Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34672, John Burn, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Burn, John
or Burns

Number
S.34672
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14522
Maryland

John Burns
of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart of the Maryland line for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per months to commence on the 27 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Sept 1819 and sent to William M Mar (illegible) Cambridge Maryland

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 $130.13
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 $48.00
$178.13

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued
Died 23 June 1825
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Notification sent 22 Nov 1820 to E Richardson, Cambridge MD
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John Burns
14522
22 Sept 1819
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Schedule
Maryland, Dorchester County

On this twenty-sixth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record which proceeds according to the Course of common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount with power of fine & imprisonment for the said county John Burns aged about sixty years resident in Dorchester County in said State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows - he enlisted int he fourth Maryland regiment in Captain Revely's company of infantry the date of his original declaration is 27th day of April 1818 - the number of his pension certificate now in his possession is 14,522 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 on the 18th day 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 I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

A pension from the state of Maryland of forty dollars per yar.
2 Spinning wheels
1 old chest
1 iron oven
1 iron pot
1 tub
3 chairs 
1 sifter
a small quantity of earthen ware
2 hogs
1 Pine table

Valued by the court exclusion of the state pension to $10.00

My occupation is that of keeper of wind mill being very infirm and unable to do hard labor he has including himself seven in family viz; his wife of nearly aged fifty-four years, infirm daughter Mary aged twenty-six years healthy, daughter Rosannah aged seventeen years healthy, daughter nearly aged nine years healthy, son Thomas aged
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aged twenty-one year's very much afflicted & entirely unable to labor, granddaughter Sally Burns aged three years.

John Burn
His X Mark

Test: Jno Donovan

Sworn to and declared on the twenty-sixth day of October in the year 1820.

Before Dorchester County Court in open court, I Ezekiel Richardson Clerk of Dorchester County Court do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is ten dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this sixth day of November 1820.

E Richardson - Clerk
Clerk of the Court for the County of Dorchester in the state of Maryland
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John Burns, Private
Maryland Line - Col Stewart
27 April 1818

Judge's certificate as to claimants' circumstances wanted - this line is scratched out.

The line in which the claimant service is not mentioned.

Admitted

William B Martin Esq
Judge
Cambridge, Dorchester
County Maryland
rec'd 27 May 1818
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State of Maryland

On this twenty-seventh day of April in the year 1818 before me the subscriber chief Judge of the 4th Judicial District of the state aforesaid, personally appears John Burns aged about fifty-seven years, resident in Dorchester County in the state aforesaid 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 John Burns enlisted at Annapolis in the state aforesaid and served under Captain Revely belonging to Col Stewards regiment - the number of the regiment he does not recollect - that he believes in the same year that Little Rok was captured and continued to service in the said corps or in the service of the United States until sometime in the year in which peace was declared - when he was at Annapolis by a furlough - the war concluding some after he was again called into service - that he was never in any battles whatever - 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.

William B Martin
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I William B Martin Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial district of Maryland as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Burns did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress - May 21st, 1818.

William B Martin

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit

I hereby certify that the honorable Willam B. Martin by whom the above certificate appears to have been given and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of giving and subscribing the same and still is the chief judge of the fourth judicial district of the state of Maryland duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this 21st day of May anno domini 1818.

E Richardson - Clerk
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Cambridge Apr 9, 1819

I am fully satisfied from the enclosed affidavit of Jno Donovan of the indigent circumstance of John Burns the within mentioned applicant for the relief granted to indigent old soldiers by the late act of Congress.

William B Martin
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The Aud of Maryland will furnish any evidence of this claimant's service that may be found in his office - the above is respectfully solicited.
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34672
Revy INVALID

File No 34672
John Burns
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March '18
Index: Vol 2 Page 99

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, Sept 8th, 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the payrolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that John Burns Pvt received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $25.40 for arrears of pay from the 1st Aug 1780 to the 1st Jany 1782 - also the sum of $80.00 for pay from the 1st Jany 1782 to the 1st Jany 1783 - and also the sum of $43.30 from the 1st Jany 1783 to the 15th Nov 1783 when his time expired.

Thos Karney
A.S. Md
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Maryland Dorchester County to wit

On the thirty-first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county John Donovan and made oath on the holy Evangely of almighty God that he has known John Burns of the county aforesaid for several years, he is old and very poor and poor & needy as almost any person who attempts to live out of the poor house.

Sworn before
James Pattison

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit

I hereby certify that James Pattison Gentleman before whom the above probate appears to have been taken and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time of so doing one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this 31st day of March 1819.

E Richardson Clerk
Of Dorchester County Court
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Fill up this for John Burns
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State of Maryland

On this 27th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, chief Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Maryland personally appeared John Burns aged fifty-seven years, resident in Dorchester County in the said state 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 John Burns enlisted for the term of blank on the blank day of blank in the year blank in Annapolis in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Revely of the regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart in the line of the state of Maryland on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States from the capture at Little York until the year the war was declared over and discharged from the service in Annapolis - state of Maryland, that he was never in any battles and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in needs of the assistance of his county 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.

William B Martin

I William B Martin Judge etc. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Burns did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his county for support. I further certify that he made his first declaration on the 27th day of April 1818.

William B Martin
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Maryland Dorchester County to wit

I hereby certify that the honorable William Bond Martin by whom the within certificate appears to have been given and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of giving and subscribing the same and still is the chief judge of the fourth judicial district of the state of Maryland duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this 11th day of August 1819.

E Richardson - Clerk