Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6998, for Peter Mason, Maryland
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Md. Mason, Peter R. 6998
CONTENTS
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37123
Peter Mason
N.C.
act 7 June '32
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State of South Carolina
Macon County SS.

On this seventeenth day of September one thousand Eight hundred and forty five. Personally appeared in open court before the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now Siting Peter Mason a Resident of Macon County North Carolina aged Eighty Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this Oath make the following Declaration in order to Obtain the Benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress
Passed June the 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated,  He enlisted in the State of Maryland about the year 1779 or 1780 for and during the War under our Captain John Tolbert in the County of Baltimore his Lieutenant was Henry Tolbert and his Sergent was Thomas Rutledge and the Division to which he was attached was commanded by Col Thomas Owens after his said sentiment he was marched to the City of Baltimore and there forted and there remained as a gard for the City for about three years and six months or until the Close of the War which was about that length of time, after which he left the Service, though did not receive any written Discharge nor did any of his company receive Discharges in Writing as he knows of__ He hereby relinquishes every Claim to a Pension whatsoever or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
his
Peter D Mason
mark

Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J. K. Gray - Clk
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Question 1st - Where and in what year were you born
Answer 1st - I was born in Baltimore County in the state of Maryland on a little creek called Maladies Manner in the year seventeen hundred and fifty-seven.

Question 2nd - Have you any record of your age
Ans 2nd - I have not

Question 3rd - Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans 3rd - I was living in Baltimore County Maryland when called into service and I remained there after the close of the revolution for about three years. I then moved & settled in Lincoln County North Carolina resided there fourteen or fifteen years and then moved to Buncombe County N. Carolina lived there sixteen or seventeen years and then moved to Macon County where I now live.

Question 4th - How were you called into service
Answer 4th - I enlisted into the service and served with the troops that guarded Baltimore Town who was commanded by Thomas Owens as Colonel.

Question 5th - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
Ans 5th - I did not

I am acquainted with John Wiles Esq, Henry Douse Esq, Thomas Welch Esq, Sam'l Bryson & many others who live in my neighborhood who can testify as to my character for veracity and as to their belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution.

Peter Mason
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open court

J. K. Gray - Clk
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We George F Calen, a clergyman residing in the county of Macon and state of North Carolina & John Wiles Esq residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Mason who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. that we believe him to be about eighty-eight years of age, that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

George F Calen
John Wiles

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the foregoing interrogatories to the above named applicant that he was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that George F Calen who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the state & county therein stated, that John Wiles Esq who has also signed the same is a resident in the same state and county and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit

J. K. Gray - Clk - SEAL

State of North Carolina
Macon County

On this seventeenth day of September AD 1845 Peter Mason who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration appeared before the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting for Macon County and after being duly sworn doth on his oath declare that the reason he has not applied for a pension sooner is that he was informed that he could not draw a pension unless he could recollect the precise day and  date upon
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which he enlisted in the service of the army of the United States and that date he could not give exact, all he recollects of the date is that it was sometime in the summer of the year 1779 or 1780, that he enlisted being so informed he lost all hopes of ever obtaining his pension until recently he has been informed that it might be obtained through his recollection did not serve him exactly in that fact.

Peter Mason
his X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open court
J. K. Gray - Clk

I J K Gray Clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Peter Mason for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of my office this 17th day of September AD 1845.

J K Gray - Clerk
of Macon County
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State of North Carolina
Macon County

On this eighteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty-five personally appeared before the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions (now sitting in Franklin) John Davis and after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that Peter mason who is a resident citizen of Macon County North Carolina and who is now an applicant for a pension is personally known to him and has been for the last twenty years or more, and that during his acquaintance with him he has frequently heard him speak of his services in the war of the Revolution and of his being stationed at Baltimore as a guard for the city, that he has always since he heard him been regarded & reputed in the neighborhood in which he lives as having been a soldier of the revolution & that he has always concurred in that opinion and he further swears that the said Peter Mason has always bore the character of an honest - pious & respectable citizen and whose statement is entitled to full faith and credit.

John Davis

Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year above

J. K. Gray - Clk
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State of North Carolina
Macon County

This day personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Joseph Davis a resident citizen of the county and after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that Peter Mason a resident of the county and who is now an applicant for a pension is personally known to him and has been for the last twenty years or more, that he has often heard him speak of his services i the war of the revolution and that he has been regarded & reputed in the neighborhood in which he lives as having been a soldier of the revolution, that he is a respectable and pious citizen and has been for many years and that all of his statements are entitled to full faith & credit.

Joseph Davis

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the 18th day of September AD 1845

J. K. Gray - Clk

State of North Carolina
Macon County

Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions September Session AD 1845

I J K Gray Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions in & for said county do hereby certify that John Davis & Joseph Davis who swore to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits are respectable & intelligent citizens and men whose statements is entitled to credit; that they are personally known to the court & the court orders that the Clerk certify the same which is all hereby certified.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of my office this the 18th day of September AD 1845.

J. K. Gray - Clk
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Peter Mason

Act 1832
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State of North Carolina
County of Macon

Be it known that on this thirteenth day of December AD 1852 before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared William Mason resident of Franklin in said county and made oath according to law that he is the legal heir of Peter Mason who was a soldier in the war of the revolution and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the pension act of blank

That he is directly interested as claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint Samuel M Knight of Washington City my true and lawful attorney to prosecute the claim of Peter Mason for any amount of revolutionary pension or increase of pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive for my exclusive benefit the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

William Mason
His X Mark

Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said William Mason to be directly interested in said claim as set forth and to be the identical party therein alleged.

J N Keener - JP

State of North Carolina
Macon County 

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the court of Macon County North Carolina that William Mason the party who has sworn to and acknowledged the foregoing declaration and power of attorney is the identical heir of Peter Mason reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify that J N Keener Esq before whom the preceding affidavit and power of attorney were made out acknowledged was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my sela of office this thirteenth day of December 1852.

J. K. Gray - Clk
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6998
Peter Mason

REJECTED
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37123
Peter Mason
N.C.
Let to Nathan Leake
Nov 22, '45

Let to Secy of State Feby 7, '45
Smith & Jones Feb 24, 1853

Act 7th June 1832
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6998
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Peter Mason of N. Carolina suspended
under Act of 32 -
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Peter Mason

Maryland service

Smith & Jones
Attny
Nashville, Ten
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Adamsville, Georgia
August 26th 1852

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir

I hereby authorize and impower Smith & Jones of Nashville Tennessee to prosecute the claim to Revy Pension of Peter Mason, act June 7th, 1832, & to receive the certificate therefor.

Respy
Your Obt Servant
Elisha King - Att.

Sent from
Henersonville
N.C.
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Hendersonville
N C Oct 17

Paid 10

J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
District of Columbia

Per Mail

Oct 24, 1845
Peter Mason
June 7th, 1832
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Hendersonville, 18th Oct 1843

J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

Enclosed you have the declaration of Peter mason a citizen of Macon County the necessary traditional proof accompanies the declaration, and I hope from the clearness of the old gentleman's recollection of his officers etc. that the archives of the Department will furnish all the balance of the proof necessary to satisfy the department of the validity of this claim.

I forwarded the declaration of Mrs. Jane Moor on yesterday without having instructed you who to inform of the result of the action of the department thereon. I hope you will find no difficulty in passing upon the validity of that claim as I have no doubt the proof is a clear as you will desire it. You will please inform me when the department acts on that claim as also on Mr. Mason's.

I have the honor to be with
sincere respect your most
humble & obt servant

Elisha King

J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Department of State
Washington Feby 16, 1846

Sir

In reply to your letter of the 7th inst. you are respectfully informed that the Washington Papers do not afford any evidence of the services of Private Peter Mason and Captain John Turner in the Select Militia of the state of Maryland during the revolutionary war.

Very respectfully
I am Sir, your obt servt.

James Buchanan

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Dec 15 1845
Rev Service of
Petere Mason

Hon. J L Edwards 
Comm of Pensions
Present
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Washington, Dec 12-1845

Sir

I enclose herewith the letter of Mr. G.G. Brewer, register of the Land Office in Maryland to Elisha King of D.C. respecting the case of Peter Mason of N.C. sus: act of '32. I believe certifying that no rolls showing the names of the private soldier of the select militia of Maryland are found in his office.

I am otherwise informed that evidence of that service is to be found in the state department in this city & have to request respectfully that an examination of those rolls for evidence of that service as well as the service Lieut & Captain John Turner who also served in the same select militia service and in whose case I presented some evidence lately was appointed Leiut. in '77 and promoted Captain in March 1780 - by having those examinations made at the state department

You will greatly oblige
Your most Obt Servt

Nathan Leake
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ANNAPOLIS MAIL STAMP - Nov 24

10

Elisha King, Esq
Hendersonville
North Carolina

mail
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Land Office, Annapolis, 22nd Nov 1845

Dear Sir

Your letter of the 8th Inst. was received, I have again examined very carefully the records of the Revolution in this office, and they afford no evidence of the services of Peter Mason who alleges to have served in the Maryland line. The officers under whom he states to have served, I find upon a record of the Militia officers of this state and Capt. John Tollison appears to have commanded a company in the Gunpowder Upper Battalion of select militia in Baltimore County, but there is no muster or pay roll to be found of his company and I of course am unable to ascertain whether Peter Mason served or not.

The rolls of the Milita troops are very imperfect - many of the records were sent to Washington City some years ago for the purpose of adjusting the accounts between the state and General Government and all the pay masters accounts & vouchers have been lost by the burning of the public buildings, no information therefore of their payments is now ascertainable.

I am very respectfully yours
G.G. Brewer

Elisha King Esq