Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 7379, for John Morgan, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Morgan, JOhn or Gavin

Number
R.7379
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7379

John Morgan

REJECTED
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Auditor's Office
Annapolis 16th Jany 1826

I certify that it appears by the muster rolls remaining in my office that John Morgan a private in Rawling's Maryland Regiment date of Enlistment blank and on the 8th May in the Column of Remarks opposite his name is written Deserted.

Thos Karney, Aud.
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John Morgan
alias Gavin

Rec'd Jany 18, 1826
Hon T C Worthington
H. Reps

Deserted the
Service

Rejected - see letter to Hon T C Worthington 19 Jan 1826

7379

FREE

Date Stamp - Annapolis Jan 16

Pension Office 
War Department
Washington
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Frederick County, Maryland

I certify that I became acquainted with John Morgan alias John Gavin in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one at which time he was enlisted as a private soldier in Captain John Reed's company of Infantry belonging to Col Adams' Regiment of the Maryland line; and that he continued attached to said company until some time in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was discharged.

Geo Baer
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Hon Thomas C Worthington
at Mr Blakes
H of Rep

To 
The Hon The Secretary at War
Washington City

19837
John Morgan alias
John Gavin

Frederick County
Maryland

Rec Dec 24, 1825

Hon T C Worthington
H of Reps
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County of Frederick

On this 22nd day of December 1825 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county aforesaid expressly made so by the laws of the state of Maryland and so solemnly adjudged by the tribunals of the several states 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 John Morgan alias John Gavin resident in said county aged about fifty-eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said John Morgan alias John Gavin enlisted for the term of three years sometime in March 1781 in Frederick Town in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by John Reed in the regiment commanded by Colonel Adams as he thinks in the line of the state of Maryland on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until sometime in the year 17183 when he was discharged from the service in Frederick Town aforesaid, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any state, that he has now any evidence of his services except the certificate hereto annexed, and that the following are the reasons for not making early application for a pension, that he has been unable until within a very short time to obtain a livelihood for himself and family by his labor but that he can now truly say that he is unable to support himself without the assistance of his country and that it is with reluctance that he makes this application indigent as he is - that he is by occupation a saddler but unable to pursue it owing to bodily infirmities that his family consists of a wife and an adopted child who are of no assistance to him, his wife being about fifty-six years of age and
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subject to hysterics
and in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that i was 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 any 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 and by me subscribed.

Schedule

1 Feather Bed
1 Old Poplar Bureau
1 old walnut table
6 old chairs
Some crocks
1 work bench
half set saddlers' tools

John Morgan alias
John Gavin

That since the 18th March 1818 no changes have been made in my property.

Sworn to in open court here this 22nd day of December 1825.

Test: John Schley - Clerk

I John Schley Clerk of Frederick County Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said John Morgan alias John Gavin did sere in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under an engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing
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saith and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 22nd day of December 1825.

John Schley - Clerk
Fred County Court