Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,402, for Mathias Parr, New York
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SERVICE
New York

Parr, Mathias

NUMBER
S46,402

CONTENTS
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owj
#46.402
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution".  approved on the 15th day of May 1828.  I Mathias Parr of the County of Fayette in the State of Illinois, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war.  and continued in the service until its termination - at which period I was a private in Capt. Smiths company in the Second regiment of the New York line, the regiment commanded by Colo. Cortlandt.  And I also declare that I did not receive a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I suppose I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778, as I was at that time ignorant that I was entitled to such a certificate -  And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of May 1828 (and still am not) on the pension list of the United States.

[signed]
Mathias Parr

Sworn before me this 15th day of November 1830

Before me Nathaniel Pope Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Illinois, appeared [crossed out] this 15th day of November 1830, [end crossed out] John smith & Dempsey Yarborough who did severally make oath that Mathias Parr by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of Revolution in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand this 15th day of November in the year one thousand Eight hundred & thirty.

[signed]
Dempsey Yarborough
[signed]
John Smith
X his mark

Sworn to & Subscribed 
[signed]
Nath'l Pope
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United States of America
District of Illinois  SS

I William H. Brown Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Illinois do hereby certify that Nathaniel Parr Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time the District Judge of said District and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Vandalia this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty and of one Independence the 55th year.

[signed]
Wm. H. Brown Clk
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Cert 1025
No. 1072
40402

Reissues  Revy.

Name:  Mathis Parr
Rank: Pri  Com'y:  Smith
REg't:  2nd N.Y. Line

[blank]  Agency.

Rate per Month, and Date of Commencement.

[blank form]

Allowed Act 1828.

1931 - April 30 - Hist. to Mrs. C.T. Land. Ill.

1933 - June 14 - Hist. to Mr. Perry Parr.  Ill.
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April 30, 1931.

Mrs. C. T. Land
Enfield, White County,
Illinois.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
ILL

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 46402, that Mathias Parr enlisted, date not given, and served during the Revolutionary War and until its close, at which time he was a private in Captain Smith's Company, Colonel Van Cortland's 2nd New York Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 15, 1830, while a resident of Fayette County, Illinois.  His age is not given.

There are no data relative to his family in the papers in this claim.

Because of the very large number of requests similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purposes of furnishing Revolutionary War data, only two histories are furnished each inquirer.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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1914
No. of Original payment 1072

Revolutionary Claims.

Allowed
Act 1828  }

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 Dec 1830.

Mathias Parr of [blank] in the county of Fayette in the State of Illinois has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Smiths 's company, in the Second regiment of the New York line ; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

Order of the Secretary.
[signed]
F. A. Dickens.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Third Auditor's Office,
10th December 1830.

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Mathias Parr in the New York line

It further appears that Mathias Parr is not now on the pension of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
[signed]
Peter Hagner And

[handwritten]
No record [illegible]  July 12/81
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Re'd 25 Feb 1830

1395

The Hon. S. D. Ingham
Sec. of the Treas. of the U.S.

Mr. Hammons of the House of Representatives submits the enclosed papers for a decision thereon  Feb. 24, 1830

[written in pencil]

When [illegible] brings back examiner the following letters

4139, 4335, 4466, 4069, 4227
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Enfield, White County, Ill.
March 29, 1931.

U. S. Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,  We are trying to locate the graves of the following Revolutionary soldiers.  They were all buried in White County, and they were pensioned

1.  Mathias Parr was from New York, where he served in the war in the Second Regiment, New York troops, under Col. Philip Van Courtland.  He was born in 1746.  Coming to Illinois he settled in Fayette County, but removed to White County where he died at an advanced age.  He was pensioned.

2.  John Scarborough was born in April, 1762, in Virginia.  He enlisted in 1780, serving until April 4, 1781 under Captains Samuel Selden and James Green.  He again enlisted serving until June 1783, when he was discharged, serving with Captain John
(over)

Only 2 etc
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Hughes and Colonel Anthony White.  He came to Indiana, and from there to Franklin County, Illinois and later to White County, where he died Aug. 14. 1846.  He was pensioned.

Daniel Bidwell served in the war from New York in the Albany County Militia, Thirteenth Regiment with Captain John McCrea.  He removed to White County, Illinois, and died there.  He was pensioned.

I would appreciate any information about these men.  In what part of the Country did they live?  At what post office did they get their mail?  I have searched the county records, but Daniel Bidwell's is the only name I find mentioned.

Did any of their relatives draw pensions after their death?

Thanking you very much, I am,

Very truly yours,
Margaret D. Land  (Mrs. C. T.)
Registrar Wabash Chapter D. A. R.
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June 9, 1933
New York, N.Y.

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen: -

Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary War record of Matthias Parr, a pensioner, who was living in White County, Illinois, in 1840, aged 85 years?

Very truly yours,
Perry Parr
53 Leroy St.
New York, N.Y.
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June 14, 1933.

BA-J/ILL
Mathias Parr
S. 46402

Mr. Perry Parr
53 Leroy Street
New York
New York.

Dear Sir:

The record of Mathias Parr is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 46402, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Mathias Parr enlisted, date not given, and served during the Revolutionary War and until its close, at which time he was a private in Captain Smith's company, Colonel VanCortland's 2" New York regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 15, 1830, at which time he resided in Fayette County, Illinois.  His age is not stated.

There are no data relative to his family.

Very Truly Yours,
A. D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.
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June 14, 1933

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Ba-J/EEL

Mr. Perry Parr
53 Leroy Street
New York, New York

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letters in which you request information in regard to John and Matthias Parr, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

You are herewith furnished the history of Mathias Parr, S.45403, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office in whose claim for pension it is stated that he resided in the state of Illinois.  As you state that John Parr was aged sixty-nine years in 1844, he could not have served in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.