Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2718, for Joseph Mapes, New Jersey
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New Jersey 
Mapes, Joseph
S 2718


contents carded
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Death not on A.B. 

Ohio 7796

Joseph Mapes
of Mifflin in the State of Ohio. 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thissman of the Regt commanded by Col. Bond. in the New Jersey line for fifteen months. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 50. Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of April 1833. and sent to G. H. R. Swan.. Columbus . O. 

Arrears to the 4th of March. 1833. 100.-
Semi-anl. allowance ending Septe 6. '33   25
                                                     $125

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book E. Vol. 8. Page Sixteen
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13437. 7.796
Joseph Massey

(?) for 15 Months
from 1779- 
$50-00

G. J JR Swan
Columbus 
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Joseph Mapes of Mifflin township County of Franklin in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.   Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?    Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  76

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period. Enlisted in June in 1779 
Duration of Service.  Years, Months, Days.  9 (months)
Rank  As a private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Gen. Col. Wm Bond - Capt Jacob The(?)

Period. Enlisted June 1780
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.  1 (month)
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt Cornelius Inhurner

5.  In what battles was he engaged? 
Not any

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Oxford township, Sussex Cy, New Jersey

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   living witnesses

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
No

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  

Chas G Wilcox.  Examining Clerk
23rd Feby 1833
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

The State of Ohio
Franklin county

On this 29th day of September in the year 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Franklin State of Ohio now sitting Joseph Mapes a resident of Mifllin township in said county of Franklin. Ohio. aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.

He was born on the 27 day of February A.D. 1761 at Somerset County in the State of New Jersey Has no record of his age except the enclosed (?)

That in June 1779 at Oxford township in Sussex County in the State of New Jersey where (?) then resided he enlisted in Genl Sullivant's detachement under Capt. Jacob Shipman and Col. William Bond.  Applicant joined said detachment at Easton in Pennsylvania and regularly served in the expedition commonly called Sullivants to Tioga Point Seneca and Cayuga Lakes for the terms of nine months under said officers.  Received no discharge.  

In May or June 1780, declarant enlisted at Oxford aforesaid where he then resided for the term of Six months under Capt. Cornelius Johnston- Out John Johnson - went on to frontiers at Minisink in New Jersey where he continued till time expired got no discharge. 

He hereby relinquishes every clim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the
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pension roll of any state or agency. Declarant has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person whom testimony he can procure other then the annexed as to this service.  He verily believes that David Ridenhorn Riley Mcachun John Paul Jesse Boughman who are all neighbors. that he expected to prove his reputed service by his neighbors but has been disappointed in their attendance.  

Joseph Mapes

Also personally appeared in open court Stewart White resident of Franklin township in Franklin County aged forty nine years and makes oath that this is the son of Samuel White whose certificate is annexed that he heard his father twenty years ago and repeatedly since mention that Joseph Mapes was with him in Sullivants expedition.  
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid. 
Stewart White
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(this entire paragraph is crossed out: 

'We residing in the township of (blank) in said county of Franklin Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Mapes who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be (blank) years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion There is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - '   )


Also personally appeared in open court Samuel White of said county of Franklin who makes oath that he was in Sullivan's expedition that he was acquainted with Joseph Mapes before said Expedition at Oxford in Sussex County New Jersey that he recollects of seeing him in Sullivan's army and was then acquainted with him and knows that he served therein as a private.   He hath since and for some years just past been acquainted with said Mapes who is the same person who has sworn and subscribed to the within declaration.  

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.   Sam White

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 and served as he states and the court further certify that it appears to them that Samuel White and Stewart White
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who have signed the preceding certificates are residents of said County of Franklin the said Samuel White residing in Franklin township and said Stewart White residing in Franklin township. that they are credible persons and their statements entitled to credit and the court do further certify it as their opinion that said Mapes is of the age he represents in his declaration

I Abraham I McDowell Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Franklin do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Mapes for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this day of September AD 1832
A.McDowell Clk
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RA-J/ILL
Joseph Mapes
S. 2718

Mrs. Gertrude Carman
277 -14th Street
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Mapes, a pensioner of Franklin County, Ohio, in 1833. 

The record of Joseph Mapes is furnished herein as shown in the papers on file in his claim for pension S. 2718, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 

Joseph Mapes was born February 27, 1761, in Somerset County, New Jersey:  the names of his parents are not shown. 

While a resident of Oxford township, Sussex County, New Jersey, he enlisted in June 1779 and served nine months as a private in Captain Jacob Shipman's company, Colonel William Bond's New Jersey regiment, during which he was on on Sullivan's Expedition to Point Seneca and Cayuga Lake.  He enlisted in May or June 1780, and served six months as a private in Captain Cornelius Johnson's New Jersey company.  

Joseph Mapes was allowed pension on his application executed September 29, 1832, at which time he resided in Mifflin Township, Franklin County, Ohio. He made no reference to wife or children.  

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following:  Joseph Mapes, certificate #7796, issued April 5, 1833, rate $50 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Ohio Agency. 

Very truly yours, 

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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March 2, 1936.
Mr. Frank Grant Lewis
1037 6th Street
Santa Monica, California.
BA-J/ILL
JOSEPH MAPES
S. 3718
Dear Sir:

In accordance with your request, you are furnished herewith photostatic copies of five pages of original documents on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension, S. 2718 of
Joseph Mapes.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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BA-J/ady

Rev. & 1812
No. 306

UNCERTIFIED. 

February 25, 1938
Navy 970

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Rev. War claim for pension of Joseph Mapes, file No. S. 2718. 

Actual 1 of each page. 

$1.25 ........ 5 pages

Kindly leave margin of 11/2 in. at top of each page and return papers in folder with corresponding name and number.  The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.  

Chief, Rev. & 1812 War Section.
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Columbus, Ohio.
December 31, 1937. 

RECEIVED
JAN 8 1938
(?)(?) 27

Veterans Administration, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs: 

If possible, will you send me the personal and war record of Joseph Mapes, a Revolutionary soldier?  He was a private in the New Jersey Continental Army (4-58133).  He received a pension in 1833 and in 1840, in Truro Township, Franklin County, Ohio.  

I have no other information about him, but I hope this is enough for you to find his record.  
Thank you.

Very truly, 

Gertrude Carman
(Mrs.) Gertrude Carman
277 - 14th Avenue, 
Columbus, Ohio.
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RECEIVED 
FEB 17 1936 
CASHIER
VETERANS
ADMINISTRATION

RECEIVED FEB 19 1936

RECEIVED 
RECEIVED
CHIEF CLERK
FEB 24 1936
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RECEIVED 
FEB 11 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS. ADM.
READER #15

1037 6th St., Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. (?) 1936

Veterands Administration, 
Washington, D.C. 12942

Sirs: 

In response to the favor of the gd inst. of A.D. Hiller, Executive Assistant, requesting reference to 

BA-J/MMHF / any
Joseph Mapes
S.2718. 

I enclose money order for $1.25 and shall be much obliged to receive one copy of each of the five pages of papers in connection with the Revolutionary War claim of Joseph Mapes, Franklin Co., Ohio. 

Very truly yours, 
Frank G. Lewis
Frank Grant Lewis
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Mr. Frank Grant Lewis
1037 Sixth Street
Santa Monica, California

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of February 4, in which you repeat your request of December 31, 1935, for photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension based upon service of Joseph Mapes.  

February 3, 1936, you were informed that the cost of photostatic copies of the papers cited above will be $1.25, and that remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. 

Letters in regard to Revolutionary War records are being answered as rapidly as possible in order of receipt.  The demand for such information is great and the clerical force available for this work is limited.

Upon receipt of amount to cover costs, the copies will be made and mailed to you as soon as the order can be executed. 

It is regretted that your request could not have been taken up for consideration at an earlier date.  

Very truly yours, 

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Ruth - Index
No rec Pen
2/10/36

1037 6th St., Santo Monica, Calif., Feb. 4, 1936

The U.S. Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Sirs: 

On December 31, 1935, I wrote you as follows: 

The Census of Pensioners..... for 1840 shows the name of Joseph Mapes as living in the town of Truro, Franklin Co., Ohio. 

For use in family history I should like to secure a photostat copy of the papers presented in connection with the above pension and I shall be very grateful if you will advice as to the number of pages of these papers and the cost for sending a photostat copy of each page. 

With much appreciation of your courtesy, 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Frank G. Lewis
Frank Grant Lewis 

P.S. I enclose air mail return addressed envelope for your convenience. 
F.G.L.

As no reply to the above has been received, apparently the letter did not reach you, and I am taking the liberty of repeating the request, with assurance that I shall appreciate as early information as you may find convenient. 
Very truly yours, 
Frank G. Lewis
Frank Grant Lewis

RECEIVED 
FEB 6 1936
MAIL SUB. DIV
VETS. ADM.
READER #15

RECEIVED
FEB 8 1936
SEARCH SECT
INDEX
SUB.DIV.
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February 3, 1936.

xxxxxxxxx

BA-J/MMHF/ady
Joseph Mapes
S. 2718

Mr. Frank Grant Lewis
1037 Sixth Street
Santa Monica, California

Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know cost of photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.2718, based upon service of Joseph Mapes, pensioner of Franklin County, Ohio.

The cost of photostatic copies of papers on file in above noted claim is twenty-five cents a page.  The number of pages to be copied is five.  

Please make remittance by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. 

Very truly yours

A.D. MILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. & 1812

1037 6th St.,  Santa Monica, Calif., Dec. 31, 1935

The U.S. Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, 
D.C. 

Sirs: 

The Census of Pensioners.... for 1840 shows the name of Joseph Mapes as living in the town of Truro, Franklin Co. Ohio. 

For use in family history I should like to secure a photostat copy of the papers presented in connection with the above pension and I shall be very grateful if you will advise as to the number of pages of those papers and the cost for sending a  photostat copy of each page. 

With much appreciation of your courtesy, 
Very truly yours, 
Frank G. Lewis
Frank Grant Lewis 

P.S.  I enclose air mail return addressed envelope for your convenience. 

F.G.L. 

air mail rt env. (?)  
ML

RECEIVED 
JAN 4 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS.ADM.
READER#21
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section

MOS/HMM

November 12, 1929. 

Mr. A.B. Wirt
1517 Paris Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee. 

Dear Sir: 

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 2718, it appears that Joseph Mapes was born February 27, 1761 in Somerset County, New Jersey. 

While a resident of Oxford Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, he enlisted in June 1779 and served nine months as a private in Captain Jacob Shipman's Company in Colonel William Bond's New Jersey Regiment and was in Sullivan's Indian Expedition.  He enlisted in Cornelius Johnson's New Jersey Company. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 29, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Mifflin Township, Franklin County, Ohio. 

There are no data relative to family. 

The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Ludwig and Martin Wert, searched under all spellings of the surname.  

Very truly yours, 

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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1517 Paris Ave., 
Nashville, Tenn., 
Sept. 18, 1929. 

U.S. Pension Office, 
Washington, D.C. 

Gentlemen: 

Will you please send me information and transcript of Jos. Mapes' application for pension for services rendered in the Revolutionary War.  He was born in 1761 and received his pension in Franklin Co., Ohio. 

Would also like to secure information relative to the following: 

Ludwig Wert who served during the Revolution in Geo. Miller's Co, Berks Co., Pa., and 
Martin Wirt (Wort, Wirth, or Vert) , who served in the campaign around Philadelphia.  He died in 1815 and was buried at Mentor, or Willoughby, Ohio. 

Very truly yours, 
A.B. Wirt

PENSION
U.S.
OFFICE
SEP 
21 
1929
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Rev War. 2718 
INVALID
File No. 2718
Joseph Mapes
Pri. N.J. Line
Act : June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 234
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1929, Nov. 12, hist. to Mr. A.B. Wirt. U.C.S.
1936- Feb. 3. Mr. F.G. Lewis adv. cost of photos- MHF
1936- Feb.11 - Mr. F.G. Lewis adv. letter had been ans etc. MHF
1936 - Mar. 2. Photo mailed to F. G. Lewis. ILL
1938 - Jan. 6- Hist. to Mrs. Gertrude Carman ILL.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Mapes which require further proof or explanation. 

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?   Yes

III.   If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

 IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?   Yes

V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?   Yes

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?   Yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?     Yes. 

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes

IX. Has the  Clerk given his certificate?   Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?   Yes
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                         2. 


XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and general belief in his neighborhood relative to hhis revolutionary service?   no

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?   no 

XIII.   If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 

XIV.  + If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  One yes = one no

XVL. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?   Yes

XVIL.   Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 
5th

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For (blank) year (blank) months, and (blank) days, I served as a (blank), and for such service I claim a pension.
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3.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the fours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either sin the field or in arisen; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.  

+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  the magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under hs seal of office.  

++QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must verify attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  Mapes, Phinehas 
GRADE Private 
LINE. New York

WARRANT NUMBER 7493
ACREAGE. 100
ISSUED  April 9, 1791
to D. Howell, assignee- Certified Feb. 7, 1826

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  Mapes, William 
GRADE. Private
LINE New Jersey

WARRANT NUMBER  8560
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED December 29, 1790 to --not shown --

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.