Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,490, for Thomas Lanman, Massachusetts
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Continental           Lanman Thomas  W.24.490
Mass                                    Naomi
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Massachusetts
Thomas Lanman 
Of Sutton in the state of Mass: who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox of the Mass line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of April 1818 -

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 of May and sent to Edward Bang Esq Worcester Mass

Arrears to 4th of March 1820   22 mos. } 178.63
                                           6/30   4/31
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1820            48-
                                                              $ 226.63

Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818.
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Massachusetts
Naomi Lanman
widow of Thomas Lanman who was a [illegible] in the Revolution. 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 191 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23. day of November 1843 and sent to Wm. Jennison 
November, May.

Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A. 
Vol. 1. Page 47
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State of Massachusetts
Thomas Lanman a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Sutton in the County of Worcester; in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of January 1776

I entered and was engaged in the [illegible] service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of one year.

as a private soldier and {     }  against the common enemy; without any interruption or absence: that i belonged to the Company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Stephen Badlour in the Massachusetts line.

and that I left the service in the month of January 1777 by singular discharge which I have took and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now the age of sixty four years - I entered the service [illegible] in 1777 as an ordinary {     } in the Company of Militia from Massachusetts commanded by Capt. Bartholomew Woodbury of Col.  {    }  Regt. & served three months & was at the taking of Burgoyne at which time I was Quartermaster of said Regiment & I served eight months in 1778 & '9 as Lieutenant in Capt. Abraham {    } Company of the Massachusetts Militia - I was engaged at five different times in the Army of the Revolution for {   } many different terms of service.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.   Thomas Lanman
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Worcester, ss. 
On this twenty second day of year 1821, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such and by the laws of said Commonwealth, Thomas Lanman aged sixty six years, resident in Sutton in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served the Revolutionary War as follows:
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was a Revolutionary soldier, as day the documentary evidence in the Declamation referred to. [mill?] appear that the said Naomi was married to the said Thomas as she therein states - and since the decease of the said Thomas, has [illegible] his widow - as she hath above, on oath, declared - she being a [unsure]

Ira Barton [illegible]
Court of [illegible]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, fs.
I, Theophilus Wheeler, Register of the Court of [something] for the county of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton, [illegible], above named, is judge of [something] for said bounty - and that his signature, as above, is in his own proper hand writing. 

I also certify, that Edward Clarke, Esquire,, is a justice of the peace in and for said bounty, and that his signature to the certificate on the annexed depositions, is in his own proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of said court, at Worcester, his eleventh day of February, in the year 1837.

Theophilus Wheeler Reg of the County 
Probate for the county of Worcester
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I Joseph Hall of Sutton in the County of Dorcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of longfull age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Naomi Lanman widow of Lieut Thomas Lanman who won out in the Revolutionary War and said Lanman won the married into the said Naomi Lanman which in said War And of furthermore testify that I was married in the year in the year 1796. And that said Lanman was married to said Naomi previously to my marriage.

Joseph Hall

Worcester [illegible] October 3rd 1839 the aforesaid department
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester fs. 
I, Joseph G. Kendall, blank of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Worcster, do certify that Daniel Tenney and William Jennison, [illegible], are justices of the peace in and for  [something] bounty - and that their signatures [something] to the [something] certificates, by them subscribed, and hereto affirmed, are in their own proper hand writing. 

And I further certify, that the [something]. Ira Barton is judge of probate, in and for said bounty - and that his signature annexed to the certificate hereto affixed, and by him signed, is in his own proper hand writing. 

In writing whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of said court, at Worcester, this twenty third day of October, in the year 1838. 
[illegible]
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Jonas L. Sibley of m
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Common of Massachusetts, 
Worcester, fs. 
I, Joseph G. Kendall, blank of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Worcester, do certify, that Daniel Tenney, esquire, named in the certificates on the two preceding depositions is a justice of the peace, in and for said bounty, and that his signature to said certificates is in his own proper hand writing. 
In testimony thereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this sixteenth day of February, in the year 1839.

[Illegible]
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I Jospeh Hall of Sutton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts seventy nine years of age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Lieut Thomas Lanman and that I was with [illegible] him in Captt David Batchellors company of Northbridge Eight months in
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James L. Edwards. Esq
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington.

Sir,
In the 26th February last, a pension certificate was granted to Naomi Lanman. of $191.64 a year for 5 years from March 4. 1836 - certificate [illegible] 1910. 

Since she received it, she has applied for pay at the pension office, in Boston, but failed to obtain it, on the ground that her name has not been reported to the agent."__

It is a very periods inconvenience to her, in being thus disappointed, and I am requested to [illegible] the favor of you to forward to the agent, in Boston, [illegible] such evidence as will authorise the payment of what she is entitled to receive under said certificate, and that it may be done, with no little delay as circumstance will allow. 

Very respectfully, 
your [illegible]
William Jennison

Worcester, Massachusetts
March 30, 1839
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office 
Nov. 22nd, 1841.

Sir,
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled  "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Naomi Lanman - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Boston, Mass. Agency, at the rate of one hundred thirty one Dollars and 67 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th of July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1840, to the 4th March 1841. 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Paris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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J.L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,

Sir, 
I enclose the application of Naomi Lanman, for a pension, under the act of March 3, 1843. 
In case the application is allowed, you will please forward to me the pension certificate, and much oblige_
 
Yours very respectfully, 
William Jennison

Worcester, Mass.
July 22. 1843.

P.S. I have received the certificate in favor of Martha Whitney and [illegible]
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Worcester, Mass
11 February 1837

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City.

Sir, 
I hereby authorize my [something], Daniel D. Addison Esq. to examine the papers on which Mrs. Naomi Lanman was admitted to Pension under the Acts of 1838,  1844 & 1844; and to prosecute the claim for any [illegible] to which said deceased Pensioner may be entitled under any of the Laws and Regulations now in force. 

Respectfully, 
Yours of laws
Issac Davis
Executor of the just will & just law meant of Naomi Lanman
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1910
Massachusetts
Naomi Lanman 
widow of Thomas Lanman decde.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died in the month of September 1825 of Worcester in the State of Mass. who was Lt. Private in the compnay commanded
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Declamation.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 31 March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.  
State of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester. fs

On this twenty second day of July, _ 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace for said county, Naomi Lanman, a resident of Worcester, __ who being first only sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the forecoming Declamation, in order to obtain the [illegible] fits of the provision made by the act of Congress, [illegible] on the 31 March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 
That she is the widow of Thomas Lanman, who was a First Lieutenant ___ in the war of the Revolution, but in what Regiment, and under what Colonel she cannot state, by reason of old age, and want of official Documents_ that hte annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838, was one hundred ninety one dollars and thirty seven cents. 
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Witness
Saml Jennison Jr.
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before William Jennison, Justice of the Peace

Former pension certificate, dated July 26, 1839, and numbered 1910. I certify that I am acquainted with the above named applicant, and that she is the identical person represented  to be. 
William Jennison, Just. Peace
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I, Naomi Lanman, of Worcester, in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, do on my oath testify and declare, that I am in the eighty third year of my age: that I am the identical Naomi Lanman, widow of Thomas Lanman, for whose service as a Private, Lieutenant and Quarter Master, in the Revolutionary War, I have been Pensioned to the amount of one hundred and ninety one Dollars and sixty seven cents per annum - under the provision of the law of July 7th, 1838. 

And I do further testify and declare, that I am still a widow, and do now make this supplemental Declaration with the view of obtaining, such increase of my said Pension as the Bounty of my county and law and justice might afford. 
[illegible] by 
Issac Davis        Naomi Lanman
A Elizabeth Wesson
M J Wesson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.   ss. Worcester, February 20th, 1844
County of Worcester

Then persoanlly appeared the above named Naomi Lanman, who is well known to me the subscriber - of my own personal knowledge - to be the Revolutionary Pensioner she above describes herself to be, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above Declaration by her subscribed__

Before me, Issac Davis, Justice of the Peace