Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5456, for William Hutcheson, Maryland
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Service
MD
Hutcheson, William
Hutcherson
Hutchens
or Hutchins
Number R. 5456
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Jan 27,1847
Rete of Mr. Hutchinson
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Baltimore Jany 19th 1847
Mr J L Edwards
I received of you sometime since
a Letter stating that Smith had a claim in his hands
for a pension for William Hutcheson it is the same
one I give Dunn with a power of attorney now sir
I Wish to disclaim against your having any thing to
do with claim or any power of attorney Mr Smith denies
having the power of attorney, I have made arrangements
with His Mr Smith in person of Mr Greon or to give
or Pay in case it Pass any thing to any person until
I am then or order it you state that has now is
Return there as Hutcheson I am going to Prove that
his is the Man who performed the same by Men who
Thence him before the war knew his in it and often
it up to 15 or 16 years ago till his death and that
his name was spelt and Pronounced by different
persons in different ways by same Hutchisan Hutchison
Hutchinsan & Hutchins and it to this day the last
is the shortest and mostly used
Yours Respectfully
Richard Hutchesan or Hutchisy
you will do me a great kindness in not forgeting [forgetting] this
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Addrey,
Hon J. Morrison Ranis
Baltimore MD
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State of Maryland 
County 
I, Elizabeth Lynch, Ellen McCellen and Nicholas Hutchenson, the only surviving children and legal representatives of William Hutchens sometimes called-Hutchenson, aged respectively,  the said Elizabeth, about fifty five years, the said Ellen, about fifty, and the said Nicholas, about sixty eight years, do upon oath testify and declare that the said William Hutchens or Hutchinson sometimes called; did as they have been informed and verily believe, enter the service of the United States about the year seventeen hundred and eighty, about the first of August of the said year, and enlisted for during the war. That he was a Private in the First Maryland Regiment Commanded by (illegible) and that he served, as they were informed and belived that he served until the close of the war, being more than a period of nine months and until honorably discharged.

And we do
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further declare, that neither we, nor either of us, have ever received, nor has any one for us or for either of us, ever received a warrant for Bounty Lands, nor allowance on account of (???), from the United States or any Department thereof nor have we or either of us made any assignment of our claim therefor.
Know all men further by these Presents, that we do hereby constitute and appoint I. Morrison Harris of the City of Baltimore, State of above named, our attorney for us and do each of us, with full (???) to prosecute our claim alike for Bounty Lands as Pension, answering on behalf of said William Hutchens or Hutchinson, and to receive and collect such amount and claim for us, and to appoint any attorney or attornies under him in like behalf. And we do also revoke now all former and appointment whatever heretofore given or made in their behalf.
Witness
John B. Wheah
Elizabeth A. Lynch
Ellen M. Miller
A. Hutchinson
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We, Thomas T Rutledge and Albert J Hutchens
aged the said Thomas T Rutledge aged forty
Eight years, and the said Albert J Hutchins
forty years, do upon
oath declare that we have long
known Elizabeth Lynch, Ellen Miller
and Nicholas Hutchens, who subscribe
the above declaration in our presence
and well know them to be the parties
the represent themselves to be
Thos J Rutledge
J Albea Hutchens

Before me, a Justice of the Peace of
the State of Maryland in and for
the City of Baltimore personally appeared
the above named Elizabeth Lynch
and Ellen Miller and Nicholas Hutchens
who subscribed the foregoing declaration
swearing thereto in due form of law,
and who did also in my presence
acknowledge the Power of Attorney above
to be their free act and deed; and
also appeared Thomas T Rutledge and Albert J Hutchens
who have subscribed above certificate of
identity, both known to me as persons of
respectability and trust, and did
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make oath to the matters therein
by there respectively subscribed
May 19th 1862 John B. Wheat JP

State of Maryland, Baltimore City, Sct:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That John B Wheat
Esquire, before whom the annexed acknowledgement and affidavit,
were made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of
so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the
City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, this 19th day
of May A. D. 1862
Geo E. Sangston
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City.

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Address
Hon J. Morrison Xanir
Baltimore
Md
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

5456

P. O. _____
William Hutcheson
Service: or Hutchins
[diagonally stamped here: REJECTED]

Enlisted: _____ , 18 __ 
Discharged: _____ , 18 __

Application filed: _____ , 18 __

Alleges: _____ 

Re-enlisted: _____

Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
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No (1) = No 29,923
Wm Hutchinson
Md
Let to 71 & A.7. Smith
March 10th '47
Hon Me. L. Thomas pr. Feb 8'' '66

Md
Act 7th June '32
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No. 2 ) No =
Wiliam Hutcheson
Maryland
Suspended
Act. 7th June 1832
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Mr Doctor Crump
at the Pension office
Washington City
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Balt February 8th 1847

Doct Crump Esq-

Sir will you have the goodness
To inform Mr Green whether you have
any Pension Papers before you Claiming a
Pension for one William Hutcheson or
Hutchins for services in the Maryland line
in the Revolutionary war, and whether there
is any Power of attorney accompanying those
Papers by Nicholas Hutcheson or Hutchins
as there was one given by Me to one Dunn
who I have learnt is a great scoundrel and
by Misrepresent to law and fraud by him and
others they obtained them and I have not been 
able to see them since, But understood from
Mr Edwards Commissioner of Pensions that the
Mr Smiths of your place had such papers and
Power of attorney which proves to be the same
I have waited on them and they deny having it
or that it was before the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims I waited on them they say there never
has been any before them, I these to be them I have
been thew and seen the Clerk of that committee
Smith these to be Me they were before you for
Examination, if they are or not [illegible] Hers is to disclaim
and Protest against our acting or having any thing
to do with that Power of attorney or giving any
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certificate or money to any one if His claim
should pass until I am Present or My Proper
Representative authorised after this date and Belive
them whole object if of Dunn fee can do it is to defraud
the act of A if Possible your attention to this
by either saying to Mr Green what you no about
it or drop Me a few lines and it will confer a great
Piece of Undiess towards Me, I have lately agreed
that the Smiths go on with the claim, as it
has been sent to them, but they are to have nothing
unless I am Present
Yours Respectfully
Nicholas Hutcheson

Please inform Me what course I have letter Presence
respecting the Power of attorney
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Washington DC
1. February 1847

Sir,

Herewith we have the honor to 
present the affidavit of Thomas S Bond Esq in the 
case of William Hutchinson or Hutchins, in which 
we respectfully ask your attention.

We have the honor to be [illegible]
TL & A Tho Smith

J.L. Edward Esq.
Comn of Pensions
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29.923
Wm Hutchinson
Md
Act 7 June '32
e.l.j.k. L. Gale 10 March '34
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Washington
13 Feb 1847

Sir,
We have the honor to present the enclosed additional evidence in the case of the heir of William Hutchins or Hutchinson of Maryland, and to request an early examination of the same.

with high respect.
yr obt st
JL & AM Smith

JL Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions.
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State of Maryland, Sct:
Land Office of Maryland
I hereby certify that in a Pay account of Officers
and Soldiers of the Maryland line, Revolutionary
War, deposited in and belonging to this Office
there appears under the head of "James & Raut"
the words "William Hutcheson P.," under the head of
arrears of pay from 1 Aug 80 to 1 Jan 82" The figure
"80/'';" under the head of Pay from 1 Jan. 82 to 1 Jan 83,"
the figurs "80/'';" under the head of "Pay from 1 Jan 82
to 15 Nov. 83," the figures "43/30;" under the head of 
"Gratuity," the figures "80;" and under the head of
"Total Received," the figures "283/30;" and I 
also Certify that in a book deposited in and
belonging to this office entitled "Depreciation
granted in 17811782 1783 1784 & 1785"
under the head of "Dates" appear the figures
"1784 Mar 23;" under the hand of "Names" th
words "William Hutchison," and under the
head of "Sums" the figures "33,, 1,, 2."
And in testimony that the 
aforegoing is truly collated
from the said books, I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the Land
Office of Maryland this 6th
day of May 1862
Wm LW Seabrook
Comr of the Land Office
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State of Maryland, Sct:
LAND OFFICE OF MARYLAND.

I, WM. L. W. SEABROOK, COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE, do hereby certify, that
there is deposited in and belonging to the Office aforesaid, a certain Record Book, entitled, "Record
of the Officers and Soldiers entitled to land westward of Fort Cumberland, in Washington
county, with the numbers of the lots drawn for them, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly,
passed November Session, 1788."
By - JOHN CALLAHAN, reg. L. O. W. S.
And that the Record Book, in a certain part thereof, under the caption of "Soldiers
entitled to land westward of Fort Cumberland," contains, among others, the following entry,
viz: 
| NAMES. | RANK AND REG'T. | NUMBER. |
| William Hutcheson | P. 1 | 1806 |

And I do further certify, that two other Record Books deposited in and belonging to the office
aforesaid, entitled, Ledgers A and B, received into the said Land Office, according to the following
receipt upon the first pages of each thereof, viz:

Received into the Land Office as a Record, agreeably to the directions of an Act of Assembly,
to dispose of the reserved lands westward of Fort Cumberland, in Washington county, &c.,
passed November session, 1788. Test - JOHN CALLAHAN, Reg. L. O. W. S.

And in a certain part thereof, (of Ledger A.) contains as follows, viz:

December 10th, 1787, a commission from the Governor and Council to me directed,
bearing date the 11th June, 1787, for the prupose of surveying and laying out the reserve
land to the westward of Fort Cumberland, into convenient lots of 50 acres each, &c.

I hereby certify, that I have carefully surveyed, for the Stat aforesaid, 4165 lots of 50 acres
each, lying and being in Washington county, and State aforesaid, and on the manors, recerves
and confiscated lands to the westward fo Fort Cumberland, as will appear by a general plat
thereof, and certificates numbered in rotation from 1 to 4165, in this Book, and another entitled
Ledger B.
Pr. FRANCIS DEAKINS.

And also the following entry, viz: 1806/ Beginning at a rounded
white oak marked 1806 standing north seventy degrees
west one hundred and seventy-nine perches
from that Beginning Tree of Lot 1804 and
Running South twenty degrees West eighty
nine and a half perches South seventy
degrees East eighty-nine and a half perches North
twenty degrees East eighty nine and a half perches
There by a straight line to the beginning containing
fifty acres

And I do further certify, that the aforegoing entries have been severally
compared and collated with the said original Record Book from
which they have been respectively taken, and that they agree and
correspond therewith.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of the Land Office of Maryland, this
6th day of May 1862
Wm LW Seabrook
Commissioner of the Land Office.