Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 9529, John Turner, Md.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Turner, John
Ann Elizabeth

NUMBER
W9529

CONTENTS
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Let Hon. John G. Davis Jan 15/55

Reputed
Decr. 21/48

2554
Maryland
Ann Elizabeth Turner widow of John Turner Md who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of December and sent to Alex d Yearley
Baltimore, M[d]

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 129 Vol. 3.
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12778
9181
1335.

Ann Elizabeth Turner

Md.

Act 7 July '38 admitted

2 years private $80 per annum also Acts 43 & 44. $80-per ann.

Hon W.F. Giles
H. of Reps

James Wynne, Esqr.
Baltimore Md.
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State of Maryland, Baltimore City}ss

Be it known that on this 4th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty six, before the subscriber, one of the Judges of Baltimore City courts the same being & events of Record, personally appeared Ann Elizabeth Turner, aged eighty four years, who is a resident of Baltimore, but formerly lived in Harford County, Maryland, and being duly sworn according to law, Doth make the following declarations on this her oath, for the purposes of obtaining the benefits of the Acts of Congress, passed 7 July 1838 and subsequent granting pensions to widows in certain cases.

That she is the widow of John Turner, who enlisted as a private in Captain Price's company of the third Maryland regiments, under the command of Col. Adams, and served two or three years, more or less, in the Continental Army of the Revolution, At the expiration of his service, he was discharged and received pay from John Hamilton,as she has often heard her husband, the said John Turner, say, and she verily believes; claimant has declared, that she was married to the said John Turner, on the seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, by the Revd John Davis in Harford County, State of Maryland, and she further
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declares that her husband, the said John Turner died in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty and she also declares that she has never remarried, but has remained a widow since the death of her husband aforesaid.

Ann Elizabeth (her X mark) Turner

In testimony whereof this deponent hath hereunto subscribed her name and on this day and year first herein before written}

Witness Jas Wynne

Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day and year herein first written by the said deponent Ann Elizabeth Turner, she being too inform & weak to appear in the Court.[--

W.G.D. Worthington
 A Justice of the Peace, City Court
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9529
Ann E. Turner
Wid. of John Turner
Privt. Rev. War

Act: Feby 2 of 48

Index:--Vol. M, Page 285

[Arrangement of 1870]
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10.181.

Maryland.
Ann Elizabeth Turner, Widow of John Turner who was a pensioner under the Act of ___and who died in the year 1830____of Baltimore Co. in the State of Maryland who was a Pri in the Company of commanded by Captain Price of the Regt commanded by Col. Adams in the Rev. for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Baltimore at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Jany. 1847 and Sent to Hon. Wm F. Giles, H. of Rep.

Total amount, $400.

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by D.H. Woods Clerk, Book D. Vol. 4. Page 259.
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2 Certfs.1838, 143, H866.}

Rept.

8074.

Maryland.

Ann Elizabeth Turner widow of John Turner who was a Private in the Revolution.

Husb. died in 1830.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars __
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Jany. 1847. and sent to Hon. W. F. Giles, House of Reps.

[Act of March 3, 1843.] and June 17, 44

Recorded in Book d. Vol. 2, Page 255.
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V. 12.778.
Ann Elizabeth Turner Md.

Let to Jas. Wayne, July 18, '48
[] Decr. 24th, '46

Act 7 July '38.
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Pension Office
Jany 4/55

Sir

Please certify the payments made in this case

Very respectifuly your obt. Servt.

S. Cole, Chief Clerk

3d Auditor. Treas'y dept.

Mr. Randall
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Ann E. Turner died 23 July 1837.  Paid

Rot. J. Atkinson
Auditor
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County}

To wit on this day twenty third day of November in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty six before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Baltimore County Personally appeared Margaret Long a resident of said County and a pensioner of the United States on account of her first husband John Carr, for services rendered during the Revolutionary War that she is well acquainted with Ann Elizabeth Turner who is very old and now living in the City of Baltimore and her maiden name was Ann Elizabeth Marnier and who is the Identical widow of John Turner a soldier of the Revolution this affiant further declares that she well knew that during the lifetime of the said Turner she had frequently and at different times heard him relate over and and spoke freely of his said Revolutionary Service during that war, That she the aforesaid affiant believes he must have served two or three years in active service in the Maryland Line and that the said Anne E. and John Turner was(sic) married in Harford County in said State some time in the year 1788
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as she believes and they lived together [illegible] man and wife for some years when they removed to the City of Baltimore where they lived together as man and wife up to the time of the said Soldier John Turner's death which occurred some twenty years or more from this period, That she understands the said Ann E. Turner has applied for a pension for her said husband John Turner's services rendered to the United States during the Revolutionary War, and that she is of the opinion that said Anne E. Turner is entitled as she believes.

Margaret (her X mark) Long

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and that the within deponent is personally know to me to be a person who can be believed in any statement ^made by him(sic) under oath.}

Wm Jackson
Justice of the Peace for Baltimore County
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County}

To Wit On this twenty fourth day of November in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and Forty six before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid Personally appeared Nathan Fitzpatrick a native of said County and a revolutionary Pensioner for his services to the United States and made oath on the Holy Evanely of Almighty God that he was intimately acquainted with a certain John Turner when he was living in Harford County in the said State and afterwards in the years seventeen hundred and seventy eight, seventy nine and seventeen hundred and Eighty during which time he was acting as a private soldier in Captain Price's Company and attached to the regular Continental Army under colonel Adams as he believes, This deponent further declares, deposes and say that after the said John Tuner returned home from his said services he was Lawfully married to Ann Elizabeth Marrier sometime in or about the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Eight in Harford County by the Reverd Parson Davis.
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That he knows the said Ann E Turner who is now living in the City of Baltimore in said State and applying for a pension for her deceased husband John Turner:  said services during the Revolutionary War is the Identical widow of the said soldier John Turner further the deponent saith not

Nathan (his X mark) Fitzpatrick

Sworn to and Subscribed before me and that the within deponent is personally known to me to be a person who can be believed in any statement made by him under oath.}

Wm Jackson, Justice of the Peace for Baltimore County

State of Maryland, Baltimore County Set} I hereby Certify that William Jackson [] before whom the aforegoing Deposition of Margaret Long and Nathan Fitzpatrick were made and which as thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in & for said county duly Commissioned and sworn: In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of Baltimore County Court on this 9th day of December 1846.

A.W. Bradford, Clk. Baltimore County Ct.
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State of Maryland, Baltimore City S.S.

on the twenty fourth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the said City of Baltimore personally appeared Isaac Forsyth and made oath on the Holy Evangelly(sic) of Almightly God, that he knew John Turner of Harford County in said State, before and after the revolutionary war and where further said John Turner entered the service of the United States in the Maryland Continental Army, and the deponent believes that the said Turner served two or three years in the said service under the command of a Captain Price and Col. Peter Adams, and this deponent further declares he knows that after the said Turner returned home to Harford County, he was married to Ann Elizabeth Marier sometime in the year 1788 or thereabouts as he believes, where after which time they the said John and Ann Elizabeth removed to the City of Baltimore aforesaid where they lived together Man & Wife up to the time of his said John deceased and that the said Ann Elizabeth widow of the the said soldier John Turner is still living in the said City of Baltimore.

Isaac Forsyth

Sworn before me James L. Armstrong, Justice of the Peace. I hereby certify that Isaac Forsyth aged between eighty and ninety years of age a resident of the City aforesaid is a man of correct habit whose word can be relied upon.

James Armstrong, Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set.

I hereby Certify that James L. Armstrong, Gentleman before whom the foregoing deposition was made, and by whom the accompanying certificate was given was at the time of so doing one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly Commissioned and sworn.

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court on this twenty fourth day of April, Eighteen hundred and forty six.

A.W. Bradford Clk of Baltimore Co Court
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38 Liberty St.
Balto.
17 Dec. 46

Sir

I herewith send you a record of the marriage of John and E.A. Turner, who is an applicant for a pension, and hope it may prove satisfactory on that point.

The John Turner whose certificate I sent you is known simply as John Turner. In addition to this the Register of the land office has appended a certificate of John Turner 3d, under which last she makes no especial claim.

Yours Truly,

Jas Wynne

Cole Edwards, Comm. of Pensions
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Baltimore Nov. 30th, 1846

This may Certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs. Ann E Turner, who is an applicant for a pension, and has been for many years. She has been an exemplary member of my Class in the Methodist Episcopal Church for a long time, and every confidence is to be placed in any statement made by her. She is at present an inmate of the Widows Asylum, prepared for indigent worthy widows attached to the Baltimore City Station.

Joseph Shane
Local Minister in the Methodist E. Church

Col Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Baltimore December 2d 1868

I am intimately acquainted with the Rev J. Shane, and take pleasure in saying the utmost confidence may be put in his statements. I have also known by reputation Mrs. A.E. Turner for some years, and as far as my knowledge has extended fully concur in the statement made of her above.

George C.M. Robers
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Coleman, [], Jan 2nd 1846

Dear Sir

I enclose you at the request of Mr. Ann E. Turner, additional evidence to sustain her claim for a pension. Do me the favor to let me know if these are sufficient.

Very respectfully,
William F. Giles

For

Col. J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
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died 1830

Capt. Price
Col. Adams
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LAND OFFICE,

Annapolis

[] May, 1846

I Certify that it appears by a Pay Roll remianing in the Office, that John Turner 3d a private received of John Hamilton Agent of the Maryland Line, $80.00 cts arrears of pay from the 1st August, 1780, to the 1st of January, 1782--also $80.00 its pay from the 1st January, 1782 to the 1st January, 1788--also $43.30 cts from the 1st January 1783, to the 15th of November 1788.

Gratuity,________Total received, $203.30 cts

George G. Brewer
Register Land Office [illegible]
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Land Office,
Annapolis [illegible] May, 1846.

I hereby Certify, That it appears by the Muster Rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office, That John Turner, enlisted as a private in the 3d Maryland Regiment, on the 23rd day of May, 1778, reinlisted(sic) 15th January 1779, and was present on the 1st of November, 1780.

George G. Brewer
Regr. Land Off. [illegible]

Mem, From the entry upon the original muster roll, I should infer that John Turners first enlistment was for nine months, and his second for three years.

George G. Brewer
Regt Land Office [illegible]
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12778
May 16, 1846

A Elizabeth Turner
Aug. 7, 1838

B--

J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Exchange Hotel, Balto.
14 May 1846

Sir,

I herewith enclose the Declaration of the Widow of John Turner, of the 3d Md regiment, with additional proof for your approval.

Y truly
James Wynne

Col. J.L. Edwards
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore, To Wit

On the 21st day of April 1846 Before J.W. Brotherton, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said city, personally appeared Mary Cusick and made oath on the holy evangely of Almighty God, that she is now a resident of Baltimore City but formerly a resident of Harford County in the State aforesaid, that she is about Seventy Six years of age that she is well acquainted with Ann Elizabeth Turner whose maiden name, Marier who was the wife and is now the widow of John Turner who was said to have rendered service to the United States in the war of the revolution as a private soldier in the Maryland Continental Army, and that the said Mary Cusick knows that the said John Turner was known and recognized by all that knew him in his neighborhood in Harford County to have served as a soldier as before mentioned, in the Maryland Line of the Continental Army.

And further deponent sayeth that the said John Turner and Ann Elizabeth, his wife, was(sic) married in the winter of the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight to the best of her recollection after he returned home to Harford County from his tour of duty and that after the said marriage, they lived together as man and wife in Harford County for several years when they removed to the City of Baltimore, where they lived together as man and wife to the time of the death of the said John Turner which occurred as she believed some time in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty and deponent further sayeth that she knoweth the said Ann Elizabeth Turner who is now living in the city of Baltimore and applying for a pension on account of services
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rendered by said John Turner her husband during the revolutionary war, and, that she is the identical widow of the said John Turner, and, further deponent, sayeth not.

Sworn Before TW Brotherton

I hereby certify that from the Knowledge I have Personally and from Report I have Every reason to Believe that Mary Cusick is a Lady of respectability and Every way worthy of Belief. 

TW Brotherton

State of Maryland Baltimore County Set.
I hereby Certify that Thomas W Brotherton, Gentleman, before whom the foregoing deposition was made and by whom the accompanying certificate was given was at the time of so doing one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly Commissioned and sworn. In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court on this twenty fourth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty six.

AW Bradford Clk of Baltimore Co Court
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Balto Oct 17th 1848

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Herewith I send you my Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of February 2nd 1848 entitled "An Act making further provisions for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution."

Be pleased to direct for me to the care of Alvn Yearly & Son, Balto.

Very Respectfully I am
Your obt servant.

Ann E. (her X mark) Turner

Witness: Martha Johnson
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Ho. of Reprs.
Washington Dec. 28/54

Hon LP. Walas
Comm. Pensions

Sir,

Is it within the power of your Office to furnish me the information sought by my correspondents Daniel Turner & Rachel Turner as disclosed by their statements enclosed. Please return the enclosed.

I am Very Respy Your Obt Servt

Jno G. Davis
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore SS
On this 17th day of October 1848 personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for said City Ann E Turner a resident of said City aged Eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. Than she is the widow of John Turner who was wagoner in the Maryland line in the army of the Revolution, and that she received a Pension of Eighty dollars per annum under the act of 17th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Ann E (her X mark) Turner.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I do hereby certify that the above named Ann E. Turner is personally known to me.

AH Pennington

State of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Set.

I hereby Certify, That Augustine H Pennington Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was made and who has thereto subscribed he name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.

In Testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court, this 17th day of Occtober A.D. 1848.

AW Brandford
Clerk Baltimore County Court.