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Abithar Kendall
Jedediah Moulton
Antupas Holland Barzillai White
Peleg Tollman
Ivory Huntress
Xenophion Leech Asaph Leonard
Pelatiah Pease Nymphas Stacy
A man's occupation was almost as important as his name and address in the old court records and was always inserted. Perhaps the most frequent designations were "Gentleman" and "Yeoman". A Gentleman was a "landed Gentry" while a Yeoman was "a small proprietor who cultivated his own land and was of lower rank than Gentleman".
This brings us to the strange use of "alias", which then pertained to the "status" rather than name, as it does today. In the dockets a man's occupation as it dealt with the case was listed first and the "alias" as his normal status. For instance:
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Obed Burnham
Mordecia Ellis
"Trader alias Physician", or "Mariner alias Gentlemen", or "Merchant alias Esquire".
Perhaps the most amusing of these is "Widow alias Spinster" which is a bit difficult to reconcile.
Occupations are as colorful as the given names, giving a quite vivid picture of a man's chosen task.
Cordwainer Woodwharfinger Blockmaker
Housewright
Innholder Wheelwright.
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PENSION ACT OF MARCH 18, 1818
"Every Commissioned Officer, non-commissioned officer, Musician, and private soldier and all officers in the Hospital Department and Medical Staff, who served in the War of the Revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months, or longer, at any period of the War, on the Continental establishment; and every Commissioned Officer, non-com- missioned Mariner, or Marine, who served at the same time, and for a like term, in the Naval Service of the United States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be in need of assistance from his Country for support, and shall have substantiated his claim to a pension in the manner hereafter directed, shall receive a pension from the United States: if an Officer, of $20 per month during life; if a non-commissioned officer, musician, Mariner, Marine or pri- vate soldier, of $8 per month during life: Provided no person shall be entitled to the provisions of this Act until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States and, under oath, declared all assets at the time of application."
The only business to come before the June term of 1820 of the Court of Common Pleas in Wiscasset dealt with Lincoln County applicants and the complete list follows:
State of Maine
Lincoln County
At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the
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County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, (being the twentieth day ) of June A. D. 1820. By the Hon. Josiah Stebbins &
Ebenezer Thatcher, Associate Justices of said Court.
Seth Tinkham Esq. is appointed Crier for this special Session of this Court.
Memorandum: The following persons appeared & on oath declare; that they served in the Revolutionary War etc., etc. as on file, the same persons claiming pensions under certain Acts of Congress relative thereto; of their several oaths and declarations subscribed by them and certified by one of the Judges of the Court and numbered as follows are filed in the Clerk's Office, and Judgment is rendered thereon as to the value of the property disclosed in the same, as herein set against their names respectively viz :
No. 1 Ezekiel Averill
$ 30.00
No. 2 James M. Mansfield
Nothing
No. 3 Jonathon Farnham
5.00
No. 4 Benjamin Winslow
10.00
No. 5 Solomom Hopkins
Nothing
No. 6 Abraham Walker
93.00
No. 7 Reuben Kincaid
67.00
No. 8 Joseph Cromwell
62.00
No. 9 Michael Osborne
25.00
No. 10 Joseph Bartlett
140.00
No. 11 Thomas Hodgkins
65.00 Nothing
No. 12 Nathaniel Webb
No. 13 Moses Morrison
135.00
No.
14 Daniel Blasdall
65.00
No. 15 Joshua Witham
Nothing
No. 16 John Nickels
86.00
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No. 17 Jedediah Adams
$300.00
No. 18 Joshua Bailey
350.00 Nothing
No. 19 James Haynes
No.
20
Caleb Witham
40.00
No. 21 Robert Chase
8.00
No. 22
Alexander Davidson
Nothing 70.00
No.
24 Christopher Woodbridge
77.00
No.
25
Josiah Gorham
Nothing
No.
26
David Brown
Nothing
No.
27
Daniel Landerhin
10.00
No.
28
William Duren
10.00
No.
29
Samuel Colby
137.00
No.
30
Sylvanus Colby
96.00
No.
31
John Rand
165.00
No. 32
Ebenezer Rockwood
30.00
No.
33
William Maines
32.00
No. 34 Abner Wade
Nothing
No. 35
Thomas Decker
235.00
No. 36
Enoch Greenleaf
Nothing
No. 37
John Saddler
42.00
No. 38
William Lampson
54.00
No.
39
Ephraim Tailor
300.00
No.
40 John Moody
422.00
No.
41
Calvin Pinkham
410.00
No. 42
Benjamin Barstow
190.00
No. 43 Daniel McMahan
15.00
No.
44
Lemuel Wentworth
110.00
No.
45 Aaron Davis
689.00
No. 46
Nathan Barnard
268.50
No. 47
Richard Young
31.00
No.
48 Aaron Mosman
764.50
No.
49 Joshua Thorndike
30.00
No. 50 John Abbott
124.00
No.
51 Nathaniel Rundler
Nothing
No.
23
Gates Tibbetts
63
No. 52
Josiah Goddard
No. 53 Jonathan Huntoon
No. 54 John Chaney
No. 55 Nicholas Oliver
3.00
No. 56 Morral Hilton
2.30
No. 57
John Neal
21.00
No. 58
Stephen Tibbetts
Nothing
No. 59 William Sheldon
12.00 Nothing
No.
60 John Gray
No. 61
John Shaw
150.00
No. 62 William Hamlin
5.00
No. 63 Thomas Cunningham
193.00
No.
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Isaac Moore
300.00
No. 65 Samuel Graves
Nothing
No.
66 Daniel Huff
153.00
No. 67 Benjamin Greenleaf
100.00
No. 68
Josiah Bailey
10.00
No. 69
James Jennedy
Nothing
No. 70 Loved Lincoln
15.00
No. 71
John Lake
Nothing
No. 72
Alexander Thompson
25.00
No. 73 John White
96.00
No. 74 Barnabas Sullivan
8.00
No. 75 Joshua Hurd
129.00
No.
76
Thomas Hodgkins 5th
Nothing
No. 77
John Williams
Nothing
No. 78
Henry Abbott
209.00
No. 79 Daniel Parker
28.00
No.
80 Charles Thomas
990.00
No. 81 Patrick Graw
306.00
No. 82
John Lamont
40.00
No. 83 Jonathan Delano
Nothing
No. 84 David Clifford
191.00
No.
85 Eli Cook
30.00
No. 86 Ichabod Doughty
10.00
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Nothing $20.00 Nothing
No. 87
Thomas Crawford
$260.00
No. 88
James Blair 45.00
No. 89 Joshua Mitchell 50.00
No.
90 John Farrin
27.00
No. 91 David Colson
393.00
No. 92
William Weston
945.50
No. 93 Cornelius Keath
5.00
No.
94 Joseph Stockbridge
20.00
No.
95
James M. Mitchell
Nothing
No. 96 John Standford
65.00
No. 97 Thomas Stinson
74.50
No. 98 William Brown
152.00
No. 99
John Cornish
45.00
No. 100
Ordered: That there be paid out of the County Treasury to the following persons, the sums set against their names respec- tively, amounting in the whole to ten dollars & fifty cents, viz. To Samuel Thatcher, Sheriff $ 6.00
" Seth Pinkham, Crier
John Kingsbury, bellman, waiter etc. 2.00
2.50
$10.50
Certified to the Treasurer
1820, June 21, being the second day of the Session: Ordered, that the Court be adjourned till the second Tuesday in July next, at 10, o'clock a.m.
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk.
July 11, 1820. This being the second Tuesday of the month the
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court met according to adjournment; Present Hon. Josiah Stebbins and
Hon. Ebenezer Thatcher Associate Justices of said Court. The following persons appear etc & judgment is rendered, as to the value of their property as set against their names respectively, viz :
No. 101 Thomas Clark
Nothing
No. 102 Nicholas Cain
Nothing
No. 103 Benjamin Crocker Nothing
No. 104 Levi Leathers
$ 239.00
No. 105 Joseph Rawlins
Nothing
No. 106 Samuel C. Coombs
15.00
No. 107 William White
Nothing
No. 108 William Batchelder
Nothing
No.
109
Richard McAlister
432.00
No. 110 William Coker
29.00
No. 111
Nathan Hancock
Nothing
No. 112
James Clark
Nothing
No. 113
James Gibson
Nothing
No. 114 William Batchelder
6.00
No. 115 Jabesh Delano
Nothing
No.
116
Paulipus Hammond
Nothing
No. 117 Thomas George
Nothing
No. 118 Joseph Pulsifer
12.00
No. 119
Job Cushman
478.00
No. 120
Samuel Rollings
1.00
No. 121 Ezekiel Brown
14.50
No.
122 Daniel Page
11.00
No. 123
John Trevett
10.00
No. 124 James Blackington
30.00
No.
125 John FitzGerald
Nothing
No. 126 Ellis Doroff
55.00
No. 127 John Allen
41.50
No. 128 Samuel Gilchrist
59.50
No.
129 Zephahiah Everton 41.00
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No. 130 Joseph Lakin
$231.50
No. 131
David Kellock
24.50
No. 132 Samuel Jennison
20.00
No. 133 Hugh Monroe
78.00
No. 134
Nathan Pillsbury
Nothing
No. 135
Ephriam Wiley
19.00
No.
136
Mather Kellock
40.50
No.
137
Phinehas Wells
33.00
No.
138
Christopher Stover
Nothing
No. 139
Josiah Haskell
44.00
No.
140
Samuel Hinds
32.25
No. 141
Samuel Bogues
Nothing
No. 142 William Shaw
Nothing
No. 143
Henry F. Helmershausener
Nothing
No.
144
Samuel A. Flagg
Nothing
No. 145
Ezekiel Winslow
Nothing
No. 146 Joseph Welman
Nothing
No. 147
Amariah Mero
26.58
No. 148
James Robinson
Nothing
No. 149
William Robbins
3.38
No.
150
Isaiah Cole
Nothing
No. 151
Levi Russell
350.00
No. 152
George Deal
35.00
No. 153 William McFarland
25.00
No. 154
Bezabel Palmer
365.50
No.
155
Paul Dodge
1055.27
No.
156
William Keen
Nothing
No.
157
William Howe
Nothing
No.
158
Samuel Weston
92.50
No. 159
Elijah Bradford
357.00
No.
160
Peter Barrows
137.00
No. 161
Simon Carey
45.00
No. 162 William Hewett
Nothing
No. 163 Charles Smith
54.00
No.
164 George Ulmer
Nothing
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No. 165 Abner Farrington
No. 166 Joseph Waterman
No. 167 Peleg Smith
Nothing $56.50 Nothing
1820, July 12, being the foarth day of the Session; Ordered: that there be paid out of the County Treasury, to the several persons following the sums set against their names respectively, for their services at this adjournment, viz. To Samuel Sevey, Deputy Sheriff, $2- To John Kingsbury, bellman, waiter, etc. $1.50.
Ordered: That the Court be adjourned till the 25th instant, at 10, o'clock a.m.
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
1820, July 25, The Court met according to adjournment; Present Hon. Josiah Stebbins one of the following persons appear etc & judgment is rendered as to the value of their property as set against their names.
No. 168 Edward Carter $11.00
No. 169 Pelatiah Barter
5.00
No. 170 William Page 5.00
No. 171 Michael Osborne
25.00
No. 172 Reuben Kincaid 67.00
Ordered: That the Court be adjourned til Tuesday the 8th day of August at 10 o'clock a.m. Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk.
1820, August 8th. The Court met according to adjournment; Present Hon. Josiah Stebbins and Hon Ebenezer Thatcher, Associate Justices of said Court. The following persons appeared etc and judgment is rendered as to the value of their property, as set against their names respectively, viz.
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No. 173 Peter Leghr
$47.00
No. 174 John Barton
Nothing
No. 175 Charles Gardiner
Nothing
No. 176 Samuel McClane
24.50
No. 177
Alpheus Delano
41.00
No. 178 George Leissner
43.00
No.
179 George M. Acorn
55.00
No. 180 Conrad Hyer
55.00
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
Term: August 28, 1820.
Memorandum: The oaths and declarations of the following persons. who are pensioners of the United States according to their certificates on file, are filed in this Court, and judgment is rendered thereupon, as to the value of the property disclosed in the same, as herein set against their names respectively, viz.
No. 1 James Dunlap
$ 8.00
No. 2 William Ripley
114.00
No. 3 John Skinner 30.25
No. 4 Samuel Avery
60.50
No. 5 William Sheppard
35.00
No. 6 Joseph Thompson
172.75
No. 7 John Dain
64.00
No. 8 James Brown
Nothing
No. 9 Solomom Maloon·
35.00
No. 10 Jeremiah Crommet
Nothing
No. 11
Robert Jack
99.50
No. 12 Simeon Ricker
44.00
No. 13 Elias Storer
15.00
No. 14 Hezekiah Coombs
65.50
No. 15 John Bickmore
68.20
No. 16 Samuel Starbird
111.00
No. 17 John Temple
130.00
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No. 18
Michael Davis
No. 19 John Jones
43.74
No. 21 Calvin Cowing
18.45
No. 22 Job Hall
129.00
No. 23 George Webber
30.00
No. 24 Isaac Worthen
50.25
No. 25 William Davis
39.00
No.
26
John Bolden
Nothing
No. 27 Samuel Mitchell
2.25
No. 28 John Watson
28.00
No.
29
Benjamin Beal
10.00
No. 30
Daniel Sally
Nothing 102.50
No. 31
Hezekiah P. Allen
No. 32 Benjamin Hutchins
25.00
No.
33
Jeremiah Chamberlain
21.00
No.
34 Thomas Grant
72.50
No. 35 Gideon Glidden
51.90
No. 36 John Glass
90.00
No. 37 Joseph Green
44.00
No. 38 Ezekiel Hackett
49.50
No. 39 Thomas Stevens
Nothing
No. 40
James Potter
Nothing
No. 41
Josiah Norton
27.50
No. 42 Andrew Knowlton
153.00
No. 43
Southworth Macomber
95.00
No.
44
Roger Loomis
11.25
No. 45
Josiah Harlow
51.00
No.
46 Arnold Glidden
Nothing
No. 47
Joseph Lancaster
25.00
No. 48 John Torrey
119.00
No. 49 Andrew Brown
8.00
No. 50 Oliver Pullen
79.00
No. 51 Samuel Cook
87.00
No. 52 Samuel Hutchinson
·35.00
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Nothing $29.00
No. 20 Abel Nutting
No. 53 William Potter
$48.00
No. 54 John Hanscom
28.00
No. 55 David Pickard
129.00
No.
56
Levi Hall
20.00
No. 57
David Torry
Nothing
No. 58 George Parkhurst
14.00
No. 59 Richard Ferrin
134.00
No. 60 John Chick
81.00
No. 61 Joel Richardson
Nothing
Term: January 8, 1821. (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 David Coulson
$ 35.00
No. 2 Phinahas Butler 66.00
No. 3 Morral Hilton
137.00
No. 4 George M. Acorn
55.00
No. 5 Ezekiel Webber
12.00
No. 6 Alexander Askins
38.00
No. 7 Joseph Bartlett
140.00
No. 8 Samuel A. Flagg
46.00
No. 9 Amariah Mero
40.00
No. 10 Joseph Clark 76.28
Term: April 23, 1821. (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 Seward Poland
$32.00
No. 2 Valentine Mink 27.00
No. 3 Robert Askins
Nothing 34.00
No. 4 Richard Grinnell
No. 5 Thomas Berry
Nothing
No. 6 Thomas Jones
Nothing
No. 7 Ebenezer Bearce
10.00
No. 8 David Winslow 37.00
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No. 9
Isaac Davis No. 10 Peter Allen
$44.00 29.00
Term: August 27, 1821 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No.
1
Samuel C. Coombs
$15.00
No.
2
Jesse Humphries
10.00
Term: January 14, 1822 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 Nathan Pilsbury
$ 7.00
No.
2
Thomas Decker
22.00
No.
3
Thomas Calderwood
8.41
No.
4
Lemuel Wentworth
28.50
Term: December 24, 1822 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 Nathan Barnard
$28.00
No. 2 Bela Robbins 5.00
Term: April 22, 1823 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 Henry Abbott
$109.00
No. 2 Thomas Decker
32.50
No. 3 Ephraim Alley
29.75
No. 4 David Colson
14.00
No. 5 Isaac Whitney
63.00
No. 6 Abraham Maloon 12.00
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Term: December 24, 1822 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No.
1
Nathan Barnard
$28.00
No. 2 Bela Robbins
5.00
Term: April 22, 1823 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 Henry Abbott
$109.00
No. 2 Thomas Decker
32.50
No.
3
Ephraim Alley
29.75
No. 4 David Colson
14.00
No. 5 Isaac Whitney
63.00
No. 6 Abraham Maloon 12.00
No. 7 James Lord 41.00
No. 8 Thomas Trask Jr.
24.00
No. 9 Nehemiah Hutchinson 52.50
No. 10 Lemuel Jenkins
72.00
No. 11 Daniel Allen
83.00
No. 12 Abner Danforth
28.00
No. 13 Charles Smith
37.00
No. 14 Nathaniel Gilpatrick
47.00
No. 15 Abraham Whitney 34.00
Term: August 26, 1823 (Preamble as previously noted.)
No. 1 John White $ 8.50
No. 2 Jonathan Oliver
94.00
Term: December 23, 1823 (Preamble as previously noted.) No. 1 Nathan Pillsbury $14.50 No. 2 Bozabel Palmer 30.50
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Term: April 1830
No. 1 Bengamin Burton $150.00
No. 2 Samuel Payson
150.00
No.
3
Nathan Barnard
150.00
No. 4 John Farrow
458.50
No. 5 Isaac Moore 59.00
Term: August 23, 1831
Mercy Carver, widow of Henry, to receive certificate to enable her to claim and receive the pension due to her as the widow of said Henry, by virtue of the Act of Congress passed May 20, 1830 which was ordered by the Court.
(Henry Carver, died on the 12th day of July 1823, and at the time of his death he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S.)
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