Massachusetts Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 1 Abbott-Eveleth, 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:
Abbott, Nehemiah of Lincoln
Abbott, Henry of Brimfield
Albee, John E of Dorset, VT
Aldrich, Gustavus of Mendon
Allen, Jeremiah of Pulaski, NY
Ames, Elisha of New Concord, NY
Arbuckle, Samuel of Beverly
Arbuckle, Abigail (Roberts) of Beverly
Atherton, Philip of Mansfield
Axtell, Henry of Willet, NY
Badlam, Sylvanus of Windham Co, CT
Bailey, John of Greenwich
Bailey, Benjamin of Sunenburg
Bailey, James of Holden
Bancroft, James of Boston
Barker, Barnabus of St Johnsbury , VT
Barnes, James of Plymouth
Barnes, Samuel of Woodbury , CT
Barney, Joseph of Swansea
Barney, Nathaniel of Rihoboth
Barrett, Jonathan of Lancaster
Barrows, Amos of Barre
Bartlett, Jonathan of Leverett
Bartlett, William of Shirley
Bartlett, John of Salem , NY
Beach, Samuel of Blanford
Beach, Sylvia (--) of Blanford
Beal, Joshua of Cohasset
Beals, Isaac of Boston
Beebe, Stephen
Beel, Henry of Cornwall , NY
Bell, Daniel of Danvers
Bemis, Jesse of Spencer
Bemis, Anna (--) of Boston
Bemis, Daniel of Boston
Bemis, Mary (--) of Royalston
Bemis, Jonas of Royalston
Bemis, John of Sturbridge
Benjamin, Roger of Worthington
Benjamin, Jane (Hutchinson) of Boston
Benjamin, Daniel of Boston
Bennet, Deliverance of Dartmouth
Bivins, Abner of Savannah , NY
Blake, Susannah (--) of Boston
Blake, Thomas of Boston
Blake, William of Clarkson , NY
Blake, Jason of Norton
Blanchard, Elizabeth (--) of Harvard
Blanchard, William of Harvard
Blanchard, Lois (--) of MA
Blanchard, Simeon of MA
Blandin, Elisha of Oxford
Blaney, Phillip of Roxbury
Blaney, Anna (--) of Roxbury
Blount, Jonathan of Buffalo , NY
Bolton, Philip of Bridgewater
Bond, Joseph of Willimington
Bourne, John of Boston
Bourne, Lydia (--) of Boston
Bowers, Josiah of Lancaster
Boyden, Amos of Orange
Bragg, Henry of MA
Britton, William of Elizabeth , NY
Brown, James of Jr
Brown, Samuel of Boston
Brown, Peter of Boston
Buck, William of Heath
Buck, Isaac of Sterling
Bunce, John of Woodbury
Burbank, Thomas of MA
Burnham, David of MA
Burnham, Martha (--) of MA
Butler, Peter of Buckland
Caesar, Jerusha of Brewster
Caesar, Jesse
Caldwell, Anne
Call, John of Cohain
Callender, William of Boston
Campbell, James of Worcester County
Cane, Joshua of Boston
Castor, Dyer of Lincoln County
Chadwick, Thomas of Washington
Champney, Nathan of Smithfield , NY
Chapin, Isaac of Heath
Chapin, Paul of Munson
Chaplin, Comfort of Douglas
Chapman, Ama (--)
Chapman, William
Chase, Phebe (--)
Chase, David
Chase, Jeremiah of Dennis
Chase, Reuben of Yarmouth
Chase, Benjamin
Clapp, Eliakim of Chester
Clark, William of Sherburn
Clark, Edith (--) of Hadley
Clark, Seth of Hadley
Clark, Elizabeth (--) of East Hampton
Clark, Phinehas of East Hampton
Clark, Joseph of Gardner
Clark, Ebenezer of Sharron
Clark, James
Cleaveland, Josiah of Western , NY
Cleaveland, Benjamin of Goeymans , NY
Cobb, Melatiah
Cobb, Abel of Greenville
Coburn, Abner of Bloomfield of ME
Cockle, John of Alstead , NH
Coffin, George of Winchendon
Cole, Simeon of Boxford
Collins, Oliver
Conant, Daniel of Townsend
Conant, Milly (Wallas) of Townsend
Conner, John of New Windsor
Conner, Daniel of Pompey , NY
Cook, Paulina (--) of West Hampton
Cook, Noah of West Hampton
Corey, Phillip of Albany , NY
Cornish, Gabriel of Rutland , VT
Covil, Ephraim of Harwick
Crosby, Simeon of East Winsor , CT
Cummings, Samuel of Dracutt
Curtis, Jonathan of Concord
Curtiss, Nehemiah of Albany , NY
Cutter, William of Medford
Cutter, William of West Cambridge
Davis, Ebenezer of Worcester
Davis, Peter of Waybridge , VT
Davis, Abraham of Phillipston
Davis, Grace (--) of Phillipston
Day, David of Boston
Delano, Philip of Duxbury
Delano, Jepthah of Duxbury
Dewey, John
Doubleday, Benjamin of Newport of RI
Dow, Samuel of Boston
Downing, John of Lincoln , VT
Dunham, Jeremiah of New Burgh , NY
Dunlap, George of Chesterfield
Dunton, Mary (--) of Southborough
Dunton, Samuel of Southborough
Dyer, Thomas of Dudley
Eaton, Uriah of Sudbury
Eaton, Abiather of Alstead , NH
Elliot, Francis of South Hampton
Entrot, Henry of Putnam County , NY
Eveleth, Patience (--) of Enfield
Eveleth, John of Enfield
Hodges, Alfred of Mansfield
Hutchinson, Jane
Lee, Samuel
Nickerson, Edward
Nickerson, Edward
Pierce, John
Roberts, Abigail
Wallas, Milly
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
