Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12388, James Burt, New York

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York  B

Burt, James  

NUMBER
S. 12388

carded

COMMENTS

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Burt, James (N.Y.) S 12388

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14709
New York
Jas Burt
____ in the State of N. York was a Srgt in the George Hussey common___ Captain Hawthorn of the Rigo common Geo Allen in the N.Y. Militia for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of N.York  at the rate of 120 Dollars __ Cents per annum commence on the 4h day of March, 1834.
Certificate Pension issued the 11th day of June __33 and Sen Nathanial Jones [Marnich] NY
-rrears to the 4th Mar 1833 $240.00
-omenant, allowance ending 4 Sep. 33 $60.00
$300.00
Revolutionary Claim Act, June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting, Clerk Book 6 Vol.4 Page 45

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New Certificate period to __ Burt instead of Burtz and sent to Nathanial Jones Warwick, NY sent to John Fleming 5 Sept 1885 
Order to Pay May 13,

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14709
New York
Jas Burt
Orange in the State of N.York was a Serge in the company commanded by Captain Minthorn of the Regt commanded by Col Allen in the N.Y. Militia line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N York the rate of 120 Dollars -- Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of June 33 and Sent Nathaniel Jones Warwick N. Y. 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $240.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 33   60.00
________
$300.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7th, 1832.} Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk, Book E  Vol. 4. Page 45
[stamped twice "National Archives of the United States"]
Order to pay - May 13,

New Certificate issued to James Burt instead of Burts and sent to Nathaniel Jones Warwick N. Y. Let to Jones [illegible] 5 Sept 1835

Orient - this side

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[embossed seal]
State of New York Orange County } ss
On this Fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty two - personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Common Please in and for said County (being a Court of Record) Now sitting James Burt a resident of Warwick in said county and state aged Seventy two years, 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. Deponent saith that he was born in the year 1760 as he believed and as appears by his father's family Record in deponent's possession. That he was living in said town of Warwick when he first volunteered in November 1776 as a Sergeant in the Battalion of Major Henry Wisner in Colonel William Allison's Regiment of Militia for. and served nearly three months. In this service deponent was mustered and marched to Chloster in New Jersey near the Brittish Lines to Hackensack, English Neighborhood, Hoboken, Fort Lee & other places new the Hudson River - and in the month of January was in a skirmish with the enemy at Bergen Woods, where deponent - with his companions in arms took six of the Enemys prisoner of war. Deponent saith that he was orally discharged, from this campaign in the month of February, Deponent further saith that in the month of March following (1777.) he volunteered as Sergeant under Captain John Minthorn and under Major Henry Wisner aforesaid, and marched in pursuit of a gang of Tories who were going to the Brittish; Overtook and captured seventeen of this hostile band near Newfoundland in New Jersey and committed them to gaol - On his return home he immediately volunteered in said town of Warwick

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as Sergeant under Captain William Blain, as one of the corps called Rangers. This service consisted as deponent saith, in patrolling the mountains and ferriting out tories and small parties of Brittish who committed roberies and murders among the whig inhabitants - was thus engaged for two --- months including a march to Ramapo, Nyack on the Hudson River, which latter place was then their Head Quarters, & from whence his corps would frequently visit Chloster and other places in its vicinity checking and occasionally capturing marauding parties of the Enemy. Deponent saith that he was discharged from this command about first of June following. Saith about the first of July of this year (1777.) he volunteered as Sergeant in Captain John Minthorn's Company - was marched to head quarters at Ramapo, was engaged in the like service as last aforesaid, in that and the vicinity of Tappan for one month - On the following last of August or first of September, on a requisition of troops from Col. John Hathorn's Regiment by order of Gen. George Clinton, deponents father then aged sixty years, went as deponent's substitute to Forts Montgomery & Clinton and served one month. On the approach of the Brittish fleet up the Hudson and previous to the capture and fall of said Forts, by order of Gen. George Clinton, the whole of deponent's Regiment marched to Ramapo, where information reached them of the fall of said Fortress - From Ramapo deponent marched with the Warwick and Goshen Regiments to New Windsor to prevent the Enemy's landing at that place - Saith that he was there at the time the Enemy's fleet sailed up said River and burnt the town of Kingston. From New Windsor deponent was detached, by order of Gen. Clinton, to guard a Brigade of Waggons conveying French Muskets from Boston to Washington's Army in Pennsylvania - This campaign as deponent saith lasted two months. Early in the Spring of 1778, Deponent marched under Captain Andrew Miller of Col. John Hathorn's Regiment

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from among the Troops to form a force to escort General Wayne's prisoners to Easton in Pennsylvania from which latter place deponent returned to Warwick aforesaid and immediately marched for the Minisink frontier to repel the hostile invasions of the Indians under Brant, but before his Battalion reached the Delaware River, met our retreating troops returning from the Battle field on the Lacawaxen where the enemy's superior force had obtained the victory. Deponent saith that he was in the service at this period two months. Deponent saith that early in September following deponent was one constituting a quota of troops called to Fishkill on the east side the Hudson River under the command of Colonel Hathorn and Gen. George Clinton and served three months as Sergeant aforesaid - was discharged in December following - Immediately on deponent's return home a requisition was made for teams to transport clothing which had been forwarded from Boston to the Continental troops then laying back of Watney Plains near Morristown in New Jersey, Saith the he went with his team taking two hogsheads of clothing which he conveyed to our Army, Saith that he spent two or more weeks in this service in which time he endured the greatest sufferings in his life from the immense quantities of snow through which he travelled and from the severity of the frost. In the Spring of 1780 deponent served under Captain John Minthorn in the vicinity of Ramapo one month and in the summer of the same year one month under Captain Miller aforesaid, and the same quarters. In this year (1780) deponent saith he served as Sergeant under Captain Richard Baily and Lieut. John Kenedy at least two months on and along

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to Ramapo, thence to Pompton in New Jersey, thence to Paramus, to Tappan, thence to Head Quarters at Ramapo, was out in this service one month. In the first of June following was ordered under Captain John Minthorn in said Hathorn's Regiment and again marched to Ramapo in which vicinity & on the lines, deponent remained one month - In this year (1778.) by order of the Commander in Chief a requisition of men and teams was made early in September, from his neighborhood to build Fort Putnam, and deponent turned and with a double team and wrought in the erection of that fortress one and a half months, and on the completion of which he returned home in the latter part of October. In the early part of November following deponent again marched to the Minisink frontier under Captain Andrew Miller and served half a month. Deponent saith that in the same autumn he served under Captain John Minthorn one month in and about Ramapo Hackensack and other places near the lines. Deponent further saith that about the last of March or first of April 1779 he was again marched to Ramapo under Captain Andrew Miller, as he believes and served on month. The first of June following was again at Ramapo under Captain John Minthorn and under Colonel John Hathorn and marched from thence to Stony Point on the Hudson lines and where deponent's Regiment lay until a short time before the taking of that Fortress by Gen. Wayne. After the same was taken deponent was selected

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the Minisink frontier, being stationed apart of this time at the stockade at Martinus Decker's settlement In the year 1781 Deponent saith he was in the service, as usual, under the aforesaid Commanders at Paramus Hackensack and along the lines in various other places with his fellow soldiers in arms against the Common Enemy - in all, at least two months or more. Deponent further saith that in the spring of 1782 he was marched under the command of Major Davis McAnely again to the Minisink border on occasion of an expected attack by the Indians of the exposed inhabitants in the region and remained with his Battallion in this expedition about half a month, when the said Battallion was discharged - Deponent further saith that he at no time received a written discharge from service from any officer. -

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State of New York
Orange County } Ss.

On this Third day of December 1822 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County (being a County of Record) now sitting David Stevens of Warwick in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that he has known the within described Applicant James Burt since the year of 1770, - That he verily believes said applicant is seventy two years of age, as stated in applicant's Declaration.  Deponent saith that he was frequently in the revolutionary service with said applicant and knows that the said James was orderly Sergeant in the Militia troops, and as deponent believes, from the year 1777 to the close of the War, or the termination of hostilities, in the Year 1782.  Deponent recollects being in said service with said applicant in army at Ramapo, Paramus, Kakiat and other places in New York and in New Jersey at various times, during the revolution.  Also several months with the said James, on the Minisink frontier.  Knowing that said James was a willing active and efficient under-officer, and ever ready to meet and resist the marauding and the common foe. Deponent declaring that this said James performed more that two years, faithful service in the war of the revolution.  Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.  In open Court - Asa Dunning Clerk   David Stevens

State of New York
Orange County - Ss. I John C. Murphy a clergyman and resident of the town of Warwick in said County Do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with

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[* crossed out* discharged] - Beside the above enumerated services of deponent saith that he was frequently under army for days and weeks, in pursuit of parties of Brittish and Tories who took shelter in the mountains and would Sally out in the Night from their hiding places and rob and Murder the defenceless residents.  And, in conclusion declaring that he served his country faithfully as a revolutionary soldier and in the capacity of Sergeant and orderly, more than two years.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present, and de leases [declares] that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.  Sworn to and subscribed, this day and Year aforesaid.  Before me Asa Dunning Clerk
James Burt

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James Burt who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that I believe him to be Seventy two years of age.  That his credibility is undoubted, that he is believed to have been an active and efficient soldier of the revolution in this, the town of Warwick in said County of Orange and that I fully concur in that opinion.
John C. Murphy
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day of December 1832
Edward L. Welling Justice of the Peace
Orange County Ss..
I Nathaniel Jones a resident of Warwick in said county do certify that I am personally acquainted with James Burt who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that I believe him to  be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a faithful soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion. 
Sworn in open Court this 4th day of December 1832 Nathaniel Jones
before him 
Asa Dunning Clerk of or Common Pleas

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20419
Declaration of James Burt. Allowed

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is a resident in the said Town of Warwick and is a credible person, enough that their statement is entitled to credit - 
Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of James Burt for a pension - and I further Certify - that Edward L Welling before whom the preceding affidavit of John C. Murphy was sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of the office this fourth day of December 1832
Asa Dunning Clerk
[seal attached]

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January 13, 1940.

Mrs. Charles S. Passmore
717 West Granite Street 
Butte, Montana.  

BA-J/Ill 
James Burt
S. 12388

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of James Burt, a pensioner of Orange County, New York, in 1840.  
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S. 12388, based upon the service of James Burt in the Revolutionary War. 
James Burt was born in the year 1760; the exact day of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. He lived in Warwick, Orange County, New York, as early as 1770 and continued to reside there after the Revolutionary War. His father's age was given in the summer of 1777 as sixty years.
James Burt enlisted sometime in November 1776, served on different tours as sergeant and orderly until the spring of 1782, amounting in all to at least two years, under Captains John Hathorn, William Blain, Andrew Miller, and Colonels William and John Hathorn in the New York troops. During the period of his service, he was in an engagement at Bergen Woods in January 1777 and assisted in taking a number of prisoners, later assisted in the erection of Fort Putnam, was detached and guarded prisoners who were taken at Stony Point and went to Minisink to protect the inhabitants from the Indians. He stated that his father served one month from about the last of August 1777, at Fort Montgomery, as a substitute for him (James),
James Burt was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War on his application executed September 4, 1832, at which time he resided in Warwick, Orange County, New York. He made

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No reference to wife or children.

     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid and, possibly, the date f death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Commptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:
 James Burt
Certificate #14709
Issued June 11, 1833
Rate $120 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency,

Very truly yours, 

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
To the Administrator.

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[Page split into 3 sections]
[Left side of page]

July 28 Hist T L Benedich [N.Y. City is crossed out] Albany
[Initialed] T.S.

to Miss Elizabeth Warwick N.Y. [initialed] T.S.
Dec. 21 Hist to B. Caldwell, Newburgh, N.Y.
Mch. 31, 1904, Hist to Ezra T. Sanford Hackensack N. J.
Jan. 15, 1908. History to Edwd. B. Sanford, Atty.
1930 Mch. 3 - Mrs. C. W. Burrell Cost of photos-- MMTF
1930 Mar. 22. Photos mailed to Mrs. C W. Burrell & Fin. Div. ntfd. A.N.Y.
1948 Jan 13 - Hist to Mrs. Charles S. Passmore - JLL

[Center of page]
Rev War
12388
INVALID.
File No. 12.388
James Burt Sergt. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 52
(Arrangement of 1870.)

[Right side of page, some is missing]
1892 to

Also
Burt
1894
K.P.

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Payments to be made at New York by Isaac Laurence Pres't U. S. Br Bank Agent for paying Pensionors, in the Agency of N. York

Issue a new certificate to James Burt notice reg'd to agt.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 4 Page 45 by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States on the 7th of June, 1832, James Burt of the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive One Hundred & Seventy dollars and __ cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 11th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

John Robb
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

CANCELLED

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Affidavit of David Steven’s.——-

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In the matter of James Burt of Warwick in the State of New York, an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832.

State of New York
Orange County }ss

Be it known that on this 30th day of March 1833 before one Edward L. Welling Justice of the Peace and for said county personally came David Stevens of the town of Warwick aforesaid to me personally known, and whose statements and declarations are entitled to the fullest credit and to whose veracity and integrity I do hereby certify who being by me duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is seventy five years of age and has resided in said sixty years; that he has been acquainted with James Burt of said town who is  now an applicant for a pension since the year 1770.  That he verily believes said applicant is seventy two years of age as stated in applicant's declaration, which deponent hath heard read. Deponent saith that he was frequently in the Revolutionary service with said applicant and knows that the said James was order of Sergeant in the militia troops and as deponent believes from the year 1777 to to the close of the War or the termination of hostilities in the year 1782.  Deponent recollects being in said service with said applicant in arms at Ramapo Paramus Kakiat and other places in in New York and in New Jersey at various times during the Revolution. Also several months with the said James on the Minisink Frontier. Knows that said James was a willing, active and efficient under officer

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and ever ready to meet and resist the marauding and common foe. Deponent declares from his own knowledge that the said James performed more that two years faithful service in the War of the Revolution. Deponent further saith that on the day on or about the third day of December last past he made, in substance a similar affidavit to the present one in open court before the Judges of Orange County Common Pleas and subscribed his name thereto and further saith not.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid before me.
David Stevens
Edward L. Welling Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Orange County} Ss I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange do certify that [David Edward - crossed out] Edward L. Welling Esq. before whom the written affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed at the said affidavit is his genuine signature.

Witness my hand and seal of office this second day of April 1833
Asa Dunning  Clerk

The name "David Edward" erased by me
 Asa Dunning Clerk

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
James Burt  which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV.
If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No. No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _ months, and _ days, I served as a _ For _ months and _ days, I served as a _ and for such service I claim a pension.

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite
, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable
. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
in the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate
must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
of the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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Mechanics Bank
New York 3rd May 1837

Sir
I enclose for your examination the papers in the case of Henry Van Duzen a Private at $20 77/100 per annum under the act of 7th June 1832, who claims his pension from the 11th of March 1836.
I also enclose for your examination the papers in the case of James Burt a Sergt at $120 per annum under the act of 7th June 1832 who claims his pension from the 4th of March 1836.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Jno. Fleming Pres't & pens. agt

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Hon. J. L. Edwards Com's, of Pensions. War. D't.
Washington D. C.

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Warwick Orange County. N.Y. Aug. 29th 1835
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir I enclose the original Certificate for a Pension granted to James Burt of this place, who has experienced considerable trouble in drawing his yearly pension in consequence of his name being written James Burts instead of James Burt, leaving off the final s. By recurring to the original papers of Mr. Burt, as also those of David Stevens, David Nanny Jas R. Clark and others on which he's signature is signed by him as applicant and witness you will readily see sir that the Error has occurred with the Clerk both in filling and transmitting to the office in New York. In order to obviate the necessity on his part of subscribing his name

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Burts as often as he draws his money in N. York (which he says he cannot conscientiously do) he would respectfully ask the favor of your dept. to remedy the evil by either altering the spelling of his surname in the enclosed or making him a new Certificate and directing the correction on the Books of Mechanics Bank in N. York, to be made. You will receive his sincere thanks by complying with his earnest request. I remain Sir your friend and humble servant
Nathaniel Jones

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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. - 681 - PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 41055
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 139. - March 17, 1930.
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostatic copies of 12 pages from Revolutionary 
War pension claim of James Burt, New York Troops, S.12388.
No. of copies 1 of each Shall form be kept standing? --- days
For further information see Mrs. M. M. H. Finch room No 5033 Phone No 541
Approved:
[Signature Stamp] AD Wilkinson - Chief Clerk of Bureau.
[Signature Stamp] Margaret M Finch - Chief of Division.

NOTE: No order made ""SPECIAL"" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering _______

CHECK WORK DESIRED
[stamp] DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT OF INTERIOR RECEIVED MAR 18 1930
Duplicate
Multigraph: single or double space? ____ Facsimile signature? ____
Mimeograph: once or both sides? ____ Facsimile signature? ____
Folding: one side or twice?
Assembling
Stapling: Once? Twice? Side? End?
Electric typewriter: Fill in addresses? ____ Dated? ____
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size | - | Cards, Size | -
Proof list | - | Pay rolls | -
Labels (submit sample) | - | Corrections | -
Fill in letters | - | Tabulation sheets | - 

Photostat X  | Size actual | Official use? - | Repay? yes $1.90
Blue Print | Size | Official use? | Repay? | $
Remarks

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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.
____________________ 192  .
( Date )
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
[There are squares in front of the following 3 lines, none are X'd]
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate
Destroy present addressograph plate

[Arrow pointing to the following]
On list to Mrs. C. H. Burrell
Sol's decd. Sept. 4, 1832 - 6p
David Stevens affid: Dec. 1832 & ending with John C. Murphy & Nathaniel Jones & Asa Dunnine, Clerk. Dec. 1832 & 3
David Stevens affid Mch. 30, 1833- 2 p
Cif. jacket - 1p
12 p
as follows:
Now reads
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Should read
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
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44 Seventh Ave., New York. 5/3/1930
To the Honorable
The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

M.O.#557790 -$3.00
[Stamped]
FINANCE DIVISION 
BOOK KEEPER'S DESK
MAR 12 1930
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Sir: 
In reply to yours of the 3rd, (Rev. & 1812 Wars Section) (MMHF) I enclose $3.00 to cover the statements of 
JAMES BURT,  S.12388  12 pages Revolutionary War
SAMUEL KETCHAM  S.42762  8 " [pages] " [Revolutionary War]
no certification being desired, P.O. Money Order drawn to Secretary of the Interior, as specified.
Respectfully,
{Mrs.) C. H. Burrell (Burrell)
44 Seventh Avenue,
New York City.

[Handwritten calculation] 
15
 20
_____
300

[Round stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR 12 1930

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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF
March 3, 1930.
Mrs. C. W. Burrell,
44 Seventh Avenue,
New York City.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claims are furnished at the rate of fifteen cents a page.
The number of pages to be copied in claim of James Burt, S.12388, is twelve; the number to be copied in claim of Samuel Ketcham, S.42782, is eight; the number to be copied in claim of Henry McWhorter, S.7210, is fourteen.
Should you desire to have them certified allow twenty five cents additional for each claim.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
 Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
[The below handwritten note has an arrow pointing to Henry McWhorter named above.]
this claim was not ordered in photoset

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44 Seventh Avenue, New York, 29/1/30

To the Honorable
The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
I would like to obtain photostatic copies of the following pension declarations, listed in the Senate Documents Revolutionary Pension names, and would beg you to kindly state the cost of each, when I will remit:

2p New York Burt, James Orange Co. N.Y. Serg't. $120  N.Y. Militia. 11 June, 1833  4 Mar. 1831
P. 514  Age 73.

8p  Ketcham, Samuel-Orange Co. N.Y. Private. $96. 479.99  N.Y. Line 10 Sept 1828  p. 209  Age 75. 5 " [Sept.] " [1828]

4 p. West VA.  McWhorter, Henry Orange Co., N.Y. Minute Man in Capt. Wisner's Co. February, 1776. Declaration 4 Sept., 1832.
(Probably living in what is now West Virginia at this period, as this reference was taken from "Border Settlers of West Virginia."/ Withers (?) p. 277.
Respectfully.
(Mrs.) C.W. Burrell (Burrell)

[round stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE FEB 1 1930

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GEO. J. CANNON, VICE PRESIDENT
ELIAS A. SMITH, VICE-PRESIDENT
DIRECTORS:
HEBER J. GRANT
ELIAS A. SMITH
JOHN F. BENNETT
E. O. HOWARD
LEON SWEET
GEORGE J. CANNON
REED SMOOT
HEBER J. GRANT PRESIDENT
EDGAR S. HILLS
HOME FIRE
A. MACDONALD, SECRETARY & MANAGEN
BERTRAM F. WILLIS, TREASURER & AUST, SECY
INSURANCE
COMPANY Butte Mont
SAMPLE
DIRECTORS:
THOS. N. TAYLOR
EDWARD L. BURTON
MARRINER S. ECCLES
by
RICHARD W. MADSEN
DAVID D. MOFFAT
REUBEN CLARK, JR.
DAVID O. McKAY
ORVAL W. ADAMS
Dec 29 - 1989
PASSMORE & COMPANY
717 W. GRANITE STREET
BUTTE, MONTANA
Veteran's Administration
Washington DC
Dear Sirs
What record do you have on James Burt
was living in Warwick Orange Co N. York
77 years old a Rev. War soldier, a pension
 
awaiting an
early reply I am
Yours
(Mrs chas. S).
Susie M. Passmore
717
W. Granite
Butte Mont

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United States Pension Bureau
Revolutionary War.
Washington D.C.

[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY
MAR 26 1904
FILES.

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A MAR 24 1904
[stamp] HACKENSACK N.J. MAR 23 1904

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Will you please give me a statement that James Burt a Revolutionary soldier of Col. John Hathorns Regt of Orange Co. New York received a pension.  He died in 1852 aged 92.  I should also like to know for our Historical Society if there are any yet receiving pension from either the Revolutionary or 1812 war.  Thanking you in advance. 
I am sincerely yours,
Ezra T Sanford
Hackensack New Jersey

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NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB

[Round stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
JAN 8 1908

Commr. Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
I have been invited to join the Society of the Sons of the Revolution; and as my revolutionary ancestor through whom I am eligible enjoyed a pension I am informed that some authentication of that fact should be furnished by me.  Will you kindly furnish me the information & advise me of fees etc. incurred or to be incurred so I may remit.

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The ancestor in question was
James Burt (born abt. 1760)
Village Bellvale (died 1852)
Township Warwick
County Orange
State New York

who was in Col. John Hathorn's regiment of Orange Co. (NY) troops - Capt. Minthorn's Company.

If further information is desired I will be glad to furnish same as well as required fees etc.  You will greatly oblige.

Yours Respect
Edward Burt Sanford
Warwick
Orange Co.
N.Y.

Atty Counsellor at Law
NY State

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27 Montgomery St.
Newburgh N.Y. Dec. 3rd 1894

Wm. Lochren Comm. of Pensions

Dear Sir

Please furnish me the military record of James Burt of Orange Co in the Revolution.  He was a soldier in Col. John Hathorn's Orange Co. N.Y. militia.  Information to be used in a biography.

Yours truly
K. B. Caldwell

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State of New York.
Office of the Secretary of State
Albany

Send to desk of Dr. Featherstonhaugh Med Dir.
July 19th 1892

My Dear Doctor.

Wishing certain information from the records of the pension department I write you that you may if possible suggest the best way to obtain it.

My great grand father James Burt was a revolutionary pensioner.  I wish to learn his rank [illegible] that your office a private I think he was an Ensign. We have letters addressed to him as a Revolutionary Pensioner.  He was in the New York troop.  How shall I proceed to get the information speedily

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[stamp] US Pensions Office
JUN 24 1892

Warwick, Orange Co. N.Y.
June 22, 1892

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:  I write to ask if you will be so kind as to inform me whatever you could obtain for me particulars from the records at Washington concerning my great grandfather James Burt, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, as I understand, and who was born Oct. 25 1760 and died March 17, 1852.
I would like to know for him

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long a time he received it, (a pension) what amount he received and especially whether he was an officer, and if so, of what rank. I desire this information for verification of a statement in a genealogy work that I am publishing.
If you can have this search made for me, kindly send me word what the charges for having it done will be and oblige
Your &c
(Miss) Elizabeth Burt

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In reply to your request of no date, received 8th inst. for a statement of the military history of James Burt a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's)application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Nov. 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE
Over 2 years served at various times until close of war
RANK
Sergt. and Orderly
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAINS
John Minthorn
William Blain
Andrew Miller
Richard Bailey
COLONELS
William Allison
John Hathaway
John Hathorn
STATE
N.Y.
Battles engaged in, skirmish at Bergen Woods in Jan. 1777.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Warwick, Orange Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 4, 1832. His claim was all'd.
Residence at date of application, Warwick, N.Y.
Age at date of application, Born in 1760.
Remarks: No family data.

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O. W. & N. Division
LS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C,
December 21, 1894.
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of JAMES BURT a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
He first enlisted in the month of November, 1776; discharged finally in the Spring of 1782, having rendered about two years actual service as a sergeant in the New York troops. The following are mentioned as officers under whom he served:- Col. William Allison, Capt. John Minthorn, Capt. William Blain, Capt. Andrew Miller, Col. Hathorn and Maj. David McAnley.
Battles engaged in, Several skirmishes.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Warwick, N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 4, 1832
Residence at date of application, Warwick, N.Y.
Age at date of application,  Seventy-two years.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
K. B. Caldwell,
27 Montgomery St.,
Newburgh, N.Y.

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Burt, James  GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 12805  ACREAGE 100  ISSUED March 12 179- (torn) 
to Cath. Jones, Adm.*
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.