Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,144, Jonathan Woodburn, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Md.

Woodburn, Jonathan

NUMBER     S. 35,144

CONTENTS
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Notification sent to the Hon R Neale H.R. 17 Nov 1820

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5247
Maryland
Jonathan Woodburn
Private in Capt. Davidson Maryland Line
in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Subscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 21st of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Jany 1819 and sent to J R Plater Esq, Saint Mary's County, Md

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mo 16/30 $35.73
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 $48.
$83.73

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}
One year 78-79

Continued
Saint Mary's County
Maryland
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35144
INVALID
Revy

File No 35144
Jonathan Woodburn
Pri Rev war

Act: 18th March '18
Index: Vol 2 Page 464

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jonathan Woodburn

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suspended for want of rolls

Admitted
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State of Maryland

On this 21 day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the first judicial district at Maryland personally appears Jonathan Woodburn aged 59 years resident in St. Mary's County in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" that he the said Jonathan Woodburn enlisted in the 2nd Regiment in the state of Maryland in May 1778 in the company commanded by Captain John Davidson of the Maryland line; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until about the month of April or May 1779 when he was discharged from the service at Middle Brook state of New Jersey that he was in the battles of blank and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in needs of the assistance of his county for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid

J R Plater

I John R Plater Associate Judge etc. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Woodburn of Maryland did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress

21st of April 1818

J R Plater

I also certify that the aforesaid Jonathan Woodburn is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country.

J R Plater
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Saint Mary's County towit
I Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Marys County hereby certify that the Honourable [Honorable] John Plater Esquire who appears to have taken and signed the within declaration was at the time of taking and signing thereof ever since hath been and still is one of the associate Judges of the County courts of the first Judicial District of Maryland comprehending the Counties of Saint Mary's Charles and Prince Georges duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such, due faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this twenty first day of April Eighteen hundred & Eighteen.
Jos. Harris clk
St. Marys County Court

[seal]
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Jonathan Woodburn
5247
Schedule
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for Mr. E

Jos Harris Esq
Leonardtown
Md

Hon R Neale
H.R.
4 Oct 1820
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Schedule
Maryland Saint Mary's County

On this eleventh day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said state, Jonathan Woodburn aged sixty-two years resident in the first judicial district in said state and county aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows as a private in Captain John Davidson's company in the second Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Waters enlisted in July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight and was discharged at Middlebrook in April seventeen hundred and seventy-nine and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United Staes on the 18th 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 persons engaged in the land and naval services 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.

Six Cows, and 3 calves, three head horses, fourteen head of cows and steers, twenty hogs old and young including piglets, two tables, one [illegible] eight chairs, [illegible] two spinning wheels, one canning wheel, one loom and gin, two old chests, one old trunk, four pots in kitchen, earthen ware, pewter ware, knives and forks & three Dutch ovens, small [illegible] wooden ware, some old lumber and one tin kettle, some augers, one hand saw and some old chest, one [illegible] store and one old hand mill, three old axes, four old hoes, and three old ploughs, four hogsheads, three of first and one of second, three thousand wight of ***
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rent to be paid to Doctor Henderson L Boteler

Debts due Jonathan Woodburn to wit

Nathaniel Washington - eight dollars
John S Hosking - four dollars
John Tucker - one dollar
Joseph Drury - one dollar

Debts due and owing by Jonathan Woodburn

James Turner - sixty dollars or thereabout
James Jones - four dollars
Leonard Woodburn - fifty dollars
William Woodburn - fifty dollars

Names of my family to wit:

Lydia Woodburn thirty-five years of age a weaver
Leonard Woodburn twenty-five years of age a farmer
Daniel Woodburn twenty years of age a farmer
Michael Woodburn eighteen years of age a farmer
Elsbert Woodburn fourteen a spinner
Hezekiah Woodburn about twenty-one months old 
one negro man [illegible] and seventy years of age

Sworn to and declared in the 11th day of Jany 1820

I Joseph Harris clerk of Saint Mary's County Court comprising in part the first judicial district of Maryland do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath and schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court and I do further certify that its the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Saint Mary's County Court this fifteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty.

Jo Harris - Clerk
St Mary's Co Court

SEAL