Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8,109, John Baum, Md.
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Service Md
Baum, John
Mary

Number W. 8109
BL Wt 30621-160-55
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11454
Pennsylvania
John Baum
of Cambria in the state of Penna
who was a Priv & Serg in company commanded by Captain McGuire of the Regt commanded
by Col. Bruce on the Penn Militia 
line for 7 mo 10 day

Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 24 dollars and 82 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued 8th day of May 1833 and sent to Claimant, Elsburg, PA 

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $49.64
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep '33 $12.41
$62.05

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

recorded by Geo B Whiting Clerk
Book E Vol 5 Page 3
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4532 [handwritten at top of the page]

Pennsylvania Pitts.

Mary Baum widow of John Baum Pena who served in the Revolutionary war, as a priv. and Sergt

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 24 dollars 82 cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February, 1853. Certificate of Pension issued 26th day of September, 1854 and sent to Thomas C. McDowell Hollydaysburg Pa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 102 Vol. a

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175517 Act Mar 8
Jan 26/55

Mary Baum wid
John Baum
Priv
No 30621 iss June 13/56

Rev War
Pensioner
Feb 53-4532

BW: 160 ac of [illegible] 4/56

Thos C Macdowell
Hollidaysburg, PA
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John Baum
17523

7 Mo 3 day Priv $23.66
7 day Sergeant $1.16
$24.82
PA
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Cambria

On this second day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Cambria (being a court of record having by law a seal and clerk)now sitting John Baum a resident of Clearfield Township in the county of Cambria and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following name officers and served as herein stated - 

He entered as a volunteer militia man in the company commanded by Captain Michael McGuire and Lieutenant Thomas Rees and Lawrence Arbaugh in the regiment of Maryland Militia commanded by Col. Norman Bruce about the first of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six and marched about the fourth of said month from Frederick County in Maryland through Hanover, Little York, Lancaster and Philadelphia to Basking Ridge in New Jersey and met a number of other troops under the command of General Washington and that he continued there about a month, and then returned with Captain McGuire company to Frederick County in Maryland and was discharged about the first of March in the same year, which discharge has been lost - That about the last of June or beginning of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one he entered again as a volunteer at Frederick Town in Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Boyers and Lieutenant McGruder and marched through Annapolis and Georgetown to Yorktown - at Annapolis he was transferred to a company commanded by Captain Linn and at Georgetown to a company commanded by Captain Murdock & Lieutenant George Bellis - at Yorktown he met with the troops under General Washington and was placed under the command of General Mordecai Gess, was engaged during the
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siege and present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and in July when the British army laid down their arms on the 19th of October 1781 - after remaining about two weeks at Yorktown after the surrender and having assisted to level the fort he was marched to Annapolis and their discharged on the tenth of December 1781 - He cannot recollect who signed the discharge which together with a packet book and some money was lost to him about forty years since and the has now no documentary evidence and he knows of no person other than those whose affidavits are hereto annexed, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

John Baum

Sworn & subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.

Philip Noon - Proth.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Cambria

On this second day of October AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County aforesaid, now sitting, Thomas B Durbin a resident of Alleghany Township in the county of Cambria and state aforesaid aged seventy years who being first duly sworn doth declare that he is well acquainted with John Baum whose declaration precedes this - that in the year 1776 and 1781 he resided as a near neighbor to the said John Baum in Frederick County in Maryland and well remembers that the said John Baum marched under Captain Michael McGuire to New Jersey, and also that he went to Yorktown in 1781 and this deponent always heard and understood by the neighbors who were with him that he was engaged in the fighting before and at the time of the surrender of Yorktown.

Thos B Durbin

Sworn & subscribed to the day and year aforesaid

Philip Noon - Proth
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Cambria

On this second day of October AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County aforesaid no sitting Peter McGuire a resident of Allegheny Township in the county of Cambria and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged sixty-nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth declare and say that he is well acquainted with John Baum whose declaration precedes this and that in the year 1776 and 1781 he resided as near neighbor to the said John Baum in Frederick County in Maryland and well remembers that the said John Baum marched under Captain Michael McGuire as he understood to New Jersey and in 1781 that he marched to Yorktown in Virginia and understood from those who were with him that he was engaged in fighting at the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

Peter McGuire
His X Mark

Sworn & subscribed to me the day and year aforesaid.

Philip Noon - Proth

And the said court do hereby decare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories present by the war department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas B Durbin and Peter McGuire who have signed the foregoing depositions are residents of Allegheny Township in the said County of Cambria and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Philip Noon - Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Baum for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 2nd day of October AD 1832.

Philip Noon - Proth
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John Baum
17525

7 Mo 3 day Pri = $23.66
7 days Sergeant = $1.16
PA $24.82

State of Pennsylvania
County of Cambria

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, John Baum the within named applicant who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollect he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For seven months and 3 days I served as a Private - for seven days I served as first sergeant and for such service I claim a pensions.

John Baum - SEAL

Sworn & subscribed before me the 30th of March AD 1833.

Richard Lewis

State of Pennsylvania
County of Cambria

I Adam Bausman Prothonotary of the said county of Cambria do certify that Richard Lewis Esquire before whom the above affidavit was taken was and is a Justice of the Peace of said county duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith is due to his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Ebensburg the 30th day of March AD 1833.

A Bausman
Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Blair County

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared David Krise of said county who being duly qualified according to law doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with Mary Baum who is now in the full life widow of John Baum late of Cambria County in the said state of Pennsylvania who was as this deponent has been informed a revolutionary soldier - that he knows the fact that the said John Baum deceased as the said Mary Baum were married and lived together as man & wife for many years before the death of said John Baum, that the said Mary Baum is the identical person who was the wife of John Baum deceased and further saith not.

David Krise
His X Mark

Sworn & subscribed before me this 4th day of Oct 1857

John Cox J P

Witness as signing this affidavit
Thos C McDowell
John Cox

State of Pennsylvania
Blair County

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Blair personally appeared Margaret Krise of Cambria County who being duly qualified according to law did depose and say that she is well acquainted with Mary Baum who is no in full life, widow of John Baum late of Cambria County in the said state of Pennsylvania who was as this deponent has been informed a Revolutionary Soldier that she knows the fact that the said John Baum dec'd and the said Mary Baum his widow were married and lived together as man & wife for many years before the death of said John Baum. I as present at their marriage That the said Mary Baum is the identical person who was the wife of John Baum deceased and further saith not.

Margaret Krise
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 23rd day of July AD 1852
John Cox JP

Witness at signing of affidavit
John Cox & R S Martin
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State of Pennsylvania
Blair County

I Hugh McNeal Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that John Cox Esq before whom the within acknowledgment was made is now and was at the time thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn according to law, that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts, as such as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said John Cox Esq. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Hollidaysburg this 17th day of February AD 1853.

H McNeal
Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Blair County

Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared Mary Baum widow and relict of John Baum now deceased who was a revolutionary soldier and who was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in the State of Virginia as this deponent was informed by her said husband in his lifetime. That deponent was married to the said John Baum deceased in the month of June AD 1832 and lived together till his death which took place about sixteen years ago - that she is the identical person who is the widow of said John Baum. That said John Baum received from the United States Government a pension for many years, up to the time of his death whose name will be found on the rolls of the pension office. That this deponent is in indigent circumstances and unable to make a living for herself by reason of old age & infirmity of body. That she was in the county of Cambria in the said state of Brandywine when her husband was when he died and further said not.

Mary Baum
Her X Mark

Sworn & subscribed before me this 4th day of Oct AD 1857
John Cox - JP

Witness at signing of Mrs. Mary Baum
Thos C McDowell
John Cox
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State of Pennsylvania
Blair County

I Hugh McNeal Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of said county do certify that John Cox Esq before whom the within instrument was proven and who has subscribed the same was at the time there of an acting justice of the peace in and for said county, duly elected, commissioned and sworn according to the constitution and laws of this land that his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere. And I do further certify that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be the signature of the said Justice is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court as Hollidaysburg this 17th day of February anno domini 1853.

Hugh McNeal
Prothy
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175517
Bounty Lands Claim of Mary Baum
War of the Revolution 
No.
Filed 1855 by Thos. C. Macdowell Attorney
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

On this fifteenth day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said county and State and state aforesaid, Mary Baum aged about sixty-eight years a resident of the said county of Cambria and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she is the widow of John Baum deceased who was a private (as she was informed) in the revolutionary war. That said deponent cannot state to what particular regiment or company her said husband belonged or what particular service he rendered in said war but that he received a pension from the United States government in his lifetime for his said services and that she said deponent is now receiving a pension from said Government as the widow of her said husband John Baum deceased who died in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six August 2nd at Cambria county in the state aforesaid,. She further states that she was married to the said John Baum at the county aforesaid in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty by one Hugh Gaughaller Esquire a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - that her name before she was married was Mary Forshey that the said Justice Gaughaller made no record of her said marriage with said John Baum as she verily believes nor did he the said Justice Gaughaller give either to her or her said husband any certificate of their said marriage that there is no memorandum or record of said marriage now in existence that said Justice Gaughaller is long since dead and it is impossible for her to procure such certificate or copy thereof. And that she is now a widow she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which
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she may be entitled under the act approved 3d March 1855 and hereby appoints Thomas C MacDowell of Hollidaysburg County of Blair and state aforesaid her true and lawful attorney and authorizes him to receive her warrant for the same.

Mary Baum
Her X Mark

We David Krise and Margaret Krise residents of Cambria County in the state of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by Mary Baum in our presence and that we know from our own personal knowledge of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

David Krise
His X Mark

Margaret Krise
Her X Mark

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that  I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.

Peter McGough - JP

State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared David Krise and Margaret Krise residents of said county and to me well known to be persons who are credible who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that they were present and witnessed the marriage ceremony between John Baum now deceased and Mary Foreshey (now Mary Baum) that the said parties were married by one Hugh Gaughhaller, Esq then a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Cambria who is since deceased, that said marriage took place at
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the Township of Clearfield in the county of Cambria and state aforesaid in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty - that no record was made of said marriage by said Justice as these deponents verily believe nor was there any certificate of said marriage either asked for by the said parties at that time or given by the said Justice; and deponents further say that they were well acquainted with the said John Baum in his lifetime, that said John Baum and Mary Baum lived and cohabite together from the time of said  marriage till the death of said John Baum which took place about the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six and that said John and Mary Baum were notoriously reputed and recognized as man and wife by all their neighbors. 

David Krise
His X Mark

Margaret Krise
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this fifteenth day of June AD 1855

Peter McGough = JP

State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

I Milton Robers Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Cambria and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Peter McGough whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavits is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid county court is a court of record having general jurisdiction.

Given under my hand and the seal of my office at Ebensburg this 19th day of June AD 185.

Milton Roberts - Prothonotary
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Catherine Baum was born January 13th 1782
Martha Baum was born December 12th 1789
John Baum was born December 12th 1790
Barbara Baum was born September 12th 1791

Personally appeared before me Benjamin Tingling one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the township of Burnside County of Clearfield the above named Catharine Baum (Martha Baum married to Richard Nagle not present) John Baum and Barbara Baum who being duly sworn according to law each and every of them deposeth and saith that the foregoing copy of each and every at their ages as above recorded is a just copy of their ages as taken from their father's bible whose name was John Baum a soldier of the Revolutionary war who served under Capt. Michael McGuire at the state of Maryland and further they cannot say.

Catharine Baum - Her X Mark
Barbara Baum - Her X Mark
John Baum

Sworn and subscribed before me March 28th 1851

Benjamin Tingling - JP

Copy

I do hereby authorize John D Clarke to collect the within

Jacob Greene

January 28, 1853
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Know all men by these present we Catharine Baum and Barbara Baum of the county of Clearfield, State of Penna and John Baum of Cambria County State of Pennsylvania Yeoman have made ordained authorized, entitled and constituted and appoint Jacob Baum of the county of Clearfield true and lawful attorney for us and in our several names and to our use to ask demand and sue for recover and receive from the state treasurer any premiums that may be coming to the legal heirs and representatives of our father John Baum deceased, a soldier of the revolutionary war who served under Capt. Michael McGuire of the state of Maryland all and every such sum and sums of money debts and demand whatsoever which now are due and owing unto us the said Catharine Baum, Barbara Baum and John Baum by and from the said state Treasurer and in default of payment thereof to have use and take all lawful ways and means our names or otherwise for the recovery thereof and on receipt whereof to make seal and deliver acquittances or other sufficient discharges for the same for us and in our names and to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever concerning the premises as fully in every respect as we ourselves could do if we were personally present and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid to make and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby notifying, allowing and confirming all and whatsoever our said attorney shall in our names lawfully do or could be done in and about these premises by virtue of these present. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seal this 28th day of March AD 1857

Barbara Baum - Her Mark - SEAL
Catharine Baum - Her Mark - SEAL
John Baum - SEAL

Sealed and delivered in presence of Benjamin Tingling

COPY
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129
Application for
arrears of pension
due the heirs of John
Baum a revolutionary
soldier - of Capt.
Micharl McGuire's 
Company of Maryland

by John D Clark
Washington City

illegible Waldo
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Washington May 6th '54
Sir

The enclosed power of attorney was intended to authorize me to receive the arrears of pension support to be owing to the heirs of John Baum a revolutionary soldier who served under Capt. Michael McGuire of Maryland and who received a pension (I suppose) from the U. States payable in Harrisburg Pennsylvania - I deposit it however hoping that your kindness will furnish the information whether mine and what amounts of arrears of pension is due so that I can furnish the requisite proof to obtain it - the heirs live in the interior of Penna and the expense & trouble of making the proof being considerable  - I first wish to know if it is worth trying for.

Respectfully your obedient servant,

John D Clark
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In reply to your request of blank received blank for a statement of the military history of JOhn Baum Senior (only one found) a soldier of the revlutionary war you will find below the desired information as contained in his or his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau

W. File 8109

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
1. January 1776 to March 1, 1776
2. June or July 1781 to Dec 10, 1781 - discharged at Annapolis Md

Length of Service - Total
Seved 7 Mos, 3 day as Private & 7 days as 1st Sergeant

Rank
1. Private
2. Private and 1st Sergeant

Officers under whom service was rendered
1. Captain Michael McGuire and Colonel Norman Bruce
2. Captains Boyers, Linn & Murdock and Gen. Mordecai Gist

State
MD

Battles Engaged in - surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Residence of soldier at enlistment - Frederick Co, Maryland
Date of application for pension - Oct 2, 1832 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application - Clearfield Twp, Cambria Co Penn
Age at date of application - Seventy-four years
Remarks: soldier married in Clearfield Twp in June 1830; Mary Forshey, He died in Cambria Co, Penn Aug 2, 1836, and she was allowed pension on her application executed Oct 4, 1851, while a resident of Cambria Co Penn, age about 64 years. No reference to former marriage, only children mentioned Martha born Dec 12, 1789, married Rich'd Nagle; John born Dec 12, 1790; Catharine born June 13, 1782, and Barbara born Sept 12, 1801.

Respectfully, 

Commissioner.
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Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Hollidaysburg, Pa June 20th 1855

Hon L.P. Waldo

Sir

Accompanying this please find application of Mary Baum widow of John Baum deceased for bounty land under Act of 3 March 1853, made out in accordance with printed instructions from your department. By reference to the pension rolls, you will find her name as one of the recipients of the Government bounty as the widow of John Baum, dec whose name is also on the files of the pension dept. Some time ago I sent to your dept the application of Mary Long, widow of John Long an old soldier dec'd for balance of land of 80 acres she having received a warrant under a former act of congress - the old lady is very anxious about her land - and if I am not asking too much permit me to beg the speedy passage of her claim.

Very Truly
Your obedient servant

Thos C Macdowell
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Bried in the case of Mrs. Mary Baum widow of John, Cambria County and State of Pennsylvania
Act of February 3rd 1854.

Claim
Proof Exhibited
Is it documentary, traditionary or support by rolls? If either, state the substance - Husband a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832 at $24.82 per annum paid to the 4th of March 1836 and died Aug 2nd 1836.

If for increase - has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? if so, what? - Marriage proven by four witnesses, two of whom were present & certified to be credible, no record. Death of husband proved by three witnesses present widowhood shown by four witnesses & papers duly authenticated.

Name and residence of Agent - Thomas C. McDowell

Examining Clerk - J LeGray
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Hon J P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Hollidaysburg July 26, 1854

To the Hon
J P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

In accordance with instructions contained in yours of the 3rd June last, I procured the enclosed affidavits in the matter of the application of Widow Baum for a pension.

I trust the enclosed will
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be found satisfactory to War Department.

In the hope of receiving a favorable answer.

I remain
Yours truly
Thos C MacDowell
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Hollidaysburg, Pa - Sept 18, 1854

To the Hon the Commissioner of Pensions of the U.S.

Dear Sir:

Enclosed please find affidavits of Valentine Krise & David Nole in the case of the application of Mary Baum widow of a revolutionary soldier. These affidavits are drawn in strict accordance with the instructions contained in the letter of the Hon. S. Cole acting Commissioner of Pensions of the 9th August last, addressed to me which I hope may prove satisfactory, that I may be done with a case which has cost me more trouble than it is worth - 

Nothing would have induced me to go to so much trouble if it were not a fact well known to me that the applicant Mary Baum is in absolute want. In the hopes of hearing from you soon, I have the honor to subscribe myself

Very truly
your obedient servant
Thos C. Macdowell
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30621

[illegible]
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John Baum, paid to 4 March 1836.
Rob J Morrison [illegible]
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[illegible] office
Sept 21, 1854

Sir

Please certify the time to which the within name for pension was paid out and date of his death.

Very Respectfully

L P Waldo
Comm of Pens

illegible
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Hollidaysburg, May 30th 1854

To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions of the U.S.

Sir

Enclosed please find affidavit and certificate of Prothonotary Johnston under seal of the court of common pleas of Cambria Co in this state in the case of the application of Mary Baum widow of John Baum a revolutionary soldier for a pension. The enclosed affidavit and certificate is gotten up in accordance with instructions from the Pension Department which I trust will be all sufficient with the other papers already on file in the case to entitle the applicant to such relief as the laws of the U.S. afford.

Be kind enough to acknowledge the receipt of the enclosed papers and say whether the case if fully made out. Mrs. Baum's papers are on file in your dept and by reference to the record of the dept, it will be found
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that her deceased husband John Baum received a Pension up to the time of his death.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your off Lent Thos MacDowell atty at Law Hollingsburgh Blair Co. Penna
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Washington 7 May '53
To:
Commissioner of Pensions

Will you please have the case of Mrs. Baum a widow of a soldier of the revolution taken up as early as you can - I do this at the request of F. Garnder who acts as the friend of Mr. McDowell of Hollidaysburg, PA

Wm T Ward
of Ky
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Hollidaysburg Penna
Feby 17 1853

To the Commissioner of Pensions at
Washington City, D.C.

Dear Sir

Accompanying this please find the testimony in the case of Mary Baum a widow of a revolutionary soldier who applied for a pension. By referring to the pension roll, the name of John Baum will be found who did in his lifetime receive a pension from the United States Government.

John Baum died about sixteen years ago i Cambria County, Pennsylvania.

Any communications touching Mrs. Baums's application can be addressed to me at this place.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
Thos C Macdowell
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Hollidaysburg Penna April 22 1853

Misters Franklin Gardner & Co.

Gentlemen

While writing to you day before yesterday I forgot to mention that about three months ago I forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington the application and testimony of Mary Baum widow of John Baum a revolutionary soldier for a pension under the recent act of Congress granting a pension to widows of soldiers who were married since the revolution.

John Baum resided in Cambria County Penna and drew a pension in his lifetime, whose name can be found on the pension rolls at Washington City.

I have not up to this time received any acknowledgement of receipt of the papers from the pension office. Will you be kind enough to give this matter your early attention and advise me of the result of your investigations.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant

Thos. C. Macdowell
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared David Cree of said county who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he was present at the marriage of Mary Baum to John Baum now deceased, that said marriage ceremony was performed by one Hugh Gaullegher a Justice of the Peace in and for said county now deceased. That no marriage certificate or other evidence in writing was given by said Justice at the time to either of the parties, nor was there any record of said marriage made by the said justice that deponent knows of. That said marriage took place about twenty-four years ago and at that time there was no law in Pennsylvania for the registration of marriages - that said Mary Baum is now in full life, residing in the said county of Cambria - that this deponent was well acquainted with John Baum
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the husband of said Mary Baum that said John Baum has been dead for about seventeen years.

David Cree

Sworn and subscribed before me this 10th day of April 1854.

John Williams

State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

I Robert L Johnston prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said county do certify that John Williams Esquire before whom the above and foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Cambria duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto attached is in his own proper handwriting. I also certify that at the time set forth in the foregoing affidavit when the marriage of John Baum and Mary Baum took place there was not law in Pennsylvania for the registration of marriages, now was it customary
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in those days to give Certificates of Marriages to parties.

Given under my hand and the Seal of my Office at Ebensburg, Cambria County in the State of Pennsylvania this Tenth day of April A.D. 1854.

[Seal] R. L. Johnston Prothonotary
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1919 Sept. 4 Hist to Mrs. Wm W. Baum

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8109
Mary Baum
Wid"
John Baum
Privt Rev War
Act: Feby 3d 1853
Index: - Vol. A, Page 31
{Arrangement of 1870}
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

Before me Harrison Kinkead one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county personally appeared Valentine Krise and David Noel citizens of said county to me well known to be persons of credibility and good standing in the neighborhood in which they reside who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that they are well acquainted with Mary Baum of said county who is (an applicant for a pension under the 2nd section of the Act of 3 February 1853 as the widow of John Baum) is the widow of the identical John Baum who was a revolutionary pensioner of Cambria County Pennsylvania.

That said Mary Baum is now in full life and that said John Baum died on or about the second day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six in said county of Cambria and state aforesaid.

Valentine Krise
David Noel - His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me at Ebensburg in the count and state aforesaid this 26th day of August 1854

H Kinkead

Attest - G.M. Reed
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria

I Robert L Johnston prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the Hon. Harrison Kinkead before whom the within and foregoing affidavits of Valentine Krise and David Noel were taken was at the time and still is and acting Judge of the court of common pleas of said county duly elected commissioned and sworn - that his signature hereto attached is in his own proper handwriting and that to all his official acts full faith and credit of right ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the proper seal of my office to be thereunto attached this 26th day of August AD 1854. Done at Ebensburg in the county and state aforesaid.

R.L. Johnston
Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

Before me Harrison Kinkead one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Cambria and state aforesaid personally appeared Mary Baum of said county who upon her solemn oath did declare and say that she is the identical Mary Baum widow of John Baum late of said county deceased and the same person who is now applying for a pension from the government of the United States. That she was married to the said John Baum deceased on the blank day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, that said John Baum was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and received a pension up to the time of his death.

Mary Baum
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this eighteenth day of July 1854.
H Kinkead - Judge

Also at the same time and place came the undersigned Valentine Krise and Davi Noel of said county to us personally known and who is as also the above name Mary Baum a person of good repute in the neighborhood he resides in and in this community for truth and veracity who did depose and say that we are well acquainted with the above named Mary Baum widow of John Baum late of Cambria county and state aforesaid deceased. That he was also well acquainted with the said deceased John Baum in his lifetime, that Mary Baum who is now present and who has sworn to the foregoing affidavit is the identical person who was married to John Baum deceased and that she lived with the said John Baum deceased up to the time of his death as his lawful wife and was always so reputed by all her neighbors and acquaintances and so
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As still reputed the lawful widow of the said John Baum deceased. Sworn & Subscribed before me this 18th day of July 1854. H Kinkead Judge
Valentine Krise, David Noel x his mark

State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County SS
I Robert L Johnston Prothonotary in and for the said County of Cambria, do hereof certify that the Honorable Harrison Kinkead before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same and still is an Acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly elected and Commissioned as such, to whose official acts full faith and credit of right ought to be given. And I do further certify that Mary Baum and Valentine Krise, David Krise whose names are attached to the forgoing affidavits, are both in full life, and to me well known, and are persons of good repute for truth and veracity in this community. Also that the signature of the said Judge Kinkead is in his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand and caused the seal of my office to be thereunto attached As Ebensburgh in the County of Cambria & State of Pennsylvania this 17th day of July A.D. 1854.
Rob L Johnston, Prothonotary
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Know All Men by These Presents: That I Mary Baum of Clearfield Township in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Franklin Gardner Esquire of the City of Washington in the county of Washington my true and lawful attorney for me, and in my name, place and stead, To make examination as the proper department of the United States government, and if it is found that I am entitled to receive a pension or back pay from said government, my said attorney shall ask demand and receive receipt for the same in my share, as for any [unknown] or drafts or bonds I may warrant or [unknown] to which i may be entitled to receive in right of my husband John Baum decd.
giving unto my said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever, requisite and neccessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. In witness, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Mary Baum her mark
Daniel Litzinger

M Douglass
State of Pennsylvania, County of Cambria SS
On this 31st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me personally came Mary Baum to me known to be the individual described in and who executed the annexed Power of Attorney, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes therein mentioned.
Daniel Litzinger Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsyvania Prothonotary's Office, in and for the county of Cambria and State aforesaid: - I Robert L Johnston Prothonotary of said county, hereby certify that Daniel Litzinger Esq, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing acknowledgment is the foregoing Power of Attorney, was at the time of taking the name a Justice of the Peace is and for said county, and authorized to take the name, that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and believe the signature to said acknowledgment to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county thereto this First day of June 1853. R. L. Johnston, Prothonotary
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Stamped Aug 29, 1919  Daughters of the American Revolution

Warren Ohio
August 26, 1919

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
The information is desired if John Baum who enlisted from Berks Co, Pa, 1777 as a courtmartial man serving in Capt Dan De Turck Co3, drew a pension?
Thanking you in advance,
Sincerely Mrs. Wm W Baum, 15 N Logan Ave.