Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,455, James Grimes, Va.
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Va Grimes, James S17455 Carded
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[left hand side]
7278
Indiana 
James Grimes 
of Ripley Co. in the State of Indiana
who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Houston of the Regt commanded 
by Col Mulunberg in the service [illegible]
time for 2 years.

Included on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of March
1833 and sent to [crossed out name] Samuel
at SS. Harding varsaille [Versailles] Ind.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00
Semi-annual. allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00
$200.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7  Page 112
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State of Indiana 
Ripley County 
On this 23, day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand 
Eight hundred and thirty two. personally appeared in open Court 
before the Judges of of the Ripley Circuit Court now sitting James 
Grimes resident of the County of Ripley and State of Indiana
aged Seventy Eight years, who being first duly sworn according
to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in
order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June
7th 1832. That he entered the services of the United States 
sometime in the year 1777. served under the following named officers 
(reg) General Muhenburgh, Col. Benjamin Harrison (Majors name
not now [illegible] ) Captain George Houston, Lieutenant 
Shanklin That he served for the Virginia militia under
the above named officers as an orderly Sargent for the term of
Six months./ That he left the Service the beginning of 1781-
That he resided at the time he [illegible] the session  That he
was under just one engagement That he resided at the time
he entered the service in  Augusta County in the state of 
Virginia. That he was drafted. That he was in the Battle of
[illegible] [illegible] and also the battle of Williamsburg -
that he marched from Rockingham County in Virginia to 
Richmond from thence a [illegible] James River to Westham
down to Parges Warehouse then to Petersburgh  [illegible] 
then to Suffolk, then Norfolk from there back to Amelia County
& Gouchland. That he served with one John Willis a regular officer 
at the battle of the burnt [illegible]. that he was acquainted with
General Boyse of Stanton Augusta co. Virginia. That he has no 
documentary evidence, and that, he knows of no person whose 
testimony he can procure who can certify to his service.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
James Grimes [his mark]X 

The J. W Law a Clergyman residing in the county of Ripley and State of 
Virginia aforesaid and Stephen Austin residing in the same County aforesaid
 hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Grimes who has 
subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 
Seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood 
where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and 

[statement written vertically in left border]
I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 
except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension
 roll of the agency of any state.
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and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Josh W. Law
Stephen Austin

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogations prescribed by the War Department
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary 
Soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further 
certifies that it appears to them that J. W. Laws who has
signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman 
resident in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana
and that Stephens Austin has also signed the same is
a resident in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana
and is a Credible person, and that their Statement
is entitled to credit.
M.C. Eggleston Pres Judge [drawn circle as seal]
A.H Reed Assistant Judge [drawn circle as seal]
R.W. Touse Assistant Judge [drawn circle as seal]

I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the 
original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter
of the application of James Grimes for a pension.-
In Testimony whereof I herewith set my hand and Seal 
of office this 23 day of August A,D. 1832.
David P. Shook Clk
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State of Indiana
Ripley County Se
Personally appeared before me the undersigned 
a Justice of the peace within and for the said 
County James Grimes the above named 
applicant for a pension under the June of 1832 
who being duly sworn according to Law deponent 
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 
swear not less than the periods mentioned below
and in the following grades. For six months
I served as an orderly sergeant. For eighteen months
I served as a private and for such service I claim
a pension.
James Grimes [his mark]X

Sworn to and subscribed the 15th day of December 1832.
John S. Craig J.P. [circular hand written seal of office]
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State of Indiana
Ripley County Se
I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court do
hereby certify that John S. Craig Esq who has before 
whom the foregoing affadavit of James Grimes has 
taken and sworn to and subscribed was at the time of
entering the same (to wit) on the 15th day of December 
1932) an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County 
of Ripley and State of Indiana duly commissioned as such  
that full faith and credit should and ought to be given to this 
official acts. and that the foregoing signature is genuine --
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  & seal 
of office at Versailles this 15th day of December 1832
David P. Shook Clk

Versailes Inda. December 15th 1832
Dr. Sir
The above named applicant is certainly a person who is
entitled to the Justice & charity of the Department; he is 
very infirm in consequences of the palsy, & it is with much 
difficulty that the old man can speak intelligently. I have no 
doubt you will do him justice.
Yours [illegible]
Ste. S. Harding
[left margin] Hon J.L.Edwards
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Questions propounded by the Court to James Grimes
the within named applicant-
Question 1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer- I was born in the County of Down in North 
Ireland in the year 1754.
Question 2nd Have you any record of your age and 
where it is? 
Answer I have no record of my age and can only speak 
from what my parents told me.
Question 3d- Where were you living when called into
service; and where have you lived since the Revolutionary 
War and where do you now live?
Answer in Augusta County in Virginia since the revolutionary 
war. I have resided in Rockingham County and since that
time I moved to Kentucky where I resided for many
years for the last twelve years I have resided where 
I now live in Ripley County Indiana.
Question 4. How were you called into service were you
drafted. did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And
if a substitute for whom?
Answer draft.
Question 5th. 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 the general 
circumstances of your service--
Answer I was acquainted with General Anthony Wayne &
General Morgan. I served those men [three illegible words]
I do not remember particular  regiments but the one to which
I belonged so as to [illegible] where in that General circumstances 
as stated within. 
Question 6- Did you ever receive a discharge from the service 
and if so by whom was it given what has become of it?
Answer I never received a discharge. I was told that if my 
name was [illegible] on the Clash [?] book that that was sufficient.
Question 7th. State the names of persons to whom you are 
known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your 
character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier 
of the Revolution.
Answer Joseph Richard Esq Lippard. John Bell and many others.
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June 28, 1934
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James Grimes-S.17455
BA-J/AWF [initials written in]

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of James Grimes, who served in the Virginia troops, and died in Ripley County, Indiana. The application for headstone was enclosed with your request, which application (original) is returned herewith; there was no correspondence attached.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 17455, based upon the military service of James Grimes during the War of the Revolution.

James Grimes was born in the year 1754 in the County of Down in "North Ireland"; the names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Augusta County, Virginia, James Grimes enlisted and served in Captain George Houston's company, Colonel Benjamin Harrison's Virginia regiment, was in engagements at Burnt Chimneys and Williamsburg and left the service early in 1781, having served eighteen months as private and six months as orderly sergeant.

After the Revolution, he moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, from there to Kentucky, thence to Ripley County, Indiana.

James Grimes was allowed pension on his appli-
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cation executed August 23, 1832, then a resident of
Ripley County, Indiana, where he had lived about
twelve years.
The soldier, James Grimes, died November 11, 1833.
There are no data in this claim concerning the
family of James Grimes.
Very truly yours
A.D.HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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[left hand page upside down]
Look on [illegible] P.A. on Rolls
[[right hand page]
James Grimes
[written upside down on page]
Dec 31 [illegible]
Versailles Dec 18th
[written vertically left side of page]
331
[written across]
from 1777 private 2 years $80
[address written vertically]
Honl Secretary of War
Washington City D.C.
[written at bottom]
Direct to me [illegible initials] Harding
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
James Grimes which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, 
is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V.  Has he mentioned 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 amout of pension he is entitled? No. Statement by no means satisfactory.

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with 
the regulations? Yes

VII. Has made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under 
the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be 
distinguished from any other seal? Yes and has a device.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable 
citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood 
relative to his revolutionary service?   Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason for not
obtaining it? 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony 
of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot 
be had?   Yes

XIV. *If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the 
magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of 
credibility? 
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper 
officer under his seal of office?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such
an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. *Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?   Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? 
And, if not, which of them is not so answered?   Yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V.  In the 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."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the 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.

* QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
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 claimants 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 witness, and the official character and signature
of he magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

* QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not 
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper 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.
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Request of Rev. War record of James Grimes 
Va service - died in Ripley Co. Ind. Furnished 
June 28, 1934 - application for [illegible] [illegible]
returned  - Ceccy
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[left hand page]
17455
INVALID.
File No. 17,455
James Grimes
Pri. Rev War
Act: June 7th, [18]32
[In]dex: -Vol. 1, Page 443
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1934 - June 28 hist. to Meucire al Pon au
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THE NATIONAL  ARCHIVES 
DIVISION OF VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Grimes, John 
GRADE Private 
 LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9510
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED July 2, 1790
[handwritten notes] 
to ~~~ not shown
notation: "On file not delivered."

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded
on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants 
Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers and bounty land 
warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates 
under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and 
subsequent dates.
Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear
to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of
November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants 
surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found
in General Land Office records in the National Archives.