Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8627, Richard H Courts, Md.
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(9-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Courts, Richard H.
Eleanor C.

NUMBER
W. 8627

CONTENTS
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1812
Dist of Columbia
Eleanor C. Courts

widow of Richard H. Courts
Md.
who was a Surgeon's Mate
in the Revolution


Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 413 Dollars 90 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Sept. 1843
and sent to Charles Forrest
Present

([Act of March 3, 1843.])

Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1   Page 242
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District of Columbia
Washington County
On this tenth day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before me ^one of the assistant Judges
the Subscriber, [struck through] Chief Judge
of the Circuit Court for Washington County, ^aforesaid E
Eleanor ^C. Courts a resident of George-Town in said district, aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath 
[struck through] in open Court
taken before me make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Richard Henly Courts, who was a Surgeon's mate in the war of the revolution from the 19th July 1777 to the 10th April 1779, and that after quitting the Hospital in 1779, the said Courts entered on board a privateer, and there remained in the service of his Country during most of the war, as per the Statement of the service of said Courts sumed [summed] up by the committee of the House of Representatives to whom was rendered the petition of the undersigned, also a memorial made to Congress in 1829 with the accompanying report upon the claim by Genl. H. Knox, Secretary
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of war in 1792 with other reports from the Treasury Department, and a memorial to Congress Decr. 1791 signed by Genl. Smallwood of the Maryland line and other distinguished Officers of the revolution all of which has been coppied [copied] from the files of the Senate and certified to by the principal clerk, and submitted with this declaration, together with the Bill, which was passed, for her relief, and a certificate from the register of the treasury Department, showing the payment made under said Bill for twenty-two months service with interest therein.

She further declares that she was married to said Richard Henly Courts in the Winter of 1783 or seventeen hundred and eighty-four, by the Rev. Mr. Read, that her husband the aforesaid Richard Henly Courts, died in the year 1809, that she was not married to him, prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz in the Winter of seventeen hundred eighty three or eighty four, that the family Bible in which has been recorded her marriage, has been lost, and has no record Whatever of her marriage.

Sworn and subscribed to, the day and year before
[signed] Nelly C. Courts
[signed]
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I who have been the attending Physician of Mrs. Nelly C. Courts hereby certify that such are her bodily infirmities, that she is confined to her room & unable to attend the Court
George Town Nov. 10, 1838
[signed] J. Riley
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[handwritten address in lower right of page]

James L. Edwards Esq.
War Department
Washington
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Baltimore
Nov. 15, 1838

Sir/
You will receive herewith a declaration made by Mrs. Court of George Town, D.C. for the benefit of the act Feby 1837.

I have taken great pains to copy & have certified all the papers which were before Congress, upon which a bill was passed for her relief with a certified copy from the necessary dept of the amt. [amount] that was paid to her and all else that I could procure to make the claim & the evidence of her marriage satisfactory to you.

The signature of Judge Morrell & Jas. Gettys Esq have not the seal of the Court. If it be necessary, be pleased to return me the papers for that purpose. I am acting only as a friend to Mrs. Courts in this matter, as she is now too feeble to attend to any business herself.

Your Obt Serv
Abe Ray

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pension
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Geotown Dec 13 '38
[illegible - maybe DrSir]

The only apology I can offer for being troublesome to you, is that old Mrs. Courts gives me much trouble on the subject of her claim - her agent Revy is in Baltimore, and does not attend she is old infirm and sick, and is kept in a state of suspense, I must therefore by the favor to say what further testimony will be required to pass her claim. It is certain that she cannot procure any evidence, who witnessed the celebration of her nuptials, but Miss Polly Heugh, whose character you know, will swear that she lived at the time, within a mile or two of [illegible], & will recollect of hearing the marriage plan spoken of and believes that she was married to Dcd Courts - I am inclined to believe that this is the best evidence in her power to obtain - If it will be sufficient, corroborating as I understand it will do, of Mrs. Ray - please send me a form that I may obtain her testimony and thus release the old lady. Do let me hear from you as early as possible.

Yr friend & obt svt [obedient servant]
J.J. Stull
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District of Columbia
County of Washington ss.

On this thirteenth day of December 1838 Personally appeared before me one of the Justice of the Peace, in and for said district, Mary Hugh [Heugh] a respectable Lady residing in George Town, D.C. and made oath that she has for many years known Eleanor C. Courts the widow of Richard Henly Courts dcd., that she the said deponent was originally of the same neighborhood of the said Eleanor C. Courts, whose maiden name was Jones, and that to the best of her knowledge and belief her intermarriage to the said Dcd. R.H. Courts took place some years prior to the first day of January 1794. That the marriage of the said parties who were of respectable standing in said County has been a matter of Public Notoriety and fame, and that she has never known or heard of the fact of such marriage was in question through the course of a long acquaintance, and that to the best of her knowledge. She said Eleanor C. Courts has

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not intermarried with any other person since the death of her said husband, but still continues to be his widow.

[signed] Mary Heugh

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 13th day of December 1838
James Gettys
Justice of the Peace
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Baltimore 17 Decr. 1838.
Sir/

Your [illegible] of the 27th [illegible] in the case of Mrs. Eleanor C. Courts has been received, And I now enclose you a more definite affidavit as to the period of the marriage of Mrs. Courts. If you say it is necessary the former certificate can be amended, so as to specify the period of her marriage before the first day of Jany. 1794. But it is hoped the one enclosed may be considered sufficient for a favorable decision.

Your Obt Sert.
Abe Ray

[at lower left]
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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Eleanor C. Courts 
widow of

Surgeon's Mate
20 mo  21 days
-$413.90 per annum-
dit 7 July '38
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D.C. Roll
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Hand cut to Mr.
Forrest, Clk. in
2d Auditor's Office
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1851
District of Columbia
Eleanor C. Courts
widow of Richard H. Courts, dec'd.

[struck through]who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died in the year 1809
of George Town in the [struck through]State 
 dist of Columbia
who was a Surgeon's Mate in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Reg't commanded
by [blank] in the Md.
line for 20 mos & 21 days
_________________
Inscribed in the Roll of Dist. of Columbia
at the rate of 413 Dollars 90 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Feby. 1839
and sent Mr. Chs Forrest 2d. Auditor's Office
______________________
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838  | $1034.75
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39 | 206.95
[total] $1241.70

Act July 7, 1838.
 Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2d Page 230
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 8627
Eleanor C. Courts
Wid
Richard H. Courts
Surgeon Mate Rev War
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Act: March 5th 1845

Index: -- Vol. A Page 145

([Arrangement of 1870.])
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The Secretary for the Department of War to whom was reported the petition of Richard Henly Courts.

Reports.
That the petitioner states, that he acted as Surgeons Mate to the Hospital established on Georgetown, under the direction of Doctor Walter Smith, from the 19th day of July 1777 until the 10 day of April 1779. that he hath received no compensation either for pay, depreciation of pay or rations, that it appears by the certificate of the auditor of the treasury. That De'd. William Brown received on the 25 day of November 1779, without any order from him, the sum of two hundred and seventy eight pounds, ten shillings and ten pence, stated to be the full amount of his pay and rations, but that no part of the same hath ever been paid to him, and therefore prays such compensation as shall be expedient on this petition it is to be observed, that it appears from the certificate of the Auditor of the Treasury No. 1 hereunto annexed, that the

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nominal amount of the claim of the petitions was paid by the acting paymaster of the Hospital Department to De'd. William Brown who at that time was Physician General to the Hospital in Virginia, but that no authority in the case appears from the petitioner.

That it also appears from the certificate of the Auditor of the Treasury No. 2. that the said Doctor William Brown, on the same time received the pay of two other persons serving in the Hospital.

That the petitioner has made oath that he never received the sums paid for his use to Doc'r. Brown who is long since deceased.

Hence arises the question from whom is the petitioner to receive the sum to which he was entitled, the estate of Doctor Brown; or the United States who have once paid the amount.

That it is a circumstance of some delicacy or a point of precedent - and therefore requiring the highest - evidence that the payment was not authorized either by law, custom or individual before the public should

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Make a second payment for the same [illegible]..

That the petitioner's claim claim for depreciation upon this nominal pay is opposed by the resolve of the 20 April 1780, the petitioner having retired from the service prior to that period.

All which is humbly submitted to the House of Representatives.
signed H. Knox
Secretary of War
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Treasury Department
3rd Ave. Office
Jany. 20, 1829
Sir/
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th Int. inclosing the Petition & accompanying papers of Eleanor Courts, - requesting me to state for information [struck through]satisfaction of the committee whether from any returns or paper under my control it can be ascertained to have been a general practice to make payments to surgeon in service for the surgeon mates under their employ. I have accordingly the honor to state, that there are no records or papers in this office of the payments made to the officers in the  Hospital Department in the early period stated in the petition, and from the Reports of the Secy. of War, there it would appear that the information on which his report is predicated was taken from the certificate of auditor of the Treasury from which it seems that the account of the Hospital Department in the period referred to were under his control, permit me therefore to refer you to that Officer R. Harrison Esq who may possibly give
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some information on the subject of your inquiry.

The petition is returned.

With great respect
Your Obt Ser
signed Peter Hagner [illegible]

[lower left]
The Hon'le [Honorable]
Mr. D. Dickinson
of the comm'ee [committee] on Rev. claims
H.R. [House of Representatives]
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Annapolis Decr. 11, 1791 -
Gentlemen
The Papers and Documents accompanying this letter which will be addressed to you by Mr. Richard Henly Courts, will show that he was appointed and served as a surgeons mate in the Department of the General Hospitals of the United Staes for the space of twenty two months, during the late war, that he never received any pay or Depreciation of pay for his service during that interval. He further states that during great parts of the above time, he neither received rations nor subsistence in the discharge of this trust, but was obliged to bear his own expenses, from the deranged situation of the Department which reduced him to the necessity of quitting the service and embargoing on board a privateer in which service he continued great part of the war without advancing his prospects, and upon his return as he did not serve nor belong to the line of any particular state, found himself frustrated in obtaining his pay, having as a citizen of the State of Maryland, made application for redress he was barred by an Act of the state which, comprehended such only who had served the term of his years]. - having no other resource he therefore is under the necessity of applying to congress for redress and conceiving him to be justly entitled, we earnestly recommend him to your attention, and good officers for as may be necessary to facilitate the attainment
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of what was pledged by the United States as a compensation for his services, we have the honor to be 
Gentlemen
Your Most Obt. Hble. Serts.

The Honle.
The Representatives in Congress from the State of Maryland
signed

[left column of signatures]
David Kerr
P. T. Wright
T. H. Stone
Wm. Craik
Charles Ridgely of [illegible]
Francis Deakins
Geo. Plater
Jno. Chesley Jr.
Wm. Thomas
Henry James Carroll
Danl. Cresap
Thos. Gantt
Jas. Hopewell
Pat. Sim Smith
J. Crabb
[illegible]
Benj. Tomlinson
Thos. Beall of Sam.

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Wm. Smallwood
G. Dent
Wm. Tilghman
James McHenry
Wm. Weidman
E. Oldham
[illegible]
Joseph Douglass
Caleb Hawkins
G. Duvall
Allen Quynn
T. Marshall
Tho. Turner
Benj. Stoddert
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B. Swearingan
Adm. Ott
John Ross Key
Moses Lecompte
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Treasury Department
Auditor's Office, Jany. 26, 1829

Sir/
I have had the honour [honor] to receive your letter of the 23d Jan enclosing the petition of Eleanor Courts relative to the pay of her late husband Richard Henly Courts as a Surgeon Mate in the Revolutionary war, from the 19 July 1777 to the 10th April `1779, and asking such information as this Office can furnish on the subject matter thereof. 

In reply, I beg leave to state that the account of the Hospital Department connected with the same were assigned to commissions specially appointed for the purpose by the old congress, and that the Books and papers of said commissioners came into possession of the Treasury, until after the establishment of the present government.

By the Report of General Knox, Secretary of War, it must appear probable, that previous to his application to congress in 1792. Dec'd Courts exhibited his claim on this Office, where it
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must have been rejected, but for what particular reason, cannot now be ascertained as the said Books & papers of the Commissioner were all entirely destroyed by the Enemy in the year 1816.

From the same cause I am unable to say under what rules and regulations account for the description were liquidated. I incline to believe however that the business of the Department in the first years of war was rather loosely conducted, and that the Director of Hospital was, on that period vested with power both to appoint and ^to pay his own mates. It may not be irrelevant to add that after the close of the war, Doctor Brown retired for the remainder of his days to the town of Alexandria in this District where he died about the year 1790 or 1791. and at no great distance from the residence of the petitions husband.

I have now the honor to return the papers which accompanied your letter and to be-with great respect.
Sir
Your Ob- Sert [obedient servant],
R. Harrison.

The Honble. [Honorable]
John D. Dickinson 
of the Commiee [Committee]. of Revotn [Revolutionary] Claims
H. of Representatives
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Office of the Secy of the Senate of the U. States
Oct. 2nd 1828 -

I hereby certify that the aforegoing pages numbered from 1 to 18 inclusive are correctly copied from the originals on file in this office. =

[signed and underlined]
L.H. Machen
[illegible- maybe principal] Clk
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District of Columbia
Washington County

On this fifteenth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of aforesaid, Dorothy H Storer and made oath in due form of law that she was married in the month of July 1790 to J. C. Jones, at her Father's house in Charles County Maryland by Revd. Walter Harrison. In the month of December of the same year (1790) deponent and husband went on a visit to spend the Christmas Holydays [Holidays] at Clean Drinking Montgomery County, Md. the residence of Deponents Husband's Father, and on their way stopped at the residence of Eleanor C. Courts in Prince George's County Md. who was then the wife of Dr. Richd [Richard] H Courts. Deponent and her husband dined with Dr. Richd H Courts and Eleanor C. Courts his wife, remained all night at the house of Dr. Courts and his wife, spent next day with Wm Hawkins who lived near Mrs E C Courts her sister, and on the third day deponent and her husband resumed their journey to Clean Drinking, Montgomery County Md., as above stated. -

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written
[signed] Saml. Drury JP

[signed] L H Storer
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justly due.

She respectfully asks of Congress the consideration of this petition, and of the documents that accompany it.

signed Eleanor Courts.
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justly due.

She respectfully asks of Congress the consideration of this petition, and of the documents that accompany it.

signed Eleanor Courts.
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District of Columbia
County of Washington   SS.

In this seventh day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Mrs. Eleanor Ray a respectable Lady residing in Georgetown aged about sixty five years and made oath in due custom of Law, that for upward of fifty odd years she has been acquainted with Mr. Eleanor Courts formerly Eleanor Jones of Montgomery county Maryland. the former of the father [illegible] and adjoined And has a perfect and distinct recollection of the marriage of said Richard Henly Courts to Eleanor Jones , and known positively that their marriage took some eight, ten or more years before her marriage to Mr. Ray, which took place in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six or seventeen hundred and ninety seven, and that the said sgt Richard Henly Courts and Eleanor his wife, was recognized and acknowledged in the most respectable society to be man and wife.
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[handwritten address]

Rockville Md
Oct 27
10
Mr Alexander Ray
Merchant
South Charles Street
Baltimore
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Clerks Office Mongy Coy Md [Montgomery County Maryland]

I hereby certify that upon search in this office, no memorandum or other evidence of the issue of marriage licenses prior to the year 1798 are to be found.
[signed] Brice Selby
Oct 26th 1838
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Rockville MD 26 Oct 1838
Mr Ray
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the Clerks certificate it is the only kind of certificate I can get him to give - I hope that it will enable Mrs Courts to get her pension
yours Respectfully
John Braddock
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Clerks Office Mongy Coy Md [Montgomery County Maryland]

I hereby certify that upon search in this office, no memorandum or other evidence of the issue of marriage licenses prior to the year 1798 are to be found.
[signed] Brice Selby
Oct 26th 1838
[flourish]

Rockville MD 26 Oct 1838
Mr Ray
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the Clerks certificate it is the only kind of certificate I can get him to give - I hope that it will enable Mrs Courts to get her pension
yours Respectfully
John Braddock
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21st CONGRESS,
1st Session.

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([Rep. No. 240.]

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Ho. of Reps.

ELEANOR COURTS.
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February 26, 1830.
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Mr. GOODENOW, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to which was referred, the case of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eleanor Courts, respectfully report:

In this case the following facts seem to be undisputed:

That the late husband of the petitioner, Dr. Richard Henly Courts, served as a Surgeon's Mate in the service of his country, in the war of the Revolution, from the 19th day of July 1777 until the 10 day of April 1779; that on the 25th November 1779, Dr. William Brown, Physician General of the Hospital in Virginia, to which Dr. Courts was attached, received from the Government  278 pounds, 10 shillings, 10 pence, but without any authority from the said Courts, empowering him to receive, or the Government to pay the same; that, after quitting the Hospital in 1779, the said Courts entered on board a privateer, and there remained in the service of his country during most of the war; that at the close of the war, he lived not far distant from Dr. Brown, who resided in Alexandria, and there died in 1790 or 1791; that, in the latter year, the said Dr. Courts applied to Congress for pay, &c and his claim was then approved and commended to the favorable consideration of the National Government by Gen Smallwood of Maryland, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, and thirty-five other very respectable and well-known citizens of that State: that his claim, in addition to the facts above stated, was then sustained by his own oath, that he had never received from the said Dr. Brown any part of the money so by received as aforesaid from the Government. His petition was then referred to the then Secretary of War, Gen. Henry Knox, who, after briefly referring to the facts, places the claim of the petitioner, in his report of the 2d May, 1792, (see 2d vol. Reports of Secretary of War, page 202,) upon this question: "From whom is the petitioner to receive the sum to which he was entitled? the estate of Dr. Brown, or the United States, who have once paid the amount?" And then adds:

"It is a circumstance of some delicacy as a point of precedent, and therefore requires the highest evidence that the payment was not authorized by law, custom, or individuals, before the public should make a payment for the same object."

The committee cannot readily accord with this doctrine of the former
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Hon. Secretary of War, but do conceive that the fact, which is not denied but conceded, that Dr. Courts [italic print] did not authorize the payment to Dr. Brown, requires, according to the known and established principles of justice, that, before the Government can excuse itself from a second payment, it must first appear that the [italic print] first payment was rightfully made; 
and that, until [italic print] that fact 
be shown, even the suppletory oath of the party is not called for, and is unnecessary; for no presumption is to be drawn in favor of the Government, that might not be drawn in a like case in favor of an individual, from payment to an unauthorized person.

The committee would further state, that, although the former Secretary of War referred the [italic print] delicate question 
just stated, to the decision of Congress, no determination thereon was ever made; and that, in the year 1807, the said Richard Henly Courts petitioned Congress a second time; but what course was taken, or what was done in the matter, if any thing, the committee are not advised. Shortly after this second application of Dr. Courts, he died, without issue, leaving Eleanor Courts, the present petitioner, his widow, and legal representative.

The committee will only add further, that the claim of Dr. Courts was, in his life-time, considered a meritorious one, and the strongest the nature of the case admitted; and the only evidence of a negative character that could be produced, was presented by him to Congress, and still exists; not only that he never received pay for his services, but that the payment made by the Government was made to an authorized person: All which satisfies the committee that he was, in his life-time, entitled to relief, and that the claim is now no less meritorious than it was then. Yet your committee have hesitated in recommending the payment of full interest on said claim; and have come to the conclusion, but not without some hesitancy, that justice would most likely be done more satisfactorily to all parties interested therein, by placing the claim of Mrs. Courts on the same footing her deceased husband would have placed it in 1790, by then having become a subscriber to the Loan of the United States, proposed by an act, entitled "An act making provision for the debt of the United States;" passed August 4, 1790. The committee therefore report a bill for that purpose.
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22d CONGRESS,
2d Session.

S. 36.
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IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
December 31, 1832.
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MR. BELL, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill; which was read, and passed to a second reading:

A BILL
For the relief of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
3 the proper accounting officers of the Treasury pay to Eleanor
4 Courts, widow and legal representative of Richard Henly
5 Courts, a surgeon's mate in the revolutionary army, out of any
6 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the ac-
7 count of the said Richard Henly Courts for twenty-two
8 months' service and rations as such surgeon's mate, together
9 with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certifi-
10 cate for the amount of said account had been issued, and the
11 same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one
12 thousand seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding
12 of the debt of the United States.
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V
3182
Eleanor C. Courts
D. Columbia
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The United States Dr. To Eleanor Courts, widow & legal Representative of Richard Henly Courts.

For Amount of the following sums to be paid to her in pursuance of an act of Congress for her relief approved 2d March 1833, being the amount of the pay of said Richard Henly Courts for 22 months service and Rations as Surgeon's Mate, and such Interest thereon as would now be due, if a certificate for the amount of said account had been issued, and the same had been subscribed to the Loan created by the Act of 1790, providing for the funding of the debt of the United States, which would have been for 22 months service at 40$ pr. month.
$ 880.00

Rations for 22 months @ 10 pr. mo. as pr. Resolution of Congress of 2nd June 1778, Vol. 4, Page 324 old Edition.
$220-

amount for which a certificate might have issued on the 15th Nov 1783. (date of disbanding the troops of the M. L. [Maryland Line]
$1,100-

which would have produced the following stocks viz $ 733.33 Six pr. ct. [percent] stock bearing Interest from 1 Jany. 1791.
366.67 Dep. ditto . . . ditto . . . 1 Jany. 1801
470.25 three pr. cent [percent] stock bearing interest from 1 Jany. 1791

being Interest on $1,00 from 15 Nov. 1783 to 31 Dec. 1790 on which the following dividends would have been payable viz...
on 733.33 six pr. ct. [percent] stock from 1 Jany. 1791 to 31 Dec. 1794 
4 years on 6 pr. ct. [percent] $176.00
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amount over. | $ 176.00

on 733.33 Six pr. ct. [percent] Stock from 1 Jany. 1795 To June 1818.
 23 1/2 an 8 pr. ct. | 1,378.66

" 733.33 ditto 1 July to 30 Sepr. 1818 @ 1.4923 | 10.94

" 366.67 [illegible] ditto - 1 Jany. 1801 to 30 June 1824.
 23 1/2 yer. [years] @ 8" [percent] | 689.34

" 366.67 ditto - 1 July to 30 Sepr. 1824 @ 1.4923 pt. [percent] | 5.47

on 470.25 three pr. cent Stock from 1 Jany. 1791 to 30 Sep. 1832
 41 3/4 years at 3 pr. ct. [percent] | 588.99

" 156.75 ditto - 1 Oct. to 31 Decr. 1832 1/4 year do. [ditto] | 1.17

principal of the three pr. ct. [percent] Stock | 470.25

[total] dollars $ 3,320.82

auditor Office March 6th 1833
Wm. Parker

Comptroller Office
March 7, 1833
Edd. Wm. Anderson

Treasury Department
Registry Office October 2d, 1838
The foregoing is a true copy of the original in file of record in this office.
[illegible signature]
Register
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2693
Eleanor C. Courts
$413.90 per annum

Cha. Forrest
[illegible]
Sept 5 43

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Jas L Edwards Esq
with the respect of
Chas Forrest
6 Sept 1843 [smudged]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.

District of Columbia
County of Washington SS
On this fourth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred forty three before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid personally appeared Eleanor C Courts, a resident of Georgetown in the County of Washington and District of Columbia aged about 90 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - that she is the widow of Richard Henley Courts who was a Surgeon's Mate in the Army of the Revolution, that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7, 1838 was four hundred and twenty four dollars and some cents best recollected - She further declares that she is still a widow

Sworn to [struck through]and subscribed
on the day and year above written

Witness J J Stull
[signed] G Harrison
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[handwritten]

I Certify that Elanor [Eleanor] C Courts who swears to the declaration within is personally known to me, that she is the identical person who makes the declaration and that in consequence of bodily infirmity she is unable to affix her signature.

[signed] J J Stull JP