Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,982, for Ebenezer James, New York
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SERVICE
New York

James, Ebenezer 

NUMBER
S.44982

{Stamp: This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
[]
Received from GAO}
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984

New York
Ebenezer James, Corpl.
New York line -
4
Capt Titus

In the army of the Unites State during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 13. of April, 1818. --

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of June, 1818,
and sent to the postmaster at Huntington, Suffolk County, N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1818 $37.86.
4 months, 22/30 $37.86.
{Revolutionary Claim.}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
Can Cortlandt 1775
Sept '18  8 years
Huntington, Suffolk Co.
Continued __

Dead
Order to pay 29 Dec 1838

Died June 23, 1838 AB

Notification sent this 17thh June 1820, Chas. N. Havens Esqr Clk of Suffolk Co.
Smith town N. Y. []
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Ebenzer [Ebenezer] James

Huntington
(906)

Continue

(Sept 1818)
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State of New York}
Suffolk County} SS

At a court of Common Pleas held at the court house at Riverhead in & for the county of Suffolk on this 30th day of May 1820, being a court of record by the Constitution and Laws of the state of New York with power to hear try & determine according to law all actions real personal and mixed acting within said county & also all transitory actions altho [although] the same may not have arisen within said county - personally appeared in open court Ebenezer James aged sixty two years a resident of the town of Huntington in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare and following viz- I Ebenezer James do swear and declare that I served in the revolutionary war  as a private from 1776 to 1783 that he enlisted in the company commanded by Capt Jonathan Titus in the fourth New York Regiment commanded by Col Henry Livingston on the Continental establishment as state in my original declaration dated April 13th 1818 - That I was placed on the pension list by virtue of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 the certificate whereof is numbered 984 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the Unites Dates on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift or sale in any manner disposed of my property or nay part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it to bring myself within the provision of the act o Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engage in the land & naval service of the United State in the Revolutionary war passed 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 me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule hereunto annexed and by my subscribed and I do further swear that I have been a common[]
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labourer but that I am now infirm & unable to labour That my family consists of  myself and wife only, and that I am unable by means of my property & the exertions of myself & wife to support myself and family without the aid of Government except by private or public charity
Ebenezer James
Sworn & declared this 25 day of May 1820 in open court before the Judges thereof
Chas. H Havens Clk

A schedule of the whole estate & income of Ebenezer James named in the above affidavit his necessary cloathing & bedding excepted - viz One []awl Goat - one hog - five fowl - seven chairs one chest one table one pail one pot one kettle one tea kettle one pair [] dogs one pair shovel stongs one teammill one sad iron one small looking glass one axe one hoe one cider barrell one meat cark
Ebenezer James

I Charles H Havins Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are duly copied from the record of the said court and that it is the opinion of the said court and that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty five dollars and thirty four cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 30 day of May 1820 - 
Chas H Havens Clk
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Ebenezer James
Corporal
New York Line
Revolutionary War

Correct.

Ebenezer James
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State of New York} 
Suffolk County} SS

Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Nathaniel Potter one of the Judges of Common Pleas in and for said county, came Ebenezer James a native and resident of the town of Huntington in Suffolk County aforesaid, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that at the commencement of the War of the revolution  he entered the army as a soldier and so continued untill the continental establishment was formed at which time about November 1776 (the date he cannot precisely name) he enlisted during the war a soldier in the company commanded by Capt Jonathan Titus in the 4th Regiment commanded by Col. Henry B Livingston, said Regiment was after that commanded by Col. Phillip Van Cortland in New York line of the army of the United States, that he served untill the end of the war on the Continental establishment and in the month of June 1783 was honorably discharged further this deponent saith that his discharge is lost and that he is in need of aforesaid from his country for support

Ebenezer James

Sworn this thirteenth day of April []1818

Before me Nathaniel Potter Judge

Suffolk County ss

I hereby certify that on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred eighteen personally came before me Nathanel Potter one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Suffolk & state of New York Ebenezer James who is a person to one well known and make oath to the preceeding statement of facts and I hereby further certify that I am satisfied of the truth of the facts above stated and that he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.

April the 13th AD 1818
Nathaniel Potter Judge
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Suffolk County SS

I hereby certify that Nathaniel Potter esquire whose name is subscribed to the preceeding certificate [] one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Suffolk & state of New York certified under the seal of the said court this twenty first day of April AD 1818

Chas. H. Havens Clerk
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Amt. due Ebenezer James dead from the 4 March 1838 59 5g3 [] 3d. June 1838
at $8, pr month.                                     $29.16
Amt due absent heir Aou. [] retalses       9.68
being outlined                                       $19.38
Belsuer 

MERCHANICS BANK.
New York  3 January 1839

Received of SHEPHERD KNAPP, President, Agent for paying Pensioners, Nineteen Dollars 38 Cents, being for three months 19 days Pension, due to Ebenezer James Decd. from the fourth day of March 1839, to the 27th day of June 1838 for which I have signed duplicate receipts. deduct $29.[] Aso James Sharly  William James for my self and brother Daniel
Dolls, 19[]
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{Stamp  FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO}
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Know all men by these presents that I Daniel James son of Ebenezer James deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint William James by true and lawful attorney for and iand in my name to receive from the Agent of the United State for paying pensions in the city of New York my share of the balance due my late father from the 4th day of March 1838 to the 23rd day of June 1838 the day of his death.
Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of July 1838.

Sealed and delivered in presence of Abel T E Conklin Justice                Daniel James

John Shepherd
Mary T Conklin

State of New York}
Suffolk County} ss

Be it known that on the 31st day of July 1838 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Daniel James above named and acknowledged the foregoing Poser of Attorney to be his act and deed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned

Abel T E Conklin Justice of the Pease
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44982
INVALID
Revy

File NO. 44,982

Ebenezer James
Corpl Rev. War

Act 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3 Page 256
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State of New York
City and County of New York

I John Barberie Clerk of the Marine Court of the city of New York, do hereby certify that it has been proved to the satisfaction of said court, in open court, that Ebenezer James was a Pensioner of the United State at the time of his death, that he died on the twenty third day of June 1838, leaving no widow him surviving. but leaving three children only, viz: William James, Daniel James, and Asa James, who are all over the age of twenty one years. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court this 17th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
John Barberie

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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[]30

Ebenezer James dec.d

$29.16
    9.68 off
$19.38

Revolutionary

Examined and payment allowed retaining the shares due to Asa James Jr. Mr. Edwards letter of December 1838

Payable the 4th of March, and 4th Sept. ikn each year, by Isaac Lawrence Esq
Branch Bank, N.Y.

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

Ebenezer James
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Revolutionary Claim.

I CERTIFY That in conformit with the law of the Untied States, of the 18th of March, 1818. Ebenezer James, late a corporal in the New York line, of the army of the is inscribed on the Pension lists, Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars, - cents per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred, and eighteen.

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War  {SEAL}
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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State and County of New York

BE IT KNOWN, That on the 3rd day of January 1839 before the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for the said state and county, personally appeared William James the Attorney named in the annexed Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any SALE&lt; TRANSFER, OR MORTGAGE of the pension or arrears of Pension therein authorized to to be received by him.
William James Attorney

Sworn and Subscribed, the day and year last above mentioned, before me,}
Sylvester Spencer
Notary Public
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Mechanics Bank
New York 26th Dec. 1838

Sir

I enclose for your examination the papers in the case of Ebenezer James deceased late a pensioner under the act of 18th March 1818 at eight dollars per month,
Asa James, one of the children has refused and still continuers to refuse to unite with the others in drawing, the balances due, which has caused so much delay that the power of attorney of Daniel James, is not over ninety days date, the attorney (one of the children) begs the favor of you to allow payment to be made on the enclosed papers, retaining the share due to Asa James,

Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt
Y Knapp Prist

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension,
Washington
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Timothy Bennett
Oath
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State of New York}
Suffolk County} SS

Personally came before me  Nathaniel Potter one of the Judges of Common Pleas in and for sd County of Suffolk Timothy Bennett who being duly sworn saith that he well know Ebenezer James that said James with is deponent enlisted as a soldier at the same time into the army of the United States during the War of the Revolution in the New York Line, early in the war, and that he with this deponent served till the end of the war in the same regiment and that they were in active4 service during all the principal compains [campaigns], were at the taking of  Com Dallis Bourgoin at the battles of Trenton Monmoth [Monmouth] in the expedition after the Indians with General Sillivan &c &c
Timonthy Bennett
Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of April AD 1818
Nathaniel Potter Judge