Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,848, Joseph Fisher, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE |   | NUMBER
N.W. | Fisher, Joseph | S. 34848
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CONTENTS
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34848
Revy INVALID.

File No. 34,848
Joseph Fisher
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 138

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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Maryland Roll
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1798
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Joseph Fisher,
Capt. Yeats  Private
Maryland Line  4
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 23rd of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818,
and sent to the Pensioner at Baltimore.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818.

4 months 12/30.  $35.20

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
Three years from 1777
Continued
Outcome
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State of Maryland
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City of Baltimore Set.

On this twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, personally appeared before me the undersigned, Joseph Fisher, residing in the City of Baltimore aged Seventy years and upward, an applicant for a pension under the 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" and then and there made the following declaration on oath, by me administering, "that he enlisted in Baltimore in June 1776, for the term of six month, into a company commanded by Capt. Thomas Yeates, served out, in the flying camp, the period of his enlisted & was discharged and in the month of January 1777 [re-enlisted] under said Captain, in the Regular Service for the term of three years, which company was ordered to the Jerseys, and in the snowing Spring joined the 4th Regiment, Maryland line commanded by Col. Josias C. Hall, after joining the Regiment Capt. Years resigned, when Edward Oldham Lieutenant of said Company succeeded to the command, and continued in said Company during
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the period of Enlistment, during the term of his service deponant was present and took part in the battles of Staten Island, German Town and Monmouth, had been taken prisoner at the Battle of Staten Island, carried to New York, exchanged and rejoined his Company near the "White Plains," in the Jerseys, about the month of June 1778 to best of his recollection, was discharged at a place called "Weeks Farms" near Morristown, in the month of Jany, 1780, which discharged, signed by Col. Josias C. Hall, was carried by deponant in his pocket until worn out, not considering it of any further use. That he hath no knowledge of any officer in private now residing in the City or County of Baltimore, who served in said Regiment. That his name hath never been inscribed on any pension roll, therefore hath none to relinquish, that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the acceptance of his county for support?
Joseph Fisher
Subscribed and Sworn to before me
N Brice Chief Judge
Balt. City Court
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Joseph Fisher

Application
for a
Pension

23 April
[Certified] by Judge Brice
Chief Judge
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State of Maryland
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City of Baltmore Sct.

I hereby certify that Joseph Fisher who hath this day made the within declaration, before me, on oath, appears to my satisfaction to have served in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, on t he continental establishment, for the time therein stated, and is entitled to a pension under the late Act of Congress.

Apl. 23rd 1818
N Brice, Chief Judge
of Balt. City Court


When the pension certificate is granted, please forward the same to me care of Thomas Bailey Esquire Baltimore.

Joseph Fisher

Witness
P. G. Hands
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City of Baltimore Sct

I, Thomas Harwood, Clerk of Baltimore City Court, do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice, Esquire before when the aforegoing proceeding were taken and certified and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of taking and certifying the same, and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and might to be given. In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court the twenty third day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen.

Th. Harwood
Baltimore City Court
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Joseph Fisher
1790
Continue
Sent the letter
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SCHEDULE.

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United States of America

(A.) Maryland District SS.

ON this thirteenth day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court (*) [xxx] (*)(B.) in the District Court in and for the (C.) District of Maryland

Joseph Fisher aged seventy two years, resident in the City of Baltimore in said (D.) District 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 regularly enlisted into the continental service at Baltimore in the State of Maryland his Captain Thomas Yates Company for the Term of 3 years above the month February 1777 joined the 4th Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Josiah Carvel Hall, soon after joined the Regiment, Capt. Thomas Yates resigned and Edward Oldham succeeded to the command, under who served out the whole period of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged by Col. Hall at Week's Farm near Morris Town in the Jerseys in the month of January 1780. That he made his original declaration before the Hon. Judge Brice at Baltimore aforesaid about the 23rd April 1818, placed on the pension list roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of $8 per month to commence from t he said 23rd April 1818 agreeably to certificate hearing date 30 June 1818 and numbered 1798. 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 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.
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(F.) With the exception of beds, bedding and wearing apparel my my whole property consists of one Governor stove, one common desk, two pine tables, ten common chairs, some Queen ware and other crockery ware, some tubs, buckets, pots, kettle, and the whole value of which, being all old and of common quality would not sale for $40 but say the at most would be  $50--
House and Col.  $100
$150

I am by trade a carpenter, but in consequence of advanced age, and bad health have not been able to work at my trade for seven years last past or do any thing towards a support and all the income I have except my Revolutionary pension is the rent of an old [illegible] wooden building of $6 per months in right of my wife who is 80 years of age and extremely infirm therefore in daily expectation of being deprived of that, which is of but little value at present after paying repairs and the different public dues. I have no other family than my said wife except whom I may occasionally to do the needful work of the family and [illegible] is my reduced circumstances that were it not for my pension received from my Country I would be unable to support myself except by private or public charity.
Joseph Fisher

SWORN to and declared on the 13th 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 One hundred and Fifty Dollars and --- Cents.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 21 day of Sept 1820
Philip Moore
Clerk of the District 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 court of record by the laws of the State which create them;

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

3d, Which proceed according to the course 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 Gene4ral of the United States.)

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DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS.

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 their support, in order that the department may be enabled 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 pensions, 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."