Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,913, for Moses Mason, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                   NUMBER
N.H.         Mason, Moses          W. 23,913
                         Eunice
   
CONTENTS

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[illegible]  July 22d 1845
Rep,
2 Certificates

[on right hand side of page]  
6995
Maine
Eunice Mason
widow of Moses Mason
N. H. 
who was a private 
in the N. H. Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
23 Dollars 88 
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of June [illegible]
and sent to Joseph Ilsely
Portland
Maine.

[Act of March 3, 1843]
June 7, 1844
Recorded in Book  O
Vol. 2. Page 6
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18-287
Maine
Moses Mason
of Bethel in the State of Maine 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stone of the Regt. commanded by Col. Rummely in the N. H. [illegible]
line for 10 mns 12 ds.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 34 Dollars 65 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 5 day of August 1833 and sent to J. G. Cole.  Paris

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833   $69.30
Semi-ai. allowance ending 4 Sept--  17.32
                                                ______________
                                                          $86.62 

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.       }

Recorded by W. L. Williams  Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 1   Page 34
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16,809
Moses Mason




7 May 33
Obj: 10-14-16

Admitted
10 mos 12 days

33.33
  1.32
-------
34.65


J. G. Cole  
Paris  M.

E.
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BRIEF
in the case of Moses Mason
of Bethel
in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 75 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. / Duration of Service / Rank. / Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1776 77  / 7 (mo)  2 (mo) 1 (mo) 12 (days) / Private /  no officers mentioned  Capt Steve Genl Starks Capt Steve Col Bannells
 
5. In what battles was he engaged? Bennington
 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Dobin New Hampshire

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.

I am the [illegible] witness state that he served won Capt Perkins Col Wynn with Moses Mason in the same company & regiment.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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Moses Mason
16809
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STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY of Oxford ss.

On this 15th day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Moses Mason a resident of Bethel in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed July 5, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served herein stated.

That in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six on the First of June I enlisted in the service of the State of New Hampshire being then a resident of the town of Dublin in and State of New Hampshire and was mustered in [illegible] and imediately Marched to No. Four then called but now Charleston in said State of New Hampshire and from thence to Skenesborough and now White Hall in the State of Vermont thence down the Lake
[illegible ..]the [illegible]  and now am [delayed? plaged ] in [illegible.......] untill the next December a term of Seven months.

And in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven I enlisted under Captain Ham (Icannot [illegible] the name of the Colonal) and General John Starke's Brigade. I was then also a resident of Dublin aforesaid and marched to No. Tour which is now Charlestown thence to Manchester in the State of Vermont and rom thence to Beninngton in the Said Stait of Vermont and remained their untill after the battle of Benington and being sick from fatigue remained there a few days until my time was out [illegible] my two months I was in the Benington Battle

In September Seventeen hundred and seventy  [illegible 3 words] for three months Around the town of [D...illegible] the said State of New Hampshire and ordered to march to New York and to join Capt Hams Company and Colonel  [illegible] regiment F  I marched to Springfield and then [illegible] Counties round and ordered to March to No. Four and remained in their three weeks and then ordered to go Anter Creek then I procurured an Substitute  a man by the name of ....Frost and gave him fourteen Dollars to take my place and his wages, his time I Served in the last campaign was six weeks.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any stat e.  
Sworn to, and subscribed,d the date and year aforesaid.             Moses Mason

          Stephen Emery, Judge--


[In the left margin--2 mo 5 d]
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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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, he having adduced the deposition of Jonathan Blodget, on oath duly administered in corroboration of his own declaration.

            Stephen Emery, Judge


I Joseph C. Cole, Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Mason for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15th day of September A. D. 1832.   

Joseph C Cole, Register
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                         State of Maine

Oxford County ss.  On this nineteenth day of October A. D. 1838, personally appeared before the Court of Probate now sitting specially at Bethel in & for said County, Eunice Mason, a resident of said Bethel aged Seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, or of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows, or of the provision of any other Act of Congress concerning pensions.

That she is the widow of Moses Mason who was a Revolutionary Pensioner he having been a revolutionary Soldier of the United States--His Pension Certificate is hereunto annexed, No. 18, 287--and she refers respectfully to the evidence in file in the War Department in proof of his services.

She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Mason on the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty. and a record thereof was made at the time in her family Bible--& there transferred to a second family Bible, which second record she brings into Court for inspection.  She further declares, that her husband, the aforesaid Moses Mason died on the thirtieth day of October A. D. eighteen hundred & thirty six--that she was married before his last term of service; she thinks he served a tour of six months commencing in the Autumn of 1781--that the marriage aforesaid took place before the first of January Seventeen hundred & seventy four to wit, at the time above stated--and that Since the death of her said husband, the said Moses Mason, she has remained a widow & unmarried as will appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Witness   S. Emery                                    her
                                                  Eunice      X   Mason
                                                               mark

Sworn to and Subscribed by the said Eunice Mason, the day  and year find above written Before  Stephen Emery, Judge
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State of Main
Oxford ss.
I Levi Stowell Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Oxford hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the forgoing proceedings were had in the Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid--I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Eunice Mason for a Pension.  I also further certify that Barboar Bartlett  before whom the annexed Deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county that his signature thereto is genuine and full faith and credit due to his acts as a magistrate .
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighth day of December A. D. 1838
Levie Stowell
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Bethel M                                   C
[illegible]16

Stephen Emery Esqur
Judge of Probate
Paris 
M
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I Martha Twitchell of Bethel in the County of Oxford and State of Maine of the age of eighty seven years last May, do testify and depose that I was present and did see Moses Mason and Eunice Mason when they were married, it was in June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, in the town of Braintree, in the State of Massachusetts.  I do recollect  by the age of my children, which I know, by my family record, which I now have.

Witness Barbour Bartlett                                her
                                                     Martha         X   Twitchell
                                                                      mark

Oxford ss. Bethel Novm. 13th 1838.  Personaly appeared the above named Martha Twitchell, and made oath that the above deposition or certificate is true before me.
       Barbour Bartlett   Justice of the Peace
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Moses Mason
Bethel

Payments to be made 
at Portland
by Pres't US Br Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of Maine


Recorded in the Pension Office,
in Book C  Vol. 1 
Page 34 by W. L. Williams
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Moses Mason of the State of Maine who was a Private in the revolutionary war is entitled to receive Thirty-Four dollars and Sixty Five 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.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Fifth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
                              John Robb
                              Acting Secretary of War.

Examined and   }
Countersigned.  }

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

                                    X  [illegible]  John Robb
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4147--These numbers are crossed out.
V
Eunice Mason
Widow of Moses
Me. 4077
Ad  [illegible--July?] 7, 1838

7 m. 5 dys


Forwarded at the request of 
the applicant by
Stephan Emery
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Rev
Widow, &c.
File No.23913
Eunice Mason
Widow of 
Moses Mason
Pri Rev War

[illegible]: March 3d, 43 +, June 14th 44

Index: --Vol. M , Page 11
 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Eunice V Mason, Me
Susp@ act 1838--see
letter to Hon. V. D. Parry
25 Jan'y '39






20
60
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  40   3   4
26    10   30
3.4.5

3y 71.54
3 no  5.97
1 mo 1.99
5 ds .33
79.93

[column 2]
4077
Eunice Mason
Wid of Moses
Me
Ad July 7 1838
Married 1780
died Oct 30 1836

Allow 7 mo 5 days
$23.88 per ann
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Moses Mason, Me  act Jany. 3r, $34.65
d. 1836.  when paid last?
                          HHL
                          Pen. Off.

Third Aud. Off.

 pd to 4 Sep 1836
                       IH
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Pattand   May 8, 1835

Sir.

I  herewith forward you the declarations of  Eunice Mason Widow Moses Mason for the benefits of the Act of 3. March 1833 and the resolution of Congress of 23 January 1845, which if correct [illegible ] thank you to forward me the Certificates

Respectfully you(rs)
Joseph Ilsley [ilsley]

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
Worcester ss --

I, Moses Ayres of New Braintree in the County of Worcester, hereby certify that I was present and witnessed the marriage of Mr. Moses Mason of Dublin N.H. to Miss Eunice Ayres of said New Braintree Solumnised by Rev. Daniel Foster June twentieth, A.D. Seventeen hundred eighty--            
                                                      Moses Ayres

Worcester ss: March 27th 1839  Personally appeared the anbove nemed Moses Ayres and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true.  Before me  Amasa Bigelow  Justice of the Peace


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Suza Ayres of North Brookfield in the County of Worcester do testify and declare that I was present at the marriage of Mr. Moses Mason of Dublin N. H. with Miss Eunice Ayres--that Rev'd Daniel Foster was the Clergyman who Joined them in Marriage--that it took place at the House of Eliphalet Ayres--in the Month of June in the year in Which I was Seventeen years old--and that I am Now Seventy Six years old--
                                                Suza Ayres 

Worcester ss March 28, 1839.
Then Suza Ayres-- above Named Personally appeared and made oaths that the above statement by her made and subscribed is true--and I certify that full reliance is and ought to be  placed  upon the statement above made and subscribed by the said Suza Ayres

                              Jonathan Cary  Jus Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester,ss. 

I, Joseph G. Kendall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Worcester, do certify that Amasa Bigelow and Jonathan Cary, Esquires, are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that their signatures to the within certificates are in their own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Worcester, the first day of October, in the year 1830.
Jos. G. Kendall  Clerk



[Some illegible writing done vertically in left margin ]
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I Jonathan Blodget of Gilead in the
State of Maine and County of Cortland do testify and say
that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I
enlisted in the service of the State of New Hampshire in
Captain Parkins Company and Colonel Wyman Regiment and
was mustered in Jeffers in the State of New Hampshire
and that Moses Mason of Dublin in said State of New Hampshire
was mustered with me on the first of June in the aforesaid
year and from thence marched to No Four then called but now
Charleston in said State and from thence to Skenesborough now
Whitehall in the State of Vermont then down the Lake [illegible] to Mount Independence and was employed in building
forts and on scouting parties untill the next December a
term of seven months and in the year seventeen hundred and
seventy seven. I enlisted under Capt Stone (I cannot recollect
the name of the Colonel and General John Starks Brigade
and the abovesaid Moses Moses was mustered with me and
after being mustered we marched to No [number] four which is now Charleston thence to Manchester in the State of Vermont and from there to
Benington in said State of Vermont and remained their
untill after the battle of Bennington then I left the said  [here another page has been ovelayed, cutting off the remained of his deposition]

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, SS.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in
and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Moses Mason of [illegible]
whose genuine signature is
annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Jonathan Blodget
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
office, this
18th
day of October
in the year A. D.  1832

R K Goodman {Clerk of Oxford
                       {County Courts.
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Jonathan Blodget of Gilead in the
State of Maine County of Cortland do testify and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I entered in the service of the State of New Hampshire in Capt Parkins company and Colonel Wyman regiment and was mustered in Jeffrey in the State of New Hampshire and that Moses Mason of Dublin in said state of New Hampshire was mustered with me on the first of June in the aforesaid year and from there mustered to No [number] Four then called but now Charlston in said State of Vermont and then down the Lake [illegible] to Mount Independe nce and was employed in building forts and on scouting parties untill the next December. term of seven months and in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven. I enlisted under Capt Stone (I cannot recollect the name of the Colonel) and General John Starks brigade and the abovesaid Moses Mason was mustered with me and after being mustered we marked to No [number] Four which is now Charlston thence to Manchester in the State of Vermont and thence to Bennington in said State of Vermont and remained there until after the battle of Bennington there I left the said Mason sick with the measels  the term that was [illegiblel] two months.
Johnathan Blodget

Oxford Ss. September the eighteen thousand  eight hundred and thirty two  this day the above named Jonathan Blodget personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me.  
   Moses Mason  Jr. Justice Peace

Oxford Ss
I certify that the above named Jonathan Blodget is a person of truth and veracity
Moses Mason Jr Justice Peace
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[column 1]

Maine 5167
-
Eunice Mason
widow of Moses Mason decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832,
and who died on the 30th October 1836,
of Oxford Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Stone of the regt commanded
by Col Runnel in the N. H. Mila
line for 7 mo 5 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
2
the rate of 23 Dollars 88 Cents per annum
to commence on the 30 day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of March
1840, & sent Hon, J. D. Parris
House of Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $79.93
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40 11. 94
$91.87
Act July 7,
1838.

Recorded by
D. McCurdy, Clerk.
Book A Vol. 4 Page 15.

[column 2]
Cert No 316
issued June 12  45.
under I Revd Jany.
23.45 for Arrears
from 4 Mar. to 30 Oct
1836;
sent to
Joseph Isley
Portland
Maine
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Eunice Mason
Under joint resolution  23d January 1845 and act 7 July 1838, Act 3d March, 1843 & 7th June 1844.

[illegible] $23.88 Per ann. from 4 March, 1836 to 30 October , 1836--& from 4 March, 1843 to 4 March 1844 & 7 June 1844. 

 [illegiblel]  43  11 c   7892.
 ditto           44 11c      662
  Jt. Reso. No. 316

Joseph Ilsley
Pattond  Me
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                   STATE OF MAINE
Cumberland,ss .

I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Jedediah Burbank esq   is a Magistrate as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such, that his Commission is dated Octo. 17th 1841, and  will expire Octo. 17th 1850.  and that the following signature purporting to be his is genuine.   

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State this ninth day of May Anno Domini 1845.
                                      Charles Cobb  Clerk.

[Here is affixed a paper and ribbon seal]
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                      STATE OF MAINE
Oxford County.

On this twenty fifth day of April 1845 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Oxford Eunice Mason a resident of Bethel in the County of Oxford....aged Eighty years--who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War--That she is the Widow of Moses Mason who was a private in the revolution and a pensioner under the Act 7th June 1832, and received during his natural life the Sum of $34.54 and died on 30th day October, 1836.  She also declares that She has secured a pension under the Act of July 1838, from 30th of October 1836 to 4 March 1841, at the rate of twenty-three dollars Eighty Eight cents per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow
                                                                     her
Witness  Moses A Mason               Eunice     X   Mason
                                                                  mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.

     Before me, and I do hereby certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the Identical person She declares herself to be.  
Bethel  April 25th 1845
                      Jedediah Burbank   Justice of the Peace
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Resolution of Congress of the 23rd . January 1845.
Whereas the Act of the 30th. April 1844, prohibited me from drawing a pension for the Same period during which my husband was a pensioner.  I now make the following statement under oath, to obtain the benefits of the Resolution above mentioned.  I am the Widow of Moses Mason who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution: I have drawn a portion of the rate of twenty three  88/100 dollars per annum from the 30th day of October 1836 [unknown mark] and now ask for the amount due me from the 4th March 1836 to the 30th October 1836, when my former pension commenced.
I hereby appoint Joseph Ilsley of Pattond my attorney in the promise and wish you to recognize him as such.
Witness   Moses A. Mason                         her
                                                     Eunice     X     Mason
                                                                  mark

Sworn and Subscribed before me on this day of twenty fifth April in the year 1845. at Bethel
             Jedediah Burbank    Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the Same individual She represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit
                                     Jedediah Burbank    Justice of the Peace