Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15285, for Robert Mc Neir, Rhode Island

SERVICE
R.I.
McNair, Robert or McNair. or McNear.
NUMBER
S. 15285
carded.
CONTENTS

10788
8931 New York
Robert McNear
of Yates Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Holden of the Regt. commanded by Col. Water in the R. I. Arm. time for Enr.
★ McNear A.O. also McNear Jan'y 3, 1907 and Oct. 1, 1908.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 24 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to Rushville
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $53.82 Semestral allowance ending Feb. 13.33 $111.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 25
See letter 29 Sept. 1836 to J. Porter -
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 Sep 1841 to 4 March 1842 Cagt Notified 30 Oct 1844

1 st trip V o 10,720
Robt. M c Keen
Admitted. 8 mo. Private.
2.3.4.5.6.14.
9 Sep '80 6 Dec
134.
C. Loomis agt. Rushville N.Y.

No 10,788.
BRIEF in the case of Robert McKeer of the County Middlesex County of Yates ————— in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
yes
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.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1776 early part of summer — 2 — private Gen. St. Halden — Col. Jno. Waterman   following winter — 1 — " Same Officers —   1777 — 1 — " Lt. Smith — Col. Waterman   a few weeks after 1778 — 1 — " Capt. Sheldon   1779 — 2 — " "  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
none
} 1779 more than 1 month Capt. Anthony Low — Col. Waterman on frequent occurrences during the war more than 1 month
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at Warwick R. Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
1 living Witness & traditional Evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jamies Ord
Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 6 th , 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The child of Robert McNeill, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York, Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six — Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1841, to the 4 th March 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

State of New York, Ontario County p
On this tenth day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared before me Chester Loomis, one of the Judges of the County Court of the County of Ontario aforesaid. Robert M c Kea aged seventy five 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 June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. In the early part of the summer of the year 1776 he was drafted in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island, as a soldier and was forthwith ordered into actual service and enrolled in a company of Militia under the command of Lieut. Holden in Col. John Watermans Regiment. He cannot state the particular month with certainty, but is confident in his recollection that it was in the early part of the summer of that year. He was stationed with the said company at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island two months, at the expiration of which term he was dismissed from service and returned home. In the following winter he was again ordered into actual service, in the same company and under the same officers and was stationed at the same place as before, for one month at the expiration of which he was again dismissed. In the same year (1777) subsequently he was again drafted and enrolled in a company of Militia under Lieut. Smith in Col. Watermans Regiment of Militia, and was stationed at Warwick aforesaid on that occasion the like period of one month and was then again dismissed. A few weeks thereafter he was again ordered into actual service under the command of Capt. Sheldon, and was again stationed at the same place the like term of one month. In the succeeding year (1778) he further performed two different terms of military duty of one month duration each at Warwick aforesaid in the same Regiment above mentioned.

but he is unable to recollect with sufficient certainty to state the names of the commanding officers of the particular company in which he was enrolled
In the year 1779 he was again drafted into actual service and marched first in a company of Militia under the command of Capt. Anthony Dow on an expedition to Rhode Island, and subsequently to Bristol R.I. to which place despatch and nine others were ordered by Col. Waterman aforesaid, under the command of a Sergeant whose name he has forgotten that such service was more than one month. The said Robert McKear further declares that at various other times not herein before specified during the said war of the revolution he was repeatedly called into actual military service, on sudden alarms, and on short expeditions - occupying a few days at a time - that such occurrences were frequent, but that it is impossible to state each one particularly and in the order of their occurrence but he is certain that he was at different times on such occasional alarms in actual service not above specified more than one month
The said Robert McKear further declares
1 st That he was born in the town of Newport in the state of Rhode Island in the year 1757 2 nd That he has no record of his age, but has always understood and believed it to be as herein before stated 3 rd That he lived at Warwick in the state of Rhode Island when he was first called into service as above stated - that since the revolutionary war he has lived at Prudence Island in the same state from whence he removed to the town of Middlesex in the County of Yates where he has resided nearly forty years, and yet resides 4 th That he was drafted whenever called into service 5 th That he does not recollect the names of any Regular Officers who were with the troops where he served 6 th That he never received any written discharge from service but was dismissed by his commanding officer on every term of service above stated 7 th That Michael Pearce, Sabers French and William

Bapett Esquires are well acquainted with him and who as he believes, can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution And the said Robert M c Near hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Robert M c Near Sworn and subscribed to This 10 th day of August 1832 Before me Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts of the County of Ontario aforesaid
And I Certify that the said Robert M c Near was at the time of subscribing and being sworn to the above Declaration, unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court pursuant to the regulation of the War Department -
Chester Loomis Judge of the County Court as aforesaid
State of New York Ontario County ss
Robert M c Near the above named applicant being duly sworn doth depose and say in addition to his foregoing declaration that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service as a soldier as stated in his said declaration but that according to the best of his recollection he served not less than eight months and for such service he claims a pension He further saith that he hath in his said declaration stated the period of the war when he served with as much precision as it is now in his power to do. He further saith that he is informed and verily believes that no Judge of the County Courts of the County of Yates, resides nearer than fourteen miles to the residence of the deponent - That he is not personally known to any of them as he believes - That he is in poor and necessitous circumstances - and feeble and infirm in health - That he is and has long been acquainted with Chester Loomis, who resides within four and a half miles of deponent and who is a Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County before whom his said declaration is made, and that these facts constitute the reasons that his said declaration is not made in the county in which he resides
Subscribed and sworn to This 3 rd day of January 1833
Before me Chester Loomis A Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid
Robert M c Near

State of New York Ontario County
Michael Pearce of the town of Middlesex in the county of Yates and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and said that he has been acquainted with Robert M c Kear who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, from the commencement of the revolutionary War to the present time, and he has personal knowledge that the said Robert M c Kear in the years 1776-1777 and 1778 was repeatedly engaged in actual service as a soldier in the militia of the State of Rhode Island when stationed to guard Warwick and Warwick Neck in that State, and that he knows that the said Robert M c Kear did render military services in the years aforesaid as stated in his said declaration. The said deponent further saith that the said Robert M c Kear has ever sustained a good character for truth and veracity during the whole period of his acquaintance with him. And further the said deponent saith not - Michael Pearce
Sworn and subscribed to this 10 th day of August 1832
Before me
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid
State of New York Ontario County
We Jabez French and William Basset residing in the town of Middlesex in the county of Yates and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert M c Kear who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration. That we believe him to be of the age of seventy five years. That he is reputed 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 to this 31 st day of August 1832
Before me
Chester Loomis
Jabez French
W m Basset
Judge of the County Courts of
the county of Ontario aforesaid -

State of New-York, } ss: County of Ontario.
I, CHARLES CRANE, Clerk of the county of Ontario, do hereby certify, that Chester Connis -- whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Affidavit to which this certificate is annexed was at the date of said Certificate and at the time the said Affidavit -- purports to have been sworn -- a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Chester -- and verily believe his signature as aforesaid, to be genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, at Canandaigua, this first day of September in the year of our Lord 1832. Charles Crane Clerk.
prescribed was a re Certify thirt B
Ontario County aforesaid

State of New York Ontario County p. 3
I Chester Loomis, One of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario, aforesaid, do hereby declare my 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. I further certify that I have been personally acquainted, during the last thirty years with Michael Pearce, Jacob French, and William Bapett Esquires, who have subscribed and sworn to preceding Certificates, and who reside in the town of Middlesex in the County of Yates, and that they are persons of respectability, and of undoubted character for truth and veracity - That all of the said persons have held the office of Justice of the Peace in the said town and that the said William Bapett is now a Justice of the Peace of the said town - and that in my opinion their statements are entitled to full credit.
Dated January 3 rd 1833
Chester Loomis Judge

State of New York Ontario County ss. I Charles Crane, Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Chester Poor is, who has subscribed the within cer- tificate, was at the date thereof a Judge of the courts of said County; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signature within to be his proper act and deed -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of Jan- uary A.D. 1833 -
Revolutionary War Robert M c Near -
Robert M c Near
Declaration
19788.
Commission Agent Rushville N.Y.
admitted. 8 mo. Private.

15 285 INVALID.
File No. 15 285 and Mr Nair McNeil
Robert McNeil Pri New Mar.
Act: June 18 32
Index:—Vol. 1, Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Naples N.Y. Aug 26 }
Free
Sept 1. 1836
N.Y.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Washington D. C.

New York Naples, August 25, 1836
Dear Sir
A man by the name of Robert McVear a Pensioner residing in this vicinity has become Insane and is not capable of doing any business whatever Mr McVear is poor and his Friends have requested me to write to you for Information how to proceed in order to draw his Pension
yours respectfully
Josiah Porter
Hon J L Edwards Comr of Pensions