Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,810, for Patrick Mason, North Carolina
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[Declaration page 1]

State of North Carolina
Anson County
On this the 12th May A.D. 1828 personally appeared in Open court, it being a court of Record before Joseph J. Daniel one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law & Equity in said State  Patrick Mason, aged 66 years, a resident of said County, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration i  order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 & first May 1820, 

that he the said Patrick Mason enlisted for the Term of Twelve Months on 15th day of May 1781 in the State of North Carolina in the Company commanded by Captain Tillman [Tilman] Dixon in the Regiment commanded by Colonel [John] Ashe, in the line of the State North Carolina, on the Continental establishment; that he continued to Serve in the said line untill he was duly discharged from the Service at the end of one year in the State of South Carolina, 

that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the Role of any State except that of this State and that the reason why he had not made earlier application for a pension is, that he has heretofore fell able to support himself that his infimities [infirmities] have of late so 
increased that he is now unable to do so, and is severely affected with Rheumatism

And in pursuance of the Act of 1st May 1820 J. Patrick Mason do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not by gift, Sale, or any
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[Declaration page 2]

manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act  "entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor any person in trust for me; any property, or Securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any incom [income] than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and Subscribed to & that I never have owned any land. always lived on rented land and that I have no family living with me except my wife who is an old decrepit infirm woman and a lame daughter occasioned by white swelling

1st Article 1 Blind Mare $10.00
2d [Article]1 Sow & 2 Pigs  3.00
3 [Article]   1 Bed & furniture 5.00
4 [Article]   1 Axe 1.00
5 [Article]   1 Broad Axe 1.00
6 [Article]  4 Auger 1.00
7 [Article]   4 chisels 1.00
Forwd [forward] $22.00

Forwd  $22.00
8th Article 2 H. Saws 1.00
9   [Article] 1 Mattock 0.50
10 [Article] 1 plane .50
11  [Article] 3 Chairs
12  [Article] 1 pewtr dish
13 [Article] 2 Hoes .50
14 [Article] 1 Can 0.25 
$27.25

Sworn to in open Court the 12th day of May A.D. 1828
Test
Duncan Rose C.A. C. 
Patrick Mason [his mark] X