Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44250, for Asa Porter, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass

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Porter, Asa

NUMBER
S. 44250

CONTENTS
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12.631 
New York 
Asa Porter 
of Lima in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dare of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years War 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d of June 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of July 1819 and sent to Matthew Warner, Esq. Lima, N. York -

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 8 29/30 72.36 Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48.00
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$120.36 
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{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} Ontario County
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44250
INVALID. 
Revy
File No. 44250
Asa Porter 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18 

Index: - Vol. 3, Page 399
 [Arrangement of 1870.]

1928 Dec 14 - Hist to Mrs. Edna I Macpherson
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OTTO L SCHMIDT, CHICAGO PRESIDENT CHARLES H. RAMMELKAMP, JACKSONVILLE LAURENCE M. LARSON, URBANA. GEORGIA L. OSBORNE, SPRINGFIELD, LIBRARIAN 

Illinois State Historical Library
SPRINGFIELD. 
March 14 1928 

United States Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D. C 

Gentlemen: Please send me what records you have as to Asa Porter my great great Grandfather. He was born in Massachusetts  and served in the Revolutionary war from that state his pension was drawn in New York State where he died but I do not know the town in which he died but have understood some where near Lima Livingston Co NY which was there under some other County. I will be very thankful for any information 

yours truly (Mrs) Edna D. Macpherson 
Illinois State Historical Library
Springfield, Illinois

Library Assistant
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Asa Porter, priv Ontario County, N.Y. nearly 3 years in Col Vose's regt then transf to invalid Corps, come by Col. Bigelow, Mass line, and served until 1783 

Roll
2d June, 1818. 
[crossed out: found on rolls]
Admitted 

Matthew Warner,Judge,  
Canandaigua, Ontario County N. York
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State of New York Ontario County SS 

On this second day of June One Thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen, before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Ontario, personally appears Asa Porter aged Seventy eight years resident in the Town of Lima in the said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath make the follow ing declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war; That the said Asa Porter enlisted in the town of Lanesborough, Berkshire County in the State of Massachusetts, in the Company Commanded by Captain Jeremiah Miller in Col Joseph Vose  Regt, on the Massachusetts line, that he continued in the said Corps, for nearly there years, when he was transfered to the Corps of invalids Commanded by Col Bigelow, that he Continued to serve in said Corps untill after the peace of 1783 when he was discharged from the service at Westpoint State of
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New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services 
Asa X Porter 

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid Matthew Warner

I Matthew Warner Judge as aforesaid do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Asa Porter did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the Common enemy and I now transmit the procedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress 
Matthew Warner 

State of New York Ontario County Clerks Office⎬ ss 

In Testimony that Matthew Warner  whose name subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature. I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 5th day of June AD. 1841 
H McNair Clk
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I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named Asa Porter and that he is in he Indigent circumstances so much so that he day daily & has for a number of years depended upon the Charity of his neighbors for subsistence 
June 13 April 1819 - 
Matthew Warner Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County
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Ontario County SS
On the fifth day of July A.D. 1819 personally appeared before me Matthew Warner one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County Asa Porter. the same person who made the declaration on the other part of this application and made solemn oath that he send in the Massachusetts line in the revolutionary war and the same was accordingly inserted in the body of said declaration 
Matthew Warner Judge
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section AWF/eel 
December 14, 1928 
Mrs. Edna O. Macpherson 
Illinois State Historical Library Springfield, Illinois 

Madam: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 44250, it appears that Asa Porter enlisted in Lanesboro, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (date not stated) and served in Captain Jeremiah Miller's Company, Colonel Joseph Vose's Massachusetts Regiment, nearly three years when he was transferred to the Corps of Invalids under Colonel Bigelow and was discharged in 1783. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 2, 1818, at which time he was living at Lima, New York , aged seventy-eight years. 

There are no data as to family. 

Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.