Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,838, for William Marr, Maryland
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Marr, William
Airey
NUMBER
W. 3.838
CONTENTS
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Sent to Hon. Jas. Turner,
H.R. Jan. 9. 1836

(2591)
Maryland Roll
William Marr
Maryland Private line
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 on
the 27th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd of Sept 1818 and sent to F. G. Hands. Agent
Baltimore Maryland
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818    34.13
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819   48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 8/30   $82.13
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
One year
Baltimore County
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Reported.
A L July Hs
March 27/56
Maryland 46.
Airey Marr
widow of William Marr
who was a private M.d
in the Maryland line for 15 months.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
50 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of April 1843 and sent to 
Alexander Yearley Esq
Baltimore Maryland
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1.  Page 143.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sc
ON this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appears before me the undersigned, William Marr of the County of Baltimore and State of Maryland aged about sixty five years, an applicant for a pension " under the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United Stated in the Revolutionary War, and then and there made the following declaration on oath by me administered, " that he enlisted at Baltimore in the Month of April 1776 into Captain Nathaniel Ramsay's Company of the Maryland Regiment commanded by Col Smallwood- was first mustered at Whetstone Point (now called fort McHenry) send to Elkton by water, was sent from thence to the Northward, where he was engaged in the battles of Long Island, White Plains & and severely wounded at the "white plains" and sent to the "Hospital at North Castle" - after he recovered from said wound, rejoined the regiment at "Kings ferry, New York" - sometime after the Regiment returning to Baltimore, where he continued until the middle of the year 777 and was then honorably
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discharged, having served the time for which he entered the service, - that his name hath never been enscribed on any pension list, therefore hath none to relinquish and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support
William his mark Marr
Subscribed and Sworn to before me
S Price Chief Judge
Balt. City Court

City of Baltimore Sc
I hereby certify that the said William Marr in addition to the above declaration under Oath, brought before me a certain Charles Griffith of the said City, whose deposition is hereto annexed from which documents it appears to my satisfaction that the said WIlliam Marr served in the Revolutionary War against the Common enemy in the continental service and is entitled to a pension under the late Act of Congress
S. Price Chief Judge Balt City Court
April 27. 1818.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sc
On this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigned, Charles Griffith of the City of Baltimore, who being by me duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he enlisted at Baltimore in the REvolutionary war under 
Cpt Z McKubbin in Col. Hall Regiment and well knows William Marr now present to have been in the said service on the Continental Establishment, that they both served in the same year- and that the said "Marr" continued therein, agreeable to the fact set forth in his aforegoing declaration
Chas Griffith
Subscribed and sworn to before me-
S  Price Chief Judge Balt City Court
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City of Baltimore Lc
I do from the best information I can obtain certify that the within applicant William Marr is in extreme reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support - 
Given under my hand this 18th day of June 1818
S Price
Chief Judge Balt
17 June 1818
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City of Baltimore Sc
I THomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the aforegoing proceedings were taken and certified, and who hath thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of taking and certifying the name and still is chief Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his Acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand and seal of the said Court this twenty seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and eighteen
Th Harwood 
Baltimore City Court
J. C. Calhoun Esq
Hon Sir
When you are pleased to grant me a pension certificate, please forward the same to me directed to the care of Thomas Bailey Esquire Post Office Baltimore
William his mark Marr
Witness P. W. Bands
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State of Maryland
Baltimore City Court
June  Term 1838
On this Eight day of September eighteen juncred and thirty eight personally appeared in open court Airey Marr, a resident of Baltimore Countyin the state of Maryland aforesaid, aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of William Marr, who was a soldier of the Maryland line, in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States about the years 1818 and 1819;  that she as the widow of him the said William Marr did receive a balance of pension due to him at the time of his death, about July 1819:  And she refers to the proofs on file at the Pension office, and the Treasury Department, as to his military services in the War of the Revolution, and to her legal character as his widow:  She further declares that she was married to the said William Marr on the fourteenth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty four; and that her husband the said William Marr died on the third day of July eighteen hundred and nineteen:  that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four vet[illegible] on the day and year above stated
Airey Marr her mark
Witness A. Con Yearly
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
S Brice Chief Judge Br Ct Ct [illegible]
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State of Maryland Baltimore City Sct I hereby certify that the Honble Nicolas Brice before whom the witness declaration was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of foregoing chief judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and sworn and to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are due ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereous[illegible]
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 10th day of September in the year 1838
Mmelle Medcalfe [illegible]
Balto City Court
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Sct

I hereby certify that on the fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty four a License issued from the office of the Clerk of Baltimore County Court directs to the Reverent W. West, or any other person qualified by Law to celebrate the rules of Marriage between a certain William Marr and Airey Owings of Baltimore County according to Law there appearing to the said West no lawful cause of just impediment by reason of any consanguinity or affinity to hinder the same.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of Baltimore County Court this 7th day of August 1838.
H Pell Clk BaltoCoCt
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore SS
On this third day of September eighteen hundred and thirty eight, Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore aforesaid Personally appeared Arthur McLean aged Seventy Seven years, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and and saith that about thirty eight years ago he became acquainted with William Marr and his known and acknowledged wife Airy Marr residents of Baltimore County; that they ranked with respectable farmers and raised in credit a family of children;  that he died many years ago leaving the Said Airey Marr his widow with whom he this deponent had been acquainted over since her said husbands death; that she has not married again but still remained the widow of him the said William Marr, who, as he this deponent always heard and believed was a soldier of the Revolution and pensioner of the United States at the time of his death
Sworn to and subscribed by the said 
Arthur McLean  his mark: 
Witness Thomas[illegible] Blair
Before me:
[more text obscured by black area]
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore SS
On this 29th day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight - Before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, for the City of Baltimore aforesaid, personally appeared Charles Wooden a resident of Baltimore County in the State aforesaid, aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with William Marr (dcd, late of Baltimore County) about sixty years ago:  that he became acquainted with Airey Marr, Wife of said William Marr upwards of Fifty years ago: and that he was acquainted with them from that time, until the death of said William Marr, which to the best of his recollection took place about 19 years ago; that he had been acquainted with Airey Marr, widow of said William Marr ever since her said husbands death, and that she has not been married again, but now remains still the widow of him the said William Marr, and that she resided in Baltimore County aforesaid.  He further deposeth and saith that he has often heard the said William Marr related about his services in the War of the Revolution.
Chs Wooden
Sworn to and subscribed before me William Warfield
And I do hereby certify that the above named Charles Wooden who in my presence subscribed his name to the aforegoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the statements therein made is known to me as a respectable citizen of Baltimore County, in whose testimony full faith and credit is and ought to be given, In testimony whereof I do hereto set my hand this 29th day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight
William Warfield
A Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore
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State of Maryland Baltimore County SS
I hereby certify that James Blair and William Warfield gentleman before whom the aforegoing  
courthen[illegible] depositions  were made and who have thereto signed their names were at the time of so doing Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the CIty of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of Baltimore County Court this 7th day of September 1838
Tho Heacll [illegible]
Balto Co Crt

V1527
Airey Marr
Maryland
Admitted 15 months the time of service states [several illegible words] declaration no action of military service [several illegible words]
Died Dec 5 1829
Preston list
it not being specific to the claimant's husband
Per 15 mos [illegible]
H50.-
March 25
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Baltimore Sept 1838
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Believing as I do that my case is embraced in the provisions of the act of Congress of July 7 1838 granting half pay and pension to certain Widows - I herewith send you my declaration with the accompanying proofs and references which are all respectfully submitted to your decision[illegible]
Your most obt Servt
Airey Marr her mark
Widow of William Marr

Witness
WIlliam Marr
Please direct to care of Alex Yeardley
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Lib to Hon S. Hillen Jr, HR.
Jan 9. 1841

2180
Maryland
Airey Marr
widow of William Marr decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 3d July 1819 of Baltimore in the State of Md 
who was a Private in the company commanded 
by Captain Ramsay of the Regt commanded 
by Col Smallwood in the Md line for 15 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Md
at the rate of 50 dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Mar. 1839 and sent to Alexr Yearley Baltimore Md.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '39,                $150.00
semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 39, 25.00
                                                              $ 175.00

Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D. hl Addison Clerk
Book A  Vol 20  Page 175 [this line illegible]
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Land Office, Annapolis, August 25th 1836
I hereby certify that it appears by an Alphabetical List of Discharged Soldiers of the two Battalions of Militia raised to serve nine months or until the 10th day of December 1781" that the name of William Mar, appears upon said list, to have been discharged on the 3rd day of December 1781, and to have received L 11.13.4 - 
 George G. Brewer
Regr Land Off. W S Md
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Airey Marr
Maryland
Suspended
See let 24th Oct
1838 A. Yearley
Act of July 1838
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BANKING HOUSE 
OF 
A.L. YERBY & CO.
WASHINGTON Mar 10th 1856

Hon J. Minot
Comm of Pensions
Sir
We have your favor of with stated enclosures the enclose authority from William Marr son of Wm Marr decd a Revolutionary Pensioner of Md per act 1818
He alleged service from April 1776 to the middle of the year 1777 in the continental line of Md  Please examine his papers and your rolls and inform us if said serviced is proved
Respectfully yours
A.L. Yerby and Co
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Mary
Nov 10
Add proof 
Airey Marr
of July   1527

[postal stamp BALTIMORE MD  NOV 9]

B. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Baltimore Nov 9 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Yours of 24th October last relative to the case of Mrs. Airey Marr, widow of William Marr, dec was duly rec. and in pursuance of your advice I wrote to George G. Brewer Esq Annapolis, for information relative to the duration of the services of William Marr, who, as you state, alleged to have enlisted under Capt. Nath. Rawlings, Smallwoods Regt in the year 1776:  Mr. Brewer, in answer, tell me there are not any records or rolls now remaining in his office which will cast any light on that question- I send you, however, a certificate which shows a service of nine months in the year 1781.

Now, it would seem evident that William Marr, in order to obtain a pension under the law of 1818 must have proved a service of at least nine months under his alleged enlistment in 1776.  and there is another period of 9 months service under an enlistment in 1781. making at least a service of 18 months.

The above is all the light we can show as to the duration of his services - only a traditionary report that in the early part of the Revolution he served a long time at the North.

Be pleased to decide the case record according to the testimony now with you.

Respectfully
your obt servt
Alex Yearley
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Jan 9 1841
Jpm Marr,
Month [illegible] 1818

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington

Hon S Hillen Jr
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Jan 8th 1841
House of Representatives

Dear Sir, 
You will oblige me by sending me the regulations or forms of evidence in relation to pensions, as requested in the enclosed letter.
Respectfully 
Sol. Hillen Jr

J. S. Edwards Esq
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Revy WIDOW,  & c.
File No. 3838
Airey Marr
Wid. 
Wm Marr
Pvt. Va. line
Act:  Mach. 3d/43
Index:-Vol. A, Page 2

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jw

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esq.
Secretary of War
"Pension Office"
Washington

Admitted

postal stamp BALTIMORE JUN 18
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G Boyd Esq.-
Sir
In conformity to your instruction the enclosed have been corrected
Yr. Obt Se.
L. G. Hand

Balt. June 18  1818
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108  Apl 3 1843
Md
Mar 3 1843
Airey Marr

postal stamp BALTIMORE MD APR 1

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore  S.S.

ON this first day of April eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore, in Baltimore County, Airey Marr, a resident of said county aged 79 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd  March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:  that she is a widow of WIlliam Marr who served in the militia of the state of Maryland in the service of the Unites States in the War of the Revolution:  that she has received a pension of fifty dollars per annum for five years under the act of July 7 1838.  She further declared that she Still remains a widow.

Airey Marr  her mark
Witness
JW. P. Heath

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me the subscriber- and I do hereby certify that the above declarant Airey Marr is personally know to me.
JW.P. Heath

State of Maryland
Baltimore County SS
Thereby certify that James P Heath Gentleman before whom the above declaration was mad and by whom the above certificate was given and who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State aforesaid and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof thereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 1st day of April 1843
Thos Kell Clk
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Baltimore April 1st 1843

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir

Herewith I send you my Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 March 1843, granting pensions under the act of July 7 1838.  Be pleased to direct for me the care of Alex Yearley Baltimore.

Your obt Servant
Airey Marr   her mark

Witness
George Owings