Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 8250, for Jesse Pigman, Pennsylvania
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Service                                                Number
Penn.         Pigman, Jesse                      R8250
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35791
Jesse Pigman

Ind'a.
Act 7 June '32



Caleb B. Smith
Connorsville
Ind'a.
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State of Indiana   )
Union County      )  Ss     On this fourteenth of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared in open court before the Probate court in and for the county of Union and State of Indiana said court being a court of Record by it having a Clerk and official seal and declared a court of Record by the laws of the State of Indiana creating said court, and now judicially sitting Jesse Pigman a Resident of the said county of Union aged Seventy nine years past 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  That he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war under the following named officers and served as herein stated that he resides in what is now called Washington county in the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1780, and belonged to the militia company and in the month of March, as well as he now recollects of that year he was then between 15 and 16 years of age he was drafted by an order issued, as he then understood it by the Governor to aid in the Revolutionary war and mainly to defend the frontier settlements from Indian and other depredations in the Western parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia and that he entered the service and served as a private first in the militia troop so called in the month of march 1780 in the company commanded by captain Jesse Pigman, his father who has since deceased the name or number of the Regiment to which he belonged on was attached he does not now recollect any further than they were called militia Regiments.  The names of the officers who commanded the Regiment and troop to which he belonged was Lieut. Vanmeter & Col. Morgan & who were under the command of Genl. Han or Hand who were commissioned by the Governor & Genl. Washington both as he then understood from them at least  Genl Han or Hand was an officer of Wasington Army and
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was only occasionally with our troop  And those were the officers whom attended to the draft resting the troop there for the purpose before stated out of the militia of the contrary.
After we were (?) mustered into companies and our captains appointed the troop was marched by Col. Morgan to Jacksons Fort where the troop were stationed a great portion of the time and were afterwards marched to where Wheeling now is on the Ohio and from there through the interior & frontier parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania on the Monengahela River and its tributary streams  once we crossed the Ohio River to the North West side in persuit of the Indians and at another time of March we were taken to Fort Suqusana now Pittsburg & were there some time and at another time were marched to protect and drive back some Indians from Fort Ameron or Anerom Fort in Virginia and were all the time either on march or stationed at those Forts.  Once we had a fight with the Indians on what was called white womans creek we killed a number of Indians & run the balance of them off and we took some prisoners we lost two men in our troop at that battle & had one wounded   And from there we returned to Jacksons Fort  This is the only main Battle I was in during my service the Indians always fled at the approach of our troop although they killed a great many People in the country and about those parts before our Regiments were raised and did some injury to the settlers in the crop season when we were absent on a tour of marching at other forts  Before I was drafter as aforesaid we had frequently forted in the neighborhood but we were to weak for the Indian forces and the news was sent to the Governor and those officers were then sent to on & the drafts was made for those Regiments to be raised by the Governor orders to better defend the Frontiers & keep back the Indians from aiding the
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British & Tory parties that sometimes scoured the country  After I had served as a private in Jesse Pigman & Militia company as aforesaid a spy company was raised out of our troops by order of the officers aforesaid and I was chosen one of the spies & acted as Ensign in the Spy company and was commssioned as such Ensign by the Governor which commission has been destroyed for those forty years not supposing it ever would be of any service to me
One Joseph Vanmeter was the captain of our Spy company belonging to said Regiments or troop & Col. William Crawford was another Col. in command of some of the other Regiments as well as I now recollect.  I served in the Spy company until we were discharged which was about three years  That I was continually in the service from March 1780 until about the middle of the month of November 178(?) as well as he recollects at this time, and that there was no further call for there services as the war had likely terminated and that he was not engaged in any civil pursuit during that time from March 1780 to Nov 1781  That he was discharged at Jacksons Fort in the West Part of Pennsylvania by the officers aforesaid but no written discharge was given to him for the reason his captain said that he did not know but that they would again have to be called out which was never afterwards done.  I am not in possession of any documentary evidence of my service nor have I ever received any pay or copensation for my services  There are two men yet living now in this country who has a personal knowledge of my services as above stated, viz.  Job Prebble & Amos Millner.  I hereby relinquish any claim whatsoever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll or agency of any state or territory of the United States
     Jesse ([his mark] Pigman
Sworn to and subscribed in open court  )
this 14th day of May 1844                       )
     William Cason                                     )
     Probate Judge of U Co. In
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Whereupon the court propounded the following interrogations to Jesse Pigman the foregoing applicant for a Pension to wit

1 Where and in what year were you born?
   Ans   I was born near Hagerstown in Maryland in the year 1765

2 Have you any record of your age & if so where it it?
   Ans  I have a record of my age in my possession transcribed from my fathers family record but cant say that it is correctly transcribed

3  Where was you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you live now
   Ans  I was living in the Western part of Pennsylvania what is now I think called Washington county where I was called into the service and have lived since the Revolutionary war in the same place next in Fayette county & next in Bracken county & next in Jessamine County Kentucky & next in Union County in Indiana where I now live & have lived there thirteen years passed

4.  How were you called in to service were you draughted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
   Ans  I was draughted in March 1780 and served as a private for about 6 months and then I was selected or drafted from the troops to serve in a Spy company where I served as an Ensign for about one year and two months as well as I can now recollect

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 circumstance of your service
   Ans  The Regular officers who commanded the troop
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had the higher command of all was General Han (And the) or Hand, or some such name, and whether the other (the) officers were Regular officers of the continental army, I do not know, those names were Lieut. Vanmeter, Col. Morgan, & Col. Crawford also, belonged to the troop & and had command of part of the troop, or Regiments.  My first captains name was Jesse Pigman, & after the Spy company was raised Joseph Vanmeter was captain of that company;  I cannot state the names or number of the Regiments, if they had any regular names or numbers, they were called Militia Regiments & generally went by the name of the Col.
And the general circumstances of my service was such as I have already before stated in my declaration above, to which I again beg leave to refer you, which is as specific as my memory will now serve me.

6th  Did you ever Receive a discharge from the service; if so, by whom was it given & what has become it?
Ans.  I never recd. a discharge in writing from the service, our officers were not certain but we should again be called out & when we heard Cornwallis had surrendered, the troop were permitted to go home from the forts just as they pleased & when they pleased.  But all went off nearly at the same time, we had not any Indian or other difficulties & but little duty to perform for several weeks & perhaps two or three months before we got discharged.

7.  Did you ever receive a commision, and, if so, by whom was it signed, & what has become it?
Ans.  I received a commission as Ensign of the Spy company which was signed I think by the Governor & I most think it was Pattrick Henry of Virginia as Captain Vanmeter of Spy company was a Virginia office & so was part
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of the troop, & our Spy company was formed at Ancrom's Fort in Virginia while we were there, out of the Regiments from both Pennsylvania & Virginia, my commission was destroyed or lost or mislaid with my old papers at least forty years ago, it was nearly worn out & I think most likely it was thrown away, as useless.  I could not read writing, but I think the name was Pattrick Henry who signed the commission.  

8.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans.  I can state the name of John C Crouch, a clergyman, and H.H. Brandenburg & Robert Swan, my neighbours, who can probably testify to these matters.

We John C. Crouch, a clergyman residing in the town of Liberty in Union county Indiana & H. H. Brandenberg and Robert Swan residing in the neighbourhood of the above named Jesse Pigman in said county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Pigman, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine 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 the opinion of his neighbors as to that fact is very general; and that we concur in that opinion.
     John C Crough Clergyman
     Henry H. Brandenberg   )
      Robert Swann                ) neighbors

Sworn to and subscribed in open court  )
this 14th day of May 1844.                      )
     William Cason        )
     Judge of Probate    )
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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 (words marked out) above-named applicant was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and served as he states, and that this opinion is very general in the county where the applicant is known, which has never been doubted upon particular inquiry.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John C. Crouch, who has signed the preceding certificate is a Respectable clergyman, Resident in the town of Liberty, in Union county, in the state of Indiana, and that H. H. Brandenberg and Robert Swan are credible persons; and that their statements are entitled to credit.

      William Cason
      Probate Judge

State of Indiana  )
Union County     )  Ss.

     I Edgehill Burnside, Clerk of the circuit court in and for the county aforesaid and ex-officio Clerk of the Probate court, in and for said county do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said Probate court, in the matter of the application of Jesse Pigman for a Pension, that said court is a court of  Record & was judicially sitting when said procedings were had before said court.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name affixed the official seal of said Probate court, at my office at Liberty this 14th day of May Anna Domini 1844.
   Edgehill Burnside Clerk
[seal affixed]
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State of Indiana  )
Union County     )  Ss.
  On this 18th day of May A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me William W. Davis one of the justices of the Peace in and for the county of Union and state of Indiana, Job Pribble a resident of said county of Union aged eighty two years past, and Amos Milner, a Resident of Fayette county Indiana, aged eighty three years past, who having by me both duly sworn according to law, upon their oath say, that they are both personally and well acquainted with Jesse Pigman, the declarant, named in and who swore to and subscribed the foregoing declaration hereto attached.  That these affiants and said Pigman all resided in the same neighbourhood and were then young men companions in the Western part of Pennsylvania, what is now called Washington county, in the year 1780 and in account of Indian and Tory depredations, about that time during the forepart of the Revolutionary war the People of that county were were compelled to fort for their safety and the forces then in the county was not sufficient to expel the enemy, and news was sent to the Governors of Pennsylvania & Virginia for assistance, and the Governors issued their Proclamations, we think, or orders, with certain officers to make a draught upon the militia, and raise several perhaps form Regiments, to defend the frontier country, in Pennsylvania and
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draught upon the milita, and raise several, perhaps form Regiments, to defend the frontier country in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and in accordance with those orders, the said Jesse Pigman, and ourselves, were drafted for the purpose and we were with the rest of the company in that settlement, after the captains were appointed, mustered into service under one Captain Jesse Pigman Senr. (who was the father of the above declarant) some time in the month of March in the year 1780 (it was early in the Spring) and after we were put under Captain Pigman, there were some other companies raised not far off, which we joined, and were marched to what was called Jackson's Fort, by Col. Morgan, where all those Militia Regiments rendezvouxed.  We think there was four Regiments.  We were stationed at Jackson's Fort, for some time.  Some of the troop were marched to Fort Ancrom in Virginia, and some were taken to Fort Duqesne, and sometimes we were on march, some times guarding & stationed at these Forts, sometimes one place and then at another.  The People had mainly forted; but were not sufficiently armed with the proper forces, until these Regiments were raised by the draughts, upon the orders of the Governors as aforesaid.
    We had a personal knowledge of the service of the above declarant, all the time pretty much we were out and we served under Captain Pigman all the time, and under Lieut. Van Meter, & Col. Morgan, and one General Hand had a general command of the whole troop and as we understood belonged to the United States army under General Washington, & was occasionally only with the troop & then returned to Washington's army; and that Lieut. Vanmeter & Col. Morgan were commissioned we understood by the Governors & General Washington both.  There was also, one Col. Crawford who had command of a part of the troop, or these Regiments, & we think these were the only two Col's. there were.  We were marched at times all through the country in
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pursuit of Indians, and sometimes the tory party, were run off to the South, but there were but few of them there.  We crossed the Ohio River on a tour at one time after an army of Indians, which we drove from near where Wheeling now is, we were gone about sixty days that time.  On another march we had a battle with the Indians on white womans creek, we whiped the Indians & drove them off.  There were several killed & wounded & we took two prisoners; we lost two men killed & had four or five wounded.
    We were continued in the service aforesaid from March 1780 until late in the fall of the year 1787, we recollect it was some time shortly after we got the news through Genl. Hand, that Cornwallis, the British commander. had gone up to Genl. Washington and it was said the war would not likely be continued any longer, and our Regiments were discharged, some were discharged we think at Fort Ancrom & some at Fort DuQuesne & we were discharged at Jacksons Fort.  we do not recollect of any written discharge given by our officers, some said that likely we would be called again into service.
    While we were at Fort Ancrom in Virginia, the officers ordered a Spy company to be raised, which was done and Jesse Pigman, the above declarant was draughted or chosen as one of the company & was appointed Ensign of the Spy company, under Captain Joseph Van Meter of the Spy company.  this we think was in the fall of the year 1780.  we seen said Pigman often afterwards, but the Spy company which he was in was out more than the rest of the troop on duty & passed more frequently from one Fort to the other.  Captain Van Meter was a Virginia officer & we
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think Col. Crawford was also.  We never followed any civil pursuit from March 1780 until we were discharged in perhaps November 1781, at Jacksons Fort & that said Pigman was discharged at same time & place.  That we have known said Pigman ever since and that he now resides in Union county in the state of Indiana, where he has lived for twelve or thirteen years past & previous thereto, he resided in Kentucky & in Pennsylvania.  further saith not.
   Amos [his mark] Millner
   Job Pribble

Sworn to and subscribed before  )
me this 15th day of May               )
A.D. 1844.                                      )

William W. Davis      J.P.                 )

I William W. Davis the justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing affidavit of Job Pribble & Amos Millner, was this day made subscribed & sworn to, do certify that the said Job Pribble and Amos Millner are persons of truth and veracity, and that their statements are entitled to credit, which I certify from my own personal knowledge.  Given under my hand this 15th day of May 1844.
    William W. Davis   J.P.
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State of Indiana
Union County ss

    I Edgehill Burnside Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the county of Union aforesaid, do certify that William W. Davis Esq. whose official signature appear to the foregoing affidavit of Job Pribble & Amos Milner & to his certificate of their credibility, now is and was on the day of the dates therefore an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified, that full faith and credit are due his official acts and the his said signature thereto are genuine.

    In testimony where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office at Liberty this 15th day of May 1844.

                                  //s//
                   Edgehill Burnside Clerk

                                                   35791

Jesse Pigman
Ind'a
Act 7 June '32


Hon.  Caleb B. Smith
Connorsville
Ind'a.
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Pension Officer
Washington City
D.C.


America La.
1 Nov.
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House of Reps
26th April 1866

Sir
  Allow me to call your attention to the application of Jesse Pigman for a Pension, now on file in your office.
  Jesse Pigman in his declaration made under the act of 7th June 1832, states that he was born at Hagerstown Md. and during the Revolution resided in what is now Washington Co. Pa.  That in March 1780 he was drafted into his father's (Jesse Pigman's) company of Militia, and served as a private for six months.  That he was afterwards appointed an Ensign in Capt. Joseph Van Meter's company of spies under Col. Wm. Crawford and was discharged at Westport Pa. in Nov 1781.  That he received a commission which he thinks was signed by Patrick Henry.  In his amended declaration he states that he was first drafted in the Militia
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for two months, and served six months under his father, and was appointed an Ensign of spies and served until Nov 1781
  The evidence in this case is 
1st  That he is reputed among his neighbours to have been a revolutionary soldier.
2nd  The affidavit of Joseph Pribble and Amos Milner that they and Jesse Pigman resided in the same neighbourhood in 1780 and were drafted with said Pigman into Capt Pigman's company in March of that year and served under him.  That Pigman was appointed an Ensign of spies and served until Nov 1781.
  Thus we have Pigman's declaration and the affidavits of two respectable witnesses who served with him, and the belief of the neighbourhood, to prove Pigman's service.
  You have no record of the militia of that part of the country, and writing to Richmond Va. and Harrisburgh Pa.  I am informed that none can be found
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at either place.  It is a matter of history that Washington county was at that time a frontier county and the seat of war.  There is consequently nothing to create even a doubt (underlined), as to the truth of the statements, but on the contrary everything to confirm them.  We have produced the best evidence of which the nature of this case will admit, such evidence as would satisfy any Court or Jury, and should satisfy any Department.
  The only question then is whether the services rendered by Pigman were such as to entitle him to a Pension.  On this point it appears to me that there can be no doubt, as it is proved that he served six months as a Militia (underlined) man and the balance of the time as an Ensign of spies, and the act of 7th June 1832 provides for "each of the surviving officers, non commissioned officers, musicians, soldiers and Indian Spies (underlined) who shall serve in the continental line, or state troops volunteers or militia (underlined)" &c
  From a long acquaintance with the Pig-
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man, I know him to be a man of truth, and of undoubted character, and I am fully satisfied that his statements are entitled to the fullest credit.
  Believing that he has a meritorious claim I respectfully ask for it a favourable consideration
    I am with respect
    Yours
    Cobb B. Smith

Hon J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
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(Transcriber's note: This is a photostatic order form for Jesse Pigman's from his ancestor.)

Submit in Duplicate     1.681     Phone Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job refer to Requisition No. 25960
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
_________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
              WASHINGTON
Chief, Division of Publications,     August 21, 1928
Room G 137
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering...Pension  Deliver to Room 5033
(All copy for duplicating work should be plain and written in elite type, exactly line for line as it is to appear in finished job.)

Title and description of job: photostatic copies of 13 pages from Rev. War claim for pension of Jesse Pigman, R.8250

No. of copies  1 of each    Shall form be kept standing: ______ days.

For further information see M/M.H. Finch Room: 5033 Phone: 541 

Approved 
A.D. Williamson           Margaret M.H. Finch
__________________         _____________________ Chief Clerk of Bureau   Chief of Branch or Division
_____________________________________________
                          Check Work Desired

Duplicates
Multigraph  single or double space?  Facsimile signatures?

Mimeograph    One side or both sides  Facsimile signature?
Folding              Once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling           Once?   Twice?      Dated?
electric typewriter  Fill in address?   Dated"

Addressograph from lists
Envelope size                      Card Size
Proof list                              Pay rolls  
Labels (submit sample)        Corrections
Fill in letters                          Tabulation sheets

Photostatic  X   Size  Actual   Official Use
repay?  Yes  $1.95
Blue print        Size    Official Use?  Repay..
Remarks (over)
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(Transcriber's note: This is second half of the photostatic copy order form.  All areas are left blank.)

Note:  Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without forms reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief of bureau.              
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Indicate by an X in proper square action to be taken.

___Make new addressograph Plate}
___Change present addressograph plate} on list 
___Destroy present addressograph plate}

as follows:

Now reads    1.____
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Should read    1.____
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION         ADDRESSOGRAPH

The above change was made ______ 192_.
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15822

3-2233
Bureau of Pension
Finance Division

Aug. 21, 1928
Rev. & 1812 War Section

I have this day received from Col. Ben La Bree money order in the amount of $2.00 requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.

Photostat mailed Finance div Ntfd - Aug. 29, 1928.    MMF

O.J. Randall
Chief, Finance Division    HCL

to C.C.  Aug 22 to Law Aug. 28
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My Old Kentucky Home Commission
Incorporated
A Sate Shrine
"Federal Hill" near Bardstown, Ky.

Officers
Gov. F.D. Sampson, Charman
(3 name and titled obliterated)
LCol. Benjamin BenLaBree, Curator
Bardstown, Kentucky

State Commission
Governor F.D. Sampson
Mrs. A. T. Hert
Mrs. Elmer Grigsby
Mrs. S. H. Stone
Arch H. Pulliam
J. Dan Talbott
R. Lee Callahan
W. N. Cox
Peter Lee Atherton

August 17, 1928

Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner
of Pensions, Dep't of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Your favor of the 9th, to hand.
    Enclosed find money order for$2.20 to pay for a PHOTOSTATIC copy of the Application for PENSION of JESSE PIGMAN, (R.8250) who served in the company of his father, Captain Jesse Pigman.
    The number of pages to be copied is thirteen (13) and at 15 cts. per page, $1.95, add to this 25cts. for a certificate of service, which makes the total cost $2.20.  The money order is for the same amount and covers the cost.

                                 Yours respectfully,
                                 Ben La Bree
                              Ben. Labree, Bardstown, Ky.
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Rev & 1812 Wars Section.

                         COPIED BY ADY

His request in cl of Littleton Jeter W9077.

                                                    August 9, 1928.

Colonel Benjamin LaBree,
Bardstown,
Kentucky.

Sirs:
    I advise you that there is no claim for pension or bounty land in file on account of the service of Captain Jesse Pigman, War of the revolution,  However, there is a claim for pension of file on account of the service in that war, of his son, Jesse Pigman, (R.8250) who served in his father's company. 
    Photostatic copies of the papers on file in his application for pension will be furnished you upon request, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification if that is desired.
    The number of pages to be copied is thirteen.
    The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money orders drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.

                              Respectfully,

                              Winfield Scott
                               Commissioner
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REJECTED 

8250
P.O. Jesse Pigman

Service:

Enlisted: _____________18 __.
Discharged: __________18 __.

Application field: ______ 18 __.
Alleges: _______

Re-enlisted: _______
Attorney: _______

P.O. ____

______Recognized.  _______Contract
______Cert of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18 __.

1928 Aug 9, Col. Ben La Bree   MMF
Advised cost of photostat        MMF
1928 Aug 29 Photostat to Col Ben La Bree   MMF
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(Transcriber's note: an addressed envelope.)

Hon. James E. Heath                        FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. Columbia

Oct 9th 1851
Rel(ated) to the case of Jesse Pigman 
see the index in old case Jesse Wallace Jr.
Brookville, Ind.
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September 19th A.D. a851

Dear Sir
    I wish to draw your attention to the application of Jesse Pigman for a Pension.  the application was made about the year 1842 or 3 (so the old man states) also to the case of Amos Milliner and Job Preble, made about the same time.  they say that they maybe mistaken as to the years that they made their application, but think the above is the time.  so if you should not find them in those years, you may not think they have not been made.  It is desired that an examination of the cases will be speedily made and a statement made to me of their condition, whether they will allowed or not, or any of them, and if anything is to be done to complete them or any of them what it is.  I am told that the Department signified some two years ago that the case of Milliner would be paid but at that time money enough was not appropriate to pay all applications.  These three are cases that should be paid
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if there are any that are deserving the service without question has been done and the applicants are rather in dependant circumstances.  It is hoped that this will find attention without delay.
   James Wallace 

Hon (?) H. Herath
  Coms of Pensions

N.B.  If a Revolutionary Soldier is dead and no application made and the muster rolls show the service done will the department pay the children (interlined) for services, and pay the children the Pension he might have drawn
                 J.W.
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1857
Nov. 1st America Wabash County Ind.
Gentlemen of Pension Department, I wish to draw your attention to the application of Elihu Garrison for Bounty laws. He has received a warrant for forty acres for serving as a private in Capt. Ford's company, U.S. Rangers, in Black Hawk's War.  The warrant is No. 22,640. Pension says that he served one year and made his application for that length of time and wants the -- and -- he is entitled to 160 acres in lieu of the 40...
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must do if anything, to affect the correction he was discharged at Fort Gibson as the muster rolls will show

N.G. some time in September I had writen to the department for information for the Application of Jesse Pigman and others for a pension and have yet recieved no answer, the letter was writen from Brookville (illegible)  you may send the answer to both these to America Wabash County Indiana
   Your Humble Servant
      James Wallace
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     March 29  45

Sir
     Encld. you will find the amended declaration of Jesse Pigman of (?) an applicant for a pension under the Act of June 7 1832, as early as 1834.  Be pleased to give it a favorable notice
      I am Respectfully
      H. A. Sylvester
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Jesse Pigman of Union Co, Id.

 Amended Declaration.
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State of Indiana   )  Ss
Unnion County    )      On the 22nd day of February A.D. 1845, personally appeared before me William W. Davis one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county, Jesse Pigman, a Resident of said county, aged eighty years on the 14th day of this month, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, upon his oath, says,  That he is the same identical person who made his declaration for a Pension under the act of June 7, 1832, before the Probate court of this county on or about the 14th of May 1844, which declaration is now on file in the Pension office at Washington City, D.C.  And that the commissioner of Pensions requires a corrected statement of the service, set out by a Deposition, as appears by letter from the Hon. J.L. Edwards, Comr. of Pensions, to the Hon. Caleb B. Smith, of date July 16th 1844.  That in the month of March 1780, he was drafted by an order of the Governor, for Commanding officrs of the troop of the state of Pennsylvania, during the Revolutionary war, and belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Jesse Pigman (his father), under the Command of Lieut. Vanmeter & Col. Morgan & Genl. Hand or Han, or some such name.  He was drafted for two months, as well as he now recollects, and believes, that all of the troops that were drafted was for the same langth of time; and when the first two months expired under the draft, he volunteered & was continued in the service under the same officers & the same organized troop, & nearly all the men done the same, some however went home & their places were supplied by further drafts, as their tours expired.  That he continued in the service as a private under Capt. Pigman for six months, or thereabouts as near as he can now recollect, and about that time he believes in September 1780. It was ordered that a Spy company should be formed out of the troop, which was done and that he attached himself to the Spy company, under Capt. Vanmeter, who appointed him (Pigman) ensign of the Spy company.  That he continued in the Spy company as such ensign from the time of its organization as aforesaid in Sept. 1780, until he was disbanded in November 1787, as well as he now recollects.
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The whole number of the troop was about eight hundred (interline) or a thousand (end) at the highest number, as near as he could now form an opinion of it, some times there were less he believes, but never under about five or six hundred, at the Forts, and on tours of duty upon march, besides those stationed at Fort DuQuesne, which belonged to the same troop, as he understood & with all these there was over a thousand in the whole, consisting of at least two regiments.  The troop when stationed, were at Fort DuQuesne, Fort Jackson & Fort Aneram.  The two first in Pennsylvania and the latter he believes was in Virginia, or close to where it was understood the line passed between the two states.  The troop were enlisted by the orders of commanding officers & mainly supplied from Fort DuQuesne, he believes.  And that this declarant never attended (interline) to receive (end) nor applied for any pay for his said service after he was disbanded.  That his said officers were commissioned by the Governor, or State of Pennsylvania.  He further declares herein that he applied for his pension under the act of June 7, 1832, in the year 1834 and that his application was returned with a request for more particular specification of his service, as the declaration did not specify the matters, as is herein set forth & now required, & that no such specification was then made out & forwarded to the Department & the claim has had no further attention or prosecution until the persentation of the claim in July last.  And that Job Pribble of Union county, Indiana, one of his witnesses in the Deposition with his claim now presented, was an applicant for a pension in the year 1834, which was not allowed as known to this deponent.
                Jessee (his mark) Pigman
Sworn to & subscribed before me )
this 22nd day of February 1845 -   )
                                                        )
    William W Davis  J.P.   (seal)        )
     R. N. Layton, witness                  )
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State of Indiana Union county, Ss.

I William W. Davis, the Justice of the Peace, before whom the foregoing Deposition & amended (underlined) declaration was made this day, do certify, that Jesse Pigman, the Deponent & declarant, is a person of truth & credibility, and known and reputed as such in the county where he resides & is generally known & that his statements are entitled to credit, which I certify from my own personal knowledge.  Given under my hand this 22nd day of February A.D. 1845.
            William W Davis J.P.
             [seal]

State of Indiana  )
Union County     ) Ss.
     I Edghill Burnside Clerk of the circuit court in and for the county aforesaid, do certify, that William W. Davis whose official signatures appear to the foregoing Deposition and certificate of credibility, now is and was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due his official acts, and that his signature thereto are genuine.
[seal affixed]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the official seal of said court at my office at Liberty this 22d day of February 1845.

Edghill Burnside Clerk