Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9508, for John Long, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md. 
Long, John
Nancy
NUMBER
W9508
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[left page]
1893  [March 28 crossed out] April 21 DF Long history Prior
[on it's side] Date of death not rec A.B.
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[right page]
Maryland 2553
Nancy Long
Widow of John Long
Who died on the 29 August 1819
of Harford Co. in the state of Maryland
who was a Private in the (blank) commanded by captain (blank) of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the Revolution [line lined through] for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 dollars [cents lined through]
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of March 
1839 and and sent to Mr B. Bond
Bel Air, M? [Maryland]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 -                     640.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 Sep. " [1839] - 40.00
                                                                          =======
                                                                           $680.00
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[right] Revolutionary Claim
[right] Act July 4, 1836,
[right] Section the 3 ---

Recorded by D. Brown - Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 153
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State of Maryland, Harford County, to wit

I hereby certify that it appears from the records of proceedings in Harford County Court that on the twenty first day of February seventeen hundred and seventy nine, a marriage License was issued for the Marriage of John Long and Ann Scott.

In testimony whereof I have hereto 
subscribed my name and affixed the
Seal of Harford County Court this
Eleventh day of February Eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine.

Henry Dorsey, Clk
Har. Coty Court [Harford County Court]
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4247
Nancy Long of John 
Maryland
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State of Maryland
Harford County, to wit

On this twenty third day of January in the year Eighteen hundred 
and thirty nine, personally appeared before the subscriber one of 
the associate Justices of the Orphans Court of of Harford County 
(the same being a court of record) Nancy Long, a resident of the 
county aforesaid, aged about eighty-six 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 4th 1836. 
That she is the widow of John Long who was a private soldier in the 
State troops of the State of Maryland during the war of the Revolution 
as will more fully appear by reference to the documentary and other 
Evidence herewith submitted ---

She further declares that she was married to the said John Long in 
the month of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine (1779) --

That her husband, the aforesaid John Long died on the twenty ninth day of 
August in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen (1819), and that she has 
remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference 
to the proof hereto annexed –

She further declares that her said husband resided in Harford County aforesaid 
when he entered the service, which
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to the best of her knowledge and belief was in the year 
seventeen hundred and seventy six (1776) -    
[right]            her
[right] Nancy   X     Long   
[right]           mark   [X being her mark]   
sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
[right] Al. Alderson  
    
The undersigned before whom the aforegoing declaration was made 
hereby certifies that Nancy Long the declarant above named is unable
from bodily infirmity to attend the court. and further certifies that the 
said declarant is a person of good character and undoubted credibility  ---     
[right] Al. Alderson   
     
Maryland Sctg[?]

I Thomas Bond Register of Wills, for Harford County, do hereby certify 
that Abel Alderson Gentleman before whom the foregoing declaration 
was made, and who hath subscribed his name thereto, was at the time 
of so doing one of the Justices of the Orphans Court of Harford County 
(being a Court of Records) duly commissioned and Sworn, and to all whose 
acts, as such full faith and credit are due ought to be given as well in Courts of 
Justice as there out, and I do hereby certify that the name of Abel Alderson 
above subscribed is the Genuine signature of the said Abel Alderson      
In Testimony whereof I have heresunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of 
my office this twenty ninth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
[right] Thos Bond  Regr of Wills for Harford County
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State of Maryland 
Harford County to wit 
    
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this twenty 
ninth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty 
nine, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice 
of the Peace of the State of Maryland for the County aforesaid 
Luke Long of said County aged seventy Eight years (whom it is 
hereby certified is a person of credibility) who being first duly 
sworn according to Law, deposeth as follows, That he is the 
brother of John Long deceased who is mentioned in the 
declaration of --- Nancy Long --- That the said John Long was a 
private soldier in the war of the Revolution. and that he the 
said John Long was lawfully married to the said declarant in the 
month of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy 
nine (1779) and that he (this deponent) was present at the 
marriage ceremony and saw and heard the same performed -      
That the said John Long died on the twenty ninth day of August 
in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen (1819) and that the 
said declarant has ever since the death of her said husband 
remained, and still is, a widow -- And this deponent further 
deposeth that the said John Long resided in Harford County in 
the State of Maryland when he entered the service of his country, 
and before and afterwards to the time of his death aforesaid    
[right]Luke Long 
       
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before [right] Isaac Stansbury
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State of Maryland Harford County To wit –      
I Henry Dorsey, Clerk of Harford County Court do hereby Certify that Isaac Stansbury 
Gentleman before whom the within Affidavit was made and who has Subscribed his 
name thereto was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland's Justices of 
the Peace in and for Harford County duly Commissioned and Sworn, and I hereby 
certify that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that he the said Isaac 
Stansbury is duly authorised by the Laws of the State of Maryland, to administer oaths In Testimony whereof I have hereto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal 
of Harford County Court this twenty ninth day of January Eighteen hundred and 
thirty nine       
[right] Henry Dorsey  Clk
[right] Hartford Cty Court      
[writing on it's side]
4247     
Nancy Long      
Of John    
Maryland 
[end writing on it's side]
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[typed letter]
[right]Washington     September 29, 1931   

Mrs. John C. McDonald                       BA-J/AWF 
4001 Windsor Avenue
Dallas, Texas.

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the 
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9508, that John Long, 
while residing in Harford County, Maryland, enlisted August 1, 
1780 and served until November 15, 1783 as a private with the
 Maryland Troops, no officers stated.

He married in February 1779, Ann or Nancy Scott, the marriage 
license was issued, February 21, 1779 in Harford County, Maryland.

The soldier died August 29, 1819 in Hartford County Maryland.

The widow, Nancy, was allowed pension on her application executed 
January 23, 1839, then a resident of said Harford County, and was 
aged 86 years.

There is no reference to children.

[right] Very truly yours

[right] A.D. Hiller
[right] Assistant to Adminstrator
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State of Maryland Harford County Sct     
 I hereby Certify that John Blaney Gentleman before whom the within and foregoing affidavit was made and who has subscribed his name thereto was at the time of so doing one of the State of Marylands Justice of the Peace in and for Harford County duly Commissioned and Sworn and that he is duly qualified by the Laws of the State of Maryland to administer oaths. And I hereby further Certify that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine      
[right] In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and [right] affixed the seal of Harford County Court this twenty sixth day of February [right] Eighteen hundred and thirty nine      
[right] [right] Henry Dorsey Clk  
[right] Harfd Cty Court
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State of Maryland 
Anne Arundel County to wit   

Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this second 
February in the year Eighteen day of hundred and thirty nine 
personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the 
Peace in and for the County aforesaid Thomas Hope Esquire of 
Harford County who being first duly Sworn according to Law 
Deposeth and Saith that he knew John Long deceased in his life 
time whose widow is about to make application under the Act of 
Congress passed July 4th 1836 to obtain a pension, that the said 
John Long lived for many years in Harford County aforesaid and 
died there some years age, That this deponent has often heard 
and believes that the said John Long was a soldier in the war of 
the revolution, and that the said John Long is the same person 
for whose benefit the Resolution number Eleven of the General 
Assembly of the State of Maryland at their session of the year 
Eighteen hundred and seventeen
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was passed -- and this deponent further deposeth and saith that 
he is acquainted Nancy Long the applicant above refered to, and 
that the said Nancy Long is the widow of the said John Long  --- 
and I the subscriber do further certify that the above named Thomas 
Hope is a gentleman of undoubted credibility     
[right] Thos Hope     
   
sworn to and subscribed on the the day and year above written before     
[right] Edward Dubois   
[right]Anne Arundel County Court
          
I hereby hereby Certify that Edward Dubois Gentleman who appears 
to have taken And signed the aforegoing deposition was at the line 
of So doing one of the State of Marylands Justices of thSpeace in and 
for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and Sworn and that the
aforegoing signature purporting to be his is genuine        
[right] In Testimony whereof I hereto set my Name and office the Seal of Anne 
[right] Arundel County Court this 2nd day of February in the year Eighteen 
[right] hundred and thirty nine   
[right] Wm S. Green Clk [seal]
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[upper left letterhead]
D. F. LONG
Bookseller and stationer
28 STATE STREET

[RIGHT] Montpelier, Vt., Sept 11, 1892

Chief Clerk
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.

Sir,

Can you give me any information of one John Long, who enlisted from Virginia 
during the Revolutionary War & was,  I understand, in Hall's Regiment or Brigade -- 
& was with Genl. Washington during the winter . at Valley Forge.

He was a pensioner I understand, but in what arm of the service. Inf or Cavalry I 
cannot say. I want to get his Record - what position he held [illegible]. 

He resided in Maryland, I know. The latter part of his life. Any information you can
give me I shall be pleased.
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to remunerate you for, and at the same time very thankful.

[right] Very respectfully,
[right] Dan'l F. Long

[official stamp upper right]
PENSION OFFICE
D
MAR
1
1893

[official stamp middle bottom]
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
SEP 12, 1892 
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK

[bottom of page upside down]
No records from data
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Sir I Bel Air Harford County     
Maryland Mar 11th 1839      


Dear Sir     
I addressed you about the 26th or 27th ultimo [last month] on the subject 
of the claim of Mrs Nancy Long of this county to a pension under 
the act of 1836 July 4th, and enclosed an affidavit and the
certificate of the Clerk of Harford County Court, showing that 
a marriage license for the marriage of John Long and Ann Scott 
was issued from that office on the 21st Feby 1779 - Not having 
heard from you in reply I take the liberty of asking you whether 
my letter with said enclosure came safely to hand,  I am fearful it 
did not. because I know your promptness in general would
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authorize me to expect an answer before this time.

Your attention will confer a favour on yours, etc. [not sure of yours, etc.]

[right] Respectfully,
[right] Wm. B. Bond

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Col J. L. Edwards }     Belair Harford County 
Com of Pensions }     Maryland, Feby 26th 1839  
    
Dr. Sir,        I enclose you a certificate of this the Clerk of Harford 
County Court showing the issuing of a marriage license for the 
marriage of John Long and Ann Scott -   also  the affidavit of William 
Wilgis duly authenticated, which I hope will be sufficient (in addition 
to the papers already before you) to establish the right of Mrs Nancy 
Long to a pension under the Act of Congress July 4th 1836. If so please 
enclose with the certificate thereof directed to me at Bel Air, Harford
County Maryland    -    
If anything more should be wanted please let me Know as early as your 
engagements will permit  -   
I am &c [?] with great Respect     
Yrs    Wm. B. Bond
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State of Maryland        }
Harford County to wit } 
     
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified, that on this 
twenty sixth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred 
and thirty nine personally appeared William Wilgis of said 
County aged seventy two years (whom it is hereby certified 
is a man of undoubted credibility) before me the subscriber 
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and 
being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that 
he was well acquainted with John Long deceased in his life 
time, who was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and that 
he is also well acquainted with Nancy Long the widow of the 
said John Long who as this deponent is informed has made 
application to the government for a pension through the 
agency of William B Bond, That this deponent was reared from
 infancy in the same neighborhood with the said John Long 
and Nancy his widow, and Knew them both before they were 
married. That though this deponent was not present at the 
celebration of the said marriage (being then but a boy) yet he 
well remembers the neighborhood talk of the said marriage at 
the time it took place and before and afterwards, and that he 
knew the said John Long and the said Nancy ever afterwards 
as man and wife up to the death of the said John, and the said 
Nancy up to this time, This deponent further
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deposeth that a certificate of the issuing of a marriage license 
for the marriage of John Long and Ann Scott has been shewed 
to this deponent by which it appears that the said license was 
issued in the month of a seventeen hundred and seventy nine 
(1779) and that from his knowledge of the said John Long in  
his life time, and of the said Nancy, he is enabled to say with 
certainty that the said John Long and Ann Scott mentioned in 
the said certificate are the identical John Long and Nancy Long 
mentioned in the foregoing part of this deposition -   That the 
name of the said Nancy Long the widow of the said John 
aforesaid was Nancy Scott or Ann Scott before her said marriage
with the said John, and that the names of Ann and Nancy are the 
same, according to the usage and uniform acceptation of the 
people of Harford County aforesaid, and that such has been the 
usage and custom ever since this deponent can remember 
[right] William Wilgis  
      

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
[right] John Blaney
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Maryland Sct       
                           At a session of the General Assembly of 
Maryland begun and held at the City of Annapolis on the
first Monday in December being the first day of the 
said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and seventeen and ended the sixteenth day 
of February in the year one thousand eight Hundred 
and Eighteen      
His Excellency Charles Ridgely of Hampton Esq Governor 
Amongst others the following Resolution was enacted 
to wit       
No 11       
By the House of Delegates Dec 16 1817 Resolved that the 
treasurer of the Western shore be and he is hereby directed 
to pay to John Long of Hanford County and [an]  old revolutionary 
soldier or to his order annually in quarterly payment a sum of 
money equal to the 1 half pay of a private as a further remuneration for those services rendered his country during her struggle for independence-       
[right] By Order Louis Gassaway Clk      
[right] In Senate Feby 7th 1818 Read & assented to     
[right] By Order P Harwood Clk
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I, Richard U. Gill, Clerk of the Court of 
Appeals for the Western Shore of Maryland, 
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and true 
copy of the Resolution of the General Assembly of 
Maryland, of which it purports to be a copy, as taken 
from Liber T. H. No. 6, folio 208 & one of the law 
Records of the State of Maryland, belonging to the office 
of the Court of Appeals for the Western Shore of said State.

[right] In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
[right] set my hand as Clerk and affixed 
[right] the seal of the said Court of Appeals 
[right] this first day of February A.D. 1839.

[right] Richard U. Gill Clerk
[right] Court of Appeals U.S.
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LAND OFFICE
Annapolis, 1st February 1839,

I Certify, that it appears by a Pay Roll remaining in the Office, 
that John Long, a private, received of John Hamilton, Agent 
of the Maryland Line, $________[blank]  arrears of pay from the 
1st August, 1780, to the 1st of January, 1782—also $47.70 pay 
from the 1st January, 1782, to the 1st January, 1783—also 
$43.30 from the 1st January, 1783, to the 15th of November, 1783.

Gratuity, $80.00. Total received, $171.10.

[right] George G. Brown
[right] Register Land Office, W. S. Md.
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W.3.9508
Nancy Long
Widow of John  act '36

Maryland
Adm [admitted]
Maryland Roll
[illegible
4 Feb 1839 W.B.

$80 per anm [annum]
Send certificate : to W.3.
Bond Esq., Bel Air

Act 4 July 1836
Maryland

[there is some illegible writing on the left side]
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[letterhead upper left]
D. F. Long     
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,       
32 STATE STREET
[end letterhead]

[right] Montpelier, Vt., February. 24, 1898       
Hon. Green B. Raum,      
Commissioner of Pensions,      
Washington, D.C. 
     
Sir,     
In reply to yours of the 26th ulto [last month] I beg
to say that I have learned the following -  John Long 
was a resident of Marshall’s District, Harford County, 
Maryland – the Post Office was more likely at Bel Air –
later Marshalls, now Jarrettsville.
His widow’s Christian name was Ann or it many have 
been written Nancy then.  My informant goes on to
say – “He enlisted in Hall’s Regiment from Virginia, 
before the Maryland Line was formed – He died in 
1818 or 1819, & his widow in 1848.  
[right] Very Respectfully
[right] Danl. F. Long
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[left page]
Feb. 28, 1896. 
Mil history to Miss 
Elizabeth Long Jacksonville Fla.
Apr 15/96  Soldier pensioned 
Hon. R. F. Pettigrew,  U..S.S M.E.L. 
Dre 896 to Miss Desha 
So. Div. 
See Priv. 30083
1921 Apr. 22 Hist to Mrs. Mary S. Wilt
1931 Sept 29   "    "  Mrs. John C. McDonald awf
[end left page]

[right page]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9508
Nancy Long
Wid. of 
John long 
Pvt. Rev. War
Act:  July 4th 36, Sec. 3 [1836]
Index:- Vol. A, Page 441
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[end right page]
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4001 Windsor Ave
Dallas, Texas
Sept. 13, 1931

U.S. Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Gentlemen,

Please advise me as to the Revolutionary War claim of John Long 
(Private) of Harford Co., Maryland, died 1818. His wife received a 
pension. Please give complete service record of soldier, when and t
o whom married, and names of children.

Thank you sincerely,
Mrs. John C. McDonald   
4001 Windsor Ave
Dallas Tex

[Stamped]
RECEIVED 
SEP 15 1931
RECEIPT SECTION
PENSION [ILLEGIBLE] DIVISION [possibly PENSION REV WAR DIVISION]
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L. P.  9508-04
Pension Office,    
Can you tell me if the widow (Anne, or it may have been written Nancy) 
of John Long, rec’d a pension.  John Long was a resident of Marshall’s 
District, Harford Co. Md. The Post Office was most likely at Bel Air.  Later 
Marshall’s now Jarrettsville.  He enlisted in Hall’s Regiment from Virginia 
before the Maryland line was formed.  He was taken prisoner during the 
winter at Valley Forge. He died in 1818 and his widow in 1848.  I will be 
greatly obliged for information.  
Jan 26th 96. [1896]
[right] Respy. [Respectfully] Miss Elizabeth Long  
[right] Jacksonville 
[right]  (Riverside.)   Florida
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1.74.5 [blurred
Revy. [blurred]
BAINBRIDGE, OHIO -------191 [printed page heading]
Sir:
John Long, a soldier of the Revolution, pensioned — 
d [deceased] 1818 — wife Anne Scott —.

Please give me what you have concerning his military
history and life. [unsure of life]

[right] Mrs Mary J. Wilt
[right] Bainbridge
[right] Ohio
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.      3-525    
[center] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,    
[left] W.F. 9508  
[center] BUREAU OF PENSIONS.  
[right] WASHINGTON D. C. ,------------------------,   19   
  
In reply to your request of  ---[blank]---, received ---[blank]---                
for a statement of the military history of John Long 
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
formation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension 
on file in this Bureau.      
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.       Aug. 1 1780   - Nov. 15 1783   
RANK.  Pvt.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.   (no officers stated)     
STATE.    Md Line  [Maryland Line]
Battles engaged in,  none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Harford County  - Md.      
Date of application for pension, Jany 23 1839      
Residence at date of application, Harford County, Md      
Age at date of application, She was 86 years old   ---     
Remarks: he mar [married] in Feby 1779 Ann or Nancy Scott   
mar [marriage] license is Feb 21 - 1779 Harford.  Dec’d Aug. 29, 1819 in Harford County, Md.   
It is not stated whether there were children
[center] Respectfully,
brother Luke,      
[right]Commissioner.
5-2856 [form number]
awd [to the right of the first line of remarks]
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[right] A.A.M

[center] Department of the Interior,
[center] Bureau of Pensions,
[right] Washington D.C., Jan. 26, 1893.

One enclosure.

Sir:

In reply to your request for information concerning the military services of 
John Long, who you state rendered service during the Revolutionary War, 
and received a pension therefor, I have to inform you that from the data 
given, the office has been unable to identify his claim for pension. Please 
furnish, if possible, his place of residence, (town, county and state) before
and after service and also the Christian name of his widow, if one survived 
him. Upon the receipt of this data a further search will be made.

Please return all enclosures with your reply.  Owing to the large number of 
inquiries of this character an earlier reply is not practicable.

[right] Very respectfully,
[right] Green B. Raum
[right] Commissioner.

D. F. Long, Esq.
28 State St.,
Montpelier, Vt.