Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5551, for George Jemerson, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Thomerson, George or Jameson Elena
R. 5551
CONTENTS

State of New York } ss Wyoming County }
Seeley Rolland being duly sworn deposes and says that he knew Elenor Green before she was married and that he was present and saw her married to Capt. George Jemerson in the town and County of Niagara in the State of New York and in the Month of April in the year 1797 said Elenor Green and George Jemerson was married by Rev. William Stotchmiss he further says that he knew George Jemerson from the time he was alive and knows by hearsay that he is dead and knows by report that he was in the Revolutionary War and that he served through said war as a Capt. of the Rangers
Sworn and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County This 27 th day of May 1850 Asa Blackmer
Seeley Rolland

State of New York Wyoming County ss
Isaac T Emerson being sworn deponeth and says that he knew Capt. George T Emerson that he attended the funeral of the said Capt. T Emerson, and that he died on the first day of May in the year 1834 in the town of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio
Sworn and subscribed before me                      Isaac T Emerson a Justice of the Peace in and for said County this 23 d day of May 1850 A. S. Blackmer

714 Eleanor Garrison's Application for a pension
S. V. Rector
N 714 Eleanor Jameson e. W. of Granger N.
at 26 May 1848.

State of New York
County of Rensselaer Esq. Eleanor Garrison of said County - personally appeared before me Abner M. Blackman a Justice of the Peace of said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths and made oath in due form of law that she now resides in the town of Nassau in said County and State - that she has resided there for the space of five years last past & that previous thereto she resided in the town of Middlebury in said County.
That she is the widow of Captain George Garrison who was a Captain in the revolutionary war - that said George Garrison enlisted into the Army & served through the whole of the revolutionary war - that he was Captain of the Ranges on the lines of Virginia & to the best of this deponent's information & belief that this deponent is informed & believes that said George Garrison was present & engaged in the battles at Fort Wayne, Fort Harrison & Fort Meigs and that he served under Officers Col. Crawford & Gen. George Lewis - that this deponent cannot state more particularly the time of his enlistment or the officers under whom he served - that she has always understood that he served throughout the war - that he never drew a pension in his life time - that she has not got his certificate of discharge & does not know as he had a certificate of discharge -
This deponent further says that she was married to the said George Garrison on the 9 day of April 1804 at the town of Niagara in the County of Niagara in the State of New York by the Rev. William Hotchkiss - that this deponent had a certificate of their marriage & has kept it within her possession till within a few weeks last past - that within four or five weeks past she saw said Certificate of marriage but now is unable to find the same and cannot produce it & the same is lost - that this deponent does not now know of any living witness of their marriage - that said George Garrison died on the first day of May 1834 at the town of Ashtabula in the County of Ashtabula in the State

of Ohio - That this deponent still remains the widow of said George Garrison - And she makes this Affidavit for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the pension to which her said husband would have been entitled to for his said services - And also all the land to which he was entitled - And this deponent further says that her said husband did not in his life time as she believes draw or receive any bounty land nor has this deponent since the death of her said husband drawn any pension or bounty land on account of the services of her said husband
Sworn and Subscribed before me
Ebenezer G. Morrison
this 23 d day of May 1850
AS Blackmer Justice of the Peace of said County

June 7 52 Mr Garrison
Additional evidence
for back pay. Pension
& bounty land.
June 7/52
Col. J.
Kirby
A. P. H. as. call
H. of Rep.
agent
N.Y.

A. W. Blackmer
Monmouth County Clerk's Office p.
I hereby certify that A. W. Blackmer whose genuine Signature appears above is an acting Justice of the Peace for the said County and that his term of Office commences on the first day of January 1852 and will expire on the 31 st day of December 1855 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal this first day of June 1852 R. A. Crippen Dep. Clerk

State of New York Wyoming County ) On this day the twenty Second of April A.D. One Thousand Eight and fifty One, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State, James Dillon, aged Eighty Eight years a resident of said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law declares that he was well acquainted with Capt George Cameron, from Seventeen Hundred and Seventy five, until the time of his death, which took place in the winter of Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Four in Ash- tabula. Ashtabula, County Ohio. He further declares that said Capt. George Cameron served as a Capt. of a company of Rangers at least four years, a part of the time as the time he came Virginia and Kentucky that he has seen him several times during his service each time receiving as a Capt. That he knows by having seen him several times each year from 1775 until the time of his death in 1834 that he served through the whole war of the Revolution of his service he served as a Capt. Does not know what office he held the remainder of the time. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned
James Dillon
And I hereby certify that I believe James Dillon to be a credible and respectable witness and of the age mentioned above.
A. H. Blackmer

State of New York Wyoming County ss. On this day the 27 th of January A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Two Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for Said County and State Molly Collins aged Eighty-Six years, resident of Said County who being duly sworn according to her declaration, that she has been acquainted with Capt. George Samson from the year 1777 until the time of his death which took place in Ohio in the year 1834 th . That she knows that he served as Capt. of a company of Rangers at least three years of the Rev- y by having seen him in service several times the three years, that she helped to prepare dinner for him and his men at three different times near the Kentucky line in Virginia. She declares that he never drew his pension and that Eleanor Samson his wife has not been married since the death of her husband Capt. George Samson.
Sworn and subscribed this Molly Collins day and year mentioned above.
And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Molly Collins and know her to be a credible and respectable witness.
A. H. Blackmer

No 714
Eleanor Jameson NY
Set Hon. W. Putnam 6 th July 1850 " " A.P. Harsell 19 Aug 1852
5551
at 29 July 1848

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5557
P. O. Leon Jameson Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Washington June 27. 1850
Colo J. L. Edwards,
Sir, I forwarded papers of Ebenezer J. Denson for Russian -
I am Sirs &
H. D. Nuttman.