Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,140, for Ferdinand Lorentz, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md

Lorentz, Ferdinand or Laurence, Elizabeth

NUMBER W. 9.140
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2281
Maryland

Elizabeth Lorentz or Laurence
widow of Ferdinand Lorentz or Laurence
Md.    Dec [Ilegibal] 
who was a pensioner under the Act of [text left blank]
and who died in the year 1805
of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
who was a private in the [text left blank] commanded by Captain [text left blank] of the [text left blank] commanded by [text left blank] in the German Regiment line for 2 years

Inscribed on  the Roll of Marlyand
the rate of 80 Dollars [text left blank] Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of April 1839 and sent to A. Yearly
Baltimore Maryland

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839. $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept: 40
$280.00

Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by [Illegible signature-Stewart?] Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2 Page 175
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Baltimore Nov. 6th 1838

To J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
  Herewith will be presented to you my application for Pension under the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, granting half pay and pensions to certain widows which together with the accompanying proof of my husbands military services and of my identity as his widow are respectfully submitted to your (illegible)

Your obt. Servant
Elizabeth Lorentz or Laurence
Widow of Ferdinand Lorentz or Laurence
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of Baltimore County in whose [illegible] and reliance is and ought to be placed

Sam Purviance

State of Maryland 
Baltimore County Set

I hereby certify that John Wight, Henry Brice, Samuel Purviance Gentlemen before whom the a foregoing depositions were made and who have thereto signed their names were at the time of so doing Justices of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for the 

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Elizabeth Lorentz or Lawrence

A. Yearley
Baltimore
MD
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State of Maryland
Baltimore City Court
October Term 1838

On this 5th day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight personally appeared in open court Elizabeth Lorentz (or Lawrence) a resident of this city aged seventy-seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - that she is the widow of Ferdinand Lorentz (or Lawrence) who was a soldier of the revolution in the Maryland line and served nearly three years in the German regiment; she further declares that she was married to the said Ferdinand Lorentz (or Lawrence) at the Catholic Church in the city of Baltimore in the years seventeen hundred and eighty or eighty-one; and that in consequence of the deficiency of the church records for that period, she cannot now obtain her marriage certificate; But the facts as herewith shown that herself and her said husband were publicly known and acknowledged as man and wife and were full members in the communion of the Catholic Church and that their children were baptized therein as their lawful children are deemed irrefutable proofs of their marriage; that her husband as aforesaid Ferdinand Lorentz (or Lawrence) died about thirty three years ago - viz in or about the year eighteen hundred and five; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the regular service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz at the time above stated.

Elizabeth Lorentz or Lawrence
Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written

before N Brice - Chief Judge
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State of Maryland Baltimore City Set

I hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the within declaration was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this sixth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Wm M Medcalfe
Balt City Clerk
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Land Office, Annapolis
18th July 1838

 I hereby testify that it appears by the muster rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office, that Ferdinand Lorentz enlisted as a private, in the German Regiment, for the term of three years in 1770 and on the 15th day of July, 1779, was discharged and paid.

George G. Browar
Regt. Lt. Off U. S. Mil
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Extract
from the Baptismal Record of the Cathedral
of Baltimore

Was baptized on the thirtieth of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, Vendel Laurence, born on the second of November in the same year.

Was baptized on the twenty-third of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six, Elizabeth Laurence born on the fourth of January of the same year

Was baptized on the fourth of March in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-two, Ann Laurence born on the twenty-eighth of February in the same year - Parents Ferdinand and Elizabth Laurence.

I hereby certify that the above is a correct extract from the register of Baptisms kept at the Cathedral of Baltimore.

Charles J White - Asst. Pastor

Baltimore September 20th 1838

State of Maryland City of Baltimore

On this 20th day of September eighteen hundred and thirty-eight before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore personally appeared the above-named Charles J White Assistant Pastor of the Catholic Cathedral Baltimore and made oath according to law that the aforegoing is a true extract from the records of said church. And he the said Charles J White further deposeth & saith that the records of said church at Baltimore were very imperfectly kept - or not preserved prior to the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three which renders it impossible to give a certificate of the marriage of the said Ferdinand and Elizabeth Laurence which must have taken place prior to that date.

Sworn before me

John Wright
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

This is to certify that I have been personally acquainted with Elizabeth Lorentz of the city of Baltimore wife and widow of Ferdinand Lorentz of the said city ever since the year seventeen hundred and eighty-two; that in the month of June or July seventeen hundred and eighty-two, when I came to this city to reside, I found the said Ferdinand and Elizabeth Lorentz living together in credit as man and wife; and that they then had one child, a daughter named Christianna, only a few months old; that I believe the said Ferdinand and Elizabeth Lorentz were regular members of the Catholic Church and that they could not have enjoyed the privileges of that church such as baptism and the communion unless they had been regularly married; That I was acquainted with them until the death of him the said Ferdinand Lorentz which took place about thirty three years ago; that I have known the said Elizabeth Lorentz ever since the death of her said husband Ferdinand Lorentz and that she has not intermarried again, but remains the widow of him the said Ferdinand Lorentz and now a resident of the City of Baltimore and that I have always understood that the said Ferdinand Lorentz (had)
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had been a regular soldier in the war of the revolution. As witness my hand this fourth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

John Majors
Sworn to before
Henry Brice

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On this 4 day of September eighteen hundred and thirty-eight before me one of the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland for the city of Baltimore aforesaid, personally appeared the above named John Majors and subscribed his name to the aforegoing certificate and being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the contents of the above certificate are correct and true as therein stated. And I do hereby certify that the above-named John Majors is known to me as an aged citizen of Baltimore and entitled to ample credit.

Henry Brice - J Peace
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore

This is to certify that my acquaintance with Ferdinand Lorentz (or Lawrence) late of the city of Baltimore and with Elizabeth his wife reaches back to the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one; that they were much respected for their integrity; and although I had no personal knowledge of their marriage yet from their universal good character and the high estimation in which they were held I have not nor ever had a shadow of doubt as to the legal validity of their marriage; moreover, they were tenants of my father for several years say about from 1789 to 1793 in a public and respectable situation and from the known moral character of my Father he would never have admitted into such a situation persons of doubtful character; furthermore, the said Ferdinand Lorentz and Elizabeth his wife were regular members in the communion of the Catholic Church which they could not be unless they were regularly married. And I do further certify that the said Ferdinand Lorentz died upwards of thirty-years ago leaving the said Elizabeth Lorentz his widow, with whom I have been acquainted ever since; that she has not married again but remains the widow of him the said Ferdinand Lorentz and is now a respectable resident of this city. And that I have understood that the said Ferdinand Lorentz had been a soldier in the war of the revolution as witness my hand this fourth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Thomas Hillen

State of Maryland 
City of Baltimore

On this fourth day of September eighteen hundred and
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Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9140
Elizabeth Lorentz
Wid.
Ferdinand Lorentz or Laurence
Pri, Md line


Act: July 1738
Index - Vol. A, Pager 441

(Arrangement 1870)