Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35092, for Mathias Sypherd, Maryland
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Sypherd, Mathias
or 
Sypherd, Matthias
NUMBER
S 35092
CONTENTS
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16,696  R
Maryland
Matthias Syphird
of Frederick Cty, 
in the State of Maryland
who was a Private in the regiment commanded [by]
Colonel Adams of the Maryland
line, for the term of Two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence [on]
the 14 of May 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sepr 18
and sent to A Shriver E
Fredicktown Maryland

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819   29.7
Semi-anl, all'ce ending Mar 1820   48.0
3 Mo 18/31 4/30
[total]   $77.7

Dead
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
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Notification sent 2nd. Octr. 1820. to John Schley
Frederick Town, Maryland.
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FREE
The Honbl
The Secretary of War
Washington City
Dist Ca

Mathias Syphird
14,496
March 10 19

Md. 116
Recd. 16 Sep: 1820
Mathias Sypherd

Con Exam

[round stamp containing] FREDS MD  SEP 14
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Maryland, Frederick County ss
On this 12th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court, being a court of Record for Frederick County, expressly made so by the Laws of the State aforesaid and proceeding according to the course of the common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment Matthias Sypherd aged fifty seven 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: In Captain McPhersons company of Infantry in the 3d Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Steward that he applied for a pension and obtained a certificate number 14.496 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 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 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
Mathias Sypherd

Schedule
no property of any kind
and the said Matthias Sypherd doth also make oath that he is by occupation a carpenter but owing to a failure of his sight and being much plagued with the rheumatism he is unable
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to do little or nothing at that business or any other and that he has no family
Sworn to in open Court here this 12th day of September 1820
Test   John Schley Clk

Maryland Frederick County ss
I John Schley Clerk of Frederick County Court in the State of Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Frederick County Court this 12th day of September 1820
John Schley  Clk
Fredk County Court
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Mathias Syphird
Maryland line
Col Adams
1781 - 2 yrs 6 mo
The name of the applicant
does not appear on the
Rolls remaining in this
office,
Thos Harny
A. S. Md.

[lines crossed out above this notation] 
War Dept. July 1819.

Sent to Annapolis for
proof of service
Admitted
Abm Shriver Fredk Town Md
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State of Maryland Frederick County Set
On this fourteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the fifth Judicial district of said State personally appears Mathias Syphird aged about fifty six years resident in said County, who being by me duly sworn 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 Mathias Syphird enlisted in the revolutionary service in April in the year 1781 in Frederick Town in said State in the company commanded by Captain John Lynn of the third Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Adams and afterward by Colonel Stewart. that he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United States for two years and six months and upwards from the time of his enlistment, when he was discharged from service at Annapolis towards the close of the year 1783, that he was in the battle at the seige of York when Cornwallis and army were captured 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 and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
[illegible] Shriver

I Abraham Shriver Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Mathias Syphird did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 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 - 
Witness my hand this 14th day of June 1818
[illegible] Shriver
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Maryland Frederick County Set.
I hereby certify that the Honl. Abraham Shriver before whom the within oath and declaration was made whose name is thereto subscribed is one of the Associate Judges of the fifth Judicial district of the State of Maryland composed of Frederick Washington and Allegany Counties.

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of Frederick County Court this 14. day of June in the year of our Lord 1819.
John Schley   Clerk
Frederick County Court
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State of Maryland. Frederick County Sct
On the third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber an associate Judge of the fifth Judicial district of said state personally appears John Walker of said County of lawful age, who maketh oath on the holy Evangely of Almighty God and saith that he is well acquainted with Mathias Syphird of said County, and knows of his own knowledge that the said Syphird was a Soldier in the third Maryland Regiment at the siege of York in the year 1781, but does not remember the company to which the said Syphird belonged - That he the said Walker belonged to the German battalion, which battalion was reduced to a company and placed under the command of Captain Price and annexed to the third Maryland Regiment at the siege of York in 1781, and continued so annexed untill the close of the revolutionary war, and that he the said Walker continued a private under Captain Price untill the Autumn of 1782 when he was drafted into Captain Revelley's Light infantry company - that untill this period the said Syphird was a fellow soldier in the said third Regiment and the almost daily companion of him the said Walker and he the said Walker further saith that he knows of his own knowledge that the said Syphird continued in the service of the United States untill the close of the war, and that they were discharged together at Annapolis in 1783
Sworn before
[illegible] Shriver
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I certify to the honorable the Secretary of War of the United States that the within named John Walker is worthy of credibility, and that I entertain not a doubt of this truths of the facts which he has testified-- 
Witness my hand this 3d day of August 1819
[illegible] Shriver
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35092
Revy INVALID.
File No. 35,092
Matthias Syphird
Pri Rev War
Act: 18n March 18n
Index: -- Vol. 2,  Page 411
[Arrangement of 1870.]