Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34966, for John Lomax, Maryland
Page 1

(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Md. Lomax, John S.34966
CONTENTS
Page 2

Maryland R.
John Lomax
A soldier in the State of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stone of the Maryland Line, for the term of 2 years.

Enrolled on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th Nov. 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of April 1821 and sent to John Lomax, Baltimore, Maryland.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1821: $25.76
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Sept. 1821: $48.00
Total: $73.76

(Revolutionary Claim, Act of March 18, 1818)
Signed: J. L. Edwards
Page 3

Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 7th, 1821

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor’s Office, that John Lomax enlisted as a private in the 6th Maryland Regiment, on the 12th day of June 1777, and was made prisoner January 1780.

Thos. Karney
Aud. S.M.
Page 4

34966
Rev. INVALID.

File No. 34966
John Lomax
Pvt. Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818

Index: — Vol. 9, Page 274

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 5

Port Tobacco, Md.
Page 6

State of Maryland, First Judicial District, to wit:
On this nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty, personally appeared in Harford County in open court, being a court of record, having unlimited original jurisdiction (with a power to fine and imprison), John Lomax, a citizen of Harford County and State of Maryland, aged sixty-three years, who being duly sworn, on his oath declares that he enlisted in the year 1777 (June 12th) in the Sixth Company, commanded by Capt. Galeas, of the Sixth Maryland Regiment, commanded by Colonel John Gunby, for three years; and was discharged at Annapolis in 1780; that he was at Germantown but not engaged in the action, that he was in the action at Monmouth and Camden; and that he now relies upon the record from said Maryland and references to certificates, and commenced applying two months before court convened, and that in August 1818 he appeared and proved affidavits in Baltimore to comply with the requisitions of the case in order to reinstate a pension, where originals were left in this office, but that he never obtained a certificate from the secretary. And I, the said John Lomax, do solemnly swear that I was a citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property nor any part thereof so as to diminish it with being
Page 7

myself within the provisions of the act referred to provide pensions for those who served in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, appeared in the court and declared that I have no other property and no income (and am therefore entirely unable to obtain my livelihood) except as stated in the schedule annexed, and I do hereby give the annexed to the State of Maryland.

[Signed] John Lomax
Feb. 19th, 1821

(And do further swear that I am in reduced and indigent age and infirmity, rendered totally incapable of obtaining a livelihood.)
[Signed] John Lomax

State of Maryland, Charles County, to wit:
I, John Barnes, Clerk of Charles County Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and declaration of John Lomax was recorded in the said court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

[Signed] John Barnes, Clk.
Charles County Court