Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3571, James Wilson, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Wilson, James
S. 3571
carded
CONTENTS
A. 1748 in Monmouth Co. N.J. + res. there at end. in 1832 res. Humboldt Co. Ohio
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This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

13.103. Ohio Pittsburgh
James Wilson Trumbull in the State of Ohio. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Sweetman of the Reg t commanded by Col o Walton in the New Jersey line for two years.
$80.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pensions. at the rate of 80 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March 33. to P. Spalding, Trumbull Co. Ohio. - Warren, Pa. Arrears to the 4th of March. 1833. 160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept r 33. 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by Wm. Palmer Clerk, Book 8, Vol. 8, Page
Died 26 June 33 -

Office Bank V. S. Pittsburgh, Jan. 2 1834
Received of A. Brackenridge, Agent for paying Pensioners,
Twenty four dollars 82 cents, being for three months 22 days pension due to Jas Wilson (dec d ) from the 4 day of March 1833, to the 26 day of June 1833; for which I have signed duplicate
24 Dollars, \frac{82}{100}
Thos White atty for Margaret Wilson Jas Wilson dec d

13.103.
No 17142
James Wilson, Trumbull County Ohio
Return 5-11-12
Adm for 2 years
Rufus T. Spalding Warren Trumbull Co Ohio George Parsons Clerk Trumbull County Court Ohio

BRIEF in the case of James Patterson  of Trumbull County in the State of Ohio  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? about 83 or 84 -  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Vol In 17 Served during the war of the revolution at different times for at least a term of 2 years 3 As a Private Wagoner Gen. Dapt Sweetman - Col. Walter Wm Taylor - Capt. M c Knight & Smock  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Shrewsbury with the British near Salisbury  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Monmouth Co N.J.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witness Trad: &c -  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Over Castor
Examining Clerk.

James Wilson Application for a Pension .
17/42 v

The State of Ohio Trumbull County ss.
On this First day of October A D 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Warren within and for said County of Trumbull, James Wilson a president of Warren Township in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio aforesaid, aged about Eighty three or Eighty-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 th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
I was born in Freehold township, Monmouth County, State of New Jersey in the year 1748 as I have been informed, not having any record of my age. I resided there during the War when not engaged in the service - Soon after the commencement of the War I volunteered as a private at Monmouth Courthouse in a company of Jersey Militia commanded by Capt. Sweetman. I was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Elisha Walton - we were marched to South Amboy - I was engaged in a smart Skirmish with the British on the Sea Shore near Talsbury - I was out on this tour three months - I lived in a section of country where the Militia were called almost constantly into active service and was out several other times under Captain Sweetman but cannot give the par- -ticulars as my memory is very much impaired - I was for a considerable time employed in driving teams for the troops under the direction of Wm Taylor Wagon Master - At the Battle of Trenton I lost two of my own horses for which I never received any compensation - I was out once under Captain Joseph M c Knight and another time under Captain Barnes Mock - I can safely say that I served my country during the War of the Revolution, at different times, for at least a term of two years - I do not recollect about my discharges whether they were in writing or not - I always served out my full terms for which I volunteered or was drafted -

I have no documentary evidence, but Joseph Shephard of Newton in the County of Trumbull Ohio, lived in the same Township in New Jersey with me and frequently served with me in the same company - He will testify as to my services - I have lived since the war ten years in Fayette County Pennsylvania and for the last thirty years in Trumbull County Ohio, where I now live - Henry Lane & Geo. Mygatt Sheriff of Trumbull County, my neighbors can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution - I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
Sworn to & subscribed }
the day & year aforesaid }
George Parsons Clerk
his James T Wilson mark
I Joseph Shephard of Newton in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio aged Eighty four years, being duly sworn, in open court, on my oath depose and say that during the war of the Revolution I served at various times as a soldier in the same company with James Wilson who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration - once for three months under Captain Sweetman in Col. Waltons Regiment - once under Capt. W. Knight and once under Capt. Barnes Smock, the length of time under the two last named officers I do not recollect. I lived in the same Township in New Jersey with said Wilson and knew him well from a boy - He was frequently called into the service and I have no doubt served his country, in all, more than two years during the war - I believe said Wilson to be a man of strict truth & veracity and further this deponent saith not -
Sworn to & subscribed in open }
Court the day & year as above }
George Parsons Clerk
his Joseph X Shephard mark

We Henry Lane and George Maygatt residing in the County of Trumbull & State of Ohio and in the neighborhood of James Wilson the foregoing applicant do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with him the said Wilson, and have been for many years. We believe him to be, as he says, eighty four years of age and a man of truth and veracity but we know nothing of his Revolutionary Services - We have no doubt, however that he served in the Revolutionary War as he states -
Sworn to and subscribed to the day & year aforesaid before me Eli Beldoin associate judge Henry Lane George Maygatt
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the said Court further certify that Henry Lane & Geo. Maygatt Esqrs are residents of the County of Trumbull, are men of Credibility and that their statement is entitled to credit -
The State of Ohio Trumbull County ss I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Wilson for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Warren this 19th day of October A.D. 1832
George Parsons, Clerk
James Wilson

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Mary
Dr Wilton (acc)
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From PATIENT VOUCHER Received from CMO

The State of Ohio Franklin County } Court of Common Pleas of the Term of September eighteen hundred and thirty three Present Matthew Richardson President, Richard Hayes, Esq. Baldwin and Robert Price his associates judges holding said Court. George Parsons Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of an entry made on the journal of said Court at the Term aforesaid to wit,
In the matter of James Wilson deceased & This day it is satisfactorily proven to the Court that James Wilson of Warren in said County died on the twenty sixth day of June eighteen hundred thirty three, that Margaret Wilson was the wife of said James Wilson at the time of his death and is now his widow surviving him and that he said James was a pensioner of the United States, and the Court orders that a copy of this journal entry be certified under the seal of the Court to enable the said Margaret Wilson to obtain whatever claim may be due her as the widow of the said James Wilson, on account of said pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren this 27th twenty seventh day of September A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three.
George Parsons Clerk By Beman P. P. Clerk Deputy.
The City of Pittsburgh Pa.
Be it known that on the 15 day of Jan 1833 before the subscribers an old man of said City personally appeared Thomas White the attorney of Anna in the above pension of annuity and made oath that the same was not given by reason of any sale transfer or mortgage of the Pension or assets of Pension thereby authorized to be received by her and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me
D. H. Scully
Thos. White

The State of Ohio for Be it known that before me Charles White Vermilion County a justice of the peace, in and for the county of said personally appeared Margaret Wilson and made oath in due form of law that she is the surviving widow of the late James Wilson named in the original certificate in her posses- sion of which (I certify) the following is a true copy, a War department. Revolutionary Claims. I certify that the conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, James Wilson of the State of Ohio, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty Dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the war office of the United States, this 13 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three J. D. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. Lew Cass Secretary of War.
(Endorsed) "No. 13,103." Payments be made at Pittsburgh by St. N. Br. Bank. Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of Ohio Pittsburgh. Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C. Vol. 8. Page 132. by Wm. H. Palmer Clerk. That she is entitled to receive a pension of Eighty Dollars per annum, on account of services rendered to the United States, during the Revolutionary War, by her deceased husband, to be com- puted at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, from the fourth of March 1833 to the twenty sixth day of June 1833.
for Margaret Wilson Mark
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of September 1833 Before me
Charles White Justice of the Peace.

Know all persons by these presents, That I Margaret Wilson of Warren in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio, the surviving widow of James Wilson deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas White of Pittsburgh my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States, for paying pensions at Pittsburgh, State of Pennsylvania, whatever amount of Pension may be due me in right of my deceased Husband, to be computed at the rate of Eighty Dollars per. annum, from the fourth day of March 1833 to the twenty-Sixth day of June 1833. Witness my hand and Seal this twenty seventh day of September 1833
Sealed & delivered in
presence of
Charles White
Isaac Patton
Margaret Wilson Mark
State of Ohio-
Trumbull County ss Be it known, that on this 27th day of September 1833 before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in the County of aforesaid, personally appeared Margaret Wilson above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his free act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal, the day & year last above mentioned.
Charles White Justice of the Peace.
The State of Ohio Trumbull County ss
George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Earlham and in said County do hereby certify that Charles White Esquire whose name in his said foregoing writing is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace duly elected & qualified & sworn agreeably to the Laws of said State. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren this 28th day of September A.D. 1833 George Parsons Clerk By Lyman Potter dfr
and seal of office at Warren this 28th day of September

Rev Main
3571 INVALID.
File No. 3571
James Wilson
Rev Main
Act: June 7  1832
Index:—Vol. 18 , Page 407
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James Wilson
Payments to be made at Pittsburgh by P. W. B. Pank. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Ohio.
Pittsburgh
(Signature)
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 8.
Page 132 by W. M. Pahnke. Clerk.
(Signature)
176

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Wilson of the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Eighty dollars, and  cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 13 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Wilson of the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Eighty dollars, and  cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 13 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Lewis Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

Ap. 26. Ohio
WARREN O APR 10 7
(Pension Sacramento)
Free
J. P. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions War Department
Washington D.C.

Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio
18 th April 1833.
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions
Sir.
I return to you the Declaration of James Wilson with the Amendments as suggested in your Letter of Instructions. Mr. Wilson is old and very infirm and his memory much broken - I trust however he will now be found sufficiently specific as to his term of Service. The objection for want of a Clergyman's Certificate is, I suppose, obviated when it appears that no Clergyman lives in the vicinity.
Very respectfully &c
R. P. Grafting
A stylized signature of R. P. Grafting, featuring a long horizontal line with a looped flourish underneath.

James Wilson.
Amended Declaration

The State of Ohio Trumbull County ss. Warren Township April 18 th A.D. 1833
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the Peace within and for the Township of Warren and County of Trumbull aforesaid, James Wilson a Resident of the same Township of Warren, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service as a Soldier of the Revolution, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades;
For three months I served as a private in a company of New Jersey Militia commanded by Captain Sweetman in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Walton. I was marched to South Amboy and was on duty in that vicinity the whole of said term.
For five months I served as a volunteer under William Taylor who was on duty as Wagon Master. I was a private and was employed the whole of this time in driving teams for the army in different parts of New Jersey, some of the time at Trenton and a part of the time at Amboy. During this term I was engaged as a volunteer in the Battle of Trenton.
For four months I served as a private in a company of Militia under the Command of Captain Joseph W. Knight. We were on duty on the Sea Shore of New Jersey. I was at this time a volunteer.
For three months I served as a private in a Militia company under the Command of Captain Barnes Imock. I was drafted for this service and was stationed for the most of the time at South Amboy.
In addition to the foregoing terms of service I was drafted & sent ten or twelve different times into service under Captain Sweetman and was out some times for one month, at others for a shorter period, always as a private, amounting in the whole, according to the best of my recollection, to a period of nine months . I was generally called out to guard the Sea Shore at points in New Jersey where the British attempted to land. I was frequently when stationed on the Sea Shore, engaged in skirmishes with the enemy. During the whole of the

afore-mentioned term of Twenty four Months I was employed in actual Service as a Soldier of the Militia of New Jersey called into Service by the Authorities of that State during the war of the American Revolution, and I was not employed in any Civil pursuit during any part of said term of Twenty four Months - There is no Clergyman in the neighborhood in which I reside; and there is no Clergyman within Twenty Miles of my residence with whom I have any acquaintance - I claim a pension for Twenty four months actual Service as a private in the Army of the American Revolution -
his James ^ Wilson mark
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year first above mentioned before me
Alexander McConnell Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio } Trumbull County ss. } Warren April 18 th 1833
I Alexander W. McConnell a Justice of the Peace within and for the Township & County aforesaid do hereby Certify that there is no Clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the man named James Wilson; I do further Certify that I am personally well acquainted with said James Wilson, also I am personally well acquainted with Joseph Shephard of Newton in said County of Trumbull who did to my certain knowledge sign the affidavit with regard to the Revolutionary Services of said James Wilson which accompanies the Declaration of said Wilson made in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Trumbull on the First day of October A.D. 1832 - and I do hereby Certify that both the said James Wilson and the said Joseph Shephard are men of Credibility and that full faith and Credit are due and ought to be given to the Statements of the said James Wilson and the said Joseph Shephard - In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day & year as first above written -
Alexander McConnell Justice of the Peace.

The State of Ohio Trumbull County ss.
3 I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of 3 Common Pleas for said County of Trumbull do hereby certify that Alexander M c Connel Esq m , whose name in his own proper hand writing is affixed to the foregoing Affidavit of James Wilson and Certificate following the same, is and was, at the time of subscribing the same, an acting justice of the Peace within and
for the County of Trumbull duly elected, commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said State of Ohio. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Warren in the County aforesaid this 18 th day of April A.D. 1833.
George Parsons Clerk