Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,178, for Richard Latimore, Maryland
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Service
Md

Name
Latimore, Richard

Number
R.6178
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32,339 
Richd Latimore 
Missouri 
for a pension 
Application 
Missouri 
suspended See 
letter 29 Dec 34 to 
J. Wilson. 

John Wilson Agt 
Boonville 
(Mo)
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State of Missouri 
County of Morgan ⎬ SS
On this 17th day of October in the year 
of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty four personally 
appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Court in and 
for the County aforesaid now sitting, Richard Latimore 
a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy 
one years on the fifteenth day of April last, who being 
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make 
the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of 
the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th
1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the 
year (as well as he can now recollect) 1777 from Queen Ann's 
County in the State of Maryland with Capt Robert Sartain Sr
Benjamin Mainor Adjutant and Robert Sartain Jr. Seargeant 
and Served in a Regiment under Colo Cristie, Major Bochell  
and William Thompson and William Faulkner the grades
of the latter two of whom by this declarant not now recollected 
all of whom were under the command of Genl George 
Washington; that they were stationed at Bridgetown, on the 
head of Chester river in the County and State last aforesaid 
by Col Cristie to guard and defend a magazine of that place 
and three merchant Mills on said River towit, Gibb Faulkner's 
mill, Reinesand’s mill & and Joseph Bochell’s mill; that he enlisted 
at first he thinks for the term of three years; which time 
he served out, and afterwards remained at Bridgetown 
in the regular service as before guarding that point tito 
the defeat of Lord Cornwallis at Little York, when he was 
dismissed, without receiving any written discharge that 
he now recollects, nor does he recollect whether he enlisted 
or not after the expiration of the first three years, and
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in fact he has no distinct recollection of enlisting when he 
first entered the Service, but recollects that three years was 
his first term of service and now supposes that he must 
have enlisted as he was engaged in the regular service as aforesaid 
(being when he first entered the Service only fourteen 
or fifteen years of age); that during his station at Bridgetown 
there was some changing of Officers, which he does not now 
recollect well enough to narrate, Colo Cristie was occasionaly 
there and sometimes absent with Genl Washington. That 
some few months after he entered the Service his Capt,
(Robt Sartain Sr.) went home which was about three miles 
from Bridgetown, and while there (the night being dark & rainy)
was taken prisoner and his house plundered and property 
destroyed by the British and Tories, of which his company 
being apprised by some men who was with him at the 
time and had made their escape, went on the same 
night just before day the next morning commanded 
by Capt Thomas Harris, pursued them and retook their 
old Cart (Robt Sartain Sr) that Capt. Thos Harris during the 
rencounter received a severe wound in the arm by
a ball entering the point of his elbow and ranging along 
his arm, and shivered it to his hand; and during his 
Station at Bridgetown (the time not now recollected) the 
British landed at Bumberhook on Delaware Bay, when 
the tories commanded by their Genl. Chainey Clow who 
was being after the close of the war, forted in Queen Ann's 
Forest about five miles from Bridgetown, for the purpose 
with the assistance of the British of taking Bridgetown and 
destroying the Magazine & mills, but Genl Washington being 
informed of their position and intention immediately dispatched 
a Regiment under the command of Colo Pope to 
dislodge them who did so with little loss and the tories thus 
forged were all taken prisoner (209 in number) except their Genl 
Chainey Clow and four others who made their escape. 
The orders received from Genl Washington were that they 
should all enlist in the service of U. S. during the war
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or be hung at their option. they enlisted & made good soldiers. 
this declarant further states that he was a Sergeant 
and an ensign during his service at Bridgetown but 
that he recollects so little about his service in that capacity 
he claims only the pension of a private soldier for 
three years services in the regular Army of the revolution 
he does not recollect the precise length of his Service 
but he can say with certainly that he served at 
least three years in the regular Service of the U.S. 
for which he claims a Pension. This declarant 
would further state as an additional claim upon his government 
for a pension though he is apprised it 
does not come under the provision of the law 
that he served six months in the Capacy of an 
ensign in the late war under Col Scott from 
Knoxville Tennessee against the Indians. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a 
Pension or Annuity, except the present and he declares 
that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency 
in any state 
Richard Latimore his [handwritten] mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before 
David Todd Judge of the Morgan Circuit Court 

And the said Court does hereby declare its 
opinion that the above named applicant was a 
revolutionary soldier and served as he states. David Todd Judge
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I Thomas G Davis Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Morgan in the state of Missouri do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Richard Latimore for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventeenth day of October A.D. 1834.

Thos G Davis - C.M.C.C.

32339
Rich'd Latimore
Missouri
for a pension

Application

Missouri
Suspended see 
letter 29 Dec '34 to
J Wilson

John Wilson - agent
Booneville, Mo.
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Suspended 
See letter to 
John Wilson 
Boonville, Mo.
9 Jany 1835

6178
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REJECTED
6178

Richard Latimore
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Pension Doc - FREE

[illegible] of Secretary of War
Washington City
(D.C.)

W.R. Dec 15

Booneville, Mo
Nov 25th 1834
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Boonville Mo. Novr 20th 1834 
Lew Cass,
Sir, 
Enclosed I send you Ricd Latimore’s 
application for a pension, which you 
will please attend to and direct all communications to me as agent &c
I am respectfully 
Yours &c
John Wilson

L Cass Sey of war }
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Land Office Annapolis, Decr 24th 1834, 
Sir,
Yours of the 20th Inst with the declaration of 
Richard Latimore enclosed, was received; I have very carefully 
examined the Muster and payrolls of the Revolution in this office, 
and do not find his name upon any of the rolls; 
the names of 
none of the officers, under whom he states he served, appear either upon 
the rolls or Army Ledgers of the Revolution; the declaration 
is herewith returned; 
I am very respectfully 
Yr. Obt.Svt
G. G. Brewer 

J. L. Edwards Esqr