Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 904, John Holland Blackmer, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Blackmer, John Holland.
R. 904.
CONTENTS

34,405
14
Sale Hon R. P. Mann
March 9 th 1828
904
act. 7 th June 1832

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

N o 34 405 John H. Blackman
N.Y.
vol. 18-184 not on —
Hon. R.P. Marvin, N.Y.

State of New York 3/1 Chautauqua County 3/1
I Asahel Clark, a Justice of the peace of the said County do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with the above named Simon Powers and have been acquainted with him for ten years last past, and that during said term he has been, and now is a Clergyman in regular standing in the Baptist Church and a man of strict integrity whose statement is entitled to full faith and credit. And I do further certify, that I have been well acquainted with the above named John Holland Blackman for the term of five years last past, and from such acquaintance, do believe him to be a man of strict integrity, whose statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
Asahel Clark J.P.

State of New York } Chautauqua County } ss. John Holland Blackum of the town of Harmony in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, being duly affirmed, solemnly declaring on his affirmation saith, that he was seventy six  Eight years of age on the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven. That in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and seventy seven he resided in the town of Ashfield in the county of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts. That immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill in that same year an alarm being given, he entered the army of the United States in the Company Com- manded by Ephraim Jennings as first lieutenant & John Ellis as Second Lieutenant, in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Hills, whose Christian name this affiant does not now recollect. That he remained in the said army from that time until a few days after the surrender of the army by Burgoyne being something more than two months, when he left the army.
This affiant further saith, that ac- cording to his best recollection, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight in the month of July he was drafted into the army of the United States for the term of three months, and that within a day or two he entered after he entered the army in the Company Com- manded, by Captain Densmore, whose Christian name this affiant does not now recollect, and that said Ephraim Jennings was first Lieutenant in said Company, in the Regiment

Commanded by Colonel Porter whose Christian name this affiant cannot now state. That this affiant remained in the said army during the whole term of three months for which he was drafted as above stated, and then left the army, which closed his term of service during the last war. Further this deponent saith not -
Affirmed, and subscribed,
This 24 th day of October } John H. Bradburn 1837 before me Asaph Clark J.P.
State of New York - 3 d Chautauqua County } - Simeon Powers of the town of Harmony in the County of Chautauqua County and State of New York, being duly sworn, says that he is well acquainted with the above named John Hedland Blackmer and has been acquainted with him during the term of seven years last past and from that acquaintance believes him to be a man of strict integrity and of undoubted truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
Sworn and subscribed } Simeon Powers This 24 th day of October } 1837 before me Asaph Clark J.P.

In at Feb 28.
NY Original
J. S. 3 alternate Pension Spencer H. M. C. P. Marvin H. R.

Place of Reproduction
Feb. 27 - 38
Sir
Enclosed are the papers of John H. Blackburn for a Pension.
Very Respectfully &c
R. P. Mason
Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pan.