Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46381, Nehemiah Dunbar, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Dunbar, Nehemiah

NUMBER
S. 46381

CONTENTS
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1910 June 21. Hist. to R.E. VanSyckle

3-230.
Cert no. 359

Reference. Revy. 46381

Name: Nehemiah Dunbar
Rank: Pri.       Comp'y: Bradford
Reg't: 2nd Mass Line

Agency. [blank]

RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue.  [blank]   Comm'g [blank]
2nd Issue.  [blank]   Comm'g [blank]
3rd Issue.  [blank]   Comm'g [blank]

DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. [blank] Sent to [blank]
2nd Issue. [blank] Sent to [blank]
3rd Issue. [blank] Sent to [blank]

Allowed. Act-1828.

Registering Clerk:  [blank]    Bk. G., Vol. [blank]    Page [blank]
Disability. [blank]
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Declaration

For the purpose of obtaining 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 I Nehemiah Dunbar of McDonough in the county of Chenango and state of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Bradford's Company in the second Massachusetts ([illegible]) Regiment of the Massachusetts line and I also declare that I suppose I was entitled to a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778 and I further declare that I was not on the 15th of May 1828 or at any other time on the pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this twenty seventh day of June 1828 from to the 27th of June 1828 before me.
Ho. Tracy first judge of Chenango Common Pleas

Nehemiah Dunbar
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State of New York
Chenango County
   Before me John Tracy first judge of the court of common pleas for said county personally appeared this day Emmets Locke and Henry Mygatt of the said county who did formally make oath that Nehemiah Dunbar by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution as therein stated.
Witness my hands June 27th 1828
Jno Tracy
 I Price Randall clerk of the court of the county of Chenago in the state of New York do hereby certify that John Trace before whom this foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time the first judge of the court of common pleas of said county and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said court this twenty seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred twenty eight 

P. Randall Clk
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O. W. and N. Division.  3-525
DEPARMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D. C.  ________, 190__

  In reply to your request of _____received ____ for a statement of military history of Nehemiah Dunbar a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 46381

Dates of enlistment or appointment
Enc forward

Length of Service
to end of war

Rank
Pri.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED

CAPTIAN
Brandford

COLONEL
Sprouts

STATE
2 Mass

Battles engaged in, 
Residence of soldier at enlistment
Date of application for pension June 27, 1828
Residence at date of application MacDonongh, Chenango Co. NY
Age at date of application
Remarks: (illegible) no family data
Only Nehemiah Dunbar etc.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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#46.381
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Oxford Chenango County New York
June 27th, 1828

Sir,
 It is supposed that the enclosed papers are
sufficient to place me on the Pension List of
the United States.  If so, you will please
transmit to me what is now due in a Draft on
the United States Branch Bank, as New York
directed to me as this place, to the care of 
John Tracy.

Your [illegible]
Nehemiah Dunbar

The Honorable R. Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
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359  428 No of orig Pay 359 435
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Allowed Act 1828

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 28. 1828.
Nehemiah Dunbar, of Macdonough, in the County of
Chenango, in the State of New York, 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 Revolution, "" approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in Captain Bradford's company in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records of his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A Dickins
1812A
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
July 30, 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Nehemiah Dunbar in the Mass Line.
It further appears that Nehemiah Dunbar is now on the pension
list of any        agency, and has been so since the 3 March 1826


Peter Hagner Aud
To Record [illegible] Nov 12/80
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OW M.F. 46381
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by [hand written] [illegible] June 14, 1910
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [hand written] Catharine
Soldier [hand written] Nehemiah Dunbar
Service [blank]
Additional Service [hand written] Rev.
No. [blank] claim, State records [blank], 190__
No claim, combination records [blank], 190__

REMARKS:
[hand written] [illegible] Wid. or Rij except o.w.[illegible] File 46381

Chief Division
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[round stamp that says PENSION U.S. OFFICE, dated Jun 8, 1910]

[round stamp that says RECORD DIVISION, dated Jun 9, 1910]
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June 7-1910
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir-
Kindly give dates of Revolutionary service of Nehemiah Dunbar - provided he was the recipient of a pension. He died Mar 11-1833, leaving a widow Catharine, in Saratoga Co
N.Y.

Yours truly
R. E. Van Sickle
1022 [illegible ]Bldg.
Detroit - Mich

[stamped] JUN 9 - 1910