Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,233, for Daniel Mason, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Mason, Daniel
S 31,233
CONTENTS

6092 Massachusetts
Daniel Mason
Charleston in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Brooks of the Reg t commanded by Col Dool in the Massachusetts line for 7 months & 10 days
State House
Enrolled on the Rolls of Massachusetts at the rate of 2 1/4 Dollars 43 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Feb y 1833 and sent to Dana Dyer Dana Dyer must
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1832 - $36.64 Pension allowance ending 4 March 33 12.22 $48.86
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Doye Clerk Book 9 Vol. 2 Page 97
83 M rs Doye

31233 Very INVALID.
File No. 31 9.88
Daniel Mason
Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 92
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 256
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this twenty second day of August  AD 1832 Providence personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas , now sitting at Charlestown within and for the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid
Daniel Mason of Lexington in the County of Middlesex aged eighty one years Who being 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 June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
 1. In AD 1776 - He engaged to do three months service at Boston Guarding Stores , which the British left when they evacuated included in the Company of Capt. Benjamin of Bedford . John Smith of Waltham , and Samuel Harrington was a Soldier, there was no Field Officer, or any one that he can recollect of a higher grade than Captain he proceeded to Boston in the fall and there did duty on the winter until he served three months and was dismissed by Capt Briggs and returned to Lexington .  2. In AD 1778 he engaged to go to Rhode Island for six months service in the Company of Capt Nathan Smith . Col. John G. Butler Regt. he proceeded to Rhode Island , was at  was  proceeding to  Gardner's Neck , and there stationed until he was marched on to the Island , he completed his term of six months and was dismissed. 
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not, on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
We Charles Briggs
Daniel Mason a Clergyman residing in the town of Lexington
in the county of Middlesex and John Milliken  of  the  same Lexington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Mason who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Sam Darras jus Peace for all the Counties ins. Co. in the Commonwealth.
Charles Briggs William Milliken

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion, that 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 certifies that it appears to them, that Charles Briggs , who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Lexington Street  Nathaniel Mulliken  the same town is of the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Isaac Foske Register or J. P. P. Day Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Mason for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
And I further certify that Nathaniel Mulliken Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and that his signature to the caption on the Deposition of Jonathan Loring appears to be his proper signature. Isaac Foske

Affidavit of Jonathan Loring in the case of Daniel Nason
6 mo. at Rehoboth 1778

I Jonathan Loring of Mason in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire volunteered to march from the town of Lexington in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Rhode Island under Capt. Nathan Smith of Shirley that I was in the service of the United States six months under Capt. Jacobus of Scituate and General Sullivan that it was at that period when said Sullivan retreated. I further testify and say that Daniel Mason of said Lexington marched with me to Rhode Island and was in the same company with me the whole period of six months above mentioned
Jonathan Loring
Middlesex ss. August 9-1882 Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Loring and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true -
Before me - N. Mulliken Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov 27 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that
the name of Daniel Mason is borne on "A pay roll of Capt. Caleb Brooks company of guards at Cambridge" for the space of 2. months from the 8 th of February to the 30 th of March  April 1776.
Again, his name is borne on "A Muster roll of Capt. Nathan Smiths company, in Col. John Jacobs regiment for the Massachusetts State for the year 1778. for the space of 5. months and 10. days. exclusive of 4. days allowed to return home, from the 20. July 1778.
Edward D Bangs Secy

Declaration of Daniel Mason of Charleston
Please to direct the letter to S. Dana Esq. Groton MS
7 Months & 10 days Attn
Mass $24.43
Brooks Jacobs
James D. Dana Esq. Piscata

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, to wit,
At the Court of Probate
begun and holden at Charleston within and for the County of Middlesex on the twenty second day of August A. D. 1832 On the application of Daniel Mason claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following interrogatories were propounded to him to wit:
1 Where, and in what year, were you born ?
Answer, 1757
I was born in Leicester on
day of July AD
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer,
I have no record of my age
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since  lived the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer,
I always have and now do live in Leicester Ms
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Answer,
All my services were voluntary and of my own accord.
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer,
Lt. Jacobs.
6. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer,
Rev M Briggs Hon Nathan Chandler John Milliken Esq. Joel Niles, John Milliken junr Selectmen
Daniel Mason Wadsworth J. August 22. AD 1832 In Probate Court sworn to in open court AD Isaac Cook My