Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43894, for John Ramer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Hass
Ramelt, John or Rainorell
NUMBER _____
S 43894
CONTENTS

0169.
New York
John Ramer
of Ontario in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grafton of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three Years - 1780 -
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of March 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esquire Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th March 1819 $ 85.83 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Specification sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. Sept 1818 Canandaigua N.Y.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
John Brimmore in the Second Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the 23 rd Day of
December 1783.
By the General's Command,
W. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
C. Tappan Adjutant

Claim of John Raimon April 13 th 1818
Correct
The Honorable Secy of War.
Ontario

State of New York Ontario County S s
John Rainmore of the Town of Ontario in the County of Ontario and State of New York formerly from Princeton in the State of Massachusetts being duly sworn and sworn deponeth and saith that he served this County in the War of the Revolution and that he is a native citizen of the United States and that he the deponent enlisted in the year 1780- as a private Soldier in Capt. Walker's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Graton and that he was afterwards shifted into another Company and Regiment and that after having served out said time he Received an Honorable discharge which is herewith transmitted. And the deponent further saith that he is Fifty three years of age and in Indigent circumstances and in need of support from Government and therefore prays that his name may be placed on the pension list pursuant to an Act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818- entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War and further the deponent saith not Sworn to declared & subscribed John Rainmore This 13 th day of April 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and State of New York

Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Raimore did service the Revolutionary war as stated in the proceed- ing declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Canandaigua April 13 th 1818
Stephen Phelps
Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify from satisfactory evidence exhibited before me that John Raimore the above mentioned Applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support — — Canandaigua July 7 th 1818
Stephen Phelps

The Honorable Secretary of War if my Claims are allowed will please to forward a Certificate of the same to Stephen Phelps Esq. of Canandaigua who is my agent April 13 th 1818 John Raper

State of New York Ontario County Clerks office
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 24 th day of April A D 1818
Rev. Mr. Nance

copy base of John Baumer 3
C 8169 24 March 1819 Apr 15

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twelfth  first day of August 1818 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) John Rainer aged fifty seven years, resident in the town of Ontario in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Under capt Robert Walker in Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment of the Massachusetts at the time as private for the term of three years commencing in March 1780 , and discharged under capt Adams Bailey Colonel Benjamin Shurtliff's Regiment
and that he made application for a Pension on the fourteenth day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 8.169 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 so 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 18th day of 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, viz.
  One cow $13.00 One sucking goat & mare $9.00 22 00   Six Sheep $1.12 1/2 each $6.75 Six Lambs $5.25 12 00   Five Shoats $2.00 each $10.00 One Plough $1.00 11 00   Two old hoes 0.75 Nine old drags & heth $2.00 2 75   Butt Rings & Shanks 0.00 Two old abethy 0.50 1 00   One kettle 3.50 Three small kettles 2.50 6 00   One old tea kettle 0.50 One old base of Drawry 1.00 1 50   Six old chairs 1.50 Two flat irons 0.75 2 25   Four Bowls 0.25 Six Tea cups & Saucers 0.25 50   Six old knives & Forks 0.50 Eight old plates 0.50 1 00   One old Loon & Hackling $4.50 Three sails 0.50 5 00   One old half Bush 0.25 Shovel & Forks 0.75 1 00   One Foster 0.25 One old shovel 0.25 50   Two old Whels 3 00 
$74 50
John Rainer
And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a Farmer and that by old age and some infirmity I am not able to do much work and that my Family consists of my Wife Aged thirty Eight years, my daughter Catherine Fourteen years, and Martha Nine years, and Son Orlando Six years, and daughter Emilie Five years of age, Sons Ephraim & Ephraim aged Three years
John Rainer

Sworn & declared this twenty first day of August 1820 in Open Court before me
William Rogers
a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Hosen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther 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 Twenty Four dollars and Fifty six cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 o day of August 1820
J. Van Hosen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.

H 3 8924 INVALID.
Rev
File No. H 3 8924
John Ramey His Her and
Act: 15 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 410
[Arrangement of 1870.]