Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34973, for Nathaniel Beale Magruder, Maryland
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Magruder, Nathaniel Beal
Number S. 34973
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7504
4
Maryland
Nathaniel B. Magruder
of Allegany in the state of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Rawlings of the Maryland Line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 4 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Marach 1819 and Sent to Wm McMahon
Cumberland Md

Died Nov. 25 1821
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819                   88.23
Semi-anl, all'ee ending 4 Sept 1819     48
                                                          $136.23
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State of Maryland Allegany County to wit

I Aza Beall Clerk of Allegany County Court in the state of Maryland hereby certify that the Honorable John Buchanan Esquire who appears to have signed the foregoing Deposition and Certificate was at the time of signing the same and now is Chief Judge of the fifth Judicial District Composed of Allegany, Washington and Frederick Counties in the State of Maryland duly Commision and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice thereof.

In testimony whereof I hereunto scribe my name and affix the seal of my office this twenty fifth day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Aza Beall Clk
of Allegany County Court
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State of Maryland Allegany County to wit 
on the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen Hundred & eighteen before  me the Subscriber Chief Judge of the fifth Judicial District of Maryland which district is composed of the Counties of Allegany Washington & Frederick personally appeared Nathaniel Beall Magruder aged Sixty years Resident in Allegany County aforesaid who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress "entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, That he is the same Nathaniel B. Magruder who enlisted with Captain Thomas Beall of the Rifle Corps of Maryland in August Seventeen Hundred & seventy Six and joined Col. Moses Rawlings's Regiment of Riflemen at Frederick Town, who marched from there to the State of New York at Fort Lee that he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and continued a prisoner with the British for upwards of two months that on his
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release he returned to Maryland that in the year Seventeen Hundred Seventy eight he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in Said Capt. Beall's company & guarded the prisoners for some time at Fort Frederick in the State of Maryland that from there they marched to Pittsburgh from there they were ordered to Lans Keneway where they were stationed for some time & from there to the many towns on the Allegany & was continuous in the  army until the end of the war, that he is in indigent circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other credence in his powers of his said services.
J.... Buchanan
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I John Buchanan Chief Judge of the fifth Judicial district of Maryland aforesaid do certify that it appears to y satisfaction that the said Nathaniel B. Magruder did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy & I now transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken beforehand before me to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to the declarations of the aforementioned act of Congress.
24th Apr 1818            John Buchanan

In addition to the foregoing Certificate given by me on the 24th day of April last, I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nathl. B. Magruder is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
John Buchanan
13th Oct. 1818
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Nath. B Magruder
7504

9 March 1819

Con
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STATE OF MARYLAND, Allegany County, SS.
 On this tenth day of October 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, Nathaniel Beale Magruder aged Sixty one years, resident in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: When he first enlisted in the month of August in the year 1776 in Captain Thomas Beall's Rifle company afterwards attached to Col. Moses Raulings' Regiment, that he marched with said Regiment to Fort Lee and from thence to Fort Washington, that he was in the Battle of Fort Washington where he was taken prisoner by the British and put on board a prison shipp called Dutton and kept prisoner upwards of two months on board of said ship - that he was then released on condition of not ?serving against the British until duly exchanged & that he afterwards received the commission of a Lieutenant and repaired to Fort Frederick in Maryland to guard the British prisoners, that he marched with his company in the 1778 to Pittsburgh and from thence to Fort Lawrence on Washington and from thence he returned to Pittsburgh, that he then went with his company (having then the command in the absence of Captain Beale to the Mingo Towns up the Allegany River and destroyed those Towns and corn fields and then returned to Pittsburgh in 1777 where the Regiment was all discharged. He then returned to Maryland, and was appointed Lieutenant in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain John Reed stationed at Frederick Town to the Magazine  and continued there to the end of the war, that he originally made a Declaration on oath the 26th day of Apri 1818 and received a Pention Certificate number Five thousand five hundred and four.
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 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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SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY, &c.
1 Cow $12. 
2 Tables $6 1 Doz Cups Saucers 25 cts   $18.25
4 Chairs 1 Doz Plates 2 Dishes 1 Sugar Dish 2.00
1 Tea Pot 1 Pitcher 2 Decanters 1 pepper box)
5 Knives & forks                                       ) 1.50
1 Bowl 3 tin pans 3 tin waiters 3 Buckets
      1 flat hon.                                             2.75
3 Glasses, 1 Coffee Pott & Tea Kettle,
    Tub, Iron Pott, 2 ovens?                         6.50
2 candle sticks 1 canister 10 Spoons)
1 Churn 4 Tubbs 1 Chamber Pott     )      4.3/2
                                                               $35.3/2
Nath. B Magruder

And the said Nathaniel B Magruder further declares, that at present is not occupied in any business not being a tradesman, that he has one Daughter twenty four years of age, one Son twenty years of age one other Son fifteen years of age, one other son thirteen years of age, all health and mainly able to provide for themselves.      

Sworn to, and declared on this tenth day of October 1820 before
Aza Beale  Clk

I, Aza Beale clerk of Allegany County in the State of Maryland do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 Thirty five dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 13th day of November 1820.

Aza Beale
Clerk of the Court for the County of Allegany
In the State of Maryland
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To recording, Copying & Filing $1.47 1/2
To certificate that to Ditto 40
Total $1.87 1/2
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34973
Revy INVALID

File No 34973
Nathaniel B. Magruder
Pri Rev War

Act: 19 March '18
Index Vol 2 Page 279
[Arrangement of 1870.]

* [illegible] June 27, 1907
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Testifies that I was appointed to the command of [illegible] of that
part of a rifle Redgment[sic] in Maryland commanded by
Col Hugh [illegible] of Virginia in July 1776 and was ordered to Frederick
Town in August following and [illegible] by Col. Tinson and ordered
to March and join the redgment[sic] at [illegible] New York
in the [illegible] we found the redgment[sic] some time in September following
then under the command of Col. Rowlings we were then ordered
and March to Fort Lee and to then to Fort Washington the first
of November and on the 16th [illegible] the Ingagment[sic] at that place
Nathaniel Beall Magruder was one of the soldiers of that Redgment[sic]
enlisted for three years or during the war the Redgment[sic] or only
part of said Redgment[sic] was in the Action which consisted of one
Hundred and Fifty four Noncommissioned officers and Privates
and Twenty one officers were ingaged[sic].  There [illegbile] Hopkins and
fought them one [illegible] some time within ten or fifteen [illegible]
each other and never more than thirty yards apart the Enemy
was [illegible] Hundred men and many that in the [illegible] from behind
[illegible] the above Nathaniel Bell Magruder was one of the soldiers
and fought Bravely in the Hole Action and was made prisoner
at Fort Washington the 16th of November 1776 and confined in [illegible]
House in New York untill[sic] the [illegible]th of December 1776 from thence he was
taking aboard the prison ship [illegible] call the Jersey and from that
was it ought in his parole and sent to Amboy the 16 of January 1777
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and in the spring of 1778 we was ordered to Fort Frederick to Garrison
the British Prisoners at that place and in the spring of 1779 we were ordered
to Fort Pitt Nathaniel Beall Magruder was appointed by the Board
of War [illegible] Leftennant[sic] of that part the redgment[sic] [illegible] in Maryland
commanded by Moses Rawlings and continue with
the redgment[sic] as such untill[sic] some time in the year 1780 when he was
appointed past Leftennant[sic] of Company [illegible] in Maryland and
stationed at Frederick Town and commanded by Capt John
Reed and continued there during the war.
[illegible]
May 25th 1818