Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,023, James Bradshaw, Conn. Continental

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Conn. Continental
Bradshaw, James
S. 29,023
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BRADSHAW, JAMES

New-York 32449 James Prudhomme 324 of Oswego Co in the State of New-York who was an Artificer in the Compy by Captain _____ of the Regt by Col. Baldwin in the Continental line for 12 months
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 72 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April 1846 and sent to Mrs. _____ Widow of _____ Bears to the 4th of March, 1846 $1080. Pension allowance ending 4th Sept. 46. 36
$1116-
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. Van Klief, Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 4 Page 8

Declaration of 37065 James Bradshaw At June 7. 1832 NY
1. James Blacksmith under Col. Baldwin.
Agnt. Wm Pierce Albany NY

Declaration
In order to obtain pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York. County of Oswego 3f.
On this third day of June 1845 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, now sitting James T Bradshaw a resident of the town of Thurlo, County of Hastings Province of Upper Canada aged 82 years on the 12 th day of April last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That Declarant has not applied for a pension before having been a resident of Canada since the passage of the pension laws & having no one to intercede in his behalf.
That Declarant was born in the year 1763 in New Milford Conn. but removed when a child with his parents to Charlotte County, New of New York State, now of Vermont. That in the year 1777 his father took him back to New Milford Conn & apprenticed him to a blacksmith by the name of Bristol. Declarant well remembers that he was then fourteen years of age although he has preserved no record of his age. That after working with the said Bristol two years & upwards, & that in the Spring of 1779 he enlisted for one year at New Milford aforesaid into Colonel T. Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers. That Declarant cannot now remember his Captain's name, but the Lieutenant who had charge of the Company was named Titus Cutton. That after enlistment he went to West Point where he worked under said Cutton upwards

of three months. Thence they went to New Windsor where they remained until autumn. Thence they went to Morris- town N.J. and served until Detachment enlist- ment ended. That he received his discharge from the hands of his Colonel, who endeavored to persuade him to enlist again, which decla- rant then refused as he was not prompt in paid his ways, two months then being in arrears. This said discharge he carried in his pocket from place to place until it was entirely torn out & the fragments are now lost. That after his said discharge he returned to New Milford Conn and served pursuant to draft for a period of two months at Norwalk Conn under command of Captain Cook, Colonel Canfield. This ser- vice Declarant believes was performed in the Spring of the year 1781. That Declarant served a num- ber of other hours of a few days each with the militia of New Milford, but not being now able to remember the names of the officers of the par- ticulars of service he does not claim service there- for. The only service for which he claims, being for one year under Col Baldwin & two months under Colonel Canfield as aforesaid.
That after the war of the Revolution he went to visit his father & brother who had removed to Canada & afterwards Declarant established his own residence there where he has since resided influenced by the inducements then held out by the British Government to settlers in that country & not friend- ly partiality to an aristocratic government.
William

Friends with whom I have been acquainted many years, now with me, will testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services in the Revolution. Doctor Asahel D. Fowler has already sworn that he knew me in the war, & if required, I can produce the testimony of all my neighbors that they believe I served, although it is not convenient for them to incur the expense of coming to the States to give their testimony.
He hereby renounces all claim whatever to a pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the State of any state. I am hereby subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
AD Freeman Dep. Clk.
Gerrit Smith

I William Prindle residing in the town of Fredericksburgh U.C. do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James Bradshaw who in the year 1834 lived in Fredericks- burgh & then removed to the neighboring town of Thurland U.C. That said James Bradshaw is the same who has subscribed & sworn to the within Declaration. That I believe him to be 82 years of age; that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides that resi- ded to have been a soldier of the revolution & I concur in that opinion.  Sworn & subscribed the day of year aforesaid  William Prindle  H. D. Freeman Dep U.C.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opin- ion after due investigation of the matter & after put- ting the interrogatories prescribed by the War De- partment that the above named applicant was a re- olutionary soldier & served as he stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Prindle above named is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit.
I Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Bradshaw for a Pension. Witness my hand & Official Seal this thirteenth day of June 1845. John Carpenter Clerk B. H. Freeman Dep. Clerk

James Bradshaw

Sir,
Albany January 4 th 1846
In the case of James Bradshaw an applicant for pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832, your requirements made known in your letter of the 29 th of July last, I have endeavored to comply with, & herewith submit the proofs collected. You require that he show "in what branch of the Mechanical Professions he was engaged; when & where he acquired a knowledge of his trade; the names of some of his men, commissioned officers & privates; the places of his enlistment & discharge; & that he was regarded generally in his neighborhood as having been an artificer in the Continental Service."
Mr Bradshaw states under oath that he was a Blacksmith ; that he learned his trade during the two years previous to his enlistment, while serving as an apprentice to one Brister of New Milford Conn; that he was enlisted at New Milford & discharged at Morristown N.J. He also gives the names of a number of his fellow soldiers & states the reason he remembers so few is, that said Regiment of Artificers did not work as companies together, but in small detachments at different places. Besides it will not, I trust, be deemed extraordinary that at this late day the names of many with whom he served should have escaped his memory.
In addition to the testimony of Mr Prindle & Doctor Rohley heretofore submitted, it is now shown by three witnesses

neighbors of Mr Bradshaw, that he has always been regarded as an Artificer in the United States Service during the Revolutionary war, and the Magistrate, certifies that he has known Bradshaw for forty years during which time he has suffered the reproach of having been a Yankee Soldier. In addition to this, is the positive testimony of Lewis Thomas, himself from New Milford Conn who knew Bradshaw before his enlistment & while an apprentice to Bristow, who knew the term of his enlistment & that he served with Colonel Baldwin's Artificers, & who knew him after his discharge & while in service under Col Canfield of the Militia. Upon these exhibits the claim is again submitted.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Wm B. Pierce
Hon. J. K. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

Province of Upper Canada in Canada West County of Hastings
I James Bradshaw of the Town ship of Shurton in said County of Hastings aged 82 years & upwards being further duly sworn deposeth & saith that in the month of June last he visited Assega N.Y. and made a declaration in open court with a view to obtain a pension under the stat ute of June 7. 1832 that in said declaration he stated as intended to state that he was by trade a black- smith having learnt his trade while an apprentice to one Brewster in the state of Connecticut & town of New Milford where his father had apprenticed him more than two years before he enlisted at New Milford aforesaid into the Regiment of artificers commanded by Col l Balfour & served one year as a blacksmith under Lieutenant Dutton and that at the close of his enlistment he was discharged at Morristown in the state of New Jersey. Said Regiment of Colonel Balfour did not drill in company to- gether but the different companies thereof were stationed at different posts so that defendant was acquainted with but a small portion of the sol- diers of said Regiment among those with whom he resided he remembers the names of Benjamin Butter Eza Benedict John Benedict Eza Chapman Jeremiah Goldsmith, James Horton, Lewis Horton Daniel Johnson, John Tyler, Lyman Tuttle Abel Tuttle
Subscribed and sworn before me at the Township of Grendonage in the Victoria District the 21 st day of Nov r . in the year of our Lord 1834 Tho s D'Arpely
James Bradshaw

29023 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,028
James Bradshaw Witness Rev. Mr.
Act: Anne  7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 378. 65 James Bradshaw Canadian Settled in D. River City 29 '41 to same 27 March 1846.
act 7 June 1832

James Bradshaw Applicant for Pardon
Act June 7. 1832
Supplemental.
Agent. Wm B. Wier Albany N.Y.

District of Victoria } personally came before me to } Benjamin F. Dovey one of the M.V. } Justices of the peace of said District in Canada West - Recd John Reynolds of Belleville & aforesaid District and makes oath that he is personally acquainted with James Bradshaw of the Township of Hurlow in said District - and as he is informed that said James Bradshaw has applied to the United States for a pension for services done by him in the war of the Rebellion - I think and give it in testimony that Mr James Bradshaw is entitled to Credit as being a man I have long been acquainted with & Verily believe his Veracity Sworn this 16 th Jan 1845 } John Reynolds Minister of the M.E. Church North in Canada  B.F. D.
I do hereby certify that the above named B.F. Dovey is a Magistrate for the District of Victoria and the above is the proper signature of the said B.F. Dovey as such Magistrate for the District of Victoria and Province of Canada.
Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the District of Victoria this 16 th day of June 1845
Gerald W. Gibson Deputy Clerk Peace
B.D.

State of New York County of Jefferson ss
Louis Thomas of the town of Milna in said County of Jefferson aged seventy nine & upwards being duly sworn according to law deposes & saith that he was acquainted with James Bradshaw in the war of the Revolution in the town of New Milford & state of Connecticut. And that the said James Bradshaw was a Blacksmith and served his apprenticeship to one Bristler a Blacksmith of the town of New Milford Conn. as aforesaid. Deponent deposeth that he himself and the said James Bradshaw resided in the war of the revolution in the town of New Milford state of Conn. and that the said James Bradshaw enlisted in the spring of 1779 into Colonel Baldwins Regiment of Artificers to serve as a Blacksmith under said Col. Baldwin but as Deponent did not serve with him he does not know precisely the length of time the said James Bradshaw served under said Colonel Baldwin. Deponent also deposeth & saith that he himself served a part of the years of 1781 & 1782 as waiter under Colonel Canfield's Regiment of Militia and while in service as waiter under said Colonel Canfield the said James Bradshaw was also on duty under Captain Couch & Col. Canfield's Regiment, for a short time and the particulars of which Deponent cannot now relate. And Deponent further saith that he recollects the date of the year in which the said James Bradshaw's enlistment occurred under said Col. Baldwin by the above circumstance of his serving under Col. Canfield as waiter in the year of 1781 and the said Bradshaw having enlisted under said Colonel Baldwin two years previous to deponent's serving under said Col. Canfield as waiter. but Deponent saith he cannot now state in which year the said James Bradshaw's Militia service was performed under said Captain Couch but the said Militia service was performed in the Spring or Summer of 1781 or 1782

And Deponent says that the whole service performed by the said James Bradshaw under Colonel Baldwin and said Militia service to amount to many months at least one years service as the said James Bradshaw was a true whig and an active man in the war of the revolution and now resides as deponent is informed in Canada and is an applicant for a pension —————
Sworn & subscribed this sixth day of December 1845 before me & I certify that the said Lewis Thomas is a credible witness
Signature of Lewis Thomas
Thos Hammond Justice of the Peace his Lewis Thomas man
State of New York, } ss. Jefferson County Clerk's Office.
I, Charles B. Hoard, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Thos. S. Hammond before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn,
was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand-writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand, and seal of said County, this 29 day of Dec. in the year 1845
C. B. Hoard Clerk. By Simondigumey Esq.
James Bradshaw

Province of Upper Canada County of Haddington S.P.
We the undersigned neighbors & acquaintance of James Bradshaw of the town of Sharlow in said County, being duly sworn deposed & sayth that said James Bradshaw is a blacksmith by trade. That he has always been reported & believed in this neighborhood where he has resided for many years to have been in the service of the United States during the War of the revolution, & that he has always stated that he served therein in the capacity of a blacksmith. That we believe him to be a person of truth & veracity & have no doubt that his statements with regard to his revolutionary service are true & correct.
Casper Fretz
Subscribed before the foregoing James Sills John Lloyd day of October 1845 before me
Joseph Lockwood - J.P.
I hereby certify that Casper Fretz, James Sills & John D. Lloyd - are creditable persons whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith & credit.
This is to certify that about thirty years ago I was acquainted with James Bradshaw Blacksmith and understood by the old soldiers of the British that James Bradshaw was a private soldier in the revolution .
Joseph Lockwood J.P.

Canada
District of Victoria
ss
I do hereby certify that Joseph Blackwood of the Township of Sidney in said District Osgoode is one of the Justices of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified according to the laws of this Province and that the within affidavit has been duly and regularly taken before him the said Joseph Blackwood as appears on the face of the said affidavit and certificate
Given under my hand and seal at Belleville in said District this 27th October 185
J. F. B. Gibson Clerk of the Peace District of Victoria

Came before me Amos Schenkerhorne the undersigned Justice of the peace of the Township of Richmond in Midland District and Province of Canada West Ashbel Roby and makes Oath That he is well acquainted with James Bradshaw who now has called on him for his testimony of his being in the service in the United States Army in the war of the Revolution This Opponent Ashbel Roby Vays on Oath that he was acquainted with said James Bradshaw and was acq- uainted with him during the time of his service he was Enlisted and worked as a blacksmith under a Lieutenant Dutton who had Charge of the Shop at Morristown New Jersey in a Company then called Artificers - and this Opponent states On Oath that said James Bradshaw and the Company left Morristown but does not know where they moved to or where their Station was - but returned again to Morristown And this Opponent states that he knew James Bradshaw above named for about one year off and on at Morristown as near as his memory serves him now (in the service) and under Lieutenant Dutton - and this Opponent says he was well acquainted with Lieutenant Dutton and was frequently in the Shop as he resided in the neighbourhood and frequently saw James Bradshaw every week whilst at Morristown and this Opponent further says that he was well acquainted with James Bradshaw's Father & his Brothers and the whole family and was a neighbour to them and knew said James Bradshaw through the war and after the war - and this Opponent states further that he thinks according to the best of his recollections that it must have been some where or near the year of our Lord 1779 this Opponent thinks this to be the very year that James Bradshaw served under Lieutenant Dutton at Morristown New Jersey in the United States service - This Opponent says there might be a possibility of his being mistaken in the year it might have been in the year 1778 or in the year 1780 - but he thinks from the best of his recollections it was in the year 1779 This Opponent further testifies that that he cannot be mista

in the person that the said James Bradshaw who requests this testimony as Mr Bradshaw states for the purposes to send to the City of Washington for a Pension - That this same person James Bradshaw is the very person who served under Lieutenant Dutton as aforesaid - This Opponent knew him through the war & frequently saw him after the war as old friends & old neighbours - and saw him frequently every week in the blacksmith shop and had some work done by James Bradshaw while at Morristown above named while said Bradshaw was in the United States Service under Lieutenant Dutton - and further this Opponent saith not
Ashbel R. Holley
Subscribed and sworn before me at Richmond at my office this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and forty five -
Amos Schoonmaker Jr. Justice Peace
This may Certify that the bearer Doct. Ashbel R. Holley is a resident in the Township of Teynham - in Victoria District in Canada West and is a man of integrity. I am well acquainted with his character & integrity and it is indisputable as as far as my acquaintance extends and was present when said Justice Peace Amos Schoonmaker administered the above Oath. Subscribed and done in my presence.
Richmond + Canada West. Jacob Stengelund.
May. 29 th 1845.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES THEOPHILUS, BARON METCALFE, of Fernhill in the County of Berks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor General of British North America, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,—
GREETING:
These are to Certify, that Amos Schermerhorn _____ whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit _____ is a Magistrate _____ duly appointed in and for the Midland District of the Province of Canada
and that full faith and credence are due and ought to be given to his Signature and acts, in that capacity, in all places.
Given under my Hand and Office Seal, at Montreal, in Canada, this thirtyfirst day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- five and of Her Majesty's Reign the eighth
By Command,
Metcalf
D. Daly Secy

ap 26 46
John Bull R 1846
Wm G Kallstrom 1842

Wm B Pierce of Albany wishes James Bratton's certificate for one years services sent to him & relinquishes all further claims
G' Nattilum

James Bradshaw
Act June 7. 1832
Pages Supplementary
Agent Wm B Pierce Albany N.Y.

Albany N.Y. June 20 th 1845.
Sir
The enclosed certificate you will please examine in connection with the papers of James T. Bradshaw, an applicant for pension under the Act of June 7. 1832, which I mailed from this place on the 11 th Inst.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Wm. B. Wheeler
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

In the matter of the ap- plication of James Edwards Shaw for pension - Act June 7. 1832
Albany N.Y. June 11. 1845.
Sir. / The above applicant whose declaration I enclose, served one year in Colonel Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers & two months in Colonel Canfield's Regiment of Militia. His service as Artificer is established by the affidavit of Doct. Asahel Root, a respectable physician who knew him in the service. His service under Colonel Canfield he is unable to prove. I believe the papers are made out agreeably to your requirements.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Wm. W. Warce
Hon: J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Tho D Appleby Jr
Canada.
District of Victoria
To wit.
I do hereby certify that Thomas D. Appleby of the township of G Yandenaqua in said District aforesaid is one of the Justices of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified according to the laws of this Province and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, & that the above signature purports to be his and appears to be genuine. And I do further certify that said Thomas D. Appleby was a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid on and before the 21 st day of November, Eighteen hundred & forty five.
Given under my hand & Seal at Belleville in said District this twelfth (12 th ) day of December. A.D. 1845.
William Fitz Gibbon Clerk of the Peace District of Victoria

No 37065
James Bradshaw NY
act 7 June 1832
Adm o 12mo Antipern $72 00 per am
pm 4 March 1831
Hon Geo. Rachtun House of Reps