Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,614, James Barham, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
Va.
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Barham James
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NUMBER
S.16.614
B.L. Wt 26246-160-55
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Missouri
19417
James Barham
Calloway in the State of Kent
who was a pry [private]
in the Co
commanded
Captain Whitehead of the regt
commanded
Col Blount in the Va commanded 
for 9 mos & 21 days
____________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Kent
To the rate of 32 Dollars Cents per annum
Commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Sept
1823, and John L
Murray Wardsboro
Arrears to the 4th of September $86 
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March
10
$96.9
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
[Book] E
Vol.7  Page 4
Letter to J. Frecklin [unsure] 12 April [186 full year illegible]
Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6. April 1838 for
4 Sept 1836 to 4 Sept 1837
Agt notified 3 Nov 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6 April 1838 from
4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838 Agt notified 28 Nov 1838.
[word missing] as above, from
March 1844 to 4 Sept ‘44. Agent notified 5
April 1846.
Dis to Pen Agt 22 Janry 1847.
To Missourie [Missouri], [illegible] 4th Sept 1846. 2 Feb 1847. Notification to 
 Pen Agt 22 Jany 1847
D. D. Berry Springfield Missouri
[Missouri]_____________
Letters to per Agt [unsure 33] and 47. .
same person. Nov 9. 1848
Let to Wm C. Anderson with
Voucher enclosed also letter to  L E Walsh  Oct. 25 1849
1863 Jany 5. DC Dade 
“ “ [1863 Jany] 3 Pension agent and 3rd Auditor
[writing in the margins vertically]
Paid [illegible] 1835 under [possible name] agent [illegible of John Lyon H. R.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Calloway County Sct
On this 24th day of
June in the year 1833 personally appeared in open
Court began
Elisha Hardy William Jones and
John Hodges Esqs. Justices of the Calloway County
Court now sitting James Burham a resident of
Trigg County Kentucky aged sixty nine years who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on
his oath make the following declaration in order
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832 That he entered the army of the United States
under the following named officers and served
as herein stated to wit
He stated that he was born on the 18th day of May 1764
(as he learned from his parents and his fathers record of
his age but that he hath not this time any record
his age} in Southampton County Virginia in which
County he was principly raised that about the 1st of
January 1781 he entered the service in the Virginia military
(he the said applicant then being a resident of
Southampton County Virginia) for the term of three
months as a substitute for a certain Zadok Bell
who had been drafted in said service) under Captain
Jesse Whitehead Lieut James Magget Ensign 
Samuel Maggot Rendezvoused at Surery old
Court house and there joined a Regiment under
Major Duvall and Colonel Blount all under comm
and of Genl Muhlenberg Marched to Suffolk
from whence this applicant was sent with 15 men under
Capt Davenport down the Eastern Shore of Maryland
to procure some negroes from some British Vessels
then lying in the bay The Capt Davenport went no
further to Norfolk but sent this applicant with
the other men under a sergeant Thos [Thomas] Pope who proved
with a play to the British got the negroes and
returned in fifteen days to Suffolk when this applicant
 Resumed his place under Capt Whitehead He states
that the balance of his tour of three months was spent
with the army at Suffolk, Mead Mills, Portsmouth
and the Brick Church when he received a discharge
Signed by Capt Whitehead having served out his full tour of 3 months this discharge he has long since lost
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He states that about two weeks before the expiration of the aforesaid tour which he served as a substitute for Bell he was drafted for another tour himself and his father procured a certain Charles Rose to serve in this applicants place for two weeks until his term under Capt Whitehead should expire Upon the expiration of which tour this applicant discharged Rose (he having served two weeks) and took his own place on the 15 of April 1781 under Capt John Taylor of Southampton County who belonged to a Regiment in which this applicant served under command of Major Maclomon and Colonel Merryweather all under General Muhlenburg from this time this applicant continued to serve without intermission until the close of the war making this last tour about to six months and [blurred out] weeks which time he fully served He marched under the aforesaid officers from Surrey old Courthouse to Mead Mills, thence to Suffolk and from thence to Petersburg where he was in a severe battle with the british from thence he marched to Richmond and from thence six or eight miles from Richmond to a place called the old Piney-field and from thence to Williamsburg at which place this applicant with fifty other men were taken and put under Capt Myrick who crossed James River with his said men to Cobham and from thence to Hog Island where this applicant was kept as one of the said fifty men to take care of the Cattle and kill the beeves for the supply of the army during the siege of Yorktown He states that when Cornwallis surrendered he with the others engaged in the same occupation were called over the River to Yorktown the day before his Lordship marched out after which this applicant was discharged by his Capt John Taylor (but receive no written discharge) having served six months and three weeks under Capt Taylor and Col Merryweather as above stated
which makes the whole of his Revolutionary services amount to nine months and three weeks He has no documentary evidence of his services nor has he any testimony to prove his services better than he here adduces nor does he know of any other that he could procure He states that about three years after the Revolution he moved to North Carolina in which state he resided till about the year 1813 when he moved to Logan County Ky where he resided several years when he moved to Calloway Ky from which County he has lately moved to Trigg County
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He states his reason for not proving and swearing to his declaration in Trigg County where he now resides to be this That he has heretofore lived several years in Calloway County where most of his acquaintances now reside and where his old neighbours towit Nicholas Copeland Thomas Pitt Robert Elliott Beverly Elliott Enoch Metcalf William Curd Edward and Edmund Curd Joseph Glover Marcus Barnett and others will bear ample testimony as to his character for veracity and as to his being reputed a Revolutionary soldier He states that he has lately moved from Calloway to Trigg County in which latter County he has formed but a short acquaintance with his neighbours and knows of no clergyman in said county who could testify to his reputation of being a Revolutionary soldier These reasons induce him to apply in Calloway County where he is well known He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state whatever [signed] James Barham
Subscribed and sword in open court the day & year aforesaid 
[illegible] Wm Curd clk 666
We Richard Curd - a clergyman residing in Calloway County Kentucky and William Millken also resident of the same county and state do hereby certify certify that we are well acquainted with James Barham who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood when he lately resided in Calloway County to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion not having any doubt that he served as he states Richard Curd Wm Milliken
Subscribed & sworn in open court the day and year aforesaid 
[illegible] Wm Curd [clk-unsure] 666
I Joseph Glover aged seventy two years and now a resident of Calloway County Ky do hereby certify that I was born and raised in Sussex County Virginia where I resided during the war of the Revolution that I was during the Revolutionary war and was yet well acquainted with James Barham who has subscribed
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that my fifth tour of service
was performed in the same Regiment under Col Blount
in which said Burham served his first tour of three months
as a substitute for Zadock Bell under Capt Whitehead and
that I know of my own knowledge that Barham served
out the whole of said tour having served with him myself
I also continued to serve in the same Regiment with
said Barham under Colonel Merryweather till the
Surrender of the British at Yorktown during which
time Barham was constantly in service under Capt
Taylor except a short time during the siege when he was
under Capt Myrick and that I know of my own 
knowledge that said Barham served in manner and
from during the time and under the Officers as he
has stated in his foregoing declaration
subscribed & sworn to in open court
the day & year aforesaid [lists-unsure] Wm Curd Clk [signature] Joseph Glover
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter and after putting the
 interrogators prescribed by the War Department that the above
named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served
as he state and the said Court further certify that it 
appears to them that Richard Curd who has signed the first of the
 preceding certificate is a clergyman residing
in the aforesaid County of Calloway and that William
Milliken who has signed the same certificate is also a
resident of Calloway County and is a credible
man and
that their statement is entitled to credit. And said court will
further certify that Joseph Glover who has signed the last of
the above certificates is a resident of Calloway County and
is himself reputed and believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier  that he is a credible person and that his statements
are entitled to credit Given under our hands as Justices of the
Calloway County Court the day & year aforesaid Elisha Hardy JP William Jones JP Hadswell 
State of Kentucky
Calloway County Sct ⎬ I William Curd Clerk of the Calloway County
Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro
ceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Joseph Glover for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said office
this 25th day of June 1833
Wm Curd
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24031
James Barham
Kentucky

from 1781 private 9
months 3 weeks
$32.33/100
John Murray
Waidsboro
[Wadesboro] Calloway
County, Kentucky
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed.
The notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of James Barham Calloway County State of Kentucky
[headings of table]
Period when the
service was
rendered./Years./Months./Days./
/Rank of the claimant/
/Names and rank of the Field of the officers under whom he served./
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service./
Proof by when the declaration is supported./
Entrd 1781 sub/ 3/private /Capt Whitehead
Col. Blount
Enl Muhlenberg/69 yrs /1 witness to the 2nd tour only
draft 1781 June not stated}/Capt Taylor Col Merryweather/
Ampton County State of Virginia

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line. " State troops," "militia", and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of} ss. 
On this day of 
personally appeared (a) before  A. B. a resident (b) of       in the county of
and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years,  who being first duly sworn, according to law, 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. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)   ,with  and
served in the
(e) regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battle, for which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]-
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I          of the Court of   do hereby
certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the  and C.D residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of this day of   &c.
Every applicant will produce the just proof in his power This is the original discharge [illegible]
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath [illegible] if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-expected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
Case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier}
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter._______________


[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision the length of his service, and the different [illegible] in which he served, in language so
Delicate as to enable the  Department to determine to what amounts he is entitled. In a case where the applicant, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he
should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, depose and saith that
and the contents of memory, he cannot swear piety as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollected, he served not less than the periods mentioned below,, and in the following grades:--For---year----months, and —
days, I served as a -. For - months and
days, I served as a—
and for such service I claim a pension."
Ir is important in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. 
The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely 
the persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years 
in the militia &c., without specifying the tours, the names of the men and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in
every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicantt served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or place where the service was performed that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority;
.
that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and and it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office,  the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the paper. 
Mode of authenticating papers
in every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper [some print is obscured and crooked]
contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow either [print obscured] under the seal of office 
of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is [print obscured] on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses
, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office
The notes from [a] to [ ] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
Note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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90030
Act Mar 3/53
April 21/55
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James Barham pri
---
Capt Whitehead Myrick and
Taylor
Col Blunt Va Mili [militia]
Revolutionary War
[written diagonally]  No 26246 May 24/56
Mo June 1941
[illegible]  [possibly May] 20156
[initials] M
George W. Mitchell----
Springfield
M [Missouri or Mass]
G.W. Mitchell Nov 21/ 55
Vol. B. 21.
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90.030
Application for Bounty Land 
James Barham
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State of Missouri
County of Greene
on this the 10th
day of April AD one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me
A. G. McCracken
Clerk of the County Court within
and for the County and State aforesaid James Barham aged
92
years a resident of Greene County in the state
of Missouri who being duly sworn according to law
declares that he is the Identical James Barham who was
private in the companies commanded by Captain's
Whitehead, Myrick and Taylor in
of
the Regiment of Virginia Militia commanded by Col Blount or
Parker in the war of the Revolution that he was drafted
at Southampton County Virginia on or about the    day of 
1779
for the term of three months each time
and continued in actual service in said war for the
term of nine months and was honorably discharged
Yorktown in Virginia on or about
1780
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
Bounty-land to which he may be entitled under the act
approved March 3d AD 1855 He also declares that he
has not received a warrant for Bounty land under this
or any other act of Congress nor made any application
therefor
Jamee
Barham
We Charles Poston and Thomas G McKoin residents of Greene
County Missouri upon our oath, declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed and acknowledged by James Barham in our presence and
that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant
that he is the identical person he represents himself to be
Charles Poston
Thos. J. Mckoin
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State of Missouri
County of Greene}
SS
I A.G.
McCracken Clerk of the County Court within
and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify
that the within declaration and affidavit were
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this the 10th day
of April AD 1855, and further certify that I know the
affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant
is the person he represents himself to be and that
I have no interest in this claim
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of said Court at office in
the town of Springfield the day and
year above written
A G McCracken [illegible]
By J [or T] W D L F Mark [or Mack] D C
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Application for a Transfer 
SS
County of Greene
On this 28th day of December 1846 before
me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace for the said
County of Greene personally appeared James
Barham who, on his oath, declares that he is
the same person who formerly belonged to the company's
commanded by Captain’s, John Taylor, Whitehead and
Newsome in the Regiment commanded by Colonel’s
Parker, Blunt and the name of the other Colonel
not remembered, in the service of the United States;
that his name was placed on the pension roll of
the State Kentucky from whence he removed to
the State of Tennessee drawing no pension however
from the Governments agent in the latter State; and
from whence he has lately removed; that he now
resides in the State of Missouri where he intends
to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable
in future. The following are his reasons for 
removing from Tennessee to the State of Missouri
That his children had removed to the State of
Missouri and he wished to be with them
Sworn and subscribed to before me ⎬ James Barham
the day and year aforesaid
S
John S Kimbrough J.P.
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State of Missouri
County of Green} SS
Be it known that on the
28th day of December 1846 before the subscriber, a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared
John B Robinson and made oath in due form
of Law that James Barham who has subscribed
to the preceeding affidavit, is the identical person
described in said affidavit and I the subscribing
justice of the Peace am personally acquainted with
said John B Robinson and know him to
be a person of veracity
Sworn and Subscribed to before me
John B Robinson
the day and year aforesaid
John Skimbergh J.P.
[Signature of John B. Robinson]

State of Missouri
Greene County ⎬
S.S.
I Joshua Davis Clerk of the County Court,
of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that
John S Kimbrough is a justice of the Peace in
and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified;
that his commission was dated on the 6th day of
October 1846 and will expire on the 6th day of
August1850, and that his signature above
written is genuine
Given under my hand and the
Seal of the said County, this 28th
day of December 1846
Joshua Davis Clerk
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Mch. 1845, This day sent to the Pens Agt at St. Louis, a copy of the act of
[illegible] together with let; and for the Sol. Mch 4" held up and asking the
Agt to transmit it to his wife if one. or heir’s,   B
Pension Agency St Louis Feb. 25. 1865

Sir
Yours enclosing letter for James Barham
a Revolutionary Pensioner was duly
[illegible] I  forwarded the letters to Messrs Richard
& Wilber of Springfield to deliver to Mr Barham
To day I rec’d letter from these Gentlemen
informing me that Mr James Barham
is dead having died about two months
since. If you desire it I will write to Messrs
R. & W. get the letters sent to Mr. Barham & &
return the same to you.
Yours most respectfully
H. Wood
Pension Agent
St Louis MO
Court Pensions
Washington City D. C.
Jas. H. Barrett Esq
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March 3, 1932
BA-J/EEL
Mrs. Faye Parker
Stamps
Arkansas
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of February 15, 1932, in which
you request the record of James Barham, who was born in 1755, in England, went to Kentucky about 1825, served in the Civil War and died
in Springfield, Missouri, about 1866.

Since the soldier in whom you are interested was born in 1756.
he would have been one hundred and six years old at the beginning of
the Civil War and could not, therefore, have been a soldier of that
war.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and the record
found of one soldier by that name who lived in Kentucky and Missouri
and who might be the one in whom you are interested. His record is given below.
James Barham
S. 16614.
James Barham was born May 18, 1764, in Southampton County, Virginia.
be
While residing in Southampton County, Virginia, he enlisted
January 1, 1781, served as a private under Captains Jesse Whitehead,
the
Davenport, John Taylor, Myrick and Newsum, Colonels Blunt, Patker and
Merriwether in the Virginia Troops, was at the battle of Petersburg and at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown and was discharged
by Captain Taylor after having served nine months and three weeks.

About three years after the Revolution, he moved to North Carolina, where he lived until 1813; then moved to Logan County, Kentucky,
and resided several years; thence to Calloway County, Kentucky, and
thence to Trigg County, Kentucky.

[handwritten in pencil in margin] In his ap. For [illegible] he stated that he ser. In 1779 [unsure of year] serv. Until 1780 but as he was [illegible[ length of service [illegible] I presumed it mostly same serv. & that as he was 92 years he was mixed up on his dates
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He was allowed pension on his application executed June 24, 1833 while residing in Trigg County, Kentucky, to which place, he stated, he has lately moved. 

Sometime afterward, exact date not given, he removed to the 
state of Tennessee, and in 1846, had gone to the state of Missouri
to be near his children. The names of his wife and children are not 
given, and there are no further family data. 

He died January 8, 1865, about fifteen miles from Springfield,
Greene County, Missouri. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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19417
Missouri
James Barham
Ad Act 7th June 1832
Revolutionary

Died Jany. 8th 1865, Age
102, of 10 months & 24 days
Died in Mo.




Missouri 19417 
James Barham
Ad Act 7th June 1832
James Barker

(Upside-down)
Feb 18, John