Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35904, James Dunlap, Penn.
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(S-1776)

SERVICE
[handwritten Penn.]

[handwritten Dunlap, James.]

NUMBER
[handwritten S. 35904]

CONTENTS
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6,959
Kentucky
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James Dunlap
of Montgomery Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ervin of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 1 year
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky -
at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of July 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of Feby: 1819
and sent to Hon D. Trimble
H Reps.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818/mo 24/31 3/30- 15"26
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819   48
$63"25 [double underlined]

{Revolutionary claim,    }
{Act 18th March, 1818. }

Continued [written at bottom of page]
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Notification sent January 8. 1821 to
Hon D. Trimble House of Representatives U.S.
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James Dunlap
76 to 77
Ervine Pennsyl[raised a]
Regt.

Admitted
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Montgomery County, Sct.
On this eighth day fo [sic] July 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the circuit court, in and for the state aforesaid, personally appeared James Dunlap aged seventy-eight years; who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following statement and declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late law of Congress, entitled, "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;" that he is a citizen of the state of Kentucky, and resident in the county of Montgomery; and that he was enlisted for one year at Cumberland County in the state of Pennsylvania on or about the beginning of the year 1776 by one Abraham Smith and served in the company commanded by captain Abraham Smith of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col. William Ervin, and afterwards by Lieut. Col Hartley. That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, in the continental army, against the common enemy, until about the ___ day of ____ 1777, when he was honorably discharged from service at Albany in the state of New York; that he was in service one year and was in the battles of the Three Rivers and several fights with the Indians. and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has lost his discharge, and has no evidence in his power, of his services and discharge, other than that which is here transmitted.
Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Maj. Joseph Allen states on oath that he was the nearest neighbour [sic] to where the above named
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James Dunlap lived when he enlisted, and knows of his own knowledge that said Dunlap did enlist for one year as is stated by him and went into actual service, and was absent about fifteen months. That this affiant was at the muster ground on the day that said Dunlap enlisted and saw him often in his uniform after that day.

I, Benjamin Mills Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said applicant James Dunlap did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and it further appears to my satisfaction, that said applicant is in such indigent and reduced circumstances, as to require the aid of his country, pursuant to the above recited act. Given under my hand this day & year first aforesaid.
B. Mills [signature]

[outlined by a box]
Seal of
the Court.
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State of Kentucky Montgomery Circuit Sct.
I Hugh Lane deputy clerk of the Court of the Circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that Benjamin Mills Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing certificate of the claim of James Dunlap was at the time of signing and certifying the same and now is one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of this state, and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to all acts by him so certified as well in all courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the court aforesaid to be hereto affixed at Mountstarling this 14th day of September 1878. In the 217th year of the Commonwealth.

H. Lane [signature]
[seal]
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Additional Claim
District of Kentucky, Montgomery County Kentucky
On this sixth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court; (a) being a court of record (b) for circuit of Montgomery, James Dunlap, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Dunlap enlisted, for the term of one year on the ___ day of April or May in the year 1776 in the state of Pensylvania [sic] in the company commanded by captain Abraham Smith in the sixth regiment commanded by colonel Ervin in the line of the state of Pensylvania [sic] on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the year when he was discharged from the said service, in Albany in the state of (c) New York having served about three months over his time of one year. & for further particulars he refers to his original statement, upon which his certificate of pension issued number 6.959. That he was in the battles stated in his original claim and that he has no other evidence, now in his power, of his said services, except those sent in his original claim.
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemly [sic] swear or affirm (as the case may be,) that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land a naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the shedule [sic] hereto annexed, and by me subscibed. [sic] (d)
James Dunlap- X his mark

Sworn to, and declared, on the sixth day of October before Eli Shortridge Circuit judge in open court.
I, John H. Carr Deputy clerk of the court aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath or affirmation and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty dollars -- cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of December 1820.
John H. Carr Dpy Clerk of the Court of the Circuit of Montgomery for M. Harrison Clk
[seal]
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A Schedule of the Real V. Personal Estate of James Dunlap - Given in open court.
He says he has no land nor slaves.
He has one horse colt worth - $50
One common (illegible) worth - $30
X no other property except wearing apparel
No debts due him nor money at (illegible).
And he owes nothing - X he has had no estate real or personal to put out of his hand, at or since the date of the law granting pensions.
James Dunlap - X his mark

James Dunlap [initials appearing above]
1959 Feb '19
Certificates

State of Kentucky Sct.
I, Eli Shortridge Judge of the eleventh Judicial District in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that John H. Carr whose mark appears to the foregoing certificate is deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery that being one of the counties composing said District. 

Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of December 1820
E Shortridge
Circuit Judge
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

M.E.E. 
copied from letter of a Wk of 6/7/27

June 20, 1928

Mr. John Eccles Dunlop
126 Main Street
Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.35904, it appears that James Dunlap enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1776 and served fifteen months as a private in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, Colonel William Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battle of Three Rivers, and engagements with the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 8, 1818 while a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky, aged seventy-eight years.
There are no data as to his family.
The above noted James Dunlap or Dunlop is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, who served in the Pennsylvania Troops.
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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35 904
Revy
INVALID.
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File No. 35,904
James Dunlap
Pri Rev War
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Act:  18th March 1818
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 492

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1907 May 15. Hist to Miss Mary E. Dunlap
letter in S. F. 29,1167 Samuel Church.
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1/23 May 22 Hist. to J. M. Carter
1927 June 7 - " " Mary Breidenbach
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1928 June 20, Hist to John
Eccles Dunlap, M.E.E.
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Tarkio, Mo.
March 28/27

Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Just recently, I learned of an ancestor being in the Revolutionary War. Would you give me his War record and did he draw a pension:
James Dunlap commanded the 6th Battalion of Cumberland Co Pa troops (See Pa. Records P 414 Vol VI)

Respectfully
Mrs Mary Breidenbach
605 College Ave
Tarkio, Mo.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office R Mar 31 1927
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[letterhead]
War Department
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington

In reply refer to 
ESB/WHE ORD
Respectfully returned to

June 11, 1928.

Mr. John Eccles Dunlop, 
126 Main Street,
Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office F Jun 18 1928

It does not appear from the records of this office that a man named James Dunlap served as a commissioned officer in the War of the Revolution.
The records show that one James Dunlap, rank not stated, served in that war in the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment. His name appears on an undated Account of Cash Advanced by Cap: Staddle to Col. Irwine's Regt., which shows as follows: "77-James Dunlap 10 shillings." No further record relative to him or to his service has been found, nor has any record been found of the service in the Revolutionary War in a Pennsylvania organization of any other James Dunlap.
The records show that many men named John Dunlap, or similarly named, served in that war in different organizations from various states, but from the data given this office is unable to ascertain which, if any one of them, is the man whose military record is desired.
The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that additional information may be obtained from the State Librarian, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.

[signed] C. H. Bridges
Brigadier General
Acting the Adjutant General.
By EWM

[signed] John Dunlop, Phila
15. Nov 27 - 1812 at Phila
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O.W.& N

[stamped] O.-W & N Div Files 
May 4 1907.

Dwight Illinois
May 2nd 1907.
Pension Department, 
Washington, District of Columbia

Gentlemen:-
Being desirous of joining the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and believing myself to be eligible to membership through both my Father's and my Mother's
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forefathers, I take the liberty of soliciting the necessary information through your Department.
Not knowing the necessary fee or requirements, I cannot enclose a money order herewith; but please find postage for the favor of your prompt reply, and any instructions I may need for future correspondence in this connection.
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My mothers maiden name was Eliza A. Ingraham, and she is a native of Augusta, Maine. Her great-grand-father, Samuel Church, went to Augusta, Maine from Mansfield, Connectticut in 1782 and previous to that time enlisted in the war of the Revolution at Shutesbury, Massachusetts.
His son, Captain Luther Church, enlisted in the 1812
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[upper left corner]
929067

[stamped] [upper right corner] U.S. Pension Office A May 4 1907

War, and also survived the war. Both Father and son received a pension.
Captain Luther Church's grandson, Church S. Ingraham who moved from Augusta, Maine, to Dwight, Illinois, with his parents (my grandparents) in 1868, enlisted in the Civil War at Springfield Illinois, in April 1865 dying there March the 2nd of the same year of fever. He belonged to the 52nd Regiment of Illinois volunteers Company G.
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My Father's name was Archibald Bard Dunlop, and he was a native of Steubenville, Ohio. His parents moved to Pennsylvania some years later.
His great-grand-fathers, Messrs. Joseph Dunlop and ---- Bard came to Pennsylvania from Scotland many years before the Revolution. Joseph Dunlap's son, James, was a soldier
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in the Revolution from Bunker Hill to Brandywine, perhaps longer. James Dunlap's brother, John, and his wife's brother, Thomas McDowell, and her uncle, Major James McDowell, all served in the war of 1812.
James Dunlap's grandson (my uncle), Richard Thomas Dunlap, enlisted in Pennsylvania and served in the war between Mexico and the United States.
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He resides at Big Pine, Inyo County, California, and is receiving a pension.
Any information or instructions which you may be able to give me in the securing of the war records of my fore-fathers will be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you in anticipation for your favors and courtesy. I am very sincerely yours,
(Miss) Mary E. Dunlap
Dwight ILlinois
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Phones {Main 657
             {Main 658

James M. Carter & Company, Inc.
Real Estate
1311 H Street Northwest
Washington, D.C.

Rev. wl [written]

May 4th 1923

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC

Dear Sir:
Will you please refer to my letter of early March date in regard to record of James Dunlap of Kentucky - Revolutionary War and oblige.
I am very anxious to learn if your office has the information requested and have no doubt the letter has been overlooked in some way.
Very respectfully
Mrs. J. M. Carter
4116 Harrison St.

[stamped] Pension Office U.S. May 7 1923
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In reply to your request of ____, received ____ a statement of the military history of James Dunlap a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S.F. 35.904

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment. 76
Length of Service. 15 months
Rank. Pvt
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain Abraham Smith
Colonel Wm Irvine
State - Pa.

Battles engaged in, Three Rivers & eng. with Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl in Cumberland Co. Pa.
Date of application for pension, July 8, 1818. Hers. cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Montgomery Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, 78
Remarks: No data as to family
Very respectfully,
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

June 7, 1927

Mrs. Mary Breidenbach
605 College Ave
Tarkio, Mo

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 35904, it appears that James Dunlap enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and [in] 1776 and served fifteen months as a private in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, Colonel William Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battle of Three Rivers, and engagements with Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 8, 1818, while a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky, aged seventy-eight years.
There is no data as to his family.
The above noted James Dunlap or Dunlop is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, who served in the Pennsylvania Troops.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT