Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34668, William Bruce, Md.
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE NUMBER
Md. Bruce, William S. 34668
B.Lwt. 233.300.Capt.
Issued Sept. 21, 1789.
No papers
CONTENTS
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34668
Revy INVALID
File No. 34,668
William Bruce
Capt R. S. A.
Act: 18 March 18
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 419
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(100)
Maryland
William Bruce,
Col. Smallwood Captain, Maryd
Army U. States.
At $20 per mo: comd. 30th March, 1818.
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Certified 6th April 1818 [illegible]
reced to Mr Haw, of the Register's
Office, Treasury Department
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[illegible] to 4th Sept 1878. 5 3/28 mos. $102.14
Revd .Claim 
Act 18th March, 1818
Maryland Line
[illegible] - Seven Years

Charles
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Maryland
Art: to be deliverd to
Mr Haw of the [illegible] office: Apr 6 1828
 
W C Calhoun 
Secretary of War
the United States 
Washington City
1818.9.4
1818.3.29
5 3/28
20
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$100
9.14
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$102.14

20,214
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28/6000
56
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40
28
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$102
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Charles County and State of Maryland
This is to certify that Colonel William Bruce of
Charles County and State of Maryland a distinguished revolutionary soldier personally appeared before me and made oath to the following declaration of facts.
That he the said William Bruce of the County and State aforesaid enlisted and entered as a soldier early in the Army of the State of Maryland [crossed out text] in a company of riflemen commanded by Captain George Thicker attached to Colonel William Smallwood's Regiment of regular
troops raised for the Defence of the State of Maryland in January 1776, and continued in that Regiment as a soldier until December of the said year, when he was appointed a second Lieutenant in Captain John H. Beans company in the first regiment of Continental
troops commanded by Colonel John H. Stone and continued in the said command untill the year 1780 when he was promoted to a captaincy in the said Regiment, and ordered to join the Southern army in which service he continued untill after the defeat at Camden when he was ordered and marched to the ┃
Northward and served in a detachment of Continental troops under the command of Major Thomas Lansdale consisting of five companies in the year 1782 and marched to join General Washington to the Eastward. And
(after the cessation of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain) marched to the State of Maryland and was in November 1783 disbanded when the Maryland line of the [illegible]of the United States was discharged and that he is in reduced circumstances-

Sworn before me one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland this thirtieth day of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
John Rousby Plater
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State of Maryland Charles County Sect 
I Hereby Certify that the Honorable John Rosby Plater before whom the witness deposition appears to have been made and whose name is thereto subscribed was on the day of the date thereof, and still is one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial
District of Maryland comprehending the Counties of Saint Marys, Charles and Prince George duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as thereafter
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this third day of April
Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
John Barnes Clk of
Charles County Court
The Honorable
The Secretary of War
Sir
I have in persuance of the directions of the act of Congress of the present session inclosed a
certificate and the oath of a meritorious revolutionary soldier distinguished for his long faithful and constant duties during that glorious contest-- this advanced age
and reduced circumstances bring him within the provisions of the law; and all Maryland know his worth valour and services. And it affords me pleasure in transmitting the necessary documents
I am Sir with great consideration & Respect
Charles County Maryland
March 30th 1841
Yr Obt Sert
JR Plater
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1818.9.4
1818.3.29
5 3/28
20
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$100
9.14
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$102.14

20,214
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28/6000
56
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40
28
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$102

The Honble
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
of the United States
Washington City

Maryland
Art: to be deliverd to
Mr Haw of the [illegible] office: Apr 6 1828