Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,347, for Charles Porter, Maryland
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(3-1776)
SERVICE 
Md. [handwritten]
Porter, Charles [handwritten]
Kiturah [handwritten]
NUMBER 
R. 8347 [handwritten]
Born in Pa. [handwritten]
CONTENTS
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[printed form with handwritten responses]
25223
Jonesboro Tennessee
Charles Porter
of Washington in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the [illegible]
commanded by Captain Bessey of the [illegible] commanded by [illegible] Hall in the Maryland line for 9 months and 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesboro agency at the rate of 30 Dollars 78 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Decr [December] 1833 and [illegible] John Blair H R

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 96.95
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 15.39
$112.34
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by [signature] Danl Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 176 Page 131

[facing page]
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under this Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4th Sept 1834 to 26 Nov. 1834 the day of his death. Agt notified 30. Oct 1839
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State of Tennessee Washington County⎬ Be it remembred that on
 this 12th day of September
1833 Charles Porter a citizen of Washington County
State aforesaid aged Seventy two years personally appeared in open Court before the Honerable Samuel Powel Judge of the First Judicial Circuit sitting as a Court of San
& Equity in and for said County and being desireous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832 made swore to & subscribed the following declaration towit that he served under the following named
officers, and at the times & periods herein after stated, towit, that He was born in Chester County State of Pennsylvania on the 11th April 1760. according to the tradition of his parents but he has no record of said age. That when he left his fathers
house he went to Baltimore County & there rented at the time of the breaking out of the Revolution
and on the 1st day of June 1776 he enrolled
in the flying camp in Harford County under
Captain Bennet Bessy & rendezvoused at Baltimore City & from thence marched to Annapolis under
Calvin Hall Col & from thence the Brigade
Marched under Genl Bell by the way of Elk
to Philadelphia, thence to Trenton (this
for
by water & then on land from Trenton to Amboy
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there lay some time intending to go to New York but the British had taken the City & the Flying Camp under Gen Washington where they had joined at Fort Washington marched to the White Plains & there had an engagement & from there the American Army retreated to Trenton where was taken the Hessians & his term after having expired he was discharged by his Captain Bussy which he has in the lapse of time lost. That in said expeditions he served as a Maryland Militia man in the manner before stated in the Flying Camp from the 1st day of June 1776 to the first day of December of the same year, being six months.

That in the month of March 1777 he again volunteered being as before of the Maryland Militia the British fleet at the time being in the Delaware & Bay and was enrolled under Captain Myers and put to building and preparing the Whetstone Fort at the point and in preparing to defend Baltimore & was continued in service three months and at the expiration of the time was verbally discharged. That he served again for one week in the militia of Maryland under Capt. Stephenson under the expectation of the British landing & the object was to guard Baltimore but the British not landing at the time they were discharged. That he served as before stated nine months and one week in the revolutionary war and for which
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he claims a pension. He states that he has no documentary or other written evidence nor does he know of any  person by whom he can establish his actual services except Capt. Joseph Britten whose affidavit is hereto annexed [illegible] his six months in the Flying Camp but that Levi Bowers and Richard Carr Esq are persons known to him & he to them by whom he can establish the reputation of his having been a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby declares that there is no mention of the gospel in his vicinity by whom he can establish the parts required by the secretary of war, that his name is not on the roll of the pension agency of any state & he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present.

Sworn to & subscribed in open court this day & year first written.

Charles Porter

Test: Jas V Anderson - Clerk

We Levi Bowers and Richard Carr citizens of the county of Washington & state of Tennessee do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the declarant Charles Porter & believe him to be seventy-two years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the vicinity of his residence to have been a revolutionary soldier & that we concur in that opinion.

Levi Bowers
Richard Carr

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 12th Sept 1833

Test: Jas V Anderson - Clerk
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And the said court does hereby express this as his opinion that after the investigation of the matter & after [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by the department of war that the declarant Charles Porter was a revolutionary soldier & served as he has stated. I also certify that Levi Bowers & Richard Carr who made & subscribed the foregoing affidavit are citizens of said county & are reputable & their statement entitled to for a credit. Joseph Britten Esq the witness is also known to me to be a man of respectability & standing in his veracity.

S. Powel
Judge of the 1st Judicial Circuit of Tennessee

State of Tennessee
Washington County

I James V Anderson clerk of the current court of Law for the Circuit Court of the aforesaid state within the county of Washington do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Charles Porter for a pension. Given under my hand & seal of office in Jonesborough this 12th Sept 1833.

Jas V Anderson - Clk
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Left side Page

Keturah Porter
widow of Charles
Tennessee

July 7, 1838

Right Side Page

Declaration
Mrs. Keturah Cash & Anna Fox heirs at Law of Charles & Keturah Porter who claim the arrears of pension due their mother, Keturah Porter dec'd.

Address:
A G Graham
Jonesborough
Tenn

Nov 36
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

County Court, November Term 1856

Be it remembered that a County Court begun & held for said county at the courthouse in Jonesborough on the 1st Monday of November 1856, it being the 3d day of said month present his honor John Blair presiding the following proceedings were had.

To Wit:

"Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to this court that Charles Porter who was from Berkeley Co Va was a pensioner of the United States for service in the Revolution under act June 7, 1832 at the rate of $30.78 per annum at which rate he was paid to the 4th Sept 1834 and died on the twenty-sixth of November following eighteen hundred thirty-four) leaving a widow named Kiturah who drew said pension to the day of his death, that said father was married in Berkeley Co Va in August 1784 as the marriage bond exhibited to the court shows & that of said parents there now survives Anna Fox, formerly Anna Porter now the wife of Daniel Fox and Kiturah Cash formerly Kiturah Porter now the wife of Abraham L Cash all of whom resided in said county and are said Charles Porter and his said wife Kiturah sole surviving children & heirs at law and that the said Kiturah Porter widow of said Charles Porter dec'd died in said county at her residence on the thirty-first day of July eighteen hundred & forty-one (31st July 1841) - to all of which the clerk of this court will record and properly certify"

Attest:
Henry Hoss - clerk
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

Be it known that on this 3rd November 1856 before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally came Ktunah Cash aged about 56 years a resident of said county who declares on oath that she is the youngest child of Charles and Kitunah Porter of eight children herself and Anna Fox formerly Porter of said county being the only living children that her said father was married in Berkeley Co VA to Kitunah Vanracter in August 1784 as she always understood; that her said father was a revolutionary pensioner and received his pension at the Jonesborough Tennessee agency at the rate of $30.78 per annum, to 4 Sept 1834 and died the 26th November following; that her mother survived him till the 31st July 1841 when she died in said county - and this declaration is made to obtain the arrears [illegible] that was due her said mother at the date of her mother's death and is made on her own behalf and in behalf of that sister as above named who are her only surviving children and heir at law and she requests that the claim be examined and adjudicated under such laws as passed from that of June 7, 1832 on behalf of half pay for widows if those entitled under said act or to their children. She hereby appoints A G Graham of Jonathan Tenn her agent to file and persecute her said claim. She has never asked [illegible] right here before.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the date aforesaid and I certify that the said Mrs. Cash is the person she claims to be, is a credible person & I have no interest in such claim.

Kenry Hoss - JP W. Co Tenn

Kitunah Cash
Her X Mark
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

I Henry Hoss clerk of the County Court of said county hereby certify that the copy from the records contained on the 1st half page of this sheet is a correct one as is manifest from the minutes of said court in my office remaining that, the foregoing declaration of Kitunah Cash was duly subscribed & sworn by her before Henry Hoss Esquire one of the Justices of said court in open court & that his signature with that of my own and the Hon John Blair attached to this paper are genuine and that said personages are acting officials in said county at the date of these proceedings.

Given under my hand and official seal of office in Jonesborough on this 3rd November AD 1856.

Henry Hoss - Clerk
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Berkeley

Know all men by these present that we Charles Porter and Joseph Vanvacter are held and firmly bound unto Benhamin Harrison Esquire Governor of this Commonwealth in the sum of fifty pounds [illegible] money of Virginia to be paid to the said Benjamin Harrison or to his successors to which payments well and truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 23rd day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly to be had and solemnized between the above bound Charles Porter and Kitunah Vanvacter both of this county. Now if there should be no just cause or impediment to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered in presence of 
Charles Porter - SEAL
Joseph Vanvacter - SEAL

State of Virginia
Berkeley County

I Ephraim G Alburtis Clerk of the County Court of Berkeley County in the state of Virginia do certify that the above writing is a true copy of the records of my office.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the official seal of the county court of Berkeley County at the Courthouse of said county this 24th day of September AD 1856.

E G Alburtis - Clerk
for J A Dugan - Deputy Clerk
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No. 15415
Kiturah Porter dec'd
wid of John
Tenn
Let A.G. Graham Nov 15/56
8347
July 7, 1838
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8347
Kiturah Porter
Wid of Charles 
REJECTED
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
October 19th 1839

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April 1838 entitled "An at directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" the widow of Charles Porter dec'd a pensioner on the roll of the Jonesborough Ten Agency at the rate of thirty dollars and seventy-eight cents per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this department from the 4th of Sept 1834 to the 26th of Nov 1834 the day of his death.

Respectfully yours
Albion K Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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28731
Charles Porter
declaration 
for pension

from 1776 Private
9 months & 7 days
$30.78/100

for Jonesborough Agency

15 39
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76 75

By J Blair
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

On this 11th day of September 1833 personally appeared before the judges of the Circuit Court of law for said county setting in court Joseph Brittin, Esq who being first duly sworn according to law deposed & stated that in the year 1776 in the summer of the year deponent was a sergeant at the time in Capt. McCubbins Company of the command of Col. Josiah Hall and under these officers was enrolled into what was called the Flying Camp of Maryland & served on the expedition. That during said campaign Charles Porter now present was also a soldier in said regiment was in Capt. Bussey's company & served out the tour of duty. Witness frequently saw said Porter and well recollects him tented ofttimes near to him on the tour & knows certainly of his having performed said tour of duty which ended in December 1776. General Bell had the chief command of the Flying Camp & marched from the town of Annapolis to the head of Elk, thence Philadelphia thence to Trenton, thence to Ambary and intended to march to New York but the
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British had taken New York & the Flying Camp joined Gen Washington at Fort Washington and continued under Washington to the White Plains there had an engagement & the American troops retreated to Fort Lee which the British took & the army retreated to Trenton where was taken the Hessians. He has known said Porter in this part of the county & is very confident Porter served as before stated.

Joseph Britten

Test: Jas V Anderson - Clerk

The foregoing papers were drawn by me & they are genuine being in the form in which they were perfected.

J Blair

Sept 23rd 1833
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Letter
Kiturah Porter
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Jonesborough, Tennessee
November 3d, 1856

Sir

Enclosed is the claim of the heirs of Charles Porter & Kiturah Porter to the arrears of pension due them under the laws of congress allowing pension to certain widows whose husbands were entitled to or dimensions under act 7 June 1832.

The marriage is established by the enclosed official record. The death of the widow is established and certified by the county court as well also the heirship aforesaid.

Please give the papers an examination and report the result to 

Your obt servt
A.G. Graham

Hon Geo C Whiting
Comm of Pensions
W.C.D.C.