Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,669, James Bryan, R.I.
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SERVICE R.I.
Bryan, James
NUMBER S.44668
BLN 1605-100
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M
3572.
New York Roll
James Bryan
Capt Dexter
Private
Rhode Island line - 7 by
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11th of April 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of October 1810
and sent to Simeon & Samen Lord
Herkimer NY.
Arrears to 4th of September 1884 mos & 20 - 37: 33
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th March 1819 --
48.
Angell
$85.33
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued

Dead. See letter to J. P. Stagg
June 29. 1830. do. to J. P. Stagg
Agent July 10. 1830
and
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James Bryan
Correct under the Law names coming under the
The Letters A. & B are
torn out of the Rhode
Island register -
Correct (on the Roll)
B. is at the
end of the Book
certificate Now
in N. York
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I James Brian of the town of Fanfield in the county of Herkimer and sate of New York do avoiding & the Act of the congress of the United Sates of America, entitled An act to provide for certain person engaged in the law of Army service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" make the following declaration under oath that is today. I do solemnly declare that I am a resident citizen of the United Sates to wit in the town county of State aforesaid that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support - I do further declare that I was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution and that I served as such in the said army against the common enemy for the tur of six years on the Continental Establishment in the line of the States of Rhode Island. That in the month of June 1777 I enlisted as a drummer in the company commanded by Capt. David Dexter in a regiment commanded by Col. Israel Argyle in the said Rhode Island line. that I continued to served as a drummer in the said regiment for the tour of six years and finally after the service in consequence of the dissolution of the army at the confirmation of the war. That the discharge which included at the time of leaving the army was left by now at Providence in the Sate of Rhode Island & has been lost or destroyed - that at the time of my discharge from the Army the said regiment was commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney
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And I do further declare that I hereby relinquish all claims to any & every pension [illegible] by the Law of the United Sates or of any individual state. 
James Bryan
Witness  very said this 11th day of April 1818

Sworn to April 11, 1818
before me 
David Holt
Judge of Herkimer Com. Pleas
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State of New York
Herkimer County

John Wood being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with James Brian named in the foregoing declaration and has been well acquainted with him for the [illegible]about forty years - That this deponent for the turn of this year immediately providing the month of May 1780 was a private soldier in a regiment commanded by Col. Israel Argyl which regiment was in the Rhode Island line and a part of the continental establishment - that during the three years the said James Briant was a soldier in the said regiment and that this deponent was well acquainted with the said James Briant during the [illegible] three years & well known that he served as a soldier continuously during three years - that this deposnent was discharged from the service in the month of May 1780 and has always understood that the said James Briant continued in the said regiment until the termination of the Revolutionary war - all of which this deponent believes to be true and this deponent s further saith that the said James Briant resides in the town of Fairfield County of Herkimer state of New York and also that the said James is a very poor individual now having no property but depending upon his daily labor for support - 
John Wood

Sworn to April 10, 1818
before me David Holt
Judge of Herkimer Common Pleas
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State of New York 
Herkimer County
Which remembered that on the eleventh day of April 1818  at Herkimer in the county of state aforesaid before me David Holt Esquire and of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for said county the said court being on of the court of record of the said state personally appeared the before named James Briant and on the 7nth day of April 1818 beofre me aforesaid the before names John Wood  - The said James Briant being made known to me by the oath of law thy [illegible] of the said witness John Wood being made known to me by the oath of the Lauren Ford which said Timothy & Lauren on both well known to me and in my pension made aoth to the aforesaid declaration & affidavits and if appearing to my satisfaction as well from the said declaration  made oath as from the testimony of the said John Wood that the said James Briant served in the war of the Revolution on sated in his declaration and that the foregoing declaration made oath of the said James is in all other dispute him I do therefore certify & transcribe the testimony in the said Co and the proceedings and thereof to the Honourable the santguary of the department of war avoiding to the acquisitions of the act of congress in that cou. made - given under my hand of [illegible] [illegible] in the county of state aforesaid - the day & year fist said. 
David Holt
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State of N. York
Herkimer County

I Walter Fish clerk of the court of common pleas in for the county of Herkimer & state of N. York do hereby certify and make known that David Holt Esquire whose signature in affixed to the foregoing affidavit & declaration & certificate is on of the Judge of the said court duly confirmed qualified & sworn and his signatures to the said declaration affidavit & certificate on in his own proper said writing of that the said court is on of the court of record of the state of New York he witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court & signed my name this eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen. 
Walter Fish Clerk
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James Bryant
Caertificate 
Example fication
No. 35

12 Oct 1818
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Schedule
State of New York Herkimer County
On this fifth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court to wit the court of common pleas in and for said county said court being by the laws of the state of New York Constituted a court of record James Bryant aged sixty years resident in the town of Fairfield in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that I enlisted in Providence R.I. in Capt Dexters Company in Col Angels Regiment  in the Rhode Island line and served in said company and  regiment almost six years until after the close of the war when Lieut. Col. Jeremiah Olney commanded said Regiment and discharged me at  Saratoga in the state of New York that the date of my original declaration is April 11th 1818 and the number of my pension certificate is 3573 - & 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 lines that time by gift sale on  any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thrity so 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 naval servcie of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed - of real estate I have none and of personal property other than my wearing apparel I have only one loc and a few caspers and shoemaking tools worth in the whole not more than five dollars - I have no mechanical occupation and an subject to attacks of rheumatism
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and  am badly ruptured and unable to labour more than half day the time, I ahve no family & must be wholly dependent on public or private charity for my support James Bryan - sworn to and declared to on the 5th day of July 1820 before David Holt a Judge of Herkimer county court of common pleas
The court is of opinion that the value of the property contained in the foregoing schedule is five dollars
David Holt
George Rosecrants
John J. Pendergast 
Judges Herkimer Com. Pleas

State of New York
Clerks Office
Herkimer County
I Walter Fish clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule there to annexed are hereby copied from the record of the said court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is five dollars in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 14th day of July 1820

Walter Fish Clerk
of the court in and for the county of Herkimer
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State of New York
Otsego County 
Surrogates office February 15th 1830

I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduccd to me to prove that Mary Crist is a daughter and one of the legal and lawful heirs at law in fee to James Bryan late a soldier in a regiment of the Rhode Island line commanded by Col. [illegible] but was discharged by Lieut. Jeremiah Olney

Given under my hand and seal of Office this 15th day February 1830

Elisha Foote
Surrogate

Answer for the following states: viz. 
Maine, 
Massachusetts, 
New Hampshire, 
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Vermont Judges of Probate, 
New York, New Jersey, Surrogate. 
South Carolina, Georgia, Ordinary
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James Bryan
No. 1603
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Mary Christ
papers
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State of New York
Herkimer County

I Mary Crist daughter and one of the heirs at lase of James Bryan late of the town of Fairfield deceased do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that my father James Bryan did enlist in 1777 for the term of during the war  and served in the regiment under the command of Col. Angell of the Rhode Island line and continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war and was discharged by Lieut. Col. Olney at Saratoga in the state of New York and taht he died the 24th day of June in the year 1822 that he was a pensioner under the act of 1818 and also under the act of 1820 and drew a pension up to the 4th March 1822 - and I do further declare that I never received a warrant for the county land promised to my said father James Bryan on the part of the United States nor I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever therefore know all men by those presents that I Mary Crist aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Wm. B. Goff Esqr. of the county of Herkimer to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attornies under him for the special purpose above exposed given under my hand and seal this 13th day of December 1829 - Mary Crist

Sworn before me this 13th day 1829 Gilbert Robinson Comm. P &c
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State of New York
Herkimer County ss} personally appeared before me the above
_________  _________

Named Mary Crist Subscriber to the foregoing declaration
and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney
thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed for the
use and purposes therein mentioned
Gilbert Robinson  }Commissioner of
said County to take
acknowledgements
of Deeds & C.

State of New York
Clerks Office
Herkimer County  Ss. In testimony that the above written
Gilbert Robinson was a commission authorized to administer
Oaths, and take Acknowledgements &c in the County of Herkimer
& State of New York at the above date and that his name there
Subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature.  I
have hereunto affixed the County seal and subscribed
my name and quality at Herkimer this 18th day of
[ words 'December 1829" x'd out]-
January 1830
Abijah Beckwith} [signature]
County Clerk
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July 28, 1939.
Mr. Harold S. Bryant
R.F.D. 2
Watervliet, New York. 
BA-J/ILL
James Bryan
S. 44669
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to James Bryan, who served from Rhode Island and was in receipt of a pension in 1819, in New York State.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 44669, based upon service of James Bryan in the Revolutionary War. He was a pensioner of Herkimer County, New York, in 1819.
James Bryan (as his signature appears) enlisted in Rhode Island, in June 1777, as drummer in Captain David Dexter's company, Colonel Israel Angell's Rhode Island Regiment and continued to serve until the close of the war, when he was discharged from Colonel Jeremiah Olney's Rhode Island regiment at Saratoga, New York. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he resided in Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York. In 1820, the soldier gave his age as sixty years, but did not state the date and place of his birth, nor the names of his parents. He died June 24, 1822 in Fairfield, New York.
The name of the soldier's wife and the date and place of thier were not given. 
December 15, 1829, Mrs. Mary Crist, the soldier's daughter, and one of his legal heirs, applied for the bounty land which was due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. Her application was executed in Herkimer County, New York. Warrant #1605
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for one hundred acres of bounty land was issued for Mary Crist and the other heirs at law of James Bryan, alias Bryant. The name of the husband of the soldier's daughter, Mary, and the names of other heirs are not shown in this claim. 
In order to obtain the name of the person to whom the last payment of pension was made, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data: James Bryan, Certificate. #3572, issued October 12, 1818, commenced April 11, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, New York Agency.
For information in regard to the location of the land which was granted on account of service of James Bryan, you should apply to the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city, and cite the following Warrant #1605, 100 acres of bounty land, issued March 2, 1830. ( From BL.Book)
Very truly yours, 
G.H.SWHMT,
Acting Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[on top left page]
1939,-July 28. Hist. to Mr. Harold
Bryant- J.L.L.

[ on top right page]
44669
INVALID.
Revy
_______________________________
File No. 44669
James   " Bryan
Priv., Rev. War
________________________________
Act: 18" March 1818
Index: -- Vol.3  Page 61

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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}Herkimer
}Feby 18

[the following written vertically on page]
#1605
_____________
[illegible]
_______________
[illegible]
To the Honourable
John H. Eaton Esquire
Secretary of War of the United 
States, City of Washington.
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Herkimer February 17th 1830
Dear Sir
 Enclosed I send you the claim of
Mrs Mary Crist a Daughter and
one of the legal Heirs at Law & of James
Bryan late a Soldier in
Col. Angells
Regiment of Rhode Island Line for
County Land_
 Will you have the Goodness
to send me her Warrant (of found entitled)
yours Respectfully-
NB. direct to Subscriber}
"Herkimer Newyork"
Wm B. Goff
 "
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Hukimer| N. York| April 11. 1818

Hon. A.C. Calhoun
  Sir
    Inclosed we send you papers in the case of several
applicants for pensions under the late law of Congress-
In all their cases which an intrusted to us to obtain pensions
it is our wish to furnish all the testimony which the
spirit and letter of
the Act, & of your circular require-
Should any
errors, in matters of form, have been made
in paper transmitted by us we will be much obliged
have them pointed out[ lined through-illegible]
avoid them in future--
Whenever the certificates for
pensions are made out on the inclosed Papers, please send
them to us-
Yours respectfully
Simeon g Lauren Ford
______________________
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Hukimer| N.York| April 11. 1818

Hon. A. C. Calhoun
    Sir

    Inclosed we send you papers in the case of
several applicants for pensions under the late law of Congress-
In all their cases which are intrusted to us to obtain pensions
it is our wish to fill all the testimony which the
spirit and letter of the Act, & of your circular require
Should any errors, in matter of form, have been made
papers transmitted by us we will be much obliged to have them pointte out t ers by you
 that we may avoid them in the future-- Whenever the certificates for pensions are made out on the inclosed Papers, please send them to us-
                Yours respectfully

                        Simeon g Lauren Ford
                         ________________________
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Hukimer March 11th 1830
The Receipt of Land Warrant No 1605 for Mary Crist and
the other heirs at Law of James Bryan Alias Bryant late
a Soldier in the Rhode Island ^ Line in the American Revolution
is hereby duly acknowledged-
yours Respectfully
Wm B Goff
        attorney
To the Honl.
John H. Eaton Esqr}
Secretary of War of the}
United States----}
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HAROLD S. BRYANT
R. F. D. 2
WATERVLIET, N. Y.
130
June 6. 1939
[circular stamp - RECEIVED Jun 8 1939
Mail SUB-DIV
VETS ADM READER # 9]

Veterans Administration
   Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
   In the U.S. Pension List dated December 20, 1819 the name of James Bryan[ name"Bryan"-underlined] appears.
He is listed as a private residing in New York,
from Rhode Island line.
I will appreciate it very much if you
will send me all the information you can
regarding this party. I am especially
interested in the place and date of his
birth as well as the place and date of his
death and the names of any members of
his family that may be mentioned.
Thanking you for anything you can do
for me in this respect. I am,
Yours very truly
H.S. Bryant