Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7476, for John Mayer, Maryland
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Service
Continental (MD)

Mayer, John
or Moyer

Number
R.7476
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This is the first time I have heard that Col Haussegger describe the cause of Capt. Boyer was a caption and Col Haussegger regiment & or roll - the rolls do not come up to 1780 - John Mayer enlisted 1776 by roll in Arend's Company mustered 1 June & Deserted Aug 76

Residence Correct
As this man's name is on the roll as a deserter the claim must be rejected.

7476

Rejected See letter to Kenedy
17 Nov 1821
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7476
John Moyer

REJECTED
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Mail Stamp

War Department
Pension Office
Washington

MAIL

John Moyer
Thos Kennedy
Hagerstown, MD
Rec'd 9 Aug 1821
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[illegible] Aug 7th, 1821

Dear Sir

In the case of John Moyer, no doubt can exist of his having been in the revolutionary war.

But he is old and infirm - talks Dutch and that not very intelligible so far as can be collected from him. He was in the German Regiment or Battalion under Col. Haussegger. He is a real object of his country county - do pray therefore get his papers passed before September next.

I am very respectfully
Jno Kennedy

J.L. Edwards
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John Mayer - appears on Haussegger rolls as a defector August 1776.

The applicant must state positively the regiment & line in which he served and the name of the Colonel who commanded the regiment

June 26th, 1821

States he was in the German Regiment or Battalion which had been commanded by Col. Haussegger  who went off to the enemy during the war.

Tho Kennedy
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State of Maryland Washington County

On this tenth day of August 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said county John Mayer aged sixty-two years resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:

That he enlisted at Liberty town Maryland under Captain Boyer for three years sometime in the year 1780 or 1781 - he thinks it was in the German Regiment or Battalion was at the siege of York and was discharged at Baltimore.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of 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 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 of 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 of Property Etc.

one iron pot
one old tin bucket
one table
2 old coffee pots

That he has no family living with him.

John Mayer

Sworn and declared on the 10th day of April 1821 in open court

Test: O.H. Williams - clk

I Otho H Williams clerk of Washington County Court Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court [illegible] that the total amount in valued of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three dollars and blank cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 10th day of April 1821.

O.H. Williams

Clerk of the Court for the County of Washington, Maryland

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