Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41681, for James Irwin, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Irwin James
841681
CONTENTS

12717 Ohio Q
James Irwin Champaign Co. in the state of Ohio who was a Corporal in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 5 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of July 1819 and sent to John Runyon, Esq. Urbana, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 2 / 30 51 83.43 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 - 40.00
$131:43
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued.
Champaign County

Notification sent May 21 st 1821, to Wm Ward, Esq. 6th Supreme Court, Champaign Co., Ohio.

41681 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 41681
James Virgin Corp Sts Two
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 250
[Arrangement of 1870.]

The State of Ohio Champaign County
Before me John Runyan one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas within & for the county of Champaign personally appeared George Swisher of lawful age who being by me first duly sworn according to law reporteth & saith that he has been personally acquainted with James Irwin for more than twenty years now last past that previous to the year 1799 this deponent frequently saw the discharge of the said James Irwin from service as a "non commissioned officer" private soldier in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War and the Continental Establishment This deponent further states that in the year A.D. 1799 above mentioned the dwelling house of the said James Irwin was consumed by fire & all his household furniture of every description together with all his books & papers were then burned & this deponent has good reason to believe & does hereby believe that the discharge of the said James Irwin as above mentioned was at that time destroyed by fire & further this deponent saith not known to him Subscribed before me this 20 th day of April A.D. 1819
John Runyan J. the Judge
George Swisher

The State of Ohio Champaign County
Personally appeared before me
John Runyon Esquire an associate judge of the court of common Pleas for the county of Champaign in Sixth judicial circuit of the state of Ohio James Irwin and upon his corporal oath made the following Declaration, (sworn) that he the said James Irwin Enlisted in the continental army of the United States of America same time in the spring of the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy seven in the company of Captain Samuel Shaw belonging to the 3 d Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane in the Massachusetts line and that he faithfully served in the capacity of first sergeant in the Army of the United States during the whole of the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy and that he was honorably discharged in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty two at West Point in the state of New York which said discharge has since been confirmed by fine together with a certificate which he obtained from the War department of the United States for and Hundred acres of Land for his services aforesaid which Land he never was able to obtain in consequence of the destruction of his certificate as aforesaid and the said James Irwin further saith that he is now seventy seven years of age and that by reason of his need and his circumstances in life is in great need of assistance from his country for support & further saith not James Irwin Sworn to & subscribed before me this 2 d day of April 1888
John Runyon Afs. Judge

The state of Ohio, Champaign county, ss.
I, Samuel Gibbs, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Runyan, Esquire, before whom the within deposition of James Irvine appears to have been taken, is, and was at the time of taking the same, an Associate Judge of the court of Common Pleas of said county, in the Sixth Judicial circuit of said state, duly commissioned & qualified, and to his official acts as such full faith and credit are due. -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, at Urbana, the twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Samuel Gibbs, Clerk
James Irvine's aff.
James Irvine - Corp.?
Col. Grants
Mohawk Indian Rep.
1777 - 5 years - P Roll 22 Apr. 1818
James Irvine Ap 22 1818 - Original private Grants to Massachusetts 77 War - Concord Concord Concord Concord Concord
on Roll by name of James Irvine
Admitted
John Runyan Judge as within & above mentioned
Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above named James Irvine did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration and I do further certify that from my own knowledge the said James Irvine is in very reduced circumstances & really stands in need of assistance from his country for support
John Runyan J. Judge

James Brown
12.717
✓ 20. July 19
Con:
[Faint, large, illegible cursive signature or initials]
[Faint, illegible cursive text at the bottom of the page]

The State of Ohio to Champaign County Supreme Court of the Term of July A.D. 1820.
On the 15 th day of July A.D. 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county of Champaign in the said State of Ohio Samuel Irwin aged seventy nine years residence of the county of Champaign in the said State of Ohio who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, He Enlisted in the army of the United States or the continental establishment sometime in the months of February or March A.D. 1778 in the Town of Farmington in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Shaw belonging to the Eleventh Regt. as well as he can now remember commanded by Colonel John Cram in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment for & during the war then existing between the United States & Great Britain and that he faithfully served out the full term of his aforesaid Enlistment that on the 22 nd day of April 1818 he made a declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of the 18 th March 1818 and has since received a certificate of his being inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Ohio agency which said certificate being date 21 st July 1819 Number 12.717 and do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval ser

nor dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & slave trade of the United States in revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due me nor have I an income other than which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and I do further swear that I have no other occupation than a common laborer and that in consequence of my bodily infirmities & advanced age in life I am entirely unable to pursue it. And I do further swear that I have no children or family of any description that are living to my knowledge and I do further swear that I have no species or description of property either real or personal other than a few indifferent articles of wearing apparel - Sworn & Subscribed in open court James F. Brown mark
July 15 th 1820 W. Ward Jr. clerk S.C.C.C.
The State of Ohio Champaign Supreme Court July term 1820
Personally appeared in open court George Swisher of lawful age & made oath that he is personally acquainted with the situation of James Brown as it respects his property and that he knows that he has no species of property either real or personal except a few articles of wearing apparel & that in consequence of the said James Brown's bodily infirmities he is unable to work at all and that he has no family residing with him or that contribute to his support
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
July 15 th 1820 W. Ward Jr. clerk S.C.C.C.
George Swisher

The State of Oh Champaign County ss Be it remembered that at a Supreme court held at the court house in the town of Urbana on the nineteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty the following order was made in said court (to wit), I am Irwin On application for pension under acts of Congress of 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820 The declaration of the applicant having been sworn to and subscribed in Open court, and together with the accompanying and corresponding disposition of testimony being filed, It is ordered that a copy of the the same be duly made out and certified
The State of Ohio ss Champaign County ss I William Ward B clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for the county of said do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the origi nal and now on file in said Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Urbana the 19 th day of November 1820
Wm Ward B clerk 1666