Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,120, for William Mason, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
Mason, William
NUMBER _____
NUMBER D. 40.120
CONTENTS

7933
Pennsylvania
William Mason
of Centre Co in the state of Penn a who was a private in the Congregational regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen of the Pen n line, for the term of 6 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn a at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of March 1819 and sent to Judge Walker Beaufort, Centre Co N York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 mos \frac{4}{30} \frac{4}{31} 82.09 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r 1819. 48 $130.09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Application, Nov 1820 to John Hazen, Belfont, Pennsylvania

40120
Ray INVALID.
File No. 40120 William Mason Dr. Rev. Geo
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Centre County ss
On this 27 day of April AD 1818 Before me the Subscriber President Judge of the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appears William Mason aged Seventy four resident in Spring Township in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration: in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, That he the said William Mason enlisted in the City of Philadelphia in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven in the Company commanded by Captain McDevitt, of the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, and was afterwards exchanged into a Regiment, called the "Congress' own Regiment" commanded by Colonel Hays that he continued to serve in the said Regiment, in the Service of the United States for the space of Six Years and three months and was discharged in or about the Year 1783 at Princeton Plains in the State of New Jersey, which discharge he has since lost, That he was in the Battles of Brandywine, at the capture of  the Germantown, Monmouth, and that he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in great need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said service
Sworn & Subscribed Before me the day & Year aforesaid Isaac Lewis W. H. [Signature]
his William Mason mark
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Centre County ss - On the twenty ninth day of April AD 1818 Before me the Subscriber President Judge of as aforesaid personally appeared Charles W. Laine and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with the above named applicant William Mason and that he knew the said William Mason to be a Soldier in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war that he is a man of good moral character and that he is in reduced circumstances in life and in great need of the assistance of his Country for his support
Sworn & Subscribed the day & Year aforesaid Isaac Lewis W. H. [Signature]
his Charles W. Laine mark

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand at Bellefonte the 29th day of April 1818 Act of Congress Department of War and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the against the common enemy, and now ... that in so doing ... thereby ... 11 ... William ...

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Centre County ss.
On the 30 th day of
April AD 1818 Before the Subscriber President Judge as aforesaid Personally came Philip Bruner who being duly affirmed declareth that he is personally acquainted with the within named applicant that he is a man of full truth and full confidence may be placed in his oath that he is now in reduced circumstances and merited not only of the assistance of his Country but deserving of it -
Sworn & Subscribed Before me the day & Year aforesaid
Philip Bruner
Jonathan Walker
I Jonathan Walker Judge V.B. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Mason did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the above declaration that he is a man of truth and in reduced circumstances in need of the assistance of his Country for support against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Bellefonte the 29 th April AD 1818
Jonathan Walker
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I 64 as Huston President Judge of the 4 th Judicial District of Penn a com- posed of the Counties of Mifflin Centre Huntingdon & Bedford do certify that William H. Mear the above applicant appeared before me this 27 th day of January 1819 and being first duly sworn before me declares in addition to the above made before Judge Walker that the name of the Col l under whom he served was Col l Haysen - and that he so informed the Clerk who wrote his former declaration - I do further certify that of your own knowledge W m Mear the applicant is in reduced circumstances and that he now is and for some years past has been in part supported by the Famously in which he lives as a pauper - I further certify that I do believe this his present declaration, because the paper containing a memorandum of his application before Judge Walker is now before me and in that paper it is stated that he served under Col l Haysen - Witness my hand
E. Huston
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania } I John Rankin Prothonotary of the Court of Pennsylvania } of Common Pleas in and for said County Centre County } Do certify that Charles Huston Esquire before who certifies the foregoing instrument of writing was at the time of certifying and subscribing the same and now is President & Judge of the 4 th Judicial District of Penn a composed of the Counties of Bedford Huntingdon, Mifflin & Centre duly Commissioned and sworn to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is due in Courts of Justice as therein.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office at Bellefonte the twenty eighth day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 1819
J. Rankin Proth

PENNSYLVANIA, Bedford County, ss.
I DAVID MANN, Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said county, do certify that Jonathan Walker Esquire, before whom the foregoing Deposition & affirmation of William Mason, Charles McClain & Philip Benner appears to have been taken and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of taking signing the same and certifying the same, President and Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas in the south Judicial District of Penn a composed of the Counties of Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Centre in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is due to the Courts of Justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office at Bedford the tenth midday of August , Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
David Mann Protho ry

William Mason
1816 1793 1816 Bentley 1816 20 Feb 19

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Lebanon County
Court of Common Pleas
4 Judicial district 1820 Augt 28th
On this 28 th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of by the laws of the United States records for the said County of Lebanon, William Morgan aged Seventy years, resident in Spring Township in the said County of Lebanon, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows, in the Spring of 1776 he enlisted in Philadelphia for the whole time that the war might continue in Captain McCarren's Com- pany, 4 th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Col. Myles Hopson, and was exchanged and put under the command of Capt. Thomas Fry, in the aforesaid Regt. and under the command of the same Col. he was at the battle of Germantown, Brandywine, and the Siege of Cornwallis at Little York in Virginia, and several small skirmishes along the line, and that he served six years and three months, and was Honorably discharged by Col. Myles Hopson at the expiration of the war — That in pursuance of his declaration made before Judge Huston on the 27 th day of April 1818 he was placed on the pension list of which he received a certificate from the war department, dated the 20 th day of March 1819 no 7933 in conformity with the laws of the United States of the 18 th day of March 1818 —
And I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within

the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" — passed the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts, or debts due me, nor have I any income by which I can be supported, as appears by the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed —
Real or personal property — None no pension from the State of Pennsylvania
I have no trade, am old and infirm, and unable to support myself, my wife is dead, one daughter living and married named Hannah, now Hannah Stout, she does not live with me, for I have my boarding with strangers, as my daughter is not in a situation by which she could contribute towards my support — I was placed on the Township of Spring for my support, and remained on said Township for two years and five months, at which time I received the pension from the United States in pursuance of the act of Congress dated the 18 th day of March 1820. —
Sworn to & subscribed the
28 th day of August 1820
in Open Court
My own Not Public Not
William Mason

Certified Copy
I John Rankin Prothonotary of the County of Centre, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath — and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copies from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is nothing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1820
J. Rankin } Prothonotary of THE } the Court of Common Pleas