Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10093, James Blewer, Md.
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Service
MD

Blewer, James
or Blever

Number
S.10093

carded
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I do hereby certify that James Blewer is regularly inscribed on the roll of the state of Maryland as an invalid pensioner and that he has been paid up to the 4th March 1819.

W H Murray

Office Discount & Dept
Baltimore, 16 May 1820
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State of Maryland, Frederick County

On this second day of June 1820 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county of Frederick personally appeared James Blewer who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Brooks in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Eger Howard in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Maryland in conformity to an act of Congress passed on the 3d day of March 1809 entitled "An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds in the actual service of the United States" that he served in the 3rd Maryland Regiment and was wounded in an action at Guilford Courthouse and that his pension certificate has been lost.

Sworn before Wm Tellman
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2 June, 1820
agreeable to request of Mr James Blewer. I certify to you that he is now confined on account of a [?] in his old wound.
Wm [William] Sellman [maybe Tellman, see affadavit] 
Justice of the Peace
For Frederick County

Maryland Fred'k County to [?]
Hereby certify that William Sellman Gentleman before whom the within affidavit was made and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time thereof a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I have herunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 6th June 1820
John Schley Clerk
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
July 17th, 1844
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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, the child of James Blewer, deceased [abbreviated, dec'd] invalid [intertextual] Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars per month [standard form lined out], has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept to the 7th Dec. 1833.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris [signed]
Comptroller.
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[Duplicate of page 8 of this collection]

It will be necessary that Henry Wayman make an affidavit stating the manner of the loss of James Blewer's [blotted] pension certificate which must accompany this document, before a new certificate can be issued
War Dept
Pensioner Office
Sept. 18th 1821
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State of Maryland Frederick [Baltimore lined out] County, Ss.
On the 24th day of August 1821; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county, personally appeared James Blewer who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Brooks in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Eager Howard in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maryland, that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the tenth day of October 1820, at or near the City of Baltimore was lost by Henry Wayman Esquire into whose hands and protection it was placed by this deponent for the purpose of drawing the arrears of pension then due
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm. [William] Sellman [signed]

Maryland Frederick County [?]
I do hereby certify that William Sellman Gentleman before whom the above affidavit was made and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the doing thereof and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my name & seal of Frederick county court the 8 day of September in the year of our lord 1821
John Schley Clerk
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[The following appears to be written on the back of James Blewer's appeal to the War Department, page 7 of this folio]

On the 23 of October 1821 Appeared Henry Wayman before me a Justice of the Peace for Baltimore County [faded] Oath on the Holy [smudged] of Almighty God that some time in the fall 1820 James Blewer handed[?] to him his dublicate[?] certificate. He [?] the same  [?] at the time [?] and he has no recollection what became of it afterward, and at present cannot be found.
Sworn before C. Gumes

It will be necessary that Henry Wayman make an affidavit stating the manner of the loss of James Blewer's [blotted] pension certificate which must accompany this document, before a new certificate can be issued
War Dept
Pensioner Office
Sept. 18th 1821 

State of Maryland Baltimore County Set.
I hereby certify that Cornelius Gumes gentleman before whom the above deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twenty third day of November eighteen hundred and twenty one Wm [William] Gibson Clerk Balt. City Cor.
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10.093
Invalid
File No. 10.093
James Blewer [Blever lined out]
Rev U.S.A.

Index: Vol 1 Page 35

See letters 21 April 1825 to W. H. Murray to H. Wayman Apl 27 1821 to Pension Agent
Apl 28 1821 to W. Gill
Apl 30 1821 to Pension Agent & H. Wayman 9th May 1821 to A.C. Warner Dec 18 1843
Dead
Paid at the Treasure under the Act of April 1838 from 4 Sep to 7 Dec 1838 Agent notified 23 Oct 1844.
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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Washington City.
am April 27 1821
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Lisbon April 26th 1831
James L. Edwards Esquire
Sir,
The enclosed power of attorney, executed by James Blewer, a Revolutionary Soldier, who has for the last thirty years drawn a pension by similar instruments and which is now rejected by the Pay Officer as not complying with the regulations of the late law relating to pensions.
I must therefore solicit the kindness of you to give me such information as will enable me to obtain his old soldiers pension for him. The clerk refuses to sign the certificate [?] to the power of attorney, and the pay officer will not pay the pension without such signature and the state of Mr. Blewer's health renders it impossible for him to go to Baltimore.
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(a distance upward of thirty miles) to execute the instrument.
I hope you will give this your attention and return  the instrument as early as convenient with your instruction & relation to this matter and greatly oblige
Your most obedient servant 
Henry  Wayman
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Pension Office
April 20 1831

J L Edwards Esquire
War Dept
Pension Office
Washington
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Office Bus
Balto 29 April 1831

Sir

Your letter of yesterday to Mr. Patterson has been received & from its tenor, it is thought that Mr. Wayman unintentionally led you into an error is not the shadow of a suspicion can be entertained by any person acquainted with Mr. Wayman about the genuineness of the papers presented by him for the collection of Blewers pension. Mr. W. is a highly respectable farmer of Fred County - he has for several years collected this pension & no doubt properly appropriated the money received for the benefit of the pensioner.

The signature of Mr. Bussard on the power of atty was compared with that left by him in the clerk's office for Balt Co Court & after that comparison, the clerk cer on the back of the letter of atty was granted - believing it did not comply with your instructions of 12th inst. The second certificate was written on the power & the clerk's signature & seal asked for to that - this was refused on the grounds of it being unusual & of its being contained in the first certificate - but as we could not agree with him, Mr. Wayman was requested to defer the matter to you. As we did not feel authorized to pay unless the clerk would express his belief in the genuineness of the signature purporting
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to be that of Mr. Bussard.

As soon as we can ascertain Mr. Bussard's address this communication you request will be made but as some time will probably be consumed [illegible], we can hear (or) from him. I have thought that this statement might remove the doubts you entertain as to the propriety of directing the payment to be made.

I am respect
Your obt serv

W.L. Gill
Clerk Pension Agency

JL Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington
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Office Bank US
Balto, 3 May 1831

Henry Bussard Esquire

Sir

A power of attorney in favor of Mr. Henry Wayman of Frederick County for the collection of James Blewer's pension & purporting to have been executed before you as a Justice of the Peace has been presented at this office for payment - in consequence of the refusal of the clerk of our county court to grant a certificate expressive of his belief in the genuineness of the signature alleged to be yours. I have been requested to ask you whether such a power was executed by said James Blewer before you.

Your early attention to this will oblige.

Yours respectfully

Signed - Wm Patterson - 

Directed to
Henry Bussard Esq
Near New Market, MD
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Parrsville, MD
May 6th

10

William patterson Esquire
President of Bank United States

Baltimore
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Balto County 5th May 1831

William Patterson Esq

Sir

I received a note from you today inquiring whether a certain Power of Attorney from James Blewer to Henry Wayman was executed before me or not.

I inform you that the said Power was signed and acknowledged by James Blewer before me and I put my signature to said power of Attorney, the clerk or some person i the office where the blank power was issued filled up the blanks with a lead pencil, illegible, to direct the Magistrate. I went over them with pen and ink which made the contrast between that and my other writing.

Very respectfully
Henry Bussard
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Office Bus
Balto 7 May 1831

J L Edwards Esquire

Sir

I transmit a copy of my letter to Henry Bussard Esq & his reply thereto in compliance with your request of 28 ulto.

I am very respt
Your obt sev

Wm Patterson, Trustee
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James Blever, Invalid Roll of Maryland

Be pleased to say to what time and at what rate payment was last made.

Pension Office
Dec 16, 1843

Paid 4 Sept 1833 @ $8 per mo
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Poplar Springs
May 8th

J L Edwards Esquire
City of Washington
War Department
Pension Office

Pension Office
May 9, 1831
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May 8, 1831

Dear Sir

I received yours of the 27 of April late last evening first shall answer your last inquiry there is no person in the state of Maryland of my name to my knowledge and I have for the last thirty odd years drawn James Blewer's pension commencing to do so at a time it was paid at Annapolis without charging one cent and why attention is called to the year 1820 I am at a loss to know. If anything in that year appears different than all other years it originated there and no cause of mine without it was by letting a friend of mine to take the letter and sign my name which differs from my general signature. If I have any knowledge of the usual certificate required by the laws of our state, the one giving on the power of attorney is all that is required. The additional one [illegible] rate by Mr. Gill which your instructions required that is to say he believes the signature of Henry Bussard to be his own handwriting. I refer you to James Hawkings esquire who formerly attended to the payment to pensioner under I think of the authority of Edward Hall on the
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person that succeeded Hawkings and have not his name on memory and now to Mr Gill for my correctness transacting this business, if the poor old man could be conveyed to the city without considerable extreme, I would relieve myself of this trouble and expense. If you are satisfied with the explanations given by me of your inquiry of 1820 you can send on the power of attorney to Mr. Gill with instruction here to proceed he then can write me and the first time I am in Baltimore will see him I am only a plain farmer and if necessary for any further references there is William Lawmon of Baltimore, Francis Key and Thomas Manrod of your city. You know have my answer to your inquiry and sever the after arrangement in *** yourselves to provide for this decrepit old soldier.

Yours respectfully

Henry Wayman
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Maryland
James Blewer
Private
Capt. Brooks
in the army U. States
Inscribed on the roll of Md at $3.33 per mo. increased to $5 by law of 3 March 1809 and
to $8 by law of 24th of April 1816

Duplicate
Certificate issued 14 Junen 1820 & sent to the Pensioner care Henry Wayman Esq Poplar Springs, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland

Triplicate certificate issued 30th November 1821 and sent to Wm. H Murray Est Baltimore
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Poplar Springs June 5, 1820

Dear Sir

Enclosed you will receive the affidavit of James Blewer an old soldier once pensioner to procure him a certificate as the old one is lost. You will confer a favor to him by sending one as by the earliest mail to this office Poplar Springs AA county it being the newest to him as he is in great distress for his pay not drawing any for the last year. 

Respectfully yours

Henry Wayman

or direct it to me as he is not able to attend owing being confined in bed.

HW
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20

James L Edwards Esq
War Dept Pension Off
City of Washington

James Blewer
for New certificate

MAIL STAMP
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Payable semi-annually...the first payment on this certificate will be made at the Branch Bank U.S. Baltimore, Maryland

This certificate is issued in lieu of one supposed to have been lost or destroyed which if it should hereafter be presented at the Bank the Agent will please return to the War Department.

Some writing too light to be transcribed

Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Duplicate
INVALID PENSION

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United Staes of the 3rdof March 1809 James Blever late a private in the army U. States is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of five dollars per month.

The payments to be made at the rate of eight dollars per month to which the allowance of this pensioner was increased by law of 24th of Apr 1816 to commence from the time which this pensioner was last paid by the Agent.

Given at the war office of the United States this fourteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

J C Calhoun
Secretary of War

SEAL
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FREE

Ridgeville, MD
Dec 8th

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

James Blewer
MD
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Ridgeville, December 6th 1843

J.L. Edwards Esq

Sir

Yours of 16th November has been received you saying the name of James Blewer is not found on the Maryland roll of pensioners was a matter to me somewhat strange. I at once made inquiry of Roderick Dorsey & Henry Wayman Esquires. I show them your above dated letter and from the fact their long acquaintance with the pensioner they at once told me he was known on the pension roll by name of James Blever or Blovin. Henry Wayman Esq was then Agent of the pensioner for many years up to the time of his decease and upon reference to his books found that the last payment $48 was received and paid over to the said pensioner Apr 1833. We are in possession of proof that this man in question was a pensioner, can prove which your books will show the last money received was paid to Wayman Apr 1833. Can prove the day in which the pensioner deceased which was something like six months after our last payment was due. We can also show that the party claiming the arrears is the daughter of the pensioner and the only heir. Now sir as we can give you the proof as above stated, you will please inform me at your earliest convenience if it be satisfactory and we will proceed to the proof.

I am very respectfully
Your
A.C. Warner