Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42690, Walter Dyer, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
Service
Md.
Dyer, Walter
NUMBER
S. 42690
B.L.K1.587--200 Lieut..
Issued Nov. 14, 1791
No papers

CONTENTS
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9, 055
Pennsylvania Roll.
Walter Dyer,
4
of Philadelphia in the State of Penna
who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded byColonel Ramsay of the Maryland line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of April 1819 and sent to Mess. Vanzandt & Rockwell Wash. City
Arrears to 4th of March 1819.           183.22
Semi-anl, all'ce ending Sept 4, 1819. 120
and 5/31
                                                          $303.22
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Let to B.H Nave Feb 15 1839
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1
Walter
Dyer
271 South Fourth St
Southwark
Philadelphia
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To the honor able
the Secretary for the Department of War
City of Washington
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Pennsylvania
I John Conard Prothonotary of the Superior 
Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do Certify That William Tilghman whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate was at the time of so doing and still is Doctor of Laws Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given

 In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Philadelphia the 29th day of April AD 1818

John Conard  Proce
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Copy
By the House of Delegates
December 18th 1816.
Resolved that the Treasurer of the Western
Shore be and he is is hereby directed to pay to Walter Dyer a Lieutenant in the revolutionary war, or to his order a sum of money equal to the half pay of a Lieutenant annually during his life in quarterly payments, as a further remuneration for his services during the American War.

By order
Louis Gassaway 
By the Senate Dec 19, 1816.
(unreadable)
By order
Richard Harwood Clk
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42690
Ray
INVALID.

File no. 42,690
Walter Dyer
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. 3, Page 145
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Philad. January 30. 1839 
Sir
I take the liberty to request you to cause  enquiry to be made, whether the late Walter Dyer a Lieutenant in the 3d Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army received a pension for his Revolutionary services prior to the month of May 1819
By communicating the devised information at an early day you will oblige 

Your Ob'dt Servt.
Benjamin H. Have
No 25 Catherine St.

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 

Walter Dyer
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Walter Dyer,
The Judge to certify that it appear to his
satisfaction that the party is in reduced circumstances in life as to need the assistance of his country for support and also to the day on which the claimant made his former declaration.
War Dept
Pension Office
Mar. 31, 1819
Court of per 31 May 1818
Deposited by Certificate
to
Van Land & Rockwell
Agents
Washington City
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Pennsylvania St.
On the twenty first day of March in the year of our Lord 1819 before me William Tilghman Chart Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania personally appearath Walter Dyer aged sixty two years and uplands resident in Southwark in the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania who being by me sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war"
; that is to say That he the said Walter Dyer was a Lieutenant in the  4th company Captain Horatio Clagget of the  3rd regiment commanded by Colonel  Nathaniel Ramsay of the Maryland line, from the day of the battle of Camden, fought under General Gates that he continued to serve in the said corps, until the army was disbanded by Congress in the year 1783 at which time he was quartered at Fredericktown in the State of Maryland, that he was at the battles when in
the (unreadableFlyingcross) at Harlen height, the 18th September 1776 with six others of the same corps under General Mifflin at Trenton in 1776 Brandywine September 1777 & in the same year at Germantown at the storming of
Stony point in 1779,  in Camden in 1780 & at 
the Cowpins in the  same year & at Eutous Springs in 1781, That he is in reduced circumstances and is in need of the assistance of his country for
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support & that he hath no other Evidence now in his power of his said Term and the said Walter Dyer further declareth on his oath aforesaid, that on or about the 29 day of April last he made & subscribed a declaration as oath before the above named William Tilghman in substance the same of the declaration above written, which was certified
by the  same  William Tilghman according to the Act of Congress aforesaid & that he delivered the said declaration aforesaid to d ed
his certified as aforesaid, to one of the Clerks in the pension office in the City of Washington on or about the 12 day of May last, but upon enquiry made by  him at the said pension some time in January last he was informed that his said declaration had been searched for & could not be found.
      Walter Dyer 
Sworn declared & subscribed
on the day & year first above
written for me
Wm Tilghman 



I William
Tilghman Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my
satification that the above named Walter D
Dyer did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration  against the common enemy of I claim. that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & I transmit the proceedings taken  I had before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursurant to the direction of the I further certify that the said Walter Dyer did at some time in the spring of last year make subride before me a declaration o oath and I believe to have  been  the same in subslaw
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with that which is above written, which was certified by me in according to the direction of the Act of Congress aforesaid & delivered to the said Walter Dyer  in order to be summitted to the Secretary of the department of war
In Testimony which I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 21st day of March in the year of our Lord 1819
Wm Tilghman