Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20193, James Archer, New York

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New York    Archer, James     R. 20193

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State of New York
City and County of New York
88.

I, Nicholas Dean, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said City and County, Do hereby Certify, that
James Flanagan Esquire before whom the depositions were made was on the day when the same were to made a Justice of the Peace in and for the City and County of New York and authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 10th day of July 1828


N. Dean

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I, James Archer formerly of the County of Westchester in the State of New York, and now of the City of New York in the State aforesaid, do declare that I enlisted in the Corps of guides authorised to be raised by a resolution of the old Congress in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, and served in the said corps until the termination of the War of the Revolution. That during the whole period whenever any expedition was planned for a Detachment of the grand Army to make an incursion in the Enemies lines, I was uniformly selected by the Commander in Chief General Washington, to be one of the guides, both on accord of my local knowledge and my fidelity to the cause of my Country. It is on this long, arduous, and uninterrupted service, that I ground my claim, and not on any Commission I might have held in the Militia and which possibly many have been given me, from motives of humand policy to insure my personal safety in the event of capture.

Witness my hand this tenth day of July in the year of Lord 1828.

James Archer

Before me James Flanagan one of the Justices of the Peace of the City and County of New York in the State of New York personnaly appeared this day Major Jacob Vantessel and Captain Daniel DeLavan both residing in the City and County of New York who did severally make oath that James Archer by who the foregoing declaraion was subscribed is known to them and Deponents of their own knowledge do hereby Certify that said James Archer was in the service of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.

Sworn to before me this 10th day of July 1828
James Flanagan
Justice of the Peace
New York

Jacob Vantessel
Daniel DeLevan

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I Jacobus Dyckman do certify that during the revolutionary war I resided for nearly the whole period in the County of West Chester. Was initately acquainted with James Archer before and during that time. I know him to have been a very active partisan soldier and to have served as a guide to the American troops stationed on the lines for a great part of the time. Hid duty was arduous and dangerous one, and much confidence was reported in him from his activity and intimate knowledge of every locality in the County. I have the fullest confidence i the statement he has set forth in his petition. He is now infirm and unable to procure support for a large family by his labor.

Jacobus Dyckman
York Island February 18th 1828

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No. 20193

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873

James Archer
Lieutenant
N.Y. Line
Revolutionary War

REJECTED

Not allowed Actt 1828

May 2, 1913
Hist. to H. G. N. Melick

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Rev. War Section.


May 2, 1913.

Mr. Harry W. C. Melick,
496 Mansfield Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 26" and recieved the 29" ultimo, you are furnished the history of the only James Archer found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. In the papers in the claim Rejcted File No. 20.193. of James Archer, It is stated that he received a commission in the New York Militia, at an early period of the war, and that from 1777 to the end of the war he served in a Corps of Guides on the lines in West Chester County, New York. He applied for pension on July 10, 1828, at which time he was seventy-six years of age and resided at 629 Greenwich Street, New York City. His claim was not allowed for the reason that the Act of May 15, 1828 under which he applied made provision for officers of the Continental Line only. The date of his discharge and the date and place of his birth are not statted nor is there any data whatsoever on file as to his family.

The records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Cornelius Westervelt who served in Captain William N. Dyckman's Company, 2d regiment New York Militia, War of 1812.

See neg slip in misc. Nobody have on pension for this one.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner J. L. Davenport

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For Jordan

Maj or Machfield orders

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February 19 1781
Sir
You will proceed with the party under your command towards the Enemys lines as far as your prudence shall dictate in order to entrap in and to distract them and advance the good of the American People in your power, at the sametime making use of the greatest precaution the line your own retreat.

I am your obedient and very humble servant
Hugh Maxell
Major Commanding on the lines

Lt. James Archer

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The Petition of James Archer

March 17, 1828
Reg'd to Comm of Rev Claims
May 6 1828
Com discharged to lie
[unreadable] 4 6 Rev Claims

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I John Odell do certify that during the Revolutionary War presided for nearly the whole period in the County of West Chester, was intimately acquatined with James Archer before and during that time. I know him to have been a very active partisan soldier and to have served as a guide to the American troops stationed on the lines for a great part of the time. His duty was arduous ans dangerous on. Much confidence was given him from his activity and intimate knowledge of every locality in the county. I have the fullest confidence in the statement he has set forth in his petition. He is now infirm and unable to procure support for a large family by his labour.

John Odell
February 16th, 1828

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Throgs Point Feby 13th 1828      
I Samuel Youngs do hereby certify that during the Revolutionary War I resided for the four first years of it on what was known to be the American lines in the County of West Chester that in the fall of the year 1776 I became acquainted with James Archer That in the early part of the year 1777 the said James Archer was employed as a guide to the American forces stationed on those lines that I will recollect seeing him frequently during the time he was so employed as one of the guides to the Continental forces on those lines. That I have always understood that the said James Archer was considered as a brave active and useful guide was in several hard conflicts with the British parties while acting as a guide to the american forces. That the said James Archer is now about Seventy Six years of age is very infirm and unable to procure his living by laboring on a farm      
Saml Youngs

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Greensburgh February 21st - 1828 I William N. Dykman do hereby certify that during the revolutionary was I Resided on the american lines in the County of Westchester that during the whole Revolutionary war I was acquainted with James Archer that in the year 1777 the said James Archer was imployed as a guide to the american forces stationed on those line that I saw him frequently during the time he was do imployed as one of the guides to the Continental forces on the lines that I always Considered the said James Archer to be an active and useful guide and was in Many hard Conflicts with the British parties  while acting as a guide to the American forces that the said James Archer is now Seventy Six years old and is very infirm and unable to labour for his living     
Wm. N. Dykman 


and is very infirm and unable to labour for his living     
Daniel Wilson

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New York February 19, 1828

Daniel De Lavan of West Chester County State of New York. I was a commissioned officer under the authority of the Committee of Safety 1776, that I was well acqauinted with James Archer of said county all the time of the old Revolutionary War and that I know him to be a guide from the 1st of 1777 in Continental Army all the time until the war ended. Have been often in action against the British troops and always found him a faithful guide and seemed always be in hours of action. he is more than 70 years of age. He seems now to be infirm. He is father of large family of own and seems to be needy but in good standing in Society.

Daniel De Lavan

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Greensburgh
February 15, 1828

I, Daniel Wilson do hereby certify that during the revolutionary war I seved on the Amerian lines in the county of Westchester. That during the whol revolutionary war I was acquainted with James Archer. That in year 1777 that said James Archer was employeed as a guide to the American forces. Stationed as those lines that I saw him frequently during the time he was so employed as one of the guides to the contintental forces on the lines. That I always considered the same James Archer to be an active and useful guide and was in many hard conflicts with the British parties while acting as guide to the American forces. That said James archer is now about seventy six years old and is very infrm and unable to labour for his living.

Daniel Wilson

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City and County of New York 
I, Jacob Vantessel of said city being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with James Archer and knew him to be in the service as a Lieutenant in the New York in Colonel Drakes Regiment and that he continued in the service until the end of the war of the Revolution and tha he was in said service in the year 1780.

Jacob Vantessel
Sworn the 27th day of June
before Mr. 

City and County of New York
I, William Odell of the City of New York being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with James Archr and that the facts stated in the forgoing deposition are true.

William Odell

Sworn the 27th day of June 1828 before me
Court

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350.

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Know all men by these presents that I, James Archer of the City and County of New York in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint William W. Morris my true and lawful attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due me, under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution" approved 15th May 1828 as a private in the corps of Guides attached to the Army of the Revolution     Witness my hand and seal this 19th day of July in the year 1828         
Sealed and delivered in presence of Jon. Cogswell   James Archer    Wiliam DeNiles

Before me James Flanagan a Justice of the Peace in the City and County of New York in the State of New York personally appeared this William W Morris the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer or any attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorised to be received but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed      
Witness my hand this 19th day of July in the year 1828      Wm W. Morris 
Sworn to before me this 19th day of July 1828    James Flanagan Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
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

James Flanagan, Esquire before whom the annexed deposition was made in a Justice of the Peace for the City and County of New York and by Law authorized to admnister oaths


In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this Nineteenth day of July 1828

N Dean

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Revolutionary Claims


The Hon
Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington


New York
July 11

J. Archer
Rc'd 14 July RMR

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New York
July 19th 1828

Sir,
I have the honor to transmit the documents relating to my claims to be just on the pension list, having unadvisedly sent on a commission. Which was given me in the Militia at an early periof of the war. I can asure you sir I did not rely on that document at all but relied altogether upon my services in the Corps of Guides which was on the Contintental establishment and comes directly within provisions of the Act approved 15th May 1828.

James Archer
New York
No 429 Greenwich St.

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350

James Archer

as far as appears he was of the New York Militia or State troops.

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Mr. S. Southare

Sir this is to inform you that the enclosed are my Vouchers to Certify my claim as a Revolutionary Officer, for moneys granted by Congress at the Last Session for such services rendered in the Revolution War. New York June 28th 1828

Residence New York
No 429 Greenwich St.

James Archer

If is is consistent with your office, I wish you to return as many of these papers as you can.

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Mr. S. Southard
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington

Rec Lackman [unreadable] 
July 3 1828

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Commission in favor of James Archer, as ensign of Captain Henry Strangs Company of Militia in the County of Westchester, in Colonel Samuel Regiment, dated, Poughkeepsie 25th June 1778 and signed by George Clinton.      
Commission in favor of the same, from the same, as Second Lieutenant in the same company and Regiment as the above and dated 27 February 1779.      
The above could not refer to the claimant who alleges that he served with Corps of Guides to end of March from 1777 a period covering both of the above statements. Soldier does not claim letter of the above and only speaks of any commission "which possibly may have been given me."             
This is probably memoranda copied by some clerk from some official record.  These claims were adjudicated in Treasury Dept AW

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James Archer
Guide, Ensign, and Lieutenant

New York

Not Found

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Harry C. W. Melick
Attorny and Counsellor At Law
496 Mansfield Place

Brookly, N. Y. April 26, 1913

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I am desirous of securing some information in reference to two of my ancestors - one James Archer, who was an officer in the War of the American Revolution, serving from Westchester County, in the State Militia; and the other Cornelius Westervelt, who served as a private in a company commanded by Captain William N. Dyckman, of the Second Regiment, New York State Militia, during the War of 1812.

Would you be so kind as to inform me whether or not pensions were paid to either one of the individuals above mentioned, or to their widows, and if so I would appreciate being the recipient of data showing the dates and places of the birth of said James Acher and Cornelius Westervelt, together with the names of their parents.

I am also informed that a land warant was given Cornelius Westervelt, for 160 acres, for his services in the War of 1812. Would you kindly verify this statement, and if the same is true, furnish me with copies of papaers upon which the warrant was issued.

Also can you inform me wheter or not eithr one of the above was honorably discharged from the servie of the United States Army, and if so, the date therof?

Thanking you in advance for your kindness in this matter, I am,

Very truly yours,

H. C. W. Melick