Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6167, for James Larkins, [Blank]

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Larkins, James Catharine
VR. 6167
enl. in Ind. reg. in Ohio
CONTENTS

11.558 R
O H S O
James Perkins
of Sirgranth in the state of who was a Sirgranth in the regiment commanded by Colonel Moylan of the Penns 11 th line, for the term of 3 years .
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of February 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of June 1810 and sent to Saml Bowd Cadiz Harrison Co Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1811 8-17 Semi-annual acct ending 4 Sept 1818 25 4  8 56+17 28 35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
12 July '25 27 Sep '32
Revolutionary claim No. 1530 to William Temple, West of Ohio

40. Rec d Aug t . 19. 1820
Ohio
James Perkins.
11,558.
9. June, 1819.
Sp y
Con.
William Tingley,
Cadiz, Ohio.

State of Ohio ss On this 31 st day of July Anno Domini 1820, personally appeared in Open Court being the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the fifth Judicial Circuit of Ohio, the same being a Court of Record, James Perkins aged Sixty two Years, Resident in said Harrison County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath Declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows he enlisted in the 4 th Regiment Light Dragoons of the Pennsylvania line, commanded by Col. Stephen Moylan in Capt. David Hopkins Company on the 25 th of April 1777 at Monocacy in Frederick County in the State of Maryland, He was in the Battle of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and at the capture of Lord Cornwallis that he served Seven Years successively in said Regiment and was honourably discharged at Lancaster in Pennsylvania on the 9 th of March 1783 by Jonah Kirtland Adjutant of said Regiment by order of Benjamin Lincoln Secretary of War. That the date of his original Declaration was the 4 th of February 1819. That he has received a Pension certificate, and that the number thereof is 11. 558. And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a Resident Citizen 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 manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of An Act "entitled" an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818: and that I have not nor has any person for me any property or securities, contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. Viz.
Schedule of all property, or Securities, contracts or Debts, owned by or due me.
  1 Plough $ 3. 00 1 Reel $ 0. 25   2 Pair horse Gears 1. 50 1 Pair Sheers 0 - 25   3 Cows 24. 00 1 St. Gipsers 0. 06 3/4   2 Small Bells 0. 50 6 cups & Saucers 0. 50 

2 Steers $ 20.00 2 calves 00.25 1 Cwe & Lamb 1.50 1 Tea Canister 0.06 1/4 1 Coffee etc 0.12 1/2 1 Ten Gallon Kettle 2.00 5 Knives & 4 Forks 25 1 Dutch Oven broken 1.00 6 Spoons 12 1/2 1 old Trunk 50 1 Churn & 2 Buckets 50 1 old table 50 5 old Chairs 1.75 1 Spinning Wheel 1.00 1 old Flour Barrel 06 1/4 44.62 1/2
6 Plates $0.25 1 old Tea Pot 0.12 1/2 1 old Coffee Pot 0.12 1/2 1 Bread Server 0.12 1/2 2 Pair Spectacles 0.50 2 Scythes 1.75 1 Cradle 0.12 1/2 2 old Sickles 0.12 1/2 2 Earthen crocks 0.06 1/4 2 hoes 1.00 2 Axes 2.00 1 old Basket 0.12 1/2 1 old Bible 1.00 1 Psalm Book 25 1 Hymn Book 75 3 School Books 75 1 Testament 25 10 old Books 75 1 Inkstand 12 1/2
We also has a crop of grain supposed to be worth 44.62 1/2 55.56 1/2
Debts due him
From Joseph Menducks $2.25 Seth Larkins 1.00 Valentine Fisher 1.12 1/2 Eln Cheene 1.25
James Larkins
Pension from the State of Pennsylvania $40. Per Annum
The following is an account of Debts owing by said James Larkins, viz.
To Joseph Menducks $80 - To Hugh Orr 70 To George Riggle 7.50 To William Albaugh 7.50 To John Reed 15.00 To Beach Spring congregation 4.00 To John Miller 2.60 To John Gulshale 3.00 To Rowland Craig 38.87 1/2 To Thomas Bingham H o 5.07 1/2 To Thomas Fleming 2.50 To Wm I. Harrison 6.42 1/2 Due on Squire Maxwells Doctor 16.00

  " Doct. Cummings  unknown     " Doct. Ackerly  unknown     " Jacob Reason   $7. 00    " John Reason   3 " 75      $294 " 32 1/2  
And this Declarant further swears that the situation of himself and family is as follows. — he is infirm from Rheumatic affections and unable to do more than a fourth or an half days work — his wife is 60 years of age, Sickly and unable to do but little work, he has three children at home, one son will be 21 years old by the 17 th of Oct. next one other son who will be 18 5 th of August next one Daughter aged 14. very Sickly, This Deponent is a Daylor by Trade but on account of the failure of his Eye Sight can work but little at it.
James Larkin
Sworn to & declared on the 31 st of July 1820
in open Court William Tingley Clerk
State of Ohio Harrison County ss I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Harrison aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty five Dollars and fifty six and a half cents. — — —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Cadiz this fifth day of August A. D. 1820
William Tingley Clerk of the Court for the County of Harrison

James Larkins. private  Sergeant Colonel Moyland's Regt Pennsylvania line 1777 to 1783
Found on Rolls
admired

State of Ohio Harrison County
On the fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, before me Samuel Boyd, one of the Associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said Harrison County, personally appeared James Larkins, a good sixty three years, a citizen of the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining relief under the provisions of the act of Congress passed March 18. 1818. Entitled, "An to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." That he enlisted near Lancaster town in the State of Maryland on the 25 th day of April, 1777 in Capt. David Hopkins Company, 4 th Regiment Light Dragoons, commanded by Colonel Stephen Moylan of the Pennsylvania line - that Hezekiah Pike was pay master, James Henry Bedkin Adjutant and Patrick Bennett Quarter Master of said Regiment - that after having been in the battles of Germantown, Brandywine, and Monmouth under said Capt. David Hopkins, after which he belonged to a detached company of Dragoons under the command of Capt. John Hovey at the siege of York, and capture of Cornwallis - that afterwards he was transferred to another detached company of Dragoons under the command of Capt. Erasmus Gill, in which company he served in South Carolina, in the Regiment aforesaid, when he was wounded severely in the thigh - that he continued serving in said Regiment of Light Dragoons, until the 9 th of March 1783 the time of the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace with Great Britain, although he received a conditional discharge at Lancaster, Pennsylvania on the 22. September 1782, signed by Jonah Hallett, then Adjutant of said Reg t of Light Dragoons, by order of Benjamin Lincoln, then Secretary of War - that through time and accident his discharge has been lost - that he is in firm and in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country - that he herewith transmits all the

evidence in his power of the foregoing facts, and that he hereby relinquishes all rights and titles to any other pension from the government of the United States.
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Boyd
Associate Judge etc -
State of Ohio } Harrison County }
I Samuel Boyd one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Harrison County in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that on the fourth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen nineteen, the above named James Larkins did personally appear before me and make oath to the foregoing declaration, and also, that I am well satisfied from the testimony produced before me, that the said James Larkins did serve in the revolutionary war, for a longer period than nine months, against the common enemy, viz from the 25 th of April 1777 till the 22 nd September 1782 - and I do further certify that I believe from the testimony produced to me, that the said James Larkins is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of his country's assistance: and I do now certify and transmits to the Secretary of the Department of War the declaration so sworn to as of record before me, and also the testimony of the facts therein contained.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Boyd
Associate Judge etc

State of Ohio } Harrison County, } ss
I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Harrison do hereby certify that the within named Samuel Boyd Esquire before whom the within Deposition of the within named James Larkin appear to have been taken and whose name to the within certificate is sub- scribed, was at the time of taking said Affidavit and certifying the same and now is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned, and qualified, and to all whose Official Acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Cadiz this fourth day of February Anno Domini 1819.
William Tingley Clerk
Cadiz, Harrison County, O is the nearest Post office

No
Catharine Larkin dec d widow of James Ohio
Married after the termination of her husband's ser- vice and died before July 7 1838.
Rejected
July 7 1838

State of Ohio County of Linn Be it known that on this 5 th day of January A.D. 1856 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the county & State aforesaid Betsy Cook aged 49 years a resident of the county of Wyandott in the said State of Ohio who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the several acts of Congress passed prior to the fourth day of February 1853 that she is the daughter of the identical James Perkins deceased who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and who was also late a pensioner of the United States Government that her mother's name was Catharine Perkins whose former name was Catharine Greilinger that her said father & mother were lawfully married at Lancaster Pennsylvania on the third day of July A.D. 1783 by Henry Mchlenberg V.D.M., as will appear by the original certificate of marriage a certified copy of which is hereto attached. that her said father James Perkins died on the 12 th day of July A.D. 1828 at Harrison county State of Ohio and that her said mother died at Vincennes county State of Ohio on the 27 th day of April A.D. 1837. that for proof of the death of her said father she refers to the application made by her executor after his decease for the pension due & unpaid to said deceased at the date of his death. Affiant further says under oath that James Perkins of Green county State of Ohio and affiant are the children and the only living children of the said James & Catharine Perkins deceased known to affiant Betsy Cook
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year first above written and I hereby certify that Betsy Cook whose genuine signature appears to the above declaration, is the person

know that she is a person of good moral character and worthy of credit, and that the foregoing statement and affidavit made & subscribed by her are entitled to full faith and credit. And I further certify that the following is a true and exact copy of a marriage certificate in official possession which certificate from the style of the letter & appearance of the papers (the same being printed) has the appearance of having been executed many years ago.
"These are to certify that James Watkins and Catharine Leininger, both of Lancaster were lawfully joined in matrimony the third day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three per me Witness my hand. (Signed) Henry Reichenberg V. D. M.,
And I further certify that I have no interest in the said estate for pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Pottstown the third day of January 1886. Joseph Kinneloy Probate Judge

State of Ohio county of Franklin Before me the  an Notary Public in and for said county & state personally appeared Solomon Cook and J. D. Cook who being duly sworn according to law say they were each acquainted with Catharine Sartin in the foregoing declaration mentioned in her lifetime That the said Catharine Sartin died at Columbus county State of Ohio on the 27th day of April 1853; That they were both present & saw her buried, Affiants further say that they are acquainted with the family of said James & Catharine Sar- tins that the said James Sartin & the said Betsy Cook are the only living children of said James & Catharine Sartin and that  to the best of their knowledge that they are both disinherited witnesses. Solomon Cook J. D. Cook
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 7 th day of January 1856 & I certify that the said affiants are both credible persons & entitled to full faith & credit That I have no interest in said Pension claim
Witness my hand officially sealed the Seal of said Court at Upper Saranac Ohio this fifth day of January A.D. 1856 Joseph H. Hine Notary Public

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of James Perkins a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 25, 1777 Capt David Rabin Stephen Mayhew N. Jersey   John Hazard   William Hill   while on the lines at Trenton & Princeton   was honorably discharged in Dec. 1778   discharged Sept. 22, 1782  
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank
Residence of soldier at enlistment, near Lancaster Penn.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 1819
Residence at date of application, Circleville, Ohio
Age at date of application, 78 years
Remarks: He married at Lancaster Penn. July 3, 1763 Catherine Gerlinger (a widow). She died in Circleville, Ohio Apr. 27, 1837. In 1820 Soldier referred to his wife then 60 years old, a son J. C. b. 1792, another b. 1795, a daughter b. 1800. In 1833 Elizabeth or Betty (widow of James Perkins) was alive.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1913 Oct. 21 Hist To Miss Fannie B. Perkin. V.P.M.
6167
P. O. Catherine Perkin
Service: widow of James
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Hillsboro Ohio Oct 18th 1913.
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir: Kindly send to my ad- dress copy of pension certificate of James Larkin of Harrison Co. Ohio Sergeant in Penn. Continental line Revolutionary War. Placed on pension roll June-9th-1819. Thanking you for favor in advance. Please address,
(Miss) Harriette B. Larkin Hillsboro Ohio

No 15.378
Catharine Perkin dec? Widow of James Ohio
Rejected, she was married after her hus- band left the service & died before July 7 1838.
Ford Davis & Smith Jan y 24 1856-
6167
July 7 1838,

This day came personally before me the Subscribed one of the justice of the peace for Harrison County, Martin GUILINER and after being sworn in the presence of law deposed and saith that he has been acquainted with James Kirtland a few years very lately for many years and from the reason that he knows and his advance in years renders him incapable of his own interest and his present circumstances requires his contempt and forthwith this deponent made oath before me to and subscribe before me on this nineteenth day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 1818
James Kirtland } 96 } Martin Guiliner
State of Ohio } } I William Singley Clerk of the Harrison County } } Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Harrison do hereby certify that Bruce W. Neis Esquire before whom the above Deposition appears to have been taken and whose name to the same is subscribed, was at the time of taking said Deposition and now is one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and to all whose official acts as such Justices faith and credit is due. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto sets my hand and affixed the the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 24 th day of December A.D. 1818. William Singley Clerk

The State of Ohio } Whereas information has been made to me Highland County } that a Certain James Larkins an old Revolution- ary Soldier who has serv d in the Cavalry of the united States for seven years and Honorably Discharg d but by some accident has lost or mislaid his Discharge Therefore it still being in the power of him the said Larkins to prove the services rendered by him the said Larkins to the united States - in consequence whereof Samuel Adair, of the County of Highland and State of Ohio appear d in person before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace and after being duly qualified Deposed and said that of his knowledge he knew that the said James Larkins did enlist himself as a Soldier in the Cavalry of the united States Army and that he serv d seven years and was legally Discharg d and that he had more than once seen and read his Discharge — and also said Adair appear d and was qualified and states that the statement made above by Samuel Adair is just and true and further these deponents say the not Sworn to and Subscrib d before me this 11 th Day of December 1818
Attest
James Johnson Justice of the peace
Samuel Adair Sarah Adair
The State of Ohio } ss Highland County }
I Samuel Bell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, In & for said County certify that James John- son Before whom the above deposition was taken is and was at the time of taking said deposition an acting Justice of the peace for and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and full faith and credit is justly due and of right ought to be given to all his official acts as such In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affix the Seal of said Court this 12 th Day of November 1818 Samuel Bell Clk. H. Ct.

I Do hereby Certify, That James Larkins a Serjeant in the 4 th Regt. Light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Stephen Moylan in the Service of the United States of America, in the Revolutionary war - Whose Duty it had been for some considerable time to charge the lines of the Enemy, was on or near the middle of January 1782 severely wounded in the Service of his Country on the lines near Bacons Bridge, in the State of South Carolina in his left thigh with a shot having one of the main leaders and one of the large veins of his thigh cut in two, thereby Bleeding &c - Untill his life was nearly Despaired of and by which together with Old age join'd to the sore fortigues of Seven Years faithful Service in the defence of his Country he is rendered nearly incapable of making a comfortable sup- -port for life & the Subscriber being personally present when the wound was received & belonged to the fourth  fourth  regiment  regiment & North
Somerset County ss
Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally appeared the above named Tealor Duffy: and after being sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God: and on his solemn Oath Doth say: that the above Certificat contains a true Statement to the best of his knowledge - as to the services & suffering of the above named James Larkin in Defence of the united States in Revolutionary war with Great Britain Sworn before me This 15 th December 1812.
John. Mitchell #
I e e e e

Pennsylvania Somerset County } ss
In Testimony that John Mitchell Esq before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Somerset County duly commissioned and sworn I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Records office at Somerset this 16 th day of October 1813
Alexander Egle Joint Recorder

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT
we  the undersigned  of the county of Ashtland & of the county of Green in the State of Ohio
do hereby constitute and appoint Forrest Davis & Smith of Richland county and State of Ohio Attorney both in law and in fact, for us and for our use, and in our behalf, and in our name, or in the  their own name, or otherwise at the  their discretion, to ask, apply for, recover and receive from the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of Pensions, the Pay Master General, or from any office or Department of the United States' Government, or any officer or person connected therewith, generally all sums of money, arrearages of pay, extra-pay, pensions, bounty lands, or claims, allowances or property of any kind, that may be due or become due to us for or on account of any military or other services rendered the United States, for which we have now, or may hereafter have any claim, under or by virtue of any law of the Congress of the United States, or in any way whatever: and particularly for military services rendered the United States by our father James Lockridge
And we hereby fully authorize and empower our said Attorney to take all lawful means for the recovery of the aforesaid or any part thereof; to attend to the final adjustment of all business now pending before either of the offices or officers, above mentioned, in which we are interested, and to make examination for us of all rolls and records, and proof filed therein; to give all necessary receipts, releases, discharges, or other sufficient acquittances upon payment of the same to him : to make compromises, if he deem it expedient, and to do all other acts and things in the premises that we could do were we personally present, hereby revoking all former powers of attorney heretofore executed by us , and also hereby granting to our said Attorney Forrest Davis & Smith all our power, and authority, in the premises, firmly and irrevocably, and hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever he shall do lawfully by virtue hereof.—Witness our hand and seal this 14th day of December A. D. 1855.
Signed sealed and executed in presence of Forrest Davis  SEAL James Lockridge  SEAL Forrest Davis  SEAL James Lockridge  SEAL
THE STATE OF Ohio } On the 14th day of December COUNTY OF Green } A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me J. H. Lockridge a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, the above named Forrest Davis & James Lockridge
to me well known, and ACKNOWLEDGED the foregoing power of attorney to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

The State of Ohio } I John Boyd Clerk of the Court of Common Franklin County ss } Pleas in and for said County do hereby Certify that J. H. Jenkins before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged, was at the time of taking said acknowledgment an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly elected Commissioned and qual- ified and as such duly authorized by law to take acknow- ledgments &c, that his attestation is in due form of law and that his signature thereto affixed is to me well known to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Lima in said County, this 14th day of Decem- ber 1855.
John Boyd Clerk Court here Franklin County Ohio By Geo. L. McWhorter Deputy