Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35129, Osborn Williams, Md.
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Md Williams, Osborn
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35129
Invalid
File number S 5,129
Osborn Williams
Lieutenant Revolutionary War
Act 18 March 18 [illegible]
Index: Volume 2, Page 457
(Arrangement of 1870)
June 6 '98
FD Orme
City
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Lieutenant Osborn Williams is hereby at his own request discharged
from the service of the United States
By His Execellency [illegible]
[Illegible signature]
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The United States of America in Congress Assembled

To Osborn Williams [illegible] Greetings. With [illegible] trust 
and confidence in your patriotism, [illegible] and Fidelity do by this present [illegible] and approve your
[illegible] a Lieutenant in the [illegible] regiment
in the army of the [illegible]
April [illegible] 1779. You are therefore carefully and diligently to [illegible]
by doing and performing all manner of things
[illegible] charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command to [illegible]
from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United [illegible]
for that purpose appointed a Committee of the [illegible] or Commander in Chief for [illegible]
the United States or any other your superior officer according to the rules and [illegible]
of the trust [illegible] to continue in force until [illegible] by the
[illegible] of Congress before [illegible] or a [illegible] of the States.
Entered in the War Office
and commissioned by the  [illegible]
Witness his [illegible] John Jay
the Congress of the United States of America [illegible]
day of June 1779 in the
Independence
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
April 22, 1854
Sir,
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1888, entiltled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 28, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agent,
the children of Osborn Williams, dec. 
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month under the law of the 18 March 1818 has been paid at this Deparment, from the 4th of Sept. 1819 to the 28th Dec. 1819. 
Respectfully, yours,

Comptroller
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I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that Osborn Williams of the 3rd Regt Entered the service as an Ensign on the 18th of March 1777.  And by the Army Leger One of the Record Books in the Auditors Office it appears that Osborn Williams of the 3rd Regt. settled his Account in October 1779 as a Lieutenant.

R Lockerman Aud. Genl.
Auditors Office Annapolis 24th April 1848.
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No. 680
Maryland Rolls
Osborn Williams,
3rd Regt Maryland
Lieutenant
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of May 1818 and delivered to the pen-sioner

Arrerarages to 4th. Sept 1818
4 months 10/30  $86.66

Revolutionary claims,
Act 18th March, 1818,

Maryland Line 
two years
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County April 26th, 1818

Osborn Williams of the County and State aforesaid appears before me the Subscriber, Associate Judge of the third Judicial District of Maryland, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Allmighty God deposes said and declared that he was appointed and commissioned as an Ensign in the third Maryland Regiment on the Eighteenth day fo March 1777. and served in the War of the Revolution against the Common Enemy from the time first mentioned til October 1779 at which time he left his Regiment as Lieutenant - the said Osborn Williams further deposes. said and declared as aforesaid that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his County for support.

The above Deposition sworn to before me the and year aforesaid.

Rich. Ridgely
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Maryland Anne Arundel County

I Richard Ridgely Associate Judge of the third Judicial District of the State do hereby certify that it appears fully to my satisfaction from the Deposition aforesaid and from other Testimony laid before me that Osborn Williams the person named in the aforegoing Affidavit served in the Revolutionary Was as stated in the said Affidavit against the common enemy--- In testimony whereof I have herewith transmitted the said Testimony to the (?) the Secretary of the War Department , and have hereto set my hand (?) this twenty sixth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen---

Maryland Anne Arundel County (?)
the 
I hereby certify (?) Richard Ridgely
Esquire who appeared to (?) and (?) the
(?) was at the time of (?) and (?)
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of the associate judges of the  third judicial district of the state of Maryland comprising (?) the counties of Calvert Anne Arundel and Montgomery duly commissioned and qualified; and to all his acts as such full faith and trust are and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thruout.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight teen and eighteen

(Signed) Wm (?)