Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2717, for Oliver Mann, Massachusetts
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Service Mass.
Mann, Oliver
Number S. 2717
carded
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Maine 28489
Oliver Mann Decd of Hancock i the state of Ma who was a [illegible] mate, in the commanded by Captain of the Mass by [illegible] in the [illegible] line for 1 year certificate issued to Lucy Mann
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 240 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the [illegible] day of July 38 and sent to Hon L. Janis - [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March Semi-ant. allowance ending [illegible] up to July 1832
to day of his death $320
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 34
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Application of Lucy Mann Widow of Oliver Mann late of Castine in the County of Hancock & State of Maine Physician deceased, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of Maine
Hancock Ss.
On thy twenty sixth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared, before the Hon. Job Nelson Esquire, Judge of the Court of Probate, within & for the County of Hancock aforesaid, Lucy Mann, a resident of Castine, in the County of Hancock aforesaid
Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare, that she is the widow of Oliver Mann, late of Castine aforesaid, Physician, deceased, that said Oliver died at Castine aforesaid, on the fourth day of July last, aged Seventy six, That said Oliver died before making such a declaration of his services in the army of the revolution, as is required by the war department. That she was married to said Oliver at Lincoln in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the year 1780, & it is her belief that the said Oliver entered the army of the United States, near the Commencement of the Revolutionary War, & continued in the service of the United States, till the year 1780. 
That she was married to said Oliver soon after his return from the army, which he left on account of his health, that said Oliver served the first part of the time, as a Surgeon's Mate, that for the later part of the time & for more than two years, he was a surgeon.
That eight eighteen or twenty years since, when they were about moving into the house she now lives in, she saw a paper, which he, the said Oliver, said was his Commission as a surgeon in the Army, & she recollects, that it appeared to be such, that she does not recollect of
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having seen said paper since, & it is not now to be found. That John Blake & Austin Flint, whose dispositions are hereto annexed, are the only surviving witnesses, known to her, by whom she can prove the services of her late husband in the army of the revolution, as above stated. 
That said Oliver was born in the year 1756 at [Wrentham] in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
That he has resided since the Revolutionary war at Castine aforesaid.
She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity in the right of her late husband, except the present, & declares that his name is not, to her knowledge, on the pension roll of the agency or any state.
Lucy Mann
[... .. .. aforesead]
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the aforementioned Oliver Mann was a Surgeon in the Army of the Revolution & served as is stated in the foregoing declaration and the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Mason who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Cartine aforesaid & that Thomas Adams who has also signed the same is a magistrate resident in the town of Castine aforesaid & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit and the said Court further certifies that it is satisfactorily proved to them that Lucy Mann who has signed the foregoing declaration is the widow of Oliver Mann late of Castine aforesaid physician deceased who died on the fourth day of July last.
Wilson Judge of the Court of Probate
[illegible] in the matter of the application of Lucy Mann for a pension in the right of Oliver Mann her late husband & that Job Nelson is Judge of the court of Probate for said County & that his sign annexed are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this twenty sixth day of September AD 1832
Hlz. Williams Register of the Court of Probate
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Oliver Mann
May 13 1836 by Col. Syl
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Washington 13 April 1836
Sir
Mr Duval being requested on behalf of the widow of Oliver Mann late a Surgeons mate in the army of the revolution and a pensioner, under the Act of 7 June at the Maine Agency, to ascertain whether he was entitled to commutation I will thank you to inform me when and in what way he went out of service. I am very respectfully, Your Obdt. Svt. Francis A. Dickins James L Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions
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I, Austin Flint of Leicester in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician, a native & formerly an inhabitant of the town of Shrewsbury in said County, 
Do hereby Certify, that in the Years 1777 soon after the Bennington Battle (as tis called0 Myself, with a number of others in said Shrewsbury, enlisted as soldiers in Capt Inglesbys Company & Col. Job Cushings Regt. of Militia, to serve in the Northern Army, Commanded by Genl. Horatis Gates, three months, 
Our place of rendesvous was Bennington in Vermont. that when I arrived at Bennington I found Doctor Oliver Mann with whom I  was intimately acquainted, attending upon the sick & wounded, who were then in the Meetinghouse, at the time he was the surgeon, as the mate in said Cushings Regt. - the next morning after ariving at said Bennington our Company, with others, were ordered to march for Stillwater in N. York with all possible speed. & we left said [Loett.] Mann at Bennington taking care of the aforesaid sick & wounded.
After the Battle with Bergoine on the 7th of October 1777, & his surrended on the 17th, our Regt. marched dow the Hudson to Albany, from thence to Catskill [A. A.] on our way down said river the said Doctr Mann joined our Regt. as surgeon, 
In the fore part of the following Novr. I was taken sick with Dysenterry, & was discharged from the service, by said Doctor Mann, & left him doing the duty of surgeon in said Cushings Regement. -- -- 
I Certify that the foregoing is a correct Statement, according to my best recolleciton.--
Austin Flint
Leicester June 25th 1832 -- -- 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Ss. June 27th 1832. Sworn to Before me 
Waldo Flint Justice of the Peace
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I John Blake of lawful age do testify & say, that I served my country as Lieutenant in the Army of the revolution from January 1777 to October 1780 & that I was acquainted with the standing and reputation of Doctor Oliver Mann by Common report for about two years & was personally acquainted with him Eighteen months as a surgeon in the American Army during the year 1778 & latter part of 1777.
I was attached to the fifth Massachusetts regiment in General Nixsons Brigade, and I believe he Doctor Mann was part of the time in Thomas Nixons regiment and a part of the time I know he was attached to the Hospital Staff but I cannot state with any certainty how long a time.
He was for Several months at Albany in the State of New York with said Brigade, also at West Point and Peek skill he was stationed while attached to said Brigade. I afterwards saw him in New Jersey as a surgeon under Gen. La Fayette. To what Regiment if any he was then attached I do not recollect.
Jn o Blake

State of Maine
Penobscot Ss. Subscribed & Sworn to in this nineteenth day of April A> D. 1834 
Before me Thornton M Jaw Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Blake that he is a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to full credits.
Thornton M Jaw Justice of the Peace.
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Oliver Mann
11670
Mc

under the circumstances, as Dr Mann is dead, [as a further explanation] I herefore [not] to he [perused],
[ let ] him be allowed one year pension as Surgeons MatL C.
$250 per annum

Lucy Mann
died 4 July 1832 $32
Hon. L. Jarris