Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4547, for John Line, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Leine, John
S. 4547
CONTENTS
carded

13039
Ohio
John Line
of Butler in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cram of the by Major Hays in the New Jersey line for Wilmington for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 30 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of May 1833 and sent to Mr. Ward Hamilton Ohio
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1833 $ 60.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep. 33 15.00
$75.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo B. Whiting Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 8 Page 35

John Sine. —
The defects in the original declaration in this case are supplied by the affidavit of the applicant —
Reason
Memorandum

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Lene which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes. III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes NO. must state the precise period at which he entered the service VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
no clergyman
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
5 th not answered. [Signature] [Signature] - - - - -
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words :
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ ; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

The State of Ohio Butler County } Court of Common Pleas } Of the Term of July AD 1832
On this 27 th day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Butler in the state of Ohio John Line aged sixty eight years a resident of the County of Butler aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June seventh eighteen hundred and thirty two that in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two at Rahway in Essex County New Jersey he enlisted as a yearsman in the state troops of New Jersey in Captain Craig's Company. During most of the time Deponent was in the service he was stationed at Rahway on guard - he mounted guard a while at Elizabeth town Point where he was under the command of Major Hays - he was also sent to New Ark to assist in guarding the Court House while the Court were engaged in the trials of some refugees Deponent was never in any battles nor was he ever marched out of the state of New Jersey. On the fifteenth day of December seventeen hundred and eighty two deponent was discharged by Captain Craig - no written discharges were given to any of the company - Deponent has a written record of his age by which it appears that he was born on the sixth of June seventeen hundred and sixty four in the state of New Jersey - for the last thirty years he has lived and still lives in the County of Butler

in the state of Ohio - deponent knows of no living witnesses by whom he can prove his services he is how- ever well known to John Sutherland Samuel Bayless & Daniel Thompson who reside in his neighborhood and by whom he can as he believes prove his good character and that he has always been reputed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution - deponent hereby relinquishes ever claim whatever 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 Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid John Reily Clerk
John Linn
We John Sutherland Samuel Bayless & Daniel Thompson in the county of Butler and state of Ohio do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with John Linn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration for twenty two more than years, that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he sustains a good reputation for truth and vera- city and also that we have the fullest confidence in the truth of the above declaration. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court John Reily Clerk
John Sutherland Samuel Bayless Daniel Thompson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department 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 John Lutherland Samuel Bayles & Daniel Thompson who signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Butler aforesaid, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Line for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of Office at Hamilton this fourth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Reily
The State of Ohio Butler County } ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the county of Butler aforesaid John Line a resident of said County who has known to and subscribed the above declaration and said John Line be- ing first duly sworn deponeth and saith that by reason of his age infirmities & loss of memory he cannot state precisely the time he entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution but he remembers that he was dis- charged on the 15 th December 1782 at Neshannoy

in the state of New Jersey and deponent says that he was at least nine months in actual service during the war of the Revolution as a private soldier most of which time he was stationed at Rahway. He entered the service in the winter of the year 1782 but what time he cannot state. deponent further states that according to the best of his recollection he was during the term of his service in the Revolutionary war under the command of Major Hays having no recollection of any superior officer, Capt John Craig Lieutenant Spears Second Lieutenant or Ensign and for such service he claims a pension. Stated from, and deponent further states that he knows of no other person now living in his neighborhood who has any knowledge relative to his revolutionary service. John Dine Revolutionary War Pension 2343 Sworn to and subscribed before me this tenth day of November A.D. 1832 Stephen Merrill L.P.
2343
The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, certify that Stephen Millikin Esquire before whom the within stated deposition of John Sine was taken, was at the taking thereof a Justice duly assigned to keep the peace in the said County of Butler, and that the signature thereunto annexed is his genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official seal at Hamilton the twelfth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Reily

Rev War
4547
INVALID.
File No. 4547
John Line
Print Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]