Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40431, for James Silk, Maryland
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3-1776   

Service                                       Number
Md.

Silk, James                                 S 40431

CONTENTS [BLANK]
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[illegible mark] 19752
Pennsylvania
James Silk
of Clark Cty in the State of Penn
who was Private in the Company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] in the Maryland line, for the term of two years from, November 1780 to November 1782

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th day of Mary 1827

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of [illegible] and sent to Andrew Du [illegible] York County Penn

Arrears to 4th of 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1827 $47-51
                                                         $47-51

{Revolutionary Claim
Acts March 18, 18 [illegible]
and May 1, 1820}
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19,374
Mr. Edwards
James Silk:
York Co. Pa

Phillip Moore
Baltimore, Md

Recd 27 Dec. 1824
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Declaration
In order to be placed on the Pension List under the Act of March 1818-

United States of America, Maryland District SC.

On this twenty fourth day of December eighteen hundred and twenty four, personally appeared in open court (being) a court of record for the district of Maryland James Silk resident in York County Pa. aged seventy four years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th of March 1818, and the 1st May, 1820: that he, the said James Silk enlisted for the term of the war about the Month of November in the year 181 in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Bruce in the regiment commanded by Colonel or Major Lansdale in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the war when he was discharged from the said service in Baltimore in the state of Maryland, that his name has not been place on the pension list and the reason for his not applying for a pension before is that he procured Squire Bailey to make out his papers in 1820 who misled him and thus prevented his obtaining the relief he desired -

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th Day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818' and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contract, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That since the
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18th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property _ I have sold a cow which was the last piece of my property for $11.50 and which I have expended in my support.

James Silk [signature]

Sworn to, and declared on the 24th day of December 1824 before me, Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Maryland District.

Elias Glenn [signature]

I, Philip Moore, clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Maryland District, do herby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said James Silk did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 24th day of December 1824.

Philip Moore [flourish]
DW.C.S
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Schedule referred to within [illegible]

That he is a labourer but being advanced in age and much afflicted with a [illegible] of the intestines that totally disables him from performing any work and has no means of support, he must suffer greatly for [illegible] comforts of his name to not entered on the pension list and the customary pension allowed him
James Silk
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May 27, 1937
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M-J/KEL
James Silk S.40431

Sarah E. Sayser
504 West King Street
York, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of James Silk, who received pension in 1827 in York County, Pennsylvania.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.40431, based upon the military service in that war of James Silk.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of James Silk are not shown.

James Silk enlisted in the state of Maryland, county not shown, in November, 1781, served as a private in Captain Bruce's Company and under Major Lanedale in the 3rd Maryland Regiment and was discharged November 15, 1783, in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 6, 1827, at which time he was aged seventy-seven years and resided in York County, Pennsylvania.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, James Silk, S.04031, you should address The Comptroller General.  General Accounting Office, 
Records Division, this city, and cite the following dates

James Silk, Certificate No.19752, issued March 13, 1827, rate $8 per month, commenced March 7, 1827. Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820, Pennsylvania ASgency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Miller
Executive Assitant
to the Adminstrator

[Handwritten to the right of the typed letter above is as follows]
For soldier see Md Archives page 504

Bruce is never shown as of the 3rd Md Regt. as [illegible] service
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Auditor Office
Annapolis 5th April 1825
I hereby certify that it appears by the Pay Rolls Remaining in my office, that James Silk a private, Received from John Hamilton agent of the Maryland Line, the Sum of $43 for pay from the 1st of January 1783 to the 15th December 1783 when is service expired.
Tho. Karney Auditor State of Md
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[illegible] Oct. 18[illegible year]

Proof of the service of James
Silk,  [illegible] waiting for a formal decl
[illegible] to Hon S. Smith, [illegible]
dated 7 Sept. 1826. 
[postal stamp]                        Free
Annapolis Md
Oct 1

Pension Office
War Department
Washington DC
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Auditors Office
Annapolis Oct 1st 1824

I hereby certify that it appears from the Pay Rolls Remaining in the Auditors office that James Silk a Private Received from John Hamilton Agent of the Maryland Line the Sum of $43.30 in Pay from the 1st of January 1783 to the 15th of December 1783 when his time expired.
Tho. Karney Aud

[illegible] there are no Muster Rolls in the office as Late as the applicant States he Enlisted.  He may [illegible] served from 1781.
T.K.
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War Department
Pension Office
19 February 1837

Sir,
The documents forwarded by you to this office in support of the claim of James Silk to a pension on account of revolutionary service has been examined, and I have to state that all that is wanting in the [illegible], is for the applicant to make a declaration according to law in the county he resides, and [illegible] , according to 
the [illegible] form.  The papers which are herewithin returned should accompany his new declaration.  
I have the honor to be 
[illegible]
Your [illegible]
J. L. Edwards


Hon: J.S. Mitchell
House of Representatives
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James Silk's
Case
see
evidence within

see letter April. 11. 1825
to T Karney-

see letter to the Hon. 
J.S. Mitchell
13 July 1827
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40 431
INVALID
reg
File No. 40.431
James Silk
[Illegible]
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Act:  18th March 18 [illegible year]
Index:---Vol. 3, Page [illegible]62

[Arrangement of 18[illegible]

1937-May 27th [illegible writing ]Sarah E. Smyser [illegible]
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March 6, 1937
Sarah E. Smyser
504 West King St.
York, Penna.

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:-
Would you kindly send me the record of James Silk of York County, pensioned in 1827.  His Revolutionary record.  
Thank you in advance.
I remain
Your truly
Sarah E. Smyser

[postal stamp RECEIVED MAR 8 1837]
[ILLEGIBLE] 31
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Answer of  Karney to the Letter addressed to him
April 11 1825
Recd April 16.  1825
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Sir,
In the case of James Silk, I cannot state at what point he enlisted or when Discharged, there not being any muster Rolls in my office later than to the 15th of December 1780.  If my recollection serves me [underline] Silk [end underline] stated in his declaration that [underline} he [end underline] enlisted in 1781..              T.K.
[illegible] It appears by my certificate from the Pay Rolls that the applicant Recd  pay for 10 months and 15 days and I have always understood that nine months Service on Succession entitled a Revolutionary Soldier to a Pension
                                                          T.K.
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State of Maryland Cecil County Court
I hereby certify that Enoch Megrudy Esquire Gentleman beforehand and the within deposition appears to have been made; and whose name is hereto signed, was at the time [illegible] signing the form, a Justice of the peace in Cecil Circuit Court duly Commissioned qualified and sworn and [illegible] and as such due faith and credit is [illegible] take [illegible]

In testimony ordered Have hereunto set my hand and affixed he public seal of my office this 24th day of November eighteen hundred and seventy four
James Sewall/[initial]
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[5 lines illegible]

duty and that James Silk served with him under the Command of Capt. Bruce of the [illegible number] Company and 3rd regiment of the Maryland Line in the revolutionary war sworn before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the county affidavit
                                     Enoch Megrudy
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State of Maryland Cecil County Circuit
Hereby Certify that Enoch Megrudy Esquire Gentleman before whom the within deposition appears to have taken and whose name is thereto signed was at the time of taking and signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for Cecil County. duly commissioned qualified and sworn and to all whose acts as such due faith & credit is and ought to be given as well in [illegible]

In Testimony whereof I [illegible] set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this twenty fourth day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty four
James Sewall [title initials]
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Cecil County [illegible]
Maryland day of August in the year of our Lord [illegible] Personally appears Thomas McDowle and makes oath that James Silk Served in the 2nd Company and 3rd Regiment of the Maryland Line under the Command of Capt Bruce and that he marched [illegible] Silk with him and returned to Baltimore where they were discharged
[illegible] Thos Lance [illegible] 
Sworn before the [illegible]
a Justice of the Peace for Cecil County
Enoch Megrudy
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19,374
James Silk
York Co Pa    [postal stamp YORK, PA MAR 8]

Andrew Duncan
York, Pa

Recd 9 March 1827? 

[illegible writing perpendicular to above appears to be addressed to someone with number 120 or 125 written in large print]J L   Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
 Washington City
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York March 7th 1827
Sir
I Send you the documents in support of the Claim of James SIlk according to your directions in your Letter to the Hon. James J. Mitchell please to send in his pension certificate  his former papers are also Returned according to your Request
I am very Respectfully your obedient servant
Andrew Duncan
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STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
YORK COUNTY, SS

[stamp seal]

I, Michael W. Ash, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county of York, Do Certify, that
George Klinefelter Esquire 
before whom the annexed Deposition was made is one of our acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified; and that to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my Hand and the Seal of said Court, in the borough of York this Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
[Signature] Hon.  Michael W Ash
Prothonotary
Chas Nes, Clk.
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York County
Pennsylvania ss.

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county George Lingenfelder aged Sixty nine years who being by me duly Sworn according to Law saeth that James Silk did enlist at Annapolis in the State of Maryland on or about the month of November A. D. 17781 in the Maryland Line on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War and that he was a private in Captain Bruces Comp Regiment Commanded by Major Lansdale and that he did enlist for during the war and continued in Service untill [sic]the End and was Honourably 
discharged at a Baltimore and that deponent Served in the same company and Regiment with the said James Silk on or about [illegible] year And Six months when said James Silk was discharged at Baltimore at the Close of the war and that during the time that deponent was in Service with the P James Silk he well Recollects that he was a faithful Soldier, and further saith
not.
George Lingenfelder
his X mark

Sworn and Subscribed Before e this 1st day of February A Domino 1827
George [illegible]
And I certify that the P George Lingenfelder who made oath the above deposition is entitled to full credit o his oath or otherwise
George Klinefelter
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Declaration

In order to be placed on the Service List under the act of the 18th of March 1818

York County Pennsylvania 

On the 6th day of March A. [Domino] one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas and a Court of Record in and for the County of York in the State of Pennsylvania James Silk.  Resident in said County Pa aged Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to attain the pensions made by [illegible] the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said James Silk enlisted for the Term of the war about the month of November in the year 1781 in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by captain Bruce in the Regiment Commanded by Col. [illegible] Lansdale in the Line of the State of Maryland on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the end of the War when he was discharged from said Service in Baltimore in the State of Maryland that ^he has not been placed on the pension List of any [illegible] and the Reason for his not applying for a pension before is that he procured [Edgar illegible] Bailey to make out his papers 1820 who misled him and this prevented him from obtaining the relief he deserved
And in [illegible] of the Act of the 1st of May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time
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[illegible paragraph]
the 18 of March [illegible year] the following changes have been made in my property.  I have [illegible] worth Last piece of property for $11..50 Cents and which I have [illegible] in my support
[signature]                 James Silk

Sworn and declared on the 6th day of March ^1827 in York County before me President Judge of the District Court, for the counties of York and Lancaster
[Signature]                  EG Bradford

York County, Pennsylvania
I do hereby Certify, that E.G. Bradford Esq before whom the aforesaid Deposition was made is Resident Judge of the District Court for the  Counties of York and Lancaster and that the [illegible] and foregoing is a true copy taken ^from and comparable with the original remaining files in the Prothonotary Office of the County of York, and that is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of the said Petitioner's ^property is worth nothing
In Testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court at York.  The Seventh day March A D. 1827.
[signature]       Michael W. Ash
                         Prothonotary
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[illegible light handwriting with what appears to be another paper laying over the top]

James Silk

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
YORK COUNTY, SS,
[stamp/seal to the left]
I, Michael W. Ash, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county of York, do Certify that
George Klinefelter, Esquire
before [illegible] Deposition was made for the [illegible[ County of York
duly [illegible]
this Fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [illegible]  seven
[Signature]     Michael W. Ash
                       Prothonotary
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAN-51
12-5-41

DIVISION OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION ARCHIVES

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Silkerk, James
GRADE Private
LINE New York

WARRANT NUMBER 7734
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED September 25, 1790
to William McGill, assignee

*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 of 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.