Hancock County, Maine Revolutionary War Pension Applications, Vol. 1 Allen-Murphy, 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:
Allen, William of Etna
Allen, Ebenezer of Belfast
Appleton, Francis of Mount Desert
Atwood, Nathan of Bucksport
Babbidge, Courtney of Vinalhaven
Bailey, Samuel of Milford
Barber, Solomon of Deer Isle
Basteen, Joseph of Orland
Baxter, Benjamin of Belfast
Beal, Joseph of Frankfort
Black, Moses of Sedgwick
Blake, John of Brewer
Boden, Theodore of Penobscot
Bolton, Solomon of Frankfort
Bowden, Amos of Castine
Bragdon, Aaron of Corinth
Branscum, Charles of Mount Desert
Bridges, Edmund of Castine
Bumpus, Shubael of Thorndike
Burkman, Thomas of Northport
Burrell, John of Plantation 3
Carr, William of Frankfort
Chase, Ezekiel of Seboeis
Clewly, Isaac of Brewer
Coffin, Nicholas of Belfast
Collins, Solomon of Bucksport
Colson, Hatevil of Frankfort
Combs, Hosea of Islesboro
Coolidge, Silas of Trenton
Cousins, Samuel of Sedgewick
Cram, Tristram of Brooks
Crary, Joseph of Prospect
Crosby, Charles of Exeter
Crosby, Ebenezer of Hampden
Croxford, John of Newburgh
Cummings, Thomas of Prospect
Curtis, Benjamin of Monroe
Davis, William of Eddington
Davis, Thomas of Islesboro
Dickey, Eleazer of Munroe
Dole, Amos of Orrington
Dolliver, Peter of Mount Desert
Doyle, James of Northport
Dunham, James of Carmel
Durrell, David of Dixmont
Dwelly, Allen of Plantation 3
Dyer, Ephraim of Sullivan
Edminister, Noah of Dixmont
Eustis, Jacob of Prospect
Farnum, Simon of Plantation 2
Ferral, Farrington S of Mount Desert
Fisher, Ebenezer of Brewer
Forbes, William of Bangor
Foster, Jonathan of Brooksville
Frazer, Oliver of Jackson Plantation
Frye, Ebenezer of Northport
Gibson, John of Bucksport
Glass, Consider of Guilford
Goodwin, Eleazer of Jackson Plantation
Gordon, Benjamin of Belmont
Gordon, Joseph of Belfast
Gordon, Amos of Garland
Green, James of Belmont
Grouse, George of Deer Isle
Grout, William of Frankfort
Hains, Simeon of Swanville
Hamilton, Richard of Searsmont
Handy, Elnathan
Harmon, Samuel of Dixmont
Harriman, Simon of Bangor
Hart, Jacob of Brewer
Harvest, John Adams
Hasey, Ebenezer of Jackson Plantation
Haynes, Ephraim of Trenton
Haynes, Perley of Trenton
Heath, William of Mount Desert
Higgins, John of Hampden
Holden, Samuel of Charleston
Holland, Park of Brewer
Holt, William of Hermon
Hopkins, Theophilus of Vinalhaven
Jaques, Richard of Castine
Johnson, Daniel of Belfast
Johnson, Ben of Knox
Johonnot, Gabriel of Hampden
Jordan, Ignatious of Belmont
Kavan, James of Penobscot
Kench, Thomas of Brooksville
Kenney, Israel of Knox
Kingsbury, Phineas of Frankfort
Kitfield, William of Sedgwick
Knap, Samuel of Corinth
Knowles, Simon of Northport
Ladd, John of Belmont
Ladd, Benia of Belmont
Lambert, Daniel of Bangor
Larry, Michael of Castine
Lashans, Antwain of Orono
Legrow, Joseph of Vinalhaven
Leonard, Oliver of Bangor
Lervey, Jacob of Mount Desert
Lilley, Benjamin of Castine
Littlefield, Moses of Frankfort
Longley, Zachariah of Plantation 3
Lord, Daniel
Lowell, Benjamin of Bucksport
Madden, John
Maddocks, Samuel of Ellsworth
Mann, Amos of Bangor
Marshall, Benjamin of Frankfort
Martin, Joseph of Prospect
Mason, Bradstreet of Munroe
Matthews, Daniel of Searsmont
Mayhew, James of Hermon
McCaslin, Alexander of Penobscot
McClellan, John of Exeter
McFarland, James of Milford
McGee, Niel of Brooksville
McMahan, Joseph of Prospect
McMullen, Archibald of Vinalhaven
Melvin, David of Lincolndale
Miller, John of Hampden
Millet, Thomas of Bangor
Millet, John of Sedgewick
Morrill, Jacob of Munroe
Morse, Josiah of Dixmont
Mudget, John of Frankfort
Murphy, Thomas of Brooksville
Murphy, George of Mount Desert
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
