Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32107, James Ball, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.
Ball, James

NUMBER
S. 32107

CONTENTS
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[left side]
Decd. See letter to H. Cooper II
Apl 1835

1858 June [smeared] [illeg.] pay.

1873 Oct 13 Fanny Rupahl Brush Zanesville Ohio. not identified -- gave a brief Pre. or

Died May 8 - 1834
(form A. B.)

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25481
Indiana
James Ball of Allen Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the com command by Captain Moroney of the regt command by Col Scharvard in the Maryland line for 8 months & 13 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Jany 1834 and Henry Cooper [illeg.] wages

Arrears to the 4th of Sept                    70.88
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4 March   14.17
                                                            $85.05
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E  Vol. 7  Page 105
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The State of Indiana
and Allen County Court
on this [illeg.] day of October personally appeared in open court before me Charles H. [illeg.] and presiding Judge of Circuit Court of the State of Indiana, now [illeg.] James Ball a resident in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to on his oath made the following declaration, sworn to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress June 7, 1872
That he enlisted in the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as he stated. That the troops were commanded by General Schurork, Captain Philip Maroney, the he Captain Maroney left the service shortly after their going on duty and [illeg.] Ball the first Lieutenant of said company took the command after said [illeg.] left after the return from [illeg.] tour of the command that he entered the service about [illeg.] not recollected; but remembers that [several lines illegible] ...were ordered out and had his first tour service he was a skirmish with the British troops at Holgate and that while he was in thservice the first Tour the troops which he belonged to fought the Battle of the White Plains under General Washington but he at that time was on the sick bed and unable to do duty; that he was discharged about the thirty first of December in that year; that at this time he enlisted in the Service he resided at the town of Frederick, [illeg.] County and that he remembers that he marched through part of the states of Maryland, through the [illeg.] Penn-
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-sylvania New Jersey and New York, that he personally knew General Washington: that about a year or 2 years and a few days from the time he first went out on a Tour of Duty and the [illeg.] service he again went into and entered the Service of the United States under General Smalwood the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Ralph Robey [?] commanded the company had a skirmish at White House Wagner's defeat near Philadelphia, and was also in the battle of Germantown. does not recollect the year nor the particular day he entered or left the service, but thinks he also kept guard over prisoners 4 months over magazine or other months; during the second or fourth, marched through part of Maryland and Pennsylvania that he was a volunteer that he personally knew General Sallia and recollects that he commanded the right wing of the army (in the battle of Germantown) that General Smalwood commanded the left, that this he can testify his source by Jeremiah Hillary who is a brother to the above Captain Hillary that served under, he thinks he could further prove his service by [illeg.] Saylor in Frederick County Maryland

He hereby relinquishes every claim wherein to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of agency of any state by or with his authority.
[signed] James Ball X his mark

Sworn to in open court
10th October 1872
Allen Hamilton  Ck

Whereupon the Court put the following entering a term, to wit,
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1st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer -- In the lower part the State of Maryland in the year 1751 being the year that the State was altered 

2nd Have you any record of your age; and if so, when is it?
Answer -- I have now no record: the bible of my father has been destroyed; or perhaps may have fallen into the hands of my brother; and my age was recorded in it.

3rd Where were you living when called into the Service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Answer -- When the Revolutionary war commenced I lived in Frederick Town Maryland. I afterwards after that war was at an end lived near the Sugar Loaf Mountain Maryland. I have lived in so many different places since then, that I cannot now recollect the whole of them. But for nearly two years last past, I have lived in Allen County, Indiana.

4th How were you called into the service; were you drafted; did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Answer -- I volunteered. I thought it to be a scandal to be drafted.

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer -- I very distinctly recollect Gen. Bell he was the Captain I was under in my first tour; also General Smallwood  and Colonel Johnson of Frederick Town. I recollect that Captain Brashears commanded a company in the same service. I have forgotten a great many of the companies. I was in the battle of German Town; It began in the morning and [illeg.] until about one in the afternoon: we [illeg.] a march upon the British and routed them out of their beds in the morning. We should have beaten them if it had not have been for the Virginia troops, who marched out in front instead of covering our retreat

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if
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so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?

Answer I did received a discharge from the service for each tour of service or duty. But as I thought they would never be of any service to me, I took no care of them for which reason they are lost

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify for as to your character for veracity, and their belief your services as a soldier of the revolution.

Answer I now live in a new settlement, there are not more than 5 families in my neighbourhood and they live from 3 to 5 miles apart. there is Mr Cooper, and my son who is a clergyman, and Mr Hinton who are in court, that can testify to my character for veracity, but not other person presents.

and after hearing testimony the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after judging the interrogations, prescribed by the war department, that the above named James Ball was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states

States of Indiana
Allen County Sct

I Allen Hamilton Clerk of the Allen circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the [illegible] proceedings in the Allen circuit court at the [illegible] of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty two, in the matter of the application of James Ball for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Allen circuit court at [illegible] July 8th 1839

Allen Hamilton Clk
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26.721
James Ball
Allen Co.
Indiana

[illegible] from 1776 pen. 8 1/2 months, $28.33/100

Henry Cooper,
Fort Wayne Indiana
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compiling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of James Ball

[table] Period when the service was rendered.
Aug 1776 to Dec.[?] 1777

Duration of the claimant's service.
not previously stated
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do do.

Rank of the claimant.
Pr.
Pr

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Col Shurork
Cap Marony
Col Johnson
Cap Hillery

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
81
Md.

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary. [/table]

The applicant has not produced the traditionary evidence required by the regulations which see marked in the margin of the next page. The applicant can only be allowed for 8 1/2 months serving as a private, this being about the length of services mentioned in the first declaration, and no mention being made of service as a Sergeant. If he served as a Sergeant it should be clearly proved that he did serve in that capacity.

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians[?] or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of [blank]
County of [blank] ss.

On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:

[bracket] Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c. [/bracket]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.

[bracket] And then will follow the certificate of the Court. [/bracket]

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.

[bracket] And then will follow the certificate of the Court. [/bracket]

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 certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and useless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -- one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.

[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.

[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.

[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of war when he served.

[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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 pensions he is entitled. 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]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."

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 [italics] about three or four months [/italics], is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, 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 in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.

[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.

[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.

[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.

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 papers authenticated, the certificate must be 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.

Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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 his seal of office.

[pointing hand] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.

[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.

[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.

[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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The State of Indiana}
Allen County to wit}
On this ninth day of November 1833 personally appeared in open court before me Gustavus A Everts president and presiding Judge of the eighth Judicial Circuit of the state of Indiana now sitting. James Ball a resident of the county and State aforesaid aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amended declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th. 1832. "That he enlisted in the army [service is crossed out] of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, That the troops were commanded by General Bell, the Regiment of the Maryland line and was commanded by Colonel Schurork that the company he served in was commanded by Captain Phillip Marony, that he Captain Marony left the service shortly after their going on duty, and Elisha Bell the first Lieutenant of said company, took command of it and kept the command of the same from then until their return from his first Tour of duty. that the troops he served in as above referred to were of the Maryland line. That he entered the aforesaid service about the first day of August, and as well as he can nor recollect (he being a very old man and having lost his discharge) in the year 1776. He states that on his final Tour of duty, he was in the troops that were ordered out and had a skirmish with the British Troops at Hollgate [Holgate] but that he
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was them on the deck[?] list and that while he was in the service and during his first Tour the troops which he belonged to and himself fought the battle of the white plains under general Washington with the British Troops: that as near as he can now recollect from old age and consequent loss of memory he was discharged shout the twenty fifth day of December in the same year which he think was the year 1776 making in the whole of the first Tour of duty about four months and twenty five days service, that at the time he entered the aforesaid Army he rendered at Frederick Town Frederick County Maryland that he was a volunteer nearly all of which time he was a sergeant, and that on said first Tour of duty he marched through part of the state of Maryland, through the state of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. That in about a year or in a year and a few days, from the time he first enlisted into the Army service of the United States, as aforesaid he again entered the public service of the United States as a sergeant in the troops commanded by General Smalwood; the regiment was commanded by Colonel Baker Johnson of Frederick Town Frederick County Maryland, and the company wherein he served was commanded by Captain Ralph Hilleary that having his said second tour of service The troops in which he served had a skirmish with British troops at the White house near Philadelphia, and that he was also in the battle of German Town, and that during his said second tour he was in the public service as a sergeant as aforesaid about the space of four months. And that during his said second tour of service he marched with
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the troops to which he belonged through the States of Mary land and Pennsylvania and during the whole of his last tour of services as a volunteer, and that after his return. from his said second tour of services he guarded  British prisoners as a private at Frederick Town, Md. about the space of wo months and he also as a private as stated in guarding the Magazine at Frederick Town Maryland  for about two months but from  old age and unavoidable loss of memory he has not now any recollection of the names of the officers whom he served  under in either in the
guarding of the Magazine or in guarding the
prisoners as aforesaid, that he resides now and has for about two years in the County of Allen and State of Indiana, and that he is now about of the eighty two years. That he personally knew General Sullivan and recollects that he commanded the right wing of the American Army and that General Smallwood commanded the left in the battle of
Germantown, that he thinks he can testify and prove his services by Jeremiah Hillary who is a brother to the Captain Ralph Hilliary above referred to be further saith that he thinks he could further prove his said services by Uriah Layton in Frederick County Maryland. He hereby relinguishs  his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any state by or with his authority except the present application
Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court this 8th day November 1833
James Ball  his mark

Allen Hamilton Clk All
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And that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot he cannot swear positively as to the precise
light of memory he cannot of his services but according to the best of his knowledge and recollection he served not less than the periods below in the following grades
for about four months and twenty five days I served as a sergeant in the company a sergeant during  my first four and about four months as a sergeant in my second tour and that I served two months in guarding the
British Prisoners at Frederick Town and about three months as a private more  months in guarding the barracks and Magazine there
making in all the space of twelve months and twenty five days or thereabouts for which service I claim a pension
James Ball     his mark

Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court the 9th  day of Nov. 1833
Allen Hamilton Clk A.C.C.
I Allen Hamilton Clerk of the circuit court of
the County of Allen in the State of Indiana do
hereby certify the foregoing to be the original proceedings 
had in the matter of the application  of James Ball to amend his former application for a pension
In testimony whereof I have here
unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said circuit court the  9th day of November 1833
Allen Hamilton Clk A.C.C.
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MMMHF (lined out)
Initial at end of letter

March 7, 1927

Mrs. Joseph T. Hanna
Hanna's Ford, Route # 2
Fort Wayne, Indiana

My dear Mrs. Hanna:

In response to your letter of the 3rd instant, I have to advise you that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his
services.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of any Charles Weeks or Zadoc Sherwood, or of William Berry of Indiana in 1840.
The census of pensioners of 1840 quoted by you, was compiled from the returns of the marshalls of the several judicial districts under the Act for taking Sixth Census, and without reference to the records of this Bureau, and
it is not always possible to verify the data contained therein.
You are herewith furnished the history of the
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James Ball of Allen County, Indiana.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 39197 it appears that James Ball was born in 1751 in the lower part of Maryland,
While a resident of Fredericktown, Frederick County, Maryland he enlisted August 1, 1776 in Captain Philip Maroney's Company (which was shortly after commanded by
Lieutenant Elisha Beall), Colonel Shryock's Maryland Regiment , and was in a battle, either that of Hell Gate or of White Plains, and was discharged December 25, 1776.
He enlisted in 1777, served four months as sergeant in Captain Ralph Hillary's Company, Colonel Baker Johnson's Maryland Regiment and was in the battle of Germantown.
He subsequently served for two months as private guarding prisoners at Fredericktown, and two months guarding the magazine at the same place, officers names not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 10, 1832 while a resident of Allen County, Indiana where he had lived about two years, and at this time here  he refered to his son, a clergyman, living near him, but did not give his name, nor is the name of soldier's wife stated. He died May 8, 1834.

Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
     F
This letter was
sent three Cao. Scott
desk
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32107
Revy INVALID.
File No. 32. 107
James Ball
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 26
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1927 Mch.T- Hist to Mrs.
Jos.  T Hannah  MMMSTF
G. Mch 12- Genl Acct office
furnished name of  Agency to
Mrs. Jos. T. Hanna MMMSTF
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The State of Indiana
Allen County to wit
26.721
Be it remembered that on the 13th day of October AD 1832 John Reynolds of lawful age personally appeared before me the subscribe a Justice of the Peace in and for said County who or being duly sworn as the law directs deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted James Ball whose petitions to be placed on the pension list of the United States in the State Maryland about 16 years ago, that said Ball was then order the character of having been a Revolutionary soldier among the respectable old people
that he frequently heard and said Ball speak of having been in  the Battle Germantown in the Revolutionary war that he knew him also 14 years ago in Ohio
that he now is and has been ever since he was acquainted with him a person of religion and he thinks him to be a man of truth and veracity. He further saith in travelling  through the County of Rossland State of Ohio and that on his journey he heard respectable old
people say that said Ball was absent from home during the Revolutionary war and said to be in the public service and that it was necessary they could
prove the service by their relations who served
with him, this affiant further saith that said persons referred the part to the Samuel Abinatha who lives in said County and he thinks they also told this office 
that one Mr Hilliary Brothers to the Captain under whom said Ball is said to have fed, And further
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South of John Reynolds
Sworn & subscribed before me this 13th day of October 1832
Smallwood Noel
Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana
Allen County 
I Allen Hamilton Clerk of the Allen Circuit Court do certify that Smalwood Noel before whom the above and foregoing affidavit
was acknowledged, was at the time and now is an acting Justice of the peace, and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Fort Wayne this 5th day July 1833 Allen Hamilton Clk Abb
I do certify that John Reynolds the above named affiant is a man of truth and veracity and of a respectable standing in county
Fort Wayne 7th July 1833
Smalwood Noel J P.
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Fort Wayne December 30th 1833
Dear Sir
I am under the painful necessity of returning the papers in the case of my old friend James Ball to you without being able to make an addition to them whatever. As I know this to be a case of extreme hardship, I hope you will excuse me for making some remarks upon it.
You will observe by his answer to the seventh interrogatory in the orginral bill; that he states he lives in the settlement; that there are not more than five in his neighbourhood, and they live from three to five miles apart.
As that settlement has neither a justice of the law, nor a clergyman in it, and as there is no one nigher than here which is twenty miles, and as the poor old man has a has not travelled eighty miles in the coming here and returning, and as he has no money to pay officers or clergymen for going so far through the wilderness,  I think you can will at once see the propriety of relieving an dispersing with some of the strict rules of the department
I suppose I could have got a clergy man to have made the necessary certificate to his amended declaration, but as it was not one of the objections pointed out by you at
the time you first returned the papers, the court thought the it to be necessary. In short Sir, I think the full amount
or period of service both as a private and a Sergeant, when taken in (unreadable)of the case the situation in which he is placed comes completely with the spirit and meaning
of the instructions for the pension office of June 27th 1832 and hope this poor old man after fighting in Revolutionary War is within declared and sworn to, and after allowing
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two terms of our court and have as before mentioned with have his days rendered more pleasant be the pleasing reflection of his
county's gratitude 
With very great respect
yours
Henry Cooper
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MRS. JOSEPH T. HANNA
Hanna's Ford Route 2 
FORT WAYNE, IND.
March 3rd 1927
Genl Winfield Scott, Dear Sir
Again apologize for bothering you, but 
somehow I do not get results,
and '"ife is short", will you please do me the great favor to see that I receive a reply to the enclosed, viz: Allen Co. Jud, 1840 census
Revolutionary Pensioner; Adams Twp, Charles Weeks aged 79 also William Berry age  Sr 76 
one in Rev. whose widow died in Pratt Co Ind
Kent island in 1822 in ohio
not Rev. No oth no Indian

I have been given the name of Jadoc  Sherwood and James Ball (The S.A.R. claims the latter) also as dying in Ft Wayne or Allen Co. Can you help me in this? Please,
I believe these 4 and the list of Rev. Soldiers for Allen Co Ind, so that I will not have to trouble you again for records of Rev soldiers in order to decorate the graves of such with our D.A.R. Emblem. Thank you so much. The Rev War record of each of the above if possible
is what I am requesting with all possible data
concerning their family and location,
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Sincerely
Mrs Joseph T. Hanna
Hannas Ford, Route 2
Ft Wayne Ind
Chairman Research Committee D.A.R.
sent a similar request in Jany I believe, Have received
no reply.
S.V.H.
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON
March 10, 1927.
RECORDS DIVISION
CIIVIL DIVISION (lined out)
R - PDF -- 338
IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Of Mrs Jos L Hanna Fort Wayne, Ind

With the return of the enclosed letter, it is requested that you advise this office of the agency through which a pension was paid to the Revolutionary War soldiers named in said letter.
For the Comptroller General of the United States.
Respectfully,
Reed F Martin
Chief, Records Division

Incl. 1.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section
March 1, 1927
Reed F. Martin
Records Division
General Accounting Office
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

In response to your letter of March 10, 1827, I have to advise you that there is no claim for pension on file on account of the services of a Samuel Bird, or a Charles Weeks, or a William Berry of Allen County, Indiana, in Revolution.
James Ball the pensioner of Allen County, Indiana was paid through the Agency of that state, Certificate No. 25481, issued January 15, 1834, rate $28.33 per annum, commenced
March 1, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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