Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42913, for Abel Mattoon, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Continental
Mass.

Mattoon, Abel

NUMBER
S42913

CONTENTS
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[Handwritten text to left]
Order
to pay 7 Decm 1837
Wa Cer & letter to Hoa & HonH  Smith 
Senate US.15 June '38
[remaining text written sideways is illegible]
15,380
New York  R
of
Abel Mattoon
of Chautauqua in the state of New York
who
was a
Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Patterson of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of one year
┃ Inscribed
 on the Roll of New York
rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
3d of August 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of October 1819
and sent to (?) Cushing Esq. Judge
Fredonia N. York
┃ Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 29/ 8.54
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1820  48
$56.54
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
File [illegible]
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Abel Mattoon
Chatauqua
a
Pensioner under
act of Congress of
18th March 1818
[Illegible]
& under
of Congress approved 1 May 1820-
(Copy
x Matoon
Mar 20
14 October 1819
Col Patterson 15380
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February 21, 1910.

Mrs. Carlie Deal 
La Grange
Indiana

BA-8/ADY
Abel Mattoon
S.42913

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Ami Lawerance, Abel Matoon and Alexander Berry and soldiers of the War of 1812, James Rawles, John C. Kinney and Conrad Deal.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the services in that war of any Ami Lawerence or any Alexander Berry, all spellings of the names searched.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of those wars.

The record of the only Abel Mattoon that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S.42913, based upon his military service in that war.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Abel Mattoon are not shown.

Abel Mattoon enlisted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 1775, and served eight months as private in Captain Thomas Williams' Company. Colonel John Paterson's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted January 1, 1776, served as private in Captain Moses Ashley's Company, Colonel John Paterson's Massachusetts Regiment; was in the battle of The Cedars, Canada, where he was taken prisoner and after eight days exchanged and he was dis-
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charged about the last of November 1776. He enlisted in Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in June 1777, and served nine months as private in Captain Cooper's Company , Colonel Brewer's Massachusetts Regiment.

Abel Mattoon was allowed pension on his application executed May 15, 1818, at which time he was aged about sixty-six years and a resident of Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York.

He resided in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, New York; Port Lawrence, Lucas County, Ohio; Perry, Allen County, Indiana, and in 1838, he was living in Lima Lagrange County, Indiana.

In 1820, soldier and his wife, aged sixty-four years, her name not stated, his daughter, Lydia, aged thirty-three years and his daughter, Hannah, twenty-six years old were living in Chautauqua County, New York, with soldier's son, Venus, aged thirty years, who then had no family.

In 1819, soldier's brother, Silvanus Mattoon, aged sixty-three years, was living in Athens, Windham County, Vermont. There are no further family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and site the following date: "Abel Mattoon, Certificate No. 15380, issued October 14, 1819, rate $8.00 per month, commenced August 3, 1819, Act of March 18, 1818, New York Agency".

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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La Grange, Indiana
Feb. 2, 1940

Veterans Bureau
Washington D.C.
Pension Dept.

Dear Sirs - If you have pension and military records of the following men please send to me to help clear our local records.

Ami Lawerence - Revolutionary war
Abel Matoon - Revolutionary war
Alexander Berry - Revolutionary war 9from Virginia)
James Rawles - war of 1812
John C. Kenney - war of 1812
Conrad Deal - from Marion Co. Ohio to Indiana possible in war of 1812.

Very truly
(Mrs.) Carlie Deal

[stamped as being received Feb 6 1940]