Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34, for Eneas Munson, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn. 
Continental
Munson, Eneas
NUMBER   S.34
B.L. Wt. 1387-300-Surgns Mate
Issued May 31, 1791
No Papers
Carded
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32.253 
Connecticut
Eneas Munson 
of New Haven in the State of Conn  who was a surg mate [surgeon’s mate] Ar’d Are in the Com [company] commanded  by Captain  -  of the reg [regiment] commanded by -  in the Revy War line for 
17 mo. 20 days Artillery Continental
10 days Infantry Conn
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. the rate of 524 Dollars 16 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Dec 1844 and sent to Hon J M Niles, U. S. Senate 
Arrears to the 4th of – 
Semi-anl. allowance ending – 
{Revolutionary Claim, June 12 1832. }    
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book E 2   Vol 3 Page 28 
[unreadable]  Since Mar. 4. 1831 under the act of May 15 1828 to be deducted 
Repo.  See Let 12 Dec. ‘44 
G. Robinson 12th Feby 1855. 
Hon C. M. Ingersol Feby 20 1853 
G. Robinson Mch. 23 / 53.
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Power of Attorney – 
Revolutionary Pension Claims 
Know all men by these presents that we Alfred S. Monson and Charles Monson only surviving children of Eneas Monson late of New Haven deceased, Surgeon in the Army of the American Revolution, hereby constitute and appoint Geo: Robinson of the City of Hartford our true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim on account of the services of Aneas Monson deceased as a Surgeon in the war of the Revolution, for any amount of Revolutionary pension or increase of pension that may be due, and we hereby authorize the said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive  the Certificate which may be issued for said claim said Certificate being made payable to our own order only to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that we might or could do were we personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said Attorney and gent shall law fully do in the premises. Witness our hands and seals this 10th day of January A.D. 1855 
Alfred S. Monson
Chs Monson
Signed & sealed in presence of  
James D. Budington  
James Olmstead  
State of Connecticut 
County of New Haven } ss 
On this 10th day of Jan A.D. 1855 before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Alfred S Monson and Charles Monson and acknowledged the foregoing Power
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attorney to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid 
James Olmstead Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut. 
I Oliver H Perry - Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That James Olmstead was  from the fourth day of July A.D. 1854, to the fourth day of July A. D. 1850, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of New Haven in said State, duly appointed and commissioned, having full posed and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same ; also to administer Oath, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give in cates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations. And I further Certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said James Olmsted to be genuine.   
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Harford, this 10 of day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five 
O. H Perry Secretary of State
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Revolutionary Claims
[A.] Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers. 
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Eneas Munson of New Haven in the county of New Haven in the State of Connecticut do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such*  to the end of the war & was discharged at West point in June AD. 1783 having served for the three last years of the Revolutionary war.  
during  which period I was a Surgeon's mate in the regiment of the Connecticut line commanded in a regiment commanded by Col. Zebulon Butler & in one other regiment commanded by Heman Swift, Saml B Webb & under the last Col was discharged at the end of the war
And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of my full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780. 
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1826, nothing.   
Witness my hand, this 15 day of April in the year 1829 Eneas Munson  
Before me, Ebenezer Seely in the county of New Haven  in the State of Connecticut personally appeared this day  Capt John Miles and Lieut Nathan Beers &  Henry Daggett of said New Haven, officers in the Revy War  of the said county, who did severally make oath that Eneas  Munson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated that we know the 
Same having served with him in the same war.
Witness my hand, this 15th of April in the year 1829  
Ebenezer Seeley Justice of the peace 
I Jn Beach Clerk of the Court of the county of New Haven in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that  Ebenezer Seely Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this 15 day 
April 1829
Jn Beach Clk 
Here insert To the end of the war, or (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement. 
Here insert the sum of dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of, If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted. 
A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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Haven County, New Haven April 15, 1829 
I Eneas Munson within named depose and say that in the year ‘27. I was appointed Surgeon to the Regiment commanded by Col. David Humphrey, that my commission signed by Dr Cochran & 1 Doctor James Crack Surgeon & Physician General to the American army, and countersigned by Gener, Geo. Washington, was burnt by a fire which happened at Springfield in the State of Massachusetts or otherwise destroyed, which circumstance is no otherwise susceptible of proof but my own oath, the companions of  the Regiment in which I served being all deceased.  witness my hand in New Haven day & date above mentioned, the full pay for my services in the revolutionary war was forty five Dollars per month.   
Eneas Munson
State of Connecticut
City & County of New Haven  
15. 1829 personally appeared Munson & made solemn oath due form of law to the above affidavit by him subscribed before me Ebenezer Seeley Justice Peace
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from 30 Sept 80 to 19 and 82 the pay was forty five dollars
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State of Connecticut   
County of New Haven }  ss New Haven Decr 4th 1844 
On this 4th day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before Dennis Kimberly a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Eneas Munson who being first Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase or allowance on the pension granted to him under the act of  Congress passed the 15th of May 1828.   
That he was pensioned under said act at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum and for the proof of his services he refers to the proof & papers on file at the Pension Dept at Washington.   That he commenced service us Surgeons mate under Coln Heman Swift on the 1st of Sept 1781 and continued in service under various officers until the close of the Revolutionary War as will appear by the proof whom to by the proof above referred.   He further declares that at some period of his service (the particular time not now recollected) from his advanced age which is now eighty two  he received and was paid at the rate of forty five dollars per month and he now claims that resolve of Congress passed in Sept. 1784 that
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Surgeons Mate of the Army were allowed and paid forty five dollars per month and upon the principles of Justice and equity he now claims that amount to be allowed in his pension before referred to.   Eneas Munson 
Sworn and Subscribed to on the day and year first and before mentioned and I further certify that I am personally and intimately acquainted with the declarent and that he is a person of high standing in the Society and neighborhood that he resides in and that his statements are entitled to full credit. 
Dennis Kimberly Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut  
Office of Secretary of State ss}  
I hereby certify that at a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at New Haven on the first Wednesday of May 1844, Dennis Kimberly Esq, was duly appointed and Commissioned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of New Haven, that his said Commission will expire on the 20th day of June AD 1845 and that I believe the foregoing to be his genuine Signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford this 5th day of December AD 1844 
Danl L. Tyler 
Secretary of State
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Hartford Jany 11th 1855 
Dear Sir
I enclose herewith a Power of Attorney from Alfred S. & Charles Munson, only surviving children of Aneas Monson [Eneas Munson] deceased, for the purpose of obtaining an increase of the Pension which their father drew, on account  of his services as Surgeons Mate in the  war of the Revolution. 
The said Aneas Monson [Eneas Munson] was pensioned as Surgeons Mate under Act of 15th May 1828 at $480 per annum, and said pension was increased under act of June 7th 1832 to $524 17/100 pr ann. as Surgeons mate Inf & artillery.   
Doctor Monson was in service  to the 30th of September 1780, and continued in service until the close of the war. From an examination of the case I am led to believe that the pension
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should have been increased to $540. per annum and that the children are entitled to claim the increase from $524 17/100 to $540. from the of March 1831 to 22 Aug. 1852 when the said Monson died.   
The case of David Allen who was a Surgeons mate in the Connecticut Roll of the Army, was increased Jan. 8th 1852 to $540 and the case of Doct, Monson  appears to me to be precisely similar to that of David Allen.   
Will you have the kindness to look into this matter, and if you find the facts as I have stated, please direct a certificate to be made and sent to me for the balance which may be due.   
I am sir very truly and respectfully yours, 
Geo. Robinson
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Eneas Munson Surgeons Mate 1 Sept. 1780, in [unreadable]  “81” Col. Swifts Regt. 
Arrangement Nov. 1778
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Amt of orginal payment 93 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
18 April 1829. 
Eneas Munson of New Haven in the County of in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such until the end of the war, at which period he was a surgeons mate in Col. Webb's regiment of the Connecticut line; and further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary, 
F A Dickens 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
22nd April 1829  
It further appears that Eneas Munson is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not  been since the 3 March 1826
It appears from the Revolutionary records in this office, that Eneas Munson served to the end of the War, as Surgeons Mate of  the Connecticut line - See former reports as to Surgeons Mates  not having been considered as entitled to commutation 
Peter Hagner Aud.
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West Hartford County
January 28th 1844}  
Free
Hon Thomas H. Seymour 
Member of Congress 
Washington D.C.
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West Hartford June 28th 1844 
My Dr Sir
I fear I shall burthen you with more of my business then you know how to attend to with your other duties, & I will indeavour to render it is easy to you as possible.    
I now send you a power of atty from Doct Munson of New Haven to ask the Comm of Pensions to increase his pension from 480 Dol which he now receives to 600 Dols which he claims he is entitled to from the late decision of the Pension Dept. The decision was grounded upon the import of the law of 1832 which says that no officer shall receive a higher rate of  pay in his pension than that was allowed  a capt in the Rev war & it has been decided that a Capt of Artillery or Cavalry recd 50 Dol per month or 600 Dol per annum.   It therefore it appears by the Journals of Congress fixing the rate of pay of officers & soldier of the Revolutionary war that Surgeons Mate recd 50 Dols for the monthly pay they are entitled to it in their pension.  
You can simply send the power of atty of Doct Munson to the Comm of Pensions with a note to him saying that he claim the increase from 480 Dol to 600 or upon the ground that Surgeons mates were all owed 50 Dolls per month in the Rev War which but he will indeavour to substantiate if required.   
The case of Saml. H. Phillips he was pensioned first at 320 Dols (I think) and about a year since obtained a small increase on it & raised it up to 400 Dolls per annum. He was pensioned in an ass’t  Commissary & if 2 yrs service is established the heirs are entitled to claim an increase from 400 Dols to 600 Dols from March 4th 1831 to the day of Sam H Phillips death the 27th of Feby 1835.   Proof of his service can undoubtedly be found in the State Dept & if you can get Mr. Sylvester to make an examination you offer him 3 or 4 per cent on the amt that may be recovered,   
You can hand the power of atty & the certificate of  the Court of Probate to Mr Sylvester with a note
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you to the Comm of Pensions requesting to give Mr Sylvester an order on the State to make an examination for the services of Saml H. Phillips as a Commissary &c your father was well acquainted with Phillips he formerly resided in Sunbury & has often spoken of him to me as serving as a clerk simply & he thought he was as well intitled a pension as Phillips.  
I presume Mr Sylvester would be glad of the opportunity to assist you in the case provided there is a prospect of his making something out of it & you must make such in offer as he will be satisfied with.   
Doct Beardsley of Milford obtained both cases & is to have a share of the profits if there should be any thing arising out of them.  
If Doct. Munson can prove that he recd 50 Dols per month in Specie value when in service the comm will have to allow it to him in his pension.   
I have written to Doct. Beardsly to have him assert in that part of Doct Munson & I may send you on such proof.   
Please say in your next what you have done with the case I have sent to you &c &c. 
The weather has been as cold here for 4 or 5 days as I ever know it. There is nothing new  in the city worth mentioning.   
I am with much respect &c &c 
Benj Colton
Hon T. H. Seymour 
MC Washington
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Act 1828 Settled at Treasury 
Consolidated with Invalid file #34
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New Haven April 15th, 1829 
Honor C Sam D. Ingham 
Sir 
Inclosed I send you my claim as a revolutionary Pensioner as Surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War.  If any informally should arise in this Document please inform me and I will  endeavour to conform to your regulations.  The payment will be acceptable in a draft on New Haven Bank of the Branch Bank in New York.   
I am Sir Respectfully your Obt Svt 
Eneas Munson
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35817 
Eneas Munson 
Con 
Act 7 June 1832 
Adm [admitted]  
17 mo 20 days Surg Mate of Artillery  397.50
4 mo 10 days Surg mate of Infantry     126.66 
$524.16 
deducting what has been paid at the rate of $480 per annum under the act of 15 May 1828, from 4 March 1831 
Hon J. M Niles Senate State
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J L. Edwards Esqr 
 Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington Dury 1844 
Sir
I send you the Petition of Dr. Eneas Munson which has been forwarded to me, for an error of his pension as a Surgeon's mate in the revolutionary war.   
I have respectfully to call your mention to the case & hope the additional allowance will be made if he is Justly entitled to it.   I may call soon see you on the subject.   
Yours truly 
Jno M. Niles
J. L. Edwards 
Comr of  Pensions
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House of Reps 
Feb 15 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington
Dr Sir 
A constituent wants me to know whether the monies belonging to Dr Eneas Munson. (a Rev Pensioner) of N Haven Ct or his heirs have been paid once by the Govt - not knowing how to find out the fact, I thought your Dept might put me in the posession of the facts that I might communicate them to the parties interested.   
Very Resp 
Your Obt Svt 
C M Ingersol
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35817 
Eneas Munson 
Con 
Act 7 June 32 
H. H. Sylvester Present
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35817 
Eneas Munson 
Con 
Act 7 June 32 
H. H. Sylvester Present
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Feby 7 1844 
Sir
I enclose some papers handed to me by the Hon T. T. Seymour they relate to the application of Eneas Munson, and Law H Phillips dec‘d for an increase of pension. Be pleased to place them on your files & grant them as early attention as may be proper.  In the mean time you will oblige me by addressing a note to the Secy of State. asking for such information as the Archives in his Depart may have touching the services of the person above named.   
I am  Respectfully 
Hon H. H Sylvester 
Hon JL Edwards 
Comm Pension
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Hartford Conn. Feb. 23d 1855 
Sir:
Your favor of the 12th ult. in relation to the application made by me, for an increase of pension on account of the services of Doct Eneas Munson, in the war of the Revolution has been received, in which you state that Doct. Munson was pensioned as a Surgeons mate of artillery and has been paid more than he was entitled to receive. Doct. Munson did not serve in a Regt. of Artillery and the am informed that he never claimed that he did.  If it so entered on your books, it must have been done so through an error. 
The claim for an increase, is founded on the act of  Congress of 30th September 1780, granting to Surgeons Mates of Infantry and Cavalry, pay at the rate of $45 per month.   Doct. Munson was in service on the 30th of Sept 1780, and continued in service until the close of the war.   
The pension of David Allen, who was a Surgeons Mate in the 1st Regiment Infantry New Hampshire Line, was increased through the agency of J. L. Edwards Eq. late Commissioner of Pensions, from
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$480 per annum, under the act of 15th May 1828, to $500 per Annum under act June 7th 1832, (on the & 8th day of January 1852) and it is claimed that Doct. Munson is entitled to the same allowance viz $540 per annum, as the service was the same in both cases.   
I would not urge this claim upon your attention if I did not think it fairly and equitably due but it does seem to me, that if the claim in the David Allen Case was a good one, this must be also.   Will you not have the kindness to look again at this matter, and if you deem that an increase of pension is due, send me a certificate.  
I am very truly and respectfully Yours &c
Geo. Robinson
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J. L Edwards 
report of the case of Saml L Phillips & Eneas Munson  
Augt 14 1844 
Sept . 1 1780
Decr 31 1780
Benj Calton Esq
West Hartford
Conn
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[stamp] WASHINGTON D.C. AUG 18
Benj Calton Esq
West Hartford
Conn
1780
45
12
90
45
540
18
60
10.80
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Pension Office, August 10th 1844 
Sir, 
In the case of Samuel H. Phillips, deceased, highest rate of allowance was accorded to him on the 6 June 1842, and paid to his widow & according to his own showing he served nineteen months as Assistant Commissary was allowed four hundred and Seventy five dollars per Annum. 
Eneas Munson, has been allowed the full pension of a Surgeons Mate under the actof May 15 1828.  
I am Sir Very respectfully, Your Obed Servant 
J L Edwards
H. H. Sylvester Esq Present
I have scan these cases & find that they have been completed correctly.  
HHS
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State of Connecticut 
County of New Haven} ss  New Haven Jany 11 [unreadable] 
I Eneas Munson of the town of New Haven County and State aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Hon. Thomas H. Seymour M. C. now my attorney respectfully to ask J.L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions to examine the papers on which my pension was granted under the act of the 15th of May 1828, and allow me such an increase pension as the additional evidence that may be presented will justly and equitably entitle me to.    
Eneas Munson 
In presence of 
C Monson 
Mary Monson
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35817 
Eneas Munson 
Con. 
Let to H.H. Sylvester, Augt 10, 1844 
Act 7. June 1832
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Eneas Munson
Conn Act 1832
Law [unreadable] by Direction of Commr CHR
2 March 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Washington City D. C.
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Revolution 
INVALID.  
No.  34 
Eneas Munson 
Surg Mate. Rev. War  
June 7 1832 
Index: -- Vol. A , Page 268 
[Arrangement of 1870.]