Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7404, for Thomas Mansfield, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md.
Md. Sea Service

Mansfield, Thomas
Anna

NUMBER
W.7404.

[Stamp at Bottom]
This Envelope Incudes
Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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[Left side]
Lt. A.G. Brown
Aug 16/50

Hon. A.G. Brown 15 Oct 1851

[Right side]
Ohio 25.858

Thomas Mansfield 
Athens Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Pvt in the Company commanded
By Captain Blake of the Regt commanded
by Col Washington in the Maryland Militia

2 Yrs Private $80.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Jan'y 1832, Hon. T. Webster, D. of Rev.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 -- 200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 
[date illegible] '34                              40.00
                                                      $ 240.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by John J. Sprague  Clerk, Book E Vol. 8 Page 17
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Ohio, 868 [unclear]
Anna Mansfield
widow of Thomas Mansfield [illegible]
served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued this 5th day of Nov. 1857(?) and sent to Hon. A. G. Brown, Athens O.

Recorded on Roll of Pensions under act July 29, 1848, Page 165 Vol. A
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Declaration of Thomas Mansfield

Hon. Taylor Webster
HR

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State of Ohio
Athens County Ss
On this 15th day of November in the year
1833, personally appeared in open court before 
this Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county
of Athens aforesaid now sitting Thomas Mansfield,
a resident of DoverTownship in said Athens County
aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn
according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the followi=
ing 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.
1st He was born in Queen Annes County in Maryland
February 14th 1750, as he was told by his parents.
2nd He has no record of his age.
3rd He was residing in his native County of Queen
Annes in Maryland at the time of his entering the
service and continued to reside then till he re=
moved to the State of Ohio where he now resides &
has resided for the span of 16 years past.
4th He was first called into the service by a draft
for a tour of two months, on the 14th day of Septem=
ber 1777, and he afterwards entered the naval service
as a marine by voluntary enlistment for the term of
one year, and continued voluntarily in the same
for the further space of eleven months, making in
the whole two years and one month, during all which term he
avows, he faithfully served his county to the best of his ability.
5th He was drafted as aforesaid, for a two months tour,
at Queenstown, Queen Annes County, Maryland, on the
said 14th of November 1777 [illegible] a company commanded
by Captain John Blake in the 5th Maryland Regiment &
was ordered to repair immediately to  [illegible] Creek
the head quarters of Gen. Washington's army.  He was draf=
ted as aforesaid with seven others from said company
and marched first to Churchill in said Queen Annes
County, when they were joined by other classes, making
in the whole two companies; of that to which he belonged
John Dames was Captain, Richard Carmichael 1st Lieut
Leven Downs 2nd Lieut and he thinks a man by the name
of Thompson Ensign, the other company was commanded
by Capt James Roberts.  From Churchill they marched
to Newark and Delaware where Col. Gist took the com=
mand of the levies, by that time amounting to four
or five hundred.  Thence proceeded to Paoli, where
they were attacked in the night by the British, before joining Wayne's
troops (who were lying a short distance above on this
opposite side of the creek,) and 12 or 14 men were killed 
and their forces entirely scattered; and the 2nd Lieut.
of Deponent's company disgracefully ran away for
which he was cashiered by a court martial.  About 
two days after the Battalion to which he belonged was generally collected
at the Spring house Tavern in Bucks County, Penn=
sylvania, where they joined Gen. Smallwoods Division
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of Maryland Troops, and marched in their rear to
Perkiomen, where they arrived  about 6 or 7 days before
the Germantown battle; in which they were actively eng=
ged on the right flank, when the Maryland Troops
were commanded by Generals Smallwood & Forman.
About two or three days after the battle; the deponent
was designated by his superior officers, to act as 2nd Lieutenant
in place of Leven Downs, cashiered as aforesaid, in which
capacity he served, (without any regular commision) till
the expiration of his time, which to the best of his recol=
lection was about five weeks after the battle the Regt
in which he served was commanded by Col. James
Bryan and the Battalion by Major Perigrine Leatherbury.
After being at home a few weeks, and there being
no prospect of any further call for militia troops, he then
said Deponent enlisted as a Mariner for one year, on 
board the Chester Galley, being the Commodore's ship
of 160 men & 14 carriage guns besides [illegible]; Thomas
Grayson Commodore Robert Dashiell Captain Lay at
Annapolis about one month to refit and equip, when
the said ship put to sea with the rest of the squads [illegible],
consisting of the Conqueror, Independence, [illegible] and
another the name not recollected, of the same force as the
Chester Galley; also there [illegible] the Dolphin, Plato &
Amelia.  In sailing down the Bay were joined by the
Virginia Fleet at Cherrystone River, then put out to sea
and continued cruising the space of two months, and
returned without meeting, any material occurence, except
falling in with a British Sloop of 28 guns, which escaped
after a fight of 4 or 5 hours.  After remaining about
one month at Annapolis the squadron again put
to sea and continued cruising as before about
two months and so alternately several times until
the aforesaid Deponent had completed 23 months
service on board said vessel [illegible] about
two months in which the fleet was shut up in the
in in the winter season; at the close of which time,
which as well as he can remember, was in November
1779, said vessel was put out of commission.
6th He is confident he received discharges for both
his terms of service aforesaid, but has lost them &
knows not what has become of them.  He received no
commission, as he has stated, as 2nd Lieutenant, but he
thinks his reank was mentioned in his discharge.
7th He is known to Rev. Benjamin Sanders a clergyman
and to John & James [illegible] Jeremiah Morris, Thomas
L. Love & others who are respectable persons in his neighborhood
who he thinks would testify favorably as to his character
for veracity, and the general belief in his neighborhood
of his having been a soldier of the Revolution.
He has [illegible] at great trouble & expense for
[illegible] of his age & [illegible] circumstances the testimony
of David D. Devon of Perry County, Ohio, who knew
him in the service & has stated the fact in his
affidavit herewith enclosed.  He knows no other
persons whose testimony he can procure, who can
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testify to his service - [illegible] relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State or Territory.

Sworn to and subscribed the day & the year aforesaid.

[Signature]
Thomas Mansfield
[his X mark]

Henry Bartlett Clerk

We John Pugsley [insert] {illegible] Exhorter in the Church of United Brethren [end insert] residing in  the County of Athens, Ohio and Thomas L. Love residing in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Mansfield, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 80 years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
John Pugsley
Thomas L. Love

Henry Bartlett Clerk

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 certify that it appears to them that John Pugsley, who has signed the preceding certificate is an Exhorter as above, resident in Athens County, Ohio, and that Thomas L. Love, who has also signed the same is also a resident in said County, & is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.  And the Court is satisfied that the Clergyman mentioned by the applicant in his declaration has been pre-vented from appearing in court by sickness in his family.

I Henry Bartlett clerk of said Court of Com-mon Pleas in and for said County of Athens, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of this said Court in the matter of the applicant of Thomas Mansfield for a Pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Athens this 18th day of November {unclear]

Henry Bartlett Clerk
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28.832
Thomas Mansfield
Ohio

A.Brown
Adm 2 years
$80.00

Hon. Taylor Webster
[illegible]
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War Department,

Pension Office,

20th Dec. 1833

Sir:

This evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulation will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[Beginning of Form]
A Statement, showing the Service of Thomas Mansfield
[Column 1]
Period when the service was rendered
1777

[Column 2]
Duration of the claimant's service
[broke down by Years/Months/Days]
2 Months

[Column 3]
Rank of the Claimant
Priv

[Column 4]
Names and rank of the Field of-fficers under whom he served.

[Column 5]
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
83 years
Queen Anne Md

[Column 6]
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

[End of Form]

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions
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STATE OF OHIO, HAMILTON COUNTY, ss.

Be it know, that on the 10th day of Dec 1852, before me, Agent for paying pensions, in and for said State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared C.J. Noruse the Attorney named on the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive, by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the name has been so disposed of to any person whatever.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned.

[Signature]
C.J. Noruse

Before me, James Hall  PENSION AGENT

PENSION AGENCY, CINCINNATI,
$30.00
Dec. 10th 1852

Received of James Hall Pension Agent, Thirty Dollars 00 Cents, being for the [illegible] months Pension due to Anna Mansfield from the fourth day of March 1852 to the 20 day of July 1852, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

Witness:
CJ Noruse
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STATE OF OHIO,
ss
Athens County

BE IT KNOWN, that before me A.C> Brown, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Anna Mansfield and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of the identical person named in the original certificate herewith surrendered, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:

"WAR DEPARTMENT, REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM,
I certify, that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Thomas Mansfield of the State of Ohio, who was a private during The Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ---- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Give at the War office of the United States this 17th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
[Seal]  Examined and countersigned.
[Signature] I.L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions

[Signature] Lewis Cass
Secretary of War."

that she now resides in the State of Ohio and has resided there for the space of 18 years past; and that previous thereto she resided in Maryland.

Sworn and subscribed this 29th day of March 1837 before me A.C. Brown, J.P.
attest Charlotte Mansfield.

[Signature] Anna Mansfield
X her mark
widow of Thos. Mansfield

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I anna Mansfield, widow of Thos. Mansfield, of Ohio, late Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Geo. L. Mead my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my  name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Cincinnati, State of Ohio, the amount of pension due my late husband from the 4th day of September 1836 to the 19th day of January 1837.

Witness my hand and seal, this 29th day of March 1837.

SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF 
A.C. Brown
Charlotte Mansfield

[Signature] Anna Mansfield
X her mark
[Seal]

STATE OF OHIO, ATHENS COUNTY, ss.
Be it know, that on the 29th of March 1837 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Anna Mansfield above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year last above mentioned.

A.C. Brown J.P.

STATE OF OHIO, Hamilton COUNTY,  City of Cincinnati ss.
Be it know, that on the 14th of April 1837 before the subscriber, Mayor, in and for said City, personally appeared Geo. L. Mead, the Attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension, or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned, before me

[Signature]
Charles Davis, Mayor

[Signature]
Geo. L. Mead

[last line indecipherable]
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State of Ohio
Athens County

I Joseph Dana Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, hereby cer-tify that on the 27th day of March, 1837, it was proved in open Court, to the satisfaction of said Court that Thomas Mansfield, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, resident within said County, died on the 19th day of January A.D. 1837, and that Anna Mansfield is the widow of said Thomas Mansfield deceased, as appears of Record,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 4th day of April A.D. 1837

Joseph Dana Clerk
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Franklin Bank of Cincinnati,
14 April 1837

No.____________

Received of John H. Grorshech Agent for paying pensions, Thirty dollars and                  cents, being for four months and fifteen days pension, due to Anna Mansfield, widow of Thomas Mansfield, from the 4th day of Sept 1836 to the 19th day of January 1837 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

Geo. L. Meed

__________
$30
__________

Tet.
Whereasured(?) in the receipt was made by me.

R. W. Lawrence
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State of Ohio, Athens County ss

Be it known, that on this seventh day of July, A.D. 1857, personally appeared before me Archibal G. Brown President Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of the State of Ohio, in which said County of Athens is situated and comprehended, duly authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths, Mrs. Anna Mansfield, widow of Thomas Mansfield deceased, a resident of Trimble Township in said Athens County, aged seventy six years, and whom I certify to be a credible person,  who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed as July 29, 1848:  That the said husband Thomas Mansfield was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, (Roll of the Ohio Agency,) under the Act of 1832, (June 7,) at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, on account of services, as a Private, in the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War:  the particulars of which she is unable to state further than from imperfect recollection of the conversations and declarations of her said deceased husband, and therefore refer to the original Declaration and proofs of the said Thomas Mansfield, in support of his application for a Pension now filed in the Pensions Office.

She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Mansfield in the State of Maryland, (Talbot County,) by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Jackson, a minister of the Methodist denomination, on or about the first day of October, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety five in pursuance of a license from the Clerk of said Talbot County, dated October 1, 1795, authenticated copy of which, by his [unclear], is hereto attached, being the only documentary evidence of her said marriage she has been able to obtain.

She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Mansfield, died on the 11th day of January, 1837 in said Athens County, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred, namely, at the time above stated.  And she further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a Pension under said Act of 29th July, 1848; and has never received a Pension under any act of Congress.

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first above written, before us.

[Signature]
A.G. Brown, Pres. Judge

[Signature]
Anna Mansfield
X her mark

Attest
John Elliott
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I Joseph M. Dana, Clerk of this Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, State of Ohio, hereby certify that Archibald G. Brown is President Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit of Ohio in which said Athens County is comprehended, duly commissioned and qualified, and under his signature within written is {unclear].

In Testimony Whereof I have [unclear] my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 7th day of July A.D. 1857.

[Signature]
J.M. Dana Clerk
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[Seal] Whereas application hath been made to me by Thomas Mansfield and Anna Wilkins for licenses to be joined in holy matrimony, there are therefore to authorize and license you to solemnize the rites of Marriage between the said persons according to law, there appearing to you no lawful cause or just impediment by reason of consanguinity or affinity to hinder the same, given under my hand and the Seal of my Office this 1st day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety five.  

[Signature]
Wm. T. Bender

To the Rev. Mr. Thomas Jackson or any other person qualified by law to celebrate the marriage in the State of Maryland.

Maryland, Talbot County Court, Thereby certify that the aforegoing is truly taken and copied from the Recorder of Marriage licenses of Talbot County.

In Testimony whereof Thereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of Talbot County Court this 6th day of May A.D. 1831.

[Signature]
James Parnell Clerk
Talbot County Court

Easton, May 6/17

Dr Sir:
I send you the Cert. as requested, you will see that the lady's name was Wilkins instead of Wilkinson.  It might however have been a mistake either of the Clerk granting it or person obtaining it, it being of frequent occurrence.  I would have sent it earlier but owing to the fact that our old Marriage Records is unindexed it was difficult to find.  Yr. letter was placed in my hands by the [Illegible]

[Signature]
James Parrott
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Anna Mansfield
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State of Ohio, Athens County ss.

Be it known, that before me Henry T. Brown a Notary Public in and for said County, personally appeared John Elliott and made oath in due form of law that he is the Administrator of Anna Mansfield, the identical person who was a Pensioner, and who is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued which is herewith surrendered.  That the deceased pensioner resided in said Athens County in the State of Ohio for the space of more than thirty five years before her death, and that previous that she resided in Maryland.

Sworn to and subscribed this 7th day of December A.D. 1852.
Before me,
[Signature]
H.T. Brown, Notary Public

[Signature]
John Elliott

Know all whom it may concern, that I John Elliott of Carthage Township in the County of Athens, in the State of Ohio, Administrator of Anna Mansfield, who was a pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint C.E. Nourse Esq. of Cincinnati, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Cincinnati in the State of Ohio, the balance of said Pensions from the 4th day of March, 1852, to the 22nd day of July, 1852, being the day of her death.

Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of December, 1832.
[Signature]
John Elliott
Adm. of Anna Mansfield dec'd
[Seal]

Sealed & delivered in person of
E.H. Moore
H.T. Brown

State of Ohio, Athens County ss.
Be it known that on this 7th day of December 1832, before me the subscriber a Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Elliott above named and acknowl-edged the foregoing Power of Attorney, to be his from act and deeds, in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this day and year last above written.
[Seal]
H.T. Brown
Notary Public

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State of Ohio, Athens County ss.

I Jacob C. Frost, Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for said County, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Anna Mansfield was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eight dollars per annum; was a resident of said County of Athens in the State of Ohio, and died therein in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, (1852) on the twenty second (22) day of July; and that she left six children surviving her, whose names are Thomas W. Mansfield, William Mansfield, Louisa Roberts, wife of Samuel Roberts, Mary Elizabeth Petty, wife of James Petty, Charlotte Elliott wife of John Elliott and Caroline Cox, wife of Thomas Cox.

In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Athens in said Athens County, this 7th day of December A.D. 1852.

[Signature]
J. C. Frost
Probate Judge

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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MCS/eel

November 21, 1928

Mrs. A.H. Baldwin
Baldwin Lake Farm
Pleasant Hill, Missouri

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.7404, it appears that Thomas Mansfield was born, February 14, 1750, in Queen Annes County, Maryland

While a resident of Queen Annes County, Maryland, and a member of Captain John Blake's Maryland Company, he enlisted at Queenstown, in that county, in 1777 and served two months as a private in Captain John Dames' Company, in Colonels Gist's and James Bryan's Maryland Regiments, and was in the battles of Paoli and Germantown.

After remaining at home for a few weeks, he enlisted as a mariner on the galley "Chester", under Commodore Thomas Grayson and Captain Robert Dashiell; he was in an engagement with a British sloop and served twenty-three months.

It was stated that he moved from Maryland to "the western County" in 1815 or 1816.
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He died January 11 or 19, 1837, in Athens County, Ohio.  He married, October 1, 1795, at Easton, Talbot County, Maryland at the residence of George Plummer, Anna Wilkinson.

She was allowed pension on her application executed August 5, 1850, while a resident of Trimble, Athens County, Ohio, aged eight years.

In 1850, Thomas W. Mansfield, the third child and oldest son then living, was in his fifty-third year.

The names of the other children are not stated.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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14,179

Anna Mansfield
Ohio

Act. 7 July 1838
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I cannot prove service as a "marine", on the "Chester".  Officers are not mentioned in the list of naval officers in navy book.  nor do I find them in the state "Sea service".
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[unclear]
Athens, Ohio
August 9, 1856

Hon. A. G. Brown
Enclosed declarations for a pension of Mrs. Anna Brown.

Augt. 15/50

{illegible]

Letter to Hon. A.G. Brown of Ohio 
Aug 14th 1850

Thos. Mansfield  Ohio 
{illegible] act 1832 [illegible]
to Col. Niles - Aug 2/56

Ref'd to Edwin of Pension Dep Interia
Aug 14 1850
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Athens, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1850

Dear Sir:

I am desired, through you, to forward to the Court of Pensions, the renewed application of Mrs. Anna Mansfield, widow of Thomas Mans-field, deceased, for a Pension.  Something more than a year ago. I forwarded a similar application, which by some means became lost or mislaid.  I am personally acquainted with Mrs. Mansfield and I was also with her late husband.  She is highly reputable, retains her faculties remarkably for one of her great age, and I have every reason to believe her statements in her affidavit to be true and corrects.  I know no means of making more specific or cir-cumstantial proof of the date of her marriage, unless possibly a record of the issuing of a license may be found in Easton, Md., where she states her recollection of its being obtained.  I hope the application may be favorably considered.

Yours respectfully
A.G. Brown

Hon. S.T. Vinton
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To what term has Thomas Mansfield, who was under the Cincinnati, Ohio Agency under the act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum was paid?

[illegible initials]

Pension Office
Sept. 21, 1850

To his death, Jan'y 19, 1837
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Land Office, Annapolis, Jan'y 1st 1834

Sir,

Your's with the papers of Thomas Mansfield, enclosed, were received, -- I have carefully examined the rolls of the revolution in this office, and do not find his name upon any of the rolls, -- the papers are herewith retur-ned.

I am very respectfully,
your obd servent

[Signature]
G.G. Brown

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Court of Pensions
as Ch. Clerk

[Sideways bottom]
3 [illegible]
Aug. 24/50
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Athens, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1850

Dear Sir,

June 4, 1849, I forwarded an application of Mrs. Anna Mansfield, widow of Thomas Mansfield a former pensioner, who died Jan'y 19, 1837, for a pension in amount of the Revolutionary services of her said husband.  In a late letter of inquiry, I, from [unclear], stated the name as Mary instead of Anna Mansfield, which may have misled in the examination of the files--  The marriage of Mrs. Mansfield took place in Maryland prior to 1784, of which she has no record evidence.  I would be glad to learn if her application was received, as I received no reply to my letter accompanying it.

Mrs. Mansfield lives some distance in the County, is upwards of 80 years old, and her application could not be received without considerable difficulty --

Yours respectfully,
A.G. Brown

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Court of Pensions
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Anna Mansfield
Wid of Thomas
Ohio
Act 29 July 1848
$80 per annum

Sent to
Hon. A.G. Brown
Athens, Ohio
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Brief in the case of Anna Mansfield, wid of Thomas

County and State of Ohio
act 29 July 1848

Claim, ("original," of "[For increase strikethrough")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner at $80 per an.
Evidence of marriage prior to 1800. Recev'd.
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Deposition of

Th. Mansfield
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District of Columbia
ss
County of Washington

Personally appeared before me T.W. Mansfield of  [illegible] who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Thomas Mans-field who is an applicant for a pension and who presented a declaration at the pension office for the purpose of obtaining a pension, which for [illegible] informality was witnessed, which at the instance and advice of deponents was, as he is informed and does verily believe des-stroyed -- and that the declaration now [illegible] by said Thomas Mansfield is the only declaration now existing for [illegible]; and further [rest of the line illegible].

[Signature]
T.W. Mansfield

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 20th Dec. 1833.

D.A. Hall J.P.
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J.L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

[Sideways print]
[illegible] Evans

Hon. T. Webster
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Representatives Hall
20th Dec. 1833

Sir,

Enclosed I transmit to you this deposition of T.W. Mansfield showing that the original declaration of Thomas Mansfield has been destroyed, and that that now presented is the only one in existence.

I have the honor to be
Your Obt. Serv't

Taylor Webster

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
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Athens, Ohio, July 7, 1857

Dear Sir

Enclosed herewith I forward the application of Mrs. Anna Mansfield, widow of Thos. Mansfield dec'd, for a pension, which I have drawn up at her earnest solicitation, believing her worthy and meritorious.  I was well acquainted with her deceased husband, and, I believe, prepared his original application for a Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.  An appli-cation was made in behalf of Mrs. Mansfield some five years since, but she as then unprepared with proof of the date of her marriage, which she supposes to have taken place in 1793 instead of 1795.  She states that her husband, at the time, resided in Queen Anne County, when he took out license which was unavailing on which account a new license had to be ob-tained in Talbot County, and that the marriage took place on the same day the License was obtained.  She states her maiden name to have been Wilkinson and not Wilkins, as inserted in the copy of the License.

I hope this application may receive early and favorable attention -- Please communicate with me, or with my son, Henry G. Brown, in my absence, in case further information or testimony should be required.

Very respectfully,
A.G. Brown

Hon. J.E. Heath
Court of Pensions
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[Sideways script]
Rspy Case
Anna Mansfield
also
[unclear] for
Elizabeth Bingham died

Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Revolutionary War Records Section 3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
W.F. 7404
Washington, D.C.

In reply to your request of _______ received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas Mansfield a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen-sion on file in this Bureau.

[Several column form]
[Column 1] Date of Enlistment or appointment
Line 1 - Blank
Line 2 - 1777
Line 3 - 1777

[Column 2] Length of Service
Line 1 - Blank
Line 2 - 2 mos.
Line 3 - 23 mos.

[Column 3] Rank
Line 1 - Pvt.

[Column 4] Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered
[Subcolumn] Captain
Line 1 - John Blake
Line 2 - John Dames
Line 3 - Robert Dashiell on the galley Chester

[Subcolumn] Colonel
Line 1 - Blank
Line 2 - James Gish Bryan
Line 3 - Commodore Thomas Grayson

[Column 5] State
Line 1 - Md.

Battles engaged in Paoli, Germantown, engagement with British Troops

Residence of soldier at enlistment Queen Annes Co. Md. drafted at Queenstown

Date of application for pension Nov. 15 1833 His [illegible[

Residence at date of application Dover, Athens Co. Ohio

Age at date of Application  born Feb'y 14 1750 in Queen Annes Co., Md., died Jan'y 11 or 19 1837 in Athens County Ohio

Remarks:  He was  Oct. 1 1795 at Easton Talbot Co. Md. at the residence of George Plummer.  Anna Wilkinson.  She was also pension on one appli-cation executed Aug 5, 1850, while a resident of Trimble, Athens Co. Ohio aged 80 years.  In 1850 Thomas W. 3d child & oldest son then living was in his 53d year.  Claims of other children not stated.

Respectfully,

Commissioner
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(Note - this looks the like back of a letter with only Rv written on it).
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[LETTERHEAD of Missouri House of Representatives - 34th General Assembly
A.H. Baldwin - member]

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir - 

Will you please send me the war record and any family data on file of Thomas Mansfield soldier  & marine, Revolutionary War, as I need in establishing my eligibility to a membership in D.A.R.

Thanking you, I am very truly
Charlotte E. Baldwin

(Mrs. A.H. Baldwin)
Pleasant Hill Mo
Baldwin Lake Farm

[Rec'd stamp}
Pension Office U.S.
Nov. 20 1928
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Samuel Rinker
Albertus H. Kidd
John W. Delehant

RINAKER & KIDD
Attorneys at Law
Rooms 1,2,3,4 and 5 First National Bank Building
Beatrice, Nebraska

Nov 23, 1918.

Hon Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
I would like very much to obtain the Revolutionary war service and personal data on file in your office concerning Thomas Mansfield who served in the Revolutionary war as a private in Capt John Dame's company of Queen Anne's Co, Maryland, under Col Mordecai Gist and subsequently served on the galley Chester under Capt Robert Dashiel, Commodore Thomas Grayson.

Thomas Mansfield was my greatgrandfather and I will appreciate the above information very much.

Very respectfully,
AH Kidd

(Seal on letter states Pension Office Nov 27 1918 U.S.)
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[Professional Letterhead of Francis B. Culver
2203 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland]

16 Nov. 1918
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Believing that my former inquiry may have been overlooked, I take the liberty of writing again, to ascertain the military service record of a Revolutionary War (and personal and family data) of Thomas Mansfield, a private in the Maryland militia, who was placed on your Pension Rolls in 1834, while he was a resident of Athens County, Ohio.

Yours truly,
Francis B. Culver
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[Letterhead of the Maryland Society
Registrar, Francis B. Culver
2203 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland]

10 Nov. 1918
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Please supply the service record in the Revolutionary War - with personal and family data - of Thomas Mansfield, a private in the Maryland militia, who was placed on your Pension Rolls of your Department in 1834, while he was a resident of Athens County, Ohio.

Yours truly,
Francis B. Culver

[Rec'd stamp}
Pension Office U.S.
Nov. 11 1916
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[round stamp]
PENSION
U DEC 28 1894 S
OFFICE.
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ALBERTUS H. KIDD
Attorney at Law
Beatrice, Neb
First National Bank Building

December 24, 1894.

U.S. Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

I would like to ascertain from your records the name of the town and state from which Thomas Mansfield - - who was a soldier in the revolutionary was - - enlisted. Thomas Mansfield died about the year 1935 in Athens County, Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of the revolution and on the pension list.

Any information you may be able to give me from the records will be thankfully received.

Very Respectfully,
AH Kidd
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[circular stamp]
PENSION
U Nov 22 1904 S
OFFICE
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[Received Stamp]
NOV 23 1904

Millfield, Ohio

To the Pension Dept.,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:  Would you please give me the record of Thomas Mansfield, a Revolutionary soldier if on the Pension Roll?  Or his record, if his widow's name, Anna Wilkison Mansfield, is on the Pension Roll?

I think he enlisted from Maryland.

Very Respectfully,
[Miss] Pearl Roberts
Millfield, Ohio,
Athens Co.

Nov. 21, 1904.
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[First fold]
Jan. 18th hist. to A. Kidd Esq.
Beatrice, Neb.

Dec. 2 1904 hist. to
Pearl Roberts, Millfield, Ohio

1918 Nov. 18 Hist. to Francis B. Culver
1918 Dec. 2 Hist. to A. H. Kidd

1928 Nov. 21 hist. to
Mrs. A.H. Baldwin [unclear]

[Second fold]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7404
Anna Mansfield
Wid.:
Thos. Mansfield
Pvt. Rev. War

Act:  July 29/48
Index: - Vol. M, Page 4

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Third fold]
1895
A.2.

[illegible]
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State of Ohio Perry County
On this 18 day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared before me J. McDonald, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County the subscriber David Devane of Monroe Township Perry County Ohio, he being duly qualified according to said Deponent and saith that he was in the United States service during the Revolutionary War a regular private soldier under the Command of Gen. Anthony Wayne and commanded in Company first by Capt. Wm. McElhattan, 2nd Capt. Coleman & 3rd by Capt. Proctor for the term of six years & six months during which time he became acquainted with a certain Thomas Mansfield (for whose benefit this affidavit is taken) in the following manner on the morning after the Masacre of Paola he met said Mans-field who told him that he belonged to the Militia from the State of Maryland and Deponent saith that he frequently seen said Mansfield for the space of two months during which time they were together in the Battle of Germantown.  Further this Deponent saith not, done and subscribes that  this 18th Day of Sept. A,D, 1733,

[Signature and Mark]
David Devane

attest John McDonald Justice of the Peace

I also Certify that the above mentioned Deponent is a neighbor of mine has been m ore than ten years is a man in good [unclear] & to be Depended upon and appears to be of sound mind & memory, & says he is 75 years at 2 last May,

Given under my hand this 18 Sept. A.D. 1833
J.McDonald JP
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The State of Ohio Perry County

I John Beckwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby Certify that John McDonald Esq before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace  in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such, and that I believe his signature is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Somerset in said County this 22nd day of October 1833.

John Beckwith Clerk

[Sideways text]
Thomas Mansfield
Deposition of
David L. Devane
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State of Ohio, Athens County

On this 5th day of August, A.D. 1850, personally appeared before me A.G. Brown, President Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit in said State of Ohio, and duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Anna Mansfield, a resident of Trimble Township in the County of Athens, aforesaid aged 80 years, or upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2nd of February, 1848, [illegible] pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the Widow of Thomas Mansfield, late of said Athens County, who was a Private in the army of the Revolution, and received a Pension at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum under the Act of 7th June 1832, and died on the 19th day of January 1837, at his residence in said Athens County.  And she further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Mansfield on the 11th day of October and as she believes in the year 1792 or 1793, at this residence of Mr. George Plummer in the County of Talbot in the State of Maryland, by the Rev. Thomas Jackson, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, under a license procured as well as she can remember from the proper officer in the Town of Easton in said Talbot County.  That she has no docu-mentary evidence of her said marriage, and does not know as the same can be obtained, or that there are any persons living who were present or by whose testimony this could make proof of said marriage.  That a Bible in which was recorded the birth of her children was lost with other property while she with her husband and family were moving from Maryland to the Western Country about the year 1815  or 1816.  That her oldest son now living, Thomas W. Mansfield, is now in his 53rd year of his age, that her first child was born about one year after her marriage, her second about two years later, and said Thomas W.  about two years after said second child, said first two children having died in their infancy.  That her said husband, as aforesaid, died on the 19th day of January 1807, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hun-dred and ninety four, [illegible] at the time above stated to the best of her remembrance and belief.  That her maiden name was Anna Wilkinson, and she further declares that she is still a widow.

[Signature and Mark]
Anna Mansfield

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year first above written, and I certify that I am personally ac-quainted with the said Anna Mansfield and that she is a highly credible person.

A.G. Brown, Pres. Judge
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I, Joseph M. Dana, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Athens in the State of Ohio, hereby certify that A.G. Brown was at the date of this within affidavit and still is President Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit in said State of Ohio, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature within written is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 9th day of August, A.D. 1850.

Joseph M. Dana Clerk
By W.H. Bartlett deputy

[sideways text]
No. 14179 [strikethrough]
Declaration of
Anna Mansfield
Widow of Thomas

Act July 7, 1838, [strikethrough]
29 July 1848

A.G. Brown, Athens, Ohio
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25,858
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTION CLAIM

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Thomas Mansfield of the State of Ohio who was a private during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Give at the War Office of the United State this 17th day of January on thousand eight hundred and thirty-four

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Examine and Countersigned
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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No. 179
Thomas Mansfield
$30
7th June 1832

Cincinnati, Ohio
2nd Quarter 1837
B {?} 57

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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[3 pictures of the same image, bank deposit slips]

Cincinnati, 183
FRANKLIN BANK OF CINCINNATI,
has deposited in this Bank, Dollars, to the credit of _______
$__________
__________________ Cashier.
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29, 1848,

Anna Mansfield
widow of
Thomas Mansfield,
who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry: in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior this 5th day of November one thousand eight hundred and 57.

Alex H.H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior,

Examined and Countersigned
J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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[at top of page, crossed out]
21 July 1848
30/66
Lucy Stuckey
4

[stamp on left margin]
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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29 July 1848
30.00

Anna Mansfield
4 March 1852
22 July 1852
[Illegible note]

4th Quarter 1852
Cincinnati, Ohio
Bundle #80
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LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION
THE STATE OF OHIO, Athens County, ss.

To all whom these Presents shall come -- Greeting:

KNOW YE, that the Probate Court within and for said county, doth hereby grant the ad-ministration of the estate of Anna Mansfield late of Athens county, Trimble Township deceased, unto John Elliott who is hereby fully empowered and authorized to ad-minister all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Moneys, Rights and Credits of said deceased, Anna Mansfield and also the proceeds of all the Real Estate of said deceased, which he may hereafter be authorized to sell; to collect all the debts due to, and pay these due from said Estate, so as its means will extend and the Law require, and to do all things which may be lawfully done in the promises, to effect the just and speedy settlement of said Estate.

[SEAL]
In Testimony whereof, the Seal of said Court is hereunto affixed.
Witness, J.C. Frost, Judge of said Court, this 30 day of October, A.D., 1852

J.C. FROST, Probate Judge

THE STATE OF OHIO, ATHENS COUNTY, SS.
[SEAL]
I, J.C. Frost, Judge of the Probate Court of said county, certify the above to be a true copy of the original Letters of Administration granted upon the Estate of the deceased, therein named, and remaining on file in my office.

Witness my Hand and the Seal of said Court, at Athens, this 30th Day of October A.D. 1852

J.C. Frost Probate Judge