Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,874, Marmaduke Curtis, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Curtis, Marmaduke

NUMBER
S.40.874.
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CONTENTS
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Notification sent November 3d 1820 to
Giles Sanford Erie Pennsylvania

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5682  4
Pennsylvania
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Marmaduke Curtis
(Lieut)
Dayton's N. Jersey Reg't.
1 year & 4 months
[i]n the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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[I]nscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on
the 24th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of Jan'y: 1819
and sent to John Vincent, Esq'r.
Erie, Pennsylvania
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Arrears to 4th of Sept'r. 1818 4 mo's. 11/30  87.33
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 120.00
[total] $207.33
{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818. }
Erie County, Pennsyl'a.
20/65 [?]
Continued
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GS
Marmaduke Curtis of
Erie County Penn'a.
Schedule of Property to obtain
his Pension -
5682 Erie
lin
Paw 19 [?]
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Court of Common Pleas

Pennsylvania
Erie County } ss

On this fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for said County by the course of common law having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Marmaduke Curtis, aged sixty five years, resident in the borough of Erie in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that in March 1777 (having some time previous been appointed first Lieutenant by the provincial Congress of New Jersey) he joined the 7th company, 3d Regiment, New Jersey line, and continued in the service until the 28th of May 1778, when he left it for the reason stated in the original declaration dated April 24th 1818; and that his pension certificate is numbered 5682. And I do solemly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift or 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 the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 of March 1818, and I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed

Shedule of Property,

Some hatting tools, 1 Cow, 1 yearling heifer, 1 French Silver watch, 3 books, 1 old Walnut beaureau, 1 Looking glass, 2 pots, 3 kettles, 1 spyder, 1 frying pan, 1 Garden rake, 2 hogs 1 table, 6 chairs, 1 pair shovel & tongs 1 old hand saw, 1 hammer, 2 gimblets, 1 shot gun 2 axes, 1 Coffee mill, 1 pair steelyards, and some crockery and Knives & forks, barely sufficient for the use of the family

Marmaduke Curtis
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The declarant further states that he is a hatter but that in consequence of his advanced age he is unable to pursue his occupation to advantage; his clear income from it is less than fifteen dollars per annum. His family consists of a wife and two daughters. His wife (Mary) is aged 59, his oldest daughter (Lydia Imlay) 18 and his youngest (Rachel) 15

M. Curtis

Sworn to and declared on the 15th day of July, 1820, before John Vincent and John Grubb Esq'rs Judges of the said Court

John Vincent
J Grubb,

It is the opinion of the Court that the value of the property set forth in the above shedule is about eighty dollars

J Grubb
John Vincent

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
County of Erie ss }

I Thomas Wilson Prothonotary of the Courts of of Common Pleas in and for the County of Erie in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that the foregoing contained on the first and second pages of this sheet is a true transcript of the Original remaining among the Records of the said Court, that the above Schedule of property in the opinion of the said Court is about eighty dollars [illegible] money of the United States; and that John Vincent and John Grubb who in their own proper hand writing respectively well known to me, have subscribed the above Oath and thereto and have subscribed the above oath and valuation are and at the time of subscribing the same were Judges of the same Court duly Commissioned and sworn and at the time Composing and holding a Court of Common Pleas at Erie in and for the County of Erie in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the same court at Erie aforesaid the fifteenth day of July 1820, and of the Sovreignty of the United States the 45th

Tho's Wilson Proth'y
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Hon John C. Calhoun
Sec'y. of War
Washington City D. C.

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Marmaduke Curtis Lieut't
Com'd in 3d N. Jer. Reg't in 1776
Honorably Discharged 28th May 1778-

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Marmaduke Curtis
1st Lieutenant
app'd November 30th 1776
res'd April 28th 1778
Hagans C'y
Col'o E. Dayton's 3d reg't.
New Jersey line
24 April 1818.
Admitted
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To the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War

I certify that it appears to me from the following deposition and the certificate of the Hon. Joseph Bloomfield (enclosed) that Marmaduke Curtis, a citizen of Erie County is entitled to a pension of twenty dollars per month by 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 State during the revolutionary war," passed the 18th day of March, 1818.

Erie April 24th 1818 John Vincent

Common'th of Pennsyl'a
Erie County ss. }

I certify that John Vincent Esquire is duly Commissioned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Erie County afores'd is now an acting Judge And that full faith and Credit ought to be given to all his official acts.-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 28th day of April 1818.

John Kelso Prot.
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Erie County ss

Personally appeared before me John Vincent, Esq an associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas of Erie County this twenty fourth day of April, 1818, Marmaduke Curtis aged 63 and being duly sworn doth depose and say that in consequence of his "reduced circumstances, he has need of the assistance of his country for support" -- that while he was acting as Lieutenant in the Burlington County militia, stationed at Amboy (N. J.) in the autumn of 1776, he received from the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, an appointment of First Lieutenant in the 7th Company, 3'd New Jersey Regiment, to be raised for during the war, and commanded by Col. Elias Dayton; that he joined his regiment the spring following, with a number of recruits. he further says, (and his statement is corroborated by that of Gen. Bloomfield): that the "manner of his leaving the service" was as follows:- While the army lay at Valley Forge, in the winter of 1777-78, a person who was appointed Second Lieutenant, at the time he was appointed First Lieutenant, and was under his command in the
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trying campaign of '77, by influence gained by servility to certain field officers, obtained the command of the company to which he, the deponent, was entitled by rank, and nearly half of which he had enlisted himself -- that feeling indignant at the injustice, he tendered his resignation to the commander in chief, who endeavored to persuade him from the measure and offered to call another board of officers, but that knowing the influence of the Field officer by whose means he had been injured he persisted in his determination; that the Commander in Chief then referred him to his Aid-de-camp, Col. A. Hamilton, who gave him an honorable discharge, dated May 28th, 1778, as did likewise Maj Bloomfield, who at the time commanded the Regiment -- neither of these, nor his commission, are now in his possession. The deponent further says, that on his return to his native place (Bordentown) he was elected Captain of a Company of militia, in which capacity he served until the close of the war, and as a proof of his services, and that it was not from disaffection to the cause of his country, that he resigned his commission in the continental establishment, he submits a certificate of Col. Hoagland

Marmaduke Curtis

Sworn and subscribed on the day and date aforesaid before me

John Vincent
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

December 19, 1927

Mrs. Burton A. Crane
935 West Ninth St
Erie, Pa.

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 40874, it appears that Marmaduke Curtis was Bordentown, New Jersey, date not stated.

In the beginning of the War he was a Lieutenant in the Burlington County, New Jersey Militia and served under Colonel Okey Hoagland, in the autumn of 1776 he was stationed at Amboy, and was appointed First Lieutenant in the Seventh Company, in Colonel Elias Dayton's Third New Jersey Regiment, he was in the battles of Springfield, Staten Island, Brandywine, and Germantown and was discharged May 28, 1778; after which he was elected Captain of a company of Militia, and served to close of War.

He was allowed pension on his application
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executed in Erie County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1818, aged sixty-three years.

In 1820, he referred to his wife, Mary, as aged fifty-nine years, and to two daughters, Lydia Imboy, aged eighteen years, and Rachel, aged fifteen years.

There are no further family data.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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1927. Dec. 19. Hist to Mrs. Burton A. Crane AWF

40 874
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40,874
Marmaduke Curtis
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-- Vol. 3, Page 120
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I further certify that the applicant Marmaduke Curtis is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support

John Vincent
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Certificate of
Col. O. Hoagland
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To all whom it may concern --

this is to certify that the bearer Marmaduke Curtis was my Neighbour and acquaintence that in the begining of the Revolution war with great Britton he was active and was an officer commanding a Company in the Regiment I had the Honour to comand in the County of Burlington State of New Jersey -- I have & witness his bravery in the field as an officer and a soldier -- at deferent times agains Hesian & British troops -- and Esteemed by his Brother officers as a Soldier & a Gentleman

Okey Hoagland

Burlington County
May 18 1802
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Certificate of
Gen J Bloomfield
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I recollect when the army lay at Valley Forge, in the winter & Spring of 1778, a controversy about rank, subsisted among some of the Subalterns of the 3d New-Jersey Reg't. & that Mr Marmaduke Curtis, a Lieutenant in said Reg't. conceived himself aggrieved by the determination of of a board of Officers against him, in favor of Lieut John Reading, who was thereupon promoted to a company, Mr Curtis being very much dissatisfied, by the leave of the Commander in Chief, resigned & settled at Bordentown, in New Jersey. Mr Curtis had a certificate of the above facts from me as Major commandant, of the Reg't., & which he informs me, he left in the hands of Joseph Thomas, Esq & he expects is lost.-- which induces me again to certify, that Lieut Curtis, was esteemed as good a Subaltern, as any in the New-Jersey Brigade. He was in the battles of Staaten-Island, Springfield, Brandewine [Brandywine], & Germantown, and
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And distinguished himself, as a brave active Officer and indeed, on all occasions, conducted him in a most satisfactory manner.

Joseph Bloomfield
Trenton, N Jersey, May 20, 1802
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MRS. BURTON ASHLEY CRANE
935 WEST NINTH STREET
ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
June 23rd, 1927.

Pension Bureau,
Dept. of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Commissioner of Pensions:-

Will you please send me a copy of the pension record of Lt. Marmaduke Watson Curtis, born 1755, New Jersey, died 1822, Erie, Pa.?

Will you also please send me a copy of the pension record of Silas Knight who died in New Braintree Mass., 8 Sept. 1842, ae 85 yrs; wife Martha;

Thanking you, I am,
very truly
[signed] Mary Knight Crane

[round stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 24 1927
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Curtis, Michael GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 1088 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED December 22, 1798
to Elisha Jarrett, assignee

* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.