Massachusetts Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 2 Fairbanks-Newton, 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:
Davis, Abigail
Fairbanks, John
Farley, Jonathan of Stoneham
Farnsworth, Edmund of Crown Point, NY
Fessendon, Benjamin
Fillebrown, John of Boston
Flagg, Jonathan of Holden
Flanders, John
Flint, Benjamin of Whinchester
Flood, Alexander of Cornwall, NY
Fox, Joel of Dracutt
Freeman, Andrew of West Bridgewater
French, Asa of North Hampton
Friend, Nathaniel
Frost, Richard of Marblehead
Fuller, Stephen of Lee
Gardner, Thomas of North Hampton
Gardner, Deborah (--) of Plainfield
Gardner, Jacob of Plainfield
Gartsee, John M of Smyrna, NY
Gate, Edmund of Salem
Gates, Jonas of Barre
Gay, John of Roxbury
Geary, Reuben of Stoneham
Geary, Jonathan
Goodale, Nathan of Tabious, NY
Goodnow, Sarah (--)
Goodnow, Ephraim
Goodridge, Daniel of Hudson, NY
Gorham, Sally (--) of Yarmouth
Gorham, Joseph of Yarmouth
Graham, William of Corinth, NY
Grandison, Simeon of Situate
Graves, Ebenezer of Pittsford, NY
Graves, Asa of Rome, NY
Gray, William of Middleton
Gray, Sarah (--) of Boston
Gray, Joshua of Boston
Green, Timothy of Pennsylvania
Green, Nathan of Bristol, NY
Green, Cleophas of Holliston
Grover, Benjamin of Grafton
Hager, Abraham of Rutland
Hall, Mary (--) of New Marbleborough
Hall, Oliver
Hall, William of Stoughton
Hall, Mary (Page) of Stoughton
Hall, Ebenezer of New Marbleborough
Hall, Aaron of West Hampton
Harding, Joshua of Southbridge
Harrington, Elizabeth (--) of Spencer
Harrington, Elisha of Spencer
Hart, Ebenezer of Lynnfield
Harvey, John of Framingham
Haskell, Philip of Blandford
Hastings, Ephraim of Heath
Hayden, Ziba of Braintree
Hemenway, David of Hubbardston
Hemenway, Polly (--) of Hubbardston
Henshaw, Sarah (--) of Brookfield
Henshaw, Josiah of Brookfield
Hewitt, Asa of New Burgh, NY
Hill, Noah of Douglas
Hinckley, Seth of Harwick
Hinckley, Phillip of Dennis
Holden, Melintas
Holden, Samuel
Holden, Samuel of Anson, ME
Hollis, Dolly (--) of Boston
Hollis, Isaac of Boston
Holmes, Sarah (--) of Kingston
Holmes, Jonathan of Hartford
Holmes, Mercy (--) of Hartford
Holmes, Abner of Kingston
Hopkins, Richard of Fort Ann, NY
Horton, Elisha of Swansey
How, Isaac
Howard, Andrew of Belcherton
Howe, Darius of New York
Howe, Azar of Bridgewater
Hudson, Louisa (--) of Marlborough
Hudson, Stephen of Marlborough
Hull, Ruth
Hunnewell, Jonathan of Roxbury
Hutchins, Deborah (--) of North Hampton
Hutchins, Hezekiah of North Hampton
Jenkins, Joel of New York
Johnson, Comfort of Pineport, NY
Johnson, Lawrence of New Burgh, NY
Johnson, Obadiah of Windsor
Johnson, Azubiah (--) of Windsor
Johnson, Orange of Lisle, NY
Johnson, John
Jones, Gideon
Jones, Samuel Paine of Situate
Jones, Pamelia (Jones) of Situate
Jones, Pamelia
Jones, Ezekiel of Whitehall, NY
Jones, Benjamin of New York
Juckett, Elijah of Freetown
Keeter, Jacob of Barnstable
Kemp, Abigail (Davis) of Fitchburg
Kemp, Benjamin of Fitchburg
Kenny, Achelus of Middleton
Kilborn, John of Bridgeton, ME
Kilburn, John of Sterling
Lane, Ebenezer of New York
Lane, William of New York
Larrabee, Jonathan of Roxbury
Leonard, Jacob of Bridgewater
Levitt, David of Cornwall, NY
Long, Elizabeth (--) of Douglas
Long, James of Douglas
Longly, Joseph of Hawley
Love, William of Cazenovia, NY
Lovering, Samuel of Fitzwilliam, NH
Lunt, Mary (--)
Lunt, Job
Lurvey, William of Amesbury
Lurvey, Ruth (Hull) of Amesbury
Maker, Burton of Harwich
Marble, Henry of Westborough
Marsh, Mary (--) of Westminster
Marsh, Joseph of Westminster
Martin, Peter of Boston
Martin, Elizabeth (--) of Boston
Maynard, Jonathan
McCondry, William
McCutchen, George of Dryden, NY
McDowl, Thomas of Boston
McLean, Abner of New Burgh, NY
Miller, Elisha of Yarmouth
Millet, Abraham of New York
Milliken, Daniel of Bradford
Moho, John
Moore, Edmund of Southborough
Morse, Ozias of Cambridge
Morse, Benjamin of Sutton
Morse, Cornelius of Foxborough
Morse, Elisha of Attleborough
Morse, John of Wrentham
Morse, Lucy (--) of Cambridge
Munroe, Soloman of Boston
Munroe, Ebret (--) of Boston
Nash, Jacob of Plumfield
Nason, David of Newport, RI
Neal, James of Somersett
Newell, Samuel of Southbridge
Newton, Hezekiah of Rutland
Page, Mary
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
