Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,930, for Isaac Lane, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lane, Isaac
S. 18930
Carded.
CONTENTS

11.483  Maurice
Isaac Lane of York Co. in the State of Penna who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lane of the Regt commanded by Col. Hunter in the Pa. Key Stone Battery.
  8. Sh. 17 1/2  Doz  31.93    15 " 13 " "  51.42     $ 83.35  
Inserted in the Roll of - Pennsylvania at the rate of $3 Dollars 35 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of May and Sept 6 1833 Mr J. H. C. Jr. Portland. Me  Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 166.70 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Sept " - 41.67  $ 208.37
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. D. Sprague Clerk Book E Vol. 5 Page 31 -

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 Seventeenth day of April A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- three before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this Seventeenth day of April  Isaac Lane a resident of Hollis in the county of York in said Maine District, aged Seventy nine 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
was a soldier in the Continental Army . That in the year 1774 as a musician in a company commanded by his father Col. Daniel Lane in the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Scholfield. He then joined said Regt at Cambridge in Massachusetts in the following April marched & joined the Maine Army as it was retreating from Ticonderoga at Ft. Edward on the Hudson . In the Spring of 1778 marched up the Mohawk River to Cherry Valley in New York which settlement was burned by the Indians at which place we had an engagement with the Indians under Brant in which Col. Holden was killed part of our Regt cut up. In June 1779 we left Cherry Valley & marched to the head of the Susquehanna descended that River joined Genl. Sullivan at Tioga & formed the famous Conestoga Expedition . After destroying the Indian settlements in that region returned to West Point where I was discharged Dec 25th 1779 & my discharge is sent to you. Afterwards in Jan or Feb 1781 he again enlisted for three years and put in the Continental Mass. Regt under Col. Brooks Creek Schuler there he remained & served until the 31st of Dec 1783 when he was honorably discharged by Genl. Knox which discharge he now has but as it bears Genl. Knox signature he does not wish to part with it. A copy of which is here annexed. That he was born at Buxton in said county of York & was married there & in Hollis an adjoining town that he was born in March the 2nd 1764 & his age was recorded in a Bible which he believes is yet in possession of some of his father's family.
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 of any agency in the State of
Isaac Lane
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Ashur Ware
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 Mussey 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 Isaac Dorr for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this nineteenth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three .
John Mussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Copy
By the Honorable Major General Know
Commanding the American Forces in Hudson River, Bacon La. - Soldier in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment having enlisted for three years is hereby hereby Discharged from the service of the United States
Given in the State of New York the thirty first Day of Dec r 1783
Wm. M c Guire
By the General's command
Registered in Books of Regiment
Thos H. Cady Adjt B t
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a Discharge shown to me this day by the Hon. Bacon La. & he declines sending it to Washington for a wish to retain the original copying of Gen l Know - Mr. Anderson late a Member of Congress for Mason Purdue April 17 th 1833

West Point Dec. 26 th 1879
Yale Lane a soldier in the 7 th Massachusetts Regiment having served the term of three years for which he was engaged is discharged the Service of the United States and has leave to return Home
John Paterson B Genl d

Pensylvania
X R E F
Hon Lewis Cass.
Dear Mr. Thai
Washington

Scituate April 19 th 1833
Sir: I enclose the application of Isaac Lane for a pension & as his case is a perfectly clear one shall be particularly obliged if you will give it an early examination. One Discharge for three years service is annexed. The other of which I made a copy he does not wish to part with as it bears Genl Knox signature. Col. Lane commanded a Regt during the last War. has been twice an Elector of Pres & Vice Pres in our States & many years a member of our State Legislature. From his known high character as well as the evidence he produces there can be no doubt but he is as he states.
I beg your indulgence a little further. On my return from Washington I was made acquainted with the poverty & misfortunes of Eleazer Farnwell of Lyngborough. Massachusetts & was told he was expecting a pension. If his case could be passed upon speedily it would afford relief to a very distressed man & family.
I have the honor to be Sir, with great respect your obst Servt John Andros
Hon Lewis Cass Secy of War

I William Hancock of Hollis in the County York and State of Maine depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army in the company commanded by Capt Daniel Lane of the 7 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Ichabod Alden and that I was then & there personally acquainted with Isaac Lane now of Hollis aforesaid and that he served in the same company and regiment with me as a Musician for the term of three years or thereabouts and that there is the same Isaac Lane named in a discharge signed by John Paton Binge Genl dated at Westpoint Dec 25 1779-
Witness. EMERSON his William X Hancock Isaac Merrill Mark
York ss. April 13. 1833. Personally appeared the above named William Hancock and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. Before me. Isaac Merrill, Jn. of the Peace
I hereby certify that William Hancock the above deponent is a credible witness. Isaac Merrill, Jn. of the Peace

Maine District
District Clerk's Office April 19. A.D. 1833
In testimony that the within named Isaac Merrill is a Magistrate as within and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day and year last above written.
John Nufsey Clerk U.S. Courts