Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8804, Francis Fairbrother, Md.
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Service
MD

Fairbrother, Francis
Patience

Number
W.8804
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6154
MARYLAND
Patience Fairbrother
widow of Francis Fairbrother
who was a pensioner under the act of blank and who died on the 19th August 1810 of Anne Arundel Co in the state of Maryland, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Stewart of the Regt commanded by Col Smallwood in the Maryland line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of April 1841 and sent to Michael Dunn, Baltimore

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $400.00
Semi-annual allowance ending - blank
$400.00

{Act July 7, 1836}

Recorded by W.W. Tyler Clerk
Book A Vol 21 Page 174.
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7652
Patience Fairbrother
of Francis
Maryland

Admitted

Prv 2 yrs. $80
Capt. Stewart, Col Smallwood
Md Line

Died Aug 19, 1810

Act 7 July 1838

Michael Dunn
Baltimore, MD
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7652
Patience Fairbrother
Maryland
Baltimore

Mary'd
July 7, 1838
Patience Fairbrother

Mich'l Dunn
Balto
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County

On this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen Hundred and forty personally appeared before the subscriber Judges of the Orphan's Court of Anne Arundel County State of Maryland it being a court of record, personally appeared Mrs. Patience Fairbrother a resident of the city of Annapolis and the state aforesaid, aged sixty-seven 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 provisions made by the act of congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows ". That she is the widow of Francis Fairbrother who was a private in Captain John Stewart's company in the Maryland continental line and served the whole war and was under the command of Col. Smallwood and the said Patience Rives was lawfully married to the said Francis Fairbrother in June in the year 1793 by Parson Higginbottom and she further declares that her said husband Francis Fairbrother died August 19th 1810 and she further declares she has no record proof of marriage but that she has proof by persons living who were at her wedding and that she has remained a widow from that period to the date of these presents.

Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year above written.  Patience Fairbrother
Her X Mark

Before us Justices of the Orphan's Court of Anne Arundel County

John Wilmot
James H. Watkins
Gerrard A Hopkins
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I Samuel Brown Jun. register of Wills for Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland do hereby certify that John Wilmot, James H. Watkins and Gerrard R Hopkins Esquires who appear to have and signed the aforegoing papers or instruments of writings was at the time of so doing and still are Judges of the Orphans Court of the county and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified and to all their acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout - and further their signatures in said instruments purporting to be the signatures of the said John Wilmot, James H Watkins and Gerrard R Hopkins Esquires are their genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.

Sam'l Brown, Junr. Reg Wills A.A. County

Land Office, Annapolis, 17th Augt 1840

I hereby certify that it appears by the muster rolls of the revolution remaining in this office that Francis Fairbrother enlisted as as private in the 1st Maryland Regiment for during the war on the 10th day of December 1776 and by the payroll kept by John Hamilton, Agent for the Maryland Line he appears to have received pay and gratuity up to the 15th of November 1783.

George G Brewer
Regt. Land Off. W.S. Md

Western Shore Treasury
Annapolis, 12 Aug 1840

Patience Fairbrother, as of Anne Arundel County in Maryland and the widow of Francis Fairbrother a soldier of the revolution is a pensioner of the said state at the rate of forty dollars per annum in virtue of resolution 920.72 of the general assembly of Dec Sess. 1831

George Mackubin
Treas W.S. MD
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Revolutionary War Records Section 

3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

In reply to your request of blank received blank for a statement of the military history of Francis Fairbrother a soldier of the Revolutionary War you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this bureau.
W.8804

Dates of enlistment or appointment - Dec 10, 1776
Length of Service - Nov 15, 1783
Rank - Private
Officers under whom service was rendered - Capt. John Stewart and Col. Smallwood
State - MD

Battles engaged in - none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment - Enl in Annapolis Anne Arundel Co MD
Date of application for pension - Aug 11, 1840 - her claim was allowed
Residence at date of application - Annapolis Anne Arundel Co MD
Age at date of application - 67 years
Remarks - he married in Annapolis June 1793 Patience Rives or Reeves . He died Aug 19, 1810

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Revy WIDOW, etc.

File No 8804
Patience Fairbrother
Wid of 
Francis Fairbrother
Priv MD Line

Act: July 1838
Index Vol A Page 226

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1914 Dec 3 - History to Mrs. Cecelia F. Hardesty
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Patience Fairbrother
of Francis 
Maryland
Suspended
see let 22 March 1841 
Michael Dunn

Act 7 July 1838
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Annapolis, Aug 11th, 1840

Dear Sir

This is to certify that I have known Mrs. Patience Fairbrother for several years and can say that she is a woman of unimpeachable veracity & against whom nothing disparagingly can be said and that she is well deserving of any favor which you can render her.

James H. Watkins
Judge of the Orphans Court A.A. County, MD

Annapolis August 12, 1840

Dr Sir.

Mrs. Patience Fairbrother who is now making application for a pension is at this time living in my family. She is a lady that the strictest reliance can be placed in and any statements that she may make in behalf of her claim from the government for the services of her deceased husband Francis Fairbrother, can be relied on.

John S. Selby - Sheriff
Anne Arundel County

I know Mrs. Fairbrother and fully concur in the above statement by M. Selby.

R. Welch [illegible]
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I concur in the statement made by John S. Selby Sheriff of Anne Arundel County.

Basil Shephard

From my knowledge of the character of Mrs. Patience Fairbrother, I have no hesitation in concurring in the statement made by the gentleman who signed above.

Gabriel H Duvall

Mrs. Patience Fairbrother is a member of this Methodist Episcopal Church in this place of good standing as far as I know and I should be inclined to believe any statement of facts she might make to me.

Job Guest
Pastor of M.E. Church in
Annapolis
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State of Maryland
Anne Rundel County

On this twenty-fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County personally appeared Nancy Reeves aged sixty-three a resident of Anne Arundel County and State of Maryland and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that she was intimately acquainted with Francis Fairbrother deceased who was a soldier of the revolution and she well knows he was the identical soldier mentioned in the declaration and she further states upon oath that she well knew Patience Reeves now Patience Fairbrother for upwards of fifty years which was interior to their marriage and she further states upon oath that the said parties Francis Fairbrother and Patience Reeves were legally married in 1793 by the Rev Parson Higginbotham and they lived together lawfully until he died which was in August 1810 the reason why a strong impression is made upon her memory is that they were raised boys and girls together and were in terms
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of intimacy all their lives and she well knows that Mr. Francis Fairbrother has remained a widow up to the present date.

Nancy Reeves
Her x mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace for Anne Arundel County - J W Hunter

Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that James W Hunter Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the aforegiong deposition was at the time of so doing one of the state aforesaid Justices of the Peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this twenty fourth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty.

Wm S Green - Clerk A.A. County Court
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County Set

Be it remembered that on this twenty-third day of January eighteen hundred and forty-one personally appeared before me one of the justices of the peace for the above county Susanah Earl aged about seventy-eight and made oath on the holy evangelist of almighty God that she well knew Francis Fairbrother who was a soldier of the revolution and was attached to the Maryland Continental line under the command of Col Smallwood - and she well recollects that her deceased brother Henry Wadon and the said Francis Fairbrother enlisted in Annapolis together and left Annapolis with the troops under the command of Col. Smallwood in vessels to join the main army - commanded by General Washington at the head of the Chesapeake Bay and she further deposeth that she well knew the said Francis Fairbrother when he returned from the service - and that the said Francis Fairbrother resided for many years in the city of Annapolis and acted in the capacity of [illegible] master of the city and she further deposeth that she well knew Francis B Fairbrother and Patience Fairbrother his wife for a number of years and knows well they were lawfully married and lived together as man (and)
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and wife and respected as such by all who knew them until the death of the said Francis Fairbrother which occurred about the year eighteen hundred and ten.

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written.

Susanna Earle
Her X Mark

J W Hunter - JP
A.A. County

This is to certify that Mrs. Susanna Earle is well known to me as one of the most ancient and respectable citizens of Annapolis and a lady whose veracity cannot be doubted, and her oath will be taken in any court of Justice.

J W Hunter

Anne Arundel County Court

I hereby certify that James W Hunter Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the aforegoing affidavits was at the time of so doing one of the state of Maryland Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set  my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this twenty-third day of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.

Wm S Green - Clk A.A. Cty Court
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County

On this 20th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County personally appeared Ann Hollidayoke she a resident of said city and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that she was intimately acquainted with Francis Fairbrother deceased who was a soldier of the revolution for he and her husband Daniel Hollidayoke deceased marched from the city of Annapolis to the head of the Chesapeake Bay and rendered a part of their services together as aforesaid and after the war of the revolution Francis Fairbrother returned home in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three and made his home at my house after which time he drew a pension from the state of Maryland for his revolutionary services. This deponent further states that Francis Fairbrother aforesaid and now his widow Patience Fairbrother formerly Patience Reeves were lawfully married in June seventeen hundred ninety-three by the Rev. Parson Ralph Higginbotham
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Higginbotham in the city of Annapolis for she was an eye witness to the fact and she well recollects the time said marriage took place from the circumstances of her husband Daniel Hollidayoke taken sick at aforesaid wedding and after their marriage we occupied the farm house together from six to eight years and knew Patience Fairbrother to be the identical and lawful widow of Francis Fairbrother deceased who is making application for a pension for his service and she still remains his widow and never married since his death.

Ann Hollidayoke
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid.

J W Hunter

This is to certify that Mrs. Ann Hollidayoke is well known to me to be a lady of first rate standing and a venerable old lady of our city and any statement that she may make can be strictly relied on.

J W Hunter

Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that James W Huner Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the aforegoing affidavits was at the time of so doing
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one of the state of Maryland's Justices of the Peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this twentieth day of August eighteen hundred and forty.

W S Green - A.A. County Court
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To all to whom these presents may come

I Cornelius McLean Register of Saint Ann's Parish in Ane Arundel County in the state of Maryland do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the records of said Parish and have not found therein any record of the marriage Mrs. Patience Fairbrother.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on this twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

Cornelius McLean
Register

State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County to wit

Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this thirtieth day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Cornelius McLean and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he is register of Saint Anne's Parish in Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland & that the matters as herein stated in his aforegoing certificate are true.

Sworn before
J W Hunter
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Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that James W Hunter Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the within affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the state of Maryland Justices of the Peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

Wm S Green - Clk A.A. Co. Court
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FREE

To the Hon
J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

MAIL STAMP - Baltimore MD Apr 1

Mary'd
Appli of
Patience Fairbrother
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MAIL STAMP - Baltimore MD Apr 1

Apr 1, 1841

Mary'd
Appli of
Patience Fairbrother

FREE

To the Hon
J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Baltimore March 31, 1841

Sir

Enclosed you will find a certificate in Mrs. Patience Fairbrother's case - and I called on Mr. Geo Maccubbin Treasurer of the Western Shore in Annapolis his office being the proper place to record marriages for that county who states that the Rev'd Mr. Higginbottom never returned any of his marriages to that office. I requested that he would give a certificate of facts which he stated to me so that I might exhibit the same to your office - his reply was that he never had given a certificate of the nature as I wanted to procure - as I have usually rec'd from the parson record - therefore I am in hopes you will find this certificate satisfactorily in her case.

With high respect
I remain your obt servt
Michael Dunn

To the Hon
J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington
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425 W. 26th St
Pueblo, Colo
Nov 27, 1914

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Will you kindly give me all information you can concerning two soldiers named Francis Fairbrother and Thomas Fairbrother who served in the revolutionary war from Maryland?

Very truly yours

(Mrs.) Cecelia (Fairbrother) Hardesty