Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,524, Jeremiah Dunham, Mass.
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Mass 
Dunham, Jeremiah 
NUMBER S. 43,524
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13.241 
New York 
Onondaga Co
Jeremiah Dunham of Camillus in the State of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer of the Massachusetts ine, for the term of the War 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of July 18, and sent to Hon. James Porter 
Skaneateles, Onondaga Co N. York 

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 mo 18/30 4/31 85.83 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48 
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$133 
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Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. 

Let to S. C. J. Button March 29. '48 
Set to same Oct 11 '45
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January 10 '48
Enquires asks amount due Jeremiah Dunham

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
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Red Creek N.Y. Jan 3rd 1847 

Dear Sir
Jeremiah Dunham was a Revolutionary pensioner of Elbridge Onondaga County New York and died on the 20th day of February 1833 leaving three children- H. Roberts of Elbridge is Administrator and requests me to learn whether the arrears due from the 4th of September the time of the semi annual payment to the time of his death are now payable to his children and whether such arrears have ever been drawn since his death Respectfully yours
Wm J Bothum 

Hon J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
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Jeremiah Dunham 
Pension papers 
of Camillus Onondaga Co N. Y. 

Admitted
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State of New York Onondaga County SS

Jeremiah Dunham of the town of Camillus in the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that between the twenty eighth & thirtieth day of May Seventeen hundred & seventy Seven this deponent enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States in the revolutionary during the war ^for during the war [crossed out: on the continental establishment] in the Company of Capt. Enos Stone in Col Samuel Brewer's regiment being the 12th Massachusetts regiment in the Line of Massachusetts this deponent further saith that the said Capt Stone was taken prisoner at Hubberton in Vermont, & Capt Williams took and of said Company under whom this deponent served about three years, & was then transferd to Capt. Pray's light infantry Company & served in said Company one campaign & & was then transfered into an other company in the same Regiment also commanded by a Captain Williams, wherein this deponent served, untill the said regiment was broken up, & the said last mentioned company was transfired to the Second Massachusetts regiment commanded by Lieut Ebenzer Sprout, wherein this deponent served ^in Capt Bradfords' Company till the close of the war, when this deponent was dischared at New Burgh & received an honorable discharge from General George Washington-- this deponent further saith that about the year seventeen hundred & Eighty four, this deponent sent his discharge to Boston by some person
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& ^by whom this deponent does not recollect on account of the length of time that has elapsed;-- this deponent further saith that according the best of this deponents knowledge & recollection, the person (by whom this deponent so sent his said discharge to Boston to obtain the arrearages of pay due this deponent) lost the same. & this deponent further saith that he has never since seen or heard of his said discharge & has been unable to find the same on diligent search + inquiry.-- This deponent further saith that he is now in the fifty ninth year of his age according to the best of his knowledge & has a large family, to support & [crossed out: this deponent further saith] that from his reduced circumstances this deponent is in need of the assistance of his country for support, & that he this deponent now is & ever since his discharge has been an actual resident citizen of the United States of America, & further this deponent saith that he never was allowed a pension from the United States & that he has no further evidence of the facts above stated in his power except as to the need of this deponent of the assistance of his Country for support. further this deponent saith not 

Dated April 10th 1818 - The word "for during the war" in the seventh line, & the words " in - Capt Bradford company" in the twenty fourth line interlined. 
Jeremiah Dunham

Sworn before me before me this 13 day of April 1818
Squire Manno
 a Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas
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State of New York Onondaga County - 
Nathan Wood of the town of Camillies in the County & State aforesaid, being duly sworn saith that he has been well acquainted with Jeremiah Dunham in the foregoing affidavit mentioned for the last six years, & that the said Jeremiah Dunham is from his reduced circumstances in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he is entitled to full credit. I further saith not-- 
Dated April 10th 1818 Nathan Wood 

Sworn before me this 13 day of April 1818 Squire Manor
a Judge of Onondaga Common pleas --- 

State of New York of Onondaga County 

I. Squire Manro one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County of Onondaga do certify that it has appeared Satisfactorily to me the said Judge that the above named Jeremiah Dunham served against the common enemy in the revolutionary war, untill the end thereof & that I am well acquainted with the said Nathan Wood & that he is entitled to full credit, & in my opinion the said Jeremiah Dunham comes under the provisions of the act of the United States to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war 
April 13, 1818 
Squire Manro
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State of New York Onondaga County Clerks Office ⎬
 I certify that I Squire Manro before whom the foregoing affidavits or declarations under oath, & by whom the foregoing certificate were made at the dates thereof & for a long time before was & still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County of Onondaga, duly commissioned & sworn as such that full faith & credit are to be given to his acts as such 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of April Eighteen hundred & eighteen 
Jasper Hopper Clk
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43524 
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 43.524 
Jeremiah Dunham 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18 

Index:--Vol. 3, Page 143 [Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jeremiah Dunham, Onondaga Co NY. 
Act 18 March 18 
$96 per ann. 
To what time was he last paid? C.C.A

Pension Office 
27 March 1848. Paid in full March 1820, not Paid being continued under Act 1st May 1826 BLK
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N. 1405- 
2 Cases Jeremiah Dunham admitted 
Rhodes Tucker sent to Major Dexter Providence R.I. 

wrote to Hon: James Porter, Skaneateles Onondaga Co N York
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Apr 18/48
William R Bottum 
case of the haves of Jeremiah Dunham 

[sideways]
April 15, 1848
Revolutionary Claim Mass Line

[upside down]
Hon J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
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Apr 18/48 
William R Bottum  
case of the hue of Jeremiah Dunham   

[sideways] April 15, 1848 Revolutionary Claim Mass Line  

[upside down] Hon J. L. Edwards Washington D.C.
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Red Creek NY Apr 5th/48 

In reply to yours of the 29th inst in the case of Jeremiah Dunham I would ask if his children may not now comply with the requisitions of the act of May 1st 1820 and arrears under that Act and are they not entitled to the pension due from 4th March 1820 to the 1st May 1820 

Also pleas instruct me what bouchers to identify the children to Arrears under either the Act of 1820 or of the 7th 1832 
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt
Wm J Bottum
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Red Creek NY Apr 5th/48

Sir
Yours of the 9th of March in the case of Joseph Allen a revolutionary pensioner of Jefferson County NY was recd in reply I would ask for a statement of his service as set forth in his declaration and whether he claimed time for imprisonment as a prisioner of war 

Respectfully yours Wm J Bottum
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489 549. 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
No of Original pet 457 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 2, 1828. Jeremiah Dunham of Camillus in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Bradford's company, in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing 

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary, 
A. Dickins 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. --- THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, Aug 6 1828 

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Jeremiah Dunham in the Massachusetts Line. It further appears that Jeremiah Dunham is not now on the pension list of the any agency, and has been so since the 3 March 1826 
Peter Hagner Aud
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Act 1828
Settled at Treasury
Free
Camillus N.Y 
July 15 
Revolutionary Claim 
July 15 Treasury Department of the U. States City of Washington 

Cons'd with Invalid file # 43.524
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549. 
Jeremiah Dunham 

Revolutionary Claim 
Lives in Camillus Onondaga Co. N.Y. 

re'd July 21. 1848 
ans'd Aug 2
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Revolution Claims 
for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act entitled ""an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and orders of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828 Jeremiah Dunham of Camillus in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York do declare hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for & during the war & continued in its service until termination at which period I was a private in Captain Robert Bradfords Company in the regiment of the Massachusetts line- I also declare that thereby became entitled to receive a reward Eighty dollars under a resolve of Congress passed May 15th 1778 - and I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May --- 1828 on the pension list of the United States, nor have I received any sum whatever from the United States as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826 
Witness my hand this eleventh day of July in the year eighteen hundred & twenty eight 
Jeremiah Dunham 

Before me Martin M. Ford one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County of Onondaga in the State of New York personally appeared this day James R. Lawrence & Miles W. Bennett of the town of Camillus in the said County who did severally make oath that Jeremiah Durham by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated - Witness my hand this 11th day of July in the year 1828- 
Martin M. Lord
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I Reuben L Hess clerk of the Court of the County of Onondaga in the State of New York do hereby certify that Martin M. Ford before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer oaths- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twelfth day of July 1828
Reuben L Hess Clerk
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The applicant has lost his discharge  but  it will appear by the records in the Department that he enlisted for during the war & served till the close & was honorably discharged-- he therefore supposes  no other evidence is required.