Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5725, for Joseph Mace, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Mace, Joseph
NUMBER
S. 5725
carded
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Paper Copd [copied] for Hamilton Derrick [illegible] Dec 23. 1837.
let: 19 Dec: 1840 to [illegible] St. James

Pennsylvania. 29.678.
Joseph Mace of Chester C. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Compy [company] commanded Captain Lockhart of the Regt. commanded by Col. Pearce in the Penn. Militia [illegible] for 6months

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Jany [January] 1835 and Hon. D. Potts H. H. Reps

Arrears to the 4th of March 35 $80.00
Semi-anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Sept " 20.00
$90.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, Book E Vol. 5 Page 41
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32,060
Joseph Mace
Pennsylvania

Application of Joseph Mace for a Pension under the Act of Congress
passed June 7 1832

[illegible, faint]

D. Potts jr.
Hon D Potts Jr
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Chester} SS
On this twenty ninth day of September personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Isaac Darlington President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania now sitting Joseph Mace a resident of the Township of Bermingham in the said County and State aged 75 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. First entered the service as a drafted militiaman under the command of Captain Alexander Lockhart sometime about the middle of November in the year 1776, the particular day of the month he cannot now recollect. The names of any of the field officers of whom he has any remembrance, does not occur to him, except those of General Sullivan, Major John Harper, and Ephraim Russell Adjutant. The names of Captain Alexander Lockhart, and Lieutenant Thomas Taylor, Company Officers, under whose immediate command he served at different times, are all of that grade [of officers crossed out] that remain in his memory. At the time already mentioned in November he was marched in company with 59 others under the order of Captain Alexander Lockhart from
Deliverthstown to Colonel George Pearce's in Delaware County (not then in the service where being furnished with guns and accoutrements we proceeded to Old Chester; and remained there a night and a day. From that place we marched to the Publick [Public] Barracks in Philadelphia, where we  stayed two weeks for the purpose of training. From that City we proceeded to New Jersey to a place some miles below Trenton halting on our way at a little village in the vicinity, the name of it had escaped his memory. Shortly after this [we had crossed out] a portion of the Company making about 20 in number of which I was one, were sent out under the command of Captain Lockhart
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as a scouting party, when we fell in with about the same number of the Enemy. We had a smart skirmish with them which continued for near an hour. Several rounds of Musquetry [muskets] were given and received. None were killed on the part of the Americans. He was wounded, having received two Balls in his person, one in the left thigh and the other in the right knee. I was rendered came by this wound for the space of six or seven months. This occurred during my first tour of service: from which I was discharged at Philadelphia some time in the month of February in the year 1777, the particular day I cannot
remember. This being My first tour of service which continued for rather more than three months. After remaining at home for some time he was a second time drafted into the militia Service sometime in
July of the year 1778, in a company drafted in the Township of
Westtown under the command of Thomas Taylor, who had been one of his commanding Lieutenants during his first term of service. The company assembled at Delevorthstown and marched under his command to Old Chester where we remained a night.- From thence we proceeded to the Philadelphia Barracks, where we remained for about five months training and disciplining. This was my second term of service from which was regularly discharged in the month of December 1778. It lasted five months. I was again and for the third time drafted under the command of Captain Thomas Taylor, who acted as a substitute for Captain Huey Reed who being a married man with a family was averse to entering the service. The company in which I then was marched from Thornbury Township, Chester County, to Old Chester. We remained at Chester one night after which we proceeded
to the Publick [Public] Barracks at Philadelphia and there continued
training for the whole of this term of service which was rather more than two months in duration from which we were all discharged
some time in the last of October 1779. This was my third and last term, having been altogether more than ten months in the service of the U. States as a militia man. He did not on any occassion [occasion] serve as a substitute. The does not remember the number of any of the Regiments or companies in which he served. During his several tours he marched but little, Excepting through New Jersey to which he has already referred. He remembers General Sullivan as being one of the regular officers in the Continental Line more particularly at this time, the names of others after so considerable a lapse of time having completely escaped his memory. He was not engaged in any of the regular battles of the Revolution. "Having been wounded two days previous to the Battle of Trenton in the skirmish before spoken of, he was prevented from being with his company in that Engagement, although at the time he was laying at a farm house, within about a mile of the place where it was fought, from whence he could distinctly
hear the firing of the Artillery and Musquetry [Muskets]. After remaining at this farm house for about four days, he proceeded to Phil-
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adelphia in considerable pain and there joined his company. He rode part of the way to the City, but finding it much more painful than walking in consequence of the jolting of the vehicle, he was forced to go nearly the whole of the way on foot, after being there for about ten days, he was discharged, but unable to return home immediately in consequence of the wound in his knee, having gathered and become worse, he accepted of the friendly shelter offered by Captain Wood an accquaintance [acquaintance] with whom he remained for about three weeks, at the expiration of which time he returned to his residence in Westtown. When he first entered the service he lived in West Town Township County of Chester, and at the commencement of each of the two successive terms he lived at the same place. He has no documentary Evidence in his possession, nor does he know of a single person living whose personal testimony he can procure as to his Services
Answers to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department
1. Where and in what year were you born?
According to the best of my recollection I was born in the Township of Westover, County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, on the 17th day of January in the year 1758
2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it? 
I have no record of my age, it was contained with that of my brother's and sisters in the Family Bible which was destroyed together with many other articles of property, on the day of the Battle of Brandywine by the English who broke into my fathers house.-
3. Where were you living when called into the service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
When first called into the service I lived with Titus Taylor (now deceased, who was an Elder and married brother of Captain Thomas Taylor under whose command I served a portion of time) in the Township of West Town and County of Chester. I have lived in different places since the revolutionary war To Wit in New London Township in said County for about 13 years, in East Bradford Township in the same County about 14 years, in Kennett Township of this County about 10 or 12 years. From the last named Township I moved into Delaware State and resided there about five years. From this
State moved to Birmingham Township in this County about a year since where I at present live
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom:
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[General Sullivan, Major Hooper, and Ephraim Russell crossed out]
was regularly drafted for each term of service, and was at no time a substitute
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
General Sullivan, Major Harper, and Ephraim Russell Adjutant regular officers were with the troops where I served according to my memory at this time. I do not remember the number or designations of any of the Continental or Militia Regiments. I have stated in
the preceeding [preceding] part of my declaration, the general circumstances of my service as far as my recollection Enables me.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service: and if so; by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
I never received on any occassion [occasion] a written discharged as he remembers. If he did it was long since lost. He believes they were all verbal, from the Captains or
officers under whose the command he was at the time of the discharge.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, [neighborhood] and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
In answer to this query I would name more particularly Amos Brinton, Edward Brinton William Harvey, Eli Harvey and a number of others, whose names do not now occur to his mind. He is not acquainted with any Clergyman, who could testify as to his
character for veracity, and his belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, and is therefore unable to produce one to this Court. He has stated  at large in the body of his declaration, and in his answers to the queries of the War Department as far as his defective memory will now permit him, all the [illegible] and material circumstances
connected with his service in the Revolution
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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.
Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid.
(signed) Joseph Mace


Mr. George Hannum and James Dilworth residing in the Township of Birmingham in said County of Chester do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Mace who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 75 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood (sic) where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Affirmed, and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
(signed) George Hannum
             James Dilworth

And the said Court do hereby declare their 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.  And the Court further certify that it appear to them that George Hannum and James Dilwirth who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the Township of Birmingham in said County are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I John W. Cunningham, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Mace for a Pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this Twenty ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Four.
(signed)  John W. Cunningham
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[initialed] AUF
Rev. and 1812 War Section.
August 5, 1926.
Walter L. Jones
c/o Mackenzie & Jones
222 & 224 Market Ave. North
Canton, Ohio.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 5725, it appears that Joseph Mace was born January 17, 1758 at Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
While residing at said Westtown, he enlisted in November 1776 and served as a private in Captain Alexander Lockard's Pennsylvania Company, he was in a skirmish and wounded in the left thigh and right knee, and was discharged in February 1777.
He enlisted in July 1778 and served as a private
in Captain Thomas Taylor Pennsylvania Company,
and was discharged in December 1778;; and he served again two months in Captain Thomas Taylor's Company, and was discharged in October 1779.
He was allowed pension on his application exe- [page ends]
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cuted September 29, 1834, while a resident of Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
There is no data on file relative to wife and
children.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau
fail to afford any information in regard to any
Thomas Mace.
In order to make a proper search of the War of 1812 records of this Bureau for a soldier named Eli Robinson, some of the following data is essential: approximate dates of birth and death,
places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
[upside down] Rev. and 1812
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Rejected, did not serve six months. 
See letter of Oct '34 to J. A. Hemphill, do 3 Decr [December] 1834 and to Hon. D. Potts jr [Junior] H. R 17 Dec '34. do 3 Jany [January] '35
$ 20 per [illegible] 
Cir under Ken. C. C. dee. sent to Hon. D. Potts H. R. Jan 10. 1835
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Inform Hon. Mr James why Joseph Mace was not allowed for more than 6 months [illegible] 

say that it cannot be increased
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October 3. 1834
Pension Office

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
War Department
Washington City
Dis of Colu



Pension Office
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West Chester  Sept 30th 1834

Sir/

Enclosed is the application of Joseph Mace for a Pension under the Act of Congress of '32 passed for the relief of the Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution.  If he should be deemed worthy of a pension, it is the request of the Applicant that the Certificate entitling him to receive it may be transmitted to my direction.

Yours very respectfully
James A Hemphill
West Chester
Penna

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
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5725
Rev War
INVALID

File No.   5725
Joseph Mace
Pri. Rev. War

Act:  June 7th 32

Index: -- Vol. M,  Page 236

[ Arrangement of 1870 ]
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1906 Feby 12  History to Mrs, B. W. Shakespeare   FBF

1926 Aug 5 Hist. to Walter L Jones E.F.
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Canton, Ohio
June 10th 1926

U S Bureau of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D C

Gentlemen:    Attention of Commissioner

Please advise if you have any naval records of one Eli Robinson by name, who fought in the war of 1812.  He received a grant of land located in Marshall County, Illinois from the United States government for services rendered during that war.

Also please advise if you have any records on two brothers namely Thomas and Joseph Mace, who were born and reared in or near West Chester,  Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Both fought in the War of the Revolution.

Any information you can give me will be gratefully appreciated I assure you.

Very truly yours
Walter L. Jones

WLJ/EGS

c/o Mackenzie & Jones
222-224 Market Ave North


Stamped     Pension Office June 11 1926
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Stamped:  OLD WAR & NAVY
                  JAN 26 1906
                   FILMS

Wilmington, Del.
January 25, 1906

To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Sir:

Will you please inform me whether one JOSEPH MACE of Pennsylvania, probably of Chester County, served as Revolutionary soldier.  I can not give any Company nor Regiment, but it is said that he drew a pension; and as he was too old for service in the War of 1812, I think he must have drawn a pension ofr Revolutionary service.  I have written to the State Librarian at Harrisburg, Pa. but no record of service is recorded there.

I desire this information with a view to admission to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution through JOSEPH MACE, if he served in the Revolutionary War as I suppose.

If the military and pension record of JOSEPH MACE can be found, will you kindly favor me with a copy of the same.

Thank you, I am,

Very respectfully,
Mrs. Blanche W. Shakespeare
601 Washington St., 
Wilmington, Del.

c/o Dr. Pierson.

Stamped:  Pension Office JAN 26 1906