Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6996, for Jeremiah Mason, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Mason, Jeremiah
P. 6996
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1930 Jan. 28 hist to Hon. Edgar Howard for Mrs. Mary M. Mascall. See case of John Mason No. 18479 M.C.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6996
P. O.
Jeremiah Mason
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
List of 1852 gives following reason for rejection: He was only 13 years old in 1880 when he alleges he enlisted.
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Jeremiah Mason 12 Dec. 1832 86.
Recorded Vol. 2 Page 130 51.

War Department.
Pension Office
Nov. 12 1832.
Sir.
The papers transmitted by you in support of your claim to a pension under the act of 7. June 1832 have been examined - In your declaration you allege that you enlisted in 1780 & served 2 or 3 years in Col. Willet's regt, having previous to that time performed military service upon emergency - The account of your age makes you 12 in 1780 - No boy at that age could perform military duty in the ranks & the regulations respecting enlistments forbid the reception of such. Your claim is therefore rejected & your papers retained in file.
Sept 25. 1832 Recd Oct 1 act 7. June
M c Leemiah Mason Johnstown

State of New York Montgomery County
On this 21 st day of September personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Jeremiah Mason a resident in the town of Johnstown and County of Montgomery and State of New York aged 66 years the first day of May next, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. The following named officers and the time he entered the Service of the United States is here in  fully set forth. That he entered the Service in the year 1780 as near as he can recollect, in the month of May the day he cannot state. That he was enrolled in Captain Pierce's Company. The other officers of the Company does not recollect. That during the time he served, there were several field officers who had the command of the Regiment in which he was, to wit, Colonel Willet, Colonel Livingston, Colonel Dighton, some previous to his enrollment and some subsequent. That he remained at Johnstown during the whole term of the War, and previous to his being enrolled was called out frequently in cases of emergency, and was out now & then during the whole time of the war until he was enrolled in the Militia, in 1780. That his parents resided in the town of Johnstown and in the village, and that his father and brothers were also in the army. That he was in the battle fought by Colonel Willet at the Johnson Hall in Johnstown and was one who helped bury the dead after the Battle. That he was in the Regiment that lay at Johnstown from the Spring or Month of May 1780, until the fall of that Major Brop was the British Officer who commanded at Johnstown on the British side when Willet commanded. That he still remained as a soldier after said Battle until the war ended and he cannot tell how long it was after

after the Battle he remained in the Service but according to the best of his knowledge thinks that he was in the Service after he was enrolled about two years and a half or three years, but cannot tell which thinks it was not for from the of  of  the  the  time  time . That during the of  of  the  the  time  time he was frequently out on scouting parties in search of Tories & Indians, who were prowling round that place and destroying the inhabitants when an opportunity occurred. That they were stationed at Johnstown to defend & protect that place from the Enemy. That same time in the year 1781 or 1782, that news came of peace being had between Britain and our people, but that it was not very certain, and that they continued in the Service a long time after that, an account of the Indians & Tories frequently returning and attacking the inhabitants. That he volunteered when he was enrolled. That he continued under the Captain he was in whose company he was enrolled until the following winter 1781, and then the Company was commanded by another Captain whose name he does not recollect. That he was under the command of several officers whose names he does not recollect. That he has no documentary evidence of his services. That he was born as he thinks in the year 1765 or 1766, at the County of Somerset New Jersey. That he has no record of his age but estimates kept by himself. That he lived in the town of Johnstown and County of Lyon (now Montgomery County). That he has lived since that time in the said town of Johnstown and County of Montgomery. That he never received a discharge from his services. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the the present, and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Subscribed the day & year written
Geo: D. Ferguson clerk
Jemimah Mason

We Simon Harsack a Clergyman, residing in the town of Johnstown and County of Montgomery and William Wallace residing in the same place hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Mason who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be of the age or about the age of 66 years; that he is reported and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed this 21 st day of September 1832. { Simon Harsack Pastor Geo: D. Ferguson clerk. } W m Wallace
Montgomery County p:
William Wallace, being duly sworn deponeth and saith, that he was an officer in the Army in the Revolutionary Service or War, and that he belonged to the Regiment that was stationed at Johnstown, and that he was at or about that place during the Revolution or part of the time and that Jeremiah Mason, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, was a soldier in the Revolution and who a Military Unit stationed at Johnstown belonged to Colonel Livingston's Regiment at or about the time - And this deponent further saith, that he knows, that the said Jeremiah Mason was in the service at least two years & a half or three years as stated in his declaration has been given and facts asserted, and this deponent further saith that the said Jeremiah Mason, was frequently out with this deponent on scouting parties, and this deponent further saith that he knows that the said Jeremiah was in the battle fought at Johnson's Hall, in Johnstown, for he saw him in the battle, and gave him orders -
W m Wallace
Subscribed & sworn this 21 st day of September 1832. { Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk }

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories 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 Simon Boosack Simon Boosack who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the town of Johnstown and that William Wallace who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Johnstown and is a credible person, and that their statements is entitled to credit. And that William Wallace who has made the preceding affidavit is a resident of the town of Johnstown & is also entitled to credit.
I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of Jeremiah Mason for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 24th day of September 1832
Geo: D. Ferguson
Jeremiah Mason

Power of Atty in the matter &c. of Jeremich Mason decd under act of 7 th June 1832,
To Giles H. Yates of Schenectady N.Y.

To the Hon the Commissioner of Pensions I hereby appoint Giles F. Yates Esq of Schenectady my true and lawful attorney with power to substi- tute to prosecute before you the claim of Jeremiah Mason for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832 and I hereby revoke all powers of attorney by me at any time heretofore made
You will be pleased to allow him or his substitute to examine the papers on file in your office relating to this claim Witness my hand & seal this 29 th day of Sept r 1852
Signed sealed & acknowledged Before me John Frothingham Justice of the Peace
William X J Mason
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. Fulton County Clerk's Office,
I, PETER W. PLANTZ, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John Frothingham Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said certificate of proof &c. is taken according to the Laws of this State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said certificate is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my offi- cial seal, at Johnstown, this 1 st day of October 1852
Peter W. Plantz Clerk.

Hon. Edgar Howard U. S. Housing R. presentation
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 6996, it appears that Jeremiah Mason was born in 1765 or 1766, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
He stated that while a resident of Johnstown, New York, he enlisted in May, 1780, served at various times over a period of about two and one half or three years, with the New York troops under Captain Tierce and Colonel Willett and was in the battle of Johnson Hall in Johnstown. He stated that his father and brothers were also in the army but did not state their names.
He applied for pension on September 21, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Johnstown, New York. His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish satisfactory proof of at least six months military service which was the requirement of the pension law.
It was not stated that Jeremiah Mason ever married.
One William D. Mason was living in 1852 but his relationship to the soldier was not given.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner
Pension Office rejected this claim on basis that soldier was too young to service but I did not give this reason as from the history of Johnstown at that time it is apparent that he did actually, service as he states.
Beginning of this letter in Jan. 1847