Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,993, James Bryant, Md. Md. Sea Service
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Md
Md Sea Service

Bryant James

NUMBER
$14,993

CONTENTS

carded
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31802
Maryland

James Bryant
of Queen Anne's Co the State of Maryland
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Moore of the regiment commanded
by Col. Gumby in the [star sign] Maryland
line for 2 years.

Records completed

Md. Line and Md. Sea Service Records Completed Mch 27/07

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of "80 Dollars - cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8' day of Oct
1840, of sent to Wm Bryant
Esq Annapolis, Maryland

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $800.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '41 40.00
$840
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D McCurdy, Clerk,
Book E2. Vol. 5. Page 97.
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State of Maryland.

Queen's Anne County [illegible]

On this 4th day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty personally appeared before us the Judges of the Orphans Court of Queen Ann's County a Court of Record of the State of Maryland James Bryant a resident of Queen Anns County aged eighty three years who being first duty sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of passed on the Seventh day of June Eighteen Hundred and thirty two

That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers hereinafter named and after served as herein stated that he enlisted in Queen Ann's County for three years on the thirteenth day of April 1777 under Captain Levin Winder and the recruiting Sargeant was Sargeant John Chambers my Colonel was John Gunby and was sent from Queen Anns County to the City of Annapolis where I joined the troops that was under the command of General Smallwood and was transferred to Captain Moore's company then we were ordered from Annapolis to the head of the bay to which place we book passage in boats when we arrived at the head of the bay we joined the main army which was commanded under General Washington then we marched through Pennsylvania through Delaware through the Jerseys. I was in the battle of Brandywine on the 11th of September in said year and in the battle of Germantown in October in said year. I was in the battle when the Hessians surrendered by which we took about 1000 prisoners which was in the month of December of said year and in the same battle Captain Bracker of Talbot County was killed after I had served out the three years honorably I received a discharge from General Washington which discharge was destroyed by rats my discharge was given me on the 19th of April 1780. This deponent further states upon oath that he was bred and born in Queen Anns County where he enlisted and gives reference to Governor Grason. Judge Earl of said County Chief Judge Chambers of said County. Lawyer Carmichael, Colonel Henry, Maynadier of Annapolis City who was then acting assistant sergeant under Doctor Michael Wallace of the second. Maryland Regiment at the Battle of Brandywine and this deponent further states that in June 1782 he shipped under Captain Dashiel in the barge Terrible
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and sailed from Talbot County for one year in the state service Oakley Haddaway was his Lieutenant, and the fleet was commanded by Comodore Grason the father of the present Governor of the State of Maryland and we arrived at a place in the Chesapeak called " Bars Island"
we pursued the enemy until we got near James' Island" in the said bay and we got in contact with the British barges, and the said "barge Terrible" was blown up during the engagement and the most part of the crew
was lost in consequence of the enemy having withdrawn from the waters of the said bay after which he was pressed and taken from his own boat by General Washington in the State of Maryland and put on board of the schooner
"Blazen Star", and was commanded by Captain Thomas Viney under the command of a certain Captain Nowell the said Schooner sailed down the bay until she came to the mouth of James River in the State of Virginia from thence she sailed up the said river until she came to Burrs ferry where they provision and store for the army
were landed from thence he marched under the said Captain Nowell to York in York County Virginia where he remained under the last said Captain until after the well remembered battle of York Town or as it is frequently denominated the siege of York Town, after that event he together with others were put on board of the same schooner still lying at Burrs ferry for the purpose of going to Richmond to obtain supplies for the army after procuring them he returned to the said ferry, and again landed and joined the army at York-Town where he remained until peace
was proclaimed, when and where he was discharged from any farther service by the said Captain Nowell and the James Bryant do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present
and he declared that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state or if any only that in the agency of the State of Maryland and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant James Bryant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Sworn to and subscribed before us
Judges of the Orphans Court of Queen Annes County.
Jas Roe
---
Sam Vickers
James Bryant
I the Reg of Wills
for Queen Ann County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
the said Court in the matter of the application of James Bryant for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of
office this 4th day of August 1840 Tho C. Earle
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14993
INVALID.
File No. 14, 993
James Bryant
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 48 ┃
Arrangement of 1870.
RevWar
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J.E. Stewart.
Esq
Ballimore [Baltimore] Mar. 9th /61.

Dear Sir:

Can I trouble you to cause inquiry to be made 
whether a pension certificate was ever issued to Jas [James] Bryant of Frederick County, Md. who is supposed to have enlisted in the war of the Revolution, in 1778 or 1779. This pension certificate is said to be lost, and I represent Mary Clary, who claims to be the child of said pensioner, and who desires to obtain a renewal thereof for her benefit. An early reply will oblige
Yours Respectfully
Robert Brent
The name is
"James Bryant"
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Land Office
Annapolis, 22nd June, 1840,
I hereby Certify, that it appears by the muster rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office, That James Bryant, enlisted, as a private in Captain Morris's Company, of the 7th Maryland Regiment, on the 13th day of April, 1777, and was discharged on the 13th day of April, 1780,

George G. Brewer
Reg Land off. M. S. M.
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State of Maryland Queen Anne County to wit:

Be it remembered that on this 4th day of August 1840 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county personally appeared Nathan Allen who made oath in due form of law that he is eighty three years of age that from certain circumstances which took place during the time (illegible) was in the barges under Commander Grason I do believe that James Bryant is the identical person that was in the said service during the revolutionary war to the best of his knowledge. 
Swore before 
Edward H. Coursey

I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Nathan Allen about forty years that from any statement that he may make can be relied on that he has been in public office for thirty years as constable Deputy Sheriff and Deputy (illegible)  of Queen Anne's County

Edward H. Coursey

State of Maryland-To wit:

I, William Grason, Governor of the State of Maryland do hereby certify that Edward H. Coursey Esquire who has signed the annexed certificate is, and at the time of so doing was, a Justice of the Peace of Queen Anne's County in the state duty commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit (illegible) due and ought to be given to his acts as such.
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State of Maryland-To wit:

I, William Grason, Governor of the State of Maryland do hereby certify that Edward H. Coursey Esquire who has signed the annexed certificate is, and at the time of so doing was, a Justice of the Peace of Queen Anne's County in the state duty commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit (illegible) due and ought to be given to his acts as such.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, on this twelfth day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty and of the Independence of the United States the Sixty fifth. 

William Grason

By the Governor, 
Cornelius W. McLean
Secretary of State
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County
On this twenty first day of August on the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for said county personally appeared Sarah Grave formerly Sarah Phillips, who was formerly a resident of Queen Anne's County Maryland and made oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God that James Sherwood Phillips enlisted in Queen Anne's County Maryland in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Captain Levin Winder the recruiting Sergeant was Sergeant John Chambers that at the same time W. James Bryant enlisted and they enlisted for three years for Sarah Phillips was  (illegible) witness to the fact. She is since married and now Sarah Graves that she is now in the seventy third year of her age that Sarah Graves the sister of James Sherwood Phillips and the mother of James Sherwood Phillips went in company with James Bryant and brother to Centerville to take their departure of them from thence to Annapolis to join the Army of General Washing to embark from Annapolis to the head of the bay that the grief it produced and afflicted her mother with has left an incredible impression upon her memory that the
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the deponent well knows that James Bryant is the identical person that enlisted with her brother for they were raised boys and girls together in Piney Neck Queen Anne's County Maryland. 

Sworn and subscribed to before me
James W. Hunter

Sarah her Graves
Mark

Anne Arundel County to wit
I hereby certify that James W. Hunter gentleman who appears to have taken (illegible) the aforegoing deposition and was at the time of so doing an office State of Maryland Justice of the Pease in which for Anne Arundel County duly (illegible)

In Testimony whereof I hereto set my set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Courts this twenty forth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty
W. S. Green (illegible)
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Annapolis August 12, 1840
I have known James Bryant for thirty years past. He lives on Kent Island, in Queen Anne's County Maryland, where he has spent the greatest part of his life. I have no doubt that he is the person whose name is found on the muster rolls of the revolution as I (illegible) Bryant, and that he entered the service of the United States and was discharged as set forth in the certificate of George J. Brewer (illegible) of the lower office. I believe also that he served in the Maryland (illegible) some time during the revolution, under the command of my uncle Commander Grason. He has informed me of many circumstance, connected with that service. Nathan Allen who serviced in the (illegible) is well known to me and has been receiving a pension from the General Government as well and from the state, on account of said
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services. W. Bryant and W. Allen are both upward of eighty years of age, and are both in (illegible) circumstances, and the former as well as the latter is (illegible) I think to a pension under the acts of congress.

Wm. Grason
Governor of Maryland
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To 
The Honorable
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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To Mr. J.L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions

Mr. James Bryant of Queen Anns County in the state of Maryland has been known to me for many years and has uniformly sustained the reputation of being a good citizen and an upright man. I have heard of his having been a soldier of the revolution but have no knowledge of it myself. I was for twenty years the Chief Judge of the second judicial district of Maryland and an [illegible] more than seventy-three years of age.

N S Earle

4th Aug 1840
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To wit. J. L. Edwards commissioner of Pensions
Mr. James Bryant of Queen Anne's county in the state of Maryland. I have been acquainted with intimately for many years and have always reviewed him as a high minded honorable man and useful citizen. I have been informed he was a solider in the was of the revolution but have no knowledge of my own that he belonged to that patriotic war. I am now in my fifty third year and have been in the practice of law for the last thirty years in the counties of Queen Anne's, Talbot counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 

Henrey Harrison
(illegible)
4 August 1840
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To Mr. J.L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions

I have been requested to state to you my knowledge of the character of Mr. James Bryant of Queen Ann' County.

It affords me pleasure to say that I have been personally acquainted with him for many years and that he has uniformly born the character of an upright and valuable citizen.

Aug 4th 1840

Wm A Spencer
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Mount Carmel Aug. 6 1840
I certify that I have been acquainted with Mr. James Bryant for upward of forty years, and have known him to be a quite agreeable man, and a good citizen. I have (illegible) knowledge of his having been in the service of his country in the time of the Revolutionary War. being at time too young to remember those times of great trial. Given under my hand this day above mentioned
James Massey
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La Grange Lewis Co Mo January 4th 1860

Officers Pension Office Washington 

My object in writing to you is this there is at this place a daughter of a revolutionary soldier and she tells me that she is the only child left and she is now 72 years old. She is the daughter of James Bryant. He enlisted under Colonel William Baty, Major Abraham Hoff, Captain Samuel Cox Frederick County Maryland. She says that her father was in the war 3 years, and she is now desirous of getting all that is or may be due her from her father's service in said war. Please give me all the necessary instructions so that the necessary papers may be made out to [illegible] the same I am respectfully yours

D M Marshall

PS Her name is Mary Clary was Bryant.
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County 
Be it Remembered that on this 5th day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before me John Wilmot Chief Judge of the Orphan's Court of Anne Arundel County James Bryant a solider of the Revolution and made oath on the holy Evangelly of Almighty God that enlisted in Queen Annes County for three years on the 13th day of April 1777 under Captain Levin Winder and his recruiting Sergeant was Sergeant John Chambers and he was then sent to Annapolis to join the main army that was commanded by General Smallwood and he was then transferred to Captain Morris's Company. On the 13th day of April 1777 and was discharged on the 13th day of April 1780. and paid and this deponent further states upon oath that he is the identical person named James Bryan that was attached to Captain Morris's Company and and this deponent further states upon oath that there was an error in his declaration in spelling the word Moors instead of the word Morris's.

James Bryant
Sworn to and Subscribed 
before me. Chief Judge of 
the Orphans Court of Anne
Arundel County
John Wilmot

I Samuel Brown (illegible) Register of  Wills for Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland hereby certify that John Wilmot Esqr. who appears to have taken and signed the above attestation was at the time of his so doing and still is Chief
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Justice of the Orphans. Court of the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office this Fifth
day of October in the year of Our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and Forty
Saml Brown In Regr Wills A A County
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James Bryant
act June 7. '32
Maryland Role
$80 per ann.
Send cert: to
Wm Bryant
at Annapolis
Maryd
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The applicant James Bryant for not making
application when the law was first published he was in good circumstances but from the loss of property and old age and
infirmities and by the advice of Governor Grason he thinks it his just duty to have his just claims to which he fought and bled for

James Bryant
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Oct 8 : 40
[circular stamp]
 Annapolis Md Oct 6
[unclear signatures ]

Jas Bryant
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
[Stamp: FREE]
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Annapolis 5th oct 1840
To the Honorable Mr. J. L. Edwards Commission
of Pension
I have sent Queen Ann County for my father James Bryant to have the mistake
rectified in his declaration which I hope will be
satisfactory to your
I am with due respect
Your Obt Sert
William Bryant