Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34624, Jacob Allen, Md.
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3 -- 1776
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Md. | Allen, Jacob. | S.34624
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CONTENTS
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Maryland 
Jacob Allen
of Cecil County in the state of Maryland
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Chaplin of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Williams in the Maryland
line, for the term of six years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 15 of April 1823.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of July 1823
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and Sentto James Sewall
Elkton Md
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Arrears to 4th of
Semi anl. all'ce ending Sept 1823  
37.32
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$37.32

32
5.32
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37.32

Revolutionary claim
Acts March 18, 18 [last two digits obscured]
and May 1, 1820.
March 1, 1823
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18905
Jacob Allen.

Recd. from and :Gen: Md.
28 July 1823

James Sewall Esq
Elkton
Md
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State of Maryland Cecil County Sct
Be it Remembered that on this fifteenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and twenty three, Before the undersigned Judge
of the Sixth Judicial district of the State of
Maryland, Personally appeared Jacob Allen,
who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangely of 
Almighty God did depose declare and say, That
he enlisted in the year 1776 at Fredericktown
commanded by Captain Chaplin
in the State of Maryland in a company ^ attached
to the Sixth Maryland Regiment commanded
by Colonel Otha H. Williams; that he was
afterwards in the ['the' crossed out] a company commanded by
Captain Henry Dobson until the Battle of
Camden, where he received four wounds and was
taken Prisoner; that after his recovery from his
Wounds he was sent by order of the British
officer to Charleston, on his way to which
place he was rescued by a Body of men under
Generals Sumpter and Marion, after which he
joined General Greenes Army, and was attached
as he believes (but is not certain) to the Tenth
Virginia Regiment, the Colonel of which he has
forgotten the name of
That he continued with
the
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The American Army until the capture of
Lord Cornwallis he was discharged from the
American Army: and that the said Deponent
from his extreme indigent circumstances possessing no 
Property of any sort or kind, except what little
clothes he has, and from having lost the use
of both his hands from age and disease 
he being seventy five years of age on the first
day of July next needs the assistance of his
Country for his support.
Sworn to in open Court
James Sewall
State of Maryland Cecil County Lot

We the undersigned Judges of the Sixth Judicial
District of the State of Maryland do hereby
certify that from the Testimony adduced us
we are satisfied that the aforesaid Jacob
Allen served upwards of nine months on the
continental Establishment and that from his
indigent circumstance age and infirmities he
needs the assistance of his Country for his support.
Given under our Hands this 15 April 1823.
R. T. Earle
Leml Purnell
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, 25th July 1822
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in
the Auditor's Office, that Jacob Allen 
enlisted as a Private in the 6th Maryland
Regiment, on the third day of April 1777
and was 
discharged [crossed out] 
on the 16th August 1780 Prisoner
Thos Harney Auditor General,
State of Maryland.
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34624
Revy INVALID.

File No. 34,624
Jacob Allen
Pri. Rev War

Act: 18th March 18"
Index:  Vol. 8, Page 7

[Arrangement of 1870.]