Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,417, James White, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
White, James
R. 11,417
CONTENTS

34.288
James White's. Indiana Pension declaration
Act of Congress 7th June 1832.
The name of James White is found in a number of places on the roll.
Hon O. H. Smith Senate U.S.
A. R. DeKra Spencer

State of Indiana Clay County Set.
Clay county circuit court November Term 1837.
On this twenty first day of November 1837 personally appeared in open court before the Hon Alisha M Huntington President Judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit of the State aforesaid, and Nicholas G. Cromwell Associate Judge of the county aforesaid, at the term aforesaid now sitting. James White a resident of said county and State aged seventy four 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 to wit, That he entered the service at the county of Culpepper in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain John Slaughter. Robert Covington was Ensign of said company, John Roberts was the major of the Battalion to which said company was attached, and that applicant cannot say with certainty who was the Colonel who commanded said company but he thinks it was Colonel Thom from the fact that he was sometimes with them. That they rendezvoused above Culpepper Court House and were marched from thence to Albemarle Barracks for the purpose of guarding a body of prisoners, who were called Hessians and kept and guarded at that place for the term of two years and nine months that applicant cannot now say whether said Company was of volunteers or regular soldiers, he thinks that they were generally in uniform. That it was as well as he can now remember in the year 1778 that he so entered the service as aforesaid; that he recollects that it was through the persuasion of an Uncle of his that his father permitted him to enter the service, and whether his father ever received any compensation for his services he does not know and that he was with said Company during all the time aforesaid and served as above stated.
That he was born in Culpepper county Virginia in the year 1763 it was in September of that year he believes it was the 8th day. That he has no record of his age, but states it from his recollection of an entry in his Father's family bible bible, but he has not seen it for about 30 years and does not know where it now is.

That he lived in Pulaski County Virginia, when called into the service, where he continued to live till he was about 23 years of age and removed to Madison County in the State of Kentucky and that from thence he removed to Montgomery County in said last mentioned State, and there resided about twenty seven years in the 2 last named Counties, that from thence he removed to Orange County in the State of Indiana. And from thence to his present residence where he has resided about 14 years.
That he has no recollection of having received any discharge for his services in writing, and that his officers were as herein heretofore stated and that Edward Stephens, he believes, was the General
That from loss of memory and lapse of time of time he cannot be more positive about his services than as above stated and for that time he claims a pension. He hereby relinquishes every claim except the present to a pension and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State in the Union. That he has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no one whose testimony he can procure to prove the same.
Sworn to and subscribed This 21 st day of November 1835
Isaac M c Intire C.R.
James his Wolfe mark
Mr William Maxwell and Elijah Rawley residing in the same neighborhood with James White who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration for a pension (there being no Clergyman resident in said neighborhood), declare that we believe him to be of the age there in stated, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed
This 21 st day of November 1835.
Isaac M c Intire C.R.
William Maxwell Elijah Rawley
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department that the above named appli-

=cant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further declare that William Maxwell and Elijah Rawley are residents of the same neighborhood with the applicant and credible persons, and that their statements is entitled to credit.
President Judge of 7th judicial circuit of Ia
C. M. Huntington
Associate Judge of Clay county.
J. G. Cromwell
I Jesse McIntire Clerk of the Probate court of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James White for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 21 st day of November 1857.
Jesse McIntire CLK

Know all men by these presents that James White Junior, Nancy Coopnider, Polly Coopnider and Betsy Vanmeter, residents of the county of Clay and state of Indiana, and heirs of James White sen. of said county deceased, do hereby constitute and appoint H. C. Spaulding of Washington City, our true and lawful attorney (hereby revoking & making void all and every power of attorney heretofore given) for us and in our names to prosecute before the proper officers in any of the departments at said City of Washington, all claims against the U.S. Government for arrear of pay and pension on account of or for services rendered by our said father James White in the Revolution. To do and perform for us and in our names all legal and necessary acts the same as we could do if personally present.
Witness our hands and seals this 18 th day of July A.D. 1853.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of James White Jr Seal Nancy her Coopnider mark Seal Betsy her Vanmeter mark Seal Polly her Coopnider mark Seal
State of Indiana Clay County ss.
Before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared the above named James White Jr. Nancy Coopnider Betsy Vanmeter and

They hereunder and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. And I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with each of them, that they are the persons they represent themselves to be, and that they are of lawful age to contract.
Witness my hand and seal this 18 th day of July A.D. 1853.
G. W. Duncan Justice Seal
State of Indiana Clay county ss. } I George Pickley clerk of the circuit court of said county certify that George W. Duncan Esq., whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate, was at the time the same bears date, an acting justice of the peace of said county duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that full faith and credit are due his official acts. Witness my hand and the seal of said circuit court at Bloomington this 19 th day of July A.D. 1853.
Geo. Pickley Clerk.

(34,288) James White Indiana
Suspended
In letter of Dec 37 No - C. N. Smith
Let Hon. J. A. Wright,
Dec. 20, 1844
Let to Hon. S. Breen May 22, 1848
11,811
ack 7th July 1852

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
11.417
P. O. James White
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Washington, 31 st Oct. 1853.
Hon S. P. Waldo.
Council of Pensions.
Sir, I herewith submit a power of attorney from the Children of James White, who was an applicant for a revolutionary pension under Act. 7 th June 1832, from Clay County, in the State of Indiana.
I desire to examine the papers on file in the case very respectfully, Your Ob t . Servt. H. C. Spalding Atty.

Washington City, Dec 9 th 1842.
Rev James L. Cummins, Sir
Enclosed I send you the application of James White for a pension. He is a very frail man, and perhaps some allowance should be made for one of his statements. I have no doubt from his character & other proofs that his righteousness by of him, that he was in the Revolutionary War as he states. I hope that the Department will examine the rolls as far forth as they will other examine the history that he gives of his service. It is a fact that his application was drawn up in another way from the matter of his application had been of the form, but had none present at the time. I am very anxious to have a full examination of the claim claim, having great confidence in the honesty of the White, I wish this name placed on the pension roll of this District.
Yours Respectfully,
Joseph P. Wright

Mr. at Dec 7. Mr.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Prison Office Washington City
Hon. D. H. Smith Senate U.S. D.C.

Senate Chamber 10 th Decr 1837.
Sir,
I enclose you the record of the proceedings relative to the claim of James White a soldier of the Revolution for a pension. I hope it may be satisfactory, as it is very difficult, nay, impossible in many cases for these old Soldiers at this day to recollect all the Minute Circumstances of their service,
Respectfully
J. L. Edwards Esq.
D. H. Hill

1842
James White's
Pension
Declaration
Indiana
Act. 7. June 32

State of Indiana Clay County set.
Probate Nov. Clay Circuit Court. October Term 1844.
On this 19  10th day of November  October 1844 personally appeared in Open Court before the Hon Judges of said Circuit Court now sitting Amos White a resident of said County and State aged sixty-eight seventy eight 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 under the following named officers and served as here in stated Court, "That he entered the service at the County of Culpeper in the State of Virginia, in the Company commanded by Captain John Slaughter - Robert Covington Ensign, John Roberts Major, and from the circumstance that Colonel Thorn was sometimes with the soldiers he has an applicant believes that he was the Colonel under whom he served but of this he will not be positive
That they rendezvoused above Culpeper Court House, and were marched from thence to Albemarle barracks, for the purpose of guarding a body of prisoners, who were called Hessians and kept and guarded at that place for the term of two years and nine months. Applicant cannot now say whether said Company was of State, Volunteer or Continental soldiers, he remembers that the soldiers were generally in Uniform.
That about dates he cannot be very accurate from the fact that he never could read or write and from old age and consequent loss of memory, but he believes that it was in the year 1778 that he entered the service; that he remembers that there was some difficulty about his going into the service in consequence of his age, and that he was permitted to do so by his father through the persuasion of an Uncle, but whether his father ever received any thing for his service applicant does not know.
That he was born in Culpeper County Virginia in the year 1766 or

about that time as well as, he can determine from the information he has. That he has no record of his age, but states it from recollection of having heard it read from the family bible of his father about 30 years ago.
That he lived in Culpeper County Va. when called into the service, where he continued to live till he was in about his 23 or 24 year, removed from there to Madison County in the State of Kentucky - from thence to Montgomery County in said State, from thence he removed to Indiana, lived 2 years in Orange County Ia, and from thence to his present residence.
That he has no recollection of having received any discharge for his services in writing - and that his Officers were as herein heretofore stated.
That from loss of memory and lapse of time he cannot be more positive about his services than as above stated, and for that time he claims a pension.
He hereby relinquishes every claim except the present to a pension and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State in the Union.
That he has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no one whose testimony he can procure to prove the same
Sworn to and subscribed this 19 th day of October  Nov r 1844.
E. C. Moad att Clerk James his White mark
State of Indiana
Clay County ss.
Parlay River
Thursday The undersigned, William Commodore residents of the same neighborhood with the above mentioned James White, there being no Clergyman resident therein, certify that it is reported and believed in said neighborhood that the said James was a soldier of the war of the revolution and that we fully concur in that belief.
Witness our hands on the nineteenth day of

November 1844.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court. Nov 19. 1844
W. C. Modestt Clerk
Wm Edmondson Presley Owen
Be it remembered that on this 19th day of Nov 1844. after the signing of the foregoing declaration by the said James White, and the foregoing statement by William Edmondson and Presley Owen, the said court declares its opinion, that the said James White is of the age and served as in the foregoing declaration by him stated, and that the said William Edmondson and Presley Owen are personally known to said court to be residents of the the same neighborhood with the said James White, that they are reputable and credible persons, and the court fully concurs with them in the belief of the facts stated by them.
Daniel Harris Judge of said court
Signed in open court
Test.
W. C. Modestt Clerk
State of Indiana Clay County ss
I. Charles C. Modestt Clerk of the Probate Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original declaration of James White for a pension
Witness my hand and the seal of said court hereto affixed at my office in the town of Bowling Green the 19th day of November 1844.
W. C. Modestt Clerk

James White, skews
Power of atty 2
Miller & Brown suspended under act of 1832 from Indiana
Passes 2 m.

I now all men by these Presents on behalf of myself and Peggy White Widow of Benjamin White deceased James White, Smith White Polly Cooper in formerly Polly White Betsy Vanmetre formerly Betsy White & Nancy Cooper in formerly Nancy White of the County of Clay and State of Indiana have made Constituted and Appointed And by these Presents do hereby Constitute and appoint Miller & Brown of Washington D.C. My Attorneys my Attorneys to prosecute our Claim and procure the Pension to which he the said Peter Cooper in and others above named may be entitled for the services of James White who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution under the Command of Major General Anthony Wayne, hereby authorizing his said Attorneys to procure from the proper Authorities at Washington or elsewhere Certified Copies of any Records or Documents or any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish their claim as fully as they might or could themselves if present and hereby revoking and Countermanding all other auth- ority that may have been heretofore given for the said Purpose
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set My hand and Seal this 26 th day of June A.D. 1855
Peter Cooper in
Sealed sealed and delivered in presence of Chambers McIndley William Brothers

State of Indiana } Clay County ss. } Be it remembered that on this 26 th day of June 1855. Peter Koopinder personally appeared before me the Undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly sworn & Commissioned as such and acknowledged the within and foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26 th day of June AD 1855
John T Wallace Justice of the Peace (Seal)
State of Indiana } Clay County ss. } I George Pinckly Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do certify that John T Wallace Esq. in and was at the time of taking the foregoing acknowledgment an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County having been duly Commissioned and sworn and whose signature attached thereto pur- porting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 26 th day of June AD 1855
Geo Pinckly
Clerk

Bowling Green Mo a
June 27 1855
Mrs. Miles H Brown
Dear Sir
I send you power of Attorney of heirs of James White a Revolutionary Soldier, for the purpose of procuring pension, Application has been made by Mr. Rose my former partner and was rejected for want of sufficient proof of service, he served with Robert Covington who went from Gwynn County Virginia. I think you can obtain the necessary evidence by writing to Auditor of State at Richmond Va. I do not know whether the application was made by Mr. Rose in the lifetime of Mr. White, since his death. You are authorized to examine the application, and if a new application is necessary perhaps you had better make it out and send to me for signature &c. I think I shall be able to prove the death of Enoch Stephens have written to Capt. Landers who is now Chief Justice of Washington Terr. under whom young Stephens served. and as soon as I receive it will forward you immediately We receive one half of all we recover in this case as will as Stephens.
Yours truly John T. Wallace