Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35066, for John Shockley, Maryland
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Md.
Shockley , John 
NUMBER  S 35066 

CONTENTS
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Notification sent January 8. 1820 to 
John Handy, Snow Hill, Maryland 

6764 
4 
Maryland 
John Shockley 
Capt Watkins 
Private 
Maryland line 2 Yrs
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary Wa[r]

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 23 of Apl 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th Feby 181[? Page torn]
and sent to Hon. T. Bayly 
H. of Reprs.

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818   35.46
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819   48.—
[Total]     $83.46

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} Dead- 
13/30
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State of Maryland 
Somerset County, to wit, 
On this twenty third day of April eighteen 
hundred & eighteen before me the subscriber 
one of the Judges of the County Court of the 4th Judl. [judicial] District of Maryland for the 4th Judicial district of the state of [Md?] 
personally appears John Shockley aged sixty two 
years, resident in Worcester County in the said District 
who being by me first duly sworn, according to law doth 
on his oath make the following declaration in order 
to obtain the provision made by the late act of 
Congress entitled an act to provide for certain 
persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United 
States in the revolutionary war, that he the 
said John Shockley enlisted in Snowhill 
in 1776 in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Walkins & afterwards Capt [illegible] of the 2nd Maryland Regiment he that he continued 
to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, untill the winter of 1778-9 
when he was discharged from service in Bonbrook State of New Jersey 
that he was in 
the battle of Fort Washington on York Island and 
in a Number of skirmishes and that he 
is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to & declared before me the day & year afsd
James B Robins 
Associate Judge 4th Judl. District 
Of Maryland 

I James B Robins Judge &c as aforesaid do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the
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the said John Shockley did serve in 
the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding 
declaration, against the common enemy; & I now 
transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before 
me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
James B. Robinson 
Associate Judge 4th Judl. District 
of the State of Maryland 

State of Maryland, 
Somerset County} to wit.
I hereby certify to all whom it doth or may concern
that the honourable James B. Robins by whom the foregoing 
deposition was taken & by whom the above Certificate was made 
and whose signature appears respectively thereto, was at the time 
of taking the said deposition and making the said Certificate 
one of the associate Judges of the fourth Judicial district of 
the State of Maryland, duly commissioned sworn and qualified 
and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all acts done 
by him as such, as well in Courts of Justice as without. 
In Testimony whereof I have 
hereto set my hand and affixed the 
seal of my office this twenty third 
day of April in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and eighteen 
John Done, Clerk of Somerset County

[the following notes were written at right angles to the body of the text:]
Shockley 
7th Regt

Suspd for 
Hon. T. Bayly, H. of R.
Maryland 
Adm.
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John Shookey of Ind[?]
Declaration &c
[?]
Wester [?]
Mch 20

C
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Worcester County ss. On this 15th day 
of November 1820 personally appeared in open Court it being a Court of record of an unlimited a civil 
and criminal jurisdiction for said County 
John Shockley of Ind[?] aged sixty three years 
resident in the State of Maryland and County 
aforesaid who being first sworn according 
to law doth on his oath declare that he 
served in the revolutionary war as follows 
That he enlisted early in the revolutionary war 
in Worcester County in the company commanded by Capt John Watkins of the first Maryland Regiment on the continental establishment 
in which he served two and a half years 
and from which he was regularly discharged 
The number of his certificate is 6764 
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. One bed scantily furnished 
and one kettle and one basin valued at ten dollars 
are all the property I have. I have no family 
and am dependant upon a friend for a

[calculations in left margin]
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friend for a home. My business is that of a 
ship Carpenter which I follow when my 
health will permit but owing to rheumatic affictions [afflictions] l am rarely able to attend to anything. Without the charity of persons in 
my neighborhood I should perish 
John Shockley
Sworn to and declared on the 15th day of November 1820 in Open Court 
Test John C Handy Clk

I John Handy Clerk of Worcester County Court do hereby 
certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto 
annexed are truly copied from the records 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 Ten Dollars 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto  
set my hand and affixed the 
seal of the said Court on this 27th day 
of November 1820 
John C Handy Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester
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35066 
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 35066 
John Shockley 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18th March 18" 
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 372 
[Arrangement of 1870.]