Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,454, for Nathan Lamme, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
Lamme, Nathan
NUMBER
S. 46.454
B.L. Wt 1851-300
CONTENTS

Jan'y 25 '97 Hisly to Mr. Wm Lefelt St Anthony Park Minn
Feb. 23. 1903 Mr. W.B. Matthews, Bond Bldg. 85 1916 May 6. History to Samuel M. Wilson 1910 Feb 14 W.B. to Mrs. Mabel B. Richardson CC
[3-230.] Cert No. 1115 480 per ann 1068
Re-Issue {  Pl  Aug
Name: Nathan Gamme Rank: Capt. Comp'y: Reg't: Co Greene, Va Line
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RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
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DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
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Allowed.  Oct 15 25.
Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _____, Page _____ Registering Clerk: _____
Disability. { _____ _____

Ohio Green County etc.
I Nathan Lammé Aged Twenty six years do upon Oath testify and declare that in the year 1777 I entered the Service of the United States as a Lieutenant in the 10 th Regiment of the Virginia Continental Line commanded by Col. Stephens and continued in Service until the close of the War in 1783 then belonging to the 6 th Virginia Regiment Commanded by Col. Greene. And I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the bounty of Land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I now All men by these presents that I Nathan Lammé Aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Asbury of Lexington Ky. to be my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of Land due me as Aforesaid, and my said Attorney is authorised to appoint an Attorneys under him for said purposes and my said Attorney or his substitutes are authorised to cause said Warrants when issued, to be converted into Scrip and to receive the same from the Commissioners of the General Land Office and to receipt for the same in my name. Nathan Lammé

I Samuel Lamme - aged Forty Three - years do upon oath declare that I have been long acquainted with Nathan Lamme who has subscribed the within Declaration in my presence and well know that he is the Identical person he then represents himself to be and further I know or believe he did perform the military services therein stated Samuel Lamme
Before me John James - a Justice of the Peace personally appeared the within named Nathan Lamme Subscriber to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed: and likewise personally appeared Samuel Lamme - who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth and made solemn oaths to the truths of the dispositions by them respectively subscribed. This 12 th of April 1832 John James a justice of the peace

The State of Ohio, I James P. Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that John James Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, was at the date thereof and still is an acting Justice of the peace for said County of Greene, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing subscribed signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name this 14 th day of April A. D. 1832
J. P. Brown Clerk.

War Dept. Bounty Land Office
Jan 7 28 th 1832
The name of Nathan Lamme is not returned on the list of Officers of the Virginia line, on file in this Office, among those entitled to bounty lands from the U. States - Nor does it appear that a Land Warrant has been granted in his name by the U. States
Wm. Gordon
General Land Office
20 Jan. 1832
The name of Nathan Lamme does not appear on the List of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va so far as they have been received.
John Walker B.R.
The Records in this Office are altogether silent as to whether or not a Warrant for 8000 Acres was issued to him and that he procured the same from the Register of the Richmond Land Office.

See letter 5224. No of orig Pgmt 11115 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Allowed Oct 1826
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
26 Jan'y 1832
Nathan Samme — of ————— in the County of Greene ————— in the State of Ohio ————— has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such until reduced under the Resolve of the 21 Oct 1780,
at which period he was a Captain in the Col Green regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the re- solve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing ————— dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary F. A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
27 th January 1832
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to ————— in the ————— line, amounting to ————— dollars.
It further appears that Nathan Samme not is now on the pension list of the ————— agency, and has been since the 3 rd March 1826 at the rate of  per month.
It appears from the Revolutionary records in this office that Capt. Nathan Samme of the Virginia line was in service in the month of December 1778 but it does not appear when or how he left the service.
W. H. Agner Aud
See letter from Auditor of Virginia Received 15 Feb 1832

Nathan Lamme N o . 1851

(Copy)
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 13 Feb. 1832.
Sir:
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Captain of Infantry in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted by the Treasurer of the United States, to the attorney whom you have authorized to receive it.
I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
(Signed) Louis A. Lane Secretary of the Treasury.
Nathan Samme Esq.
of true copy. Nicholas Ch. Treas. Dept. 26 May 1832 Mr. Samme served in the Virginia Line. Rich. B. Lee

2007. For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled in Act for the relief of certain Servicing Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the United States Approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I Nathan Lemme of the County of Greene and State of Ohio do hereby declare that in the fall of the year 1776 I was appointed and commissioned a Lieutenant in Capt Lairds Company of the 10 th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Stephens and in the year 1777 or 1778 I was promoted to a Captain in said Regiment which was then reduced to the 6 th Regt & commanded by Col. Greene and I continued in said Regiment until a few weeks after Lord Cornwallis Army was taken in 1781 at York Town, I then enlisted for Eighteen months, and stationed at said York Town and in November or December 1781 I was ordered to discharge my Company by the Adjutant General whose name I think was Hand or Hanley, this officer I think was from the State of Maryland, and  refused  his  orders  from  Genl  Washington  then  had  no  men  to command and was permitted to return home, I did so, and was not again called into Service as the War was considered to be at an end; I never resigned my commission and considered myself as belonging to the Army until the final close of the war in November 1783. At the close of the war I received Certificates of pay, but whether they were what was called

Commutation Certificates, are Certificates for my monthly pay, I do not now recollect, I consider myself entitled to all the benefits of the Resolves of Congress of the 22 d of March 1783 my Commission is either lost or mislaid, & I received from the State of Virginia 4,000 acres of Warrants for said Continental Service, and I have never received a pension from the United States. Witness my hand & Seal this 30 th day of July 1830 I certify that the Words "and rec d his orders from Genl. Washington" was interlined before it was signed by me Nathan Lamme (Seal) John James J.P.
Before me John James - a Justice of the Peace for said County personally appeared Stephen Bell and David Lamme of said County and who did severally make Oath that Nathan Lamme by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated and said Nathan Lamme made Oath to the declaration by him subscribed. Given under my hand and Seal this 30 th day of July 1830
John James - (Seal) a Justice of the Peace
Know all men by these presents that I Nathan Lamme of Greene County Ohio do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon. Joseph Vance of Champaign County Ohio my true and lawful Attorney for me

and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due me under the Act entitled An Act for the Relief of Certain Officers and Soldiers of the any of Revolution Approved on the 15 th day of May 1828 as a capt d in the 6 th Virginia Regiment of the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution. Witness my hand and Seal this 30 th day of July 1831  attest John James. Stephen Bell  Nathan Lamme
Before me John James a Justice of the Peace for Green County and State of Ohio personally appeared this day Nathan Lamme whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer or of any attachment levy or seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to accrue wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand and Seal this 30 th day of July 1831
John James Justice of the peace

The State of Ohio I James L Grover Clerk of the Court Common Pleas of said County. do hereby certify that John James Esq., before whom the for- going affidavit, acknowledgment &c was made, was, at the several dates thereof, and still is, an acting Justice of the peace for said County of Greene, duly commissioned & qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to admin- ister oaths, and take such acknowledgments, and that the several signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and the seal of said Court at Lima this 11 th day of August A.D. 1831
J. L. Grover Clerk
fee 50 Cts to be paid by W. S. Sallomay Jr

February 14, 1940.
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Miss Mabel B. Richardson 1008 W. 19th Street Cedar Falls, Iowa.
BA-J/CC Nathan Lamme S.46454
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Nathan Lamme who was captain in the 16th Virginia regiment and died in 1835 in Greene County, Ohio.
The data which follow were obtained from papers found in pension and bounty land claims on file under S.46454, based upon service of Nathan Lamme in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Nathan Lamme and names of his parents are not shown.
Nathan Lamme entered the service in the fall of 1776, was commissioned lieutenant in Captain Laird's company, Colonels Stevens' and Green's 10 th Virginia regiment; in 1777 or 1778, was promoted to captain in the same regiment, then designated the 6 th Virginia regiment, Colonel Green, and was at the siege of Yorktown, and remained in the army until the end of the war in November 1783.
The officer was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1831, at which time he was residing in Greene County, Ohio. April 14, 1832, he applied for the bounty land which was due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, and was granted, by the U.S., bounty land Warrant No.1851, for three hundred acres issued May 26, 1832. He was then aged seventy-six years and gave his post office address as Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio.
Nathan Lamme stated that he received four thousand acres of land from the State of Virginia, for his service in the Revolutionary War. Information regarding this land might be obtained from the archives in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1831, one David Lamme was a resident of Greene County, Ohio, and in 1832, one Samuel Lamme was aged forty-three years and stated in Greene County, Ohio, that he had been long acquainted with Nathan Lamme, their relationship to Nathan not stated.
No further family data are shown.
For information in regard to the location of the three hundred acres of bounty land cited above you should address the Commissioner, General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish the warrant number, the acreage and the date of issuance.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of Nathan Lamme, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Nathan Lamme Certificate #1068 Issued February 3, 1832 Rate $480.00 per annum Act of May 15, 1828 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

State of Kentucky Fayette County, I. ss.
John McDowell, who is now receiving his full pay from the United States under the act of Congress of the 15 th of May 1828 appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for said County, and made Oaths that he was personally acquainted with Nathan Lammer a Capt. in Col. Green's Regiment of the Virginia Line in the Revolutionary War and that said Lammer was in service up to the taking of Lord Cornwallis in October in the year 1781. At which time said Capt. Lammer went home, & he has always understood and believes that said Capt. Lammer did not resign his commission, but remained at home subject to be called into active service until the close of the war in the year 1783 and he has seen him since the Revolution & knows him to be the identical person who served & he understands that said Capt. Lammer now resides in the State of Ohio.
John McDowell
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that the foregoing is highly credible an Oath this 19 th of October 1831.
J. Edwards J.P.

Kentucky Fayette County St.
John Nelson made oath before me a Justice of the Peace for said County that he was a Captain in the 5 th Virginia Regiment during the War of the Revolution & is now receiving his full pay under the Law of Congress approved on the 15 th of May 1828 and that he was personally acquainted with Nathan Lamm a Capt d in Col. Greene's Regt of the Virginia line, & that he was present with said Lamm up to the month of October 1781 at the taking of Lord Cornwallis's Army at which time Capt. Lamm was ordered to discharge or furlough his Company & himself to return home, and he understood and believes that Capt. Lamm was not called into service again, and did not resign his Commission. and he believes said Lamm was entitled to his Commutation Certificates at the close of the War, but whether he applied for them or not he does not know. J. Nelson
Sworn to and subscribed before me & I certify that the deponent is a credible person on oath. this 20 th day of October 1831
James L. Hickman J.P.
Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette County to wit.
I James C. Rodes Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do certify, that Messrs James E. Davis Esq. and James L. Hickman Esq. who has signed the foregoing Certificates are and now at their respective dates acting Justices

of the peace in and for said County fully duly Commissioned and qualified as the Law directs, and who are fully empowered to administer oaths, and further that their signatures to said Certificate are genuine, to which full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Lexington Kentucky this 20 th day of October 1831. and in the 40 th year of the Commonwealth.
H. B. Rodes C.F.C.

May 20. 1832
FREE
Hon
Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City
May 21 1832 Boundary Land Office

Lexington 14 th May 1832
Sir
I herewith enclose to you the Declaration of Capt. Nathan Lamme, who applies for his unissued Land Warrants, you will find his name in the Treasury Dept. enroll d under the Law of Congress approved on the 15 th of May 1828; you will please to transmit his Warrants to the Compt r of the Gen l Land Office for Scrip.
In the case of Mrs. Schooler whose Warrant you sent a few days ago to Mr. Gayward accompanied by an extract of the power of Attorney, Mr. H. did not consider it sufficient authority for me to receive the Scrip; I must therefore request that you will have the goodness to send Mr. H. in this case an entire copy of the declaration & power, I would not put you to this trouble but Capt. Lamme lives 150 miles from this place

and it would be very inconvenient to procure the requisite Authority: if you will extend to me this favour, I will not trouble you in any similar case hereafter.
Very Resp t your Ob d Serv t Henry Asbury
For James Cope Sec y of War
(Answer)
Sir
Dept of War. Bounty Land Office May 26 th 1832
Yours of the 4 th inst o enclosing the requisite evidence to establish the claim to bounty land by Capt n Nathan Sammons is received - Warrant N o 1851. for 300 Acres has, therefore, issued in his name this day, and the same has been deposited in the Gen l Land Office, agreeably to your instructions to that effect, accompanied by Certified Copies of all the papers received from you in relation to the claim
Yrs &c W m Gordon
Mr. Henry Asbury Lexington Kentucky

Henry Asbury May 26 th 1832
Nathan L. Loomis
$1857 for 300 3

One #46454
For Louis Nelson History of the Henry Henry Stift

Re. 25 Jan'y 1832
4281.
House of Representatives
Jan 24 th 1832
Sir
Enclosed you have the papers of Capt. N. Lamm of the Revolutionary Army asking a Pension. Capt. Lamm is well known to me, & a most excellent & worthy man does not live. I trust his papers will be found sufficient to entitle him to receive the benefits of his Government.
I am with great respect your most obedient Servt.
Joseph Vance
Hon. Lewis Wilson Secretary of the Treasury.
Address Capt. Nathan Lamm
Bellbrook
Greene Co.
Ohio

I hereby certify that after the surrender of Cornwallis at York Orders were issued by Gen. Washington to discharge such of the Troops as were enlisted for a less period than three years or during the war of that Cap. I am one of the Va. Cont. Line who I will re- collect being then in command of a Company was by such order, with many others, left without command, & of course, unattached to any separate corps, & consequently like my- self many others became a retiring Officer
John Nicholas late Col. R. A.
Jany 23 d 1832—

Rev. War Section.
May 6, 1916.
Mr. Samuel M. Wilson, Security Trust Co. Bldg., Lexington, Kentucky.
Sir:-
In response to your letter dated the second instant, you are advised that the papers on file in claim Survivor's File No. 46454 Rev. War, show that Nathan Lamme was allowed pension under the Act of May 15, 1828, on his application executed July 30, 1831 while a resident of Greene County, Ohio.
N. L. He stated that he was commissioned in the fall of 1776, Lieutenant of Captain Laird's company in the Cols Stevens' & Green's Tenth Virginia regiment commanded by Colonels Stevens and Green, in 1777 or 1778,  was promoted, they designated  in 1777 or 1778, Captain in the same regiment, transferred to the Sixth Virginia regiment under the aforesaid Colonel Green, and was at the siege taking of Yorktown; and in November or December 1781, he was ordered to discharge or furlough his company at Yorktown, while he remained in the Army until the end of the war in November 1783, and that he received 4000 acres of land from the State of Virginia for his services.
Pension Land etc
In he stated that he rec. 4000 acres of land from the State of Va, for his ser. in the Rev. War.

In 1832 his address was Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio and he claimed to be seventy-six years of age; one Samuel Lamme, aged forty-three years, testified to Captain Lamme's identity but did not state that there was any relationship between them.
On May 26, 1832, Warrant No. 1851 for 300 acres of land issued in the name of Nathan Lamme for his services as a Captain in the Virginia line, and for the location of said land you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D.C., quoting said data.
Information relative to the 4000 acres of bounty land granted by the State of Virginia, will probably be found in the archives at Richmond.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

CEDAR FALLS CHAPTER CEDAR FALLS, IOWA
The Director The Veterans Administration Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the Pension Record of :
NATHAN LAMME--Captain of the 16th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. Died near Bellebrook, Greene County Ohio 1835, age 89."
Yours very truly,
Mabel B. Richardson
1008 W. 19th Street Cedar Falls, Iowa January 29, 1940
(Miss Mabel B. Richardson-- Registrar--Cedar Falls, Chapter)
P.S. We shall be most grateful to you if you can send us this record.

Rev Sec 1 LAW OFFICES OF SAMUEL M. WILSON SECURITY TRUST COMPANY BUILDING LEXINGTON, KY.
May 2, 1916.
Commissioner of Pensions, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
A certain Captain Nathan Lamme, who served for three years or longer in the Virginia Continental line during the Revolution, was granted, by the State of Virginia, a warrant for four thousand acres of land for his services. Later, he received grants of land from the United States Government for the same services and, in or about February or March, 1832, was granted a pension. I have a letter written to Captain Lamme by James Galloway, Jr., of Aenia, Ohio, under date of March 7, 1832, informing Captain Lamme that he had been granted a pension of $40.00 a month for life. It seems that he was aided by one Henry Asbury in obtaining from witnesses in Kentucky and Virginia the proof necessary to establish his claim, and the agent in Washington who handled the application was Honorable (General) Joseph Vance, who, at the time, was probably a member of Congress from Ohio. A letter dated Lexington, 1st March, 1832, written to Captain Lamme by one Henry Asbury, states that Captain Lamme would receive between $2500.00 and $3000.00 and then $480.00 per annum during life. What I particularly desire to obtain are copies of the papers upon which Lamme's application was based, in order that I may be better informed regarding his personal identity and family history. If, with the foregoing information, it is possible for you or your office to furnish this information, I shall be extremely obliged to you.

#2.
In the hope that a thorough search may develop the information requested, I am, by this mail, writing a similar letter to the Commissioner of the Land Office. In other words, I would like the investigation to proceed simultaneously in both Departments, so as to expedite the search as much as possible.
Trusting that the desired information may be forthcoming and thanking you in advance for your courteous attention to this inquiry, I am,
Very truly yours,
Frank M. Wilson
SLW/a

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 46454.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
January 25, 1897.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Nathan Lamme, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on July 30, 1831, at which time he was residing in Greene County, Ohio, (age not stated), and his pension was allowed for his actual service as a Captain in Col. Green's Regiment, Virginia troops, Revolutionary war. Length of service or place of enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. William M. Liggett,
St. Anthony Park, Minn.