Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,026, for John Majors, Maryland
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md. Va
Majors, John
NUMBER
S. 11,026
CONTENTS
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Maryland. 32.045
John Majors of Baltimore in the State of Maryland who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bird of the Regt. commanded by Col Williams in the Maryland line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of May 1843 and sent to Samuel Majors  68 Pratt Street Balto
Arrears to the 4th of March 1843  $ 960.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept [illeg] $40.00
$1000.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by K. H. Steward [illeg]
Book E_ 2_ Vol. 5_  Page 11
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35.499
John Majors
Md
Act 7. June 1832
adm'd
2 yrs pri
80$

Saml. Majors
68 Pratt St
Baltimore
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State of Maryland:
City of Baltimore to wit
Be it remembered that on this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Orphan's Court of Baltimore County, and State aforesaid, the same being a Court of Record, personally appeared, John Majors, aged eighty three years, who was prevented from attending in open court, by reason of bodily infirmities and who, being first duly sworn according to Law, Doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following names officers, and served as herein stated:  That he was born in Baltimore County, State of Maryland, in the year seventeen hundred and sixty, and resided in said County until her attained his thirteenth year, that he then went to Prince George's County, in the State aforesaid, where he resided for three years:  after which he went to Alexandria, from thence to Loudon County, State of Virginia where entered the service as a volunteer for three months and served in Captain George's Company, under Lieutenant Daflinger, and Sergeant Shorer, and under the command of Major Skinner:  And that during his service as aforesaid he, together with the rest of the Company he was in, became engaged in a skirmish at a place called Williamsburg, in the State of VIrginia, when one of the sergeants received a wound in his leg; and Major Skinner sent him, the sergeant, to the camp on his horse; that after the expiration of three months deponent left the company aforesaid and enlisted as a private soldier in Captain Bird's company, belonging to the First Regiment of Maryland Continental Line, under the command of Colonel Otho Williams, in the month of February in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight, for and during the War of the revolution; and there he was marched through the States of Maryland- Delaware and Pennsylvania, and through the States of New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina; and he further stated that he was in many skirmishes during the years seventeen hundred and seventy eight and seventeen hundred and seventy nine; that he was in the battle of Camden, which was fought in the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty, when he was
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States of New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina; and he further stated that he was in many skirmishes during the years Seventeen hundred and seventy eight and Seventeen hundred and seventy nine; that he was in the battle of Camden, which was fought in the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty, when he was made a prisoner; that a short time afterwards he returned with many others to the Army and reunited with his company; that he was also in the battle of York town, State of Virginia, which was fought in October seventeen hundred and eight one; that after the battle of Yorktown he remained in service until the latter part of the winter of Seventeen hundred and eight one, when he received pay from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland Line, for the services he had rendered to the United States; that he then received a written discharge from his Captain, under orders from General George Washington, which discharge has been lost or destroyed
[illeg]
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by time, that after this he, with many others, returned to the City of Baltimore, where he has resided ever since:  And he further states that he has a personal knowledge of many who belonged to the Army:  he further stated that he has faithfully served his Country.   He hereby relinquished every claim whatsoever to any pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the pension list or roll of the Agency of any States.  Having been theretofore enabled to procure his daily bread by his own hands, he was unwilling to become a pensioner on the bounties of his country; but recent affliction and growing infirmities have reduced him to dependence thereon.
He therefore now prefers his claim..
IN Testimony whereof this deponent has hereunto subscribed his name on the day and year first herein before written
John Majors
James B. Price, one of the Justices of the Orphans Court for Baltimore City and County.

I hereby certify that after a careful personal examination of the deponent in the above case I believe his statement may be fully relied on.
James P. Price

Maryland SS
I hereby certify that James B Price Esquire who has signed the aforegoing Certificate was a the time of so doing one of the Justices of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court this Eighth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three. 
D. M. Perine  Reg
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We the undersigned members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland have been well acquainted and met in our class Association with John Majors for a number of years, and that we know him to be an old Gentleman of the highest integrity and the most implicit confidence can be placed in any statement he may make, and that we do believe he served in the Revolutionary Was, as stated and sworn to in his Declaration on the opposite page, In Testimony whereof we subscribe our names on this 30th day of April 1843.
Benj Booz
John S Lentz
John Jarvis
Isaac Ramsay
Saml Stains
Barron Jones
Phillip Sherwood
E L Howard
Jos Jenkins
Jno B McClellan
James Hopkins
John Riley
Charles Spren T G
Albert Underwood
John K Chandler
Joseph B. Frazier
Joshua Regester
Edward L Miles
George H Mattox
Wm Vanhorn
Richard Chatman

To James L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
This is to certify that I have been well acquainted with John Majors for sixty years during that time he have all ways and on all occasions found him to be an old gentleman of strict integrity and that the most implicit confidence can be placed in his Declaration Set forth on the other page  As I have many years ago [heard] him speak of his Revolutionary Services  In testimony whereof I subscribe my name on this 1st day of May 1843.
J Myers

This is to certify that I have been acquainted with John Majors for about fifteen years and during that time I have seen and known nor heard of nothing but the best moral and upright character of him.and saith I believe  [illegible] and together. That
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George K Mattox
Wm Vanhorn
Richard Chatman

I hereby certify that John Majors is an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the East Baltimore Station.  And I also certify that most of the persons whose names appended to the above certificate I know to be members of said Church also
H Slicer - Preacher in Charge of East Balt Station

about fifteen years and during that time I have seen  and known him true and of nothing but the best moral and upright character of him, and saith I believe  [illegible] and together. That to [illegible] my knowledge of Mr. Majors I think most confidently that he is incapable of making any false statement.

In Testimony whereof I subscribe my name this 1st day of May 1843
Sam Williams L Ech
ins. ser. EC
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April 9, 1940.
Mrs. R. L. Dobyns
R. 2, Box 154

BA-J/ADY
John Majors
S. 11026

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to John
Majors, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim,
8. 11026, based upon the military service in 
of John Majors in that war.
John Majors was born in Baltimore County, Maryland,
in 1760, day, month, and the names of his parents are
not shown. When thirteen years old he moved to Prince
Georges County, Maryland, three years later he moved to
Alexandria, state not given, and then moved to Loudoun
County, Virginia.

While residing there he enlisted and served three
months as private in Captain George's Virginia Company.
and was in a skirmish at Williamsburg, Virginia. He
reenlisted February 4, 1776, served as private in Captain
Bird's Company, Colonel Otho Williams' Maryland Regiment;
he was taken prisoner at the battle of Camden, August 16
1780, and a short time afterwards he returned to his
company; was in the battle of Yorktown and many skirmishes
and was discharged late in the winter of 1781.
He then returned to Baltimore County, Maryland, and
some years later moved to the City of Baltimore.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 5, 1843, at which time he was a resident of Baltimore,
Maryland.
In 1843, his son, Samuel Majors, was living in
Baltimore, his age not shown. The name of soldier's wife
is not given, and there are no further family data.
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, the name of person paid and possibly the deathdate of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller
General, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C.
and cite the following data: "John Majors, Certificate No. 32045, issued May 25, 1843, $80.00 per annum, commenced
March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maryland
Agency".


Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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11 May 1843
DC

[faint postmark]

John Majors

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Baltimore May 10th 1843

Sir
Enclosed you will receieve a certificate from Geo G. Brewer Esqr commissioner of the Land office at Annapolis agreably to the requirements of your letter of instructions dated the 5th into, and which he says to me all the evidence the records can furnish in relation to my fathers case

Very Respectfully
your obet servt
Samuel Majors

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington
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July 25 43
[postmark] BALTIMORE MD
MAY 24

Care John Major Md 

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension office
Washington City
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Baltimore May 24th 1843

Sir
I enclosed to your department some twelve days since a certificate from Mr Brewer Commissioner of the Land office at Annapolis in the case of my father's application for a pension and not hearing from your had induced me to fear the miscarriage of the letter enclosing the certificate.  an answer in relation to this matter will greatly
oblige your 
obedient servant
Samuel Majors
 S. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner 
of Pensions
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This twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Subscriber, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Baltimore County, James Bailey, aged eighty two years, a resident of said county, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Allmighty God, that he was a private soldier in the revolutionary war, in Captain Hawkins company, commanded by Colonel Ford of the fifth Maryland regiment; this deponent further declares, that he was intimatly acquainted with John Majors, when they were boys, living neighbours in the County aforesaid, up to the period, when he left Said County and went to Virginia; to reside after which, in the year 1780 of that Summer they met at or near Camden, South Carolina, when he, Said John Majors, was acting as a private Soldier in a Captain Birds Company; and this deponent further declares, that he, and the Said John Majors fought in the battle of Camden, which took place in the Summer of the year 1780, where he well recollects the (blotted out word) Majors was made prisoner; after which, in the year 1781; the deponent met again with the Said John Majors in Virginia and they fought in the battle of Yorktown, and that he had not Seen the Said John Majors, untill after deponent left the Service aforesaid and returned to Baltimore County, where they Some time afterwards met again and were glad, to see each other; they then spoke freely of the trubles and hardships, while in the aforesaid Service; and there, in Baltimore County the Said John
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Majors followed his trade as wheelwright for Some years; he, the said John Majors, then moved to the City of Baltimore, where, in the opinion of deponent, he, the Said John Majors has resided ever since, further deponent Saith not--
Sworn before me
James Bailey  X  his mark 
Joseph P. Fusting.  J. o P.

I do hereby certify, that I have been acquainted with the above named James Bailey for a number of years, and that he is an old gentleman of the strictest integrity, and, though very old, still of the Strongest recollection and Soundest mind.
Joseph P. Fusting. J.P.

State of Maryland Baltimore County Sct}
I hereby certify that Joseph P. Fusting Esquire before whom the aforegoing deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doin a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County of Baltimore, duly commissioned and Sworn

In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of Baltimore County Court on this 3d day of May 1843
Thos. Kell   Clk
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Baltimore May 5th 1843
Sir
Herewith enclosed I lay before you with satisfactory vouchers in support of the same, the application of my father, for a pension under the act of congress of June 1832  The testimony I have no doubt will be deemed ample to establish the claim. Your early attention to the application is particularly requested as my father is very old and infirm
Very Respectfully 
your obt Sert.
Samuel Majors
No 68 Pratt Street

J L Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Land Office, Annapolis, 9th May, 1843.
I hereby Certify, that it appears by the Muster rolls of the Revolution, Remaining in this Office, That John Majors, enlisted as a private, in the 1st Maryland Regiment, on the 4th day of February, 1778, and on the 16th of August, 1780, was made prisoner, And by a pay roll kept by John Hamilton, agent for the Maryland Line, John Majors, appears to have been discharged, on the 15th day of February, 1781, and paid.
George G. Brewer, 
Regt. Land Off. Pmt.
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R2 Box 154
Clarksdale, Miss.
Mar 11, 1940

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Dear sirs:
Please send me the Revolutionary War Pension record of John Majors--private Maryland line.

(stamp)
RECEIVED MAR 1 1940
MAIL SUB DIV READER NO. 9 VET ADM

Yours truly, 
Mrs. R. L. Dobyns
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[Letterhead]
Barrett, Denton & Lynn Co.
Proprietors
Dalton Flour Mills, Dalton, Ga,
Capacity 600 Barrels daily
Established 1882
Incorporated 1905

[Principals]
W.M. Denton, President
R.L. Denton, V.Pres't & Gen'l Mngr
J.B. Denton, Sec. & Treas.
W.M. Lynn, Ass't Mngr.

Pension Office, Department of Interior
Washington DC

Gentlemen: 
Is there any record of a pension being issued to either the following widows, for services in the Revolutionary War:
John Major
John Perry Major

They served in the Virginia State line troops, or we know that John Major did, and presume that his son John Perry Major was with him.

We know that both were in the war.

Will appreciate this information very much indeed.

Yours truly
[Signed] W.M. Denton
Dalton Ga.

[Notation at bottom of letter]
Send S 11026 John Majors of Md. it is Va. fix caption card & papers
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Rev War
11026
INVALID.
File No. 11,026
John Majors
Priv. Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:Vol--A, Page 238
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1911 Nov. 3 Hist to W. M. Denton.  V.L.M.
1916 Aug. 7 Hist. to Jennie Q. Fenton.  Letter Sent to Record Div.
1917 Feb. 24 Jennie Q Fenton that sons name is Samuel  Sec letters in s. 16944 John Majors
1940 April Mrs. R.L. Dobyns furn hist. Ad. Y.
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N 35.499
John Majors
mo.
let to Samel Majors May 3 1843
Act 7 June1832
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[Some parts of this document are missing; words are dim.]

[missing] as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- [missing] in this Bureau. John Majors S.11,026

[A form is part of the document; first column of the form is missing.]

[Headings for form] [missing]| LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. |OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED| [breakdown] CAPTAIN. |COLONEL.| [/breakdown] STATE.

[missing]| 3 mos.| [blank]| George | Major Skinner| Va.|

[missing]| [blank]| Pvt.| Bird|   Otho Williams| Md.|

Feby 4 1778 was taken prisoner at battle of Camden & a short time afterwards he returned to his company and was discharged ^Feby 10, 1781^ late in winter of 1781.

Battles engaged in, [illegible] Williamsburg .. Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Loudoun Co. Va
Date of application for pension, Apr. 6 1848 His clm was al.
Residence at date of application, Baltimore, Md.
Age at date of application, b. in Baltimore County, Md. in 1760
remarks:  His son Samuel was a resident of Baltimore County. No. 68 Pratt St in 1843.  No other data as to family.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.


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