Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1699, Benjamin Carman, New Jersey

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(8-1776)

[columns headings:
Service
Number]

Service: 
New Jersey

Carman,
Benjamin
five point star

Number:
R1699

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New Jersey

Application of Benjn Carman for Pension

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State of New Jersey
County of Burlington to wit

On the 20 da of May 1827 personally appeared before the judges of the Inferior Court of Cinnaminson (illegible) in and for the County of Burlington, in open court, being a court of Record, Benjamin Carman, resident in said county, aged sixty-five 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 Benjamin Carman enlisted for the term of nine months on the ( blank ) day of March 1779 in the state of New Jersey in the company Commanded by Captain Curtis in the regiment commanded by Colonel Taylor in the line of the State of New Jersey in the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said (Illegible) until the end of the nine months when he was discharged from the service in Elizabethtown in the said State that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension, except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except that of New Jersey and that this following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, that he has hither to maintained himself by honest industry but that age and infirmities have deprived him of the resources
     And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st May 1820, he the said Benjamin Carman

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SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Carman, Benjamin R1699

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Burlington County to wit

I Samuel J. Read Clerk of the Inferior
court of Common Pleas of the County of ┃
Burlington do hereby certify that Benjamin Carman common above mentioned is a recorder of the County of Burlington, and that on this twenty third day of May 1827 the said Benjamin Carman personally appeared in open court and made the foregoing affidavit and schedule
And I also certify that the said schedule &
oath have been admitted to the record of the
said Court and that the same are hereby
copied therefrom, and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said court, that ┃ the
total amount in value of the property of
exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one dollar
and fifty cents.
his testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand & affixed the seal of the
said court on this twenty third day of May
hundred & twenty seven
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
Sam J Read

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20606

Benjamin Carman
Burlington Co.
New Jersey
act 18 March 1818 Oe

1699
Rejected
see letter 10 Sep 1827
A J. Ewing Sr.

See letter to S. J. Read 
Mt. Holly NJ 27 Dec 1828

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Trenton New Jersey, 5 Septem:
Sir
The enclosed certificate Benjamin Carman [crossed out] Carman [illegible] to have forwarded to the department & to receive information of this will entitle him to a pension.
Very respectfully
J. Ewing

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1699 REJECTED
P.O Benjamin Carman
service
Enlisted:18
Discharged: 18
Act of Mch., 1818
not in printed list of rejected &suspended claims
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
recognized contract
cert. of Dis searched for 18

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War Dept, Pens. Office
Dec 27, 1828
Copy
Saurl J. Read Esq
Clerk of Burlington Co.
Mount Holly NJ
Sir:
The declaration of Benjamin Carman has been rec'd.  it appears for our records that he made a declaration in May 1827, that his claim to a pension was rejected, there being no officer of the name of Taylor, who commanded a regiment on the continental establishment, and belonging to the New Jersey line in which he ? that he served.  Is the service set forth in his declaration made in Aug. 1828, is for the service period stated in his first declaration, it being presumed there was an error in stating 1789 instead of 1779, +under different officers, the case is a very doubtful one. But if he can prove his service as set forth therein, by the testimony of an officer under whom he served, or that of 2 other witnesses, his claim will be again investigated.  The witnesses must state the time of the claimants interning the service and the time & manner of his being the same, the regt. company & line to which he belonged.  The magistrate before whom the affidavits may be made must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and that the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.  The declaration is herewith returned.
J.L.E
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War Dept.
Pens. Office
Sept. 10, 1827

Copy

J. Ewing Esq.
Trenton, NJ

Sir:
The claim of Benjamin Carman to a pension on account of revolutionary service has been examined. Colonel Taylor under whom he states to have served did not belong to the continental establishment; and as the law of the 18 Mch. 1818, under which he claims provides for those only who served on that establishment his claim cannot be allowed. The papers will remain on our files according to the regulations of this Department. 

J.L.E.

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Name: Carman, Daniel  Grade: Private Line: New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8200 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 7, 1795 to Jonathan Rhea, 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.