Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7006, for Jacob Massy, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
Ms.
or Massy, Jacob Massey
R 7006
Katharine
CONTENTS

Catharine Massey, widow of Abrn Massey - Act 7 July '38 Franklin, Johnson Co Ind
P. of Atty, pled 11 th Oct, 1853
Brice atty Present

Know all men by these presents, that, I, Abraham Massey, of the County of Johnson, and State of Indiana, one of the heirs at law, of Jacob Massey, of the Army of the Revolution, and Catherine his wife, do by these presents constitute and appoint Richard M. Roff of the City of Washington and District of Columbia, my true and lawful attorney for myself and other heirs at law of said deceased parents, to examine & prosecute any claim due our deceased Mother, for a Pension due , or arrearages of any such due, and authorize him the said Richard, to all such acts as are necessary and legal to be done, in examining and prosecuting said claim. Witness my hand and seal this 31 st day of August, A. D. 1853. Witnessed by us Milton P. Adams Henry Sibert I love him more for self, and other heirs
State of Indiana County of Johnson S k .
On this 31 st day of August, A. D. 1853, personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, for the County and State aforesaid, Abraham Massey who acknowledged that he executed the above Power of Attorney for the uses and purposes therein stated. Witness my hand and seal this 31 st day of August, A. D. 1853.
David Alexander P. L. B.
State of Indiana County of Johnson S k .
I Jacob Sibert, Clerk of the Organic Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid do certify, that David Alexander, Esquire, before whom the above Power of Attorney was executed, was at the time an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, and that due faith and credit is due to all his official acts. In testimony whereof

I have hereto set my hand, and caused the seal of said Court to be affixed, this 31 st day of August A. D. 1853.
Jacob Libent, Clerk

Mary Bond
B.
2
for 1.00

We bind ourselves our heirs Executors and Admin rs to Richard Caswell Esq. Governor &c in the sum of five hundred Pounds conditioned that no legal cause shall hereafter appear why the rites of marriage should not be solemnized between Jacob Massy and Catharine Barrier agreeable to Licence - bearing equal date with these presents. Witness our hands and Seals this ninth day of April A.D. One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty five.
Test
Jac Massy Seal Abraham Dennis Seal
North Carolina
Rowan County S.
I John Giles clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the marriage bond of Jacob Massy, taken from the original in my office, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the original, in fair legible figures as follows, "9 th day of April A.D. 1785."
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office the 27 th day of March A.D. 1844 -
John Giles cl by John H. Hardie
D. clerk

107/15
Katharine Kasey J Abraham Indiana
Act: 7. July 38 Feb '44
A.
7000

State of Indiana } Johnson County } on this Twenty ninth day of February One thousand Eight hundred and forty four (1844) personally appeared before the subscriber Associate Judge in and for the County and State aforesaid Katharine Massy a resident of said County and State aged Eighty three years who being by me first duly sworn According to law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions Made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled An Act Granting half pay and pensions to Certain widows That she is the widow of Jacob Massy who was a private in the Army of the revolution and served one Year By enlistment in the continental line of North Carolina she is not certain as to the corps he was in She thinks he served under Capt John Morison She Cannot state in what year precisely when her deceased husband entered the service but thinks it was about the year 1781 she further declares that as well as she can Recollect she was married to Jacob Massy her deceased husband in the month of march A.D 1783 and that her deceased husband the aforesaid Jacob Massy died on the 11 th day of may 1796 she further states that she was Not married to her husband prior to his leaving the service But that the marriage took place previous to the first of January A.D. 1794 viz at the time above stated
Katharine her Massy mark
Sworn to and subscribed } On this 29 th day of February } A.D. 1844 before me }
Robert Moore Associate Judge

Robert Moore the Associate Judge Before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed do certify that Katharine Mosey the declarant is unable from bodily infirmity to attend said court at its usual place of sitting,
giving under my hand and seal this 29 day of February A.D. 1844
Robert Moore Associate Judge
State of Indiana Johnson County
I David Allen Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do Certify that Robert Moore whose official Signatures appear to the foregoing declaration is Associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified as such and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed my seal of Office This 1 st day of March A.D. 1844
David Allen Clerk

Cath Massey widow of Alm Massey - Franklin Johnson Co, Ind - Oct 7th 1838
Proof of Heirship, filed 11 th Oct 1853
R. M. Kip Atty Present

State of Indiana County of Johnson 3 d Set
In the Johnson Court of Common Pleas October Term A D 1853
I Jacob Schott Clerk of the Johnson Court of Common Pleas laid and for the County of Johnson and State of Indiana do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has this day been produced before said Court that Abraham Massey, Henrietta Stogdale wife of Daniel Stogdale and Rachel Hughes wife of Hiram Hughes are the only living children and heirs at law of Jacob Massey and his wife Catharine Massey That said Jacob was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution that he died in Montgomery County in the State of Kentucky about the year A D 1799- That said Catharine died in Decatur County in the State of Indiana on the A D 1844 - or near that time
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 7 th day of October A D 1853
Jacob Schott Clerk

March 15, 1940.
Mrs. A. S. Frye, Sr. 506 West Columbia Somerset, Kentucky.
BA-J/ILL Dorson Sewell W. 8712 Jacob Massey R. 7006
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Dorson Sewell and Jacob Massey, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, who resided in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
The records of these two soldiers are furnished you herein, as found in claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
DORSON SEWELL-W. 8712.
The record of Dorson Sewell follows as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 8712.
Dorson Sewell was a resident of Wilkes County, North Carolina, at the time of the Revolutionary War. His residence previous to that war was not given.
He volunteered in said Wilkes County, in April 1776, served as private in Captain Frank Hattgreve's company with the troops under General Rutherford, a part of the time near Isaac's Fort, later against the Cherokee Indians and was engaged in three battles and returned home in November of that year, having served more than three months. He volunteered next and served three months as private in Captain Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina company, engaged against the Tories. Subsequently, he enlisted under Lieutenant Ellison, marched to Georgia, was in the battle of Augusta, was in several skirmishes during one of which he was taken prisoner but was released after a short time, and was discharged from service by Colonel O'Neal near Briar Creek, length of said service nearly eighteen months.
This soldier died August 30, 1833 at the age of about eighty-two years, in Pulaski County, Kentucky. He was designated then Dorson Sewell, Senior. The date and place of his birth were not given.

Dorson Sewell married in North Carolina, in June 1780 or in 1781, Mary or Polly, whose father was John Lipps, of Rowan County, North Carolina. While her husband was in service, she lived with her father and was there when a party of Tories came the house and took all of property which was "of any account". The name of her mother was not given.
Polly or Mary Sewell, this soldier's widow, was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War on her application executed August 18, 1834. In 1839, she gave her age as seventy-seven years; she lived then with her son, William R. Sewell, in Pulaski County, Kentucky; he was aged then twenty-seven years. He signed his name Sewell.
The names and births of the three oldest children of Dorson Sewell and his wife, Mary (Polly), were listed as follows:
Susanna Sewel (Sewell) born March 3, 1784. Elizabeth " " " July 10, 1786. Sarah " " " May 21, 17-4(torn).
William R. Sewell, the son cited above, referred to the births of other children but did not state any names or ages.
In July 1834, Joseph Sewell was a resident of Cumberland County, Kentucky, aged eighty years; he was acquainted with Dorson Sewell in Wilkes County, North Carolina, when he entered service in 1776, but did not state any relationship between them.
----- JACOB MASSY- R. 7006.
The record of Jacob Massy(Massey) follows, as found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 7006.
Jacob Massy resided in North Carolina, in the year 1781; he was in Burke County, a part of the time between March 1781 and August 1782, but it was not stated that he resided in that county. He married in that state, Catharine (her name shown also Katharine)

Barrier. She stated that they were married in the month of March 1781; however, a copy of their marriage bond from the records of Rowan County, North Carolina, shows that said bond was signed April 9, 1785. The soldier's name on that copy is shown as "Jac Massy"; one Abraham Ennis was present and signed also.
Jacob Massy died May 14, 1796, or "about the year 1797", in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and was buried "on the farm of Mr. John Allen of said county".
Catharine (Katharine) Massy applied February 29, 1844, for the pension which might have been due on account of the service of her deceased husband in the Revolutionary War. This widow resided then in Johnson County, Indiana, at which time her age was given as eighty-three years; the date and place of her birth and the names of her parents were not given. It was stated then that Jacob Massy enlisted about the year 1781, in North Carolina, and served about one year as a private under Captain John Marion in the North Carolina troops. It was shown that a Jacob Massy procured a substitute to serve one year in Captain William Armstrong's company, Colonel Francis Lock's North Carolina regiment, June 24, 1781, also, that a Jacob Massy procured a substitute for six months from March 20, 1781, July 4, 1781, in Burke County, North Carolina, Lt. Col. Dan'l. McKesick, and that a pass was issued August 15, 1782 to Jacob Massy in Burke County, North Carolina, by Captain John Hardin.
This claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of six months by Jacob Massy was not established as required by the pension laws.
Catharine (Katharine) Massy died in Decatur County, Indiana, in the year 1844 "or near that time".
In October 1853, the names of the only surviving children and heirs at law of Jacob Massy and his wife, Catharine, were listed as, Abraham Massy, of Johnson County, Indiana, Henrietta Stagdale, wife of Daniel Stagdale, and Rachel Hughes, wife of Hyram Hughes.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Jacob Massey N.C. 1870-86.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

Heads of North Carolina York County
The Bearer here of Jacob Massey is arrived to claim to Ireland about his lawful business and as he hath been refused and therefore
to the United States and his Ben satisfied in the Discharge of Duty as a Subject ought to be permit the a Company to part and upon his Believing himself as the Law Directly given Under my hand this 15 th Aug 1782
Capt John Ward

Camp Tschakhe 24 Jun 1781
I hereby certify that Jacob Haffey have delivered Martin Smith to some one - year in the Continental service in his place of the said Smith is now We bonded man Given under my hand
Wm Armstrong Certified by me Capt J. P. O'Brien Francis Lock Colo comd

Mr. —

10.
V 10765 Katharine Massy Indiana
Let. to Hon. O. Brightlaw, June 18 '44 " " " June 18 '44 " " " July 30 '44 " to H. H. Pyloult March 29 '45 Covers several cases - asks for report from N.C. State records.
Act July 7. 1853

Ind 10765
Katherine May
ad to J. S. & A. L. Smith Dec
1845 do to H. M. W. W. W. & Co. for membership letter in R 3360 for charging membership
1846 7 Let to Sec 4 Feb 28 June 1850. Decision affirm
by Dec. but ad interim, July 1850 - see his later filed with Dec. Prob. No 55 Oct. 27 1853
1838

Sir
Yours of June 21 '44
In the case of Katharine May I have the honor to enclose you a copy of the regulations and to require that her claim shall be  be  disposed before a board of  of the  and the  requisite proof of the service & date of the marriage to be furnished — The Office of the Secy of N. I. will supply the first and the other will no doubt be found in the Office of the Clerk who issued the licence. Mary Wallace is not entitled under the act of 7 July 38 as her husband drew a pension during the 5 years to which that act was limited and the act of 30 ap. last provides that no pension shall hereafter be granted to a widow for the same time her husband rec. d one. — If her claim is renewed under the act of March 43, the date of the marriage should be established by a certified copy of the marri- age bond or other satisfactory evidence — See Mr. Mansford's repetition of his former imperfect decla- ration uncontradicted by any proof whatever has been filed with the other papers — Unless such proof of all essential facts as the

only register shall be adduced, that no allowance can be made —
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June 11. 1844
John P. Licklin A.R.

House of Reps May 6 th 1844
Hon J. L. Edwards Sir
Enclosed I send you the proof of messages in the case of Mrs. Maff.
Her papers are on file I think in your office let me know if you cannot find them.
yours respectfully Orlando B. Gillette

State of Indiana / Owen County ss
Be it known that on this 13 day of June A D 1844 before the Subscribed Magistrate in and for Owen County Personally appeared Elizabeth Leonard who being duly sworn according to law says that she was present when Jacob Massy the husband of Katharine Massy of Gibson County Indiana who is now applicant for a Pension. Dies that he died about the 14 day of May 1819 in Montgomery County Kentucky that he was interred in the form of Mr John Steen of said County
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13 day of June A D 1844
Elizabeth Leonard mark
David Crockett J.P. Qual
Certify that Elizabeth Leonard who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition is a credible witness given under my hand and seal this 13 day of June June A.D. 1844
David Crockett Qual a justice of the peace

State of Indiana, Allen County, Set.
I Thomas C. Johnson Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, do hereby certify that David Crockett Esquire, is an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Allen aforesaid and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Spencer this 13 th day of June, A.D. 1814.
T. C. Johnson. Clerk
Ser 144
C.
3

Department of the Interior July 23. 1850.
Sir,
I herewith return the papers in the case of Katharine Mapsey, and I have to inform you that your report of the 28 th Ult o has been affirmed.
I am very respectfully, Your O bt Servant (Signed), D. C. Goddard Ad interim
H. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions,

6
Apr 4. 1849
Dr.
Mr.
July 7 1838
Oliver Wallen 32
Luford
Home of Dr. Wallen
Hm. O.B. Nicklin VT 22

House of Reps
April 3 rd 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq
D r Sir
Enclosed I send you the declarations in three cases the proof will be forwarded as soon as it is completed.
It is desired to have the papers placed on file, so as to prevent any change that may be made in the Pension laws.
Yours respectfully Orlando B. Ficklin

July 9. 44
200
Ind. D. Catherine Massey
Miss M c Millin
C. B. Michelson
Edward's son Museum of Dentition Washington City D.C.

1847. Feb. 1
La B. L.
Ind. D. Catharine Massey
Dear M c Millin
O.B. Michelson
Edwards son Abner of Pendleton Washington City D.C.

Allen W. Chapman
June 18 '44

Pension Office June 1844.
Sir. The additional testimony in the case of Katharine Massay has been examined and filed. The date of the marriage established but the service remains to be proved as stated in my letter of the 4 th June 1844.
  Hon. B. Franklin  " 10765    Charleston  Oct 7 th July 2 nd '35    Colo 6 th  "    H.C.  "  

Dear A. B. Stickland
July 30 '44

Sir
St. Louis Mo. July 30. 1884
The documents transmitted by you in the case of Katherine Masey I have the honor to inform have been filed with the other papers. They afford no means of ascertaining the service of her late husband in the N. C. Line. They merely show that he belonged to that Line in June 1781 and furnished a substitute (Martin Smith) for the unexpired term of his enlistment. The certificate of the Secy of that State is again suggested as the desired proof.
Hon. O. B. Sicklin Charleston Coles Co. Illinois

Washington D.C. 3 September 1845
Sir,
We transmit herewith the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina to be filed with the other evidence in the case of Catherine Mafey of Indiana. This certificate shows a payment of nine pounds to her husband, which, with the discharge & the remaining testimony, we submit as entitling her to a pension.
We are very respectfully yrs obt Serv J L & A Tho Smith
J L Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions.

Palmetto N. C.
Comptrollers Office
I William Hollins Comptroller of Public Accts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby Certify that the Name of P. Masey appears in Book G. No. 1 (being a Record of this office) as having had a Special Certif- icate for Nine Pounds issued in his favor for Military Service as will appear on page 52. I further Certify that I have seen no other Masey on the Books whose given name commences with P. given under my hand and seal this 18 th day of August A.D. 1845.
Wm. Hollins Compt
9 2½ 18 4.50 22 22.50 180

J. R. & A. J. Smith
Oct. 21. '95

Pension Office
Oct. 11. 1845.
Gentlemen,
The additional testimony in the case of Katherine Massey has been examined and filed. The Comptroller of St. Caroline states that a special certificate for £9 was issued to J. Massey . Admitting this Massey to have been the husband of the applicant, the sum paid him is not large enough to cover six months service. The documentary testimony only proves that on two occasions he furnished able bodied men to serve in his stead, and for that service by substitute the law would  does not allow a pension to himself were he living, nor can it be allowed to his widow.
Ellis T. L. & A. T. Smith
Present

Hall of Representatives Feb 5. '46
Hon. Com. Pensions
Sir
Your last letter (on the subject of the application sustained by a forged discharge) was not necessary for my information, but to satisfy the applicant, who will now know, what I knew before, that M c C o s cannot get a wrong thing done here. What your response to this note may be I know not. It may answer the same purpose.
In 1842. Catharine Massey applied for a pension as the widow of Jacob Massey.
What has been the decision in that case?
Very respectfully
H. H. Wick

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
70006 REJECTED
P. O.
Katharine Haysay
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Printed Volume - Rejected - Suspended
Alleges: Pensions - page 419 - Suspended Claims - Indian
Barred by Act of Apr 30 - 1844 - reinstated under Act of March 3 - 1843 - July 1 -
Re-enlisted: 1848 - JLL/3-15-1940.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1940 - Mar. 15 - sent to Mrs. A.S. Haysay, St. Louis

Pension Office, Apr 10. 1853
Sir
I wish to see the papers of Catharine Massey, widow of Abraham Massey, of Franklin, Indiana, No 10.765, "act 7 th July 1838" Jane Clark, Moors Fork, N.Y. No 6.873, "act 4 th July 1836."
Respectfully
W. M. Ropes, atty
S. Cole, Esq
Chf Clerk, Pens. Office

R. M. Rop Oct 22/33

464 Pension Office Octo 22 1853
Sir
On the 23 d of July 1850 Mr Secretary Ewing decided that the case of Katharine Massey of Indiana could not be allowed. Not one single point, requisite for the completion of a claim, having been made out. No additional evidence has been filed since then. The case can not, therefore, be re-opened.
R. M. Rop Esq
Frank

Oct. 11, 1853.
ADP ev. in case of bath- rim Massey, Oed, widow of Abraham, Johnson ev., Ind \frac{a}{n} .
act 738.
R. M. Root, Present.

Wash City Oct 11 th 1853
Pension Office
Sir
The suspended case of Catharine Massey, filed under act of 7 th July, 1838, I wish to have examined & decided, as soon as convenient. I file a Power of Atty & Proof of Heirship in the case.
Respectfully Wm. Rags
Hon. L. P. Waldo Chair of Pensions