Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33401, for James Mullin, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N. H.
NUMBER
S. 33401
Mullin, James or Mullen
CONTENTS

Side Altar Sod 11 Dec 18 1818
16.425
New Hampshire James Mullen
Castle in the state of N.H. as a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Long of the N.H. line for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of N Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of Apr. 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of Feby 1820 and to the Honble Mr. Parrott. U.S. Judge
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819 135.46 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1820 48.
16 mo 28 /30 $183.45
7.46 { Revolutionary claim, } 135.46 { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
My pension and July 1820 William Chapman James Mullen New Hampshire

No 16425 James Mullen
11 Feb. 1820.
Mar. 18 Sept 1820/
Not called

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE ss.
ON this thirtieth day of June A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court
before the Hon. JOHN SAMUEL SHERBURNE, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the New-Hampshire District, being a Court of Record, in and for the said District, having the power of fine and imprisonment, James Mullen aged fifty nine years, resident in New-castle in the county of Rockingham in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows : viz.
I enlisted in 1776 in Captain Brown's company in the New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Colonel Peirce Long as a soldier and so continued one year when I was regularly discharged, as more fully appears by my original declaration in order to obtain a pension —
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 7th day of April 1818 The number of my pension certificate is 16425 I have received a Pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is a fisherman — I have not sufficient ability to pursue it am unable to do half the labour I formerly could — have a lame arm — I have two in family residing with me viz — one son aged thirteen years and one daughter aged twenty three years
Their capacity to contribute to their support is such that they have no property and are unable to support themselves James Mullin —
New Hampshire District — Court held at Portsmouth in said County Sworn to and declared at a Special District in said District, on the 30th day of June — A. D. 1820, before The Honourable John S. Sherburne — Judge of the said District Court Attest Peyton R Freeman an Clerk
I Peyton R Freeman Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the New-Hampshire District, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is eighty two dollars and sixty four cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this first day of July A. D. 1820.
Peyton R Freeman } Clerk of the said District Court for the New-Hampshire District.

SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of James Mullen (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the District Court of the United States for the New-Hampshire District, on the 30th day of June 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.
  1 Desk $ 4   1 Round table 1   1 Square Do 2   11 Old chairs 4   1 Old Desk 1.25   1 Looking-Glass .50   1 Picture .30   1 Pine Table .33   Shovel & Tongs 1.00   1 Pair dogs .50   1 Pr bellows .25   3 flat irons .75   2 candle sticks .50   1 Old Table .50   Center ware valued 1.50   Crockery & glass ware valued at 1.25   5 Tea spoons 1.75   1 Stand .25   1 Wherry 6.00   Fishing gear 1.25   1 Chest .50   1 large pot 1.00   1 small do- .63   1 Tea kettle .63 
An Old house with one smoke on land of the United States - 50.-
82.64
James Mullin

James Mullen Private Col Pierce Long's Regiment New Hampshire Line 1776 — 1 year Sept: 1776, to Sept: 1777.
7. April, 1818.
Not on Cont. Est. Rejected Not on the continental establishment. 24 May 1818
John S. Sherburne, Judge, Portsmouth, N.H.
Respectfully of William D. The Estate for Son Mullen

Town James Mullens of New Castle in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, late a Private in the Company commanded by Capt Brown in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Pierce Long in the New Hampshire line on the Continental Establishment doth declare make oath and say that in or about the month of September A.D. 1776 at New Castle aforesaid he enlisted into said Capt Browns said Company in the Regiment and line aforesaid on the Continental Establishment to serve the United States twelve months in the war of the Revolution - That he the Deponent immediately joined said Company and served the United States therein in said war of the Revolution - said Company and Regiment continuing in the line and on the Establishment aforesaid for & during twelve months from the time of his enlistment. That he served faithfully as aforesaid at New Castle aforesaid at Second in or about September 1777, charged at Still water in the State of New York by General Arnold, The term for which he had enlisted having expired. That he is and always has been a resident citizen of the United States and of said New Castle, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is need of assistance from his Country for support James Mullens
Sworn to and declared before me John S. Sherburne Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire on the 7 day of April 1818 and I John S. Sherburne District Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Mullens did serve in the revolutionary War as

Certificate of John S. Sheburne New Castle for Jan 1818
as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War."
Portsmouth in New Hampshire District. May 1818  And I also certify that from that been the certificate of the Selectmen of New Castle hereto annexed it appears to my satisfaction that said Martin by his reduced circumstances is in need of assistance from the Government for such purpose.  J. S. Sheburne Judge U.S. District
United States New Hampshire District ss Be it known that John S. Sheburne Esq. who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate is one of the judges of the Circuit Court a judge of the District Court of the United States for said District Witness the seal of said Circuit Court the 9th day of December AD 1818. Peyton R Freeman Clerk

We the undersigned, Select men of the Town of New castle in the State of New Hampshire do certify, that James Mullen of said Town, who, as it is understood, & as we believe, served the United States in the revolutionary war, & is an applicant for a Pension, (as we understand,) is in reduced circumstances in life, and in need of Assistance from his Country for support.
New castle Aug t 1818.
Henry Prescott Benjamin Frost Thomas Bell } Selectmen
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss } New castle August 11th. 1819. The above named Henry Prescott personally appearing made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed was just and true according to his best belief before me.
W Priest Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss } New castle Aug t 11th. 1819. Then the above named Thos Bell & Benjamin Frost, personally appearing, and made solemn affirmation that the above declaration by them subscribed was just and true according to their best belief before me.
W Priest Justice Peace

David Duncan of New castle in the State of New Hampshire maketh oath & saith, that he was in the service of the United States in 1776, & afterwards, that he well knows James Mullen of S t Newcastle, that he well knows that said Mullen served the United States in Capt t Brown's Company, in Col t Long's Regiment, New Hampshire Line, 12 th months; the Deponent having served with S t Mullen, in the same Company, part of the year, & that he was discharged at Still water about September 1777.
David Duncan
The above deposition was sworn to. on the 2 d of Ap r 1818. Before me -
J. S. Shurcliff but Judge of Hampshire
Before me
Moses Leavitt Justice of Peace #844#

Samuel Sibbey of Chichester in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire husbandman do depose and say that on or about the Month of August 1776 I was individually and personally knowing that James Mullen then and now of Newcastle in the said county of Rockingham enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Brown's Company and Col. George's Regiment on the Continental establishment in New Hampshire, and that the said Mullen enlisted for the term of one year as aforesaid, and faithfully performed his duty as such during the full term of his enlistment.
Benjamin Denny Abiah Carrigain
Samuel his X Sibbey mark
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss Chichester Novemr. 13 th 1818
Then the the above named Samuel Sibbey personally appearing made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is just and true
before me
Moses Leavitt Justice of Peace

State of New Hampshire Rockingham,
Certificate of Admission of Moses Severy to the Bar
I Dan d Humphreys Esq r Notary Pub lic Duly commissioned & sworn, certify that Moses Severy within named and signing, is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Rockingham Nov. 17 th 1878 -
Witness my Notarial hand & seal
Dan d Humphreys Not. Pub lic

was placed on the pension roll, he had been supported by the town - & that if he is not restored to the roll, he must again be supported in the same manner.
Agent -
Wm. Blaggett.
Portsmouth,
N. H.
Restored 31 st Mch 18
Cur. Tra. Apl. 1 st '37.
Transf d to Mass for pension Falmouth, fr. 4 th Sep r '36
Apl. 11 th '37 -
James Mullen - Massachusetts New Hampshire -
Served 14 th in 1776-7-
ched: exhibits "an old house on land of the U. States - valued at $50. - Personal property - viz: 1 Desk, $4. - 1 round table, $1. - 1 square do. $2. - 11 old chairs, $4. 1 old desk, $1.25. - 1 looking glass - 50 cts. 1 Picture - 30 cts. - 1 pine table 33 cts. Shovel & tongs, $1.00. - 1 p ce dogs - 1 p ce bellows - 75 cts. 3 flat irons 75 cts. 2 candle sticks 50 cts. 1 old table 50 cts - Pewter ware, $1.50. - Crockery & glass ware, $1.25. Spoon (5.) $1.75. - 1 stand, 25 cts. - 1 Wherry, $6. - Fishing gear, $1.25. - 1 chest $1.25. - Large pot - $1. - 1 small do. 63 cts. 1 tea kettle, 63 cts. - in all, $82.64
Aged 61 y rs - (fisherman) came over, and able to do more than half labor. - Son, 15 y rs old - 1 daughter 25 y rs - very, and

SMOOTH JULY 20
FREE
Hon J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington city
11/11/41

Portage N.H. July 20 W.P.O
Hon J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Sir Having undertaken to aid James Mullen & Wm C. White, Pensioners of Newcastle, to obtain their pensions, I felt it a duty to at least enquire of you if there is not a mistake acciden- tally made in striking said Mullen from the Pension List, as Mr Edwards informs me that said Mullen's name is stricken from the list on account of the amount of his property, altho' the whole amount is only $82.06, & that the decision in the case of said White is suspended for the present. I will soon write you more fully respecting said White's pecuniary circumstances & situation, and I now request you not to decide his case, nor those of Deborah Smith and Simon Renoules of Rye, until you hear from me again. It has occurred to me that possibly in the case of Mullen, the figure in the Schedule may have been read for eight hundred - otherwise I cannot account for so extraordinary a decision for I have not supposed you would reject any Pensioner, whose property did not amount to at least five or six hundred dollars. No person in this section of the country has sup- posed that a Pensioner must be wholly destitute of property, & be a town pauper according to a fair construction of the law of the U. States. Some of our members of Congress have expressed an opinion that you would not reject, unless the prop- erty amounted to at least a thousand dollars. I do, Sir, undertake to say, that if any per- sons in the U. States are entitled to pensions, said Mullen and White have as strong & just claims as any. Please to observe that Mullen's schedule shows that $50. of said $82.06

is for a poor, miserable, small old hut or house, situate on lands of the U. States. His property is therefore, according to his schedule, barely $32,000! and this highly valued - For he valued his old trumpery for more than it would sell. Perhaps a fair estimate of all his property would not exceed $15, or $20. Please also to observe that this little hut, which he perhaps supposed that he owned, is not his. It belongs to the U. States, as the schedule shows that it stands on lands of the U. States. For if they own the soil, of course they own the hut that stands on it. I believe the clerk of the court very incorrectly added this hut to Mullen's inventory. It was not done by myself or my advice. I learn from a credible source that by a decision of our supreme court, it was decided that the property of the land in question was is in the U. States. Mullen, I learn, evicted this hut, & the U.S. now takes from him his real estate (of which he could be only tenant by courtesy as the title would be in his wife, had not the U.S. taken it) and also strike him from the pension list! The consequence must be that he and his family will be cast upon the mercy of the town for a miserable subsistence. Further, in consequence of your decision, an unfeeling creditor has attached what little property Mullen had, to secure his debt.
I also learn that Mullen was  is considerably involved in debt - Had I known this in season, I should have stated it in his schedule. He is a poor, miserably poor old man, border- ing on the grave, with a large family looking to this old decrepit man for support - and the U. States emphatically cast him upon the mercy of the town, or the friends of humanity!!! As to assure you, that could you know his real situation, you it would be im

possible for you to hesitate a moment about allowing his pension, to which he is as much entitled by the law as any one in the U. States. I trust you will reconsider your decision. If you do not, unless the Pensions Congress, he must die a poor beggar. Even if he had a few hundred dollars, what would that be towards his & his family's support? The sum would be too small to mention seriously as an objection to the allowance of his pension.
The situation of said White, is not very different in point of property, if the term property can be applied to either of them, from that of Muller.
You will I trust, his excuse me for any feelings of humanity I may have with respect to him.
I am, he, very respectfully, Grafton Oct. William Claggett
P.S. One of the most respectable inhabitants of the town of Rye has just informed me that said David Smith & Simon Knowles were paupers maintained by the town of Rye, until Pensions were allowed them - that if they should be stricken from the list, the town must again take custody of them. But I trust that you neither have that you never will decide that none but town paupers are entitled to Pensions.
W. C.

Mr. Edwards
Pension Office
War Department
Recd. 14 Jan 1890

Hon: John F. Parnell
Add evidence in the case of James Mullen
14 Jany 1820 Entered

Dear Sir
The inclosed additional evidence in the case of James Mullen, a claimant for a pension, whose papers I handed to you the other day, has been forwarded to me from New Hampshire.
I am very respectfully Yours
W. F. Parratt
Wednesday morn 12 th Jan. 1820

Portsmouth April 5 1837
Sir
Your letter of the 1 st inst. is received
James Mullen a revolutionary pensioner under act of 1818 at 8 dollars per month was last paid at this agency up to September 4 th 1836 —
Very respectfully your most obedient servant James L Edwards Esq d Commissioner of Pensions Isaac Waldron Washington

Mar 31.
Mr B
FREE
J L Edwards Esq Com of Pensions Wash Dept. Washington D.C.

Lynn 27 March 1837
Dear Sir
In return I forward application for a transfer of Pension to James Mullin of this town -
Please make such order as is necessary to enable him to receive his Pension at Boston & thus oblige an old soldier
Yours Respectfully
James Mullin by J. B. Stickney

I Laurence Ellis of Andover in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire of lawful age do testify and say that James Mullin of Newcastle in the County of Rockingham State aforesaid served in Capt. Brown's Company belonging to Col. Pierce Long's Regiment in the Continental Revolutionary Army against the common enemy in the years 1776 and 1777 and I was well acquainted with him nearly one year, which term he the said James Mullin, who is now in my presence is the same man who served as above and was honorably discharged from said Company in August 1777
Laurence Ellis
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss } Newcastle Nov. 17th. 1819 Then personally appearing Laurence Ellis who signed the above declaration and made solemn Oath that it is just and true before me Nathan Priest Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire Portsmouth -
I Daniel Humphreys of S t Portsmouth a Notary Public, duly commissioned & sworn do certify that Nathan Priest who has signed the above caption on certificate at the date thereof was, & now is a Justice of the Peace for the S t County of Rockingham, duly qualified & executing that office, & that to such his official certificate in kind faith is due & to be given
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Notarial Seal this 20th day of November A.D. 1819
Dan t Humphreys Not y Pub c

33 401 Rev INVALID.
April 4-1901 Mrs. J. F. Kimball Boston Mass,
File No. 88 401
James Muller Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 290
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Boston Mch 19 H. Clay Evans Esq Dear Sir
I have been told to apply to you for information which I need, and which I hope you can furnish. My Grand father James Mullin or Mullen as sometimes spelled - enlisted in the army as a private in Sep 1774. Supt Nathan Brown Col. Israel Root. The companies were filled up and the regiment - organized on the Continental

basis, and stationed at New Castle, N. H. for the defence of Piscataqua harbor, until Nov. 23 rd when they were ordered by Gen Ward to reinforce the army at Linculdernaga and marched for that Fort the Feb. following 1777 . This in Bouton's History of N. H. I can follow him no further until he appears at his marriage in 1780 to Abigail Jordan - He was wounded in the face and bore the scar to his death, his eldest hand

children remember that he received a pension, but there are no papers to be found. He was also in the War of 1812 a prisoner at Dartmoor. In the family is the handle of a shaving brush which he carved while there. He spent his last years with his son
Henry Bell Mullin of Lynn and died there. The letter communicating the news of his death to my mother has no date, and stranger still the Lynn City Records mentions his death and burial, but has no date. Such carelessness is unpardonable

My home was in Portsmouth N.H. and I remember seeing him when a child. As I am past 70 she must have been living as late as 1830 I should like very much to know the date of his discharge, and any other facts possible to be obtained. If you can find nothing perhaps you can suggest some other means of learning. You will greatly oblige me, by addressing Mrs J. H. Kimball No 2 Oxford Terrace Suite 8 Boston

James Mullen
Portsmouth N.H.
To
Mr. A. P. C.
The official character of the Magistrate must be certified to by the Reg. or Judge of Probate or other Clerk of some Court of Record -

Application for a Transfer.
State of Massachusetts Essex County } ss.
On this twenty fifth day of March 1837 before me, the subscriber as Justice of the Peace for the said County of Essex personally appeared James Mullen, who, on his oath, declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Brown — in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Long of Portsmouth in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New Hampshire from whence he has lately removed; — that he now resides in Lynn, County of Essex & State of Massachusetts, and wishes his pension to be payable in Boston, state aforesaid. The following are his reasons for removing from New Hampshire to Massachusetts Agency.
1 st . Having removed from New Hampshire to Lynn which he intends to make his permanent residence.
2 d . The expense & trouble of sending to the N. H. Agency every six months would amount to more than the pens n is able to pay. James Mullen

The Affidavit on the 1 st page of this sheet sworn & subscribed to before me on the day & year aforesaid
J. Stickney Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss.
I. John Prince Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that J. C. Stickney Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that his signatures hereon are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Salem March 25. 1837.
John Prince Clk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex County, ss. 3
I Henry B. Mullen of lawful age do testify & say that I am well acquaint- -ed with Henry James Mullen the person who had subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit & know that he is the identical person named in a Pension Certificate issued from the War Department dated Feb. 4 th 1820 & signed by J. C. Calhoun Secy. of War
Henry B. Mullen
Be it known that on the twenty fifth day of March 1837 personally appeared Henry B. Mullen named in the foregoing Deposition who is well known to me to be a person of veracity and made oath that the above declaration by him sub- -scribed is true. the word "James" being first substituted for the word "Henry" in said Deposition Before me,
J. C. Hilkney Justice of the Peace