Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt 98-300, James Buxton, Mass

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(8-1778)
SERVICE
MASS
Buxton James
B.L. Wt 98-300-bapt.
Issued Mar. 3, 1797
No papers.

CONTENTS

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"The Altoona"
621 West 135th St.
New York.
Sep.15, 1914. 

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

Dear Sir:
Will you very kindly favor me with a statement of the military history of the two Revolutionary officers described on the following page. 
Thanking you in advance.
I am Very respectfully,
Gertrude B. Weed

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Buxton [underlined], James (of Danvers, Mass.)
11th Reg't Continental Army, Lieut. Col. Benj. Tupper -- pay acc'ts for pensions 
Jan. 1. '77 to Dec. 31, 1779.
Also Ensign in Col. Ebenezer Francis's reg't. 
Also promoted Captain March 16, 1781. 

Buxton [underlined], Joseph (of Sutton, Mass.) Corporal in Capt. Arthur Dagget's company of Col. Ebenezer Learned's reg't. Muster roll dated Aug.1-1775.

Note:  Note in margin:
"see negative slip"

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Rev. War Section.
September 22, 1914.

Mrs. Gertrude B. Weed,
621 West 135th Street, 
New York City.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 15' and 16' instants, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that 300 acres of bounty land was allowed under Warrant [underlined] No. 98 which issued March 3rd 1797, on account of the Revolutionary War services of Captain James Buxton [underlined] of Massachusetts. in the report from the Secretary of War in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, which was printed in 1835, on the list of invalid pensioners who had been in receipt of pensions at the New York Agency, whose residence could not be ascertained in consequence os the destruction of the papers in the War Office in 1801 and 1814, appears the name of Richard Garrison, a Quartermaster, annual allowance $78. This Bureau has no further data in its files relative to either of the above soldiers, owing to the burning of the War Office in 1801, and the destruction of the papers when the British burned Washington in 1814. 
Very respectfully, 
GmSaltzgaber
Commissioner.