Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35035, for Thomas Pryor, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Name
Pryor, Thomas

Number
S.35035
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19606
Maryland
Thomas Pryor
of Cecil County in the state of Maryland
who was a Private in the company commanded 
by Captain Conway of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sterling in the New Hersey line for the term of one year from October 1775 to November 1776.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 19th day of April 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Apr 1826 and sent to the Hon. G E Mitchell House of Representatives.

Portion of Mar 1826 $276.23
Semi-anl all'ce ending 6 Sept 1826 $48.00
$324.23

{Revolutionary Claim acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820}

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A certified copy of this pensioner's original declaration having been produced by the House G E Mitchel on the 17th of Mary 1826 the pension was made to commence on the 19th of April 1823 the date of the original declaration and a pension certificate to that effect issued in lieu of the certificate which was issued on the 8th of April 1826 which last certificate Mr. Mitchell has promised to return to the War Department and is therefore considered cancelled.
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Hon G E Mitchell
H.R.
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State of Maryland Cecil County

On this eight day of April 1826 personally appeared in open court, Thomas Pryor a resident of said county aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said Thomas Pryor enlisted for the term of one year on the 30th day of October in the year 1775 in the state of New Jersey is the company commanded by Captain John Conway in the regiment commanded by Colonel William Sterling in the line of the state of New Jersey and the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until November 1776 and that he never had a discharge for that just after the battle of Germantown, he fell sick and was left so by his corps at a neighboring farmhouse; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state except New Jersey and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension; that heretofore he has been able to subsist from his exertions as a schoolmaster, but that now he can get no school and is compelled to call on his county from necessity.

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 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 any 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 persona 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 that what is contained in the schedule hereto
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hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Thos Pryor

Schedule of the Property I owned in 1818 - 
One Cow, three shoat, one table, three chairs, 1 spinning wheel, various post, several spoons, several knives and for [illegible]one earthen Crock.

Thos Pryor

And he further makes oath that since the 18 March 1818 the following charges have been made in my property - the addition of one table and three old chairs - that his property is now under execution for a debt of $5.18 five dollars & 18 cents - that his occupation is that of a schoolmaster, that he is now unable to teach school from ill health and infirmity - that his wife and two children reside with him viz, a daughter nearly two years old and a son nine years old in March.

Sworn and declared on the eighth day of April 1826 in Cecil County Court then in session being one of the county courts of the second judicial district of the state of Maryland and a court of record having the power of fine and imprisonment.

Mr. James Sewall - Clerk

I James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Thomas Pryor did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement for the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 int he aforesaid schedule is twenty dollars - Iin testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 8th day of April 1826.

James Sewall - Clerk of the Court of the County of Cecil.

SEAL
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35035
INVALID
Revy

File No 35035
Thomas Pryor
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March '18
Index Vol D Page 331

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Thomas Pryor
Rc'd May 7, 1826

Hon. G.E. Mitchell
H.R.
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War Department
Pension Office
24 April 1826

Sir

Herewith enclosed is a pension certificate for Thomas Pryor. HIs pension you will perceive, commenced on the 8th instant; but if it can be clearly shown by a copy of his declaration, certified by the clerk of the court under his seal of office, that Pryor completed the testimony in support of his claim in 1821, the pension will be allowed to take effect from the 4th of March 1823; but it cannot commence at any period prior thereto as the last section of the act of that date declares that no pension shall commence previous thereto.

I have the honor to be
very respectfully
Your obt servant
J L Edwards

Hon G.E. Mitchell
House of Representatives
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Thos Pryor

FREE

George E. Mitchell
Mem. Congress
Washington D.C.
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Free
Elkton May 10

Hon George E Mitchell
Mem Congress
Washington D.C.

Thos Pryor
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Woodlands Farm - 9th May 1826

Dear Sir

Yours enclosing Pryor's Pension Certificate and the several accompanying documents I received last Saturday night. On Sunday morning, I had the pleasure to hand the certificate to the old gentleman who was overwhelmed with gratitude to us both - for I informed him of the trouble you have had about it. ON Sunday, before I went down to Mr. Pryor's I got Mr. Cosden to search in the Clerk's Office a full hour after his other papers that you mentioned but they could nowhere be found, and I began to despair of obtaining anything further for Pryor. But when I went down, he told me what alone could lead to the discovery of them and sure enough on Sunday night we found them. I have just now received the certified copy of them from the office and hasten to forward it therein together with Mr. Edward's note to you thinking it necessary as
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it contains an assurance that if we could prove the completion of Pryor's testimony in the first application, his pension should date from 4th March 1823. I shall anxiously look for an answer from you. I did not know whether it was necessary to return the present certificate; but if it is, you may pledge yourself for its return for I will go to Pryor and get it and forward it immediately upon being so informed by you. I was determined to lose no time in forwarding the enclosed.

I remain your sincere friend

Zeb Rudolph

Hon G E Mitchell
H. Representatives
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Thomas Pryor
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State of Maryland Cecil County to wit

Be it remembered that on this 19th day of April 1823 before the undersigned judges of the sixth judicial district of the State of Maryland personally appeared Thomas Pryor a resident of Cecil County in the state of Maryland who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangely of Almighty God did depose declare and say that he enlisted on the 30th day of October 1775 at Brunswick in New Jersey in Captain John Conway's company attached to the first Jersey regiment then commanded by Lord sterling and subsequently by Colonel William Wynand and Colonel Matthew Ogden. That this deponent was engaged int he battles of Brandywine, Germantown after which the term of three or four for which he had enlisted having expired, he was discharged; And that his deponent from his extreme indigent circumstances possessing no other property then what is contained in the annexed schedule and from his age being now sixty eight years needs the assistance of his county for his support.

Sworn to in open court
James Sewall - Clerk

Schedule of the property of Thomas Pryor

One bed and some bed clothes - $10.00
one cow - $10.00
one sow and 2 pigs - $5.00
Three Chairs - $0.50
Two small tables - $0.50
One griddle $0.25
One iron pot - $0.25
One tea kettle - $0.25
A few plates, knives and forks and some cups and saucers and a few other small articles of housekeeping - $1.00
Total $27.75

State of Maryland Cecil County
We the undersigned Judges of the sixth (Judicial)
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judicial district of the state of Maryland do hereby certify that from the testimony addressed we are satisfied that the aforesaid Thomas Pryor served upwards of nine months in the continental establishment and that from his reduced and indigent circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for his support.

Given under our hands this 19th day of April 1823.

T Carle
Leme Parnell

Original sent Secretary of War

Maryland Cecil County

I hereby certify that the within and foregoing is truly and faithfully taken and copied from the papers now on file in my office the original of which has been sent the Secretary of War as appears by an endorsement thereto.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of my office this eight day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-six

James Sewall - Clerk of Cecil County Ourt Md