Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 6871, for Andrew Mann, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
R.I.

Mann, Andrew
Anna

NUMBER
R 6871

CONTENTS
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6168

New York

Andrew Mann
of Deerfield in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain May of the Reg. commanded by Col. Cooke in the Rhode Island line for 2 Years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents[crossed out] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Feb. 1833 and Sent to Hon. S Beardsly, Ho Repre :

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 $120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 40.00
$160

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk,
Book D Vol. 5 Page 175
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Andrew Mann
Amended

J. E. Clerk agent
Utica

$80 per ann
Hon. S. Beardsley
H R
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State of New York, Oneida County: City of Utica S. Be it known that on the 29th day of September A.D. 1832 before me the Recorder of the City of Utica in said City and County duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Morven M. Jones the attorney named in the within power of Attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue
of the within power of Attorney, either by any pledge mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer and that he does not know or believe that that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever-

Sworn and subscribed the day &
year first above mentioned before
me
M. M. Jones
Erastus Clark
Recorder of the City of Utica
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State of New York: Oneida County, City of Utica:
On this twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1852 personally appeared before the Recorders Court of the City of Utica in said city
(which Court is a Court of Record in said City having common Law jurisdiction and a Clerk and seal) Anna Mann a resident of the town of Deerfield in the County of Oneida aged Seventy four years, who being duly sworn in open Court according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act or Acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of revolutionary soldiers; that she is the widow of Andrew Mann who was a private in the revolutionary army and who was at the time of his death a pensioner on account of his services in the war of the revolution, that the pension certificate of her said husband has been lost or mislaid and she does not know where such certificate is --

She further declares that she was married to the said Andrew Mann in the month of August -- in the year seventeen hundred and ninety Eight, that her husband the aforesaid Andrew Mann died in the month of December A.D. 1841, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previously to the second of January in the year Eighteen hundred to wit: at the time above stated -- She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension -- 

And she further swears that at the time of her said marriage to said Andrew to wit: in the month of August A.D. 1798 she resided with her mother then a widow in the village (now City) of Utica Oneida County, that previously she had agreed to marry said Andrew who was much older than herself and a widower having lost his wife by death in Massachusetts; that in said month of August she and said Andrew rode in a wagon together, (no other person going with them), from said Village of Utica about three and a half miles upon the main road towards the village
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1.208
Nov. 29/52
Anna Mann
wife of Andrew, N.Y.
July 29th 1848
M. M. Jones
Agent
City of Utica
N. York
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No 1208

Anna Mann widow of Andrew of
New York

Letter to M. M. Jones 6th May 1853
Same Mch 30 1854

6871

Act 29th July 1848.
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Andrew Mann
R. 6871
Rev. War

A bill for $3, Continental Currency, dated at Philadelphia 1776, has been removed from
this case & may be found locked [illegible] in the Rev. Records Section of this Ba[illegible].

V.L.U.
June 1, 1917.
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1.208
Nov: 29/56
Appt. of Anna
Mann, wid. of Andrew

[stamp: UTICA N.Y. No 127] N.Y.

Act 29 July 1848

[stamp: FREE]

M. M. Jones
Utica N.Y.

James E. Heath Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington A
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1879.]

6871.
P.O.
Anna Mann
Service:

[stamp: REJECTED]

Enlisted:__, 18
Discharged:__, 18

Application filed:__, 18

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized.
Co
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for
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$80 per annum

James S. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington
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Brief in the case of Anna Mann widow of Andrew decd.
Deerfield County and State of New York
act 29th July 1848.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Andrew Mann by rolls, a revolutionary pensioner under the Act of 7th June 1832. (a private.
Traditionary proof that Andrew Mann married Anna in August 1789.
Documentary proof[phrase crossed out] By rolls that Andrew Mann died 10th July 1842, by applicant testimony in Decr 1841.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
M. M. Jones Esqr.
City of Utica
New York

Charles H. Rhett
Examining Clerk.
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Pension Office.
5th May 1853.

New York Rolls.
Albany Agency.
Act June 7th 1832.
$80 per annum.

To
Major Bogan
3d Auditor Office

Andrew Mann.
To what time paid?
Charles H. Rhett.
Died 10th July 1842
paid to his death.

B. L. Bogan
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City of Utica N.Y. March 24, 1854

S. P. Waldo Esqr
Comr of Pensions

Dear Sir - Your letter respecting the application
for a pension of Anna Mann widow of Andrew Mann a revolutionary pensioner, written May 6, 1853 asks me to reply explaining the discrepancy between the evidence sent
with her application fixing Andrew Mann's death in Dec. 1841 and proof in Third Auditor's Office that he died July 10, 1842 - I have feared you might begin to suspect something wrong on my part from my long silence upon the subject -- Since the middle of May last I have from time to time, and every few days
made fresh efforts to clear up the matter, believing fully that he died in Dec. 41; but until now have been unable to do so - I now find that both dates are wrong, that my witnesses (or witness the Dr.) had made the greater mistake, and that beyond all doubt
he died July 19, 1842, instead of July 10, the date named in your letter-- From age, ignorance or some other cause I do not
believe the widow could readily tell whether her husband died in summer or winter, without particularly drawing her attention to the subject, and having received from his physician the date of his last visit (as supposed) & probable time of death, the applicant
and her witnesses took that date as the true one without farther inquiry, and I, of course, could have no suspicions as to its correctness, as I never knew the widow until I began to prepare her case - my mistake & the mistake of the affiant Dr. Hastings occurred as the Dr informs me (and I have no doubt truly)
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as follows -- I had requested the Dr. to give me the date of Andrew Mann's death for this purpose -- The Dr. looked up his old day book & leger & found that the last charge against Andrew Mann was made Dec. 17, 1841 (see copy of charge below) and having attended him in his last illness, he believed that he died in Dec. 1841 -- After the rect of your letter of May 6, I put it to the Dr. to solve the difficulty, but it has taken 8 or 10 months to do it -- In
looking over his old a/c books, in the accounts against Oneida County for services rendered the poor in 1842, he found all his visits to Andrew Mann during his last illness in June + July 1842 these charged - The last visit is charged July 19, 1842 (see copy of entries below) -- Another reason why the Dr. had no
hesitation in fixing his death in Dec. 1841 was that he saw the word "died" written across the leger a/c of that date, but which word the Dr
now says was undoubtedly written afterwards as a reason why the a/c had not been paid -- To fix his death beyond all cavil upon 19th July 1842, there is a memorandum in the Dr's daily memorandum book (a journal in this vol from Jan. 1. 1835 to Oct. 28. 1842) written so closely that scarcely a line can be inserted any where, a memorandum of 3 lines under date July 19, 1842 from which following is an extract
"Old Mr Mann died about 9 A.M. aged 85 last May" and under date of 20th is an account of Mr Mann's funeral -- (see copies of both entries in full below). These a/c and memorandum books now lie before me and I find them just as stated above -- I think I have
succeeded in "explaining the inconsistency" as requested and have also satisfied myself that my first date "Dec. 1841" is far out of the
way altho' I suppose the interests of my client are the same in either case, also that the "record in the 3d Auditors office" is nine days
short, but in this way the widow or creditors lost 9 days pension --