Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,715, James Bishop, New York
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index card

New York
Bishop, James
Catharine
W.20,715
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(N. 1,779..)
New York
James Bishop
New York
Line _____
3 years till spring of 1780
in the army of the United States  during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of March 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Feb, 1818
an ____ to A W O____
Ballston Spa _____
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
5 mos 10/31 to 4/30 $43.04
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Col ____
________
______ Saratoga Co.

Dead. See letters to Hon. J. Cramer H.R: March 29, 1834 and to Pen. Agt Same day

____________________ from Apr 4, 1820 to J. ___ Palmer
Ballston Spa, N. Y.
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James Bishop 
8 March
____________
____________
By the testimony of this man as a_________
Judges certifies

Died 9th Apr '80
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State of New York
Saratoga county 
Be it remembered that on this twenty eigth day of the March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred Eighteen appeared before me Thomas Dibble one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Saratoga and State of New York James Bishop of the town of Malta in the County and State aforesaid who being by me duly sworn declared that he served in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy for the period of three years. That in the Spring of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven he enlisted into the Continental establishment at Fort Montgomery in the State of New York aforesaid in Captain Johnson's Company in Colonel Dubois' Regiment of the New York Line for the period of three years. that he served three years faithfully and in the Spring of the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty he received an honourable discharge at Morristown in the State of Newjersey. that in the year 1809 his discharge was burnt in the a ___ of Samuel Bishop his son which was also consumed by fire. that he is now Seventy four years of Age and in very indigent circumstances and in need of assistance from his county for his support
James Bishop
Sworn /Subcribed this 22d day of March 1818 before me
Thomas Bibble one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please of the County of Saratoga State of New York
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State of New York
Saratoga County 
John Bishop of the town  and county aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with the within named Deponent James Bishop that he has often seen and read an ancient paper purporting to be an honourable discharge of the said James Bishop from the Continental service. that the said paper was dated in the Spring of the year 1780 that it stated that the said James Bishop having served faithfully and honestly for the period of three years, was thereby honorably discharged. That the said James Bishop is now old and infirm and in very indigent circumstances and in need of assistance for his support.
John Bishop
Sworn & Subscribed
this 28th day of March 1818 before me Thomas Dibble one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas of the County of Saratoga and State of New York
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State of New York, Saratoga county. Be  it Remembered that on the twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen appeared before me Thomas Dibble one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid Samuel Bishop of the Town of Malta in the County of Saratoga and state of New York who being by me duly sworn  deposith and saith that he is knowing to James Bishop's having had a fair and honourable discharge particularly purporting to be a discharge for three years services in the war of the Revolution and that the said discharge was in his this ____ ____ and was burned in the house of the said deponent on the 28th day of August 1804 and further this deponent saith upon his oath aforesaid that he knows the circumstances of the said James Bishop and believes him to be actually needy, and in want of assistance from his country for his support.
[Signed] Samuel W Bishop
Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of March in the year of our Lord 1818 before me Thomas Dibble one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Saratoga State of New York
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James Bishop
Copy
1779
____
1818
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state of New York
Saratoga County
On this twenty second day of August 1821 per-sonally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas of the said county the same being a court of record for the said county preceding according to the court of common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in ___ of amount keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine & imprisonment. James Bishop aged Seventy seven years resident in the said county in the state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows_ That on the commencement of the war he enlisted in a regiment commanded by Col. Rayner that they served in the northern campaign under General Montgomery that he was at the taking of St John Chambler Montreal and at the siege of Quebec at the time General Montgomery was killed that he then served for the space of one year and received an honorable discharge that in forepart of the month of March 1777 he enlisted at Fort Montgomery  in the State of New York in a company commanded by Captain Johnson in Col Lewis Dubois regiment of the New York line for the period of three years that he served the said three years faithfully and in the spring of the year 1780 at Morristown New Jersey received an honorable discharge. That his original declaration was made on the twenty second day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is numbered (1779).
And I do solemny  swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that i have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with in that thereby so to ____ it as to bring myself within the pension of an act of congress entitled. An act to provide for certain persons engaged
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in this land A Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person entrust for me any power pertaining securities contracts or debts due to use other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto amended and by ___described
James X Bishop/his mark
Sworn and subscribed on the twenty second day of August before me in open Court
Thomas Palmer, Clerk
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga so hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto amended are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty four dollars and sixty five cents:
In testimony, whereof I have hereunder set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the twenty second day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Please of the County of Saratoga
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An inventory or Schedule of the Property of James Bishop the above named deponent: vis:
One cow: Worth $15.00
One sow and __small pigs 2.00
4 sheep and 4 lambs 3.00
1 table and one chest ( ___ 12 or 13 years old) 1.00
1 small post and kettle one tea kettle Iron 1.50
3 cups & saucers (earthen) cast new 18 1/2 as a__ 0.09
6 earthen plates 0.87 1/2
3 knives & forks handles off a part of them 0.12 1/2
1 wooden bowl 0.06 1/4
1 old bed they have had it 18 years old when purchased ____ 2.00 0.00
1 straw bed  0.50
[total $24.65]
verry scanty bedding for the same not enough to be warm in cold weather. verry scanty wearing apparel for myself and my wife. I live in a small log hut for which I pay $1.00 per month. I have an aged wife.. I have no trade by occupation a Laborer. With me and my wife lve 2 small grandchildren whose parents were unable to support them the eldest 5 years of age. I am as old and feeble that I cannot labour but very little and on account of my age few are willing to give me any employ or any thing for it and I am my wife are unable to live without public or private charity
James X Bishop his Mark
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
On this twelfth day of February 1838, personally appeared before me Thomas J Marvin, Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for said county, Catharine Bishop, a resident of the town of Chilton in said Country, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed 4th July 1836. That she is the widow of James Bishop who was a private in the war of the revolution for the term of at least seven years, at least three years of which term he served in the New York line, but the names of his ____ and the particulars of his service she this declarant cannot specify, except that he served under Capt. Johnson, and was engaged at Fort Montgomery
And further that he received a pension of about ninety six dollars per annum under the act of Congress passed 18 Mar. 1818.
She further declares that she was married to said James Bishop, on the ninth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two (9th October 1782) in the town of Sheffield in the State of Mass-
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-chusetts by a magistrate by the name of Barnard. That every one of the individuals who were present at said marriage (of whom this declarant remembers the names of Paul Dewey, Joab Austin, her brother, Samuel Warn and Jacob Warn, Mathew Shed & Zebulon Spaulding) have all departed this life, except said Samuel Spaulding.
That her husband the aforesaid James Bishop died in the month of November (1833) tone thousand eight hundred thirty three, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period and will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed. 
And this Declarant further saith, that she is satisfied and assured in her own mind, that she was married in the year 1782, not in the year 1783, as appears from the certificate thereof hereto subjoined. She is certain that peace was not declared until a year after her said marriage.
Subscribed and Sworn the day and year first above written before me said Judge and I certify that said Catherine Bishop cannot write her name owing to old age & blindness and bodily infirmity for which reason she is unable to attend Court
Thos. Marvin
Judge of Comm. Pleas
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State of New York, Saratoga County Clerk's Office
I, Alphous Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Thomas J. Marvin, before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the data of the same, one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 24 day of February, 1835 - A Goodrich, Clerk
her name owing to old age and blindness and bodily infirmity, for which reasons also she is unable  to attend Court
Thos J. Marvin
Judge of __ Common Pleas
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In the matter of the application of Catharine Bishop widow of James Bishop for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836 xc
declaration Xc
[names crossed out]
Hon J.J. Degraff NY H.R.
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County of Saratoga
Joel Lee of the town of Multon _ and Isaac M. Mabbitt of the town of Greenfields in said County being respectively duly sworn, do depose and say, that they were during their lifetime of the aforesaid and aforedescribed James Bishop well acquainted with said James Bishop, and were also then well acquainted with said Catharine Bishop the declarant aforesaid -that they know said James Bishop was a pensioner of the United States, he the said Joel - Lee, having for several years aided said James Bishop in making out his pension papers to procure from time to time his annuity of pension money for him under the Act of 1818 that said James Bishop died  about four years ago and that since his death, the said Catharine Bishop has remained single and unmarried, and is still unmarried
Joel See
Isaac M Mabbitt
Subscribed and Sworn this 24th Day of February 1838 before me, and I certify that U am well acquainted with the aforenamed deponents Joel See and Isaac M Mabbit & that they are gentlemen of veracity & credibility
Geo. G. Scott
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office
I, Alphous Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify that George G Scott, before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper handwriting and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 24th day of February 1838 A Goodrich, Clerk
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State of Massachusetts
Town of Sheffield
May 30. 1838
By this I certify that in the Book of Town Records in my possession I find the following entry of the marriage of James Bishop and Catharine Warn, purporting to have been consummated on the ninth day of  October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in plain and legible figures and words as follows, to wit.
"Time when married
1783 Oct 9
No. 24 - James Bishop & Catharine Warn" That the foregoing entry purports to have been made by Samuel Barnard Esq then Justice of the Peace, and who at that time was a Clerk of the said town of Sheffield. 
and I further Certify, that I am
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State of Massachusetts
Town of Sheffield
May 30. 1838
By this I certify that in the Book of Town Records in my possession I find the following entry of the marriage of James Bishop and Catharine Warn, purporting to have been consummated on the ninth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in plain and legible figures and words as follows, to wit.
"Time when married
1783 Oct 9
No. 24 - James Bishop & Catharine Warn" That the foregoing entry purports to have been made by Samuel Barnard Esq then Justice of the Peace, and who at that time was a Clerk of the said town of Sheffield.
and I further Certify, that I am
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satisfied from a careful examination of said record, that the same is not the first or original [underlined] entry of said marriage made by said Barnard but tat the same was copied by him from his own docket (Justice). It being entered on a page subsequent to entries from 1787, and the whole page having been apparently written at the same time.
Edward F Ensign
On the thirtieth day of May 1838, personally appeared before me the undersigned, E.F.Ensign, who signed the foregoing  certificate in my presence, and made oath that the facts set forth therein are true and correct recording to the best his knowledge & belief, and said Ensign is to me known to be a credible witness, and to have the custody of said town Records.
[signed] Robert F Barbard Just of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
___ I Charly Sedgwick Clerk of the Judicial Court for the Commonwealth in said County Certify that Robert F. Barnard  Esq of Sheffield is a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid County, duly confirmed ____ and qualified with full faith and credit are  & ____ ____ to his ____think ______
is genuine
Witnessed my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court served this  first day of June 1838
Ch. Sedgwick, Clerk
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New York 22257
Catharine Bishop
widow of James Bishop dec'd, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the __ Nov 1833 of Saratoga County in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Johnson of the regt commanded by Col Dubois in the New York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate pf 80 Dollars ___cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April 1839, and sent to Giles F. Yates, Schenectady, N. York.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '39 40.00
$280.00
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D McCurdy, Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 67.
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In reply to your request of ____, received____ for a statement of the military history of James Bishop, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file with this Bureau. 
W File 20715
[Column headers, in order; in each line of transcription, content in each column is separated by a semicolon]: Dates of Enlistment or Appointment; Length of Service; Rank; Officers under whom service was rendered [subcolumns] Captain; Colonel; State
Line 1: Commencement of the War, 1 Year; [blank]: [checkmark]; Ryner; NY
Line 2: March, 1777; 3 years; [blank]; Johnson; Dubois; [blank]
Line 3: Discharged at Morristown, N.J.

Battles Engaged In: St John, Chambly, Montreal, & Siege of Quebec
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __-/- east Ft Montgomery, NY
Residence at date of application, Malta, Saratoga Co. NY
Age at date of application: 74 yrs
Remarks:  Sol. Mar, Sheffield, Mass Oct.9. 1783 Catharine Warn. He died in Mar 1833 & she was alld pens. on her appln exec. Feby. 12, 1838 while a res. of Milton, Saratoga Co.  NY 77 years of age.
Son Samuel Bishop resided in Malta in 1818. In 1820 soldier referred to the grandchildren the older aged 5 yrs names not stated.
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Widow, &c.
No. 20715
Catharine Bishop Widow of Dames Bishop. Pri Rev War
Act: July 7th 38
_Vol A Page 64
[Arrangement of 1870]

1910 Apl. 23 Hist to Mrs. Lilia B. King & 1916 Jan 10. History to Mrs. E.O. Stafford & thru' Law Div. for return 25c held by thus &

N. 342
Let to G. F. Yates 
August 30, 1838
As same 26 Sept, 1838
Paper Returned-
Act 7 July 1838

New York
Catharine Bishop
Rejected -Son
letter to Hon J.I. Degraff
June 13. 1838
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State of New-York
Saratoga County Clerk's office
I. Alphous Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, do Certify that George G. Scott before the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 15th day of November 1838
A Goodrich Clerk

Miss Wilson
Probably wants the usual statement. If a copy actually furnished in 1910 please so state that writer may be advised of cost of a photographic copying (how many pages are there in the original.
Forward answer through Law Div. that 25c may be returned. Proctor, Law Div 1/20/16
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Letter to Rev War Su Jan 10 16 RWTS Law
OK
Bureau of Pensions, Finance Division
January, 1916
Chief of Law Division
Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. E. Stafford Cash for $.25/100, requesting copy of one record as per letter herewith.
Rev War File No 20715
Widow of James Bishop.
Han 10, 1916 Money returned RHB
Very respectfully, 
W. M. Campbell
Chief of Division.
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342 Aug 18
NY
July 1838

JL Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D.C.
V342 
Catharine Bishop
Al 1830[?]
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Schenectada Augt 24 1838
JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
In the matter of the application of Catharine Bishop, widow of James Bishop for a pension
It appears by the records at Washington that James Bishop was discharged from the service n 1780, and from the papers of his widow, that she was married after that year; her claim therefore for a pension is presented under the act of 7th July 1838.
As her marriage & his service have been proved by documents already on file your department, I presumed her own declaration under the act last named, would be all that was necessary in this case. The same is furnished in the enclosed paper. 
very Respectfully
Your obt Servant
GF Yates
Atty &c.
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N.Y. Dec'd
7 July 1838
Catharine Bishop
Previously into
Sec no 342

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D.C.
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War Department
Pension Office
June 18, 1838

Sirs
The papers of Mrs. Catharine Bishop widow of James Bishop have been examined and filed. It appears by her husband's papers who was a pensioner under the act of 1818 that he was discharged in 1780 and by the claimants papers that she was not married until the 8th of October 1783, __she is not entitled to a pension under this act
I have the honor to be
Respectfully
Your Obt servant
J.L. Edwards
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War Department
Pension Office, 
August 30, 1838

Sir,
The papers of Catharine Bishop widow of James Bishop have been examined to sustain the application now made, viz. under the Act of July 7, 1838, it is necessary that it should appear that the claimant was not married until after her husband left the service. The claimant explicitly says that she was married previous to her husband's leaving the service
I am respectfully,
Your obt servt
J.L. Edards
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Aug 24
File unto Cath. Bishop papers 
__ Aug 18

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.
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In  the matter of the application of Catharine Bishop, widow of James Bishop for a pension under the act of Congress Passed 7th July 1838.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
After sending the papers in the above matter, it struck me, that an affidavit f the fact that Mrs. Bishop is still unmarried, was required by your rules and as the same was not furnished, I now forward one and am
very respectfully
Your most obt Servant
G.F. Yates
Schenectada Aug 19 1838
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Schenectada Nov 20 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have endeavored to comply with the suggestion contained in your mater enclosed wherein, and now present anew the claim the of Catharine Bishop Widow of James Bishop under the act of 7th July 1838.
I am very respectfully
Your mo. obt. Servant
G.F.Yates
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Catharine Bishop
Schenechtad NY
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D.C.
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Schenectada Sept 15 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Since the receipt of your favor of the 30th Augt ___ I have not found it convenient to see Mrs. Catharine Bishop, who now applies for a pension under the act of the 7th July 1838, on account of the services of her husband, James Bishop. In her declaration given under the act of 4th July 1836, as well as in her declaration under the act of 1838, she states her conviction, that her husband performed military duty after her marriage to him, and further that she was married in 1782 instead of 1783, or more than a year previous to the close of the war. The entry of her marriage of which a transcript accompanies her papers it appears from a certificate letter accompanying same, was in all probability made erroneously, the year 1783 should have been 1782. But the record of Mr. Samuel Barnard is doubtless the true test and should govern. Therefore your decision that Mrs. Bishop is not entitled to a pension under the act of '36 was acquiesced in. I am satisfied, though it is not proved, that Mr. Bishop performed military duty after his marriage, & this may have been in the militia. Here again record evidence is against her, for from this no account of service appears after the year 1780. The widow was married either before or after her husband left
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the service & is at ___ entitled to a pension under on or the other of the acts before named. and if it will be entirely out of her power to get  the company evidence of his service after the year 1780, she must be content to take her pension under the act of 7th July 1838.
In reply to your letter of the 30th Augt ulto I would respectfully submit, whether it does not "appear" that the claimant was "not married until after her husband left the service" from the record evidence aforesaid. 
__ your conviction or belief, it is true are to the contrary, yet should not documentary evidence govern? If it desirable that her own affidavit shoudl correspond with the other proof, I may perhaps on representing to her the true state of the case, obtain from her an affidavit that she believes she must be mistaken or that she was mistaken when she represented  that her husband preformed military service after her marriage. If such an affidavit or one of similar purport is required I ask the favor to be informed before I write to her or visit her again. 
Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Giles F Yates
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The Deposition of Jack Lee of the town of Milltown in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York, who testifies and says that he has been well acquainted for the last fifteen years with Catharine Bishop  -the same person referred to and described in the accompanying papers as an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 - that he was also well acquainted with James Bishop -the former husband of said Catharine  -during his life time, that said James Bishop - departed this life about four or five years ago; and that since his decease the said Catharine Bishop has remained single and was unmarried and is still unmarried
[signed] Joel Lee

On this 17th day of August 1838 personally appeared before me the undersigned - John Lee -above named to me well-known, who made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing deposition by him signed are true, and I certify that said Joel Lee -  is a credible witness. Geo G Scott, Justice
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State of New York Saratoga County Clerk's Office
I, Alphous Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify that George G. Scott before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 17th day of August 1838.
Al Goodrich, Clerk
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Act of 7th July 1838. Application of Catharine Bishop widow of Jas Bishop for a pension

Previously ent'd Sec No 342
Admitted 
Private 2 years
Agent 
Giles F. Yates
Schenectada N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
On this eleventh day of October 1838, personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for said County Catharine Bishop a resident of the town of Charlton in said County aged eighty years, she being first duly sworn according to law, doth on the her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7 July 1838, entitled " an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of James Bishop, who was a private in the army of the revolution for the term of at least three years in the N York line, as this declarant has been informed and believes to be true the particulars of which service are set forth as this Declarant believes in the papers now on file in the War Department of the U. States in the matter of his application for a pension under the act of 18 March 1818 under which act he received an pension of $8- per month.
She further declares that on reflection she is of the opinion, that she was mistaken in representing as she did in her declaration under the act of 4th July 1836, that she was married previous to her husband's leaving his said servicing in the New York line.
She declares that she has married to
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the said James Bishop on the ninth day of October One thousand seven Hundred & Eighty three that her husband aforesaid James Bishop died in the month of November 1833; that she was not married to him prior to leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated -the proofs of which marriage are now in file in the said Department.
Her Mark Catharine X Bishop 
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first above written, before me the said Judge and I certify that said Catharine is unable to attend Court, by reasons of bodily infirmity.
Geo. G. Scott
Judge of Saratoga Common Please &c
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Ballaton Springs, NY
15 May
Hon. Secratary of the War Department
Washington City
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Ballaston Spa May 15th 1818
Sir
At the request of Thomas and Bishop the Applicants in the within papers, I forward to you their vouchers requesting they may be placed on the pension list. Please forward their certificates to me or to them at the post office in this village
Very respectfully yours
A W Odell
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APR 19 1910
Marquette, Mich April 15 1910

Pension Office
I would be very glad to receive a certificate of the record of James Bishop, a soldier in the Revolution, from Saratoga County New York, He home down was Malta. His granddaughter is still alive and wishes to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
An early answer will be greatly obliged.
Yours very respectfully, 
Lilia Bartlett King
189 Hewitt Ave
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Law Division Jan 8 1916 Received
Twenty five cents in postage staps recd
Ackd Rev Sec 
Postage stamps exchanged for 25c cash CQ
Marquette Chapter D.A.R 
Mrs P.B. Spear, Regent
Inclosed find 25 cts for which kindly send a copy of the application for pension of James Bishop
Date of Pension Mch 22 1818
A copy of the their pension application was obtained in 1910. Reg the Old lady for whom it was procured, does now wish to partaith it for the purpose of joining the D.A.R. 
Sincerely yours
Nelly Folman Stafford (Mrs. E. O. Stafford)
Marquette Mich local Chapter
Cor Sec D.A.R.
Finance Division
Jan 7 1916
Bureau of Pensions