Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42639, John Burgess, Continental (New York)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (New York) Burgess, John
S. 42639
CONTENTS

3600.
Ohio Roll
John Burgefs, 4
Colo Lamb
Private - War
New York line 82. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio — — — — — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of May 1810 — — — — —
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of October 1810 and sent to Samuel Hill Esq. Judge Urbana — O.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1810 — — — — —  32:81    Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th March 1819 — — —  48: —    3 1/2 — — — 24 —     30/31 — — — 7:74:2  $ 80:81    4/30 — — — 1: 6:6   
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
War Continued
Champaigne Co
No. of pension sent November 14. 1820 to Samuel Hill Esq. Judge

Urbana Ill May - 2, 1863
Free
Secretary of the War Department Washington Obuy
Admitted
John P. Hunsicker 2 Sharp

The State of Ohio Champaign county
Before me the Subscriber Samuel Hitt one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid personally came John Burgess who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he this deponent some time in May 1782 enlisted in Capt. Mackem Company of Artillery in Colonel Lamb Regiment of the State of New York for three years and was discharged some time in June 1784 and further saith that he is in circumstances which requires absence from his country for support and further saith not. John Burgess mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me the second day of May 1818.
Samuel Hitt J d Judge
The State of Ohio Champaign county ss;
I, Samuel Gibbs, clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, do hereby cer- tify, that Samuel Hitt, Esq. before whom the above depo- sition appears to have been taken, is an Associate Judge of the court aforesaid, legally commissioned and qualified, and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court aforesaid, at Urbana, this second day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Samuel Gibbs Clerk

John Burgefs
3,600.
13. October, 1818.
Mar 19
Samuel Newell, Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Personally appeared in Open Court being the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Logan and State of Ohio on the 30 th day of August 1820 John Buys a resident of said County aged 64 years who being first duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted in the year 1781 or 2 - in March, in the State of New York under Captain Matchem the regiment commanded by Col c Lamb Ar ty of the Artillery on Continental Estab- lishment enlisted for during the War and served out the full period of his Enlistment and was honorably discharged by Major Doyt at West point - he further saith that he has received a pension under the Act of the 18 th March 1818 date of certificate 13 October 1818 and Number 3600
And I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident 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 other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so 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 revo- lutionary war passed on the 18 th of March 1818 and that I have not nor any person for me any property or securities contracts

Or debts due to me nor have I any income other then what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - We two head of horses one calf eight head of hogs and some pigs - I have a debt coming to me of twenty one dollars twenty five cents but have little hope of ever collecting it and I am indebted one hun- dred and fifty dollars - I am 64 years of age by trade a cooper but for several years past unable to work - I have been under the doctors care for four years I have a wife that 62 years of age - and one son named Hampton Bruff aged twenty years he is a cripple and unable to perform any labour
his John Bruff Mark
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court on the 30 th day of August 1890 before us
James M Glavin Levi Garwood } Special John Shelly } Judges - Fleming County

The State of Ohio } Logan County } G Samuel Wurrell } clerk of the Court of comm- -on pleas of the County of Logan aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 Ninety one dollars the debt that the applicant states he owes in not taken into view in the estimate made by the Court. They just value the property exhibited and the debt coming to the appli- cant
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Bellefontaine this 1 st day of September 1820
Samuel Wurrell clerk

42639 INVALID.
File No. 42,689
John Burgess Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Burgess, John GRADE Private LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York) 7
WARRANT NUMBER 6873 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 21, 1791 To David Reinton, 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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Burgess, John GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 10987 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED August 14, 1795 to Francis Sherrard, 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.