Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 6882, for Henry Mansfield, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Sea Service Mansfield, Henry
R 6882
CONTENTS

3729 Henry Mansfield.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT ss.
AT a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty eighth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this twelfth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Henry Mayfield a resident of Portland in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Sixty seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entitled  is  to the service of the
to make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted into the service of the United States against Great Britain in the Revolutionary war, at Salem in Massachusetts in May 1781, on board the American Schooner Renegade, 16 guns & eight mounted for three months, cruised off Halifax about five weeks & was then driven on shore at Cape Sable by the British Schooner Brigs & Sloop Howe. lost the vessel was twenty one days on the Cape in Island when he was taken off by the American Armed Schooner Languadock (Capt. Jeremiah Hagedorn). That he had been about ten weeks in the Renegade when the Island when he joined the Languadock. That soon after he joined the Languadock, made prize of a British Brig after a short action & was put in board of her as one of the prize crew & cruised in New London Port with the prize having been about twenty days on board the Languadock & her prize. That he immediately returned to Salem & shipped on board the Armed Brig Bloodhound of fourteen guns. (Capt. Atkinson) cruised for three months & cruised in the Grand Banks made no prizes & returned to Salem in December 1781. That early in the year 1782 he shipped on board the Armed Ship General Green of twenty guns (Capt. Grenville) commanded for three months: cruised in her until she fell in with a British transport Brig of 16 guns, engaged & captured her & ever put on board as one of the prize crew & cruised with the prize at Salem in the fore part of the summer of 1782. He soon after again shipped on board the Armed Schooner Thresher of thirteen guns & mounted. (Capt. Perkins) commanded for three months, sailed & cruised off Isle of Hope engaged after a long & hard action captured a letter of marque after heavy guns. The Thresher lost two men killed & some wounded. The captain of the letter of marque was killed. was put on board the prize & cruised with her in Salem in the fall of 1782. That he does not know of any persons living who were on board with him same Elijah Kenney whom testifies he has taken. & he finds that Kenney has mistated the course for this passage. He was born in Salem in 1763 & resided there until about 1804 when he moved to said Wallasey & has resided there ever since. He never had a written discharge. The whole of the testimony he took for the purpose of applying to Congress for a pension. He has no record of his age. That he attended the Methodist meeting where the clergy were who then officiated as preachers. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
The undersigned of no other than the prize & announced with her in some That he does not know as any person living who remained with him same Elijah Kenney whom testifying he has taken. & he finds that Kenney has mistated his Church for this Perryville. He was born in Salem in 1763 & resided there until about 1804 when he moved to said Wallasey & has resided here ever since. He never had a written discharge. The whole of the testimony he took in the presence of applying to Congress for a pension. He has no record of his age. That he attended the first meeting where the clergymen who then officiated are requested to change. & no one preacher came forward to become acquainted with his house. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
the State of
Henry Mansfield
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Isaac Wace } U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Mansfield for a pension. And that John Anderson Esquire who took the annexed deposition of John Merrill is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty eighth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Mufsey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

We Benj a B. Mansfield aged seventy two & Wm o Wellman aged sixty two do on oath severally depose and say that my Henry Mansfield was to our knowledge and belief actively engaged on board several vessels during the year 1781. & 1782. - privatizing - that he now resides in Portland - that since that period (of 1781) he has resided there or within the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts - since that time. -
Salem, Oct y 7. 1830.
Benj a Mansfield Timothy Wellman
Essex ss. Salem Oct y 7. 1830. Then the above named B. B. Mansfield & Wm o Wellman made Oath that the above affidavit was true.
Before J. P. Saunders
Jus t of peace H. Rootum

We Elizabeth Evertt - and Anna Price now of Salem in the County of Essex and Com- monwealth of Massachusetts on both whose and say that our brother Henry Mansfield now residing at Portland in the State of Maine - as to our knowledge actively en- gaged in the service & for the defence of the United States on board Schooner Thresher Revenue Schooner Sanguineck. Schooner Brig Bloodhound Ship Ben Green - from the early part of the year 1851. - to the close of the year 1852. - in the privateering service -
Elisabeth Evertt Anna Price
In name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Yours &c. Oct 5. 1850
Then Eliz a Evertt & Anna Price severally made Oath that the above affida- vit by them subscribed was true according to their best knowledge & belief.
Before - Nathan D. Pounder Notary Public

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
6882
P. O. _____
Henry Mansfield
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

3729
Maine
Henry Mansfield June 1832
refuted
See Letter to Hon John Anderson
2 Nov 1832
Rev H. Hamlin,
Dec 8/52.
6882

I Abijah Kenney of Boothbay in the County of Lincoln Sixty nine years of age depose and say that in the year A seventeen hundred and eighty one I was on the Island called Cape Lohave on the Nova Scotia shore where I saw Henry Mansfield then of Salem, who was then with Capt Elage then also of Salem who informed me that they were cruising in the privateer Sloop called the Comet of Salem, and were driven on shore on said Island by a British brigs about three weeks before I saw them there; as nearly as I can recollect I was then in the Privateer Schooner Languedoc of Salem with Capt Hagady who was Master, and who took on board the crew of the Comet consisting of Capt Elage, Mansfield, Pepper, and a colored man, and they all sailed with us in the Languedoc until we took a British Brig from Bermuda, Kilpatrick's master, and said Mansfield and myself were put on board of the said Brig, and carried her into Newburyport and there we parted, which was in the Month of July in the year above named as nearly as I can recollect.
Abijah Kenney
Lincoln J. January 12 th 1831. Then the above named Abijah Kenney personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Edmond Wilson Justice of the
Peace for the County of Lincoln
State of Maine.
Office of Secretary of State Portland Jan 26. 1831
I hereby certify that Edmond Wilson of the County of Lincoln in said State of Maine before whom the within named Abijah Kenney made oath to the foregoing affidavit, is a Justice of the Peace, and duly authorized to administer the same.
Roscoe G. Greene Secretary of State.

I John Merrill of Portland in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged sixty three on oath declare that I have been acquainted with Henry Mansfield of Portland aforesaid for more than twenty years. That he is generally reported & believed by his neighbours to have been a seaman in the private Armed Vessels of the United States in the Revolutionary war. I further say that said Mansfield sustains an irreproachable character for truth & veracity & that I fully & entirely believe that the declaration of said Mansfield this day made for a pension is strictly true so far as the recollection of said Mansfield goes. John Merrill
Cumberland ss August 28 th 1832
Subscribed & sworn to before me this day aforesaid John Underwood justice of Peace

Mr. Henry Mansfield to Ship Genl. Green Prize Dr  1702  Aug. 1. In 6. pair 3. point Blankets @ 10/6 £ 3..3  " 17 p. 2 1/2 p. Blankets @ 2 p. 2 p. D o 6/3 7..0..6  " 1 p. 1 1/2 p. D o 5/ 1 p. 1 p. D o 4/ 9  " 3 p. (Damaged) D o 6/ 1 pair Navy 12/ 1..10  " 15 y d Broad c 3/6 to 30 y d Ratten c 1/3 14..10  " 11 y d Embroid. Sarge c 1/3. 12 y d Ratten c 3/ 2..9..9  " 10 y d Ratten c 3/ 4 y d D o c 1/ 2 y d damaged c 1/6 3..7  " 2 1/2 y d Green Bayn c 1/9. 3 y d white D o c 3/ 7..4  " 12 y d Broad Batts c 1/2. 1 1/2 Ceynur c 1/6 Fin 2/1 1..2..10  " 3 3/4 y d Floating c 4/ 2 1/2 Seas c 2/3. 3/4 D o c 10/9 1..0..9  " 1 y d red Broad Cloth c 1/ 2 1/4 y d (Damaged) D o c 6/6 3..10..1  " 10 y d Vermillion c 3/ 3 y d Green Cloth c 12/ 3..6  " 11 y d Dowlas 1/ 5 doz. Shives c 3/ 3 doz. d. c 2/ 1..12  " 1 Carpet 10 y d c 2/6 4 1/4 y d Ratten c 1/6 2..15..1  36..19..4  " 1 y d Linnen c 3/ 1 p. Tobacco 2/ 25 y d Linnen c 1/6 3..3  " 25 y d Linnen c 1/2 5 p. Gloves 9/6. 1/2 doz. pins 3/ 2..1..10  " pen knives & scissors 1/ 3 p. Garter 9/6. 1. Quat 1/5 16..11  " 2 Green Buttons 1/9. 12 y d Collar c 2/3. 1 p. D o 2/ 2..9..9  " 1 p. Hose 3/6. 1 p. 2/3. 1 p. 3/ 1 p. 2/3 10..9  " 2 p. Ribbon @ 10/ 4 p. D o c 5/ 1..0  " 3 p. Shoes c 4/ 1 p. Boots 16/ 1..7  12..10..3  " 1 Watt 12/ 10 y d Lace c 1/6 6..9  " 3. Handkerchiefs 2/ 1 handk l 2/6. 1 D o 2/3 10..9  " 1 Black handk l 3/3. 2 handk l 5/ 3 Remalls 2/6 10  " 1 feather 3/ 1/2 doz. Shirts 5/ 1/2 doz. Ink powder 2/ 6..7  " Quills 1/ 1/2 doz. 3/ 2. Flowers 2/7 9  3..10..5  " 1 pair Silk Shoes 52..19..0
Advances 3 for 1
150..19
30 gal Rum @ 5/ 25 gal Brandy c 3/ £ 11..5  10 Sugar c 1/4. 16 3/4 Cheese c 1/ 3 3/4 Butter c 1/ 1..13..4  1 Indian Gun 24/ 1 Rifle D o 36/ 3  25 Shot c 6/ 20 Lead c 6/ 42 1/2 Balls c 6/ 2..3..9  5 gal port Wine c 5/ 1 1/4. Finesse press c 45/ 4..1..3  2 1/2 Finesse Shur c 99/ 17/ Tobacco c 13/ 13..0..9  1 1/2 0. Flour c 33/ pipes 4/ 2..1..7  Sundries from Brig. Olive Branch 6..12..6  44..6..2  In cash paid Brig. Mansfield & Reut 5..14  " 6  Apr. 16 In cash p. you & Reut 10..10  Oct. 4 In cash p. you & Reut 7..1..0  " 50 powder @ 2/10 11..0  23 In cash p. you & Reut 3..3..9  33..1..1  Dec. 3 In cash in full & Reut £ 236..6..3
1702 Supra 6 th  By 1/4 share of Ship General Green Prize £ 236..6..3
John Decent 3 1702 Errors Excepted  Jos: Mansfield Agent