Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34634, Thomas Bailey, Md.
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(3-1776) 
SERVICE 
Md. 

Bailey, Thomas 

NUMBER 
S. 34634 

CONTENTS
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(2,924) 
Maryland Roll 
Thomas Bailey 
Capt Haggett 
Private 
Maryland Line 
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of March 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of Sept 1818 and given to the pensioner. 

Arrears to the 4th of sept 1818 ... 42.35 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1818 ... 48. 
5 mo 5/3 & 4/30 $90.35 

Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818 

four years 77 to 81 

Washington County 
Confirmed
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Thomas Bailey 

Admitted (though informal)
From the appearance  & is correct relation of the movements of the army during the Revolution
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State of Maryland Washington County 

Be it remembered that on the 27th day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen, personally appears Thomas Bailey of Washington County before me, an associate Judge for the fifth Judicial District of the State of Maryland, compound of Frederick, Washington, and Allegany Counties, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he the said Thomas Bailey enlisted at Baltimore in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in the third Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Quert, that Lieutenant Clagett was first Lieutenant of the company to which he belonged and was afterwards his captain - That he continued in service until the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, when he was discharged at Annapolis.
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by General Smallwood - and that said Bailey further made oath that he is in indigent circumstances and relies on the bounty of his country for support. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set me hand and affixed my seal day and year first above written. 

Abe Shriver 

State of Maryland Washington County to wit 

I Otho Holland Williams clerk of the county court of Washington County do hereby certify that the honorable Abraham Shriver who appears to have taken and signed the foregoing affidavit is one of the associate judged of the fifth Judicial District of the State of Maryland comprehending Frederick, Washington, and Allegany counties, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his act as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice is thereout. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this third day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen.

O. H. Williams clk Wn Cty Ct Md
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State of Maryland, Washington County 
I Thomas Bailey do hereby relinquish all my right, title, and claim to any pension to which I may have been entitled by the law of the United States passed provisions, to the act of Congress passed March eighteen hundred and eighteen - Given under my hand this 27th day of March 1818. 
his mark 
Thomas Bailey 
seal 

Witness 
[illegible]
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Jho Amos 

The Secretary at War 
Washington City 
Dist Co 

Thomas Bailey's schedule
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Maryland Frederick County ss 
On this 18th day of August 1820, personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for Frederick County especially made so by the laws of the state aforesaid proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount . [illegible] a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment Thomas Bailey aged sixty eight years resident in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary Ware as follows: in Captain Claggetts company of infantry in the 3rd Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Mordecai Gist that he has applied for a pension and obtained a certificate Number 2924. 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 no since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of 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 the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any papers 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. 
Schedule 
no property of any kind 
his mark Thomas Bailey 

and the said Thomas Bailey doth also swear that he is by occupation a labourer but unable for the last five years to do any manner of work owing to his having
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received a paralytic stroke which has utterly disabled him and feeling much inconvenience from a would received at the Battle of Monmouth which has made him a cripple in the left leg that he has no family and that previous to his having received his pension he subsisted entirely upon the charity of his neighbors. 

Sworn to in open court he this 18th August 1820. 
John Schley, clk 

Maryland Frederick County ss 
I John Schley clerk of Frederick County Court in the State of Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 18th day of August 1820. 

John Schley clk of the Court for the County of Fredk
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34634 
Revy INVALID. 

File No. 34, 634
Thomas Bailey 
Priv Rev War 

Act: 18th March 18 
Index: -Vol. 2, Page 28 

Arrangement of 1870.