Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35059, for George Saunders, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md. 
Saunders, George
NUMBER
S 35059
CONTENTS
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19.605
Maryland
George Saunders of Kent County in the State of Maryland
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Johnson of the regiment commanded by Colonel Richardson in the Maryland line for the term of two years, from 1778 to 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at a rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 24 day of March 1826.
Certificate of pension issued the 22 of April 1826 and delivered to Thomas Harris Sage of Kent County Maryland
Sanction of Semi-anl. all'ce ending 11 Sep 1896 $43.09
$43.09
Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
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35.059
Rev y INVALID.
File No. 35059
terested
George Saunders
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol. 2, Page 354
Arrangement of 1870.
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Attention of The Honourable James Harris
The. Harris
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Huntingfield on  7th April 1826

Dear Sir,
you will receive herewith the papers of
Geo. Saunders, a wounded officer awaiting 
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getting his salary thus [illegible] so [illegible]. I advise  The [Heavase]  Lilia to the [money]he may be  s [heal fully] [Ganian] -The [liaty] of [Act]. I advise the [Heavases] to have that account & not of his heirs. 
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Philip Lord
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District of Columbia,
County of Washington
Personally appeared before me on this
22d April 1826, the undersigned Thomas Harris, a resident of the County of Kent in Maryland, and
made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God
that he well knows George Saunders an applicant
for a pension, also residing in said Kent, and that
since the 18th March 1818, said Saunders has
disposed of no property whatever, having had
none to dispose of except what is contained in
his schedule made before the County Court of Kent in
March 1826
Sworn to & subscribed before

Thomas Harris
The day & year above
Written-
Henry Whitcroft
Notary at
Washing
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Auditors Office
Annapolis 14th February 1826
I certify that it appears by the Muster Rolls
Remaining in my office, That George Saunders a private
of the 5th Maryland Regiment enlisted for during the
War on the 23d of May 1778 and on the 1st Novr
1780 present
Thos Karney, And State M
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Sir,
Auditors Office
Annapolis 21st Feby 1826
Herewith you will received the
Declaration of George Saunders, you have nothing
more to do than to bring him into open Court,
when in Session, where he will swear to facts, and
the Clerk of the Court will fill up the Blanks,
You will transmit it to the Pension Office War
Department, Washington, accompanied by my
Certificate of the applicants Services, addressed
to the Honourable the Secretary at War
I have the Honour to be
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Servant

Genl Philip Reed
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State of Maryland file

Personally appeared in Heart County Court, one of the county courts of the same 2nd Judicial District of Maryland and a court of record having the power to fine and imprisonment, George Sanders of the said count of Heart, aged seventy years on the first day of August last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth make oath in open court, the said court then being in session, that he enlisted at Chester Town as a private soldier in the 5th Maryland Regiment Infantry in the company commanded by Joseah Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by William Richardson in the line of the State of Maryland on Continental Establishment in the year 1774, and continued to serve until the 1st day of November 1780 when he was discharged in the State of Maryland, that he herby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the role of any state, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, that he made out to support himself by his labor until  about one year that he is by profession a laborer and unable any longer to support himself, that he as a wife about 70 years age and that he is in such indigent circumstances without the assistance of this country ceefit [?] by private of public charity and
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and in the pursuance of the Act of the 1st Army 1820 I so 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 so to dimmish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to amended and by me subscribed and that since the 18th day of March 1818 no change has been made in my property.

His mark X George Sander

Schedule: one maul and axe, four knives and forks, two dishes and four plates, one pair of wedges - his mark X George Sanders
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I Joseph A Gordon, Clerk of Heart County Court of the 2nd Judicial District of the State of Maryland, do herby certify that the yore going oath and the schedule thereto amended are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the afore said schedule is five dollars ------

In testimony where I have here unto set my hand and office the seal of the said court on this 24th day of March 1826

Joseph A Gordon, Clerk of the Court of the County of Heart, State of Maryland