Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 466, John Balmer, Penn. Va.
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Penn
Va.

Balmer, John

R. 466.
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See letter 9 May
1827 to Jonathan Worth, Esqr of
Ashborough N. C.
to E. Deberry 21 July 1830
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Ex'r.
No. 466
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March
John Balmer

REJECTED
[all fields below blank]
P.J.
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
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19.927.
John Balmer
Montgomery County
N. Carolina
Rejected. See letter
31 March 1826
Hon. John Long
H. Rep
March 24. 1826
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State of North Carolina Superior Court of Law
Montgomery County June 1826
On this seventh day of March 1826 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record of unlimited
jurisdiction for the said County John Balmer
aged seventy three years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he enlisted for
sum of three years in the month of October
1777 as well as he recollects in the State of
Singeon Northampton County in the company
manded by Capt Critington in the request
commanded by Colonel Mason in the bene
of the State of Super in the Continental
establishment, that he continent to serve in the same
Corps untill about the mouth of December 180
when he again enlisted at Middlebrook in
Pensylvania for the term of the ator in the
company commanded by Capt Boyer in the
fifteenth regiment at that time commanded
by Colonel Gray in the line of the State of
the State of Pensylvania in the continental
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establishment, that he continued in the same
till the son of the war and was honorably
discharged from the said service at Salisbury
in the State of North Carolina, that he was in
three battles, to wit at Guilford in North Carolina
Camden & Eutaw Springs in South Carolina
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
ten of the United
on the 18th
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of March 1818 & that I have not since
at time by gift sale or in any manner
of my property or any part thereof
or elect so to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions act of
Congress entitled an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and Naval
service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th March
1818 and the I have not nor has anyone
in trust for me property or Securities contracts or debts due to me nor another other than what is entered.

in the the date hereto and
me subscribe
date

1 Mare and colt worth $45.00
1 Cow & Calf - $10.00
8 small hogs $8.00
1 Pot & [illegible] $3.00
1 [illegible]            $0.30
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$66.30
And I the said declarant to & this state that
I am a common farmer & [illegible]  old age am hardly able to provide [illegible] common necessaries of life,  that I have
no family over whom I have any contract.
Sworn to & declared on the tenth day of
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His
John X Ballmer
Mark
March 1826 in far Court

[illegible jurat follows]


State of North Carolina
Montgomery County
⎬

John R. Donnell one of the
Judges of the Superior Court of Law and
Equity in and for the State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify that
Farguhar Martin Esquire, who has
given the foregoing Certificate is the
Clerk
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I, John R. Donnell one of the 
Clerks of the Superior Court of Law and Equity in and for Montgomery County in the state of North Carolina, do hereby certify that Farquhar Martin, Esquire, who has given the foregoing certificate,  duly appointed
and qualified - and that his certificate is the Clerk