Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15285, for Robert Mc Neir, Rhode Island
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
R. I.

McNeir, Robert
or McNair
or McNear

NUMBER
S. 15285
carded.

CONTENTS
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10788
8931
New York
Robert Mc Near
of Yates Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Holden of the regt. commanded
by Col Water in the R.I. mi
[cut of]une for 8 mn
McNeir
also McNair 
McNair
aw
Oct. 1.1908

A.O.T.
Jany 3, 1907
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 24 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
========
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May
1833 and sent
C. Loomis Rushville
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $53.32
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 13.33
$66.65

   Revolutionary Claim, 
⎨ Act June 7, 1832          ⎬

Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book C  Vol. 4 Page 25


See letter 29 Sept 1836 to J. Porter -
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the
the Act 6 April 1838 from
4 Sep 1841 to 4 March 1842
Agt notified 30 Oct 1844
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1st Brief  No_ 10,7[illegible],
Robt McNear
admitted
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8 mo. Private
2.3.4.5.6.14.

9 Sep '32
6 Dec
P 134
C. Loomis agt
Rushville
N. Yr
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No_ 10,788.-
BRIEF in the case of Robert McNear of the Middlesex 
County of Yates __in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
Yes

3. How old is he?
75 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Table]
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

 | Years, Months, Days | As a | Gen.

In 1776 early part of summer} | - 2 - | private | Lt. Holden _ Colo Jno Waterman

following winter | - 1 - | " | same officers

1777 | - 1 - | " | Lt. Smith - Colo. Waterman

a few weeks after | - 1 - | " | Capt. Sheldon

1778 | - 2 - | " | 

5. In what battles was he engaged?
none  } 1779 more than 1 month Capt. Anthony Low _ Colo Waterman on frequent occurrences during the war more than 1month

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at Warwick R. Island 

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
1 living witness & traditionary Evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
~~
*Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jamis Ord
Examining Clerk.
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GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 6th, 1844.

Sir:
Under the act 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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension
agents,               The Child of Robert McNair, ded
a Pensioner on the Roll of the       Albany, N. York.
Agency, at the rate of Twenty six - Dollars
and 66  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1841, to the 4th March 1842.

Respectfully, yours
[illegible] K. Parrie
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
On this tenth day of August in
the year 1832 personally appeared before me Chester
Loomis, one of the Judges of the County Court of the County
of Ontario aforesaid Robert McNear aged Seventy five
years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on
his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under
the following named officers and served as herein stated
In the early part of the summer of the year 1776 he was
drafted in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island, as a
Soldier and was forthwith ordered into actual Service.
and enrolled in a company of Militia under the command
of Lieut. Holden in Col. John Waterman Regiment
He cannot state the particular month with certainty, but is
confident in his recollection that it was in the early part of
the summer of that year. He was stationed with the
said Company at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island
two months at the expiration of which term he was
dismissed from service and returned home
In the following winter he was again ordered into actual
service, in the same company and under the same officers
and was stationed at the same place as before, for one
month at the expiration of which he was again dismissed
In the same year (1777) subsequently he was again drafted
and enrolled in a company of Militia under Lieut. Smith
in Col. Watermans Regiment of Militia, and was stationed
at Warwick aforesaid on that occasion the like period
of one month and was then again dismissed. A few
weeks thereafter he was again ordered into actual service
under the command of Capt. Sheldon, and was again
stationed at the same place the like term of one month
In the succeeding year (1778) he further performed two
different terms of military duty of one month duration each
at Warwick aforesaid in the same Regiment above mentioned
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[first line is illegible]
but he is unable to recollect with sufficient certainty
to state the names of the commanding officers of the particular
company in which he was enrolled
In the year 1779 he was again drafted into actual
service and marched first in a company of Militia
under the command of Capt. Anthony Low on an
expedition to Rhode Island, and subsequently to Bristol
R.I. to which place deponent and nine other were ordered
by Col. Waterman aforesaid, under the command of a
Serjeant whose name he has forgotton & that such service was more than
one month The said Robert McNair further declares that at various
other times not herein before specified during the said War
of the revolution he was repeatedly called into actual
military service, on sudden alarms, and on short
expedition occupying a few days at a time - that such
occurrences were frequent, but that it is impossible to State
each one particularly and in the order of their occurrence
but he is certain that he was at different times on such
occasional alarm in actual service not above specified
more than one month
The said Robert McNear further declares
1st That he was born in the town of Newport in the State of
Rhode Island in the year 1757
2nd. That he has no record of his age, but has always understood
and believed it to be as herein before stated
3rd. That he lived at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island
when he was first called into Service as above stated that
Since the revolutionary war he has lived at Prudence
Island in the same state from whence he removed
to the town of Middlesex in the County of Yates where he
has resided nearly forty years, and yet resides
4th.  The he was drafted whenever called into service
5th - That he does not recollect the names of of any Regular
Officers who were with the troops where he served
6th That he never received any written discharge from service but was dismissed, by his commanding officer on every
term of service above stated
7th That Michael Pearce, Jabez French and William
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Bassett Esquires are well acquainted with him and who
as he believes, can testify as to his character for veracity
and their belief of his Services as a Soldier of the revolution
And the said Robert McNear hereby relinquishes every
claim to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any State.
Robert McNeir

Sworn and subscribed to
this 10th day of August 1832   ⎬
Before me Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts     
of the County of Ontario aforesaid    ⎬

And I Certify that the said Robert McNear was at the
time of subscribing and being sworn to the above Declaration,
unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court
pursuant to the regulations of the War Department
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County
Court as aforesaid

State of New York
Ontario County ss
Robert McNear the above named applicant being duly sworn
doth depose and say in addition to his foregoing declaration that
by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot Swear
positively to the precise length of his service as a Soldier as stated in
his said declaration but that according to the best of his recollection he
served not less than eight months and for such service he claims a pension
He further saith that he hath in his said declaration stated the period of
the war when he served with as much precision as it is now in his
power to do-- He further saith that he is informed and verily believes
that no Judge of the County Courts of the County of Yates, resides nearer
than fourteen miles to the residence of the deponent. that he is not personally
known to any of them as he believes,.. that he is in poor and necessitous
circumstances and feeble and infirm in health-- that he is and has long
been acquainted with Chester Loomis, who resides within four and a half
miles of deponent and who is a Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County
before whom his said declaration is made, and that these facts constitute
the reasons that his said declaration is not made in the county in
which he resides    Robert McNair
Subscribed and Sworn to me
this 3rd day of January 1833
Before me
Chester Loomis
A Judge of the County Court of
Ontario County aforesaid
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State of New York
Ontario County

Michael Pearce of the town of Middlesex
in the County of Yates and State of New York being
duly sworn deposeth and said that he has been
acquainted with Robert McNear who has subscribed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration, from the
commencement of the revolutionary War to the present
time, and he has personal knowledge that the said
Robert McNear in the year 1776-1777 and 1778
was repeatedly engaged in actual service as a soldier
in the militia of the State of Rhode Island when
stationed to guard Warwick and Warwick Neck
in that State, and that he knows that the said
Robert McNear did render military services in the
year aforesaid as stated in his said declaration
The said deponent further saith that the said Robert
McNear has ever sustained a good character for
truth and veracity during the whole period of
his acquaintance with him. And further the
said deponent saith not
Michael Pearce
Sworn and subscribed to
this 10th day of August 1832
Before me
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Court of Ontario
County aforesaid

State of New York,
Ontario County ss }
We Jabez French and William Bassett residing
in the town of Middlesex in the county of Yates and State aforesaid hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Robert McNear who has subscribed
and sworn to the annexed declaration, that we believe him to be of the age
of seventy five years- that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur
in that Opinion.
Jabez French
Wm Bassett

Sworn and subscribed to
this 31st day of August 1832
Before me 
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts of
the County of Ontario aforesaid-
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State of New York,
County of Ontario } ss:
I, CHARLES CRANE, Clerk of the county of Ontario, do hereby certify,
that Chester Loomis whose name is subscribed to the
Certificates of Affidavit to which this certificate is 
annexed was at the date of said Certificate and at the time the said
Affidavit purport to have been sworn a
Judge of the Courts in and for said county. And I further certify, that I 
am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Chester and verily
believe his signature as aforesaid, to be genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the Court of Common Pleas of said county, at Canandaigua, this first day of
September in the year of our Lord 1832
Charles Crane Clerk
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State of New York
Ontario County ss }
                            
I Chester Loomis, One of the Judges of the County Courts of
the County of Ontario, aforesaid, do hereby declare my opinion, after
the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states I further
certify that I have been personally acquainted, during the last
thirty years with Michael Pearce, Jabez French, and William
Bassett Esquire, who have subscribed and sworn to preceding
Certificate, and who reside in the town of Middlesex in the County
of Yates, and that they are person of respectability, and of
undoubted character for truth and veracity, that all of the
said persons have held the office of Justice of the Peace, in
the said town and that the said William Bassett is now a
Justice of the Peace of the said town, and that in my opinion
their statements are entitled to full credit 
Dated January 3d 1833
Charles Loomis
Judge &c
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State of New York
Ontario County SS ⎬   I Charles Crane,
Clerk of the
said County do hereby certify that Chester
Loomis, who has subscribed the within 
certificate, was at the date thereof a Judge
of the courts of said county; and that I
am well acquainted with his hand writing, and
verily believe the said signature within to be his
proper act and deed -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this fourth day of 
January A. D. 1833-


Revolutionary Claim
Robert McNear

Robert McNear
Declaration
10,788

C Loomis Agent
Rushville N.Y.

admitted
8 mo. Private
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15.285
INVALID.
File No. 15.285 and Mc Nair
McNeir
Robert McNear[crossed out]
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 248
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Naples N. Y.
Aug 26           ⎬          Free  
                      
Hon. J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D. C

Sept 1, 1836
N.Y.
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Naples  Newyork August 25, 1836
Dear Sir
A man by the name of
Robert McNear a Pensioner residing in
this vicinity has become Insane and is
not capable of doing any business whatever
Mr McNear is poor and his Friends
have requested me to write to you for
Information how to proceed in order to
draw his Pension
Yours respectfully
Josiah Porter

Hon J L Edwards   }
Comr of Pensions }