Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,855, for Clement Masters, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Masters, Clement
S13855-
carded
CONTENTS
Twelve horizontal dotted lines for writing.
Twelve horizontal dotted lines for writing.

See letter to R. P. Fleming July 19. 1873.
11.83 2
Pittsburgh Agency
Clement & Masters
Green Coy in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dickerson of the regiment commanded by Col. Dayton in the New Jersey line for six months and twenty two days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of 22 Dollars 41 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of July 1833 and sent to Floride A. Stewart Uniontown, Pa
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 44.82 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4. Sept. 1833 11.20
$ 56.02
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 84

name as signed Clement Masters but Miss Wilson told me to spell it Clemment .

Rev. Amos
✓ 13855 INVALID.
File No. 13. 855
Clement Master Div. Rev. war
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 289
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Union Town July 18 th 1883
Genl L. Economie Esq Dear Sir
A few days since I received the pension certificate of Clement Masters . I hope you will pardon me in alleging an error in making out his certificate to be in amount at $22.41 per annum. I have now a copy of his dislocation before me. and from the period of his actual service to be eighteen months when he was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner to the close of the war. Will you have the goodness to correct if it be wrong or explain if otherwise.
Truly your friend & Servt R P Thresher

Declaration of Emancipation Proclamations volume
Admitted
S. 22
P 22. 41
Hon. A. Stewart Uniontown Pa
Memorandum

Greene County Pennsylvania
On the 18th day of June 1883
before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County now sitting. Clement Masters here- -by appeared in open court. Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act "to confer upon certain persons" the 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and services as hereina- -stated. That the first of February 1776 he voluntarily engaged to perform one year's service in Captain Peter Beckwith's company of New Jersey Volunteers and attached to a regt commanded by Col Elias Dayton. That he was first marched from Morristown N. J. to Elizabethtown. When he was transferred to Col Beckwith's regt from Elizabethtown he was marched to New York. and there took shipping and went to Albany. When they lay about one week. from thence they were marched to Johnstown on the Mohawk river which place they took. and from thence were marched up the Mohawk river to Fort Stoney alias Stoney. Where they remained and remained there for five months. after which they were relieved by Col Bull of New York. and this regiment with the troops to which he belonged were around on to the assistance of Genl Montgomery at Quebec. but arrived too late to render any assistance. and found the troops on their retreat and returned with them to Saratoga. where they lay two or three months. and marched from thence to join the main army at Middlebrook in the state of New Jersey. This was in June or July 1777. having continued with the army more five months beyond the period of his engagement. then he was induced to do so in consequence of a promise made him by his major of advancement if he would continue with the army. (his major now was Francis Barber) and had actually received nearly arrived and had gone out with a scouting party in July 1777 and near a place called Melletown in a skirmish with the Hepe- -rons was taken prisoner and taken with them to Brunswick and from thence sent to New York. and there had on board a prison ship and was kept a prisoner until the close of the war. That this regiment was eighteen months in actual service that is from the first of February 1776 until Oct July 1777 when he was captured. and continued a prisoner till the close of the war This affidavit is at this time at a loss to know state with certainty

What kind of service he performed. Whether strictly it would be considered Militia service or Continental. one thing he remembers well. That is. before he first went out he determined. and voluntarily engaged to serve one year That he never received any bounty, and further he noticed constantly of a morning with the army and performing service for  six months after his engagement with the ex- =pectation of advancement. having the promise from his officers. That he has no documentary evidence of his service. Nor does he know of any persons by whom to prove them. That his reputation as a revolutionary  soldier will be established by Henry Bates. and Simon Masters. That he resides in part of Greene County west of from any clergyman and is not personally acquainted with any. He therefore cannot get any to testify for him. He remembers when he entered the service in Essex Co New Jersey. That he returned to New Jersey after he was liberated. Where he remained some years. Then removed to Green County where he still resides. He went voluntarily into the service.
The names of his officers and the several circumstan- =ces of his service are stated in his application as near as his frail memory will enable him. He never received a written discharge.
He has no religious feeling for nor an animosity to the same except the present & acknowledges that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. He has been in Essex County New Jersey in the year 1758
He has a record of his age now subscribed as follows Count June 10th 1833.
his Clement Masters mark
Essex County P. O. Box
his Clement Masters mark

The Gideon Masters of Greene County Penn a and John  Henry Little of the same place do hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Clement Masters who has known & embraced the for- going declaration. That he believes him to be nearly seven years of age. That he is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war & that he concurs in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed in open court June 10th 1833
Enos Hook
Prothon.
Henry Little
Gideon Masters
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrog- ies prescribed by the law upon the Clement Masters who is a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court do further certify that it appears that Henry Little and Gideon Masters who have executed these certificates are both residents of Greene County Penn a and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Greene County S s Pennsylvania
I Enos Hook Prothonotary the court of common pleas in & for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the apprea- son of Clement Masters for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said court the 10th day of June A D 1833
Enos Hook Prothon.