Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40625, Joseph Ward, Navy (Penn)
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Service                                          Number

Navy (Penn)     Ward, Joseph      S. 40625
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19,271
Pennsylvania
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Joseph Ward
of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, who was a Mariner in the ship Washington commanded by Captain Barney for the term of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of March 1823.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of June 1824 and sent to Charles Miller Esq. No. 55 South 5th Street, Philad.
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Arrears to 4th of Mar 1824.             $97.03
Semi-anl all'ce 1 Sept 1824                48.00
                                                       $145.03
21/65
Phila.                              {Revolutionary claim,
                                       {Acts March 18,1818
                                        {and May 1, 1820.

Vol. 7, Page 178
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Eastern District of Pennsylvania    United States
City of Philadelphia ss

    On this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said district Joseph Ward aged nearly 65 years resident in the city of Philadelphia, having been a patient in the Philadelphia Alms House since the 22nd day of February 1821 in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - Some time in the year 1782 about the latter end of April he shipped (out) at Philadelphia on board the Ship General Washington formerly called Monk, a continental ship commanded by Commodore Barney and said from thence to Cape Francois during which voyage and before they arrived at Cape Francois they captured on English Brig laden with Jamaican Rum which they took in to Cape Francois and sold, they afterwards proceeded to the Havanna, where they received onboard a large sum of money for the United States as your petitioner believes, which they brought to Chester and put onboard of a schooner and sent it up to Philadelphia, after which time they proceeded to sea again to finish their cruise.  And I the said Joseph Ward, do solemnly swear 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 whatsoever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it
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a contracts or debtss to bring myself within the provisions of an Act 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 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 of debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained on the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
                                            his
                                 Joseph  X   Ward
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Witness
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C. Miller Jd

Sworn to an declared on the
seventeenth day of August 1821.
in open court.
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D. Caldwell Clk Dist Ct.

Schedule

    The declarant has at this time no property whatsoever and has been, and has been for five years past unable to do any work whatever, and his been during that time a patient in the hospital and Alms House as will appear by the certificate of Doctor J.R. Barton and P.A. Inslee.
                                      his
                          Joseph   X    Ward
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Witness
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C. Miller Jd

I L. Caldwell Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the record of the said court, And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the applicant has no property
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whereof to form a schedule.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1812 and in the forty six year of the independence of the said United States.
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D. Caldwell Clk Dist. Crt.
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Joseph Ward


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INVALID
Revy
File No. 40625
Joseph Ward
Mariner
Ship Washington
Revolutionary

Act: 18 March 1818
        May 1, 1820

Index:Vol ____, Page ____.

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Charles Miller Jr.
Agt.
Philadelphia
Corner of 8th & George St.
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I Robert M. Wilson being duly sworn say that I knew Joseph Ward as a seaman onboard the continental ship General Washington in the following voyages: first at Philadelphia he shipped onboard of her sometime in the month of April in the year 1782 and thence proceeded to Cape Francois on which voyage we fell in with an English Brig to the windwards of Turks Island and had an engagement with her and had 3 men wounded and 1 killed of which, Joseph Ward was one of the wounded and on the same voyage we captured an English Brig laden with Jamaican Rum and sent her in to Cape Francois.  After that we returned to Philadelphia and went from thence to L'Orient the whole time I knew Joseph Ward to be in the service to the best of my knowledge was about 22 months.

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                             Robert Wilson
Sworn to & subscribed
in open court Aug, 17th
1821.

The witness is a person 
whose character must have 
been good. I know nothing
more concerning him.
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Richard Peters
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18,187

Joseph Ward
of Philadelphia

Charles Wilson Jr.
Philadelphia

Recvd 27 Feb 1824

55 South 5th street

Ship Washington
Barney Captain
1782 - 12 months
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Philadelphia Feby. 24th, 1824

 Sir,

    As the request of Joseph Ward an applicant for a revolutionary pension, I herein enclose his application again; The necessary requisites in order to entitle him to be placed on the pension roll which you were to (illegible) as to forward me with, on the return of his application I received, but as this is one of those unfortunate cases, which frequently occurs in applications for revolutionary pensions, such a length of time having elapsed that it is impossible for him to comply with most of them, as they are facts mostly to be obtained by recourse to memory which often prove to be a frail record and as most of his contemporaries are deceased and it is impossible  for him to procure any other testimony, than the enclosed Robert Wilson case of the deponent's that has (illegible) for nine months and is entirely confined to his house,  another, Joiner, is confined to the Alms House, and in his testimony as (illegible) to me certain facts (illegible) be legally procured - Wilson states in his deposition the length of time that he was in the service was 22 months. Ward performed exactly the same service for his country as Wilson did and now receives his pension and it seems to be rather (2 words blocked) he should not receive an equality renumeration.  As the case now stands now, it is altogether in the hands of the Secretary of War as to declare whether he can receive it or not, upon an examination of the case you will perhaps see that his application is just one that the lapse of time has proved unfavorable to him.  You will please on receipt of his application to inform me as to whether he can obtain it or not.  If he can, he should like to be placed on the list so that he may receive it in March.
                                 Very respectfully,
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                                Char's. Miller 
      
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J.L. Edward Esq.
P.S.   My address is No. 55 South 5th St.
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Michael Joiner a witness on behalf of Joseph Ward applicant for a pension being duly sworn saith that he shipped at the port of Philadelphia on board the ship General Washington formerly called Monk, Commanded by Captain Joseph Barney; in the spring of the year 1782 to sail on a three-month cruise, after proceeding in the said cruise and being a short time at sea, the Washington fell in with a Sloop of War or Brig called the Lively which she engaged that she was obliged to put into Cape Francois to refit.  After refitting the Washington proceeded to the Havanna from Cape Francois under convoy of a French 60 or 74, as deponent supposed, and there took in a quantity of spices and from thence proceeded to the United States, and after arriving near the Cape of Delaware, they parted with the 60 or 74 and that night came into the Delaware Bay, deponent perfectly well recollects Joseph Ward's having shipped on board the Washington as the time he (deponent) did, and proceeded on the cruise with the (illegible) and returned on the cruise with her.  He recollects Ward's having received a slight wound on the hand in the engagement between the sloop of war or brig as his (and) Ward's station on the forecastle (deponent further states he knew that Joseph was taken from the hospital to the Alms House and had been in the Alms House better than a year (ago) and was totally unable to perform any services for a livelihood. 
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                                  Michael X Joiner
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Sworn to in open court. July 19, 1822.
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Richard Peters

Michael Joiner is a person worthy of credit.
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Richard Peters
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Joseph Ward the within applicant for a pension being duly sworn saith the reason why he did not make application for a pension was that as long as he was able to obtain a livelihood by laborer he did not need to apply for a pension.  It had been more than five years since he had been able to procure a livelihood.  He was in the Hospital 4 years and has now been in the Alms House about 16 months.  He further states that he is not on the pension list of any state.

                                              his
                                   Joseph  X  Ward
 
Sworn to in open court
July 19, 1822.
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Richard Peters
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Philadelphia
August 10th 1823

    Joseph Ward, better known to me by the name Joseph Cocrahn was for several years past a patient in the Pennsylvania Hospital and latterly in the Phila Alms House; in both institutions I have attended him in a medical capacity.  I believe him to be at present too infirmed & otherwise unfitted to gain a livelihood by his own. 
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J. Rhea Barton
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I do certify that Joseph Ward no in this house, has been here ever since the 22nd day of February 1821.

Philadelphia Alm House Aug. 11, 1821.

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S.A. Anslee Steward
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Being called on (to) say what I know of the character of Michael Feiner who I recollected (illegible) some time ago in Making a pension and of his credibility as a witness from memory only, I am ready to state that I have always considered him a plain honorable man and as such in common with other characters of the same generation, I think (he is) entitled to credit in any case where this deposition is necessary.  I have also some knowledge of Joseph Ward and believe that (which) is stated of his service is true.
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                                     Samuel Hodger
Phil. 23 August 1829
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To whom it may concern
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Caleb Earl a witness on behalf of Joseph Ward an applicant for a pension being duly affirmed saith that he thinks it was somewhere about the year 1782 that he shipped on board the General Washington (formerly called the General Monk) at the port of Philadelphia Commanded by Captain Joshua Barney and proceeded on a cruise; after having proceeded on said cruise and being at sea as near as deponent can recollect, about 2 weeks, they fell in with a Sloop of War which disabled the Washington from continuing on her cruise and obliged her to put into Cape Francois to refit, after refitting, she went to the Havanna, where she was convoyed from Cape Francois by a French 60 or 74 and
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I John Harrison Recorder of Deeds in and for the city and county of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Samuel Badger Esquire before whom the written deposition was taken is one of the aldermen of the city of Philadelphia duly commissioned and qualified according to the laws of this commonwealth to administer oaths and take depositions and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Judicature as thereout. 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 26th day of July A.D. 1822.

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                                    John Harrison 
                                                Recorder