Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,744, John Dempsey, Va.
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Va.

Dempsey, John

S. 34744
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736   (7)
Maryland
John Dempsey of Anne Arundel in the state of Maryland who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Davis of the Virginia line, for the term of 6 Years, [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of MaryLand at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of August 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of Mar:1819 and Sent to the Pensioner a duplicate issued on the 29th May 1819 and given to the Pensioner present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1819. 6 22/35. 33 __ 6
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept 1819. 48
$50.5 __ 6_

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Notification Sent November 11 1820 to
the Pensioner, Poplar Springs, Maryland

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Anne Arundel County
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Anne Arundel County towit:
I hereby certify that it appears by the records and proceedings of Anne Arundel County Court that the honorable Richard Ridgely, Esquire is one of the associate Judges of the third Judicial District of Maryland comprehending the Counties of Calvert, Anne Arundel, and Montgomery duly Commissioned and qualified and that to all his 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 twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and
Eighteen
 
{signed} Wm S Green [illegible]
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certify, that the said John Dempsey is, in indigent and - distressed circumstances.

In Testimony whereof I herewith  transmit  the said Affidavit together with the[crossed out] Evidence said before and to the Honorable [illegible] Secretary for the Department of War
Witness my hand  this 11th Day of August in the year~1818 
{signed} Richd Ridgely
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Maryland: Ann Arundel County to wit
On the 11th Day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and  eighteen, personally appeared before the subscriber, officiant Judge of the Third Judicial District of Maryland. John Dempsey of the county aforesaid  who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God did depose, declare and say that he enlisted as a private soldier is the seventh Virginia Regiments in the Month of June in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven and that he served as a private ^during the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy, in the Army of the United States from the said month of June in the Year aforesaid  till the termination of the War when he was regularly discharged from the Service: the said John Dempsey did also further depose say (and)
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and declare that he is in indigent circumstances and in Want and that he stands in need of the Aid and Assistance of his county for Support
Sworn to before me the Day and Year aforesaid
{signed} Richard Ridgely

Maryland Ann Arundel County: to wit
I Richard Ridgely Associate Judge of the
third Judicial District of Maryland Do hereby certify that from the Evidence produced before me I am fully satisfied that the facts contained in the Affidavit of John Dempsey as stated within are true. I also further (certify)
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John Dempsey
7361
Sept: W19
Lateral Side Word: Con~ (meaning continue)

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Pensioner
Popular Springs
Maryland
11 Nov. W20
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Anne Arundel County To. On this twentieth day of October 1820. personally appeared in open court being a court of record, and constituted such by the laws and Constitution of the state of Maryland for the said county of Anne Arundel: John Dempsey aged seventy three years resident in Anne Arundel County in said state 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 in Captain James Calderwoods Company of Infantry in the 11th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Phebeker that he was in the battles of Brandywine Stoney Point monmouth & Germantown, that he is by occupation a Labourer but unable to do anything except of a light nature owing to his being extremely feeble and invalid, that his family consists of a wife named Fanny aged seventy two years who is incapable of rendering him any assistance.  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)
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annexed, and by me subscribed. That he is now a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 that his original certificate bears date the 14th August 1818 and is numbered 7361.
Schedule of the property of John Dempsey
2 old chairs 7 day plates 1 old table 1 old Iron pot
valued by the Court at six dollars
his
John T Dempsey
2
Mark
Sworn to and declared on the 20th day of October 1820
Before the Judges in Open Court sitting in and
for Anne Arundel County
I
Wm Greenck
I William S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel County 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 six dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court on this twentieth day of October 1820
Wm Green Clk of Anne annual
County
Court
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34744
INVALID.
File No. 34,744
John Dempsey
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 108
Arrangement of 1870.}
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[handwritten text]
Frederick County to wit
On this 12th day of August 1818 before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appears Peter Pecraft and George Pecraft of said County and makes oath that they have know John Demsey Since the year Seventeen hundred and Twenty seven and to their knowledge he entered the
service of the United States as a common Soldier and served as such for several years to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Joseph Taney Jr
To whom it may concern
I hereby certify that I have known John Dempsey
the person named in the above deposition for twenty five or twenty six years, and have always understood that he was soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States. 
Robert Cumming
Liberty Town Aug 12th 1818.
&
Maryland Frederick County Sct
I hereby certify that Joseph Laney Jr. Gentleman before whom the prefixed Affidavit was made
and whose name
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stood that he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States.
Robert Cumming LR
Liberty Town Aug 12 1818.

Maryland Frederick County S[illegible]

I hereby certify that Joseph Taney Jr.
Gentleman before whom the prefixed -- Affidavit was made and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the closing -- thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and Sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Frederick County Court this 17 day of Augt. 1818.

John Schley Clerk
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Major Vanderventer of the war office will be so good as to instruct the bearer John Dempsey a soldier of [illegible] revolution how he is to obtain his pension.
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Maj N Vanderventer of the War office
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We the subscribers do hereby certify that the bearer John Dempsey is the person who same time since made application to the war department for the pension allowed by Congress to the old Soldiers of the revolutionary war.
May 26, 1819
Rod R Dorsey
Chas D Warfield
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Roderick Dorsey and Chas D Warfield, that the above is their signitures, they are men of respectability to whose statement respect should be given. 
P Warfield
Geo. Town
May 29, 1819
A Certificate of Pension was issued to John Dempsey on the 29th May 1819.
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Poplar Springs Oct 23, 1820
Sir,
Herewith is inclosed my affidavit and Schedule. When a new certificate is granted you will be pleased to forward it as soon as may be thereafter and direct the same to me at Poplar Springs P, office Anne Arundel County Maryland.
I am very respectfully your obedt Servt [obedient servant]
John Dempsey
The Hon'ble [Honorabe] Secretary at War Washington City
D. Ca. [District of Columbia]
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Poplar Springs        Free 
Oct 24
The Honorable
The Secretary at War 
Washington City D. Ca. [District of Columbia]
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