Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2795, Jesse Dazey, Del.
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SERVICE
Del.

Dazey Jesse
or
Dasey

NUMBER
R.2795
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Aaron Dazeys
Affidavit
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State of Pennsylvania
City of Phildelphia [illegible]

Personally appeared before me an Alderman in [illegible] said City Capt Aaron Dazey who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is fifty six years of age and that he has been acquainted with Jesse Dazey (who is his second cousin) all his life time that he has heard frequent conversations of the said Jesse Dazey with Soldiers of the Revolution relative to the events and battles of said Revolution and have always understood that said Jesse Dazey was in the Army of the Revolution and in the Delaware line of Troops and that said Dazey was in the skirmish of the Indian River Inlett [Inlet] in Sussex County Delaware, with the British during the Revolution-- on the South side of said River and that he received a wound in the groin on the right side at that time, and he is aware of the anxiety always manifested by said Jesse Dazey to obtain a pension from the U. States and that he employed as agreed with several persons to obtain one for him-- but by some means with which this deponent is not informed they failed to do so-- this deponent further says that the said Jesse Dazey has always sustained the character of an honest upright Citizen & was always reputed for his truth and veracity amongst all of his acquaintancy [acquantance]
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Service
Del.

Dazey Jesse or Dasey

Number R. 2795
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Japer Dazey

Suspend at [illegible]
ach of 1882
PA

[illegible} W. Young
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Know all men by these [unintelligible] that I William A. Gardiner M.D. of the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania, executor of the last will and testament of Jesse Dasey
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set my hand and Seal this Fifteenth day of
November A.D. 1852 in the presence of
Witness present
Wm Hibbard
John W Hinkle
William Gardiner [handwritten word "Seal"]

State of Pennsylvania
City of Philidelphia
On the Fifteenth day of November
A.D. 1852 personally appeared before me the
undersigned an Alderman and Exofficio a
Justice of the Peace in and for the City and State
aforesaid Wm A. Gardiner M.D. the identical person
subscribing the foregoing power of Attorney, and
acknowledged the same to be this act and
deed for the purpose therein named
Wm Hibbard
Alderman
and Ex Officio a Justice of the Peace
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Oct 16
Rel. to case of Jesse Dasey, a pensioner, dis


Oct. 16/52



Respectfully referred to the Dept of the Interior and the writer so informed.

Maiden
14 Oct '58

Respy referred to the Comm of Pensions

Dept of Int.
Oct. 15/52                            GCW
                                      2795


JWC
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                         Philadelphia October 8th, 1852
To the Honourable Mr Conrack....War Department Washington


Sir       I beg to ask in relation to the claim allowed my father Jesse Dasey, a Revolutionary soldier who died in January 1818 at Philadelphia which claim was made in the year 1848 and was to have been collected by Enos F March -----I have not had any information of the same other than that the papers are in the office at Washington filed in the pension office---and as great imposition is practiced upon us by persons in making it appear that the matter is difficult I am induced to avoid any such practices, but ask the best and hasty way of obtaining that which I may be entitled to as one of the legal heirs of the said Jesse Dasey (Decd)
     
Yours HC,         Ann W Dasey, Daughter of the said Jesse Dasey

Please direct your letter No 169 Washington Street Phila Southwork for Ann W Dasey
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[Marked out: Acts of July 14, 1832, and March 3, 1873.]
[Stamped: REJECTED]
2795.
P.O. Jesse Dazey
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
Alleges: [blank], 18
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P. O. [blank]
[Blank] Recognized. 
[Blank] Contract.
[Blank] Cert. of Dis.
Searched for [blank], 18
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Philadelphia, Pa
May 22nd, 1848
It is hereby certified from accurate examination that Jesse Dazey is now suffering from an old wound, in the lower parts of the abdomen, over the right groin, which wound punctures the Intestines, which healed but left a small opening or Sinus, from which there is now a small discharge from the Intestines, and which he says has continued to discharge from the time he received the wound. Mr. Dazey states that the wound was made by a Bayonet of the Enemy, while engaged in a skirmish in or about the year 1777. A portion of the Troops had landed from the British Fleet, at a place called Indiana Wives' Inlet in the state of Delaware, as a foraging party, and it was in the attempt to drive them from our shores that he received said wound and that he was at the time of receiving said wound actually in the service of the United States, under the Command of Capt. William Powell. I am of opinion that said wound has now undered him in his advanced age, which he says [illegible] totally incapable of obtaining his subsistence by Manual Labours. 
Benjamin King
[Illegible]& Surgeon
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37607
Jesse Dazey
Pa
Act 7 June 1838
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State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia ss
                               Personally appeared before me the subscriber an Alderman in & for the City of Philadelphia and ex officer a Justice of the Peace Isaac Cobb who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a native of Baltimore Hundred in Sussex County and State of Delaware, that he is now fifty-eight years of age, that has known Daniel Godwin and John Johnson from his earliest recollections, and that he resided within two miles of them for the term of thirty years, in Baltimore Hundred aforesaid--that they both were by occupation Farmers-that they were respected respectable citizens and always esteemed for their moral and exemplar deportment-that the said Mr Johnson was a member of the Methodist Church, and think that the said Godwyn was a member of the Presbyterian Church both of whom are now dead---It was always understood in the neighborhood that they were in the service of the Revolution at the same time that Jesse Dazey was in the same company with him---that he has been acquainted with Mr. Jesse Dazey all his life time, and that he has always understood that he was a soldier in the Revolution and that he received a wound in his right groin whilst in the service and that he is a man of truth& veracity--
County of Philad  IS           Isaac Cobb
Sworn and subscribed to this 1st day of May
AD 1848 before me DL Donaldson ald (seal)

I further certify that from the representation. Received from a credible witness before me, that the above affiant, Isaac Cobb, sustains the character of a good citizen, and of reputed truth and veracity,
Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid
                    DL Donaldson   ald (seal)
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Sussex County    Personally appeared before me
State of Delaware separately and made oath in due form of Law on the holy Evangelist of almighty God, one of the Justices of the peace in and for Sussex County That Jesse Dazey did bear arms under Captain William Powell for the space of Eighteen months in the Revolutionary War, and also received a wound during life while he was striving to defend his own country in the Behalf of the State of Delaware
Sworn before me this the 17th Day of May 1813  
                                             his
                                 Daniel X Godwyn
                                            cross
Ezekiel Williams JP                  his
                                    John X Johnson
                                          cross    
  
State of Delaware
Sussex County              This is to certify that Ezekial Williams Esquire before whom the 
foregoing affidavit was taken and by him subscribed was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County & 
State aforesaid duly commissioned      and authorized to administer oaths and that full faith is and ought to be due to all official acts as such and that his name thereto subscribed appears to be his usual signature.
George Town 8th April 1848    Robert A Houston Pro of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware
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Sussex County
State of Delaware   SS
Personally appeared before me in due
form of Land on the holy Evangelists of the place, in and for Sussex County. That Capt Jesse Darsey did bear arms under Captain William Powell for the space of eighteen months in the Revolutionary War and also received a [illegible] [illegible] while he [illegible] [illegible] to defend his own country on the behalf of the State of Delaware.
Sworn before me this 17th  day of July 1813

Ezekiel Williams L.O.
Daniel [his X mark] [illegible]
John [his X mark] [illegible]
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State of Delaware
Sussex County ss.
Personally appeared before me Robert A. Houston Prothonotary of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County. Burton Stockley aged fifty two years and James Rowland aged about fifty eight years, both of Sussex County aforesaid, aware each of them being Solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelical of Almighty God deposeth and saith, that they knew William Wolfe, in his life time, and that he was a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County of Sussex the 19th day of May 1813 the time of the within deposition was taken before him Sworn to and subscribed by each of said parties the 14th day of April 1848. 
Before R. A. Houston [illegible]
Burton Stockley
James Rowland
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Sussex County
State of Delaware
The Deposition of Abraham Jacobs who Saith after being Solemnly Sworn that Jesse Dazy was Born on the 17th Day of August 1755 that he made Record of the Same at near time of his Birth. And has been acquainted with the said Dazey ever Since. And further, the deponent Saith now Sworn is Subscribed before me William Wolfe 
May 19th, 1813,
Abraham Jacob
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(?-1776)
Service Del.  Dazey, Jesse or Dasey
Number R.2795
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Phil
Sept 8/51
G. N. Richards (illegible)--the coutesy of a reply to this letter

Philadelphia
Sep 
10

New Secretary of the Interior
Washington
D.C.

Rec'd & Repl'd (illegible)
Pensions
(illegible)
Sept 10/51
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[Illegible]
[Illegible]

Sir
On the 11th of July I addressed a letter to this office, asking that the [Illegible] filed in the car of Gene []aise on which a report has made the 6th of July 1848 - Should be [], and transmitted to me, to that letter I have had no answer - may I beg the courtesy of a [illegible]
[illegible]
G.H. [illegible]
[illegible]
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[illegible] June 4. 1857
no 484 [illegible]
Com of Pensions
Sir
In the case of [illegible] Dairly - the M off has completed in June 1848 - the [illegible] were filed by Clement [illegible] esq formerly a clerk in the office of the 1st auditor,  who informed me that they had been exam=ined by the head of this department and rejected that they were not worth a [illegible]; previously to that the [illegible][illegible]employed [illegible][illegible]Esq: informed that claimant that they had [illegible][illegible]
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in the hands of the committee of pensions of the house; a diligent search was made from them by a person who visited Washington especially for that purpose, but nothing was found.  A letter was then written to the [illegible] asking whether such a matter had been laid before it.  A reply has returned in the [illegible].  I do not know whether or not the papers had been withdrawn from the office or not; if withdrawn I should [illegible] to have [illegible] - I cannot tell whether the claims are
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among the registered or
unregistered

a fully reply will be most acceptable [illegible] like the papers Loanan, that if [illegible] Washington. I loved [illegible] [illegible]
 obtain access to them

Lasterly, 
G.H. Richards
Counsellor At Law
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Mr C March will pose present the enclosed
papers to me I L Edward Cow. X- and obtain his
opinion & if not sufficient what else is
necessary - also have at what time his pension
 said commence if placed on the
pension Roll - also see if the Mustin
Race of Capt W Powell is on file -
Also leaving what would be the prospect
of presenting his came to the County of
[illegible]
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To/
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
[Stamped: PHILADELPHIA OCT 29]
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No 484 Chestnut Street
Phil Oct 08. 1857
To/
The Comm of Pensions
Sir
May I call your attention to that matter due to Jesse Daizy, and request a certified copy of his papers. It is of some importance that I should have them speedily.
Humbly,
G. N. Richards
Commissioner at Law
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July [illegible]
July 1, 1848
Mr. Ames
J[illegible] Dazey
Pensions
Mr. James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
P.E. Brocchus,
Mr. P.E. Brocchus
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P. E. Brocchus
James L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Mr P E Brocchus
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Washington
June 19th 1843
Please examine the enclosed papers
relating to the claim of Jesse Dazey
for a Pension, and let me know
whether the testimony is sufficient.
--or not sufficient. please inform
me what is requisite

[illegible]
[illegible]
P. E. Brocchus
for J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Sir, 

The (illegible) in the care of Jesse Daisey (illegible) filed in (illegible)-- Some of the (illegible) shelled(?) with a--- which (illegible) of them  (not coming to hand?) (illegible) to mind of the (illegible) on file in your office. (illegible)

(Illegible)
G. N. Richards
(Illegible)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                             NUMBER
Del.           Dazey  Jesse          R2795
             or Dasey
Contents
{no other entry]
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[envelope - stamped postmark illegible]
Commissioner of Personnel
Washington
D.C.  
[notations on left of envelope]
Mar 5/87 [?]
Cap Tripplett [?]
R
[notations on right of envelope]
March 12th 1857
Respecting papers of Jesse Daisey
GA Richards