Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13707, James Dennis, Penn.

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Service: Penn.
Dennis, James
R.13707

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["James Dennis" handwritten in black ink"]
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[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract.
[blank] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank], 18

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[text is handwritten in black ink]

James Dennis

Ohio

Rejected

[unintelligible] let 18 [unintelligible]
1839 W D Ewing
let [unintelligible] 18 [unintelligible]
J Hastings
[unintelligible] of Jas Mc Laughlin
R. 6777 for this letter

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Act of [possibly: "June"] 1832

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J. L. Edwards, Esq
Comm. Pensions
[vertical along left side] April 7. 1840 Ohio James Harris
[vertical along right side]
[first word not legible] John Hastings M.D.

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H.A.R. Apr. 6. 1840
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Enclosed you have a letter from Wm. D. Ewing Esq. of New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, and affidavit of James Dennis in relation to a pension. you will please to inform me what action can be taken on it, or what further requisites are involved in Mr. Dennis procuring a pension. He is an old soldier, and in just occasion for relief, from his destitution in circumstances.
Most respectfully
your obt. servt. 
[signed] John Hastings

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June Apl. 7. 1838. 
Jan. 5. 1839
Declaration of James Dennis for Pension
James Dennis
7 June 1832

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.
State of Ohio Columbian county, Ss.
On this 13th day of June, 1838, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county now sitting James Dennis, aged seventy seven years on the 27th day of August A.D. 1838, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz: under General Potter, (Colonel James Watson, (Lieut. Colonel & Major not recollected.) under Captain Anderson the first time, and Capt. Paxton the second, the first Lieut. in first service was John Cunningham John Dennis (father of Declarant) served as 2d. Lieut. - Alm. Nelson was the adjutant of the regiment. He entered the service about the first of September or last of August A.D. 1777 and continued in service as a volunteer for four months; he lived at the time of his entered the service in Lancaster county, Penna., that he was in the battles of Brandywine, and the White horse where Lieut. Cunningham of his company was either killed or taken prisoner, as we never heard of him after it: his brother James Cunningham was our Ensign: that he marched

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thru Chester county and in and about Philadelphia - These four months expired, and declarant quit the service about the first of January 1778 and returned home to Lancaster county Penna. -
That he again was drafted in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy eight about the first of May and entered the service at that time under Capt. Crooke, (the other officers cannot recollected0 and was engaged the principal part of the time at Lancaster, Pennsylvania in guarding the prisoners, that he continued in the service for two months having served in all full six months: that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, the words "77" being interlined"
[signed] James Dennis
before me
[signed] William E. Russell
Clerk [illegible] of said Court}

Cla David Sharp a clergyman residing in the neighborhood of said James Dennis

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and Thomas Ward & John Farmer residing in the neighborhood of said Dennis, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Dennis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be near 77 - years of age as stated that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] David Sharp Clergyman
[signed] John Farmer
[signed] Thomas Ward
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid the words "seventeen hundred & seventy eight being interlined before signed in open court also the [illegible]
[signed] William E. Russell Clerk Pro.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states & the court further certifies that it appears to them that David Sharp who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman residing in said county and that John Farmer & Thomas Ward who have also signed the same are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit, and that they also resided in said county, in the neighborhood of said declarant.
I, Wm. E. Russell, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Columbiana county, Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of James Dennis for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of June, 1818.
[signed] Wm. E. Russell Clk Ro Jus

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Questions propounded to said applicant, by the said court, and his answers thereto:
Where, & in what year were you born? I was born on Thursday Augt. 27. 1761, in Ireland.
Have you any record of your age, & if so where is it?
I have preserved a fragment of a record in my father's hand writing, on which my age is recorded as above. He showed me the record and said it contained my age correctly.
Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary War & where do you now live? - When called into service I lived in [illegible] Township, Lancaster County, Penna.; since the Revolution lived the first 7 or 8 years in Lancaster county Penna. till after I was married, then lived in Cumberland county, Penna. till about 12 years ago, then moved to Allegheny county Penna. near Pittsburgh, where I lived till about six years ago when I moved to this Columbiana county where I have resided since.
How were you called into service? were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom? I served as a volunteer the first four months and afterwards was drafted and served two months.
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served. Such continental and militia regiment can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
I am unable to answer this question more fully than is done in my declaration above. 
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I remember of having recd. a discharge, which I presume was burned when my house was burned; but I cannot

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say certainly what became of it.
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. -
I would name John Farmer, Thomas Ward, viz John Burson, Thomas Creighton, Esq. James Farmer, Esq. Peter Wooliam & George Burgett.

We, the Judges aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above are the official proceedings had before us and signed by said applicant, the date aforesaid.
[signed] G.W. Belden
[signed] P Harbaugh
[signed] Wm. Armstrong
Judges of said court.
Witness the seal of said court this 13th June 1838. -
[signed] William E. Russell
Clerk Protempore