Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,079, for Abiathar Mann, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Mann, Abiathar Jerusha
N. 17,079
CONTENTS

Connecticut 30.91 Nathan Mann of Tolland in the State of Ct who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pitkin of the Regt commanded by Col [blank] in the Mass a line for 7 months Private
Inscribed on the Roll of Ct at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of Feb y 1837 and sent to M rs Mary Holt Noakes
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1836 $128.31 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 1837 11.66 $139.97
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Addison Clerk. Book 2 Vol. 3 Page 28-
Rept d March 6 1832

3745
Connecticut
Jemima Mann,
widow of
Abraham Mann dec d
who died on the 4. March, 1839 of Hebron in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Titus of the Reg t commanded by in the Mass s : line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 5th day of March, 1839. when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. day of June 1842 and sent to Hon. J. H. Brockway , H. Reps
  Arrears to the 4th of March '42  69 99    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep.  11 66     81, 65  
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by Thos. Moody Clerk, Book 6. Vol. 3 Page 78.
Reported Letter to Pension Age 19. Apr. 1847.

no 5612.
Jerusha Mann
Coat.
act of July '36
m ar 3. d 39
adm.
7 mos pr
23 33.
Died 4 March 39.
Pen. Com. 5 March '39.
Hon. J. H. Brockway H. R.

State of Connecticut Hartford Probate District } ss
On this 18 th day of June 1842 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford Hannah Mearns a resident of Bolton in said District aged 91 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oaths make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Abraham Mearns who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army for which service he was inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the Connecticut Agency as by his application and the doings thereon now on file in the Pension Office will fully show and to which proceedings she refers for proof of her claim.
She further declares that she was married to said Abraham Mearns on the seventh day of November A.D. 1773. That her husband the aforesaid Abraham Mearns died on the 4 th day of March 1839 leaving her his widow and that she has remained a widow ever since.
Hannah her X Mearns mark
A. Lucius J. Hemen Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford do hereby certify that the fore-

going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applications of Sarah a Mann for a Pension. {revenue made before signing}
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Nelson this 18 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two
Lucius J. Hemen
State of Connecticut, Tolland County Bolton Town Clerk's Office } June 18 th 1842
Copy
Sarah Mann and Sarah Gilman were married November eleventh seventeen hundred and seventy three.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in full legible figures as follows "Nov 11 th 1773"
Attest David Alvord - Town Clerk
I David Alvord above named do hereby certify that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the County Town State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract

from the records of said Town of Bolton with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
Hezekiah Alvord — Clerk of the Town of Bolton.
State of Connecticut } Tolland County } G. Bolton June 18 th 1842
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Notary Public in & for the State aforesaid Paul Alvord who has subscribed the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same — never made before signing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the day & year last before written
Lucius J. Holman Notary Public
State of Connecticut } Tolland County } G. Bolton June 18 th 1842
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Notary Public in & for the State aforesaid Paul Alvord & George T. Loomis & being first duly sworn according to Law did depose & say that they were well acquainted with Nathaniel Mearns while in life & that the said Nathaniel Mearns died on the 4 th day of March 1839 leaving Sarah Mearns his widow and that she has re- mained his widow ever since Hezekiah Alvord
George T. Loomis
I certify that the affiants are persons of truth & their statement is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the day & year first before written.
Lucius J. Holman Notary Public

Abiahar Maun Count.
adm P Y mo. pri 23.33
Hon. Orin Holt. Henry Brown Esq. Present

State of Connecticut Tolland County } ss. No. 1836 Probate District
Present Cyrus Mowens Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for said District On this 10 th day of August A.D. 1836 personally appeared in open Court Abiathar Mowens a resident of Bolton in said County of Tolland State of Connecticut aged 88 years who being first duly sworn according to his oath on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. — On the first of February 1776 he enlisted for a term of duty of two months as a private in a company commanded by Jonathan Wells Capt. Richard Pitkin Lieut. and on the first of March was marched to near Boston where we were stationed & performed the usual duties of a soldier for the term of two months when we were discharged having served two months as a private
And that on the first of August 1776 he was called out with all the militia for a term of duty at New York and was marched to New Haven & from thence by water to New York & from thence to Kingsbridge where he was chosen corporal & there remained in the service three months & performed the duties of a corporal when we were discharged the company in which he served was commanded by Timothy Sturtevant Capt. Richard Pitkin Lieut. Elisha Bickley Ensign

2 And that on the last of August or first of September 1777 he was drafted for a tour of duty of three months, at West Point in a Company commanded by Richard Pitkin Capt Nathaniel O'cott Lieut & was marched to West Point & there stationed where he remained until two months had expired when he was discharged having served two months as a Private
To the following interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he gives the following answers
Where & in what year were you born — He was born in Bolton on the 8 th Day of July A 1748 — Have you any record of your age — He has no record of his age — where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? He lived in East Hartford when called into service & since the Revolutionary war he has lived in S d E. Hartford & Bolton & now lives in Bolton — How were you called into service In his town at Boston he enlisted — in his town at New York he was called out with all the Militia & in his town on the North River he was drafted — Did you ever receive a discharge — He does not recollect that he ever rec d a written discharge — Did you ever receive a commission — He never had a commission In his tour at New York he was chosen Corporal but does not recollect that he ever rec d a warrant if he did he has lost it —
He herewith produces the testimony of John Coleman of Bolton who served with him at Boston also in the same Regiment at New York who is the only person that served with him that he knows to be alive at this time whose testimony he can get and has no documentary evidence of any of his s r service

He is known to Deut Almond Ely & Rev d James Ely of Bolton who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Abiathar
his X Mark
We James Ely a clergyman residing in the Town of Bolton and Deut Almond of said Bolton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abiathar Moann who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 88 years of age that he is respected and well believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
James Ely Deut Almond

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories 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 James Ely, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Bolton and that Saul Alwood, who has also signed the same is a resident in said Town of Bolton, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Simon House Clerk of the Court of Probate for said District of Hebron, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Heathan Mann.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10 th day of August A. D. 1836.
Simon House Clerk

I John Coleman of Bolton Tolland County and State of Connecticut aged 79 years do testify & say that in the month of Feby 1776 I enlisted into a company of state troops for a term of two months duly commanded by Jonathan Wells Capt. Richard Pitkin Lieut. I was marched to Roxbury near Boston where we remained until our term of service expired when we were discharged having served two months and I will remember that Abiathar Mearns Man of East Hartford none of Bolton was a private in the same company with me & served the whole term of two months with me & was discharged at the same time.
And the deponent further says that about the first of August 1776 the company of Militia to which I belonged was ordered out for Albany near New York & we were marched to Mt. Haven & thence to New York & stationed near Kingsbridge where we remained three months & was discharged having served three months as a private My Captain's name was Warburton and I will remember that Abiathar Mearns was a Corporal in a company stationed near me commanded by Timothy Ckenney & that he served the whole term of three months as a corporal & was discharged the same time that I was. And the deponent further testifies & says that it is understood & generally believed in the neighbourhood where he resides that the sd Abiathar Mearns was drafted for a term at the North River & that he left home & was absent for a length of time but the deponent cannot tell how long.
John Coleman
State of Connecticut } ss Hebron Probate District Tolland County } on this 10 th day of August 1836 personally

Appeared John Coleman signer of foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same contains the truth & nothing but the truth. And this Court certifies that the s d John Coleman is a man of truth, and that his statement is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year last aforesaid.
Simon House Clerk

I Saul Alword of Bethel in Tolland County State of Connecticut do hereby say that I am fifty five years of age & that Abraham Man has ever since my remembrance resided in the neighborhood in which I live & I have been well acquainted with him & I have always considered him a man of undoubted truth & veracity & as far as my knowledge extends he has always been considered as such in the neighborhood in which he has lived & it has always been believed in among the people that he served his country in the revolutionary war Saul Alword
State of Connecticut } ss. Hebron Probate District Tolland County }
On this 10 th day of August 1836, person- ally appeared Saul Alword Esq. the signer of the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth, and this court certifies that the said Saul Alword Esq. is a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, this 10 th day of August A.D. 1836
Simon House Clerk

State of Connecticut
Office of the Secretary of State in Hartford August 11 th A.D. 1836
I hereby certify that by me Joseph Mann Joseph is a Judge of Probate within and for the District of Hartford Litchfield in this State, which is a record of record and certified by signature & seal of office, all out of the Court, as appears by the records of this office
In testimony of which I have hereunto affixed the seal of this State and signed the same officially at the date afore
Day K. Brimman Secretary of State

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17079
Jernsha Mann
Wid. of Abiathar Mann
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:—Vol. M , Page 8
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Abathar Mann 1 feby 76. 2 mo pri. Capt. Wells. Col 1 aug 76. 3 mo. pri & borl. Cheney 1 sept 77. 3 mo pri. Pitkin x 2 mo says witness -
near Boston New York } witness Westpoint

116.65 11.66 128.31

Alvah Mann Esq.
Seis p r See Vol. 60 N Brown 16 aug 36
adm d
act d June 1852
H Brown Esq of Cooperstown NY present

Pension Agency Hartford April 13. 1847
Sir
I transmit herewith the papers of Jerusha Manno, Anna Strickland and Sarah Olmstead, pensioners on the Roll of this Agency who claim to have one years pension due. For special directions relative to their payment
The Magistrates before whom the papers were executed have filed in this Office the required evidence of their Official character and signature
I am very Respectfully
Your Ob Serv.
A Goodwin Henry Fowler Pro Clerk
J. C. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Hobson Dec r 1 st 1836
Sir
I herewith send the additional papers in support of the claim of Abiathar Mann for a pension whose application is now on file in the Pension Office presented originally by Henry Brown Esq. Cooperstown N.Y. by whom they were sent from this place. In your communication to him now in my possession it was stated that, "The two terms of service for which he has furnished a witness are less than the minimum provision of the act of June 7 th 1832 and unless he can furnish direct or corroborative proof of the third he should not expect a favorable decision." His extreme age & bodily infirmities prevent him from making any exertions for himself & his property having now been all expended for his support & having a wife who has been divorced for above sixty years all under him peculiarly helpless and without a known relation in these parts - I was informed of his case some time last summer for the first time and there held a special court at his residence & his declaration was forwarded immediately and on receipt of your

communication for H. Morn Esq. as soon as the business of the office would permit (to wit) on the 18 th of Nov r another court was held at his 1 o residence & the proceedings are herewith sent as also the certificate of the Comptroller which is all that I have been able to procure for him. I would request the department to examine the affidavit of Mr Coleman now on file with the applicant's declaration which if I recollect right contains corroborative testimony to his Hard service also the affidavit of Mr Thomas Loomis herewith sent for the same purpose. Mr Coleman is a resident of Boston a very respectable farmer as also Mr Loomis who is a very worthy member of the Congregational church & whose veracity is unimpeachable and the said applicant's neighbours all concur in stating that the 1 o Abiathar Munn has been uncommonly strict in the observance of his moral & religious duties & I said him to be a very amiable old man patient under his trials, which I learn has been his character through his long life thus far. He stated other tours that he performed but no evidence could be found and they were omitted as there is but one survivor in the town where he lives whose testimony he has procured all these that served are dead —

And after having visited his neighbourhood & made close enquiry I do not hesitate to believe that he served even more than he was stated & I think that the Department will after being assured that there is no fraud intended, review his statement & the proof in support of the same & if consistent allow his claim. And I would here state that no connection exists between the applicant & myself known to me and I never heard of the man until application was made to the Court.
I am
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner Pensions Washington
Respectfully your active Obt. Servant Cyrus McCormick

No 5612.
June 25. 1842.
Ch.
July 4. 1836
Jemima Mann
J. L. Schwartz Esquire
Corn. Station
Washington D.C.
Am J. A. Brockway W.R.

House of Reps
Friday June 24. 1842.
Sir:
Enclosed I send you Mrs Jerusha Mann's application for pension. Will you do me the favor of communicating to me at an early a period as may be convenient the result of your examination in relation to it
J. A. Edwards Esq. Sir
Yours truly
John W. Mackay.

State of Connecticut Tolland County
ss.
Hartford Probate District
On this 18 th Day of November 1836. personally appeared in open Court before Cyrus Mann Esq. Judge. Abiathar Mann a resident of Bolton in 3 rd District & State of Connecticut aged 88 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he has been blind for about seventeen years and that at the time he should have made application he was and ever since has been very feeble in health and he has no connection in this State to feel any interest for him that he has often expressed a wish that he had some one to make applica- tion for him. That he served faithfully the whole time stated in his former declaration & he knows no one was living that served with him in his third service. That he is very old & his memory very much impaired that all his comrades in that service that he can recollect are dead. He refers the Department to Mr. Columbus affidavit to corroborate his testimony to his third service accompanying his former declaration & the testimony herewith produced which is all he has been able to produce.
Abiathar his X Mann Mark.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written and this court certifies that the applicant is a person of truth and his statement entitled to credit, and this court has made inquiry in the neighbourhood where said applicant resides and is of the opinion, that the reason he did not make

application sooner was because he was blind and helpless, and had no one to make application for him and this Court is also of opinion, after making due enquiry that the said applicant did do a tour of duty as stated in his third service in his declaration now on file in the Pension Office, that all his comrades in that service that bore the name, are dead, and the said Nathaniel Mann is by reason of his age and bodily infirmities unable to attend Court, or write his name, and a special Court was held at his residence for this purpose, and he signed the declaration by making his cross —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 18 th day of November 1836 —
Simon House Clerk

I Thomas Loomis of Boston in Tolland County & State of Connecticut aged 80 years do testify & say that I have been intimately acquainted with Abiathar Mann of said Boston for about sixty years that his character for truth has never been questioned & his Christian depart- ment without blemish and I believe that the reason he did not make application for a pension sooner was because of his infirmities & helpless condition that I have known him to be blind for about 17 years that during the revolutionary war I knew that he was frequently called out on volunteer in the service that he was drafted for a tour of duty at West Point near New York from home and was absent a length of time but the deponent cannot tell how long but believes the service not less than two months as he declares
Thomas Loomis
State of Connecticut } ss. Hebron Probate District County of Tolland }
On this 18 th day of November 1836. personally appeared Thomas Loomis signer of the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth, and this Court certifies that the said Thomas Loomis is a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to credit
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year last aforesaid
Simon House Clerk

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connecticut November 25. 1836
I certify that on application for evidence of the revolutionary service of Mr. Abiather Mann, I have examined the Books & Papers remaining in this office, and find & certify as follows:—
In the books of the late "Pay-Table Office", this entry (May 13. 1779) "United States D r To order on Treasr. Cap. Sim o Cheney's hospital bill his Cr. "19 th Reg t M a to Y. £36.12.1." (This being one item of the entry— nearly the whole of which is for orders drawn for service at New York in 1776.)
In the same Books the following entry:— "1779 Jan y . 1— Cap. Rich d Pitkin D r To Cash of Col o Jon a Wells P y Y r Rec d £119.8.0" And also the following:—
"1778 Dec r . 17 th . Col o Jon a Wells Cr r By Cash paid Cap. Rich d Pitkin & deducted from his Pay Roll £119.8.0"
I also certify that no pay rolls of the above Captains have been found, nor has the name of Abiather Mann been discovered in any of the Books & Papers of this office.
Wm Field Comptroller