Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 13 Ulmers-Withington, 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:
Jordan, Achsah
Moore, Betsy
Spinney, Hannah
Sterling, Ruth
Stevens, Eunice
Ulmers, George of Hope
Uran, Anna (--) of Waterborough
Uran, James of Waterborough
Vance, William of Readfield
Variel, Samuel of Minot
Vining, John of Durham
Vining, Mary (--) of Durham
Wagg, James of Durham
Waiscoat, Joshua of Hartford
Waiscoat, Deborah (--) of Hartford
Wakefield, Gibbon of Westbrook
Wakefield, Nancy (--) of Westbrook
Walker, Mary (--) of Livermore
Walker, John of Livermore
Walker, Susan (--) of Waterborough
Walker, Edward of Waterborough
Walker, Nancy (--) of Anson
Walker, John of Anson
Walton, Benjamin of Paris
Warden, Thomas of Wells
Warden, Ednar (--) of Wells
Wardwell, Joseph of Rumford
Warren, Pelatiah of Monmouth
Warren, Margaret (--) of Hiram
Warren, Nathaniel of Hiram
Warren, Abijah of Pris
Warren, Daniel of Limerick
Wasgate, Davis of Mt Desert
Wasson, Thomas of Brooksville
Waterhouse, Joseph of Standish
Waterman, Malachi of Baldwin
Waterman, Mary (--) of Baldwin
Waterman, Joseph of Knox
Watson, Eunice (--) of Bowdoinham
Watson, John of Bowdoinham
Webb, Lydia (--) of Newcastle
Webb, Edward of Gorham
Webb, Nathaniel of Newcastle
Webber, Elizabeth (Woodbury) of Portland
Webber, Jonathan of Kennebunk
Webber, Noah of Lincoln
Webber, Nancy (--) of Lincoln
Webber, John of Litchfield
Webber, George of Richmond
Webber, Joseph of Portland
Webber, Eunice (Stevens) of Litchfield
Welch, Samuel of Durham
Welch, James of Gray
Welch, Paul of York
Welch, Lemuel of Durham
Welch, Mary (--) of York
Weld, Benjamin of Brunswick
Wells, Mary (--) of Rome
Wells, James of Rome
Wentworth, Lemuel of Belmont
Wentworth, Mary (--) of Knox
Wentworth, John of Ellsworth
Wentworth, Lydia (--) of Ellsworth
Wentworth, Paul of Knox
Wescot, Samuel of Portland
Wescot, Isaac of Gorham
Wescot, Nancy (--) of Portland
West, Isaac of Jay
Weston, Joseph of Otisfield
Whidden, James of Canaan
Whidden, Sally (--) of Canaan
Whidden, Solomon of Milburn
White, Joshua of Fairfield
White, Margaret (--) of Fairfield
Whitham, James of Kittery
Whitham, Olive (--) of Kittery
Whiting, Sampson of Denmark
Whitney, Charity (--) of Saco
Whitney, Jesse of Saco
Whitney, Isaac of Lisbon
Whitten, Jane (--) of Topsham
Whitten, John of Topsham
Whitten, Richard of Troy
Wight, John of Bluehill
Wight, Joseph of Raymond
Wilcox, John of Monmouth
Wiley, Ephraim of St George
Wilkins, Edward of Exeter
Wilkins, Bridget (--) of Exeter
Williams, Anna (--) of Anson
Williams, Lemuel of Anson
Williams, John of Wiscasset
Willis, Joanna (--) of St. George
Willis, James of Minot
Willis, Thomas of St. George
Willis, Sally (--) of Minot
Wills, Thomas of Belgrade
Wilson, Mark of Canton
Wilson, Olive (--) of Canton
Wilson, Samuel of Orono
Wilson, Ruth (Sterling) of Orono
Wilson, Charles of Raymond
Wilson, Edward of Cumberland
Wilson, Achsah (Jordan) of Raymond
Wing, Love (--) of Abbot
Wing, Nathan of Abbot
Winn, Samuel of Kennebunk
Winn, Louis (--) of Kennebunk
Winot, Nancy (--) of Portland
Winot, Samuel of Portland
Winslow, Elizabeth (--) of Freeport
Winslow, Abraham of Freeport
Winslow, John of Minot
Winslow, Mary (--) of Minot
Winslow, Ezekiel of Waldoboro
Winsor, Peter
Winter, Betsy (Moore) of Jay
Winter, Joseph of Jay
Witham, Caleb of Woolwich
Witham, Lucretia (--) of Woolwich
Witham, Jedediah of Eliot
Witham, Hannah (Spinney) of Eliot
Witham, Andrew of Newfield
Withee, Abyziel of Hartland
Withee, Zoe/ Zoa of Industry
Withington, Abigail (--) of Monmouth
Withington, Robert of Monmouth
Woodbury, Elizabeth
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
