Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34980, for William Mc Gee, Maryland
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[3-1776]

SERVICE

Md.

McGee, William       
or McGhee

NUMBER
S.34980
B.L.Wt 1355-100

CONTENTS
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[left side] 8887
Maryland

William M. Gee of St. Mary's Co. in the state of Maryland, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Armstrong of the Maryland line, for the term of five years. War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland, at the rate 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of March, 1819 and sent to John R. Plater, judge Leonard town, St. Mary's Co. MD.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819...$ 82.10
Semi-anl. all'ce [annuel allowance] 
ending 4 Sept. 1819}    48.00
                       $130.10   

10 ms [months] 4/30 & 4/31

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act 18th March 1818}

Continued

[right side written sideways] Notification sent Oct 4 1820 to T. Harris Esq. Leonard Town Md.
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Wm McGee
Maryland

Judge's certificate as to claimant's circumstances wanted

Adm C

[written upside down] Wm McGee 
Maryland Line
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State of Maryland Saint Mary's County Sct

On this 27th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the associate judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland personally appears William McGee of Saint Mary's County and state aforesaid aged about 63 years who being by me first 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 and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; That he the said William McGee enlisted in April 1778 in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain George Armstrong of the 3rd Maryland Regiment and that he continued to serve in the army of the United States untill [until] the end of [the] War when he was discharged from service at Annapolis in Maryland. That he was in the battles of Camden, Gilford [Guilford] Court House, 96 and Eutaw [Eutaw Springs] and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services —
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid-- J.R. Plater 

I John R. Plater associate Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William McGee did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy: And I now transmit the proceeding and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
J.R. Plater 
27 April 1818 
Additional - I further certify that I am personally acquainted with William McGee and know him to be a very poor man and that he stands much in need of the assistance of his country – Feby [February] 24th 1819 – 
J.R. Plater
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Saint Mary's County, towit

I, Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Mary's County, hereby certify that the Honourable John Rousby Plater Esq. who appeared to have taken and signed the within declaration was at the time of taking and signing thereof, ever since hath been, and still is one of the associate judges of the first Judicial district of Maryland. Comprehending the counties of Saint Mary's, Charles, and Prince Georges, duly commissioned and qualified, and that to all his acts as such, due faith and credit is and to be given, as well in courts of Justice as these out.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of my office, this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen___

     Jos. Harris
     St. Mary's County Court
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William McGee's
Schedule
8887

Sept. 1819

Car     1111
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State of Maryland} first Judicial District 

On this eleventh day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record having unlimited original jurisdiction and the power to fine and commit for the said first Judicial District of Maryland William M Gee, a revolutionary soldier, aged 64 and a resident of Saint Mary's County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath declares that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted as a private under Captain Mangess [cannot find this name] of the Third Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Gunbey [John Gunby] for three years and then reenlisted to the end of the war and was discharged at Annapolis in the State of Maryland at the close of the war, that he was in the Battles of Camden, Eutaw and Gilford [Guilford] and that on the 27 day of April Eighteen hundred and eighteen he made his first application for a pension and that the number of his certificate is 8887-and 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, nor in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due me, nor have I any income other than that contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed except that he receives an annual sum of forty four dollars from the state of Maryland. 

A schedule of property, necessary bedding & clothing 
Excepted viz Augt [August] 1820.
1. Cow a yearling half grown, 1 old [Illegible] 1 sow & pigs
4,
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4 small hogs, 2 old chests, 3 tables, 6 Earthen plates, 6 metal spoons, 12 old knives and forks, 1 old plane, 1 gun, 4 hoes, 2 old axes, 2 sheep, 4 flag chairs & Cash due me $600. 

A list of Debts due from me. 
To Thomas Miles, to George Combs, to James Duffer, to William B. Scott, to Black Smith, to John Thompson for rent, to Henry G.S. Keys, to James Hill, to John B Benson, to Philip [Tird ?], to Lewis [Tird ?], to Mr. Greenwell. 
William [his X mark] McGee
Test} 
J.R. Plater}

That he is old and infirm and unable to pursue any occupation but the mere cultivation of [a] small garden for a living. That his family consists of a wife and two children, a boy and a girl, both above the age of twenty-one, the son is in the employ of others and renders no assistance to him. 

Sworn to and declared on the Eleventh day of August 1820 in open court.
Jos. Harris, Clk [Clerk] 

I, Joseph Harris, Clerk of Saint Mary's County Court comprising in part the first Judicial District of Maryland do hereby certify that the aforegoing [foregoing] oath & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty eight dollars and seventy five cents. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Saint Mary's County Court this fifteenth day of August in the year of one thousand Eight hundred and twenty. 

Jos. Harris Clk [Clerk]
St. Mary's Cy [County] Court
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it. 

By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land in the United States. 
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant: 

State of Maryland} 
County of Saint Mary} 

I, William McGhee, alias Wm. McGee aged sixty eight years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight or nine I enlisted for the term of “during the war,” and served in the regiment No. Third or fourth under the command of Colonel Williams of the Maryland line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the same regiment, commanded by Colonel Williams –
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore, 

Know all men by these presents, that I, Wm McGhee alias William McGee aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas Carberry to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. 

Attest, 
Tho. H. Miles    
Wm [his X mark] McGhee alias McGee

I, Thomas Lynch aged Sixty nine years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Wm. McGhee alias McGee who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated. 

Attest, 
Tho. H. Miles --- Thomas Lynch 

Before me the subscribed a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland for Saint Mary’s County aforesaid -- personally appeared the above named William McGhee alias McGee subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise, personally appeared Thomas Lynch who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this twenty third day of August 1828

Thos H. Miles Justice of the Peace 

Saint Mary’s County to wit 
In testimony that the abovewritten [above written] Thomas H Miles was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Maryland at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Leonad Town [Leonardtown] in the County aforesaid this 23d day of August 1828

Jos H Harris Clerk 

[hand pointing symbol] This law expires 3d March, 1827
of St. Mary’s County Court

[ink blot seal]
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Leonardtown Aug 29 1828 

Dear Sir:
I have assumed the privilege with you of inducing an old soldier to empower you to act for him, in getter a warrant for his land, which I pray you will deem unoffensive, and that the power and duty their imposed on you may be accepted. 

Wm. McGee the old soldier who seeks for his long withheld rights is extremely illiterate & totally uneducated, and I can therefore reasonably conceive it provable that the mistake, which Mr. Robert Taylor of the Bounty Land office writes and there is in the spelling of the old mans name was committed by the person who annexed him and that he knew nothing of the mistake & if he had known thereof could never have considered –

The mistake is in spelling the ser name [surname], which is put down McGhee instead of McGee. This old soldier has never had a warrant for bounty land and is therefore entitled. I think I am in error in calculating on you aid in procuring for McGee new land – nor, need I remind you that, in doing so, you serve one who in days gone by has served his country. The old man is very poor & needy. This some years since I, by not being known to you (perhaps) lost the right to tax you friendship with trouble but my appeal is now made, in the name of one such who fought his countrys [country’s] battles in the first war – and such
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Willm. McGhee
alias McGee
No. 1355

[written upside down] Free
S. Combs PM
Carberry Esq.
Washington City
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Leond Town [Leonardtown] Md}
Augs [August] 29}


{Free
S. Combs PM

Thomas Carberry Esqr [Esquire]
Washington City
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[duplicate] 

Leonardtown Aug 29 1828 

Dear Sir:
I have assumed the privilege with you of inducing an old soldier to empower you to act for him, in getter a warrant for his land, which I pray you will deem unoffensive, and that the power and duty their imposed on you may be accepted. 

Wm. McGee the old soldier who seeks for his long withheld rights is extremely illiterate & totally uneducated, and I can therefore reasonably conceive it provable that the mistake, which Mr. Robert Taylor of the Bounty Land office writes and there is in the spelling of the old mans name was committed by the person who annexed him and that he knew nothing of the mistake & if he had known thereof could never have considered –
The mistake is in spelling the ser name [surname], which is put down McGhee instead of McGee. This old soldier has never had a warrant for bounty land and is therefore entitled. I think I am in error in calculating on you aid in procuring for McGee new land – nor, need I remind you that, in doing so, you serve one who in days gone by has served his country. The old man is very poor & needy. This some years since I, by not being known to you (perhaps) lost the right to tax you friendship with trouble but my appeal is now made, in the name of one such who fought his countrys [country’s] battles in the first war – and such
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Leon’d Town [Leonardtown] Md}
Augt [August] 29}

Free     One Anno

S. Combs, PM

Thomas Carberry Esqr. [Esquire]
Washington City

[written sideways] such an appeal (I flatter myself) must be entertained by one who was himself a soldier in the second
Yr. Servant
S. Combs

[written upside down] Willm [William] McGhee alias, McGee No.1355
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34980

Revy INVALID

File No. 34,980

William McGee
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18” [1818]
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 264

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Leonardtown Md.}
1st March}

Free

The Honorable
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

[written sideways] old case March 5, 1819
Admd [Admitted]
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Saint Marys County Maryland 
February 24th 1819

Sir 
I have the honor of returning the certificate of William Magee revolutionary soldier which had been sent to him as not sufficiently vouched as to his circumstances - I have been long acquainted with him and know him to be a very poor Man [water blot] fact & I have annexed additionally to his certify [water blot] - I have the honor Sir
with great respect & obt sevt [obedient servant]
J R Plater