Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,364, Erasmus Erp, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Erp, Erasmus

Number
R.3364
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REJECTED
3364

Erasmus Erp
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Erasmus Erp
Maryland

Rejected
See let 22 Feb
'41 Hon W C Johnson
J C Gate Feby 10/57

did not serve six
months

3364

Act 7 June 1832
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House of Reps

19th Feb 1841

Mr. Watkins of Montgomery County, MD desires me to forward the evident to you and to say that in a few days other and additional evidence will be furnished to sustain the claim for pension.

Very respectfully
W. Cort Johnson
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State of Maryland
Montgomery County

On this twenty-first day of December eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before Wm. Oneals one of the Justices of the Orphans Court of Montgomery County
Erasmus Erp a resident of Maryland in the county of Montgomery aged eighty-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, Major Mountjoy Maley and Captain John Nichols of Maryland Militia the names or number of this battalion I have forgotten if any more than Baley's battalion, old age and bodily debility has so impaired my memory that I have forgotten the day month or year but know that I entered the service in the latter part of the revolutionary war and from the circumstances of some of our company entering a field on our march and plucking some watermelons which our Captain harshly reprimanded them for, know that I joined the company sometime in the summer, I joined my captain as a volunteer at a place now known as the county city of Montgomery and called Rockville in Maryland and went on from there to our rendezvous in Georgetown and remained there a few days. We were then ordered to Fredericktown in Frederick County Maryland where I remained for six or eight weeks and acted as a corporal at which time I was attacked by a violent fever and my captain sent me home and I was confined at home for nine months and before I was able to return to the company was discharged consequently I did not receive any other discharge from my officer
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and the said Erasmus further declares that he was born in seventeen Hundred and fifty seven and that he has no record of his age more than the frequent declarations of his parents and that he was living in Fredrick county Maryland at the time of being cald in to servise and that he was a volunteer under captain John Nichols and was born in Fredreck county Maryland and now lives in Montgomery county Maryland he hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Erasmus his X mark Erp
We Jacob Magons & Lewis Ball Wm Oneale residing in Montgomery county Maryland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Erasons Erp who subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jacobs Magons Lewis Ball
Wm Oneal Jr
I do hereby certify that Erasmus Erp is unable to appear in open court in consequence of bodyly debility and I further certify that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that it appears to me that Jacob Magons & Lewis Ball who has signed the same is residents of Montgomery county Maryland and is credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit
Wm Oneal Jr
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Credit
I hereby certify that the indentination ware made  before sworn and subscribed 
Wm Oneale

35163
Erasmus Erp
Maryland 

Hn WCost Johnson 
HR

State of Maryland Montgomery County } SS
I hereby certify that William Oneale Junr Gentleman by whom the aforegoing certificate appears to have been given and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of giving and signing the same certificate, one of the Justices of the Orphans court for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn; and that full faith and confidence are due to his acts as such. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 5th day of January 1841
Ja W Arculin
Register of Wills for Montgomery county Maryland
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[same as page 7 - turned a different way]
Credit
I hereby certify that the indentination ware made before sworn and subscribed
Wm Oneale

35163
Erasmus Erp
Maryland

Hn WCost Johnson
HR

State of Maryland Montgomery County } SS
I hereby certify that William Oneale Junr Gentleman by whom the aforegoing certificate appears to have been given and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of giving and signing the same certificate, one of the Justices of the Orphans court for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn; and that full faith and confidence
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Credit
I hereby certify that the indentination ware made before sworn and subscribed
Wm Oneale

35163
Erasmus Erp
Maryland

Hn WCost Johnson
HR

State of Maryland Montgomery County } SS
I hereby certify that William Oneale Junr Gentleman by whom the aforegoing certificate appears to have been given and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of giving and signing the same certificate, one of the Justices of the Orphans court for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn; and that full faith and confidence are due to his acts