Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File for Joseph Matson, Connecticut
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Matson, Joseph // Dis _
[blank] // No papers.
Conn. Agency
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[Letterhead] 
Matson - Joseph - Dis [faded, illegible]
Conn. Agy 107 N. Allen St. // Albany, N.Y. // Jan. 10 - 1916. 

[Letter body]

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

Dear Sirs, 

If possible will you please give me some information concerning Joseph Matson of the Revolutionary Army, who served under Col. Thaddeus Cook, Capt. Thos. Lawson's Co. from Conn.

He was pensioned 1785 and died in 1810. 

I would like to know to whom the pension was paid and what county he came from, as the records I find differ as to county. He served from Connecticut. 

Respectfully yours, 

Mrs. W. J. Davison
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[Letterhead, typed]

[aligned left] Rev. War Section.

[aligned right] January 14, 1916. 

[aligned left] Mrs. W. J. Davison, 
107 North Allen Street, 
Albany, N. Y. 

[Letter body, typed]

Madam: 

In response to your letter of the 10[th or %?] instant, you are advised that in the Report from the Secretary of War in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, which was printed in 1835; on the list of invalid pensioners of the Connecticut Agency, whose residences could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of papers in the War Office in 1800 and 1814; appears the name of Joseph Matson as a Private of the Revolutionary Army, pensioned from March 4, 1789, at $40. per annus, under the Act of Congress dated June 7, 1785, and died in 1810. 

This Bureau has no further data relative to said pensioner owing to the burning of the War Office. 

Very respectfully,  

[illegible signature]

Commissioner.

[handwritten notes] See Conn. Historical Society - // Collections, Vol. 8, p 260 - // under heading of Pensioners - // Half Pay - // "Joseph Matson or Mattison of Col. Thads. Cooks Regim. 
[dividing line, drawn]
I cannot find any claim under any spelling of the name
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The National Archives; Form VAM-51; 12-5-41 // Bounty Land Warrant Record Card* // Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 

[name] Matterson, Philip // [grade] Private // [line] Maryland

[warrant number] 11548 // [acreage] 100 // [issued] March 11, 1791 // to -- not shown --

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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.