Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,745, Edward Dickenson, Md.
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Service 2nd

Dickenson, Edward

Number: S34745
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34745
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 34745
Edward Dickinson
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18[illegible]
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 498

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Notification sent to John Moriarty Baltimore, 24 Mar, 1891

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4326
Maryland
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Edward Dickinson
Capt Gunby
Private
Maryland line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of Nov 1818
and sent to John [Mariarty] Esq
Baltimore, Maryland
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818  4 22/30    37.86
semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819    48.00
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$85.86
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

376
Discontinued ten months
Baltimore
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State of Maryland Baltimore County set.
I hereby certify that Walter Dorsey Gentlemen before [whom] the within Deportioner was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name way at the time of so doing Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Maryland and of Baltimore County Court duly commissioned and sworn.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of my office this Fourteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen.
Wm. Gibson Clk Balt City Cot

Edward Dickenson
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

On the 13th day of April in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, eight hundred and eighteen, be [before?] me the subscriber ^chief^ Judge of Baltimore County Court, personally appears Edward Dickenson who makes Oath on the Holy Evangelists, that about the Month of May 1776, he enlisted for three years, or during the War at Sommersett [Somerset] County, State of Maryland, in the Company commanded by Captain John Gunby of the 7th Regiment, Maryland Line, and that he after being ten months in said Regiment, he for $150.. hired a Substitute to perform the residue of said Term of Service - that immediately after this Occurrence he was enrolled in the Militia, and served in various movements against the enemy untill [until] the end of the war - that the Regiment of Militia in which he served, was commanded by Major Bailey - and the said Edward Dickenson on solemn Oath declares, that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his Country for support -

Sworn before the Subscribed in open Court Walter Dorsey

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I Walter Dorsey Chief Judge of Baltimore County Court, before whom the annexed Declaration of Edward Dickenson was sworn to, do hereby Certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Edward Dickenson, did serve in the revolutionary War, against the common enemy as stated in his said annexed Declaration, for the term of nine months and longer, on the Continental Establishment; and also, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his County 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 late Act of Congress, in that care made and provided.

Walter Dorsey
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Edward Dickinson

Not Entered[?]
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SCHEDULE.

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United States of America

(A.) District of Maryland -- SS.

ON this fifth day of September, 1820, personally appeared in open court (*) being a court of record (crossed out), (B.) in the District Court of the United States in and for the said (C.) District

Edward Dickinson aged Sixty three years, resident in the City of Baltimore in said (D.) who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.) That he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Gunby of the Seventh Regiment line of the State of Maryland and served in said company for the space of at least ten months, that his original declaration was made on the 13th day of April 1818, and that his pension certificate according to indorsement is supposed to be number 4326 and is dated the 11th day of November 1818 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 provision 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.
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(F.) A Frame House with the lot on which it stands, held on lease, subject to ground rent and taxes to the amount of Thirty Dollars, which barely serves more as dwelling, an if let on rent may perhaps net an income of about $30 per year.   $300

That I am by trade a ship wright, at which by reason of infirmity and age I can seldom work to as to earn any subsistence. That my family consists of a Daughter a widow named Ann Tull aged about 35 years, with a Daughter of hers also named Ann both of whom are wholly dependent on me for support.
Edward Dickinson

SWORN to and declared on the 5th day of September 1820 BEFORE, the District Court aforesaid

I, Philip Moore, Clerk of the said Dist 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 Three Hundred Dollars and --- Cents.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, i have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 22 day of September 1820.
Philip Moore
Clerk of the Dist court for the Dist of Maryland
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* The whole of the form prescribed in the first section, to verify the amount of property of the applicant, the oath of the party, and the certificate of the clerk excepted, must be done while the court is in session.

* All are courts of record, within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:

1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the State which create them;

2d, Which have been solemnly adjudged, by the tribunals of the several State, to be courts of record;

3d, Which proceed according to the court of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;

4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;

And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law, having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal. The court should, in every instance, state, on the face of the proceedings, that it is a court of record, and state why it is such. -- (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States.)

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DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKIS.

A. District,--circuit,--county, or corporation, as the case may be.

B. State why a court of record.

C. After repeating the district, circuit, county, or corporation, insert the declarant's name.

D. District, circuit, county, or corporation.

E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension-certificate should be inserted.

F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted, and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation,  his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to the support, in order that the department may be enable to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country," comprehend those only, who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government, except by private or public charity.

Extract of a CIRCULAR LETTER from the War Department, to the several Agents for paying pension, enclosing the foregoing Form.

"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly, that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases, no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."