Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4628, for James Oakley, Virginia

Va.
Oakley James
S4628

See opposite page Dew
(copy)
Pension Office,
September, 21 st 1842.
Sir:
The declaration of James Oakley has been examined and filed. He alleges service in Virginia as a drafted Militia man from August to November 1777, and in a Voluntary Company of Cavalry in 1781, for six months, and at the time of making the declaration it would appear, had a discharge from his first alleged service which it is alleged has been since lost. Under these circumstances a favorable decision cannot be made unless some direct evidence can be produced of the claimant having performed Military Service as alleged or the discharge can be found and sent to this office. The last alleged service is not deemed to have been continuous and only so much of it as would make up a term of six months service with that first alleged, could be allowed without positive proof being exhibited of the duration of the actual service under his last engagement.
It is also indispensably necessary that the interrogations should be made by the court and answered as required by the enclosed printed regulations.
John H. Dew, Esq., Columbia,
Tennessee
Over.
I am very respectfully, Your obt servant
(Signed) J. L. Edwards

Columbia May 3. 1843.
Dear Sir
You will see I have complied with the instructions as to James Oakley's Application for a pension. Mr Oakley can give any testimonials of respectability required by the department. He can say no more of his services than he has said in his former declaration, he has answered the interrogatories and sends the certificate from Capt. Foalks that he was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, his son through mistake put up the paper when I was preparing the papers and left & I thought I had lost it. I hope this will be satisfactory. Mr. Oakley will be put on the pension roll at some reasonable rate, he says he was in the War more than two years, he is so old & infirm he cannot remember his services with the accuracy required, but I think he is entitled at least for the Nine & Six Months term. Yours truly
J. H. Dew Atty for Jas Oakley
P.S. I have heretofore given you satisfactory references. Let me hear from you very soon. Yours Ans Direct your Letter to me &c.

Feb 24 1843
Hon. S. L. Edwards Com r Comm r of Pensions or Secretary of War Washington City Dist. of Columbia  In Oakley Pension Claims

Columbia February 13. 1843
Dear Sir
I received some time last Fall a letter from you inclosing to me a printed sheet of instructions as to Certain interrogatories to be propounded to & answered by James Oakley who had forwarded to the Secretary of War & Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City. his Discharge for a Pension I was at the time I received the papers from you, a Member of the Tennessee Legislature and as I came home My trunk was Stolen from the Stage and your letter & instructions were lost. I have written this  this the third letter to you asking of you a Copy of the letter you forwarded to me and another Copy of the printed instructions, that I may be enabled to get James Oakley to Amend his application according to your instructions.
I hope you will speedily comply with this request
Yours truly &c.
M. H. Dew Atty for James Oakley .