Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 8 Kimball-Mason, 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:
Brainardo, Mary
Hilton, Susannah
Kimball, Lydia (--) of South Berwick
Kimball, Rufus of Hollis
Kimball, Lucy (--) of Hollis
Kimball, David of Harmony
Kimball, Nathan of South Berwick
Kimball, Joseph of Bridgton
King, Moses of Pittston
King, Josiah of Massachusetts
King, Mary (Brainardo) of Pittston
Kinsley, Daniel of Minot
Knight, John of Windham
Knight, Daniel of Norway
Knight, Joseph of Alfred
Knight, William of Poland
Knight, Phebe (--) of Poland
Knight, Jonathan of Waterborough
Knowlton, Dorcas (--) of Eliot
Knowlton, John of Eliot
Knox, Jonathan of Berwick
Lampson, William of Edgecomb
Lampson, Martha (--) of Edgecomb
Lancaster, Joseph of Richmond
Landerkin, Daniel of Boothbay
Lane, Betsey (--) of Buxton
Lane, John of Buxton
Lara, James of Turner
Lasdell, Asa of Burnham
Lassel, Caleb of Waterboro
Lawrence, John of North Yarmouth
Le Broke, James of Greenwood
Le Broke, Sarah (--) of Greenwood
Leavitt, Betsy (--) of Alfred
Leavitt, William of Alfred
Leher, Catherine (--) of Washington
Leher, Peter of Washington
Leisner, George of Waldoborough
Leland, Henry of Sangerville
Leland, Sarah (--) of Sangerville
Leland, Mary (--) of Brooksville
Leland, Ebenezer of Brooksville
Lemmon, Francis of Massachusetts
Lemont, Lucy (Mallett) of Wales
Lemont, Thomas of Wales
Lewis, Elizabeth (--) of Hiram
Lewis, Joseph of Waterborough
Lewis, Mehitable (--) of Waterborough
Lewis, Abijah of Hiram
Libbey, Nathaniel of Limerick
Libby, Allison of Limington
Libby, Sarah (Small) of Limington
Libby, Mary (--) of Gorham
Libby, Benjamin of Whitefield
Libby, Hannah (--) of Whitefield
Libby, Edward of Gorham
Libby, Francis of Buxton
Libby, Harvey of Limington
Libby, James of Poland
Libby, Sally (--) of Poland
Libby, Jonathan of Scarborough
Libby, Abigail (--) of Scarborough
Libby, Luke of Danville
Libby, Dolly (--) of Danville
Libby, Simeon of Gorham
Libby, Ann (--) of Gorham
Libby, Solomon of Saco
Libby, Sally (--) of Saco
Libby, Thomas of Gorham
Linscott, Theodore of Sanford
Littlefield, Moses of Frankfort
Littlefield, Abraham of York
Littlefield, Susanna (--) of York
Littlefield, John of Wells
Littlefield, Meriam (--) of Wells
Lombard, Jedediah of Standish
Longley, Asa of St. Albans
Longley, Zachariah of Dover
Longley, Betsy (--) of Dover
Loomis, Rebecca (--) of Westport
Loomis, Roger of Westport
Lord, Olive (--) of Limington
Lord, Adam of Limington
Lord, Simson of North Berwick
Lord, Daniel of Limerick
Lord, Hannah (--) of Limerick
Lord, Elias of Lyman
Lord, Elizabeth (--) of Lyman
Lord, Nathan of Lebanon
Lord, Sarah (--) of Lebanon
Lord, Richard of South Berwick
Lord, Mary (--) of South Berwick
Lord, Polly (--) of North Berwick
Low, Mary (--) of Bath
Low, Beniah of Standish
Low, Elizabeth (--) of Standish
Low, Jacob of Bath
Lowell, Paul of Turner
Lowell, Benjamin of Bucksport
Lowell, Lydia (--) of Bucksport
Lowell, Thomas of Dixmont
Lowell, Elizabeth (--) of Turner
Lumbard, Caleb of Turner
Lumbard, Hannah (--) of Turner
Lumbard, Nathaniel of Cornville
Lunt, Mary (--) of Georgetown
Lunt, Amos of Brunswick
Lunt, Daniel of Westbrook
Lunt, Eunice (--) of Westbrook
Lunt, Joseph of Georgetown
Lynston, Roby of Kittery
Lynston, Olive (--) of Kittery
Madden, John of Waldo
Maddock, Samuel of Ellsworth
Mahoney, Joanna (--)
Mahoney, --, 62
Mallett, Lucy
Margery, Jonathan of Scarborough
Margery, Sarah (--) of Scarborough
Marsh, Hannah (--) of Cornville
Marsh, Noah of Cornville
Marston, Nathaniel of Gardiner
Martin, John of Pejepscot
Martin, Lydia (--) of Pejepscot
Martin, David of Bridgton
Martin, Joseph of Prospect
Martin, Robert of Sebago
Mason, Susannah (Hilton) of Windsor
Mason, Lucy (--) of Falmouth
Mason, George of Windsor
Mason, John of Falmouth
Small, Sarah
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
