Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40631, James Warden, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Warden, James
NUMBER
S. 40631
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15.296
Ohio R 
James Warden of Butler in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel J. Smith of the Maryland 
line, for the term of Two Years & and a half

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of July 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of October 1819 and sent to Henry Weaver, [illegible] Judge

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 [illegible] 15:25
Semi-anl, all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4th March 1820 -- 48:00
$63.25

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

Contacted

[faint illegible handwriting on left page]
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, October 5th 1819
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that James Warden enlisted as a Private in the Fourth Maryland Regiment, on the First day of April, 1778-
and was discharged [on the crossed out] in the month decr. [December] 1779.
Thos [Thomas] Harney Aud. S. M.
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James Warden
Schedule
15.296
issd. [issued] Octo. 1819.
Mar 1820
Con
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40631
INVALID.
Revy.
File No. 40,631
James Warden
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 5, Page 534
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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James Warden
4688
Henry Weaver
Judge
Hamilton, Ohio
Mid. Aug. 28. 1819.
Adm.
The statement of Warden differs from the Muster Roll: but the latter may be incorrect - whether so or not, it is evident that he served long enough to entitle him toa pension: the claim is therefore allowed.
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The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
On this Eight day of July 1819, before me Henry Weaver of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas within and for said County, personally appeared James
Warden aged Seventy five years, resident in Wayne township in said County of Butler, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make 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 James Warden enlisted for the term of three years, some time he thinks in the spring of the year of 1777 at Elkridge landing a least nine miles from Baltimore in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain Edward Nerrod of the fourth Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Smith and after him by Colonel Howard and after Howard, by Colonel J. C. Hall in the line of the State of Maryland, on the
Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Company, or in the service of the United States, until the fall he thinks of 1779, when he was discharged from service near Morristown State of New Jersey, that he was in the battle of Germantown and Monmouth Courthouse, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services-
Sworn to declared and subscribed before me, the day and year aforesaid--
his
James
X
Worden
Mark
Henry Weaver
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The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
I Henry Weaver Associate Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said James Warden did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of of Nine months at one time, on the continental establishment: and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, I am also satisfied from my own personal knowledge, that he needs the assistance of his country for support. Given under my hand and seal the Eighth day of July eighteen hundred and Nineteen -
Henry Weaver
[Seal surrounded by squiggles]

The State of Ohio Butler County ss
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Butler aforesaid do certify that Henry Weaver Esquire before whom the deposition and certificate within stated was Taken & made was at the time of the Taking & making thereof one of the associates Judges of the said Court of Common pleas, and that to all his official acts as such full faith and record is due and aught to be given
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at Hamilton the Seventeenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
John Reily
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The State of Ohio Butler County ss
At a Court of common pleas hold in at Hamilton in the County of Butler aforesaid on the fourth day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty before the honorable Joshua Collett Esquire President and his associates, Judges of the said court at the same court of common pleas being a court of Record expressly created a Court of Record by the laws and ordinances of the State of Ohio with Jurisdiction unlimited in civil causes and with power to fine and imprison personally appeared in open court James Warden aged eighty years resident in way township in the said County of Butler who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, I enlisted at Baltimore in the State of Maryland in the year of one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for the term of three years, in the fourth Regiment in the Maryland line commanded by Colonel Smith in the company commanded by captain, Edward Norard on the continental establishment - at the expiration of the term of my enlistment I was discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey - my Original declaration for a pension was made on or about the eighth day of July One thousand eight hundred and nineteen
pension certificate is numbered fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety six and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to
diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an and 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities
contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit two cows one sow and nine
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and nine pigs, one pot and one broken kettle one broken oven six pewter plates four old chairs one old case of drawers and one old ax my family consists of myself & my wife who is aged eighty years not able to contribute any thing to her suppoit [support] and two grand Daughters,  to wit, Sarah Warden and Mary Warden Sarah aged sixteen years and Mary aged fourteen years not more that able to support themselves my occupation is that of a common labourer [laborer] but from age debility and the loss of my right arm am not able to pursue it
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 6th day of September aforesaid before the Judges within }named John Reily Clerk
his
James X  Warden
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I John Reily Clerk of the court of Common pleas of the County of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly
copied from the records of the 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 thirty dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this sixteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty
John Reily