Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34984, for Samuel Mc Connell, Maryland
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE 
Md

McConnell, Samuel

NUMBER
S.34984

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page written sideways] Notification sent November 17 1820 to James Small, Elkton, Maryland

12.060
Maryland R

Samuel McConnell
of Cecil Co. in the State of Maryland
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Williams of the Maryland
line for the term of 5 years To 1782

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 1817
and sent to H D. Miller Esgr [Esquire]
Elkton Md [Maryland]

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 22/30 4/21= 86..70
Semi=anl. [annual] ending 4 Sep 1819  48..
$134.70
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continental
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Copy      240

Saml [Samuel] McConnell’s
Oath Schedule &c
As a Pensioner 
under the late Act 
of Congress

con
12060
[left NY ?]
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Maryland Cecil County} SS 
[indented] On this 12th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record proceeding according to the course of common Law with unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount for the said County Samuel McConnell aged Sixty Seven years, resident in the aforesaid County and State, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare as follows, that he enlisted for the term of three years or during the War in the State of Maryland as a private in the company commanded by Capt’n. [Captain] Henry Dobson in Colonel Williams’s Regiment in the line of the Continetal [Continental] establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps untill [until] June in the year 1782 when he was discharged from said service in the State of South Carolina That he was in the Battles of Monmouth [28 June 1778], Staten Island [21 August 1777], Cambden [Camden], Guilford Court-house [15 Mar 1781] and others, that at the April Court 1818 he made Oath to a declaration to the foregoing effect and obtained a pension thereupon which is numbered 12.060. 

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 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
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passed the 18th Day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me, any properties or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule annexed and by me Subscribed. 

Sworn to in Open Court
James Sewall Clk [Clerk]

Schedule of the property of Samuel McConnell 
1 Small pig. 1 Grid Iron 
2 Old chests 1 Shovel & Tongs 
1 Table 2 Iron pots 
3 old Barrels 1 Tea kettle 
3 old chairs 1 Spinning wheel 
1 Pail[?] — $10.– 

That he has no debts owing to him except Six months of his pension due the 4th of this month amounting to forty eight Dollars; that he owes to different persons about twenty dollars; that he is a Blacksmith by Trade but entirely a Cripple and helpless with a wife aged about Seventy Six years but no other family – 
Sam’l. [Samuel] McConnell

Sworn to the 12th Sept. 1820. Before me the Subscriber Chief Judge of the second Judicial district of Maryland composed of the Counties of Talbot Queen Anne and Kent and Cecil County aforesaid 

[Illegible] 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 it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Ten Dollars –
[indented] In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
the Seal of the said Court on this 
12th day of Sept 1820 
James Sewall Clerk of the 
Court of the County of Cecil
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Application 
Samuel McConnell 
for a Pension

[written through sideways] Admd [Administered]
[Illegible] 9 Apl [April] 1818
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State of Maryland Coal County To wit
Samuel McConnell, a Citizen of the United States of America , and at this time residing in Cecil County in the State of Maryland Doth depose declare and say, That he enlisted in April 1778 in Captain Henry Dobson’s Company of Infantry; attached to the Sixth Regiment of the Maryland line, commanded by Colonel Williams that he continued in the said Company and Regiment until the three years having expired & being the Term for which he enlisted, he was discharged whilst the Siege of Ninety Six in South Carolina was carrying on, by the American Army under the Command of Gen’l [General] Greene and which said Discharge this Deponent hath long since lost or mislaid, and that this Deponent by reason of his indigent circumstances, and extreme poverty, needs the Assistance of his Country for Support, possessing no property of any kind whatsoever.- 

State of Maryland Cecil County To wit. April Court 1819
Then appeared in Open Court the above named Samuel McConnell, 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 Clk [Clerk]

Maryland Cecil County To wit.
It appears to the satisfaction of the undersigned Judges of the Judicial District of Maryland comprizing [comprising] the County of Talbot, Queen Annes Kent and Cecil
(that)
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That the before named Samuel McConnell 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 County for Support. 

12 April 1819 
Rd. [Richard] T. Earle 
Liml [Lemuel] Purnell

State of Maryland Cecil County Ss 
I hereby certify that Richard T. Earle Esquire and Lemuel Purnell Esquire, gentlemen before whom the aforegoing [foregoing] Declaration appear to have been made, and whose names are subscribed above, were at the time of so doing and still are, two of the Judges of the Second Judicial District, 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 Court of Justice as thereout. 

[indented] In testimony whereof I hereto 
Set my hand and affix the pub=
lic [public] Seal of my Office this seven=
teenth [seventeenth] day of April Eighteen hun
=dred [hundred] and nineteen. 1819.- 
James Sewall Clk [Clerk] 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 Maryland’s Justice 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 [the crossed out] directed to the Secretary at War, the Declaration 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 Deponents 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- 
Henry D. Miller –
Sworn and Subscribed 
this 17th day of April 1819. 
before Will Hewitt 

State of Maryland Cecil County SS 
I hereby certify that William Hewitt Esquire gentleman before the above Deposition was made and by whom subscribed was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland’s Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned qualified and sworn, and to all whose acts as such
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due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in County of Justice as thereout,
[indented] 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 [Clerk] of 
Cecil County Court
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

34984
Revy INVALID

File No. 34,984
Samuel McConnell
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18[18]
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 264

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Maryland Cecil County Sct. 

Be it Remembered that on this sixteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and eighteen Before the undersigned Judges of the Second Judicial district of the State of Maryland, personally appeared Nicholas Milburne a Citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cecil County, and being duly Sworn upon the Holy Evangels of Almighty God did depose, that he is well acquainted with Samuel McConnell a Citizen of the United States and a Resident of Cecil County and an applicant for a Pension: That he has known the said Samuel McConnell since the year 1776.- That the said Samuel McConnell enlisted in the year 1778. in Captain Henry Dobsons Company of Infantry belonging to the [Fifth?] Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. Williams, and in which said Company the Deponent was a private Soldier. That the said Samuel McConnell enlisted for the Term of three years which he served out faithfully
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Faithfully and honourably [honorably]: That the said Samuel McConnells [McConnell’s] term of Service expired whilst the Siege of Ninety Six in South Carolina was carrying on by the United States Army under Genl. [General] Greene, and of which said army the said Company commanded by Capt. Henry Dobson formed a part: And that this Deponent knows that the said Samuel McConnell received a discharge at that time from his commanding Officer, which this Deponent has been informed and verily believes that the said Saml [Samuel] McConnell has lost: And this Deponent further deposes that the said Samuel McConnell is in very poor and indigent Circumstances and needs the Assistance of his Country for Support –

Sworn to in Open Court 
[Illegible] James Sewall 
Sep. 16 1818
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State of Maryland Cecil County Sct 

I [word crossed out] the undersigned [^ one of the] Judges of the Second Judicial District of the State of Maryland composing the Counties of Talbot, Queen Annes, Kent and Cecil, do Certify that it appears to our Satisfaction that the said Samuel McConnell did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in his declaration against the common Enemy for the term of nine months of the Continental Establishment: And [word crossed out] now transmit the a 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 Samuel McConnell by reason of his reduced Circumstances needs the assistance of his [^ Country for his] support. Given under my hand this 17th day of September 1818 

Liml [Lemuel] Purnell
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[right side of page written sideways] Saml [Samuel] McConnell

[written halfway down page] 
State of Maryland Cecil County

I hereby certify that Leml [Lemuel] Purnell Esqr [Esquire] before the within oath and Deposition appear to have been 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 

In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the public seal of my 
office this 21st day of September 
in the year Eighteen hundred 
and Eighteen 

James Sewall Clk [Clerk] 
Cecil County Court