Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2160, Edward Coleman, S.C.

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Service
S.C.

Coleman, Edward

Number
R2160

Contents

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[typed form with handwritten responses]
(3 -- 223.) 
Reorg No. 2160 
REJECTED
[left blank] , Ex'r 
OLD WAR INVALID 
Edward Coleman colored man of NY 
Pri, Capt Sinclair, SC troops 
Service: Revy 
Enlisted: [left blank], 18 [left blank]
Discharged: [left blank], 18 [left blank] 
Application filed: [left blank], 18 [left blank] 
Alleges: [left blank]
Re-enlisted: [left blank]
Attorney: [left blank]
P.O.: [left blank]

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Edward Coleman 
Pension Officer 
22 June, 1829.  
January 23, 1832
Ref to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
The Honorable [missing text, torn]
Washington [missing text, torn]
Black stamp: illegible

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To the Honourable the Secretary of War
Sir/ Enclosed is an application from a very deserving coloured man of this city, of a very peculiar and interesting nature.  It is enclosed to your department by the request of the Applicant Edward Coleman.  Should any further proofs be necessary, or should there be any farther formalities to comply with, it would be conferring a special favour upon the poor fellow if I am informed of it.
Most respectfully yours
James Flanagan 
Justice of the Peace 
New York 
June 20th 1829.

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This accidentally put among my private papers W. Clark will please file it among the pension papers of [illegible] House - - - I. L. L.

30.0.83 R2160
Edward Coleman
Colo Mayhom S.C. troops
Capt Sinclair

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Edward Coleman a Colored man [illegible] Duly Sworn Deposeth and Say that he was In the Revolutionary [illegible] against great Britain [illegible] Behalf of the united States five year and six months or [illegible] about [illegible] all the whole time In Captn. Sinclairs Company [illegible] that Sargt Marion Inlisted him to Join said Company as [illegible] The Day he Inlisted he Doth Not Say But he says, the Same day he Inlisted he went In action In Munks Corner The British gaind We fought a gainst Jeneral [illegible] The Next at Pumpkin hill about 16 miles Distance from the former The British gained The Next Camblin or Campden In South Carolina The British gained
The Next at lower Charlott We gained The Next at orangeburgh in North Carolina We gained The Next at gilford Courthouse The British gained and then he got Wounded with a Ball In his knee and Doctor Hardcastle took Care of him six months after he got well The Next action at Blackstock We gained The Next at Catava River We gained The Next The Next at Blafford Tiver and there he got Wounded With a Bayonet In his Side and Doctor Hardcastle took Care of him six months Then when fit for service The Next action at Little Jerman town We gained the Next he was In was at the Valley forge In Pennsylvania 
(although we had many Skirmages Not mention)
The Next at Indian Town We gained
The Next at Little York and there We took Cornwallis and his army and this Deponant Say, that some months after the taking of Cornwallis he got his Discharge and that he then went to Sea and has Ben In the East Indies and other places But Now has [illegible] of and lives in New York and is por and has Not more then 25 Dollars worth of property In the World and hereing there Is a pension allowd for the old Soldiers he wishes to have his as he Knows he is Deserving of the same
[line crossed out]
Edward Coleman his mark 
Sworn to before me this 19th day of June 1829
R Riker Recorder of the City of New York

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State of New York
City and County of New York} Ss.
On this Nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine, personally came and appeared before me Richard Ricker Recorder of the City of New York, Edward Coleman a coloured man resident in the said city and county now aged Sixty Five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820; that he the said Edward Coleman enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Sinclair, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Mayhem or Maihanin the line of the State of South Carolina on the continental establishment, that although he cannot tell exactly the time when he entered said corp; yet that he is certain that he served in said corps for Five years and Six Months; when after the capture of Cornwallis at Little York in the State of Virgina he was regularly discharged, that during the time he was in the Continental service he was several times wounded sometimes severely; an account of the wounds and battles received by said Edward Coleman, and in which he was engaged are hereunto annexed: That he the said Edward Coleman hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State except the present application. And that the following are the reasons for not making for [crossed out] not making earlier application for a pension [crossed out] pension are: that he the said Edward Coleman has been for a long time absent from the United States in the East Indies, and has earned a livelihood from following a seafaring life: and also from his ignorance

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of his rights, and privelges, not knowing any claims that he the said Edward Coleman, might rightfully and lawfully have upon the government of the United States, under either of the before mentioned Acts of Congress.
And in pursuance of the act of 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War " passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contacts or debts due to me; nor have I any income, and the said Edward Coleman further declares that his occupation when he can get any employ is that sometimes of a Wood Sawyer, and sometimes that of a Labourer in a Store when he can obtain employment; at either of which he declares he cannot earn sufficient to subsist upon, owing to his advanced age, and the many disabilities he labours under in consequence of the wounds received during his service in the Continental Army in the War of the Revolution. That his family consists of himself and his wife whose names is Rachael aged about Forty three years, who is very sickly and unable to labour as she is willing to do. That he has no personal property excepting clothing and bedding which are by no means equal to what is necessary. That since the 18th day of March 1818, no change has been made in my property whereby I have been bettered in my situation; and that my circumstances were not better than, than they are at the date of making this declaration.
Sworn to and declared to this 19th day of June 1829. Before me} 
Edward his + mark Coleman
R Riker Recorder of the City of New York

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State of New York
City and County of New York Ss.

On this Nineteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand and Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine Personally came and appeared before Richard Riker Recorder of said city; Jacob Francis a colored man who made solemn oath that he is now about Sixty years of age, that during the War of the Revolution he was a servant in the French Army under the command of Rochambeau, that he was present at Little York in Virginia at the taking of Cornwallis, and although a boy of Twelve or Thirteen years of age he perfectly well remembers seeing Edward Coleman there, he belonged to the American Army and was in the regiment belonging to the South Carolina line. [Begin crossed out text- commanded by Colonel Mayhem] [sic Hezekiah Maham]. That since the Revolutionary War he has been acquainted with Edward Coleman; that he has heard the Affidavit of said Coleman read; that many of the facts therein stated, Deponent knows to be true; and such facts as are therein stated, as are not personally known to this Deponent, he believes to be true. And further to this Deponent saith not

Jacob his + mark Francis

Sworn to before me
This 9th day of June 1829
R Riker
Recorder of the City of New York

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State of New York
City and County of New York 
Ss.

Henry Forster of the City of New York, Assistant in the Ballard Office in said city now aged Sixty Seven years; being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Edward Coleman since the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven; that during a past if the time he has been acquainted with said Coleman, he has occasionally went to sea as mate of a vessel, that said Edward Coleman was cook on board the ship Manchester in the London trade. Deponent saith that said Coleman was always during deponent's acquaintance with him, a sober and well behaved and industrious man; that said Coleman hath always been lame in the right knee ever since Deponent's acquaintance with him, and said Deponent hath always understood and verily believed is to be true; that said lameness proceeded from and was occasioned by a wound received by said Coleman while in the Continental Service during the War of the Revolution. And further Deponent saith not. 

Sworn to before me
this 20th day of June 1829 [illegible mark]
James Hanagan
Justice of the Peace

Henry Forster

State of New York
City and County of New York Ss.

William M. Price of the City of New York Counsellor at Law, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has known Jacob Francis a coloured man for seven or eight years, and that he the said Deponent believes said Jacob Francis to be a man of veracity and truth, and that he is sober.

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industrious and honest. And further deponent saith not

William M. Price

Sworn to before me [illegible mark]
this 20th day of June 1829

James Flanagan
Justice of the Peace



State of New York
City and County of New York Ss.

Thomas Cock of the city of New York Doctor of Physic, being duly affirmed, doth depose and say that he has examined Edward Coleman a man of colour; that upon examination he found that said Coleman was apparently wounded in the right knee by a Ball; and that he appeared to be wounded in the Abdomen by a Bayonet. Affirmant is informed and verily believed it to be true that said wounds were received by said Coleman while in the Continental Service, in the War of the Revolution. And further affirmant saith not

Affirmed to before me this 20th day of June 1829
James Flanagan
Justice of the Peace

Thomas Cock, M.D. 
One of the Physicians of the N. York Hospital 
President of the Med Society of N. York
[Illegible mark]