Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9513, for Richard Taylor, Maryland
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Md. Taylor, Richard W9513
or Tailor
Mary
CONTENTS
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5632
Maryland
Mary Taylor
widow of Richard Taylor dec
md
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 15 May 1815,-
of Montgy Co in the State of Maryland
who was a private in the country commanded
by Captain Merry of the ugt commanded
by Col of the 7th in the Maryland
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
in the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of July
1840, sent to that wait.
Presint
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40
 $320.00
40.00
$360.00
{Act July 7,}
{1838.}
Recorded by D.M. Curdy, Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 175.
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State of Maryland
S.S.
Montgomery County
on this Twentieth day of October Eighteen Hundred and thirty Nine, personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Montgomery County Elizabeth Tailor and makes oath on the holy Evanglly of almighty God that she knows from frequent and repeated statments and declarations of her Father Richard Tailor Late of Montgomery County Deceased that she is Now forty Nine years old, and that she has heard her Father and mother say that she was Born on the Twenty first day of August Seventeen Hundred and Ninety.
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year above written, Elizabeth Tailor her mark
Nathan T. Hempston J.P.
Test
Thos Watkins

State of Maryland Montgomery County to wit
personally appears before this subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Montgomery County Thomas Watkins and makes oath that he had been acquainted With Elizabeth Tailor Daughter of Richard and Mary Tailor for forty years and that she is a woman of credibility and her statements are entitled to full Credit and beleif-
Thomas Watkins
Sworn before
Nathan T. Hempston J.P.
I certify that I have been well acquainted with Thos Watkins Eqr. for the last thirty five or Forty years, and know how to be a man of truth, and his statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
N. T. Hempston
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State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that Nathan T. Hemp
stone Gentleman by whom the foregoing 
certificate was granted, and whose name 
is thereto subscribed, was at the time 
thereof one of the State of Maryland's
Justices of the peace in and for said 
County duly commissioned and
sworn.
In Testimony whereof I 
hereto set my hand and 
affix the seal of said 
County Court this nineteenth 
day of February Eighteen
hundres and forty.
Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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State of Maryland
Montgomery County S.S.
On this seventh day of January
Eighteen hundred and forty Personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Montgomery County
and State of Maryland Mary Tailor, a resident of
Maryland in the County of Montgomery, aged seventy eight
years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July
the 7th 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to
certain widows. That she is the widow of Richard Tailor
who was a regular soldier in the revolutionary war, as will more fully shew from the certificate from the Land office, or Muster rolls, in Maryland.
She further declares that she was married to the said
Richard Tailor on or about the thirteenth of November in
the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight, and that her husband
the aforesaid Richard Tailor, died on the fifteenth day of
May Eighteen hundred and fifteen. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and
ninety four, viz at the time above stated.
She also declares that there has been no record of the
Marriage, or births of her children kept in the family.
She further declares that they were married by the Reverend
Townshend Dade, who kept a record of the same, which has
since his death been destroyed, as will more fully shew by the
affidavit of his son Col Robert T Dade
Mary Tailor her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before
N.T. Hempston J. P.
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I do hereby certify that Mary Tailor after
being duly sworn according to law did make
subscribe to the declarations herein contained
N. T. Hempston
January 7th 1840

State of
Maryland Montgomery County Sct
I hereby certify that Nathan T Hempstone
Gentleman by whom the foregoing certificate was
granted, and whose name is thereto subscribed
was at the time thereof one of the State of Maryland's
Justices of the peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I hereto set
my hand and affix the seal of said
County Court this nineteenth day
of February Eighteen hundred and forty
Price Lilly Clk
Montgomery County Court
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[postmark]
ANNAPOLIS FEB 27

The Honble
William Cost Johnson
In Congress,
Washington City,
D.C.

Mail
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Land Office, Annapolis, 26th Feby, 1840.

Dear Sir,

Your's of the 21st Inst. was received.  Enclosed, 
I send you a certificate in the case of Richard Taylor, which 
is all the evidence the records of the revolution in this office 
afford of his service.
With much respect & esteem,
I remain truly yours,
G. G. Brewer

The Honble.
William Cost Johnson
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One Mary Taylor (but whose widow does not 
appear) is a pensioner of Maryland in virtue of Res.
No. 57 of 1820, at the rate of $40 a year-which appears 
to have been paid from 17 Feb 1821 to 1 Octor. 1839.

The Resolution cannot be found on the Statute Book,
but appears in the Treasury by a Certificate of the Clerk  
of the House of Delegates at the time, to have been 
assented to by both Branches of the Legislature.

Whose widow she is, will probably be found on 
reference to the votes & proceedings of Dec. Sess. 1820
in the Library.
George Mackubin
Treasr. [illegible] S. Md.
[illegible] Feb 1840

"Widow of Richard Taylor an 
Old Revolutionary Soldier"

The Resolution referred to above is 
to be found on the 108 page of the Printed 
Journal of the House of Delegates at 
Decr. Sess. 1820.
D. Ridgely Librarian 
Feb. 7-1840
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[Envelope with note]

Rockville [illegible page torn]  paid 12
June 12th

[Note written vertically in left margin]
June 13. 1840
Maryd.
Addl declr.
Mary Taylor

[Address]
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of pensions
City of Washington D. C.
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Rockville June 11th 1840

Der Sir.

I enclose to you the amended 
declaration in the case of Mrs. Mary Tailor 
affording all the testimony that she can 
afforded.  She therefore leaves the matter 
to your self to decide or in your 
judgement may think proper 
if she had not complied with the
law and your letters she can
not. I am yours
very respectfully
[illegible]JL Edwards Comr pentions [pensions]} Thos Watkins
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State of Maryland Montgomery County to wit,

On this 28th day of October 1839 personally appeared before me the 
subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State 
of Maryland in and for Montgomery County 
Robert T. Dade Esqr. and made oath on the Holy
Evangely of Almighty God that his father 
Townshend Dade did keep a book of record 
of marriages which was destroyed after he 
became old and infirm and declined preaching.
R. T. Dade
Sworn before 
William E Murphy

I certify that I am well acquainted with 
Col. Robert T. Dade Esqr and know him to be 
a man of truth and integrity and his 
statements are entitled to full credit and 
belief.
William E. Murphy

State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that William E. Murphey 
Gentleman before whom the foregoing 
certificate was granted, and whose 
name is thereto subscribed, was at 
the time thereof one of the State of 
Maryland's Justices of the peace 
in and for said County duly commissioned 
and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I 
hereto set my hand and affix 
the seal of said County Court 
this nineteenth day of 
February eighteen hundred 
and forty.  Brice Selby Clk
Montgy County Ct
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

Be it remembered
that on this second day of January eighteen 
hundred & forty personally appeared Doctor 
Thomas Poole before the subscriber a justice 
of the peace of the State of Maryland 
in and for the County of Montgomery and 
makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Al
mighty God that he believes from the state 
ment and declarations which Mary Taylor 
made to him, it might be followed by serious 
if not fatal consequences, for her to make 
a journey to Rockville.  She is at present,  
and has been subject to prolapsus uteri, or 
falling down of the womb for a great many 
years past, from very slight causes, and its 
effects upon her general health have been 
such as to impair it very much.
Test
Thomas Watkins  Thomas Poole
Sworn to before
Tho. S. Reid
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with 
Doctor Thomas Poole, & know him to be a man of 
truth & integrity & his statements are entitled to full 
credit & belief
Tho. S. Reid

State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that Thomas S. Reid Gentleman 
by whom the foregoing certificate was granted, 
and whose name is thereto subscribed was at 
the time thereof one of the State of Maryland's 
Justices of the peace in and for said County 
duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I hereto set 
my hand and affix the seal of said 
County Court this nineteenth day 
of February eighteen hundred and forty
Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

On this 10th day of 
June eighteen hundred and forty personally 
appears before me the subscriber a Justice 
of the peace in and for Montgomery County 
and State of Maryland Mary Tailor 
aged seventy eight years who being first 
duly sworn according to law doth on her 
oath make the following declaration
That her husband Richard Tailor decd a 
soldier of the revolution enlisted as a private 
during the war in Capt. Morris's company 
of the 7th Regiment of the Maryland line 
on the 6th day of February seventeen hundred 
and eighty and was discharged the 6th day of 
May seventeen hundred and eighty three 
as will more fully appear reference being had 
to the certificate of G. G. Brewer Register of 
the Land Office W.S. M.D.
Test  Nathan T Hempstone  Mary her X mark Tailor
Sworn to and subscribed on the day above 
written before
N.T. Hempstone
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State of Maryland
Montgomery County Sct:

I hereby certify that Nathan T. Hempstone Gentleman before 
whom the aforegoing declaration and affidavit appears 
to have been made, and whose name is thereto subscribed 
was, at the time thereof, a Justice of the peace 
of the State of Maryland, in and for said County duly 
commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand 
and affix the seal of said County Court 
this 11th day of June eighteen hundred 
and forty  Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

Be it remembered that on this thirtyeth [thirtieth] 
day of October eighteen hundred and thirty nine 
personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice 
of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for 
Montgomery County George T Judy Esqr in the seventy 
eight yeare [year] of his age and made oath on the 
Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he was well ac
quainted with Richard Tailor and Mary Johnson 
before they were married and from the very circum
stants [circumstance] of having known the said Mary as Mary 
Johnson up to the latter part of the year seventeen 
hundred and eighty eight and from that time to the 
death of the said Richard Tailer decd who was a soldier 
in the revolutionary war have known her as Mary 
Tailor and wife of the said Richard Tailor decd and 
from his knoledge [knowledge] of the age of there [their] children he 
knows that they were married before the first 
day of January seventeen hundred and ninty [ninety] four
and the said George further makes 
oath that the said Mary has not been married 
to any person scince [since] the death of the said 
Richard
Test
Thos Watkins  George T Judy 
Sworn before Lot Linthicum

I certify that I am well acquainted George T.
Judy Esqr and know him to be a man of [word struck out]
truth and integrity and his statements are 
entitled to full credit and belief
Lot Linthicum
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State of Maryland 
Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that George T. Judy and 
Lot Linthicum Gentlemen before whom 
the foregoing deposition was taken, and 
whose names are thereto subscribed,
were at the time thereof two of the 
State of Maryland's Justices of the 
peace in and for said County duly 
commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto 
set my hand and affix the 
seal of said County Court 
this nineteenth day of 
February eighteen hundred 
and forty
Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

Be it remembered that on this fifteenth 
day of October eighteen hundred and thirty nine 
personally appeared before me the subscriber a 
Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in 
and for Montgomery County Henery Cooley Senr in 
the eighty sixth yeare [year] of his age and made 
oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that 
he was well acquainted with Richard Tailor and 
Mary Johnson before they were married up to Novem
ber seventeen hundred and eighty eight and from 
that time to the death of the said Richard Tailor 
knew her as Mary Tailor and wife of the said 
Richard Tailor who was a soldier in the revo
lutionary war and died on the fifteenth day of 
May eighteen hundred and fifteen and have known 
her scince [since] the death of the said Richard Tailor 
and from the very circumstants [circumstance] of having known 
her before and scince [since] the year seventeen hundred 
and eighty eight and also from his knoledge [knowledge] of 
the age of there [their] children he knows that they 
were married prior to the first day of January seventeen hundred 
and ninety four.

The said Henery further makes 
oath that the said Mary has not been mar
ried to any person scince [since] the death of the said 
Richard
Test
Thos Watkins  Henery his X mark Cooley
Sworn before William E  Murphy

I certify that I am acquainted with Henery Cooley 
and that he is a creditible [creditable] person and every 
reliance may be placed in his statements
William E Murphy

I certify that the interlineation was made before sworn 
to and subscribed William E Murphy
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State of Maryland 
Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that William E. Murphey 
Gentleman, by whom the foregoing certificate 
was granted, and whose name is 
thereto subscribed, was at the time 
thereof one of the Jste of Many County 
Justices of the peace in and for 
said County duly commissioned 
and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I 
hereto set my hand and 
affix the seal of said 
County Court this nine
tenth day of February 
eighteen hundred and 
forty
Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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Land Office, Annapolis, 16th March 1840,

I hereby certify that it appears by the Muster and Pay rolls of 
the Revolution remaining in this office, that Richard Taylor 
enlisted as a private, in Captain Morris's Company, on the 6th day of 
February, 1780, and on the 6th day of May, 1783, was discharged 
and paid.
George G. Brewer,
Regtr. Land Off. W. S. Md.
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Land Office, Annapolis, 26th February, 1840.

I hereby certify that it appears by the [words struck out] Muster 
Rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office, That Richard 
Taylor, enlisted as a private, for during the war, in Captain Morris's
company, of the 7th Maryland Regiment, on the 6th day of Febru
ary, 1780.  And I further certify that by a Pay Roll kept 
by John Hamilton Agent of the Maryland Line, also remaining 
in this office, That Richard Taylor was discharged and paid 
the 6th day of May, 1783.
George G. Brewer,
Regtr. Land Off. W. S. Md.
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6657 
Mary Taylor 
of Richard 
Maryland

Admitted
[illegible] 2 yrs $80.
Capt Morris Col
Gunby [illegible]

died 15 May 1815

Act 7 July 1838

Thomas Watkins 
Present
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Revy WIDOW, &c. [illegible initials]
File No. 9513
Mary Taylor
Wid. of 
Richard Taylor 
Pvt. Md. line

Act:  July 7th/38
Index:--Vol. M, Page 263

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Mary Taylor
of Richard 
Maryland 

Suspended 

let. 20 Feb. 1840 
to Thos. Watkins, Present
do. 15 April 1840
let 3 June 1840 Hon:
W. C. Johnson
let to T. Watkins 16 June 1840

Act 7 July 1838
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[illegible] entd. See No. 6657

Maryland 
July 7, 1838 
Mary Taylor
Md

Thos. Watkins
Prest
July 15, 1840.
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County Sct } 

I do hereby certify that Thomas F.
W. Vinson, Gentleman, before whom the aforegoing 
declaration appears to have been made and by 
whom the aforegoing certificate was given and 
who has thereunto subscribed his name, was 
at the time of taking and signing the same 
the Chief Justice of the Orphans Court for 
the County aforesaid duly commissioned and 
sworn; and that full. faith and confidence 
are due to his acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of 
my office this 14th day of July 1840.
Jas. W. Andersen
Register of Wills for 
Montgomery County.
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

On this sixth day of July eighteen 
hundred and forty personally appeared before the 
subscriber Chief Judge of the Orphants [Orphans] Court of Mont
gomery County and State of Maryland Mary Tailor 
a resident of Maryland in the County of Mont
gomery aged seventy eight years who being 
first duly sworn according to law doth 
on her oath make the following declaration 
in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provision made by the act of Congress 
past [passed] July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting 
half pay and pensions to certain widows That 
she is the widow of Richard Tailor, decd. who 
was a regular soldier in the revolutionary 
war and enlisted in Captain Morris's company
of the 7th Ridgment [Regiment] of the Maryland Line durr
ing [during] the war on the 6th day of February 1780
and was discharged the 6th day of May 1783 
as will more fully show by the certificate of 
George G. Brewer Esq. Register of the Land Office 
at Annapolis, M.D.

She further declares that she 
was married to the said Richard Tailor on or 
about the thirteenth of November in the year 
seventeen hundred and eighty eight and that 
her husband the aforesaid Richard Tailor died
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on the fifteenth day of May eighteen hundred 
and fifteen that she was not married to him 
prior to his leaving the servis [service] but the marriage 
took place previous to the first day of January 
seventeen hundred and ninty [niinety] four viz: at the time 
above stated.

She also declares that there has been 
no record of the marriage or births of her children 
kept in the family She further declares that they 
ware [were] married by the Rev. Townshend Dade who 
kept a record of the same which has since 
his death or declination to preach been destroyed 
as will more fully show by the affidavit of 
his son Col. Robert T. Dade.
Test
Tho Swainson  { Sworn and subscribed on }  Mary her X mark Tailor
{ this day and year above written. }
Tho Swainson-Chief Judge
of the Orphans Mtgy Court

I hereby certify that Mary Tailor in consequence of 
bodily disability is unable to appear in open Court
Tho Swainson
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County } S.S.

On this 11th day of April 
eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before 
me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Orphans Court 
of Montgomery County and State aforesaid Mary Tailor 
aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn 
according to law doth on her oath make the fol
lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 
1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension 
to certain widows, that she is the widow of Richard 
Tailor who was a regular soldier in the revolution and 
enlisted in Captain Morris's Company on the 6th day 
of February 1780, and was discharged on the 6th day 
of May 1783, as will more fully show by the certificate 
of George G. Brewer, Register of the Land Office at Annapolis.

She further declares that she was 
married to the said Richard Tailor on, or about the 
thirteenth day of November seventeen hundred and 
eighty eight and that her husband the aforesaid 
Richard Tailor died the fifteenth day of 
May eighteen hundred and fifteen That 
she was not married to him prior to his leaving 
the servis [service] but the marriage took place previous 
to the first day of January seventeen hundred
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and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.

She also declares that 
there has been no record of the marriage, or, births 
of her children kept in the family.  She further 
declares that they were married by the Revd. 
Townshend Dade who kept a record of the same 
which will more fully show by the affidavit of 
his son Col. Robert T. Dade
Thomas Watkins  Mary her X mark Tailor
Sworn to and subscribed on the 
day and year before written
Before 
Wm. Oneale Jr.

I hereby certify that Mary Tailor in 
consequence of body disability is unable 
to appear in open Court
Wm. Oneale Jr.
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State of Maryland }
Montgomery County Sct }

I do hereby certify that William Oneale
Jr. Gentleman before whom the aforegoing declaration was 
made and by whom the aforegoing certificate appears to 
have been given, and who has thereunto subscribed 
his name was at the time of giving and signing the 
same certificate one of the Justices of the Orphans 
Court for the County aforesaid duly commissioned 
and sworn, and that full faith and confidence 
are due to his acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal 
of my office this 13th day of April 1840.
Jas W. Andersen
Register of Wills for
Montgomery County

[Note written vertically in left margin]
Thomas Watkins
Prest. Apl. 14th
[Note written vertically in right margin]
6657
Mary Taylor 
Richard
Maryland
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State of Maryland } S.S.
Montgomery County }

Be it remembered that on this 
fifteenth day of October eighteen hundred & 
thirty nine personally appeared before me the subscriber 
a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in 
and for Montgomery County Maryann Cooley in 
the seventy seventh yeare [year] of her age and made oath 
on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that she was 
well acquainted with Richard Tailor & Mary Johns
on before they were married up to some time in 
November seventeen hundred & eighty eight and 
from that time to the death of the said Richard 
Tailor knew her as Mary Tailor and wife of 
the said Richard Tailor who was a solider in 
the Revolutionary war and died on the fifteenth 
day of May eighteen hundred & fifteen and have 
known her scince [since] the death of the said Richard 
Tailor and from the very circumstants [circumstance] of having 
known her before and scince [since] the yeare [year] seventeen 
hundred & eighty eight and also from her knoledge [knowledge] of 
the age of there [their] children she knows that they 
ware [were] married prior to the first day of January seventeen 
hundred and ninty [ninety] four. The said Mary Ann Cooly
further makes oath that the said Mary has not 
been married to any person scince [since] the death of
the said Richard. Mary Ann her X mark Cooley
Test
Thos Watkins  Sworn before William E Murphy
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I certify that I am acquainted with Maryann
Cooly and that she is a creditable [credible] person and 
every reliance may be placed in her 
statements { William E Murphy

I certify that interlineation was made before sworn 
to and subscribed. William E Murphy

State of Maryland
Montgomery County Sct

I hereby certify that William E. Murphey 
Gentleman by whom the foregoing certificate 
was granted and whose name is thereto 
subscribed, was, at the time thereof one of 
Maryland's Justices of the peace in and 
for said County duly commissioned
and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto 
set my hand and affix 
the seal of said County 
Court this nineteenth day 
of February eighteen 
hundred and forty 
Brice Selby Clk
Montgy. County Court
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Mr Watkins writes, me to state whether the Orphans Court of Montgomery County is a Court of Record. Being of opinion that it is unnecessary to embody
any opinion is in my official certificate given
this day, I at his request state that the said
Court is held to be a Court of Record in the
State of Maryland
Jas Anderson
April 13th 1840