Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,790, James Earel, [BLANK]
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Service
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Name
Earel, James

Number
S.34790
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18328
Maryland

James Earel
of Frederick Co in the state of Maryland
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson of othe Pennsylvania line for the term of one year 1775 to 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 20th day of September 1821.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Nov 1820 and delivered to the applicant.

Arrears portion of pay  - blank
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1822 $43.90

5 mo 11/30 4/31

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818 & 1 May 1820}
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34790
Revy INVALID

File No 34790

James Earel
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March '18
Index Vol 2 Page 118
[Arrangement of 1870.]


1929 June 10 - Hist to Mrs. A M Earel
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James Earel
John Schley
Frederick Town MD
Rec'd 27th Apr 1821

Adm & Con
J.L.E.

The Honorable The Secretary at War
Washington City
Dist. of Co.
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Maryland Frederick County

On this 20th day of September 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for Frederick County expressly made so by the laws of the state aforesaid, proceeding according to the courts of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of it's proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment James Earel resident in Saco County aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st may 1820 that he the said James Earel enlisted for the term of one year in the month of July in the year 1775 in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain James Chambers in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps one year when he was discharged from the said service on the 6th July 1776 on Long Island in the state of New York; that he was in no battles and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except a certificat signed Thomas Buchanan Lieutenant in the 1st Cont'l Regm't and in pursuance of the at of the 1st May 1820 I do solemly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since tht ime by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part therof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
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provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Schedule

No property of any kind.

James Earel

and the said James Earel also make oath that he is by occupation a laborer but unable to perform any manner of work being much plagued with the rheumatism that his family consists of a wife named Susanna aged sixty-nine years who is unable also to render him any assistance.

Sworn to and declared in open court here on the 20th day of September 1821.

Test: John Schley - Clerk

I John Schley Clerk of Frederick County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and 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 said James Earel has no property.

In testimony whereor I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 20th day of September 1821. 

John Schley - Clerk
Frederick County Court
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This may certify that I enlisted James Earel as a private soldier in Captain James Chambers company of the riflemen in Colonel William Thompson's regiment then the 1st continental regiment - in the beginning of July one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five and that the said James Earel marched with and in the said to Boston and continued with and in the said company until we arrived at New York the next spring and marched even to Long Island when in the latter end of April 1776 I was ordered on the recruiting service into the state of Pennsylvania and did not return with the corp party of recruits until a few weeks before the battle of Long Island when I found the said James and others who had served the period they had enlisted for viz one year, discharged and although I was not at the time he was discharged with the army, I have reason to believe he the said James Earel did serve the full year in said company and that bearer James Earel is the said James Earel who I enlisted in Cumberland County State aforesaid as above described.

Thos Buchanan then a Lieutenant in the 1st Cont'l Refm't
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Franklin County

Be it remembered that on the 4th day of September AD 1821 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county Thomas Buchanan within named who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the foregoing certificate or statement is just and true so far to the best of his knowledge and further saith not.

Sworn and subscibed this 4th day of September, 1821.

Before Benj Reynolds
Thos Buchanan

Franklin County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

I John Shryock prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid it being a court of record in the ninth judicial district of the commonwealth aforesaid do hereby certify that Benjamin Reynolds before whom the annexed deposition was made is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, regularly commissioned and sworn as such.

In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and the public seal of the said county this  fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

John Shryock - Prothy

 James Earel says he was a private soldier in Captain Jas Chambers company Rifle Regm't commanded by Col Wm Thompson was enlisted by Lieutenant Thos Buchanan in July 1775 marched from Carlisle to Reading in Pensylvania where said company joined a detachment who arrived at Cambridge near Boston in August following th said Jame Earel applied to me to certify that the above this 1st day of August 1821 but as it was so long ago I do not recollect him, I was then surgeon to the aforesaid Regiment & firmly beleive from many things he relates during the time we arrived near Boston till his discharge on Long island be belonged.

William Magaw
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Chambersburg, 5th September 1821

I am well acquainted with Doctor William Magaw of the Town of Mercersburg in the county of Franklin Pennsylvania and know the within to be his proper hand writing.

John Shryock
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Jan 18, 1929

Mrs. A M earel
516 E. Seminairy Avenue
Hoopeston, Illinois

Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Will you please send me the record of pension of James Earl Sr born April 1745, married Susannah Meguyer and died about 1830.

He drew $8 a month.

Also pension record of James Earel Jr or Earl born in Maryland June 1774 and married Margaret [illegible] in Virginia and died near Quincy Ill. in Oct 1846
War of 1812

Very respectfully
Mrs. A M Earel
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Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

I wrote your office today and mailed the letter asking for pension records of James Earl Sr and James Earel Jr (son) and I think I made an error in putting birth of James earl Jr on 1774 it shold be 1794. So I write this letter to correct my mistake if I made such error on the letter within this former.

Respectfully

Mrs A M Earel
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Rev and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

June 10, 1929

Mrs. A.M. earel
216 N. Seminary Avenue
Hoopeston, Illinois

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim, S.34790, it appears that James Earel enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in July , 1775 and served as a private in Captain James Chambers' company, Colonel William Thomspon's Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged July 6, 1776.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 20, 1821 at which time he was living in Frederick County, Maryland aged seventy-five years.

In 1821 the soldier's wife, Sussanna was sixty-nine year of age.

There are no further data as to family.

Respectfully,

Earl D Church
Commissioner