Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,721, Andrew Craven, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

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Craven, Andrew

NUMBER
S. 34,721

CONTENTS
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34721
INVALID
Revolutionary

File Number 34,721
Andrew Craven

Act 18" March 18"
Index: -- Volume D, Page 88

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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7500
Maryland
Andrew Craven
Harford in the state of Maryland
was a Private in the regiment commanded by
colonel Williams of the Maryland
line, for the term of 5 years.

Subscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on 
the 21st of August 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of March 18[?]
and sent to Walter Dorsen
Harford County, Maryland
Arrears to 4th of March 1859 to 7/35 $49.80
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September  1859. 
$48
$97.80
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
Hartford County, Maryland
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State of Maryland
Harford County Silicet

On this twenty ninth day of August 1818 before me the subscriber Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial district of Maryland personally appeared Andrew Craven aged sixty six years resident in Harford County in the said district who being by me first duly sworn doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the [illegible] made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel [naval] service of the United States in the revolutionary war"
That he the said Andrew Craven in the year 1777 enlisted as a private Soldier in the Sixth Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Otho Williams and in the Company commanded by Captain Joshua Miles of that regiment in the County of Harford in the state aforesaid; that he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the United
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States until the year 1781.
When he was discharged from service in Middle Brook in the state of New Jersey, that he was in the battles of the White Plains and Monmouth and that he is in reduce circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support;  and  that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said services.
Walter Dorsey

I, Walter Dorsey. Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial district of the state of Maryland as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Andrew Craven did service in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for three years, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support in the Continental establishment and I now transmit to the proceedings and testimony taken and that before me for the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the discretion of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Walter Dorsey
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State of Maryland
Hartford County
I hereby certify that the honorable Walter Dorsey, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and by whom the aforegoing certificate is as given and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time afor doing,  and now is, Chief Judge of the sixth judicial district of the state of Maryland, duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twenty ninth day of August eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Henry Dorsey, Clerk Harford
County Court