Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13659, James Dougherty, Va. State Navy

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Service Va. State Navy Doughtery, James Daughity. Number R. 13659 Va. Half. Pay. Contents See All. No. 837-Virginia State Navy James Doughtery, US File Va. Half Pay

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August 27/46

Lieutenant James Dougherty
Francis A. Dickens

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Washington 25 Augt. 1869
Sir, 
Enclosed I have the honour to present to you a certificate of James E Heath Esquire auditor  of Virginia which shows that Lieutenant James Dougherty who must have become supernumerary on or before the 10th. September 1779. and consequently that-the half pay should commence with that date - you heretofore allowed it from the 1 January 1782 having nothing to authorize payment from an earlier date.- You will be pleased to direct the money paid as it was when you made the last allowance
Yours very respectfully
Francis A. Dickens.

James A Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

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Sept 19 [18]46
Lieutenant James Doughtery
[illegible]
James L Edwards Esquire
Commisioner of Pensions
Present
Henry Northup

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Washington City 18th of September 1840
Sir-
It is now five weeks since the claim of the Administrator
of Lieutenant James Dougherty was deposited with you and an- early asked. As the Honorable Albe Barum was their [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] for three weeks or more after the adjournment of congress and I was most anxious
that it should be disposed of before he left.
I, Sir,  wish not to be troublesome or impertinent but sir I must and will while life [illegible] contend for any rights
and I will persist and am prepared to prove that in [illegible] of
the half pay claims presented by others they have been 
Disposed of in a few [illegible]. In one instance in six days
after presentation whereas when presented by me-
There is always a delay beyond that to others. I sir
Cannot forget the claim of Captain Edward Travis presented on
the 18th of September 1846 lay untouched until 18 March 1847
six months to a day when taken up by you-
and after allowed turned over by you to the Secretary
of war where it lay untouched one month untill I waited on the president stated how I had been
treated when he wrote a note and the next day the
Claim was passed and the money made.
I repeat sir that I wish neither trouble nor difficulty
but although all not trouble your office and make
repeated and useless inquiries I [illegible] expect the same attention paid to a claim presented by me that is
to a claim presented by another.
yours Respectfully
Henry Northup

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Certificate case of James
Daughty or Dougherty decd
act 5 July 1832
May 18 1836
see if this is entered
on the Va claims Reg.
May 18. 1836
Recorded Vol 43, page
123

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Pension Office, May 18. 1836
I certify that from an examination of the claim
of the Heirs of the late James Daughity, or Dougherty
decd who was a Lieutenant in the Virginia State Navy. I am satisfied that he served till the reduction of said
Navy in 1781; that he survived until the month of March
eighteen hundred and thirty; and that James B.
Daughity and the other heirs mentioned in the accompanying
papers, are entitled to the benefits of the act
of the 5th of July 1832: I do therefore give it as my
opinion that the claim should be paid to the Heirs from
the twenty second of April seventeen hundred and
eighty three until the first of March eighteen hundred
and thirty, at the rate of one hundred and eighty two dollars
and fifty cents per annum. I also certify that Vespasian
Ellis and Thomas H. Harvey, of Virginia, as attorneys
of Samuel B. Daughity, of the State of Mississippi, administrator
of the deceased, are authorized to receive the
amount due.

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I hereby certify that I have caused a diligent search to be made of the Naval Journals, The Journal of the Board of War; Also the Naval Papers relative to the State Navy, and no discovery has been made that the said Lt. James Daugherty was in Service after the 10th of September 1779. 
Given under my hand at the Auditors Office Richmond this 7th day of August 18[illegible, likely 4 or 6]9.
Jack Heath 
Auditor of Pension accounts

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James Daugherty or Dougherty
Virginia Line
Revolution
Discharged, 18
3084
Half Pay    Act '32

Received, 
187.
Attorney

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James Daughity or Dougherty, deceased.
October 27.1848

Certificate Act 5th July 1832

Recorded Volume
42, Page 199

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Pension Office
October 27, 1848

I certify that I have examined the claim of the Administrator of the late James Daughity or Dougherty, who was allowed half pay under the act of July, 1832 in May 1836, commencing on the 22? of April 1783. It appears that this service of said Daughity or Dougherty terminated on the 31. of December 1781. The administrator claims half-pay from the last mention date, and my opinion is that the claim should be allowed. It is payable at the rate of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty-cent per annum from the first of January 1782 to the 22d. of April 1783, to the Hon. A. G. Brown at Jackson, Mississippi, attorney of Samuel B. Daugherty, administrator of Lieut. James Daughity, or Daugherty, deceased.

Commissioner of Pensions
Approved 
Secretary of War