Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Joel Phelps, New Jersey
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Service: New Jersey
Phelps, Joel
Number: Dis. (check mark)
No papers
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an
June 9, 1906
[unidentifiable initials]
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Phelps, Joel
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New Jersey, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, pages 96 and 172.

Rank: Private
Capt. S. Hardy's company

Disability: Wounded in the body doing duty at Wyoming, in Fort Jenkins; that, being ordered out on a scout under the command of a sergeant, when they returned the said Joel Phelps received the aforesaid wound, of which he lay confined eighteen days at Wyoming.

When and where disabled: June 16, 1778, Fort Jenkins.
Residence: Hanover, Morris county.
To what pension entitled: Half.
Remarks: Not to be found on the rolls.

Evidence transmitted by the District Court imperfect. No evidence whatever of his leaving the service. On page 172 it is stated that the evidence had been complete.
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Rhinebeck, N.Y., Sept.1st., 1920.

To the Pension Bureau, Revolutionary Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs: One Joel Phelps born Wyoming Valley Pa. applied for a pension in 1794 as he served in the Revolutionary. 
(written: Look out this is probably a invalid pensioner with no papers)
A information that you can give me in regard to this pension will be greatly appreciated.
I remain,
Yours Truly,
(Mrs Henry) Jessie L. Cornelius
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Rev. War section.
November 13, 1914.
Mrs. L. Polhemis,
#2 Box 15,
Beresford, So. Dakota.

Madam:
In response to you letter dated the 9th instant, you are advised that in the American State Papers, Vol. entitled claims, class nine, pages 96 and 172, the name Joel Phelps, of Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, appears on a list of applicants of invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1794, as having served as a Private in Captain S. Hardy's company during the Revolutionary War. dates of service not given, and having been wounded "in the body" June 16, 1776 while on duty at Fort Jenkins, Wyoming. 
There are no papers on file relative to said claim owing to the destruction of papers when the War Office was burned in 1800, and therefore no further data can be furnished you in regard to said soldier/
Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber, commissioner