Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 11 Robinson-Soule, 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:
Covel, Lydia
Crosby, Lucy
Packard, Artemisa
Robinson, Isabella (--) of Hollis
Robinson, John of Sebago
Robinson, Phebe (--) of Sebago
Robinson, Deborah (--) of Limington
Robinson, Betsey (--) of Portland
Robinson, William of York
Robinson, Sarah (--) of York
Robinson, John of Limington
Robinson, Samuel of Portland
Robinson, George of Hollis
Rolf, Jeremiah of Abbot
Rollins, John of Augusta
Rollins, Eliphalet of Hallowell
Rose, Benjamin of Hartland
Rourk, Martin of Durham
Rourk, Elizabeth (--) of Durham
Row, Webber of Baldwin
Rumery, Pamela (--) of Lubec
Rumery, Dominus of Lubec
Runnels, Thomas of Portland
Runnels, Rhoda (--) of Portland
Runnels, John of Portland
Russell, Calvin of Moscow
Russell, Andrew of Madison
Sanborn, Simeon of Bethel
Sanborn, Hannah (--) of Bethel
Sanders, Lucy (--) of Farmington
Sanders, Joseph of Farmington
Sargent, Lucy (--) of Sullivan
Sargent, Paul D of Sullivan
Sargent, Lydia (--) of Frankfort
Sargent, Charles of South Berwick
Sargent, John of Frankfort
Saunders, Lucy (--) of Farmington
Saunders, Joseph of Farmington
Sawyer, Josiah of Steuben
Severance, Ruth (--) of Knox
Severance, Ephraim of Knox
Severance, Caleb of Brewer
Sevey, Eliakim of York
Sewall, Henry of Augusta
Shackley, Joseph of Lyman
Shane, Richard of Raymond
Shane, Susannah (--) of Raymond
Shattuck, Joseph of Andover
Shaw, Nathaniel of Turner
Shaw, Nathaniel of Portland
Shaw, Polly (--) of Portland
Shaw, Abraham of York
Shaw, John of Woolwich
Shaw, Ephraim of New Vineyard
Shaw, Rebecca (--) of New Vineyard
Shed, Ruth (--) of Norway
Shed, Amos of Norridgewock
Shed, Lemuel of Norway
Shed, Lucy (Crosby) of Norridgewock
Shelden, Sarah (--) of Newcastle
Shelden, William of Newcastle
Shepard, William of Jefferson
Shepard, Lucy (--) of Jefferson
Shephard, Mary (--) of Jefferson
Shephard, James of Jefferson
Shepherd, Elizabeth (--) of Portland
Shepherd, Lewis of Portland
Sherman, James of Freeport
Sherman, Margaret (--) of Freeport
Silley, Benjamin of Brooks
Simmons, Artemisa (Packard) of Minot
Simmons, Joel of Minot
Simonton, Lucy (--) of Cape Elizabeth
Simonton, Walter of Cape Elizabeth
Simson, Simeon of Winslow
Sinclair, Joshua of Bangor
Skinner, John of Lewiston
Skriggins, Thomas of Eliot
Small, Elizabeth (--) of Limington
Small, James of Scarborough
Small, Jeremiah of Westbrook
Small, Henry of Limington
Small, Daniel of Raymond
Smith, Ebenezer of Woolwich
Smith, Jesse of Bangor
Smith, Lucy (--) of Bangor
Smith, John of Portland
Smith, John of Mount Desert
Smith, Anna (--) of Mount Desert
Smith, John of Belfast
Smith, Lydia (Covel) of Belfast
Smith, Charles of Belfast
Smith, Moses of Prospect
Smith, Noah of Hollis
Smith, Comfort (--) of Hollis
Smith, Peleg of Waldoboro
Smith, Lucy Ann (--) of Waldoboro
Smith, Roland of Augusta
Smith, Samuel of Monroe
Smith, Stephen of Freedom
Smith, Thomas of Litchfield
Snow, Mary (--) of Saco
Snow, Paul of Saco
Soule, Asa of Appleton
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
