This is the certificate above referred to:
    "This may certify that Lieutenant Samuel Benjamin, of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, has retired from present service, in consequence of a resolve of congress, passed the 23d of April, 1782, and is thereby entitled to half pay during life, by a resolve of congress, passed the 3d and 21st of October, 1780.
     Given under my hand, in garrison, West Point, this 6th day of August, 1782.
                                                              M. JACKSON
                                          Colonel Eighth Massachusetts Regiment"

     Lieutenant Benjamin was married to Tabitha Livermore, of Waltham, Mass., by the Rev. Jacob Cushing, pastor of the Church of Christ, in Waltham, on the 16gh day of January, 1782.  She was the sister of the venerable Nathaniel Livermore, who is now living (1858) in Cambridge, Mass., at the advanced age of eighty-three years; and was a relative of Dea. Elijah Livermore, the common ancestor being Samuel Livermore, of Watertown, who died Dec. 5, 1690.
     In the fall of 1782, Lieutenant Benjamin made a trip to the District of Maine, for the purpose of selecting a location of his future home.  On the 10th day of October, 1782, he bought of Dea. Elijah Livermore," of Liverton"† (now Livermoe)," Cumberland County, Massachusetts," a tract of about one hundred and twenty acres of land, bounded as follows: "Southerly on land owned by Josiah Norcross, easterly by Long Pond (so called), northerly on the last division and another pond, westerly on said pond and lot No. 55."
     On the next day, Benjamin executed a mortgage to Livermore of the said tract, to secure the payment of the consideration, viz:  twenty-five bushels of corn, and twenty-five bushels of rye, in twenty-six months, and the same amount of corn and rye in three years and two months.  The consideration expressed in the deed was thirty pounds.
     In October, 1796, Benjamin bought of Otis Robinson the property at Gibb's Mills, now so called.  In December, 1797, he bought part of lot 11, on the east side of the Androscoggin Rover (now East Livermore), of Nathaniel Dailey; and in 1799 he bought the other part of the said lot from Daniel Stevens.  He lived on this place until the time of his death, on the 14th day of April, 1824.  He was the fourth settler, with a family, in the town of Livermore.  He first occupied a log cabin, built by Major Thomas Fish, a Revolutionary officer, at what has ever since been known s the "Fish Meadow."  This was in March, 1783.
    The remains of Lieutenant Benjamin were buried in the quiet little country burying-ground, on the western bank of the Androscoggin River, at what is known as the "Intervale."  He was buried with military honors, and a modest and appropriate monument marks his last resting place, upon which is the following inscription:

     "This monument is erected to the memory of Lieutenant Samuel Benjamin, who died April 14, 1824, in the seventy-first year of his age; an officer of the American Revolution, who fought in the sacred cause of his country and the rights of mankind, from the ever-memorable morning of the 19th of April, 1775, to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, on the 19th day of October, 1781, and from thence to the close of that sanguinary war, which established the freedom and independence of the United States, and gave to them a distinguished rank among the nations of the earth.

     The widow of Lieutenant Benjamin, born June 27, 1857, died June 20, 1837, at the residence of her son, Colonel Billy Benjamin, of Livermore.  He left ten children, seven of whom are now (1858) living in Maine.
     The foregoing notice of Lieutenant Benjamin is copied from a pamphlet containing extracts from a journal which he kept while in the war.
     He was frequently in town office; was one of the selectmen from 1801 to 1805, inclusive.  His children were Billy, Samuel, Nathaniel, Betsey, Polly and Martha (twins), David, Charles, Elisha, Ruth.  Billy, b. March 13, 1785, d. March 31, 1849, was the second male child born in town.  He married Phebe Wellington, whose family came from Lincoln, Mass.  He was a man of military bearing and tastes, and was a colonel in the State militia.  His residence was on the Intervale.  Samuel b. Sept. 7, 1786, d. April 27, 1871, learnt a cabinet maker's trade and established the business in Winthrop.  He married Olivia Metcalf, by whom he had twelve children, of whom eight are now living.  Nathaniel, b. May 16, 1788, d. Dec. 19, 1867, married Betsey Chase, by whom he had seven children, six of whom are living.  Betsey, b. Dec. 29, 1790, married Samuel Morrison, of Livermore.  She died Dec. 8, 1860.  They had five children.  Polly. b. Oct. 2, 1792, married Samuel Ames, of Livermore.  They had six children, of whom three are living in 1874.  Mr. Ames moved to Sebec, in the County of Penobscot, now in Piscataquis County, before 1827.  He went in a few years to Hermon near Bangor, and was for one year a representative of the class, in which Hermon was embraced, in the State legislature.  He died in Hermon April 7, 1862.  He was born May 11, 1789.  His widow survived him till March 6, 1862.  He was born May 11, 1789.  His widow survived him till March 6, 1865, when she died at the age of seventy-three years.  Martha (or Patty), twin of Polly, b. Oct. 4, 1792, married Israel Washburn, March 30, 182, d. May 6, 1861.  David, b. June 3, 1794, married Catherine Stanwood, of Brunswick, and resides on the "old Benjamin farm," and where once was Benjamin's Ferry.  They have had five children, three of whom are living.  Charles, b. Aug. 2, 1795, married Lucy Chase, and was a cabinet maker on the Intervale, in Livermore.  He died May 10, 1834.  She survived him several years.  They left Betsey, who married John M. Benjamin, Esq., of Winthrop.  Elisha, b. Oct. 10, 1797, went South and died in New Orleans., December, 1852, at the age of fifty-five years.  Ruth married Jonathan Lovejoy - was a lieutenant in the civil war.  She was b. May 20, 1797, and d. Feb. 3, 1869.  Two children survive her, Elisha B., whose home is in Livermore, and Charles B., a resident of Portland.