War department July 3: 1794

Sir In pursuance of an act of Congress passed the last session entitled “An act concerning invalid pensioners” you are hereby required to place upon the list of invalid pensioners belonging to the state of Massachusetts theseveral persons herinafter named at the rates of pension specified against their respective names, vis

Names rank monthly allowance [dolls cts] Time from which the pensions are to commence Amount of pension up to the 24 June 1794 [dolls cts]

George Airs Matross [Editor’s Note: An artillery gunner’s mate who assisted in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.] 4.16 Dec. 8.1792 77.35

John Bacon Corporal 3.33 June 22 1792 80.22

Dudley Bradstreet Private 3.33 do 80.22

Squire Bishop jr Private 3.33 do 80.22

Moses Cass Private 3.33 do 80.22

Levi Chadbourne Private 3.33 March 6. 1793 52.-

Seth Delans Serjeant 2.67 Sept. 6. 1792 57.69

Peter Hopkins Private 3.33 June 21. 1792 80.33

Joseph Roberts Carpenter [Editor’s Note: (undecipherable) is under the word Carpenter.] 5.- Feb. 11. 1793 82.33

Benjamin Thompson Lieut 8.89 June 25. 1792 213.36

Ezekiel Spaulding Serjeant 2.- Sept. 6. 1792 43.20

Anthony Staiband Private 3.33 June 22, 1792 80.22

Noah Clough Private 1.25 Dec. 26. 1793 7.41

James Crummitt Private 3.33 Sept. 5.1793 32.22

William Foster Serjeant 4.- Sept. 10. 1793 38.-

Daniel Horn Serjeant 1.66 Nov. 19. 1793 12.-

William Lymms Private 3.12 1/2 Octob. 24. 1793 25.-

Silas Amsden Private 5._ Aug. 28. 1793 49.50

Nathan Putnam Private -.412/3 Nov. 1. 1793 3.25

Dollars 1174.74

[Editor’s note: a bracket is along left side of names and titled “District of Maine.” It includes all but the last two names, Silas Amsden and Nathan Putnam.] You are also hereby required to pay out of the funds to be furnished you by the Secretary of the Treasury the sum of One thousand one hundred and seventy four Dollars, and seventy four Cents, to the abovenamed invalid pensioners of the United States or their legal representatives, according to the sums specified opposite their names respectively, being for the amount of their annual pension, commencing from the time of their being returned by the Judges of Maine and Massachusetts and ending the twenty fourth day of June 1794 inclu- sively, for which payment this will be your sufficient warrant.

The Secretary of the Treasury has been requested to furnish you with money-

You will please to observe that Colonels John

Crane and Michael Jackson are hereafter to be placed on the pension list, on condition that they previously return into the Treasury of the United States according to law such a proportion of the commutation of half pay which they have received as is equivalent to the rate of pension to be allowed them, that is, Col. Crane to return half of his com- mutation and Col. Jackson two thirds-

Given at the War Office of the United States, this third day of July 1794

T X Secy of War

Nathaniel Appleton Esq Commissioner of Loans for the State of Massachusetts