Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35003, for Nicholas Milburn, Maryland
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389  
Maryland Roll  
Nicholas, Milburn Private 
Capt. Dobson  
Maryland [illegible] 
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of April 1818 and forwarded to Henry D. Miller [illegible] Elkton, Maryland 
Arrearages to 4th Sept. 1818 
Four months 89/31 $36.90 
Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818, 
Five years, War  
Continued 

[Written crossways on the left hand side of the bifold]

Notification sent November 19 18[36?] to
James Sewell, Elkton, Maryland
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To the honorable judges of Cecil County Court 
The petition of Nicholas Milburn a citizen of the state of Maryland and Cecil County respectfully sheweth that he is entitled to a pension under the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, whereupon he prays your honors to allow him a pension on the conditions specified in the said law after complying with all necessary requisitions. (Signed) Nicholas Milburn

It appears to the satisfaction of Cecil County Court that the within named Nicholas Milburn served in the Revolutionary War and the members thereof hereby certify and herewith transmit to the War Department of the United States the testimony laid before them by the said Nicholas Milburn in support of his intended application for a pension under the late act of Congress.
9th April 1818
Nicholas Milburn  R.T. Earle  Lemuel Purnelle  Tho. Morrell

Maryland Cecil County     
I hereby certify that Richard T. Earle Lemuel Purnelle Thomas Morrell Esqrs. who signed the above certificate were at that time and still are Judges of the second Judicial District of the State of Maryland

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this seventeenth day of April Anno Domini 1818

James Sewall of Cecil County Court
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It appears to the satisfaction of Cecil County Court
that the within named Nicholas Milburn served in the
Revolutionary ^war^ and the members thereof hereby certify and herewith
transmit to the war Department of the United States
the testimony laid before them by the said Nicholas Milburn in
support of his intended application for a pension under the late
act of Congress
9th April 1819
[illegible R.T. ?] Earle
Lemuel Purnell
Tho Worrell
[written sideways in margin:] Nicholas Milburn


Maryland Cecil County
I hereby certify that Richard T. Earle
Lemuel Purnell Thomas Worrell Esqrs who signed the above
Certificate were at that time and still are Judges of the
second Judicial District of the State of Maryland
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the public
Seal of my office this seventeenth
day of April Anno Domin 1810
James Sewall of
Cecil County Court

[written upside down from previous]
To the honorable Judges of Cecil County Court
The petition of Nicholas Milburn a citizen of the 
State of Maryland and Cecil County respectfully shewith [?]
that he is [lined out: within] entitled to a pension under the act to
pensioners[?] for certain persons[?] engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States. whereupon he [two illegible words]
known to allow him a pension on the conditions
specified in the said law after certifying with all
necessary requisitions.
Nicholas Milburn
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Nicholas Millburn a citizen of the United States and at this time residing in Cecil County in the State of Maryland doth declare that in the month of April 1778 he enlisted under Capt. Henry Dobson in the 6th Regiment belonging to the Maryland Line. Col. Williams and served under Capt. Dobson till he was killed at the battle of the Eutaw Springs in South Carolina and continued in the service a common soldier without intermission till the close in the year 1783 and that from age and infirmity he is not able to support himself and family having no property other than a few articles of household furniture.

Note the words "a common soldier" and "belonging to the Maryland Line" underlined

State of Maryland Cecil County April 6th 1818

Then appeared Nicholas Millburn in open court and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the several facts and circumstances stated in the above declaration are true. 

Sworn in open court
James Sewall
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Copy 24
Nicholas Milburn’s Oath Schedule to.
As a Pensioner under 
The late Act of
Congress 
Milburn
39
Sept. 1818.
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State of Maryland Cecil County to wit

On this eleventh day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the second judicial district of the state of Maryland proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and keeping a record of its proceedings Nicholas Milbourn aged sixty four years resident in Cecil County in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1778 at Elkton in Cecil County in Captain Henry Dobson's company attached to the Sixth Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Williams and continued in the said regiment until the termination of the war when he was discharged at Annapolis and received a discharge from General Smallwood which he hath since lost; that he was engaged in the battle of Monmouth and was afterwards ordered to the southward and was engaged at the battle of Camden, Guilford, the Cowpens and the Eutaw Springs; that he made a declaration in conformity to the act of the 18 March 1818 in Cecil County Court on or about the 9th April 1818 and obtained a pension under said act his certificate being numbered 319.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 March 1818 and
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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 scheduled and by me subscribed.

Sworn to in Open Court
James Sewall Clk

Schedule

One horse, one cow, two shotes, one hoe, one shovel, one pot, one [illegible], one table, three chairs, one tea kettle, one old axe, one old mattock. That the said property does not exceed in value fifty-five dollars - that he has owing to him from Sundry persons depts to the amount of about forty dollars and that he owes debts to sundry persons to the amount of about one hundred and forty-five dollars.
That he is a sone mason by trade but from age and infirmity has been unable to follow it for several years past; that he rents a small farm for the yearly rent of fitty dollars; that he has no family, but a wife aged about sixty-four years also inform and his daughter aged twenty years who lives with himself and
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and his wife and who has no property whatever.

Nicholas Milburn
His X Mark

Witness - James Sewall

Sworn to and declared in open court on the 11th September 1820 before the subscribe chief judge of the second judicial district of Maryland composed of the counties of Talbot, Queen Annes, Kent and Cecil County aforesaid.

Rd T Earle

I James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County 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 fifty-five dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 11th day of Sept 1820.

James Sewall - Clerk of the Court for the County of Cecil
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MAIL & FILES DIVISION TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
1914 OCT 23 AM 9 17 
US Pension Office E Oct 24 1914 
TR. U.S
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335 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton, N.J. 
October 21st, 1914. 
To the Treasury Department, 
Washington, N.J. 
Gentlemen: - Will you kindly send me the date of the last payment of pension to Nicholas Milbourne, - Revolutionary soldier, - who applied April 1818; residence Cecil County, Maryland, and any family data entered on your records. 
Yours very truly, Janetta W Schoonover Mrs. J.D.L.
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I certify that it appears by the return made
by the commissioners, that Nicholas Milburn
late a private in the 6th Maryland Regiment
entitled of the lands westward of the 
Cumberland
to a lot 125 containing acres
Test
John Brewer Rees
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To the Honorable the Secretary at War of the United States of America the Petition of Nicholas Milburn most humbly prayeth that he may be entitled to and receive the pension allowed be the Act of Congress “approved March 18, 1818. Entitled” an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States and the Revolutionary War. And your petitioner relinquishes all claim to every pension heretofore allowed to him by the laws of the United States. 
And your petitioner with every [illegible] 
[illegible] Present Henry D. Miller 
Nicholas Milburn April 8, 1818.
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Rev. War Section 
October 27, 1914 
Mrs. J.D.L Schoonover 
335 Bellevue Avenue, 
Trenton, New Jersey. 
Madam:- In reply to your letter dated 21st instant you are advised that in order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Nicholas Milburn, S.F. No.35, 003 Rev. War, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department citing the following data: 
Nicholas Milburn, 
Certificate No. 319, 
Issued April 30, 1818, at $8.00 per month, 
Commencing April 17, 1818, Act March 18, 1818. 
Maryland Agency. 
There is no data as to the soldier's family other than that furnished you by this bureau on October 12, 1914. 
Very respectfully, G.M Saltzgaber 
Commissioner.
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35003 
Roy INVALID 
File Number 35,003 
Nicholas Milburn 
Priv. Rev. [Illegible] 
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 278 
Arrangement of 1870 
1914 Oct. 12 Hist. To J.D.L B. Schoonover Letter id B.L. [Illegible]. 1168-300 Joseph Davis. [Illegible] 
1914 Oct. 27 Data given to [illegible] and for [illegible] Dept. for last payment of pension