Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40642, James Waters, Continental (Md)
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(3--1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Md) 
Waters James
or
Watters
NUMBER
S. 40642
CONTENTS
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9,197
Ohio.
James Watters 4
Fairfeld Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Harrison of the Virginia
line, for the term of six years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16 of Sept. 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of April 1819
and sent to Hon. P. Beecher,
Lancaster, Ohio 
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  45.03
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48 --
5. 5/30 4/51    $93.03
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Not entitled

Notification sent July 20th 1820 to
Hon: P. Beecher, Lancaster, Ohio
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Surveyed for James Waters 400 acres of land
on a Military land Warrant 1848 on the waters
of Derbys creek Begining at a Hecory ash &
Sugartree westerly corner to Peter Manifolds survey
No 4998 and southerly corner to Robert
Means Survey No 5292 runing southerly
two degrees west 200 poles to 2 Sugartrees
and a buchege thence North 36 West [illegible]
crossing a branch to 2 ashes & a sugartree
thence North 52 & 200 poles crossing a
branch at 20 poles to an ash and red oak
Westerly corner to said Means survey thence with his line S36 E3 20
poles to the Begining
an extract from the Records
[signature] [illegible] Sullivant
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Jas. Watters
Schedule & Affidat.
Hon. P. Beecher H.R.
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State of Ohio Federfield County ss
On this twenty sixth day of July AD 1824 personally appeared
in open court, the court of Common Pleas (it being a court of
Record) for the County aforesaid, James Watters resident in said
County aged sixty nine 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 of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, that he the said
James enlisted for the term of the war, on the first day of February
1777 in Capt Drury Regedales company of Artillery in
Col. Charles Harrisons Regiment in the continental establishment
and continued to serve in the said corps until in October
1783 when he was discharged in Hampton in the State of Virginia. That his name has been placed on the Pention
list and droped therefrom on account of his property
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I 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 disposed of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 and Navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary
war" passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818
and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me
any property or sureties, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have
an income other than what is contained in the schedule
hereto annexed and by me subscribed -- the following
is a schedule of all the property which I now own or claim
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claim to wit:  One [illegible] worth  -   $9.00
1 Table - 3.50 - 3 chairs $1.00 - 1 large Kettle 3.00 - 7.50
2 Pots - 1.25 - one oven .75- 1 plater 1.00 3.00
1 pair fire dogs 1.25 - 1 Set Knives & forks .75 - 1 looking glass .50  2.50
4 milk crocks - .33 1/3  1 wash tub - .50 2 Buckets 1.00 1.83 1/3
1 pairs Steelyards 1.00 1 pr Shovel tongs 1.00 - 2.00
1 coffee pot & two tin cups - .50 -1 Small Beaurae 2.50 3.00
1 Churn and 2 candle sticks - - .75 - 1 Small gun 3.50 - 4.25
1 young cow - 7.00 1 old wheat hand fan .25 - 7.25
5 volumes of family books - -3.00
in all amounting to - $ 43.33 1/3
I have due me fourteen and an half Bushels of wheat
from James Walders - and $40.00 due me from
George Shockley was paid in chairs & cabinet work.
I am a farmer by occupation enjoy good health but am
disabled very much in one of my arms and shoulder and it is
with difficulty frequently that I can put on my clothes
My wife is Sixty five years old very unhealthy and has
for a considerable part of the last two years been under the
necessity of having medical assistance, and this is all
my family-- I owe James Moore a
note of $25.00. Caleb Copelin account $10.00 Henry
Bailet a note $200.00 and interest, Wm Swayne note $3.50
and interest and a Genl D. Smith on Bond $5.00 and
interest, the other of the debts mentioned in my former schedule
I have paid off by the sale of my property mentioned in my
former schedule. and I owe of debts contracted for necessar
-ies for my self and wife. since filing my former schedule
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To Dalla & Connell $4.00 To John Mollick $4.00  $8.00
" [to] Jesse Boles 2.00 to Cordson 2.12 1/2
4.12 ½
" [to]  Mr Penn 2.00 to Wheller 1.50  3.50
that since the first exhibition of my first schedule the following
changes have been made in my property. The old Mare I sold
in August 1822 to Henry Mathews for twenty dollars, and by changing
the payment of the same, was made so far in payment of the
Debt that I owed to Edward Thompson the [illegible] 9 years old I
sold in March 1824 to George Shockley for $40.00 payable in chairs
and Cabinet work and hold his note, one of the three cows I
sold to Joseph Hottle for $13.00 in payment of debt due him &
one John Heidy. In the fall of 1822 one of them I fated and are
the Beef in the family and the other still have. The small
Steer I faled and eat in the fall of 1821. The small heifer
I now have, and call it my young cow, the yearling steer
and three calves cannot entirely say to whom sold but can
say as follows, to wit: That in the fall of 1822 his little debts
were pressing him, and to satisfy his creditors and to Support
himself he made a public [illegible] for the sale of his proper
ty and required to attend and become the purchasers at
which Sale he sold to one John Richards one young [illegible]
of the cattle kind at $3.31, one to E. Watters at $6.75 one
to John Hall at $2.02 and one to said Hall at $1.18¾ He
sold at said Sale to Mr Yarnaway two of the kettles at seven
dollars, and received his pay in Shoemaking and Sugar, and
one to Lewiss Lansford for an hat, as to the Hogs he falled
and used what he wanted in the family during the
years 1820 & 1821 and two that he butchered and gave
the meat to Mr Culp, for work done in repairing a wagon
the [illegible] of his Stock of Hogs be sold at said public sale
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2
to John Myers at $2.00 also 2 at 1.06 Benjm. Culfal at $1.10 [illegible] to said Culfal $1.12 1/2 and James Gurley at $1.13 the sheep in the fall of 1842 I gave in payment a Mr Kerlin for the Iron work to a wagon, the log chain in August 1823 sold to my son James for the wheat before mentioned due me, and as to the half wagon, purchard the other half from my son and had the whole refund at an expence of about $40. and then October 1842 sold it to the widow Stigler for $90.00 cash and applied the same with the see a balance due me for the property sold at the said an due in the payment of the debts, mentioned in my first Schedule. and for the purchase of such necessaries, rents and medicines for myself and wife, - The Lease which I mentioned in my first Schedule I have Surrendered to the Trustees of the Township in which the same was situatd accerding with law of Ohio, I not being able a pay the rent, and it being more than it was worth, --- that he now lives in the Town of Lancaster, Tenanted upon his Son in law being unable to pay rent, and now indebted to Mrs Williamson for last years rent and twelve dollars --- I now live with my son in law in a small house in the second story, and have done so since the 18th of November 1823. I have agreed to let my son in law David Swayne the said ferty dollar note of Shockleys in discharge of rent and for necessaries to sustain myself & wife -
James Walters
Court of Comn. Pleas July 26. 1824
We find the value of the property in the foregoing Schedule
to $ [illegible] 43.33 chains & note 40" wheat say 7.25
 [illegible].  - $ 90.58
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And find the debts to be --- $259.62 2/3
Interest on some of the debts not Known
Jacob D. Dedrick  Senr. associate Judge
Fairfield County Ohio

State of Ohio Fairfield County  ss
In Testimony that the foregoing is a copy taken
from the Original filed in my office I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of said court
at Lancaster [illegible]. County this 26th day of July
AD 1824
Hugh Boyle  clk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 25, 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," The widow of James Watters, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars 
per month, the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 10th May. 1838, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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State of Ohio Fairfield County  ss.
On this sixteenth day of Septm. 1818. before me Elnathan Scofield one of the associate Judges for the County afforesaid, personally appeared James Watters, aged sixty-two years next February, resident in said Fairfield County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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". That he the said James Watters enlisted in st. Marys County, Maryland first of Feby. 1777 for three years, and sworn in for during the war under his brother Richard Watters, Leiut. of Capt. Drury Ragsdales company, of Col. Charles Harrison's Regt of Artillery Virginia, and continued in the service of the united States untill the end of the war, and was discharged at Hampton Virginia in Oct. 1783 to which place he came
in a ship from Charleston, South Carolina, with about five hundred soldiers, where they found Capt. Lieut. Thos. Finn of the artillery then in command-- That he was in the battle of Monmouth 28th June 1778, in the battle at Camden, in the battle at Guilford Court house and in the battle of Eutaw springs and that he is in reduced circumstances
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and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence of his discharge, or his said services now in his possession -
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
Elnathan Scofield Judge  Com. Pleas

I Elnathan Scofield Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid James Watters did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine Months and [illegible] [??more] I further certify that I am acquainted with the said James Watters and from the representations of his Neighbor he is in Reduced Circumstances being on a piece of leased land his wife helpless and himself aged and infirm and I think entitled to the pension under the law for which
he applies - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me to the Secretary for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the afore mentioned act of Congress-
Elnathan Scofield Judge Com. Pleas-
Lancaster Ohio Sept. 16th 1818
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James Watters
Richland Township
9197
ss  14 April 1819.
Sep. 1819
not entitled
Hon: P. Beecher
Lancaster, ohio
20 July 1820.
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State of Ohio Fairfield County ss
At a court of Common Pleas holden at Lancaster in and for the County aforesaid on the Twentieth day of June AD 1820 personally appeared in said Court (being a Court of record by the Constitution and laws of Ohio) James Wallers aged Sixty
five years a resident in Richland Township in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, being inlested the first day of February 1777 in Capt Drury Ragsdeles company of Artilery in Colo Charles Harrisons Regiment in the Continental establishment  fer during the war and was discharged some time in October 1783 the original declaration bears date the fourteenth day of April 1819 as stand on the certificate and numbered 9197 and I do solemnly swear that 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 the act entitled "An act, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities contracts or debts due to me nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annaxed and by me Subscribed to wit, one man 20 years old one fille 9 years old three milk cows, one small steer, one yearling steer, 1 small heiffer three young calves, half of an old Waggon, & geers 4 Sugar Kittles one Small Dutch ovens & pot pair fire shovels & tongs one old wheat fan one log chain, 6 chairs 2 common tables, one set of fine and Iv'ory one set of knives & forks 1 set of Tea ware one dozen plates and dishes 2 hoes and 2 axes Ten head of sheep & 5 lambs, one common cupbord one Small Beaurau 20 head of stock sheep 2 Will barrels 1 washingtub, Bale and 2 [illegible] and the ages of my family are as follows, to wit; My wife aged 61 unhealthy My son John now living with me aged Seventeen years
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healthy.- And the Debts which I now justly owe one as follows
To 
Edward Thompson on a/c $50.00 
Elkena Watters on note  10.00     
James Mine - on note 16.67          
Caleb Copelan on a/c 10.--            
Abraham Hile on note 4.--             
Henry Bartlet on note 200.--        
David Cossman on note 30.30        
Jacob D Dedrick on a/c 2.50
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$323.67

Adam Abright a/c $4.50
 John Talbert ---  7.--
 Henry Hattle note   4.--
  Wm. McNight note 4.50
 Wm. Swazey  note  3.00
 David Thompson at 3.50
 Genl. Danl Smith bond 13.00
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39.50
323.67
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363.17    Total amt

In healthy and a farmer by occupation and able to labour as persons generally one at my age and in addition to the property within mentioned  I have a three year old filly  worth $30.00  I hold have of 107 3/4 acres of the school reserved section in Richland Township for which I have to pay a yearly rent of $90.53 which is more than the same is worth at this time and under present situation of things &  the [illegible], possession will be a [illegible] rather than profitable  My personal property is not worth more than two hundred and fifty dollars.--
James Watters

The court find the property of James Watters to be worth $229.67 2/3  & his debts amt to $343.17  
Sworn to and declared this 20th day of June AD 1820 in open court [illegible] as [illegible]--

I Hugh Boyle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Fairfield do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are copied from the original filed in this 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 $229.66 2/3   
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of the said Court at Lancaster
in said County this 20th day of June AD 1820
Hugh Boyle   clk

[round illegible seal]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
our
8 - 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,  ____, 19___

In reply to your request of ___, received ____ for a statement of the military history of  James Waters  a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Feb. 1. 1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
to Oct. 1783

RANK,
Sgt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Dury Ragsdale
Lt. Richard Waters (his Brother)
COLONEL.
Charles Harrisons

STATE.
Art [??]

Battles engaged in,  Monmouth, Camden, Guilford and, Eutaw Springs
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [illegible] . St Marys Co Md.
Date of application for pension,  Sept 16, 1818  This I was at
Residence at date of application,  Fairfield Co
Age at date of application,  b. Feb 1757.  d. May 10, 1838  Places [illegible]
Remarks:  In 1820 he referred to his wife aged 61 name not Stated & a Son John age 17.  In 1824 he referred to his son James & son-in-law David Swayne.  No further family data.
Pensioned as Watters
The above noted is the only one of Md etc.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6 - 2856
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Council Chamber 1st.
ertify that James Waters
and allowed a Sergeant of
the war, and has served
Benjamin Har

it:
I William G. Pendleton
ffice of the State aforesa
hereby certify the foregoing is a
of a Certificate on file in said Office
that upon said certificate a warran
to have issued from this office, to sai
for 400 acres of Land, No. 1848, bea
the 1st day of November 1783

Given under my han
seal of said Office affi
8th day of October
year of our Lord 18,
Will G. Pendleto
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40642
Revy   INVALID.
File No. 40,642
James Watters
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: Val. S, Page 334
[Arrangement of 1870]

1900 Feby. 9.  Heist. to George Harrison. aw.
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nas  Free  free
1 oz
100

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City

[at right angles to address]
[date stamp]
OHIO LANCASTER
April 5.
[end stamp]

Admitted 
To the Hon. P. Beecher
Lancaster Ohio
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Lancaster April 2nd 1819-

Dr. Sir

I herewith return the application of James Waters, apprehending that in must be upon the roll, and that in looking over the Clerk may have understood the applicants name to have been Walters, it having been wrote "Watters"--.  This man did most certainly obtain land from the State of Virginia as a Soldier who had served during the war of which you will see he has now furnished some proof[?] of evidence--  This applicant related to me at the time he made his first application the investigation of his enlisting Elias Langham, who afterwards was commissioned an officer and has been placed on the pension list and in communication with Col. Langham  Last Winter I mentioned to him the circumstances, and he said that he well recollected the man Waters, and was sorry to hear he also [illegible] the necessity of praying for a pension - 
Let me hear from you in due time -
Respectfully yours 
P. Beecher
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State of Ohio
Fairfield County  ss

Personally appeared before me Elnathan Scofield an associate Judge for the County aforesaid James Watters the same person who made his application for a pension on the sixteenth day of September AD 1818 and made oath that his name as he well recollects was entered on the roll While he was in the Service James Waters That he was a Sergeant. -That he obtained a warrant for his serving from the State of Virginia for four hundred acres of land, and that as a further proof of the fact here he desires to enclosed the papers & parts hereto attached the one purporting to be a copy of a certificate upon which his land warrant issued and a copy of the survey of the said 400 acre of land, and that he this affiant is the same person to whom and for whom the warrant was issued. 
James Waters

Sworn and subscribed before me this the 2nd day of April AD 1819
Elnathan Suffield Judge  Com. Pleas
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State of Ohio Fairfield County ss

I Hugh Boyle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Elnathan Scofield Esqr. before whom the within and annexed application certificate and deposition appears to have been taken and made, was at the time of the doing thereof and for several years previous thereto one of the Judges of the Court aforesaid for the County aforesaid, by lawful authority commissioned and acting as such and that to all his Judicial acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given as well throughout the United States as elsewhere-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Lancaster this 2d. day of April AD 1819-
Hugh Boyle  Clk
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Honbl  John C. Calhoun
Secy at War

Mr. Edward
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James Watters
Virginia Line
77[??] War
Col. C. Harrison
[illegible]
[illegible]
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[illegible top right corner]
Revo 1-7WE

TITLE GUARANTEE & TRUST COMPANY
TITLE BUILDING, ST. PAUL & LEXINGTON STS.
ALBERT G TOWERS PRESIDENT
J. DUKES DOWNES, VICE PRESIDENT
R CECIL HOGAN, ASS'T SEC'Y TREAS
JOHN H. DUNCAN, VICE PRES & SEC'Y
ALEX KINNAIRD, ASS'T SEC'Y TREAS
C. ALEX FAIRBANK, JR. VICE PRESIDENT
J. MILTON BRANDT, ASS'T SEC'Y TREAS
ALBERT N. SMITH, VICE PRESIDENT
BENJAMIN H. HEATH ASS'T TREASURER
WARRENS SEIPP. VICE PRESIDENT
WM. D. POULTNEY, REAL ESTATE OFFICER
THOMAS B. MARSHALL, TREASURER
GEO. HARRISON, MANAGER SAVINGS DEP'T
BALTIMORE, MD. Jan. 27, 1920.

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I am making application for membership to the S. A. R. and upon investigation of the records of the Maryland Historical Society, of which I am a member, I find that James Waters of Charles County, Md., who married Dradin King and who was my great, great grandfather, enlisted and served in the Maryland Line in 1782.

Now as I shall make my claim through this ancestor, to complete my application, I shall be greatly indebted to you if you will confirm the fact of his enlistment and service and whether he and his widow appear as pensioners of the American Revolution, and any other information personal or otherwise that would be of value or interest to me in establishing my claim.
Very truly yours,
George Harrison

GH:RFB
S40642
Send & Say only one of Md

[date stamp]
U PENSION OFFICE 
D  JAN 28 1920
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Ohio, Sept 19
James Watters Private served 5 years from 1777.
in Schedule date 20 June, 1820.  man 20 yr old 1 horse 9 yr. old, 3 cows, Small Steer 1 yearling steer small heifer young calves 10 head of sheep & 5 lambs and head of stock sheep, half in an old wagon & gears a 3yr old "filly" some articles of furniture & valued by court at $229.66

Has a lease of 107 3/4 acres of land from the trustees of the Township school, for which he pays annually $90.53, which he states is more than it is worth and the possession a burthen rather than a profit, [illegible] personal property is not with more than $250.  Owes to sundry persons (names given) $363.17  Schedule under act 1st March 1823. dated 26th July 1824, 1 cow - some articles of furniture.

$ 9.00
 34.33
 ---------
 $ 43.33
 
has due him 14 [illegible] bushels wheat and $ 40 due him from G. Shockley to be paid in chairs and cabinet work.  still owes a part of the debts mentioned in former schedule to the amount of $243,50-- the other debts have been paid by the sale of a great part of claimants property,  Since the exhibition of 1st Schedule has contracted debt, for necessaries for family, amounting to $16. 12 in the fall of 1821 fatted and killed the small steer and in 1822 one of the cows or family use one cow & the heifer claimant still has in his possession, that hogs fatted & killed for family use, owned one half of old wagon and purchased the other half and had it repaired at an expense of $40. sold it in Oct 1822 for $90 and paid debts with the proceeds, The lease mentioned in 1st schedule surrendered to the Trustees of the school not being able to pay the rent, now lives in the Town of Lancaster and indebted $12, in addition
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to the foregoing for rent,

A letter is filed within from the Hon. P. Beecher, stating that he has personally known claimant for the last six or eight years, that his character is good that he is nearly dependent upon his son in law and neighbours for Support - that he has a knowledge of several of the debts mentioned in the 1st & 2d schedules of claimant, were honestly contracted and have been paid.  The lease he knows has been surrendered, that if real and honest poverty entitles any one to a pension, claimant is entitled, and that there is no fraud in the old man representation
letter to Hon  L. Cap. Sec. War  4 Feb. 1836

Claimant aged 69 by occupation a farmer, in good health, but much disabled in one of his arms and shoulder, which renders it, at times difficult for him to put on his cloths.  Wife aged 65, unhealthy has required medical aid for 2 years past.

[lightly written across page] Allowed

[illegible] Jany 22. 1825
Sent to Hon P. Beecher
H. Reps.

8
7.48
1.3  
------
$ 16.51
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 10 May 1838  Agt Notified 5 July 1839.  last evidence Jany 3, 1825.
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1
January 3rd 1825
Honbl Sir
Permit me to ask your attention to the application of James Watters to be restored to the pension list -
Mr Edwards has wrote to me that he cannot be restored unless proof is made
other than by his own oath what has become of the property he held or mentioned 
in his first schedule, the debts paid, some contracted, and for what, &c &c -
Now upon looking into his first application to be placed upon the pension list you will find that he had but a small amount of property and that he returned a list of his debts, - In the one now presented he gives a list of the property now by him owned, on the debts which he owes, by which you will see he has discharged several of the debts mentioned in his first and he accounts for the property he had, there is not now
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in his hand in a manner I think which shews a fair preceding and conduct on the part of this now really poor helpless old couple. He has been personally known to me for the last six or eight year His caracter is good and his conduct has satisfied me that he is entittled to the Caracter he sustains. He now lives within eighty rods of my residence, really dependant upon his son in law and neighbours for necessaries I am myself personally knowing of several of the debts mentioned in the first and second schedule, and that the same were honestly contracted in the course of doing business in the neighbourhood way and have been paid. The Lease which he held I know has been surrendered and if real and honest [illegible] entittles this or any man to the pension this applicant is entittled to a favourable answer

There is no fraud in this old mans apresentations [?], and it would requer time and expense to him and trouble to others to require of him to prove that is required and for no valuable purpose
Respectfully yours P Bucker