Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,861, James Demasters, S.C. Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE SC Va
 Demasters, James
 Mary
NUMBER  R 2861

CONTENTS
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7981
Missouri
James Demaster
of Lafayette Co in the State of Missouri who was a Private in the company commanded by captain [Thomas] Buckner of the Regt commanded by Col [William] Heath in the Virginia line for two years $80
Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of march 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of May 1833 and sent to AW Doniphan Lexington Fayette Co 
Missouri
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 160
Semi anl allowance ending 4 Sept 40
= $200.
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832}
Recorded by Wm A Palmer Clerk
Book E Vol 8 Page 80
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Richmond Mo
Sept 19th
Pension Agent
Washington City
DC

6470 Oct 7
Mrs Mary Demaster
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State of Missouri
Ray County } 17th September 1839
Personally appeared before me Henry McGee a Justice of the peace for said county Mary Demasters and made oath that she was married to James Demaster in the year 1785 (His oldest son now being fifty five years of age) and that she lived with said James Demasters until the 10th day of March 1836 and that at the time of the decease of said James Demaster he was allowed a pension in consiquence of his services in the Army of the United States. 
Mary Demasters her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above writen s/ H McGee JP

State of Missouri County of Ray 
I John H Morehead clerk of the county court within and for the county of Ray do hereby certify that Henry McGee Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified and as such his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
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Seal of said court at office this seventeenth day of September 1839
John H Morehead ck
By David H Quesenberry DC
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Richmond Missouri 17th September 1839
Sir 
Please examine the papers and send the necessary information to me at Lexington Missouri as soon as possible

Respectfully yours
Foster Demasters
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State of Missouri County of Lafayette
On this Eighth day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the County Court of Lafayette County in the State of Missouri James Demasters a resident of Lexington Township in the County of Lafayette and State of Missouri aged sixty-nine
years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 under
Lieutenant Jordan and served in the third New Virginia Regiment of the Virginia line under the following named officers, Captain Thomas Buckner, Major __ Lewis, Colonel William Heath, attached to General [Benjamin] Lincoln's Brigade he left the service in the year 178_
after having served two years and one month at the time he entered the
service he was a resident of Amherst County in the State of Virginia. He was in the battle of Charleston in South Carolina he thinks in the year 1780 in which he was taken prisoner
He thinks that he marched from Amherst County where he first enlisted to Fredericksburg thence to Petersburg thence to Charleston South Carolina and was there taken prisoner in which situation he remained until April 1781 when he made his escape and joined General [Francis] Marion  in the South
with whom he fought at Fort Motte  and thence to Friday's Fort [Fort Granby] on the Congaree River after we had taken the fort General [Nathaniel] Greene arrived on the same day and I went to him and made my situation known and
was by him discharged from any further service and again returned to Amherst County Virginia.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension list or roll of any agency in any state
James Demasters
his X mark

State of Missouri
Lafayette County court August 8th 1832
Sworn & subscribed to in open court by James Demasters Young Ewing clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
I Young Ewing clerk of the county court of Lafayette County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Demasters for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office this tenth day of August 1832 at Lexington in the state of Missouri
Young Ewing clerk
State of Missouri
County of Lafayette} SS
I John Stapp presiding Justice of the county court for said county do certify that preceding attestation of Young Ewing clerk of the aforesaid court is in due form and that full credit is due to all his official acts. 
Given under y hand and seal this 18th day of August 1832
John Stapp seal
Presiding Justice LCC
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Evans & Fant
Present
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State of Missouri
County of Ray} SS
On this 24th day of Jay 1832 came before me David H Quesenberry a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Foster Demasters of lawful age who after being duly sworn according to law declares and states that he is the lawful son and child of Mary Demasters and James Demasters both deceased that he the said Foster Demasters if fifty nine years of age that he has good reason to believe and does verily believe that his father James Demasters decd performed military service in the Revolutionary War That he died in the year 1836 and that the said Mary Demasters his mother died 1840 as he thinks and believes
Foster Demasters
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of January 1852
David H Quesenberry JP
Know all men by these presents that I Foster Demasters son & child of James Demasters and Mary Demasters both deceased of the county of Ray in the state of Missouri do hereby constitute and appoint Hamilton G Fant my one and lawful attorney in fact for me and in my name to prosecute my claim in right of my parents
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for a pension or pension certificate on account of services rendered by my father James Demasters in the Revolutionary War and which was secured to my mother Mary Demasaters by act of Congress of [crossed out 7th of June 1832] the date of which he does not remember and to the heirs of them and to receive and receipt for any sum or sums of money that may be due and coming to me in right of my parents aforesaid under the act aforesaid as fully and completely and I myself might do and to do all and every thing necessary and proper to be done for the purpose aforesaid
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 24th day of January 1852
Foster Demasters seal
State of Missouri
County of Ray } Set
Be it remembered that on this 24th day of January AD 1852 before me the undersigned clerk of the county court of the county of Ray aforesaid personally appeared Foster Demasters who is personally known to me to by the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned In testimony whereof I Robinson Jacobs clerk of the county court of the county of Ray aforesaid have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office this 24th day of Jany 1852
R Jacob clk
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Richmond Mo Jany 24 1852
To state [illegible]
Sir
you will send a check to Messers Jacob & Oliver for the bal due me after deducting your fee for the aforesaid claim at this place and oblige yours
Foster Demasters

State of Missouri
County of Ray } SS
I hereby certify that David H Quesenberry Esquire before wherein the foregoing affidavit was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the county court of said county this Jany 24th AD 1852
R Jacobs clk
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Mary Demaster
Missouri
suspended
see let 17 Dec 1839
Foster Demaster
do 30 May 1840
2861
Act 7 July 1838
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2861

Mary Demaster
 widow of James

REJECTED
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Washington Feby 19th 1852
Sir
We herewith enclose an Harity to examine the papers and prosecute the claim of Mary Demasters widow of James Missouri Suspended
Very respectfully
Evans & Fant 

JE Heath Esqr
Comr of Pensions
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James Demasters
7981
Adm for 2 years
from 1779
Private 80
capt Buckner
Col Heath
Va

AW Doniphan
Lexington
Lafayette County 
Missouri
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Lexington Mo
August 27 

Free

JL Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City

Missouri
Additional 
comments in case of James Demasters
on roll 

look on Va Roll
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Warrensburg Mo
May 13

War Department 
Pension office
Washington City
DC

mail } 

May 29 1840
Missouri Demasters
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[illegible] County Missouri
12 May 1848
Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Inlcosed a communication from the war department setting forth the manner [illegible]
 [illegible] on making application for pensions In the case of Mrs Mary Demasters there are some proofs required which may be difficult to make Her husband late James Demasters  [illegible] on the pension list for some years before his death which took place 4 years since Please have an examination made as to the people which he made and inform me of the necessary manner of procuring after the advantage devised from his proof
I feel confident that there  [illegible] no  [illegible] person in the army  [illegible] the pension list of the name of James Demasters  [illegible]  [illegible] on the subject will be  [illegible] address 
yours 
F Demasters

Foster Demasters 
Johnson County
Black water PP
Missouri
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JL Edwards
L 65
on roll
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Lexington August 22nd 1832
sir
Enclosed I transmit to you the an application together with the accompanying documentation for a pension under the act of the last session of Congress for the relief of revolutionary soldiers and officers If the proof of my having served as a soldier in the Virginia line does not appear sufficient after examining the rolls on file in your office to entitle me to obtain a pension from the Government you will confer a favor by sending detailed instructions as to the kind and amount of testimony necessary I have before applied for a pension under the act of 1828 but was unsuccessful from a failure as I suppose to transmit sufficient testimony under sd act My declining health and old age have placed it I fear out of my power to obtain as much testimony as under other and more favorable circumstances I might be enabled to do even at this remote period
I have the honour to be
your most obedient humble servant
James Demasters
by AM Doniphan