Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7371, for Thomas Moreman, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md     
     
Moreman, Thomas
Rachel

NUMBER
R 7371

CONTENTS
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Georgia }
Lincoln County } This is to hereby 
certify, that, the following 
is a correct transcript of 
the Family Record of the 
late Thomas Foreman, the 
husband of Rachel 
Moreman of this County & 
State, as taken from the 
Family Bible.

"Thomas Moreman was born in 
"the year of our Lord 1746,
"and, departed this life the 
"25th May 1835."

And I further certify that, the 
record contains no account 
of the marriage of the 
parties, but, that general 
reputation of long memory 
in this County, leaves no 
doubt, but, they were legally 
man and wife.

Given under my hand 
and seal of office, this 
the 11th day September 1835.
[Blurred seal of office]  Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary 
and Ex Officio Clk C.C.
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State of Georgia } Personally appeared 
Lincoln County } before me, Benjamin 
F Tatom the Judge of the Court 
of Ordinary, a Court of Record, 
for and in said County and 
State, Rachel Moreman, of the 
same County and State, who being 
duly sworn deposeth and saith, that 
by reason of old age, and the conse
quent loss of memory, that there 
are many circumstances connected 
with the service of her deceased 
husband, Thomas Moreman about 
which she cannot now swear 
fully and have not named
but, that, she has his old 
pocket book, whose age shows 
it ancient, which he had at 
Brandywine and other places 
and, she knows positively it was 
his property; and, she further 
swears from her physical infirm
ity she is not able to appear 
in open Court, and that, what 
ever the Department does she 
wants quickly, as she is needy 
and claims according to 
her foregoing declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed before 
me, this the 11th day September 1855.
Benjamin F. Tatom, Ordinary } Rachel her X mark Moreman [word Seal encircled]
and Ex Officio Clk. C.Cot }
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State of Georgia }
Lincoln County }.  Personally came 
before me Benjamin 
F Tatom, the Judge of the 
Court of Ordinary in and for 
said County and State, 
Hiram Moncrief and John Thomas,
who being duly sworn, declare 
and says, that, they knew Thomas 
Moreman and Rachel Morem
an his wife many years in 
this vicinity, they [repeated: they] lived 
together as man and wife, 
had numerous children, and 
were people of good repute 
industrious and [illegible]
and, that, Thomas Moreman 
had the common reputation 
among all his neighbors of 
being a Revolutionary soldier.
Sworn to and subscrib
ed before me this the 11th 
day September 1855.
Benjamin F. Tatom }  Hiram Moncrief [word Seal encircled]
Ordinary }
and Ex Officio Clk C.Co} John Thomas [word Seal encircled]
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Georgia } Personally came 
Lincoln County } before me Benjamin 
F Tatom the Judge of the Ordinary 
Court, a Court of Record, for and  
in said County and State, 
John Thomas and Hiram Moncrief, 
who being duly sworn according 
to law, deposeth and saith, that 
they have known Rachel More
man ever since the death 
of her husband Thomas Morem
an, and, that she has never
married since, but is now an 
old and decredpid [decrepit] widow and 
they further make oath, that the 
said Thomas Foreman had 
the reputation and they think 
correctly of being a valiant 
soldier of the Revolution and 
they think and believe him to 
be the identical man his 
wife Rachel Moreman repre
sents him to be  Sworn 
to and subscribed before 
me this the eleventh day of 
September 1855.
} John Thomas [word Seal encircled]
Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary }
and Ex Officio Clk C.C.O. } Hiram Moncrief [word Seal encircled]
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State of Georgia }
Lincoln County } Personally come 
before me Benjamin F Tatom 
the Judge of the Court of Ordinary 
a Court of Record and Probate, 
for and in said County and 
State, John Blackburn a resid
ent of the said County and 
State, who being duly sworn 
according to law, doth on 
his oath say, that, he knew
well and long Thomas Morem
an the late husband of Ra
chel Moreman, who now applies 
for his pension, and, he further 
declares, that, they were man & 
wife and reared children 
in this neighborhood, and, he 
further says and declares the 
said Thomas Moreman to have 
been an honest and truth
ful man and, that, he di
ed in the month of May 
1835.  And he further makes 
oath and says, that, the 
said Thomas Moreman 
is the identical Thomas 
Moreman she represents 
him to be that he was  
a Revolutionary soldier and 
officer from Maryland, and, 
was wounded at Brandy
wine, in the thigh, and 
died with the ball in his
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thigh, and that he has often felt it 
and he further declares, that, he 
has often seen his apaulettes [epaulettes] 
and sword and knows that 
he served from 1776 to the 
end of he war, and held 
the position of Sergeant Major  
altho he first entered a private 
under Captain Tucker, if his 
recollection serves him right. 
And he further swears and 
declares that he knows to be 
emphatically true, and the 
identity of Thomas Moreman 
is unquestionable as no other 
man of the name ever lived 
in this country, and the 
marriage of his wife Rachel 
Moreman & himself is also 
equally correct, as she 
was raised in this county.
And he further declares, that 
he considers the claim just 
honorable and, beyond doubt 
as to his services from his 
personal knowledge and ought 
to be paid.  Sworn to and 
subscribed before me this 
the 11th September 1855.
{ John his X mark Blackburn [word Seal encircled]
Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary }
and ExOfficio Clk C.C.O }
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State of Georgia }
Lincoln County } Personally come before 
me Benjamin F Tatom the 
Judge of the Court of Ordinary 
a Court of Probate and Record 
for and in said County and 
State, George Pass, a resident 
of said State and County, 
who being duly sworn according 
to law, doth on his oath say, 
that he knew Thomas Moreman 
the late husband of Rachel 
Moreman, long and well, that 
he was the identical Thomas 
Moreman she represents him to 
be, that the said Thomas and 
the said Rachel were man 
and wife, lived together, 
raised children in this vicin
ity, and that he died on 
the 25th May 1835, at a 
ripe old age.  And he further 
declares and says, that, the 
said Thomas Moreman was 
a Sergeant Major in the 
Revolution war, was a valiant 
soldier, that he enlisted in 
the State of Maryland as 
a private in 1776, and 
remained in service to 
the end of the war, and 
removed to Georgia.  And 
he further declares and 
he says, that the said
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Thomas Moreman was wounded at 
the battle of Brandywine in the 
thigh and carried the bullet 
to the grave, and, he further says 
he often saw after the war 
the sword and epaulettes & 
have seen his sons mother with 
them, and he further says he 
cannot recollect many other 
things which he may have 
heard, and which could go 
far to maintain his claim 
as most of the persons of that 
day have gone to their loving 
home, but he declares and 
says, that the claim of Thomas 
Moreman is just, that he 
had his discharges, but they 
are lost, but the fact of 
his being in the Revolution 
is clear and plain as he 
knows from personal recollection.
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me, this the 11th Septem
ber 1855.
George Pass [word Seal encircled]
Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary }
and ExOfficio Clk. C.C.O }
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State of Georgia } 
Lincoln County } On this the 
seventh day of September one 
thousand eight hundred 
and fifty five personally 
appeared before me, Benjamin 
F Tatom, the Judge of the Court 
of Ordinary for and in said 
County and State, Rachel More
man, a resident of said Cou
nty and State, who being first 
duly sworn according to law 
doth on her oath make the 
following declaration in order 
to obtain the benefit of the 
act of Congress, and its 
provisions passed July the 
7th 1838; and she asks the 
Department to grant her 
the benefits of the acts of 
1836, and 1832; she swears 
and declares that according 
to the record she was born 
in 1770, and was married to 
Thomas Moreman in 1784, and 
he died in the year eighteen 
hundred and thirty five.
and, she further makes oath 
that the said Thomas Morem
an was a soldier and 
officer in the Revolutionary 
war against Great Britain,  
and that she thinks he 
enlisted and was in the
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Continental line under a Capt
Tucker in the State of Maryland, 
from whence he came after 
the war to Georgia.  And she 
further makes oath and says she 
is under the impression that he 
entered the service in 1776, 
under Captain Tucker, who she 
thinks was under Colonel Steven
son, and that he entered for 
three years and served it 
out; probably, however, serving 
under some other Captain or 
Colonel before the end of the 
time, and she further makes 
oath and says that she thinks 
he was at the battle of Trenton 
in 1776, and at Princeton in 
1777 January and at Brandy
[struck out: ton] wine in September 1777, and 
was wounded in the thigh, and 
carried the ball to his grave; 
and she thinks he was at 
Valley Forge during the winter 
an invalid.  In the year 
1778, she thinks he was at 
the battle of Monmouth, and 
subsequently he was under 
Gen Gates she thinks in the 
south in 1780; and in 1781 
she thinks he was under 
a Col Williams and Genl 
Green at the Battle of 
Eutaw Springs, from here
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to the end of the war in 1783, 
she has no recollections of his 
services, though he continued 
to the end, and was honorably 
discharged, and held the 
position of Sergeant Major of 
cavalry, and had his hat, 
sword and epaulettes when he 
was married, and his son 
mustered with them many 
years in Milkes County, Georgia. 
These mementoes she declares are 
all gone and destroyed, as well 
as [repeated: as] his discharge papers 
though she has often seen them 
and heard him speak of 
his hair breadth escapes, and 
she further makes oath, and says 
that he is in her opinion the 
identical Thomas Moreman 
who was a Maryland Continent
al, and served seven years 
in the Revolution from 1776 
to 1783, and did hard and 
valiant service, and died 
in his 89 year, on the 25th of 
May 1835.  And she further 
declares, she was married to 
said Thomas Moreman in 
1784, the month and day not record
ed or remembered, and that her 
husband, the aforesaid Thomas 
Moreman died on the 25th 
May 1835, and she has remained
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a widow ever since his death as will 
more fully appear by the proof here
unto annexed.  And she further 
declares that he would have app
lied in his life time had he 
known of the act of 1832, and 
she declares she would have 
asked it, long since, had she 
had an intelligible view of 
the process, and she in conclusion 
declares that he entered the 
service in Maryland, and 
was an enlisted soldier she 
thinks under Capt Tucker, 
and after the war in the June 1783, 
he came to Georgia, and in 
the year 1784, in her fourteenth 
year, she was married to him, 
and she has borne to the 
country eight sons and eight 
daughters, making in all 
sixteen, good and available 
citizens, and she now asks 
the country to give her in her 
old age, poor and infirm 
a pension from the period of 
the act to now.  Sworn to and 
subscribed before me, the day 
and year adobe written.
} Rachel her X mark Moreman [word Seal encircled] 
Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary }
and ExOfficio Clk C.Co }
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[Two columns]
[Left column]

No 
Rachel Moreman 
wid of Thomas 
Geo.
July 7, 1838 

T. Lumpkin, Esqr
Present

[Right column]

[Word blacked out]
Rachel Moorman
wid of Thomas

Filed by 
Tho. Lumpkin
Washington D.C
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State of Georgia } I Benjamin 
Lincoln County } F. Tatom, the Judge 
of the Court of Ordinary of & in 
said County and State, a Court 
of Record and Probate, do hereby 
certify, that, the makers of the 
foregoing affadavits [affidavits], viz 
John Thomas, George Pass, Hiram  
Moncrief, John Blackburn, Thomas 
J. Booker
are residents of this County and 
State and are credible persons 
and their statements entitled 
to credit, and I hereby certify 
that the affadavits [affidavits] were sworn 
to before me this day, and I 
am of the opinion the case 
is a legitimate and just one 
and should be paid, and that 
Rachel Moreman is not able to 
appear in open Court, and I 
hereby certify that the foregoing 
contains all the original procee
dings in the matter of her 
application for the pension of her 
deceased husband Thomas More
man.  In testimony whereof, I 
have hereunto set my hand 
and seal of office this the 11th Sept
1835.
[Blurred seal of office] Benjamin F. Tatom Ordinary
and Ex Officio Clk C.CO
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State of Georgia }
Lincoln County } Personally come 
before me Benjamin F Tatom 
the Judge of the Court of Ordinary,  
a Court of Record, a Court Probate, 
in and for said County and 
State, Thomas J. Booker a resident 
of the same County and State, 
who being duly sworn according 
to law, doth on his oath, say 
that he knew long and well 
Thomas Moreman the husband 
of Rachel Moreman the applicant 
for his pension under the act 
of 1838, and he further says 
that they lived together in this 
County long, raised children, 
and were considered legally 
man and wife, and that 
the said Thomas Moreman 
died in May 1835, and that 
the said Rachel to his certain 
knowledge has remained a 
widow ever since.  And the 
said Thomas J. Booker further 
declares and says the then 
said Thomas Moreman is 
the identical Thomas, his 
wife represents him to be, 
and that he was a soldier 
and officer of the Revolution 
and done long and good 
service, from the State of 
Maryland, under a Capt
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Tucker, and was wounded in 
the thigh, which the said 
Thomas J Booker has often 
felt, and he further declares 
and says that he has often 
seen the sword and epaulette 
of the said Thomas Moreman, 
and he has often seen his 
son James Moreman muster 
with them in the County of 
Milkes.  And he further says 
that he has no doubt the 
claim is just and correct 
and perfectly clear, and ought 
to be paid speedily.
Sworn to and subscri
bed before me this the 
11th September 1855.
Thomas J Booker [word Seal encircled]
Signed & sealed }
in my presence }
Benjamin F Tatom Ordinary }
and ExOfficio Clk C.C.O }
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7371 - Rej
3-068
(Old No. 3-649.). 6-20
_____

Bureau of Pensions.
Thos. Moreman
________
Sept 11 1855 - 85
Lincoln Coty
_________
wid Rachel Moreman
[illegible] 1784 [illegible]
D May 25, 1835
[this sentence illegible]
Capt Tucker 
Col Stephenson 
Sept [illegible] [struck over 6] 7 [illegible]
_________
Bat Trenton Princeton 
& Brandywine 
Monmouth Eutaw Springs
_________
wounded in thigh at Brandywiine
carried the bullet til death
_________
Rej no proof
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[Envelope with notes]

[Notes written left margin]
Richard Jones
Ga - act 1832
________
Rachel Mooreman
Thomas-Ga-original

[Address]
Hon J Minot [note written in last name] 2 cases
Commr of Pensions
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No
Rachel Moreman
wid of Thomas

Geo

Let, T. Lumpkin Sept 2/55
same October 9 18[illegible]
7371
July 1, 1838
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CR [illegible] 12th St South
Birmingham Ala


Dear Sir:

Thomas Moreman 
born 1746-died 1835, was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary 
war.  He lived near Wilkes Co Ga.
but don't know whether he 
moved there after the Revolution 
or not.  Did he [illegible] a pension 
for services in the Revolutionary 
War?  Any information you
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can can give to me will be 
appreciated. 
Respectfully 
(Miss) Macbelle Roberston
1145 12th St South
Birmingham Ala

[Rectangular receipt stamp]
U. S.
OLD WAR & NAVY 
JAN 5, 1903
FILES
P. B.

[Circular receipt stamp]
PENSION 
D
JAN
U. 2 S.
1903
OFFICE.
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[Two columns]
[Left column]

Jany 12-1903
Miss Macbelle Robertson
Birmingham Ala

[Right column]

[Lined through: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

7371
P. O. Rachel Moreman
Service: Thos

Enlisted: [Stamp] REJECTED, 18[blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank].

Application filed: [blank], 18[blank].

Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]

Attorney: [blank]
P. O. [blank]

[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Contract.
[blank] Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank], 18[blank].
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Washington D C
Sept 17th 55

Sir 

I herewith present the 
case of Mrs. Rachel Moreman 
widow of Thomas Moreman 
of Georgia, Act 7th July 
1838.
I have the honor to 
be very [illegible]
Th Lumpkin

Hon 
J. Minot
Commr of Pensions
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Rachel Moreman
Thos-Ga-Sus 1838



Washington 
Oct 1 1855
To be filed in 
the case of Frances 
Moorman, Geo,
Act 7th July 1838
Th Lumpkin
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Land Office of Maryland

I certify that it appears by 
the Muster Rolls remaining in 
this office, that Thomas Moorman 
enlisted as a private in the 6th
Regiment, Maryland Line, on 
the 28th March 1780, and was 
discharged a prisoner on the 
1st August 1780.
In testimony whereof I 
hereto subscribe my name & affix the 
seal of the Land Office of Maryland
this 29 September 1855.
J Murray 
[illegible] of the L Off