Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,315, Thomas Dewall, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Dewall, Thomas
or Duvall

Number
S.34315
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Notification sent September 18, 1820 to Lewis Condict, Morristown, New Jersey

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10197
New Jersey
Thomas Dewall

of Morris Co in the state of N. Jersey 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood of the Maryland line for the term of three years. to '80

Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 1st of September 1818.

Certificate of pension issued the 1st of May '19 and sent to John G Cooper Judge, Morristown, N.J.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $49.03
Semi'anl.all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $48.00
$97.03

6 Mo. 4/31

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March 1818}

Continued
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Thos. Dewall

Adm'd 

Hon. W. Southard, N.C.
Baskingridge, N.J.
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State of New Jersey Morris County

Personally appeared before me John G Cooper one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Morris, Thomas Dewell about seventy years old who being sworn according to law saith that in the war of the revolution he enlisted under Capt. Henry Gate - Stone Colony - William Smallwood, General of the 1st Regiment in the Maryland line - for three years and served out the three years and was honorably discharged at Kemble Mountain near Morristown New Jersey - he further saith that their commissary was John Wright - Dov V Wallis - Surgeon - Major Winder - the major - & has no further proof to offer - but is in very needy & indigent circumstances & needs the aid & support of his county.

Thomas Dewell

Sworn before me the 1st day of Sept 1818.

J G Cooper
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I John G Cooper Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thoms Dewell did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy and I am satisfied the said Thomas Dewell is in very indigent & needy circumstances & needs the aid & support of his county - and now transmit the proceeding & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the 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"

J G Cooper

State of New Jersey
County of Morris

I Robert H M Carter Clerk of the County of Morris do hereby certify that John G Cooper Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit is made is and was at the doing there duly entitled "one of the judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Morris" and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said county this second day of February AD eighteen hundred & nineteen.

Robert H M Carter

SEAL
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 28th, 1819

I hereby certify tht it appears from the muster rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that Thomas Dewall enlisted as a private in the First Maryland Regiment, on the seventh day of April 1777 and was discharged on the - not stated on rolls.

Thos Karney
Aud. S.M.

The date of this man's discharged is blank on the muster rolls yet he is marked discharged.

Thos Karney
Aud
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Thomas Dewall
10-197
Morris Co

Con

May 19

Sch 19

Ex'd
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District of New Jersey
Morris County

On this 8th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of common law having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings and its Judgements being removable by writ of error only] Thomas Dewall aged eighty years resident in the township of Morris in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war in the first Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Stone in the Company commanded by Capt. Garter that my original declaration was made on the first day of September 1818 and that I have received a pension certificate No 10197.

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 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. That I am eighty years old that I am a shoe maker by trade, but an unable to work at it that my family consists of my wife named Tabitha aged fifty nine years a little disposed sometimes but mostly able to maintain herself and one daughter named Esther aged twenty, a weakly woman and able to contribute but very little towards my support or her own.

Thomas Dewall

Sworn to and declared the 8th day of July 1820 before Gab H Ford
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Schedule referred to in the forgoing deposition of 
Thomas Dewall

6 sitting chairs
1 old table
1 old chest
1 iron pot
shovel & tongs
6 knives & 6 forks
1 pail
6 earthen cups & saucers
1 tea pot
6 white metal spoons
6 queens ware plates
4 earthen dishes
small looking glass
1 wash tub
1 ax
1 old shovel
1 dresser

Thomas Dewall

Sworn to & declared the 8th day of July 1820 before
Gab H Ford
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris

I Robert H M Carter Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris 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 that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule it eight dollars and twenty-nine cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.

Robert H.M. Carter Clerk of the Court for the county of Morris

SEAL
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LETTERHEAD The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

Bridgeport, Conn Oct 21/98
Hon. H Clay Evans Comm.

Dear Sir

Please give me the revolutionary war record of Thomas Duvall of Essix NJ. His name is recorded in Adjutant Gen'l record of "Officers or men of NJ in Rev War" in that book the name is spelled Devall but I am informed the former is the correct spelling - awaiting your kind reply and with thanks for past favors - I remain

Yours truly 

H.F. Norcross
38 West Liberty Street
Bridgeport, Conn

US PENSION OFFICE STAMP - Oct 22, 1898
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34315
Revy INVALID

File No 34315
Thomas Dewall
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

Index Vol D Pae 107
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Oct 27/98
H.F. Norcross
Bridgeport, Conn