Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 12 Southard-Tyler, 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:
Davenport, Jerusha
Johnson, Rhoda
Piper, Ann B
Sawtelle, Sarah
Southard, Constant of Corinna
Southard, Lucy (--) of Corinna
Spaulding, Samuel of Searsmont
Spearin, Mary (--) of Frankfort
Spearin, John of Frankfort
Spencer, Eleanor (--) of Baldwin
Spencer, William of Baldwin
Spencer, Soloman of Hartland
Spencer, Thomas of Limington
Spring, Josiah of Brownfield
Spurr, Enoch of Otisfield
Stanford, John of Cape Elizabeth
Stanley, Adin of Winthrop
Staples, William of Bethel
Staples, Joan (--) of Bethel
Staples, Louisa (--) of Biddeford
Staples, Stephen of Lisbon
Staples, Charity (--) of Lisbon
Staples, Joseph of Biddeford
Starbird, Samuel of Lisbon
Stetson, Hezekiah of Sumner
Stetson, Chloe (--) of Sumner
Stevens, Jonas of Norway
Stevens, Amey (--) of Mercer
Stevens, Thomas of Brooksville
Stevens, Jerusha (Davenport) of Hallowell
Stevens, Samuel of Mercer
Stevens, Mary (--) of Norway
Stevens, Daniel of Hallowell
Steward, Benjamin of Newport
Steward, Amasa of Bloomfield
Steward, Sally (--) of Newport
Stinson, Samuel of Deer Isle
Stinson, Abiah (--) of Litchfield
Stinson, William of Litchfield
Stoddard, Hannah (--) of Perry
Stoddard, Nathaniel of Perry
Stone, Damaris (--) of Gorham
Stone, Jonathan of Gorham
Stone, George of Limington
Stone, John of Parsonsfield
Storer, William of Hiram
Storer, Sarah (--) of Hiram
Storer, Ebenezer of Gorham
Storer, Joseph of Falmouth
Storer, Joanna (--) of Falmouth
Stover, Catherine (--) of Appleton
Stover, Christopher of Appleton
Stowers, James of Prospect
Strout, Mary (--) of Limington
Strout, Isaac of Limington
Sturtevant, Sarah (--) of Paris
Sturtevant, Lot of Waterville
Sturtevant, Seth of Sumner
Sturtevant, Joseph of Paris
Sturtevant, Mary (--) of Paris
Sturtevant, Francis of Paris
Sturtevant, Asa of Dover
Sullivan, Catherine (--) of Wiscasset
Sullivan, Barnabus of Wiscasset
Sutton, Lois (--) of Limington
Sutton, John of Limington
Swan, Joshua of Massachusetts
Sweetland, Nathan
Swett, Joshua of Gorham
Swett, John of Windham
Swett, Israel of Cape Elizabeth
Tappan, Hannah (--) of Gardiner
Tappan, Michael of Gardiner
Tarbell, Miriam (--) of Norridgewock
Tarbell, Joseph of Norridgewock
Taylor, Reuben of North Hampton of MA
Taylor, Noah of Sanford
Taylor, Ephraim of Newcastle
Thayer, Peter of Oxford
Thayer, Ruth (--) of Oxford
Thompson, Rhoda (Johnson) of Topsham
Thompson, Benjamin of Topsham
Thompson, Ephraim of Lyman
Thompson, James of Calais
Thompson, Lydia (--) of Topsham
Thompson, Alexander of Topsham
Thompson, Joseph of York
Thompson, Joseph of Lisbon
Thompson, Happy (--) of Lisbon
Thompson, Richard of Wales
Thompson, Bathsheba (--) of Wales
Thompson, William of Wayne
Thompson, Joanna (--) of Wayne
Thompson, Hannah (--) of Calais
Thompson, James of Kennebunkport
Thurston, Jacob of Otisfield
Thurston, Ann B (Piper) of Otisfield)
Tibbets, Susan (--) of Boothbay
Tibbets, Giles of Boothbay
Tibbetts, Stephen of Bristol
Tobin, Margaret (--) of Bucksfield
Tobin, Samuel of Bucksfield
Toby, Margaret (--) of Portland
Toby, John of Portland
Toothaker, Seth of Harpswell
Tourtilott, Leah (--) of Howland
Tourtilott, Abraham of Howland
Town, Joseph of Alfred
Townsend, Sarah (Sawtelle) of Sidney
Townsend, Daniel of Sidney
Tribou, Amasa of Minot
Tripp, Robert of Sanford
True, Zebulon of Temple
True, Martha (--) of Temple
True, Obediah of Denmark
Turner, David of New Vineyard
Turner, Isaac of Durham
Turner, Robert of Belmont
Turner, Elizabeth (--) of Belmont
Turner, Starbird of Rome
Tuttle, Samuel of Portland
Tyler, Andrew of Frankfort
Tyler, Daniel of Brownfield
Tyler, Abraham of Saco
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
