Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8882, for James Mc Elroy, New York
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(3-1736)
SERVICE
Continental (New York)
McElroy, James
or
Mc L Roy
NUMBER
S. 1882
Carded
CONTENTS
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Ohio  26.177.
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James McElroy [illegible] in the State of [illegible] Ohio who was a S[illegible]  in the Company commanded by  Captain Mariner of the Regt commanded by Col [illegible] 
in the [New York crossed out] for 
[illegible] $100.
Continental  James McElroy
[illegible] AUg 2, 1916 [?]
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inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents per annum. commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of [illegible]  and sent
to  J.D. Johnston Martinsburg, Ohio
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arrears to the 4th of Mch 30 [illegible] 300.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 
50.00
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$350.00
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible] Sprague Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 8 Page 17

See letter  2 Augt 1836 [illegible] Johnston
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State of Ohio Knox County ss 
On this 24th day of September one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared the Judges of the Court of Common pleas James MacEleroy a resident of Union Township in the County of Knox and State of Ohio aged sixty 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 with adgt. Ambrose Gordon and served in the third regiment of Horses the continental line under the following named officers - to wit Col Wm Washington Adjudent Ambrose Gordon - Capt Murrow - he entered the service in the month of October 1779 and left the service in the month of October 1782 resided when he entered the service in the county of Orange in the State of New York enlisted at Ringwood Iron works in the State of New Jersey Joined Col Washingtons Rigement at little falls in the State of N. Jersey then marched to the Barracks at Philidelphia then on through Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina into South Carolina was in the Battle of Cowpens under Col. Morgan, also in the Battle of Guilford under General Green, also in the Battle Eutaw Springs where his Col. Washington was wounded and taken prisoner - he was with general Green when he laid siege to Ninety six 
He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or an anuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State 
[signed] James McElroy X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
[signed] Alexr. Elliot Clk
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[handwritten]

And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states -                  
I Alexander Elliott Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James McLeroy for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of October A.D. 1832-
Alex. Elliot Clk
K. C. [illegible]

(LS) State of Ohio Knox County ss

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, James Mc. L. Roy who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath further State that he was born on Livingston Mannor [sic] in the State of New York in the year 1764 according to the Record his parents had of his age. And also that he received a written discharge from Adjudent [sic] Ambrose Gordon, and afterwards sent it with Capt Joseph Morril to the war Department then at Philidelphia [sic] in order to Draw his back pay for services as a soldier of the Revolution which said capt Morril Drew for him to wit for two years two months and seventeen days of  back pay - And the said Discharge was never again returned to him. And he states that he never received a commission while in the service He also states that he has no documentary evidence in his possession and that he knows of no person at this time whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service – he also states that he is known in his present neighborhood to Daniel Benjamin, James Briton and John Welker who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his servises [sic] as a soldier of the Revolution and that there is no clergyman in his present neighborhood He states he has now no record of his age
[signed] James Mc L Roy X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of April AD 1833 
[signed] Wm McCreary J.P
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[handwritten]

State of New York}
Orange County} ss
On the 27th day of Decr. 1833 before me John
Mc Garrah, Justice of the peace in and for
the County and State aforesaid, came Joseph
Morrell to me known to be a creditable witness - the said Joseph Morrell is now in the 78 year
of his age who being duly sworn according to
Law, deposeth and Saith that some years past he was well acquainted with James Mc Elroy
that the said James then of resided in New Windsor that is he confident that he was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. that has seen his discharge - and that it was sent to Philadelphia in the year 1796 or in the year 1797 - and that he received back pay that was then due to him the said James Mc Elroy and
from this he recollects that he did belong to
the Horse, the foregoing is as near as I can
now recollect  further saith not
Sworn & Subscribed before me this
27th day December 1833 
[signed] Joseph Morrell
John Mc Garrah Justice peace

State of New York}
Orange County} ss
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said County Do Certify that John McGarah Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits of Ruth Morris - Alexander McElroy & Joseph Morrell were sworn was at the dates of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper handwriting
R
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[handwritten]

And signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 13th day of January 1834
Asa Dunning
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[handwritten]

State of New York}
Orange County}
On the Sixth day of January
1834 before me John McGarrah
one of the Justices of the peace in and for
said County came Ruth Morris to me
known to be
a credible Witness. the said Ruth Morris is
Sixty Seven years old who being duly sworn
according to Law - deposeth and saith that
she was well acquainted with James McElroy
that she formely [sic] lived in the neighbourhood
of King Wood in the State of New Jersey--
and is positive that the said James McElroy was a
soldier in the War of the Revolution-
that she well recolects [sic] of the said James Mc Elroy
enlisting at King Wood in the fall of the
year 1779 in the Troop of Horse and from there
went on
to South Carolina with the soldiers
that were  stationed at King Wood - he was gone
several years and then returned to his Native place
Sworn & Subscribed before me this sixth day of Januy 1834
Ruth her X mark Morris
John McGarrah Justice peace
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State of New York 
Orange County 
On the seventh day of January 1834 personly appeared before me John McGarrah one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Alexander Mc Elroy to me known to be a Crediable Witness who is in the Sixty third year of his age who being sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is a Brother of James McElroy in will recolects that in the fall of the year 1779 his Brother James McElroy came home from King Wood and told his Father and Mother that he had enlisted in the Troop of Horse he then went back to King Wood and stayed a short time and returned to his Fathers home with the Horse and his sword Holster Pistols & uniform, and there bid his Father & Mother and Brothers & Sisters farewell, and then marched with the other troops to South Carolina and was gone several years and then returned to his native place –
[signed] Alexander McElroy
Sworn & Subscribed before me this Eleventh day of Jany 1834 
[signed] John McGarrah Justice peace
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8882

INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 8882
James McLeroy*
Priv Rev War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-- Vol. 1st, Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James McElroy*
Records corrected
Aug. 2, 1906  JS
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THE PEOPLE of the State of NEW- YORK, BY THE GRACE of GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT
To James Mc L. Roy Gentleman Greeting
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence,  as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Rediness to do us good and faithful Service; HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these Presents, Do appoint and
constitute you the said James Mc. L. Roy Lieutenant of a Company in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Orange whereof Henry Wisner Esquire is Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 

YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your charge and Care - as Lieutenant thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you
their Lieutenant  and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, you shall from time to time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, this shall be
Your Commission, for and during our good Pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have
caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our Trusty and well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON Esquire, our Governor of our State of New-York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at our City of New-York, the fourteenth Day of March in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eight seven and in the Eleventh Year of our INDEPENDENCE
Passed the Secretary's office 18th June 1787-
[illegible signature] SECRETARY.

Geo. Clinton [signature to left] 

S. File 8,882
Ja' McLeRoy
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Orange County } ss This is to certify that the within Named Lieutenant James Mc L Roy Personally appeared before me Thomas Moffat Esqr one of the Commissioners appointed to qualify all officers both Civil and Military in the County aforesaid and took and subscribed the oaths of Abjuration and allegiance and the Oath of Office agreeable to the directions of the Law in that case made and [illegible]
Sworn and Subscribed before me the 29th day of April 188
[signed] Thos Moffat

[stamp]
The National Archives of the United States
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James McLeroys 
Declaration 
15025 

Adm 2 years 
Cavalry 

J. L. Johnston 
Martinsburg 
Clerk of Ohio – 
Alexr. Elliot 
Mount Vernon Ohio
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We Daniel Benjamin, James Briton & John Welker residing in the County of Knox and State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Mc L Roy who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be Sixty Eight years of age and that he is reputed and and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
[signed] Daniel Benjamin X his mark
James Britton
John Welker
Sworn to and subscribed before me of this 3rd day of April 1833 
[signed] Wm McCreary J.P.
I David Benjamin
Do further certify that I have been acquainted with said James Mc L Roy for more than forty years and that some time after the Revolutionary war was present in the Town of New Windsor in the State of New York when Capt Joseph Morrel paid the said James Mc L Roy a certain amount of money or congress paper which was then currant which he the said Capt. Morrel had drawn from Government for said Mc L Roy and the said Mc L Roy & Morrel the time told me it was said Mc L Roys Back pay for servises as a Soldier in the Revolution 
[signed] Danial Benjamin X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of April 1833 
I Do hereby certify 
That it appears to me that Danial Benjamin James Britton and John Welker who has signed the preceeding certificates are residents in the County of Knox and State of Ohio and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit – 
Given under my hand and seal officially this 3rd day of April A.D. 1833 
[signed] Wm McCreary J.P.
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State of Ohio 
Knox County ss } Alex C Elliot Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that William McCreary Esqr. before whom the within affidavit of James Mc Elroy appears to have been taken and who has given and signed the within certificate was at the time of taking said affidavit & signing said certificate an acting Justice of the peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such, as well here as elsewhere. And I further certify that the within signatures purporting to be his signatures are genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Mt Vernon this 4th day of April A.D. 1833 
[signed] Alex. Elliot Clerk

James McLeroys
Declaration
15025

Adm 2 years
Cavalry

J. L. Johnston
Martinsburg
Clerk of Ohio –
Alexr. Elliot
Mount Vernon Ohio