Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,940, Jesse Yocom, Va.

SERVICE
Vau
★ Yocom, Jesse
NUMBER
R. 11.940
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11.990 P. O.
Jesse Yocum Service
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Jose Yocom Dominador
Suspended
Act 4 Jan 1841 Hon. J. Moore.
11920
Act 7 June 1832.

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Mr
Jesse Yorom Fort Jesup Louisiana by the way of Natchitoches

Dear friend = Mercer County Kentucky Jan y the 13-1833
I take up my pen to let you know that I have not forgotten you — I have not heard one word from you for many years until this Summer Sam l Dennis on his way to see you Shewed me a Letter from you to him — a bout ten days ago he left my house on his way home in good health By him I learned that you and family was Still in the Land of the Living my family is generally in good health Except myself I have been Very much afflicted for many years but still keep on my feet our Relations here are in a common State of health Sam l Dennis tells me you had some thought of coming to see us once more if so it it would be truly gratifying to me and perhaps be of some service to yourself — Congress has past a Law paying all those who performed Services in the old war, if you ware here I have no doubt but you could get pay for your Services particularly for the time you was a prisoner and for any other Services which you can prove John Gritton and myself will be good Evidence for you, the Law is about this. if you have served two years previous to the end of the war you will be Intitled to 90 Dollars during Life or in that proportion for a less time

There will be two years pay coming to those who can establish their claim on the 4 th March next I think if you intend coming up no matter how soon you come - I expect on that day to draw 2 years pay - if you come nothing on my part will be lacking to serve you) here is the only place you can make such proof as will be sufficient to establish your claim
my Love to your wife and family and Except for yourself my best wishes for your happiness through life
Yours very obedt } James Ray

State of Louisiana } March the 19th Parish of Natchitoches } AD 1885.
Personally before me the undersigned authority came and appeared Mr. Edmund Quirk who being duly sworn according to law, made Oath that he is well acquainted with Jesse Goyen of said Parish and State aforesaid and that he knew him in Kentucky where they both lived in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty and that the friend of said Goyen's voluntarily entering in the Military Service of said State in the Company of Captain Hugh McGary in Col. John Brown's Regiment and that he knew said Goyen to go against the Shawanee Indians in what was called General Clarke's Expedition with him being in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty or Eighty one, and that he knew of said Goyen's being taken prisoner in the Blue Grass action with him being in the same action and that he knew of said Goyen's being absent more than one year and he understood by common report he was carried to Detroit and from thence to Montreal in Canada, and that he attempted to desert was re-taken and from that time was kept in Irons until he was discharged at the end of the war and witness knows that he returned home to Kentucky in the month of August 1883. } Subscribed and sworn to before me, } on the day and date above written } Edmund Quirk
William J. Elam Justice of the peace in and for the Parish of Natchitoches State of Louisiana

State of Louisiana                      § South Judicial District Parish of Natchitoches              § Clerk's Office
I Samuel M. Key and Clerk of the District Court of the Parish of Natchitoches South Judicial District State of Louisiana Do hereby Certify That Wm J Clancey Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed instru- ment purporting to be a justice of the Peace in and for this Parish & State is and was at the time of signing the within a duly qualified Commissioner and sworn justice of the Peace in and for the Parish of Natchitoches State of Louisiana and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit
Given Under My hand and the Seal of the District Court at the Town of Natchitoches in the Parish District & State aforesaid this Ninth November 1840 and in the independence of the United States the sixtyfourth
S. M. Key and Clerk Dist Court Parish Natchitoches

35, 135- Jepe Yocom Dominiana

James L. Edwards Esq. Seminars of Purvis

Washington City January 24 th 1841.
James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioners of Pensions
Sir.
Lessee Groom of the Parish of Iberville but now a resident of the Parish of Lafayette State of Louisiana has by letter advised me to make application for him to receive a Pension under the several acts of Congress allowing Pensions to Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution. He has forwarded the testimony herewith on that subject -
Be pleased to state whether or not the testimony will be deemed sufficient to establish his claim & what further formalities will be required.
I know the witness Eamon Quirk will decline that his evidence may be relied on -
I am very respectfully Yr very obed Servt John Moore