Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35040, for Joseph Ray, Maryland
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(3-17760

SERVICE
Md. 

Ray, Joseph

NUMBER
S. 35040

CONTENTS
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(6.3)
Maryland.
Joseph Ray,
Capt Price private, Maryd
In the army of the U. States

At $8 per mo: com. 30th. Mar. 1818.

Certified 6th April 1818
& delivered to the pensioner
in person

Act to 4th Sept. 1818. 3 3/28 mo $40.84

(Revy. of Claim,       )
(Act 18th Mar. 1818)

Maryland Line
Seven Years

Joseph Ray Capt
Nov 23d 1820
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no 63
pd. 6 Apr. 1818
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State of Maryland      )
Montgomery County ) Set.

Montgomery County Court November term eighteen 
hundred and twenty. On this 14th day of No
vember 1820 personally appeared, in open Court being 
a court of record of said State for Montgomery
County Joseph Ray aged sixty five 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:  to wit as a private soldier
seven years in the second Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Gunby.  And I do solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United
States, on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred 
and eighteen; 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" is crossed out] 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 eighteenth day March eighteen
and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities
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contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any other 
income than what is contained in the schedule hereby
annexed, and by me subscribed.  A Schedule of Joseph Rays Property. Two laws, two year-
lings, one sow and seven shoats; and forty dollars 
dollars per annum income. from the State of Maryland
["Sworn to on the' is crossed out]
Joseph Ray x his mark
Sworn to in open Court this 14th Day of November 1820 
Property valued by the Court at fifty Dollars. 
I Upton Beale clerk of Montgomery County Court 
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and
the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from 
the record of the 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 fifty dollars and --- 
-- cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on
this fourteenth day of November eighteen hundred and 
twenty
Test Upton Beall Clk
Montg. County Court.
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Joseph Ray,
 1818. 9. 4
1818. 3. 29
[a line used to equal in math solutions]
         5. 3/28
         8
[a line used to equal in math solutions]
$40.84

         8
         7
28[division sign] 2400/84
228
[a line used to equal in math solutions]
120
+ 12
[a line used to equal in math solutions]
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I Joseph Ray in order to obtain the be
nefit of the Act of Congress passed on 8th
of March 1818 entitled an Act to pro
vide for certain persons engaged in the 
land and naval service of the United 
States in the revolutionary war do make
this my declaration as follows. I am a 
citizen of the United States resident in
Montgomery County  in the State of Ma
ryland aged about 60 years That I 
am in reduced circumstances in life 
and in need of assistance from my 
Country for support that I was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War 
and enlisted in the year 1776 in Capt
Benjamin Price's company of Col
Mordacai Guess [Gist] regiment in the 
Maryland line and served untill [until]
August 1783  That I was in the battle
of Camden where I was taken prisoner
and remained in captivity 6 days that 
I was in the battle of Guilford Court House 
and the battle of the Utaw [Eutaw] springs where 
I was wounded that I never received 
a discharge but are entitled to fur
lough which I have since lost I
have no other evidence of the foregoing
facts except the annexed certificate
signed Joseph his x mark Ray
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State of Maryland Sct
I Chas J. Kilgour associate Judge of the 
third Judicial District in the State of 
Maryland do certify that on this thir
tieth day of March in the year of 1849
Joseph Ray did make oath before me 
in due form of Law to the truth of the
foregoing declaration and that of the
same time appeared before me a cer
tain Thomas Penifell and made 
oath ['that he k" is crossed out] before me in due form 
of Law that he knew that Joseph 
Ray was a citizen of the United States 
a resident of Montgomery County in 
the State of Maryland that he was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war 
and served to his knowledge in Capt
Benjamin Prices company in the 
years 1781-82 and 83 in Col Morda
cai Guess [Gist] regiment of the Mary
land line that he never received a 
discharge but an unlimited fur
lough That it appears to my satisfac
tion that the said Joseph Ray did 
serve in the Revolutionary war against
the common enemy as stated in the
said declaration and that the testi
mony and proceedings taken and had 
before me are hereby transmitted to the
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Secretary of the department of war 
pursuant to the directions of the afore
said Act of Congress. 
Given under my hand at Rock
ville in Montgomery ["the" is crossed out]  County and State afore
said the day and year last men
tioned
Chas J. Kilgour
The Flow: The Secretary of the de
partment of War

State of Montgomery Montgomery County Sct. I hereby certify that the Honbl. Charles J.
Kilgour before whom the aforegoing proceeding
are had and whose name is there to subscribed was at the 
time an associate Judge in and for the third Judicial
District for the State of Maryland in which Montgomery 
County is included and was duly commissioned 
and sworn. 
In Testimony whereof I have 
hereto Subscribed my name and 
Affixed the public Seal of my Office 
this thirtieth day of March Eighteen 
Hundred and Eighteen. 
Upton Bealle Clk of 
Montgomery County Court;
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In reply to your request of [blank], received for a statement of the military history of Joseph Ray a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [text is crossed out] application for pen_sion on file in this Bureau. S. F. 35,040.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.; LENGTH OF SERVICE.; RANK.; OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN.; COLONEL.); STATE.
1776 to Aug. 1783; Pri.; { Benjamin Price, Mordecai Gist Gunby; Md.
Was captured at battle of Camden and detained for six days.
Battles engaged in, Camden; Guilford; wounded at battle of Eutaw Springs.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Mch. 30, 1818.  His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Montgomery Co., Md. 
Age at date of application, About 60 yrs.
Remarks: These is no data relation to family.
Very respectfully,
31793b5m10-97 Commissioner
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35040

Revy INVALID.

File No. 35040
Joseph Ray
Priv Rev War

Act 18th March '18
Index Vol 2, Page 334.

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914. Dec 1. - History to 
Francis B Culver F.W.
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Send documents - Pension Roll
1st Sess. 23d Congr. (1835)

NC 2 Maryland - Montgomery Co.

Joseph Ray - pvt - annual allowance $96.00 in summary $1196.33
Maryland Line
Place on roll 6 April 1818
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[round date stamp]
PENSION
O
JUN
U. 11 S.
1915
0FFICE
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June 10" 1915

Rev 
See 
c
2

Com. of Pensions
Wash. D.C.

My dear Sir--

Is there any thing on 
file in yr office - concern-
-ing the enclosed slip 
in regard to Joseph Ray - 
-or any Ray who rec'd 
Rev Pension? If not, to 
whom should I apply for 
reference to "Rev [illegible] Docu-
ments"? Or should I visit 
the office? 
Very truly
Thanking you 
(Mrs.) Clara Ray Wilson
Kensington 
md
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[round date stamp]
PENSION 
O JUN
U. 11 S.
1915
OFFICE
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W1

125 W. 22d. Street
Baltimore, Md., 26 Novr. 1914
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me, for 
the purpose of completing a family record, 
the military service (with all personal data)
of one Joseph Ray, a soldier of the 
Revolution from Montgomery County, Md., who served in the Maryland Line and was pensioner in 1818? Thanking you, I am
Very sincerely yours,
Francis B. Culver
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[round date stamp]
PENSION
D
NOV
U. 27 S.
1914
OFFICE
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Ray, Joseph
Grade: Private
Line: Massachusetts

Warrant Number: 4894
Acreage: 100
Issued: Dec 16, 1791
 to --not shown--

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are 
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-
quent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. 
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.