Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 9 May-Owen, 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:
Ames, Deborah
Green, Rhoda
Johnson, Polly
Johnson, Polly
May, Hepsibah (--) of Poland
May, John of Poland
Mayberry, William of Raymond
Mayhew, James of Hermon
McCausland, Abiah (--) of Gardiner
McCausland, Mary (--) of Gardiner
McCausland, Henry of Gardiner
McCausland, James of Gardiner
McDaniel, Abner of Windham
McDaniel, Polly (Johnson) of Windham
McDaniel, James of York
McDaniel, Susanna (--) of York
McDonald, Pelatiah of Standish
McDonald, Abner of Windham
McDonald, Polly (Johnson) of Windham
McFarland, Deborah (Scribner) of Fairfield
McFarland, Sarah (--) of Fairfield
McFarland, Elijah of Fairfield
McFarland, Soloman of Fairfield
McGaw, Jacob of Massachusetts
McGee, Susannah (Ryan) of Brooksville
McGee, Neil of Brooksville
McGill, Martha (--) of Brunswick
McGill, William of Brunswick
McIntosh, John of Durham
McKenney, Abner of Saco
McKenney, Sarah (--) of Saco
McKenney, Jeremy of Saco
McKenney, Anna (--) of Saco
McKenney, Joseph of Green
McKenney, William of Farmington
McKenney, Meriam (--) of Farmington
McLelan, John of Glenburn
McLucas, Margaret (--) of Waterborough
McLucas, John of Waterborough
McMannus, John of Brunswick
McPherson, Mary (--) of Madison
McPherson, Dougal of Madison
McQuigg, Daniel of Newcastle
McQuigg, Phebe (--) of Newcastle
Means, Thomas of Freeport
Mero, Amaziah of Union
Merrick, Nancy (--) of Pittsfield
Merrick, John of Pittsfield
Merrill, Daniel of Kennebunkport
Merrill, Sarah (--) of Kennebunkport
Merrill, John of Lewiston
Merrill, Moses of Portland
Merrill, Elizabeth (--) of Portland
Merritt, Daniel of Addison
Merritt, Hannah (--) of Addison
Merritt, William of Addison
Merrow, Margaret (--) of Standish
Merrow, William of Standish
Mighel, Moses of Parsonsfield
Mighel, Elizabeth (--) of Parsonsfield
Miller, Lemuel of Kennebunkport
Milliken, Josiah of Limington
Milliken, Sarah (--) of Limington
Milliken, Joel of Scarborough
Mills, John of Belgrade
Mills, Mary (--) of Belgrade
Mills, William of Massachusetts
Mitchell, Joshua of Bath
Mitchell, Jamesia (--) of Bath
Mitchell, Robert of Portland
Mitchell, Mary (--) of Portland
Mitchell, Samuel of Bowdoin
Mitchell, John of Hampton
Moody, Daniel of Minot
Moody, Lucy (--) of Minot
Moody, George of Limington
Moody, Joshua of Baldwin
Moody, Rebecca (--) of Baldwin
Moore, Joshua of Vienna
Morrill, Olive (--) of Munroe
Morrill, Jacob of Munroe
Morrison, Moses of Phippsburg
Morse, Anthony of Brunswick
Morse, Levi of Gray
Morse, Seth of Paris
Morton, Mary (--) of Gorham
Morton, Thomas of Gorham
Morton, David of Gorham
Moulton, Sally (--) of Newfield
Moulton, Simeon of Newfield
Mugford, John of Windham
Munroe, Hugh of Thomaston
Munroe, Naomi (--) of Thomaston
Munrow, Naomi (--) of Thomaston
Munrow, Hugh of Thomaston
Murch, Mathias of Gorham
Neal, Mary (--) of Kittery
Neal, Samuel of Kittery
Newbegin, George of Parsonsfield
Nichols, Dorcas (--) of Prospect
Nichols, Nathaniel of Augusta
Nichols, Mehitable (--) of Augusta
Nichols, Bela of Prospect
Nickerson, Reubin of Frankfort
Norman, John of Kennebunk
Norman, Sally (--) of Kennebunk
Norton, Hannah (--) of York
Norton, Nathaniel of York
Nowell, Zachariah of Portland
Noyse, Elizabeth (--) of Greenwood
Noyse, Bela of Greenwood
Nutting, Abel of Lisbon
Nutting, Rhoda (Green) of Lisbon
Nutting, Thomas of Wilton
Nye, Jonathan of Fairfield
O'Brien, John of Cornish
Oaks, John of Exeter
Orgin, Isaac of Boston of MA
Orr, Deborah (Ames) of Camden
Orr, Alexander of Camden
Osborn, Judith (--) of Augusta
Osborn, Hugh of Rome
Osborn, James of Kennebunk
Osborn, Michael of Augusta
Osgood, Hannah (--) of Hiram
Osgood, Ara of Hiram
Owen, Philip of Brunswick
Ryan, Susannah
Scribner, Deborah
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
