Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2183, Leonard Drury, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Drury, Leonard

Number
S.2183

carded
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4683
Ohio Pittsburgh
Leonard Drury
of Starke in the State of Ohio
who was a Pri in the company commanded
by Captain blank of the regt commanded
by Col Barnes in the Md line for 6 months from 1777

Inscribed on the roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 20 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jan 1833 and sent Hon. John Thompson

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $30.00
Semi-annl allowance ending 4 Mar 33 $10.00
$40.00

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk
Bood D Vol 2 Page 129
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Envelope

FREE

Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

Oct 22nd
15035
Allowed
$20 per annum

Hon. J Thompson
H.R.

Hon Mr. Thompson
H.R.

Clinton Ohio
October 15
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Canton, Stark Co Ohio
OCt 15, 1832

Hon Lewis Cass

I herewith forward the original proceedings in the matter of Leonard Drury an applicant for a pension under the act of congress passed June 7, 1832, and want to request that I may at as early a day as convenient be advised of the proceedings at the department thereon.

I have the honor to be
Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
D. Garris
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Left Side Page

Leonard Drury
Application
15035


Right Side Page

$20 per ann

Hon. J. Thomson
H.R.
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The State of Ohio. }
Stark County SS}  Court of Commons Pleas [lined out: August] October [illegible] 1832-

On this tenth day of October personally appeared 
in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Stark
County Ohio now sitting Leonard Drury a resident of said County of
Stark aged seventy three years this seventeenth day of June last who
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make this
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832- That he entered the service of the
United States in harvest time of the year 1777 - as a volunteer for
nine months in the company commanded by Capt. William Botes
of the Regiment of Maryland Troops commanded by Col Barnes - 
whose christian name this deponent believes was Richard soon
after, this deponent joined the company, the command of it was
assumed by Thomas Beecher; Harry or Henry Wingate was one of the 
subaltous, deponent believes Einsiger, deponent continued in -
service for six months and was with the company discharged at
Leonard Town [Leonardtown], deponent lived in St Marys County Maryland near
the Cool spring at the time of entering the service, and first mustered
to Point Look-Out  [Point Lookout] remained there some time, and then mustered to
a place below Brandensburgh [Brandenburg] where the company remained a short
time; and others moved down the Potomac and then continued in
that neighbourhood; was in no action; deponent had a written
discharge from Col Barnes but lost it many years ago which is the
only document deponent ever had showing he was in the service;
does not know that any one of the Company or Regiment in which
he served is now living by whom he could prove his service.

The Court [illegible] the following interrogatories to which the 
following answers were [illegible] -

Where, and in what year were you born?
I was born in St Mary's County Maryland not far from Leonard-Town
on the 17th day of June 1759.

Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
I have seen a record of my age in my Father's prayer book.  I have last seen
it for many years, and I do not now know where it is.

Where were you living when called into service; where have you
lived since the revolutionary war; and where do you now live?
I was living in St Mary's County Maryland near the Cool-spring at the
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time of entering the service - after the revolutionary war I lived at
Port Tobacco four or five years, then near Frederick Town [Fredericktown], then at -
^then at the warm springs^
Leesburgh [Leesburg] Virginia, then [lined out: at] near Martinsburgh [Martinsburg] Va, then near
Hagerstown [several words lined out], then in Franklin County
Pennsylvania, then I moved to Stark County Ohio where I now reside.

How were you called into service; were you, drafted, did you
volunteer ^or were^ you a substitute?  And if a substitute for whom?
I entered the service of the United States as a volunteer for nine months.
I was not drafted; I volunteered, I was not a substitute.

State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as
you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
I do not recollect the names of ^any^ the regular officers who were with the
troops where I served - nor the continental and militia regiments -
nor do I recollect any more general circumstances connected with
any [lined out: discharge] service, thence what have been before aclated -

Did you [illegible] receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom
was it given, and what has become of it?
I received a written discharge from Col Barnes, but lost it many
years ago - 

State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity
and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution -
Charles Andrews, David Andrews, [two names lined out]
are among the neighbours who can testify to my character and
belief of services -

And the said deponent 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 -

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
[signature:] Jno Myers Clerk
Leonard ^his X mark^ Drury

We David Andrews and Charles Andrews residing
in the Township of Jackson County of Stark and State
of Ohio, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
Leonard Drury who has subscribed sworn to the
above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy
three years of age; that he is refuted and believed in
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the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been
a soldier of the revolution and that we concur
in that opinion
David Andrews
Charles Andrews
Sworn to, and subscribed,
this day and year afore said
Jno Myers Clk

An the said Court do hereby declare their opinion,
after the investigation of the matter and after putting 
the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department,
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.  And the court
further certifies that it appears to them that David Andrews and Charles Andrews who have signed
the preceding certificate, are residents in the Township
of Jackson as they state, and that their statement
is entitled to credit. -

I, John Myers, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of Stark County in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
the said Court in the matter of the application of
Leonard Drury for a pension. -

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said
office this eleventh day of October
in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-two. - 
Jno Myers Clerk
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2183
Revy
INVALID

File No 2183

Leonard Drury
Pri Md Line

Act: June 7, '32

Index Vol A Page 102
[Arrangement of 1870.]