Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32060, Joseph White, Mass. Mass. Sea Service
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White, Joseph S 32060
Service Mass.
Mass. Sea Service
(Ga. res.)
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12263
Georgia

Joseph White
of Jones in the State of Geo: who was a pr in the............commanded by Captain Putnam of the Regt. commanded by Col. Johnson in the Mass line for 15 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 50 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of April 1833 and sent to Charle
Arrears to the 4th March 1833    100.--s McCarthy (clk) Clinton Geo.

Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.    25.--
$125.--

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 105

Order to pay 30 April 1836
Order to (smudged) 17 March `1838

Date of death not on A. B. 
I. L. L.
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Joseph White
14188
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Georgia
Jones county

On the eight day of October one Thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Superior Court of the County of Jones and State of Georgia Joseph white a resident of the county and state before mentioned being of age according record Seventy two the Seventeenth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty two who being duly sworn as according to law doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congressed passed June the seventh eighteen hundred and thirty two.
I Joseph White was born in the town of Windham in the County of Essex State of Massachusetts on the seventeenth day of April Seventeen hundred and sixty that I volunteered in the revolutionary war for three months in the year of Seventeen hundred and seventy seven under the following named officers Col. Johnson, Capt. Peberdet & Lieutenant Josiah Herrick and marched from the town of Beverly County of Essex State of Massachusetts the place of my residence onto Barrington thence to Saratoga where we joined Gen. Gates & Genl. Arnold who was entitled to the command of the whole and we had and engagement with Burgoine Genl. at Saratoga who surrendered himself and army to Gen Gates. after the surrender of Burgoine we marched down Porth River to Albany and stayed at Albany a week or two and thence marched down said Porth River below
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a place called White Plains and there enccamped. Many time was up that I volunteered for and then I returned home to Beverly then in the fall of Seventeen hundred seventy eight I volunteered for six months under Col. Ward Capt. Jeremiah Putnam & Lieutenant Thompson and marched to Rhodeisland and there jointe Col. Green with his Black Ridgiment who assumed the command of the whole and it was the expectation to having taken a Newport which was in possession of the Brittish but on account of the French Fleet no arriving according to expectation we left the Island taken water and went to East Greenwich where we stayed till my time was up which I volunteered for and I went home again. then in the fall of Seventeen hundred and seventy nine I volunteered for three months and in Col. not recollected Capt. Jeremiah Putnam Lieutenant no recollected and marched to Providence and waited till the Brittish left Newport and then we went to Newport and taken possession of the same and we stayed there till my time was up that I volunteered for and I went home again. then in the fall of seventeen hundred and eighty I volunteered for three months under Col. Ward Capt. Peberdee of Topsfield Lieutenant no recollected and marched to West Point and was there at the time that Gen. Arnold Deserted the American Army and went to the Brittish and stayed at West Point till my time was up and then went home. then in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty one on the twenty first day of April I entered on board of a twenty gun ship of Boston by the name of Essex under the command of Kitheart after being at
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sea time not recollected. We were taken off Cape Clear by a Brittish Vessel Queen Sharlott out of London and carried in at old Raigsale Ireland in a few days were sent from Ireland to England where we were detained ti;; the war was over and also that I have no documentary evidence and that I know of no person whose testimoney I can procure who can testify to my service and that I hereby relinquish every claim whatever toa pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year afforesaid

Interrogatories
1. Where and in what year were born-Ans. In the Town of Winham, County of Essex, Massachusetts in the year 1760 April 17th
2. sd. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? the Record of my age is at Winham Clerks office, Massachusetts.
3. third Where were you living when entered into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live. Ans. I was living at Revere when called into service, after my return from England I lived at Baltimore, then at Charleston, Philadelphia, Columbia & then Georgia is where I now reside Jones County.
4.th How were you called into service? were you draughted did you volunteer or were you substitute and if a substitute for whom-Ans. I volunteered
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5ft 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 circumstances of your service. ans.-Genl Gates & the General circumstances of my serves and full stated in affidavit
6st. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. ans. I never received a discharge.
7th State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood  and who can testify as to character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Neddy Pennington, Bartley Cox, Gideon Mason and others.
Joseph White
Sworn to before on this day & year aforesaid Travis A. d. Weaver J.S.C
Thomas B. Seade J. S. C.
John R. Moore, J. S. C.
We Gideon Mason a clergyman residing the county of Jones and State of Georgia & Neddy Pennington residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph White who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Gideon Mason
Neddy Penington
Sworn and subscribed the day year afforesaid
Thomas B. Seade J..S.C.
John R. Moore J. S. C.
Travis A. D. Weaver J. S. C.
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and we Justices of the Superior Court of the County of Jones and State of Georgia do hereby declare our opinions after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above mentioned Joseph White Applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gideon Mason who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the County of Jones and State of Georgia and that Neddy Pennington who has also signed the same is a resident in the same and is a credible person and that their statements entitled to credit.
Thomas B. Seade J. S. C.
John R. Moore J. S. C.
Travis A. D. Weaver J. J. C.

I Mathew Marshall, Charles McCarthy Clerk of the ordinary Court of the County of Jones and State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original precedings of the said court in the matter of the applacant Joseph White for a pension. 
In testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of October 1832.
Charles Macarthy, Clk. C.J.
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No 14188
Joseph White Jones County Geo.

admit for 15 mo. as private from 1777 $50.00
Capt. Peberdel
Colo. Johnson

Charles McCarty clerk Jones County Court Georgia
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Brief in the case of Joseph White County of Jones in the State of Georgia
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?--Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How owl is he? --72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period: Vol. in 1777
Duration of Service: 3 mos.
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt. Peberdel, Col. Johnson

Period: 1778
Duration: 5 mos.
Rank: Private
Officers: Capt. Putman, Col. Ward

Period: 1779
Duration: 3 mos.
Rank: Private
Officers: Capt. Putnam, Col. Ward

Period: 1780
Duration: 3 mos. 
Rank: Private
Officers: Capt. Peberdee, Col. Ward

April 21st 1781 on Board of the Essen-Detained till the War was over
Officer: Kitheart

5. In what battles was he engaged? None except at Sea (taken by the Queen Charlotte)
6. Where did he resided when he entered the service?  Beverly Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence
8. are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect.  The paper not connected as the regulations require

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor,Examining Clerk
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October 12,, 1937
BA-J/ILL  aw
Joseph White
S. 32060

Honorable Luther A. Johnson
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 

My dear Mr. Johnson:
The data which follow were found in pension claim, S. 32060, based upon services of Joseph White in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph White was born April 17, 1760, in Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, Joseph White enlisted in 1777, and service three months as private in Captain "Peberdee's" (possibly meant for Peabody's) company, Colonel Johnson's Massachusetts regiment, during which he marched to Bennington, thence to Saratoga and was in the engagement there when General Burgoyne surrendered, marched to White Plains, where he was discharged; he enlisted in the fall of 1778, and served six months as private in Captain Jeremiah Putnam's company, Colonel Wade's Massachusetts regiment, during which he went to Rhode Island; he enlisted in the fall of 1779, and served three months as private in Captain Jeremiah Putnam's Massachusetts company; in the fall of 1780 he served three months as private in Captain Peberdee's or Peabody's company, colones Wade's Massachusetts regiment. april 21, 1781, Joseph White entered on board the "Essex", a twenty-gun ship of Boston, under command of Catheart, and after being at sea some time, was captured off Cape Clear by a British vessel, "Queen Charlotte", was carried to Kinsale, Ireland, and after a few day, to England, where he was detained until "the war was over".
After his return from England, Joseph White lived in Baltimore, then in Charleston, Philadelphia, Columbia, and then in Georgia.
Joseph White was allowed pension on his application executed
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October 8, 1832, at which time he resided in Jones County, Georgia.
there are no data whatever regarding wife or children of Joseph White, the pensioner.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and furnish the following:
Joseph White
Certificate # 12263
Issued April 13, 1833
Rate $80. per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Georgia Agency

the letter of Mrs. H. G. Fulgham is returned herewith as requested.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Postmark-Washington Dec. 21 4:30pm 1832

Pension Bureau
Revolutionary Section
Washington D. C.
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Washington Ga
Dec 18 '32

You have record on your Pension Roll of one Joseph White Jones County Ga.
Revolutionary service.
Will you please send me the pension declaration of this Joseph White also of James White of Georgia. Ill be very grateful for your report on this my Revolutionary address
Mrs. Edgar L. Smith
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32060
[Revy ?] INVALID.
File No. 32,060
Joseph White
Dis Rev War
Act:  June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 450
[Arrangement of 1870.]

923-Jan. 9. Hist. to Mrs. Edgar L.
Smith-I.L.L.
1937-Oct. 12-History to Hon. Luther A. Johnson
ILL
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October 12, 1937
Joseph White, S. 32060
BA-J/MCS

Honorable Luther A. Johnson
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 

My dear Mr. Johnson:
Reference is made to your letter of October 9, 1937, with enclosure from Mrs. H. C. Fulgham of Brian, Texas, who requests information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Samuel Battles, Benjamin Barnes, Joseph Holmes and Joseph White.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war.  A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of a Benjamin Barnes, who was born in 1717, or any soldiers named Samuel Battles and Joseph Holmes.
You are furnished herewith, the record of the only Joseph White who lived in Georgia during or after service in the Revolution that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Drawn & searched by Miss Stokes
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January 9, 1933
BA-J/ILL
Joseph White
S. 32060

Mrs. Edgar L. Smith
Washington
Georgia

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Joseph White, a pensioner of Jones County, Georgia, for Revolutionary War service, and also, James White of Georgia.
the record given below of Joseph White is obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32060, based upon his service in that war.
Joseph White was born April 17, 1760 in Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts.
(volunteered) While a resident of Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as private in the Massachusetts troops as follow: in 1777, three months in Captain Peberdee's (possibly meant for Peabody's), Company, Colonel Johnson's Regiment, during which period of service he was in the engagement at Saratoga when General Burgoyne surrendered; from the fall, 1778, six months in Captain Jeremiah Putnam's Company, Colonel Wade's Regiment; in the fall, 1779, three months in Captain Jeremiah Peberbee's (possibly meant for Peabody's) Company, Colonel Wade's Regiment. On April 21, 1781 he entered on board the "Essex", a twenty gun ship of Boston, under command of Catheart, and after being at sea, was captured off Capt clear by a British vessel "Queen Charlotte", was carried to Kinsale, Ireland, after a few days, to England, where he was detained until "the war was over".
After his return from England, Joseph White lived in "Baltimore, then at Charleston, Philadelphia, Columbia and then Georgia".
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 8, 

Notation in margin-The soldier's name in Mass. book is in Peabody's Co., & there is no Peberdee in that book.

Notation: Navy book, page 136
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1832, at which time he resided in Jones County, Georgia.

     There are no data relative to the soldier's family in the papers on file in this claim.

     In order to identify the record of the particular soldier named James White in whom you are interested, as much as possible of the following information is essential:  approximate date of birth and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service, and the name of county and state in which he resided at the time he made application for pension.

     Upon receipt of this information, a further search of the records will be made in your behalf.

     Very truly yours,
     A. D. HILLER,
     Assistant to Administrator.
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LUTHER A. JOHNSON
6th DIST. TEXAS

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

October 9, 1937.

General Frank T. Hines,
Administrator of Veterans Affairs,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

My dear General Hines:

     Enclosed is letter from one of my constituents, Mrs. H. C. Fulgham of Bryan, Texas, requesting the service records of the Revolutionary soldiers therein mentioned, namely, Samuel Battles, Benjamin Barnes, Joseph Holmes and Joseph White.

     I will appreciate anything you may be able to furnish me concerning any or all of these veterans.

     Please return Mrs. Fulgham's letter to me for my files with your reply.

     Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter, and with kindest regards,

Sincerely,
Luther A. Johnson

[Seal] RECEIVED OCT 11 1937
MAIL BUR-DIV.
[rest illegible]
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Pension Agency Planters Bank
Savannah 14 March 1838

Sir
For your approval and authority to pay I enclose the pension voucher of Joseph White, whose application is for two years pension.
Respectfully
yr. obt. sert.
J. Marshall Cashier & Pens. Agt.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
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Jos. White
Apl 29.
[Geo Wh]
[stamp] SAVANNAH GEO APR 22
12203

FREE

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Pension office, Planters Banks
Savannah 21 April 1836

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I enclose Pension voucher of Joseph White, whose application is for two years pension, for your approval, and authority to pay.
Respectfully
yr. obt. sevt.
J. Marshall, Cashier
& Pens. Agt.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph White which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the was when he served?
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant produced the evidence of a clergyman and other respectable citizens as to their belief respecting is age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence; and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. (t) If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to he service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signatures of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. (tt) Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? and, if not which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &C. a. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; for.....year......months, and ......days, I served as a ........For .......months and ...........days, I served as a .................; and for such service I claim a pension.
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     It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months" [phrase was italicized] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
     In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
     In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
     [Hand pointing symbol] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.