Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,525, Joel Dunbar, Conn.
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Service: Conn.
Dunbar, Joel
Number: S. 43525
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15, 100 - 
[illegible] June 22/[?]

New York
Joel Dunbar
of Camden in the state of New York
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elmore of the Conn. line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 9 dollars per month, to commence the 29 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of Sep. 18[??] and sent to Benjamin J. Johnson
Rome New York

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1819 129.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [illegible] 1820 48.00
$177.80

16 mo. [illegible]

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[illegible]

[illegible] sent Nov. 23 1820
Benjamin P. Johnson [illegible]
Rome NY
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Savings Bank of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 5th 1853

S. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

I am requested by my mother to apply for the pension due her and her four surviving sisters orphans to "Joel Dunbar" who served in the Revolutionary War from the State of Connecticut. Will you inform me of the legal method of making the application and what proof you require that the five sisters who are claimants are the orphans of the identical Joel Dunbar who served in the war alluded to, and who was a recipient of a pension from the government up to date of his death some 27 years ago. Also if the claimants are entitled to arrearages since their fathers deceased. 

Yours very respectfully
B. F. Sanford
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Joel Dunbar
15.100
366

[text stricken] Clerk's signature wanting
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Oneida Common Pleas - September Term 1820
State of New York
Oneida County S.s.

On this 8th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a Court of Common Pleas & Court of Record for said county Joel Dunbar aged 67 years resident in Camden in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. In the spring of 1776 he enlisted under Captain Smith in Col. Elmer's Regiment for 10 months & was discharged from service at German Flatts in this state. Having enlisted at Plymouth Con. That he served both before & after this service a number of times, but not nine months at any one time, his original application for pension was made on the 29th April 1818 this pension certificate is No. 15.106. And I do solemnly swear 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 intent thereby as to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th March 1818. And I have not nor have 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 contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

{signed} Joel Dunbar

Sworn to & declared on the 8th day of September 1820 before Esq. Bacon Judge of Oneida Com. Pleas
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Inventory of Real & Personal Property

Real Estate I have none either in law or equity.

Personal Estate - none whatever except my clothes of which I have two suits worth about -- $15. I am blind with one eye entirely & partially so with the other, from the Small Pox which I had in the Revolutionary Army. I am now unable to work, and until I received my pension I was forced to live by the assistance of friends. My wife is dead, and my family scattered and I look to my country for support the remainder of my days.
Joel Dunbar

Sworn to & declared on the 8th day of September 1820 before Esq. Bacon Judge of Oneida Conn. Pleas

State of New York Oneida Conn. Please a Court of Record by statute of the term of September 1820.

The whole of these proceedings were had in open court, and in the opinion of this court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above schedule is fifteen dollars & no more.

I Francis A. Bloodgood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Oneida do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said.
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Court: And I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifteen dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eight day of September 1820.

{signed} Francis A. Bloodgood 

Signature Wanting
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State of New York
Oneida County

On this twenty ninth day of April 1818 before me the subscribed one of the Judges of Oneida Common Pleas personally appears Joel Dunbar aged 64 years resident in Camden in the county of Oneida and State of New York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the [illegible] act of  Congress, written "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War". That he the said Joel Dunbar, enlisted in Northbury the State of Connecticut, in the Spring of 1773 in the company commanded by Captain Porter in a Regiment commanded by Col. Wooster, and continued to serve in said corps until December thereafter when he was discharged at Montreal in Canada. That he enlisted in the Spring of 1776 a second time at the same place as above stated in the company commanded by Captain David Smith in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Elmer; that he continued to serve in said corps until February 1777 and was discharged at German Flatts in the State of New York. That he was at the Capture of  St. John, and at the taking possession of Montreal under General Montgomery, that he was present at no other Battles but was stationed at Fort Stanwix the second time of his enlistment and the troops were employed in putting that fort in repair.
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That he has no writings to which he can access for the exactness of the above dates but believes them to be strictly true. This deponent is quite infirm and blind with one eye, and is in [illegible] circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Joel Dunbar

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid

Charles Wylie one of the Judges of Oneida Com Pleas 

I Charles Wylie Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joel Dunbar did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken &  had before me to the Secretary for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the beforementioned act of Congress & that I know [... his country...] 

[illegible] Oneida Co. April 29th 1818
Charles Wylie
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Oneida County S.s. 

On this 18th day of June 1819 before me the subscribed personally appeared Bartholomew Pond of Camden and who is in my opinion a man of truth & veracity and who being sworn [illegible] upon oath say that he was well acquainted with Joel Dunbar in the Revolutionary War and served with him in 1776 in Colonel Elmer's Regiment & was discharged with him in February 1777 as stated in his declaration and that he knows he served nine months at that time, and further says not. 
{signed} Bartholomew Pond

Sworn before me the day aforesaid,

Charles Wylie one of the Judges of Oneida Com. Pleas
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I Charles Wylie Judge do further certify that I know Bartholomew Pond & Benjamin Curtis and that they are men of credibility & [illegible] witnesses, and are men of truth & veracity.

Charles Wylie one of the Judges of Oneida Com. Pleas

[handwritten notes scanned horizontally]
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43525
INVALID
Rev.
File No. 43.525
Joel Dunbar
{signature}
Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol. [?], Page 143

Arrangement of 1870.