Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34897, Edward Gerrish, Md.
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Service Md
Gerrish, Edward
S34897
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12059R
Maryland
Edward Gerrish
of Lacil Co in the state of MA
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Williams of the Maryland
line, for the term of 5 years 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of June 1819 and sent to H. D. Miller, Eltaon.
Maryland

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10mo 22/31 4/31 86, 70. Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819.
48,
$13470

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

right side notation:
notification seal November 14 1540
James Yuvall, Eckton, Maryland
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Copy 244
Edward Gerrish
Oath Schedule &c
as a pensioner under
the late Act of
Congress

12050
[illegible]
Con
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State of Maryland Cecil County To wit

On this eleventh day of Septemr. 1820 personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of Record
for the Second Judicial District for the State of Maryland
proceeding according to the course of the common law
with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and keeping
a record of its proceeding Edward Gerrish aged
sixty seven years resident in Cecil County in said
district 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
in the year 1778 at Elkton in Cecil County in said
State in Capt. Henry Dobsons company attached
to the Sixth Maryland Regiment commanded by
Col. Williams; that he served in the said regiment
until he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Camden;
that he was afterwards exchanged and served until
the termination of the war when he received his
discharge at Annapolis from Genl. Smallwood, which
he hath since lost; That he was engaged in the 
Battles of Monmouth, Stoney Point & was afterwards
ordered to the southward and was engaged in the
Battle of Camden where he was taken prisoner; That
he made a declaration in conformity to the Act
of the 18th March 1818 in Cecil County Court on
or about the 9th April 1818 and obtained a pension
under said Act his certificate being numbered 12059.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen
of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that 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 provisions of an act of Congress entitled
an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in
Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818.
and
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And that I have not nor has any person in trust for
me any property, or securities, contracts, or debts
due to me, nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed
and by me subscribed.
Sworn to in Open Court
James Sewall

Schedule
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No property of any kind whatever, except a
bed and bedding, and his wearing apparel.
That he owes no debts, and has none owing to him
That he is a miller by trade but has been disabled
by age & sickness being afflicted with a rupture
and infirmities from following his trade
and pursuing any occupation or business for
many years; That he has no family but one
daughter with whom he lives, who is aged
upwards of thirty years and is a widow with
one child, and no property but a few house
hold goods.
Witness
James Sewall  Edward his X mark Gerrish

Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the
11th September 1820.

Before me the subscriber Chief Judge
of the Second Judicial district of Maryland
composed of the counties of Talbot Queen Annes
& Kent and Cecil County aforesaid.
Rd. T. Earle
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I James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath
and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the record of said Court; and I do further
certify that is the opinion of the said Court,
that the total amount in value of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court this 11th day of Septr. 1820.
James Sewall Clerk of the Court
for the County of Cecil
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State of Maryland Cecil County To wit:

Edward Gerrish, a citizen of the United States
of America, and at this time residing in Cecil County
in the State of Maryland, doth depose declare & say
that he enlisted in June 1778 in Captain Henry Dobsons
company of infantry, attached to the Sixth Regiment
of the Maryland line, commanded by Col. Williams,
that he continued in the said company and regiment
until he was taken prisoner by the enemy at the
Battle of Camden in South Carolina, from whence
this Deponent was taken to Charleston, and then detained
as a prisoner near a twelvemonth, when he was [word struck out]
sent to James Town in Virginia and there exchanged
and was then attached to a company of United States
infantry commanded by Captain Pett in the said Sixth
Regiment [words struck out]in which he continued
until the termination of the war, when he received
an honorable discharge at Annapolis in the said State
of Maryland from General Smallwod, which said
discharge this Deponent hath long since lost or mislaid,
and that this Deponent by reason of his extreme poverty
and reduced circumstances needs the assistance of his
country for support, possessing no property of any kind
whatsoever, and subsisting entirely upon the charity of others.

State of Maryland Cecil County To Wit: April Court 1819.

Then appeared in open Court the above named Edward
Gerrish and made oath upon the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God, that the several facts and circumstances
stated above are just and true.
Sworn to in open Court James Sewall
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Maryland Cecil County To Wit.

It appears to the satisfaction of the undersigned
Judges of the Judicial district of Maryland comprising
the counties of Talbot, Queen Annes, Kent and Cecil
that the before named Edward Gerrish served in the
Revolutionary War upwards of nine months on the
Continental Establishment, and that he is in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of
his country for support.
9th April 1819.  Rd. T. Earle
Tho Worrell

State Maryland Cecil County Ss.

I hereby certify that Richard T. Earle and
Thomas Worrell Esquires, gentlemen before
whom the aforegoing declarations appear to
have been made, and whose are subscribed
above, were at the time of so doing and
still are, two of the Judges of the Second
Judicial District of the State of Maryland
duly commissioned qualified and sworn
and to all whose acts as such due faith and
credit are and ought to be given as well
in courts of Justice as thereout.
[Blurred seal of office] In testimony whereof I hereto
set my hand and affix the public
seal of my office this seventeenth
day of April eighteen hundred
and nineteen. 1819.
James Sewall, Clk. of
Cecil County Court
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State of Maryland Cecil County Sct.

On this 17th day of April, in the year 1819, personally
appeared before the subscriber, one of the State of Marylands
Justices of the peace, in and for the County aforesaid
Henry D. Miller, and being duly sworn upon the Holy
Evangely of Almighty God, doth depose declare and say,
that sometime during the month of April last, he the
said Deponent enclosed and sent on by mail, directed
to the Secretary at War, the Declarations of Samuel
McConnell, Edward Gerrish, and Robert Crouch
taken before the Judges of Cecil County Court, and
duly attested and certified, and that the said
Declarations and Attestations were to the best of this
Deponent's knowledge and belief dated on the
9th day of April 1818, and were taken for the
purpose of obtaining pensions under the late Act
of Congress.
Sworn and subscribed  Henry D. Miller
on this 17th day of April 1819,
before Will Hewitt,

State of Maryland, Cecil County Ss.

I hereby certify that William Hewitt Esquire
gentleman before whom the above Deposition
appears to have been made, and whose
name is thereto subscribed, was at the time
of so doing, and still is, one of the State of
Maryland's Justices of the peace in and
for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned
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qualified and sworn, and to all whose acts
as such due faith and credit are and
ought to be given, as well in Courts
of Justice as thereout.
[Blurred seal of office] In testimony whereof I
hereto set my hand and affix
the public seal of my office
this seventeenth day of April
eighteen hundred and nineteen
1819.
James Sewall, Clk.
of Cecil County Court

Application
Edward Gerrish
for a pension

Admd.
Com. + [illegible[ 9 Apl. 1818
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34897
Revy. INVALID.
[initials illegible]

File No. 34,897
Edward Gerrish
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 151

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Edward Gerrish, Maryland Cecil County
Act 18th March 1818
C.C per order Evans & Sherrett July 6, '54
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Cert.
Edward Gerrish
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I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that Edward Garrish a private in Dobsons Company of the Sixth Regt Enlisted on 2nd June 1778 and was Discharged on 16th Augt 1780
R Loockerman [illegible]
Auditors Office Annapolis 6 June 1818.
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Nicholas Milburne
Deposition
For
Edward Gerrish
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State of Maryland Cecil County SP
Be it Remembered that on this 15th day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before the undersigned Judges of the Second Judicial district of the State of Maryland, Nicholas Milburne, a citizen of the United States at present residing in Cecil County aforesaid and the said Nicholas being duly Sworn upon the Holy Evangles of Almighty God doth depose that he is well acquainted with Edward Gerrish, an applicant for a pension, that the said Edward enlisted in the Revolutionary Army of the United State in the month of June in the year 1778 in Captain Henry Dobsons Company of Infantry attached to the 6th Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Williams, and that shortly after he enlisted he joined the main Army at a place called the Valley Forge in Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania and continued in the said army until he was taken prisoner by the Enemy at the Hanging Rock in the State of South Carolina at Sumter Defeat, and that he this Deponent served in the same Company & Regiment with the said Edward Gerrish, who in all respect served as a faithful Soldier for the time he enlisted the Service until he was taken Prisoner: That this Deponent does not exactly recollect the time when he was discharged but believes it to have been about the end of the Summer of 1780. And that this Deponent Knows the said Edward Gerrish to have been a Citizen of the United States residing in Cecil County from the time of his Birth up to this time. That the said Edward Gerrish is in very poor indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for support
(having)
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Having no means of subsistence except from the
charity of his friends and others.
Rd. T. Earle

State of Maryland Cecil County Sct.

I [struck out: We]the undersigned one of the Judges of the Second
Judicial District of the State of Maryland
comprising the counties of Talbot, Queen Annes,
Kent and Cecil do certify that it appears
to my satisfaction that the said Edward
Gerrish did serve in the Revolutionary
War, as stated in his declaration against the
common enemy for the term of nine months
on the Continental Establishment; and we
now transmit the foregoing testimony to the
Secretary for the Department of War
pursuant to the directions of the Act of
Congress.  And that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Edward Gerrish
by reason of his reduced circumstances needs
the assistance of his country for support.
Given under my hand [words struck out] this
17th day of September 1818.
Leml Purnell
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State of Maryland Cecil County Sct

I hereby certify that Leml Purnell Esqr
before whom the within oath and Deposition
appears to have made and by whom
subscribed was at the time of so doing and still
is one of the Associate Judges of the second
Judicial District of the State of Maryland
aforesaid, duly commissioned, qualified and
sworn and to all whose acts as such due
faith and credit are and ought to be given
as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
[Blurred seal of office] In testimony whereof I have hereun
to set my hand and affixed
the public seal of my office
this 20th day of September in
the year eighteen hundred
and eighteen
James Sewall Clk
of Cecil County Court