Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for John Parks, Pennsylvania
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top left corner- (8-1776)
3 columns across top; service, image of a star, number
Line 1: checkmark (handwritten), Parks John, Dis (~}
Line 2:  blank, blank, no papers
Line 3: blank, Phila. Penn. Agency. { B.L.H.N.- 13623-100-issued July 27, 1789, to Richard Platt, assignee-Private in the Invalid Regiment}
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Top left, The National Archives, Form VAM-51, 12-5-41
Main title: BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Top right: Division of Veterns' Administration Archives
NAME Parks, John GRADE Private LINE Invalid Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 13623 ACREAGE 100 ISSUES July 27, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee
my notation in book so,e time ago: "See Penn Files-John Parks-Phila, Pa. agancy" MHT
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumnes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issues Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congrssional 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.
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Top left, Rev. War Section.
Top right, handwritten intials aw ow
Second line, April 14, 1922.
Thomas M. Butler,
1415 E. 57 [?] St.
Chicago, Ills,

Sir:
In response to your letter of the 10" [?] you are advised, that in the Report from the Secretary of War, in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, which was printed in 1835; on the list of invalid pnsioners [underlined], who had been paid at the Philadelphia, Penn. Agency and whose residence could not be ascertained, in concequence of the destruction of papers in the War Office, in 1801 and 1814: appears the name of John Parks [underlined}, a Private of the Revolutionary Army, annual allowance $60, pensioned under Act of June 7, 1789. There are no papers on file in this Bureau, relative to him, as they were burned in conflagrations in the War Office in the years above noted. For informstion relative to his pension application, as cited in Pennsylvania Archives, 5" Series, 4" volume, page 570, you should consult the Division of Public Records at the Penn. State Library, Harrisburg, Penn. where
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said application is on file, as stated in the above noted volume, on page 497.
Very respectfully, Washington - [?]
Commissioner.
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Top left, handwritten letters

I4I5 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois
April I0,1922
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me a photostat copy of the application for a pension filed by John Parks sometime prior to February, I4, I785, before the Orphan's Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
In the Fifth Series of the Penn.Archives, Vol./4,Page 570 is the following:
"Pension Applications, Philadelphia County, (c)
John Parks was a private of Second Penn. Regt. and from thence transferred to the Regiment of Invalids on November I, I783.He was discharged from said Invalid Regiment as unfit for further duty on account of wound received in his right arm."
His pension was granted on November 8, I785.
See Penn.Magazine Vol 42.
I am especially interested in having that part of his application mentioning the names of his wife and children and that part containing his signature distinct.
Let me know the cost,and I will send you the money.
Thanking you, I am truly yours.
Thomas M Butler [signature]
round stamp, APR 12 1922 S. PENSION OFFICE [?]
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Top left, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41
Main title, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Top right, Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Parks, John GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6260 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED . Jan. 6, 1797 to~not shown~
*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. Infromation concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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Top left, The National Archives Form VAM-51 12-5-41
Main title, BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Top right, Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Parks, John GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 13597 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 14, 1790 to Richard Platt assignee
*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.