Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37207, for Broadstreet Mason, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.

Mason, Broadstreet

NUMBER
S. 37207
B.L.Wt 998-100
CONTENTS
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Notification sent to William Crosby 21 Oct 1820
Date of death not on A.B. Belfast Maine

9883
Maine
Broadstreet Mason
of      in the state of
who was a private in the regiment commanded  by
Colonel Cilley of the N. Hamp
line, for the term of 2 yrs & 8 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11 of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of April, 18
and sent to Wm Cosby Esqr
Belfast
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819               86.36
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48-
                                                          $134.36
10 mo 20/30 4/31

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Continued
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HANCOCK, ss.
On the eleventh day of April A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of
Common Pleas in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington
and Penobscot: Personally appeared Broadstreet Mason
who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and
declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, in order to obtain the provision made
by the late act of Congress, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war."

And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Bradstreet
Mason did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration
, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce,
I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of
the aforementioned act of Congress.

IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court
to be hereto affixed by Mason Lhea Esquire, Clerk of said Court 
for said County of Hancock.

William Crosby Judge [illegible]
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Broadstreet Mason
private Col. Cylleys Regt
New Hampshire Line 1779-
to 1783- dec. 11th April 1818
2 yrs: 8 Mos
Roll


Admitted
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I Broadstreet Mason of Munroe in the County of
[illegible] in the District of Maine on oath do
say and desire that some time in the year
1779 I enlisted into the service of the United States
in the tests and revolutionary war as a private soldier
for and during the war and in June or July
of the same year was embodied at Wyoming in
Pensylvania in Cap Noth Hutchings Company
in the 1c Regiment Newhampshire line
commanded by Col Joseph Cylley and served in said
com and Regiment about one years was then
transferred into Capt Emerson company in the same
same Regt in which I served about one year
was then transfered into a company of infantry
commanded by Capn Munroe then went to
the south [illegible] under the Marguis Des LaFayette
and was at the seige and taking of Yorktown
and Cornwall - afterwards joined Col Cylleys
Regt still in Capt Munroe company at Saratoga
and was honorable discharged at Newbury
after the peace in June 1783. But Lance
lost my discharge


I further say that I am now poor and
stand in need of the assistance of my country for
my support.

Broadstreet Mason
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Broadstreet Mason
No 9883

Munroe

Con

Apl 19
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STATE OF MAINE.
At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun
and holden at Castine within and for the County
of Hancock on the second day of July
A. D. 1820.

Hancock SS

On this Eleventh day of July 1820, being
the first day of said term, personally appeared in open court, being a
court of record by the laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Broadstreet
Mason aged 58 years, resident in Monroe in
said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that
he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: as a private and non
commissioned officer during the war from 1779 was first
embodied in Capt Hutchins Company in Col. Jos. Cylley
Regiment in the Newhampshire line
of all which I made declaration before the Honorable Judge Crosby
the eleventh day of April 1818, and have received my pension
certificate therefor, No. 9. 883 and I do
solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen in the United States on the eighteenth day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time,
by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof,
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of
Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the eighteenth day
of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any
person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have
I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me
subscribed.
Broadstreet Mason

Sworn to and declared on the eleventh day of July A.D. 1820 before
the Court
Attest Mason Newblish
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(Schedule) I Broadstreet Mason on oath say and declare that
I have no real or personal estate nor any income whatever
only necessary Bedding, and wearing apparel excepted
Except a Note of hand against Broadstreet Mason Junior
for forty eight dollars                                                                           $48."
one Cow a yearling heifer on Seven of pigs
 4 Sheep one horse 1 1/2 tons of hay                                                  $20
household furniture and farming utensels worth
little or nothing I owe more than $300
I am a  Farmer but extremely infirm and unable to
Labour I have no children under age my wife is very
infirm I cannot Support myself without public
or private charity

Broadstreet Mason
Hancock ss State of Maine
I, MASON SHAW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the
Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Hancock and State of Maine, do hereby certify
that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the
said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
schedule, is one hundred fourteen dollars and --cents,

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this twentieth day of July
A. D. 1820.

Mason Shaw Clerk
of the said Court for the County of Hancock
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August 17, 1935
XXXXXX

BROADSTREET MASON
S. 337207
BA-J/MLB

Dr. B. Henry Mason
Waterbury Hospital
Waterbury, Connecticut
Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of August 8, in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Broadstreet Mason.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file
in pension claim, S. 87207, based upon the Revolutionary War
service of Broadstreet Mason.

The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his
parents are not shown.

Broadstreet Mason enlisted, place not stated, in June or July,
1779, served as a private in Captain Nathaniel Hutchins' company,
Colonel Joseph Cilley's 1"" New Hampshire Regiment, was transferred
to Captain Emerson's company, same regiment and was at the siege
of Yorktown and the taking of Cornwallis, was then transferred
to Captain Monro's company and served until peace was declared
in 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11
1818, while a resident of Monroe, Hancock County, Maine.

In 1820 the soldier was aged fifty-eight years and still
residing in Monroe, Maine; at that time he referred to his wife
and stated that he had no children under age but did not state
the number nor give names; he referred to Broadstreet Mason,
Junior, but did not give his relationship.


Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[handwritten in margin]
rearrange Captains and
Regt next time
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WATERBURY HOSPITAL
WATERBURY, CONN.

B. HENRY MASON, M. D.
SUPERINTENDENT

August 8, 1933.


Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:

About the middle of the eighteenth century, one of my
ancestors, Broadstreet Mason, moved from New Hampshire to a
plantation in Maine later known as Mason's Mills, now known as
the town of Monroe. I am anxious to determine the place of his
residence in New Hampshire in order to establish the family there
in connection with work which we are doing on our family tree.

It occurred to me that his records in your office in connection
with his enlistment in the Revolutionary War would give me
the desired information. His son or grandson, Broadstreet Mason,
also enlisted from the town of Monroe at the time of the Civil 
War.
.
Thanking you in advance for any information which would be of
value to me, I remain

Yours very truly

B. Henry Mason
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1933, Aug. 17 - Hist. to Dr. B. Henry
Mason

37207
INVALID
Revy

File No, 37,207
Broadstreet Mason
Priv Rev War

Act 18 March 18

Index:- Vol 2, Page 272

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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April 10th 1818
We the subscribers Selectmen and overseers of the
poor of the Town of Monroe in the County of
Hancock and District of Main do hereby certify
that Broadstreet Mason formaly a Soldier in
late revolutionary war is a resident citizen of
United States and an inhabitant of this Town and
that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life
stands in need of the assistance of his country for
support and that in our opinion he is well
intitled to the relief provided by the late law for
the necessiated survivors of the army and navy of the
late revolutionary war
Ezra Thysel
Hosea Emery
Joseph Nealy
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-998-
Broadstreet Mason
private
New Hampshire line

Warrantised Augt 8th 1821

Willian Neale

[following upside down]

Broadstreet Mason priv,
New Hampshire line
claim for land bounty 
ipd No. 998
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Know all men by these presents that I Robert C. Vose
the attorney named in the within instrument do hereby
substitute and appoint Wm  O Neale sent of the City of Washington
District of Columbia my true and lawful substitute with
Similar and like powers given me by the within named
Broadstreet Mason, Hereby ratify and confirming whatsoever
my said substitute may do or cause to be done for me in the
premises - Given under my hand seal this twenty eighth day
of July Eighteen hundred & twenty one Robert C. Rose seal
Signed in presence of ⎬
John Davis
Geo. W. Stickney
⎬
[illegible] July 8th 1821. Robert C. Vose above named
Personally appeared and acknowledge the above instrument
by him signed to be as free act and deed
Before me John Davis Just. Peace


State of Maine

[illegible]

the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courtss, within and for
said County and also a Justice of the peace [illegible] of the quorum within and for
the same, hereby certifies that Bradman Johnson Esquire, before whom the above
proceedings were had is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Hancock in
in said state. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the County
Seal, this twenty eighth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and twenty one
John Davis
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for 20.799
State of Maine
County of Hancock

I Broadstreet Mason
aged sixty years, a citizen of the United States, do, that, in the year one
thousand seven hundred seventy none enlisted in the army
for the term of "during the War" and served in the 
company commanded by Captain Monroe and in the
regiment No. first under the command of Colonel-
Joseph Silley of the New Hampshire line, and that
I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war,
in seventeen hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly
discharged from the said regiment,
 by the commander thereof
My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot
produce it to corroborate the above statement - I further
declare that I have never received a warrant for the
bounty land promised to me on the part of the United 
States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred any
claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever
Therefore Know all men by these presents That I
Broadstreet Mason aforesaid, do hereby constitute and
appoint Robert C Vose of Augusta of the County of Kennebec
and State of Maine Esq to be my true and lawful
attorney, for me and in my name to demand and
receive from the secretary of war of the United States,
or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and
deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity of land due
to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance
therefore and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized
and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more
substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes
above expressed.

Broadstreet Mason

Witness B Johnson
Henry Gage
Personally appeared the above named Bradstreet Mason ┃
subscriber to the foregoing declaration who made oath to
the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power
of attorney, thereto subjoined to be his full act and Deed
Before me
Bordman Johnson Just Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND RECORD CARD*

NAME Mason, Caleb GRADE    LINE Maryland
WARRANT
NUMBER- 1494 ACERAGE 150 ISSUED 5-18- 1790 to Issacher Mason, Admr.
No papers.

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.