Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,935, Jesse Dickey, N.H.

SERVICE
U.S. AIR FORCE
Dickey Jesse
NUMBER _____
R 2935
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2935
F.D. _____
Jesse Dickey
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
RECEIVED
Application filed: _____, 18
Ages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Jepel Sicker Pennsylv a .
Suspended for letter 31 Aug. 1836 D. C. Cressy.
2955

Hon James L Edwards I do hereby Authorise David Gouy of York Pa to receive my pension Certificate You will therefore send the same to him And Pledge your Honourable Servt Attest Jesse H Dickey mark
W. Mearns William W. W.

Sir
York Aug t 26 1836
Herewith I send you the documents in support of Jesse Dickey for pension. This old man came to my house yesterday morning both lame and sick with fatigue in travelling from Washington to this place (moneyless) he called at my house where I keep an inn or tavern for relief, sick and poor people as he was, he said "Could not get any farther". He shewed me your letter to Mr Brady of the Pensions office in which I observed that you thought his claim just. Inasmuch as he was a stranger and poor and I consented to take him in and take his declaration here before a Judge and keep until I could hear the result of his claim from you. And as he had no proof of his services in the country where he lives nor has he any documentary evidence there except the Rolls of the State of New Hampshire which I suppose you have (To identify himself to be the same person he represents himself to be) I have wrote his statements as near as I could concerning his service in the Revolutionary war if you find him correct and entitled to a pension please send him his Certificate as soon as you conveniently can. He is sick and old and indigent circumstances in life. I shall keep him here until I hear the result of your examination.
Yours J. L. Edwards
From your Obedient Servant
David Coney
N.B. I observed in your Regulations that in case the Declarant did not make his Declaration in the County where he resides he must give good reasons why his reason contained in his declaration.
D. Coney

Aug 29. pa-
POST FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Commonpleas of Fulton Washington City
1-1-1

Aug 28. pa-
PAID
Hon J. L. Edwards, Commons of Justice Washington City
11-10

32.817 State of New York J. P. Burnham
State of New York County of York  On this 21st day of August A.D. 1883 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, J. P. Burnham, who being first duly sworn, only in the State of Pennsylvania aged 75 years of Albany County, duly sworn according to law, on his oath, in the presence of the undersigned, declared as follows: That on the premises in a letter of an act of Congress passed June 15th 1830 that he enlisted in the service of the United States in the County of Albany in the State of New York on or about the month of December 1781 for three years in Captain W. W. W. Company of Col. Bleecker's Regiment. And marched from Albany to a place called Soldiers Port where about twelve miles from that Point and there remained until about the first of October 1781 when marched to Saratoga in the State of New York and there remained all the Winter of 1782 and that on or about the month of April he marched to Schenectady from thence to Fort Plain from thence to Fort Schuyler on the Mohawk river and there remained four months and was in a Battle against the Canadians & Indians who made an attempt to take the fort but got repulsed From Fort Schuyler he marched to Johnstown on or about the 19th of November and from thence to Albany from thence to New Windsor and built Barracks in about 6 Miles from that place and there remained all the Winter of 1783 At which time all those who were Enlisted for three years were at that place were discharged, And those who were Enlisted for three years were retained in Service whose term had not expired for which they had enlisted

place those who enlisted for three years were released in service as many as were needed. He was then transferred to Capt. Deyo's Company to serve out the term for which he enlisted in Col. Reed's Battalion at New Windsor and marched to West Point and there remained the summer of 1883 in duty. Closing the term and placing them in their proper order and places P.C. and that he remained there until he had duly served out the term for which he enlisted to wit three years and was honorably discharged at or near West Point by Genl. C. D. Dugle who signed his discharge and I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present to declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State whatever and I further declare that I have no documentary evidence on my pension Nor do I know of any person or persons now living by whom I can prove my service and my reason for not making my declaration in Lycoming County is that I have just returned from Washington City where I intended to make my application for pension but being disappointed in consequence of living in Pa. could make no declaration there. And on my return to Lycoming County My place of residence I have been taken sick and unable to return for want of funds which I have none and am sick at York and cannot travel any further - and am now supported by Charity. Those are the reasons Why I cannot return to the place of my residence to make my declaration, I have no family there nor property and am sick and not able to return.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above written before me J. C. D. Dugle
Jesse D. Dugle (mark)

Ques 1 Where and in what year was you born
Ans I was born in Amherst County in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1761
Ques 2 Have you any record of your age if so where is it Answer I have no record of my age
Ques 3 Where were you living when called into service when have you lived since the time and the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer I lived in Amherst County two years after I was discharged from the Army and then went to the West Indies and on my return to America I landed at Baltimore from there I went into Northumberland County and from there into Lycoming County, where I have remained in the two Counties forty years or upwards
Ques 4 How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and for whom
Answer I enlisted in Amherst County in the State of New Hampshire for three years, and duly served out the time for which I enlisted
Ques 5 State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served such Continental line infantry Regiments as you can recollect and their General Commanders of your Service
Answer I was acquainted with the Capt and Col and I was also acquainted with Major Morris and Captain Bell & Capt Demick and Capt Cook all Officers of the Regular Army and many others whose names I do not recollect
Ques 6 did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer I received a written discharge at or near Wallabout Bay by Genl H. Douglass which I have lost

Question by Judge 9 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Andrew John Hannah Esq. Nathaniel Housner, Michael Bartholomew Tho. Reed Andrew Siver Esq. Alexander Johnson James Curran Esq. John D. Clark Sworn to and Subscribed the day above written { Geo. W. Dickey } Geo. W. Dickey
I George W. Dickey Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of York in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the above named Jesse Dickey is unable to appear in Open Court to make his declaration in consequence of bodily infirmity and I further declare my Opinion after putting the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24 th day of August 1836 Geo. W. Dickey
State of Pennsylvania, York County, S.S.
I Benjamin Lanius Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that the Hon. George W. Dickey before whom the foregoing declaration was made & by whom the above certifi- cate was subscribed is at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid and as such is duly Commissioned & qualified & believe the signatures to the same to be in his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court, at York Borough this 25 day of August, A.D. 1836. Benj. Lanius. Proth.

War Department Pension Office
August 20. 1836
Sir,
I have made a thorough examination in relation to the case of Jesse Dickey, and I find that he served sufficiently long to bring his case within the provisions of the act of June 7. 1832. Should the person who presented himself at this office this morning, conform to the regulations contained in the enclosed printed sheet, he will obtain a pension. He must return to the County and State in which he resides, and there make such a declaration as the rules require. The printed instructions are so full as to render any explanation unnecessary.
I am, respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
P. Brady, Esq. D r Auditor's Office