Massachusetts Revolutionary War Land Bounty Applications, Maine Land Office Vol. 3 Nickerson-Swift, 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:
Carlton, Ann
Holden, Samuel of Anson, ME
Nickerson, Edward of Willet, NY
Noyes, Jonathan of New Burgh, NY
Noyes, Dudley of Essex Co.
Pain, Charles of Chester, VT
Parker, Samuel of Lyman, NH
Parker, Lucy (--) of Gloucester
Parker, John of Glouster
Parks, John of Framingham
Parmenter, Abel of Sudbury
Parmenter, Levi of Hubbardston
Parsons, Solomon of Leicester
Parsons, Elizabeth (--) of Granville
Parsons, Mary (--) of Worthingham
Parsons, Moses of Granville
Parsons, Sylvanus of Worthingham
Parsons, Philip of Granville
Patten, James of Bolton
Paul, Hugh of Warrensburg, NY
Peirce, Amos of Millbury
Perpeaney, Simon of Barnstable
Perry, Deliverance (--) of Plymouth
Perry, Prince of Plymouth
Perry, Jonathan of Amhearst
Phipps, Jedidiah of Boston
Phips, John of Ipswich
Pierce, John of Franklin
Pierce, James of Wales, ME
Pike, Anne (Stone) of Framingham
Pike, John of Paxton
Pike, Samuel
Pike, Timothy of Framingham
Plimpton, Oliver of Southbridge
Pollard, Seth, VT
Pomphilla, Bennet
Porter, Asa of Rutland
Powers, Stephan of Prescott
Powers, David of West Springfield
Pratt, Benjamin of Middleborough
Pratt, Jemima (--) of Middleborough
Preston, Amariah of Plymouth
Priest, Joseph of Leominster
Priest, John
Prouty, Eli of Spencer
Purkett, Henry of Boston
Quarles, Polly (--) of Salem
Quarles, William of Salem
Randall, John of New Burgh, NY
Ransom, Job of Pelham
Raymond, Zuriel of Cincinnatus, NY
Read, Abijah of Westford
Real, George of Salem, NY
Reed, George of Tauton
Rice, Ann (Carlton) of Westborough
Rice, Joseph of Westborough
Rice, Ezra of Holden
Richardson, Robert of Amhearst
Rider, Asa, VT
Ridgeway, Isaac of Boston
Rixford, Henry of Spencer
Robbins, Thomas of Leiminster
Robinson, Isaac of New York
Rogers, Stephen of Spencer
Rogers, Henry of New York
Ross, George of Marbleborough
Ross, Micah
Ross, Molly (--)
Rowe, Submit (--)
Rowe, Samuel
Rumrill, Thomas of Roxbury
Rumrill, Joseph of Cambridge
Runnels, Enos of Boxford
Russ, John
Sampson, Abner of Duxbury
Sanders, Benjamin of Tewksburg
Saunders, Isaac, VT
Sawyer, Paul of New York
Schindler, John of Philadelphia of PA
Searle, Samuel of Norridgewock, ME
Shappo, Anthony
Shaw, Jesse of Weymouth
Shed, Nathan of Billerica
Sheffield, Charles of Burlington, VT
Sheldon, Simeon of South Hampton
Sheppard, Sally (--) of Boston
Sheppard, John of Boston
Silvester, Joseph of Plymouth
Simmons, Perez of New York
Simpson, William of Southbridge
Sloan, David of Waterburg, VT
Smallage, Samuel of Dorchester
Smallage, Elizabeth (--) of Dorchester
Smith, Robert of Barre
Smith, Alexander of East Sudbury
Smith, Amos of Danvers
Smith, Isaac of Lexington
Smith, Jeremiah of New York
Smith, Jonathan
Smith, Nahum of Sturbridge
Smith, William
Snow, Solomon of Williamsburg
Soule, Charles of Oneonta, NY
Spooner, William, VT
Stamford, Moses of Zoar
Stevens, Peleg of Sandwich
Stewart, Benjamin of Sterling
Stewart, Damaris (--) of Sterling
Stoddard, Samuel of Plainfield
Stone, Anne
Stratton, David of Sudbury
Sturtevant, Hannah (--) of Boston
Sturtevant, Isaac of Boston
Swift, Isaac of Mashpee
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
