Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,640, Philamon Davis, Md.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Davis, Philamon or Philemon
NUMBER
S. 31,640
CONTENTS
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[ 2 page booklet]
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Let to Saml S. English, 
Nov 17. 1835. Same Jan. 16. 1836
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do. Daniel S. Major Sept 28:'36
Letter to S.S. English - 18 April 1838.
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Duplicate Certificate issued
12 Decr 1838 and sent to Isaac
C. Lea, Madison Indiana
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Letter to Pen Age & 3d and 12 Jany 1839
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Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6th April
1838 fr.[??or ss.] 4 Sept 1834 to 4 March
1838 age notified 30 Jany 1839.
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Dead
[illegible][?? Sent ltr] to Pen. Agt. 2d Decr 1841.

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26528
Indiana
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Philamon Davis
Ripley Co  in the State of  Indiana
who was a  private  in the  com  commanded
by  Captain Folkne  of the  rgt  commanded
by  Col Clark  in the  Md.
line for  1 year and 7 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of March
1834 and S S Harding
Versailles
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Arrears to the 4th of March        190.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept   31.67
[total]  $221.67
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{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd  Clerk,
Book  E  Vol. 7   Page 109
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Direct to Wm. C. Keer
Vevay Ind.
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The State of Indiana   Switzerland Co  }  ss.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid, Philemon Davis aged 82 years, who after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he resided in the year 1832, in the adjoining County, Ripley, State afore said - that he employed one Harding, of said Ripley County, to obtain a pension from the United States under the act of June 7, 1832 - that a certificate was issued in his name and for his benefit - that said Harding was empowered by him to draw the first payment due thereon, and drew the same - that this deponent was then indebted to one Hezekiah Shook of Versailles County of Ripley aforesaid, and pledged said certificate to secure the same - that he empowered one Swift, of said Ripley County, to draw the second payment due on the same, who drew the same and paid the amount over to said Shook, and the certificate aforesaid was then delivered to the son John of this deponent, who lost the same - the said certificate, as this deponent has been informed and verily believes, having been torn to pieces by the children - that he has been laboring under a protrac
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ted illness, which disabled him from making an earlier application for a duplicate certificate, and further saith not.
Philemon  his X mark  Davis
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of January AD 1838 Perrit Dufour Justice of the peace

The State of Indiana   Switzerland County  } Sct.
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said county William Thompson and James Day, both of lawful age, who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above named Philemon Davis, is the identical person named in a certificate, issued from the, War office of the United States granting a pension to said Davis, under the act of Congress of June 7. 1832, as a revolutionary soldier as forwarded to him to Ripley County, State aforesaid that.- that they have been informed by John Davis son of said Philemon, that said pension certificate was torn to pieces by the children and further saith not
Wm. Thompson
James  his X mark Day
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Sworn to by said William Thompson and James Day and subscribed, before me this 30th day of January AD 1838 and I certify that said Thompson and Day are credible persons
Perrit Dufour
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana     }
Switzerland County } SS
I Edward Patton Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby Certify that Perrit Dufour Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to and Subscribed and Whos Certificate thereof is above apended is now and was at the time of Certifying the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County of Switzerland duly Commissioned and Sworn into office and that to all his official acts as such Justice of the peace, full faith and Credit is due and of right ought to be given---

In Testimony whereof I do hereunto Set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Vevay in said County, this 30th day of January AD 1838
Edward Patton
Clk
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Declaration of Philamon Davis for a Pension
State of Indiana  } 
Ripley County   } Sc
On this 11th day of February in the year of our Lord 1834 personally of peace in open Court before the Honorable Henry B. Hukill sole Judge of the Ripley County Probate Court now in session Philamon Davis a resident of the said County aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order abtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he volunteerd in the service of the United States under the following named officers and servd as herein stated - In the Month of August 1775. he volunteerd in the service of the United States for six months, and servd undr General Gates, General Schuyler, Col William Clark Major Charles White, Agent Thomas Brodget, Capt Folkner (Lieut forgotten) and Ensign Charles Tyler. He left the service in the month of February 1776, or rather his time was up and he immediately renewed his term for six months more while, at the camp below Quebec in Canada - and continud to serve under the same officeers as before, - untill the month of July 1776, when his second tour of six month was up and he immediately enter the service a third time as a Volunteer and served for seven[??] months more, or untill the month February 1777 - when he was discharged, and finally left the service,  This term of seven months was served under the same officers as the rest of his service was performed under, This term added to his other two terms of six month each, makes the Term of one year and seven months for which he now claims a pension. At the time he Volunteerd, in the service and during all of his service he resided on the Chesapeake Bay Maryland - and continued to reside there untill the close of the war. He was in the Battle of Three Rivers in Canada, and there was wounded in the head by a Buck shot, which lodged between the skin and skullbone and remains there to this day He was also in the Battle or other skirmish below Quebec, and there badly wounded in the leg by a Ball or some other missile which to this day never has got sound and he has no idea that it even [illegible] -  He took shipping at Baltimore and sailed to New York from thence he went to Albany from thence he went direct to Canada by the way of a River called the [illegible] [?Hudson], He went to Malden,  Applicant in consequence of his old age and the almost total loss of his memory cannot at
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This remote period pretend to describe his marches and [illegible] Marches in [illegible] as they occured, But he well remembers of being at the following places to wit Quebec, Montreal, Cul De, Dock[??] W. Anna. the Three Rivers - the falls of Richelam, de Chambeau, the River Lorrel[??] - St Johns - and Many more places the names of which he has forgotten. When he returned home he came by a place called the Choc-tank Bidge and the Red Lyon Branch from thence to the fort on the Bay (Chesapeake) called Haver de grace, where he continued to anna on duty until the month of February 1777 - when he was finally discharged -- applicant deems it his duty to say to the department that it is not possible for him to name but a small portion of the places through which he marched as he often passed them in the night time and there was no chance for the soldiers to know of half of the places through which the troops marched - and this applicant in particular as he could neither read nor write and was deprived of all the advantages which he otherwise could have pasted, as it regards the History of the County &c by him particularly Genl Schuyler Genl Thompson Genl, Gates Col Greene Capt Morgan who commanded Virginia Riflemen, Maj Bigelow Col Clark Genl Arnold - Genl Washington Genl Sullivan &c to besides many more if necessary to name - Mill at Fort Havre de Grace on the Bay he well recollects  Capt Germans Malitia company and many more troops but he cannot, name them, he will remark that he was not in the fort before spoken of all of the time quite, that he marched several times to the Rapahannock where it empties itself into the Bay - in going there be marched through Baltimore and Annapolis and some other (small) towns which he has forgotten. He has no written or dockumentary Evidences and he knows of no person being whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a Pension or Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Philamon his x mark Davis
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We Mishack Hyatt a clergyman residing in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana and [illegible] S Harding residing in the same County and State do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Philamon Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we belive him to be aged 75 years, that he is reputed and beleived in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solder of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - 
Michael Hyatt    [illegible] S Harding

And the said Court - does hereby declare his opinion after the the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department - that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary solder and served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to him that Mishack Hyatt who has subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana, and that [illegible] S Harding - who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County and state is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit--
H.B. Hukill   [seal containing] P.J.R PG seal

Answers to the 7 Questions presented by the War Departent -
Answer to 1st Question.
I was on the Chesapeake Bay Maryland in the month of March 1758. 
Answer to 2d. Question.
I have no record of my age  I only speak from what my parents have told me-
Answer to 3d. Qt.  
The terms I entered the service, I resided on the Chesapeak Bay in the state of Maryland, I remained there until some time the the close of the War. Then I removed to the State of Kentucky as I remain until [illegible] years since, when I removed to the state of Indiana (Ripley County), where I now reside. 
Answer 4th question.
I was a Volunteer.
Answer to 5th Question.
(I have answered this question within to the best of my abilities, declaration) 
Answer to 6th Questn.
I recd written discharges for every tour of dut signed by Col William Clark  They are now lost.
Answer to 7th Questn. 
Enquire of
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of Joseph Robinson, Joseph McCullock George W. W Hunter and all who know me. --
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Philamon his x mark Davis


State of Indiana  }
Ripley County   } Sc
On this 11th day of February in the year of our Lord 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Henry B. Hukill sole Judge of the Ripley County Probate Court now in session, Philamon Davis the above named applicant for pension under the law of June 7th 1832 who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent laps of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, or to the Marches which he performed, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade to wit for One Year and Seven Months I served as a private in the Army of the Revolution in the service of the United States - and for such service I now claim an Pension - 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and Year aforesaid--
Philamon his x mark Davis

I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley County probate Court do hereby certify that, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Philemon Davis for a pension --
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of and said Court - at Versailles this 11th. February 1834.
David F. Shook  Clk. R.C.P.C.
[folded paper seal next to signature block]

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29,792
Philamon Davis
Indiana
for 1775   p. 1 yr 7 mon     $63.33/100
S. S. Harding
Versailles Indiana
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31640
Revy    INVALID.     our
File No. 31,640
Philamon Davis
Pen  Rev War
Act:  June 7th  32n
Index: - Val. D , Page 102
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Application for a New Certificate
State of Indiana   Jefferson County  ss }
On this Seventh day of November 1838. before me the Subscriber a Notary Public for the said County of Jefferson Personally appeared Philemon Davis who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captains Taylor & Hardin in the regiment commanded by Colonel     [blank]    in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Indiana that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War;  Which certificate on or about the   [blank]    day of April 1835. at the City of Louisville where it was taken by John Davis and by whom it was delivered to Nancy Jackson by whom it was put in a band box and taken from the same by her little boy & torn up, as pieces of paper was found tow up, and destroyed. Which were taken from said box, and if said certificate was not torn up at the same time it is not known what become of it. 
Philomon his x mark Davis

In presence of
William Hendricks

Sworn and subscribed the day and year
last above Written before me
Isaac C Lea
Notary Public
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State of Indiana   Jefferson County   ss }
On this Eighth day of November 1838 before me the undersigned Notary Public in & for said County personally appeared John Davis who is a man of veracity & who being by me first duly sworn says that Philemon Davis above named is the identical person named in a certificate which is now lost, which certificate was delivered to him this deponent by said Philimon Davis for safe keeping and which was lost as stated by him said Philemon in his affidavit That he this deponent drew the last money for said Philemon from his atty by him appointed to receive the same which was in September 1834. Since which time he has received nothing on sd. Certificate & further saith not
John his x mark Davis
Signed in presence of
A Washer
Sworn and subscribed before
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me the day & year last above written, Witness my hadn & Seal Notarial
Wm Hendricks  
Notary Public
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
Free
Feb 6
MEvans
26328
[?? Vivaydrn]
Jany 30
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Vevay Ind. Jan 30. 1838
Sir
Inclosed I send you the applicatin of Phileman Davis, for a duplicate pension certificate.  He is a pension under the act of June 7. 1832
I have the honor to be
Your Obt Servt
William C. Keer.

Hon. J. L. Edwards   Com of Pensions  }
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Madison Nov 9. 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Com. of Pensions

Sir
Enclosed I forward Application of Philoman Davis, for New Certificate, if found correct please forward the certificate to
Yours
Very Respectfully
Isaac C Lea,
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Madison Nov 24  1841.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions

Sir
Herewith I hand you claim of Heirs of Philomon Davis Decd. for Balance Pension due him at time of his decease.
It is somewhat informal perhaps, but is got up in the best manner it could be under the Circumstances
There is one of the Heirs who has not joined within power of Attorney, he will come in and receipt for his share of the claim is authorized to be paid.
The certificate of the Pensioner is surrendered and in my possession. 
Please advise
Very Respy
Yr obt Svt.
J F D Lamir  P. Agt.
by J C Lea
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 25th, 1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"    Philemon Davis, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Indiana Agency, at the rate of Sixty three  Dollars and thirty three  cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the  4th of Sept. 1834., to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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E. 45. W.D.

17 Nov. 1835
Pension Office
Philn Davis
Inda roll

Free     26528

Warsaw Ky  Nov 9  }

To the 
War Department  
Washington City
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Warsaw Gallatin County Kentucky Nov. 6th. 1835.

To the War Department

Gentlemen
It is for information I call on you in relation to the following subject to wit: where a pensioner has been drawing a pension for several years in the State of Indiana, he wishes to become a citizen of Kentucky, and he loses his pension certificate, the question is now with me to know in what way he is to proceeded to draw his money and for this information he has gotten me to write you a line, and I shall take it as a pecular favour in deed for any Gentleman to [?comply] with the above request, and forward to [word torn out] place a line, he has made every exertion possible to find his certificate but cannot do so, he is quite old and infirm & does not recollect the particulary in the certificate mentioned, the pensioner,s name is Phillimon Davis, he procured his pension when a citizen of Indiana and made his first draw at coredon Indiana.
your complyance with the above request will be duly appreciated by
your humble servant
Saml. S. English

War Dept
Washington City
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Warsaw [illegible]
Sept 19
Free

War Department
Pension Office
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Washington City

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Sept 25

[very very light text]
Commr
Philn Davis
Inda [illegible]
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Warsaw Kentucky Sept 19th 1867.
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
Again I am restrained from a sense of duty in behalf of one of our best, but humblest individuals in this Government. I mean Philemon Davis who has spent his whole life in the defence of his  Country, he was a citizen of the State of Indiana at the time the law passed allowing pay to the Revolutionary soldiers, he made application for a pension and it was granted, and as it appears by a letter now before me that he was put among others upon the pension Roll of that State and drew his pay at the rate of $63.33 per annum, he drew his last pay up to the 4th of Sept, 1834. This I have from under the hand of a Mr. E.S. John the pension Agent for Indiana,

You will recollect that some 18 months, since I called your attention to this case it then seamed that the old Gentleman had given the name of Genl Scott, whoes name does not appear among the list of officers, in the days of the Revolution, therefore you rejected his application for a duplicate certificate, upon the return of your communication I obtained the above infermation the old Gentleman is quite old and remarkably infirm
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and like many of his Revolutionary breathern very poor, in fact he is I may say with out a dollar in the world or property no children to help him it is true he has some daughters but they are all poor, he is much afflicted, if there ever was a case of pitty he is one, he says that he was in the North western army with Genl Scott and he says that he though from what he had been told, that he was to get pay for his services, whilst ingagd in behalf of the N. Western army &c he is an ordinary man in point of intelectual powers, I am again disposed to help the old man all that I can, I have never made a dollar in this way all that I have ever done has been down through feelings of gratitude and this I think I like all other young men owe to those old Soldiers, I do hope that you will give all the lenity possible and care that you can to this case, as the old man is naked hungry with out a home or friends, at the time I corresponded with you upon this matter before Davis was with one of his children in this State, he however has daughters living in this State and also Indiana hence it is perhaps Just as convenient for him to live in one stake at the other, and as he obtained
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his pension Certificate whilst he resided in the State of Indiana should he succeed in obtaining a duplicate Certificate it would save trouble, to get it payable in Indiana, he can give a count history, how he lost his pension certificate, at the time I took his statement which I forwarded to you there were several persons present who were debating the point wheather or not the men were paid any thing who were in the Northwestern army, and this I have no doubt was the cause of the old man giving the name of Scott, but he [illegible] [?? braut] a fair and clear case when he first made application, his claim was supported by Gentlemen who stood a bove inpreachment, who has since died, But it is true that he was in the greater part if not the whole of the Revolution, and it is also the fat that he obtained a pension certificate and drew a pension for several years &c.

You will please drop me a line directing
the proper course for the old man to take, and
it will be taken as a pecular favor &c
I am sir your &c
Sam S. English

J. L. Edwards Esqr