Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 540, James Heard, Continental - New Jersey Residence In 1818
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Service Continental Heard, James Number S.540 BLWT. 1003-300-Capt. Issued August 27, 1789 to John Brown assignee. No purpose carded.
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14.059 R 
New Jersey 
James Heard Col. Moylan’s Regt. Penn
Woodbridge in the State of New Jersey
Was a Captain in the Legion commanded by Col. Henry Lee for the term of five years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of March 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of August 1819 and sent to the Pensioner at Woodbridge, New Jersey. 
Arrears to 4th of March 1819   $227.09
Semi-Annual Allowance ending September 4, 1819     $120.00
Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818

[Illegible Ink Marks]
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The Judge must certify that he knows the applicant’s reduced circumstances renders him in need of the assistance of his country for support.

[Illegible Ink Marks]
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Middlesex County
State of New Jersey

On the twenty day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Benjamin Mundy, one of the Judges of the interior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex in New Jersey, came James Heard of the County of the State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth of faith that he entered of the United States in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight in the Regiment of Cavalry commanded by Stephen Moylan [and] was afterwards transferred to Lt. Col. Henry Lee’s Legion and [later] served as a Captain of Captain in said Legion [Illegible Ink Marks]. 

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me,

Benjamin Mundy
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James Heard Capt.
Lee’s Legion 
1778 to 1783 23 March
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County 

I, William P. Deam, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, certify that Benjamin Mundy, who had hath subscribed his [Illegible] the written attestations is now and was at the date thereof a judge of said Court, duly commissioned and sworn and to his official acts full credit is to be given. 

Written on my hand and the seal of said court this second day of April in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eighteen. 

W. P. Dean, Clerk
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Capt. James Heard
14059
September 1819
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SCHEDULE.
State of Nen-Jersey,
Middlesex County

On this Twentieth day of June 1820, personally appeared, in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in said state, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, Capt. James Heard, aged sixty years, resident in Woodbridge in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
As Captain in Lee’s Region and that he made declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of March 18, 1818 in the same month and that his pension certificate is number is 14.059.

And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or 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. 
 
No property of any description and I do further declare that I have no profession, occupation, or business or family residing with me. And that pensions to the [Illegible] of the Pensions allowed me [Illegible]. I was dependent on the liberality of my relatives for support. 

Sworn to, and declared and subscribed on the day aforesaid. 

Robert McHesney, Presiding Judge 
James Heard

I, William P. Dean, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in valid of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is [Blank] dollars and [Blank] cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twentieth day of June 1820. 

W. P. Dean, Clerk
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34394
Revolutionary Invalid
File No. 34397
James Heard 
Captain, Revolutionary War 
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: Vol. 2, Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Invalid
File No. 540
James Heard 
Revolutionary War 
Act: [Blank]
Index: Vol. A, Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revolutionary War
James Heard
Major 
Lee’s Legion
Allowed Act 1828
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New Jersey 
Act 3rd March, 1817

James Heard, Lieutenant
Lt. Col. Henry Lee’s detachment during the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed on the New Jersey at $8.50 per month, to commence on the 20th of February 1817
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of March 1817 and sent to James Ewing, Esq., agent of invalid pensioners, Trenton, New Jersey. 

Arrears to 11th March 1817, [Blank] months, 16th days   $4.13
Semi-Annual Allowance to 4th Sept 1817   $48.00
Revolutionary Pension   $52.13
14059, Page 92
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James Heard, Act 1818
New Jersey – dead 
Lee letter to H. Northrop 
6 February 1839
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James Heard
Lee’s Legion
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District of New Jersey, ss.

On this 29th day of July, 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County, personally appeared James Heard, Major, aged fifty seven years, resident in Woodbridge in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:” That he, the said Janu Heard, was a Lieutenant on the [Blank] day of [Blank] in the troop commanded by Captain Peyton of the Legion commanded by Colonel Henry Lee in the State of [Blank] on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the end of the war, when he was discharged from service in the State of South Carolina, that he was in the battles of Guilford Courthouse, Shubrick's Bridge, Monck's Corner, Eutaw Springs  & that he was promoted to the rank of Captain in the year 1781, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Benajah Mundy 

I, Benajah Mundy, Judge, as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said that the said James Heard did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. I further certify that he made his first declaration on the twenty third day of March 1818. 

Benajah Mundy 

In testimony that Benjamin Mundy is a Judge as above mentioned I have hereunto set the seal of said Court at New Brunswick this twenty 20th July 1819
W. P. Dean, Clerk
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James Heard 
Half pension allowance of a Lieut. at $8.50 commencing the 20th February 1817.
W. Chappell
New Jersey
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In the House of Representatives of the United States

January 7, 1817

On the motion of Mr. Bennett,
Resolved that the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be directed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension list, James Heard, a Lieutenant of dragoons, in the Revolutionary Army. 

 Attest
Tho Dougherty CHR
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Declaration
Robert Lee for
James Heard
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Major James Heard
Claim to Pension under Act of May 15th 1828

Declaration
Robert Lee for 
James Heard

Rejected on the 30 July
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State of New Jersey,
Middlesex County

Before me, Richard Marsh, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, personally appeared on this day, Thomas Lee and Jonathan B. Marsh of the said Court, who did, severally, make oath, that James Heard (in whose favor and behalf) the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believe have been an officer in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.

I [set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court], this twenty third day of June in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight. 

Richard Marsh
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I, James H. Randolph, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that Richard Marsh before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this twenty fourth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight. 

J. H. Randolph, Clerk
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For the purpose of obtaining (for James Heard) the benefits of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I (Robert Lee, Guardian of the said James Heard), of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, do declare that the said James Heard was an officer in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period (the said James Heard was as I am informed verily believe) a Major in Lee’s Legion of the Virginia line.
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Informed and verily believed a Major in Lee’s Legion of the Virginia Line. And I (Robert Lee) also believe, that James informed and verily believe that the said James Heard afterwards received a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay, which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March, 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which the said James Heard was entitled under the resolve of the 20th of October, 1780.

And I, Robert Lee, do further declare that
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That James Heard has received of the United States, as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826 the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, paid as follows to wit, three hundred and six dollars paid to the said James Heard himself, and one hundred and twenty dollars paid me (Robert Lee), as Guardian of James Heard, by Pearson Hunt, agent for paying pensions in the State of New Jersey.

Robert Lee
Guardian of James Heard
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James Heard 
S. File 540
NJ 
General [Henry] Lee 
Certificate
C1012
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September 25th 1812

I certify that James Heard was a Lieutenant of Dragoons in the Legion under my command, that he served to the end of the war with fidelity and honor, in the course of which in a contest which a part of the enemy he received a musket ball on one of his legs, of which he then complained as likely to impair permanently. 

Gen. Henry Lee
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R. Rush Esq. 

Sir, James Heard who, I believe, was a Capt. in Lee’s Legion of Virginia, and who has been on the pension of the United States under former act of Congress, has been a lunatic or insane, and the Orphan’s Court of the County of Middlesex have appointed me his Guardian. 

During the point of his lunacy or insanity, he lost his trunk with his papers, and it is doubtful whether we shall be able to offer any further evidence of his claim than is already either in the Treasury or the War Department. 

For want of means of support in the part of his friends, he has been for about six [illegible] this past, in our (Woodbridge) door house, my appointment as his Guardian is present. 

Will you be pleased to receive the paper inquiry to be made, in either the Treasury or the War Department, as to the evidence James Heard has heretofore furnished,
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Of his claim to a pension under a former act of Congress, and how far the same evidence will entitle him to a further allowance under act of May 15, 1828 and cause me to be advised thereof.

Before seeing your instruction, from the date May 28th as published in the [newspaper] Trenton Free American on June 16th, I had written to Mr. Southard [Illegible] and Mr. [Pearson] Hunt, [the] pay agent for pensioners in New Jersey, [that] Mr. Heard of the Virginia line, was paid in New Jersey. 

I am sir very respectfully your most obedient servant, 

Robert Lee 
Guardian of James Heard
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War Department 
Pension Office
June 30, 1828

Sir, 

In reply to your letter of the 11th instant, I have to inform you that the number of James Heard’s pension certificate is 14059. He swore in 1819 that he served to the end of the war; his name was found on the rolls of Lee’s Legion and he received land from the State of Virginia as a bounty. All this was considered sufficient to authorize this department to place his name on the pension rolls; but whether the Secretary of the Treasury will allow him the benefits of the act of May 15, 1828 on this evidence, I cannot say. The rolls do not show how long he served. 

I am respectfully your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
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Middlesex County New Jersey S.S.

Rahway, N.J. Augt 4" 1828

According to Letters to me from Col Aaron Ogden, and a form of Power of Atty with them,
Col Ogden seems to expect a power to receive what may be due to James Heard under the act of May 15th-

It has not been my intention to give a power to receive, in any case, but only to investigate the claim, and to obtain certificate, it is my wish that Col Ogden should be considered as fully empowered to do this. - 

I will write to Col. Ogden and explain, and
I trust the compensation I offer will be satisfactory.

I am Sir,
your Most Obt Sent
Robt Lee
Guardian James Heard

The Honorable
Secy of Treasury
Washington City

[word is cut off, illegible] to such pension; and they further say upon their respective oaths that they always understood and believed that the said James Heard served
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Revolutionary Claim
Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury 
Washington City
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Middlesex County, New Jersey 

Personally came before me, Richard March, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Middlesex, Mary Heard and Sarah Heard, who being severally sworn on the Holy Evangelist, do depose and say the James Heard, now a lunatic of insane mind, and under the guardianship of Robert Lee is the same James Heard and is entitled to, and has received a pension from the United States, payable at Trenton, and which has been paid to him from thence; these deponents further say that they believe the said James Heard has lost or mislaid the certificate and other papers that would be evidence of his claim to such pension; and they further say upon their respective oaths that they always understood and fully believed that the said James Heard served [Missing Text].
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Major James Heard
Claim to Pension under act of May 15, 1828
No. 4
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Served during the whole of the Revolutionary War, and heed the commission of Captain in Lee’s Legion of the Virginia line. These deponents further say that they are the sisters of the said James Heard, and therefore have opportunity of being acquainted with the facts set forth in this disposition. 

Mary Heard
Sarah Heard

Subscribed and sworn before me this 24th day of June, A.D. 1828

Richard Marsh
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July 26, 1828

Sir, 

I enclose, directed to Col. Aaron Ogden, such evidence of this claim of Major James Heard to the benefit of act of May 15th as I can at present procure. If deemed satisfactory, I shall be pleased to receive what is due him, in a draft on New York; and to receive his pay as pension in future in that city. I expect to put him in the lunatic asylum there. 

You will please do bear in mind that, to the distance of time when, and please where, service was rendered by Maj. Heard, as everything a difficult in providing his claim, is added the fact of his mental derangement, and the loss of his papers. Permit me, sir, to bespeak your most favorable attention to his case. 

Being personally acquainted with
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With the Hon. Samuel L. Southard, I would respectfully refer to him, as I also would to Messrs. Bateman, [Illegible], Pierson, and Swan, if they were in Washington; these gentlemen will I trust, cheerfully, that any representation made by me, is entitled to full faith and credit. 

The Hon. the 
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City

I am sir your most obedient servant
Robert Lee,
Guardian of James Heard
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Payments to be made semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in each year, by James Ewing, Esq., agent for paying invalid pensioners, Trenton, New Jersey.
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War Department

I certify, that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the third day of March 1817, late a Lieutenant in the detachment commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Lee, during the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the New Jersey agency, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

George Graham

Acting Secretary of War
Countersigned,
William Lambert
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Paid to 4th March 1818
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To whom it may concern, 

This is to certify that we have examined Capt. James Heard and find him laboring [more than one] wound, which appears substantiated, that he received during the Revolutionary War, in the service of his country, and which frequently breaks out, attended with much pain, [Illegible]. 

It also appears probably it may continue so, if not increased, through the remainder of his declining years. Subsequently, his wound at times (as appears from his testimony) renders him unable to prosecute his ordinary pursuit. In consideration of the above circumstances we deem him a fit and proper subject for the benefit of the pension law. We are of opinion his disability is in the [Illegible]

In testimony of which we have hereunto ser our hand this twelfth day of February eighteen hundred and seventeen. 

Woodbridge February 12, 1817 Matthew Freeman

Nathaniel Manning
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State of New Jersey}
Middlesex County} ss.

Be it remembered that on this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Seventeen Personally appeared before me Andrew Elston one of the Judges of the Court of [illegible] pleas in and for the said County of Middlesex Doctor Matthias Freeman and Nathaniel Manning, who being sworn according to Law, depose
and say that the within Certificate to which they have subscribed their names is the truth, as they verily believe

Andrew Elston

I am personally acquainted with Doctor Nathl. Manning within named, + very well know my will the character of Doctor Freeman + cheerfully testify to their respectability + merit, but as men + Physicians.

House of Reps Feby 20th 1817-
Lewis Condict
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Benjamin Benett, Esq. 
Washington City
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Woodbridge N, Jersey Decembr 31-16

Sir

The subject on which I am about addressing you, mut be my apology for troubling you - on the 1st June 1781 in the contest with the enemy, as they were approaching ninety six
in South Carolina to releave it, at the time
General Green besieged it, I received a wound
on one of my legs which I find as I advance in
years times it renders me incapable of transacting any kind of business therefore I must request the favor of you to present the enclose Certificate to the Secretary
of war or to the Committee which have been appointed to examine into such cases.

At the time receivd the wound I then was a Lieutenant, but was promoted in a short time afterwards to the command of [illegible]
which the records of the war office will [illegible].

If I should not be so fortunate as to placed on the pension list please to return the Certificate 

I have the Honor to be for with great respect yr obt st

James Heard
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Know all men by these presents that I Robert Lee of the County of Middlesex and State of New jersey Administrator on the estate of James Heard a Revolutionary officer late of said County Deceased do hereby constitute and appoint the Honorable Joseph
Randolph Member of Congress from said state
my true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to press before any of the departments at Washington City [illegible, 2 words are smeared] the Congress of the United States any claim which the said James Heard became intitled and which may not
have been obtained by him during life and which I as the administrator on said estate have not recovered but am by law the legal representative and whose right as such it is
to recover the same, and my said attorney is hereby authorized and empowered to do and perform in attaining of things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present

Witness my hand and seal this twelfth day of December 1835

Robt. Lee {possible image of seal, which is not legible]

Witnesses present
Sidney P Rogers
Henry R. Lee
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State of New Jersey Ss

Be it remembered that on this twenty eighth day of December one thousand Eight
and thirty Eight before me William A Myer Notary Public duly commissioned and sworn for the said State of New Jersey and dwelling in the City of Newark in the State aforesaid
personally appeared Henry R. Lee to me well known as being of full age, who being sworn on his oath deposeth that he this deponent is the subscribing witness to the within Letter
of Attorney, and that Robert Lee (his brother) did in this within deponents presence sign and
acknowledge the within Letter of Attorney to be his act and Deed for the purposes within expressed.

Henry R. Lee

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed my Notarial Seal of Office the day and year above

W A Myer
Notary Public
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[Stamped, round, containing: N.J. N. B[

Mr Edwards will attend to the request S.C.L.
request attended to and W. Pendleton letter to Captain Heard forwarded forthwith
Free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
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Woodbridge, New Jersey August 17, 1819

In order to certify to the War Department that I was a Captain of dragoons in the Legion under the command of Lt. Col. Henry Lee in the Revolutionary War, I [also received a] letter sent to me by Mr. Pendleton, Register of the Land Office in Virginia, with a request that it will be sent back to me as soon as possible. But I have not received it yet. Therefore, please forward without delay as there are a number of my faithful dragoons named in the letter, who have claims in Virginia for bounty land granted to them by that State, which I am not [Illegible] without it.

I am respectfully your most obedient servant,
James Heard

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
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Army
War Department 
Washington 
Pension Office 
Washington
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Woodbridge, New Jersey July 30th, 1819

Sir,

It seems you have returned to Judge Mundy the declaration which I made before him, with effect to my claim for a pension. Give me time, to refer you to the invalid roll, of the year 1814, and to the enclosed letter moreover to the words of the land office. Here, you will find that I received 300 acres of land for service in the Revolutionary War as a Captain of dragoons in Lt. Col. Henry’s Legion and, if the documents of 1784 were saved, [Illegible] you will find that I was fought for the Legion commanded by Lt. Col. Lee and joined the Legion in final settlement notes at the close of the war, and to please return the enclosed letter.

I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
James Heard

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
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Robert Lee of [Illegible]

Mr. Henry Northrop 
Washington City
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February 28, 1838

Sir, 

If you will call on Mr. Randolph he will give you the necessary power to prosecute the claim of Mr. James Heard. The proper evidence of my being aware of the period of his death was forwarded to Washington when I recorded the last of his pension under the act of 1828. If however, anything more is necessary please advise me. 

                                        Yours very respectfully,
Mr. Henry Northrup            Robert Lee
Washington                         [Illegible]

PS: His pension was paid $40 after 3rd of March 1831. This fixes his death about the 23rd of March 1838.
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Robt Lee af 25th [illegible] 15328 to Haubl [illegible] Randolph
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Ruluncy, Dec 28 1838
Mr. Jos F Randolph,

Dr. Sir,
I have executed (by proving) a power of Attorney to you to claim the residue of
Pension due Jas Heard-- He drew pension first as an invalid under Act I think of 1818, and afterwards as a Captain of Cavalry in his
Legion, under Act of 1828-

It appears an act was passed restoring the
invalid pension, notwithstanding the payment of the other, under which the sum which Mr Northup expects to recover, is due.

Please give him the necessary power to examine into the claim, and have it allowed. yours +c
Robt Lee
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There is a Colonel, but no Captain named James Heard in the rolls of Lee’s Legion. Let the applicant make a declaration agreement, to the enclosed form, omitting such words as [they] do not apply to his case and let him state when he was promoted.
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I, Benajah Mundy, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, [Illegible Ink Marks]
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To what time was James Heard, of New Jersey, act March 18, 1818, last paid? 
4th March 1818
J. L. Edwards 

To what time was James Heard, of New Jersey, act March 15, 1828, last paid?

He does not appear on our books.
 
6th February 1839
J. L. Edwards
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Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department,
August 15, 1828

James Heard, of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the continental line, and served as such to the end of the war, at which point he was a Major in Lee’s Legion line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826, 480 dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of New Jersey.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 

By order of the Secretary
A. Dickens

Treasury Department
Third Auditor’s Office 
22nd August 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to James Heard, Capt. in Lee’s Legion line, amounting to three thousand dollars. It further appears that James Heard is now on the pension list of New Jersey agency, has been since the 3rd of March 1826 at the rate of 20 dollars per month.

Peter Hagner, Auditor
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Revolutionary Claims 

Under the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department,
26 August 1828.

Sir, 

I have the honor to inform you, that James Heard, formerly a Captain
of Col. Lee’s Legion of the Virginia line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the New Jersey agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act. 

I have the honor to be, 
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 
Richard Rush

The Hon. Secretary of War
No. 89
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J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Precinct.
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Washington City 1st of Jany 1839

Sir

Enclosed are the papers of Robert Lee [illegible] per the Estate of James Heard Deceased a Capt of Lees Legion in the war
of the Revolution claiming as [illegible] retained [illegible] Pension due the said deceased For evidence of the rank and period of death. I refer you to the vouchers and
file on which the [illegible] the amount due the said deceased under the last of 15th of May 1828 from the 3rd of March 1831. to the 26th the day of March of the same year - By
reference it will be sum that James Heard was placed on the invalid Pension List under the act of 3d of March 1847, at the rate of 102 pr year. that on the following year be placed in the Pension list under the act of 18th of March 1845 and [illegible] his invalid pension for the accept of Such act. And again the 17th of Sept 1828. he was enrolled on the list of thereby obtaining full pay for life under the act of 15th of May 1828 and the full pay of a Capt of Cavalry from that time untill that of his death on 26th of March 1831, but no part of his invalid pension from the period that he was placed on the Pension list wasn't the act of 15th of March 1818,

By reference to the Let of the act July 1832. it is provided that the invalid pensions shall not be deducted under the act of the 15th of May 1828. Hence the admr claims that there is now
due to him as admr aforesaid the sum of $102 per year from 23rd of March 1818 the time then and on the Pension but under act of March 1818 untill the day of his death or if it
shall be objected that the lot of 12th July 1832 has reference only to those drawing under the act of 15th of May 1828. then in such event the declaring the amount the from the
Government of the act {to wit) and of March 1844 to the day of his death equal $510 or 12 Dollars. This rule has been recognized and dated on a line in many base line

I can point to two to wit Capt Richard  Anderson of [illegible] line and Capt Robt White of Maine - In the case of the former aspect al act was passed on act of 15th of June 1836
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I am ignorant of the office to which this application should be made but have supposed it was yours

Will you therefore Sir do me the kindness to cause as early as practicable examination of and auditing of this claim and oblige
Sir

Yours Sir Respectfully
Henry Northrup
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State of New Jersey
Office of Adjutant General 
Trenton, February 14, 1906
The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Sir, 

For the information of the Chief of the Old War and Navy Division I would suggest that Captain James Heard of Moylan’s Regiment of Light Dragoons and Lee’s Legion, drew pension in three different cases as will more fully appear by reference to Invalid Nos. 46226, 3497, and 540. 
Respectfully,

[Illegible Ink Marks]
Adjutant General