Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 520, John Barnes, Delaware Maryland.
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(3--1776)
Service
Delaware
Maryland

Barnes, John

Number
R.520

Contents
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STAMP - Muncie Town Ind Aug 30

FREE

Certificate sent September 11
John Barnes
Indiana
Act 1832

J L Edwards Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

V34.599
John Barnes
Indiana
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State of Indiana
Delaware County Ss.
On this 28th day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared in Ope Court before the probate Court of Delaware County late of Indiana now setting. John Barnes of Delaware who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed june 7th AD_1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. The name and rank of the officers under whom he was first enrolled  are as follow Lieutenant General. Charles, Rumsie and Colonel Henry Hollingsworth were the field offices. and Thomas Trisby  Henderson Captain.Isaac Thomas Lieutenant ware the Company officers this was within three days of the 11th day of November AD 1776 This was in Cecil County in the State of Maryland. 
That he went on to actual service about six months before the battle of Brandywine under the following named officers Lieutenant General Samuel Patterson. Colonel Thomas Cooch, Major Mathew Akin, and Major Thomas Walls, that the Company officers ware Captain Isaac Lewis, Lieutenant David Thomas the others not recollected, that he was in the service seven months .
That he entered into actual service in Newcastle County in the state of Delaware that he was draughted. That he was in a  scrimmage with the British at Cooches Bridge in Newcastle County aforesaid a few days before the battle of Brandywine and that he was wounded in the right arm that he did not march out of the state of Delaware that he served with Captain Howells company and that he does not recollect the regiment or other company with which he served that
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there is not in this county any person by whom he can prove his service And that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuuity expect the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state, This John Barnes
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Samuel W. Harlen, Clerk
We Samuel Swain and James Hodge residing in the county of Delaware and state of Indiana do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Barnes who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be he eighty one years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
James Hodge 
Samuel Swain
Affirmed and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Samuel W. Harlen Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescirbed by the war department that the above named supplicant was a revolutionary soldier, and servied as he states. And the court further certifies that the persons who have signed the foregoing certificate are creditable persons and that their statements is entitled to credit and the court further states that it is not in the power of said applicant to procure the certificate of a clergyman as seems to be required by the War Department.
John Tonlinson Probate Judge
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State of Indiana
Delaware County
I Samuel W Harlan Clerk of the Probate Court of Delaware County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Barnes for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seals of the Delaware Circuit Court, which seal is the adopted seal of this court this twenty either day of August AD 1838
Samuel W. Harlan Clerk Circuit Probate Court

Direct the return to Samuel Harlan Muncietown Delaware County Indiana
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Commissioner of Pensions
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Muncietower Delaware County Indiana
July 5th, 1854

Dear Sir

I am inquired of by the widow of John Barnes deceased (through her friends) concerning her obtaining from government what is her due as the widow of the said decedent upon the grounds of his being (crossed out) a soldier of the Revolutionary War he being wounded also therein She thinks he served at the battle of Monmouth and other battles. I am not furnished with the particulars yet. She is aged infirm and poor and a very deserving woman and I wish to render her all the assistance I can and expect from her mental infirmity to be at home trouble on that account. I learn from her friend that in the time of from 1836 to 40 perhaps 37 John Barnes made out his declaration and forwarded it to your office without ever receiving any answer. I there have the object of writing. First to ascertain whether that claim has been so determined in any way as to be conclusive agains the claim of the widow and if to thereby save to her the trouble and expense of prosecuting her application for any thing. And secondly if not whether she can have the application or a copy to add her recollection by. I also want to be glad to receive such general or particular directions concerning the case as this general statement may enable you concurrently to affor as having reference to the questions upon her case.
As I am unacquainted with the name of any person agent in your town. You will please hand the accompanying letter to some respectable one. 

Yours very respectfully, 
Joseph Anthony
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Ex'r. INVALID
No 520
Rejected
John Barnes
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted:    , 18
Discharged:   , 18
Application filed:    , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
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John Barnes
Indiana

Rejected

See let: 3rd Oct: 1838 S. W. Harlan
Joseph Anthony 
July 24, 1854
520
did not serve six months
At 7 June 1832
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Muncie Delaware County Indiana
Dear Sir
For the last twenty years I have done considerable business in the way of obtaining pensions bounty land etc. I am now filling the station of Circuit Judge which calls me twice a year into six counties and gives me a good chance to fish up such things and then I spend the same time at home twice a year that it takes to go around the circuit which afords me leisure to get up and prepare such things without interfering with my official duties. I would like to receive one of your circulars and be informed as to whether there are any recent laws making the business any better or pensions or bounty land more accessible to those entitled with an understanding that in all cases where your services are required in any particular cases I will call upon you and turn as much fees into your hand as possible or necessary for my employers. 
I have herewith written to the officers concerning the case of John Barnes whose was a wounded revolutionary soldier and leaves a widow. He sent on a duly gotten up declaration by our member to Congress say 1837 as near as she recollects but never received any pension or bounty or answer in any way he was in several battles Monmouth and others. She is aged infirm and poor and has employed me to procure her pension resting my dependence for pay upon her success. Owing to her mental imbecility and want of strict recollections and knowledge perhaps of his service  I fear she will be at a loss in some particulars unless her recollection can be aided by the declaration of her husband aforesaid. I mention this as one case in which I believe if you will find your and upon the aforesaid terms we can make
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something for ourselves and at the same time do good to the old lady who is I assure you one of the deserving ones. I mention this that if you can do anything to be of service to her by action there you will please say so and write the terms upon which you will act on it and as to the prospect. 
Yours very respectfully
Joseph Anthony

Pension Agent
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[stamp] Muncietown Indiana September 20

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

John
File with John Barnes Record
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Muncietown Sept 19th 1838

Dear Sir
I received a communication from you relative to the application of John Barnes of this place for a pension, in which I am informed that the endorsement of the name of a person to whom a report is to be made is not sufficient but that a letter giving the name of the applicant should accommpany the papers. I therefore comply with that regulation and here give you the name of the applicant which is John Barnes, living at Muncietown Delaware County Indiana, you will therefore make your report to him, 
Yours 
Samuel W. Harlan