Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35090, for Jacob Sutton, Maryland
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(3-1776)
Service Md. Sea Service
Sutton, Jacob
Number S 35090
Contents _____________
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5832 Maryland
Jacob Sutton, Seaman
Ship Defense, Nicholson
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 20 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issues the 27 of Jan 1819 and Sent to William Scott Esq. Chester Town Maryland
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 2 mp 15/50 19.99
Semi-anl. all'ce eding March 1819 48.
$67.99
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
76. Two years 
Continued
Notification sent November 9 1820 to William Scott, Chestertown, Maryland. [sideways]
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Jacob Sutton 
5832
March 1819
[faint, maybe erased pencil]
Wm. Scott
Chestertown
MD
9th Nov
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Schedule
Maryland Kent County [can't make out]
On this twenty ninth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record and having the power of fines and imprisonment, for the said county of Kent, in the State of Maryland Jacob Sutton aged sixty years, resident in Kent County in said State of Maryland who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he enlisted on board the man of war Defence at Sassapass [too faint] in December 1776 as a seaman under Captain James Nicholson, and that he served in the same three years according to his original declaration made and transmitted to the war department in the year 1818. That he has been placed on the pension roll of the United States for the State of Maryland and has pension and certificate signed by the secretary of war dated the 27 day of January eighteen hundred and nine  No 5832
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March, 1818 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 promising of an act of Congress entitle "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land an naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary
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Service
Md. Sea Service
Sutton, Jacob
Number
S 35090
Contents
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children are all too young to be of any assistance to him & without the charitable aid of his neighbors he would be unable to live
Sworn to and declared on the twenty ninth day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty Before Lemuel Purnell associate Judge of the second judicial district of Maryland
S. William Scott clerk of the county court do herby certify that the forgoing oath, [too faint] thereto answered are truly a [too faint] from the [too faint] 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 [too faint] in the aforesaid schedule is forty-five

in signing whereof I have thereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said court on this 29th day of September 1820
William Scott Clerk of the court for the county of Kent of the second judicial district of the state of Maryland
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State of Maryland
Kent county Sa } Be it remembered  on the 20th day of June in the year 1818 came before the subscriber an associate Judge of the second judicial District of the State of Maryland Jacob Sutton and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he enlisted in the Naval services of the United States in the beginning of the year 1776 in the Ship Defence commanded first by commadore Nicholson & then by Capt^n Cook & that he continued in the service of the United States under those officers & others for two years when he was regularly discharged by Capt^n Thomas Walker who commanded a row gally onboard of which this deponant had entered after leaving the ship Defence. This Deponant also makes oath that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his
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country for support
Sworn to before me
ThoWorrell

I certify that I am satisfied from the testimony of Jacob Sutton who declares that he knows no person living who served at the same time with him & that the said Jacob Sutton served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy for two years from the first day of January 1776 and that the said Jacob Sutton is advanced in life with a large family and is reduced circumstances and is entitled to and needs the assistance of his country for support
Chester Town
20th June 1818
ThoWorrell
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Maryland Kent County sc
I hereby certify that Thomas Worrell Esquire who has subscribed his name to the within Probat [probate]  and who has likewise given the within certificate was at the time of his so doing and still is one of the associate Judges of the second Judicial District of the State of Maryland and duly Commissioned and sworn and that to all acts done by him as such due faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereout
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this twenty fourth day of June eighteen hundred and eighteen 
William Scott Clerk
Kent County Court
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invalid
navy 
navy
File no. 35090
Jacob Sutton
Seaman
Ship Defence
Rev War
Act 18th March 1818
Index: Vol. [blank], Page [blank]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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180   180
Maryland
schedules
Rec^d. 12 Oct 1820
Jacob Sutton.
Chester Town Md. Oct 9 [perpendicular to previous]

[illegible. written through preceding text] The Secretary of War W.S.
Washington D.C.
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Chester Town
7^th October 1820 
The Able, The Secretary at War
The undersigned has the honor to forward the inclosed [enclosed] at the instance of Mr. Sutton & solicits such further instructions as will ennable  [enable] him to obtain his pension
Respectfully
WmScott