Hancock County, Maine Revolutionary War Pension Applications, Vol. 2 Nichols-Young, 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:
Nichols, Samuel of Brooksville
Nichols, Bela of Prospect
Nickerson, Reuben of Hampden
Norwood, Stephen of Mount Desert
Oakes, Joshua of Bluehill
Oaks, John of Bangor
Osgood, Christopher of Stetson
Page, Chase of Levant
Parsons, Nathaniel of Bangor
Parsons, Nathan of Bangor
Patten, John of Charleston
Patten, Nathaniel of Penobscot
Patten, William of Hampden
Patterson, Adam of Northport
Payson, Ephraim of Three Mile Square
Petter, Oliver of Waldoboro
Philbrook, William of Islesboro
Phillips, John of Bangor
Pierce, Nathaniel of Orrington
Porter, David of Dixmont
Pratt, Seth of Bucksport
Randell, Oliver of Bangor
Rankins, Robert of Lincolndale
Reed, Ward of Dixmont
Rich, Joel of Jackson
Richardson, Timothy of Knox
Roberts, Joseph of Brooks
Robinson, John of Mount Desert
Rogers, Jesse of Orrington
Rolfe, Jeremiah of Plantation 7
Ronco, Benjamin of Brooks
Sawyer, Aaron of Mount Desert
Severance, Caleb of Brewer
Shaw, George of Exeter
Shed, Daniel of Brewer
Silbey, Benjamin of Brooks
Silsby, Samuel
Simpson, Pelatiah of Corinth
Skinner, Elisha of Brewer
Smart, Richard of Prospect
Smith, David of Burncoat Island
Smith, Jacob of Orrington
Smith, Jesse of Bangor
Smith, John of Vinalhaven
Smith, John of Northport
Smith, John of Mount Desert
Smith, Moses of Prospect
Smith, Peter of Knox
Smith, Samuel of Monroe
Snow, Myrick of Hampden
Snow, Harding of Hampden
Soule, Asa of Garland
Spaulding, Eleazer of Plantation 3
Spaulding, Samuel of Knox
Stetson, Joseph of Northport
Stevens, Thomas of Brooksville
Stickney, Samuel of Brownville
Stinson, Samuel of Deer Isle
Suffrance, Ephraim of Thorndike
Taylor, Benjamin of Charleston
Thayer, Lemuel of Vinalhaven
Thoms, Samuel of Bangor
Tibbets, John of Brewer
Tibbets, Abner of Corinth
Tourtelotte, Reuben of Orono
Tourtelotte, Abraham of Orono
Towle, Josiah of Frankfort
Turner, Samuel of Brewer
Tyler, Joseph of Deer Isle
Veasey, Moses of Penobscot
Ward, Benjamin of Munroe
Wardwell, Joseph of Frankfort
Wasgatti, Davis of Mount Desert
Webber, Daniel of Brooksville
Wellman, Samuel of Searsmont
Wentworth, John of Ellsworth
Wentworth, Enoch of Mount Desert
White, Charles of Belmont
White, George of Vinalhaven
Whitmore, Joseph of Deer Isle
Whitney, Daniel of Hampden
Wight, John of Penobscot
Wilkins, Edward of Charleston
Williams, Joshua of Seldens Plantation
Winchester, Silas of Brewer
Young, Zebulon of Hampden
For a complete list of the Revolutionary War CD series, see Revolutionary War Bounty Records
