Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7631, for Joshua Newnam, Maryland
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Service
MD

Newnam, Joshua
or Newman

Number
R.7631
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Suspended
See letter to
Hon G L Kennard
20 Feb 1835
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REJECTED

7631

John Newman
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29790
Joshua
Newnam
Indiana

7631

Suspended 

In respects to Mr. Edwards, [illegible] a reply to the within

Hon G.L. Hennard
H.R.
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State of Indiana
Couty of Marion

In the Probate Court of said county the same being a court of record on the tenth day of February 1834 at the term of said court begun and held at the court house in Indiana aforesaid in open court personally appeared Joshua Newnam a resident of Brown Township in Hendricks county in said state aged seventy-eight years who being in on open court first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832 to wit. That he entered the army of the United States but at what precise time or in what yar he cannot recollect but knows that it was previous to the battle of Saratoga and the surrender of the British army under general Burgoyne. That he entered the service and during the war of the revolution with Captain William Faulkner or Forkner of the Mayland line as he believes though it may have been of the Delaware line. The number of the regiment into which he enlisted he cannot recollect but he knows that said Captain Faulkner remained his commanding officer until he was discharged. William Clark was the lieutenant of the company to which he belonged and Bexley Newnam the Ensign. The corps to which he belonged was only about sixty strong and he cannot say who were his commanding officers other than is above stated except that one Colonel John Hawkins appeared to have occasional command of said corps and orders were he believes generally received from or through him. That at the time he entered the service he lived in Queen Annes County Maryland - that he served for fifteen months immediately after his entering the army although the period for which he first entered the army was only sixty days or at least he was so told at the time. That during said term
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or through him. That at the time he entered the service he lived in Queen Annes County, Maryland - that he served for fifteen months immediately after his entering the army although the period for which he first entered the army was only sixty days or at least he was so told at the time. That during said term of fifteen months he served as a private and was stationed at a place called the Bay Quarter belonging to Matthew Tilghman or Tilman. That the duty performed by the corps to which he belonged consisted entirely of apportions in opposition to the Tories and except one slight skirmish in relaying prisoners from the town he was in no battles but in the duty above named he and the corps to which he belonged was engaged daily or rather nightly for the duty was generally discharged at night. He was regularly discharged and received a written discharge from his said Captain but not supposing it to be of any value he long since lost the same and he knows of no person living by whom he can prove said facts and services.

He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.

Joshua Newnam
His X Mark

Subscribed and sworn to in open court this February 10, 1834.

James M Ray
Clerk
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We Jameson Hawkins a clergyman residing in Marion County near said applicant and John McRiding also residing in the same county & near said application certify that we are well acquainted with said applicant Joshua Newnam who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we have been acquainted with him the former for thirty years and the latter for upwards of twenty years - that he has ever been understood in the neighborhood in which he has resided first in Kentucky and lately where he now resides and reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. We also certify that we believe him to be seventy-eight years of age as he states.

Jameson Hawkins
J McRiding

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.

James M. Ray - Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jameson Hawkins who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Marion County and that John McRiding who has also singed the same is a resident of said county and is a credible person & that their said statement is entitled to credit.

I James M Ray Clerk of the Court of Marion County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Joshua Newnam for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of February 1834.

James M Ray - Clerk
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29790
Joshua Newnam
Indiana

7631

Suspended

Mr. Hendricks respects to Mr. Edwards & requests a soon as convenient a reply to the within.

March 1, 1834

Hon G.L. Kennard
H.R.

Hon. Mr. Hendricks