Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32409, for John Mead, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Mead, John
S. 32409
CONTENTS

Order to pay 27 Sept 1837.
22341
Indiana
John Mead
Dearborn Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the comd by Captain Bogard of the regt Col Vanrental in the New York line for 18 months & 3 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 60 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of October 1833 and James Dill Laurenceburgh
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 150.83
Semi-ant. allowance ending March 30 17
$181.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Royd Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 10 Page 121

The State of Indiana County of Dearborn } ss Dearborn Probate Court
26. 729.
On this 13 th day of August  July A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court before John Livingston Esquire President Judge of the Dearborn Probate Court now sitting. John Mead a resident of Manchester township in the County of Dearborn & State of Indiana aged 69 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 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 therein stated viz at Albany City in the State of New York in the New York line of State troops in the Spring of 1776 as he verily believes under Captain Bogard commanded by Colonel Henry Vanmenselaer & served the said term of Nine Months faithfully & principally at Fort Herkimer at which place was discharged & that he acted as a private & Substitute for a drafted man whose name he has forgotten. That he again entered the Service of the United States by enlistment the first of April 1782 for the term of Nine Months under Captain Joseph Harrison & commanded by Colonel Marinus Willet at Albany City New York State & marched to the Schoharie Posts where he did duty constantly & faithfully until the first day of January 1783 at which time he enlisted with Captain Joseph Harrison under the said Colonel Marinus Willet at the upper Fort in Schoharie in a Regt. of 3 years men, one year of their said term had then expired & his enlistment was for the remainder of the term being 2 years. That one Pirum Ripley now a resident of Livonia in the County of Livingston & State of New York was a Sergeant in the same company the whole term of the Service from the first of April 1782. & that he the deponent served until the 6 th Day of January 1784 & that he served at Albany City, Schenectady, & Kaaterskill & at Fort Herkimer & Fort Stanwix & Fort Hldin & that on the said 6 th of January 1784 he with the rest of said Regt. was discharged & that (Carried over)

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is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to & Subscribed this the 13th Day of July August in the year of Our Lord 1833 John M c Ad
Sworn to and subscribed in open court 13th day of August 1833 James Dill Clerk
We Ezra Ferris a clergyman residing in the town- ship of Lawrenceburg Manchester & Henry Hopkins residing in the township of Manchester also & County of Dearborn hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with John M c Ad who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 69 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion & believe his statement correct Sworn & subscribed the Day & year aforesaid in open court James Dill Clerk { Ezra Ferris Henry Hopkins
And the said Court do hereby declare this { Ezra Ferris Henry Hopkins opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ezra Ferris is a Clergy- man who has signed the preceding certificate resident in the township Lawrenceburg of Manchester & that the said Henry Hopkins who has also signed the same is a resident in the said township of Manchester & is a credible person & that their statements is entitled to credit
John Livingston
I, James Dill Clerk of the Probate Court in & for the County of Dearborn do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John M c Ad for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 13th Day, August of July in the year 1833
James Dill Clerk of the Probate Court of Dearborn County

He received an honorable written discharge signed by Peter B. Tiere (or Pierre) Captain Commandant. That when he entered the service he was a resident of Kinderhook Albany County, then, & State of New York, that in the Regt. of three years men he recollects the following officers besides those enumerated Lieut. Moore, Lieut. Skinner & Major Fink & also Colonel Vanskirk who had the command of a Regt of Regular troops that did duty at Fort Stanwix while he was there - That Colonel Willets Regt & another Regt from Rhode Island of Regular or Continental troops marched from Fort Plain towards Oswego Fort on Lake Ontario with a view to take Oswego Fort then in the possession of the British he thinks it was in the winter of 1783 the Snow was near 4 feet deep, the men on the expedition failed in their object & suffered exceedingly by frost - Many of the Rhode Island Regt. were blacks & suffered most, many of whom were left behind & were picked up by the British & taken to Oswego Fort. Questions by the Court Where & in what year were you born? Answer by deponent That he was born at a place called Wakaat in the State of New York near the State of New Jersey on the 10th Day of April 1764. 2d Have you any record of your age & if so where is it? Answer That he has the family record of his fathers family & was given him by an older Sister many years since
3d Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do you now live? Answer, When called into service the first & 2 terms of nine months services he was a resident of Kinderhook Albany County New York & for the 3d term of service he was already in the army at the Upper Fort in Schenectady on the Hudson river. That after his discharge in '84 he lived at a place called New Canaan 22 miles in a S. East direction from Albany 6 years & was then married. That he then moved to the township of Westford County of Otsego N. York & lived there over 20 years. That he moved thence to his present place of residence the township of Manchester in the County of Dearborn & then Territory now State of Indiana where he has resided ever since
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4 th How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute? And if a substitute for whom? Answer. That his first term of 9 months service was as a substitute for a drafted man whose name he has forgotten. The 2 d term of nine months service was he thinks by volunteering or enlistment & the 3 d term he knows positively was by enlistment. 5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental & militia Regts. as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service — Answer That the answer to the 5 th question is embodied in the main declaration.
6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it? Answer That he received an honorable written discharge dated January 6 th 1784 Signed by Peter B. Pierce or Peter B. Pierre & which he cannot distinctly recollect who was Captain & Commandant at that time at the Schenectady Barracks New York State. & that he lost the same by wearing it out, carrying it in his pocket.
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, who can testify as to your character for veracity, & their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution. Answer. That he is acquainted with Ezra Ferris a Clergyman & Henry Hopkins of his neighborhood who are well acquainted with him. That he has no documentary evidence in his possession relating to his first term of 9 months service & that for the 2 d & 3 d term of service he has the affidavit of Pierson Ripley of the State of New York who was a Serjeant in the same company with him the said terms & that said affidavit taken on the 24 th day, May 1833 before Judge Lemuel Gibbs of Livingston Co. N.Y. is all the evidence he knows of as to his services. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section MCS/eel our
October 24, 1928
Edna Ruth Miller 3855 S. Flower Street Los Angeles, California
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32409 , it appears that John Mead was born, April 10, 1764, at Kakaat, New York, near the State of New Jersey.
While a resident of Kinderhook, Albany County, New York, he enlisted and served as a private with the New York Troops as follows:
From the spring of 1776, nine months in Captain Bogard's Company in Colonel Henry Van Rensselaer's Regiment.
He enlisted, April 1, 1782, served in Captains Joseph Harrison's and Peter B. Tearce's Companies in Colonel Marinus Willett's Regiment and was discharged January 6, 1784.
After the Revolution he lived in New Canaan, New York, where he was married, date of marriage and name of his wife not stated, and he then moved to Westford,

Otsego County, New York, and then to Manchester Township, Dearborn County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1833, at which time he was living in Manchester Township, Indiana.
This is the history of the only soldier named John Mead, who served from New York and moved to Indiana, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

32 H 09 Rev INVALID.
1978, Oct. 24 hist. to Edna Ruth Miller M.C.A.
File No. 32, 409
John Mead Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York Livingston County ss
Before me Simon Gibbs a Judge of Livingston County Court, person- ally appeared Pium Ripley of the town of Livonia in the County of Livingston County Court , aforesaid being seventy years of age & upward, and being duly sworn according to Law deposeth & saith that he may well apprehend with one John Mead a private soldier in the revolutionary army of the New York State Troops, and that the said John Mead entered the service of the United States by enlistment first of April 1782 for the term of nine months under Captain Joseph Harrison and commanded by Colonel Marinus Millet was mustered at Albany and then marched to the Fort at Schobahine in the State of New York and while at the said Fort, the said John Mead enlisted for two years into the same command calculating that the whole term of service would have been two years and nine months from the commencement of the first enlistment which last enlistment was to commence and did commence the first of January 1783 and that this deposent was a sergeant in the same company & well knew the said John Mead and that the said John Mead served the term of one year and nine months from the first day of April 1782 and discharged on the 6 th day of January 1784 and this deposent further says that the said John Mead served the said term of one year & nine months, constantly and faith- fully in the said command and was dis- charged at the Schenectady Barracks in the State of New York at the same time the rest of the Regiment was discharged and that

said Company & received neither discharge and these of the said Company were signed by Peter B. Tice Captain Commandant and that said Company under Captain Haines was stationed and did duty at Schoback Fort Plain in the Mohawk River - Fort Herkimer & Fort Stanwix in the state of New York and further this deponent saith not sworn & subscribed this Simon Ripley 24 th day of May 1833
Before me -
Sermon Pibb a Judge of Livingston County Court
I hereby certify that Sermon Ripley of Livonia in the County of Livingston and state of New York is well known to me to be a man of respectability and credi- bility and is reputed & believed in his neigh- borhood & particularly by myself to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I firmly believe his statement in the foregoing affidavit is just & true -
Given under my hand & seal this the 24 th day of May in the year of our Lord 1833 at my office in Livonia in the County of Livingston & state of New York
Sermon Pibb a Judge of Livingston County Court -

Chauncy R. Bond Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Livingston and State of New York do hereby certify that the said Lemuel Gibbs before whom the said affidavit of Sirum Ripley was taken is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Livingston authorized to act as such. And that the said signature of the said Lemuel Gibbs attached to the said affidavit of Sirum Ripley and also the signature of the said Lemuel Gibbs signed to the aforesaid certificate certifying the character & credibility of the deponent Sirum Ripley are both are  both his the said Lemuel Gibbs Genuine Signature and Real Given Under My hand and seal of office this the 25th day of May A.D. 1833
Chauncy R. Bond Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Livingston county in the State of New York. By S. G. Haven Dep. Clk

Dear
26. 7. 29. - John Michael 1. - Indiana 1833 1976
for 1 chng 17827
1 Br 6 3/4 3 days
1 Br 6 0 1 33 69 100 57
30 16 5 150 83
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Sch Mr Evans
FREE
James L Edward Espling Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Pension Agency Indianapolis Sep 16 th 1837
Dr Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Sir.
John Meade's voucher is sent — he having delayed to draw until after twelve months
Yours Truly
James M. Ray Cashier

Jan - 5 - 1928
Hon. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Dept of the Interior, Washington D. C.
Dear Sir -
In my attempts to trace my Mead ancestry I found that my great great grandfather, John Mead is in the "Pensioners of the Revolution" 1840. At that time he was living with his son, Eli B. Mead in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The family had lived in Cherry Valley, N. Y. and I believe that was the home during the Revolution.
I would appreciate

Your giving whatever data you have in your files regarding this John Read. There are two men by that name listed as Revolutionary soldiers but the information I have given should be sufficient to distinguish the one in whom I am interested, I believe.
Thanking you for any information you can give me, I am very truly yours
Edna Ruth Miller 3855 S. Flower St. Los Angeles, Calif.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Mead, John GRADE Sergeant LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12359 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 5, 1790 To Hm. J. Wredenburgh, assignee of
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.