Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 434, for John Frederick Iams, Maryland
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( 3 -1776)

SERVICE    NUMBER
Md.    Iams, John Frederick   W. 434
or Iiams Mary
CONTENTS
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1544 [illegible] 
Tennessee
Mary Iams widow of John Frederick Iams who served in the Revolutionary Md war as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of August 48. and sent to James K. McAnally
Rutledge Tenn

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 294 Vol. 3
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23371
East Tennessee
John Fredrick Iams of Grange Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the [illegible] commanded by Captain Wolford of the regt. commanded by Col [illegible] in the --- line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Feby 1834 and [illegible] Law Bench No 14

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 200.00 
Semi-anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 March 40,00
240.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 48
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Dead
3d Letter to J. K. McAnally and Auditor 23d Sep 1840.

Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept 1838 to 24 Jany [January] 1839 the day of his death. Agent
notified 7th Oct 1840
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11.523
Mary Iiams Ten: 
Act 7 July 38
m 89.d39 24 Jany [January]
Declr Aug. 44 -
AOMd
2 yrs pri
80 from 24 Jany [January] 39 the day of her husbands death --
also act 3 March & c
$80.
no act 1843-6985
' " 1844 - 438
Hon. W. T. Senter
Panther Spring
Ten.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows
State of Tennessee} SS
Grainger County}
On this 7th day of Oct 1844 Personally appeared before me A Coffee an acting
Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Mary Iams a resident of Grainger County aged 80 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 July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows 
That she is the widow of John Frederick Iams who was a private in the Revolutionary army and late a pensioner of the United States and recd [received] his pension from the agent of the United States at Knoxville East Tennessee That she was married to the said John Frederick Iams in the year 1789 That her husband the aforesaid John Frederic Iams died on the 24th day of January 1839 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but That the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 Viz at the time above stated
her
Mary X Iams
mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above written before me}
A Coffee
Justice of the peace for County aforesaid
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State of Tennessee}
Grainger County} ss
I Ausband Coffee an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Mary Iams who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration is an old person unable to appear by reason of her bodily infirety [infirmity] before the Court of this County That she is a person of truth and veracity and that due credit ought to be given to her evidence Given under my hand and seal this 7th day of October 1844
A. Coffee [seal with scribbles around it]
State of Tennessee} SS
Grainger County} 
Personally appeared before the
subscriber an acting Justice of the peace Elizabeth Harvey a resident of the County aforesaid aged 73 years and makes oath in due form of law that she was well acquainted with Jno [John] Frederic Iams and that he was married to Mary Johnson (now Mary Iams) The widow who made the foregoing declaration in the
year 1789 (the month and day not now recollected) in Oglethorp County State of Georgia that licence [license] to Marry were obtained for she saw them in Iams  possess 
That said John Frederic Iams departed this life on the 24th day of Jany [January] 1839 in Grainger County Tenn
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That Mary Iams above named is the widow of the identical John Frederic Iams who was a pensioner of the Revolution and decd as above stated she further swears that the marriage took place in 1789 as above stated
her
Elizabeth  X Harvey
mark
Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of Oct 1844 before me A Coffee}
Justice of the peace for Grainger County

State of Tennessee}
Grainger County} ss
 I Ausband Coffee an acting Justice of the peace in an for the County aforesaid do certify that I have been acquainted with Elizabeth Harvey who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavid [affidavit] for 33 years that she has always been accounted a person of truth and veracity and full faith and Credit ought to be given to her evidence. Given under my hand and seal this 7th day of October 1844
A. Coffee [seal surrounded by squiggles]
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State of Tennessee}
Grainger County}
I Edward Tate Clerk of the County do certify that Ausbourne Coffee Esqr whose name appears to the within affidavits is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly Elected Commissioned and qualified that full credit aught to be given to all his official acts as such and that his signature appear to be in his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Office in Rutledge this 28th day of October A.D 1844
[signature of Edward Tate Clerk]
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[John F. Iams crossed out]
Ten
John Frederick Iams.
Grainger Co
[j crossed out]
East
From 1780 for 2 yrs [years] $80

Hon Saml [Samuel] Burch H. R
[John Cook Clk Grainger Co. Rutledge Ten crossed out]
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War Department
Pension Office

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will when you return your papers to this Department send this printed letter with them and you will by compling with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement showing the Service Of John F Iams

Period when the service was rendered:
BLANK

Duration of the claimant's services in Years, Months and Days:
BLANK

Rank of the Claimant:
BLANK

Name and rank of the Field officers under whom he served:
BLANK

Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service:
BLANK

Proof by which the declaration is supported:
Not On Roll

I am respectfully
Your obedient Servant

J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service. but not those who were occasionally employed with, the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 1. The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops. Militia, and Volunteers. 3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 4. Indian Spies. As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. DECLARATION, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Territory, or District of County of }ss. On this day of personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers: [Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c. If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c. Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but it neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore. these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 1. Where and in what year were you born? 2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace. the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. [a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. [b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. [c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. [d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. [e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: " Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of bis service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For year months, and days, I served as a ; For mouths and days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension." {It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with au embodied corps called into service by competent authority that lie was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. [f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. [g] The opinion of the Court is always required. [h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. [i] The Clerk must his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. Proof of Service. [j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The notes from [a] to [j] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only. [k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. [l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. [m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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State of Tennessee Grainger County} On this 30th day of May 1833 personally appeared before me David Mcanally one of the acting Justices in and for the County aforesaid John F. Iams aged about sixty Eight years resident of said county and state who being first duly sworn according to Law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of 
Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 that he Enlisted in the army of the united States in the year 1780 in the first Maryland State Regiment he thinks in the month of May or June in the state of Maryland which Regiment was Commanded by Coln. Peter Adams his Captains name was James Woolford Gray Next he Enlisted at annapolis and was marched from annaplis to philadelphia and (illegible) at philadelphia from seven to nine weeks from philadelphia he was marched back to annaplis from annapplis he was marched to York town in Virginia and arrived at Yorke some two or three weeks before the surender of Cornwalles in the Cours of the winter after the Taking of Cornwallis he was marched through Virginia and through North Carolina and to a place in South Carolina on ashly River Called the Round O where he joined General Green from the Round O he was marched to an other place on ashly River Called the pond ponds at which place he stayed a Considerable time and in the Latter part of the year 1783, as he thinks he was marched backe to annapless under a Major whose name he cannot now recolect Coln. Adams and Capt. Gray Both with a great part of the Regiment went from South Carrolina to Maryland by   water from annaples he was marched to Fredicktown
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from Fredericktown he was marched back to Annapolis both of which marching was done under a sergeant whose name was John Neary when he was returned to Annapolis from Fredericktown, he was discharged by Captain James W. Grant the Capt. he first enlisted under after being in the United States service upward of three years. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any stated.

Ques: Where were you born?
I was born in Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland but in what year I do not know but I believe I am sixty-seven or sixty-eight years old.

Ques: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
I have no record of my age as I just got my house burnt in which I lost the record of my age.

Ques: Where were you living when you enlisted and where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
I lived in Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland when I enlisted after the war I lived in Pittsylvania County in the state of Virginia from Pittsylvania, I moved to Wells County in the state of Georgia. I then moved to Hawkins County in the state of Tennessee and for the last twenty years I have lived in Grainger County in the state of Tennessee where I now live.

Ques: Name some of the field officers with whom you served under.
I know Major Agelston, General Gass and General Green and Colonel Stuart who was held by the fall from a horse at Charlestown.

Ques: State the names of some persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify and who can
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testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of you service as a soldier in the Revolution.
Gen John Cocke, Colonel Thomas Whiteside, David McAnally, Esqr. John Ogan and Royal Jennings.

Sworn to and subscribed before me David McAnally one of the acting Justices in and for the county aforesaid this day and ate aforesaid.

John F Iams
His X Mark

We Charles Wanally Clergyman and Merideth Dalton residing in the county of Grainger in the state of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Fredrick Iams who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be form sixty six to seventy years of age that he is a respected and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Test:
C. Wanally - Clergyman
Merideth Dalton

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

I David McAnally one of the acting Justices in and for the county aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with John Fredrick Iams who has made and sworn to the foregonig declaration and that I believe from bodily infirmity it would be with great difficulty and rescue
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that he could appear before any court of record that he is believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion. That Rev. Wanally and Meredith Dalton whose names are signed to the foregoing declaration are men of respectability and full faith and credit are given to what they say. Given under my hand and seal May the 30th 1833.

David McAnally - JP
Justice of the Peace for Grainger County

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

I John Cocke Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Grainger aforesaid by my deputy Pleasant S. Cocke do hereby certify that David McAnally whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit and which appears to be in his own proper handwriting is an acting justice of the peace in and for the county of Grainger aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Rutledge this 9th day of June 1833.

John Cocke - Clerk
by his deputy
Pleasant S Cocke

John F Iams
John F, Iams
Test.

Mr. Brewer will please to give a certificate in this case Sept 17, 1833

The justice must give his opinion as to the service of the applicant.
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March 11, 1931
Mr. E. B. Iams 
324 Tyler Avenue
Washington, Pennsylvania

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB 

Dear Sir: 

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W 434, that John Frederick Iams or Iiams was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, date not given. 
While a resident of that coutnry, he enlisted in May or June, 1780, and served as a private im Captain James Woolford Gray's company, Colonel Peter Adams' Maryland regiment, and was discharged November 15, 1783. 
After the Revolution, he lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Wilkes County, Georgia, Hawkins County, Tennessee, and Grainger County, Tennessee. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 1833, at which time he was a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee, and state that he was aged sixty-seven or sixty-eight years. He died thee January 24, 1839. 
The soldier married in 1789, in that part of Wilkes County, which later Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Mary Johnson. 
She was allowed pension on her applicated executed Otover 7, 1844, at which time she stated that she was eighty years of age, and was a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee. 
In 1848 she stte she was aged eighty-one years. 
There are no data relative to children.
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The above noted is the history of the only soldier by the name of John Iams (searched under all spellings of the name)
that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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Left Side Page

6699
Knoxville
Tennessee

Mary Iams
widow of John Fred. Iams
who was a Private
in the Rev War

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 
80 dollars 00
cents per annum to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
3 day of Feb '45
and sent to
Hon W.T. Senter
Panther Springs Tennessee

[Act of March 3, 1843 and June 17, 1844]

Recorded in Book A
Vol 2 Page 193

Right Side Page

2 cents
1838
1843
1844
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9072
Tennessee

Mary Iams
widow of John Fredrick Iams
who was a pensioner under the act of blank
and who died on the 24 January 1839
of Grainger in the state of Tenn
who was a Pri in the Comp
commanded by Capt. blank of the
blank commanded by blank in 
the blank line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Knoxville 
at the rate of 80 dollars 00
cents per annum to commence on the 
24 Jany 1839

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Mar '45 and sent to Hon. W.T. Senter, Panther Springs, Tenn

[Act July 7, 1838]

Recorded by F.L. Swann Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 349
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Letter to Hon W.T. Santee, Dec 24, 1844
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Georgia
Wilkes County

I John H Dyson clerk of the Court of Ordinary in and for said county do hereby certify that I have made diligent search for and cannot find license for John Fredrick Iams and Mary Johnson to marry for a marriage bond for that purpose.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at my office in Washington this first day of February 1845.

John H Dyson - Clerk Co Wilkes Co

State of Georgia
Wilkes County

I Archibald S Wingfield presiding justice of the Superior Court in and for said county of Wilkes do hereby certify that John H Dyson has signed the above certificate is the clerk of the court of Ordinary in and for said county and that full faith and credit is ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his said certificate is in due form & by the proper office  as witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal not having an official seal this first day of February 1845.

A S Wingfield - JP - Seal
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State of Tennessee
Grainger County

Personally appeared before me Ansburne Coffee an acting Justice of the said county Mary Iams widow of relic of John F Iams dec'd and makes oath in due form law that she has no record testimony of her marriage with the said Iams but that said marriage took place as she stated in her declaration (viz) 1789.

Ad that she has not intermarried with any person since the death of the said John F Iams and that she thinks the county of Oglethorpe Ga was a part of Wilks County Ga at the time the marriage took place between her and Iams.

Mary Iams
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 17th day of February 1845.

A. Coffee
Justice of the Peace

I A. Coffee aforesaid do certify that Mary Iams who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a person of credit and truth. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of Feby AD 1845

A. Coffee - SEAL

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

Personally appeared Elizabeth Harvey before A. Coffee Esq and makes oath she is well acquainted Mary Iams who has sworn to the aforesaid affidavit that she is the widow of John Fredrick Iams who was a pensioner of the US. That the said John F Iams and Mary were married in what is now Oglethorpe County GA but at the time of the marriage she thinks it was a part of Wilks County GA and was shortly after divided. That said marriage was previous to the first of January 1794 at to wit 1787

Elizabeth Harvey

Sworn and subscribed this 17th Feby 1845
before me -A. Coffee - JP
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State of Tenneysee, I Ausbourne Coffee do certify  that Ilmainger Ccountry am well acquainted with Elizabeth Haruey who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing affadavit that she is a person of Varacity and credit and ought to believed on Oath. 
Given under my hand and seal Febry 17th 1845
A. Cofee 
Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee
Grainger County

I Edward Tate Clerk of the county Court of the County and state aforesaid do certify that Ansburne Coffee Esq whose name appears to the foregoing affidavits is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly and constitutionally elected commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit ought to be attached to all his official acts as such that his signature appears to be genuine.

Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Rutledge this 18th day of February AD 1845

Edward Tate - Clerk

I wish to inform Mr. Er Edwars that when I sent to George for the certificate of the Clerk of Oglethorpe in the above case the clerk informed me that at the time stated, Oglethorpe was a part of Wilks and therefore I got the office Wilks County searched for license etc.

Respectfully J K McAnally

Hon J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Land Office, Annapolis, Jan 28 1834

Sir

Yours of the 16th Inst with the papers in the case of John Frederick Iams enclosed were reviewed. I have again examined the papers in his case - he states that he was sometimes called Frederick and sometime John and that it is probable his name was entered as upon the roll Frederick Iams - on the list of recruits for the year 1780 (in which year he states he enlisted) I find the name of Frederick Iams, it also appears by the payroll that he received pay) gratuity and pay up to the 15th of November 1783 at which time the army was disbanded; he was therefore in service until the last of the war - but whether a mistake has been made in entering his name or not, I am unable to say - the papers are herewith returned.

I am respectfully
your obt. servant
G.G. Brewer

J.L. Edwards, Esq
P.S. I do not find the name of John F Iams upon any of the rolls.

G.G. Brewer
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Declaration

To obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of February
2, 1848 entitled an act making further provision for
surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution
State of Tennessee
Grainger County ⎬

On this 28 day of July 1848 
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County Mary James a resident of said County aged
81 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 on the 2nd
of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who
served in the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of
John Frederic Iams who was private in the army and received
a pension of $80 per annum and that she received $80 per
annum under the acts of 1838, 1843 & 4. She further swears that she is 
still a Widow
Her
Mary X Iams 
Mark

Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above written
Before me 
Anderson Dalton
Justice of Peace

State of Tennessee ⎬
Grainger County  
I Anderson Dalton an acting Justice the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
do certify
that I am personally acquainted with Mary Iams the above affiant and that she is the identical
Person who drew a pension of $80 per annum under the act of 1844
and that she is still a widow.
Given under my hand and
seal this 28th day of July 1848 Anderson Dalton
Justice of the Peace in for
Grainger County
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State of Tennessee Grainger County
I Edward Tate Clerk of the County Court of the
State and County aforesaid do certify that Anderson
Dalton Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing
Declaration is now and was at the time of signing the same
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County
aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full
faith and credit ought to by attached to all his official
acts as such and that his signature appears to be in
his own proper hand writing.
Given under my hand and seal of
Office at Office in Rutledge this
day of August A.D. 1848
Edw Tate Clerk
By Wm J. Tate 

Mary Iams
all
6699
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Bean Station Tenn
Jany 2nd

FREE
 C. McAnally

Hon. Samual Bunch
Washington City
D.C.
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Dear Sir I made out a declaration for a pension
for John and it Iams return for want of more
Evidence  his evidence is not in this Country he wishes
me to write to you on the subject and wishes you
to take some steps in the Course of this winter to get
the Evidence of his enlistment and services and attend
to his papers if you can get him a pension he were
amply reward you for your trouble I shall send his
papers with this Letter his Evidence he says is in 
Arrundel County Maryland 18 or 20 miles from W City
whoes names are = Reason Gater & sons, Seth Gater
& Sons, Philip Hammon Thomas Mallet & Sons
John Hale William Woodward, Joshua Gater
& sons These men did live near the Road leading
from Bladensburgh to Annapolis -- in Prince George Co.
More are Christopher Hicks & Sons Humphry Beckett Joseph
Isaac Samuel Evens Loyd Iams James William
Richard Iams = his Brother William Iams James Elesha
Green Fredrick Clerk Richard Whitehead-Edward
Whitehead Thomas James and John Iams
His name he says is John Fredrick Iams has but on
the Rolls it may be John or Fredrick as he was some
times called by John and some times by Fredrick and
as he is not a Schooler he knows not by which name
name he was enrolled if you could find any means to pursue 
the Testimony you would render an old Revolutionary soldier
a great service

I have also sene my Fathers and Andrew Elders
Declaration on to the Secty at War if you well
Lend your aid in doing for them what you think
is right it will be thankfully Recd you know both
the men and you know whether you think they
war Revolutionary soldiers or Not
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I think my fathers paper are clear but M Cedirs I think is doubtfull but no doubt remains with (?) that knows him well his statement is true= it is me best I can do for him attend too (/niem?) if you please. 

Your (? sweefs) in Mrs Cusinep you will communicate to me in a letter to (?Cuns ) Station P. O. 

Yours Respectfully 

C Mc,anally
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Washington, Pa., 
Feb. 17, '31

Pension Department, 
Washington, D. C.

Sir;-

Do you have any information that will show the Revolutionary Service of John Iams (also spelled Iiames, Ijames, Ims, Imes, Iames, and Hymes)? He settled in Washington County, Pa., then kow as Augusta County Va., about the time of the revolution or shortly there afterwards. He was a millwright and buiilt the first log mill west of the Allegheny's. I would appreciate any information that will shrow light on his nationality, religion or military service,. 

Thank you 
E.B. Iams 
324 Tyler Avenue. 

FEB 19
1931 
PENNSION OFFICE 
U. S.
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1930, Aug. 21. Hist. to Hon Carl Bachmann MCS
1931, Mar. 11 hist to Mrs. E. B. Iams MCS

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 434 
Mary Iams Widow John Fredrick Iams Priv. Rev. War. 
Act: Feb 2. 1848.
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 370

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Leter of Inquiry 
returned to Hou. C. J. Bachman

August 21, 1930

Reve.&1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB

Hon. Carl J. Bachman
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Bachman:  

Reference is made to your letter of August 19, requesting the record of John Iames. 

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 434, that John Frederick Iams or Iiams was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, date not given. 

While a resident of thta county, he enlisted in May or June, 1780, and served as a private in Captain James Woolford Gray's Company, Colonel Peter Adams' Maryland Regiment, and was discharged November 15, 1783. 

After the Revolution, he lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Wilkes County, Georgia, Hawkins County, Tennessee and Grainger County, Tennessee. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 30, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee, and stated that he was aged sixty-seven or sixty-eight years. He died there January 24, 1839. 

The solider married in 1789, in that part of Wilkes County, whihwas later Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Mary Johnson. 

She was allowed pension on her appliation executed October 7, 1844, at whch time she stated that she was eighty years of age, and was a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee. 

In 1844 she state that she was aged eighty-one years.
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There is no data relative to children.
The above noted is the history of the only soldier by the name of John Iams (searched under all spellings of the name) that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 1st 1840
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of John Frederick Iams, 
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville. Ten. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars [and Cents crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 24th January 1839, the day of his death, 

Respectfully yours,
J. Seaver
acting Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.