Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5371, Alexander Humphres, Del.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Del.

Humphres, Alexander
or Humphreys

NUMBER
R.5371

CONTENTS
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The State of Ohio}
Harrison County}

On this 11th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas now sitting in and for the county of Harrison aforesaid Alexander Humphrey, a resident of the county of Harrison in the State of Ohio eighty 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he was drafted in the army of the United States sometime in the summer of the year 1781. and served one month during the first months services we staid (sic) the principal part of the time in the Town of Dover in the State of Delaware, a guard was kept there night and day for the purpose of preventing the Tories from carrying provisions to the British army during said Tour, we were marched out of town several times for the purpose of quelling the Tories. 

2nd. On the 10th day of March 1782 I volunteered for the term of eight months for the purpose of keeping the Tories in subjection, during this Term of service I was taken out if the Town of Dover seven times for the purpose of quelling the insurrection of one Chaney Clow.

4th Sometime between Spring and harvest in the year 1783 I was drafted for the Term of two months and served said Term in the Town of Dover aforesaid as a guard, and the last duty I performed in that Tour was to guard Chaney Clow to the gallows during all the times of the above tours we were garrisoned in an old court house in the Town of Dover aforesaid, there was embodied in said garrison about thirty five men principally volunteers, we performed daily duties every day had Reville (sic) and Tatoos (sic). all the times aforesaid I boarded at public expense we quartered, as above stated, at the old court house drew our daily rations. There were five men to a mess. I received pay for twelve months at the rate of six dollars per month. we
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received our pay through our Captain Joseph Harper, I lived with my father in the town of Dover when I entered the service but during the time of my service as above described I both eat and slept in the garrison aforesaid, I never was on what is called the patroll, but was in a regular organized company. The names of my officers [crossed out] Colonel John Clayton, Major Basset, Captain Joseph Harper, Lieutenant John Ball and Ensign (Declarant thinks was Simon Wilmore Wilson

 (The following are the answers of the applicant to the interrogatories of the court as prescribed by the War Department.)
1st. I was born in the State of Delaware on the 19th day of January in the year 1762. 
2nd. I had a record of my age, it was set down and recorded in my family bible but it is now lost
3rd When called into service I lived in Dover in the county of Kent in the State of Delaware. From thence I removed in the year [17 crossed out] 1817 the State of Ohio where I now live in Harrison County
4th. The first tour I was drafted. the second tour I volunteered, and the third tour I was drafted
5th. Col. Clayton Major Basset, Capt. Joseph Harper Lieut John Bell and Ensign Simon W Wilson.
6th. I received a discharge for all the tours above mentioned from my captain which are lost
7th. The Rev. Jacob Lemmon R K Price Esq John Green and Robert Holody Esq can testify to my good character. but there is no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service as a soldier of the revolution.
He the said Alexander Humphreys hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity
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except the present and declars that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State sworn to and subscribed in open court this 11th day of May 1843
Thomas C. Vincent Clerk

Alexander Humphreys

Rev Jacob Lemmon a clergyman and William Shotwell residing in the county of Harrison in the State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander Humphreys who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be eighty one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. 
sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of May AD 1843 in open court
Thomas C. Vincent Clerk
Jacob Lemmon
Wm Shotwell

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solider and served as he states; And the court further certify that it appears to them that Jacob Lemmon and William Shotwell have signed the above certificate are residents in the county of Harrison in the State of Ohio and are credible persons. that their statement are entitled to credit and that Jacob Lemmon is a clergyman and order the clerk to make the proper certificate
Attest Thomas C. Vincent Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Harrison County
I Thomas C. Vincent Clerk of the court of commons pleas within and for said County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Alexander Humphreys for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have here onto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Cadiz this 11th day of May AD 1843
Attest Thomas .C. Vincent Clerk
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30.401
Alexander Humphries
Ohio
5381

Rejected did not serve six months

Josiah Scott
Cadiz
Ohio



Commissioner of Pensions

The claimant is required strictly to comply with Note S. ______ See 3rd page
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
11. April 1834
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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of Alexander Humphreys

[A table follows]

Period when the
service was
rendered.
1782
1782
1783

Duration of the
claimant's service.
Years. Months. Days.
1 [month]
8 [months]
2 [months]

Rank of
claimant.
priv

Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
Col. Clayton
Cap. Harper
[Same for 1782 and 1783]

Age at present,
and place of abode
when he entered
the service.
72 years
Kent
County
Del

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

The claimant is required Strictly to comply[this word unclear] with
Note - S. _ See 3d page
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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 claim-
ing 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 names 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 battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. [a small graphic of a hand pointing to the left is here] 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.]
I, hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the prest. [word unclear] 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 of    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, this    day of    & c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission;
but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, 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
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person 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 expected. All applicants will appear before some court of Record in the count 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 live now?
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 service. 
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 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, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been in Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these person is a Clergyman, the Court will 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 to the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
 Applicant is first to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the (illegible) required, and submit to the examination, before the 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 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.
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Rejected

5371
P.O.
Alexander Humphry
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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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873

Rejected

5381
P.O. ______________________________________
Alexander Humphry
Service: __________________________________
See Rej. 5371

Enlisted: _______________________________, 18
Discharged: ____________________________, 18

Application filed: _______________________, 18

Alleges: _____________________________________
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37.611
Alexander Humphreys

Ohio

R. Le. Price Esq

July 21, 48,

5371

Act June 7, 1832
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Rejected

See letter to
Josiah Scott
Cadiz
12 March 1835
See let. to Hon. S. Stokely
Jany: 16. 1843 - to S. Scott
July 6, 1843
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Nov 3
Alex. Humphrey
Cadiz ohio Oct 25

J L Edwards
Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington City
D C
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Cadiz Oct. 24th 1834

Dr Sir I have enclosed the declaration of Alex
Humphreys amended you will please
act upon it as soon as convenient, and
much obliges your friend and 
Servant
Josiah Scott
J L Edwards
Commissioner
of Pensions
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Cadiz Ohio
May 11

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D C
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Freeport May 8th 1848
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
Having received no answer from you on the subject of an application for pensions for Mr Alexander Humphreys & the children of Timothy Livaney Deceased, & thinking that perhaps you had given all the information that your connections with the Pension Office would allow one of the Sons of Said Livaney or rather grand son by name Asbury Livaney & myself have included to get        A declaration agreeable with the facts and accordingly procured the attendance of An Associate Judge of our Court to attend at my office in Freeport this day and I herewith forward to you the results of the investigation, asking (on behalf of the aged and infirm and I might say pennyless Revolutionary Soldier) the favor of you to make the necessary examinations and when ascertained to inform me or Mr. Humphreys himself of the result, by so doing you will confer a great favour on one who is deserving.

Yours for the benefit of the poor
R.F. Price
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Cadiz Ohio
Mary 22 1843

J L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Mr Alexander Humphreys has made an other effort to obtain a pension, he states the he made an effort last winter throught the Hon, Samuel Stokely and that he, Stokel, advised him to this course.  I have no doubts but every word is true as the said Humphreys states in his affidavit. There is no man in this county who has a better character for truth and honesty that the said applicant, although he is now old and infirm his memory appears good, he stands very much in need of relief he is poor and helpless and a short time ago he was stricken with the palsy. Please answer this soon and let this old man know his fate.

I am sir yours
Josiah Scott
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May 26, 1843

Ohio
June 7, 1832
Alexander Humphreys

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D C
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Mar 14
Washington

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Josiah Scott Esq.
Cadiz
Ohio
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War Department
Pension Office
March 12, 1833

Sir
The declaration of Alexander Humphreys has been examined. He alleges to have served a tour of one month in 1781 as a militia man of Delaware and eight months in 1782, and five months in 1783. The British were not in the section of the country in which the applicant alleges to have served, nor can it be recognized that he was in a real service against the common enemy in 1782, for a sufficient length of time to entitle him to the benefits of the act of June 7, 1832, which requires six months of actual service. The service in 1783 was after the termination of the revolutionary war and is not provided for.  The claim has been rejected and the reasons filed in this office.

I am respectfully
Your obedient servant
J L Edwards
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Mr. J.L. Edwards

Sir,

You state in the letter sent to Josiah Scott on the other paper, that there were no British on the coast during the time which I alleged to have been in service; here let me state that during my services, was fought the battles of Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, and Yorktown in which last, Cornwallis surrendered.

I did not claim but under the six months act and was induced to do so by Judge        Beane of this count. Who stated to me that a pension was due me and of right I should have it.

After my first defeat in not obtaining the pension due me, I determined to ask no more for it, but having been visited by a stroke of the palsey and rendered helpless, thereby has induced me to ask again a consideration of my claim.

Alexander Humphries
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Alexander Humphreys
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State of Ohio Harrison County

On the twenty first day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court of common pleas now sitting Alexander Humphreys a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged 72 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 the 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served herein stated, to wit, all the times he was in the service the following were his officers, Col. John Clayton, Major Bapet, Capt. Joseph Harper, Lieutenant John Bell, Simon Willmore Wilson he thinks was Ensign, he was       for one month, the day of the month he cannot recollect, but it was in the summer of the year 1781 and he served in the town of Dover all the time of the service in the town except once he was taken out to quell the tories; there was a guard kept day and night, at Dover for the purpose of keeping the Tories from carrying provisions to the British. When he entered the service and during all the time of the war. he lived in Dover in Kent County in the state of Delaware that he served with an embodied corpse, called into service by order of the Governor of the State of Delaware, Caesar Rodney, all the times he was in the United States service.

2nd. On the 10th day of March 1782, he volunteered for the term of eight months, for the purpose of above mentioned, he was taken out of the town he thinks seven times during this town, for the purpose of quelling the insurrections of Cheney Clow, he was under regular service during the whole term of the said eight months, and he was not engaged in any civic pursuit, he was discharged on the 10th day of November 1782 his officers during this tour was the same above mentioned, and got a discharge  from Capt. Joseph Harper.

3rd This declarant was drafted to serve two months. The day and the month this Declarant cannot now recollect; but it was sometime between spring and harvest in the tear 1783.  The service the said two months in Dover as a guard and the last duty he performed in that town was to guard Cheney Clow to the gallows this service was also in embodied corps, and he was engaged in no civic pursuit during the term of the service two months. His officers were the same above mentioned , he was in the field or in garrison all the times he has here stated, as
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being in the services of the United States. He further states that he has no documentary evidences of his services, and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service as a soldier of the Revolution.  He served in the 4th Regiment of militia in the Delaware line. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever in an annuity or a pension except the present, and declares his name is not on the pension role of any agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court before me Wm. Tingley Clerk of said County.

Alexander Humphreys

The following are the answers to the interrogatories performed by the court in pursuance of the regulations adopted by the War Department.

I I was born in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware on the 19th day of January 1762.
II I have record of my age, recorded in my bible.
III I lived in Dover in Kent County in the State of Delaware, when I entered the service. From thence I removed in the year 1817 to Harrison County in the State of Ohio where I now live.
IV The first time I was called into service, I was drafted. The second I volunteered. The third time I was drafted.
V The names of the officers were Col. John Clayton, Major Bapet, Capt. Joseph Harper, Lieut. John Bell, Ensign Wilmore Wilson. The general circumstances of my services, are as I have above stated.
VI I received a discharge for the respective tours I served from my Captains but they are lost.
VII Judge McBean, Lawrence Calvin, Robert Holladay, and the Rev. Jacob Lemon and Joseph Fry Esq.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written in open court before me.
William Tingley Clerk of the Court

Alexander Humphreys
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after pulling the interrogations presented by the War Department. That Alexander Humphreys the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jacob Lemon who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Harrison County in the State of Ohio, and that Joseph Fry, who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and state last aforesaid and is a creditable person, and that their statements is entitled to credit.

Attest William Tingley Clerk.
I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Harrison County in the State of Ohio, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander Humphries for a Pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 23rd day of October 1834.

William Tingley
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Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June AD 1832-
   State of Ohio
   Harrison County

On this 8th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before me William Boggs.  Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in work for said county.  

Alexander Humphries, a Resident of the Township of Freeport. County and State aforesaid aged eighty-five years who could not from Bodily infirmaty appear in open Court. Who being first duly sworn, according to the Law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to attain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress dated June 7th. 1832 that he was Drafted into the Service of the United States in the Spring of 1781. for one month + marched to Brown's Neck to down the Tories, under the following officers viz, Captain Joseph Harper; Lieutenants John Bell + Simon Wilmore Wilson; that he also volunteered in a Company of Minute Men in March 1782, for eight months which time he served under the above named officers, was rendered at the Old Courthouse in the [deleted: said] County of Kent, State of Delaware, also that he was Drafted in the Spring of 1783 + served not less than 2 months.  Served under the above named officers, that he was born in the Little Creek Hundred Kent County State of Delaware on the 19th day of January in the year seventeen hundred + sixty three was raised someplace until he entered the service, + confirmed to reside their after the war until 1812. then Moved to New Castle County Delaware remained their until 1817. when he came to Ohio + settled in Harrison County. Said Humphries further says that he does not know of any persons now-living who has personal knowledge of his servises - + that he never received any written discharge from the Service.  

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension.
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or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State and He further says that he has not any Record of his age except one entered in his own Bible about forty years since in his own hand writing. He further says that Jacob Lemmon, John Green, Robert Holliday
and Thomas P. Jenkins are gentlemen acquainted with him and are willing to certify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of the services rendered by him in the
Revolutionary War - his 
Alexander Humphreys 
mark
William Boggs Associate Judge
We Jacob Lemmon a Clergyman, residing in the
Township of Freeport in said County of Harrison Ohio and John Green and of the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
Alexander Humphries, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Lemmon
John Green
William Boggs Associate Judge
The above named Robert Holliday & Thomas P. Jenkins not being at home at the time of taking the afores" declarations we had to omit their names.
William Boggs Associate Judge
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We the undersigned residing in Freeport
Township Harrison County State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander Humphreys, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion & that it appears to us that there never has existed any doubts as to his having been a soldier of the Revolution Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year above written
William Boggs Associate Judge
John Knox
Timothy Swaney [illegible]
Elijah Carver
James Clark
L[illegible] Reaves, Jr
Alisha Clark
Hallowell Reaves
R. K. Price
Wong Cullins
And I William Boggs Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of
Harrison Ohio, do hereby declare my opinion
after the investigation of the matter & after
putting the interogatories prescribed by the war
department, that the said Alexander Humphreys was a revolutionary soldier & served as is stated. And I William Boggs further certify that Jacob who has signed the first of the preceding Certificates Lemmon is a Clergyman, resident in the township of Freeport County of Harrison State of Ohio.
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and that John Green who has signed the ??? is a resident of Freeport Harrison County Ohio and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and that it appears to me that the nine persons who have signed the ???? of the preceding certification are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

William Boggs - Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Harrison County 
   I, one of the Justices of the Peace i and for the said County, do hereby certify that the reason why Alexander Humphries was under the necessity of making his mark to the foregoing declaration is in consequence of a paralytic affliction and I further certify that since my first acquaintance with him say
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
       Form VAM-51
         12-5-41
 
                       BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD *

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives


NAME  Humphrey, Alexander    GRADE Private         LINE  New York


WARRANT NUMBER  7238                   ACREAGE  100         ISSUED  May 27,1795
                                                                                                 To Samuel Humphrey ---------


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* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.