Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33062, for John Mansfield, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Mansfield, John
NUMBER _____
8 33062
CONTENTS

1,213
Massachusetts.
John Mansfield, private Massachusetts line - 4 1777 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of July, 1818, and sent to the care of Daniel A. White, Esq.; Salem, Massach.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $: 96 - Semi-annual ending 41.03
4 months, \frac{15}{30} $: 32 - 5 months \frac{4}{31} $: 41.03. { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Salisbury, Essex Co.
Voluntary claim Oct 18, 1820 to John Mansfield Salem, Mass.

Daniel A: White Esq; Judge. John Mansfield Massachusetts line Salisbury & Mass. ts Revolutionary claim.
found found on the rolls - correct.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I Daniel H. White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County, do certify that John Mans- field of Salisbury in said County person- ally appeared on the first day of April A.D. 1818 & made the declaration aforesaid by him signed under oath before me, & then afterwards in like manner the addition- al declaration aforesaid; that Jacob Proven a magistrate of said County also personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the affidavit annexed by him signed; and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Mansfield served in the revolutionary war as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court the twentieth day of April in the year aforesaid.
D. H. White.
Essex ss. I, Clerk of said Court.

I John Mansfield of Salisbury, in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Testify and Declare, That I enlisted in the Army of the late Revolutionary War, in March, 1777, and served Three Years, under Captain James Varnum, Colonel Michael Jackson's Regiment, General Learned's Brigade, and was regularly discharged, by Colonel Michael Jackson, but my discharge is lost. —
John Mansfield
I do further swear that by reason of my reduced circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support
John Mansfield

John Mansfield 12/13
July 1818
Low. 25/6p
1820
con

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Mansfield resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1,213 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Mansfield late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  one half of dwellinghouse and five rods of land - - - $ 30.00   dwellinghouse and about fifteen rods of land - - - - 75.00   Three old tables 1.00 | writing desk 25¢ | six chairs 1.00 - - - 2.25   1 Looking glass 50¢ | chest with drawers 25¢ - - - - .75   2 iron pots 1.00 | dish kettle 25¢ | tea kettle 20¢ - - - 1.45   10 lbs old pewter 1.57 | crockery ware 40¢ | tin ware 20¢ - - 2.27   3 iron spoons 3¢ | six knives & forks 15¢ | 1 pr. and irons 30¢ - .48   1 shovel & tongs 20¢ | old books 25¢ - - - - - .45   $ 112.65 
I, John Mansfield of Salisbury, do testify and say, that I am a shipwright by trade; that my age is sixty four years; that through the infirmities of my body, and failure of business, my earnings for some time past have been very small, and for the last year in particular, have not amount-

ed to more than fifteen dollars - My wife, Anna, whose age is fifty eight years has for these thirteen years past labored under such a degree of mental derangement as to be incapable of contributing any thing towards her own support or taking any care of my family; that I have three children usually residing with me, viz: Betsey, who has the management of my family, aged twenty three years - John aged nineteen years & Timothy aged fifteen years; that they enjoy tolerable good health but are earning little or nothing for want of employment - By the help of my pension I am able to subsist without the assistance of the town, but if deprived of that, I must apply to the town or private charity for support -
And I do further testify and declare that I actually enlisted and served as a private in the army of the revolution as set forth in my declaration of April 1st. 1818 now on file in the office of the war department at Washington John Mansfield
Essex Gt. July 10. 1820, sworn and subscribed to before me
Stephen Minot
I John Mansfield in addition to my former declaration dated 10 th inst. do testify & say that I am indebted to Israel Morrill of said Salisbury in a fair note of hand of several years standing to the amount of one hundred dollars and that the half of a dwelling house appraised as mine in the accompanying schedule has been from the date of said note, pledged to said Israel Morrill for the payment of the note - Altho' the title of said half house is in me, yet that I never have received and never

never expect to receive any advantage, rent or profit from the same, and that I stand indebted to various other persons in the full sum of fifty dollars —
John Mansfield
Essex ss. July 17. 1820.
Subscribed & sworn to before me Samuel Nye, Just, Peace
and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Mansfield do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my 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 on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
John Mansfield
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Mansfield took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
dollars  nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

33062 Pay INVALID.
File No. 33,062
John Mansfield His Rev Wao
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 292
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Jacob Brown of Salisbury in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify and say that John Mansfield of said Salisbury was a soldier in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution - in the year 1778 (or) in the year 1779 - I know that he served in the Army (and have no manner of doubt that he served the full term of three years I was in the Army myself of several terms saw him there he was in the Regiment commanded by Col d Jackson - (He) was sick at one time with the small pox - while I was in the Army (and) sick at the same time.
Jacob Brown.
April 4, 1818.

John Mansfield

Massachusetts.
We the Subscribers, all of Salisbury, in the County of Essex, hereby Certify, That John Mansfield of said Salisbury, and late a Soldier in the Army of the late Revolutionary War, now over the age of sixty years, is so reduced in his circumstances, as to need the assistance of his Country, that he is nearly past his labor, and has no means of subsistence, excepting his own hand labor. —
Salisbury April 1, 1818
Seth Clark Amos Morrill { Selectmen. — Samuel Eaton {
Names of Citizens. —
Joseph Sye Town Clerk. — Names of Citizens. —
Samuel Dyer — Edward Dorr. — John Colley Merrill Colley Benj t W m Lowell Jonathan Osgood. George Morrill Gerrit Garrison Enoch Fowler