Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8470, for Matthias Mount, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Mount, Mathias
W. 8470
or Matthew
B.L.W.F. 33749-160-55
or Mather
Dinah
CONTENTS

Ephraim New York Dec 2 1853
D 335 New York Albany Dinah Mount widow of Matthias who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Wolfe In
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued 11 th day of May and sent to 1853
Ephraim Selby Alb.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under July 29, 1848, Page 79 Vol. A
1818

196067
Act 3 d Mar. July 31/33
Diriah Mount wid of Mathias Mount Pr
1960.337.49 if July
Rev. Ware
Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Feb 3, 1853 — Albany Pension Agency
Feb 53-335 Ad: 160 ac, July 9/56 B Dyer
J. C. Beers Ithaca N.Y.
Vol No = 2 = 101

See letter 21 Sept 1831 to Mr. Asst. Albany N.Y. Lt. Hon. Gen. W. Jones, April 2 d , 1852.
20.290
New York
Matthias Mount
of Tompkins Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Mitchell of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wood in the Virginia line, for the term of three years, from December 1776 to December 1780
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 day of January 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of January 1831 and sent to Hon. S. Maxwell, House of Reps.
Arrears to 4th of March 1831 $ 16.51 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 16.51
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Books D. Vol: 5, fol: 114,

State of New York Tompkins County ss. Matthias Mount of the Town of Danby in the County of Tompkins (late of Lansing in said County) on this ninth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty personally appeared in open Court in a Circuit Court and Court of Oyer & Terminer held at the Court House in Ithaca in and for the said County of Tompkins in the sixth Judicial district of the State of New York constituted a Court of Record by the Laws of said State with power to hear try and de- termine all Actions, Real personal and mixed arising in said County of Tompkins and all transitory actions although the same may not have arisen, within said County with other powers, Agreed severally four years on the eighth day of August 1830. who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration annun- ciatory to his declaration of the 26 th of May 1829 hereto annexed in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 16 th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820; That he the said Matthias Mount enlisted in the service of the Revolutionary War, for the term of three years on the twenty fourth or twenty fifth day of December 1776 at Shep- ardstown in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Mitchell in the eighth Regiment of the Standing Army of said State of Virginia commanded by Col. James Wood in the Continental establishment; that after his enlistment as aforesaid he marched with said Company to Boundbrook where said Company joined the Army and was attached to said Col. James Woods Regiment; that after his said En- listment Capt. Mitchell was promoted to the office of Colonel and Lieut. Searing was promoted to the office of Captain of said Company; that he continued to serve as a private in said Col. James Woods Regiment until the Battle at Germantown where the aforesaid Regiment and the 8 th Virginia Regiment were cut in pieces & reduced or consolidated and the aforesaid Company in which this declarant was a private continued in the service in the Regiment known as the Eighth Virginia Regiment under the Command of Col. Mitchell that he this de- clarant continued to serve in said last mentioned Regiment until about the 1 st of December 1780 when he was discharged from the service near Morristown in the State of New Jersey.  that in this declaration that during his service as aforesaid has since been and is still known as well by the name

of Matthew or Nathan Mount as by his true name Matthias Mount. That he now has been placed upon the Pension rolls or presented to Government a claim for a Pension or Exhibited any schedule of his property for that purpose other than the one hereto annexed which was required to be annexed as appears from a letter from the War Department dated March 19. 1830 also hereto annexed. That he neglected to present to Government a claim or exhibit a schedule for a Pension for the reasons stated in the aforesaid declaration or claim hereto annexed and marked "21.202".
And in pursuance of an Act of Congress of the 1st of May 1820 I the said Matthias Mount do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof without thereby so 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 services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th of March 1818. That on the day of the date of my said declaration and schedule hereto annexed and marked as aforesaid I was justly and honestly indebted to the several persons therein res- pectively named in the sum of nine hundred and thirty four dollars and ninety five cents for the consideration therein specified; that since the said date of my aforesaid declaration and schedule and on the 28 th day of April  March 1830 I did for and in consideration of one thousand dollars convey by Deed to one Lena Gibbs all my real estate being ninety acres of land men- tioned in the aforesaid declaration and schedule hereto annexed an Exemplified copy of which said Deed is hereto annexed. That of the monies received by me in consideration of the execution of the aforesaid Deed to Lena Gibbs six hundred and seven dollars has been paid to Calvin and Nathan Bunn on the Bonds and mortgages, judgments, promissory notes and book account mentioned in the aforesaid declaration and affidavit thereto annexed as debts due at that time from this declarant to the firm of C & N Bunn and of

Calvin Burr & Co. which said mortgage (an Exemplified Copy of which is hereto annexed) Judgments for promissory notes and amount remained due and unpaid until the said the third day of April 1830 and the same drawing lawful interest till paid. That the further sum of twenty six dollars has been paid to Abijah Miller Esq. on the note mentioned in my aforesaid declaration and affidavit thereto annexed as due to the said Abijah Miller Esq. at that time from this declarant which said note remained on interest and due and unpaid until the said 3 rd of April 1830. That the further sum of fifteen dollars has has been paid to Dyer Foote on a judgment recovered by said Foote against this declarant on the note mentioned in the aforesaid declaration and affidavit which was an- nually due and unpaid; and the balance of which judgment & costs being about twenty three dollars yet remains due and unpaid to the said Foote. That all the said debts mentioned in said declaration and affidavits except the debts to Mr. Burr, Abijah Miller Esq. and the fifteen dollars to Dyer Foote yet remain due and unpaid which amount to three hundred and twenty four dollars and eighty five cents exclusive of interest and costs which have accrued thereon. That the remaining part of the aforesaid sum of one thousand dollars the con- sideration money in the aforesaid Deed has been paid and expended for the support of this declarant and his family since the date of the aforesaid declaration, for costs and medical attendance since that time which this declarant has been under the necessity of paying and for a span of horses and waggon mentioned in my inventory hereto annexed. That the said declarant has since the date of my said declaration been, and still am wholly unable to labour for my support. And that the said declarant has not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that above in this my declaration mentioned, and that contained in the schedule to this declaration annexed and by me subscribed, that since the 18 th of March 1818 there has been no material change in my property except as above stated.
Sworn before me in open Court { this 8. day of June 1830 { Sam l Lorr Clerk
Matthias his X Mark

The following is a just and true inventory and schedule of all the estate both real and personal of Matthias Mount a soldier of the Revolutionary War -
Real Estate house.
  Person al Estate, 1 span of Horses $60.00   three Cows 30.00   three Calves 10.00   2 Beds, bedsteads & bedding 14.00   four old Chairs .75   one old waggon & harness 25.00   one old table and stand .50   four old iron pots & kettles 2.00   1 old chest and trunk 1.50   2 tea pots .50   one pewter dish 1.00   12 Earthen plates 1.12   Six Knives & forks .75   two peels .50   one Churn .50   three tin cups .18   2 tin basins .31   one hog 1.50   one old loom 3.00   $153.11 
In presence of S. Crittenden
his Matthias Mount mark
Tompkins County ss: Samuel Gibbs and Jonas Gibbs of said County of Tompkins appeared in open court and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above is a true valuation of the property mentioned in this schedule and they appraise the whole of said property at one hundred and fifty three dollars and eleven cents.
Subscribed and sworn in open Court this 8. day of June 1830. Samuel Lord Clerk
Samuel Gibbs Jonas Gibbs
State of New York Tompkins County Clerk's Office
I Samuel Lord Clerk of the county of Tompkins Do. hereby

certify that the foregoing Declaration, oath and Schedule the foregoing thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the Court of Oyer and terminer held for the County of Seneca on the 8. th day of June last past: And that the total amount of the property exhibited in said Schedule was adjudged and determined by the said Court to be worth one hundred and fifty three Dollars and eleven Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca the 20. th day of July 1830.
Sam. Love

The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God free and Independent To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern send Greeting:—
Know Ye that we having examined and inspected the Records of Mortgages, remaining in our Clerks office of our County of Tompkins do find there a certain record of a mortgage in Book B. of Mortgages pages 191. 192 & 193 Recorded the 3 rd day of March 1857 at 5 o'clock P.M. in the words and figures following to wit:
This Indenture made the ninth day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and sixty seven between Matthias Mound of Lansing in the County of Tompkins & State of New York & Dinah his wife of the first part and Calvin & Nathan Burr of the same place of the second part Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and seventy five dollars and fifty nine cents money of account of the United States to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged have granted, bargained, sold, aliened and confirmed and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, release, alien and confirm unto the said parties of the second part and to their heirs and assigns forever all that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being the North West 100 acres of lot number seventy seven in the town of Lansing aforesaid, bounded as follows to wit: on the South by Smith Township Lane on the West by Daniel Clarke's land, on the North by Daniel Clarke & Joshua Norths lands and on the east by land owned by the estate of the late John Sails (deceased) Joseph Redden & Lewis Township containing about ninety acres of land be the same more or less together with all and singular the hereditaments, thereunto in any wise belonging and the division and non-division, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. To have and to hold the said premises hereby granted and confirmed with the appurtenances unto the said parties of the second part and to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns forever Provided always and these presents are upon this express condition that if the said party of the first part, their heirs, executors & administrators do and shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said parties of the second part or their certain attorney or attorneys

heirs Executors, Administrators or assigns the sum of two hundred and seventy five dollars & fifty nine cents, in the manner particularly specified in the condition of a certain bond or obligation bear- ing even date herewith, Executed by the said parties of the first part to the said parties of the second part that then due from thenceforth these presents and any thing herein contained shall cease & be void, Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding; but in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part of the said principal sum of two hundred and seventy five dollars & fifty nine cents or the interest thereon at the time or times when the same ought to be paid. As aforesaid that then and in such case the said parties of the first part for their heirs Executors and administrators, doth, covenant, grant, promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part their heirs Executors, Administra- tors and assigns that it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part their heirs Executors, Administrators and assigns at any time or times thereafter to sell and dispose of the said premises hereby granted or any part or parts thereof at publick vendue to any person or persons whom sover and on such sale to make sign seal and deliver any deed or deeds of conveyance in the law for the said premises or the part thereof so sold to the purchaser or purchasers his heir or their heirs or assigns forever and out of the monies arising from such sale or sales to keep & retain in their hands the said two hundred & seventy five dollars & fifty nine cents with the interest then due together with all the costs charges or expenses that shall or may be due, arise or happen by reason or on account of such sale or sales and the overplus money (if any there be) shall when demanded be paid to the said party of the first part their heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands & seals the day & year first above written.
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Samuel Voor -
Matthias his Mount marks Dinah Mount
Tompkins County ss: In the tenth day of February one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven personally came before me Matthias Mount & Dinah his wife to me known to be the same persons described in & who executed the within Mortgage, the said Matthias acknowledged the due execution thereof & the said Dinah his wife on a private Examination separate & apart from her husband acknowledged that she executed the same for the uses & purposes therein mentioned without any fear threats or compulsion of her said husband. I do allow it to be recorded Samuel Voor Commissioner to take acknowledgments of deeds -
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified & the seal of our Court of Common Pleas in & for our said County to be affixed - Witness Andrew D.W. Brown Esq. 1 st Judge of our said Court at Athens this 15 th day of July 1837. Samuel Voor Clerk

The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God For & Independent Call to whom these presents shall come or may concern in due season.
Know Ye that we having examined and inspected the Records of Deeds remaining in our Clerk's office of our County of Tompkins do find there a certain Record of a deed in Book 2. of Deeds page 382 & 383 on the 14 th day of April 1830 at 12 o'clock at noon in the words and figures following to wit:—
This Indenture made the twenty eight day of No- vember in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine Between Matthias Mount of Lansing in the county of Tompkins and Dinah his wife of the first part and Jonas Gibbs of the same place of the second part Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand Dollars cur- rency of the United States to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged have granted bargained, sold remised, released, aliened and confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain, sell, remise, release, alien and confirm unto the said party of the second part in his actual possession now being and to his heirs and assigns forever all and singular that certain lot piece or parcel of Land which being known and distinguished by a part of Lot number seventy seven in the Town of Lansing and County of Tompkins & bounded as follows Beginning at the north west corner of said Lot and running from thence south one hundred and sixty perches to a stake, thence east one hundred perches to a stake, thence north one hundred and sixty perches, thence west one hundred perches to the place of beginning containing one hundred acres of Land be the same more or less excepting and reserving out of the above boundaries three pieces of Land, one sold to Daniel Clarke one piece to Patience Wilkins and one piece to Lewis Footman Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurte- nances thereto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues said parties of the second part or their certain attorney or attorneys.

and profits thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim or demand whatsoever of the said parties of the first part either in Law or Equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances To have and to hold the said premises above particularly described to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper use and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever And the said parties of the first part for their heirs executors and administrators do covenant, promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns the above bargained premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns against all and every person and persons lawfully or equitably claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof will ever warrant and defend In witness whereof the parties of the first part have hereunto put their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Sealed and Delivered in presence of. A. Miller
Matthias his Mount Mark Dinah Mount
Tompkins County ss: On the 28 th day of November 1829 came before me Matthias Mount and Dinah his wife to me known to be the persons described in and who executed the within Deed the said Matthias Mount acknowledged the due execution thereof and Dinah his wife on an examination separate and apart from her husband likewise acknowledged the due execution thereof, without any threats fear or compulsion of her said husband.
Abijah Miller, Compt. etc.
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our court of Common Pleas in & for our said County to be affixed.
Witness Andrew D.W. Vought Esq. first Judge of our said court at the village of Ithaca this fifteenth day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Samuel Love, Clerk

War Department
Pension Office
March 19. 1830.
Sir
I herewith return the documents forwarded by you to this Office in the case of Matthias Mount who claims a pension on account of Revolutionary services, and have to state that the claimant must amend his declaration by setting forth the name of the Colonel who commanded the Regiment to which he belonged when he entered the Service. He will also be pleased to state whether he was ever called by any other Christian name than that of Matthias. Col Mitchell to whose Regiment he was attached after the reduction of the one in which he enlisted, did not belong to the Continental establishment.
He must also furnish an authenticated copy of the mortgage to Calvin and Nathan Burr. It is impossible to state what further evidence may be wanted in this case until the above shall be complied with.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servt J. L. Edwards
Hon: Thomas Maxwell House of Representatives

21.202
Matthias Mount
Y.D
Y.D
$1.50
John Mayhew 1809
Matthias Mount is not found on the rolls in the Treasury Depart (a private)
p. 213 £56.4.3 V.C.P.

State of New York Tompkins County
Ys: Matthias Mound of the town of Lansing in the County of Tompkins on this twenty sixth day of May one thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County in said State of New York Constituted a Court of Record by the laws of said State with power to hear try and determine all actions real personal and mixed arising in said County and also all transitory actions although the same may not have arisen within said county and with other powers, aged twenty three years on the eighth day of August 1829 who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 16 th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820. that he the said Matthias Mound enlisted for the term of three years on the twenty fourth or twenty fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy six at Sheperds town in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Mitchell in the twelfth Regiment of the Standing Army of the said State of Virginia in the Continental Establishment; but the name of the Colonel Commanding said Regiment at the time of his Enlistment he cannot now recollect; but that soon after his Enlistment Capt Mitchell was promoted to the office of Colonel and Lieutenant Boringen promoted to the office of Captain of the Company in which he enlisted as aforesaid; that he continued to serve in said Corps until after the battle at Germantown when the said Regiment was reduced and the aforesaid Company in which this Applicant was privately detached to the eighth Regiment of Virginia Troops under the Command of said Col. Mitchell; that he continued to serve in said Regiment last named until about the first of December 1780 when he was discharged from the service near
A. No. 1

Morristown New Jersey. That he never before presented to Government a claim for a pension or exhibited a Schedule of his property for that purpose because he has until within the last seven years been able to labour for his support - That about seven years since he was attacked with a fever by reason of which he was confined to his room for about one year - That in consequence of his sickness he was at that time compelled to pay large sums of money for medical attendance and sustenance for himself and family And since the expiration of the said year though he has been able to be about yet from the Rheumatism with which he has been and is now sorely afflicted he has not been able to perform a days labour since and consequently for the support of himself and family for the last seven years he has been subjected to enormous bills of expense which he had no way of defraying save the income of eighty acres of land about forty acres of which is under improvement - That from the income of his said farm of eighty acres alone he has been able to pay but an inconsiderable part of the necessary and unavoidable expenses of furnishing himself and family with the necessaries of life - And that in order to defray his said expenses he has been obliged to loan money for which and for goods, wares, and merchandises furnished for this declarant and family he executed to Calvin Durn & Nathan Durn of said town of Lancing a Mortgage on said eighty acres of land to secure the payment of five hundred and seventy two dollars and sixty cents which said Mortgage bears date February 1826. That for seven and a half acres of land being part of the said eighty acres and on which is situated a house, barn and small orchard and for which this declarant has a warrant deed he agreed to pay to one Christopher Post the sum

of three hundred dollars which together with the above mentioned sum of five hundred and seventy two dollars and sixty cents is now due and owing from this declarant - That he is indebted to Doct. Dyer Foote of said town of Hauving in the sum of ninety nine dollars and ninety six cents for medical attendance by him the said Doct. Dyer Foote - And that he is indebted to Abijah Miller Esq. in the sum of ninety five dollars for costs due him as an attorney - And that he is indebted to John D. Christie in the sum of eight dollars and nine cents for leather sold by said Christie to this declarant - That the true amount of debts now actually due from this declarant is nine hundred and thirty four dollars and ninety five cents as above specified -
And in pursuance of an act of Congress of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner 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 18 th day of March 1818 - And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that above mentioned and that contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the 18 th of March 1818 there has been no material change in my property except as above stated.
Matthias his X Mount Mark
Sworn before me in open Court May 26 th 1829
Nicoll Halsey a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Tazewell County

The following is a Just and true inventory and schedule of all the Estate both Real and Personal of Matthias Mount a soldier of the Revolution
  Real Estate Ninety acres of Land at $10. per acre $900.00   Personal Estate, the bulk and breeding @ $9. 18.00   1 Dozen Earthen Plates 1.00   8 Tea Cups & Saucers & one bowl .50   2 iron kettles on broken iron pot 3.00   3 Cows at $12. each $36. - 3 others at $35. 71.00   Six sheep $3.00 - one waggon $25. 28.00   $1021.50 
In presence of D Woodcock
Matthias his Mount (Mark)
Tompkins County ss: Samuel Gibbs and David Wood appear in open court and being duly sworn affirm and state that the above is a true valuation of the property mentioned in this schedule and they appraise the whole of said property at one thousand and twenty one and 50/100 dollars
Sworn and subscribed in open court this 11th day of May 1821
Samuel Gibbs David Wood
Nicoll Halsey Judge of Tompkins Co. Pls.
State of New York Tompkins County } Clerks office } ss
I Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tompkins, Do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; That the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one thousand twenty one Dollars and

Schedule is one thousand twenty one Dollars and
fifty cents. and the charges thereon to Nine hundred and thirty four Dollars and thirty five cents. making the whole of his property over and above his Debts eighty six Dollars and fifty five cents. And also, I do further certify that Abijah Miller Esqr. & Alpha H. Shaw Esqr. before whom the annexed affidavits were taken, were two of the Justices of the Peace in for Said County duly Commissioned and sworn and by Law authorized to administer oaths at the several times mentioned in the taking of the Said affidavits; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the Said Justices and verify believe the Signatures of "Abijah Miller" & "A. H. Shaw" subscribed to the annexed affidavits to be their proper hand writing respectively.
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Said Court the eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Nine
Samuel Love Clerk

State of New York } Tompkins County ss: }
A. No. 2
Calvin Burr one of the firm of C. & N. Burr and of Calvin Burr & Co. of Lansing, in the said County of Tompkins, being duly sworn, deponeth and saith, that the sum of Five hundred and Seventy-Six Dollars and Eighty Cents, current money of the United States of America, is justly due, and owing, to this deponent or to the above firm, from Matthias Mount, whose name is subscribed to the annexed declaration and Schedule, over and above all credits, — That of the above sum, Three hundred, Twenty-three Dollars and Twenty nine cents, with interest to this date, is due on a Bond & Mortgage, Executed by said Matthias Mount to the above named Firm, which said Mortgage is a lien on the Real Estate, of the said Matthias Mount; — One hundred and Ninety-five Dollars and Sixty-three Cents, also a part of the above, is due and owing from the said Matthias Mount, on Judgments by him confessed to the said above Firm, which said judgments are liens on all his real Estate. — Thirty-three Dollars, and Twelve Cents, also a part of the above, is due and owing from the said Matthias Mount, on promissory notes, by him drawn and purchased by the said above firm. — And the above further sum of Twenty-four Dollars and Seventy-Six Cents, being the balance of the above named, $576, \frac{80}{100} and interest, is due on an account, from said Matthias Mount, And this deponent further saith, that the above sum of Five hundred Seventy-Six Dollars and Eighty Cents, principle & interest being the amount due on the said Bond & Mortgage, Judgments, Promissory notes and accounts, is due for moneys advanced, by the above Firm, to and for the use of the said Matthias Mount, and at his request, and for Goods, wares, and merchandise, sold and delivered to said Matthias Mount by the above mentioned firm and at his instance and request.
Subscribed and sworn before me.
May 24 day of July 1881
Calvin Burr
Hein Miller stating that since about the first of Decemb, 1880 when he was discharged from the service near

A. No. 3
Tompkins County ss: John D. Christie of Lansing in the County of Tompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the sum of Eight dollars and forty three Cents lawful money of the United States of America is justly due to this Deponent from Matthias Mount named in the annexed Declaration, being the amount of a promissory note drawn by said Matthias Mount to this Deponent, less a balance on account for Cattle purchased by said Mount of this deponent.
Subscribed & sworn before me this 18 th day of July 1829.
Abijah Miller Justice of the Peace
John D. Christie
A. No. 4
State of New York Tompkins County ss: Abijah Miller of Lansing in said County of Tompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the sum of truly five dollars and Eleven Cents current money of the United States is justly due this deponent from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration on a promissory note given by said Matthias Mount to this Deponent for Costs as Attorney and Justice of the Peace.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 21 day of July 1829.
A.D. Shaw Justice of the Peace
Abijah Miller

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: I, Edgar Foote of Lansing in the county of Tompkins aforesaid being duly sworn, depose and state that the sum of thirty one dollars and forty two cents current money of the United States of America is justly due and owing to this Deponent from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration and schedule on notes given by said Matthias Mount to this Deponent for and in consideration of medical aid and attendance as a physician by this deponent on said Matthias Mount.
A. No. 5
Subscribed & sworn before me this 18 th day of July 1829 Abijah Miller Justice of the Peace
Edgar Foote

State of New York
A. No. 6
Tompkins County ss: Christopher Root of Lansing in the County of Tompkins aforesaid being duly sworn deposith and saith that the sum of three hundred dollars is justly due and owing from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration and Schedule to this deponent; the said three hundred dollars being the Consideration Money mentioned in a deed of conveyance by this deponent to said Matthias Mount of about seven or eight acres of Land & premises in said town of Lansing and which the said Matthias Mount agreed to pay to this deponent therefor -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 24 th day of July 1829.
Abijah Miller Justice of the Peace
Christopher Root his Mark

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of Congress of February 3 d 1853.
State of New York } County of Tompkins } On this fourteenth day of February 1853 Personally appeared in open Court holden at Ithaca in the County of Tompkins and State of New York Dinah Mount aged Sixty Six years and upwards, a resident of Danby in the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed February 3 d 1853 that she is the widow of Matthias Mount who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum; that her said husband Matthias Mount was a resident of Danby in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, and received his pension at the Albany agency in the State of New York
She further, declares, that she was married to the said Matthias Mount on the twenty seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty (1820) in the Town of Lansing in the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid - by the Reverend Zenas Conger that her said husband Matthias Mount died in Danby in the County of Tompkins and State of New York on the eleventh (11) day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty seven (1847) that she was married to him at the time above stated.
She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the "Act" and is still a widow and that she has never before applied for a pension Her original Certificate of marriage herewith presented
Sworn to and Subscribed before me } Dinah Mount The day and year above written }
D r Boardman Tompkins County Judge
I hereby certify that the above named Dinah Mount is a very respectable person and that
State of New-York } Tompkins County Clerk's Office, } ss.
J. EZRA WEAVER, Clerk of said county, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said county, do hereby certify that D r Boardman & Levi C o Clerk Esquires before whom the preceding declaration was subscribed and sworn, and whose names appear to the Jurat thereof, and who at the date of the same were at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand- writing of such Justices, and truly believe that the signatures to the preceding Jurats are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said county and Courts, at Ithaca, this Twenty Eighth day of February 1853
Ezra Weaver Clerk.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of Congress of February 3 d 1853.
State of New York } County of Tompkins } On this fourteenth day of February 1853 Personally appeared in open Court holden at Ithaca in the County of Tompkins and State of New York Dinah Mount aged Sixty Six years and upwards, a resident of Danby in the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid, who being duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed February 3 d 1853 that she is the widow of Matthias Mount who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum; that her said husband Matthias Mount was a resident of Danby in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, and received his pension at the Albany agency in the State of New York
She further, declares, that she was married to the said Matthias Mount on the twenty seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty (1820) in the Town of Lancing in the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid - by the Reverend Zenas Conger that her said husband Matthias Mount died in Danby in the County of Tompkins and State of New York on the eleventh (11) day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty seven (1847) that she was married to him at the time above stated.
She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the "Act" and is still a widow and that she has never before applied for a pension Her original Certificate of marriage herewith presented.
Sworn to and Subscribed before me } Dinah Mount The day and year above written }
LT Boardman Tompkins County Judge
I hereby certify that the above named Dinah Mount is a very respectable person and that I believe her to be the widow of the said Matthias Mount deceased, and that she is of the age she represents herself to be
LT Boardman
Tompkins County Judge

State of New York, Tompkins } ss. County
On this Twenty-fourth day of May . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five . . . personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Dinah Mount , aged Seventy eight years, a resident of Danby . . . in the State of New York . . . who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Matthias Mount deceased, who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution . . . in the company commanded by Captain . . . in the . . . Regiment of . . . commanded by . . . in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812 , that her said husband Enlisted . . . at . . . on or about the . . . day of . . . A. D. . . . for the term of Three (3) years . . . and continued in actual service in said war for the term of Six (6) years & over . . . and was honorably discharged at . . . on the . . . day of . . . A. D. . . .
She further states that she was married to the said Matthias Mount . . . in Lansing Tompkins Co. N.Y. on the 27th day of May . . . A. D. 1820 . by one Francis Conger . . . a Elder of the Methodist Church and that her name before her said marriage was Dinah Fortner ; that her said husband died at Danby on the Eighth (8th) day of June . . . A. D. 1847 . . . and that she is now a widow.
She further declares that she has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act approved September 28, 1850, not  and obtained a land warrant, nor  nor made any other nor  nor application therefor . . . which she has legally disposed of and it cannot now be returned . She further states that she was inscribed on the roll of United States pensioners under the act of February 3 d 1853 at the rate of $96. per annum payable at the Albany pension agency. A copy of her certificate is herunto annexed, she refers for proof of marriage & her husband's service & death to the proof already filed.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."
D. Dinah Mount
We, Lewis Fortner . . . and Christopher Pratt . . . residents of Danby . . . in the State of New York , upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Dinah Mount . . . in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Lewis Fortner Christopher Pratt
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written ; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons ; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Sherman Miller Justice of the Peace

This is to certify that on the 27th day of May 1820 I married Matthias Mount to Dinah Fortner both of the town of Lansing County of Tompkins and State of New York Lenas Conger } Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
I certify that the above certificate of the Marriage of Matthias Mount to Dinah Fortner is a true copy from the original Certificate of their marriage
Subscribed & Sworn before me Levi C. Biers This 24th day of May 1855
State of New York } ss.
Tompkins County on this 24th day of May 1855 Levi C Biers subscribed and testified to the above Certificate of Marriage after being duly sworn by me Sherman Miller Justice of the peace
196167 State of New-York, } ss. Tompkins County Clerk's Office,
I, EZRA WEAVER, Clerk of said county, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said county, do hereby certify that Sherman Miller Esquire, before whom the preceding declaration was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears to the Jurat thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Justice, and verify believe that the signature to the pre- ceding Jurat is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said county and Courts, at Ithaca, this 23rd day of June 1855
Ezra Weaver Clerk.

Department of the interior Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the 2 d Section of the act of February 3 d 1853
(Dinah Mount Widow of Matthias Mount who was a Private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Ninety six Dollars per annum commencing on the 3 d of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage
Given at the Department of the interior this Eleventh Day of May One thousand Eight hundred and fifty-three
Department of the interior
Examined and Countersigned L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
R. Mc Lelland
Secretary of the interior

Payment to be made Albany by J. W. O'cott Esq. Agent for paying Pensions in the agency of New York Payable on the 4 th September and 4 th March. Recorded in the pension office on the roll of pensio- -ners under act February 3 rd 1853. page 79 Vol. A Co. B. Wightman. Clerk

August 16, 1937
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Mrs. E.S.Atkinson 1502 Stuart Avenue Houston, Texas
BA-J/EEL Matthias Mount-W.8470
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Matthias Mount, who served in the Virginia troops.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.8470, based upon the military service in that war of Matthias Mount, the only soldier of that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Matthias Mount was born August 8, 1756. The place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
Matthias Mount enlisted at Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia(later Jefferson County, West Virginia), December 24 or 25, 1776, served as a private in Captains Mitchell's and Joseph Swearingen's Companies, Colonel James Wood's Virginia Regiment and was discharged about December 1, 1780.
In 1787, he was residing in the state of New Jersey and in 1828, in Lansing, Tompkins County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1829, while residing in Lansing, New York. In 1830, he was residing in Danby, Tompkins County, New York.
He died June 11, 1847, in said Danby.
The soldier married May 27, 1830, at Lansing, New York, Dinah Fortner. Both were then of said Lansing. They were married by the Reverend Zenas Conger, a minister of the Methodist Church. The date and place of birth of Dinah and the names of her parents are not shown.
Joseph Mitchell He said Capt Mitchell became col but Keefman says he resigned in 1777 & does not mention any rank but captain

Dinah, widow of Matthias Mount, was allowed pension on her application executed February 14, 1853, at which time she was aged sixty-six years and resided in Danby, New York. In 1855, she stated that she was aged seventy-eight years; no explanation was made of this discrepancy in age.
No reference was made to children.
In 1853, one Lewis Fortner was aged sixty-two years and resided in Danby, New York; no relationship to the widow was shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Dinah Mount, widow of Matthias Mount (W.8470), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following data:
Dinah Mount, widow of Matthias Mount Certificate No. 335 Issued February 1853 Rate $96.00 per annum Commenced February 3, 1853 Act February 3, 1853. New York(Albany)Agency.
Very truly yours
George H. Sweet Acting Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Rev. War
5772
INVALID.
File No. 5772
Matthias Meumert
Print Rev. War
Act: Mar. 18 th 1818. May 1 st 1826
Index:—Vol. M , Page 263
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Proof
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8470
Leinah Mount
Wid
Matthias Mount
Print Rev. War
Act: July 29  1848
Index:—Vol. Me , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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FREE
Hon S.P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Washington DC

The Bearer hereof Matthias Mount served three Years in the Continental Army under my command and Behaved as a good Soldier. he is at Present an Inhabitant of the State of New Jersey where he means to Return, he has been at this Place to Obtain his Depreciation of Pay while in the Army, for which he has Received a certificate, with five Years Interest in Specie.
Given at Richmond this 16 th April
1787
James Wood.

State of New York
Tompkins County Clerk's office ss: I Samuel Lane Clerk of the County of Tompkins Do hereby certify that Benjamin Jennings Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits were taken was an of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Tompkins duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths at the date of the said affidavits; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and rightly believe the signature "Benj: Jennings" subscribed to the said annexed affidavits to be his proper hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 30 th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Samuel Lane Cth

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Matthias Mount being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the same Matthias Mount named in & whose name is subscribed to the annexed declarations & schedules - That at the time he presented the said declarations &c. he omitted to insert therein the debt of One hundred and Eighty dollars due to Christopher D. Piatt because at that time he had no means of ascertaining the amount due proving on the affidavit of said Piatt proving such indebtedness without going into Allegany County where said Piatt then resided a distance of more than one hundred & twenty miles - And that in this Deposition was advised by Counsel that it was not necessary; that the debts as stated in said declarations were sufficient without being at the trouble and expense of proving proof of further and other debts - That he this Deponent was & still is unable to travel to procure affidavits in support of his claim. And further saith not -
Subscribed and sworn before me } this 18 th day of November December 1830 }
Henry Jennings one of the Judges of Pleas
his Matthias X Mount mark

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New Orleans

State of New York
Souphkies County ss: Christopher P. Piatt being duly sworn deponeth and saith that during the years 1823 & 1824 he this Deponant was employed & worked as a hired man for Matthias Mount named in the Annexed Declaration and Schedule that the said Matthias Mount agreed to pay this Deponant for his said labour at the rate of two Dollars per month - That during the said two years he worked the farm of said Mount the proceeds of which were appropriated to the support of the said Matthias Mount and his family
And this Deponant further saith that since the year 1824 he this Deponant has lent & advanced money to and for the use of the said Matthias Mount at sundry times and has also found and provided necessaries for the support of said Matthias Mount & his family - That for several years past the said Matthias Mount has been wholly unable to labour for his support during which time this Deponant has provided for him the necessaries aforesaid -
And this Deponant further saith that on or about the first day of August last this Deponant and the said Matthias Mount settled their accounts so as aforesaid created and on such settlement there was found to be due this Deponant from said Mount over and above all credits the sum of one hundred and eighty Dollars and that at the time of the settlement as aforesaid the said sum of one hundred & eighty Dollars so as aforesaid due and owing this Deponant from said Matthias Mount was secured and agreed to be paid by Ithias Gibbs of Lansing in said County of Souphkies, since which the said sum of one hundred and eighty Dollars has been fully paid to this Deponant by the said Ithias Gibbs by the direction & request of the said Matthias Mount and he discharged from the same -
And further this Deponant saith that since about the first of August last the said Matthias Mount & his wife have lived with this Deponant, and still live with him for whom & for whose support he this Deponant has and still doth provide and for which the said Matthias Mount has not the means of paying unless he shall succeed in procuring his pension for which he has applied -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 18 th day of November  December 1830
Christopher P. Piatt
Benj. Jennings one of the Judges of C. Pleas

State of New York
B. No. 10.
Josephus Cottrell vs. Christopher Post being duly sworn deposeth and saith that on the 24 th day of July 1824. the sum of three hundred Dollars was justly due and owing to this Deponent from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed declaration &c. for the consideration as mentioned in the affidavit hereto annexed and and by me subscribed & sworn to before A. Miller Esq. Marked "A. No. 6." - That the said Deed of Conveyance for which the aforesaid debt accrued and became due to this Deponent was Executed and Delivered to said Matthias Mount on the sixteenth day of March 1825.
And this Deponent further saith that the seven or eight acres of land conveyed by the aforesaid Deed of Conveyance were a part of the same premises mentioned in the Deed of Conveyance from said Mount to Lucas Gibbs an Exemplified Copy of which is hereto annexed - And this Deponent further saith that the facts stated and set forth in the Affidavit by me subscribed & sworn to before B. Jennings Esq. which is hereto annexed and marked "B. No. 9" are true - And further saith not -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 12 th day of November December 1830
his Christopher X Post mark
Henry Jennings one of The judges of 6 Pleas -

State of New York
Tompkins County
ss: Christopher Poost being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Matthias Mount named in the annexed declaration and schedule. that on the day of the date of said Declaration the said Matthias Mount was justly indebted to this deponent as mentioned in the affi- davit hereto annexed and by me subscribed in the sum of three hundred Dollars. That the said Matthias Mount continued to be so indebted to this deponent for the consideration named in the said above named affidavit hereto annexed & by me subscribed until about the fifteenth day of April last past when the said Matthias Mount and Lucas Gibbs paid to this deponent the said sum of three hundred dollars in full payment satisfaction and discharge of of the said account so as aforesaid due and owing from the said Matthias Mount to this deponent for the consideration aforesaid. And further this Deponent saith not.
B. No. 9
Subscribed & sworn before me this 29 th day of October 1830.
Christopher Poost Mark
Benj. Jennings one of the judges of Common Pleas

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Christopher P. Piatt of Danby in said County of Tompkins late of Independence in the County of Allegany being now here. Deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Matthias Mount named in the Annexed Declaration and Schedule; that the said Matthias Mount on the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty was indebted to this deponent in the sum of one hundred and eighty Dollars for work and labour done by this deponent for him in his business. Mount during the years 1823 & 1824 and for money advanced and paid by this deponent to the said Matthias Mount and for his use - That about the said first day of August last the said sum of money so as aforesaid due and owing from the said Matthias Mount to this deponent was secured and agreed to be paid by Lucas Gibbs of Lansing in said County - That since the date last aforesaid he this deponent has received from the said Lucas Gibbs the said sum of one hundred and eighty Dollars in full satisfaction and discharge of the said above mentioned sum and so as aforesaid due & owing from the said Matthias Mount to this deponent -
And further this deponent saith that he has been acquainted with the circumstances of the said Matthias Mount for about fourteen years last past - That during that period the said Matthias Mount has for the most of his time been totally unable to labor for his support and much of the time has been confined with sickness - That he verily believes the said Matthias Mount is unable to pay his honest debts -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 29 th day of October 1830
Christopher P. Piatt
Benjamin Jennings one of the Judges of Common Pleas

State of New York Sampson County Clerks office
vs. I George G. Freer Deputy Clerk of the County of Sampson do hereby Certify that Cyrus Burs, Abijah Miller & John Seedlow Esquires before whom the Annexed affidavits were taken were three of the Commissioners of Deeds in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to administer oaths at the several times at which the said affidavits were taken and that I am acquainted with the hand writings of the said several Commissioners and verily believe the signatures "Cyrus Burs" "Abijah Miller" and "John Seedlow" subscribed to the Annexed affidavits to be their proper hand writing respectively.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty -
George. G. Freer Deputy Clerk

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Matthias Mount of Danby in said County of Tompkins being duly sworn deposed and saith that he is the same Matthias Mount named in the annexed declaration and schedule. That on the day of the date of said declaration he examined the records of the clerks office of the County of Tompkins for the purpose of ascertaining the date of the conveyances mentioned in the and to Lewis a copy of which is herunto annexed to Daniel Clark, Patience Wilrick and Lewis Townley. And that he could not find on the records in said office the said Deeds but at that time according to the best recollection of this deponent the said deeds were made previous to the year 1818.
73. No 7
And this deponent further saith that on a further Examination and inquiry in reference to the said Conveyances to Daniel Clark, Patience Wilrick and Lewis Townley as aforesaid he finds the deeds to Daniel Clark & Patience Wilrick to have been made prior to the year 1818 and that the Deed to Lewis Townley was executed on the second day of September 1820 conveying three acres of land for the consideration of forty six Dollars. That the said sum of forty six dollars was appropriated to the payment of sundry small debts then actually and bona fide due and owing from this deponent to sundry persons who are since deceased and removed from the country.
Subscribed and sworn before me this fourth day of Oct. 1830.
Cyrus H. Lewis
Matthias his Mount mark

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: I, Lewis Fortner of Ithaca in said County of Tompkins being duly sworn, deposed and saith that for the last twenty years he has been well acquainted with Matthias Mount mentioned in and whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration and schedule and that the said Matthias Mount has during the said twenty years been reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War
And this Deponent further saith that during the last seven or eight years the said Matthias Mount has been unable by reason of his infirmities to labour for his support
B. No 6
And this Deponent further saith that during his acquaintance with the said Matthias Mount he has been and still is acquainted with his pecuniary circumstances and from such acquaintance verily believes that the said Matthias Mount is utterly unable to pay his honest debts and support himself and aged wife without calling loudly upon the charity of the Publick or the sympathy of his friends. And further this Deponent saith not-
Subscribed and sworn before me this fourth day of Oct. 1830 Gysbert Beus court
Lewis Fortner

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Abijah Miller of Lansing in said county of Tompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that on or about the third day of April last the sum of truly nine dollars current money of the United States was justly due and owing to this Deponent from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration and schedule on a promissory note and book account given by said Matthias Mount to this Deponent for costs as a Justice of the Peace and for professional services rendered for the said Matthias Mount at his request - And this Deponent further saith that on or about the said third day of April last he received from Lucas Gible the said sum of truly nine dollars in full satisfac- tion and discharge of the said account so as aforesaid due and owing from said Matthias Mount to this Deponent - And this Deponent further saith that the said services for which his aforesaid account accrued and became due were rendered on the 15 th day of October one thousand eight hundred and truly four -
B. No. 5
Subscribed & sworn before me this 23 day of August 1830
Abijah Miller
John Ludlow Commission

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Dyer Foote of Lansing in said County of Tompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that on the first day of April last the sum of thirty three Dollars and forty one Cents current money of the United States was justly due and owing to this deponent from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration & schedule on notes given by the said Matthias Mount to this deponent for and in consideration of medical aid and attendance as a Physician rendered by this deponent to and for the said Matthias Mount at sundry times since  about about the first of April 1820 - And this deponent further saith that the sum of fifteen _____ Dollars and _____ Cents has since been paid by Tenas Bills to this deponent to apply in part payment of the said sum of thirty three Dollars and forty one Cents. And that Eighteen Dollars and Ninety four cents the balance of the said sum yet remains due and owing from the said Matthias Mount and unpaid to this deponent
B. No. 4
Sworn & subscribed before me this 20 th day of August - 1830.
Elijah Miller Comf. R.
Dyer Foote

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Calvin Burr of the firm of C. & H. Burr and of Calvin Burr & Co. of Lansing in said County of Tompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that on the first day of April last the sum of Five hundred and ninety six Dollars and ninety six cents Current money of the United States of America was justly due and owing to this Deponent or to the said above mentioned firms from Matthias Mount whose name is subscribed to the annexed Declaration and Schedule over and above all credits. That of the above mentioned sum three hundred and thirty six Dollars and twelve Cents was due on the said first day of April last on a bond and mortgage executed by the said Matthias Mount to the above named firms an Exemplified copy of which said mortgage is hereto annexed and which said mortgage and the monies due thereon was and continued to be a lien upon the real estate of the said Matthias Mount mentioned in said mortgage on the said first day of April last. Two hundred and five Dollars and forty six cents also a part of the above mentioned sum was on the said first day of April last actually due and owing from the said Matthias Mount on Judgments against the said Matthias Mount in favour of this Deponent or of the said above mentioned firms which said Judgments and the monies so as aforesaid due thereon was on the day aforesaid a lien upon the said real estate of the said Matthias Mount aforesaid. Fifty five Dollars and thirty Eight Cents being the balance of the above mentioned sum of $596 96 / 100 was on the said first day of April last actually & bona fide due from the said Matthias Mount to said C. & H. Burr and to Calvin Burr & Co. on promissory notes drawn by the said Matthias Mount and on Book accounts.
And this Deponent further saith that the original consideration for which said mortgage, Judgments and promissory notes were executed, recovered and given by the said Matthias Mount and for which said book account arrived and became due as aforesaid was for goods wares and merchandise by the aforesaid firms at sundry times since the eighth day of January 1818 sold and delivered to the said Matthias Mount at his request and for his use and for monies paid laid out and expended to and for the use of the said Matthias Mount at his request by the aforesaid firms since the date last aforesaid.
And this Deponent further saith that the said sum of five hundred and ninety six Dollars and ninety six cents so as aforesaid due and owing from the said Matthias Mount to this Deponent or to the said firms of C. & H. Burr and Calvin Burr & Co. two hundred and ninety six Dollars and ninety six was on or about the third day of April last paid & satisfied by Lucas Gibbs to this Deponent in part payment & discharge of the above mentioned accounts against the said Matthias Mount. And that the sum of three hundred Dollars being the balance of the said sum of $596 96 / 100 was on the same day ordered for payment by the said Lucas Gibbs to this Deponent and the same remains a lien upon the said real estate conveyed by Deed (an exemplified copy of which is hereto annexed) to the said Lucas Gibbs by the aforesaid Matthias Mount. And further this Deponent saith not.
Subscribed & sworn before me this 25 th day of September 1830.
Abijah Miller Justice of the Peace
Calvin Burr

State of New York
B. No. 2
Sompkins County ss: I, Lewis Gibbs of Lansing in said County of Sompkins being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he purchased by Deed (an exemplified copy of which is hereto annexed) of Matthias Mount in the annexed Declaration and schedule named the land and premises described in said Deed for the consideration of one thousand Dollars: That he purchased the said premises subject to a lien of about five hundred and ninety six Dollars and ninety six cents which C. & N. Burr and Calvin Burr & Co. had on the said premises and for so much of the said consideration money paid and assumed for payment to the said Burrs on the third day of April last the said sum of five hundred and ninety six Dollars and ninety six cents.
And this Deponent further saith that on or about the said third day of April last he paid to Abijah Miller Esquire the sum of twenty nine Dollars also a part of said consideration money mentioned in said Deed which was due to said Miller from the said Matthias Mount. And that on the same day aforesaid as a part of said consideration money he also paid to Doct. Dyer Foote the sum of fifteen Dollars which was due to said Foote from the said Matthias Mount.
And this Deponent further saith that also as a part and the remainder of said consideration money mentioned in said Deed he paid to the said Matthias Mount by discharging demands which he then held against the said Matthias Mount which actually and bona fide are and owing from the said Matthias in money and necessaries furnished and paid to the said Matthias for the support of said Matthias Mount and his family since about the first of July 1829- And this Deponent further saith that the consideration for which said last above mentioned demands accrued and the money and necessaries so paid and advanced as last aforesaid were as this Deponent verily believes appropriated to and for the use of the said Matthias Mount.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 25 th day of September 1830.
Abijah Miller Justice of the Peace
Lewis Gibbs

I hereby certify that the above upon Benner is a very respectable person and that he is entitled to full credit in his deposition.
Levi H. Beers J.P.
No 386
Declaration of Dinah Mount widow of Matthias A Claim for Revolutionary Pension Act 3 Feb 1833
Answer to Ephraim Schutt Ithaca Tompkins Co N.Y.
pg 1/2 per annum Aug 3 Feb 1837
Albany Roll

State of New York } County of Tompkins } Be it known that on this fifteenth day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three (1853) personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid Lewis Fortner aged sixty two years a resident of Danby in said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is personally acquainted with widow Dinah Mount who is applying for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her late deceased husband Matthias Mount; that deponent was also well acquainted with the said deceased Matthias Mount, and knew that he was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and that he was lawfully married to the said Dinah Mount as deponent has always understood at the time by her stated on the twenty seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty (1820). That the said Matthias Mount died on eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty seven (1847) the attached family record taken from the Bible bears the exact date of his death - that they lived together as man and wife from the date of their marriage until his death; that deponent was at the funeral of the said Matthias Mount - that his tombstone bears the date written upon the record. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. } Lewis Fortner
Levi C. Beers Justice of the peace
I hereby Certify that the above named Lewis Fortner is a highly respectable person and is en- titled to full credit in his deposition
And I further Certify that I am per- sonally acquainted with widow Dinah Mount and was also well acquainted with her late deceased hus- band Matthias Mount; that I have known them to live together as man and wife from the year 1820 up to the death of the said Matthias Mount -
Levi C. Beers J.P.

h a a o a a a RECORD.
Deaths.
Died in Danby on the Eleventh Day of June Eighteen Hundred and forty Seven. Matthias Mount A Revolutionary Pensioner. Aged Ninety years ten Months and three Days
This is to certify that on the twenty seventh day of
Danby Sept r 4 th 1840
Recd of Mr Matthias Mount a power of Attorney to draw his pension from the 4 th March 1840 to Sept r 4 th 1840 to account to him if the money is drawn from the pension office at Albany Pension forty eight dollars subject to charges E. B. Buel

This is to certify that on the twenty seventh day of May Eighteen hundred and twenty I Married, Matthias Mount to Dinah Fortner both of the Town of Lansing
Co of Tompkins and State of New York (Elder of the Methodist Church Eugene Conger

State of New York County of Tompkins } Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace with and for the County of Tompkins and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths. Aaron Bennet aged Seventy one years, a resident of Danby in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with the late deceased Matthias Mount, and knew that he was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum. That he is also well acquainted with his widow Dinah Mount who is applying for a pension on the account of her late deceased husbands Matthias Mounts services in the Revolutionary war. That deponent drew up, or made a will for the said Matthias Mount in which he, the said Matthias Mount names Dinah Mount as his true and lawful wife. That depo- nent saw the said Matthias Mount after his decease and believes that he died on the eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty seven - (1847) Sworn to and subscribed before me This fifteenth day of February A.D. 1853 } Aaron Bennet Levi C. Beers Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Aaron Bennet is a very respectable person and that he is entitled to full credit in his deposition.
Levi C. Beers J. P.

Census Office Jan. 8. 1831
R. P.

H of Reps
Jan 7. 1831.
Sir,
If my certificate of the character of M c Crittenden, (the writer of the enclosed letter) will answer the purpose, I have no hesitation in assuring you that he is a lawyer of good standing at the bar of Tompkins Co N.Y. that I have been acquainted with him several years, and have never heard his character in the slightest degree impeached.
Respectfully
Yours &c
T. Maxwell
20 J. S. Edwards Esq

✓ Matthias Mounts Papers
recd Sept. 8. 1828

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
4 Dec 1828.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Matthias Mount under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
R. Ruth
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Department!
Bounty land Office
The records of this Office do not show that Matthias Mount of the Virg a line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor 9 Dec r . 1828

For the Purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act for the relief of Certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 day of May 1828 I Matthias Mount of Lansing County of Tom Pkins and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a Private in Captain Joseph Mearnsens Company in the Eighth Regiment in the Virginia Line. And I also declare that I received a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States Matthias his Mount Mark Subscribed to me this 27 day of August 1828 before me D. Woodworth Commissioner

Before me David Woodcock a Commissioner to perform Certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court Personally appeared Nicholas Tomley & Lewis Foster of Lansing in said County who did severally make Oath that Matthias Mount by whom the foregoing declar- ion was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as is therein stated
Witness my hand this 27 day of August
1838
Nicholas Tomley Lewis Foster
D Woodcock Commissioner

State of New York Suffolk County Clerk's Office I Miles Finch, Deputy Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that David Woodcock Esq. before whom the within affidavits were made, was at the time thereof a Commissioner to perform certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court in and for said County and by law authorized to administer oaths &c. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and will believe the signature of D. Woodcock within to be his. Witness my hand & seal of said County this 11 th day of September 1828. Miles Finch Dep. C.B.

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M. Mount, 969
F. Keip. 970.
rec d Sept. 8. 1828
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Shuca ny Sep 2

Ithaca New York Sept 3 d 1838
Sir
I enclose you the papers of Matthias Mount and Francis King to be put upon the Pension list under the late act of Congress. I will thank you to let me hear from you soon as it regards them.
I remain very respectfully
Yours
David Woodcock.
Hon Richard Rush

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Hon. Thomas Maxmell House of Representatives Washington D. C.

Ithaca Tompkins Co. N York
Dec. 27 1830.
Hon? Sir,
I this day Enclose to the Pension office, the papers &c of Matthias Mount an applicant for a Pension for services in the Revolutionary War - The papers have been sent several times before & returned as deficient - I have kept adding New proofs as required till I think I have enough to satisfy the Department that his Claim is just & honest - Accompanying the papers I sent a statement or brief which will explain my views in relation to it - Will you be good enough to call at the Pension office and Enquire into the matter and if further proof is required in support of his Claim please inform me as soon as you can wherein his proof is defective -
Mr. Mount lives in Danby in this County & I am well satisfied that

he is desiring of a Pardon - At all events he relies solely upon his friends who are themselves poor for his support. If you can render him any assistance in the matter you will confer a favour on him as well as on
Your Ob t Serv t
J. Crittenden
Wm T. Maxwell Esq

Pension Office Jan. 3. 1830
A. unknown pen: to com: Jan. 3. 1831
W. Russell

Ithaca Tompkins County N.Y. Dec. 11 th 1830.
To the Hon. Jno. H. Eaton
Secretary of War.
Sir, in answer to a letter from the War Department having date Nov 7 th 1830 upon the subject of the application of Matthias Mount for a Pension by leave to reply and would respectfully submit the following as explanatory of my views of the Declaration & proofs submitted by the applicant -
Declaration Marked "A. No. 1. Dated May 26 th 1829" exhibits proof that the declarant was then the nominal owner of said and other property valued at (as per appraisal) $1021.50  That the Declarant then owed debts to the following persons    Viz  To C. N. Burr & Calvin Burr & Co.  $576.80     To Dyer Foote  29.26     " A. Miller Esq.  25.00     " John D. Christie  8.09    (See also Affidavits Marked "A. Nos. 2. 3. 4. & 5.")  Affidavit of C. Post Marked "A. No. 6" proves in effect up to Post of 300.00  Am't of Debts due from Declarant May 26. 1829 939.15  Actual Estate of Do Do $ 81.35   Declaration Marked "B. No. 1." Dated June 9. 1830 Exhibits that the property then owned by Declarant according to the schedule & appraisal after paying certain debts therein mentioned amount to $153.11  That since the first Declaration & since the sale of Land to Gibbs the following Debts have been paid from the proceeds thereof    Viz  To C. N. Burr & Calvin Burr & Co.  $596.96     (See also Affidavits Marked "A. No. 2" - "B. No. 3" & "B. No. 3")      To Dr. Dyer Foote  15.00     (See affidavits Marked "A. No. 3" & "B. No. 4")      To Abijah Miller Esq.  29.00     (See affidavits Marked "A. No. 4" & "B. No. 5")      To Christopher Post  300.00     (See affidavits Marked "A. No. 4" - "B. No. 4")      To Christopher P. Piatt  180.00     (See affidavit Marked "B. No. 8" & "B. No. 2")      Am't of Debts paid  $1120.96     Proceeds of Sale of Land to Gibbs (See Exemplified Copy Dued)  1000.00      120.96     Am't of Estate after paying certain debts above named  $ 32.15  

From the amount of the Declarants Estate as would appear from the preceding statement take $27. 37/100 the amount of debts yet remaining due from & unpaid by said Declarant as appears from Declaration Marked "B. No. 1" & affidavits marked "B No 4" & "A. No. 3" - a balance will be left of $4. 78/100 which is all the Declarant has upon which to depend for the support of himself & wife - a couple now aged 74 years and upwards -
But it is said that "the applicants Declaration and the affidavits of the witnesses do not correspond." Upon a strict Examination of the Declarations together with all the affidavits, their several dates &c. I can discover but trifling difference in the several amounts and these differences are to be accounted for from their bearing different dates and from the interest on the several amounts having been cast to different dates - True the Applicant in his Declaration states that the amount of the debt paid to Burrs was $607. and in the affidavit of Calvin Burr Marked "B. No. 3" the amount is stated to have been $596. 94/100 a difference of about $10. - Now whether this difference is created from the amount paid for the conveyancing costs being included in the one & not in the other or from their not having equal means of ascertaining the precise amount it is not my business to determine - But Mr Burr told me personally when called upon for the affidavit that he had destroyed the paper containing the several amounts & that he was not certain that he could obtain from any written document the precise sums - By reference to Burrs Affidavit Marked A. No. 2. I think the Applicant must be nearly correct - ought this variation to defeat his claim? -
It is also said that "C. Prost must be more particular and state the precise time when the debt was contracted, and for what articles." By reference to Prosts affidavit Marked "A. No. 6" which is referred to in his affidavit Marked "B. No. 9" is not the consideration of the indebtedness sufficiently stated and set forth? I add a further affidavit of Prost Marked "B. No. 10" proving the precise time when his debt was contracted. &c.
I also add an affidavit of the Declarant stating the reasons for not having mentioned in his declaration particularly the debt to Pratt -
Thus from an examination of proofs and documents herewith enclosed it appears to me there is given a full and fair Exposition of the sale of the property of Matthias Mount the Applicant together with the disposition and application of the proceeds in payment of his house

depts - If the Department shall not consider it in this light and shall not construe the proofs offered sufficient to entitle the Applicant to a favourable result, I know it will not be because the Applicant ought not to succeed but because his application & proofs accompanying the same are unskillfully drawn - I know, that is, if the word of his nearest neighbors can be relied upon (which I have no doubt) that Matthias Mount the Applicant named in the annexed declaration &c. has not the means within his power of subsistence and must inevitably suffer from hunger and nakedness were it not for the interposition and assistance of his friends - There has been no transaction. No act of the Applicant in relation to his application which he has attempted to conceal but has endeavoured to give a satisfactory exposition of all his transactions and if he has failed it has been as I said before for the want of skill in making the application. Notwithstanding the complexity of the proofs &c. I trust a full & fair Examination will be given them and with the result whether favourable or unfavourable he must be content -
I Am Respectfully
Your Ob! Servt
Samuel Brinkerhoff

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept. 13. 1828.
Matthias Mount of Lansing, in the County of Tompkins, in the State of New York, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private, in captain Swearingen's company, in the Eighth regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THE THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
20. September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Matthias Mount in the
It further appears that Matthias Mount is now on the pension list of the agency, and has been so since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of dollars per month.
The name of Matthias Mount cannot be found among those of the Virginia line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued - John Hagner Aud

General Land Office 10 th Decr 1828.
It appears from the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond that Matthew Mornk a Soldier received a Warrant for 100 acres of Land for having served for 3 years in the Virginia continental line.
G. W. Graham Commissioner

1828 papers to be filed with ad our Inw File # 5772

Matthias Mount - Prob.
Va. line
New York
Ex 1 one old Book & Ref. Invalid, file no. 5,772.

April 1, 1852
Hon. J. R. Heath
Comm ee of Pensions
Sir
I forward you, enclosed, the petition of Dinah Mount, and have to request from you, for the use of the Com. of Pensions, such information upon the subject as may be within your reach, and which may be useful to the Committee.
very respectfully Your ob d Servt
G. R. W. Boney SAS
Ch n Compens

Brief in the case of Leah Mount, widow of Matthias Joseph Ruis County and State of New York act 3 Feb 1833
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pauper under the act of 18 March 1818, at $96 per annum. Marriage proved by certificate of the officiating clergyman.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
E. Schutt, Ithaca N.Y.
J. Cal. Examining Clerk.

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Ithaca July 27 th 1855
Mr G. P. Walda (Com. of Pensions)
Sir
I send to you the papers of the Dinah Mount Widow of Mathias Mount, who was a Soldier in the revolutionary war, the time of his enlisting, the Captains name & Regiment &c she has often heard him say but has forgoten, & his papers ware left with a Lawyer who is now dead & the papers that ware left with him cannot be found & for that reason she refers to her or his papers now on file. If this is not satisfactory please send it back or write to me soon
PS please Direct to Ithaca Tompkins Co., N.Y.
Respectfully yours &c
J. C. Beers

Ithaca Feb 28th 1858
Hon J. C. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. } Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Dinah Mount for a Revolutionary Pension I hope the proof will be satisfactory to the Department
Very respectfully Your Obedt Servt Ephraim Schutt Ithaca Tompkins Co N.Y.

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept. 13. 1828
SIR :
Your letter of the 2 d inst. with its enclosures, presenting the claim of Messrs M c Mount & F r King, under the abovementioned act, has been received. The claim will be examined with all convenient despatch, and the result communicated to you.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Richard Rush
Hon. David Woodcock, Ithaca, N.Y.

Houston, Texas.
July, 30, 1937.
Dear Sir:
I am tracing the Mount family genealogy, and believe Matthias Mount to be the father of my great grand father. Have you a record of a pension? He was in the Revolutionary War, served as a private in Capt. Joseph Mitchell Company, 12 th Virginia Regiment, also designated as 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th , and 9 th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. James Wood. He enlisted for three years. Dec. 25, 1776, also known as Jan. 17, 1777; was transferred about Dec. 1777 to Capt. Thomas Bowyer's Company, same regiment. Was transferred to Major Jonathan Clarke Co. in June, 1778, and again transferred about May, 1779 to a company designated at various times as Capt. Robert Gamble's, and Capt. Presley Norville Company, same regiment. About Sept. 1779 he was transferred to a company designated at various times as Col. James Wood, First Col. Fleming's, and the First. Colonel's Company, same regiment, and his name last appears on the company pay roll for Nov. 1779.
(over)

He lived in Fincastle Co. Virginia at one time. Will greatly appreciate getting all available data.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Mrs. E. S. Atkinson
1502 Stuart Ave.
Houston, Texas.