Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1822, Julius Cezar, New York

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(8-1776)
Service: New York
Cezar, Julius (Colonel)
Number: R. 1822

Contents

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed May 15 1828
State of Kentucky
County of Scott

On this 17th day of May 1841 Personally appeared in open Court before the Magestrate Court of Scott County Holder(?) in George Town Julius Ceaser (A Man of Coulor) of the state of Kentucky and County of Scott Aged about Eighty years as near as can be assertained [illegible]  of his great age and lost of memory he is unable to make a Satisfactory Declaration as he Desires who being First Duly Sworn according to Law death or his other[?] make the following Declaration. In order to obtain the benet[?] of the Act of Congress [May?] 15, 1828 that he entered the Services of The United States [crossed out] [line?] on the New York Continental under the following named officer at or near the Commencement of the War of the Revolution and was in this [same?] at least Seven Years in Col. [Lasher?] [redgent?] of The Twenty Second Continental Troops and Major [Stockhollon?] Commander as Major and [Finskap?] as Adj. Major. The Latter of whom took him as a waiter the following Captains belonged to the Ridgement viz. Fandike Allen [Lary?] {Lock?} Malcom [Labstan?] Fleming and Gilman The States that he was in the battle at Long Island and march to Stanten Island  from there to Brooklin and crossed over to New York and marched on

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to Harlum and From there to Fort Washington and there to [illegible] and then to Parnamus(?) and to Trenton then to Germantown and was the battle at Brandywine and Trenton and [tend?] at the Taking of the Hessians and returned from Brandywine Stoney Point and was at Fort Montgomery and march on to  South Amboy and to [Prisner?] bay to reach the shipping from reinforcing(?) Lord Cornwallis and was at the Siege at York and then marched to New York with General Washington Governor Clinton gen Macdugle and Secretary Jay and was there discharged after serving as soldier and was to Maj. Finglass during the [whole?] of the war of the Revolution and do not know at this time what has become of his discharge but [?] to the records for [?] of his services and he knows of no Person by whom he can [prove?] his service and request that if the [officers?] [refused?] to add his name should appear on the [record?] of Any of the New York lines that did not [enter?] and serve during the whole war that a Pension may be [allowed?] him under the law of Congress June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any Pension Annuity except the Present and declare that [his?] name is not on the Pension role of the Agency of any State that he has been [entering?] Ignorant of his rights to Pension ^Till very recently altho he was free born and fought for his Country as [above?] stated and [?] as a [free?] man [till?] about Fifteen years ago [crossed out] he come to Georgetown Scott County Kentucky with [Mr? Maj?] Thomas [Cassel?] as a waiter who got [papers?]

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of all of his Papers and Property and become involved in debt and he was sold as a [slave?] and he has just been able to obtain his freedom and Present his Claim for a Pension. Julius Cezar.

Sworn to and Subsided[?] on the day and year above written before the Magestrate Court of Scott County Being a Court of [?] [Holden?] in Georgetown Kentucky and the Said Court do hereby declar their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States.

I Batt J. Thompson a justice of the Peace in and for the Said County and Presiding Magestrate of the Said Court do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original [blotted out] of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Julius Ceazer a man of Coulor for a Pension.

In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and subscribe my name on the 14 Day of May 1841. 

Bar. J. Thompson {?]
& presiding Magistrate of the above named Court

State of Kentucky
Scott County [?] May 21st[?], 1841
I Ben B Ford clerk of the Court for the County [approve?] & certify that Bat J. Thompson whose name is [?] to the foregoing declaration is [illegible] at the time of signing [illegible]

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commissioned and qualified to act as such [?] that full faith & credit are {accord?] ought to be given to all his [arts?] in that capacity as well in Courts of [?] & else where and the [same?] be [met?] [?] he purports to have presided is by Law a court of Record.

In Testimony whereof I have shown to subscribed my name and caused the said seal of my Office to be affixed in Georgetown this 24th day of May [?] 1841 I of the commonwealth the 49th. 
Ben B. Ford clk
By Jos. S. Conn, [?]

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July 21, 1931

Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
Julius Cezar-R.1822

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the revolutionary War pension claim, R.1822, that Julius Cezar, a man of color, applied for pension May 17, 1841, at which time he was aged eighty years and resided in Scott County, Kentucky, where he had lived for about fifteen years, and alleged that he enlisted, place not stated, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War and served seven years as  waiter to Adjutant Major Finglass, Colonel Leaher's New York regiment, and that he was in the of Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Stone Point and the siege of Yorktown.   

His claim was not allowed as the act of Congress under which he applied provided only for service in an embodied military corps. the service as waiter did not come within the provisions of said act.

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Cezar, Julius
(N,Y)
R 1822

Ceasar

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We the undersigned have long known Ceasar (a man of color) now between 70 and 80 years of age; and during the whole time of our acquaintances with him, he has been a regular member of the Baptist Church and has always borne an excellent character for truth honesty and sobriety. He has resided in Georgetown about fourteen years.
A. Duvall
D.O. Newbolds
John Dudley
Milton [illegible]
WM Taylor
[illegible] Hughes
John B Rainey
[illegible]
[illegible]
John McCalley
Wm [William] Richmond
Eliza A. Read
John W Bradford
Elijah Bradford
last
W. F. Gaines
C. A. Allgaier
L. Houston
Jos [Joseph] Straper
Jim Dickeson
Abijah Green
L. Tarlton
I. G. Lyle
L. T. Caro

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Georgetown Scote Coty may 24th 1844

Dear Sir
The enclosed is the Declaration of Julius Caeser (a man of Color) for a pension. He is a man beloved and respected by all who are acquainted with him so far as my knowledge attends and he is generally believed to have served his country as stated in his Declaration by those who are acquainted with him. You will please to have the [illegible] to have the Records carefully examined to see wheather [whether] his Declaration is Confirmed by the Records.
I have the honor to be with great Respect your most obedient
Lewis C Suggett

James L Edwards Esqu [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
DC

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(S-1776)

SERVICE

New York
Cezar, Julius (Colored)

NUMBER
R. 1822

CONTENTS

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Pension Office
September 24, 1841

Sir,
	The declaration of Julius Caesar, a man of color, who, according to his own statement, was an officer’s waiter during the Revolution, has been examined and placed on our files. He was not a soldier in the army, and is not found in any roll. He is not therefore entitled to a pension under the act of May 15, 1828; nor is there any law whatever under which he can obtain a pension.

I am respectfully
Your Obet. Servt.
	J.L. Edwards

Lewis C. Suggett, Esq.
Georgetown
Kentucky

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Copy of a letter to W Fuggett
Julius Cezar's Claim

Rej. #1822

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Copy                                           Pension Office
                                                    September 21st, 18[illegible]

Sir,

The declaration of Julius Caesar, a man of color, who according to his own statement, as an officers waiter during the revolution, has been examined and placed in our files.  He wasn't a soldier in the Army and is not found on any roll.  He is not therefore entitled to a pension under the act of May 15th, 1828, or his there any law whatever under which he can obtain a pension.

                                          [illegible] very respectfully
                                           [illegible signature]      
(signed)                              J L Edwards


Lewis C. Suggett, Esq.
Georgetown
Kentucky

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                                          Comptroller's Office,
                                          Albany, Aug 31, 1842.

Dear Sir,

             An examination has been made for the name and services of Julius Caesar, but the name is not found.  He problably was [or went] out with the militia and not mustered, or if so, the muster rolls were not preserved.

                                            Respectfully yours,
                                            [illegible initials] Flagg

Gov. Seward.

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I Daniel Canoe [?] of Scott County State of Kentucky state that I was acquainted with Cezar a man of coor and have had a conversation with him and from the knolledge that he seems to have of this war of the Revolution and the officers names in which he named I am very well acquainted with them and from the knolledg  of the battle that he says he was in and the discription of the country through which he marched I believe that he was in the said that I was not acquainted with him at the time of the war and think that he should be [renumerate?] for his services

                                         David Ganoe, Jr.

State of Kentucky
County of Scott

                                        Be it know that on this twentyeth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before me the under signed a justice of the peace in and for said County and State Danial Ganoe an aged and respectable citizen of the said County and is well known to me to be a man of truth and duty and subscribed and made oath to the truth of this foregoing affadavit the day and year last above [illegible].

                                            Thos. [illegible]

NB the undersigned being well acquainted with the above named Caesar a Colored man for about 13 [?] years past and from his statements and knowledge of the old war 76 having  [illegible] in saying he was in the [remaining handwritten text is illegible].

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[illegible] commonwealth of Kentucky
Scote County [illegible]

I Ben B. Ford clerk of the Court for Scote County to certify that Thomas D. Vallandingham whose [illegible] is [illegible] to the written and foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same as acting Justice of the Peace duly [illegible] and qualified and his signature is genuine
In attestation whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at [illegible] Georgetown this 22 day of January 1844
Ben B Ford Oh
By M Price [illegible]

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Gen. McCalla
27 August 1845

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Pension Office
August 27, 1845

Sir,
The claim of Julius Caesar, referred to in the enclosed letter, was examined in September 1841, and duly reported to Mr. L.C. Suggett, who sent the application to this Office. The declarant alleges that he served seven years in the New York continental line, in Col. Lasher’s regt. There was not such an officer in any continental regiment; but there was a militia officer of that name. The New York rolls, however, do not contain the name of the claimant, nor can his name be found on any rolls. The whole narrative is so improbable, and so much at variance with well known facts, that it partakes more of the character of fiction than anything else. There is nothing to retain this claim; and the Dept. cannot grant a pension on such a statement, unsupported as it is by any evidence but the claimant’s own allegations.

Gen. J. M. McCalla,
Second Auditor.
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Enter this. See Reg. act 15 May 1828
Kentucky case.

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Julius Caesar
act 15 May 1828
Kentucky
Rejected. See letter to L. C. Suggett, Sept. 24, 1841
Hon [Honorable] J. Fornance March 8th, 1826 - 
clo. Gen. J.M. McCalla
Aug. 27, 1845
refers to a copy of letter of Sept 24, 1841

[marked through] Acts of July 14, 1868, and March 8, 1875.
[stamped] Rejected
1822
[illegible]. O.
Julius Caesar
Service:
Enlisted:              , 18
Discharged:          , 18