Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34632, Charles Badger, Continental (Md.)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Md.)
Badger, Charles
NUMBER S.34632
CONTENTS
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Harin's regiment
3,943
Maryland Roll-

Charles Badger
Capt Pry Private
Maryland
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of October 1818
and Delivered to Lieut Greenleaf Dearborn at  Washington City

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 July (illegible 
38.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819
(illegible) 1825 x 86.90

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
38.95
Contd March 81
to end of War
two years.
Cecol Cy
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Charly Badger Lent
correct
Filed at Apl. 1817.
Hazens
Adm

James Sewell of (illegible) Clerk
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Charles Badger a citizen of the United States and at this time residing in Cecil County in the State of Maryland doth declare that in the month of March 1781 he enlisted in the service of the revolted Colonies under Capt Thomas Pry in the congress and regiment as common soldier.  Col Harin then commanded the Brigade and that he served as a common Soldier without intermission 'till the close of  the war in 1783 and was at that event discharged and that he is now a cripple and so indigent as to be a charge to his county.

The word in the Congress regiment
interlined
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State of Maryland Cecil County April Court 1818
then appeared Charles Badger in open court and
made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the Personal facts and circumstances stated in the above declaration are true

Sworn to in open Court
Test James Sewall

It appears to the satisfaction of Cecil County Court
that the above named Charly Badger served in the
Revolutionary War: And the member thereof
hereby certify and transmit to the War
Department of the United States the Testimony
before them in support of his intended application
for a pension under the late act of Congress
of April 1818.

nine (illegible) and state that he is in reduced 
circumstances and (illegible) as stated in need of assistance of his  County for support
R.T Earle
Lind. Nuiviell
Tholescon
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To the Honorable Judges of Cecil County Court 
The petition of Charles Badger a citizen of the state of Maryland and Cecil County respectfully sheweth that he is entitled to a pension under an act allowing to inlisted soldiers in the naval and land service a pension, whereupon he prays your honor to assign him such pension as the law may present as such conditions as are specified and after compliance with all the requisitions of the said Law [large X over paragraph]

Charles Badger Sr.
Maryland Cecil County ss.
I hereby Certify that Richard T. Earle Lemuel Purnell and Thomas [illegible]Esquires by whom the within certificate was given, were, at the time of signing the same and were all Judges of the second Judicial District out of the State of Maryland duly commissioned and qualified and to [illegible] [illegible] faith and credit is and ought to be (given) [illegible]  in courts of Justice as thereof - 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this sixth day of October [illegible] Eighteen hundred & Eighteen 
James Sewall Clk
Of Cecil County
[bottom half of page, vertical]
Charles Badger – Sen’r
Correct
Rec’d at Apl 1818

Haz ens
Adm’d
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Copy
Charles Barger
Oath Schedule for 
a Application
under the late
Act of Congress
3943
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State of Maryland Cecil County To wit.
On this 11th day of September 1820 Personally
appeared in in Open Court being a Court of
Record for the Second Judicial district of
the State of Maryland proceeding according
to the course of the Common Law with Jurisdiction 
unlimited in amount and keeping a Record
of its proceeding Charles Badger age
Sixty four years resident in Cecil County
in said district who being first duly sworn
according to Law doth on his oath declare
that he served in the Revolutionary War
as follows, that he enlisted in Elkton County
County State of Md. in the year 1781, and
continued in the same during the war and  that
he was at the taking of Co. Wallace York
Town
Virginia and that he has obtained a pension
under the
act of the 18th March 1818 This
Certificate being numbered 3.943
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
Citizen of the United States on the 18 of March 1818
and that I have not since that time by gift sale
or in any manner disposed of my property on
any part thereof with intent thereby so to
diminish it as to bring myself within the provision
of an 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 passed on the 18 March
1818) and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts.  
AD
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= or debts due to me nor have any income
other than what is contained in th schedule annexed and by subscribed
born to in Open Court
James Sewall

Schedule of his property,
1old Bed & Bedding 1 Chest, 1 Iron Pot sold
Dutch Oven 2 Aces, 1 Pair Mane Rings
that he is a leave by trade but has been
unable of following the same this fifteen
years, no family except a wife who is
advanced in years-
Witness James Sewall
Charles his Barge
His Mark

Sworn to and declared on the 11 day of September
1820. Before the Subscriber Chief Judge of the
second Judicial District of Maryland
composed of Talbot, Queen Ann ,Kent and
Cecil Counties
JT Earle

I James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County Court do
hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the
chedule there to annexed are truly copied
in the Record of said Court; and I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifteen Dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court on this first day of December
1820
James Sewall
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34632
Revy INVALID
[initials] our
File No. 34.632
Charles Badger
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 2
, Page 27
[ Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Badger Charles
GRADE Private
LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 12790
ACREAGE100
ISSUED  June 18, 1792
to Jacob Miller, Admr
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.