Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,947, John Dudderow, Md.
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( 2 - 1776 )
SERVICE
MD
CONTENTS
Dudderow, John
Catharine
NUMBER
R.2.947
2 & W
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See letter to W.
Dangerfield
Jane
1835 also same day to
Page, Do to P. Agt March
16, 1835 do to P. Agt March 23d
1835 Let L P W Balch
15 Aug 1836
Maryland 5.803
John Wadderonof
Friden in the State of Maryland
who was a
by
in the Company command
by Captain Van Securey of the Rgt command
of
ifest in the Maryland
Militia-
8 Mor
3 " Musician
20. 18
$32.00
48
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 48 Dollars Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the
134
and suit of San
17
Wm H Langile
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - 121.35
allowance ending 4 24.33
$145.98  Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by John Page Clerk
Book E
Vol. 5 Page 103
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17
Catharine Bidderow
M
Letter to L. P. W. Balch
August 15 1836
Rejected -
2947
Act. 4 July 1836
L. P. W. Balch Esq
17
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State of Maryland Wederick County Set
On this 5th day of August 1836 personally appeared
before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in for the
County & State aforesaid Catherine Dudderow
a resident of Frederick County State of Maryland
aged about seventy eight years on the 30th day of
November next who being first duly sworn did
to law doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Angress passed July 4 1836
That she is the widow of John Dudden
1
who was a private & mesuan during the revolutionary
as appear by reference to Revolutionary Clatter
War Department send January 6 1834 recorded
in the Pension Office in Book Vol 5 page 163
the further declares
that she was married
to the said John Dudders on the 24th day of
August 1779,
that her husband the aforesaid
John Dudden died on the 9
day of November
1835 and that she has remained a widow and
since that period
as will more fully appear ┃
reference to the proof hereto and and
her
Catherine
Duddownmark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above with
John S. South
before
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he
State of Maryland Frederick Court Set
Be it remembered that on this 3rd day of August
1836 personally appears before me a Justice of the peace
for said County & State Elias Dudderon of lawful
age who being first sworn according to law deposeth
and saith that he is well acquainted with Cathanne
Madden the within named affiant that he is the
widow of John Dudden deceased who deed overper
the
1835 that he knew them for several yous peace
to his decease & that they were always reputed
taken in their right one hood as man & wife
have heard it doubted, & that said Catherine
yet remains the widow of said decedent; that
has this day read the duties in the family bible
wherein it is stated that Catharina Summan
(now Deed deson) was married to John Duddenin
the year of our Lord 1779 in August 24th the
in the said entry to be correct
Elias Dute
Sworn to and subscribed before me
&
John T. Smith
10
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State of Maryland Inderick County Set
I John F. Smith
Justice of the peace in and
for the County of Frederick State of Maryland do hereby
certify that I this day attended at the house of the
Dudders wide of John Dudderon deceased, that ┃ the
and Elias Dudderan after being seen and
to law did severally sign the aforegoing affidavits
severally acknowledge the same to be true and
subscribed the same in my presence. I do also
further certify that the apresand Catharine Faddenis
from bodily infirmity unable to appear in Court
of record in order to make the declaration paid
and catact at said said Court if such
further certify that said Catharine Dudderon and
Duddeson all credible person of good
character & entitled to belief on oath. In testimony
whereof I have
hereto set my hand the day year
be written
John
J. Smith
X
-
Maryland Frederick County Set
---
I hereby certify that John J Smith gentle
before whom the foregoing affidavits, and acknow
ledgment, appear to have been made and
whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the
time thereof a Justice of the peace in and for
the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn
and that the foregoing signatures purporting
to be his, are genuine. In testimony whereof I
have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed
the seal of Frederick County Court this 8th day
of August 1836
Henry Schley Clerk
Fred C Court
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Adm 1. months  & months
thereof as a
Musician
48.66
of
145.98
44
48.66
22
732
24
2
1
14
Wm C. Dangerfield
0
Frederick
Mc
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
Novr 11th 1833
sir
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
Period when the
service was
rendered.
June or July 1776
Spring of 1777
Fall of 1777
-
Spring of 1778
a statement, shewing the service of John Dudderow
Duration of the
claimant's service.
.
┃ 00
┃ 00 ┃
┃ 00
6
1
┃ 2 ┃
2
┃ 00
Rank of
the
claimant.
┃ 80
Anna
Marian
Volunteen
Alan
Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
C. Griffith
Col. Throck
Age at present, ┃
┃ and place of abode
┃ when he entered
the service.
Col Wm Beather
---
Musi Col Baker Johnson
No Field Officer
Capt Van Swearys
Company
In specific
duty ┃
Escorting
The
prisoner of Burgoynes
┃ Army through
Mar
to Virgin
S
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
I am, respectfully,
persons
Your obedient servant,
┃ 75 last
resident of Jacob Boyer
February
Henry Bair and on
Frederick enttie Braner who
County Mc
serve in Flying Camp
Affidavt Jonathan Boyer
and John Moser who
live in his neighbour
hood that he is seemed
in his neighbour orto

have been a Revo
lutionary Soldier
---
Certificate of the age
take that Bur
Bruner die per and
of Frederick County Court
that Jonathan Boyer
John Moser an credible
where he
still well
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular
Four general
places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.
The Regular Troops.
2. ┃
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or Districo ss.
On this
day of
County of
A. B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
of
aged (c)
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
served in the
(e) regiment of the
with
and
line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, a frank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
,
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
A. B.
)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
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 that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. 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 services.
To a Soldier
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
To has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record.
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow
the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---yearmonths
, and ---
For months and --- days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension."
important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent unthority
; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as
the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the
nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note applies to continental troops only.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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take of Maryland Federick County
In Frederick County Court
October Term 1833
In the thirtieth day of October 1833 person
ally appear in open Court now sitting
John Hudder on a resident of the County
aforesaid on the State of Maryland
aged seventy five the second day of Feb
any last past who being first duly
Sworn according to Law doth on his
Oath make the following declaration
in order to attain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June Seventh 1832
In the Father part of June or the
early part of July which not now exactly
recollected but positively during the harvest
2
of 1776 he enlisted in the Flying Camp
of the State of Maryland for the term &
six months in the company thereof commanded by Captain Peter Month of Federich
County who afterwards became a major; The Lieutenants of the same com
to pany were Lieutenant the Adam
Cash afterwards Captain, and Peter
Adams and Lieutenant, That the field
officers were Col Griffith and Col. Shy
rock and he thinks General Bell
Immediately upon his enlistment he
Marched from Frederick County aforesaid
to Annapolis in the same the
and from Annapolis to Leonard Town
back to Annapolis and thence the
1
head of Elk River, delphia through
Wilmington
and from Philadelphia through Kenton to New
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York City where the remained several
days; Thence to Fort Washington where
he was six or seven weeks and in
Battle or skirmish with the Enemy
home Fort Washington he marched to
Tuckahoe heights thence to the White
Plains and was present in the battle
fought there under the command of
General George Washington, thence
to Peekskill on the North River Crossed
the River at Kings my below Peekskill
to Hackensack after his arrival there
Fort Washington was taken and four of
his company therein; being sick he was
sent to Philadelphia in a baggage
Wagon and was then discharged upon
the expiration of his time (which is
charge he has unfortunately lost)
and returned home Early in the year
1777 he volunteered in the Company
Maryland Militia commanded by Capt
tain Christopher State of Frederick A
a Musician therein. The Regiment was
commanded by Col William Beatter Heremained
with the regiment but two or
three weeks having marched with the in
from Frederick County Md to York Pensyl
amia, where being taken sick he was
left and getting well returned home In
the Fall of 1777 he again volun
hared in Col Baker Johnson's Regiment
and in the company commanded by Captain
Raphael Hilary as he is
in therein and marched with said
Company from Frederick County. To Miller
town in Pensylvania where joining
Gent Smallwood Bred do
they
Marched towards Vally Forge and
so on the Ridding Road to Gen
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Man town in Pa. and was in the battle
fought there against the British a fee
&
which he attended home having
volunteered for two months which had
then expired-
In the spring of 1778 about the month
---
April he went as a substitute for one
Conrad Weaver a private in Captain
Van Swearingens Company of Frederick
County and with said Company marched
to the Pensylvania line to take charge
of Burgoynes army, and escorted said
prisoners to the grinia Line
at Nolands Ferry on the Promack when
they were handed over to the Va Forces
.
he has no documentary evidence of his
services nor can he obtain the testimony
of any living witness except Jacob Boyer
who was with the King camp and
whose affidavit is annexed
He here
by relinquishes every claim whatever to
pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension
Roll for
the State of Maryland
from which time he receives a pension
There being no clergyman residing in
his neighborhood, he is unable to pro
to offer the following the
Place
certificate such as the lines
his
therefrom two respectable citizens
of Federick
County John Duddrow
Sworn before me
book
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid in open
Court
Test
John Schley Clk
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the Son than Boyer John Moser
of Frederick in the State of Maryland hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with John Dudderow
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy five
years of age, that he is reputed and believed the
the County neighborhood where
the
---
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the pension and

then Boyer
1
Sworn & Subscribed in Court John Mover-
s
John Schley
And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion
after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war
the partment that the above named applicant was a
revolutionary soldier and served as he states
and the Court further certifies that it appears
to them

that Jonathan Boyer & John Mour who have signed
the same are residents of the County of Federickand

are credible persons and that the statement of
entitled to credit
John Schley Clerk of the
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the mother of
the application of John Duddow for a pension, in testimony where of I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
thirty first day of October in the year 1833
John Schley Clk
Personally appear in open Court this thirty first day of October
eighteen hundred and thirty three, Jacob
Boyer the person referred to in the above declaration and
make oath according to Law that he was acquainted
and served with the Died down the Declarant in
the Flying Camp of the State of Md during the Revolution
war and that he served in such Camp as he states
in his declaration,
Jacob Bayer
Sworn & subscribed in
day & year last afore said open
Court on the ┃
John Schley Clk
Fred. M. Court
Test,
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P. O.
Act of July
Ca
Service:
and March 3, 1873.
2947
Enlisted:
charged:
therine Didderow???
widow of John
application filed:
discharges!
enlisted:
attorney:
son
Recognized.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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18
18
Contract.
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Catharine Didderow
Md
Rejected
Act 4 July 1836
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John Dederow Maryland
Act 7 June 1832
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To
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of
Pension
Washington City
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Edward
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the of John Dudderow
Declarant for a pension under the act of
June 1832 are herewith forwarded
such an amendment of their defects as the
Lether with which you honored me was sup
---
posed to Court out and refer to has been
made- Further evidence has also been
tained as to the declarants services in the
which is annexed to the amended
Declaration in the form of the affedavits
of Henry Baer and Valentine Bruner who
served with him in the Flying
Camp and
who are now receiving pensions on account
of that service
order State
as to the Declaration it may
that
pi
its hurried and careless and apparently
is appearance was the result of the full
condition of the Declarant, who is lame and all
most entirely band and who therefore was
for
1
badly off in a crowded court - The whole
in detaining the Declar
paper would have been made out new had
there not been danger
and very great
rant longer at Court and and
inconvenience to him in so doing
I hope
the papers as amended will meet the riches of the
Department as the Declarant is under them; and
in the belief of all who know him entitled to
pension and I should regret to see him fail on
account of defect of form in his Declaration
I
L Edwards Esq
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Mar 17
of
M
2
J.L. Edwards
Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
●
Washington City
D.C.
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JL Edwards Esq. Com
of Pensions
Sir
Ann Bank of Maryland
March 14. 1835
The Pension Certificate of Jno Dudderow, in which
the mistake occurred at stated in your letter of the 28th James last
having been issued by the Department for $48.66 instead of 3766 was
received by this Bank from H Doyle, each of the Frederick County Bank
In a letter recd from him this morning, he says he advanced the
pension to Mr Dudderow due the 4th Inst according to the certificate,
and he thinks it would be a hard case for his Bank to lose the money
in consequence of an enor committed by the Department - Judden
is an old infirm man and unable to refund to the Frederick Bank
the amount advanced--
Doyle having collected the former pensions under the same
certificate, was thus induced, for the convenience of the Pensioner
to anticipate the receipt of that payable on the 4th Inst. and he
expects therefore that the Department will not insist on the excess
paid, in consequence of the mistake in the certificate, being deducted
from the present payment
I am very respectfully
your obt Servant
C A Williamson
For Pension Agent
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[post marked
FREDERICK MD
AUG 9]
Aug 10
Catharine Dudderow
Act 4 July 1836
FREE
JL Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
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Sir
Inderick August 8 1836
I enclose the papers in the case of
Catherine Dution side of John Dudderon
deceased. Judge Shriver could not be prevailed
on the same on any account to side up the
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18 miles to see the widow, & she is too infor
come dere. You will percion that the law is it
pursued except that "a for of a Court of record"
does not appear in the proceedings. If that to
an indispensibly requisite fear the old under
must wore her pension for the reason aforesaid
hope howen as all is perfect right at
that she is not before Judge then, you will
grant her the pensions
respectfully &c
L. P. W. Balch
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Sir
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Union Bank of Maryland
Balt. 11 March 1835
a letter was received from your Office dated
28 January 1835 directing the agent of Pensions to deduct
the amount over paid to John Dudderow, which said amount
is thirty Eight dollars & fifty cents being three and a half years.
I have enclosed to you his vouchers presented for his
semi annual payment due on the 4 March of this year they
are made out in conformity to his certificate issued 26th
January 1834 and the amount which would have been said
to him under your direction $180 has been passed to
the credit of H. W. Evans Esq the Agent for Pensions in
this district
The object in forwarding to you the vouchers in this
case is to ascertain whether they will pass in their present
form or whether it will be necessary to have them executed
now under a certificate for $370. and whether it be
necessary to withdraw the certificate now in his possession
&
-
and issue a new one to him or what course is to be pur
sued-
I am respectfully
Obt Sert
For H. W. Evans Pension Agent Arilliamson
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The Amended Declaration of John Dudderow
Declarant for a pension under the act of
Congress of the 7th June 1832, whose papers have
been returned to him as defective and needing
amendment by the Commissioner of Pensions
This amendment is made according to the supthe

posed intention of the Letter addressed by the
Commissioner to and is expected to meet
Deficiency of the Declaration as pointed out of that
letter-
Frederick County Set
Personally appeared before me the undersigned
a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County of
rederick in the State of Maryland John Duddrow
Declarant above mentioned who being duly sworn
and saith that by Reason of old age
and
consequent loss of memory he cannot sweartively to the precise length of his service
feet
according to the best of this recollection he served
not less than the periods mentioned below and 
the following
gradesmonths
as a private in the
I enlisted for six
Flying Camp
of the State of Maryland and served the
full term of my said enlistment
---
---
I served as a musician in the Maryland militia
for one month having volunteered for two months but was sent home of
sickness at the end of one month
volunteered as a musician in the Maryland
Militia for two months and served therein as a
volunteer musician for said two months served
as a substitute in the place of one Conrad Weaver
a private in Captain Van Swearingers company of
County Main escorting the prisoners of Burgoynes army from
the Pennsylvania Line through me to the Virginia in
and served on such duty for the time of two months
and for such services I claim a
pension
Philip Bowley
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Since the forwarding of the Declaration the testimony
of Henry Baer and Valentine Bruner which could
not then be detained has been procured in the
form of the following affidavits which is bigger
to be received ⌨ ⌨
me the subscriber Henry Baer and
Valentine Bruner residing in the County
solemnly swear upon the Holy Evangelist
of Frederick
of Almight
John
God that we are well acquainted with
and that
Dudder in the Declarant above mentioned
of the
we served with him in the Flying Camp of
State of Maryland for the term of six months
of said
that we have read the best know
ledge and the services therein described
as having been performed and the Manches
made are truly and correctly stated-
Henry Baer
Valentin Browner
I, James M Harding a Father of the Peace for the County
Frederick in the State of Maryland hereby certify
that the above affidavit was sworn to and
subscribed Before me by the above
Henry Baer and Valentine Bruner and that ┃
I am
acquainted with the said Henry Baer
and
Valentine Bruner are credible persons
and entitled to be lif-
the King
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Maryland Frederick County Let
hereby
James M Harding gentleman before who in
the aforegoing affidavit appear to have been
made whose name appear thereunto subscribed
, are Justices of the peace for the County
aforesaid duly commissioned & from
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed my seal of office
the 18th day of November 1833
John Schley Clerk
Freekly court