Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3072, Isaac Drake, New Jersey Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                             
New Jersey   
Penn.
Drake, Isaac
NUMBER
R. 3072.

CONTENTS
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State of Missouri
County of Jackson } SS
On this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me Joel F Childs an
acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Jackson. Isaac Drake a resident of the six mile in Jackson County and State of Missouri aged seventy two 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

I, Isaac Drake of the County of Jackson and State of Missouri was born February 1764 in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey where I grew up to the age of about sixteen when I volunteered in the service of the United States under the command of Capt David Young to guard the prisoners in the jail of
Morristown which had been taken at Princeton & Trenton in which service I remained one month.  And not long after that I volunteered again and went into the service of the United States under the command of Capt Jonas Ward and remained three months reconnoitering through the country watching and guarding
against the Enemy who was then at New York and Staten Island & Long Island.  we had several little skirmishes with plundering parties of the Enemy but no regular battle as we were not with any main body of the army.  at the end of three months I was discharged and went to my Fathers in Morris County nine miles from Morristown.  Shortly after I got home I went
as a substitute for my Brother Stephen Drake under Capt Hendricks  called Bake Hendricks to Elizabethtown in Essex County where I had been the other tours and while I Elizabethtown Genl George Washington came there and we went with him to Staten Island crased on the ice and then had a hard battle with the British and had a great many of our men killed and wounded after that we kept as before reconnoitering through the country in different small companies to Elizabethtown New Ark watching the enemy at the different places as we would find them in plundering parties at the end of my three months was discharged and returned to my Fathers shortly afterwards I enlisted for twelve months under Capt Ward whose given name can not recollect but I believe it was Silis and was under Capt Ward at Elizabethtown New Ark and through the country watching and guarding against the enemy who was still at New York Staten Island & Long Island for more than half the years and in a skirmish at the mouth of a stream called Raughway [Rahway] River.  I was taken a prisoner with Eighteen others and taken to Staten Island and from there sent to New York where I was kept for some three months and then paroled with some two or three hundred others which was about the time we he[a]rd that Cornwallice [Cornwallis] was taken.  I returned to my Capt at Elizabethtown with my
parole he told me to go home & I don[e] so. I have long since lost all my discharges and my parole and I now do not know of any person living near me who can testify to these facts.
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my Father moved to Pennsylvania where I entered in the service of the United States under Gen Wayne in Capt Butlers Company and William Clark was a Lieutenant in said Company in which service I remained three years in what is now the state of Ohio and after I served three
years I lived two years in Cincinnati from there I went across the Ohio river and lived five years in Newport I moved from there to Henry County This where I lived about three year and from there I removed to Saint Louis County Missouri and lived there about three years then I removed to Howard County Missouri where I lived about sixteen years then removed to this
County where I now live.   I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pention [pension] or an annuity except the present and I declair [declare] that my name is not on the pention [pension] Roll of any agency in any state. 
Isaac Drake

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

We Michael Rice & Alfred Coates residing in the six mile Jackson County Missouri hereby certify this we are well acquainted with Isaac Drake who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and we
concur in that opinion.  sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Michael Rice
Alford Coates

I Joel F Childs an acting Justice of the peace after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department believe that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states and I further certify that Michael Rice & Alford Coates who has signed the preceding certificate are residents of the six mile Jackson County are credible persons and there [their] statement is entitled to credit.  Given under my hand this the 16th day of April 1836
Joel F. Chiles, J.P.

I Joel F. Childs do further certify that the above applicant Isaac Drake from bodily affliction is unable to appear in open court.  Given under my hand this 2nd day of May 1836
Joel F. Chiles J.P.
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Independence Mo to May 6th 1853
To the Com of Pensions
Washington City

Dr Sir
Having been applied to by the heirs of Isaac Drake deceased
to obtain from the United States Government
the amount due them on account of the
services of their father, (said Isaac Drake) as a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, if it is
not improper, you will please suffer us
to ask you for a little information relative to said Services, without which we can
not possibly prepare their claim in such
manner as it should be, before it is presented
for allowance. The heirs are unable to tell
us any thing in relation to the matter, except
that their father was in the Revolutionary
Army about three years, and they think
was under General Wayne
They also say that their father made 
application for a pension, a number of years
ago, perhaps 18 or 20, but that the agent 
attending to it, died before he had presented
the claim to a final hearing, & it has been
suffered to remain unattended to ever since.
The application is on file in your office, no doubt Isaac Drake died some ten or twelve years since.
Will you have the kindness to send us a
copy of the application and other papers filed
by Isaac Drake, if you can find them? And
if not, will you examine the records and let
us know the names of the officers under whom
Isaac Drake served, the length of time he was
in the service, when discharged, & where, and when
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and when he entered the service, together with
such other information as may be necessary to enable us to prepare an application on behalf of the heirs? These no doubt are unusual requests,
but the peculiar circumstances of the case,
will, we hope, be a sufficient apology for
having made them
Very Respectfully
Woodson, Chrisman & Comingo
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August 12, 1936.

Mrs. Green Ragan
Rural Route #1
Hickman Mills, Missouri.

BA-J/ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072

Dear Madam:
The data which are given herein were found in the papers
of file in pension claim, R. 3072, based upon service of Isaac Drake
in the Revolutionary War.
Isaac Drake was born in February 1764, in Morris County,
New Jersey and resided there during most of the Revolutionary War; the
names of his parents were not given. However, his father lived about
nine miles from Morristown, New Jersey, at the time Isaac entered
the service; Isaac's brother, Stephen, lived there at that time also.
Isaac Drake's father moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania; Isaac
moved from Pennsylvania to Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived about two years,
then lived about five years in Newport, Kentucky, and after that in
Henry County, Kentucky, about three years; he moved thence to Missouri,
resided in St. Louis County, about sixteen years, then in Ohio County,
and after that in Jackson County, Missouri, his residence in 1836, Six Mile.
Isaac Drake applied April 16, 1836 for the pension which might
have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He
stated then that at the age of sixteen years, he volunteered in Captain
David Young's New Jersey company and guarded prisoners one month, at
the jail in Morristown, that shortly after that, he served three months
in Captain Jonas Ward's New Jersey Company, in the vicinity of Staten
Island and Long Island, that he served three months also in Captain
Hendricks' New Jersey company and was at the battle of Staten Island, this
service as substitute for his brother, Stephen; that he enlisted next as
private in Captain Ward's New Jersey company, was in a skirmish at the
mouth of the Rahway River, was taken prisoner, carried to New York, held
three months, after which he was paroled, furthermore, that he enlisted in
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Pennsylvania, (to which State his father had moved) and served three
years in Captain Butler's company under General Wayne in the section
which was later Ohio. The claim for pension of Isaac Drake was not
allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the
pension law under which he applied.
In 1853, children of the soldier noted above were living, but
their names were not given, nor that of the soldier's wife. In 1853,
it was stated that Isaac Drake had been dead "some ten or twelve years
since" the date not given.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
2.
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Suspended
let. 17 June 1836
W McCarrick
present
[lined out] Woodson, Christman & Comingo
Aug 4 1853

1832
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[left side:]
3072.

P. O. _________________________
___ Isaac Drake _________
Service: _______________

                 REJECTED
Enlisted: _________________, 18   .
Discharged: ______________, 18   .

Application filed: ___________, 18   .

Alleges: __List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows
Re-enlisted: ___cause of rejection as follows : for further proof and specifications" ______

Attorney: ___________________
P.O. _________________________
_____________________________
_____ Recognized.   ________ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for _______, 18  .

[right side:]
1912 Dec. 27 Hist to
Mrs. Mary Salisbury      V.L.M.
1913. Jan. 17 Mrs
Salisbury advised
to apply to Q.M. Gen
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1913, Feb. 25. To Qr. Mr. Gen'l.
U.S.A.         For Tombstone.   FW
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1921 Feby 24 Hist to Mrs.
Madge H. Scofield
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1932 Jan. 27. Photos
mailed to Chester N.
Jones, through H. B.
Bolton. See Cornelius
Drake, S.45.336. A.D.Y.
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1936 - Aug. 11. Hist. to Mrs. Green
Ragan - I. L. L.
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1938 July 20. Hist. to Mrs. Chester
Auld   I. L. L.
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Woodson, Christman, & Comingo
Aug 4/53.
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Pension Office
Aug 11 1853

Gentlemen
Isaac Drake of Mo alledged [sp] 
that he served under Captain
David Young, Jonas Ward and
Hendricks of NJ. He adduced
no proof of service.

Messrs Woodson, Christman & Comingo
Independence
Mo
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Wm McCarrick
June 17, 1836

Record Vol 11 P 7
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War Dept. Pen. Office
June 17, 1836

Sir

The declaration of Isaac Drake of Missouri has 
been ex'd and filed with suspended cases in the office. He alleges one tour of one month as a militia man of N Jersey and two tours of three months each, and also that he enlisted for twelve months and served under Cap. Ward and while serving under said enlistment he was
taken prisoner and remained as note three
months. The N. Jersey militia did not serve more than one month under one engagement. The applicant should therefore amend his declaration as it respects his militia service and should also give the name of the colonel who commanded the regt to which he belonged as
an enlisted soldier. The rolls in this office offer no proof his service. The testimony of
witnesses is therefore required in note j in the enclosed printed sheet.  It is also necessary that the applicant should state under oath why
he has not applied for pension before this time.
Wm McCarrick Esqr.
Present
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Independence Mo Aug 1st 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
Dr. Sir
We wrote to you some two or three months ago, asking for certain information relative to the Services of Isaac Drake as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but have as yet received no reply. We wrote at the request of the heirs of Mr Drake who have repeatedly been addressed upon the subject of their claim by agents at Washington & elsewhere, but are unwilling to pay them the [illegible] for their professed services.
  At their request we again write to you, to call our first letter to your attention. Unless the rules and regulations of your department forbid it, we hope you will give us the desired information as without it they cannot take the steps necessary to have their claim examined. 
Very respectfully,
Woodson, Chrisman, & Comingo
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State of Missouri
County of Jackson } SS
I Saml. C. Owens Clerk of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joel F Chiles Esquire who appears to have signed said certified the foregoing Certificate, now is and was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified, and that to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout, and that his signature is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of said Court at Office at Independence
this 3d day of May AD 1836
Saml C Owens Clk
By
John R Swearingen
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33.715
Isaac Drake
Missouri

3072
Wm McCarrick, Esq.
Present
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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

Elizabeth Denton Chapter
Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Mark S Salisbury, Regent
Independence, Mo., January 13th,

Mr. J. L. Davenport,
Commissioner,
Bureau of Pensions,
Departmnt [sp] of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
In reply to yours of December the 27th, 1912, will the Government
furnish a Marker for Isaac Drake? You say the proof that he served
in the Revolutionary War was not sufficient to entitle him to a claim.
I have written to Morris County, N. J. to see if they can give me any 
information regarding this man, and also to Pennsylvania.
Let me know as soon as possible whether a Marker will be furnished
for this man or not. He died June 29th, 1837, and is buried on a
farm near Buckner, Jackson County, Missouri. He was 72 years, 4 months,
17 days old.
Awaiting an early reply, believe me to be
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Mark S. Salisbury
Regent

PENSION
U.S.
JAN
18
1913
OFFICE
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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Elizabeth Denton Chapter
Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Mark S. Salisbury, Regent
Independence, Mo., Dec. 16th, 1912.

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Can you give me any information as to whether or not a pension
or land grant was given to either or both of the two soldiers that died
near Fort Osage, Now Jackson County, Missouri and are buried in a family
plot near Six Mile on the Mary Chiles Farm - Isaac Drake, who died Jan. 27
1837, and Thomas Potts, both these men served in the Revolutionary War.
Can you give me their war record if not will you place this letter in
the hands of the one that can send me this information. Also we want to
place the Government Markers over these two graves. Any information you
can give me that will throw light on the subject will be thankfully received.

Yours sincerely,
Mary Salisbury
Regent

P.S. Did a Revolutionary Soldier named Shepherd (James) I thnk [sp] was the
given name - draw a pension or have a land grant. He settled south of Independence
and is buried on his farm near Lee's Summit in Jackson County.
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Denver, Colorado.
January 18th. 1920.

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: 

RE: ISAAC DRAKE, BORN MORRIS CO. NEW JERSEY, 1764.

I am seeking detailed information regarding the above
mentioned Revolutionary Soldier. The Daughters of the American Revolution
erected a monument to this man some 8 or 9 years ago at Six Mile, Jackson
County, Missouri, on the Santa Fe Trail.
I understand some detailed information can be obtained
the following books, which I am unable to procure; and I am asking your assistance
in the matter. Books: "OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR,"
by Wm. Stryker, Adj. Gen. page 579. Also HISTORY OF ESSEX AND HUDSON
COUNTIES; Vol. 1, page 34.
Kindly give me all the detailed information available
regarding this man, such as births, marriages, deaths, children, in fact all
information which will enable me to become a DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

ISAAC DRAKE:

Born in February, 1764, Morris County, N. J., serving in
Captain Horton's Company, 1st Essex Regiment; also 11th State
Troops, Pennsylvania Troops, and in Continental Army.
Was said to have blazed Santa Fe Trail to Six Mile, Jackson
County Missouri where he died June 29th, 1837. (Kindly give me
all information possible concerning this assertion.)

Hoping to hear from you at your very earliest convenience,
I am,
Very Sincerely,
MRS. MADGE HENSLEY SCOFIELD,
1711 LAFAYETTE STREET,
DENVER, COLORADO.

P.S.
Am enclosing stamped envelope for reply.

PENSION
A
JAN
22
1921
U.S.
OFFICE
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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Kansas City Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
MRS. GREEN RAGAN
RURAL ROUTE NO. 1
HICKMAN MILLS, MISSOURI

June 17, 1936.

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Our chapter of the D. A. R. is placing a tablet to the memory
of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Jackson County, Missouri.
The tablet is being placed in the Court House. Will you please send
me any and all information there may be in the pension files of the
following soldiers. We want the information for our records. We feel
that we should have all of the known facts about these soldiers.
We would appreciate having this information before the unveiling
of the tablet. The records wanted are those of: 
Lieutenant Joseph Boggs, from Pennsylvania.
Isaac Drake, from Maryland.
William Moore, served in Col. Morgan's Virginia Regiment.
Leadstone Noland, from North Carolina.
Assuring you of our appreciation of your help in honoring
these soldiers,
Sincerely yours,
Jessie Crosby Ragan
(Mrs Green Ragan)
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RECEIVED 
[cut off] 27 1938
[illegible]

[return address]
Mrs. Chester Auld
Independence Mo.
Route 3.
[Postage stamps affixed]

This belongs to
Vets Adm

George C. Dixon
Veterans Administrations
Washington D.C.

Leave this envelope
attached
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June 25, 1938
Independence Mo.

Senator George Dixon,

Dear Sir,

In tracing my family history I wrote to Dixon Ill. to find if the City of Dixon, had been named after an early pioneer by the name of Dixon.

Mr. Wm Slothower the mayor of Dixon gave me your name as reference, that you were the
great grand son of John Dixon the founder of Dixon Ill.

I am sending you a pedigree chart of my family ancestors.  In looking over this chart I thought
you could tell of any of these people are your relatives.

                                          no flat 1812
I am trying to find out who Ebenezer Dixon's Father & Mother were and if his father served
in the Rev. War.

I do not know what County in Virginia Ebenezer Dixon came from, to Missouri, and have no records that his father came to Mo.
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Ebenezer and Harriett Dixon are both buried in Jackson Co. Missouri on their old home place, which is still in the family.

They had the following children
Matthew Dixon       Eliza Dixon
John           "            Betty     "
William       "            Henrietta "
James K. Polk "      Ann      "

Matthew was the oldest son and was senator of California years ago.

Could you give me the military service records and pension records also the family history
of Isaac Drake my great-great-grandfather of the N.J. Militia Rev. War or Md. Militia.    {One only in Rev}

He died in Jackson Co. Mo.  I would appreciate very much any information that you could send me, and thanking you very much.

Mrs. Chester Auld
Independence Missouri
Route 3

Encl
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Rev. War Section.

December 27, 1912.

Mrs. Mary Salisbury,
Independence, Mo.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 16" and received
the 19” instant, you are advised that in the claim R. File
No. 3,072, it is alleged that Isaac Drake was born in February,
1764, in Morris County, New Jersey, and volunteered when
about sixteen years of age and served in the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary War; the date of his
death is not stated.
In 1836 he was a resident of Six Mile, in Jackson County,
Missouri. His claim was not allowed on account of insufficient
proof of his alleged service.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford
any information in regard to Thomas Potts or James Shepherd
described by you.

Very respectfully,
J.L. Davenport
Commissioner.

[in margin] Tombstone dates only
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AW
Rev. War Section.

January 17, 1913.
Mrs. Mark S. Salisbury,
Independence, Mo.
Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 13" and received
the 16" instant, you are advised that markers for the graves
of soldiers are furnished by the Quartermaster General, U. S. A.
to whom you should apply for information as to whether one
will be given you for the grave of Isaac Drake, Revolutionary War.

Very respectfully,
J.L. Davenport
Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section.

February 23, 1931.

Mrs. Madge H. Scofield,
1711 Lafayette Street,
Denver, Colorado.
Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 18" ultimo,
you are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim R. File No. 3,072 that Isaac Drake
was born in 1764 in Morris County, New Jersey, and alleged
that while residing in said County and State at the age of
sixteen years he volunteered under Captain David Young to guard
prisoners in the Morristown jail that had been taken at
Trenton and Princeton; served one month.
Not long after he volunteered under Captain Jonas
Ward to watch and guard the enemy at Staten Island, Long
Island and New York; served three months.
Substituted for his brother Stephen under Captain
Hendricks and was in the battle of Staten Island, served
three months.
He next enlisted under Captain Ward and while in a
skirmish at the mouth of the Rahway River was taken prisoner
and carried to New York where he was kept three months
and then paroled.
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His father, whose name is not stated, moved from near
Morristown, New Jersey, to Pennsylvania, place not stated, where
soldier alleged he enlisted in Captain Butler's Company under
General Wayne and served three years in what is now the State of
Ohio. He afterwards lived in Newport, in Henry County Kentucky
and in St. Louis and Howard Counties, Missouri, and then moved to
Jackson County, Missouri, at Six Mile, where he was living in
1836 when he applied for pension which was not allowed as he
failed to furnished sufficient proof of the alleged service.
In 1853 it was stated that "Isaac Drake died some 10
or 12 years since." Children are referred to but no names are given.

Very respectfully,
F D Byington
Commissioner.
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See order in Cornelius Drake, 
S.45336.

Rev. & 1812
No. 61.

January 21, 1932.
541

Rev.&1812 Wars Section

Rev. War claim for pension of Isaac
Drake, File No. R. 3072.

Actual 1 of each page.

90¢ 6 pages

Kindly leave margin of 1-1/2
in. at top of each page and return
papers in each case in folder with
corresponding name and number.
The word "omit" written in
pencil on those pages which are not
to be copied.
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
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List to Chester N. Jones:
Sol. decl. April 16 - 1836 & Court rec. May 3 1836- 3 pages

Woodson, Chrisman & Comingo's letter to Com. of Pensions
dated Independence, Mo. May 6- 1853
2 pages

Letter to Woodson Chrisman & Comingo
dated Pension Office Aug. 4 1853   1 page
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July 29, 1938.

Mrs. Chester Auld
Route #3
Independence, Missouri.

BA-J/ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072
Josiah Dickson
S. 16765

Dear Madam:

The Revolutionary War records of Isaac Drake and Josiah
Dickson are furnished you herein.

ISAAC DRAKE-R. 3072.

The data which follow are found in the papers on file in
pension claim, R. 3072, based upon service of Isaac Drake in the
Revolutionary War.

Isaac Drake was born in February 1764, in Morris County,
New Jersey, and resided there during most of the Revolutionary War;
the names of his parents are not given. However, his father lived
about nine miles from Morristown, New Jersey, at the time Isaac
entered the service. Isaac's brother, Stephen, lived there at that
time also. Isaac Drake's father moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania; Isaac moved from Pennsylvania to Cincinnati, Ohio, and
lived about two years, then lived about five years in Newport, 
Kentucky, after that about three years in Henry County, Kentucky: he
moved thence to Missouri, resided about sixteen years in St. Louis
County, then in Ohio County, and after that in Jackson County,
Missouri, his residence in 1836 was Six Mile, in said Jackson County.

Isaac Drake applied April 16, 1836, for the pension which might
have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He
stated then that at the age of sixteen years he volunteered in
Captain David Young's New Jersey Company and guarded prisoners one month,
at the Jail in Morristown, that shortly after that, he served three months
in Captain Jonas Ward's New Jersey Company, in the vicinity of Staten
Island and Long Island, that he served three months also in Captain
Hendricks' New Jersey Company and was in the battle of Staten Island,
said service as substitute for his brother, Stephen; that he enlisted next
as private in Captain Ward's New Jersey Company, was in a skirmish at
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the mouth of the Rahway River, was taken prisoner, carried to New York
and held three months, after which he was paroled; furthermore,
that he enlisted in Pennsylvania (to which state his father had moved)
and served three years in Captain Butler's company under General
Wayne in the section which was later Ohio. The claim for pension
of Isaac Drake was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of
service as required by the pension law under which he applied.

In 1853, it was stated that Isaac Drake had been dead "some ten
or twelve years since", the date of his death not given. In 1853,
children of the soldier were living, but their names were not given,
nor the name of the soldier's wife.

JOSIAH DICKSON-S. 16765.
The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension
claim, S. 16765, based upon service of Josiah Dickson in the 
Revolutionary War.

Josiah Dickson was born in April 1752; the place of his birth
and the names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted in 1776, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and
served as private under Captains Butler and Presley Neville in Colonel
Neville's Virginia regiment; in the fall of 1776, he engaged with
General George Rogers Clark to descend the Ohio River in order to guard
and safely conduct a quantity of powder from Fort Pitt to Harrodsburg,
and while thus engaged, was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, held
about twelve months and was then taken to Detroit where he remained a
prisoner about six months, was then sent, bound in irons, to Montreal,
thence to Quebec and was held a prisoner by the British until the close
of the war in 1783, when he was discharged in Liverpool, England.

Josiah Dickson was allowed pension on his application executed
December 7, 1832, at which time he resided in Boonville Township,
Cooper County, Missouri. There are no data regarding the family of this
soldier.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of

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person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you
should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Josiah Dickson
Certificate #5341
Issued February 8, 1833
Rate $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Missouri Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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August 12, 1936.

Mrs. Green Ragan
Rural Route #1
Hickman Mills, Missouri.

BA-J/ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072
Ledstone Noland
S. 16992

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of Lieutenant Joseph Boggs of Pennsylvania, Isaac Drake from Maryland, William Moore who served in
Colonel Morgan's Virginia regiment and Leadstone Noland from North Carolina, all of whom were buried in Jackson County, Missouri.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service
in the Revolutionary War of a Joseph Boggs, and no record could be
identified as that of the William Moore in whom you are interested.
If you will furnish approximate dates of his birth and death, another
search of the records will be made.
The record of only one Isaac Drake and only one Ledstone
Noland have been found and are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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[hand-written across top of letter:]. This letter was addressed to Senator George Dixon.  It went out on "The Hill" & the wor Senator erased & sent to Bet. Ad.  I could find no Sen. or Rep. in Congressional Directory named George Dixon.  I called the Vet. Ad. (Miss Stokes) to know if any new members of Cong. had been elected since the Directory & she said no.  I called Vet. Ad. personnel to know if a George Dixon was in any clerical rolls & report was no.  So I began my letter as in 1st par. without saying anything about George Dixon or how the letter got into the Vet. Ad.   He may be a State Senator.  MSH

July 29, 1938.

Mrs. Chester Auld
Route #3
Independence, Missouri.

BA-J/MMHF/ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072
Josian Dickson
S. 16765

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of June 25, which has been received in the Veterans Administration for reply to your inquiry in regard to the names of the father and mother of Ebenezer Dixon of Virginia and Missouri, whose wife was Harriet McCown Dixon, both buried in Jackson County, Missouri, he in 1884 and she in 1884, also, the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Drake of New Jersey or Maryland.

The War of 1812 records have been searched, assuming that Ebenezer Dixon might have served in that war, and no claim for pension
found, nor record of issuance of a bounty land warrant for service of the Ebenezer Dixon cited above. The War of 1812 record has been found of an Ebenezer Dixon who served in the Kentucky Militia, lived later in Indiana, wife Catharine Waugh Dixon. If you desire the record of that Ebenezer Dixon, it will be furnished you upon request.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a soldier with surname Dixon (variously spelled ) who served with the Virginia troops, in which is recorded the name of a son Ebenezer. The record of one soldier only with that surname, who served in the Virginia troops
and later lived in Missouri, has been found on the Revolutionary War records of this office; it is that of Josiah Dickson. His record and that of the only Isaac Drake found on said records are furnished herewith.

Your genealogical chart is enclosed with these reports.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant