Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,312, James Dunphey, Continental N.H.
Page 1

SERVICE
Continental 
N.H.

Dunphey, James

NUMBER
S. 3312

carded
Page 2

[LEFT SIDE]
suspd. see letter Feb. 24, 1835
to P. [?]
[?] - Ezra Pratt, July 8, 36
[?] - [?] [?] Sept. 25, 36
[?] - [?] [?] - Sept 17, 36
[?] - [?] Sept. 17, 36

[?] [?] Albany from 4. Mar. 36, to [?} - Sept. 25, 36.

Let to N. Newton J, Mar 28, 1837 + to Hon. E. [?]

Let. to N. Newton, Jr. [?] 28, 37.

To same + [?] [?] May 18, 1837.
To N. Newton, June 1, 1837.
same, Nov 13, 1837

Let to Hon. J. R. Giddings, Mar. 2, 39.

[RIGHT SIDE]
20.518
James Dunphey
St. Lawrence in the State of N.H.
was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Potter of the Regt. commanded
[illegible] Warner in the State Troops
Continental
+
1 year + 7 days - N.H.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 40 Dollars 77 Cents per annuam
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Sept.
1833 and sent to 
John Leslie Russel - Canton, P.O.
St. Lawrence Co - N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833     101.72
[?] allowance ending 4 Mar 34         20.38
                                                     $ 122.10
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by H. Franciosi Clerk
Book E Vol. 4. Page 54 -
Page 3

(left side stamp WARREN)
Sept. 13
Mr. Burdine

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City

(upside down)
James Dunphey
Albany 
to
O [?]
Page 4

[TOP]
Sept 13
Mr. Burdine
[STAMPED] Warren

[LEFT]

James Dunphey
Albany
to 
O [?]

[RIGHT]
free
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City
Page 5

[TOP]
James Dunphey

Albany
to O [?]

[RIGHT]
Sept 13
Mr. Burdine
[STAMPED] Warren

[BOTTOM]
free
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City
Page 6

Application for a Transfer
The State of Ohio
Trumbull County SS   On this 28th day of Augst
1838  Before me the Subscriber a Justice of
the peace for the said County of Trumbull
Personally appeared James Dunphey who on his
oath declares that his is the same person
who formerly belonged to the Regiment
commanded by Colonel Seth Warner in the
Service of the United States that his name
was placed on the pension roll of the State of
New York from whence he has lately
removed that he now resides in the State of
Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes
his pension to be there payable in future
Pittsburgh Agency. The following are his reasons
for removing from New York to Ohio
having children in Ohio emigrated
to live with them.
Sworn and subscribed to before
me the day and year aforesaid
Linus Tracy Justice of the Peace
James Dunphey hisXmark

I Benjamin Cook do on my oath
deposeth and say that I am acquainted with
James Dunphey and know him to be
the person he represents himself to be.
Benjamin Cook
Page 7

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County}
I hereby certify that Benjamin Cook is a man of Truth and Veracity
[SIGNED] Linus Tracy Justice Peace

PS} Should the Petition of Mr. Dunphey be granted Please for the Transfer to the [care?] of L Tracy Mesopotamia
Trumbull County Ohio

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County ss}
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby Certify that Linus Tracy Esquire whose proper signature is subscribed to the foregoing Certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and sworn, his Commission bears date Oct 12th 1833 & will expire October 12th, 1836, and I do further Certify that full faith and Credit are due to all his Official Acts.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Warren in said County this seventh day of September Anno Domini 1836 - [signed]  George Parsons Clerk
By [signed] James D Taylor [Deputy?]
Page 8

NO. 21346
James Durphey
St. Lawrence Co.
New York

Admitted
Private 12 mo + 7 days

John Leslie Russell Esq
Canton P.O
St. Lawrence Co
N.Y.
Page 9

WAR DEPARMTENT,
Pension Office,
183

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 theses 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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of James Durphey St. Lawrence County N.Y.

Period when the service was rendered.
Enlis 1776
"       1777
vol

Years.

Months.
8
6
1

Days.

Rank of the claimant.
Private
"
"

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Capt. O. Potter
Lt. Keeler
Capt. Handy
Lt. McClure

Name and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Col. Warner
Gen.l Arnold
Col. Bellows
Maj. Walker
Brig.G. Starks
Maj. [?]

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.

Country through which he marched.
Down Lake Champlain to St. [?] to Montreal to Quebec on Abraham Plains Island of Stave to Bennington to Stillwater

Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.
78 years
Springfield*, Connecticut
"

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

* in Vermont - "on the N. side of Connecticut river" J. L. Ro.
Page 10

2 [page]
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. [title, bold font]
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. [bold, typed, header font]
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
[italicized] State, Territory, or District of 
County of }ss. 
On this [blank] day of [blank]personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident (b) of blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the
[blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] 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 enered 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.
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
day of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
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
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
who has
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.
1,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if 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
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
Page 11

3
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 declaration above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (in) interrogation 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 records 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 your 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 he 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 or 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 of 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 of 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 of 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, the 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 his 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 _____; 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-- 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 of place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he 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 affix his seal, and if is has no device or inscription by which is 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 end 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 in 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 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.
[POINTING FINGER] The notes from [a] to [i] 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. 

[SIGNED] Daniel D. Davidson Exam Clerk
Page 12

State of New York
St. Lawrence County ss: John Leslie Russell of Canton in the aforesaid County being duly sworn says that the deponent was the agent for James Dunphey a revolutionary soldier residing in said County for the purpose inabling [enabling] the said Dunphy to be placed on the Pension List of the United States under the Law of 7 June 1832. The the deponent has known the said Dunphey for five years last past, that the said Dunphey is an illiterate man. His Sons and the rest of his family who read and write, write their names "Dunphey" which this deponent has always supposed to be the proper manner of writing said name and believes it was so written in the original application of the said Dunphey for a pension. That in September 1833 this deponent received from the Pension Office the annexed certificate enclosed with the annexed letter from the Commissioner of pensions, in which certificate it appears that the name is written "Durphey" and in the letter is written "Dunphrey." That the deponent believes the name in the certificate was intended for "Dunphrey" and to ascertain if such was the case, and believing that the Pension List would contain the name written "Dunphey" the deponent himself forwarded the first power of the pensioner under the
[end of page]
Page 13

[page 2] 
said certificate to the Pension agent in the City of New York through a correspondent in New York, who who received the money and forwarded to the Deponent. The deponent paid all the money to the said Dunphey excepting a sum of from $10.. to $12..00 which was paid the deponent by said Dunphey for all services and disbursements in relation to the application and testimony for obtaining said Pension. This deponent then delivered  the annexed letter and certificate to a son of said Dunphy by his request. That in March following the said Dunphey applied to this deponent to obtain for him his semiannual payment of said pension, which the deponent obtained as above mentioned and paid the whole over to said Dunphey.  Since which time the deponent believes the said letter and certificate have [since, crossed out] been in the possession of the said Dunphey from whom the deponent this day procured them for the purpose of forwarding to the Pension office to have the mistake rectified. The deponent further says that he never was agent for any applicant for a pension of either of the names "Dunphrey", "Durphy"or "Dunphy" or any similar name excepting the above mentioned James Dunphey and his always believed that the said certificate was intended for said Dunphey and that the letter "r" instead of "n" in the name was inserted by mistake of the clerk who filled up the certificate. 
[SIGNED] Jno Leslie Russell

Inscribed and sworn
before me this 25th day of April
1835
[SIGNED] Daniel Clark Com. [?] [?]
Page 14

James Dunphey
app for Pension
No 21346
amended by new
certificate of C. C. Clerk
Page 15

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York
County of St Lawrence} ss.   
On this eighteenth day of December A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of St Lawrence, now sitting James Dunphey a resident of the Town of Canton in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York aged seventy eight 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He was born in Boston in the state of Massachusetts on the 7th day of September 1754.  He has now no record of his age.  His mother who has been dead a great number of years used to have a record of the ages of her family, but the applicant does not know where the old family record now is.  He supposes his birth is recorded on the Town Books of Boston. In the first days of February 1776 at Springfield on the Vermont side of Connecticut river he inlisted [enlisted] as a private to serve in the expedition to Canada for the term of eight or nine months (which the applicant is uncertain) in the company under Captain Oliver Potter from Otter Creek, Lieut. Keeler; Ensign Peleg Sunderland, in a regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner. On the 3rd day after his inlistment, [enlistment] he joined his company at Otter Creek and marched immediately with the company down Lake Champlain on the ice to St. Johns, and from there to Montreal where the company joined the the regiment and marched down to Quebec to Gen. Arnold's
[end of page]
Page 16

Camp on Abraham's Plains before Quebec He was stationed there until sometime in April 1776  when the applicant was detached in a guard of 100 men as a guard to the Island of Orleans below Quebec at which place he was taken sick of the small pox, and was lying sick when the American Troops retreated from Quebec as soon as he was well enough to go out he was taken prisoner and confined in Quebec Jail with other prisoners. The last days of July or first of August 1776 the applicant and other prisoners were conveyed down the St Lawrence in Brittish transports and sailed around to New York. They were landed at Elizabeth Point in New Jersey, and the last of September or first of October 1776 he was discharged by a Brittish officer upon his parole of honor not to take up arms during the war, or until duly exchanged for Brittish prisoners, and he with the other prisoners signed a paper to that effect. Gov. Carlton at Quebec promised the prisoners that they should be discharged when they reached New York. From Elizabeth Point, he went home to Springfield the forepart of November 1776 and lived there until April following where he learned that he had been exchanged for Brittish prisoners. He inlisted immediately again in April, thinks about the 1st day of April 1777 for six months as a private at Charleston in New Hampshire, in the New Hampshire troops. His captain was Capt. Handy; Lieut. McClure; Ensign Seth Walker in s regiment commanded by Col. Benjamin Bellows of Walpole; Major Walker of Charleston. Brig. Gen. Stacks commanded the Brigade. The applicant with his company was stationed at Cavendish in Vermont as a guard, with orders to be ready to join the army whenever required until sometime in August 1777 when an express came for the company to join the Brigade at Bennington. He then marched with his company to Bennington, and reached that place the afternoon of the same day
Page 17

[Declaration, page 3]
of the battle at that place, and from that place to this water on the North River, and was there stationed on the East side of the river with his company until the first days in October, when his time having expired he was discharged, but did not receive any written discharge. The applicant was engaged in several skirmishes with the enemy. At one time he with a party of 100 under Major Whitcomb as a volunteer a few weeks after this service, took a number of the boats of enemy, containing tuneling [tunneling] tools, stores and provisions among which was Gen. Redhazels' Baggage boat -- after his inlistment [enlistment] of six months expired the applicant volunteered to serve longer and did serve as volunteer one month after his inlistment [enlistment] expired, until some time the fore part of November, when he returned home. He was stationed on the East Side of the River opposite Fish Creek at the time of the battle on the other side. He did not receive any written discharge. In the Canada Campaign his his Capt. Potter and Lieut. Keeler both died at Quebec. There are none of the officers under whom he served now living. There are no witnesses whose testimony the applicant can procure. He has been informed that two privates who served with him at Quebec and also six months in 1777 are living in Springfield in Vermont, and the applicant has procured two letters to be written to that place to procure their testimony, but he has received no answers 
 from them. He is very poor and infirm and unable to bear the expense of going or sending for their testimony. The names of the witnesses if living are Asahel Powers and Jacob Lockwood. He has no documentary evidence, never having had a written discharge.
The applicant resided after the close of the Revolutionary war in the Town of Springfield aforesaid for about twenty years, and then removed to the State of 
[end of page]
Page 18

Declaration, page 4]
New York in which State he has ever since resided at Cumberland Head in the towns of Plattsburgh, Fort Covington, Chateaugay and Canton where he now resides. 
He knows no clergyman, as there is none nearer his residence than six miles, and he is so old and infirm that he seldom leaves his house. He is acquainted with Zuriel Waterman, Daniel Prentice and John Hacket, who can testify to his character and their belief of his services.
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.
James Dunphey  X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk [clerk]

We Zuriel Waterman and Daniel Prentis residing in the town of Canton in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Dunphey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight year of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, where been to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that in that opinion.
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk
[SIGNED] D Prentis
[SIGNED] Zuriel Waterman
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk
Page 19

Charles Dunphey a resident of the aforesaid Town of Canton aged forty six years being duly sworn says that he is the son of the said James Dunphey who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that it has always been reputed and believed since the earliest recollection of the deponent, that his father the said applicant was a soldier of the revolution; his family and neighbors have always believed that the said applicant was a soldier at Quebec and that he was there taken prisoner by the enemy and it was also always believed that the applicant was at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne's army. The deponent has often heard old men, who are now dead [state?] the services of his father the applicant and that they served with him in the revolutionary war; and further that his father is so blind that he cannot see to write his name. 
[SIGNED] Charles Dunphey

Sworn to and subscribed
in Open Court the day
and year aforesaid
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk [clerk]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the inspection 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 noted. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Prentis and Zuriel Waterman who have signed the proceeding Certificate  are residents of the aforesaid Town of Canton in the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full Credit.  And further that Charles Dunphey who has signed the preceding Certificate and Sworn to the same is also a resident of the said Town of Canton and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to Credit and also that
[end of page]
Page 20

it appears to the said Court that the said applicant is unable to write his name by reason of his blindness. 
I Alvin C Low Clerk of the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas of the Said County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Dunphey for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and Seal of Office at
Canton this 18th day of December
1832
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk [clerk]


[LOWER LEFT, written sideways]
In the matter of
James Dunphey
Pension application
21346
Page 21

State of New York}
St. Lawrence County} ss
I Alvin C Low Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of [Spencer crossed out] James Dunphey for a Pension, and that I the said Clerk delivered the preceding proceedings of the said Court on the 18th day of December last to J L Russell Esq. agent for the said applicant as above stated.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Officer at Canton this 5th day of June 1833
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk

Note. The word "Spencer" erased and the word  "James" interlined by me. 
[SIGNED] A C Low Clk
Page 22

3312
Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 3312
James Dunphey
Privt Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:–Vol. A, Page 104

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 23

May 4


see letter to S. D. Moody 5 May 1835
Letter returned from the genl. post office Oct 16 1835 + sent to [?] [?] at Canton
N.Y.
suspon removed. See letters 18 Jan 1836
to Hon. S. Wright + All agt.

[WRITTEN SIDEWAYS ACROSS MIDDLE]
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D C
Page 24

I S Edwards Es B
Commipunu(?) Pensions

Wahington D C

See letter to S. D. Moody 5 Mar 1835
Letter Ulinne(?) From the genl. Post of pc'c Oct 16 1835 & sent to Mr (?) M at Canton Ny. 

guipon(?) cemared see letter to Han. S. Hisst(?) & Allen
Page 25

Rome O [Ohio]
Oct. 11

Free

Hon. E. Whittlesey M.C.
Canfield 
Trumbull Co.
Ohio
Page 26

Rome Ashtabula County, 
Ohio, Oct. 10th 1837.
Hon. Elisha Whittlesey,
Sir,
James Dunphey a pensioner residing in this place has had his pension certificate seized by a creditor who refuses to give it up. Dunphey is poor & therefore unable to prosecute a suit for the recovery of it. I wrote to the War Department stating the case but that department instructed me that a new certificate could not issue.--
Could you inform me how the pension can be obtained? If you can you will much oblige a poor veteran of the Revolution & oblige
Your most obedient servant,
[SIGNED] N Newton Jr.

P.S. Can you inform me any thing relative to the exploring expedition? Some time since Judge Birchard wrote me that he has applied for an appointment for me & I have heard nothing from it since ------
Page 27

Apl. 20, 1837
[illegible] May 3, '37
Page 28

Rome  Ashtabula Co.,
Ohio  Apr. 20, 1837.

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir
According to your direction contained in a letter dated March 28th I transmit to you duplicate affidavits of the four you sent me, in the matter of James Dunphey for a pension.
Yours with sincere respect
[signed]  N. Newton Jr
Page 29

[very faint] Canfield O
Free
18
J. L. Edwards
Com on Pensions
Washington

[written sideways] 
Mar 25 
James Dunphey 
Ohio roll
Page 30

[This is the same as image #43 but turned 45 degrees]

Mar 25

James Dunphey
Ohio Roll

[written sideways]
Canfield O
18
Free
J. L. Edwards
Com on Pensions
Washington
Page 31

Canfield  March 17th 1837

Sir
On my return last evening, I found a letter from Mr. Newton relative to a pension certificate which he says is improperly withheld by a creditor.  He says he wrote to me respecting it during the winter.  If the letter was received I presume it was sent to you.  I will thank you for an answer to Mr. Newton's letter and if any testimony is necessary to substantiate the act stated by him, you will be pleased to direct what proof you require.  His residence is Rome Ashtabula County  Ohio.  If you send directly to him it may avoid some delay, which might arise if the letter should be sent to me, and I should be absent when it should arrive.  You will find Mr Newton's cash letter enclosed.
Very Rerspectfully
Yours
[signed] E Whittlesey


J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Page 32

Duplicate vouchers
of [co??, crossed out] withheld
certificate - within
Page 33

War Department
Pension Office
May 3, 1837

Sir,
The Duplicate affidavits of James Dunphey in relation to the illegal detention of his pension certificate are herewith returned.  By the regulation of the Second Comptroller of 29 Sept. 1836, it is required in all cases where a pensioner makes his signature by a mark that the same shall be done in the presence of a witness other than the magistrate by whom the oath was administered.
I am respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. [obedient servant]
[signed] J. L. Edwards

Rome  Ashtabula Co. Ohio, May 8
Hon. J. L. Edwards   Sir, the duplicates, returned in consequence of the want of an attesting witness, are hereby transmitted to you with the omission supplied.  I inferred from your letter that the want thereof did not make the affidavits void & that the attestation could be supplied now & be held good.
[signed] N. Newton Jr

N. Newton Jr. Esq
Rome Ashtabula Co. Ohio
Page 34

W   Mar 2.

Jas [James] Dunphey
Ohio [?]


Mr J R Giddings
[?]

[written sideways]
J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Page 35

J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions



[written sideways]
W   Mar 2.

Jas [James] Dunphey
Ohio [?]


Mr J R Giddings
[?]
Page 36

House of Rep [Representatives]
March 1, 1839
Sir
James Dunphey of Ashtabula County Ohio is a Pensioner.  But being in debt to his creditor has got hold of his Certificate & keeps it.  The old gentleman is supported by the Town in which he lives and I am requested by the offices of the Town to make the inquiry If under such Circumstances you can furnish a copy of said Certificate against the rules of your office.
Your Obt Svt [obedient servant]
[signed] J [R Gidings?]
Page 37

Rome  Ashtabula County, Ohio
May 26, 1837
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
Your letter of May 18 returning a duplicate of the affidavits of James Dunphey whose certificate is illegally withheld has been received today.  Your former states that the pension agent at Pittsburgh has been instructed to pay the pension on the production of the proper vouchers.  Will you please to give me further direction in the course of procedure and instruct me what shall constitute the proper vouchers.  The certificate is still withheld and we have no copy thereof.
I am with respect
Your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed] N. Newton Jr
Page 38

War Department
Pension Office
May 28, 1833

Sir,
I herewith return you the following applications for Pensions under the act of June 7, '32 with a printed letter and brief in each case.
I am respectfully, 
Your obedient Servant
[signed] J. L. Edwards
Page 39

Washington 18 January 1836
My Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you some papers in relation to the pension of James Dunphey.  I understand the interruption of payments in this case has proceeded from the fact that Mr. Dunphey's early papers were executed by his mark and that the late papers have purported to be executed by his own proper signature.  The papers enclosed are intended, so far as I understand the subject, to explain this matter.
It may be within your recollection that I wrote to you during the last summer in behalf of this old gentleman and gave you some trouble by very carelessly writing the name "Spencer" instead of James [underlined].  The old man has a son living with him whose christian name is "Spencer" and by a very inexcusable negligence I used the name of the son for that of the father. 
Should the papers enclosed be satisfactory and enable you to order the payments again to be made, you will see by Mr. Moody's letter that he wishes me to obtain the Certificate, now as he says in your hands.  In short you will do me a favor by returning to me such of the papers enclosed as should be returned and such others as may have been previously sent, and ought to be returned to Mr. Dunphey.  If the proofs enclosed are not satisfactory, will you be good enough to suggest to me the difficulties which yet remain to be obviated?
With great respect
Your Obet [obedient] Sevt [servant]
[signed] Silas Wrights Jr.


J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions}
Page 40

Canton St Lawrence Co. N.Y.
June 8 1833

Hon J L Edwards
Com of Pensions

Sir
You have returned to me the application of "James Dunphey" [n is underlined] for a pension with a printed letter naming the applicant [underlined] "James Durphey" [ r is underlined] & in the column of evidence stating it to be only "handwriting".  The only objection appearing in the papers is under note "j" & your Enc. [enclosed?] clerk's note "not on the rolls".
The apt [applicant?] you will perceive in his Decn [declaration] states that the only 2 witnesses in his knowledge who could possibly testify to his service, he has believed to reside in Springfield VT (Asahel Powers & Jacob Lockwood) that he had procured 2 Letters to be written to Springfield to ascertain if their testimony could be procured -- but has heard nottering [nothing] from them.  About 10 days after I forwarded you his ap [application] I received the Testimony of Asahel Powers [underlined] one of them I learned that Jacob Lockwood [underlined] the other was not living [underlined].  I immediately forwarded the testimony of Powers [underlined], in same Letter with the application of Eliphalet Norris [underlined] - a pensioner now on the roles [rolls]
[end of page]
Page 41

[page 2]

under the Law of 1818.  The testimony of Powers Your Department will [find] to corroborate most fully the appt [applicant's] Statement & must make as perfect proof as human testimony of the time can furnish.   The apt [applicant] knew nothing of the testimony & the witness knew nothing of the particulars of the declaration.  I believe it to be impossible for the applicant to produce another living witness.  All of his revolutionary acquaintances except the said Powers are dead. [underlined]
I have though [thought] it possible that the Department might have applied the ap [applicant's] service to a wrong class  [underlined].  Yr [your] Enc [enclosed] Clerk States the residence at Springfield Vermont [underlined].  The name of ap [applicant] is also written by the Clerk Durphey [r is underlined] instead of Dunphey [n is underlined] -- might not a mistake on the reference to the "rolls"  arise from this source?
Too [to] not know to what service the "rolls" would be applicable as evidence -- unless as Continental [underlined] or N. H. Militia [underlined].  I believe it to have been frequently decided by the Department that the Vermont Troops [underlined] who went to Canada under Col Warner were not called Continental [underlined].  His company was raised entirely in Vermont.
[end of page]
Page 42

[page 3]

His six months' service was principally as standing guard at Cavendish in Vermont tho [though] the field officers of the Regt. [regiment]  are from New Hampshire.
It is hoped that this explanation with the testimony of Asahel Powers (which had not probably been examined by the Department when the papers were returned to me) will come within the rules of the Department & give a meritorious & very needy old soldier participation in the bounty of his Country.  There can be no doubt, in the opinion of the Department, could all the facts of the case appear as they do here to all who know the applicant, that he actually served as he states.
Should the proofs be still deemed insufficient, I hope the Department will print out some other, within the power of the ap [applicant] to produce.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt [obedient] Servant
[signed] Jno [John] Leslie Russell
Postmaster  Canton N.Y.
Agt [agent] for applicant

N.B. The testimony of Asahel Powers [underlined] was forwarded to the Department 28th Dec 1832, about 10 days after Declaration of apt [applicant]
Page 43

War Department
Pension Office
14 September 1833

Sir,
The papers in support of the application of James Dunphey have been examined, and the claimant allowed for twelve months and seven days.  In his tour to Quebec it appears by the witnesses proving that service, that he was discharged on parole on the 7th August 1776, making that term five months and seven days only, instead of Eight months, as alleged in his declaration,
I am respectfully
Your Obt Sev [obedient servant]
[signed] J L Edwards

John Leslie Russell Esq
Canton, St Lawrence
N.Y.
Page 44

Sept 24
Mr Burdine



[written sideways on the right] 
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington





[written sideways on the left] 
John Myers
James Dunphey
Page 45

John Myers
James Dunphey




[upside down] 
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington





[written sideways] 
Sept 24
Mr Burdine
Page 46

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington


[upside down] 
John Myers
James Dunphey



[writen sideways] 
Sept 24
Mr Burdine
Page 47

Mechs & Farmer's Bank
Albany Pension Agency
Sept 20, 1836

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissr [Commissioner] of Pensions,

Sir,  In reply to your letters of the 16th & 17th [unknown] I have to state that John Myers & James Dunphey, Pensioners under the Act of June 7, 1832, have each been paid to 4 March 1836.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert [obedient servant]
[signed] Tho W Olcutt
Ind  & Pension ap
Page 48

Free

Rome O [Ohio}
Mar 6

Hon E. Whittlesey, MC
Canfield
Trumbull Co
Ohio
Page 49

Rome Mar 7 1837
Hon E. Whittlesey
Sir,
Some time since I addressed you a letter at Washington relative to the application of James Dunphey of this town for a new pension certificate.  By receiving no answer I conclude the letter must have miscarried.  The substance of the letter was that James Dunpheys pension certificate has been seized by a creditor, and that the Expense of trouble of a Law Suit [would, crossed out] to recover [them, crossed out] it would be greater than Dunphey would be able to meet.  The request of the letter was that the Department would grant him a new one.  Should your opinion be favorable to his request will you please forward to the War Dept. a brief statement of the case, as I am acquainted with no one therein Except Judge Birchard.  If you are of the contrary opinion, can you favour me with the cause which prohibits such acts under any pretense whatsoever?
With much respect
Your Obdt [obedient] Sert [Servant]
[signed] N. Newton Jr
Page 50

Orwell O [Ohio]
22 July

Free

War Department
Pension Office
Or Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

[written sideways]
July 29
Mr. Burdine


[upside down]
 James Dunphey
[?] August 29 '36
Page 51

Orwell O [Ohio]
22 July

Free

War Department
Pension Office
Or Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

[written sideways]
July 29
Mr. Burdine


[upside down]
 James Dunphey
[?] August 29 '36
Page 52

 James Dunphey
[?] August 29 '36




[upside down]

Orwell O [Ohio]
22 July

Free

July War Department
Pension Office
Or Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC



[written sideways on right]
July 29
Mr. Burdine
Page 53

Orwell 21 July 1836
Sir
Yours of the 8 last came duly to house, I know that James Dunpheys Pension was Suspended about 18 months past, on account of some discrepancy in the Pension Power given to a Mr Moody - but I understand that through the Hon Mr Wright a member of Congress from the State of New York, that said Dunphey was reinstated on the pension list, and in the month of May & June past I assisted said Dunphey to draw his pension (as per notice from the agent in N York), and he did actually draw his pension for 18 months up to the 4 March 1836.  At this time the agent at the New York agency said Mr Dunphey must write to the Commissioner of Pensions, and get his name transferred from the New York agency to Pittsburgh, P.a. (as this is the nearest to said Pensioners Residence) and agreeable to said agents suggestion and Mr Dunpheys request, I wrote you on the 27th [?].  Mr Dunphey is very poor and infirm & needs the pension to provide the necessarys [necessaries] of Life.  Will you please to Cause further Examination. And much obliged.
Your [?] Servant
[signed] Ezra Platt

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Page 54

State of New York
St Lawrence County ss:  On this 24th day of November 1835 personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the said county Simeon D. Moody of Canton in the aforesaid county and being by me duly sworn deposes and says that on or about the fifth day of March [September crossed out] 1834 this deponent, at the request of James Dunphey a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, filled up an affidavit and power of attorney for the said Dunphey for the purpose of involving the said Dunphey to receive his pension from the 4th of September [March crossed out] 1833 to 4th of March [September crossed out] 1834, and was present when the said affidavit of the said Dunphey was subscribed and sworn to by him and the said Power of attorney executed, and believes the deponent subscribed the said power of attorney as subscribing witness.  The deponent says that the said Dunphey being unable to write his signature from blindness this deponent by the request of the said Dunphey held the hand of the said Dunphey in writing his name to the said affidavit and power of attorney, which said power of attorney was voluntarily executed by the said Dunphey.  This deponent further says that he has been informed that the pension of the said Dunphey has been suspended on account of the name of the said Dunphey being written without a mark as is usual for him
[end of page]
Page 55

[page 2]  

and this deponent has forwarded the original certificate of the said Dunphey by his request to the pension office where it now remains, and that the said Dunphey cannot make a new affidavit in order to receive his pension, until he receives his pension certificate from the pension office.  This deponent further says that Silas Baldwin Jr. was the magistrate before whom the said affidavit was taken as above mentioned.
[signed] Simron [Simeon?] D. Moody

The underline & [?] of the word March [underlined] in the sixth Line from the top was made before signing [;] also the word September 1833 [underlined] in the Eleventh line from the top.

Subscribed and Sworn this 24th day of November 1835
Before me [signed] Isaac Read  Justice of the peace
Page 56

State of New York
St Lawrence County ss.}  on this 24th day of November 1835 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for said County Silas Baldwin Jr of Canton in the aforesaid couinty & being by me duly sworn deposes & says that on or about the 5th day of March 1834 (he being then a justice of the peace in & for said county) James Dunphey a pensioner well known to him from personal acquaintance personally appeared before him as such justice and took the oath of Identity & [unknown] the power of Attorney necessary to draw his pension for the preceding half year.  That on the affidavit & Power being read to him, he, being at the time feeble & partly blind & his hands trembling bad, requested Simeon D. Moody to guide his hand & assist him to make his signature which the said Moody did in my presence
[signed] Silas Baldwin Jr

Subscribed and Sworn
Before me
[signed] Isaac Read Justice of the Peace
Page 57

Canfield O [Ohio] 
Nov.4

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com on Pensions
Washington
District of Columbia



[written sideways]
Nov 13
Jas. Dunphey
Ohio [illegible]
Page 58

Canfield O [Ohio] 
Nov.4

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com on Pensions
Washington
District of Columbia



[written sideways]
Nov 13
Jas Dunphey
Ohio [illegible]
Page 59

Canfield [unknown] [unknown] 3rd 1837


Sir
On my return last evening from Toledo, I found a letter from Mr Newton, which I shall inclose [enclose] to you, with the request that you give to him the instructions necessary to enable him to furnish the proof required in the case of Mr  Dunphey.
Very respectfully Yours
[signed] E Whittlesey

J L Edwards Esq
Page 60

Canton 26 April 1835
My Dear Sir,
I wrote you some days since making an inquiry in relation to a pension case, and most carelessly misnamed the pensioner.  I find by your answers recd [received] yesterday that I used the name "Spencer Dunphey" whereas the name of the pensioner for whom I intended to make the inquiry is James Dunphey [underlined].  You will receive herewith his pension certificate in which you will find the name "James Durphey" and not Dunphey, and connected with the certificate you will receive the affidavit of John Leslie Russell Esq a most respectable lawyer of this Village, explaining the confusion as to these names, accompanied by one of your letters to show that the name was written differently by yourself and by the clerk who filed the certificate.   I presume the affidavit of Mr. Russell will be satisfactory and will enable you to correct the certificate and have this old gentleman restored to the roll, if his name has been stricken from it.  I know personally that this is the man for whom the certificate was intended to have been issued.
I am most respectfully
Your obdt [obedient] Servant
[signed] Silas Wrights Jr.

J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions}
Page 61

Albany May 1st 1835
J L Edwards Esq
I was the the witness to a pension [power?] of Mr James Dunphey and sent the same to the Hon E Corning of this place from my residence (Canton) and learnt that the pension was suspended.  I procured the Enclosed papers & Expected from what Mr Wright informed Me that the agent would pay it upon being presented, the agent adress [address] to send the whole papers to you.
The Power of Attorney from James Dunphey is now in Mr Corning['s] hands to draw the amt due from Sept. 1834 to March 1835 & will remain then for your directions to be paid -- as there appears some errors in the spelling of the applicant he desires that you would make him a new certificate which if you will you may send it to me or Mr Russell [,]  Canton  Astabula
Your attention by letter to the agent respecting this power will be thankfully acknowledged as the applicant is very poor & no person is willing to advance without some prospect of regaining the money

Most Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
[signed] Simeon D. Moody
Page 62

State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss}
Be it known, that before me Erastus Chester a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James Dunphey, and made oath in due form of Law that he is the identical James Dunphey, named in an original pension certificate, now illegally withheld by Linus Tracy of Mesopotamia in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio. - that he delivered the said pension certificate to the said Tracy in the month of September last past that the said Tracy might assist him in drawing his pension then due; that the said Tracy failing to draw his pension, the deponent requested the said Tracy to return him the certificate, which the said Tracy utterly refused, till deponent had paid a demand of Eighteen - Dollars which the said Tracy had against the deponent; that the deponent has often requested the said Tracy to deliver up the said certificate; and has offered to guarantee the payment of the demand as soon as he should draw his pension; which the said Tracy utterly refuses to do; - that he is Entitled to a pension of Forty Dollars & Seventy Seven cents per year on account of services rendered to the United States during the Revolutionary War; that he served in Captain Oliver Potter's Company of Infantry in Col Seth Warner's regiment; that he now resides in [illegible] in the County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, and has resided there for the space of Two ..... years past, and that previous thereto he resided in the Town of Canton in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York
Sworn & subscribed in presence of N. Newton Jr 
James Dunphey X his mark
Sworn & subscribed this 15th day of April A.D. 1837. 
before me, [signed] Erastus Chester Just Peace.
Page 63

State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss}  April 15 1837

Conformabley to the Regulations of the War Department, of the 27th of October, 1832 
I Erastus Chester a Magistrate in the County above named do hereby certify that I have the most Satisfactory Evidence viz from Pension documents which I have seen in his possession & from the received opinion in the neighborhood where he resides that James Dunphey who this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity, is the identical Pensioner he declares himself to be in the annexed affidavit, and I am also satisfied that the statement made by him in relation to the pension certificate is true.
Given under my hand at Rome the County aforesaid the day and year above written.
[signed] Erastus Chester, Just. Peace

The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss}
I, James Whitman, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify that Erastus Chester is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
[signed] Jas. Whitman, Deputy Clerk
Page 64

James Dunphey


[answered?]  July 8 '36
Page 65

[This is the same as image #6]

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

[written sideways] July 5
W. Burdine

Orwell O [Ohio]
28 June}
Page 66

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

[written sideways]  July 5
W. Burdine

Orwell O [Ohio]]
 28 June}



[This is the same as image #7]
Page 67

Orwell 27 June 1836 Ashtabula Co in Ohio -

Sir
Mr James Dunphey a Revolutionary Pensioner  of the United States who formerly resided in Canton St Lawrence County & State of New York has how removed into Orwell, Ashtabula Co. & State of Ohio, and wishes to be tranfered from the New York agency to the agency at Pittsburgh, and has requested me to write for him, as he is an old man, and unable to write. Wish [?] you to inform him through me when the transfer is made, the number of his Certificate is 20,578 and is recorded in Book 6 [?] Vol 4 page 34 by Francis F. Franciosi Clerk.
Yours Respectfully
Ezra Pratt

To the Commissioner of Pensions }
Post Master Orwell Ohio
Page 68

In the matter of James Dunphey
App [application] for Pension
Testimony of Asahel Powers
Add [additional] proof
[very faint  21417?]
in favor of J Dunphey
N.Y.
Page 69

[hand written letter] 
I Asahel Powers of Springfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy two years do depose and say that in Jan [January] 1776 I became acquainted with James Dunphy then of said Springfield who now resides as I understand in Canton New York ,- that [crossed out: about the first of Jany] in January of that year, as near as I recollect on hearing of Montgomerys defeat I volunteered with several others as a private to go to Canada --- we were [rendezvoused]  at Rultand [Rutland] in this State - There we [unknown] Col. John Barrett of Springfield, who was Lt. Col. under Col. Seth Warner of what was then called the Green Mountain Boys, for our captain - Wm [William] Dana for our Lt. and one Hibbard for our ensign - we were marched down Otter Creek to Lake Champlain - then down [the] Lake upon the ice - passing by St. Johns & [La Prairie?] to Mt. Real [Montreal] from there down the river St. Lawrence & joined the army in Abraham Plains commanded by Genl Arnold - and well recollect seeing said Dunphy at the latter place in [crossed out: the same] Company with Isaac & Jacob Lockwood of said Springfield - Dunphy served in Capt Potters Co. in the same Regt [regiment] a short time after my arrival part of said Regt. including the company to which I belonged and also the one in which Dunphy served was ordered down the river to the Isle of Orleans - & we were both taken down with the Small Pox at that place - but saw nothing more of him untill [until] I saw him a prisoner of War in the Gaol [jail] in Quebec when I was also confined.  He was present & signed the parole when I did on the 7 th August 1776 - after this we went aboard of different
[end of page]
Page 70

[page 2] 
Transports with other prisoners & sailed under Convoy of a Frigate to New York where we arrived a short time before our Army were  driven out of the City by the Enemy-- we lay in the Harbor to the best of my recollection untill [until] about the middle of October when we prisoners were set ashore at Elizabeth Point, N.J. & among the rest said Dunphy & myself -- after staying there a short time we set out in
company on our return home & came together untill [until] we arrived at some place in Massachusetts where he stopped & I continued along home.
About the first of June A.D. 1777 as near as I can recollect being informed that I had been exchanged[,] I enlisted for three months and entered the service as a substitute for a man who belonged to Unity N.H.- Abel Walker was my Capt - and a Major Howard had the command of us -  I was acquainted with these officers before the Revolution as well as since-- we rendezvoused at Cavendish
in this State where I well recollect seeing said Dunphey - from there we marched to Manchester - from there to Bennington where we arrived soon after the first engagement - and I was in the 2d engagement which was had with the British Reinforcement near [Rensselaer?] Mills - from there our Compy [company] marched to Stillwater
N.Y. & staid [stayed] there my term out -. Don't recollect of seeing Dunphy after I left Cavendish untill [until] I arrived at Stillwater where I left him when I was dismissed & further I say not
[signed]  Asahel Powers
Page 71

[hand written letter]
State of Vermont Windsor County SS. [left hand side, columnized]
At Springfield August 20, 1832
Then Asahel Powers to me known as a credible witness, personally appeared, and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth. - 
Before me, Nomlas Cobb Justice Peace [signed]

State of Vermont Windsor County [left hand side, columnized]
Woodstock County Clerks Office Oct. [October] 26th. 1832
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Nomlas Cobb is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said county and that the above is his signature - 
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said court, and subscribe my name the day & year last above. -
[signed] Benj. Swan [Benjamin]