Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,514, James Hamilton, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
★ Hamilton, James
NUMBER
R. 4514
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4514
P.O.
James Hamilton
(born 1824)
Service
N Jersey line
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

19.304
James Hamilton
Giles Co. Tenn.
Clamont
Palatka, Tenn.
Recd 28 June 1824
Recd 28 June 1824
at Warrenton City
Handwritten signature

State of Tennessee Giles County. Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions. February Term 1824
On this the 14 th day of February 1824, personally appeared in open court (being a court of record by the laws of the State) for said county James Hamilton, a resident of said county, aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said James Hamilton enlisted for the term of three years or during the war about October 1775 at Trenton in New Jersey in the company commanded by Capt James Lowrey in a Regiment commanded by Col. Maxwell, (who was afterwards made a Brigadier General, after his return from Quebec) in the line of the State of New Jersey. On the infantry continental establishment, that he continued to serve in same company to the year 1782 when he was discharged from said services, at Camden in the State of South Carolina that he was in the battle at the Storming of Quebec under General Montgomery, and afterwards was at the battle of the Three Rivers, where he got a flesh wound in his right leg, he was in the Battle of Germantown in Pennsylvania, in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey where he got a flesh wound in his left thigh the ball cut out, at Germantown he was shot through the left hand & has a large knot remaining on the back of it from the wound. He was also in the battle at Camden in South Carolina, & that he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power that he knows of, except the Army roll of his country, and in pursuance of

of the act of 18 th May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th May 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 18 th 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. James his  of Hamilton attest Sch. to be read about a year old. 13 1/2 hands high
Schedule. One Blind man about 9 years old, 13 1/2 hands high one indifferent bed and furniture.
I live with three sons two of lawful age; one about 16 years old & have no wife, one of my sons age 28 yrs James Hamilton that lives with a neighbor & one about 17 years old living with him, & that he is unable to live or do well without the assistance of his country & that he has never received any pension or land from any State or from the United States.
Subscribed and sworn to I declared on the 17 th February 1824 before the court opens and now sitting German Lester Clerk
I German Lester Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of apes and County of Giles do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said James Hamilton did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of seven years under an engagement in the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in apes and schedule is thirty Dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this 17th Feb: 1822 German Lester Clerk Clerk of apes and court.

If it be not required by law that the return or answer to this be made to pension agent only in this State The secretary of war or other officer will please make it, or give information of the arrest, by letter to petitioner directed. To Pattonville, at Pulaski Giles county Tennessee. Jas Hamilton