Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 342-300, Asa Coburn, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Coburn, Asa
B.L. Mt. 342-300 capt. Issued April 1, 1790. No papers
CONTENTS

FAS REV
20 th Jan y 1860 Recd A. D. R. OK
Marietta, Ohio.
Pension office.
Dear Sirs.
I want very much to receive some information, and have addressed you hoping that you will be kind enough to help me all you can. Can you tell me if there are any records in your office or elsewhere to show the early Ohio pension laws? Major Asa Colburn or Colburn and Colh. Mr. Mason are said to have drawn a pension. They were both first settlers of Ohio at Marietta. Could they by the laws

Then a little later enacted, draw a petition for maletia service or was it - for Revolutionary service only? Could you tell me on what grounds they drew a petition, and how much they dear. If your office does not show these things, will you please re- -fer me to some one who will give me the information wanted and oblige Yours Resp't.,
(Miss) Mary E. Mason. Address. 629 North 3 rd St. Marietta. O.

Nov. 29th 1917.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
from M. M. Ginn, 1914 Jenny Lind St McKeesport, Pa
Sir:-
If consistent, kindly advise if Asa Coburn, Capt. 7th Mass. Regiment appointed Nov. 13th, 1776 un- der Col. Ichabod Alden and returned at Cantonment, April 16, 1783 under Lieut. Col. Joseph Brooks, was ever paid a pension and if so kindly give short account.
Capt Asa Coburn was in the first company to settle Marietta, Ohio in April, 1788 and tradition in our family is that he received six sections of land

on a place called Sunday Creek for services in the Revolution, can this be confirmed from your office records, he also took up land on Muskingum River near Lowell, Ohio.
I desire this information to use in an effort to join the Sons of American Revolution.
Yours respectfully,
M. M. Ginn

Gladstone Hotel
62 ND ST. AND KENWOOD AVE.
CHICAGO,
September 28 th 1926
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Will you kindly send me the record of Revolutionary War service of my ancestor Major Asa Coburn, who enlisted from Sudbury Massachusetts, and who was afterward given a grant of land in Ohio -
Respectfully Yours,
Mrs. L. M. Williams
6200 Kenwood Ave
Chicago, Ill.

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
November 26, 1928
Mrs. G. M. Williams 6200 Kenwood Ave Chicago, Ill
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Warrant No. 342 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 1, 1790, on account of the services of Captain Asa Coburn of the Massachusetts Line, War of the Revolution.
There is no further information on file as to his services, nor any data on file as to his family, owing to the destruction of papers in such claims, when the War Office was burned in 1814.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Rev. War Section.
January 25, 1917.
Miss Mary E. Mason, 639 North Third St., Marietta, Ohio/
Madam:
In response to your undated letter received the seventeenth instant, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that a Warrant numbered 343, issued April 1, 1790, for three hundred acres of bounty land on account of the services of Asa Coburn as a Captain of the Massachusetts troops in the War of the Revolution.
There is no further information concerning him in this Bureau, as there are no papers on file, the same having been destroyed when the British burned the War Office .
For the location of said land, application should be made to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C. giving him the data in the first paragraph of this letter.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

December 4, 1912.
Mr. W. M. Ginn, 1914 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, Pa.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 29 th and received the 30 th ultimo, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that a Warrant numbered 342. issued April 1, 1790 for 300 acres of bounty land on account of the services of Asa Coburn as Captain of the Massachusetts troops in the War of the Revolution. There is no further information concerning him, his papers having been destroyed by fire when the British burned the War Office in 1814.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.