Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33038, for Henry Maer, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
for financial support.
Maer, Henry
NUMBER S 33038
CONTENTS

Notified on Sept 6th 1818 to Capt John Davis Cambridge Mass
5,469  Massachusetts Roll
 Henry Mace  Capt Johnson  Private  4  Pen te line 
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 30 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Jan y 1810 and sent to John Davis Esq r Judge  Boston
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818  59\frac{2}{3}  31 st 2/3 41:57 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 40:—
$ 89:57
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Westport Middlesex (?)

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 10 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Henry Maer by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Richd. C. Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

234
Henry Maer
6469
Northland
Can
Canada

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, Henry Claer resident in Syngborough - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6469 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, Henry Claer 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 30th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 27th day of January - one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.”
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,
 1 old cart $5.00  2 axes 1.50  1 grind stone 1.33  7 barrels 2.53  2 rings and old iron 1.17  1 broad axe 0.50  2 sickles 0.38  1 old gun 2.00  1 auger 0.33  1 old loom & stay 2.08  1 draft chain 0.84  2 pails & 2 tubs 0.95  1 bowl 1 basin 2 tumblers 0.38  5 cups & saucers 0.17  1 lantern 0.25  1 gallon bottle & 3 junk bottles 0.37  1 pitcher & 1 tumbrel 0.19  $19.84 

  Unio brot over $19 .86   2 pots & 1/2 kettles 1 .50   3 earthen pots 0 .30   5 earthen pans 0 .50   2 tin pans 0 .20   1 earthen jug 0 .00   4 old chains 1 .00   2 pair of shovel & tongs 1 .00   1 pair of bellows 0 .25   8 fowls 0 .75   2 sheep & 1 lamb 4 .00   1 pig 1 .90   $31 .30 
Lease of a small lot of land in the town of Westford given to me and pre- sent to hold during life. Income yearly 8 .00 Henry Maas. $39 .30
Declared & sworn to
Before Saml. Dana, judge.
And the said Henry Maas declares that he is Seventy Seven years of age, that he has a wife who is lame and incapable of doing any work to assist in supporting my family - And the said Maas first being sworn on oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution three years - that he en- listed into the Continental service in September 1782 - in Captain Johnson's company in Major Low- dy's Regiment of Artillery and continued in said service three years. Henry Maas.
Sworn to & declared
Before me } Saml. Dana II Judge.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, Henry Clae 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.
Henry Clae
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Henry Clae took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana. Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , 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
Twenty one dollars & 87 1/2 cents besides an annual income of eight dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

No 57
Henry Macl.
Not on Roll
Maj t Hampton Pennsylvania Line 1782 for the term of 3 years — Not on Roll

I Henry Maer of Westford in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts Husbandman of the age of Seventy five years do depose and on oath declare that I am a native of Germany that I arrived in America during the War between the United States & Great Britain and resided in Reading in the State of Pennsylvania in the month of September in the year One Thousand seven Hundred & eighty two, I enlisted at that time as a private soldier in the army of the United States on the Continental establishment for the term of Three years under Major Hampton of the Pennsylvania line when I was sent to Philadelphia and thence to Westpoint in the company commanded by Captain William Johnson. After doing duty on the fort at Westpoint I was sent back to Philadelphia in said Company for the purpose of getting a mutiny in the troops there stationed on account of their want of pay - after residing

there in Camp for the space of two months & a half the said mutiny was quelled, and I was sent to Westpoint in said Company and was then attached to Colonel Greene's Regiment of artillery where I did duty as a private on the said fort until September in the year one thousand Eight  Seven hundred & fifty five when peace having been previously declared between the United States and Great Britain I received an honorable discharge from my commanding officer Captain William Johnson which discharge has since been lost. That I am still a resident in the United States to wit at Westford aforesaid and by reason of poverty & reduced circumstances I am much in need of pecuniary assistance.
Yours sincerely
Nett

Man to Dist. Ct. Boston March 30. 1818
Sworn to before me
W. D. Davis Dist Judge Mass Dist
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 5 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Henry Maun subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A. B. together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
W. D. Davis
} Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.

33038 Rey INVALID.
File No. 33038
Henry Mac His Her was
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 272
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Host A George Patterson Henry Maen

I George Batterman of Boston in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Master Mason do depose & say that I am well acquainted with Henry Maer the aforegoing deponent that in the year One Thousand seven Hundred & eighty two the said Maer married Catharine Batterman who was my mother - That at that time the said Maer was in the army of the United States in the Continental establishment, and that after the said Maer was discharged from the said service of the United States my said mother & said Maer removed to Philadelphia, which was in the year eighty five - That from letters & other communications which receiving from the years Seventeen Hundred & eighty two & the year Seventeen Hundred & eighty five I was repeatedly advised of their residence in Philadelphia Westphalia - after which time they removed

from Philadelphia to Westford where they resided ever since - That from my knowledge of the said Maer & his family I believe the foregoing subseque facts to be true - That the said Maer is in reduced circumstances, and has been in a great degree helped & maintained by myself & family - George Bathorman
Messrs. Dist. At. Boston March 30. 1818
Sworn to before me M c Devitt Dist. Clerk Mass. Dist. C.

Mass. Dist. S. Boston 9. May 1818 I George Batteman, who signed the foregoing Affidavit do now further depose & say, that since making the foregoing Affidavit, viz. some time during the last week, in looking over the Papers belonging to a Sister of mine, who has lately deceased, & who kept house for Henry Maier, I found the Discharge of said Maier or Nyer, from the Army in the Revolutionary War, & which discharge I herewith produce.
George Batteman
Mass. Dist. S. Boston 9. May 1818
Sworn to before me
W. Davis Dist. Judge Mass. District.

Henry Myer Matlack in the Corps of Artillery, having served the term of three years - the time for which he was enlisted in the service of the United States is hereby Discharged from the same with Honor -
Given at West Point this 1 st day of October 1805
Wm Johnston Capt.