Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33730, for James Stout, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE           NUMBER

New Jersey   Stout, James     S 33730

CONTENTS
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INVALID

File No.   33,730

James Stout

Clrk.   Rev.War

Act:    18”   March 18

Index~Vol. 2    Page  397

Arrangement of  1870

1917 July 27  And for Int. Dept. for date of last payment of pension
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9014

New Jersey 

Army  Private 

Burlington in the Stateof New Jersey
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Capt. Polhemur of the New Jersey line, for the term of 9 months.

Subscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 4th of June  1898

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of     April 89 and sent to Judd Campher,  New Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of March 89   72.23
Semi-annul  all’ce ending             48
                                                            120.23

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818

Fleming Pond
N J
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John Stout  Private

first ? Regiment 

JJ-J8-4 June 1818

Adm Nr 0
9 mons.



(Upside down, bottom of page) James Stout
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County

On the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen before me the  subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas in and for said county personally appeared James Stout  aged fifty eight years resident in New Jersey 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 "AnAct to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That he said James Stout, the year 1776, enlisted in the five months service in the company commanded by Capt. Houton and continued therein during said term. And in May 1778, enlisted in Pennington in the state aforesaid in the company of Capt. John Polhemus of the first New Jersey Regiment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States until the fifteenth of March 1779, when he was discharged from service in Elizabeth Town in the state of New Jersey by Col. Mathias Ogden. And that he was in the battle of Long Island, Springfield, and Monmouth. And that he in reduced circumstances  and stands here in assistance of his country for support ——  Sworn to and declared before me to the day and year aforesaid.

John Blackwood. 
 
          his
James X Stout
           mark

[The following material is difficult to transcribe as the sentences are very close together and the words often have ink blots.]
I John Blackwood Esq. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas for said county do certify that it appears to my satisfaction from my own view of the applicant the deposition of [illegible] for John Polhemus that the applicant did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy for the term of nine months as [illegible] in the preceding declaration [illegible words] circumstances [illegible] the aid of his country for support and 
[illegible words] taken before me to the war department  [illegible words] of the aforementioned act.
Jno Blackwood
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State of New Jersey}
Burlington County}  of Joseph McSwain, clerk of said county, do hereby certify that
John Blackwood, Esq., who hath subscribed his name to the written affidavit; is one of the judges of said county, duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and that full faith and credit are due to his official oath as judge. 

In testimony whereof I have herein subscribed  my hand and affixed my seal of office this 4th day of June, 1878
J McSwain, clk.
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Personally appeared before me, John Blackwood, Esq, one of the judges of the Interior Court of Common pleas and for the county of Burlington John Dolhimus,  who by the first being duly sworn according to the law being deposeth and faith that 
James Stout, the written applicant was by him enlisted in the Revolutionary Army and served in the company nine months and more, and after that the said James is in ? circumstances and stands in need of assistance for support, and that this deponent further saith he has understood and verily believes that the said James has been aided by the Township in which he resides and further this deponent saith that.

JDolhimus

Sworn this 4th June 1848
before me John Blackwood Esq.
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Rev. War Section.        a-1265

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON 

July 27,  1917

The Auditor for Interior Dept.,
14” and B Streets S. W.
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

For use in the above entitled claim for Revolutionary  War pension, you are required 
to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of James Stout, pensioned under the Act of March 1818, by a Certificate No. 9,014, which issued April 7, 1819, at the rate of $8. per month, from June 4th, 1818, at the New 
Jersey Agency, showing date of death, date of last payment of pension and to whom it was paid.

Very respectfully,


Commissioner
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[illegible letters in upper left corner]

[emblem] OFFICE OF
AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
IN REPLYING QUOTE INITIALS

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON

July 31, 1917.

The Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:

Replying to your letter of the 27th instant, you are informed that the records of this office show last payment to have been made in the case of James Stout, Private, Army of the Revolution, Certificate No. 9014, Trenton, N. J. Agency, at $8.00 per month, to November 17, 1819, the date of his death, to Andrew Hoagland, Administrator.

Respectfully,
Asc? A Price
Auditor.
C.
R.

H

[stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE M AUG 1 1917 [/stamped]