Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,339, James Emerson, Md.
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Service
Md.

[hand-drawn star]
Name
Emerson, James
or Emberson

Number
R.3.339

Contents
Boru Md.
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REJECTED
3339
P.O.______
James Emberson
Service:_____
Enlisted:_____, 18
Discharged:____, 18
Application filed:____,18
Alleges:_____
__________________________
Re-enlisted:______________
___________________________
Attorney:_________________
P.O.________________________
____________________________
__________Recognized.  _____Contract.
_______Cert. of Dis.____ Searched for_____, 18
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Land Office, Annapolis
Feby 18th 1835

Sir

Yours of the 4th Inst with the declaration of James Emberson enclosed was received - the muster and payrolls of the revolution in this office have been carefully examined and his name does not appear upon any of said rolls - the declaration is herewith returned.

I am respectfully
Your obt servant

G.G. Brewer

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
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Power of Attorney
for examining
Revolutionary Papers
case of
Elisha D Emerson
one of the heirs of
James Emerson
NY or MD

Sep 14 - 1852
F E Hassler
Present
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Power of Attorney

For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners

State of Pennsylvania
County of Fayette

Be it know that before me Daniel Smith Justice of the Peace personally appeared Elish D Emerson aged 47 years who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law states that he is one of the heirs of James Emerson deceased who was a revolutionary soldier in the state of Maryland and that he died on the 28th day of October 1836 and that my mother named Elizabeth Emerson died on the 18th of July 1838 and that they were married on the blank day of blank in the year 17xx and that they were residents of Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland and that they resided there blank years and that they from AD 1809 resided in Fayette County Penna and that further more blank.

By these presents constitutes and fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with powers of substitution F.E. Hassler of Washington City D.C. as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead to examine into to prosecute to demand and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers my rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due me as one of the heirs of James Emerson who died leaving the same undrawn as in right of law he may be entitled.

In witness whereof I have on this seventh day of September 1852 hereunto signed by name and affixed my seal.

Elisha Emerson
for myself and other heirs

SEAL

Witness: Daniel Smith
Witness: James Piper

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify that Elisha D Emerson has always by the community been known as one of the heirs of James Emerson dec'd.

Dated on this seventh day of September, 1852.

Daniel Smith - JP

State of Pennsylvania
County of Fayette to wit

I Richard Huskins Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that Daniel Smith Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county Court this 7th day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

Richard Huskins = Prothy.
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33722 Suspended  in [illegible]

See letter to 
Hon A Stewart
21 Feb 1835

3339

Act 7 July '32
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Fayette

On this 11th day of January 1833 personally appeared before the Honorable Judges of the Court for the County of Fayette now sitting James Emberson a resident of [illegible] township in the County of Fayette and State of Pa aforesaid aged  seventy-one 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 act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered into the service of the United States in the year A.D. 1781 under the following named officers:

That in the year of 1781 about the fourth of February of said year as near as I can possibly recollect, when I volunteered for 8 months in the company commanded by Captain Wheeler, Lieutenant John Dier and Ensign Wm Shurtleff all residents of Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland where I then resided during the Revolutionary war and that we was ordered to march immediately to Georgetown where we was joined by many other troops whose commanding officers he cannot recollect & that we remained there a considerable time and received orders to return home but we had not been at home more than three day until we had express orders for to march to Annapolis in Maryland that an alarm was made that Lord Howe's army was coming against that city but the said enemy did not arrive there & from that after some length of time we was again permitted to return home and not sooner than the eighteenth day of September in the year 1781 that he was discharged which was at least two weeks after his term of 8 months had expired and that he was than honorably discharged by the said Captain Wheeler in the said county of Prince Georges; that he was in actual service for at least 8 months for which he claims a pension; that he was again in the service in said year and called out but only for a few days at a time before the said cases was remanded within one the number of days but not exceeding 15 or 16 under the said officers but for which service he [illegible] to make no claim except for the stated 8 months and 11 days and that he has no further recollection relative to this said claim or said services.

32722
James Emberson
Pennsylvania
Suspended

Hon A. Heavner
H.R.
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and that he was born in the county of Prince George's in the state of Maryland in the year AD 1768 where he resided until 1796 which he believes to have moved some little time after the western expedition which was in the year 1796 and ordered west of the Allegheny mountains; and the name of the place where he received his said discharge was [illegible] in the said county which he had omitted to state heretofore that he had moved as above to the state of Virginia in the neighborhood of Martinsburg in Berkley Co Va where he resided about 13 years and from thence to the Fayette Pa where he has ever since resided about 23 years and that he has no documentary evidence of his said services; that his discharge has been long since lost.

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

James Emerson - SEAL

14th Jany 1833 Sworn & subscribed in open court 
H W Beeson - Prothy

We John Philips, Clergyman residing in said county and Simon Johnson residing in the said county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said James Emberson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 70 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.

John Phillips - SEAL
Simon Johnson - SEAL

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

H W Beeson
Prothy