Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,082, for Charles Mc Nabb, Maryland
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(8-1770) 
SERVICE NUMBER
Md.  McNabb, Charles S.36.082
CONTENTS
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Charles McNabb
of Kaskaskia in the state of Illinois
wo was a print & forage M in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Price of the Maryland
[line], for the term of 5 years
[Inscribed] on the Roll of Illinois
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of July 1819
and sent to William Sprigg Esq
Kaskaskia
Illinois
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - $[66.9]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.
[8 mos]: 4/30-4/31 $114.9
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
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Charles McNabb 
Private & Forage Master 
7th Maryland Regiment 
1778 - 5 years 
Sent to the Aud: Genl.
of Maryland - for evidence 
of applicants service. 
21 May 1819

Proof that the 
applicant is in 
indigent circumstances 
& requires the assistance 
of his Country for support 
1358 is granted 
Charles McNabb 
Kaskaskias 
Illinois
Recd 21 July 1818.
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Territory of Illinois ss 
On this Twenty Seventh day of June in the
year Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen, before me 
is the subscriber one of the Judges of the Ginne 
Court --- for the said Territory personally appear 
Charles McNabb aged sixty years resident 
in the said Territory who being by was first 
duly sworn according to law doth on his 
oath make the following declaration To order to obtain the provision made by the --- late act of Congress entitled ""an act tovide  for certain persons engaged in the land name service of the United States Revolutionary war M. Nabb in the enlisted that he the said Charles in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by John Carter Jones of 4 the Seventh Maryland Regiment of the first the land Brigade, that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United from the time of his enlistment in april of May 1778 until he was discharged from service in 1703 at Annapolis in the State of Maryland by General Mordicai Guest then commanding the Brigade to which this deponent belonged of which Discharged the said deponent then received a printed certificate not now in his power or possession this
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that in the year 1781 the said Deponent was 
appointed 
by General Washington Forage Master 
to the Maryland line and received twenty Dollars   
per month for acting in that capacity until 
discharged the evidence of which appointment 
is not now in his power or possession 
that he the said Deponent was in the battles 
of Monmouth & Campden & at the capture of 
Cornwallis 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 in his power of his said 
Services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
I William Sprigg a Judge of the General Court 
of the Territory of Illinois as aforesaid (under 
a commission of the President of the United 
States) do certify that it appears to my satisfaction 
that the said Charles McNabb did 
serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in 
the preceding Declaration against the common 
enemy for the term of nine months, the 
Continental establishment; and I now transmit
the proceedings and Testimony taken 
and had before me to the Secretary for the 
department of war, pursuant to the directions
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of the aforementioned act of Congress. In Testimony 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
this 27th day of June 1818 
William Sprigg [handwritten] seal

Illinois Territory Sct.
I William C. Greenup Clerk of the General Court of Illinois Territory 
held at Kaskaskia, do hereby certify that William Spry whose signature 
and seal is above affixed is now and was at the time 
of doing the same, one of the Judges of the United States appointed 
for Illinois Territory and a Judge of the said Court duly Commissioned 
and sworn and to whose official acts as such due faith 
and credit is and ought to be given 

Given under my hand and private seal (there being no 
Official seal to said court yet provided) at Kaskaskia  
this 28th day of June in the year of our Lord 
1818 & of the Independance of the United States the forty second 
Wm C Greenup [handwritten] seal
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis May 26th 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Charles McNabb enlisted as a Sergeant in the Seventh Maryland Regiment on the seventh day of June 1778 and was discharged on the 1st Nov 1780 present.

Thos. Karney - Aud. S.M.

The applicant belonged to Capt. Jones company - T.K.
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Illinois 
Recd 19 July 1821 

Con 
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Kaskaskia Illinois
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Schedule 
State of Illinois ⎬ 
Randolph County } ss 
On this 9th day of June 1821 personally appeared 
in Open Court being a Court of Record for the said County, Charles 
McNabb aged 64 years resident in the State of Illinois and 
Randolph County who being first duly sworn according to law 
doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary 
War as follows viz. That he entered the service in May 1778 
in the 7th Regiment Maryland line commanded by Col. 
John Gunby in the company commanded by Capt John C 
Jones and afterwards served in 3rd Regiment Maryland line 
commanded by Col. John Stewart in which Regiment he served 
until the peace of 1783. That he has previously received a pension 
as per Certificate No. 12,825. And I do solemnly swear that 
I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of 
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 the lot 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”
passed on the 18th of March 1818 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 
that what is contained in the Shedule hereunto annexed 
and by me subscribed 
Charles McNabb [handwritten] seal

Sworn to and declared on this 9th 
day of June 1821 Before me }
Joseph Philips  }
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Schedule &c
Occupation  A Farmer 
Family  None
Real property  None
Personal property 
One Horse Saddle and Bridle Value $16 - 
Charles McNabb 

State of Illinois ⎬ 
Randolph County ⎬ ss
We John Pittens and James Thompson having examined 
the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule on Oath do appraise 
the same at sixteen dollars 
James Thompson 
John Pillars 
Sworn to and Subscribed 
in open Court this 9th day 
of June 1821, before me. 
Jos. Philips 

I William C Greenup Clerk of the Circuit Court for Randolph County 
State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule 
thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court: And
I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total 
amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule 
is sixteen dollars 
Seal
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court 
at Kaskaskia on this nineteenth day of June 
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty one and of the Independence 
of the United States the forty fifth. 
Wm C. Greenup Clerk 
of the Circuit Court of Randolph County 
State of Illinois
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36082 
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 36082 
Charles McNabb
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: -- Vol. [D or 2] Page 264 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Adm C.

The judge at
Kaskaskia
Illinois
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District of Illinois ss

I Nathaniel Pope District Judge of the 
United States for the District aforesaid do certify 
that I am well acquainted with Charles 
McNabb who has applied for a pension under 
the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 
and know him to be in reduced circumstances 
and that he stands in need of the 
assistance of his country for support.
Given under my hand & seal this 
22nd day of June 1819

Nathl Pope [handwritten] seal