Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34636, Peregrine Bantham, Md.
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SERVICE
Md.

Bantham, Peregrine
or Bentham

NUMBER
S34636
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Left Side Page

Notification sent Oct 5th 1820 Philip Moore, Esq. 
Baltimore

Right Side Page

5248
Maryland

Peregrine Bantham 
Capt. Henry
Private Maryland Line
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 the 28 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Jany 1819 and sent to James Houston Esq Chester Town Kent Co. MD

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mo 4/30 $33.86
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 $48.00
$81.86

Dead

{Revolutionary claim act 18th March 1818}
see Agt - letter of 17 Dec 1821
six years

Continued
Kent County Maryland
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Peregrine Bantham
5248

March 1819

March 1819
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SCHEDULE

United States of America
(A0 District of Maryland SS.
On this thirteenth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court (B) in the District Court of the United States in and for the said (C) district, Peregrine Bantham aged sixty-two years resident in Baltimore County in said (D) district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; (E) in the company commanded by Captain Bruce of the fifth regiment, line of the state of Maryland - that his original declaration was made on the twenty-eighth day of April in the year 1818 and that his pension certificate according to figures endorsed there as is supposed to be numbered 5248 and dated 7 January 1819.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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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(F) One Snuff box
one Jack a pocket knife

And I do further solemnly swear that I have not a wife or children or any war relative disposed to afford me any aid or support.

Peregrine Bentham
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on the 13th day of September 1820 before the district court aforesaid.

I Philip Moore Clerk of the said District 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 blank dollars and blank cents.

In testimony whereof I haver hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 21 day of September 1820.

Philip Moore
Clerk of the said court for the District of Maryland

SEAL
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*The whole of the form prescribed in the first section to verify the amount of property of the applicant the oath of the party and the certificate of the clerk excepted must be done while the court is in session.

All are courts of record within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:

1st Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the state which create them,
2nd which have been solemnly adjudged by the tribunals of the several states to be courts of record,
3rd which proceed according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;
4th which have the power of fine and imprisonment,

And the courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal. the court should in every instance state on the face of the proceedings that it is a court of record and state why it is such. - (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States)

Directions for Filling Up the Blanks

A. District - Circuit - county or corporation as the case may be.
B. State why a court of record
C. After repeating the district, circuit, county or corporation, insert the declarant's name.
D. District, Circuit, county or corporation.
E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension certificate should be inserted.
F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate necessary bedding and clothing excepted and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it the number and names of his family residing with him their ages and their capacity to contribute to their support in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General that the word of the third section of the act of the 1st May 1820 "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country" comprehend those only who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government except by private or public charity.
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34636
Revy
INVALID
File No 34636
Peregrine Bantham
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

Index Vol D Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Peregrine Bantham
Kent County
April 28th 1818
Susp'd for Muster Rolls

Admitted
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United States
Maryland District
The undersigned Judge of the
United States for Maryland District certifies to the
Secretary of the Department of War that Peregrine Bantham of Kent County in the District aforesaid hath this 28th day of April in the
year 1818 appeared before the undersigned
and being first sworn upon the Holy Evangelists declares that he was born in Kent
County aforesaid and is about sixty years
of age and enlisted in the month of February
1777 in Capt James Henry Company attached
to the 5th Maryland Regiment commanded
by Colo William Richardson and served until the end of the year when he was discharged
he thinks by Genl Lindhorne and that he
has long since lost the Discharge He further
declares that he is a resident Citizen of
the United States and by reason of his infirmities
occasioned by his wounds is in reduced
circumstances in life and is in need of assistance
from
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from his Country for support
the undersigned further certifies
to the secretary that he knows the last
stated fact to be true as the aforesaid
Peregrine Bantham is in Kent County as
House and interly unable to get his living
by his labor. 
James Houston
Chester Town April 28th 1818
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form Vam-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives


NAME    Bantham, Perry

GRADE   Private

LINE        Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER. 10782

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED  August 14, 1795
to Francis Sherrard, assignee