Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35107, William Vaughan, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md

Vaughan, William

NUMBER
S 35107
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4,331
Maryand

4

William Vaughan
Capt. Eccleston

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 13 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of Nov 1818 and sent John Moriaty Esqr
Baltimore, Maryland

Arrears in 4th of September 1818-4-22/30 37.86

Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819  48.00

'48
' two years $85.86

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

78. Two years

Baltimore
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Notification sent September 6th 1820 to Philip Moore, Baltimore, Maryland.
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35.107

Revy INVALID.

File No. 35107

William Vaughan

Pri Rev War

Act:  18th March 18

Index:--Vol. L, Page 494

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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William Vaughan

Pen Line

Admitted
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County}

On the 13th day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before the subscribed ^Chief Judge of Baltimore County Court personally appears William Vaughan who makes Oath on the Holy Evangelists that in the year 1778 he enlisted at Cambridge in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain Egleston in the 2nd Regiment Maryland Line, was marched to Valley Forge, fought at Battle of Monmouth, was afterwards marched to North Carolina, fought at Battle of the Gum Swamp, and continued in said Company and Regiment untill(sic) the year 1781, when his Term of service being expired, he was accordingly discharged, and that now from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his Country for Support.

Sworn before me in open Court, Walter Dorsey
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I Walter Dorsey Chief Judge of Baltimore County Court, before whom the annexed declaration of William Vaughan was sworn to, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Vaughan did serve in the revolutionary War against the common Enemy, as stated in said annexed declaration, for the Term of nine months, and longer, in the Continental Establishments and also that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the department of War, persuant to the directions of the late Act of Congress in that case made and provided.

Walter Dorsey
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set

I Hereby certify that Walter Dorsey Gentleman before whom the within deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Maryland duly Commissioned and Sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this fourteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen. 

Wm Gibson, Clk Balto Cty Court
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William Vaughan

Revy Pensioner

$8.00

4331
March 1819
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SCHEDULE.

United States of America
Maryalnd, District, SS:

On this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared in open court, in the District Court in and for the District of Maryland

William Vaughan aged Seventy six resident in the City of Baltimore in said District who being first duy sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: that he enlisted at Cambridge on the E Shore of Maryland about 6th of May 1778 in the 2nd Company commanded by Capt. John Egleston in the 2nd Maryand Regt. Md. Line commanded by Col Tho Woolford and joined the 2nd Brigade at Valley Forge continued in the Service for the term of three years, the full period of his enlistment, and was discharged from the Southern Army near the river [illegible] by Genl Green

That he hath been placed on the Revolutionary Roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of $8 per month, as will appear by his Pension Certificate bearing date the 11th November 1818 and numbered 4331.

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed 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 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.
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Schedule referred to within, viz

Six  common mission chairs $3, two const Tables $2-$5 some pots, kettles, &c, $4 some Earthenware &c.$4 other trifling articles various kinds of whole supp'd worth 4

$17

That he was by trade a shoemaker but becoming totally blind he is incapable doing anything toward his support; that his family  consists of himself and wife named Hannah, aged about seventy years, who is scarcely able to help herself and were it not for the assistance derived from his Pension as a Revolutionary soldier he woud be incapable of supporting himself, except from private or public charity.

Wm (his Mark) Vaughan

SWORN to and declared on the tenth day of July 1826 Before the District Court

I, Philip Moore Clerk of the District Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, as truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Seventeen dollar and ___Cents.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this first day of August 1926

Philip Moore

Clerk of the ^District Court for the District of Maryland