Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 6874, for Willard Mann, Massachusetts
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Mann, Willard
Mary

Service: Mass./Vt.
Number R 6874
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8574
Vermont
Willard Mann 
of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont who was a priv & wagoner in the Company commanded by Captain Carl of the regt. commanded by ...........in the Vt. Ma. line for 11 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Apl. 1833 and sent to R. Temple

Arrears to the 4th March 1833  $73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 18.33
$91.65
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 77
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The NEW TESTAMENT
of OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST
Translated out of the original Greek
and with the Former Translations
Diligently compared and revised.

Boston
Printed by Greenough & Stebbins
(illegible) Thomas and Andrews, J. West and Co. William Andrews, West and Blake, and Edward Cotton
1811
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Births
Mr. Willard Mann, Born August 24th 1758
Willard Mann died Sept. 29th 1835
Mrs. Mary Mann Born August 17th 1764
Sarah Mann Born September 17th 1783
Sarah Mann Died May 16th 1835
Mary Mann Born December 9th 1784
Nancy Mann Born May the18th 1786
N. M, Died August 11th 1822
Benjamin Mann Born March 25th 1788
Cyntha Mann Born December 21th 1789
Malinda Mann Born February 14th 1792
Fila Mann born October 13th 1793
David W. Mann born June 27th 1795
D. W. M. Died July 11 1795
Willard Mann Jr. Born October 30th 1796
Lucinda Mann Born October 21th 1798
Ebenezer Mann Born august 20th 1800
(illegible) died Dec. 20th 1831
David Mann Born June 29th 1802
Roswell Mann Born March 24th 1804
R. M. died July 14th 1822
Ira Mann born May 9th 1806
Nelson Mann Born September 16th 1808
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No. 2903
Willard Mann

officers not named 
for 3 mo. disallowed

Mv. t.

admd 
11 mo. pri & wagoner
$36.66
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BRIEF in the case of Willard Mann
of Rutland Co. in the State of Vermont
{Act 7th June, 1832}

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? Probate Court
2. If before  Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74 years almost
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period: In 1777
Duration of Service: 1 month
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he serve: capt. Earl, volunt. not attached to any regt.

Period: 1780 (he thinks Spring)
Duration of Service: enlisted for 9 served about 3 months & enlisted for 10 mos. in the wagon service & served that period under Genl. Poor
Rank:
Officers: Gen. Putnam, other officers forgotten

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Windsor Co. Vt.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so in what respect? Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Brown, Examining Clerk
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Willard Mann
No. 2903
14 mos.
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State of Vermont
Rutland County, SS.
On this 16 day of July a. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Probate Court of Rutland Jur. no sitting, Willard Mann a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 74 years ^almost, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath made 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 1777 he resided in Chester, county of Windsor Vermont, he volunteered when Burgoyne was at Crown point & marched to Ticonderoga in Capt. Earl's company was not attached to any Regt. & arrived there 4 or 5 days before that place was given up to the enemy. He retreated with his company to Hubberton & was there & within 40 rods of the battle, but was not called into action. After the battle the company marched to Chester & was dismissed after serving about one month. He about three years after this, he thinks in 1780 in the spring he was at New Rutland Massachusetts hired out to work for Francis Nurse & he went into service as a substitute for said Nurse & joined the army at Fishkill & enlisted for nine months thence to West Point where he served about three months to work on Fort Putnam, under Genl. Putnam, but has forgotten the names of his other officers. after serving as aforesd. about 3 months he was requested to go into the waggon department & he enlisted for ten months longer, & served that period under Genl. Poor & marched to Hartford, Connecticut, & back to West Point where he wintered. Genl. Nixon's Brigade also wintered there. He was discharged at West Point but has lost his discharge. he does not remember who signed it Genl. Rigley was Wagon master. He knows Genl. Washington, Putnam, Nixon & many others whose names he has forgotten. He has no documentary evidence & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. he was born at New Rutland Massachusetts the 24 of August 1758-his age is recorded in his Bible. He has lived in Chester aforesd. & in Ira in the county of Rutland, ever since the revolutionary war-he now lives in the latter place where he has lived about 14 years-he is known to the Rev. Joseph Packer of Ira & to most of the inhabitants there.
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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.
Willard Mann
his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year adoresaid.
R. C. Royce Regr.

We Joseph Packer a Clergyman residing in Ira and Willard Mann Jr. residing in the same place,  hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Willard Mann who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Joseph Packer
Willard Mann, Jr.
Sworn and subscribe the day and year aforesaid
R. C. Royce Regr. 

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 certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Packer who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Ira and that Willard Mann. Jr. who has also signed the same, is a resident in Ira and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Rodney C. Royce Regr. of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Willard Mann for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3d day of August A. d. 1832.
R. C. Royce, Regr.
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State of Vermonnt
Rutland CountySS
On this 26th day of March 1844 personally appeared before the undersined a Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland county & State aforesaid it being a Court of Record Mary Mann of Ira County & state aforesaid Aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Willard Mann who was a private in the Revolutionary War & drew a pension of 36 dollars 66 cents per anum to the (day of his death-crossed out) 4th Sept. A. D. 1834. she further declares that she was maried to the said Willard Mann in the Town of Glochester, State of Rhodeisland by Zebede Hopkins Esq. in Dec. in the year 1782. that her husband the aforesaid Willard Mann died on the 29th day of Sept. A. D. 1835 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed & that she never learned to write.
Mary Mann
her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. 
The words "day of his death" obliterated before signing.
Wm. Hall Judge.

The Probate Court
I William Hall Judge of the Probate Court do declare my opinion that Mary Mann who is described in and who executed the foregoing declaration is the Widow of Willard Mann who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner and who died on the 29th of Sept. A. D. 1835 and I the said Judge do certify that Mary Mann who executed the foregoing declaration is unable to appear in open Court to make her declaration for a pension on account of old age & Body infirmity & that she is a person of known credibility.
Wm. Hall Judge
of Probate Court in the District & State aforesaid.
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State of Vermont
District of Rutland ss
I Henry Hall Register of the Probate Court within & for the District of Rutland afsd. hereby certify that William Hall is the Judge of sd. Court & that his signatures above are genuine.
Given at Rutland in sd. District this 26th day of March A. D. 1844
Henry hall Register
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Rev. War Section
Record Division

Feb. 13, 1922

Winfield Scott Downs
2417 Clarendon Road
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sir:
In response to your letter of the 31" ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, Rejected File 8974, it appears that Willard Mann was born August 24, 1758, at New Rutland, Mass. and while living at Chester, Windsor County, Vermont he enlisted in 1777, and served as a private in Captain Earl's Vermont Company ^for one month. In the spring of 1780, he served for three or five months at West Point building Fort Putnam, after which he served for ten months as a waggoner. He was allowed pension on his application executed July 15, 1833 while living at Ira, Rutland Co., Vermont but upon a re-examination of his claim, his name was dropped from the pension roll as his service of one month in the Vermont troops was not sufficient to entitle him, six months actual military service being required by the pension laws and his service after the spring of 1780 not fulfilling that requirement.
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He married at Gloucester, Rhode Island in 1782, Mary Cook, and he died September 28, 1835. She was born August 17, 1784.
Their children were:
Sarah born September 17, 1783, died May 16, 1835
Mary born December 19, 1784
Nancy born May 18, 1786, died August 11, 1833
Benjamin born March 25, 1788
Cyntha born December 21, 1789
Malinda born February 14, 1792
Fila born October 13, 1793
David W. born June 27, 1795, died July 11, 1795 or 1798
Willard born October 30, 1796
Lucinda born October 21, 1798
Ebenezer born August 30, 1800 died December 30 1831
David born June 29, 1802
Roswell born March 24, 1804 Died July 14, 1833
Ira born May 9, 1806
Nelson born September 16, 1808

Very respectfully,
Washington Gardiner
Commissioner
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Rev.

Bureau of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Will you be so kind as to send me, at your earliest convenience the Revolutionay pension record of Willard Mann, private and waggoner, Vermont line, Rutland County, pensioned April 19, 1833.
I am particularly anxious to have any personal or family information that may be contained in the documents relating to his pension.
Thanking you for the courtesy and favor your reply will bestow, I am
Yours very truly,
Winfield Scott Downs (signature)
Winfield Scott Downs
2716 Clarendon Road
Brooklyn, New York
January 21, 1922

(stamped-U. S. Pension Office D Jan 23 1922)
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REJECTED
6874
Mary Mann
P O. 
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
application filed:
Alleges: the printed list of 1852 as: "Not Military Service"
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.  (missing text)
Cert. of dis. Searched for:

1922 Feb. 13 Hist. to Winfield S. Downs  aw
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6172
Mary Mann
Vt.
Rejected
let. to John Ross. 26th Sept. 1844

68704
Act July 4th '36
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6172 April 20 1844
Vt.
Mary Man
4 July 1836
Willard

Line Vt.
April 16 1844

Mr. J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
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Ira April 15th 1844

Mr. Edwards
Sir please to examine those papers in the case of Mary Mann relative to her drawing a pension under the Act of 1836. Should there be further proof required please to inform me by letter of the same and in what respect & much oblige.
Respectfully yours
John Ross Agent

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Please Direct to Ira, Rutland Co. Vermont
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Pension Office
Sept. 26, '44

Sir
The papers in the case of Mary Mann widow of Willard Mann claiming a pension under the act of July 7th 1838 have been examined and filed. The proof of the date of the marriage is not sufficient. The Town or Church records would furnish the best evidence and extracts therefrom should be produced & properly authenticated. The alleged service cannot be allowed. The mere fact of being employed as a teamster does not constitute the ground of a person. The party must have been regularly enlisted in the corps of teamsters or detailed as an enlisted soldier on the wagon service. (crossed out-The claim is rejected) As it is clear that he was neither enlisted or detailed as Teamster, no allowance can be made for that employment & his service as a soldier is not sufficient to entitle her.
John Ross Esq.
Ira Vt. 
6172 Act 4th July '36
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Messr. Brown & Hopkins
Feb. 25 1835
S.C.

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Ira (illegible)
July 25th 1835

Gent.
Unless the services claimed by Willard Mann can be proved by the rolls in the office of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts at Boston or other satisfactory evidence the payment of his allowance cannot be resumed; as his original declaration as well as his late statement present a very doubtful claim as to the extent of actual military service.

Messr. Brown & Hopkins
Rutland Vt.
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Agreeably to instructions from the Pension office addressed to the Hon. William Slade on the 17 Jany. 1835 I make the following statement corresponding as near as I can recollect with my original declaration.
I served five months under Genl. Poor at Fishkill and at West Point. and then engaged for two months as the waggoner under Capt. Nigley and served out my time. Soon after my time as a waggoner was out I went with the militia in Capt. Earl's company to Ticonderoga and from that place went to Hubbardton and was in the battle at the latter place and at this time I served one month-- during the above services I resided at what was the called New Rutland Massachusetts. I went from New Rutland as a volunteer and then joined the army for five months. I served in the whole including my service in the waggon departments sixteen months.
Resided at Ira in the County of Rutland Vt. when I made application for a pension and I believe my declaration was made before Robert Pierpoint Esq. then Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Rutland.
The amount of my pension per annum is thirty six Dollars 66 cents and I was paid up to the 4th Sept. last.
Very Respectfully 
Your obt. Servt.
Willard Mass
his X mark

Signed by the said Willard Mann with who I am personally acquainted in my presence.
A. L. Brown
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P.S. After the foregoing was written and upon further recollection the applicant who is quite infirm says that he first inlisted for nine months and after five months service in the rans he engaged in the waggon department.
A. L. Brown

address Brown & Hopkins
Rutland Vt.
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On this the 2d day of April A. D. 1844 personaly appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Rutland State of Vermont Willard Mann of Ira County and State aforesaid aged 47 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose & say that he is the the son of Willard & Mary Mann and that the Records which the leaf that is hereunto anexed contains was placed uppon the said leaf  upwards of twenty five years ago by himself at the request of his father & mother aforesaid that the said leaf which contains the said records has always been preserved with the family Bible as the family and only Records up to the present time. that the said Bible has always remained in his father & mother's possession that he tore the said leaf from the said Bible with his own hands and that the said Mary Mann who is described in the said Records as having been born August 17th 1764 is the identical person who is the applicant for a pension that she still remains the widow of Willard Mann who was a private in the Revolutionary war & a pensioner and who died in the said town of Ira on the 29th day of Sept. 1835. That he knows of no record by which said Mother can prove her marriage.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
Before me Pardon W. Wilkinson 
Justice of the Peace
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6172
Mary Mann Vt.
Act 4th July '36

Pardon W. Wilkinson a Justice of the peace do certify that Willard Mann who executed the foregoing deposition is a person of known credibility.
Pardon W. Wilkinson
Justice of the Peace


State of Vermont
Rutland County Clerk's Office
(Seal)

I Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Pardon W. Wilkinson Esquire, was, at the date of the Certificate to which this is attached, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified to take depositions and that I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of court at Rutland in said County this third day of April anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
F. W. Hopkins
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State of Vermont
Winsor County ss

On this 5th day of April 1844 personaly appeared Before the undersined a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid Ebenezer Cook of the Town of Reading County & State aforesaid aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose & say that he is the brother of Mary Mann who is the widow of Willard Mann who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner and died in the Town of Ira County of Rutland and State aforesaid on the 29th day of Sept. 1835. that in Glochester 1782 he was presant at his sister Mary's Wedding and saw his sister Mary aforesaid & Willard Mann stand up and he hears Zebede Hopkins Esq. pronounce the Marriage ceremony which constituted them husband & wife. That he knows the aforesaid Willard & Mary lived together as husband and Wife & were known as such at least twenty five years and that the within described Mary Mann is the identical person who is the applicant for a pension further the deponent saith not.
Ebenezer Cook
Before me Benoni Buck Justice of the Peace

I Benoni Buck do certify that Ebenezer Cook who executed the foregoing Deposition is a man of know credibility.
Benoni Buck Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County, ss.
I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vemont, do hereby certify that Benoni Buck is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31 day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the certificate hereto attached is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 6th day of April A. D. 1844.
N. Williams, Clerk
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Name: Mann, William
Grade: Private
Line: Maryland
Warrant Number 11481
Acreage 100
Issued July 17, 1792
to--not shown

*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.