Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,730, Samuel Davis, Md.
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MD              Davis, Samuel    S.34.730
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16744
Maryland
Samuel Davis
of Kent County in the State of Maryland 
who was a fifer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brice of the Maryland line, for the term of 10 1/2 months end of war.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
  at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to 
  commence the 7 of March 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of April 1820 and sent [pmt] to Honorable S. Archer, House of Rep
Due 4th of Sept 1820     $47.51 
5 mo  25/31 7/30
8                                      $47.51
40
6.45 
1.  6
7.51    Revolutionary claim
           Act 18th March, 181

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Continued
Dead. See letter to Hon. B. 
C Howard H. R. March 24, 1836 
Debt 16 Oct  38
Mrs Margaret Davis
certf A. Yearley
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Maryland Kent County
Be it remembered that on this seventh
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty before me the Subscriber one of the
Associated Judges of the Second Judicial district of Mary-
land personally appears Samuel Davis of said County
and makes oath on the Holy Prangely of Almighty God
that he served in the Revolutionary War as a Fifer in
the company of Captain Price (whose Christian name
he believes was Benjamin) in the Regiment of Colonel Brice (whose Christian name he does not know) in
Maryland line, from January seventeen hundred
and eighty three to some time in November in the same
year including a period of about ten months and a half; 
that he enlisted in said company to serve during the
war and was discharged when his time expired at the 
termination of the War and that he is now in such
reduced circumstances in life as to be in need as-
stance from his Country for support, having nine
children most whom are quite young and entirely
dependent on him for subsistence.
Sworn before
Tho Worrell

I do hereby relinquish all right interest or claim
in or to every pension heretofore allowed me by 
the Laws of the United States. Witness of my hand
and seal this seventh day of March eighteen hundred
and twenty -
Samuel -X his mark- Davis

Witness 
Tho Worrell
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To the Honorable The Secretary of War
The undersigned beg leave to certify and
return that he has this day taken the foregoing depo -
stion and that the deponent at the same time did
produce to the undersigned the certificate of the Au-
ditor of the State of Maryland which is herewith
returned, whereby it appears that the said deponent
was a fifer in the Maryland line during the War of
the revolution for the time stated in the said deposition
The undersigned is thereby satisfied that the said
deponent did serve in the war of the revolution
for more than nine months and until the end thereof
as a fifer, on the continental establishment.
The undersigned further begs to leave to certify and
return that the deponent resides in the same
Village with the undersigned and that from a
personal knowledge of his family and his situation
in life, the undersigned is perfectly satisfied the
Said deponent stands in need of assistance from
his Country for support - all which is respectfully
submitted
March 7th 1820
[signed]  Tho Worrell
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Samuel Davis
16744
Sept 1820
E F Chambers Esq
Chestertown Md.
[?]  Sept 1820
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Schedule
Maryland Kent County SS
On this twenty sixth day of September 1820
personally appeared in open Court being a court of record
and having the power of fine and imprisonment for the
said County of Kent in the state of Maryland.
Samuel Davis aged fifty  two years residing in
Kent County in the said state of Maryland, 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 fourth Maryland Regiment at Annapolis in January 1783 as a fiver under Capt Price and that he served in the same Regiment until his discharge at the close of the war, according to 
his original declaration made and transmitted to the War Department in the spring of the present year
That he has been placed on the Pension roll of the United States for the State of Maryland and has received a certificate signed by the Secretary of War dated 21 April 1820 No 16744 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 any 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 is are at service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War", passed
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[Handwritten script]
on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or security's, 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;
One old Cart ______________________________   2
One cow valued at ________________________ 15
One old hog valued at ____________________   5
Two young hogs valued at ________________   4
Two pigs valued at ________________________   1
Eight chairs valued at _____________________   2
One pine table valued at __________________    .50
Kitchen furniture one pot one tea kettle,
one oven, one spider, one [unreadable],
one bucket, tea pot 6 cups & saucers, four
plates one dish, four knives and forks,
valued together at ________________________  4
an old ax, an old hoe, one old spage _____    .50
                                                                   _______
                                                                     34.00

That he worked as a labourer but is weak & sickley, his family consists of his wife and four children, his wife's name is Margaret Davis age about 36 years The eldest child is named William Primrose (being the son of his wife before her marriage with him) aged 12 years The second child is named John Davis aged 11 years The third child is named Thomas Davis aged three years the fourth Margaret Davis aged about 2 months That his wife takes care of the family and assists to its support by giving when she is able and can get work The children are too young to be of any assistance to him
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[Handwritten Script]
and without the charitable aid of his neighbours he would be unable to live. 
Sworn to and declared on the twenty sixth day of
September Eighteen hundred and twenty before
Saml Purnell Associate Judge of the second
Judicial District of Maryland
I, William Scott Clerk of Kent 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 it is the opinion of the said
Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty four Dollars
In Testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand, and affixed the
Seal of the said Court on this 26th day
of Sept 1820
Wm Scott
Clerk of the Court for the County of Kent
of the 2d Judicial District of
the State of Maryland
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[Handwritten Letter]
Baltimore Oct 15. 1838
J. L.
Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,  I am the widow of Samuel Davis
who was a Sergeant in the 7th Maryland Regiment in the War of the Revolution.
He received a Pension from the U.S. under the law of 1838 of eight dollars per month; And he never claimed the additional pay of 2 [cents] per month to which he was entitled as a Sergeant under the act of 1832 to commence 4 March 1831. He died October 15, 1834; at, or soon after, which time I rec'd the balance due of the then accruing half years pension



Will you be so good as to
let me know if I the widow of said Saml
Davis, and entitled to the said additional ┃
pay which he might have claimed under the
act of 1832, from 4 March 1831 till his death
in 1834
your early answer will much
oblige
your Obt Sert
1
Margaret Davis
Please to direct to the care
of Alex Yearley
P.S. my identity as the widow
of said same Davis can be
very satisfactorily proven.
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[Typewritten Letter]
BA-J/ILL
Samuel Davis
S.34730
Mr. Roy C. Ellis
1221 Grand Avenue
Dayton, Ohio.
The data given herein were found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 36730, based upon service of Samuel Davis in the
Revolutionary War. 
Samuel Davis enlisted January 1, 1783 as a fifer in Captain Benjamin Price's company, Colonel Brice's Maryland regiment and served
until November 15, 1855, when he was discharged at Annapolis, Maryland. He did not state his residence at the time of enlistment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 7,1820, at which time he was aged about fifty-two years. Samuel Davis
resided then in Kent County, Maryland. He did not state the date and place of his birth, nor give the names of his parents.
In March 1820, the soldier stated he was "in need of assistance from his country for support, having nine children most of whom are quite young and entirely dependent on him for subsistence". In September 1820, he stated "his family consists of his wife and four
children, his wife's name is Margaret Davis, her age about 36 years. The eldest child is named William Primrose (being the son of his wife be
fore her marriage with him) age 12 years. The second child is named John Davis, aged 11 years. The third child is named Thomas Davis, aged three years, the fourth Margaret Davis, aged about two months". He did not state the the date or place of his marriage to said Margaret, nor
her maiden name. There are no further data regarding his children.
Samuel Davis died October 15, 1834. His widow, Margaret Davis, was living in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1838, she received her mail in care of Alexander Yearley, of Baltimore.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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[Handwritten entries on printed card form]
34 730
Revy   INVALID
File N0. _____34.730_____
_____Samuel Davis_____
__Fifer___Rev___War___
Act:___18 March 18___
Index: ---Vol. 2 , Page 104
{ Arrangement of 1870 }

May 6'1896 said
peused to Mrs
Adeline G Bates
Lincoln Ill
[initialed]  LWB [or LMB]
____________
Jany 22-1902-
Mrs C. M. Moody N.Y. City
__________
1936 - JULY 16. Hist. to Mr. Roy C. Ellis
[initialed] ?L.L.
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[incomplete word] Esquire
[incomplete word]
Office  
Washington
[
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[Handwritten letter]
Chester Town 18th Oct. 1820
Dsir,
At the request of Saml Davis I enclose you his
Vouchers which are believed to be properly authenticated to entitle him to a payment of part of the annuity allowed him-- not being able to procure a copy of the late act of Congress I am uninformed as to the further proceeding
which is directed by the Law. A printed formula has enabled M. Davis to prepare the papers now sent. I presume however that some thing like an order will be returned to Davis and his necessities being such as to make
him feel sensibly the want of his money, permit me to request your early attention to his claim and to forward to me such an authority as will answer his purpose.
[signed]   E.F. Chambers
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[Handwritten script of what appears to be an inter-office information request]
To what time was Samuel Davis, act March 18.1818. Maryland Roll, last paid?

[Handwritten response]
He died 15 Oct 1834 & was paid to the day of his death
[Initialed]
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[Printed form with handwritten entries]
Auditor's Office Annapolis, March 1st 1820
I hereby certify, that it appears from the pay-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Samuel Davis. Fifer - received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $_____
for arrears of pay from the ________ to the ______
Also, the sum of $_____ for pay and also the sum of $45.64 ____ from the 1st Jany 83- to the 15th Nov. 83____ when his time expired.
[signed]
Thos. Karney A. S. Md.
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[Handwritten script]
Hon. B. C. Howard
24. March 1836
G. C.

Record 31  Page 309
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[Handwritten letter]
War Dept
Pension Office
March 24. 1836
Sir, The letter and memorandum
which you left here in the case of Samuel
Davis, dec'd are herewith returned. The books
shew that the person in this case was
paid up to the 15th October 1834, the day and
which he died.
The vouchers upon which the payments were made, would, if [exa]mined, no doubt sustain the entries on the books; and I am fully satisfied that there is nothing due. [several lines acribbled over to mark out] As the vouchers are not in this office, I cannot make any statement from them. They are in the office of the Third Auditor, where the Agent's accounts are settled.
[signed but illegible]

Hon. B. C. Howard
Home Office
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[Faint and faded handwritten script]
Samuel Davis
Fifer
Col Price 
[uncertain]
[unreadable] March 1820
Kent County
admitted
Hon [Honorable] W [possible abbrevation for William] Archer
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[Handwritten document]
Maryland
Kent County
I Hereby Certify that the Honorable Thomas Worrell before whom it appears the within deposition was made and by whom it appears the foregoing certificate was subscribed is one of the associate Judges of the second Judicial District comprehending the counties
of Kent, Cecil Queen Ann and Talbot 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 Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of my
office this Seventh day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty
[signed] William Scott 
of [uncertain county court location in]
Md.
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[Handwritten script]
Mrs. Margaret Davis
Oct. 16. 1838

O.C.
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[Handwritten letter of reply]
War Depo. Pen Office
Oct 16, 1838
Madam
In reply to your letter of the 15th [recent] I have to inform you that your husbands service was as a Fifer and not as a Sergeant, and that the service was less than one year. You are not therefore entitled to any pension in addition to that allowed him under act of March 18, 1808.


Mrs. Margaret Davis
Care of Alex [abbreviation for Alexander]Yearley Esq
Baltimore, Md
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[Handwritten letter written on letterhead of D.A.R.]
Mr. William Cochran
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the record of the
military service of Samuel Davis 7th Regiment Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War.
His widow received a pension
until her death. She lived in
Baltimore, Maryland -
If you will kindly comply with this request. You will
[letter continued on next sheet of paper]
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[All handwritten contents]
greatly oblige many friends
of his only daughter living
very respectfully
Mrs. Adeline L. Bates
Treasurer, Lincoln Chap D.R
Lincoln, Illinois
April 1st 1896.
P.S. Apr 25th
He enlisted as a boy at age of 12 and was promoted to Drum Major. which I think he was at close of war of Revolution.
Mrs. Bates
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[Two handwritten numbers on top of record card]
S4730       16744
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington D.C. Apr 21, 1896
Respectfully returned to writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
Wm Lockhorn
Commissioner
Full name of soldier: Samuel Davis
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible)
Baltimore Maryland
Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible)
Baltimore Maryland
Date of death (as near as possible). 1832
Christian name of widow: Margaret Barrett
Did either he or his widow receive a pension? Both
Remarks: Rec'd land bounty Lot No. 1716 containing 30 acres of land situated in Alleghany Co. W. of Cumberland
Your name and address: Mrs. Adeline G. Bates Lincoln, Hills.
Treas. Lincoln Chapter DAR
[handwritten note along left edge of Record card]
according to act of Gen. Assembly passed Nov. 1788.
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[Handwritten number added top left of form]
16744-18
GENERAL SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION
156 Fifth Avenue
Mrs, Carlton M. Moody
Recording Secratary - General
Newyork Jan 16 1902

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send information relative to Samuel Davis of Baltimore Md. 1768 - 1832
who is said to have enlisted at Annapolis, Md. as a drummer boy in 1780 - was afterwards a
fifer serving under Capt. Benjamin Price & Col. Brice & was awarded a pension
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for 10 ½ mos. service.
Please inform me if this is
correct and oblige
yours truly
(Mrs C.M.) Elizabeth E. Moody
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[Handwritten Letter]
Dayton, Ohio
July 4 1936
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir - Referring to your letter of June 29 .1936 and your file reference - as follows.
Ba.J/Ill
Daniel Davis
B.L.MT. 14313-160-12
David Davis, according to his pension papers,-was born in Maryland 1776 (age39 - in 1815, at time of discharge) Therefore,- Samuel Davis (the father) must have served in Maryland - during the Rev. war, - instead of Virginia.Do your records show a Samuel Davis, from Maryland?
Thanking you for any information, I am 
Yours very truly -
Roy C. Ellis
1221 Grand Ave.,
Dayton, Ohio

P.S. - To whom was David Davis' pension paid, - following his death?
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[Typewritten letter of reply to a request for records]

BA-J/ILL
Samuel Davis
S. 34730

Mr. Roy C. Ellis
1821 Grand Avenue
Dayton, Ohio.

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of July 4, 1936, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Davis who served
from Maryland, also to know to [blurred but either "whom" or "when"] the last [unreadable, but likely the word "pension"] was paid.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service of Samuel Davis who lived in Maryland and later went to Ohio, the state in which you stated formerly that David Davis and his father, Samuel Davis lived. The record has been found of only one Samuel Davis who served in the Maryland troops. His record is [blurred] herewith from pension claim, S. 24730. The record of the Davis
which was furnished you, was found in his claim for bounty land. He made no claim for pension.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Adminisrator.

[handwritten notation added to office copy of letter of reply]
Carbon also in David Davis - B.L.M. 14313-160-12-1812 File