Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 10 Packard-Robbins, 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, Elizabeth
Holden, Sarah
Packard, Nehemiah of Minot
Packard, James of Norway
Page, Lydia (--) of Brownville
Page, Daniel of Fairfield
Page, Edward of Kittery
Page, Agnes (--) of Kittery
Page, Chase of Brownville
Page, Abraham of Belgrade
Pain, Thomas of Pownal
Palmer, Simon of Windsor
Parker, Josiah of Newportland
Parker, Anne (--) of Westbrook
Parker, John of Westbrook
Parker, Edmund of Norridgewock
Parkhurst, Nathan of Unity
Parkhurst, Sarah (--) of Unity
Parsons, Nathan of Brewer
Parsons, Susan (--) of Brewer
Partridge, Mary (--) of Poland
Partridge, David of Poland
Patch, Sarah (--) of Kittery
Patch, George of Kittery
Patten, Nathaniel of Penobscot
Patterson, Lucretia (--) of Saco
Patterson, Joseph of Saco
Paul, David of Lewiston
Payne, William of Anson
Peary, Stephen of Denmark
Peck, Diadama (--) of Clinton
Peck, Joshua of Clinton
Pendexter, Paul of Cornish
Penny, Salatriel of Waterville
Penny, Abraham of Dearborn
Penny, Abigail (--) of Wells
Penny, George of Wells
Perkins, Mehitable (--) of Paris
Perkins, Samuel of Paris
Perry, Mary (--) of Stetson
Perry, Jesse of Stetson
Petter, Abigail (--) of Gouldsborough
Petter, Oliver of Gouldsborough
Philbrook, David of Hallowell
Philbrook, Catherine (--) of Hallowell
Phillips, Ichabod of Leeds
Phillips, Silence (--) of Turner
Phillips, Jairus of Turner
Phillips, Elizabeth (Ames) of Leeds
Phinney, John of Gorham
Picket, William of New Gloucester
Pilsbury, Lucy (--) of Thomaston
Pilsbury, Nathan of Thomaston
Plaisted, Lydia (--) of Standish
Plaisted, John of Standish
Plummer, Isaac of Gorham
Plummer, Esther (--) of Gorham
Plummer, John of Freedom
Plummer, Edward of Albion
Plummer, William of Danville
Poland, Joseph of Cumberland
Poland, Hannah (--) of Cumberland
Pollard, Mary (--) of Albion
Pollard, Barton of Albion
Pool, Job of Falmouth
Poole, Rebecca (--) of Brunswick
Poole, Thomas of Brunswick
Porter, Benjamin J of Camden
Pratt, Lydia (--) of Bloomfield
Pratt, George of Salem
Pratt, Seth of Windsor
Pratt, Elam of Bloomfield
Proctor, Samuel of Wayne
Proctor, Joanna (Thompson) of Wayne
Pullen, Amy (--) of Waterville
Pullen, Oliver of Palermo
Pullen, John of Waterville
Pumpilly, Elizabeth (--) of Turner
Pumpilly, Bennet of Turner
Ramsdell, Inda (Robinson) of Lubec
Ramsdell, James of Lubec
Randall, James of Limington
Randall, Mary (--) of Limington
Randall, Stephen of Limerick
Randall, Elizabeth (--) of Limerick
Rankins, Sarah (--) of Lebanon
Rankins, James of Lebanon
Read, Ward of Dixmont
Redington, Asa of Waterville
Reed, Jediah (--) of Weld
Reed, Jacob of North Yarmouth
Reed, Sarah (Holden) of No Yarmouth
Reed, Amaziah of Weld
Reed, Ward of Dixmont
Reynolds, Eliphalet of Addison
Reynolds, Rebecca (--) of Dennysville
Reynolds, Daniel of Burnham
Reynolds, Thankful (--) of Burnham
Reynolds, David of Dennysville
Rhoads, Moses of Waterboro
Rhoads, Jacob of Waterborough
Riant, Joseph of Farmington
Richards, Joseph of Saco
Richardson, Joel of Durham
Richardson, Hannah (--) of Danvers of MA
Richardson, Seth of Danvers of MA
Richardson, Lydia (--) of Durham
Ricker, Simeon of Lisbon
Rideout, Ruth (--) of Cumberland
Rideout, Abraham of Arundel
Rideout, William of Cumberland
Ridley, Mary (Rogers) of Bowdoin
Ridley, David of Windsor
Ridley, George of Bowdoin
Roach, Abigail (--) of Wilton
Roach, John of Wilton
Robbins, Otis of Thomaston
Robbins, Eliphalet of Norridgewock
Robbins, Daniel of Leeds
Robbins, Nathaniel
Robinson, Inda
Rogers, Mary
Thompson, Joanna
[Unknown], Phillis of Deer Isle
[Unknown], Phillis of Newport of RI
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
