Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8700, John Heape, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
MD
CONTENTS

Heape, John

NUMBER
S. 8700
carded
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Order to pay 13th Oct 1837.

3390-
Maryland

John Heape
of Harford in the State of M.
who was a Privt in the Compy commanded
by Captain - - - - - - of the Regt commanded
by Col: Comas in the Maryland
line for 6 months from 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Dec 32
and desired to Mr
Gott, Sub.s Office

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  30
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma 33 10
$40....

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk,
Book D Vol. 7 Page 33
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Application of
John Heape
for a Pension
under the Act of 1832
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of Harford County
Maryland

Adm
(illegible) mo
$20 pension
$20 per annum
Mr. Gott
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Declaration of John Heape a Revolutionary
soldier, of Harford County and State of Maryland
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed on the 7th day of June 1832.

State of Maryland
Harford County to wit
In the Orphans
Court of of Harford
County.

On this 25th day of September 1832
appears before the Judges of the Orphans Court of
Harford County in Open Court now sitting John
Heape a resident of Harford County in the State
of Maryland aged Seventy Eight years, who being
duly sworn according to law does on his Oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832

That in the Month of October or September 1777 He
entered the service of the United States as a private
Soldier in Captain Thomas Hutchins Company, then of 
Harford County Maryland.  That the said Company 
was attached to the 8th Battalion of Maryland Militia
and that Mordecai Amas was the second Lieutenant
of the said Company and that he does not now remember
who was the first Lieutenant.  That the said Company
and himself among then volunteered their service to the
United States, which was accepted and marched by order of Colonel James Mc Comas, who commanded the 
Battalion to the shore of the Chesapeake Bay for
the purpose of guarding and that he
served three months
the purpose of guarding the same from the incursion 
of the enemy, and that he served three months 
and upwards on that occasion, and afterwards in the
spring of 1778 was drafted as a private and served 
in a company
commanded by Captain Benjamin Amas of Harford County of Which Mordecai Ames
was the second Lieutenant, the first Lieutenant
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of which Company he does not now remember and that
he this declarant served in said Company three months and
upwards, during which the company was marched from
Harford County to Cecil County in Maryland and placed
by Colonel McComas under the command of Colonel
Hollingsworth whose first name he does not now
remember and was stationed for some time at the head of
Elk River at Elkton, and marched from thence to amb(?)
and to various places where their services were supposed to be most necessary.  That he was not in any engagement
during the war, tho he suffered much hardship, and
several times very near the enemy.  That he has no
documentary evidence whatever of his services, and knows
but of Mordecai Amas the second Lieutenant who is now
living who can testify to his services.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of
any state
John Heape

Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
before Thomas A. Hays
Saml Bradford

And now at the same time appears before the
Judges in open Court sitting, as aforesaid Mordecai Amas
aged seventy nine years and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth and saith. That the
above and mentioned John Heape dis serve three 
months as a private in the company of Captain Hutchingson
of which this deponent was second Lieutenant in the year
1777 and also served three months as a private in the
company commanded by Captain Benjamin Amos in
the year 1778 of which this deponent was also the second Lieutenant
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and that all the facts he has stated in his declaration
upon Oath as to his services are true as there stated.
Mordecai Amass

Sworn and subscribed on the
day and year aforesaid before us
Thomas A Hays
Saml Bradford

Interrogatories propounded by the Court to John
Heape and by him on oath answered

1st where and in what year were born
Answer - in the Year 1754 in Harford (then Baltimore) county Maryland

2nd Have you any record of your age, if you have where is it
Answer I have None.

3rd where were you living when called into service; 
where he lived since revolutionary war and where
do you now live.
Answer In Harford County, where I now live, and have resided ever since

4th How were you called into service.  Were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you a substitute & if
a substitute for whom?
Answer  I volunteered for my first tour of service as
have stated in my declaration in Captain
Hutchinson's Company,  Then afterwards drafted, and
placed command of  Captain Benjamin Amas

5th State the names of some of the regular officers
who were with the troops where you served; such
Continental and militia regiments as you can 
recollect and the general circumstances of your 
service
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Answer I did not know any of the officers of the regul
Army being entirely confined to militia. I know 
Colonel James McComas Colonel Hollingsworth
of Ccil County Maryland, and my own immediate
officers Captain Thomas Hutchins and Benjamin
Amas also & Lieutenant Mordecai Amas who I still
know.  I think ours was called the 4th Regiment, but 
am not Certain.  We were marched to various points
and our duty appeared to be to watch the enemy, when
in the Chesapeake and at Elk.  We were sometimes 
very near the American army but never actually
with it.  My memory has much failed as to names or
Numbers

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
and if so what has become of it.
Answer  I never did receive a written discharge.  Was called up and discharged verbally with the rest of the company by 
the Captain when our term was a up and then delivered up
our arms.

7th  State the names of persons to whom you are known in
your present neighbourhood, and who can testify to your
character for veracity and their belief of your services
as a soldier of the revolution
could name
Answer   I can't name many persons of my neighborhood who
could testify to my character for veracity and their
belief
that I was was a soldier of the revolution.  But I now
name the Reverend James Sewell who is the officiate 
minister at our meeting house and Colonel Israel D.
Maulsby who commands the 4th Regimental district 
of
Maryland militia  within whose regimental district
my dwelling is, who will I believe bear testimony
to my good character and their belief that I served as
soldier of the Revolution, and will also name
Mordecai Amas, my revolutionary Lieutenant who
is still living and knows me and can testify for me
John Heape
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after
remitting the interrogatories presented by the War Department
That the above mentioned applicant was a Revolutionary
soldier and served as he states.  and the Court 
further certifies that it appears to them that the
Reverend James Sewell who has signed the preceding
annexed Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Har(missing)
County and that Colonel J. D. Maulsby who has
also signed the same is also a resident of the said
County
and that Mordecai Amas who has testified 
concerning the services of the applicant is also 
a resident of Harford County and that they are all
credible persons and that their statement is entitled
to credit.
Thomas A Hays
Saml Bradford

I Thomas L Bond Register of Wills
for Harford County and Ex Offices Clerk of the Orphans
Court of Harford County Do hereby Certify that the
Honorable Thomas A. Hay and Samuel Bradford 
who have signed the above proceeding are the Justices 
of the Orphans Court of Harford County duly commissionedand sworn and that the aforegoing contains the original 
 proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the 
application of John Heaps for a pension
On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
han and seal of Office this 25th day of September
1832.
Thos L Bond R Registr
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I certify that I am well acquainted with
Thomas A Hays and Samuel Bradford
that they are Judges of the Orphans Court
of Harford County of much respectability and
their statements are entitled credit as such.
John Robt
Dec 26. 1832
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Rev War
8700
INVALID
File No. 8700
John Heape
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: -- Vol. (illegible) , Page 167
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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James Sewell
the
James Sewell a Clergyman
residing in Harford County and Israel D
Maulsby Colonel of the 4th Regiment for
Mn residing in the same county do hereby
Certify that we are acquainted with
John Heapes who has subscribed and sworn
to the same declaration and that we
believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age
That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolution and that we
concur in tehat Opinion
James Sewll
J D Maulsby

Harford County ⎬
25th Sept 1832
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Matter of the application of John
Heaps for a pension. In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of Office this 25th day of
September 1882
Thos S Bond RNHLY
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John Heape
Pension allowed Decr 20. 1882
at $20 per year, payable
at Balto. on d/. half yearly

H. G. Fant wishes to
see the papers

F S E
M Cole
Feb 11 1851

Ex by Wm F
TVA 57
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John Heape
a private in the Revolution
Capt Jolly;s Co
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Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents, That J
John Heape of the County of Hareford
and State of Maryland have contituted and appointed,
and by these presents do constitute and appointed John W. Ringrose
my true and lawful Attorney, Irrevocably for me and in my name
to receive from the United States the Pension certificate and all
such sum or sums of money due me on account of arrears of pay
three months' extra pay forage, mileage, for horses and other prop
only lost or destroyed in the military service expenses incurred on
money expended for organizing volunteer companies before being mustered
into the service of the United States, or any money or moneys which
may be due me by the United States on any account whatsoever and
generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the
premises and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purpose afore
said, to make and at his pleasure to revoke hereby confirming all and
whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do or cause
to be done in and about the premises.
his
John X Heape
mark

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal
this thirteenth day of January 1851
Acnt
William a Channelle  (seal)
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Acknowledged and subscribed before me John Heaton
a Justice of the peace in 
and for the County of Hartford
and State of Maryland
this thirteenth of January - 1857
John Heaton (seal)

State of Maryland
County of Harford  to wit

I hereby certify that John Heaton Esq. before
whom the foregoing declaration and power of attorney were made and
who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned
and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed the seal of the Court for the County
aforesaid, this 14th day of January 1851
Harry D. Gough Clk
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January 25th 1844
To Capt John H. Ringrose di I 
volunteered my self as a soldier in the Revolutionary
war under Lieutenant Mordecai Amos
and then we went to Haverdegrace and staid
awhile and then went to Elkton and then I 
was taken from Capt. Amos Company and put
under Capt Jolly and there I staid about
four months.  I was on gard very often some
time nearly every other night

Sir: as I am very old and frail I cannot
think of the rest of my officers & have 
(illegible) of Harford County all
my life I think I have been wronged out of
part of my right I wish you would do
the best you can for me as I am a poor
old Revolution soldier.
John Heape
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Mr Jno Heap has a certificate from the 
Secretary of war dated 2 Dec 1832 Declaring him
entitled to 20$ per year payable 1/2 yearly at Balti
& he has drawn that amount regularly 

Dear Sir
I send you the power of attorney sent
to me & the remarks on this paper which will
explain to you all I know on the subject
- the curse of this act on his part is that he
thinks he is not fully dealt with he thinks
his pay aught to be more & the Clerk at the
Bank where he draw the money tell him
that none draw so little, if any thing can be
done he will pay fairly for it & will give
you such power as you want as it will
last something I prefer that you first find
if any thing can be done & then direct me 

I have been waiting & Expect soon
to here from Mr James I thing he can prove
that James Died from Exposure in the Camp

I have many hand consents to sell
Please let me know what they will
Bring in Washington
Yours 
John W. Ringrose
Feby 10, 1851

Myon Hant & Dunknsion
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Admitted

Free

The Honorable John C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington 

(Stamp)
Newark
New Jersey
Nov 23