Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 341-300, for Benjamin Price, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Md.
Price, Benjamin
B.L. Wt. 341-300
CONTENTS
Killed in 1791 in St. Clairs defeat
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Md. 

[Black Star stamp]
Price, Benjamin 

NUMBER
B. L. Wt. 341 - 300.

Killed in 1791 in St. Clairs Defeat

CONTENTS
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H. Rogers has the honor to inform Joseph [illegible] that there is no officer in the Army of
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No 24
Benjamin Price Capn
[illegible] by
R. Nelson [illegible]
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Peter Cookerly and Eleanor his wife daughter and sole heir of Benjamin Price deceased a captain in the Late Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, Hereby apply to the [illegible] The Secretary at War for the Continental Donation and [illegible] said Benjamin Price.
[illegible] 1005
R. Nelson
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On the 15th day of September 1804. Roger Nelson appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for Frederick County in the State of Maryland and made an Oath on the Holy [illegible] of Almighty God that he knew Capt. Benjamin Price of the Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War, and that to his knowledge the said Price continued in the [illegible] untill the End of the War, that this deponent has always understood and verily believes the fact to be that the said Price was killed by the Indians in St. Claire defeat.

Sworn before -- Henry Kuhn
State of Maryland and Frederick County, to wit, I hereby certify that Henry Kuhn Gentlemen before whom the affidavit was made and who hath thereto subscribed his home was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn in Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Frederick County Court the fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four.
Wm. Ritchie Clerk Frederick County Court
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The deposition of Walter Boyd of Washington County in the State of Maryland aged forty six years or upwards, who being first sworn on the Holy Evengels of Allmighty God deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Captain Benjamin Price formerly of the Continental Army, that in the year 1791 he was appointed a Captain in the Maryland levies destined for an expedition against the Hostile Western Indians and as this deponent has been well informed and verily believes was killed in a charge made on the enemy in the action of the 4th of Nov 1791 under the command of General St. Clair, that the said Price before the time of his entering the Continental Army in the year 1776 was married to Eleanor Boyd the sister of this deponent who died sometime in the year 1774 or 1775 leaving only one Child a daughter named Eleanor who was sometime in the year 1798 married to Peter Cookerly and is now or was very lately living with her said husband in Frederick County in the State of Maryland, and that the said Capt Benjamin Price was never married after the death of his said wife as this deponent is well informed and verily believes, and that as this deponent believes the said Price died intestate -- 

sworn to before me one of the Justices of the Peace for Washington County in the State of Maryland this 26th day of Nov 1804. Adam Ott
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State of Maryland, Washington County [illegible]

I hereby certify that Adam Ott Gentleman, before whom the within deposition was taken is a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, and to all his acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as well as thereout

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 26th day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and four

H. Williams 6th
Wash County Court
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State of Maryland Washington County to wit
I hereby certify that I have examined the Records of Washington County orphans court, and fined that no Will has been proven or Letters of administration had upon the Estate of Captain Benjamin Price Deed

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 26th day of November 1804.

Thomas Belt Reg.
Wills Wash. County