Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 332., Darius Ayer, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Ayer, Darius
NUMBER
R. 332
CONTENTS
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Direct to CW Dudley at
Marlborough CT House
So Ca

332
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State of South Carolina
Marion District
We John D. Jones a Clergyman residing in the District & State aforesaid, & Jesse Ford a citizen residing in the Same State & District do hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with Darius Ayer who has sworn to & Subscribed the or foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution at we concur in that opinion
John D Jones
Jesse Ford
Sworn to in to & subscribed before me
17 day of March AD 1835
B J Earle
in open Court
And the said Court after having investigated the matter having got the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department,
 declare the opinion that the said Darius Ayer was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he has stated. Also that it appears that John D. Jones -- who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman & that Jesse Ford - is a respectable person, both residing in the district & state aforesaid and that this certificate as aforesaid is  aforesaid is entitled to credit.
to credit.
B J Earle
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South Carolina
Marion District
I Edward B. Wheeler Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for Marion District do here
by certify that the foregoing contains the
Original proceedings in the matter of the
application of Davies Ayer for a Pension
Given under my hand & the seal of the
Court this 17 day of March A D 1835
Edward B Wheeler
(illegible)
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The State of South Carolina 
Marion District 
 In the Common Pleas Spring Term 1835.
Darius Ayer appeared before me B. J. Earle one of the Judge of the said State, in the open Court of Common Pleas now sitting for Marion District & made oath to the following facts in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he was born in Maryland, Kent County, on Swan Creek, on the 22nd day of Octo 1755: his age was recorded in a Bible, which is not lost or destroyed is in Baltimore County in the
State of Maryland about ten miles from the City of Baltimore. He entered the service as a volunteer in the militia in the latter part of the year 1777 under Capt John German (or Farman & served under him at that time for six months; during this period he was marched down to Baltimore, as it was supposed that the British intended to attack that place. No attempt however of that sort was made & after leaving Baltimore he spent the remainder
of his time on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay up & down the same within the distance of twelve miles of Baltimore to prevent the British from landing in their barges  & long
boats & plundering the inhabitants. In the year 1778 an alarm was given that the British again meditated an attack upon Baltimore & deponent volunteered under the Same Captain & marched there where there were many
companies collected as he Supposes for the purpose of protecting the town. Deponent remained there about a week & the alarm having subsided, Deponent was marched
upon & down the coast as before, for the space of three months. The next time he was called was under draft in the year 1782 when he was ordered to Frederick town as deponent understood to guard a number of prisoners consisting of Hessians, Scotch & British, when he left home, he was not under the command of any officer du
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during the march, but when he reached Fredericktown  he was placed under the command of a Capt whose name has entirely forgotten. He well recollects that one
Major Wimms or (Wims) was the officer in command of he forces at that place. Deponent remained there two mouth & recd a discharge from his capt. a certificate  of the amt due him for his services this discharge  was placed in the hands of one Edmond (illegible) neighbour of deponent who promised the deponent
that he wd collect the money for him. He however never recd  the money & cannot tell what Hanson did with the certificate. Deponent rendered in other service which he can swear to positively though in reality there was no period during the whole war in
which he was not rendering some service as a
Soldier. He claims a pension for Eleven months of actual service which his memory allows him to specify after the close of the war, he went to the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay where he remained ten or twelve years; then went to Delaware where he stayed one winter; thence on a Board of a Sloop commanded by Capt Stephen West to Newbern, N.C. & remained in that State ten years & has lived in Marion District ever since. He was not in any
engagement during the war. He hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State
Darius Ayers
Sworn to & subscribed
before me 17 Mar 1835
B J Earle
in open Court
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 South Carolina
Suspended
April 1835
C.W. Dudley
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Darius Ayer

REECTED