Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20,350, James Comer, N.C.

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Service
N.C. 

Comer, James

Number 
R.20.350

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Not found in the N.J Books

A declaration made by James Comer, a revolutionary soldier
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the revolution" approved on the 15th May 1828. 

I James Comer of the county of Jones in the State of Georgia Do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a waggon-master in Capt. Samuell Ash's company of Cavalry.  I at first enlisted in Captain John Dickerson's company of horse troops in Granville County, State of North Carolina with whom I served as a private a year or longer and when Capt Dickerson resigned his first Lieutenant Saml Ash was promoted to Captain & I was appointed waggon-master in the same service as which Captain James Jones's company from Wake County North Carolina men were engaged.  After serving two years and a half for which said company was enlisted to Captain Ash, his lieutenants Mills and Bufort, ensign Abram Childers & company of aforesaid declared James Comer senior was one and served to the end of the war, and got a discharge from

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Captain Ash, which is lost or destroyed, so that he knows not where - and the money due him being as he understood depreciated at the time he never got a certificate under the resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.  And I further declare that I am not, on the 15th day of May 1828, on the Pension List of the United States. 
                                                   James Comer

State of Georgia
Jones County

Before me the undersigned, Harris Allen, a Justice of the Peace in said County duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Jones and the State of Georgia, personally appeared this day the above named James Comer snr who being duly sworn Saith the facts contained in the above aforegoing declaration are true.    James Comer
 
Sworn to & subscribed before me at Clinton in the Couny & State aforesaid this 9th August 1828. 
H. Allen

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State of Georgia
Butts County 

Before me the undersigned John McMichael, a Justice of the Inferior Court in said County, duly authorised and impowered to administer the oaths therein, personally appeared this day William Burford of said county who being duly sworn Saith that he knows of his own knowledge that James Comer Senior by whom the above and foregoing declaration was subscribed, was a soldier in the army of the Revolution as stated having enlisted under the command of captain Dickerson and he is the same person who did serve in the Continental line. 

                                                    Wm. Burford
Witness my hand & seal at Jackson in Butts County & State of Georgia this 28th day of August 1828.
John McMichael JJC  (LS)

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I, Abel L. Robinson, Clerk of the Superior Court in the County of Butts in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that John McMichael before whom the foregoing affidavit were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Inferior Court of Butts County in the State of Georgia and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
            In testimony whereof I have here-unto set my hand and affix (LS) ed the Seal of the Court.  There being no other Seal of the court in the county this 28th day of August 1828. 
            (Signed) Abel L. Robinson
                           Clerk of the Super-
                            ior Court

vertical notation at lower right margin:  
James Comer Snr  
Declaration

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Mrs. W.S. Dozier
Crawford Street
Dawson, Georgia

Madam:
     I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R-20350, it appears that James Comer enlisted in Granville County, North Carolina and served one year as a private in Captain John Dickerson's North Carolina Company, after which he served two and one half years as wagonmaster to said Company then commanded by Captain Samuel Ash. 
     He applied for pension August 9, 1828 while residing in Jones County, Georgia but there was no law then existing which would have entitled him to pension for service of the nature performed by him. 
     There is no data on file as to his family and the dates of his birth and death are not on record. 
     In 1828 he signs as senior but makes no explanation in regard there. 
                       Respectfully, 

Handwritten note in left margin: 

There was no pension act before 1832 that allowed service pension to any but soldiers of the Continental Line - hence this

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Reuben Ransom's 
Deposition

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James Comer Sr. - Wagon master
N. Carolina Line

Georgia

(Faint writing, all numbers struck through)
#21709  Inv
#15,216 "
# 8237    "

Ext. one old Book Ref
"  Wid: Act Inv - and other old book

- No record
[Ltd?]
Nov 4/10

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Rejected

_______ Ex'r.  OLD WAR
No. 20350

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

James Comer
Waggon Master
N.C. Line
Revy War

filed at        REJECTED

_________________ other claim. 

______________________________
______________________________
__________, 187  , ___________________
                            Clerk

Application filed: 
Attorney: 
P.O.

vertical note:  Not allowed  Act 1828

vertical note in margin: 1925 - June 17 letter to Mrs. W.P. Dozier

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Sam'l L. Southard
Asst Secy


War Depart. 
Bounty Land Office

The records of this office do not show that James Comer Snr of the North carolina line has received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States

Robert Taylor
6 July 1829

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[stamp]  Clinton Georgia Mar 29

Revolutionary War

Honorable The Treasurer of the U.S.
Washington City
C.D.

Mail

(upside down)
J Comer Sr 1050
Re: 6 April 1829

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Clinton GA 26 March 1829

Dear Sir, 
Enclosed you have an additional deposition to support my [prehumous?] to be placed on the roll of pensions to receive from the General Government pay for my Revolutionary Services under the "act for the relief of certain serving officers, soldiers of the army of the Revolution" passed 15th May, 1828. Which I credit with the tetimony transmitted by me to your department last year will be deemed sufficient, the enclosed is provided in accordance with your instructions to me of Dec 7 ultimo. And still if there be more proof required, pray furnish me with a list of the names and residence of such officers of the line and Regiment in which I served as known to be now living, as kindly proffered by your predecessor in his instructions to me of the above date.  
But I beg of you with the enclosed document & the testimony before submitted to review the decision of the department over which your preside & if possible allow me to be remembered & place under the provisions of the act aforesaid & will ever pray J C 
James Comer Senr

Dear Sir, 
I wrote the above by the desire of an old respectable revolutionary neighbor of mine at his solicitation and join in his entreaty that the former decision of your department on his case may be reversed

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for the former Secretary required more evidence where the testimonies furnished last summer in my humble opinion placed the old veteran safely under the provisions of the act required to the old man can't stay alive much longer. 
accept of respects I remain
very respectfully, your [illegible]
James Smith

Please direct any communications  deisgned for James Comer Senr to my care P.M. at this place

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1049
1050
Red'd 20 Sept
Not A.k. 

Revolutionary Claims
The Hon'ble Richard Rush
Treasury Department
Washington City 
C.D. 

Mail

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Clinton Georgia 8th Sept. 1828

Dear Sir, 

It is the desire of James Comer senior that the money due him, if his application should be allowed, shall be transmitted to him at this place as proposed by the Hon'able Rich'd Rush Esq. of the Treasury Department in his circular of the 18th May 1828.  When he will receive the same with certainty. 

Yours very respectfully and he subjoins a request that Micajah Ferrells be transmitted to him by mail to Jackson Butts County Georgia where he received  the same.  Tremblingly alive, 
Your Obt Servt  til death

James Comer Sr

Sent J. Smith, PM
Clinton Georgia

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Note in upper left corner: 
I am seeking this information for a desc. of James Comer 3rd who wants membership in the D.A.R. 

Crawford St.
Dawson, Ga.,
Apr 12, 1925

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir, 

Please see if you have a file on James Comer, Rev. Sol. and if he drew a pension or if his wife, Nancy J. Comer (2nd wife) drew pension.  He died in Jones Co. Ga. and the Daughters of the Rev. have marked his grave. 

I have the children by Nancy wife of James Comer but want the names of his children by his 1st marriage. 

Very sincerely, 
Mrs. W.S. Dozier

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(Note at top)
Not allowed
Act 1828

1050

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
20 September 1828

James Comer Sen" of _____ in the County of Jones in the State of Georgia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revoluion," approved the 15th of May 1828.  He states that he enlisted as a private in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a WaggonMaster in captain or Liet. Samuel Ashe's company in the _____ regiment of the North Carolina line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th May, 1778; and further that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he as received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, Nothing. 

The Third Auditor is request to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
Responder of the Secretary, 
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE
24 September 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [line struck through]. 
It further appears that James Comer Senr is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.

The name of James Comer Senr cannot be found among those of the North Carolina line to whom the certificate for the grautity of Eighty Dollars were issued. 

Peter Hagman, Aud.

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State of Georgia
Clark County

Before me, George W. Moore, a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid County duly authorised to adminster oaths therein, this day appeared in his own proper person Reuben Ransom, a citizen of said County & State who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he knows of his own knowledge that James Comer senior, of Jones County, enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution in the month of May in the year 1776, for the term of two years and a half in a company commanded by Captain John Dickerson, that he Deponent enlisted at the same time & for the same period & in the same company with said Comer, that they continued to serve in Said company for and during the said term of two years & a half from the time stated above at the expiration of which term this deponent was discharged from service, that during the servitude with said Comer, deponent believes him to have performed his duty faithfully as a soldier. 
Reuben Ransom 

Sworn to and Subscribed  before me this 13th day of March 1829
Geo. W. Moore, J.P.

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State of Georgia
Clarke County

Clerks Office Inferior Court

I Robert Ligon Clerk of this Inferior
court of said county & State aforesaid, duly commissioned  & sworn, do hereby certify that George W Moore Esquire served as an acting Justice of the Peace in Said County and duly empowered to administer oaths according to the Laws of said State and that full faith & credit are due to his attestation as such.  

[seal]  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the appropriate Seal of my Office of said court the 13th day of March A.D. 1829. 

Robert Ligon, Clerk
Inferior Court, Clark 
County, Georgia