Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35122, Charles Williams, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md. Williams, Charles
NUMBER
S. 35122
B.L.Wt. 11848-100
CONTENTS
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office
May 18th 1840
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Mary 1 of 2 childn of Charles Williams, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland Agency, at
the rate of Eight Dollars and [line indicating zero] Cents per [strike through] annum, [handwritten] Month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 16th Feb'y 1839, the day of his death,
Respectfully, yours,
Allis K. Paris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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12,039 R
Maryland Roll.
Charles Williams
of St Marys Co. in the State of Maryland
who was a Private in the [insert text here symbol] 3d Maryland regiment commanded by [overwritten text  Colonel] Capt Marbury of the Maryland
line, for the term of 3 years, [signed] SO W. aV
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 5. of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19. of June 1818,
and delivered to Capt. Henry O.
Neale, Wash. City.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819.....80."
[" used as a symbol for zero cents]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4. 1819... 48."
[" used as a symbol for zero cents]
arr.s 10 months. $128."
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued notification
sent Oct. 4th 1820 to Joseph
Harris Esq. Leonard Lewis
M8h
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Nov. 23.d 1833 dup certif. [illegible] and given to his son same day. --
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept 1838 to 16 Feby 1839 the day of his death. Agent notified 4 April 1840
---
Paid as above to Mary Hill of the 2 children. Agent notefied 3d June 1840.
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Maryland
First Judicial District of Maryland Saint Marys County -
On this 5th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland composed of the Counties of Saint Marys, Charles and Prince Georges personally appears Charles Williams aged 57 years resident in Saint Marys County in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war; that he the said Charles Williams enlisted in March 1780 in the company commanded by Joseph Marbury attached to [of crossed out] the 3d Maryland regiment That he continued to serve to the end of the war in the service of the United States, when he was discharged from service at Frederick Town in Maryland - That he was in the battle of Camden, Gilford Court House. Ninety Six and Eutaw and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
J R Plater
I John R Plater associate Judge as aforisaid [aforesaid] do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Charles Williams did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceeding and Testimony taken and had
before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - May 5.th 1818. -
J R Plater
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Maryland Saint Marys County towit [to wit] 

I Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Mary's County Court hereby certify that the Honorable John R Plater Esquire, who appear to have taken and signed the within declaration, was at the time of so doing and still is one of the associate Judges of 
the County Court of Saint Marys, Charles and Prince Georges, being the first Judicial district of Maryland, duly Commissioned and qualified and that to all his acts as such due faith and credit is and ought to be given, as well in Court of Justice as thereout
[white paper with zig zag edges attached to left margin]
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of Office this Seventh day of May Eighteen hundred & Eighteen
Jo. Harris, clk [clerk]
S Mays County
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Charles Williams's Schedule
12,139
Septr. [September] 1819
CM
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State of Maryland first Judicial District
on this Eleventh day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record having unlimitted original Jurisdiction with a  power to fine & Committ for the first Judicial District aforesaid, Charles
Williams aged about 56 and a resident of Saint Marys County Maryland, who being duly sworn according to Law on his oath declare as follows, that he enlisted as a private in April 1780 in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Marbury of the third Maryland Regiment under Colonel
Gunbey for three years, and was discharged at Frederick in Maryland in April 1783 at the close of the war. that he was in the battles, Camden, Gilford, Eutaw, Springs and [illegible] and that on the 5th day of May 1818 he made his first application for a pension and that the number of his certificate is 12039. and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 5 day of May 1818 and that I have not since that
time by Gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service in the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 March 1818. and that I have not nor any person for me in trust any property, securities, contracts or debts due
me, nor have I any income other that that contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed save only $40 received annually from the state of Maryland
A Schedule of property-- none-
Debts due from me
John C Asheam $16 00
Thomas Allertan  30 00
Clement Knoll  19 00
the
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The heirs of Jesse Indan    80 00
Chances Simms      1 62[illegible]
Calvert Egerton      24 00
Mills Alvey & Co    15 00
Charley Turner         3 00
his
Charles X Williams
Mark
That he is old and infirm and unable to pursue any occupation but of a drover - that he has six children between the age of ten and twenty five years four males
and three daughters all of whom hire themselves out and work for themselves
Sworn to and declared on the Eleventh day of August 1820 in open Court
Jno [John] Johnson
I, Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Marys County Court Company in part the first Judicial
District of Maryland do hereby certify that the aforegoing [foregoing] oath and schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of Saint Marys  County Court this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty
Jo Harris Clk [clerk] 
St Marys Cy Court
[white paper with zig zag edges attached to left margin]
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James Williams.
Present.
Charlotte Hall
St Mary's Hall 
Md.
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Application for a new certificate
State of Maryland Saint Marys County ss 
On this fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty three, before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the said County of the State of Maryland, personally appeared Charles Williams who, on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by
Captain Joseph Marberry in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gunby in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maryland, that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the secretary of War of which the within is a true copy, which original certificate
on or about the thirtieth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty three, at or near the dwelling house of his son James Williams in the County aforesaid, he lost the said original certificate
his
Charles X Williams
Mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid}
Charles C. Egerton
War Department
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818. Charles Williams, late a private in the army
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of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Maryland agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the fifth day of May one thousand eighteen hundred and eighteen
Given at the war office of the United States this nineteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Signed, J.L. Edwards
in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War

State of Maryland Saint Marys County
On this fifteenth day of November 1833 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for said County of the State of Maryland, personally appears James Rich, who made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the aforegoing [foregoing] is a true copy of the original certificate that was held by Charles Williams on the ninth day of October 1828, and that he well
knows the said Charles Williams, and that he is the identical person described in the within affidavit
Sworn to before
Charles C. Egerton

State of Maryland Saint Marys County ss
I hereby certify that the within named James Rich deposing to the indentity [identity] of Charles Williams, is a person of veracity, and one whose oath may be relied on, given under my hand this fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Charles C. Egerton
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Maryland Saint Mary's County Court
I hereby certify that Charles C Egerton Gentleman before whom the aforegoing [foregoing] and annexed affidavit appears to have been made and who hath thereto subscribed his name thereto was at the time of so doing and Still is a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Saint Mary's County aforesaid duly Commissioned and Sworn and that to all acts by him done in that Capacity full faith and credit are due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I hereto Subscribe my name and affix the seal of my office this twentieth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three
Jo. Harris Clk [clerk] 
St. Mary's County Court
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
12-9-91
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Williams, Charles GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11848 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED January 30, 1794 to Emanuel Frances
assignee

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the Nar Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

July 3, 1928.

Mrs. M. L. Ingle,
Bondurant,
Iowa.

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 35122, it appears that Charles Williams
enlisted March 27, 1780, place not stated, and served as a
private in Captain Joseph Marbury's Company, served int he
Third Maryland Regiment and in Colonel Gunby's Maryland
Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford, Ninety
Six and Eutaw Springs. Two weeks before his term of service
expired he went as a guard with prisoners from Annapolis,
Maryland to Fredericktown, Maryland, under Captain Beatty and
Major Hardman and was discharged April 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May
5, 1818 while a resident of St. Marys County, Maryland, aged
fifty-seven years.
In 1820 he stated he had "six children between the ages
of ten and twenty-five years, four males and three daughters",
names not stated. A son, James, is reffered to in 1833.
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Soldier died February 16, 1839. He was survived by
two children, Mary Hill, is the only name given.
The above history is that of the only Charles Williams
who served in the Maryland Troops found on the Revolutionary
War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,

E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner.

COPIED BY ADY
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 13th. 1840
Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, one of the 2 childrn [children] of Charles Williams, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars and cents per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid 1/2 of said pension at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838. to the 16th Feb'y 1839, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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Charles Williams private
80 was Capt [Captain] Marbury
Maryland line
Date of decr 5 May 1818
wanted the Judge's certificate
of the necessitious circumstances of the applicant.

[Let to R. Lookerman Esqr [esquire] Auditor Genl [general] Annapolis for proof of service crossed out]
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 28th 1819
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Charles Williams enlisted as a private in the Third -- Maryland
Regiment, on the Twenty Seventh day of March 1780 and was [discharged on the crossed out] present Nov. 1780
Thos [Thomas] Karney
And. S. M.
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Additional proof --
The aforesaid applicant Charles Williams of Saint Marys County
Maryland, is a very poor man, and stands extremely in need of the assistance of his country probably as much so as any applicant under the pension law. And altho [although] the certificate of the Auditor of Maryland Shews that he enlisted in March 1780, and was present in Novr [November] 1780- yet from a variety of proof before me of soldiers that served to the end of the revolutionary war [with crossed out] under oath, I have not the smalest [smallest] doubt of his having served the length of time - and that he was a faithful soldier. The following facts strongly corroborate this proof to wit, He was allowed by the United States 100 acres of Land for his services in the now State of Ohio also by the State of Maryland fifty acres of land westward of Fort Cumberland-- These were grants to soldiers that were in actual service at the close of the war - They conclusively shew
that some mistake has occured [occurred] in not infesting his name on the muster roll for a longer period. He was certainty three years in the army - For it is farther in proof before me that at the time of the peace he was sent with the troops from Charles Town South Carolina to Annapolis in Maryland, his time not being expired by two weeks, he was marched to Frederick Town Maryland under Captain Beatty and Major Hardman as a guard to Burgoynes troops then prisoners at that place. where he served untill [until] he was discharged
given under my hand one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland
John Rousby Plater
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Wt.  11, 848 issued Jany [January]  30, 1794 to Emanuel France ass. for
Charles Williams
100 acres Pri, Md. troops
from Bty [bounty]  Land Records Vol. 4.
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Leonard Town, Md}
17th May}
The Honble [honorable] 
John C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
old card
Free
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Sir
I have the pleasure of returning the application Charles Williams an extremely poor old man with additional proof taken before me-- which leaves no doubt on my mind
that he served three years and to the end of the revolutionary war. It is probable there is no no applicant under the pension law [illegible crossed out] that is more needy, and is more in want of the assistance of his county. I have the honor
to be Respectfully 
yr obt. servt [your obedient servant]
J R Plater
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35 122
Revy INVALID.

File No. 35,122
Charles Williams
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 457
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1915 Oct. 8. Hist to Iva S. Williams. [cents sign[
1928 July 3 Mrs. M. L. Ingle fur. Hist. A. D. Y.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
Dear Sir: 
I have received the 
record of Charles
Williams who
was enlisted in the
Revolutionary War
in the State of 
Maryland, the 3rd
Regiment.
Can you give me
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any information regarding
this man, as to the
town in which he lived
prior to his enlistment
any other information
will be greatly appreciated
Thanking you in
advance, I am,
Yours Truly
Iva S Williams

 Hampton, Iowa
Sept. 30, 1915
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Mrs. M. L. Ingles
Bondurant
Iowa

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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9-26-1927
Dear Sir. Charles Williams,
wife Elizabeth, D. service
of us signed Lodowick Kemp
CT 21 March 1783. From
the minute book of the
Orphans Court Frederick co
Md. Record obtained from
County Court note book Publication
Sept 1924 Page 37.
Could you send me all 
you have on this Rev. Soldier
& family with dates
and locations
I thank you
Mrs. ML. Ingle
Above publication put out by
Milnor Ljungstedt,
Columbian Printing Press
Washington DC over
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reply to your request of (line), received (line)
statement of the military history of Charles Williams
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in the Bureau. S. 35122
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT ON
APPOINTMENT.
Mch 27 1780
disch frederick town Md.
LENGTH OF 
SERVICE.
Apl. 1783
RANK.
Private
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Joseph Marbury
Beatty
COLONEL
Col. Gunby's Md. Regt.
Major Hardman
STATE.
3d Md.
Battles engaged in, Camden, Guilford, Ninety-six & Eutaw
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, May 5 1818, the claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, St. Marys Co. Md.
Age at date of application, 57 years.
Remarks: In 1820 he stated he had "six children between the ages of 10 &
25 years, 4 males & 3 daughters" names not stated son James referred to in 1833.
soldier died Feby. 16, 1839 & two children referred to, Mary Hill
only name stated.
Respectfully
Commissioner.