Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7470, for Adam D Mount, New York

SERVICE
New York
NUMBER
Mount, Adam D.
R. 7470
CONTENTS

35037 In the matter of New York. The application of Adam D. Mount of the city of New York for a pension
The petitioner's declaration proof authentication of the Court to the papers etc
74170

State of New York City & County of New York } ss:
On this sixth day of March, in the year, one thousand eight hundred and forty one, personally appeared in open court before the Marine Court of the City of New York, now sitting, the same being a Court of Record and hearing by law a Seal and Clerk, Adam D Mount a resident of the City & County of New York in the State of New York aged Eighty three years and upward who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832,
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officer and served as herein stated, that is to say, in the year 1775, he lived in the City of New York and worked at his business of a baker with one Hugh McDowell in Chestnut Street in that City, deponent's father and mother living at the same time in the City of New York. That the deponent was born in Middletown Mon mouth County in the State of New Jersey on the Tenth day of September 1757 as he always un- derstood from his father and mother and verily believes. Deponent has seen the record of his age or birth in the family bible of his Parents and had a record of it himself with the birth and ages of his children, which are now lost or destroyed by time and accident and he has now no record of his age. That since

The revolutionary war he had lived in the City of New York, and now lived there. That in the early part of the said year 1775 he thought about the month of April, at the commencement of the hostilities, that led to the American revolution, the Militia of the City of New York were embodied for Military service of which there were several regiments in the City: Deponent was then about Eighteen years of age and obeyed the call to arms made on the citizens, who were in favor of the American cause. He entered the service as a volunteer. He equipped himself for service and entered a Militia Company commanded by Captain John Rutter, who deponent knew and who kept a Tavern in Cherry Street in the said City: Deponent furnished his own musket and other equipments. This was as he thought in or about the month of April of the year 1775; it was at all events in the early part of that year. He attended and served in this Military company whenever it assembled which was by the beat of drum through the streets. He with others who composed the said Militia force entered the service in consequence of the state of the times and the necessity imposed on those who felt disposed in favor of the American cause to defend their rights and liberties. It was voluntary and of their own accord. He was employed and served with the other men composing the regiment to which he belonged as well at drills and exercise of arms as on fatigue duty in erecting fortifications at the wharft and margin of the East River and in other services. His duties required him to and he did attend

under the direction of his officers for several days of each week, and he continued to act and to perform military duty in this manner in the said Militia or Military Company until the regular Troops came into the City from the Eastward, who relieved the Militia and which took place in the month of February 1776 and upon which event he resumed his business and went to work in the same place which had been occupied by the said Hugh McCrae, who being a Tory & violent in his politics had fled from the City. Deponent was after this employed and baked for the American Regular Troops, he means for some part of them, until the British Army entered the City when his business was broken up and he joined his father and mother who were aged persons to assist in taking care of them. The time he actually served in the said Militia or Military Company and so performed military services was nine or ten months, commencing as aforesaid in the early part of the year 1775 and ending in the month of February 1776 as aforesaid. He is unable to state and does not remember the name or names of the field or company officers of the Militia Regiment in which he served as aforesaid except that of the Captain of the Company to which he belonged who was John Scatter above named. He remembers that Samuel Haurlane and Thomas Heath were his comrades and fellow soldiers, that Haurlane belonged to the same company and Heath to the same Regiment in which deponent served both of whom are dead and their respective widows are still living, namely, Penelope Heath and Sarah Haurlane both of the City of New York.

He is unable to state and does not remember the day of the month when he entered such service, nor the exact time when he left the same nor how long precisely he served as aforesaid. It was however as much as nine months and may have been and he believes was more and he is unable to state more particular in these respects than what is above mentioned.
There were no continental Regiments or companies with which he served as aforesaid. He remembers that when he was engaged in baking bread for some of the continental Troops as above stated it was by Quarter Master Belden he was employed of Colonel Willis's Regiment, their Christian names he does not remember.
He has no recollection of having received a discharge from the Militia Company to which he belonged and in which he served as aforesaid. He believes that when the regular Troops arrived in the City as aforesaid the Militia or most of them were disbanded or ceased further to act and his services were no longer required and he returned to his usual occupation.
He further says that he has no documentary evidence to adduce of his said services performed in the Militia and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services except the said Penelope Heath and Sarah Howland above named.
That when the Continental Troops came into the City as aforesaid his services in the Militia ceased and he performed no further military services, except that there was an artillery Regiment belonging to the Regular Troops a part of which were stationed on Governors Island and a part at Fort

Washington and the same being deficient in men to supply the posts in the City, deponent volunteered with others to serve in the same until recruits could be furnished to fill up the ranks and deponent and such volunteers served and performed duty in such Regiment in the said City for about a week; deponent's partner whose name was Pierpont volunteered & served in the same manner in the same artillery Regiment and was killed in action on the landing of the British at Kip's Bay, while deponent was left at his Bake House delivering out bread for the Troops
And deponent further says that William Kumbel Leather Dealer Howard A Simons, Leather Dealer; Israel Cose; Leather Merchant; Joseph P Smith Grocer John Kater Grocer George P Butler Minister of the Gospel all of the City of New York, know deponent in his present neighbourhood and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution
And he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Given to the subscribers in open Court the day & year aforesaid before me Judah Hammon Justice of the peace and Marine Court
Adams D. Merrill

We George F Butler a clergyman residing in the City of New York and Howard A Simons, residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam P Mount of the said City who had subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be right three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year afore said before me Judah Hammond Justice Marine Court
George F Butler Howard A Simons
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated And the court further certifies that it appears to them that George F Butler who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the City of New York and that Howard A Simons who had also signed the same is a resident in the said City and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
John Barberie Clerk of the Marine

Court of the City of New York Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adams Morynt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentyth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
I further certify that Madah Normmon whose signature is affixed to the above affidavits is one of the Justices of the said Court, and that the said Court is a Court of Record, and that the said signatures are his genuin signatures.
John Barberie

State of New York City & County of New York } ss:
Heay S Mackay of the said City, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, being sworn I say, he knows George Butler of the said City who had signed the Certificate annexed to the Declaration of Adam Dillmont to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and that the said George Butler is a duly qualified resident in the said City and deponent also knows Howard A Simonds who had also signed the said Certificate and that he is a resident of the said City and that both of them are respectable & credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit. Sworn to before me. Heay S Mackay in open Court this 12th day of March 1841
Judah Hammond Justice of the Marine Court

State of New York City & County of New York S.
Penelope Heath of the City of New York Widow, being sworn says She is about Seventy nine years of age; that she remembers Adam D Mount of the said City Baker, since the time of the American Revolution and she knew him before that time; he worked with Hugh McDoral in the baking business in the year 1775 in Chestnut Street, deponent then lived with her parents in Mulberry Street. McDoral went away on account of his politics and Mr Mount took his place and carried on baking in Chestnut Street; deponent thinks that Mr Mount baked for the American Regular Troops after they came into the City.
She remembers that Thomas Heath, to whom deponent was afterwards married, served in the ranks of the Militia in the year 1775 and that the said Adam D Mount and her husband served in the same Regiment They performed Military services together in and during that year how long she does not remember She does not remember the names of any of the officers of the Regiment, but her recollection is very distinct that Mr Mount served in the Militia & performed Military services in & about the City for that year, before the Regular Troops came in and that he was attached to the American cause.
Deponent further says, that the family Bible in which her age or birth was recorded became defaced or lost several years ago, in

consequence of which she is unable to state her exact age, she may be older than 79 years; in the year 1775 to which she refers, she was a young woman and remembers the period and the transactions and occurrences of the times very well.
Subscribed and affirmed before me the 3 rd day of March 1841 at the house of the said Penelope Heath in the City of New York where I attended her on account of her great age.
Judah Hammond one of the Justices of the Marine Court and Justice of the Peace.
Penelope her Penelope Heath mark
State of New York } City of New York } ss. William Rumble of the City of New York in being duly sworn deposes and saith he is well acquainted with Penelope Heath the Affirmant above named, and that the said Penelope Heath is a person of respectability and veracity and credible as a witness -
Wm Rumble
Sworn before me In the Marine Court in open Court the 9 th March 1841 Judah Hammond Justice Marine Court

State of New York City & County of New York I.S.:
Sarah Howland of the City of New York, Widow, being sworn says, that she knows Adam D Mount of the same place Baker, and has known him since he was a boy. That deponent is eighty three years of age; she was born in the said City and has always resided therein.
That at the breaking out of the American Revolution, she means in the year 1775, the deponent lived in the same neighbourhood with the said Adam D Mount that is deponent lived in Oak Street and the said Adam D Mount in Chestnut Street. The said Adam D Mount was then a young man and worked with one Hugh McDowall, who carried on the baking business in Chestnut Street. She remembers that the said Hugh McDowall was compelled to leave the City, in consequence of his politics and the state of the times, being a Tory and that after Mount on McDowall's leaving the City carried on the baking business in the same place that had been occupied by McDowall in Chestnut Street and that the said Adam D Mount was engaged in baking for the American Troops in the City.
Deponent further says that she remembers, that before the regular Troops arrived in the City, the regular Troops the Militia were called out into service, this was in the early part of 1775; that her husband

Samuel Harland and the said Adam Dillount both turned out and were in the ranks of the Militia and served and performed military services together; they were employed at drilling, erecting batteries and other services, such as soldiers perform. Her husband and the said Adam Dillount were friends and comrades, she remembers to have seen them go off together accounted for military service in the Militia; they belonged to the same military company, which was commanded by Captain Rutter, she does not know what Regiment nor the name or names of the other officers. The Regiment in which they served she thinks was employed for sometime at some distance from the City and they used to be absent for several days at a time of each week. She is unable to state at this length of time how long the said Adam Dillount and her husband served in the ranks of the Militia, but she thinks it must have been the greater part of the year, as the regular troops came into the City the following winter when our Mount baked for them.
Subscribed and Sworn
the 1 st Day of March
1841. Before me
at the house of the
Deponent Sarah Haviland
where I attended her
on account of her great
age
Judah Hammond
Justice of the Marine Court and Justice of the Peace —
Sarah Mark Haviland

State of New York } ss. City of New York } ss.
John Van Sice - of the city of New York of No. 250 Elizabeth being duly sworn says he is well acquainted with Sarah Haviland named in the foregoing deposition and that the said Sarah Haviland is a person of respectability and veracity and credible as a witness.
John Van Sice
Sworn the 8 th March 1841 In the Marine Court in open Court before me Judah Hammond R. Justice of the Marine Court.
In Marine Court
City of New York ss It is hereby certified that I am and long have been personally acquainted th with Adam D. Mount, Mary S. McKay, Eugene and that they are persons of respectability and veracity and credible witnesses, and that I believe Penelope Heath, William Humbel, Sarah Haviland and John Van Sice to be persons of respectability and veracity and credible witnesses.
Judah Hammond Justice Marine Court.
I further certify that I believe George F. Butler and Howard A. Simonds to be persons of respectability and veracity and credible witnesses -
Judah Hammond Justice of Marine Court March 12. 1841

7470
P. O. Adam D. Mounk
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

July 13. 1841. see to Hon: Charles G. Ferris. St. L.
Adams D. Mount
New York
paper returned to Hon C. G.
Ferris Jan 27 1842
Set to Claim - 2 Nov. 39 " " 12 " " " " 12 March 40 " " 8 May 40 Hon. C. G. Ferris 13 July 41 " same April 9 th 842
June 7 1872

35,037
Adam S. Mount New-York.
claim for service as a Baker, in the revolution.
Let to him Nov 2. 1839. do to him " 12. " do to him Mar 12 1840. do to him May 8 - 1840

Adams D. Merrant states in his petition that he was employed in 1876 by Isaac Smith Bishop of Col. Miller's regiment of the State Guard then lying near New York in encampment and he had bread for said troops. That on a day in said service for the month of July and until the 1st of September in the year above mentioned - when the troops marched at for Washington in the - That he then has a receipt on it 857 in all Adams 700 dollars - Just then in the of his service

House of Representatives Washington Jan'y 26 th 1862
J. L. Edwards Esq. Chair of Committee -
Sir I herewith send you a letter from Adam D. Mount and a brief memorandum taken from his petition to Congress for pay for bread furnished the revolutionary army - he states that there is evi- dence of his claim and Service in your office - I see you will confer an obligation on me by furnishing me with the same or in direction where it can be found My object is that the evidence may be submitted to the Committee on revolutionary claims which has his case in charge and please also forward me the evidence I believe
Respectfully yours
Chas. H. Farris

1852
Jas R. Mount
New York
Sept 28 th Revolutionary Suspended Papers
P 30 th 7
Adams Mount
213 rd Haffner
Nov 23 rd 52

Mr. H. E. Haplin
Dear Sir,
I will send you the Documents in a few days which has depressed some of the attention necessary yours W. D. Lee.
Yours R. Morant
New York Sept. 28/52
54. Leigh St. P. New York

City of New York Nov 7 th 1839
J L Edwards Esq
Sir
Having on the 25 th ulto, forwarded an application asking for the payment of a Bill for services as a Baker during the Revolution & being favored with your answer of the 2 d inst in which you state the Relais make no provision for my case, I have determined to appeal to the propriety of Congress for relief & will thank you then for me to send me, the report which belonged to my application.
Very respectfully Yours obediently
Samuel M c Naught

New York March 5th 1844
Sir
I receiv'd the favor of a communication from your office dated Nov. 12th 1839, signed by W Crump in reply to one of my own, stating that it was irregular to permit papers to be drawn from the files after receiving the action of the department - But the case I desired to present, the  the papers alluded to in my letter, to Congress, they would be forwarded to me on request -
I have therefore to request, the papers referred to in the communication of Mr Crump, being an account for Baking for the American Troops during the early part of the Revolutionary war & my application for the allowance of the Bill &c, It is necessary that I should have these papers to accompany my application to Congress, particularly the account, which you will please to forward accordingly.
Very respectfully yours &c
Adam D Mount No 21 Rose St, New York
J L Edwards Esq Compt of Pension,

New York March 31 st 1841.
J L Edwards Esq
Sir
About two weeks since, I forwarded to your office, directed to you by name, my papers, claiming a pension for military services performed in the early part of the revolution. The papers were enclosed in an envelope unaccompanied by a letter. Not being aware of the directions prescribed by the general order of the War Department of which since I forwarded the papers I have received a copy, that anything further was necessary to accompany the application, I omitted the letter which I now perceive to be necessary —
I beg leave therefore now to supply the omission by this letter, which I hope may be considered as an accompanying my application, from which you will please to ascertain, (as my own proper handwriting may not be legible) that the papers were sent by myself to whom you will please to direct the answer to my application as follows,
Adam D Mount, No. 37 Cherry Street New York.
I am Sir your obedt Servant.
Adam D Mount

Henry W. Patterson
July, 10 th 1831
7. James L. Edwards Esq r commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have received the enclosed letter from Mr. Adam D. Mount of the City of New York, and respectfully submit the same to your consideration with the view of obtaining the information desired by the writer in order that I may communicate the same to him. By furnishing this information and returning the enclosed letter, or by placing it on file with Mr. A. D. Mount's papers as you may deem most for his advantage, you will confer a favor on me - Permit me further to say that Mr. Adam D. Mount is a respectable citizen, advanced in years, with a family to support and in reduced circumstances, and that if the papers before you are not sufficient to establish his claim to a pension, you would be doing a great service to a meritorious man by informing him what further evidence is required -
I am respectfully Your obt Servt Chas H. Ferris

Washington April 7 th 1882
James D Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Sir Sometime since I procured from you the papers "In the matter of the application of Adela D Mount of the City of New York for a pension," and in compliance with your request acknowledged the receipt of the same. Having received these papers from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to whom they were submitted I now return the same to you and respectfully request the favor that you will acknowledge the receipt of the same -
I am with respect your obed Servt
Chas G Harris