Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,584, Massanello Womack, Va.
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Va. Womack, Massanello  S.16,584

Carded
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6060.
Kentucky.
Massanello Womack
of Spencer C.o. in the State of Kentucky, who was a Sergt in the company commanded by Captain -- of the -- commanded by -- in the Va State line for two years.
under B. Gaines, Commissary

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 120 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 21. day of Feby 1833 and Handed to Hon. R. M. Johnson

Arrears to 4th day of Sept 32 - 180
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 Mar 1833    60
                                                               $240

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book D. Vol. 9 Page 66.
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State of Kentucky, ss.
County of Spencer       On this 10th day of September 1832. Personally appeared in open Courts before the Justices of the County Court of Spencer County now sitting, Massanello Womack, a resident in the County of Spencer and State of Kentucky age of Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress passed June 7th 1832. that in the year 1776. he does not recollect the month but thinks it was in September he was drafted in the County of Charlotte State of Virginia for a three month long in the malitia of said State in the Revolutionary War and furnished Stephen Neale as a substitute, who served out the full tour but does not recollect the names of any of the Officers who commanded while said Neale was in service. also that he volunteered as a Sergeant for a three month tour in the malitia in the County of Cumberland and State of Virginia in the month of January 1781. under Richard Allen as his Captain, was marched toward the South, and was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse fought on the 15th day of March 1781. under General Greene as Commander in Chief, he recollects that Major Tucker, Colonels, Henry Skipwith, Beverly Randolph, and General Lanson were in the aforesaid battle, and was discharged at Ramsey Mills on Deep river in the State of North Carolina on the 3rd day of April 1781. from the aforesaid tour, also that in a few weeks after, Say, in the month of May 1781. he enlisted for and during the war and served until its termination and was placed in the commissary Department under Barnett Gaines that he continued in this service until the Continental Army was disbanded which he thinks was in April 1783. but does not recollect where, he states he does not know what has become of his discharges if he received written discharges of which he has no doubt, he has lost them. or they have fallen to victim to time, and that he knows of no persons, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services
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he states that he was born on the 24th day of May 1751 in the County of Cumberland and State of Virginia, has a record of his age taken by himself from the original record kept by his father, does not know where the original is, that he moved from Cumberland to Charlotte County Virginia in the year 1775. and from thence moved back to the County of Cumberland in 1777. and there lived until 1783 and thence moved to the County of Prince Edward Virginia and there lived 34 years from thence he moved to the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky in the year 1817 and has lived in Shelby County Spencer County ever since and now resides in Spencer County Kentucky.
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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Massanello Womack 
We Pleasant Paris a clergyman residing in the County of Spencer and James W. Beckham residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Massanello Womack who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty of years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Pleasant Paris
James W Beckham
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 he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Pleasant Paris who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the County of Spencer and that James W. Beckham
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who has signed the same is a resident in the County of Spencer and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Raphael Lancaster clerk of the County Court of Spencer County in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Massanello Womack for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of County Court Office this 10th day of September 1832. In the 41st year of the Commonwealth
Raphael Lancaster Clk
Spencer Cty
State of Kentucky 
Spencer County        Personally appeared before and [illegible] a Justice of the Peace for the County of Spencer in the State of Kentucky Massanello Womack who being duly sworn deposeth and saith by way of amendment to this his declaration that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively whether he received written discharges from his services aforesaid or not, if he did they are lost, that from the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades that for three months, I furnished a substitute as a private soldier in the year 1776. For three months in the year 1781. Served as a Sergeant in the Virginia volunteers for one year and Eleven months + enlisted + served as assistant commissary in the Virginia State troops. + for such Service I claim a pension. The said Massanello Womack states upon oath that he is known to Pleasant Paris a clergyman and James W. Beckham residents in his present neighborhood who can testify and who have testified as to his the said Massanello Womacks character for veracity, and who can testify and who have testified as to their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution. the said Massanello Womack farther states. that he is well known to one John Strange + has been for the last sixty five years by whom he believes he can prove his actual services within the periods from May 1787. to April 1783. as a commissary in the army of the Revolution that from the length of time since that period those who were engaged in Service + inlisted with him have been scattered or have
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departed this life, that he is unable to say, whether he can prove any other living witness his enlistment + actual service as afs.d nor does he think the Department all this time should require it, as it amount, almost is an impossibility he repeats the fact that he did enlist and serve and was discharged as he states in his Declaration to which his amendment. January 30th 
Massanello Womack
Subscribed Sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid
Thos Newman Justice of the Peace Spencer Cnty
State of Kentucky,
Spencer County . . I Raphael Lancaster Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Thomas Newman whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate + before whom the foregoing amended Declaration of Massanello Womack was subscribed and sworn to, is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to Law; and legally empowered to administer oaths. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Thomas Newman Esq and know his signature above signed to be genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said County as Taylorsville the 30th day of January 1833. In the 41st year of the Commonwealth 
Raphael Lancaster Clk
Spencer Cty
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[printed] information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. [written] Massanello Womack S.F. 16 584

[printed] Dats of Enlistment or Appointment / Length of Service / Rank / Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered // Captain // Colonel // State

[written] Jan'y 1781 / 3 mos. / Sgt / Richard Allen / (checkmark) / Va.

May 1781 / 1 yr 11 mos. / Asst. Commissary / Barnett Gaines / (checkmark)

[p] Battles engaged in, [w] Guilford
[p] Residence of soldier at enlistment, [w] Cumberland Co. Va.
[p] Date of application for pension, [w] Sept. 10 1832 His cl. al.
[p] Residence at date of application, [w] Spencer Co. Ky.
[p] Age at date of application, [w] b. May 24, 1751 in Cumberland Co. Va. 
[p] Remarks: No data as to family
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Mr. R. S. Fitzgerald
2702 E. Broad St.
Richmond
Va
Send record of Massanello Womack. Va S.16584 to above
(printed) APR 25 1912
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Admit for 2 yrs
as Serg from
1781. under Barnett
Gaines Commissary
M W Va Mal line
$120 p anm
Col. R. M. Johnson
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16.584
[printed] INVALID
File No. 16.584
Massanello Womack
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 416
[Typed and in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.
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Mch. 5/96 Soldier Pension
Hon. E. Womack, CC De
1912 apr. 30 Hist. + Mrs. 
R.S. Fitzgerald S.L.M.
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Massanello Womack
Spencer Co Ky
Admt [crossed out] 22md asst Com] $
2 yr Sergt. 120
24
Va [smeared and illegible] [crossed out] Corps] line
from 1781- 
$120.00
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Spencer
The affidavit of John Strange taken before me Thoman Newman and a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. This affiant states that he is Seventy three years of age that he is well acquainted with Massanello Womack of the County of Spencer and State aforesaid and has known him for the last sixty five years, this affiant lived a neighbour to said Massanello Womack in the County of Cumberland and State of Virginia for Eleven years. This affiant was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. he states he knew Barnett Gaines who was a commissary in the Army of the Revolution in the Virginia line. he cannot state where Massanello Womack inlisted not being present at the time he was inlisted, but he knows he was inlisted, as he saw him frequently engaged in actual service as assistant commissary in the Army of the Revolution in the years 1781 and 1782 and he recollects that Robert Smith, William Guthrie, Joseph Coleman, William Amos + Byrd Smith were assistant commissarys and engaged at the same time in actual service with the aforesaid Massanello Womack he states that he does not know where the above named Robert Smith, William Guthrie, Joseph Coleman, William Amos + Byrd Smith now live, or whether they are living at all they having moved long since from Virginia in different parts of the United States. + this 
affidavit moved from Virginia to Kentucky in the fall of or winter of 1807. this affiant was not present when Massanello Womack was discharged from the service aforesaid but he knows + states is as a fact, that he was engaged in actual service as an assistant commissary in the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution for he saw him frequently in actual service in the years 1781 and 1782 and engaged in gathering cattle + other provisions
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for the Army. heard his inlistment spoken of frequently and it was a matter of notoriety in the Army. and has no more doubt, but that he was inlisted + served as he states in his Declaration than he has of existence, altho this affiant was not present either at the time of his the said Massanello Womack's enlistment or discharge. he this affiant being a private soldier in the malitia. Given under my hand this 20th day of January 1833.
his John +Strange mark

Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Spencer
I Thomas Newman a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid in the State of Kentucky do certify that the foregoing affidavit of John Strange was subscribed and sworn to before me by said John Strange on the day of the date thereof. I further certify that the aforesaid John Strange is well known to me, that he is a man of credibility and respectability and that he is entitled to entire + full credit when upon oath. Given under my hand this 30th day of January 1833.
Thos. Newman

State of Kentucky
Spencer County        I Raphael Lancaster Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Thomas Newman Esquire whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned + qualified according to law. and legally empowered to administer oaths. I further certify that Sam well acquainted with the hand writing of said Thomas Newman Esq. and know his signature above to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the Scale of my said County as Taylorsville the 30th day of January 1833. In the 41st year of the commonwealth
Raph. Lancaster Clk
Spencer County