Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1043, for Elijah Mason, Vermont
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(3-1776)


SERVICE                                                 NUMBER

Vt               Mason, Elijah                W. 1043
                                Electa  B.L. Vt. 16-129 160-55

CONTENTS
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Jno [John] S. Smith Jany 15 "/54
John S. Goodell  Feb 6/57
C. F Mallay Feb 20/57
J. H. Hartwell May 1./'57.

[Right side]

2638
Michigan
Electa Mason
widow of Elijah Mason
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private & Sergeant, and Lieut, Rangers
Vt Mil or Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 94 Dollars 87 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the  24th day of Octr 7 53 and sent to 
David Preston & Co
Detroit 
Michn
Died Feb. 19-1857. AB
ed on Roll of Pensioners under act [June] 3, 1853, Page 202 Vol. A
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New York 20203
Elijah Mason of {illegible] in the State of N. York who was a Sergeant in the Comp ______commanded by Captain Luly of the Rgt _____ commanded by Col ______________ in the [illegible] line for 16 Mon Segt,
                              4     "    Liet for 

Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
 at the rate of 94 Dollars 87 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Aug. 1833 and sent to H. N. Soper
Batavia

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. " $189.74
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] " 47.48
                                                           $237.22

[section sign]  Revolutionary claim,
Act June 7, 1832.  [section sign]

Recorded by Golestiles Clerk
Book E.   Vol. 3.    Page 68
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130.618 May 11./55.
Act Mar " 55

Electa Mason 
said
Elijah Mason Pen
Lieutenant and Captain
Vermont Militia
In service 
Oct 26. 38
Rev War


Mich Feby 53-2638

Ad. 160 acs Feb 12/56
Dodge

David Preston & G Detwell
Mich.

[{No 16129 of Feb 15/56} Written across above text]

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Vol M1. page 11.
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State of New York
                [section sign]  ss:
County of Genesee

Personally appeared before me, the under signed, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Genesee Elijah Mason who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannnot  swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades.
For fourteen months at least, I served as a Seargeant [Sergeant]  [{in Col. Marsh's   Regiment under Captains Smith and Hazen} crossed out]] in the detachment of Rangers.
For four months in Col. Marsh's Regiment as a private, under Captains Smith and Hazen.
For two weeks as a private on an alarm from the Indians at Barnard.
For two months at Royalton and Bechel as a seargeant [sergeant]. and For two weeks after tories as a private and for services I claim a pension.   
{one line erased before sworn to}
S. Elijah Mason

Sworn and subscribed this 30th day of April 1833
before  me John Westcott Justice
State of New York
                        [section sign] 
Genesee County
p:  I Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said County, Certify that John Westcott before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken and made was at the date of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for said county and that I am well acquainted witht he handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit is genuine.  

In testimony whereof, I  have hereunto set my name and seal of Office this eleventh day of May 1833.
Timothy Fitch Clerk
By B. Pringle Depty Clk
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Elijah Mason
Declaration

18369

Please make delivery to 
Horace M. Soper
Batavia
Genesee Co.
N. Y.
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Declaration of Elijah Mason in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York, Genesee County ss:
On this fifteenth day of October in the year of out Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas [{Ayer and Ter} crossed out], now sitting, in the town of Batavia in the county of Genesee and said State of New York, being a court of Record and keeping a Record of their proceedings and having a said Elijah Mason, a resident of the town of Wethersfield in said county of Genesee and State of New York, aged seventy eight years on the twenty fifth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.  That he enlisted in the month of March 1776 but on what day he cannot recollect, that at the time of his enlistment he resided in the town of Pomfret, now the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont.  That he was enlisted for service during the war by Joab Hoisington, Major Commandant in a detachment of Rangers, raised and commanded by him which was composed of three companies the first company of which and in which he served was commanded by Capt Benjamin Waitand Lieut Zebulon Lyon:  that Capt. John Strong commanded the second Company and Capt Seely, whose first name he cannnot recollect, commanded the third Company.  That he enlisted as sergeant in this detachment and served as such dutileg all the time of his service until he received a commission as Lieutenant in the year 1781.  That this detachment was raised expressly to protect the frontier and was styled the Detachment
of Rangers.  That soon after he enlisted, his company was ordered to rendezvous at Newberry Vt. which lied on the Connecticut River and that he was stationed at what was called the Ox Bow.  That at the time of his enlistment Vermont had not become a State and that he was employed in the New YOrk State service or militia that he remained with his company at the Ox Bow, engaged in occasional scouting parties until some time in the early part of the summer of 1777 when Joab Hoisington, the Major Commandant of the detachment was summoned to appear in
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in New York on account of a disaffection which had arisen in his detachment of Rangers and was excited by a jealousy between the New State authorities and some few individuals in Vermont who were anxious to establish an independant [independent] Government in Vermont-the commandant did some after his arrival in New York and the detachment of rangers soon after disbanded.  That many believing to it joined the Regiment which was at that time raised by Col Warner and was styled Congress Regimant [ Regiment] -that after the disbandment, the time he cannot tell precisely, he went home and remained a short time and as he thinks about four weeks and then joined Col Marsh's Regimant, [regiment] as a volunteer under Capt Smith and immediately marched to Hubbardtown, [Hubbardton] through which he marched a short time previous to the battle at that place, thinks that he joined this Regiment some time in June 1777-that from Hubbardton he marched to Castleton and then marched home when he was immediately called out again and ordered to march to Pawlet, now in the county of Rutland Vt.-that he was stationed there in Col Marsh's Regiment and remained there until some time in November, he thinks in the forepart, and after the taking of Purgoyne [Burgoyne] cannnot recollect any of his company officers except Capt Joshua Hazen after the taking of Burgoyne, he was again discharged and went home thinks he was at this time from about 
 until the first part of the middle of June until 
the first part of November making about four months and a half -that he was not at home after being dismissed at Castleton but a few days.-That he remained at home a few weeks when he was called out on an alarm from the Indians in the town of Barnard Vt at the time the Indians came there and carried off three 
men, that he pursued the Indians for about two weeks.  That in the fall of 1780 and in September as he thinks, there was an alarm spread of the incursion of the Indians at Royalton that he then went out as a volunteer and was sergeant and was in a skirmish with the Indians at Royalton that he remained at Royalton as guard a short time {two words crossed out] and that soon after he went to Bethel Vt and was stationed there as guard for a number of months but precisely how long he cannot possibly tell but should think it was two or three months under Capt [illegible] Stafford that Lyon was his lieutenant-his other officers he cannot recollect-that he went out again in the winter of 1781 when some Tories came into Vermont from Canada and was about two weeks on this scout-That in the spring of 1781 he received a Lieutenant's Commission signed by
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Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont, and dated 8th May 1781 that after having received his commission, he was out but once and then only for a few days-that in the fall of 1782 he received a Captain's Commission signed by said Chittenden and dated 3d October 1782 and was called out but once and for a few days-That during the whole period of the war he was liable to be called on at that least alarm and that he went out frequently and for different lengths of time but that it is impossible for him to specify the terms or times of all his services, on account of impaired memory but that he is sure he was out more than three years in regular service during the revolutionary war.
That he was born in the town of Woodstock, in the county of Windham, Connecticut, on the 25th January 1754-that he has a bible Record of his age which he copied from the town record of the said town of Woodstock and that the [five words crossed out] said Bible is now in the town of Preble County of Courtlaundt [Cortland] N. Y. -That after he left the service he lived in Pomfret till 1798-that he then went to Hardwich [Hartwich] Otsego County N. Y.  and resided there about two years; that he then went to Tully, Onondaga County and resided there until 1820 that he then went to Gainesville in Genesee County and remained there about one year and that he then removed to Wethersfield where he has resided until the present time-that he never received any discharge from [two words crossed out] the service-that he has no other documentary evidence of his service accept [except] the commissing aforesaid and that he never received any after commission-that he does not know of any person living by whom he can prove his service-that the REv. Augustus Hurlbut and Nelson Burdich live in his neighborhood are acquainted with him and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity axcept [except] the present and declares that this name is not on
the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Elijah Mason

Subscribed & sworn to this day & year aforesaid in open court

Timothy Fitch Clerk
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We, Augustus Hurlbut, a Clergyman residing in the town of Wethersfield in the county of Genesee and state of New York and Nelson Durdick residing in Gainesville in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elijah Mason who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age that he is rejected and believed  in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Augustus Hurlbut
Nelson Burdick

Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court
Timothy Fitch Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that, the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Augustus Hurlbut who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Wethersfield in the county of Genesee and State of New York and that Nelson Burdick who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Gainesville in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Wilson
Rob Robert Early
William Mitchell
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I Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elijah Mason for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15th day of October 1832

Timothy Fitch Clerk
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Declaration of 
Electa Mason
Widow of Elijah Mason  Who was a 
Revolutionary Pensioner
Drew $ 94 per anum [annum]
from the N.Y. or Albany Agency

In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd Section of the Act of February 3rd, 1853.

DAVID PRESTON & Co.,
Attorneys, Detroit, Mich.
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STATE OF Michigan
                  [section sign] ss
COUNTY OF Macomb

On this twenty sixth day of May A.D. 1853, personally appeared before the Probate Court of the State of Michigan Electa Mason ___________, a resident of Armada in the County of Macomb and State of Michigan Aged 72 years, who, first being duly sworn, according to law, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed February 3rd, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Elijah Mason Senior who was a Revolutionary Pensioner that he drew pension under Act of June 7th 1832, of [{Eighty} crossed out] Ninety four dollars and Eighty Seven cents, ($94.87), and commenced drawing about Sept. 4th 1833, that he last drew [{from} crossed out] as she believes, and has good reason to believe form the New York Pension Agency, but is not positive as to whether it was New York or Albany Agency

She further declares that she was married to t he said Elijah Mason Sen. on the 25th day of August A.D. 1828, at Gainesville in the County of Genesee (now Wyoming) and State of New York by Rev. Mr. Buel  And that her said husband died on the 11th day of May A.D. 1837; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated.  She further declares that she is now a widow.
                                        (Widow's Signature,)
Witness -attest                   Electa Mason
P B Thurston

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, the said widow Electa Mason being sick & unable to appear in court the undersigned proceeded & took her said above declaration & oath at her residence in Armada in said County of Macomb
Witness my hand & official seal
Prescott B. Thurston
Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Macomb

(Official Seal of the Court.)1.  If your husband drew a pension, insert "who was a Revolutionary Pensioner," that he drew pension under Act of June 7th, 1882, or, as the case may be, commenced drawing (insert the date); that he last drew from (here insert the place from which he last drew his pay).   If he never drew a pension, you must state the time and place he entered the service, his officers' names, &c.
P.S.  Where the widow is unable to appear in Court, the Judge or Justice who takes her declaration must certify to this fact.
I hereby further certify that I have no intent in [illegible] so such of this case that I am not concerned in its prosecution, and that the said Electa Mason is the identical person named in the above application
witness my hand & said seal
P B Tuurston
Judge of said Court of Probate
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Application for Bounty Land
Under "Act of March 3d, 1855, "

By Electa Mason


Widow of Elijah Mason

A Soldier in the Revolutionary War

130.618

DAVID PRESTON & CO., Attorneys, 
Detroit, Michigan.
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WIDOW'S DECLARATION FOR LAND.

STATE OF michigan
                        [section sign] ss
COUNTY OF Macomb

On this 30th day of April A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Electa Mason aged 76 years, a resident of Armada in the County of Macomb and state of Mich-  who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Elijah Mason deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, and this Deponent now draws Pension from the Detroit Mich Agency at the rate of $94.87/100 in per anum [annum] No of the Certificate is 2638 Vol "A., page 202 at the Indian Office Deponent was pensioned under act of Feb 3rd 1853 for the [illegible]
She further states that she was married to the said Elijah Mason in Gainsville [Gainesville] in the state of New York on the 25th day of August A.D. 1828 by one Me. Buel a Clergyman and that he name before her said marriage was Electa Flower
And that her said husband died at Wethersfield in the state of New York on the 11th day of May A.D. 1837 died of [illegible]
And that she is now a widow.  Deponent Respectfully refers to the proof on file at the Pension Office of her marriage & her said husbands death
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3rd, 1855."
[NOTE.,-If you HAVE record evidence, sent it, and STRIKE OUT above paragraph.]

Electa Mason { Claimant's Signature
                         First name in full.

We, Sophronica A Goodell and [illegible] the former aged 79 years, and the latter {illegible] both residents of Wethersfield in the state of New york upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Electa Mason in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be ____________
Deponents further say, that they have known said Electa Mason for the last [illegible] years, and that they knew the said Electa Mason and her said husband to live together as man and wife for the last 8 years before his death; and deponents verily believe that the said parties were legally married as stated in the declaration of the said * Electa Mason
Sophronica  A. Goodell further saith that she was at the marriage of the said Electa Mason with her said husband.
Deponents further say that the said Electa Mason is now a widow.
 Sophronica  A. Goodell [illegible]             } Signature of Witness.
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written.  And I certify that I know the affirmants to be credible persons,  and the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
[illegible] } Officer's Signature

DAVID PRESTON & CO. are hereby authorized to receive my Land Warrant, and for me to sign any receipt or other paper, in order to receive the same, which I could do were I perrsonally present.
Signed, sealed and delivered this 30th day of April A.D., 1855
Sophronica  A. Goodell
Electa Mason } Claimant's Signature
[illegible] } Officer's Signature.

State of New York
                  [section sign]
County of Macomb
I hereby certify that Hiram Barrows Esq., who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit, and also officially subscribed the foregoing power of attorney, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Macomb and State of Michigan duly authorized to administer oaths and to take acknowledgments, and that the foregoing are his signatures.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Circuit Court of said County and State to be affixed at Mr Clemens this Fifth day of May A.D., 1855
Perrier Crawford Clerk.

If you have not applied for nor received land, strike out this paragraph.
If either or both of the deponents were at the marriage, state the fact.
If one or both of you were at the death or funeral : state the fact.  If not, state why you think he is DEAD.
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Statement of Certificate
The following is a true copy of the original Family Record as recorded in the large Family Bible used in my fathers Family Bible used in fathers family Pearl Flower which is now in my hands so far as it  relates to the  marriage of Elijah Mason Sen to my stepmother widow Electa Flower and also to the death of the said Elijah Mason Sen, there being no public record of the marriage now existing
Alanson Flower
        Copy

Widow Electa Flower and Elijah Mason  Sen were married Gainesville Genesee Co., N. Y.  Mon Aug 25; 1828

Elijah Mason Senior died in Wethersfield Genesee Co., N.Y. on Thursday Morning 5 Oclock May 11th 1837

State of Michigan 
                 {section sign] ss
County of Macomb
I., Alanson Flower of the town of Lenox in the County aforesaid, being duly sworn do hereby state that the above Copy is a true and exact copy of the original family record so far as it extends, & that the said record i the genuine record of the family as above stated in the certificate.  And I further say that I was present at their marriage and saw it solemnnized [solemnized] by Rev. Mr. Buel a Congregational Clergyman in the place they lived together until his death as husband & wife, as I was frequently at their residence until between eight and nine months before his death after that frequently for inspection which [illegible] confirms in my mind the correctness of the Record of the death
Alanson Flower
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Sworn and subscribed to the within before me on this the 3 day of June /53
Seth Aldrich Justice

STATE OF MICHIGAN
                         [ section sign] ss
Macomb County Clerk's Office.

I John Barry Depy Clerk of said County of Macomb, do hereby certify that Seth Aldrich whose name is subscribed to the affidavit of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was at the time of taking such affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, and duly authorized by law to take the same And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice of the Peace and verily believe that his signature to the said affidavit is genuine  And further that the said instrument is executed according to the laws of this State.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County at Mount Clemens this Seventh day of July A.D. 1853

John Barry Dep CLERK

[Stamp [STATE OF MICHIGAN  COUNTY OF MACOMB}]
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I hereby certify that

The following is a true copy of the original Family Record as recorded in the large Family Bible except the children's marriages & their children's births & used in my father's family Pearl Flower, this wife now Electa Mason-Copy.
Lorenzo P. Flowers

                         Birth's                       Deaths
            | Month|  day | year | | Month | day | year |

Pearl Flower  | Feb | 6th | 1785 |  |Jan | 26 | 1826
1st wife Roxy Flower  |Nov |10th | 1790 | May | 17 | 1811
2nd wife Electa Flower | Jan | 1st | 1781 ||
Roxy's son Alanson Ebenezer F | Apr | 22nd | 1840
Electa's son Norman Murray F. | Feb | 14 | 1820 |
    do,    do,   Lorenzo Flower  | July | 17 | 1823 |
                      Sophronia Flower | Dec | 5 | 1825 |
Elijah Mason Sen born in Woodstock
Windsor Co. Conn. Friday | Jan | 25 | 1754 |
Elijah Mason sen. died in Wethersfield Genesee Co NY. Thuringa am Clk   | May | 11th | 1837

Marriages   |  |  |  | | month | day | year
Pearl Flower & Roxy Boardman were married i Warsaw Genesee Co. N Y. Sunday  | June | 4th | 1809
Pearl Flower & widow Electa Hewett were married in Pike Allegany Co. N Y. Thursday | Jan | 8th | 1818
Widow Electa Flower & Elijah Mason Sen were married in Gainesville Genesee Co. NY. Monday | Aug | 25 | 1828
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State of Michigan
                            ss
County of Macomb

I Lorenzo P. Flowers being duly sworn make oath & say that I have seen and have now before me the original family record of Pearl Flower & his wife Electa Flower who since the a Revolutionary Pensioner who drew a Pension under act of June 7, 1832-that I saw said family record used both in the family of said Pearl & Elijah & Electa; that I have compared the foregoing copy with and original & say the same is a rime & correct copy
Lorenzo P. Flower

Sworn * subscribed before me May 26, 1853
P. B. Thurston
Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said county of Macomb
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Washington September 3, 1931.

Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley             BA-J/ILL
c/c/ John R. Stoltse
123 Pioneer Building
Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 1043, that Elijah Mason was born
January 25, 1754 in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Pomfret, Vermont, he enlisted in March, 1776 and served fourteen months as sergeant in Captain Benjamin
Wait's Company in the Detachment of Vermont Rangers under Jean Hoisington, Major Commandant. He enlisted about the middle of June, 1777, served four months as private in Captains Smith's and John Hazen's Companies, Colonel Marsh's Vermont Regiment. A few weeks later, he served as private about two weeks against the Indians at Barnard, Vermont. He enlisted about September, 1780, served two months as sergeant under Captain Jesse Safford, was in a skirmish with the Indians at Royalton and at Bethel, Vermont. In the winter, 1781, he served two weeks as private against the tories. On May 8, 1781, he was commissioned by Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont,
Lieutenant in the 6"" Company of the Alarm 4"" Regiment and served a few days as such. On October 3, 1782, he was commissioned by
Governor Thomas Chittenden, Captain and was called out for a few days.

The soldier lived in Pomfret, Vermont, until 1793, when he moved to Hardwick, Otsego County, New York, and remained about two
years, then moved to Tully, Onondaga County, New York, and remained until 1820; he moved then to Gainesville, Genesee County, New York, lived there about one year, then moved to Wethersfield, Genesee County,
New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, while a resident of Wethersfield, New York.

1.
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He died May 11, 1837 in Wethersfield, New York,
The soldier married August 25, 1828 in Gainesville, Genesee County, New York, Electa Flower, born January 1, 1781, and was the widow of Pearl Flower. No reference was made to a former marriage of the soldier.

On account of the Revolutionary War services of Elijah Mason, his widow, Electa, was allowed pension on her application executed May 28, 1885. She was then a resident of Armada, Macomb County, Michigan.

She died February 19, 1857.

                   named
The above mentioned, Pearl Flower was born February 6, 1785 and died January 26, 1826. He married June 4, 1803 in Warsaw,
Genesee County, New York, Roxy Boardman and had a son, Alanson Ebenezer, who was born April 22, 1810 and who resided in Lenox,
Macomb County, Michigan, in 1853. He married again Electa Hewett, a widow, January 8, 1818 in Pike, Allegany County, New York, and had children; Norman Marray, born February 14, 1820; Lorenzo P., born July 17, 1823, who resided in Armada, Macomb County, Michigan in 1853; Sophronia, born December 5, 1825. -- next time

The above noted is the history of the only soldier from Vermont by the name of Elijah Mason that is found in the Revolutionary
War records of this office.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.

In  1855, & 1857 she signed Sophronica A. Goodell -- John D. Goodell signed with her also but it is not stated that he was Sophronia
husband, they then resided in Armada, Macomb Co Mich

2.
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State of Missouri
                  [ section sign} ss
County of Macomb

I, Betsy Ann Burke fo the town of Armada County aforesaid being duly sworn so hereby state that I was living in the town of Gainesville County of Genesee (now Wyoming) and State of New York in August 1828 one mile from the residence of the widow Electa Flower who was at or about that time said by all repute and all corresponding circumstances to be married to Elijah Mason Sen., And that they lived together to my knowledge as husband and wife for some four or five years before he came to this country
B A Burke

Sworn & subscribed before me May 26. 
1858 P B Thurston
Judge of the County of Probate a court of record in and for said County of Macomb
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State of Michigan 
                   [section sign] ss
County of Macomb

I Lorenzo T. Flower of the town of Armada, county aforesaid, being duly sworn bo hereby state, that I was living at home in the town of Gainesville Co. of Genesee )now Wyoming) & state of New York, in August 1828, at the time of my mother's marriage to my stepfather Elijah Mason Sen. and that I lived at home till after his death which was in Wethersfield, Genesee Co (now Wyoming) NY on the morning of May 11th 1837 & that I saw him die, and I further say that he drew a pension of Ninety four dollars and eighty seven cents a year, for services in the Revolutionary war, as I have all reason to believe
Lorenzo P. Flower
Sworn & subscribed before me May 26th 1853
Prescott B. Thurston
Judge of the Court of Probate in aforesaid County of Macomb
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Armada January 11th 1858

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I take the liberty of writing to you in behalf of Electa Mason widow of Elijah Mason Sergeant and Private in the army of the Revolution who is inscribed on the pension roll for ninety four dollars and eighty seven cents per anum [annum] under the act of February 3rd 1853.  I notice in your report a close of invalid Pensioners and as such I wish to present her claim for additional pay.  She has been confined to her bed for the last eight years is entirely helpless excepting her hands.  She has no means of support excepting what she receives from her pension and that I her son in-law with whome  [whom] she resides give her and you may be assured the burden is not a light one if under these circumstances you think she is entitled to additional pay and wish
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for proof of the statement I can furnish all you require.

Your respectfully
John S. Goodell

Armada Macombe 
Mic
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[Left side]

Rev War

WIDOW, &c.

File No.  1043

Electa Mason

Widow

Elijah Mason
Pri. Sgt. & Lieut Rev. War

Act:  Fed. 3, 1853

Index:-Vol. M.,  Page 1

[Arrangement of 1870.]

{Right side]

1931-Sept. 3-Hist. to Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley.  J.L.L.

1931. Oct. 2 Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley adv she was [illegible]
of only Elijah Mason from Vt 
ele
kcs
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16.129

Ver Army
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Mich
Electa Mason
ww
Elijah

[Double Stamp {FREE MICH.}]

W2638

MC
Cleole ms

[Written vertically]

Official Business
FREE
Pension Office
Washington 
D.C
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Free

Pon Sect, Interso
Washington
D. C.

[written vertically on left side]
Armada, Mich
Dec 2nd/ [illegible]
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No 2641

Electa Mason
void of 
Elijah

Set to Darrel & Preston ofcs
Sept 23d, 1853.
" " " Oct 7/53


Act 3, Febry: 1853.
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FREE

Hon L P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

[Stamp {DETROIT MICH. OCT 14}]

[written vertically on left side]

Electa Mason

[notarized stamp {EXCANGE} [illegible] {COLLECTING} [illegible] {DAVID PRESTON GOLD}  [illegible] {DETROIT. MICH.}]

Geddes [illegible]
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FREE

[stamp {DETROIT Mich. OCT 3}]

Hon L P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[written vertically left side]

P. Geddes 
McRae
J. D. Clark
Mal

[written vertically on right side]
Electa Mason

Rev pada Bradley
Mich
Lent
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[{10} slash through]
]stamp {DETROIT MICH July 9}]

Hon L P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

{written vertically [Eoloff} 
{Mcole}]
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Electa Mason
David
Elijah
Geddes 1853.

FREE

[stamp {DETROIT MICH Aug 20 }]

[notarized stamp {EXCANGE} [illegible] {COLLECTING} [illegible] {DAVID PRESTON GOLD} [illegible] {DETROIT. MICH.}]
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FREE

[Stamp {DETROIT MICH. MAY 8}]

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[left side]
130.618
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Rev
$94.87/100 Per An
Com Febry, 3d. 1853

David Preston of
Detroit
Michigan

[Right side] [illegible]
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FREE

[Stamp {DETROIT MICH. APR 24}]

[Left side written vertically]

Mich
Electa Mason

Hon Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington. D. C.
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Armada Mich
Jan 14

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

[Left side { March Electa Mason ad, 1853 2638 Geddes}]

[Stamp upper right corner]
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Revolutionary War
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BA-J-Ill
Sept. 3. 31.  Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley
STOLTZER
1220 Pioneer Building
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Sept. ninth 1931.

[Stamp {AMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE SEPT 12 1931  RECEIVED}]
A. W. Hiller
Asst. to Administrator
Veterans Administration
My dear Sir

I am extremely grateful for your painstaking report on the subject of Elijah Mason Pensioner-the more so as some of the details differ from those given in the history of Pomfret VT. his residence at Wethersfield New York and  his Pension application made by himself in 1832 certainly settle the fact that he is the man about whom I enquired [inquired].
My reason for being so particular is to differentiate him from a younger Elijah Mason who went to Hartford not far from Pomfret with the Marsh Clan-married Mary Marsh whose father was Joseph the first Lt. Gov. of Vermont.
This Elijah Mason was the son of Peleg-
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and had son Peleg in War of 12-
He was early orphaned and his elder sister was the wife of Joel Marsh.  This tale is complicated by the family's return to Lebanon Conn in 1787 because death of elder brother left administration and homestead w Elijah- His wife died and he married Lucretia Greene ancestress of the Garfields He went to Ohio in 1802 back to Vermont-sold his last property in Hartford in 1814 and finally settled in Hiram Turiship {Township] Portage Co- d. & was buried there 1833- He went to the "firelands" with another sisters husband Col. Daniel Tilden who was also a pensioner  I think but that has no bearing.  Tilden Elijah Mason and 2 others are given in HIst. Portage Co. as Rev. soldiers alive and resident there in 1820- He is the grandfather of a famous Civil War Matt Pointer several John S. Mason (Heitman gives him, his father & his son)
In order the very circumspect we have only claimed for DAR
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STOLTZER
1220 Pioneer Building
Saint Paul, Minnesota
[{also written up in Tucker above give the 300 pp

the services for our Elijah Mason as detailed on p 9' Tucker's History of Hartford where every ablebodied [able bodied] man was out, where his father inlaw fought as a private along with his sons and nephews-And in the Vermont muster Rolls the one commissary ["hauling flour"] service in this Hartford regiment see pp. 283 & 5.  The DAR have accepted this service as "Private Capt. Hazen's Company "October 1780 Col Mood's Regiment Vermont", "Name on payroll dated Norwich June 9 1781" as per War Department letter (copy) enclosed.  Original went to WAR files.  The youngest daughter of our Elijah Mason married Joshua Hazen's son John Warkee Hazen and the Warkees and Marshes were Kin.  I thot [thought] my case was clean and clear! until I now see that you credit the Pomfret Elijah [son of Elias and Lydia] with service in Captain Hazens Company!  I don't know how your record was made up-on the man's own statement?  There has not anyone applied to DAR on
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Pomfret Elijah's record-
It is true that I see the date for Pomfret Elijah's service under Captain Hazen is 1777, and my claim for my sister inlaw the wife of Colonel James Brown Kemper USA is for a date 1780-81-  I should be most grateful if you will let me know anything further that occurs to you would be useful in my claim.  We have to submit this evidence above to the Founders and Patriot's Registrar which is why I've been so exactingly careful-  The line it may interest you to know  begins with major John Mason dep. Gov. of Connecticut comes thro [through] three more generation of Colonial Davies eligibles to this Elijah; his son to Peleg Surgeon in Mar of 12-Genl. John J. Mason Lt John S Mason to Mercer Mason Kemper whose son John Mason Kemper is a new plebe at West Point! I do hope our proof of family tradition is not going to have to be upset.; To spoil such a line would be a sin! 
With very warmest thanks I am sincerely yours
Caroline Kemper Bulkley
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National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
MRS LOWELL FLETCHER HOBART, PRESIDENT GENERAL
=
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE
MRS. GEORGE B. PULLER, CHAIRMAN
CAIRO HOTEL
WASHINGTON, D.C.

NORTHERN DIVISION
MISS MARY P. HILL, VICIC
BOX 68, TOPSHAM, MAIRE
EASTERN DIVISION
MRS. LETITIA P. WILSON, VICE-CHAIRMAN
1701 BOLTON STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Mrs. Louis C. BULKLEY, Vice-Chathan
1044 RUTHENFOND PLACE SHREVEPORT. LOUISIANA

Summer Address
Care JOHN R. STO:TZE
1220 PIONEER BUILDING
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
August 10.31

CENTRAL DIVISION
MRS. FRANK C. BUCKLEY, VICE-CHAIRMAN
1706 N. 21ST STREET, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN
WESTERN DIVISION
MRS. JOSEPH S. CALFEE, VICE-CHAIRMAN
33 KINGSBURY PLACE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOUR.
PACIFIC COAST DIVISION
MRS. GEORGE E. FELLOWS, VICE-CHAIRMAN
30 USTREET, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

[STAMP {RECEIVED AUG 12 1931 [PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION}]

Will the Commissioner of pensions kindly give Mrs Bulkley whatever record of service he way have applicable to Elijah Mason son of Lydia and Elias [ok] born at Watertown Mass 
(vital statistics ) Jan 25 1754 enlisted at Pomfret Vermont (Vermont Rolls) wife Sarah da. Abigail Childs- she died. "he attained the rank of Captain" Vail History of Pomfret which also says he had served at 3 times in Revolution"-The history also says he moved from Pomfret to Preble New York and married before the fall of 1802, second, Elizabeth Cravath.  He later went to Wethersfield New York where he died.  This man has been confused with an Elijah Mason of Watertown or rather of Woodstock Mass who is said to have been a pensioner date of his death is confusing-lived to be 92 or 94-

[written on the left {may have been a sergeant}]
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and place not given.  The settlers of Woodstock were apparently of Watertown first.

Did an Elijah Mason wife Susannah buried at New Haven Vermont 1818 have a pension?

Mrs. Bulkley will be very grateful as she is having trouble differentiating three men of same name all of whom went to Vermont and settles within a radius of less than 50 miles in three towns that were mot large enough hardly to be separate entities!

When 
ELijah Mason- S 17559
b- 1758-Lincoln-Mass
Pen app. Woodstock-Wind Co. Conn-
nos stated   1832/
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Detroit April 24 1857
Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
W. D. C.

Dear Sir.

Enclosed please find Probate Evidence of the appointment of John S. Goodell Administrator of the Estate of Electa Mason died, late a pensioner on the Roll of the Michigan Agency under 2nd Sec. Act Feby 3rd 1853.
What further steps is it necessary for mr. Goodell to take to enable him to draw the amount due for Electa Mason at her decease?  You early answer will oblige Mrs. Rispy
Your obd servt [Your obedient servant]
Wm. H. Hartwell
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State of Michigan
County of Macomb
                               s.s.

Probate Office of said County

I Prescott B. Thurston Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County hereby Certify that L. P. Flower and Ann Burke residents of Armada in said County (whose affidavits I took in same last in support of the Claim of Mrs Electa Mason to a Pension act of feb. 3-1853) are Credible & Respectable.  I also Certify Alanson Flower a witness in said case is credible and respectable.
Given under my hand & seal of office
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at my office in Mount Clemens in said County of Macomb this 13th day of October A D 1853.

Prescott B. Thurston
Judge of Probate in  
& for said County
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Detroit July 9/53

Sir
We have herewith voucher for Pension of Electa Mason Act Feb 3/53

Yours truly
David Preston & Co

Hon L P Waldo
Comr Pensions
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Pension Office
Sept. 23rd 1853.

Sir.  
The rules of this office require that all witnesses whose evidence is filed in this office, shall be certified to be credible.  The witness in the case of Mrs. Electa Mason, claimant of a pension under the Act of Feb 3, 1853, are not so certified.  This must be done.
Her claim is necessaring suspended.

Very Respectfully 
L P Waldo
Commissioner.

If you do not return the [illegible] papers in this case p lease state the names of the witness & that of the J. P.
David Preston & Co.
Detroit, Michigan,
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Admitted
16 mo In guard
4 " 16 days Private

                         14 Sergeant
                           2

33
4
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1330                    La 4 1/2  
 156                          5
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14.87
80
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94
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Elijah Mason
which require further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No Vide Quere 5 &

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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                                   2
XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
-
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  No Vide Quen 16

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For-______ year ______ months,  and _________days, I served as a __________ For _________________ months and _____________days, I served as a ___________; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Mason -199-

Sir

We herein enclose the additional proof required in his letter
David Preston

To
Hon L P Waldo
Comr
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Pension Office
Oct 7th 1853.
Gentlemen.

In reply to your letter of the 1st & not relative to the claim of Mrs. Electa Mason, you are informed that the two affidavits of Lorenzo P. Flower. witness in said case, was made before P. B. Thurston. Probate Judge, also the affidavit of Betsy Ann Burke, was made before said Judge of Probate.  The affidavit of Alanson Flowers, was made before Seth Aldrich, a Justice of the Peace.
Very Respectfully
LPWaldo
Commissioner

Refs David Preston & Co.
Detroit, 
Michn
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[Left side]
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Burying. Selling.
160 Acres Warrants $ . . . . .  . . .                      
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David Preston &  Co.,
EXCHANGE
BROKERS
2nd DOOR ABOVE
Farmers, and Mechanics'
Bank,
Detroit,
MICHIGAN.
Gold, Silver, Sight Exchange,
UNCURRENT MONEY.
LAND WARRANTS.
COLLECTIONS  promptly made at the best rates.
We will buy or collect Drafts or Notes
of any part of the United States.
Great Britain, France of Germany.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL DEPOSITS
Commissioner of Deeds
FOR CALIFORNIA.
And nearly every State in the Union.
REFERENCES:
(BY PERMISSION.)
Hon. R. Wilkins U.S. Judge.
Detroit.
S. H. Ives & Co., Exchange Brokers,
Detroit.
Captain E. B. Ward. Detroit.
Jones & Patrick. Exchange Brokers,
Chicago, Illinois.
T. C. Severance, Cashier, Cleveland. O.
" F. Sandford, Cashier, Savings Bk.
Cincinnati, O
E. P. Tesson, Exchange Broker, St.
Louis, Missouri,
Evans & Fant, Washington, D.C.
Noon & Sargent, Exchange Brokers,Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
WillIams & Wright, Exchange Brok.
Erie, Pennsylvania,
John R. Lee & Co., Exchange Brokers,
Buffalo, New York.
A. Klemm, Wall Street, New York.


Exchange and Collection Office of David Preston & Co.

Detroit, Michigan Aug 20 1853

Sir
Please examine for a Revo Pension Act Feb 3/53 of Mrs Elected Mason widow of Elijah Mason a Deceased Rev Pensioner of $94.87
this claim was sent to you on the 9th ult.
Yours truly
David Prestin & Co.

Hon L P Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Elijah Mason
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Batavia, New York-May 11-1833

Enclosed are papers of Elijah Mason with all the objecting of the Department of obviated, as I believe his affidavit of the time of his service and a proper authentication of his papers
I am your.
Obt. Servt. [Obedient Servant]
[illegible] Soper


to Hon. J. L. Edwards, 
Comr of Pensions   L
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Pension Office
20th Oct. 1853.

Sir.

Please Certify that to which the within named pensioner was  paid on the date of his death.
Very Respectfully, 
J. Cole

For Commissioner,

Elijah Mason, Act 1832 $94.87. per an.  Died 11th May 1837.  Paid to death.

T Bich
Auditor.

Francis Burt Esq
Third Auditor Treasury
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Brief in the case of Electa Mason Widow of Elijah,
Macomb County and State of Michigan.
act 3rd. Feby: 1853.

Claim, "original," [{(or "for increase.")} crossed out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

"Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 7" June 1832.

Record Evidence of Marriage.

(If for increase.)

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?


David Preston & Co.
Detroit.
Mich:
Name and residence of Agent

J. C. Boyton,
Examining Clerk.
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John S. Smith
Armada-Michigan
Dec 25, 1854

Enquiring when the Act of February 3. 1853 granting Pensions to widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolution takes effect.

Lecta Mason

Respectfully referred to The Commr of Pensions
Jan/2/55
Geo C Whiting
Chf Clk


Boynton
Jan 3/55
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January 25th 1857

[illegible]

John S. Smith
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His Excellency.
THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esquire,
Captain General, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over the State of VERMONT,

To Elijah Mason Gentleman
GREETING.                                             York
You are being elected Lieutenant Sixth Company of the Alarman
Regiment of the Militia of this State; reposing special Trust and Confidence in your
Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, in the name of the I 
Freemen of this State, authorize and impower you to take charge of said Company as their Lieutenant.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Lieutenant 
of said Company by doing and performing
all Manner of Things thereunto belonging.----And I do strictly charge and require all
Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their
Lieutenant and you are to observe and obey such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the Time being, or any other your super or Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of this State, in Council this Eighth Day of May A D 1781
By His Excellency's Command,
Tho: Selman Dep Secretary
Tho {Thomas} Chittenden
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as their Captain you are therefore careful and diligently to discharge the Duty of Captain of
said Company by doing and performing
all manner of Things thereunto belonging --- And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain And you are to observe and obey such Orders and Directions
from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the Time being, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State.
Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, in Council this 3rd Day of Oct 1782 And in the 6th year of the Independence of this State
By his Excellency's Command,
Tho [illegible]  Dep Secretary

Tho [Thomas] Chittenden
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WASHINGTON    October 2, 1931


Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley         BA-J/AC
c/o Mr. John R. Stoltze
1220 Pioneer Bldg.
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of September 9th, in regard to Elijah Mason, a soldier of the Revolution.

The data in regard to Elijah and Electa Mason which were furnished you in letter from this office dated September 3, 1931, were compiled from papers filed by this soldier and his widow at the time of their applications for pension.

The statements in regard to the personal and military history of Elijah Mason are excerpts from sworn statements made and signed by the soldier and his widow before the judges of the courts of the respective counties in which the applicants lived. 

The abstract that was furnished you September 3rd covers a complete personal and military history of the only soldier from
Vermont named Elijah Mason that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. Therefore, it is regretted that this office
is unable to aid you further in differentiating the record of this soldier from that of any other Elijah Mason who may have served in
the Revolution from Vermont.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Claim of Electa Mason
to Back Pay




War of Revolution
Presented by 
G F Mallary
Romeo
Michigan
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State of Michigan
County of Macomb  [close curly bracket around both lines] ss
On this ninth day of February 1857   Before me a justice of the Peace in and for the county & state aforesaid personally appeared   Electa Mason aged seventy six years a resident of  Armada in the county of Macomb & State of Michigan who being duly sworn declares that she is the identical Electa Mason widow of Elijah Mason who was a private & sergent in the [underscore begins] Revolutionary War [underscored end] & that on the 24th day of October 1853 a  pension certificate was issued to her by the Department of the Interior under act of February 3, 1853 of which the following is a true copy
Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
"I certify that in conformity with the 2nd section of the act of February 3, 1853
Electa Mason
Widow of Elijah Mason who was a private & Sergeant in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Ninety four dollars & Eighty Seven cents per annum, commencing on the 3rd of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage  Grim at the department

[written sideways up left side of page]  The [illegible, maybe women] & sargeant inter lines before execution [illegible]
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of the Interior this twenty fourth day of October One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty three
R McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

[[ L S} in a square]

Examined & Countersigned 
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Which said certificate is Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under Act of February 3rd 1853 page 202 Vol A by H R Waughman Clerk  That he is informed that on the 26th of January last the War Court of Claims decided that pensioners under the act of 1853 extended back to March 4, 1848 that according  to the decision of said count she is legally entitled to access pay from March 4 1848 in February 3 1853  That in her debilitated & helpless state of health she needs the same for her comfort & claim it as her right

                                           her
                             Electa      X    Mason
                                          Mark

The declarant being unable to write her name by reason of age & infirmity made her mark in our presence.
John S Goodell
Hiram Barsons

We John S Goodell.  Sophronia E. Goodell residents of the county of Macomb in the 
state of Michigan do upon our oath, declare

{written along the left side vertically {Their words by reason of age & infirmity interlined before exicuting (executing) Hiram Barrows Justice of the Peace]
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We John S Goodell.  Sophronia E. Goodell residents of the county of Macomb in the state of Michigan do upon our oath, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed in Marked by Electa Mason in our presence and that we believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be & that she is still a widow
John S Goodell
S. E. Goodell.

The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to & subscribed before me on this day & year above written and I certify that I know the applicant to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents [illegible]

STATE OF MICHIGAN,  ss  
County of Macomb

I john P. [illegible] Clerk of said County of Macomb DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Hiram Barrows whose name is subscribed to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace for said County. duly Elected and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same:  AND FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Hiram Barrows and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I FURTHER CERTIFY, that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Mount Clemens this Eleventh day of February A. D. 1857.

John P.  [illegible] Clerk.
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We John S. Goodell.  Sophronia E. Goodell residents of the county of Macomb in the State of Michigan do under oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & marked by Electa Mason in our presence and that we believe from the appearance & statement of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be & that she is still a widow
John S. Goodell
S. F. Goodell.

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written and I certify that I know the afficants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, that the applicant from bodily infirmity is unable to appear before a Court of Record & that I have no interest in this claim
Hiram Barrows
Justice of the Peace