Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], John Wills, Md. Agency
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Wills, John

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Dallas Texas
5415 Bryan St
Oct 24, 1928

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you please give me a record of the pension claim of John Wills, Private, revolutionary army of Baltimore Co. MD - Pension under act of June 7, 1785 - U.S. Pension Rolls of 1835 - P. 11

Thanking you

Sincerely

Elsie Wills
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Rev & 1812 Wars Section
MNHF/eel

November 10, 1928

Elsie Wills
5415 Bryan Street
Dallas, Texas

Madam:

I advise you that this bureau has no papers on file in the revolutionary war claim for pension of John Wills whose name is recorded on the Baltimore County, Maryland list of Invalid Pensioners printed in 1835 and quoted by you.

That report shows him to have been a revolutionary war soldier who was pensioned under the act of June 7, 1785, pension commended March 4, 1789.

Many of the applications for pension which were made under the early invalid pension acts were destroyed by fire when the War Office was burned in 1800 and 1814 hence the bureau has no further record of these soldiers than what is recorded on the printed list.

You will note the asterisk in the column following his name, the explanation of which is on page 2 of the book cited by you.

Respectfully, 

E W Morgan
Acting Commissioner