Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,272, for James Mitchell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass U.S.A.
Mitchell James
NUMBER
R. 7272
CONTENTS
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Rec. April 17. 1828
72608
James Mitchell Hamilton County
Ohio
Oct 18 March 1818
Genl. J. Findlay 4th
Rejected See letter of March 1818 to James Mitchell
7272
James L. Edwards Esquire
Pension office
Washington

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
REJECTED
72172
P. O.
James Mitchell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

20608
James Mitchell Hamilton County Ohio Act 18 March 1818.
Hn J Findlay. H.R. rec 17 April 1828

State of Ohio County of Hamilton ss
On this 8 th day of March 1828. personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of record expressly made so by the Laws of this State for the County aforesaid James Mitchell aged Sixty nine years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath Make the following declaration in Order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and first of May 1820. That he the said James Mitchell enlisted for the term of during the war some time in the Autumn of the year 1777 in the neighbourhood of Saratoga in the State of New York in the Company Commanded by Capt Pearce in the Regiment Commanded by Col Michael Jackson in the line of the State of Massa- chusetts on the Continental establishment. that he Continued to serve in the said Company and regiment for about One year according to the best of his recollection as to the time when he was transferred from that regiment to Capt Fobb's Company of Col Scott's Regiment of the New Hampshire line in Continental establishment at his own request as he had a brother serving in that Regiment and he wished to be with him in the service that he continued to serve in this last Company & Regiment until about the close of the year 1780 when he was honorably discharged from the service at Schenectady in the State of New York that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the Roll of any State and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension namely that about thirteen years ago he lost his honorable discharge which was destroyed by the burning of his house and as he did not know of any pension or pensions in this part of the United States by whom he could

from his Service (his discharge being destroyed) which he thought indispensable to establish his claim to pension he declined to make earlier application. But he has been very recently informed that if his name can be found on the rolls of the Companies and Regiments in which he served which from the length of time he served he believes it can no further evidence will be required and it is in full belief that it can that he now makes the application. And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 of Congress 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 March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed. Town & rural estate and my personal property my necessary clothing and bedding except as follows, to wit, 4 Cows worth $75 each $300.00 My house hold furniture consisting of 1 table half dozen chairs, 1 small chest, plates tea cups and saucers, knives and forks and cooking utensils all of the most common kind at the highest estimate I can put upon them cannot be worth more than $25.00 Making together $325.00 
This applicant for pension further states on his oath that he is by occupation a Miller but that in consequence of his old age and infirmity he is unable to provide for a

living
That he has a Wife and four children living all of whom except the youngest child aged nine years who is subject to fits and almost an idiot are capable of supporting themselves this applicant further declares that from old age and infirmity he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support.
James Mitchell
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court this 8 th day of March 1828. Dan s Gano
The State of Ohio Hamilton County
I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for the County of Hamilton do hereby Certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said James
Mitchell did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the length of time stated in said declaration namely One engagement on the Continental establishment. I also Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court. and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount or value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid schedule is fifty three dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Our said Court at Cincinnati this 3 rd day of April A.D. 1828.
Dan s Gano