Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,603, for John Jemes, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Jemes, John or James
S.5.603
carded
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2364 Increase
New Jersey
John James decd.
of Hunterdon Co in the State of New Jersey
who was a [ineligible] in the Company commanded by Captain Houghton of the Regt commanded by Col. Johnson in the New Jersey
line for 5 months Private
19 months Forage master
Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton at the rate of 396 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & end 20th June 1834, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of May
1850 and sent to Hon I. Freedley HR
Increased from $206.66 
Payable to Martha Badger, only living child
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. B. Chase Clerk, 
Book E2 Vol. 3 Page 139
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Brief in the case of John James of Hunterdon Co. in the state of New Jersey (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?
In the Court of Common Pleas.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
74 years, - 
4. State of his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. In 1776 June 1777 March
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
5
1 7 -
He states to have performed other services whish were not sufficiently definite
Rank. As a private) Forage Master
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 
Gen. M. J. Leire
Capt Hougton Col. Johnson
[crossed out Forage Master]
5. In what battles was he engaged?
Long Island, White Plains. 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Trenton. N. Jersey.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By witnesses and documents
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Defective, not properly attached, 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
James Outfieye Examining Clerk.
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State of New Jersey 
Hunterdon County//

Hunterdon Pleas
February Seven AD 1848

I, Joseph Besson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that it has been proven to the satisfaction of this Court that John James of the said County of Hunterdon was a pensioner of the United States and that he died on the Twentieth day of June A.D. Eighteen Hundreds and Thirty four, that he left no widow and that the following named children survived him, to wit.:

Martha Badger, wife of Edward Badger and Sarah Martindale, wife of Phineas Martindale and that Mrs. Martha Badger is the only child that now survives her father, the said John James. 

In Testimony where of I have herewith set my hand and the seal of my said office this Tenth day of February in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight hundred & Forty eight. 
s/ Jos. Besson. Clk.
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State of New Jerse
Hunterdon County Court//

On this Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas held at Flemington in and for the County of Hunterdon and the state of New Jersey now sitting John James, a resident of the Township of Amwell in said county of Hunterdon in the said State of New Jersey aged about Seventy four years who did convey himself to be conscientiously scrupulous of taken an oath & being first duly [crossed out: sworn] affirmed according to law doth on his [crossed out: oath] solemn affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 June 1822.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers aforesaid herein stated, that he was born on the fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand [crossed out: Eight] Seven Hundred and Fifty eight or One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty nine at the township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, that he has no record of his age, never having been in possession of his family index or other record of his age, having left his parents and home at under years, that he was in the month of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy five living in Trenton in the State of New Jersey with one Jonathan Richmond learning the Cooper's Trade but not as an apprentice when in the month of June 1776 sent [crossed out: at the Trenton] he don't recollect the precise day but he thinks it was the 26th June 1776, enlisted at Trenton, New Jersey as a private soldier in the company...
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...commanded by Captain Jos. S. Houghton in the regiment of the New Jersey Line and commanded by Captain Joseph Phillips entered the service of five months. During his enlistment of five months service in the regiment commanded by Capt. Hurst, who this deponent with his regiment which was the regiment commanded by Lieutenant to Colonel Phillip Johnston - Joseph Phillips was Brigadier General as Brigadier Major Joseph [illegible] was captain under Joseph Clifford was First Lieutenant and secured as his Second Lieutenant, that shortly after this he then ordered his men out and marched his regiment through Princeton, New Brunswick, Elizabeth Town and Newark but decided Captain Jos. S. Houghton having been appointed Colonel of [illegible] the recognize [illegible] in Newark where Joseph [illegible] concern been appointed Colonel were reunited with his regiment and others engaged along its command, he was engaged and ordered Captain Houghton to Long Island called Tortoise Hill.

That on the 27th August 1776 he was engaged with his regiment & in the battle of Long Island where his colonel Phillip Johnson was killed and the command of the regiment devolved, that the [crossed out: major] Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Houghton, that shortly after the battle he with his regiment under
orders of the American Army marched to [illegible] New York. That General Heard commanded the Jersey Troops - General [illegible] Sullivan was taken prisoner out in the battle. That this deponent with his regiment then proceeded up the North River to Fort Washington unsupported in the creation of [illegible] soldiers and was there employed until another following and recollects at that time the enemy proceeded up the East River and engaged a brigade of Troops...
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...at Froggs or Fhroggs Point where a part of the American Army under General Washington immediately [illegible] deponent and his regiment was under the
command of Colonel Biddle, moved to his Amwell house, and there engaged the enemy and remained in the town of his residence in 1776 - in which according to this deponent was August, that shortly afterwards [illegible] this deponent was engaged together in the Jersey line of the United States and through 
[illegible] cattle wagon nearby a farm from it in which he was serving [illegible] in that command ordered from [illegible] Gen. [illegible] still remained with the army and escaped to Kings Ferry marched to the North River at that place and proceeded down the river to  [illegible] through New Jersey and onward Newark and out the line that [illegible] General Washington was in command; in congressional in which the American Army were ordered [illegible] the camped, the deponent was injured the [illegible] surrender said land was caught his the deponent was injured baggage wagon with this deponent on Pennsylvania to command and was confined to [illegible] on residence in the the month of March 1777 [illegible] was discharged cured. That this deponent was immediately ordered to Trenton where he was [illegible] and deponent's residence and was immediately appointed by General Council
Biddle, the Commissary General of Forage, a Forage Master in the services of the United
States. That his appointment was dated June...
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...time in the month of March 1777 - but he cannot certify the place - and he has no evidence of his appointment about the oath of James [illegible] and the Certificate of Discharge and of his [illegible] affidavits hereto annexed - That he served in that capacity attached to the medical staff of the army, and during the spring and forward in 1777 he was employed in supplying the medical staff with forage from the country around Trenton. That in the fall of that year aforesaid he followed the army to Valley Forge and enjoined the men and went in company with Col. Elias [illegible] afterwards General Sauer of Monmouth County and during the fall afterwards following was employed as Forage Master.

He collected forage for the Medical Department of the army for diagnosis through an [illegible] of combining more than thirty pieces [illegible] by force always actively engaged and prepared for much hardship. That in the early period of the summer of 1778 when the British were in Philadelphia he was ordered out once and marched with the brigade of wagons under his command filled with forage and deposited the same in the magazine there - that from
this period until the 23 October 1778; this deponent was employed as Forage Master in and about the neighborhood of Philadelphia - on which day in company and afterward [illegible] and medicine he applied for and requested his discharge - the Certificate of Discharge [illegible].
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Jimes, John (or James) | S.5.603
carded
CONTENTS
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...made an investigation, as offered in his town. Henry Chambers was lieutenant, John Wilgan also was a lieutenant. He also marched to Millstone under Captain Leighton and that he verily believes that his discharge of that service he was acting in the capacity of Forage Master. He served upwards of two years in the Militia of New Jersey at different times. That since the Revolutionary war he has lived in [crossed out: Trenton] Lumberton in said County, and removed from there to Trenton and from there moved to the Township of Amwell where he hath resided upwards of fourteen years. That he held the commission of a lieutenant in the Militia of New Jersey and went with the Jersey Troops to guide the insurrection in Pennington area commonly called the Whiskey Insurrection.

The battle at [illegible] house and of five years hath been a farmer, that his health became unable to labor, by reason of his severe agony years and infirmities. That he is well known to Chief Justice Ewing, Sheriff Peter Forman and General Council Lewall in Trenton and to Judge Elnathan Stevenson, Judge Elijah Wilfon, Major Quinch and dozen others in his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. That he knows of no other persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service...
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[crossed out: Sworn and subscribed before] ...other than through whose appearances are here to annexed. All of the others are currently dead or have moved to places unknown to the deponent, that he hath no claims currently presence except what is here retained.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state although he hath made an application for a pension under the former act. [illegible]

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
s/ John Jemes

In open court (The deponent declaring himself to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath was solemnly affirmed according to law & on his solemn affirmation declares the content of the above deposition to be true.) in presence of.
s/ Benjamin Egbert, one of the Judges
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...and the said Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon, Do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that John Jemes the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

Done in Open Court August 9, 1832.
s/ Benjamin Egbert
s/ Joseph Johnston
s/ John Basitan

Hunterdon County
State of New Jersey//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Jemes for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clk.
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April 1, 1932 

BA - J/MLB 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 JOHN JEMES
S. 5603

Mrs. Walter A. Blackwell 152 West Main Street Newark, Delaware 

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to John James, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 5603, based upon the military service of John Jemes (personal signature, John Jemes,) in the Revolutionary War. 

 John Jemes was born November 14, 1758, or 1759, in the township of Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.  

 In 1775 he was living in Trenton, New Jersey, with one Jonathan Richmond, learning the cooper's trade, but not as an apprentice.  

 While living in said Trenton, New Jersey, he enlisted about June 26, 1776, for the period of five months, served as private in Captain Joab Houghton's company, Colonels Hunt and Philip Johnston's New Jersey regiment, was in the battle of Long Island, after which the regiment proceeded up North River to Fort Washington , where he assisted until October, 1776, in the erection of the work there, was in the battle of White Plains, in which he was wounded, was carried to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained in a hospital until March, 1777, when he returned to his home at Trenton, New Jersey. Sometime in March, 1777, he was appointed foremaster by Colonel Clement Biddle, Commissary General of Forage, and served in that capacity in the neighborhood of Trenton, Valley Forge and Philadelphia, until October 23, 1778, when he was discharged on account of “family afflictions”. After his return home he joined the Trenton volunteer company of artillery as quartermaster in Captains John Yard's, Quigley's and Clum's companies of
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New Jersey militia and served to the close of the war.

After the Revolutionary War, John Jemes lived in Lamberton,
near Trenton, and moved from there to Trenton, thence to the
township of Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where in 1832
he stated he had resided 'upwards of fourteen years".

John Jemes held the commission of lieutenant in the New Jersey
militia and went with the New Jersey troops to quell the
insurrection in Pennsylvania, commonly called the Whiskey
Insurrection. He stated that his occupation at times had been
innkeeper and farmer.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December
22, 1820, at which time he was a resident of the township of
Amwell, New Jersey. He was pensioned as John James[underlined].

He died June 20, 1854. His wife, whose name is not stated,
did not survive him. He left the following children:

Martha Badger, wife of Edward Badger, and living in 1849; in 1850
residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, One W. H.
Richardson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850
stated that his mother was Martha Badger, the only
surviving child of John Jones; no reference was
made to any other husband of Martha Badger then
said Edward.

Sarah Martindale, wife of Phineas Martindale, dead in 1849.
No further reference is made to children.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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5603
Revolution(ary War)

INVALID.

File No. 5603
John Jemes
Forage Mr. & Priv(ate) Rev(olutionary) War

Act June 7th 1832

Index: -- Vol. M, Page 170

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[illegible] 27 - Hist. to Mrs. Edward W.
[illegible] M.L.B.
[illegible] 2 Apr. 1 - Hist. to Mrs. Walter Blackwell - M.L.B.
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Set to N. Carroll Oct 12, '43
Let(ter) to James Snyder
May 29, '48

2304
New Jersey
John James of Hunterdon Co. in the State of New Jersey who was a priv(ate) & For(age) Mas(ter) in the company commanded by Captain Houghton of the Reg(iment) commanded by Col. Johnson in the N. Jersey line for 5 months as Private................$16.66
line for 19 months as For(age) Mas(ter).....................................................$190.00
......................................................................$206.66

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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 206 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of November 1832 and sent to Garret D. Wall, Burlington, New Jersey.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832...............$309.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4, March 1833.................................................................103.33
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..........................................................................$413.32
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Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by
s/ John Duffice, Clerk
Book D; Vol. 4; Page 157
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Sworn 33 paid

John Jemes
Petition
Rec(eived) Pa(id)
Mil(itary Pen(sion)

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

The memorial of the subscriber, John Jemes, a citizen of the State of New Jersey, residing in the Township of Amwell, in the County of Hunterdon, respectfully represents.//

That your memorialist now in his Seventy third year, is afflicted with bodily infirmities and wholly incapable of maintaining himself by any sort of work or labor, and is without other means; he therefore respectfully prays, that for the services [crossed out: received for] rendered his country in the
Revolutionary War, which he is about to set forth and prove, Congress will be pleased to grant them, as a means of support for the remnant of his days, the pension usually allowed to soldiers, by the provisions of various acts of Congress, according to their several grades or appointments.

That in the month of June, 1776, your memorialist enlisted at Trenton, New Jersey, as a private soldier, in the company of Captain Joab Houghton, in the regiment of the Jersey line, then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Johnson, for the period of five months, called the five months service; that your memorialist shortly after proceeded with the regiment to New York, and during that early period of the struggle for Independence, served in New York and was present, with his regiment, at the battle of Long Island, on the 27th of August 1776, when Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was killed, and the command
of the regiment devolved upon Major Joseph Phillips; that shortly after the battle, the regiment, with the rest of the American army retreated to New York, and the regiment of which your memorialist served, proceed up the North River to Fort Washington, assisted in the erection of the works, and was employed, there, until October...
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...following; that about that time, the enemy pushed up the East River and landed a body of troops at Froggs Point, when a part of the American army under General Washington, including the regiments under Major Phillips, in which your memorialist served, moved to the White Plains and there engaged the enemy in the battle of the 28th of October, 1776, in which action your memorialist was present and was then wounded;  that shortly after the attack of the enemy upon Fort Washington and Fort Lee, General Washington proceeded with the American army to Kings Ferry, crossed the North river, at that place, marched 
down the west side of the river, through New Jersey, and arrived at Newark about the time Forts Washington and Lee were evacuated on the 18th of November, 1776; & in consequence of which the American army were obliged to make a rapid and distressing retreat through New Jersey, also to Pennsylvania, and your memorialist, with the rest of the wounded, were sent in baggage wagons, to Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, where he remained in the hospital there until the
month of March 1777, when your memorialist was discharged cured; that your memorialist immediately returned to Trenton, his place of residence before he entered the army, and was at once appointed by the Commissary General of Forage, the late Colonel Clement Biddle, a Forage Master, in the service of the United States, and in that capacity attached to the Medical Staff of the army; that during the spring and summer of the year 1777, your memorialist was employed in supplying the Medical Staff with forage from the country (a)round Trenton; that in the fall of the same year he accompanied the army to Valley Forge, in...
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...Pennsylvania, and during the fall and winter, was employed in collecting forage for the medical department of the army, through an extent of country, more than thirty miles round Valley Forge, always actively engaged and exposed to much hardship.

That in the early part of the summer of 1778, when the British evacuated Philadelphia your memorialist was ordered into that city, with the brigade of wagons under his command filled with forage, and deposited the same, in the magazines there, that from that period, until the 23d of October, 1778, your memorialist was employed in and about the neighborhood of Philadelphia on which last named day in consequence of family afflictions, he applied for and obtained his discharge, the certificate of which, granted to him by the assistant Commissary General Owen Biddle, accompanies this memorial, and that from the time your memorialist entered the service of the United States in June 1776 as a private soldier in the Jersey Line, and after his appointment as a
Forage Master, and until his discharge on the 23rd of October, 1778, he was in the service of the United States for the period of two years and more than four months; that immediately after his discharge, your memorialist returned home to Trenton, [crossed out: was appointed as sergeant in a company] was a sergeant in a Trenton company, volunteer artillery, and during the remainder of the Revolutionary War, served in the militia of New Jersey; that after the close of the war, your memorialist was a farmer and Inn Keeper in New Jersey, but is now disabled, without employment, and dependent upon two daughters for his support, with one of whom he recently as above stated, at Amwell in Hunterdon County.
s/ John Jemes

November 22nd 1830
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Be it Known that on this Twenty second day of December, A.D. 1830 before me the subscriber Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, residing in the City of Philadelphia, personally appeared John Jemes, who in my presence signed the foregoing Memorial, and in due form of law made oath before me, that the said Memorial was, in all things therein contained, just and true.
s/ John Jemes

Sworn and Subscribed, as above before me, by the said John Jemes, who is well known to me, Notary Public, and deserving of credit and belief; and I do also certify that the discharge, which accompanies this Memorial, dated 23rd day of October 1778, and signed "Owen Biddle A.C.G.F." is in the proper handwriting of my uncle, the late "Owen Biddle" and under his own proper signature, well known to me, as such, and to my brother Thomas Biddle, who hath attested the same, at the foot thereof; and I do further declare that my father, the late Clement Biddle was Commissary General of Forage in the service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War, at the time mentioned by the within Memorial as I have ascertained by documents and other papers now in my possession; and that my mother, who is now living, aged 75 years, has seen the memorialist John Jemes, and is well satisfied that he was a Forage Master, as stated in the Memorial, as she was at Valley Forge, at the time he mentions, and part of the various occurrences which then took place, which the Memorialist brought to her recollection.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, on the day and year above written.
s/ Clement C. Biddle
Not(ary) Pub(lic)
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Refund to the War Department
[illegible] Dept.
Aug. 24, 1832

17.977
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Burlington, Aug 21, 1832

Sir,

I have the honor to enclose (sp.) the proceeding vouchers, on the application of John Jemes for a pension under the law of 7 June 1832.

I drew the affirmation of the applicant but not being present at Court when it was submitted to the Court. I observe that the gentleman who conducted the matter for him has omitted the certificate of the two persons prescribed by the form required by the War Department. I trust however that this omission will not prejudice his claim, as it is more satisfactorily supplied, and the facts evinced by the accompanying vouchers - which fully establish all the facts thereby intended to be made out. I personally know Mr. Jemes, and that he is the person that he [crossed out: resp] represents himself to be, and would, had I been prepared [illegible] made the certificate & affidavit required by the form prescribed.

I beg leave to request that the information of the action of the department upon this application, may be communicated to me & I will take care that he shall receive the earliest intelligence of it. His residence is distant from a post town.

I have the honor to be Sir, very resp(ectfully) your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Garret D. Wall

The Honorable Louis McCane, Esq.
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, John Clifford, who being sworn according to law on his oath, saith that in the year 1776 he, this deponent, held the commission of First Lieutenant in Captain Joab Houghton's company in Col. Philip Johnston's regiment of Jersey troops during what was called the five months service, that he was well acquainted with the petitioner, John Jemes, and that the said John Jemes was attached to and enlisted in the said Capt. Houghton's company and done service in the same during that time, and that he, this
deponent believes the facts stated in the above petition to be true to the best of his recollection and further says not.
s/ John Clifford

Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of December A.D. 1830.
s/ Enoch Clifford
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify, that Enoch Clifford, Esq. before whom the within affidavit was taken then was and now is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Hunterdon duly commissioned and sworn, and that
full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Flemington the Fifteenth day of December A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty.
s/ Isaac G. Farlee, Clk.
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I promised you a few days past, to procure from the files of the Clerks office & find you, the papers which you have heretofore sent to Congress. They will be of service to you when you apply for relief under the late law. & I also send you a copy of the rules & forms presented by the War Department with a copy also of the law, to aid those who may draw up your declaration.

With best wishes for your success yours respectfully,
s/ Lewis Condict

Mr. John Jemes

H.R. 4th July 1832
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Washington, June 28th 1832

Dear Sir,

The general Pension Bill, which has rec(eived) the signature of the President & become a law, will enhance your case, & entitle you to its benefits. The Committee had made a favorable report, with a private bill for your relief, but the general bill rendered showed legislation unnecessary.

In a few days, instructions & rules will be published, to show in what form application must be made, & what proof will be required. Some of your papers
which were before the Committee, may be of [crossed out: (illegible)] use to you as proof of service, & I will therefore withdraw them from the files of the office & enclose them to the care of your friend, Col. Biddle.

Respectfully your fiend &c,
s/ Lewis Condict

Mr. John Jemes
Phila.
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Phila(delphia) 2nd July, 1832.

Dear Father,

The [crossed out: words] within was said by Col. Biddle on Saturday, deciding I did not get it until this moment. Col. Biddle says it will not be necessary for you to come down until instructions are published of the documents received from Mr. Condit. I congratulate on the probable termination of your claim. Col. Biddle says he will do all that to complete the business.

I have still to bury the ports at $10 per hundred if not to be obtained for less. Ask Sally if she wants her little daughter before variative. If she does I will try to send her up. She has got rid of her pain & I think is quite well Martha [illegible] her [illegible].

Yours,
s/ Edmund Badger
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Hon. Joel B. Sutherland
House of Representatives
Washington
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Phila(delphia) 22 December, 1830.

Dear Sir,

At the request of Mr. John James, respecting whom I spoke to you, and who is now with me, I herewith transmit his memorial, asking for a pension as a disabled and infirm revolutionary soldier. The memorial, from his memoranda and documents shown to me, has been drawn up, and sworn to by him before me.

It is accompanied as you will remark, by the discharge, with the copy of it compared by you & by my brother Thomas Bidelle and myself and my the depositions of John Clifford and James Event. There are also, he tells me, now on file with his former petition, other deposition, which was referred to a Committee of the House. This appears by the Sam'l Sevans letter to him of 1st March 1830.

There is in question, that Mr. Jemes is the person he represents himself to be in the memorial; my father was the Commissary General of Forage, at the times Mr. Jemes represents; and my mother assures me that she is perfectly satisfied he was a Forage Master at Valley Forge in the fall of 1777, and have annexed a certificate this deposition to that effect. With such satisfactory documents, I trust Mr. Jemes will obtain the relief he is so well entitled to and of which he is so much in want; since you saw him, he has been thrown from his horse & until this day has been unable to see me.

Ets. he is to feeble to write, Mr. James begs me to ask you to speak to interest Mr. Sevan & Mr. Frelinghysen of New Jersey, & Mr. Miller of our city, with yourself in his behalf & I shall feel obliged by your attention the claim, request you will acknowledge the receipt of his documents.

Very respectfully & faithfully,
s/ Clement C. Freddler

Hon. J.B. Sutherland
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John James
Jabesh Ashmone

Deposition in favor of John James, Revol. Soldier

Feb. 22, 1830
[illegible] - Mil. Pensions
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State of New Jersey

I, James D. Westcott, Secretary of the State of New Jersey do certify that Gersham Mott, Esq., is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Burlington in said State duly commissioned & sworn and has been so for the last three years & that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official attestations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office at the City of Trenton this Twenty Eighth day of November A.D. One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty one.
s/ James D. Westroll

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Before me, Elnathan Stevenson, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared James Everet of said County, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he knew John Jemes, now of Amwell in the said County of Hunterdon in the year of 1777 in March 
and that he, the said John Jemes, was then a Forage Master at Trenton in the United States service, that he, the said James Everet drove a Continental Team at that time which drew forage of the said John Jemes, and further saith not.
s/ James Everet 

Sworn and subscribed the 18th day of December A.D. 1833 before me.
s/ Elnathan Stevenson

Elnathan Stevenson, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is known to me, and is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon, N. Jersey - 26 Dec. 1820.
s/ Saml. Southard
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County//

Before me, Gershom Mott, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Jabez Ashmone, of Lumberton, in said County, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with John James, now of the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey [crossed out: that] and that he knows the said John James to have been out in the five months service in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy six during the whole term of five months.
s/ Jabesh Ashmone

Sworn and subscribed before me the 13th day of February 1836.
s/ Gersham Mott, one of the Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey.

State of New Jersey, Hunterdon County to wit:
I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify that Elnathan Stevenson, Esquire, is now and has been for more than ten years past one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and sworn from time to time, and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Flemington this Seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty one.
s/ (I.G.) Farlee, Clk.
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State of New Jersey
Burlington County//

Before me, Gershom Mott, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Jabez Ashmone, of Lumberton, in said County, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with John James, now of the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey [crossed out: that] and that he knows the said John James to have been out in the five months service in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy six during the whole term of five months.
s/ Jabesh Ashmone

Sworn and subscribed before me the 13th day of February 1836.
s/ Gersham Mott, one of the Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey.
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

Before me, Jonathan Higgins, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared James Everet of said County, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he knew John Jemes, now of Amwell in the said County of Hunterdon in the month of March in the year of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven and that he, the said John Jemes was then a Forage Master at Trenton in the United States service, that he, the said James Everet drove a Continental Team at that time which drew forage of the said John Jemes and further saith not.
s/ James Everet 

Sworn and subscribed the 8th day of August 1832 before me.
s/ Jonathan M. Higgins, J.P.
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County//

I, Isaac G. Farlee, Clerk of the Court of Common Please of the County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that Jonathan M. Higgins, before whom the within deposition was at the time of so taking and is now one of the Justices of the peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn and that due faith & credit ought to be given to all his official acts as well in the State of New (Jersey) as elsewhere.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Flemington the Eighth day of August A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty two.
s/ (I.G.) Farlee, Clk.

James Everet, witness.
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com(missioner) of Pensions

Aug. 22, '43
N.J.
John James
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Washington, Aug. 21st 1843

Sir,

As Attorney for Phineas Martindell, Esq., of Amwell, Hunterdon Co., N.J., executor to the estate of the late John James, Esq., who was a Forage Master during the War of the Revolution, I beg leave to draw your attention to that case.

The estate claim on arrearage, being an increase on the pension he received under the law of 1832, from the 4th March 1831 to the day of his decease.

Should his papers, now on file, fail to prove sufficient service to justify this increase, the records of New Jersey, now in the jury's office at Trenton, will supply the deficiency.

Waiting your answer.

I have the honor to be.

Very Resp(ectfully) your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Rich(ard) Farrell

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com(missioner) of Pensions
Washington
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Washington
Apr. 23, 1850

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Com(missioner) of Pensions

Sir,

In the case of John Jemes, dec'd, late a pensioner under act 1832 on the New Jersey role, I herewith present a letter signed by Mr. H. Richardson for his mother, the only surviving child of John James, and I am informed evidence of the fact is on file.

John James seems to have been pensioned as a Private and Forage Master and allowed a pension at the rate of $206.60 per annum. He is claimed by the surviving child that said James served as Forage Master about 20 mos., that an allowance has not been made in full for that service. And that there is a document on file showing the commencement or duration of his service.

And the claim is now made for an adjustment of his pension as Forage Master for the period of time allowed for, at the rate [crossed out: greater] under the recent decision of the
said greater criteria.

I remain your hon(orable) obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Alex. Ray
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Phila(delphia) March 26th 1850

Jas. L. Edwards, Esq.
Com(missioner) of Pensions

Sir,

I have appointed Mr. Alexander Ray of Washington, my attorney and agent, to prosecute before your office a claim to an increase of my late father, John Jemes, pension as a Forage Master in the revolution. He was pensioned at the rate of $206.66 per annum under act 7th June 1832 and the claim to an increase is based on his service as Forage Master. Be pleased to communicate with Mr. Ray in relation to the subject.

I remain very respectfully yours,
s/ Martha Badger
per Mrs. H. Richardson
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2364
John James, Dec(eased)
New Jersey

Increased from $206 66/100 to $396.66 per annum com(mencing) 4 March 1831 to 20th June 1834 when he died, deducting what has been paid, payable to Martha
Badger, widow of husband.

Act 7 June 1832

[illegible]

Hon. J. Freedley, H.R.
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MRS. WALTER A. BLACKWELL
152 WEST MAIN STREET
NEWARK, DELAWARE

Feb. 29-1932

Bureau of Pensions

Dear Sirs:
Do you have any record of John Jemes, Amwell New Jersey - A Revolutionary
Soldier?
I have a letter - or a copy of the original letter - written by a son in law of John Jemes ^
Edmund Badger in Philadelphia - 1832- which says "Dear Father, I heartily congratulate
 you on the rec't of your certificate
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MRS. WALTER A. BLACKWELL 
152 WEST MAIN STREET 
NEWARK, DELAWARE 

for a pension. After so long a time you have rec’d that compensation that ought to have been given to old Revolutionists ten years since.”  Further along in the same letter it says “I can not believe that the misspelling your name is of any consequence - Perhaps it would be well however, to write to the office where you retained your certificate and inform them of the fact.” Whether the name was corrected or not we do not know. We have another letter
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MRS. WALTER A BLACKWELL
 152 WEST MAIN STREET 
NEWARK, DELAWARE 

addressed to John Jemes, Lamberton New Jersey. Probably the name was misspelled “James”. Then we have a letter signed M.R. Woolsey, Pennington N.J. -which says that John Jemes was a Revolutionary Officer and  fought under Washington at Valley Forge and at Trenton. I would be very grateful if you could give me some information on the Subject. 

Respectfully yours 
(Mrs. Walter A) Elsie McCauley Blackwell
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[DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION logo]
MRS. EDWARD W. COOCH 
STATE REGENT 
COOCH'S BRIDGE, DELAWARE 

Feb. 11th, 1932.

U.S. Pension Bureau,

 I have an applicant for membership in the D.A.R. who is having difficulty in establishing her ancestor’s services and I am writing to you to ask assistance.

 There was an old letter found in the still older family Bible, which said that this ancestor, John Jemes, of Amwell, New Jersey, was an officer in the Revolution and was among those who had spent the winter at Valley Forge. An old letter from a son - in - law has just been discovered which congratulated the old gentleman upon his receiving a certificate for a pension. This letter goes on to say, "I cannot beleive that the misspelling your name is of any consequence. Perhaps it would be well, however, to write to the office where you obtained your certificate and inform them of the fact. "

 As Jemes was the Scotch way of spell ing James, this John Jemes may be recorded with you as John James, as is suggested by the above quotation. 

Will you be so kind as to let me know what your records are, upon this service, and what the service was?  I will be most grateful for your co-operation. Thanking you in advance , I am, 

Most sincerely, 
Eleanor B. Cooch [handwritten signature]
( Mrs. Edward W. Cooch.)
State Regent of Delaware, N. S. D. A. R.

[stamp RECEIVED FEB 13 1932]
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March 17, 1932

BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Edward W. Cooch 
Cooch's Bridge 
Delaware 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to John Jemes, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 5603, based upon the military service of John Jemes (personal signature, John Jemes,) in the Revolutionary War.

 John Jemes was born November 14, 1758, or 1759, in the township of Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. 

In 1775 he was living in Trenton, New Jersey, with one Jonathan Richmond, learning the cooper's trade, but not as an apprentice. 

While living in said Trenton, New Jersey, he enlisted about June 26, 1776, for the period of five months, served as private in Captain Joab Houghton's company, Colonels Hunt and Philip Johnston's New Jersey regiment, was in the battle of Long Island, after which the regiment proceeded up North River to Fort Washington , where he assisted until October, 1776, in the erection of the work there, was in the battle of White Plains, in which he was wounded, was carried to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained in a hospital until March, 1777, when he returned to his home at Trenton, New Jersey. Sometime in March, 1777, he was appointed foremaster by Colonel Clement Biddle, Commissary General of Forage, and served in that capacity in the neighborhood of Trenton, Valley Forge and Philadelphia, until October 23, 1778, when he was discharged on account of “family afflictions”. After his return home he joined the Trenton volunteer company of artillery as quartermaster in Captains John Yard's, Quigley's and Clum's companies of New Jersey militia and served to the close of the war.
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After the Revolutionary War, John James lived in Lamberton near Trenton and moved from there to Trenton, thence to the township of Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where in 1832 he stated he had resided "upwards of fourteen years".
   John James held the commission of lieutenant in the Nwe Jersey militia and went with the New Jersey troops to quell the insurrection in Pennsylvania, commonly called the Whiskey Insurrection. He stated that his occupation at times had been innkeeper and farmer.
      He was allowed pension on his application executed December 22, 1830, at which time he was a resident of the township of Amwell, New Jersey. He was pensioned as John James.
       He died June 20, 1834. His wife whose name is not stated did not survive him. he left the following children:
       Martha Badger, wife of Edward Badger, and living in 1848; in 1850 residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One W.H. Richardson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850 stated that his mother was Martha Badger the only surviving child of John James.; no reference was made to any other husband of Martha Badger than Edward.
         Sarah Martindale, wife of Phineas Martindale, dead in 1848.
     No further reference is made to children.

                  Very truly yours
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John James
5603
N.J.
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These are to Certify whom it may concern that Mr John Jemes Forage Master in the service of the United States of America having applied to of dismissed from the said service he is therefore permitted to leave the service and is hereby discharged, as Witnessed my hand this 23d day of October 1778 ~
Owen Biddle ACGJ
the  above is the signature of Owen Biddle my Uncle 
Novr 16, 1830 Thomas Biddle