Invalid Pension List

Item

Type

Letter Signed

Title

Invalid Pension List

Description

List of invalid pensioners, including name, rank, monthly allowance, time from which the pensions are to commence, and the amount of pension.

year created

1794

month created

07

day created

03

author

sent from location

War Department

recipient

sent to location

Massachusetts

in collection

in image

notable person/group

Nathaniel Appleton
Henry Knox
George Airs
John Bean
Dudley Bradstreet
Squire Bishop, Jr
Moses Cass
Levi Chadbourn
Seth Delano
Peter Hapkins
Joseph Roberts
Benjamin thompson
Ezekial Spaulding' Anthony Starbard
James Crummitt' Daniel Horn
William Lymms
Silas Amsden
Nathan Putnam
Secretary of the Treasury
Colonel John Crane
Colonel Michael Jackson.

notable location

Massachusetts
War Department
Maine
Massachusetts.

notable item/thing

Judges
act of Congress
invlaid pensioners
rates
pension
pay
funds
dollars
cents
legal representatives
annual pension
money
Treasury of the United States
law
half pay.

document number

1794070300001

page start

1

number of pages

3

transcription

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

Item sets

Document instances

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[view document] (3 pages) ADK04 (3 pages) Collection: Henry Knox Papers Henry Knox 1750-1806.

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Henry Knox War Department [n/a]
Recipient Nathaniel Appleton Massachusetts [n/a]