Pomroy Jones to Governor Tilden, pages 2 and 3, 1875

Pomroy Jones to Governor Tilden, pages 2 and 3, 1875 the State who had always paid its militia the Legislature appointed a commission to arbitrate and audit our accounts and give give certificates of such indebtedness you will agree with me that the State is honestly bound to pay them. Without assuming to dictate I yet believe you will in your next message recommend an appropriation to pay them. I served two campaigns in the War of 1812 the first of six months I received an honorable discharge from Gen. Brown. My [stunted /limited] wages did not refund my [outfit?] In 1814 the company to which I belonged was called en masse to Sacketts Harbor Harbor we had no [?] wagon and lived on our money on our march and after being there a few days our Commanding Officer (an Old Federalist) deserted and left me but [a non?] commissioned the oldest officer in the Confederacy. When after about two months when mustered out not half the men had a dime left for the six days allowed as to get home I happened to be in funds and helped all the men to their homes and after half a century the money was allowed [?] my Certificate. I am a lifelong Democrat. I was born and have lived into my 86th year in the limits of the town of Westmoreland and here voted the ticket 63 times not having failed to vote since 21 years of age. You were my favorite candidate. I have as yet attended through the Election days last fall I worked through the day and the result was in the State a Waterloo victory I highly approve your ferreting out the leeches that were depleting the State Treasury Writer Pomroy Jones Date written 1875-08-04 Paper x cm x xcm x x xin Pencil Penmanship Style Collection Pomroy Jones to Governor Tilden, August 4, 1875. Old Soldiers claims. Samuel J. Tilden Papers. Series I. Correspondence. I.F. Gubernatorial, 1874-1876. Proposed legislation. Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. <ref name=NYPL>Template:Cite web |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=February 11, 2017 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation}}</ref> File name Jones Pomroy 1789---00x-00x-00x Links related to Pomroy Jones NYPL [1], Pomroy Jones' History of the Town of Sangerfield (1851) [2], findagrave.com [3]