Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33053, for George Mason, Pennsylvania
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Penn Mason, George  S 33053
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25375
Indiana
George Mason
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Application of
George Mason for
Pension
Indiana

from 1781 private
18 month
$60.
The witness is a pensioner
the Penna Roll. witnessed June
7 1832
Hon Amos Lane
H R
A Lane
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Dearborn County
Indiana
On the 24 day of September
one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Dearborn Circuit Court
the said County & State now sitting George Mason a resident in the county and state aforementioned who being duly sworn ascribing to law doth on his oath mark the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the
United States under the following
named officers and
served as herein stated.
That he entered the
service as a volunteer about the first of July
1781 in Fayette County Pennsylvania where
he then resided to go against the indians on the western frontier under Captain Micheal Cat, 1st Lieut. Melchior Baker that they marched first to Wheeling Virginia where they took boats and descended the Ohio below the mouth of the big Miami
where they landed nearly where
Lawrensburgh is now situated and joined a detachment
under the command of Col Daughney shortly after this
they had an engagement with the Indians in 
1780 at that place in which the whole detachment
was either killed or taken prisoner by the Indians
amounting to something more than one hundred men. Col Daughney was
among the killed. That he was
taken prisoner and kept by the Indians and
by the British in
Canada as a prisoner for about
one year and five months, that is from the time
of his capture in August 1781 till the first of January 1783 when he was released with a number of others of
the same company at New York where they
came to be exchanged but he thinks they were released
without an exchange in consequence of the cessation of
hostilities that the whole term of his service and detention
as a prisoner was Eighteen months to wit from the
first of July 1781 to 1st January 1783 when he was released
at New York & was here weeks on his way home to
Fayette County Pa. That he has no documenting witness on discharge that he knows of no living witnesses
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Whose testimony he can provide to prove his service Except Jacob Lawrence
who served & was a prisoner
with him they having went out and returned together who has he understands already received a pension &
whose testimony is herewith transmitted.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State & that he is about seventy five years of age.
That in answer to the interrogatory
required to be put to the applicant by the court he answers in following
1st That he was born in Hampshire County Virginia
about the year 1757 or 1758
2 That he has no record of his age
3 That he lived in Fayette County Penn when he entered
the service & where he continued to live after the
revolution until about fourteen years ago when
he removed to Dearborn County Indiana
where he now lives.
4 That he entered the service as a volunteer
as before stated
5 It will be seen from the foregoing
Statement that
there was no regular officers with him or
other troops than those of the detachement
under Col Laughey
who were all killed or
taken prisoner by the indians as above mentioned.
6 He never received any discharge or
any compensation for his services
7 That the names of the persons who will
certify to his service & their belief of his
service as a soldier in the revolution era.
He further states that he lives
about Eighteen miles from
the seat of (?)
of Dearborn County and that he is not acquainted
with any Clergyman
whom he can provide
to testify for him. Sworn to and subscribe
in open Court the 24th September 1833

George Mason
James Dillon
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We James Dill, Philip Mason & Thomas Porter of Dearborn County Indiana hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with George
Mason who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration and that we believe him to be 75 or 76 years of age and that he is (?) &
lived in the neighborhood when he signed on to be a soldier of the revolution & that we
concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed this 24th day of September
AD 1833
James Dill
Philip Mason
Thomas Porter
The said Court do hereby declare
their opinion
after the investigation of the matter
and after further interrogatories on the attach page mention that the above named
applicant was a revolution Soldier
and served as he states. And the Court
further certifies that it appears to them
that James Dill, Philip Maron & Thomas Porter are residents in Dearborn County Indiana
and are credible persons and
that their statement is entitled
to credit
M.C. Eggleston Prest Judge
Forming the Court 
I James Dill clerk of the Dearborn Circuit Court of Dearborn County Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original recording of
the said Court in the matter of the application of George Mason
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of office
this 24th day of September 1833
James Dill Clerk
the Dearborn
Circuit Court
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October 11, 1928

Clinton F. Henderson,
Box 1907,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 33053, it appears that George Mason
was born in 1757 or 1758 in Hampshire County, Virginia.
While a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania he
enlisted about July 1, 1781, served as a private in Captain
Michael Cat's Company, Colonel Lochrey's Pennsylvania Regiment,
was in an engagement with the Indians near the mouth
of the big Miami River, where he was taken prisoner and held
by the Indians and British in Canada until he was released
January 1, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September
24, 1833 while living in Dearborn County, Indiana.
There are no data on file as to his family,
Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division
for reply, relative to the record of the Civil War soldier,
Benjamin M. Legg.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
COPIED BY ADY
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April 24, 1925
Miss Bertha Brown
514 East A Ave.,
Hutchinson, Kansas.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 33053 it appears
that George Mason was born in 1757 or 1758 in Hampshire County, Virginia.
While a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
he enlisted about July 1, 1781, served as a private in
Captain Michael Cat's Company, Colonel Lochrey's Pennsylvania Regiment was in an engagement with the Indians
near the mouth of the big Miami River, where he was taken prisoner and held by the Indians and British in Canada until he was released January 1, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
September 24, 1833 while living in Dearborn County, Indiana.
There are no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF.
Commissioner.
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514 East A. Ave.
Hutchinson Kansas
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs
Will you please give me
information of the pension of George
Mason a private in the Penn. Militia
He is listed from Dearborn Co. Indiana
In 1833 he was 76 years old-
Very Respectfully
Miss Bertha Brown
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Request for Photostating
(To be prepared in duplicate )

OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Date May 2, 25.
Subject George Mason Rev. S330853
1 copies of 1 pieces consisting of
3 pages to be
forwarded when completed to the Rev. & 1812 Wars Sect Division.
Remarks see receipt for payment vie Wm Worthington
Approved:

W Wilson
Chief Sect.
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33053
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33053
George Mason
Prv Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 282


1925 Apr 4 to Miss
Bertha Brown 
1925 May 5, copies to
Mary C. Cursler Wash D.C. See
receipt in Wm Worthington
S1272
1928 Oct 11 - Hist Clinton
F. Henderson Letter at
Rec. Div. for Civil War request
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Fayette County
Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me a Justice
of the Peace in for said County Jacob Lawrence who being duly sworn according to law informant saith that he this informant and George Mason now of Dearborn County Indiana. Volunteered together in captain Cats company of Penna. Militia. That they were together in the engagement near where Lawrenceburg now stands.
That they be taken prisoner together
were together during the whole period of their
bondage and released together or at the same
time, that this deponent knows that George
Mason was in the service & a prisoner full
Eighteen months, from about the 1st July 1781 to 1st Jan 1783, as he has with him the
whole of that time and for the with not
Sworn & Subscribed
Before James Lindsay
May 29 1833
Jacob Lawrence

Fayette County Pennsylvania
 I Henry W Beeson Prothonotary of
 the Court of Common Pleas in & for said
County do certify that James Lindsay
Esq. is a magistrate as above &
that the above signature purporting
to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & affixed the
Seal of said Court at Uniontown the 29th day of May
1833
Henry W. Beeson
Proth