Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34955, for Henry Leeke, Maryland
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Leeke, Henry
or
Leake

NUMBER
S. 34955

CONTENTS
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34955
Revy INVALID
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File No. 34,955
Henry Leeke
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18th March 18th
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4,900
Maryland
Henry Leeke,
private, 
Capt Anderson
Maryland line, 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 10th of November, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of December, 1818 and delivered to James Brown
of Brookville, Montgomery County Md
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819
3 mo. 21/30. 4/31. 30.63
$30.63

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
Montgomery County
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I hereby certify that Henry Leeke served three years as a soldier in the Maryland line in the Revolutionary War - Given under my hand this 23rd day of June 1818 -
Richard Anderson
late Capt. Maryd Line
Maryland Montgomery County to wit on this 10th day of November 1818.  Ca? Colonol Richard Andersen [unlegible]. I made oath that the facts contained on the aforegoing certificate are just and true to the best of his knowledge.
Sworn before
Richd Nedgrlee
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I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that Henry Leeke a private in the 1st Regt Enlisted on the 10th December 1776 was appointed a Sergeant on 17th of April 1777 and on 10th December 1779 was discharged.
R Loocherman Aud. Genl.
Auditors Office Annapolis 13th June 1818.
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Admitted

To - 
James Brown
Brookville
Montgomery Co.
Md
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Maryland: Montgomery County, to wit:
Be it remembered that on the
ninth day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, Henry Leeke of Montgomery County, did approx. before me the Subscriber Associate Judge of the third Judicial District of Maryland and did [illegible] say [illegible] on Oath that he enlisted as a private Soldier in the first Maryland Regiment on the tenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and that he served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy until the tenth Day of December seventeen hundred and seventy nine when he was discharged having served the Term of three years the period of his Enlistment and the said Henry
Lecke did further depose say and declare that he is in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his country for support.
I further certify that the said
Henry Leeke did not at that time produce to me any further Testimony of his being entitled to the Pension granted by the Act of Congress passed
[al]
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at the last Session which induced me to postpone granting him a Certificate 'till further Enquiry: that the said Henry Leeke hath since produced to me the Testimony accompanying this Certificate, (which is  herewith transmitted to the Secretary for the Department of War.)
And I therefore certify that from the evidence produced before me it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Leeke did fight in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding Declaration against the common Enemy for the period of three years: and that the said Henry Leeke is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his County
for support.
In Testimony whereof the aforegoing proceedings and Testimony are transmitted,
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[illegible] transmitted  to the War Department this 10th Day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & eighteen:
Richard Ridgely
State of Maryland Montgomery County [illegible]
I hereby certify that Richard Ridgely Gentleman by whom the aforegoing certificate appears to have been made and who has thereto subscribed his name as one of the associate Judges of
the third Judicial District
In Testimony whereof I have hereto
name affixed the public sealing office this tenth day of November Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Upton Rall [illegible] of Montgomery County Court