Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24102, James Eames, Mass.
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(3—1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Eames, James
Ruth

NUMBER
W. 24102

CONTENTS
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N: 11,196
Maine

James Eames of Newry in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Prentiss of the Regt. commanded by Col. Nixon in the Mass. troops [crossed out: line] for 11 months Private $36.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of April 1833 and sent to P. C. Virgin Rumford Me.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 | 73.32
Semi-anl allowance ending 6. Sep. 1833 | 18.33
| $91.65

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 13
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5530

Maine

Ruth Eames widow of James Eames Mass who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36. Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1848.] 10th day of Septr 1849

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Octr 1830 and sent to Rufus Prince Turner Maine

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 10 Vol. 1
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James Eames
13,598
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STATE OF MAINE.

COUNTY OF Oxford SS.

ON this 17th day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, James Eames a resident of Newry in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 69 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That as a private in the year 1776 what [illegible] at the Town of [Natic?] in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts enlisted as a volunteer with a company of Militia [illegible] and lead by Captain prentis for the term of three Months- Marched to a place called Wolbarn's Island on [illegible] Island [near?] Boston in said state - part of term was employed in making [fort?] and part of the time was [illegible] as a [illegible] in Charleston point - and at the expiration of said term was discharged. In 1777 at said Natic enlisted into a company [illegible] of the State of of Massachusetts as a substitute for one [Drewing?] in the company commanded by Captain Daniel [Eames?] the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Howes for the term of one Month and Marched to [Rhodesland?] and in the month of September 1777 was honorably discharged. 1779 at sad Natic enlisted into a company of Drafted Militia commanded by Captain Nathaniel Baldwin – during duty one Month and four days at [illegible] under Major General [Shumarch?]. 1780 enlisted in a company of Drafted Militia at said Natic for the term of [six?] months commanded by Captain Elias [illegible] Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon and Marched to the state ofNew York and continued there in the service [on the tenth?] day of December 1780 was honorably by General Thomas Nixon at that [time?] as per his [discharge] hereunto amends. He again was from the term of [nine?] Months in the Drafted Militia for served under whose command he is unable to state and the time he entered he is unable to state- He knows of no person above three Months the last [one?] Month service [proves?] that [illegible] personal knowledge. The [illegible] month was [illegible] at [Barrackss?] in Roxbury near Boston [when he?] was expected the British would invade Boston - and at [illegible] was preparing to go to the [seventh?] ward.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.

James Eames

Stephen Emery Judge
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We Daniel Gould a Clergyman residing in the Town of [illegible] in the county of Oxford and State of Maine and James Swan residing in Newrey in said county hereby testify that we are well acquainted with James Eames who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations. That we believe him to be sixty 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 we concur in that opinion

Daniel Gould
James Swan

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court; the day & year aforesaid
Stephen Emery, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. [illegible] the deposition of Ebenezer Eames, on oath - & the certificate of James Eames Jr., not on oath - also the certificate of Daniel Gould a Clergyman of Rumford in said county, (there being no ordained regular settler clergyman in said Newry) and James Swan, a citizen of said Newry, on oath [as?] credible persons - also a certificate of Edward D. Bangs, Secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts — as an original discharge all hereunto annexed

Stephen Emery, Judge

I Joseph G Cole Register [crossed out: Clerk] of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Eames for a pension.

IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of September A. D. 1832.

[crossed out: CLERK.]

Joseph G Cole Register
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Ruth Eames,
widow of James
Me
Act 2 Feb 1845

Married 1784
Busd died 10 Sept 1849
Admd 11 mos pr',
$36:66 per anum
fr 10 Sept 1849

Rufus Prince
Turner,
Me.
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State of Maine
County of Oxford ss.

On this fourteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, Job Prince Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, Ruth Eames a resident of Newry in said County of Oxford aged Eighty seven years who being first duly sworn, according to law doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the second day of February AD 1848 granting Pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of James Eames, who served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War that for the names of the officer under whom he served, as well as the period of time - She would refer the Department to the evidence accompanying his, the said James Eams, Declaration upon which he obtained a Pension of thirty six dollars & sixty six cents per annum under the Act of 7th June 1832 – She further declares that she was marrid to the said James Eames on the ninth day of September  in the year seventeen hundred eighty four in the town of Needham and

(over)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the Revd [Wm?] West solemnized the marriage and that her maiden name was Felch, that her husband the aforesaid James Eames died in the town of Newry and State of Maine on the tenth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred forty nine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place at the time above stated. She further Declares that she still remains a widow and unmarried

Geo. R. Shaw

Ruth her X mark Eames

Sworn to and subscribed, by said Declarant on the day and year first above written.-

She being unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court

Before me Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County
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July 2nd 1832
[illegible] James of Bethel in the County of Oxford[illegible] do herby certify that James is
resident in the  County in the Town of (?)
[illegible] and Commonwealth of
Massachusetts is now 68 years of age that he with our Parents removed in to Natick an adjoining town that the war then then living when the Revolution commenced & remained their residence for many years [illegible] 1776 -I was in the Continental army [illegible]  received a letter from my father & family that the said James was enlisted in to the army near
(?) & on my return found them correct I was not with him in a line at any one he was informed that at (?) he served and
on or before the year 1780 & there in the six on the service & the with same office or any of them that I was under he was in the arm by a great many convers
after and that he have have a good Road
of their hands. Everin short I do not believe that he
the said
James would intentionally present
of his services in the Revolution army as to place of his abode since he did said services moved to Needham and joining town from thereto Dublin Newhampshire that when he
about for me or for whom I now know he has been there for more than thirty years last past
to his being considered to (?) to be believed by his towns men I believe his for the Town has chosen him to [illegible]
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Oxford ss August 9th 1832. Personally appeared the within named Ebenezer James and made Oath that the within certificate by him signed is true 
Before me
Barber Bartlett Justice of the Peace

I do consider both James James and Ebenezer
me to be men of truth and veracity and
have been personally acquainted thirty years
Barber Bartlett

James and (?)  a repentance of (?) the within James [illegible] for more than one years, at
Regent services in the Revolutionary War
1816 at the title and 17th Rhode island in 1779 [remainder of text is illegible]
Church of Bethel
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STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford County, SS.

I RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Barber Bartlett 
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Ebenezer Eames is a 
Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 27th day of September in the  year A.D. 1832
R Goodenow {Clerk of Oxford County Courts.}

[Written upside down - 1776]
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Adm
11 mo  [25 days crossed out]
36.66


P.C. Virgin Esq. 
Rumford
Me
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BRIEF in the case of James Eames of Newry
in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 69 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
In 1776
1777
Sept 77
1780

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
3 mos
1 mo  4 days
6 mo
1 m

Rank.
As a Private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Capt Eame   Capt Hewes
Capt Belcher
Capt  Elves Col Nixon
does not recollect the officers

5. In what battles was he engaged?  None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Natic Mass

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  documentary, try witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Signature of Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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[Text in upper left.]
This Bureau can furnish the mill record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the
Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in
any War may also be found on archives of many of the original States.


L. W. B.
W. 24102.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
February 1st, 1898.

Sir: 
Replying to your request for information concerning James Eames, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on September 17, 1832, at which time he was 69 years of age and residing Oxford County, Maine, and his pension was allowed for eleven months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Prentiss and Col. Nixon. He enlisted at Natic, Mass. 

His widow, Ruth, made application and received a pension for the
service of her husband as above set forth.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner



Mr. J. F. Moulton,
Bank of California,
San Francisco, California.
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James Eames
Mass. 
W.24102
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James James, a Six Months Service in the State of 
Massachusetts Regiment is hereby Discharged the service in Consequence of a  General Order.

Given under my hand in Quarters at West Point
this tenth day of December AD 1900

To all Commands}

Signature of Thos Nixon  Col
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James Eames
W. F. 24102  Mass. 

Discharge certificate of James Eames a 6 mo. levie, in the 6th Mass. regt., signed Thos. Nixon, Col., dated West Point, Dec. 10, 1780, has been removed from this case and locked up in the Record Division. 

JMH
May 17, 1911
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Circular stamp of the Pension Office  Jan 22 1898 in upper right corner

H Clay Evans  Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir
Will you please furnish the data of its Revolutionary War record of James Eames who drew a pension from Oxford Co. Maine

Respectfully
I.F. Moulton

c/o Bank of California
San Francisco  Cal
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Rev 24-102
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24102
Ruth Eames
Wid of 
James Eames

Priv. Rev War
Act Feb. 2d 1848.
Index: Vol. A, Page 28

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Text to right]
Feby 1/98 Mr. I F Moulton
San Francisco - Ca
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Mr. James Eames
Newry
Maine
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug 27 1832

I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of "James Eames" is borne on a
roll of Capt. Daniel James Company in Col. Benj
Hawes Regiment for service at Rhodei sland;
and he is therein stated to have served one
month and three days from day of Marching,

Sept. 29, 1777.-
Also that the name of "James Ames" is borne
on a roll of Capt. Nath. Belcher's Company, doing duty at the Cast under Maj. Gen. Hancock and he is therein stated to have served one month and four days from Sept. 6. 1779

Edward Bangs Secry
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Boston, Terry's Office Aug 27. 1832

Mr James Eames

Sir
I send you a certificate of all that I can find on the rolls of this officers respecting your Revolutionary Services. The rolls are very imperfect.  I presume not must more than half of the original rolls are in existence. I return you the dollar which you sent, as I charge nothing for these certificates.
Yours 
Edward D Bangs (?)
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I Solomon Flagg of Needham in the County
Norfolk & State of Massachusetts, depose & say that a certificate of the marriage of Jonas Eames  and Ruth Felch is borne upon the records of said Town of Needham, as follows Viz: September the ninth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, James James of Needham  was married to Ruth Felch of Natick" of which the foregoing is a true copy of said record, with exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows; Sept 9 1784

I Solomon Flagg, above named, depose and
say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the
said town of Needham in the County & State
aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Needham, with the exception above named, as certified by me
Solomon Flagg


State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk} ss: September 20 1850. Subscribed & sworn to
Before me Enos Foord Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss. 

 EZRA W. SAMPSON, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record,
within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby certify that Enos Ford Esquire,

is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed Certificate is genuine and true.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this twentieth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty
Ezra Sampson Clerk
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Turner Sept 28th 1850
L. Edwards Esq
---
in herewith you will receive the declaration Ruth Eames for the purpose of obtaining a pension
and when you have any one communication to make in relation there to please address
Rufus Prince Turner
Maine

And much oblige yours Respectfully
Rufus Prince
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Extract from the Records of the town of
Newry in the County of Oxford & State of
Maine

James James died September tenth eighteen
hundred & forty-nine

I certify that the above is a true extract
from the Book of Records of deaths in the said town of Newry with the exception of the date which is expressed in the Records in fair legible figures as follows: "September 10th 1849"
Albert H. Small
Town Clerk of Harvey

I Albert H Small on oath depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Newry in the County of Oxford and State of Maine and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town now in my possession
with the exception as above certified by me
State of Maine Offord SS
Albert H. Small
Town Clerk of Newry

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Albert H Small this Sixteenth day of September 1830
Before me
Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County
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I Andrew N. Stone of Newry in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged Seventy years testify and say that I was well acquainted with James James late of said Newry decease, that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States that he died at Newry aforesaid on the tenth day of September AD 1849 that he left a widow by the name of Ruth Eames who still
remains a widow and now resides in
said town of Newry
Signature of Andrew N. Store


State of Maine
County of Oxford} ss.
September 14th 1830
Then personally appeared Andrew N. Stow a
credible witness and made oath to the truth of
the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before Me 
Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County
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State of Maine,
I the subscriber Register of the Court
of Probate within & for said County of Oxford
it being a Court of record hereby certify that Job Prince whose proper signature is affixed to the forgoing declaration of Ruth Eames, and to the affidavits of Albert H. Small & Andrew N. Small, is Judge of said Court, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts in such in and out of Court

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name, this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eignteen hundred and fifty
Geo. R. Shum, Register