Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33269, James Weeks, New York
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Service: New York

Weeks, James (colored) or Green

Number: S.332269
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From (scratched out): 19471. R
To: New Jersey. (to New York {scratched out})


James Weeks, alias James Green
of Sussex Cy in the state of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Williams of the regiment command
by Colonel Livingston ... in the New York
line, for the term of nine months
from April 1778 to ... 17...

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on
the 2nd of June 1825.

Certificate of Pensions issue the 27, of 1825
and Sent to E Green Jr, Esq
Newton, N Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of ...
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 1825.

$19.73
$19.73

Revolutionary claim
Acts March 18, 1818
and Mary 1, 1820

March 1, ...
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See letter 29 Sept 1818 to D M Frye Esq
Transf to New York 8th Dec 1828 from 4 Sept 1828
See letter 27 April 1830 to Whitfield S Johnson
Transf from N. York to N. Jersey by Dec 1831 from 4 Sept 1831 & notice sent to Joseph Northrip Esq. Andover N. J.

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Date of death not on [?]
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State of New=York,} ss.
City and County of New-York,}
I, NICHOLAS DEAN, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby Certify, THAT Daniel M Frye before whom the annexed affidavits were made was at the time they were made a Commissioner duly appointed & sworn and by law authorized to administer oaths & take affidavits to be read in all courts of Record within the State of New York ~
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 30 day of Dec 1828
N Dean [signature]
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County & State of New York ss:}
On this 29th day of November 1828 before me the subscriber a Commissioner to take acknowledgments of deeds, affidavits & in and for the said City and County of New York - Personally appeared James Weeks, alias James Green who on being oath declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Israel Smith in the Regiment commanded by Col. Courtland in the service of the United States; That his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of New Jersey - from whence he has lately removed; That he now resides in the State of New York, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from New Jersey to New York - to wit - That his wife and children were residing in New York and he was desiring of being and living with them -
James his X mark Weeks ['x' between first and last name]
Sworn & subscribed to Before me the day & year aforesaid
Daniel M Frye
Comm'r &c

State City & County of New York ss: - William Owen of said City being sworn doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with James Weeks alias James Green & has been so acquainted with him for more than twenty years - and that the Person who has taken and subscribed the [?] deposition is the said James Weeks alias James Green and is the same person who is therein described and intended
William Owen [signature]
Sworn & subscribed to the 29th day of November 1828 Before me
Daniel M Frye
Comm'r &c

I do hereby Certify that William Owen, who has taken & subscribed the above deposition is well known to me and that he is a person of good credit & veracity -
Dated Nov. 29th 1828
Daniel M. Frye
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James Green als. [alias] Jas. Weeks' Declaration for Pension -
James Greens Certificate for Pension gave to Jacob Melford
Filed 31st May 1825
Green Clk
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State of New-Jersey -
Sussex County ss. -
On this twenty eighth [lined out] ^[insert] thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five personally appeared in open Court, in the said Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, the said Court, being a court of record, having a[?] - keeping a record of its proceeding, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, [?] a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and having the power to fine and imprison; - James Weeks, otherwise called James Green a coloured [British spelling] man, resident in said county, of the age of sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, upon his oath aforesaid, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and of the 1st of May 1820: That he the said James Weeks, enlisted for the term of nine months, in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight ^[insert] in the State of New-York in a company commanded by Captain Williams in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston (whose Christian name was according to the best of this declarants recollection Robert B. R.) in the line of the State of New-York, of the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of said term, when he was discharged, at Fort Stanwix in the state of New-York. - That his enlisted again, ^[insert] for the term of nine months in the month of April in the year eighteen [lined out] seventeen hundred and twenty [lined out] eighty two in the state of New-York in a company commanded by Captain John Davis, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Cortland, on the Continental establishment, in which corps he continued to serve about eight months, when he reinlisted [sic] for the term of three years in a company commanded by Captain Israel Smith, in the regiment last mentioned, in which corps he continued to serve untill [sic] about [lined out] the month of July there next following, when he was discharged from the service at Snakehill [Snake Hill] near New Windsor in the
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State of New-York; - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state except the State of New-York: - That he first made application in the month of August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty [lined out] eighteen to the Honourable Walter D Shee one of the Judges of the above court, who informed him that he was unable to assist him in procuring the provision of the first mentioned act for the want of a copy of the same; that he was afterwards advised to apply for the same purpose, to the Honourable John Gustin one of the Judges of the said Court, who declined rendering any assistance for the want of money by this declarant, to pay for the service, Which this declarant was unable to raise ^[insert] and was discouraged from making further application for assistance that at that time this declarant was able to procure his own living by daily laborer, but has been since deprived of his sight so as to be unable to procure his [?]stance by his own work ^[insert] or labor - that after the loss of his sight, he made another application in the year eighteen hundred and twenty four, thus - the agency of some persons who undertook to assist this declarant, but his papers forwarded for this purpose to the seat of government, were returned to him as insufficient, with instructions from the War department, as to the proper forms and requirements; that the reason of his not having early made effectual application for a pension, is the want of means and the proper assist [lined out] information. - And in pursuance 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 eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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 ^[insert] [?] so to diminish it as to bring myself within
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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 the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eight^[insert] teen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or [?], contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any ^[insert] [?] Necessary clothing merely excepted. -
Sworn to and declared on in open Court this 28th May A. D. 1825 -
James his X mark Green ['x' between first and last name]
John Gustin
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19,677
James Weeks
Sussex County
N Jersey
(old case - on roll)
E. Green Jr Esqr
Newton
N. Jersey
Rec'd [?] 25 182[?]

[written upside down]
free
Barbour [James Barbour 1825 to 1828]
Sec'y at War
Washington
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State of New Jersey}
Sussex County ss} On this thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty five personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county aforesaid the said court being a court of record having a [?] keeping a record of its proceeding, proceeding according tot he course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and having the power to fine and imprison James Weeks otherwise called James Green a coloured man resident in said county of the age of sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law upon his oath aforesaid doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of congress of the 18th March 1818 and of the 1st of May 1820 that he the said James Weeks enlisted for the term of nine months in the month of April in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight in the State of New York in a company commanded by Captain Williams in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston whose Christian name was according to the best of this declarants recollection Robert, B. R. in the line of State of New York of the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of said term when he was discharged at Fort Stanwix in the State of New York that he enlisted again for the term of nine months in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two in the State of New York in a company commanded by Captain John Davis in a regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Cortland on the continental establishment in which corps he continued to serve about eight months when he reinlisted [sic] for the term of three years in a company commanded by Captain Israel Smith in the regiment last mentioned in which corps he continued to serve untill [sic] the month of July then next following when he was discharged from the service at Snake hill near New Windsor in the State of New York that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of New York that he first made application in the month of August in the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen to the Honorable Walter D Shee one of the Judges of the above court who informed him that he was unable to assist him in procuring the provision of the first mentioned act for the want of a copy of the same that he was afterwards advised to apply for the same
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purpose to the Honorable John Gustin one of the Judges of the said court who declined rendering any assistance for the want of money by this declarant to pay for the service which this declarant was unable to raise and was discouraged from making further application for assistance that at that time this declarant was able to procure he was living by daily labour but has been since deprived of his sight so as to be unable to procure his subsistance [sic] by his own work or labor that after the loss of his sight he made another application in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty four thro the agency of some persons who undertook to assist this declarant but his papers forwarded for this purpose to the Seat of Government were returned to him as insufficient with instructions from the war department as to the proper forms and requirements that the reason of his not having early made effectual application in the want of means and the proper information 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 Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen [illegible lined out] and that I have not since that time by [?] sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it [illegible] myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States revolutionary war passed the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income necessary [?] merely excepted sworn to and declared on in open court this 28th May A. D. 1825 John Gustin}
James his X mark Green ['x' between first and last name]

State of New Jersey}
Sussex County ss} I Ephraim Green junr [junior] clerk of the inferior court of common pleas in and for the said county and state do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said James Green 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 and wight months under another engagement for nine months and on the third engagement for the term of three years he served until the month of July next following his said last engagement on the continental establishment I also certify
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that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the records of the [illegible]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Newton on this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five
E. Green Jr
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL
Mrs. Thomas E. McCann
608 West Main
Midland, Michigan

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.33269, that James Weeks, alias James Green, a colored man, enlisted in the State of New York, in April, 1778, and served nine months as a private in Captain Williams' Company, Colonel Robert B. R. Livingston's New York Regiments.
He enlisted in April, 1782, served about eight months in Captain John Davis' [sic] Company, Colonel Philip Van Cortland's New York Regiment, after which he re-enlisted, served in Captain Israel Smith's Company, in same regiment was discharged in July then next following".
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 30, 1825, at which time he was aged sixty-eight years and resided in Sussex County, New Jersey.  In 1828, he was living in New York City, and in 1831, had returned to Sussex County, New Jersey.
In 1828, he referred to his wife and children as then residing in New York City, but did not give their names.
The above is the history of the only soldier named James Weeks, who received pension while residing in the State of New Jersey, found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

Date of death not on [?]
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Midland, Mich, Mar 19
608 West Main

Pension
Can you inform me if Jas Weeks [underlined] of Gloucester Co. N. J. received a pension for the Rev. War, or [underlined] Jas Weeks (alias Green) of N. J. (do not know co.) If they did weill you please inform me of the name of town or anything referring to pension.
And Oblige
Mrs Thos. E McCann
[ink stamped]
pension office, Mar 21 1931
US
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33,269
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33,269
James Weeks alias James Green
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 1820
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 493
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1931-Apr 28/31 - Hist to Mrs Thos. E. McCann - EEL
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The Hon: John H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City
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The Honourable John H. Eaton}
Sec: of War}
The undersigned has the honor to transmit to the Department of War, the papers relative to the application of James Weeks [underlined] alias Green [underlined], for the allowance of back pension - previous the 21: of June 1824 - the time when he was entered on the roll of Pensioners - 
It will, it is trusted, sufficiently appear by the affidavits accompanying that the Petitioner made application to a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Sussex County New=Jersey - for his assistance in processing his pension, that [?] were taken, but he did not then receive in his application (this was in 1818-) He has according to his affidavit since that time made application for assistance to J. Gustin Esqr a Judge of said Court but was refused assistance on account of his total inability to advance money to pay [?]
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this judge has since deceased -
The Applicant is poor & totally blind - he is honestly indebted for his keeping, to a person who had charge of him for some time with the expectation of his pension being allowed him since 1818 -
The Question to be asked is [lined out] perhaps is, that as the applicant had made use of every expection [sic] to avail himself of the benefit of the Pension Law= and, (Tho' for some time unsuccessful) that at length been found admissible, Whether, the Law by a [?] rite expectation be held to embrace his case - if so he prays he may be allowed his pension from Augt. 1818 to the time of his entry on the fall in 1824 - ~
Communication on this subject may be made to the Subscriber in "Newton Sussex County "N Jersey" -
Respectfully &c Your Obt Hble Sevt
Whitfield S. Johnson
Newton April 20: 1830
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Pens. Office
5th Dec.
[ink stamped] NEW YORK DEC 5
Danl M. Frye
New York
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The Hon. The Secretary of War - Washington City
[ink stamp] FREE
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New York Dec. 1st 1828
I enclose the application of James Weeks, for a transfer of his name from the Roll of New Jersey where his pension has been [illegible] paid - to that of New York, where he intends to reside in future -
He has not yet received his last half years arrears, due on the 4th Sept. last - Application has been made to the Agent at Trenton - but payment was refused because no instructions had been recorded from the War office where it should be paid -
The old man is very infirm, poor and destitute and it is ex[?] and attended with considerable [?] and trouble, to get his money from Trenton - and it will therefore be conferring a great [?] upon him, if you will give instructions to have the last half years, paid by the Agent in this City -
With great respect Yours &c
Danl M Frye
162 Recd act
The Hon. The Sec. of War -
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Free [underlined]
Hon. Hugh L. White
Secretary of War
Pension Office
Washington Ca
Andover, NJ}
Nov. 29}
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Trans for this man at N. Jersey again
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By mistake this package was addressed to me - I inclose [sic] it, that right may be done the person interested
H. L. W.
Dec 3rd 1831 -
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Dec 5th 1831
C. O.
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Andover. Nov. 29. 1831
Sir
Enclosed is an affidavit of James Weeks alias James Green for the transfer of his name from the Pension Roll of the city and state of New York to that of New Jersey - You will please to cause the transfer to be made and the agent for paying pensions in Trenton, New Jersey informed of the fact that his last pension which is not yet paid and which has been refused to be paid at both places in consequence of some recent arrangement of the War department may be paid -
Sir
Your Obedient Honorable Servt
Joseph Northrup Jr
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State of New Jersey}
Sussex County} ss
on this twenty eighth day of November 1831 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in the said county of Sussex personally appeared James Weeks alias James Green who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company of infantry commanded by Captain Israel Smith in the Second New York Regiment commanded by Colonel Courtland in the service of the United States that his name was originally placed on the pension roll of the State of New Jersey from thence he removed in the year 1828 to the State of New York and his name thence transfered [sic] and placed on the pension roll of the said State of New York, from whence he has lately removed that he now again reside in the said State of New Jersey where he continues to remain and wishes his pension to be then payable in future -
The following are the reasons for removing from the State of New York to the State of New Jersey. He left New Jersey and went to New York to have his eye sight restored if possible by medical and his wife residing in the city, but [?] in that and finding his living so Expensive he returned to New Jersey and has drawn his pension in New York several times since his return -
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year first above mentioned}
James Weeks, alias his X mark James Green ['x' between names]
Sam'l S. White [signature]

State of New Jersey}
Sussex County} ss
on this twenty eighth day of November 1831 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in the said county of Sussex personally appeared - John Orsted Jr who on his oath declares that James Weeks alias = James Green is the person named or discribed [sic] in the foregoing affidavit and I do further certify that the said John Orsted Jr is a person of veracity -
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year first above mentioned}
John Orsted Jr [signature]
Sam'l S. White [signature]
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County ss
I, Joseph E Edsall Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby 
Certify that Samuel S White Esquire before whom the foregoing Power of attorney was executed was at the day of the date thereof and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Said County - and that I verily believe the Signature thereto to be in his own proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Newton this twenty eight day of November A D Eighteen hundred and thirty A D 1831
J. E Edsall Clk [signature]
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State of New Jersey}
Sussex County ss: -}
Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Walter L. Shee Esquire one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County who being duly sworn according to Law upon his oath saith that some time in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen James Weeks alias James Green - a coloured man called upon him this deponent - as a Judge of said Court of Common Pleas - and requested him this deponent to present his claims as a pensioner to the Secretary of War - in pursuance to the directions of the act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818. entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
Sworned [sic] and Subscribed this 22nd day of february [sic] AD 1830 before me John H. Hall} Walter L. Shee [signature]

State of New Jersey}
Sussex County ss. -}
I David D. Chandler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Sussex - do hereby subscribed to the above instrument of writing - is at this time and was serving the whole of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Sussex duly commissioned and sworn the said Court being a court of record - proceeding according to the Course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount - keeping a record of this proceeding & having
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the power to fine and imprison - And I do further certify that John H. Hall Esquire before whom the above affidavit was taken and whose name is thereto written, is at this time and has been ever since the first day of April - eighteen hundred and twenty nine - one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Sussex duly commissioned and sworn, and that faith and credit is to be given to all his official acts - as such Justice of the Peace as aforesaid And I do further certify that I verily believe the signature to said affidavit to be the proper hand writing of the said John H. Hall -
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court at - Newton aforesaid the twentieth day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty-
David D Chandler  [signature]