An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine

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University of Southern Maine
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Maine Collection
1920
An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine
Charles Alcott Flagg
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CHARLES ALCOTT FLAGG
Was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, October r, r87o. Gradu-
ated from Bowdoin CoEe~g~ in 1894. Soon after' this he com-
menced his life work as 'librarian by entering :the New York State
Library School at Albany. In 1896 he became assistant and later
sub-Ebrarian in charge of history and genealogy at the N. Y. State
Library a;t Albany. In 1900 he re'signed thi's poSiition to accept
the c-harge of Ameflican Hti,sltory i111 the Cata:logue Division of the
Library of Congress, W.a;shingi~On, D. C. He ·remained there
until 1913 when he was called no assume charge of the Public
Library of Bangor, Maine, where he _remained unt~~ the time of
his death.
tHie received the degree of B. L. S. in I899 'from the N. Y. State
Library School, and in 1902 tihe Geonge Washington University
conferred on him the degr;ee of M. A., He was a member of rt:he
Amer,ican Library ·Association, the Maine Lihr'a-ry Alssoc:ia,ttion,
the Maine and tthe Bangor HistoritOaJl Sodieties, the New England
Historic and Genea1.ogk'aJ Associi1ation, the Amer:ican HiSitonkal
A1s1soc:iation, an honorany mern!ber of the Pis1canaquis H.istorical
Society. His church was the Unitar-ian and his ipioilitica\1 party the
Republircan. He died in Bangor, March 28, 1920.
An Alphabetical Index of -Revolu-
tionary Pensioners Living
in Maine
CoMPILED BY CHARLES A. FLAGG, LIBRARIAN, BANGOR (:MAINE)
PUBLIC LIBRARY
INTIRODUCTION
For, a quar:ter century pasit the popu!hrity, tgrowth and activities
01f our pa!triotic-heredlittary 'SOioi:eties havle been f1eatures of
American life. It .is n01w •CiOnsidered :the priOper thing to cheri·sh
and prize the names and mementoes 'Of the men of '7'6 ; perhaps
even to idealize them and their services. And many who h·ave
nevrer app1lied for adimi~.si01n to any of 1the var1ious societies of
RevolUitiiOnary descendants., take a just pride ·in know~ng- :that they
are e~igible, and of the b~oocl of :the hemes who established our
independence.
Maine, of course, was a part of Massachusetts at the time of the
Revolru!tion.
Very little has been d:one even yet rin the purblicat,ion of regi-
mental histories a:nd personal narratives of Revoluti1onary srervioe--
lines that have <been so enor.mous:ly expanded in t:he case of the
Civ.il war. The histori,ers of t1wo or three Maine regiments which
the1ate Na:than Go'old prepared, and Dr. Frank A. Gardner's nota-
ble series of M:as.sachusetts reg.imental histories, :now running in
the "Massachusetts Magazine" of- Salem, being praotical,ly all there
is avail:a:ble in that -field~
But when it .comes to individual service, Mas.sachusettJs people
are partkularly for1tunate because· tha:t state has, at enormous
expense, pr·inted all her Revolutionary muster, pay :and 01ther r1ol1Js.,
as "Mas'sachusetts sdldiers and sarilrorrs .of the Revo~uti1onary war"
in I7 large quar:to volumes.. No other state has done near'ly as
.much rin this direction.
But even these reclof'ds, full as they are, leave m1uch 1t0 he desired,
1 Familries were usually large and in the old' home 1t!owns it wa's more
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