Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 902, James Blackmer, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Blackner, James
R. 902
CONTENTS

I am 66 years of age unable to do any thing for four years can not walk only by the help of two sticks My wife Polly Blackmer is 48 years of age not able to labour My Daughter Mary Ann Blackmer is 9 years of age in common health My son Harrison Blackmer is 6 years of age in common health

Due to James and Samuel Cotts 826 Dollars Due to Josiah Burton ————— 20 Dollars Due to John B. Root ————— 21 Dollars Due to Elijah Littlefield ————— 46-50 Cents Due to Daniel Hodges ————— 70 Dollars

James Blackmer Application
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Did not serve 9 months at any one period of enlistment in the Continental establish- ment
902

DISTRICT OF VERMONT, SS.
ON this 11 th day of June 182 1 personally appeared in open court, being a county court and court of record, which has power to fine and imprison, and is constituted a court of record by a special act of the Legislature of the state of Vermont, creating said court, within and for the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, James Blackman aged sixty six years, resident in Dorset in said county of Bennington who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows:
I served in the company , commanded by John Green Captain in the regiment , commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Learned of the Massachusetts line, for eight months from the first day of May 1775 & about two weeks before my term of enlistment expired I volunteered at request of General Gates and served until the first of April 1776 after this I served 4 months as a soldier in Captain Joseph Cutler's Company in Col. Woodbridge's Regiment in 1777 I served three months in Capt. Daniel Gilkiss's company in Col. Burlington Regiment all of which was in the line of Massachusetts
as will appear by my original declaration on file in the War Office, dated the 29 th day of July 181 9 of which original declaration have received a pension certificate the number is herewith transmitted
AND I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day 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 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.
The following is a schedule of all the real and personal estate, to wit:
Real estate none
Personal estate - one yearling heifer - four sheep one small pot - one mares saddle one chest - one five pail kettle - one bucket kettle - three chairs James Blackman
Sworn to and declared at Manchester in open court, before me
in the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, on the
11 th day of June - 182 1 Joel Pratt Clerk
I, Joel Pratt clerk of Bennington County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration, Oath - and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further 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 20 dollars and 92 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 16 day of June - 182 1
Joel Pratt Clerk of the Court for the county of Bennington Vt

State of New York Livingston County, ss
On this 13th day of July, 1852, personally appeared before me H. J. Wood a justice of the peace of said County, Tannia Stevens aged fifty eight years & Almira Blackmer aged 52 years who being by me severally sworn say & each for herself say she is the daughter born of James Blackmer deceased reputed to have a Revolutionary Soldier. That said James Blackmer died in the year 1825 at Dorset Vermont leaving a widow him surviving who is now living to the best knowledge of these deponents. That the widow of said James Blackmer was not the mother of these deponents but was his second wife . That the mother of these deponents died about 43 years since their deponents Tannia
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above written
H. J. Wood
Justice of the peace
Tannia Stevens
Almira Blackmer

State of New York Livingston Co. ss
On this fifth day of July 1852, personally appeared before me Lemuel a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Livingston and State aforesaid appeared Levi Blackman, aged Eighty one years, a resident of the town of Richmond, in the County of Livingston & State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he was a brother to James Blackman, who, enlisted as he is informed and being believes, as a private in Captain Cuthbert's Company, in the town of Brookfield in the County Worcester, State of Massachusetts, for the period of three months, to serve in the Revolutionary War, and as near as he can now, recollect, served the full term of three months, — And this deponent further states that his Brother James before mentioned is now dead, and this deposition is made for the purpose of assisting Almina Blackman, & Fanny Stephens, surviving heirs of his deceased brother James, to obtain any pension money, & Bounty land, that they may be entitled to, as the surviving heirs, aforesaid, and from his best recollection the said James Blackman was honorably discharged, and he further states that

the said James Blackman, according to his best recollection served, at West Point, in the State of New York to Levi Blackman
several & described before me the day and year above written
Saman Goff a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Crompton N.Y.

Ex'r.
INVALID.
RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
James Blackman P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
REJECTED
James Hackman P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18__
Discharged: _____, 18__
Application filed: _____, 18__
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Rejoice.
did not serve 9 Mo. on Cont. establishment.
See letter to Leonard Largent, Esq.
Manchester,
U.K.
16 Oct. 1821.

Phoenix July 26 1882
The enclosed papers were handed to me to forward to your off. I was not aware that heirs of Revolutionary Soldiers were entitled to Pension - if so, and there is any thing now to be done to establish the claim - I will endeavor to procure it to be done, for any corrections to be made - by not being so,
Yours A. S. D.

Western July 24
183
M rs James Blackmer — in Manchester in Bennington County State of Vermont
Unfort. Kings Apprentice

I give you
I Danforth Keyes of Western in the County of Worcester and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esqr Do testify and Saith that James Blackmer formerly of said Western was a Soldier in the Service at the beginning of our Revolutionary War with Great Britain he was Eight months in Col. Eberd's Lencaster Regiment in which I was a Lieut. Col. and in Col. John Granger Company in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy five and according to the best of my Remembrance he staid in the Service two or three months longer after the first engagement I have been well acquainted with the said James Blackmer in his younger days I now am informed his Residence is in Manchester in the State of Vermont Further the Deposition Saith not Western July 4 th 1820 Danforth Keyes
Worcester July 24 1820
Then the abovenamed Danforth Keyes Personally appeared and Made Solemn oath that the above Deposition by him Subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth Before me Jacob Mansfield Jus pac