis of Waterborough
Johnson, Andrew of Stow
Johnson, Hannah (--) of Augusta
Johnson, Nathan of Cumberland
Johnson, Mary (--) of Cumberland
Johnson, James of Augusta
Jones, Lazarus of Brighton
Jones, Joshua of Durham
Jones, Mary (--) of Hope
Jones, Thomas of Hope
Jordan, Hannah (--) of Danville
Jordan, Abraham of Durham
Jordan, Lydia (--) of Durham
Jordan, David of Albany
Jordan, Hezekiah of Raymond
Jordan, Eunice (--) of Raymond
Jordan, Humphrey of Danville
Jordan, Johunnah (--) of Danville
Jordan, James of Monroe
Jordan, Hannah (--) of Monroe
Jordan, Soloman of Cape Elizabeth
Jordan, Sarah (--) of Cape Elizabeth
Jordan, Abner of Danville
Jumper, Daniel of Harrison
Keen, Isaac
Keezor, David of Calais
Keith, Lydia (--) of Bath
Keith, Cornelius of Bath
Kelloch, David of Warren
Kellogg, Elijah of Portland
Kendall, William of Fairfield
Kendall, Abigail (--) of Fairfield
Keniston, Betsey (Bean) of Cornville
Keniston, John of Cornville
Kenney, Benjamin of Jefferson
Kenney, Lydia (--) of Jefferson
Kenney, Benjamin of Freedom
Kenney, Elizabeth (--) of Freedom
Kenney, Thomas of Pittston
Kenney, Hannah (--) of Pittston
Keser, David of Calais
Keyes, Ebenezer of Jay
Kilgore, James of Lovell
Killgore, John of Newry
Killsa, Lydia (--) of Thomaston
Killsa, James of Thomaston
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
