Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,297, for James Sullivan, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Sullivan, James Mary
R 10297
CONTENTS

1882 Mary Sullivan. widow of James. Death Act July 7 th 1838, Me
James Sullivan DAD

State of North Carolina County of Lincoln
Be it Known, that on this 29 th day of November A. D. 185 2 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Catharine Moore and Samuel Sullivan . Children of James Sullivan  deceased , resident of Lincoln County , in said County, and made oath according to law that they are the identical  children of James Sullivan , who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 1818 that they are  over directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, we hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT , of Washington City, our true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of James Sullivan  our for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for our exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that he might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Catharine Moore Samuel Sullivan
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Catharine Moore & Samuel Sullivan to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
J. T. Alexander Justice of the Peace
State of North Carolina County of Lincoln
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Lincoln County that Catharine Moore & Sam d Sullivan the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the Children of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that J. T. Alexander Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office,
this 29 th day of November 185 2
Robt. Williamson, Clk.
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3 "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—13. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

State of North Carolina } personally appeared Lincoln County } Ezekial Sullivan before me James Quinn, one of the acting Justices of the peace, in and for said county, and after being duly sworn according to law: saith on his oath that the above attached Record is the family Record, of James Sullivan and his wife Mary Sullivan; and that it has been in his possession, ever since the death of James Sullivan, and that it is in the hand writing of James Sulli- -van, and that it is the original and genuine family record, of James Sullivan and his wife Mary Sullivan sworn to and subscribed before me this 4 th day of December 1845.
Jas Quinn
Ezekiel Sullivan
State of North Carolina } I Robert Williamson Lincoln County } Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for Lincoln County N.C. do certify that James Quinn whose name doth appear to the foregoing affidavit as an acting Justice of the peace for said county and all his official acts is entitled to full force and credit in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 4 th day of December 1845.
R. Williamson, Clk.

James Sullivan was born February the 9 th 1755 Mary Sullivan was born October the 14 th 1761 Samuel Sullivan was born January the 15 th 1771 John Sullivan was born December the 5 th 1780 Thomas Sullivan was born July the 14 th 1782 Sarah Sullivan was born November the 15 th 1783 Peter Sullivan was born December the 14 th 1785 James Sullivan was born December the 23 rd 1787 Owen Sullivan was born December the 9 th 1789 Elijah Sullivan was born December the 25 th 1791 Anne Sullivan was born February the 29 th 1793 Mary Sullivan was born January the 19 th 1795 Ezekiel Sullivan was born November the 23 rd 1797 Margaret Sullivan was born August the 15 th 1800 Katharine Sullivan was born January the 21 st 1802 James Taylor Janin was born March the 10 th 1812 Margaret Sullivan was born March the 28 th 1812
The children of James Sullivan children Ezekiel Sullivan his

183 1791 44 Ezekiel Sullivan was Born November the 23 rd AD 1797
Elijah Taylor was Born June the 13 th AD 1815
Nancy Glynne was born September 17. 1827
John B Sullivan was born December 4 th 1822
Elijah Moore was born April 29 th - 1827 James Moore, was Born October 12 - 1828
Ezekiel Sullivan was Married to Sarah Mauney January 17 th 1828
Ezekiel Sullivan was born November 23 - 1797
Sarah Sullivan was born April 9 th - 1807
Mary E Sullivan was born June 9 th 1830 Martha Sullivan was born April 24 th 1839

State of N. Carolina } }
Pinealun County June 7 1845
On this the 7 th day of March  June 1845 personal appeared before me one of the acting and presiding Justices of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county Mary Sullivan a resident of the county of Pinealun at N. Carolina aged eighty three years in October last when being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act congress passed July 4 th 1836 - that she is the widow of James Sullivan who was a private soldier under capt Nixon who was afterwards Colonel, lived in the state of New Jersey. Town of Hyatt Middlesex county, entered the service in the Year 1777 or 8 was in the service more than once; does not recollect any of the other officers Nor any Battle - was drafted - stationed the longest period of time at Elizabethtown and she has no documentary evidence in support of the claim - she further declares on oath that she was married to the said James Sullivan on the 10 th of September in seventeen hundred and seventy seven that her husband the said James Sullivan died on the 27 th day of August in the Year eighteen hundred & twenty five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period of time as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed sworn to and subscribed on the day and Year first above written David L. Coover M c Mary her S t Saven mark
655] To Sept. 1. 1845

I David Crouse being one of the presiding justices of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Lincoln it being a court of record: do certify that Mary Sullivan did file here to be subscribed the foregoing declaration and that she is a person of good moral character and creditability and do further certify that she is unable to appear in open court from bodily infirmity & old age
David Crouse W. D. D.

Abner Hull of the age of seventy three years, being sworn according to law states that he knows of his own knowledge that James Sullivan was the husband of Mary Sullivan the declarant. That he is dead and that she has never since married. That he served in the war of the revolution. He does not know the year. He knows that he (Sullivan) served under Capt Nixon. That he knew Capt Nixon & that the service was rendered in the state of New Jersey & the time of service was six months or upwards. That he has heard his father say that he & Sullivan were in the said company known to & acquainted before me & that he, the affiant is a man of good & credible character. June 18 1845- Abner Hull
David Crouse J.P.
I further certify that I am one of the presiding judges of the court of pleas & sessions for the county of Lincoln it being a court of record
David Crouse J.P.

Nancy Moore being arraigned according to law deponeth as follows. That she knows that James Sullivan served in the war of the revolution. That she lived with his wife during the time he was absent from home in the army. That he was married. That the cause of his death was a stroke of the palsy. That he died some eighteen years ago as she believes. That she was present when he asked for his wife. knows of their going to be married & of their returning & living together & being recognized as man & wife in the neighborhood. She knows the organs who married them. That there was no children under the age of sixteen years at the time of his death & that the applicant Mrs Sullivan was never again married. That he served in Captain Sissons Company - the length of time she does not recollect. That she believes he was stationed part of the time at the town of Trenton. That she does not know if his having been in any battle. That they lived in Hyatts town New Jersey - That he moved to Lincoln County North Carolina a few years after Lord Cornwallis surrendered. That she the deponent is twenty eight years old - That
SWORN TO & SUBSCRIBED TO BEFORE ME H. Candler Justice of the Peace.
I H Candler certify that Nancy Moore was duly sworn to the foregoing statement & that she is a woman of good moral character and creditability H. Candler J.P.
State of North Carolina Lincoln County
I, Cyrus L. Hunter, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Lincoln County, do hereby certify, that David Crouse & H. Candler, Esquire, whose names appear as attesting the foregoing, are, & were at the respective dates thereof, acting & presiding Justices of said Court, moreover that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. Given under my hand, and the seal of said Court, at office, the 26 th day of August 1845. C. L. Hunter, C.C.C. By R. Williamson, D.C.

10292

Catharine Moore daughter of James & Mary Sullivan.
To
Edwards Smith
Power of attorney.
We desire to see the papers of Mary Sullivan applicant for a revolutionary pension from N. C. 5 May '52 Edwards Smith
Mr Cole May 31/52

Claims Power of Attorney Revolutionary Pension
Know all men by these Presents that I Catharin Moore of Lincoln County State of North Carolina hereby constitute and appoint Edward Smith my true and lawful agent and Attorney to prosecute the claim of my Mother Mary Sullivan (widow of James Sullivan who was a Revolutionary Soldier) for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said claim which Certificate I wish made payable to us the Surviving Children
to appoint one or more substitutes Substitutes under him for the purposes expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the premises
Witness my hand and seal this 16 th day of April 1852 Signed and sealed in presence of W.B. Johnson H.C. B.G. of
Catharine Moore State of North Carolina
Lincoln County
on this 16 th day April
A.D. 1852
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Catharin Moore and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned contained

I in witness whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
J. B. Johnson
Claim of Pension Set of 7 th June 1832
State of North Carolina
Be Known it that on this 16 th day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty two before the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and/or the County and State of aforesaid personally appeared Catharine Moore a resident of NC in said County and made oath according to law that she is the daughter of the within named Mary Sullivan who made application for a pension for services in the war of the revolution which Claim was not allowed and presumes the papers are on file at Washington City (entitled before signed) Sworn to and subscribed Catharine Moore this the day and year aforesaid before me
J. B. Johnson
I J. B. Johnson Justice of the Peace in and/or said County do hereby certify that Catharine Moore who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County and is I believe directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth
J. B. Johnson

State of North Carolina Lincoln County.
I, Robert Williamson, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that B. S. Johnson, Esquire, is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine. Certified under my hand and seal of office, at office, this 16 th day of April 1852.
Robt Williamson, Clerk.

10,277
P. O.
Mary Sullivan
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Shelbyville May 21 st 1848
Mr Edwards esq
At the request of Mr Lewis Roberts I inform you that the claim filed in the pension office in favor of Mary Sullivan by me, has been transferred to Mr Roberts; and that your letter to me in regard to it has been misplaced & in consequence thereof I was unable to give any information in respect to the claim.
Yours &c J. S. Hoke

Office of Secretary of State. Trenton February 12, 1846
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 11. inst. I have to state - by the records of this office it appears Capt e Rob t Nixon commanded a Company of Horse in 1777. Consisting of 44 officers and privates. the name of James Sullivan is not found on the Roll of Capt e Nixon - the Service was not over five months. - Some years ago, I had the Muster Roll of Capt e Nixon - with me at the Pension office - where it was copied at your request.
I have the honor to be very Respectfully your Obed t Serv t Charles J. M c Cluskey
Hon J. L. Edwards

Catawba Creek N.C. June 25
Don J. C. Washington July 1/60

Catawba Creek Gaston County N.C. June 24 th 1850
Honorable J. L. Edwan
Sir I want to me at what Point the Claim of the heirs of Mary Sullivan of Lincoln County depended at in the presentation of the claim for the services of her husband James Sullivan in the Revolutionary war as a citizen of the State of New Jersey. I have been requested by the heirs to make the inquiry and to me what further proof is necessary to establish the claim an early answer to the above would be very welcome received by yours very respectfully
A. B. G. of

Sir
Swangstown, N. Carolina December 6 th 1845
I herewith enclose the family Record of James Sullivan and his wife Mary Sullivan, to be used in the case of Mary Sullivan, claiming a pension whose Declaration, was forwarded to the pension office sum six or eight months since, by John Hoke of Lincolnton N.C. who has desisted the prosecution of her Claim. I have therefore been requested to attend to her Claim; I am not aware of what has been set forth further than Mr. Hoke, said that there was something wanting further to establish the Date of the marriage - I have therefore procured the family Record, feeling in hope that it will be satisfactory evidence - in her case
It is my impression that Mary Sullivan widow of James Sullivan above mentioned is entitled to the benefit of the act of 4 th July, 1836 -
I am very Respectfully
yours -
Mr J. L. Edwards
James Roberts
Com. of pensions
Washington City
D.C.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Sullivan, John GRADE Sergeant "in the LINE Invalids"
WARRANT NUMBER 13778 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 4, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.