Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7851, for George Oxer, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
★ Oyer, George
R. 7851
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7851.
P. O.
George James Pyle
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N o 39.151
Jas Over. Heir at law of Geo. Over.
Ind
7857.
Joseph H. Brown. Oct: 30/58
Rejected. did not serve his father died in 1809. his mother in 24, Oct 32,

W. P. Furnace Oct. 25
Official Business
Return to Miss J. C. [?] Miss J. C. [?]
To The Hon Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
D. C.

Williamsport Indiana Oct 25 th 1888
To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir I herewith transmit to your department the Declaration of James Ozer for a soldier's pension. The time which has elapsed and the changes and removals which have been made since the time of the Revolutionary war renders it very difficult and almost impossible to give that accurate information which the forms of application to your department require. It is in this case impossible to procure any evidence for the application more satisfactory than that which accompanies the declaration. James Ozer himself being old and infirm and without education and his acquaintances of his age and generation having passed away. He is left in a measure without satisfactory proof of his right to a pension. But there is no doubt in my mind that his allegations are in the main true. And it is to be hoped that you will find sufficient and satisfactory evidence in the declaration and affidavits accompanying it to preclude a finding in favor of the declarant. By so doing you will confer a distinguished and valuable favor upon and an aged and infirm but loyal citizen of Indiana and his country yours sincerely
Joseph H Brown

State of Indiana } Warren Common Pleas Court County of Warren } October Term of 1858 In open Court Present Hon William H Ray Judge On the fourth day of October A.D 1858 Before the Court of Common Pleas held within and for the County and State aforesaid Personally appeared James Ozer aged Sixty Seven years a resident of Washington Township in the County of Warren and State of Indiana who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the Provisions of the act of the seventh of June 1842 That he is the only surviving child and Heir at law of George Ozer deceased who was a Soldier and Spy in the Company of Virginia Troops Commanded by Captain Barnett in the Regiment of Virginia Commanded by General George Washington in the War of the Revolution That his said father entered the service at the commencement of the War of the Revolution and as declarant believes at the Glade Hollow fort in Virginia that he continued in actual service in said war as spy soldier butcher and commissary during the whole time of said war That the said father received an honorable discharge but cannot give the time nor place that he was in the following engagements (to-wit) The Battle of Princeton The Battle of Shawnee The Battle of the Clouds the Battle of Kings Mountain and was in a skirmish with the Indians in which Captain Barnett recaptured the McAlister family in Virginia and were placed by him in the care of the said George Ozer That declarant has no documentary evidence of his father's service That he left a widow named Farkis Ozer who died about the year 1844 in the State of Kentucky That the said James Ozer is the only child and Heir living of the said Soldier

That the declarant does not recollect the year in which his mother was married to the said George Oyer But that they were married by a Baptist Minister by the name of Whitaker That the name of Declarants mother before her intermarriage with the said George Oyer was Fankie Shelly That his father George Oyer Died in Montgomery County in the State of Kentucky in the 21 st of October A D 1819 That there is no public or private record of the marriage of the declarants father and mother That the said James Oyer hereby appoints Joseph H. Brown of Warren county and State of Indiana his true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to prosecute his claim to receive the certificate when issued and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises
Witness James Oyer
Sworn to and acknowledged before me mark in the day and year first above mentioned and I hereby certify that I know the said deponent James Oyer and believe him to be as above stated State of Indiana and for the that I am not interested in this claim as attorney or otherwise County of Warren
In this 4 th day of October A D 1858
personally appeared Before the Clerk of the Warren Common Pleas Court John Arvelus a Resident of Warren County in the State of Indiana to me well known as a credible witness and who being duly sworn doth on his oath state that he was acquainted with Mrs Fankie Oyer above named that he knew her for Eight years Before her death in the state of Kentucky But that said affiant never examined her family Record nor knows of any that said affiant knows nothing of

Mrs Ozer's husband he being dead before affiant became acquainted with the said Sarah's husband  son that the said James Ozer is the son of the said Sarah Ozer and further saith not
Sarah Ozer
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above mentioned and Before me and I certify that I am in now manner interested
Henry R. Bonneroy Clerk by Rachael Dean Dept
State of Indiana } County of Warren }
On this seventh day of October 1858 personally appeared before the undersigned clerk of the Warren Common Pleas court Cynthia Ann Seybold of Saint Joseph County Indiana who being duly sworn according to law depose and says that as she was acquainted with Mrs Sarah's Ozer for four years in Montgomery County in the state of Kentucky Prior to her death that James Ozer was a son of Mrs Sarah's Ozer cannot give the time Mrs Sarah's Ozer died as I moved from there and settled in the state of Ohio I never knew the husband of Mrs Sarah's Ozer as she was a widow when I first knew her I know Mrs Sarah's Ozer about the year 1850 and do not know of any of Mrs Ozer's children living but her son James Ozer
Witness
Cynthia Ann mark Seybold
Subscribed and sworn to Before me this seventh day of October 1858
Henry R. Bonneroy Clerk by Rachael Dean Dept
State of Indiana } Court of Common Pleas County of Warren } October term of 1858
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before the said court which evidence is

Heirs assigned That George Ozer who as reported was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States Died in the month of October 18 Eighteen hundred and nine leaving surviving him a Widow named Sarah Ozer who died about the year Eighteen hundred and twenty four and that James Ozer is the only surviving child of the aforesaid Soldier who is a Resident of Washington Township Warren County in the State of Indiana The Testimony Whereof I have hereunto by order of said Court set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 8 th day of October One thousand Eighteen hundred and fifty eight
Henry M. Borneacy Clerk by Benjamin S. Wheeler Deft

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Oxx, Peter GRADE Private LINE Von Heer's Dragoons
WARRANT NUMBER 13559 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED October 28, 1789 To Matt. Mc Connell, assignee
*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.