Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42695, Thomas Edwards, Md.
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(3-1776)
[Star stamped above name]
Edwards, Thomas
SERVICE Md.
NUMBER S.42695
CONTENTS _
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13.515 Ohio
Thomas Edwards of Champaign in the state of Ohio who was a [illegible] in the (regiment commanded by Colonel, crossed out) [illegible] Capt Gilbert of the Maryland line, for the term of two years & five mo.
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Inscribed on the Roll of the Ohio at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of June 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of July 1819 and [illegible] to John Runyon Esq Urbana Ohio
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $72.49
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48
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9 mo 2 days anl. $120.49
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Continued
R.
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Notification sent May 21st 1821, to Wm Ward, Esq, Champaign County, Ohio.
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42 695
INVALID
Revy
[vertical writing illegible]
File No, 42,695
Thomas Edwards
[illegible] Rev War
Act: 18 March 18[illegible]
Index: Vol. 8,
Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Auditors Office Annapolis 5th Apr 1819
I hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls remaining in the Auditors Office that Tho Edwards enlisted as a Serg on 26th Jan 1778 and was made Quarter M Sergt on 14th May 1780 and was discharged the 1st Nov 1780
4th Regt Md Line
Tho Karney Audtr
State [illegible]
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Thomas Edwards
(affidavit)
3 June 1818 - Private
4 Reg't Maryland
76 three years - wanted
the judge [illegible] of
the [illegible] law
as of the [illegible]

ADMITTED

I John Runyon, judge as within & above mentioned do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Thomas Edwards is in very reduced circumstances & greatly needs the assistance of his county for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of May 1819

John Runyon - [illegible] Judge
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The State of Ohio
Champaign County

On this third day of June 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Ohio personally appears Thomas Edwards aged seventy-three years resident in the county and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" that the said Thomas Edwards about the first day of May AD 1776 enlisted in the army of the United States in the state of Maryland in the company of Captain Michael Gibbert belonging to the fourth regiment of the Maryland troops within the  Maryland line in the Revolutionary war & that he continued to serve in the army of the United States in the said troops until the expiration of three years & nine months [illegible] his aforesaid enlistment when he was honorably discharged at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania which said discharge he has since lost by time & accident that he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Head of Elk, Lewistown and Brandywine & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his county for support & that he has no other evidence in his power of his said services.

Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid.

I John Runyon Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my entire satisfaction that the said Thomas Edwards did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy & I now transmit the proceeding & testimony taken & had before me to the secretary of the War Department in pursuance of the directions of the act aforesaid.

John Runyon - Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Champaign County

I Samuel Gibbs clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid in the sixth judicial circuit of said state do hereby certify that John Runyon Esquire whose hath taken, certified & subscribed the within affidavit of Thomas Edwars is and was at the time day of June instant an associate Judge of the court aforesaid legally and duly commissioned and qualified and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due.

In testimony whereof I Samuel Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the court at Urbana the fifth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Samuel Gibbs - Clerk
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The State of Ohio Champaign County Supreme Court July term 1820
On this 18th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court Thomas Edwards aged
Seventy Seventy years resident in the County of Champaign aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, he enlisted in the revolutionary before f the United States some time in the year 1779 at Hartford in the State of Maryland in the same company commanded by Captain Michael Gilbert the number of the regiment  he Company belonged he cannot now recollect for the term of the three years and that he faithfully served out the term of his aforesaid enlisting the greater part  of which term of said he served as a Sergent in said corps when
he was honorably discharged from service at Philadelphia that on the third day of June 1818 he made a declaration in order to obtain a pension  under the act of the 18th March 1818 and has since her received a certificate of his being inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Ohio agency which said certificate bears date the 29th day of July 1819 & numbered 
13.515 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of property or any part thereof with intent  thereby to so diminish  as to bring myself in line with

and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor had any income
than  what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me
Subscribed and I do further swear that my occupation in life is a shoemaker & that in consequence of my bodily infirmities
& dimness of light I am entirely unable to follow that or any business at all and that I have no family of any discription whatever
Schedule of property owned by Thos Edwards-
Case of the value of $80.00. of took 1 kit of tools valued of  $20-$32.00
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
Thomas & Edwards  his mark
this 18th day July 1820
W Word Clerk S.C.

June the 30th 1820 We the undersigned do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Thomas Edwards and know that in consequence of old age and dimness of sight and other infirmities he is unable to get his living by labor the property he own is one mare worth about thirty dollars and a small kit of shoemaker tools and one (illegible 3)
- also of opinion that if he does not receive some assistance from the public he will in a short time (should he live, become a county charge - John Morgan (believe the above is a true statement
Mathew Steen David Taylor James Hill Samuel Taylor, County
A Steal, Miller Gillespie
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Joseph Davis, John Stiles, Abraham Smith, David Kelly John McAdam, John H. Crone, Charles Maclay, John B Culbert William M ys James Turner, Aaron L Hunt, Thomas Stewart
Nathaniel W. Bright James Turner he
Edward L Morgon, James Huls, laws Long, Lyman North, Richard Cheesemon
William Wasley, Amos Parker, Eva Baldwin, James W Steer Janathan Long, Jacob Morgan Lymon Olds and Parks, John Taylor William Black, Mons McIlvain, Robert McIlvain
James Block--
 Agreeable to the report of his Neighborhood the within statement is true for some time past
George Harter, Ada Musgrove, George Moore Benjamin Winous, George Bell, Robert Bell, James Parton, Herkish Wells, Alex Black, Moses and love, James Campbell Jacob Baylor, William Downs William H Fiffe
The State of Ohio Champaign County
Be it remembered that a Supreme Court held at the court house in the Town of Urban on the Nineteenth day of July in the year of one
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty the following order was made in said court to wit Thomas Edwards on application for pension 
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it is ordered that a copy of the same be duly made out certified
The State of Ohio Champaign Co I Wm Ward Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for the County aforesaid as hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original now on file in said Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto ┃
set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Urban this 7th day of November 1822
W. Ward & Clerk 16, S,C.C.C.

Thomas Edwards 13,315