Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File for James Sturdevant, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Sturdevant James
Disability
Pa. res. no. 1789
CONTENTS

Rev 200 535 W. 5th St. 121 Larned Kans. Feb. 22 nd 1917.
Pension Department, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:-
Will you please give me the Revolutionary War Record of James Sturdevant who is given in the Pension list in the Pennsylvania Archives? 2 nd series. Vol. 11. Page 758?
For use in proving eligib- ility to the D. A. R.
And oblige, Mrs. Claribell A. Funk Larned, Kans. 535 W. 5th St.

Mrs. Claribel A. Funk, 535 West 5 th St., Larned, Kansas.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS RECORD DIVISION
Briefed by Ln March 8, 1917
.....Orig. ....
.....Cert. ....
Claimant .....
Soldier James Sturdevant
Service .....
Rev. War.
No. .... claim, Service record ..... 191
..... Clerk.
No. claim, Alph'b record ..... 191
..... Clerk.
REMARKS: .....
No papers found. Name not found on Pa. Invalid lists printed in 1835, nor on List of Invalids of 1813.

March 8, 1917
Mrs. Gladys A. Kunk, 576 West Fifth Street, Larned, Kansas.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the twenty-second ultimo, relative to the Revolutionary War pension claim of James Sturdevant, referred to in the Second Series, Pennsylvania Archives, Volume II, page 758, you are advised that there are no papers on file regarding said claim, owing to the burning of the War Office in 1800, and again, by the British, in 1814.
Therefore, this Bureau has no information regarding the above-named soldier, other than that cited above.
Very respectfully,
1. Insektengaben
Commissioner.

In the Penn Archives, 2 Series Vol. 2, page 758 headed "Penn. Pensioners" appears the name James Sturdevant -
This list is of United States pensioners paid under the Act of Congress of Sept. 29, 1789 who were residing in Penn. in 1789. see page 747 of above volume.
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