Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,742, Robert Dean, Md.
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Md.     Dean, Robert      S34,742
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8,799
Maryland
Robert Dean
Of Allegany County in the state of Maryland who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Capt Spunion of the Maryland line for the term of two years to end of war.
Transcribed on he Roll of Maryland at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818.
Certificate of  Pension issued the 3rd of April 1819 and sent to Sza Beall, Esquire, Clerk of Allegany County, Maryland.
Arrears to 4th of March:
1819 10 mo 11/30   - 6/01                     = 83.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819        48.
                                                                 _________
                                                                $ 131.96

{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818 }

Continued
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Modification sent to John Goulding Esquire
Geld Law office
2nd March 1821
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34 742
Revy  INVALID Our
File No.    24,742
Robert Dean
Private Revolutionary War
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Act: 18th March  18th
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 108
Arrangement of 1870
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Robert Dean
1 Cert
Further inspection of service required
Adm C

Audit on time of
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District of Maryland, Allegany County, LL
On this 20th day of April 1818 before me the describer one of the associate judges of the fifth Judicial District of Maryland comprised of Frederick Washington and Allegany Counties personally appears Robert Dean aged fifty three years resident in Allegany County in said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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, That he the said Robert Dean enlisted in Baltimore in the State of Maryland ( in the years seventeen hundred &  eighty one) in the Company Commanded by Captain Edison Spurries of the fourth Maryland regiment that he continued to serve in the Laci Corps, or in the service of The United States until the end of the war when he was discharged from service in Baltimore in the State of Maryland that he was in a skirmish in the State of New York near Kings bridge where he was commanded and that he is in tedious circumstances, and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
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Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Th. Buchannan
I Thomas Buchannan,  one of the Associate Judges as aforesaid, do certify that  assess to my satisfaction that the said Robert Dean did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before now, to the Secretary for the Department of Was, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress

Th. Buchannan

In addition to the foregoing Certificate given by me on the 20th day of April and , I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Robert Dean is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
 Th. Buchannan
October 13, 1818
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State of Maryland, Allegany County, to with I Aza Beale, Clerk of Allegany County have to in the State of Maryland hereby certify that the Honorable Thomas Buchannan Esquire who app say to have signed the afore going deposition and Certificate, was at the time of taking and signing the source and now is one of the associate  of the fifth Judicial district of the state after etc. Composed of Allegany, Washington and Frederick County, duly Commissioned and am qualified, and to all by account as such fee and faith and crediting and aught to be given as well in County of Justice as thereout,
Testimony whereof 

Aza Beale, clerk ....seal of my office twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen
of Allegany County Court
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Auditor Office Annapolis March 22, 1819
I hereby that it appears from the payrolls remaining in the auditors office that Robert Dean
 received from John Hamilton agent for the Maryland line the sum of $ 58.60 for pay from the 1st of January 1782 to the 1st of January 1783 also the sum of $43.30 for pay from 1 January 1783 to the 15th Mar 1783 when his time expired 
Thos. Karney, Auditor
State of Md
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Robert Dean
 Pensioner
Recording  copy cash
location for Pension                   $ 1.25 
Certificate seal to sum                    .43
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                                                      1.68

Paid by 
Az  Beale
@ one
John Goulding
Gen S office
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State of Maryland, Allegany County SS
On the eleventh day of October 1880, personally appeared in open court, 
being a Court of record, Robert Dean
aged fifty seven years, resident in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted in Baltimore with Samuel Chester in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty one, was marched to Annapolis
 and passed muster or inspection by General Smallwood
and after some time was marched to the Northward under Captain Ed
Spunnion  was in a skirmish with the Brittish
at Snow Hill on North River, that he was in the service to the end of the war under Capt  Spunnion  4th  Regiment of the Maryland line, that he made originally a declaration on oath on the 20th Day of April 1818 and received
 a Pension Certificate numbered Eight thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
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Schedule of Property, & c.
1 Horse $ 30.
1 Shovel Plow  $ 2
1 Collar for horse $ 2
2 old hoes, $ 1 & $ 1.50
1 Loom & Tackling $ 10
4 old chairs  $ 2
3 pots & Dutch oven  $ 3.50
Table Furniture & Table  $ $1.50
 1 Chest & 1 Trunk $ 1
2 old Buckets    $ .50
TOTAL   $ 55.00
Debt due by me to different persons $ 43.00
Robert Dean

And the said Robert Dean further declared that he is by occupation a sea crew ?   but not at all to work at it, but have been obliged for some time past to work on a farm, that has been living for some years on Sixteen acres of poor land which he paid thirty dollars for, but have gotten little for it, the person he purchased from being dead and he believes he had any title for it, that he has a wife forty years of age, one son eleven years of age, one daughter nine years of age, one other son seven years of age and one other son two years of age.
Sworn to and declared on the eleventh day of October 1820 in open court 
Aza Beale, Clerk
I, Aza Beale, clerk of Allegany County in the State of Maryland hereby certify the the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total mount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule id Fifty Five dollars . In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, on this 22nd day of November, 1820
Aza Beale
Clerk of the Court for the County of Allegany
In the State of Maryland