Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9764, for John Smith, Maryland
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[Column headings: service. number]
Md. Sea Service Smith, John R.9764.
[Column heading: contents]
res. at end, Baltimore, Md.
res. in 1835, Beaver Co. Pa.
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9764 [illegible. handwritten]
P.O.
John Smith
Service: Md. and [illegible] service
res. Penn.
Enlisted: [stamped REJECTED], 18
Discharged: [stamped REJECTED], 18
Application filed: [blank line], 18
Alleges: [blank line]
Re-enlisted: [blank line]
Attorney: [blank line]
P.O. [blank line]
[blank line] Recognized [blank line] Vontract
[blank line] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank line], 18
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V
Rejected
See letter 26 Feb 36
Hon J B
service as a condition
not more than one month
and the service
aboard Cap Brown vessel
Private not printed
9764
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Land Office, Annapolis,
February 22nd 1836,
Sir,
The declaration of John Smith, has been vary
carefully examined, and is herewith returned, he states,
that he served first in the drafted Militia of Baltimore,
under Captain Nicholas Marryman, for six months, and
afterwards as a Seaman on board a Ship commanded by
Capt. Brown of Baltimore, there are a number of
John Smith upon the rolls of both the Militia and
regular troops, Nicholas Marryman, under whom
the applicant states he served, appears by the records of
the revolution, to have been appointed a Captain of a Company
in the upper Battalion of Militia in Baltimore
County in 1777, but there is no master or pay roll of ┃
his company to be found,-- nor is there any roll or list
of the men that served in the Ship commanded by Capt
Brown, I can therefore furnish no evidence in his
case
I am very respectfully,
[illegible]
G. G. Browar
Sir,
J.L. Edwards Esq.
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State of Pennsylvania
Brower County
53
On this eight day of December AD 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable John Broden Esquire President Thomas Henry and Benjamin Adams Esquire Assonales Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Brower county aforesaid now sitting John Smith resident of South Brown Township in the County of Brower aforesaid and state of Pennsylvania aged about seventy seven or seventy eight who being first duly sworn according to law doth say on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the month 1832 That he was drafted in the Baltimore militia at the time that (son was then in??) by the British under Captain Nichles Mary
man and was discharged when the British
Fleet left the coast and that he enlisted
in the Navy of the United States in the
year 1781 as a sailor on board captain
Browns ship at Baltimore in the State of
Maryland and served on that ship till
the war was declared at which time he
was discharged by Captain Brown. That
he has no discharge or other documentary
evidence and that he knows of no person
now living whose testimony he can prove
who can testify to his service and that
in consquence of advanced age and bodily
infirmity he cannot not (unclear) any more,
parts his memory having almost entirely
failed and further more no clergyman
lives near him whose testimony or certificate
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That he hereby cons every claim whatsoever
to a pension or annuity except the preseny and declares that he name is not
the roll of the agency of any State 
John Smith
Sworn & subscribed
in open court this day
and year aforesaid
James Logan
John Smith
●
Mr John F Smith and George Smith
in the County of Beaver and State of
Pennsylvania and were acquainted with
John Smith who has subscribed the
and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy
years of age and that he is
reputed and beloved in the neighbourhood ehere he resides to have been
a soldier in the Revolutionary war
and we concur in said opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Smith
George Smith
James Logan
And the said Court do hereby under
on their opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after putting the
Interrogatories prescribed by the war
department that the above and fore
going named applicant was a revolutionary
 soldier and served as he states and 
 the court further certify that it appears to them that John I Smith and George Smith who have signed the printing certificate and in the County of Brower
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and on (not readable) persons and that the statement is entitled to credit
I John Logan Clerk of the court
of Common pleas of Brower County
in the State of Pennsylvania doth hereby
by certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of John Smith for
a pension
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said court this right
day of November AD 1835

James Logan Prothy
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33.527
John Smith
Pennsylvania
No
Hon John Banks
N. R
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The State of Ohio Harrison County SS
On this 25th day of November AD 1835, before me Wm Arnold one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County
aforesaid, personally appeared Daniel Smith of said Harrison County, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he is a Brother to John Smith, Taylor, of
South Beaver Township, in the County of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania; that during the Revolutionary War Andrew Smith, father of Deponent & Said John Smith, resided in Baltimore County State of Maryland, that
this deponent during said war resided in his fathers family and the said John Smith resided in the City of Baltimore and was working at the Tayloring business; that some time during the war news came home to this deponents fathers that said John Smith had reinlisted and
entered the army, but at what time during the war, or under what officers he was under or what Regt.  or Company he was attached to deponent does not now recollect, but recollects that various report came home at different times, in relation to said John
Smith, Sometimes report said he was killed & sometimes that he was taken prisoner; and deponent further says that during the time said John Smith was in the service news came home that he had entered on board man of War, laying five miles below Baltimore in
or at what was called the Capes; that on the receipt of this intiligence the mother of deponent & Said John Smith, together with Wm Smith an other brother went to the man of War to see said John Smith, to try if they could induce or prevail on him to return home; that on their return home they informed deponent and the family that they had seen said John Smith on board of a man of war
lying below Baltimore and that he was laying sick with the french measels but if they informed the family what the name of the man
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of war was, or who commanded it deponent cannot  now recollect, but recollects that said John Smith was absent at one time, when in the service, three years or more and did not as deponent recollect return home until after peace was anounced or declared, and that
be did then return home; that during the absence of the said John Smith as aforesaid, and after his return home, and on up to this date, it was considered and understood by the acquaintances and relatives of the said
John Smith that he had enlisted and been in the United States service as a regular soldier during all the time of his absence, and further this deponent saith not
Daniel Smith
Sworn to and subscribed this the day and year first hereinbefore written before me
by whom the same was reduced to writing
W Arnold, J. P.
I Wm Arnold a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Harrison and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that I am acquainted with the above named Daniel Smith and that he is a man of good reputation
Wm Arnold J.P.
The State of Ohio Harrison County ss
I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said
County of Harrison do hereby certify that the above named William Arnold Esq
before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, and whose name to the above
Certificate thereof is subscribed was at the time of taking said Deposition and so as above certifying and subscribing the same and now is a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Harrison duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is due and that his signatures above written are genuine. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 25th day of November AD. 1835.
William Tingley Clerk