Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35933, Joseph Fields, Md.
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[Application Form]
SERVICE | NUMBER
[Handwritten}  Md. | Fields, Joseph | S35933

[Remaining form blank]
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18896
Kentucky
18896
[line]
Joseph Fields
of Washing county in the State of Kentucky who was  private in the company commanded by Captain John Smith of the Regiment comannded by Colonel Ramsey in the Maryland line, for the term of three years
[double line]
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commencve on the 1 of March 1823
[double line]
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of March 1823 and sent to the Hon B Hardin Bardstown, Kentucky
[double line]
Arrears to 4th march 1823 $1.03
demi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1823 $48
[Total] 49.13
{Revolutionary c
laim, Acts March 18,1818, and May 1, 1890}
1 March 1823
File Sept '23
Pension Book F Vol 9 p. 28
[second column]
Paid at US Treasure under the Act of April 6th 1898 from March 4th to Sept 4th 1841.
Agent notif'd Aug 13th 1842
[line]
New Certificate issued 30. Sep 1844 & sent to John S Skinner.
3d. Asst. P.M. Genl.
[line]
Sent Hon. S. Miller Feb 17/57
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
February 16 1837.
Sir
In reply to your enquiry of the 14th instant I have to inform you that Joseph Fields of the Kentucky Agency under act March 18, 1818, at $8 per month died January 1, 1846 and his pension, has been paid in full to that day.

The papers are herewith returned 
very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant
[signature illegible]
Auditor

Ges. C. Whiting Esq.
Commdr of Pensions
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[Form with handwritten responses]
WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I cerify that in conformity with the laws of the United States, of the [crossed out] 7th June, 1832,[end crossed out] 18th March 1818 and May 1st, 1820 Joseph Field, of Kentucky who was a Private in the U. States Army is entitled to receive Eight dollars and  - cents per month, during his natural life, commencing on the 1st of March, 1823, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. Issued in lieu of one dated 19th March 1823 supposed to lost or destroyed.  Payable to Nathaniel Wickliffe, committer for Joseph Fields, a lunatic.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30th day of  Sep. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigend.

Commissioner of Pensions.
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[Reverse of letter with postage stamps - fold marks with some writing upside-down, transcribed from top to bottom]
[upside-down]
Bardstown, Ken
Hon B. Hardin
[A large handwritten mark is on the left]
Pen:Com: 1 March 1823.
adm.
[end upside-down]

Hon Ben Hardin
[Mail Stamp Bardstown KY] Nov 17
Ben Hardin
Washington County

[upside-down]
Kan:Role
Page 62 Registers
[end upside-down]
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Kentucky Scl
At a Circuit Court being held for 
the Washington Circuit the 12th of August 1822 and in the
31st years of the Commonwealth
Joseph Fuller a claimant for a pension or
an act of Congress passed on the 18th day of
March 1818 produced in Court and sword to the
following schedule To wit
District of Kentucky
Washington Circuit Scl
On this 13th day of August 1822 personally appeared
in open Court being a court of Record for the
said circuit Joseph Fields aged sixty six years
resident in Washington County in the said
Circuit who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath declare that he served in
the revolutionary war as follows
That on the ___ day of ___In the year 1778
he enlisted as a private for the Term of three 
years in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Smith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ramsey in the line of the State of Maryland in the Continental  establishment that he continued to serve
in the said Corps until 1779 when he was
discharged from said service in the State of 
New Jersey in consequence of having the white swelling that he was in the battle of Brandywine
that he has no evidence now in his power of
his said services and that the original declaration
is dated the 28th of June 1820
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and in pursuance of the acts of Congress
passed upon the 18th day of March 1818
and after the 1st day of May 1820
and I do solemnly declare that I was a
resident Citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not since that time by gift, sale or in
any manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof with an intention
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provisions of an act of Congress
entitled an act to provide for certain pers-
ons engaged in the land and naval
services of the United States in the Revolutionary
War passed on the 18th day of March 1818
and I have not nor has any person in
trust for me any property or securities
contracts or debts due to me nor have I
any income other than what is con-
tained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by
me subscribed To wit: Two cows and six hoggs,
fourteen piggs one Dutch oven and handle
skillet and one service kettle and little
and big wheel one old [illegible] plow
2 old hoes and one old ax that he is a 
farmer Very unable to follow it that he has
a wife about forty seven years old six child-
ten with him [illegible] Nancy Tresey Joseph
Thomas Elizabeth George. Aforesaid Nancy is 19 years old Tresey 16 years old Joseph 12 years old Thomas in his 8th year and Elizabeth 
in her 6th year George is 4 years old next
September.  They are not [illegible] to do
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anything of consequence towards their support
or the support of the family. 

Joseph X his mark Fields

The Court value the property contained in this Schedule to the
sum of eighty dollars.

Kentucky Washington County

I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for the Circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that the
foregoing is truly transcribed from the records of the said Court.
[Blurred seal of the Court]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
and and affixed the seal of the said Court
this 24th day of August AD. 1822 in the 31st
year of the Common Wealth

John Hughes Jr Clk

Following appears to be two envelopes with addresses:
[left side]

Hon Ben Hardin

[Circular mail stamp
BARDSTOWN KY
Nov 17]

Ben Hardin
Washington City

Hon: Rate
Page 69 register

[right side]
Adm?
Pen: com: 1 March 1823.

Hon: B. Hardin,
Bardstown, Ken
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[illegible]
new certificate

Payable to
Nathl. Wickliffe
Jos. Field
Committee
for new Cert

Jno S Skinner Esqr
3rd Apl [illegible] Genl.
Sept 28 '44
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State of Kentucky
County of Nelson SS

On this 19th day of September 1844 before me
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County of
Nelson personally appeared Nathaniel Wickliffe Committee
appointed by the Nelson Circuit Court for Joseph Fields a
Pensioner of the United States, as appears by the annexed copy from the records of said Court.  Who  declares upon his oath, that after he was thus appointed for said Fields as his committee, that he had
his original certificate of Pensions (who was a
Revolutionary pensioner, and placed upon the
Roll as such at the Kentucky agency for paying
Pensions. He applied at the agency at Louisville
Kentucky, after the 4th of March 1844, with the original
Certificate, and drew his half yearly Pension $48. said Fields being entitled to $96 per year and that he presented said Certificate to the agent G.W. Merriweather, when the amount of $48 was paid as above stated, and he believes kept the same with said Merriweather since which time he has not
seen said Certificate.  The agent at Louisville, Kentucky G.W. Merriweather, by his letter to me dated the 16th instant states that the Certificate was not delivered to him if so this affiant states it is lost or mislaid, so that it cannot be found.  He cannot state the date or number of the certificate as he has no copy, it was signed by the Secretary of War, and can state that he had known aforesaid Joseph Fields for many years, and knew him to be a Pensioner of the United States, and that said Fields is still living, and as he is informed and believes is in the same state of mind, as when found to be a lunatic, as above stated, and that he is the same
person, named in the certificate of Pension, thus lost.

Sworn and subscribed to }  Nathl. Wickliffe
before me the day and year as aforesaid}
Samuel Carpenter Justice of the Peace N.C.
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State of Kentucky
Nelson County Ss.
On this 21 day of September 1844 personally
appeared William Read before me a Justice of the
Peace for said County, who on his oath declares
that he has known Joseph Fields, who is referred to 
in the foregoing affidavit of Nathaniel Wickliffe
for many years past, to be a Revolutionary
pensioner of the United States, and that said
Fields, who resides in the said County of Nelson
is yet living, or was on this day, the deponent
having seen him, where he now [illegible] by his wife
That the deponent believes him still to be a [illegible]
or [illegible] such is the opinion of this affiant
who states he has no interest in said Fields Pension
nor is he in anyway related to him.
Sworn and subscribed to}    Wm Read
before me the day and}
year aforesaid}
Samuel Carpenter Justice of the Peace N.C.

State of Kentucky
Nelson County [iSs.
I Nathaniel Wickliffe Clerk of the
County Court for said County, Certify that Samuel
Carpenter whose name is subscribed to the above and 
foregoing Certificates is an acting Justice of the
Peace in said County and that his signatures
Thereto are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of said County this 24 day of
September 1844.
Nathan Wickliffe Clerk
Nelson County court
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Nelson Circuit Court, February Term March 9, 1844
This day came the attorney prosecuting for the Common=
=wealth and filed the following notice "Mr. Joseph Fields
take notice that on the 12th day of the present^Feby^ term of
the Nelson Circuit Court I will apply to said court
for a writ whereby a jury will be summoned& sworn
to inquire whether you be of sound or [crossed off; of] unsound
mind. 26th of February 1844. Thomas W Riley attorney
for the commonwealth. Executed February 27 1844
by leaving a copy of the written with Joseph Fields.
J. S. Clarke C.M.C.- and on his motion is is 
ordered that a jury appear here immediately =
and the Court appoints B. Bowman Hardin as 
Counsel for said Fields to superintend the trial and
thereupon came a jury to wit. L.A.G. Humphreys, Elias
Kinchaloe, Matthew Lupin, Tathl.. G. Thomas, Mark L.
Thomas, Basil B. Summers, Wilson Samuels, Henry Weller,
Geo W. Jenkins, Peyton McMakin, John Bayne and 
George E Willett, who being sworn well and truly to
enquire whether the said Joseph Fields is of sound or
unsound mind and when he became so and the cause
thereof and what property he has and if any the value
thereof, and after hearing the evidence upon their
oaths returned the following verdict to wit "We of 
the Jury find Joseph Fields to be a person of unsound
mind and Lunatic that he has been so for one year
past, that he has no estate of any kind or value known to this
Jury except a pension of about $90 per year which he draws from
the General government as a Revolutionary Soldier, Elias Kinchalow foreman
and the Court appoints Nathanial Wickliffe Esqr committee to take
charge of the said Lunatic and his estate.
State of Kentucky [illegible]
I the undersigned clk of the Nelson Circuit Court do certify
that the ^above^ is a true copy of the Record and proceedings
had in the Case of Joseph Fields a lunatic
In Testimony whereof I have hereto [illegible]
my name and affixed the seal of the said [illegible]
this 21st Sept 1844 & in the 53 year of the case
James Slaughter Clk
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35933
Revolutionary INVALID
File Number 35933
Joseph Fields
Private Revolutionary War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Volume 2, Page 468
[Arrangement of 1870]
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[illegible] Joseph Fields Ind Roll
[illegible]

Return to Honorable
Smith Miller
as soon as possible
with a proper
reply [illegible]
7 February 1837
____________________

Joseph Fields- Kentucky
admitted 18 [illegible] 1818
_______________________

[Above notes overwritten with the following address]

Honorable Smith Miller
Washington City
D.C.
[Circular mail stamps
WASHINGTON
[illegible]
30
[illegible]

THREE
CENTS
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Treasury Department,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Auditor

George C. Whiting. Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions.

[handwritten vertically across the page:] Geddes
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, 19th Feby. 1823
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in 
the Auditor's Office, that Joseph Fields
enlisted as a Private in the third Maryland
Regiment, on the Second day of May 1778
and was [crossed off: discharged on the] May 79 left of the Rolls
Thos Karney Auditor General,
State of Maryland.
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[underlined: MADISONIAN OFFICE]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 6th, 1842,
Sir: 
Under the Act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "A Act directing
the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and author=
ixing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
Joseph Fields,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars and 
- Cents per  [crossed off: annum] month, under the law of the 18th March
1818, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March, to the 4th Sept. 1841 -
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.