Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5276, Thomas M Forman, Continental Md. Penn.
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(3-1776)
Service 
Continental 
Md
Penn

Forman, Thomas M. 
Martha B.

Number
W5276

Contents
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Reported, 23. Oct. 32
letter to W. Patteman P. Agt.
March 20. 1833
May 1845

No. 925
Maryland
Thomas M Forman
of Baltimore in the State of Maryland, who was a Captain in the Army, [crossed out] 
commanded by Captain [end crossed out] ___________ of the Reg. commanded by Col. Forman in the Maryland line for Two years and upwards

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per Anl. (annual) to commence of the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Oct. 1832 and sent to Wm Hebb
Present.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. '32 - 720.-
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar.33 240.-
$960.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Wm. R Palmer, Clerk, 
Book D. Vol. 7. Page 31
gr.5
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April 18 Let. to Pen Agt Wilmington
May 2, From Delaware
Maryland from 4 September 183
Not'n to Hon. J.A. Pearce

May 3 To Penc Agt making
transfer from 4 Sept: 1855 instead of '18
& Not'n to Hon J A Pearce
Mar. 4 Cir. to Pen Agent
[Mar] 8 Transfer fr. Maryland 
to Penn. for 4 Sept. 37 & notification 
sent to care of Pen. agent
Philadelphia 

Saml. H. Huntington, May 12/58.

1861, Mar.23. Duplicate
Sent to Claimant Phil' a Pa.

Let. Hon John Covade
May 8, 1861.

Pennsylvania
5533 Phil.
Delaware Maryland [marked through]
Martha B. Forman
widow of Md. Thomas M.
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Captain

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 480 dollars
cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued
23d day of Octr 1855
and sent to
E.F Chambers
Chesterton
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June
1832.
State of Maryland}
Cecil County} st
On this thirteenth day of August 1832,
personally appeared before  Chief Judge of the
second Judicial District of Maryland, of which Cecil
County aforesaid is a part, Thomas M. Forman Esquire,
a resident of the said county of Cecil in the said State,
aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn,
according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832 - That
he joined the first Maryland Regiment on York Island 
in 1776, about one week before the battle of Long Island,
as a cadet in the company of Capt. John H. Stone; that 
he retreated over the Delaware with the army under
the command of General Washington; that in the winter
of 1777 he was appointed a 1st Lieutnt. [Lieutenant] in the eleventh Pennsylvania
regiment, and soon after was appointed a
Captain in one of the Sixteen regiments, commanded by
Colo. [Colonel] Forman; that  he never did resign, but was
called from the line in 1779 to succeed Mr. Munroe as
aid to Lord Stirling, with whom he did not continue
long, but received a furlough and returned home. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a 
pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares
that his name is not on the Pension Roll of
any agency in any State whatever.
T.M. Forman
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me
Rd.T. Earle
And I the said Richard Tilghman Earle Chief
Judge as aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
officer, and served as he states.=
Rd. T Earle
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Maryland Queen Ann's County towit. I hereby certify that Richard
Tilghman Earle esquire before whom the within Deposition
was taken and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the
time of the taking and subscribing the same Chief Judge of
the second Judicial District of the State of Maryland composed
of Cecil, Kent, Queen Anns and Talbot Countis [Counties] duly Commissioned
and Qualified.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of my office this 30th day of August A.D. 1832.
John Tilghuman [note:  likely John Tilghman] [illegible]
of Queen Ann's County Court
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State of Maryland - [crossed out: Kent]^Cecil^ County Le.

On this twelfth day of October in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally
appeared before the Circuit Court for [crossed out: Kent]^Cecil^ County in
the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland Mrs. Martha
B Forman, formerly (from the year Eighteen hundred
and fourteen to the year Eighteen hundred and fifty)
a resident of Cecil County and (since the last
named period and) now a resident of Christiana,
New Castle County in the State of Delaware, aged sixty
seven years, who being first duly sworn, according 
to law, doth on her oath, make the following 
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the
provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th
1838, entitled "A Act granting half pay and pension
to certain widows", and by the Act of Congress approved
3d. Feby [February] 1853, entitled "An Act to continue half pay
to certain widows and orphans"; that she is the widow
of the late General Thomas M Forman, who was a Captain
in the Army of the Revolutionary War, and who in 
his life time received for much his service as Captain
in the Army of the Revolution a pension of Four hundred
and eighty dollars per annum, as will more
fully appear by a copy of the original certificate
given to said deceased bearing death the twenty third
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day of October one thousand eight hundred and
thirty two, which original certificate is now in the
possession of this deponent and an exact copy of
which is hereto annexed, and she refers to the proof
now of record in the proper department at Washington
on which said certificate was granted to
identify and prove the services of her said late
husband. She further declares that she was married
to the said Thomas Marsh Forman on the
nineteenth day of May Eighteen hundred and
fourteen, that her husband the said Thomas M
Forman died on the eighth day of May Eighteen
hundred and forty five; that she was not married
to him prior to the second day of January Eighteen
hundred but as the time above stated. She further
declares that she is now a widow -
MB Forman
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me the Subscriber circuit Judge of
the sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland
attest Jams M Buchanan
copy of the certificate mentioned in the 
foregoing declaration
"War Department
Revolutionary claim
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United
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States of the 7th June 1832, Thomas M Forman
of the State of Maryland
who was a Captain in the Army
of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Four hundred and eighty dollars
per annum during his natural life commencing on
the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the4th
of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the war office of the United States
this twenty third day of October
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
[hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside]
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and}
countersigned}
J.L. Edwards
Cecil since 1786
before in Kent Island

State of Maryland Cecil County Sct
I hereby certify that it appears by the records and proceedings 
of the Circuit Court for Cecil County that the Honorable
James M Buchanan, who appear to have taken and signed
the annexed and aforegoing affidavit, was at the time of so
doing sole Judge of the sixth Judicial Circuit of the state of 
Maryland, comprehending the counties of Cecil, Harford and
Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn: and that to
all acts by him done in that capacity, full faith
and credit are due, and ought to be given as well 
in courts of Justice or thereout
In testimony whereof
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[top left is a seal inscribed as follows: EQUITY JUSTICE [the rest is illegible]]

I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of the said Circuit
Court for Cecil County, this twelfth
day of October in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and fifty four.
Henry H. Mitchell Clk
of the County Court for Cecil County

Maryland Sc.
I James M. Buchanan, sole Judge of
the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Maryland, comprehending
the counties of Cecil, Harford, and Baltimore
do certify that the aforegoing attestation of Henry H, Mitchell
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil County is in due form
and by the proper Offices,
Given under my hand this thirteenth
day of October in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five
James M Buchanan
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Cecil

Maryland [crossed out: Kent] County [illegible].

on this twelfth
day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and
fifty five before the subscriber, judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Maryland, comprehending the Counties of [crossed out: Kent] Cecil, [crossed out: Queen Annes], Harford [crossed out: Talbot] Baltimore [crossed out: and, Caroline] personally appeared Ezekiel Forman Chambers of Kent County now in the 68th year of his age, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that the late General Thomas Marsh Forman of Cecil County Maryland was the near Kinsman of this deponent, being the full brother to deponent's mother, that deponent was in intimate social intercourse of the house and in the family of said deceased from deponent's earliest recollection to the period of the death of said Forman, with the interval of a few years during which an unfortunate difficulty interrupted their intercourse, that this deponent was appointed Executor of said deceased in and by his last will and settled his estate after his death, that this deponent hath a distinct recollection that sometime about the year Eighteen hundred and fourteen, the said deponent not professing to recollect the precise day, but perfectly rembering [note: seems to be misspelled] that it was very shortly before the said deceased was
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into military service in defense of the city of Baltimore where he commanded the troops sent from Cecil and Harford Counties and which was in the Summer and fall of Eighteen hundred and fourteen, the said deceased Thomas M. Forman returned from Christiana in the State of Delaware to his residence in Cecil County Maryland with his Bride, the present M. Martha B Forman, that she was received by all the members of his family, by his friends and associates and by every person holding intercourse with his family as his lawful wife and as such wife was largely and liberally provided for by his last Will and Testament, that this deponent hath known her intimately ever since and still continues his intimacy with her, that he was at the funeral of the said Thomas M Forman, who died in May, Eighteen hundred and forty five, being at the time of his death, as this deponent understood and believes, in the eighty [crossed out: eighth] seventh year of his age, and that the said Martha B Forman has not been again married since the death of said Thomas M Forman but has remained, and still is, a widow. This deponent has been in the habit of attending the semi annual sessions of the Court of Cecil County since he was admitted as a member of the Bar there, which was in the year Eighteen hundred and
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nine and during most of that time has been in the habit of visiting in the Parish (St. [crossed out: Lukes] Stephens) and worshipping in the Church of the Parish in which said Forman resided, and that this deponent has never heard of any Town, County or Parish record in which the marriage of persons residing there was entered, nor has this deponent been able to find about the late [illegible] of said deceased (although he has made inquiry therefore in relation to this application) any Family Record of marriage, birth, death, &. This deponent further states that the said Martha B Forman remained in the mansion home of said ^deceased and occupied the same from the period of his death in 1845 until the year Eighteen hundred and fifty  - when upon the occasion of the marriage of his Grandson and principal [illegible] (Thomas Bryan now Thomas Marsh Forman) she relinquished to him her interest in the saud dwelling and removed to Christiana, New Castle County Delaware, where she has constantly since resided, and that the reason why the paper connected with her application for a pension have been executed in the Circuit Court of Kent County Maryland and not in Delaware, is that this deponent, by whose advice it has been done, finding by the "rules of evidence" prepared by the proper authority, that the declaration of the applicant must be made before "a Court of Record"
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and learning from George B Rodney Esq. (formerly a
member of Congress and now a member of the Bar of
New Castle County Delaware, and by whose advice and
kind assistance, together with that of the Honoble [Honorable] John
M Clayton, Wm. Forman has been furnished with 
the form and act of Congress necessary to prepare her
papers) that there would be no Session of a Court of
Record in New Castle County before "the next fall"
and finding the Circuit ^Court^ here about to hold a session
first at the time when Mr Forman, applied to
deponent for his friendly counsel and did
and to which accep. can conveniently ^be^ had by Mr
Forman this deponent deemed it the most safe
and prudent course to make advantage of the
court here and then, as far as practicable, guard
against accident and contingencies, to which 
all persons are exposed, but especially those who
have very nearly attained the allotted "Three
score and Ten".
The foregoing was prepared with a view
to have th proof taken before the Circuit Court of Kent County at a 
session to be held in August last a day or two after the affidavit
was written, but the indisposition of Judge Hopper - the
sole Judge of said Court, prevented its session and no session
of that Court has since been held, and it is proposed to commit
the proof here during the present Session of the Circuit
Court for Cecil County.  EF Chambers
Sworn to and subscribed before me
James M Buchanan
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O.W. and N. Division.
3 525
jsl OWN
Mi. file 5276
Rev. War.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Thomas M. Forman, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (+ his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
one week bef. Bat L. I. Aug 76
Winter 77 Dec.
Soon after above Jan’y 12, 1779

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[blank]
[blank]
2yrs 

Rank
Cadet
1 Lt.
Capt.
Aide de Camp to Gen Alexander (Lord Stirling) 
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain
John H Stone (crossed the Del with Gen. Wash.)
[blank]
[blank]

Colonel
Smallwood
Humpton
David Forman* 

State
1st Md
11 Pa
Regt N J Cont’l
Aid de Camp to Gen. Alexander Lord being

*soldier uncle

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Aug. 13, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Sassafras Neck Hundred, Cecil Co. Md
Age at date of application, 74 yrs
Remarks: Sol. mar May 19, 1814 Martha B.
He died May 8. 1845
M's appl'n Oct. 12 1855 Christina, New Castle Co. Del. ag 67
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
205S1b3m11-05
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Cecilton Md
August 14
Mr. William Hebb
near the post office
Washington City

Answered

[vertically on the right margin]
Few men of any age, have better health,
or command a horse with more 
agility Than I can, yet shall be 74 the 20th December
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Cecilton Md
August 14
Mr. William Hebb
near the post office
Washington City

Answered

[vertically on the right margin]
Few men of any age, have better health,
or command a horse with more 
agility Than I can, yet shall be 74 the 20th December
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near Cecilton Md
13th Aug. 1832
Sir
Your favour of the 9th inst
received this evening, is unsatisfactory.
I do not stand in need of an
agent merely to receive the pay which
I think myself intitled [entitled] to, the Commisioner's
instructions were in my possession
forwarded to me by General Smith as
soon as published - nor did I intend
to make my claim upon my own 
oath while strong accompanying evidence
could be produced, & seeing 
your notice, and presuming that you
expected reasonable compensation
for your trouble, I furnished you
with [illegible], presuming that you were
prepared to search the old musty
records, for the of existing evidence
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you have not even said what
compensation you expect for merely
recieving [receiving] & transfering [transferring] the money
Your Obt Servt
TM. Forman

Mr. Hebb
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Near Cecilton Md
6th Aug 1832
Sir
I joined Smallwoods [Smallwood's] regiment
at New York, and attached myself as a cadet
in Capt [Captain] Stones Company, a few days before
the battle of Long Island and I retreated with
the army across the Delaware - During the
following winter I was commissioned first
Lieutenant in the Eleventh Pennsylvania
Regiment, commissioned by Colonel Humphries
When the 16 Regiment were formed, my
Uncle Colonel (afterward General) David
Forman, was appointed to the command
of one of them, and in his regiment I secured
the commission of Captain, and recruited the
largest company in the regiment, which
afterwards formed part of General
[illegible] Brigade in after the battle
of Monmouth we were stationed at Elizabeth town
in New Jersey, and in 1779 I was
called into Lord Sterlings family to succeed
Mr Munro as Aid d'Camp [illegible] I am without
written evidence further than the Certificate
of Governor Stone my joining his Company, &
I can have if [illegible], the evidence of
Jeremiah S. Smith [illegible] judge and [illegible] of
your City will testify to my service until I 
joined Lord Sterling in 1779 - now I am seeing
your notice, I place the business for the present
in your hands - From your Servt [Servant]
192 TM Forman
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[math problems in upper left corner; as follows]
1845
[-]87
[=] 1758

1832
74
_____

See her Bounty Land application
for an eye witness to the marriage
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Wilmington Ap 23 1856
Sir
As soon as the Army pension a/c of
John McClung / dec'd / papers the 3d Auditor
Office: the Books funds &c shall be delivered
To “S D Anderson Esq. Pension Agt, at Phil” as 
directed by you,
Martha B Forman was paid up to 
Sep 4, 1855
Yours &c
S C McDowell
For M H Clung Executry

J S Minot Esq
Com of Pensions
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Application for Transfer
County of Philadelphia
City of Philadelphia
On the first day of 
March 1858 before me a Pension Agent,
personally appeared Martha B. Forman 
who on her oath declares that she is 
the same person to whom a certificate of 
Pension was given at the department of the 
Interior on the 23rd of October 1855, at the 
rate of Four Hundred Eighty dollars
per annum. that her name was placed on 
the roll of the Baltimore agency. that 
she now resides in Philadelphia Pa 
where she intends to remain and wishes 
her pension to be there payable in future
her reason for moving is that it is more 
convenient for her here . 
Sworn and Subscribed 
before me the day and 
year above written.
MB Forman
Joseph E Denk
Pension Agent
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Pension Agency
Baltimore, March 6th 1858
Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 
4th I have to say that Martha B. Forman, 
widow of Thomas M. Forman, on 
the Roll of this Agency under Act Feby 3rd 1853 
2nd Sect, at $480 per annum was last paid 
to the 4th September 1857
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. St.
Jno S. Gittings
Agent
for H. Chamberlain Off
clk
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City of Philada [Philadelphia]
On this of 6th of March 1860 
before me a Pension agent personally 
appeared Martha B Forman Who being 
duly sworn doth on her oath declare 
that she is the widow of Capt Thomas M
Forman that she received a Certificate 
of Pension from the Interior department 
at the rate of Four Hundred Eighty [illegible] 
per anum, [annum] said certificate has been 
mislaid or lost, she makes the application
for the purpose of getting a new Certificate
Sworn and Subscribed
the day of year above written
Joseph J Smith
Martha B Forman
The above named Martha B Forman is known
to me as the person she represent herself
to be
Joseph J. Smith
Please send certificate to my care
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Court of Claims
May 11. 1858
My dear Sir
Did you intend to 
sign the enclosed certificate. If so 
I am glad to find it out, as it shows 
that I am not alone in making 
such mistake
Respectfully yours
Saml H Huntington
Cl.W. Ct of Claims
G.C. Whiting Esq
Comr [Commissioner]of Pensions
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Washington 16th April 1861

Hon. Geo C Whiting
Com. of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose you 
additional evidence in the 
case of Ms Martha B Forman 
a Pensioner on the Philad'a
roll act 1853 for increase 
of pension as aid 
and request your early 
attention to the case 
ere I leave the city. 
Truly yours 
John Covode
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Extract 
from Order Book, vol. 4, Revolutionary Records, 
"Head Quarters Middle Brook, January 12th 1779."

x x x x x 

"Captain Thomas Marsh Forman is appointed 
Aide-De-Camp to Major General 
Lord Stirling in the room of Major Monro, 
resigned the 20th of December last, and is 
to be regarded and obeyed as such."

Department of State, 
Washington, April 3, 1861.

I certify that the foregoing is a true 
extract from the Order Book, vol. 4, of Revolutionary 
Records in this Department. 

W Hunter, 
Chief Clerk.
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Chester Town 24th Apl. 56
J. Minot
Comrde

DSir [Dear Sir]

my relative Ms M.B. Forman recd. [received] 
her (revolutionary) pension at the agency in Wilmington 
Dela. [Delaware] as the period whereby her certificate the last payment 
was due - 4th Mar last she applied for payment and was 
informed that the former agent was dead and no one appointed 
in his place. at my request my friend Senator Pearce 
applied to v department to have something done in the 
matter. An answer to his application is now before me. 
under date of 18th aprl [April] Inst. you say "the agency at Wilmington
Dela. [Delaware] is now discontinued and as soon as we receive 
information from that agency of the date to which Ms Forman 
was last paid she will be transfered to & receive her pension 
at Balto. Md.

Ms F. informed me there was no representative
whatsoever at Wilmington. The agent is dead
and no one represents him. It seems therefore more 
probable that a long time may elapse before the condition 
(in the words underscored by me) mentioned by you can 
be complied with. Ms. Forman only claims the 
last payment. There being no person authorized 
to pay she could not of course have received it 
and I would hope there would be no difficulty, in
instructing the agent to pay that. If there be, please 
inform me who is a person at Wilmington competent 
to give the required information.
Resp'y Yr
E. F. Chambers
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Brief in the case of Martha M Forman widow Thos B
County and State of Delaware
act 3 Feby 1853

Claim, ("original", [crossed out: or "for increase."])

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her Husband was pensioned under the act of
June 7 1832 at $480 a year
Marriage proved by an eye witness to the ceremony

[crossed out: (If for increase,)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?]

Cohabitation, general reputation
of marriage, her identity as the widow
of the pensioner, [illegible] and her present
widowhood proved by the most respectable witness -
Thorton Triplett
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
E.F. Chambers Esq
Chestertown Md
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Brief in the case of Martha B Forman widow of Thomas M 
Philadelphia County and State of Pennsylvania 
act February 3 1853 2nd section
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
Affidavits of the loss of the original certificate


Name and residence of agent
Mrs Martha B Forman
Philadelphia Pa

H.C. Lauch
Examining Clerk
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Martha B Forman
widow of Thomas B
Delaware
Admd 3 Feby 1833
$480 a year
from the passage 
of the act

Cert to
E.F. Chambers Esq
Chestertown Md
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Augt 24/50

Mr Cook for 
papers

Levin for Papers
Thos M Forman
[illegible]
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To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir   As the Executor of the late General 
Thomas Marsh Forman I am advised 
I can claim for his services as an Aid 
de Camp to Lord Stirling during the 
War of the revolution. Genl Forman 
recd. [received] a pension during his life for service in the line of the army and his papers 
are on file, under the act of 1832 June 
7th - you will be pleased to allow Th. Lumpkin 
Esq to look at them, as he is 
investigating the claim for
Yrs truly
E F Chambers

Chestertown
19 Aug '50
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[page torn across the top obliterating the top two lines]

Please state to what date Thomas M Forman of Md
Act 1832 $480 a year was paid.

Very Respectfully
S Cole
Act Com. Pensions

R J Atkinson
Third Auditor

Triplett
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[page torn]

Paid to 4 March 1845
Rob't Jamison
auditor
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New Castle DW
May 8 1836
J. Minot Esq
Commission of Pensions
Sir, May I 
trouble you so much as 
to enquire on behalf of Mrs 
Martha B Forman widow 
of Gen Thomas M Forman 
as why she cannot receive 
her pension, which 
has been suspended since 
the death of Gen John McClung 
the late Pension agent in Wilmington, 
Will there be another agent 
or in what way & to whom 
may she apply for it.
I remain
very respectfully
Yours
Geo. B Rodney.
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1856 May 13 Let to Mr Rodney informing him of transfer to Baltimore
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Senate April 11, 1836
Sir
The widow of Thos M Forman
[illegible] of Delaware has been receiving her pension
at the Bank of Delaware. But her pension
[illegible] is said to the dead & the [illegible]  also said
that the money is lying in the Bk per
the [illegible] of Pensions. She is told that she
Cannot get it.  Please to inform me
how the money can be obtained.
Mr  Y of the [illegible] paid at
the Bk of Delaware and find it 
more convenient to receive at Balt.
Vy Resp’ly
J A Peary

J Minot Es
Com’’r of Pensions
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COPY. L.M.H. Sept. 6, 1906.

Mr. T. Thompson, c/o Merchants National Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sir: - 

In reply to your letter dated the 29th ultimo, received the 30th, you are advised that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show any claim for pension filed on account of the services of Robert Beall of the Eighth Virginia regiment, Continental Line, Revolutionary War.

Very rspectfully [typo: respectfully],

Commissioner.
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Please send statement
to Mrs Chas S Fairchild
10 W. 8th St
New York
Jan 3, 09
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844
Capital $1,200,000
Surplus $300,000
The Merchants National Bank
Cincinnati, O.
M. E. INGALLS, PRESIDENT.
H. C. YERGASON, VICE-PRES.
H. S. RODGERS, VICE-PRES.
W. W. BROWN, CASHIER.
A. S. RICE, VICE-PRES.
C. A. STEVENS, ASST CASH. 
W. P. STAMM, ASS'T CASH
August 29, 1906.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions U. S.
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Please send me from your files the
record of 
Robert Beall, of the Eighth Virginia
Continental Line;
And also of 
Thomas Foreman, of the Continental Line.
And oblige -
Very respectfully,
J. Thompson
C/o Merchants Nat'l Bank,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
[Stamp in black ink}
Pension 
A
US
Office
Aug
30
1906
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1906 Sept. 5 Hist to
T. Thompson -c
1909 July 8. Hist to
Mrs.Chas S Fairchild - vlm

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5276

Martha B. Forman
Widow
Thomas M. Forman
Captain Rev War

Act: Feb 3rd 1853

Index: -- Vol. A Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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near Cecilton Md
21st Aug. 1832
Sir
I do believe that I am the person you
allude to, yet I am without any exact recollection
of yourself - I now inclose to you the Certificate
of my first Captain, which if in your power, I
wish you to preserve and forward to me
I also inclose to you a letter to Judge Anderson
or if you please the Controller of the Treasury
Be please to carefully seal it before 
you deliver it - You will also receive a 
certificate from General Smith -- None Sir
having made the most of these and the
documents in the war office, you will be as
good as to write me what must be done on my
part, and you can refer me to any page or 
section of the instructions - We are without a
judge of our Courts in the County, but a days ride
will carry me to the house of the senior Judge
of the district - The 4th of September will give me
Eighteen months claim, and if I can have the
Cash on or before the 8th at furthest, it would be
extreemly [extremely] agreeable to
Your Obt Servt
T. M. Forman
Wm Hobb Esqr
If the 6 months cannot be placed in my 
hands before or on the 8th, then the year must
content me -
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State of Maryland Cecil County -
On this 17th day of October 1832 personally
appeared in Open Court, before the Judges
of the 2nd Judicial District of the State of
Maryland now sitting, Thomas
M. Forman a Resident of Sassafras
Neck Hundred, in the County of Cecil
and State of Maryland aged seventy four
years, who being first duly sworn according
to Law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the Act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832
That he joined the first Maryland
Regiment on York Island in the year
1776 one week before the Battle of
Long Island as a Cadet in the Company
of Capt. J. H. Stone, and retreated over
the Delaware with the Army under the
command of Gen Washington
In
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In the Winter of 1777. He was appointed
First Lieutenant in the 11th Pennsylvania
Regiment commanded by Col. Humphrey
and soon after was appointed a Captain
in one of the Sixteen Regiment commanded
by Col. Forman. That he never
resigned his Commission, but was transferred
from his command in the line in the
year 1779 to succeed Mr Munroe
as Aid de Camp to General Lord
Sterling with whom he did not continue
long, but receiving a Furlough, He
returned home, having served upwards
of two years as a Captain in the
Regular Army [signature]T.M. Forman
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present
who declares that his name is not on the
Pension Roll of any Agency of any State
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[Signature]T.M. Forman
Test
[signature]James Sewall Clk
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Mr William Duke a Clergyman residing in
Cecil County in the State of Maryland
and Levin Gale residing in the same
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Thomas M. Forman who has subscribed
and sworn to the aforegoing declaration: that
we believe him to be seventy four years of age:
That he is reputed and believed in the
neighbourhood where he resides to have
been a Soldier of the Revolution, and
that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[Signature]Wm Duke
[Signature] EsqJames Swan Lingle
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after putting the interrogatory prescribed by
the War Department that the above named
Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
and served as he states. And the Court
further certify that it appears to them that
William Duke who has signed the preceding (certificate)
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Certificate is a Clergyman resident in
Cecil County in the State of Maryland
and that Levin Gale who has also
signed the same is also a Resident in the same
County and State and is a credible
Person, and that their statement is entitled
to credit.
P.S. Earle Chief Judge
P B Hepper associate Judge
J.B. Eccleston Associate Judge

Maryland Cecil County ss
I James Sewall Clerk of the Court Cecil
County, do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said
Court, in the matter of the application of
Thomas M. Forman for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal  of Office this seventeenth day of October
Eighteen hundred and thirty two
James Sewall Clk
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T M Forman
STEAWBOAT
[stamp in black ink]
Aug 31
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William Hobb 
near the Post Office
Washington City

[illegible] N J
Roll

Capt
$480 per
ann
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30th Aug 1832
Sir
I now inclose to you my [illegible] before
the chief Justice of our district, said court being
in Session, also [illegible] of sitting  for a special
purpose -  you [illegible] take out of my pension.
what you may consider your fair fee, and
remit the ballance to me in a post note or a
check upon any bank in Wilmington, or New Castle
Delaware, or John Stephens, [illegible] of Baltimore
so that it comes to my hands by mail on or before 
the 6 Sept.
From yr Obt Sert
T. M. Forman

Wm Hobb Esq
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Know all men by these presents that whereas I, Thomas Marsh Forman of Cecil County and State of Maryland am entitled to a pension from the United States by virtue of an act of Congress entitled an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution passed the 7th day of June 1832. Now be it known that I the said Thomas M. Forman has made constituted and appointed & by these presents to make, constitute and appoint William Hobb Esq. of Washington City my true and lawful attorney [ilegible] & in my name to demand & receive from the proper authority the said pension which I am entitled to receive for the term of one and a half years, and also for me  and in my name to give as ample and satisfactory receipt and discharge for the same, where received for my care in my name, as I might or could do was I personally present at the doing thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my sea this 30th day of Aug. 1832.
T.M. Forman {seal}
Testis
Thomas Emory
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[circle stamp]
BALTIMORE MD
AUG 27

FREE S. Smith
William Hobb Esq. 
Near Post Office
Washington
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Baltimore 26 Aug 1832 at the request of General
Thomas M. Forman state that the first acquaintance
had with him, was when he entered Volunteer in
Capt Stone’s Company Smallesters Regiment of those
in the service of the State before the Battle of
Long Island. Thomas had not long been [illegible]
with the Regiment, Subsequently I have no further
a clear recollection of his service but have always
understood that he was an officer in one of the
16 Regiments, but know not what Rank he
held. This [illegible] can be ascertained by the
Rolls of the Army.
J Smith
Formerly Lieutenant
4th Maryland Regiment
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Having received a letter from Thomas M Forman date this 20th instant requesting me to give a certificate of my knowledge of his having been an officer in the army of the revolution - I accordingly do hereby certify, that I became acquainted with Thomas M Forman, to the best of my recollection in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight - he was then a Captain in Colonel Forman's Regiment, called one of the 10th I think - I boarded in the same house with Captain Forman in Elizabeth Town New Jersey at a Mrs. Jelps from the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy eight until the spring following when the Jersey Brigade in which I was then a Captain was ordered on the expedition against the Six Nations
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nations of Indians under the Command of General Sullivan I think we left Elizabeth Town in the month of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine from that time I do not recalled to have seen Captain Forman leaving the war - given under my hand at the City of Washington on the 28th day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 1832

Jos Anderson