Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41,457, Mason Broom, N.C.

SERVICE
Nb.
Broom, Mason
NUMBER
S 41,457
CONTENTS

14 588  North Carolina
Mason Broom
Green Co in the state of N. Car. who was a private in the regiment cor Colonel Buincombe of the N. Car. line, for the term of 2 years 6 months
Inscribed on the roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 6th of October 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of Sep 1819 and sent to Charles Westbrook Esq Kinston North Carolina
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819 = $ 87. 76 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Mar: 1820 48.
10 mo 26/30/20 $ 135. 76
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Master of the Rolls sent to Isaac Brown Esq 3rd Oct 1821 Warrenton N.C.

Winston NC aug 25 1819
Free
The Honourable Adm. Secretary of War Washington City

41 457 INVALID.
Pay
File No.
41 457 Mason Bloom P. New York
Act:
18 March
Index:—Vol.
8
, Page
60
[Arrangement of 1870.]

W. Broom Piv.
5 th N. Carolina Regt Col. Buncomb.
2 yrs. bond.
6 October 1812 -
Sent to War Dept for proof of service.
The certificate of a judge of the court, as to his belief of the service, & in signature of the Appli- cant, is wanting.
Service Admitted.

The Memorial of Mason Broom of Green County State of North Carolina to the Honorable the Secretary of War.
Your Memorialist humbly sheweth that during the Revolution- ary war he was a soldier and fought for the Independence of his country. He enlisted in Captain Reading Blount's company which of North Carolina belonged to the Fifth regiment (Infantry) commanded by Colonel Barcomb. He is unable to say at what time he enlisted but believes it was during the first part of the war. He was at the battles of Brandy wine and Germantown and served his country two years and six months (the time for which he enlisted) and then obtained his discharge which was destroyed through the ignorance of his family and when its value was not known. He is now poor and needy and humbly prays that he may receive a pension according to the act passed at the last session of Congress for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution. And as in duty bound will ever pray &c
Mason Broom mark

Mason Broom being duly sworn Deposes and says that the matter and things contained in the above memorial are true
by Mason X Broom mark
Benjamin Robertson being duly sworn Deposes and says that he was a soldier in the same company with Mason Broom and that he said Mason Broom served the term of two years and six months in the continental troops
Benj Robertson
State of N. Carolina }
I Charles Melbrook Clerk of Lincoln County Court do hereby certify that Mason Broom and Benjamin Robertson who have appeared the depositions was sworn and subscribed the same in open Court given under my hand & seal of the County at the time the 6th day of October A.D. 1818
Charles Melbrook

State of N. Carolina
Court of Pleas &
Quarter Sessions July
Term 1819 I Samuel Byrd Chairman of the County Court of Lenoir in the State aforesaid do hereby certify certify that it was proved to the full Satisfaction of the Court that Mason Brown the Claimant to the foregoing Memorial is a Very poor man and Quite Indigent Circumstances Given under my hand and Seal at Kinston the 5th day of July 1819
I am Kinston
State of N. Carolina I do hereby certify that Samuel Byrd is Chairman of Lenoir County Court in full Commission and that his Offi- cial acts as such is intitled to full faith & credit Given under my hand and the seal of the County at Kinston the 5th day of July A.D. 1819
W. Brookh

State of Carolina, Secretary's Office 20 th April 1819
I William Bell Secretary of State in for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the musterrolls of the Line in the N. Carolina, Revolutionary war that Hason Broom a private in Capt. Blount's Company of the 5 th Reg. t in said Line, enlisted on the 2 nd day of April 1776. for two and a half years and was discharged in October 1778.
Given under my hand the date above.
Wm Bell

District of North Carolina District:
On this 14 th day of August A.D. 1821, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the County of Greene, by proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, by keeping a record of its proceedings and having power to give the same, Mason Broom aged sixty three years, resident in Greene County 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 in the 5 th Regiment commanded by Col. Buncombe, in the Company commanded by Capt. Reddin Blount and in the North Carolina line; that the date of the original declaration was in April 1819 - That he has received a pension & that the number of his Certificate is (N. 4.588) -
And 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 & 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 securities or contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any property or income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed; viz one bed & bedstead, two blankets, one pot & Skillet, one pail, one ax, one wooding hoe & one plow the whole estimated at $ 15 his
Mason Broom mark
The declarant states
that he is by occupation a labourer, that in consequence of his age & infirmity he is ill able to pursue it, that he has an aged wife 61 years old & an infant grandchild residing with

with him, who are a burthen rather than an assistance to him & finally that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the aid of his Country Sworn to & declared on the 14 th day of August A.D. 1821 before
J. Wright Justices of the Court Williams L. H. Osborn
I Adams Pooley Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Greene do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 said property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is of the value of $ 300. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on the 14 th day of August A.D. 1821
O. Miller Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Greene