Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30536, for Nathaniel Lander, Virginia
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Lander, Nathaniel S. 30536
CONTENTS
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32.887
Kentucky
Nathaniel Lander
of Breckenridge Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Stump of the Regt commanded by Col Barbour in the Virginia line for Six months
Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville
at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of June 1831 and sent to
J. Jennings Esq
Arrears to the 4th of Hardinsburgh
Semi-annual allowance ending 
Kentucky
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 7. Page 31
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Declaration
In order to Obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of Kentucky Breckenridge County Sct.,
On this 20th of August, 1832 personally appeared in Open Court, before the Justices of the Breckenridge County Court now sitting, being a Court of record Nathaniel Lander, aged 72 years on the 30th Instant. a resident of the County of Breckenridge & State afsd. who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress afsd. passed 7th June 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers in the Virginia State line & served as herein stated, In Apl 1781 in the County of Hampshire Virginia he was drafted to serve in the Army of the U.S. as he thinks for three months - acted as sergeant he was first placed under Capt. Stump & belonged to his Rifle Company said Company was shortly afterwards attached to Genl Waynes Brigade - under Col Barbour and a few weeks afterwards said Rifle Company & several other companies of horsemen from Col Lees corpse were detached & formed sometimes the advance & sometimes the rear guard of the army Major McPherson commanded - From Hampshire Cty he was marched to Richmond & there joined the main army from there to the Burnt Oney passing through the Counties of Henrico - Louisa
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& others not recollected & marched back to Richmond remained there & in the Neighbourhood sometime & then marched to Bottom Bridge about 24 miles from Richmond & was there discharged he thinks sometime in July 1781 & it was about the last of July when he got home he does not know what has become of his discharge, but knows he recd one This term of service amounted to something over three months - The precise time he cannot recollect
He further states that in Sept. 1780 an other Company was drafted in Hampshire County Va. where sd. Lander then resided under the Command of Capt. Tho Neal he thinks for 3 months tour & before the Company started Lieutenant Douthard said he was sick & could not go & employed said Lander as a Substitute - and he entered the service & acted as Lieutenant - as he held that Office at home as will appear by the Commission herewith transmitted
Said Company left Hampshire he thinks in Sept. or Oct of that year & marched through Fredericksburg on to Little York & was engaged in the Siege of Cornwallis as he believes said Lander when the Company left Hampshire cty was required by the Capt. to stay behind until he got substitutes in the room of some quakers, who refused to go & had some of their property sold to pay them
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substitutes - he was engaged in this business about two weeks & then pursued the Company & the Army - with the substitute he had gotten, but did not overtake them until they got to little york or within a few miles when they met their own & some other Companies returning taking their prisoners on to Winchester, here said Lander & the substitutes joined their old Company still commanded by Capt. Neal - He was discharged at the Barracks about 4 miles from Winchester he thinks a few days before Christmas the time he was engaged in the Service this tour was a little over 3 months as he believes - he recd. a regular discharge but does not know what has become of it he further States that he has no documentary or other evidence of his services now in his power except the affidavits of Jacob Lander,
hereto annexed, He hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he believes & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state Sworn & Subscribed the day & year afsd.
Nathl Lander
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Jacob Lander came into Court being first sworn says that in 1781 he resided on his fathers Land in Hampshire County Va. at which time Nathl. Lander above named resided with his father - this affiant states that said Nathl Lander was drafted in sd. County in the Virginia State line & he thinks entered the service under Capt Stump in Apl. of that year & returned home about the last of July in that year - He further states that said Nathl did go on an other tour of similar duty in the fall of that year & returned about Christmas of that year & was gone each tour more than three months - I knew of his starting & returning & at the time & ever since he was generally reputed to have served the said 2 Campaigns in the service of his country in the revolutionary war Jacob Lander

We the undersigned being duly sworn in Open Court do state that we are well acquainted with the above named Nathl. Lander who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration. WE were well acquainted with him in Clark County Ken. S. Morris for about 4 or 5 years since he moved from Virginia - he moved from Clark County to Breckenridge Cty
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about the year 1815 during our acquaintance with said Nathl Lander it has been generally reputed & believed by his neighbors & acquaintances that he had served in the Revolutionary War - we further state that he is a man of good Character & entitled to credit on oath & we are disposed to believe the statements made in his declaration to be true & that he is of the age stated Given under our hands the said James Taylor a clergyman & the said Jonathan Morris a farmer both residing in the County of Breckenridge
James Taylor
Jonathan Morris 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the sd. James Taylor who has signed the above certificate, is a Clergyman of sd. County & that sd. Jona Morris is also a resident of this county and both of them entitled to credit on oath
Saml Allen JPBC
Richard Shellman JPBC Members of the Court
Isaac Dehaven JPBC
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State of Kentucky towit
I, Jo Allen clerk of Breckenridge County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the Matter of the application of Nathaniel Lander for a pention ~ In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office this twentieth day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty two and in the 48th year of our Commonwealth Jo Allen
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April 6, 1935.
BA-J/ILL
Dr. George F. Doyle James Anderson
Clark County Historical Society S. 30827
Winchester, Kentucky. Nathaniel Lander
S. 30536

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of James Anderson and Nathaniel Lander, both of whom received pensions while residents of Kentucky.
The records of these soldiers are given herein as found in the papers on file in their claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
JAMES ANDERSON - S. 30827.
James Anderson was born in April 1780, in Prince William County, Virginia, and resided there until about the age of seventeen years, then moved to Kentucky. The names of his parents are not shown.
He settled first at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and served during one year as guard and spy against the Indians under Captain Holder and Colonel Bowman and was in a severe engagement at Chillicothe. From then until the close of the war in the spring of 1783, he served on various tours under Captains Denton, James Ray, McCary and McWilliams and Colonel Clark, was in engagements with the Indians, in the battle of Blue Licks in August 1782, assisted in burying the dead afterwards, and was called out in defense of the inhabitants constantly. His entire service amounted to more than two years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 1, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky.
The soldier died February 15, 1835, survived by only one child, whose guardian was one John A. Moore; the name of this child, or of other children, and the name of James Anderson's wife are not shown.
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NATHANIEL LANDER_S. 30536
Nathaniel Lander was born August 30, 1760, the place and names
of his parents not shown.
While a resident of Hampshire County, Virginia, he enlisted sometime in April 1781 and served three months as private in Captain Stump's
Virginia company, a part of the time under Colonel Barbour. He enlisted
in September 1781, served as private in Captain Thomas Neal's Virginia
company, was in the Siege of Yorktown and was discharged at Winchester,
having served three months. He stated that in this last service, at
one time, during the illness of his lieutenant, he acted as lieutenant
in his place.

The soldier moved from Virginia to Clark County, Kentucky, thence
about 1815, to Breckenridge County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20,
1832, at which time he resided in Breckenridge County, Kentucky. He was living there in 1851.

When Nathaniel Lander made applicatoon for pension in 1832, Jacob
Lander stated that he lived on his father's land in Hampshire County,
Virginia, when said Nathaniel left home and returned from service in
1781; he did not state the name of his father, nor his relationship to
Nathaniel Lander.

No reference was made to wife or children of Nathaniel Lander.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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J. L. Edwards esquire
Pension Office
N. Lander War department
See letter to Hon - T Washington
Chilton 5 Jan, 1835
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N Lander
Revolutionary case

Free
Tho Chilton
James L Edwards Esq
Washington DC
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Washington City
Jany. 14th. 1834
Dear Sir
On Monday morning as I presented you in my last note I went to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions and instituted an enquiry for the papers in the Case of Nathaniel Lander. He spoke of making the search and communicating the result, at some other moment; but I insisted on his making the search then, and if they could be found, that he could look into them, and Communicate in writing, the defect if any, so that I could transmit it to you.
On a short search, they were found, and his letter, which I herewith enclose, will apprise you of the fact, and the reason why, the Case is suspended. He showed me the Commission, and expressed the Opinion that the dates had been erased; and that the services were not rendered until after the Close of the War. He has sent to Richmond for information on the subject; and so soon as he receives it, will act definitely in the Case. I understood him, the case was well sustained and made out, except for as related to the Commission. I will give you the first information on the subject. No vote yet, in either house, on the Deposite question. Yrs sincerely Tho. Chilton
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Nathaniel Lander
Ky.
Act 7 June 1832.
admd. 6 mo pri - $20.
pr. Ann. from 4 March
'31-
Payable to him.
Cert to
J. Jennings
Hardinsburg
Ky
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She died Feby 7. 1837.
Jonathan Jennings
James " only children
Stephen "
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War Department
Pension Office
January. 13. 1834.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 11th inst. I have to inform you that Mr. Nathaniel Lander's claim has been suspended until I can obtain from Richmond certain information respecting the time of his service.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully,
your obt. sevt.
J L Edwards
Hon. Thos. Chilton
H. of. Representatives
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War Dept. Pen Office
Feb 21, 1840
Sir,
Agreeably to your request in the case of Nathaniel Lander I have to inform you that his claim to a pension has been suspended. The applicant alleges that he served as a commissioned Officer in the revolutionary war, and has exhibited a commission or documentary evidence of said service signed by Edmund Randolph, as Governor of Virginia. That part of the commission containing the date, is so mutilated as not to show the year in which it was issued; but the well known fact, that Edmund Randolph, who signed the commission was not chosen Governor of Virginia until the year 1786, is of itself sufficient to show that Mr. Lander could not have
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served under that commission during the revolution.
Hon. Willis Green, G.C
H.R.

Hon: Willis Green
Feb 21, 1840
Y.C.
Record 749 page 274
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Auditors Office Va
Jan: 16. 1834
Dear Sir
I have duly received yours of the 13th inst, and I cannot better answer your enquiries than by sending you a Virginia Almanac printed in 1826, which contains all the information you desire, and upon the accuracy of which I think you may fully rely. On the page which is turned down, you will find a complete list of all the Governors of Virginia, from the earliest settlement of the Colony to the year 1826.
I am very respectfully
your obedient servant
Jas E Heath
J L Edwards esq
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(Revolutionary Claim)
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secty of War
Washington City DC

L Hardinsburg
Sep - 25, 
9794
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Hardinsburg R. Aug 22. 1832
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secty of War.
Sir at the request of my old friend Nathl Lander of this County I enclose herewith his Declaration & evidence, to obtain a pension, upon which the consideration & decision of the Department is respectfully solicited, and should anything be rong I would be thankful to receive the necessary information &c & should be duly attended to for the old man I would also be under obligations to the Department to receive a few sheets of the new forms
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
J Jennings
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Let to J. Jennings
June 7, 1857

Susp.
Nathl Lander
Kentucky
suspended
let. 5 Jany 1835
Hon T. Chilton,
let 21 Feb 1840 Hon
Willis Green.
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9794
Nathl Landers
Declaration & evidence
August Term 1832 ord
to be cert

9794
Nathl Lander
Kentucky
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30536
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30,536
Nathaniel Lander
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 236
Arrangement of 1870.

1935 - April 6 - Hist to Dr. George F. Doyle - see letter in Rev. James Anderson - S30127 - ILL
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Hardinsburg K. Feb. 28 1851.
James E Heath Esq
Comr of Pensions
Dear Sir
In 1833 I sent on to the Pension Office of the U.S. the Declaration & evidence of Nathl Lander of this County for a pension on account of his services in the Revolution, I think he made out his claim as a Lieutenant there was some difficulty in the Claim on account of his Commission appearing to be dated after the close of the war. You will see by the enclosed letters. The reason why the Department suspended their decision in Jany 1834 and I have no recollection of receiving any further account of the case
The old gent. was then in good circumstances and cared but little about it, he is now extremely old & poor, and seeing the County of the Government - now lavished out to the Soldiers of the later wars. necessity compells him to ask a reconsideration of his case I understand from him. that he now believes he entered the service as a private but was shortly afterwards made a Lt. & so acted, but did not receive his Commissions till he returned & if their is any apparent erasures in the dates it must have been in that may, if his name Appears on the Rolls. I think he should not be excluded on account of the erasures & changes in the dates of the com.
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The old man is very deaf and it is difficult to make him understand 
But if an amended Declaration should be necessary, I will try  have it prepared & sent on, But would like to have a Copy of the old one. and a copy of the Comm. - on the erasures &c. so that he can explain them, if he can he has lived in this County near 40 years & no man has a better Character & no doubt served his Country-
An investigation of the old mans Claim is Respectfully Solicited
Yours J Jennings atty
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FREE
James E Heath Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City DC

March 18th, 1857
Rel: to claim of
Nathl Lander
J. Jennings
Hardinsburg
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COPY
Pension Office
June 7, 1851.
Hon. J. Jennings
Hardinsburg, Kentucky.

Sir:
I have today allowed Nathaniel Lander of Kentucky a pension under the Act of 1832 for a six months service as private 20c (meant for $20) per annum, two tours of three months each which is all he claims to have performed. It is evident from the Commission produced that he was not a Lieutenant in the Revolution, for although the dates have been erased, it is known that Edm. Randolph who signed it, was not a Governor of Virginia until 1786. The amount allowed is all that he is entitled to.
Signed, F.S. Evans
for Commissioner.
Copied - April 8, 1935.
I.L. Lerch. Rev.& 1812 Wars Section.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
To Nathaniel Lander Gent. Greeting:
KNOW you that from the special trust and confidence which is reposed in your fidelity, courage, activity, and good conduct, our GOVERNOR, upon the recommendation of the County Court of Hampshire doth appoint you the said Nathl. Lander
Lieutenant in the Militia
of the said county of Hampshire to take rank as such from the 13th. day of Apl IN testimony whereof, these our Letters are made patent. WITNESS His Excellency Edmund Randolph, Esquire, our said Governor, at Richmond, this 28th day of April 178
(REGISTERED.) Edm: Randolph
T. Meriwether