Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,119, for James Mathias, Maryland
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SERVICE    ....  Md	

  NUMBER ... S.40119

Mathias,  James
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10-400
Pennsylvania
James Mathias
of Phil’a  Co’ty  in the State of Pennsyl’a
who was a  private  in the  regiment  commanded
by Colonel Howard of the Maryland
line for the term of three years  
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Inscribed on the Roll of  Pennsylvania
at the rate of    8  dollars    per  month
to commence on the    4th day of September, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension is issued on the 7th  day  of May 1819
 and  sent to Thomas Armstrong
judge, Phiad’a County, Pa.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819              48.23
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept           48.00
	 		    1819	            $ 96.23
5 mo 27/30
    x  4
   31
                                     Revolutionary Claim
			Act 18th March, 1818
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James Mathias

No 104 Walnut
Street Phil'a
for Re of pen.
Private
Col Howards Regiment
Maryland Line
1779 -3 years
14th Sept. 1818

Adm.
[very light writing, covered by "Adm." ]
Franklin  ... Philadelphia
or Gen'l ... for proof 
.... applicant's
Pension Office
.....22nd, 1819 -
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District of Pennsylvania
City & County of ....St
Philadelphia ...*    Be it remembered that on this 14th day of September AD Eighteen hundred & Eighteen (1818) before me the Subscribed Tho. Armstrong - Esquire one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the Court of Philadelphia came James Mathias, aged about Sixty Eight years & upwards, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, Entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the State, in the revolutionary War". that he the said James Mathias, enlisted, in Baltimore in the State of Maryland, in the company commanded by Capt Nathaniel Smith, on or about the 3d day of January A.S. Seventeen hundred and seventy six (1776) in the Provincial troops & continued in said service, under Col. Saml Smith, for two years & three months until about the 3rd  of April AD 1778 when he was discharged at Baltimore. That this deponent, afterwards, on or about the fifth day of April AD. Seventeen hundred seventy nine (1779) regularly enlisted in the service of the United States, in the Continental establishment in the Maryland Line, at Baltimore in the State of Maryland
for three years unless sooner discharged by Congress in the company commanded by Capt Edward Oldham, in the fourth Maryland Regiment of Infantry under Colonel Howard (afterwards Governor of Maryland) that the said James Mathias, honourable served during the whole period of the said three years until on or about the third day of April A.D. Seventeen hundred & Eighty one (1781) that at or near Guilford in North Carolina, he was regularly discharged from said service, on the said 3 of April A.D. 1781, that his discharge was Signed by Colonel Williams, - that he served for three years at one period in the Continental service, in the war of the revolution in the Maryland Line - that he has lost his discharge & has no evidence in his power except what is hereto annexed. That he was actually engaged in the Battles of Monmouth (N Jersey)  at the taking of Stony Point, under Genl Wayne, at the Battle of Cowpens under Genl Morgan & the Battle of Guilford ( N. Carolina), that he hereby releases & relinquishes to the United States and every claim & demand whatsoever, which he
has or may have been entitled to pension money or other Claim
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& that he is a native citizen of the United States & a resident of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, & by reason of his extreme
poverty is in reduced circumstances in life, & stands in need of assistance from his Country for support, being infirm unable to work & has no property estate or effects whatever except his cloths he has on! & prays to be placed on
the pension roll at Philadelphia

His
James x Mathias
Mark
Sworn Subscribed & acknowledged before
me this fourteenth day of September
 AD Eighteen hundred & eighteen,
Thos Armstrong
Judge

on the said Fourteenth day of September AD 1818. personally came James Donahoe, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with the above James Mathias & knows he served
in the revolutionary war as above stated & that this deponent fully believes the above statement, & this deponent knows that the said James Mathias is a very poor man & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support that he is a resident citizen of the United States of aforesaid
his
James x  Donahoe
mark
Sworn & Subscribed before me
the said fourteenth day of
Septem AD 1818
Thos. Armstrong, Judge
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I the said Thos Armstrong Esq. Judge as
aforesaid hereby certify that I am fully satisfied
& verily believe the foregoing statement & declaration of the said James Mathias & am well satisfied & verily believe that he served in the revolutionary war & that he is poor & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for Support & I hereby certify the said proceedings transmit the same to the Department of War of the U. States.

Sept 14th 1818

Thos Armstrong... Judge aforesaid

Philadelphia County
I Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia do certify that Thomas Armstrong Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits
were made and by whom the above attestation is made whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of taking thereof, and making the said attestation, and still is an
associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and County of Philadelphia duly commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith & credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere

In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand and affixed the seal of my
office at Philadelphia the fifteenth day
of September A.D. eighteen hundred and
eighteen
J. B. Norbury Prothy.
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James Mathias

No 10.400

May 1819

con
Sep 1819
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District Court of the U. States in and
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ss,

On the eleventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the District Court of the U.
States for the District aforesaid (the said Court being a Court of Record)  having a Clerk a Seal and keeping a record of its proceedings, James Mathias, aged Sixty nine years, residing formerly in the County of Delaware but now in Philadelphia, who being first duly sworn in Open Court according to Law on his oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary
War as follows vizt
In the 4th Maryland Regiment & Company commanded by Capt Edward Oldham, Date of Original Declaration 4th Sept 1818, Number
of Pension Certificate (10.400), and I the said James Mathias do further solemnly 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, 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 the 18th of March
1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or Securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have any
income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Sworn to and declared in Open Court
on the eleventh day of August 1820
his
James x Mathias
mark
D. Caldwell Clk. Dist. Ct
Schedule of the property of James Mathias
I have no property of any description, am a day labourer by
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occupation - and unable to labour having my Anckle & wrist out of place, I have no children and am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my Country
his
James X Mathias
mark
Sworn at Supra 
D. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct-

I, D. Caldwell Clerk of the District Court of the
United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the
Record of the said Court: and I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the applicant has no property whereof to form a Schedule

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the
said Court, on this Twelfth day of August
A.D. 1820, and in the forty fifth year of
the Independence of the said United States.
D. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct
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James Matthias
Private

78 to 81
Hall Maryland
Regt

Admitted

this was found
among Vermont papers
Jan'y 29th 1820
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Certificate sent to Judge Thomas Armstrong
Philadelphia 7 May 1819 pension commenced
4 Sep 1818

this man is an Itinerant, but has finally in consequence of receiving his paper
settled in Baltimore Maryland

W. Bayly of Balt'm has been written to on
this case, which awaits his [illegible]
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, May 5th 1819
I hereby certify, that it appears from the pay-rolls remaining
in the Auditor's Office, that James Mathias received from
John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $200
for arrears of pay from the First August 1780
1st Jany 1782 - Also, the sum of $----for pay from the -----  to the------and also the sum of $-----from the ---------to the------
when his time expired.
 

Reschd   3rd April 1781
Thos Karney Aud
State  Md
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Auditor's Office Annapolis Oct 1st 1819

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that James Mathias
enlisted as a pvt in the 4th Maryland
Regiment, on the 3rd day of Apr 1778
and was discharged on the 1st Nov. 1780 present
Thos Karney
Aud. S. M.
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40119
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 40,119
James Mathias
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: -- Vol. 3  Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The deposition of John Eager Howard of the City of Baltimore who being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth that he was a
Lieutenant Colonel in the Maryland line in the war of the 
Revolution and that upon seeing James Matthias who is
applicant for a pension under the late act of Congress he is
well satisfied that the said Matthias was a soldier in the
Maryland line but after a lapse of near forty years he cannot
recollect in what regiment he served. From conversation
with the said Matthias who has mentioned so many circumstances with which the deponent was well acquainted
and with which could not be known by any person who was not present at the times & places referred to, he is fully convinced that the Matthias was in the action at Stoney Point, at the Cowpens and at Guilford Court House and further that all the facts as stated in his deposition are true.

John E. Howard

Sworn before me
this 7th Oct 1819-
Brice Judge Balti. Ct
be annexed to papers already sent
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State of Maryland Baltimore County ss:
On this 29th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and nineteen, personally appeared before me the undersigned Chief Judge of "Baltimore City Court", James Matthias of said City, aged sixty nine years and upwards, who deposith on oath by me administered
That he enlisted at Baltimore aforesaid under Captain Lanslate, then commanding a recruiting party on or about the 3d April 1778 joined and mustered in Captain Edward Oldhams Company in the Fourth Regiment commanded by Colonel Josias C. Hall then at Wilmington and in General
Smallwoods Division in the Maryland line, that he continued in the same and marched in said line to South Carolina and was discharged at Deep river in North Carolina on or about the third day of April 1781 having served three years in the Line (the period for which he was enlisted) in the
service of the United States on the Continental establishment: That he was in the battle of Stoney Point on the North river then under Cap. Henry Dobson to whose company he was drafted
was also under his own Capt Oldham at the battle of Monmouth in the Jerseys, Cowpens in South Carolina and Guilford Court House in North Carolina - That after having served out his time and obtained his discharge he joined Captain Lauderdale at the siege of York as a volunteer and
went into the Fort or Battery commanded by Colonel Lamb at the mouth of York river. That having been in the State of Pennsylvania in September 1818. he this deponent was advised to make application from then and went before Judge Armstrong of Philadelphia who took and
certified his declaration as an applicant for a pension under the late 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"" That he
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hath since been at Philada but could get no information as to the present residence of the person. Mr Bigelow, who was his agent on the occasion. neither was he able to obtain any 
information relative to his application. and being now a resident of the City of Balt'm, he respectfully renews his application for a pension being in extreme reduced circumstances greatly needs the assistance of his country for support. That in addition to the testimony of James Donohoe in Petitioners former declaration, he now offers the deposition of Joseph Fisher of the City of Balt'm + also a certificate from the Hon Genl Saml Smith, which he
prays may be accepted & that his pension may be allowed from the date of Judge Armstrongs signature, and made payable at the Maryland agency Baltimore
his
James  x Matthias 
Mark

Subscribed and sworn to
N Brice
C J Balt'm Ct.

State of Maryland City of Baltimore  ss
 [this next text is x'd out in the original]
I hereby certify that from the foregoing Declaration, and the deposition of Joseph Fisher made before Thomas Bailey, a Justice of the peace for Bates County, and the certificate of General S. Smith hereunto attached, it appears to my entire satisfaction that the said James Matthews did serve upwards of nine months in the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment and from his extreme indigence and reduced circumstances is entitled to a pension under the act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service
of the United States during the revolutionary War-
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Baltimore 24 Feb 1849, I do hereby certify that
James Mathias, about 70 years of age, was to my knowledge or Soldier in the 4 Maryland Regiment during the war of the Revolution, that he served for three years faithfully and honestly, and is truly entitled to a pension under the late act of Congress. he belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Edward Oldham, his present residence at [illegible] North, State of Delaware
J. Smith
Late Lieu't Colonel
4 Maryland Regiment

The following note added by request of Petitioner
Viz
The late temporary residence of applicant was in Delaware, but having neither family or property has no settled residence, therefore has returned to his native place to spend the remainder of his days not being able to gain a livelihood by labour as heretofore
F Bailey
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County ss:
On this Twenty fourth day of September 1819, personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for said County, Joseph Fisher of the City of Balti'm  & State aforesaid Carpenter, a man to me well known as a respectable citizen & credible witness who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served as a private in Captain Edward Oldhams Company, 4th Md
Regiment from 1777 to 1780- J. C. Hall Commander -  that he well rembers James Mathias, now present, to have been a regularly enlisted soldier in said company on the continental establishment during the revolutionary War and that he is well assured said J. Mathias continued in the service during the time he said continued therein, and that he is well satisfied he left him in the service when he was discharged and further saith not-  ......   Joseph Fisher

Subscribed and sworn to before
me the undersigned Justice
of the peace in & for Balt'm
County this 24 Sep. 1819
Tho Baily

State of Maryland City of Baltimore Ss
I Thomas Harwood, Clerk of Balt'm City Court do hereby certify that the Hon ......... Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and, who hath thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of
and still is ..............Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given
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Baltimore 29 Sept 1819
I hereby certify that from the aforegoing
declaration deposition & certificate annexed
I am satisfied that James Matthias within
named served as a private soldier for
more than nine months in continuance
during the revolutionary war against the
Common Enemy, on the Continental Establishment and from his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of his
Country's Assistance for his support

N Brice  Chief
Judge Balti Court

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Ss
I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and who hath thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing and still is chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly Commissioned and qualified
all his acts as such full faith and credit are
to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In Testimony I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed the seal of Baltimore City Court this twenty ninth day of September one
thousand Eight hundred and nineteen
Th Harwood Clk
Baltimore City Court

Please to return these the Port
office to care of Thos Bailey No. 6
Harrison Street Baltimore
      his
John  x  Matthias
mark