Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35037, for Abner Rawson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Rawson, Abner
S. 35037
CONTENTS

Transp to Michigan from 4 Mar 1835 - Apr 20 '36
Letter to Richard D. Webb Walter Ingersoll of Beth. July 21 st 1842
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6 th 1838 from March 4 th to Sept 4 th 1841. Agent notified Aug 15 th 1842
Michigan 0167 New York
Abner Ransom
of Ontario in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years .
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of March 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 85.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
133 83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled

Cash of Abner Rawson
(8107)
50 acres of land & 45 63. 09
Stephen Phelps
(H)
Sept. 10/19.

I, Abner Rawson do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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.
Sworn to in open Court May 26 th 1820
Abner Rawson
AT a Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court-House in Canandaigua, in and for the County of Ontario, before the Judges of said Court, on the 26 th day of May of the term of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
PRESENT—
Nathaniel W. Howell Stephen Bates Moses Atwater
JUDGES.
EX PARTE—
In the matter of Abner Rawson a Pensioner residing in the town of Antioch in said County.
The said Abner Rawson as a person placed on the Pension List of the United States, having exhibited a schedule subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his wearing apparel and beds and bedding excepted) in pursuance of an act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act in addition to an act, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; passed May 1st, 1820; and having taken, subscribed and produced to this Court the oath or affirmation by said act required, and said Court having heard evidence of the nature and value of the property mentioned in said schedule and duly considered the premises, are of the opinion that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of Sixtythree .
Three dollars and None cents, and they hereby order their Clerk to certify the same in due form.
Ontario County, Clerk's Office, ss. }
I, John Van Eps Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario county, do hereby certify the foregoing schedule and copy of the oath or affirmation of Abner Rawson are true copies of the original schedule and oath or affirmation now on file in my said office, and also that the above opinion and order of said court touching the value of the property set forth, is a true copy of the minutes of said court in the case of said Abner Rawson a United States'
Pensioner.—In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 26 th day of May 1820
John Van Eps Clerk

To the Hon. the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Ontario, holden at the Court House in Canandaigua, in and for said county, of the term of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty—
I, Abner Rawson being an actual resident of the town of Ontario in said county, having been placed on the Pension List of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed the 18th day of March, 1818, do hereby, pursuant to the act in addition to the act above mentioned, passed May 1st, 1820, exhibit to said Court the following as a Schedule containing my whole estate and income, (my necc. things wearing apparel and bedding excepted) that is to say:—
   I hold a contract for fifty acres of land on which I have paid fifty dollars and the now remaining about three hundred dollars which is to the extent of the value of it   Personal property (vis) Cows and Calf f. 20   6 Hogs 18. 9 Hanes with 3.37—1 Chest 1. 22 37   2 Wheels 3. 1 Table 1. 6 Chairs 1.57—1 Kettle 3. 8 57   1 Pot 1.50—1 Bake Oven 1.50—1 Spider .75 3 75   1 Frying Pan .50—3 Milk pans .63—1 Tea pot .12 1 25   3 Cups Saucers .18—2 Knives Forks, 2 Spoons, 4 Plates, 2 pails .29 — 47   1 Churn .57—1 Root bowl .57— one Ay .75—1 p o Scypt .50 3 25   2 Casks 1.50—1 Chain 1.50—1 Sive .50 3 50   63 09  
I further declare and swear that I am 55 years of age and that I served in the Revolutionary Army in Capt. Burnham's Light Infantry Company in Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and afterwards transferred to the Regiment called the American Regiment in the same, and that I made application for a pension April 13 th 1818—awarded a pension certificate N o 8167 and further that I am by occupation a farmer, am lame out of health and able to perform but little labor— and that my family consists of my wife aged 55 years unable to labor by means of a dropsical complaint, and three daughters able to support themselves and that I am in debt $50.00 exclusive the aforesaid debt due on loan contract.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 26 th day of May 1820
Abner Rawson
The foregoing exhibits Inventory and Statement of facts sworn to in open Court the 26 th day of May 1820

County of Wayne ss:
On this twenty sixth day of June 1835 before me, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Wayne personally appeared Abner Rawson who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Bowles in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the Territory of Michigan where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be then payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to the Territory of Michigan (viz) his children reside in Michigan and he wishes to be with them.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid J. M. Strong Justice of Peace W. C. M. T.
Abner Rawson
Territory of Michigan
County of Wayne ss: On the 26 th day of June 1835 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county personally appeared Norman Rawson who on his oath declares, that Abner Rawson is the identical person named in an original certificate of Pension in his pension from the War Department, and is also the same person who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid J. M. Strong Justice of Peace W. C. M. T.
Norman L. Rawson

Abner Rawson.
N. York
to
Michigan

County of Wayne
I do hereby certify that Norman Rawson the witness aforesaid is a person of truth and veracity.
Wm Strong Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that I received my pay up to the 4 th day of March 1835 - my residence is at Ypsilanti Washtenaw County M. T.
Norman Rawson
I Isaac J Rowland Clerk of the court of Wayne County certify that John W. Strong is a Magistrate as aforesaid, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name this twenty sixth day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
I. J. Rowland Clerk

Claims of Alma Rawson April 13 th 1818
Correct
The Honorable Supt of M rs
Ontario

State of New York Ontario County ss.
Alner Rawson of the town of Ontario in the County of Ontario formerly from the Town of Windsor in the State of Massachusetts being duly cautioned and sworn deposes and saith that he is a native citizen of the United States and that he served this country in the War of the Revolution and that he enlisted in the year 1781 in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson in the Company commanded by Capt. Dicks for the term of Three years and that he was afterwards transferred into a Regiment of Infantry and at the expiration of said three years he received an honorable discharge which is herewith transmitted, and the deponent further saith that he is fiftythree years of age and in indigent circumstances and in need of support from Government and he therefore prays that his name may be placed on the pension list pursuant to an Act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" and further the deponent saith not—
Alner Rawson
Sworn to and subscribed and acknowledged this thirteenth day of April 1818 before me
Stephen Phelps A Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and State of New York

Ontario County
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abner Rawson did serve in the Revolutionary War 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 aforementioned Act of Congress -
Canandaigua, April 13 th 1815
Stephen Phelps
Ontario County -
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify from personal knowledge that Abner Rawson the aforementioned Applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support -
Canandaigua July 8 th 1815 -
Stephen Phelps

The Honorable Secretary of War if My Elms are allowed will please to forward a certificate of the same to Stephen Phelps Esq. of Cananagua who is my Agent
April 13 th 1818
Oliver Pearson

State of New York } Ontario County } Clerks office
In testimony that Stephen D. Phelps whose name is subscribed to the fore- going certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the coun- ty of Ontario and that the same is his signature & hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 24 th day of April A.D. 1818
Thos M c Nair Clerk

35 037 Rev INVALID.
File No. 35037
Abner Rawson His Rev. son
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 88 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apr. 1-1903-1903 Index Frank R. Stephens Salt Lake City, Utah

New York
Abner Rawson, private served 3 years from 1781 to the end of the war 1 st Schedule, May. 1820.
I held a contract for 50 acres, on which I have paid $  there now remains due about $300.
Cow, Calf, Hogs & furniture valued at $63.09.
2 nd Schedule May 22. 1823
pigs, Sheep, Calf, & a few articles of furniture, rest of Schedule
$26.75
Since the abolition of 1 st Schedule the contract for 50 acres, which had run out & on which $50 had been paid 9 years ago, & which has since been given up - proof within duly authenticated, that the contract has been given up, Oct 1821
His age 58. a Farmer - infirm - wife 58 - in good health -
O. Seymour Esq
Canandaigua N York
Officers names not rightly stated - See let. to Pensions, July 11: 1835 Cir. Tra. same day -
Sept 19

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Searched by _____
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier _____
Service _____
Additional service _____
Remarks _____
_____ Chief of Division.

35,037 Abner Rawson Apr. 13. 1878 Ontario N.Y. - 53
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Abner Rawson A. 35037

Rawson, Abner Mass 535037

James M. ... in the ... Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the ... Day of ...
178 ...
By the General's Command,
J. M. ...
...
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
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Isaac Lawrence
July 15 '35
Abner Rawson
James J. Edwards Esq. Washington & Lewis. Washington
H
July 15

Offic Bank U States New York July 13 1835.
Sir
Abner Rawson, the Rev. Pensioner @ $8 p.m.o, mentioned in your Letter of the 11 th Inst., has been paid at this Office up to the 4 th of March last.
I am Very respectfully
Sir - Yours obed Serv t
Isaac Lawrence Secy. Acting as Agent for Comm ee
James I Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 10 th , 1842.
Sir:
Under the Act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
Abner Bawson, —————
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Michigan, ————— Agency, at the rate of Eight ————— Dollars and ————— Cents per month month, under the law of the 18 th March 1841, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 4 th Sept. 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
J. Wood B. Tappis
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

Apr 18.
Mr. Monroe.
War Department Free Pension Office.
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Van Buren N.Y.
5. April
Washington.

Oct 26 Mid-at- Mr. Bruns
ans' Oct 26 th 35
J. L. Edwards Esq d Com te of Pensions City of Washington

Pension Agency Detroit Oct. 10 th 1835
Sir
M c Alpin Rawson Revolutionary Pensioner of 18 th March 1818 of the New York agency applied for transfer to this Agency in June last and is anx- ious to know the result -
Very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t
E. W. D. H. P. A.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions

Ottawa July 15 th 1817
J. C. Edwards Esqr Commisioner of Pensions Washington.
Dr Sir I Enclosed I hand you for payment Abner Rawson Pension etc $96.
Very Respectfully Your Ob t Servant
Walter Dugusoll

I Amariah Rawson of the Town of Ontario now County of Wayne & late County of Ontario in the State of New York being duly sworn do depose & certify that on the 10 th day of December 1808 I gave to Menas Rawson of said Town of Ontario a contract for Fifty Acres of Land from the South East corner of Lot No 106 in Township No. thirteen in the 3 d range of Townships in the then County of Ontario for which the said Menas Rawson was to pay into the Land Office of Sir James Pulteney & the County of Bath in former in said County of Ontario at the rate of three dollars & fifty cents per acre to be paid in four installments from the 15 th of December 1807 it being the rate & terms at which I was to pay for the whole of the lot from which the said fifty Acres was taken & for which I took a contract from the agents of said Land Office on the said 15 th day of December 1807 Since that on the 28 th day of August 1815 the said Menas Rawson paid into the said Land Office fifty Dollars towards said fifty Acres of land and the same was put to my credit in said Land Office & further about the first of October 1821 - I Recd a Note from the agents of said Land Office Notifying me that the said fifty Acres of Land was not yet paid for and that payment must be immediately made or forfeiture would follow I then called on the said Menas Rawson to pay for said fifty Acres of Land he said it was not

of his power to pay for the said fifty acres I proposed that I should take back the contract I accordingly took back the contract on his giving up the fifty Dollars which he had paid into the Land Office it not being the amount of Interest due on said contract the said fifty Dollars being the whole amount which I ever had rec d on said contract
Ontario County ss
Amariah Rawson
Sworn to & subscribed
this 29 th day of September
1823 Before me
Eliphalet Taylor J.P.
I Almer Rawson of the County of Ontario Ontario now in the County of Wayne & late the County of Ontario in the State of New York being duly sworn do depose & certify that on on the third day of December 1808 I took a contract of Amariah Rawson the above named respondent for the fifty acres of Land as above described and that all the payment that I ever made on said contract is the fifty Dollars paid at the Land Office on the 28 th of April 1815 as above named and that about the 3 rd of October 1821 I gave up the said contract to the said Amariah Rawson without receiving anything from him the said Amariah
Ontario County ss
Almer Rawson
Subscribed & sworn to
this 29 th day of September
1823 Before me
Eliphalet Taylor J.P.

State of New York Orleans County
I certify that Elphalet Taylor before whom the annexed affidavits were taken and whose signature appears to the certificates of the same, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 29th day of September 1823
Ralph Lester Dep. Atty.

Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan
April 2 nd 1856.
Sir,
In the month of December last I received a requisition from the Pension Office under date of 4 th July 1835, requiring me to respond to the following, first, why the names of the Officers given in my application for a transfer did not agree with the names in the documents on file in your Office, for this I cannot account for most certainly I never gave any other names Capt. Bowles & Col. H. Jackson, Infantry. — my discharge I presume is in your Office, I delivered it to Mr. Phelps, of Canandaigua, at that time Pension Agent, I understand. It is impossible for me to account for my giving the names of Officers in my application for a transfer different from those in the original document, unless the mistake was made by Mr. Daly, agent at Detroit, — the Regiment I was discharged from, was the "Americans", I was discharged at the city of New York, on the 30 th Day of June 1814. — I was inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight 3 / 4 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th Day of April, 1818. The number of my Certificate is 8169. — Since subsequently I was

was strucken from the Pension List, then again on the 21 st Day of October 1823. I was restored to the Pension List of the New York Agency - my Pension to commence on the 23 rd Day of the previous April.
Yours Affec. Servt
J. L. Edwars Esq.
Warner Rawson
Michigan Territory. Wayne County.
Personally appeared Warner Rawson, who being duly sworn deposes, that the Officers under whom he was discharged were Captain Bowles and Colonel H. Beckman, that my discharge was dated at the City of New York, on the 30 th Day of June, 1814. That I removed from the County of Wayne in the State of New York to this place in the month of May last. That my Pension has been paid by the Cashier of the Wayne County Bank, at Palmyra State of New York - and paid up to the 4 th Day of March, 1835. my Age 71 years last November. Date of my Certificate 24 th Day of March, 1819. number 8167. rate of Pension Eight Dollars per month.
Sworn and subscribed before me. Van Buren, the 20 th Day of April A.D. 1835.
Warner Rawson
Eliz Brant Justice of the Peace

June 26 4 am Buron No. 2. 12 fam.
Free.
Dear Sir,
Abn. Kirtland
My
Dear Sir,
24 May
War Department Pension Office
Washington

Dear Bury, Wayne County, Michigan Secretary
January 8th 1856.
A. B. Edwards, Esq. Sir,
I received this morning a communication from you, stating there are some inaccuracies in my application for a transfer of my Pension, you request the names of the Officers under whom I served, the name of the County, in the State of New York, from which I removed to this place, by whom and to what time I was last paid, my age, the number of my certificate, and the rate of Pension to which I am entitled.
Respectfully,
your Obedt Servt
Abner Rawson.
Michigan Secretary. Wayne County.
On the eighth Day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, Personally appeared Abner Rawson Abner Rawson, who being duly sworn states that he is a Revolutionary Pensioner, that his Certificate bears Date the thirteenth Day of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, that the rate of Pension allowed him, is eight Dollars per month, the Officers under whom he served, were Captain Rawles and Colonel Henry Jackson Infantry, that his last payment was made him at the Wayne County Bank at Palmyra, in the State of New York, on the fourth Day of March, last that the County from which he removed in the state of New York to this place, was Wayne that his age was seventy one years on the eleventh Day of November last.
Abner Rawson
Sworn and subscribed before me, the 8th Day of January A.D. 1856.
Eli Bradshaw. Justice of the Peace Wayne County, Michigan Secretary

In the matter of Abner Rawson a pensioner

State of New York County of Ontario } ss On this 22 d day of May 1823 personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county and constituted a Court of record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and recognized as such court by the laws and judicial decisions of said state Abner Rawson resident in said county aged fifty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Con- gress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 that he the said Abner Rawson enlisted for the term of three years on the ninth day of March in the year 1881 in the state of Mas- sachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Dicks in the Regiment commanded by Colonel M c Jackson in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the 30 th June 1884 when he was discharged from the said service in New York in the state of N ew York that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemn- ly swear that I was a resident Citizen in 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 secu- rities 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

  4 Shoats 2.50 14 Sheep 10.50 13.   1 Calf 2. 1 Chest 1. 3.   2 small kettles 2. 1.3 pail Kettle 2.80 11.50   2 Old Chairs .75 1 set Tea Cups .37 1.12   8 plates .50 2 bowls .12 1 Mug .13   1 large Wheat 1.50 1 foot Wheel 2.50 75   1 Tunnel 1.   38   $26.75 
That I am by occupation a farmer but that owing to debility I am unable to do any hard work in consequence of a cut with an axe in the foot 18 years since that my wife resides with me aged fifty eight years who is tolerably healthy that my daughter Fanny aged fifteen years also resides with me and is tolerably healthy That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property a Contract for fifty acres of Sand which had run out and on which fifty dollars had been paid nine years ago and which has since been given up
Sworn before me in open Court 22 d May 1823 M. Brooks a Jud: of Ontario County Courts } Ebner Rawson
State of New York } Ontario County } ss I Ralph Sister Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Ebner Rawson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment and I also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of 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 twenty six dollars and seventy five cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed

Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir Please see if the name of Abner Rawson is on pension list of Revolutionary Pensions died 1846. Rawsonville Mich
Yours Truly Frank B. Stephens