Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34948, for Thomas King, Maryland
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Service
MD

*King, Thomas

Number
S.34948
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14122
R
Maryland

Thomas King 
of Anne Arundel Co in the state of Maryland
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gunby of the Maryland line for the term of four years - 79 War

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 8th of December 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of Sept 1819 and sent to John Randall of Annapolis Mary'd

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1819 $24.12
semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1820 $48.00
$71.22

Calculations

Certif issued 13 Sept 1819
Date before rec'd [illegible]

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Continued, notification sent Oct 5 1829 Philip Moore Esquire Baltimore, MD
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34948
Revy INVLAID

File No 34948
Thomas King
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March '18
Index: Vol 2 Page 223

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Thomas King a revolutionary soldier on the pension list of the United States made oath this day before me John Randall one of the Alderman for the city of Annapolis that he is the same person by the name of Thomas King in whose name a certificate was given by Jeremiah Townley Chase Esq Chief Judge of the Third Judicial District in the state of Maryland on the 8th day of December 1818.

Thomas King
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed 4th day of September 1819.

John Randall, Alderman
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On being enrolled on the pension list of the United States agreeably to the late law in favor of Revolutionary Soldiers whereby the pensioners receive eight dollars per month from the 18th March 1818 I do hereby relinquish and give claim to the pension heretofore allowed me as a Maryland soldier.

Thomas King
His X Mark

Witness
John Randll
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Thos King

Judge's certificate as to claimants circumstances wanted

Adm.

Annapolis, MD

hundred and eighteen
Wm S Green Clerk County Court
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County

December the 8th 1818

Thomas King of the county and state aforesaid appeared before me the subscriber Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of Maryland and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God deposed said and declared that he enlisted as a private soldier in the First Maryland regiment in the month of April 1779 and served in the war of the revolution against the common enemy from the time above mentioned till the conclusion of the war and the said Thomas King further deposed said and declared as aforesaid from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for support.

The above deposition sworn to before me the subscriber the day & year aforesaid in Maryland Anne Arundel County.

I Jeremiah Townley Chase Chief Judge of the third judicial district of the state of Maryland do hereby certify that it appears fully to my satisfaction from the deposition aforesaid and from other testimony laid before me that Thomas King the person named in the aforegoing affidavit served in the revolutionary war as stated in the said affidavit against the common enemy and that from his reduced circumstances he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have herewith transmitted the said testimony to the Hon'ble the Secretary of the war Department and have
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have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of December in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Jeremiah Townley Chase

Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that the honorable Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquire who appears to have taken and signed the aforegoing deposition was at the time of taking and signing the same Chief Judge of the third judicial district of Maryland comprehending the counties of Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery duly commissioned and qualified and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Wm S Green - Clerk County Court
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Thomas King
14122
March 1820

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*The whole of the form prescribed in the first section, to verify the amount of property of the applicant, the oath of the party, and the certificate of the clerk excepted, must be done while the court is in session.
**All are courts of record, within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:
1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the State which create them;
2d, Which have been solemnly adjudged, by the tribunals of the several States, to be courts of record;
3d, Which proceed according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;
4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;
And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law, having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal.
The court should, in every instance, state, on the face of the proceedings, that it is a court of record , and state why it is such. - (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States.)

DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS.
A. District,-- circuit,-- county, or corporation, as the case may be.
B. State why a court of record.
C. After repeating the district, circuit, county, or corporation, insert the declarant's name.
D. District, circuit, county, or corporation.
E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension-certificate should be inserted.

F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted, and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country," comprehend those only who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government, except by private or public charity.

Extract of a CIRCULAR LETTER from the War Department, to the several Agents for paying pensions, enclosing the foregoing Form. "For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases, no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can  be admitted as a proper voucher."
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SCHEDULE
United States of America
(A.)  Maryland District    SS.
ON this fourteenth day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court (*)  (+) (B.) in the District court in and for the  (C.) District of Maryland Thomas King aged Sixty Six years, resident in the City of Baltimore in said (D.) District who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.)

That he enlisted into the service of the United States in or about the month of March 1777 Chan[???] county in the State of Maryland in Capt John H Stones Company for three years, afterwards reenlisted for during the war, joined the first Maryland Regiment then under command of Col William Smallwood, continued in the service on the continental Establishment until the close of the war when he was discharged at Baltimore on the 9 June 1783 by Major Landsdale from Capt Michells Company that he hath been placed on the pension list Roll of the Maryland agency from the year 1813 that he made his original declaration under the law of 1818 before the Honorable Jude Chase at Annapolis and was increased $8 month as will appear by Certificate bearing date and no----

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March, 1818; 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 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or 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.
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Schedule viz---
(F.) Two Common Tables, half dozen Chairs, one pot frying pan, Tea Kettle, some Crockery ware and Sundry other Articles of small value too tedious to enumerate. That he has had the misfortune to lose a hand by the explosion of a Cannon consequently disqualified to pursue his occupation of a Ship Carpenter That his property of every description would not sell for . . . $50

That his Family consists of two children to wit, a daughter named Sarah Ann aged 14 years and William a son aged 12 years - That from his reduced Circumstances, he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and were it not for the pension he receives from the Government he could not possibly support himself except from public or private charity
Thomas his x mark King

SWORN to and declaree the 14th day of September 1820
BEFORE, the District Court aforesaid
I, Philip Moore Clerk of the said District Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from 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 Fifty Dollars and --- Cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 21 day of Septemr 1820
Philip Moore
Clerk of the District court for the Dist of Maryland