Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.12873, James English, Penn.
Page 1

Service Penn.
(star) English, James
Number S. 12873

Carded
Page 2

Pennsylvania
James English,
Sergeant in U. States Army  Pa.
Inscribed on the Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at $5 per month, and increased to $8 per month by Act 24th April 1816.
Formal certificate issued 4 Sept. 1823, and sent to Wm Graydon, Esqr at Harrisburg, Pa
Page 3

Recd. Septr. 3. 1823
[circular stamp that reads:]
HARRISBURG
     SEPT
     PENN
[end stamp]
25
L. Edwards esq.
Pension Office
War Department
Washington
Page 4

Harrisburgh Augt. 30. 1823
Sir,
In consequence of your instructions conveyed in your letter of 25th ulto. I wrote to James English of Warren county Georgia, and received the enclosed affidavit, which I hope will be found sufficient to identify the person, in order that such a certificate may issue, or will enable his attorney to draw his pension in Philadelphia - If you will be pleased to forward the certificate to me, with notice of such fees as may ^be due upon it, the money shall be sent in a letter, if capable of being transmitted in that mode, or by such other conveyance as may offer - I am, Sir 
respectfully your obed servant
William Graydon

L. B. Edwards esq.
Page 5

[page is divided in half from top to bottom by a fold mark.  On the left side appears:]
12.873
INVALID.
Revy [Revolutionary]
File No. 12.873
James English
Sergt U.S. Army
Act: 
Index:   Vol.    , Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[on the right side appears:]
Mch. 30- 1901
Mrs. J. S. Bradley - Milford Del

[at the bottom is a circular stamp with the following words written around the inside circumference:}
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
Page 6

Georgia 
Warren County
On this 14th day of August 1823 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Warren, appeared.
James English, who after being duely sworn, on his oath declares, and saith, that his the same person who belonged formerly , to the company commanded by Captain John Nice, in the Sixth Regiments of the Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel Joshiah Harmer, in the servis of the United States, that his name, as he understood was placd on the Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania, as it was in the City of Philadelphia, he hath formerly drawn his pension, he has no no recollection that he ever had a formal Certificate, that at the time he was wounded, on account of which he was allowd the Pension he belong'd to Capt Jacob Bowers Company, of Light Infantry, under the command of Gen. Wayn,  at the storming of Stoney Point, and was a volunteer in the Forlorn Hope , the Corps, and then under the Command of Gen Wayne was Drafted from the Different Reg. of the army, to Compose that corps for the campaign, he was an
Page 7

Georgia              
Warren County  
I Thomas Gibson Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County aforesaid do certify that Benjamin Sandeford whose name appears to the within affidavit & is an acting Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid and that all faith and credit is due his attestation as such
Given under my hand and seal of office the 14th of August 1823.
Thomas Gibson Clk

Georgia
Warren County
I Hardy Pitts one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County aforesaid do certify that Thomas Gibson whose name appears to the above certificate is Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County and that all faith and credit is due his attestation as such.  Given under my hand the 14th of August 1823
Hardy Pitts JIC [Justice Inferior Court]