Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5,567, for Henry Jefferys, New Jersey

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Jefferys, Henry
R. 5567
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Henry Jefferys Pension papers

In Court of Chancery State of New York and County of Onondaga
On the 12 th day of July 1884 personally appeared in open court before Daniel Walsley Esq. Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit District in said State at Onondaga in the County of Onondaga in said District Henry Jeffries a resident of the Town of Syracusa in the said County of Onondaga and State of New York aged Seventy nine 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 the 7 th 1832 (Ver)
That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1776 as a Soldier in the Militia thinks he commenced his service in the month of May he then lived at Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey he commenced his service under Capt Richard Townley and Lieutenant Matthias Potter the Regiment was then under the command of Colonel Thomas thinks his christian name was Edmund he was in what was then called the monthly service that is each company in the Regiment were classed in two classes and these classes served alternately and performed monthly tours he served one month and then was released one month he then served another month and immediately after that he served another month as a substitute for Jedediah Sturgess and then another month for himself and then was released a month — he then entered the service again he thinks in the month of November and served constantly through the winter and spring the business of the troops was principally to keep

guard he was stationed the first month at what was then called the Old Point house and worked considerable at the fortification that was then building at Elizabeth Town point after this he was stationed about a mile back from Elizabeth Town Point - when the British army marched through New Jersey his company and and most of the Militia were dispersed his Captain and Colonel took protection under the British he with most of his company rallied under Lieutenant Matthias Patter and marched to Morris County and were stationed there until they were relieved by Washingtons army Lieutenant Patter was about this time promoted to a captain his company was after this stationed at Springfield in Essex County but he cant tell how long some time after New Years they were moved and stationed at a place called Short Hills about three miles from Brunswick and were there under the command of General or Lord Sterling he was constantly in the service during the winter and spring until the latter part of April 1777 when he was relieved and returned home and from that time until 1781 he was constantly in the monthly service and performed his monthly tours that is every other month always except one month when he had the small pox and part of a month he lost by getting hurt and having his ribs broke he turned out a number of times in cases of alarms when he was not in the service during his service from 1777 to 1781 the company officers as well as the soldiers were in the monthly service and it was so arranged that he served under different Captains he recalls during this time of service under Captains

Matthias Patter Capt Joseph Horton and a Capt Brookfield and during that time these troops were engaged in scouting and keeping guard from Brunswick to Newark and in that vicinity he several times saw General Washington and more frequently General or Lord Sterling he was not in any general engagement or Battle but was in several skirmishes one when the British burned Springfield another at what was called Connecticut Farms near Elizabeth town where the Americans killed one and took several prisoners — he well recollects that his wages as a Solder amounted to over Two Hundred Dollars — he recollects that they belonged to Colonel Jacob Cramers Regiment during the latter part of the time he never had any written discharge he received his pay from Capt Matthias Patter he thinks — and he says that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he is unable to state the precise length of time which he served but he is sure he served at least five months in the year 1776 and at least thirteen months in the three following years that is in 1777 1778 and 1779 at least six months in the year 1777 and at least thirteen months in the three following years that is in 1778-1779 and 1780 — he knows of no persons living by whom he can prove his services except Richard Lee whose affidavit is attached to this declaration — he was born in Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey in the year 1754 he has no record of his age neither does he know of any except in the family Bible — he lived in Elizabeth Town in the Parish of Connecticut Farms untill

The year 1817 when he removed to the town of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga and State of New York and lived there until April 1834 when he removed to the town of Lyndon in the same County where he now resides
He has been well acquainted with the Rev Levi Parsons and Myron L. Mills for about fifteen years past whom he expects to have testify to his character for veracity and their belief relative to his services as a Soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and Declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State and that he has no documentary evidence and knows of none to prove his services. Subscribed & Sworn in Open
Henry Jefferys
Court this 12. July 1834 Daniel Closeley
We Levi Parsons Vice Chancellor a clergyman residing in the Town of Marcellus and County of Onondaga and State of New York and Myron L. Mills, residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Jefferys who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided for about fifteen years past until last April to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that Opinion
Levi Parsons Myron L. Mills
Subscribed Sworn to this 12 Day of July 1834 before me
Daniel Closeley Chancellor

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war de- partment that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Levi Parsons who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Marcellus and that Myron L Mills who has also signed the same is a resi- dent in the town of Marcellus and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Daniel H. Hovey Vice Chancellor
I Stephen A. Goodwin Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Seventh District do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Saffery for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twentyth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty four.
S. A. Goodwin Clerk

State of New Jersey County of Essex } ss.
I personally appeared before me - Amos Morse a Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid. Richard Lee of the township of Rahway in the County aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who is personally known to me, and is a man of good standing in society for veracity and his statements are entitled to full credit, who being duly sworn on his oath says that during the Revolutionary War he lived in the township of Rahway aforesaid on the average lines. That he is acquainted with Henry Jefferys of the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, and was acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War. That the said Henry Jefferys lived in the township of Elizabeth at Connecticut Farms, in the said County of Essex during the Revolutionary War on the lines - That he has served with the said Henry Jefferys in the Revolutionary War, in the militia service in the New Jersey line, - That he has served with him both in monthly tours, and in times of alarm but how often, he can not at this late day, specify with certainty - That he has served with the said Henry at Freeman's point, opposite Staten Island, where the enemy were encamped, in monthly duty - under the Command of Capt Amos Morse - That the said Henry (as this deponent thinks) belonged to the Regiment of Col. Jacob Crows - That the said Henry commenced in the militia service at the commencement of the Revolution in the summer of 1776, and was employed in erecting the breast works and fortifications on the shore at Elizabeth Town point - That the said Henry was on duty in the militia service, in 1780 at the battles at Springfield and Connecticut Farms - That the said Henry continued in the service of the militia during the whole war - and this deponent has frequently seen him on monthly duty at different stations, and frequently on duty in times of alarm. -Subscribed and sworn

This 24 th day of August 1833 before me —
Richard Lee
Amos Morse Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey County of Essex
I Elias Van Arsdale Junr. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex Do hereby certify That Amos Morse before whom the foregoing affidavit of Richard Lee was made and taken, at the time of taking the same was and still is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and sworn That the name "Amos Morse" above written.
Subscribed to said affidavit is his genuine signature —
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office the Twenty fourth day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty-three (1833).
E Van Arsdale Clerk

In the Court of Chancery Seventh District of The State of New York Onondaga County
On the twenty ninth day of September 1835 Personally appeared in open Court before Daniel Mosely Esquire Vice Chancellor of The Seventh Circuit District in said State at a Court of Chancery held at the Town of Salina in the County of Onondaga in said District Henry Jefferys now a resident of the Town of Elbridge in said County but lately a resident of the Town of Syracuse in said County being the same person described in the annexed declaration, aged eighty years who being first truly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration (Supplemental to the one hereto-annexed made by him in this Court on the 12 th day of July 1834) in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the seventh 1832 viz:
That the first term of his service began about the 15 th day of May 1776. That he then belonged to Captain Richard Townley's Company one half of which was out in service at the same time. That he served all of this term at the Township of Elizabeth Essex County and State of New Jersey as a guard and engaged part of the time building a fort or breast-work at Elizabethtown old point (so called). That he served this term under Captain Jacob Brookfield who was out at the same place with one half of his company and Lieutenant Mathias Pottm (who was an officer belonging to

Captain Richard Townly, Company - That the Reason of his being under Captain Brookfield's Command was this: About the Commencement of Hostilities in that section of the Country and after several Companies of Militia had been raised the Companies were divided or classed as follows: One half of each Company were throughout the whole of the Regiment was in actual service one half of the time and the other half of the Companies the other half of the time. The Company to which he belonged was divided so as to do duty with a company under Command of Captain Jacob Brookfield Commonly called the Springfield Company. That the Officers of each Company & especially the Captains took Command alternately as a Company composed of one half of his own and one half of the other Captain's Company so that when he (the applicant) entered into service on his first Four Tour Captain Brookfield took the Command & one half of his Company & one half of Capt. Townly's company (to which the applicant was attached) composed the Company. Lieutenant Matthias Potter (an officer belonging to Captain Townly's Company was also out during the whole of this Tour. Also Sergeants Elijah Terryl or Ternel & Caleb Jefferys who were non commissioned officers in Capt. Brookfield's Company were out during all of this Tour which continued one month - Mathias Williamson was the General stationed at Elizabethtown and Edmund

Thomas was the Colonel of the Regiment to which his (the applicant) Company belonged. Elias Haddock the Major which he thinks was attached to the brigade or division.
2 d Tour. That about the middle of July 1776 he commenced his second Tour which continued three months the first month under Captain Jacob Brookfield the 2 d Month (as a substitute for Jeremiah Sturgis) under Captain Richard Downey and the 3 d Month under Captain Joseph Horton who had been appointed a Captain in the place of Captain Brookfield who had died about the latter part of August 1776. All of this Tour was performed in Camp near Elizabethtown Old Point - Matthias Williamson was his General & Edmund Thomas the Colonel of the Regiment & were encamped with them at the same place and were the field officers. Duration of this Tour was 3 months -
3 d Tour. That about the middle of November 1776 he commenced his third Tour at the Encampment near Elizabethtown Old Point under the Command of Capt Joseph Horton Genl Matthias Williamson and Colonel Edmund Thomas being the commanding officers of the station That he served all this tour at this place & until the time when General Washington went through Elizabethtown from the fort just above New-York to Pennsylvania at or about which time this encampment was broken up which was according to his best recollection about the middle of December 1776 at or about the time his term of service in this Tour had expired

That he then returned home to the residence of his Father in Elizabeth Township about 7 miles from the village of Elizabethtown. That he then took his fathers team and went to Elizabethtown (village) and under the direction of Ezekiah Thompson Waggow Master at that place took a load of Furniture & Household goods to Morris County & near to Morristown this service was he thinks for the use & benefit of General Williamson. The next day he took a load of Hay from Rahway to White Plains by direction of the Waggow Master, this hay was for the use of the army at White Plains. And shortly after this but thinks about the last of September 1776 but how long precisely he cannot tell, he went to Springfield Essex County New Jersey to rejoin his Company (the one lately under Command of Capt Townley) which was at that place under the Command of Matthias Potter who was appointed a Captain. From Springfield he went with this Company under the Command of the late Lieutenant Capt. Potter to a place about half way between Chatham and Morristown at which place they were met by 2 or 3 other Companies. This was about the time of the battle of Princeton & Trenton. They were encamped at this place (about 3 miles from Morristown) until General Washington took up his winter quarters at Morristown, shortly after which time he (the said Amy Jafferys) went with the Company still under the Command of Capt Potter back to Springfield, and a few days after he got back to Springfield General Lord Shelburne who had

gone down with a detachment of troops to The Short Hills near Amboy sent to Capt Potter to join him at Short Hills, and that he went accordingly with the Company under Com- mand of Capt Potter to Short Hills. A Compa- ny of Artillery under the Command of Captain Sycomb Little went in company at same time  with them from Springfield to Short Hills a distance of about 12 miles. The way they went which was through Westfield How long a time they stayed at Short Hills he cannot recollect though he knows that he stayed as long as his company did. During the time they stayed at Short Hills the British were at Amboy. From Short Hills he went with the company under the command of Capt Potter to the old station at Elizabethtown passing through the villages of Westfield and Connecticut Farms, that this was but a few days after the British troops had left Elizabeth- town and was as near as he can recollect about the month of April 1777 making this the fourth tour about four months duration. His Captain that had command of this company all of this town was Matthias Potter, thinks that Elias Whitehead was his Lieutenant during this tour. Henry Burriel and Aaron Fatout were officers during the whole of this tour & one but which one he cannot now recollect was an Ensign and the other was a 2 d Lieutenant. This tour was performed principally at the Short Hills near Amboy & near Brunswick and in the neighborhood immediately adjacent -

In April 1777 he was released & returned home upon condition of rejoining the army at any time an alarm might be given. That about the month of May or June next thereafter he again commenced an other tour having joined the militia and was engaged in the monthly service as stated in his first declaration to which this is appended, and continued in actual service for every other month except as stated in his first declaration until the news of a cessation of arms was proclaimed which he thinks was in the fall of the year 1781. The length of the tours was one month each but the precise number of tours tours which he served after his return from Short hills to Elizabethtown in April 1777 he cannot recollect. These tours were performed every other month in classes or divisions as first stated when he first entered into service. The tours from April 1777 to the fall of 1781 were performed by him in the township of Elizabeth New Jersey and the particular business performed in those tours  tours , was keeping guard on the lines from Rahway River along the sound or shore on the main land opposite Staten Island back and forwards from Elizabethtown to Newark Bay. The Officers of his company & regiment during the time he served from April 1777 to the expiration of his service were his Captain Matthias Potters who was the Captain of an entire  his company and Joseph Horton who

affixer Daniel Moseley v. Chauncellor
was the Captain of the Company then lately commanded by Capt. Brookfield. that he served his monthly tours with half of his Captain Potts Company which was put under the Command of Captain Joseph Horton His the other officers during the term from April 1777 to the close of the service were the same as last above mentioned. Elias Dayton was his general Jacob Crane was Colonel of his Regiment and a man of the name of Hays was Major or Adjutant he cannot say which with certainty. a man of the name Elias Whitehead was a Lieutenant in Capt Potts Company also Bunnell & Fatout were officers during the time from April 1777 to the close of the service time as above mentioned.
He knew Captain Morse of the Rahway Company and Anthony Badgely Captain of the Westfield Company. Henry Jefferys
Subscribed and sworn in open Court the day and year in the Caption mentioned. Daniel Moseley v. Chauncellor

I Stephen A. Goodwin Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit of the State of New York do Certify that the foregoing contains the Original Supplementary proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Jefferys for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Chancery this Twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1835.
S. A. Goodwin. Clerk

31.613
Henry Jeffries
Declaration for pension
please Direct the returns to this to Myron L Mills of Warrenton County of Onondaga & State of New York who is the agent for the applicant M L Mills

State of New York } ss Onondaga County }
On the 1 st day of July August 1834 came before me Theron Goddard a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Onondaga Joseph Taylor Joseph Pratt and Lincoln Chapman all residents of the Town of Marcellus in the said County and all persons well known to me to be of good standing in society and persons that may be relied on for truth and veracity and after being each duly sworn according to Law by me do each depose and say that they have been well acquainted with Henry Jeffreys who made and subscribed the annexed Declaration for about fifteen years last past and that the said Henry Jeffreys is a man of good moral character is a professor of religion and is a man whose statements can be relied on for truth and veracity
Subscribed and sworn before me the 1 st day of July August 1834 Theron Goddard Justice of the peace
Joseph Taylor Joseph Pratt Lincoln Chapman
State of New York } ss Onondaga County }

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P. O. Henry Joffries Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 . REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Comm th of Purvis
M c L. Mills Esq r Marcellus New York

War Department Pardon Office August 8. 1834.
Sir The papers of Henry Jeffries an ap- plicant for a pension have been examined The service in question having been rendered in the militia it becomes necessary in order to its being allowed that the claimant specify the duration of each term of actual service the names of his officers as well as the place or places where such service was performed
The papers are herewith returned
Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt J L Edwards
M c L. Mills Esq Marcellus New York

October 4 1853
My Father Notes his Name
Henry Ifferys but the name was allways pronounced Jeffers he was born November the 19 th 1754 in Essex County New Jersey A 1841 And Died in Lysander N Y Feb 17 th Benjamin C Jeffers

Clerk's Office
I Reuben L. Hef Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Sheron Godard Esquire whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name above subscribed to be his genuine signature Witness my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 2 nd day of August. 1834. R. L. Hef Clerk

B1.613
New York
Proo. —
Henry J. Jaffray
Suspended
In Let to L. B. Ray
Mand. Oct. 12. 1835
Set to L. B. Jordan 30 th Nov '35
" Hon D. T. Ames Dec 17/53
V-V-67
Act June 7, 1832

Henry J. Lewis for Reserve
6m.
D. Jones Mc.
How D. J. Lewis W. J. H.

State of New York
County of
S.S. Personally appeared before me
Justice of the peace in and for the said County Henry Leffers a Resident of the town of Lynden who being Duly sworn according to Law deponeth and saith that he has sent the papers to which this is annexed to the War Depart- ment Pension office in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 that said papers have been returned for him to specify the place or places of each tour the distance of each tour and the Officers names that he served under he commenced his services under Capt Richard Townley & Lieutenant Matthias Potter in May 1876 at which time the Regiment was commanded by Col- onel Edmond Thomas but after that year was commanded by Colonel Leah Crane and Genl Matthias Williamson when the Classer was out on duty the Captain commanded one class of his own company and one class of some other company he served his first tour under Capt Brookfield 2 nd tour under Capt Heorton 3 rd tour under Capt Townley 4 th under Capt Heorton that his 5 th tour was under Lieutenant Potter that he was Stationed in Morris County a distance of about 20 miles from the old Point where they had formerly been Stationed while they was there Lieutenant Potter was promoted to Captain when they was relieved he was Stationed at Springfield under Capt Potter was also under him while Stationed at the Short Hills distance about 14 miles until April 1777 when he returned home and from that time served his Monthly tours through the war under Capt Heorton still belonging to Capt Potter Company and that that their business was to keep Guard on on the lines from Rahway River along the Sound to Elizabeth town and so on to Newark Bay a distance of about 16 miles

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J. L. Edwards Esquire Commisr. of Pensions Pension Office Washington D.C.

Jordan October 1. 1835 J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed I return to your Office the declaration & other papers heretofore sent to you by Mr. L. Mills for the purpose of procuring a pension for services rendered in the Revolutionary army - Also the letter directed by you to Mr. Mills pointing out the deficiency of his original declaration and also a declaration duly made & authenticated, supplementary to his original declaration which supplies the deficiencies of the original declaration as far and as particularly as it is in his power and recollection to do at present - and considering his advanced age & the infirmities incident to it It is surprising that he recollects facts as well as he does - And he perhaps it may be well to state the reasons why he has not sooner returned the papers & procured & sent on his supplemental declaration. They are among other things - He has removed from the town in which he lived in the Summer of 1834 to this place (Jordan) which is a village in the town of Elbridge (Onondaga County) He is so old & infirm that he cannot well get about alone to attend to his business & his pecuniary resources are not adequate to the incurring of all the charges & costs necessarily incurred in this matter. Mr. Mills who had undertaken

to do the business could not or would not do any thing further for him & discouraged his further attempts at getting onto the pension list * which all who know him well
I trust the papers are sufficient to entitle the Applicant to what he asks. And do ad- -vising you on this subject as the Attorney or agent for the Applicant (Mr. Mills having declined to act) I have further to ask of you that you will advise me at as early a day as possible of the result of this ap- -plication and if successful that you will inform me when, how, & where his pen- -sion money can best be paid to him
I am very Respectfully Sir
Your Obedt Servt
Samuel B. Raymond
Direct to me at Jordan Onondaga County N.Y.
S.B.R.
** I understood from the applicant's son who has taken him around to do this business that Mr. Mills said upon the Receipt of your letter which is enclosed, that the applicant must have positive proof of the matter pointed out in your letter as not stated which was construed by the applicant as proof by testimony other than his own declaration which it was impossible for him to procure & which operated to to discourage the applicant till I advised him otherwise

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Jordan Nov 18. 1835 (Onondaga County New York)
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions.
Sir Yours of Oct 12. last in relation to the claim of Henry Jefferys for a pension was recd in due time. - You state that the Supplemental affidavit of the claimant has been examined. And that "there is no evidence in the department of a tour of three months service in the militia of New Jersey in 1776 such as the claimant describes or of a tour of four months in 1777" - And you reiterate what had previously been communicated to Mr. M c Millan that "The regulations of the department require that the duration of each term of actual service be specified as well as the names of the officers for each tour" - Now Sir I apprehend that either the case of Mr. Jefferys is not fully understood. or else that the Law which was enacted to relieve just such persons as Mr. J. has provided himself to be is so trammelled and clogged with the " regulations of the Department " as to nullify and render nugatory the letter, spirit and intent of the act. Which may be the case I know not but if the latter the result may be a denial of justice to a worthy old soldier of the Revolution who at his country's call sacrificed his life in the defence of his inalienable rights. And assisted to establish that liberty and independence which you & I and all of us. Thank God, now enjoy - and in the first place permit me to enquire Is the documentary or other evidence in the Department relied upon solely as proof of what did or did not take place in New Jersey in '76, '77? and if so..

In the absence of all such evidence are we, or does the Department (of which you are at the head or an acting member) therefore conclude that no such acts & services such as the claimant ascribes were performed? E.g. You say there is no evidence in the Department of a tour of 3 mos. services in 76 or of 4 mos. in 77. - Is there evidence in the Department that such tours were not performed in those years?
I know not what evidence can be wanted to prove that such tours were performed further than is already given - It is matter of History that the militia of New Jersey in 1776 & 1777 were almost constantly in service as minute men or as guards and it is equally notorious that during those years such service was rendered by the militia of that State in monthly tours, of 1 month each. That is to say, as is the case with the claimant in 76 - first he served 1 month for himself then he served 1 month as a substitute for another man next 1 month for himself again - in that such service was rendered by the militia there is not a particle of doubt. It is proved positively by the oaths of the claimant & by Richard Lee. It can be proved also by hundreds of old people yet living some of whom I have conversed with who reside in this part of the country, and indeed that fact I never before heard disputed -
In relation to the names of his officers & the length of each tour; the claimant has given them as nearly as he can recollect which I suppose is all that should be required of him. The main & leading facts in the case to warrant his name being put upon the pension list are already proved. How can it be material to state or why should such stress be laid upon collateral circumstances

which in themselves are so unimportant?
He is proven to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, one man (Richard Lee) swears he has frequently seen him in the service. He has always been reputed to be a Soldier of the Revolution. His character is proven to be good by a Competent Clergyman. The Court before he has been examined touching his services & knowledge in & of Revolutionary times & things have certified to all that can or could be or ever was to my knowledge required in such case.
There are doubtless now living in the vicinity of Elizabethton W. T. persons who can give further testimony to some & perhaps most of the facts proven by the claimant & that as the But it would be merely cumulative evidence find unnecessary - and if the position is assumed by the Department that need from, that because there happens not to be evidence in the department of services by the N. T. Militia in 76 & 77, that therefore no such services were performed. It appears then to be idle to adduce further proof. The Claimant is old & poor, but still retains too much of the blood of '76 to be driven from & deprived of what he deems his just rights. He requests me therefore to ask of you that you will give his papers a re-examination & point out especially the particulars wherein his claim is defective. If you want proof of the services of the N. T. Militia in 76 & 77, & generally to specify what more is wanted that he can obtain in order to get his pension - I am Sir Respectfully Yours Off. Secy Lemuel D. Raymond