Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 25,073, for John Lanham, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Lanham, John

Number 
S.25,073
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John Lanham 
Private in Captain Company of the 1st Mary’d Regiment Revy War 
Ratio of disability, Total 
Date of discharge, 27 Dec 1779 
Time of closing testimony -  
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at 5 dollars per month, to commence on the  
Formal Certificate of pension issues the 16 of Nov 1826 and delivered to Widow of Pensioner.  
Arrears to 4th – 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending – 
Act of the – 
See letter to Pension Agent Susannah Lanham, 22d Nov 1826
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W 775
Heirs of
Susanna Lanham
Maryland
6152
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I hereby Certify that on this 13th day of  September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight, before me came John Lanham aged Forty five years and upwards and made oath according to Law. That he is the son of Susanna Lanham (now deceased) by her Husband John Lanham (deceased) who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution. That himself and his sister Elizabeth the Wife of Robt. Bier are the only children of the said Susanna
{signed} John Lanham
at the same time also appeared Thomas C Morris aged fifty five years & upwards and made oath according to Law, that he Knew, and was acquainted with Susanna Lanham, from about the year Eighteen hundred and Seven to the time of her death, that he has understood and verily believes the said Susanna was the Widow of John Lanham (deceased) who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, that the said Susanna died in the City of Baltimore on or about the fifteenth day of May - last past, and that John Lanham whose name is above subscribed and who is now present, and his sister Elizabeth the wife of Robert Bier are the only children of the said Susanna Lanham. 
Th. C Morris
Sworn to & subscribed before
Me on the date above
N Brice Chief Judge
Balt City Court
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore
I hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the within depositions were made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto executed my name and affixed the Seal of Baltimore City Court this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Wm M Medcalfe
B City Court
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District of Columbia,
County of Washington, SS:
On this 16th day of November 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said county, personally appeared Susannah Lanham, who, on her oath, declares that she is the administratix of her late husband, John Lanham who died about twenty two years ago, and who at the time of his death was an Invalid Pensioner on the roll of the Virginia Agency, that the old certificate on which said John Latham was paid, was entrusted by the son for this deponent, with a Wm Green, in Baltimore; that the said Green is dead and that the old certificate cannot be found. The deponent, therefore, prays that a formal pension certificate may be issued in this case, to enable her to draw the amount of pension due to the said John Lanham, at the time of his death.
Edmund Brooke
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Strange this was not filed under R.6152 instead of S. 25073. MCS 
May 3, 1940 
BA-J/MCS 
John Lanham, S.25073 
Mr. James S Bryan 
61st & East Capitol Streets, N.E. 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your request for an abstract of the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, John Lanham, S.25073. 
The data which follow were taken from papers in pension claims on file under S.25073 and based on the disability of John Lanham which disability was incurred during his service in the Revolutionary War.
The data and place of birth of John Lanham and the names of his parents are not shown. 
John Lanham served as private in the First Maryland Regiment and was discharged December 27, 1779, because of total disability. No further data are shown relative to the Revolutionary War service of John Lanham. 
Because of his disability, John Lanham was placed on the pension roll of the Virginia Agency at the rate of $60 per annum commencing September 4, 1789, under the Act of June 7, 1785. 
{See Book "2no, Pensioners of Rev”" and "1835 List of Pensioners" Va, Agency
In 1826, Mrs. Susannah Lanham stated that she was the widow of John Lanham who died about twenty or twenty-two years ago and she applied for any pension that might have been due at the time of the death of John Lanham. In 1827, she was living in Annapolis, Maryland, and furnished evidence that she was the administratrix of the estate of John Lanham, late of Charles County, Maryland. 
In 1827, Henry W. Lanham and Cloe Lanham (their relationship to soldier not shown) made affidavits that John Lanham died in the fall of
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1901 and that Mrs. Susannah Lanham took out letters of administration on his estate in Charles County, Maryland, in 1802.
The records of the Pension Agency at Richmond, Virginia, showed that the pension due up to November 21, 1801, which was assumed to be the date of death of John Lanham was paid on November 14, 1905, to William Barry for the executor or administrator of the estate of John Lanham. Therefore, no further payment was due. In September, 1838, William Brown, aged eighty-six years, and his wife, Tobitha Brown (John Lanham was referred to as a connection in her family) aged about ninety, both residents of the District of Columbia, stated that they lived in Charles County, Maryland, before and during the Revolution and were acquainted with John Lanham and that after service in that war, John Lanham returned to Charles County, Maryland, and about twelve months later he married Susannah (maiden name not shown). They also stated at that time, September 1838, that Susannah had died about four months before leaving two children only, namely, John Lanham and Betsy who were then living Baltimore, Maryland. 
In September 1838, John Lanham "aged forty-five and upwards" stated that he was the son of Susannah Lanham then deceased and that he and his sister, Elisabeth, the wife of Robert Bier, were the only children of Susannah Lanham. 
It was stated in September, 1838, that Susannah Lanham died in Baltimore, Maryland, "on or about the 15th day of May last past."
John Lanham and Elisabeth Bier applied for pension that might have been due Susannah Lanham under the Act of July 7, 1838, as the widow of John Lanham but their claim was not allowed as said law provided for those widows only who were living at the time of the passage of the act. 
The papers on file contain no further data relative to the family of John Lanham. 
Very truly yours
A.D HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

See 1852 List of Rejected Pensions
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Mr. James S. Bryan
61st + [and] East Capitol St., N.E.
Washington, D.C.

April 23, 1940

Requests abstract of papers in file in Rev. War. pen claim, John Lanham, S 25073.
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See Let 25th Sept 1838 to H H Dent

Let 9 Jany 1840 N Brice
Let 25 Feb 1840 S Young
Let 21 Aug '41 to same

Died after before passage of Act of 7 July 1838

Let to Nathl Williams Feb 24 1843
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6152

Susannah Lanham

REJECTED

List of 1852 gives fol. [following] reason for rej [rejection] of claim of heirs of Susannah Lanham (deceased) "Both parties died before the passage of the act"
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District of Columbia County of Washington – 
On this fourth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia William Brown aged Eighty six years and Tobitha Brown aged about ninety years wife of said William Brown both residents of the District of Columbia aforesaid, being first duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God depose and say that they resided in Charles County Maryland as man and wife before and during the period after Revolutionary War, that they were well acquainted with John Lanham who also resided
there, that he was a connection in the family of the deponant Tobitha - they know that said Lanham was a soldier in the said Revolutionary war, and as such left Charles County aforesaid after in the second year of the war to join the Army - that they know the fact of his enlisting for said purpose and as such, but they do not know in whose Company or Regiment, he belonged, or was attached - that he continued in the war until
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the war was over or ended when he returned to Charles County - they further depose that they knew Susanna Lanham that she was his wife that he was married to her i about twelve months after he returned which was many years before the year seventeen hundred & ninety four - that said John Lanham has been dec'd upwards of twenty five years ago - his wife the said Susanna was then living - that she died about four months ago - that they had two children the one named John Lanham, the other named Betsy Lanham who are now both living in Baltimore Town Maryland. They were both born in lawful wedlock and were & are the only children of then said John Lanham & Susanna Lanham.

Wm Browrn
His X Mark
Tobitha Brown
Her X Mark
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Taken before & subscribed in my presence the day & year first aforesaid.

James S Morrell
Asst Judge - Circ OUrt
District of Columbia

District of Columbia
County of Washington

I Will Brent clerk of the Circuit Court for the District and County aforesaid do hereby certify that the Honorable James S Morrell before whom the above acknowledgement was made and whose name is subscribed above was at the time and still is an assistant Judge of the said Circuit Court for the District and County aforesaid.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Circuit Court at the City of Washington this 4th day of Sept 1838.

Wm Brent Clerk
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War Department
Pension Office
11th April 1827

Madam

On examining the papers which you presented at this office, this morning, it appears from the affidavits of Henry W Lanham and Cloe Lanham that your husband John Lanham died in the fall of 1800, and it also appears that you took out letters of administration on his estate in Charles County, Maryland in 1802. As it appears from the books of the Pension Agency at Richmond, that William Barry received for the administration the full amount due up to the 21st of November 1801 it is very evident that nothing more can be due; of course, no payment can be expected. I herewith return the documents which you handed to me.

I am respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J.L. Edwards

Mrs. Susannah Lanham
of Annapolis, MD
Now Present
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H.H. Dent
Sept 25 '38
06
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War Dept, Pen Office
 Sept 25, 1838

Sir

The papers in the case of the children of Mrs. Susanna Lanham dec'd widow of John Lanham dec'd have been examined. It would appear therefore that she was married after her husband's service term and that she died in May last. The act of 7 July 1838 provides for widows who were living at the time when the law passed and to no others. Had Mrs. Lanham been living at the time and failed to apply, her children might have claimed upon her death the amount due up to that time, but in this case, they have no claim. The papers will remain under file with the rejected cases.

H.H. Dent Esq
Present
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Major J.L Edwards
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paid to 4 Sept 1801

Mrs. Lanham states her husband to have been a pensioner (Revolutionary or Revolutionary invalid) of the Maryland line & in his lifetime received his pension at Richmond Virginia - that he died about 20 years or more ago & had pension due for 2 or 3 years at that period. The pension records of this office don't go that far back as to contain his name - referenced to the records of your department
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enable you to satisfy the poor old lady in relation to her inquiries

J. Thompson
16 Nov 1826

Mr. Edwards
Pension Office
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FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington

Feb 20, 1843
Susan Lanham
[unreadable]
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Baltimore, 17 Feb 1843 
J L Edwards Esq 
Sir 
A son of Susan Lanham represents that his mother was the widow of a revolutionary soldier; that she had been paid a pension at Richmond Va but that for some time before her death which happened about two years since, she was not paid. He states there is an arrearage of pension coming to him and his sister.
Respectfully yours 
Nathl. Williams
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N Williams
Feb 24 1843
(check mark)
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456

Pension Office
Feb 24, 1843

Sir

The answer to your letter of the 17th inst I have to inform you that it does not appear from the roll of Virginia Pensioners that a pension was allowed to anyone bearing the name of Susan Lanham. It appears that the children of Susanna Lanham dec'd of Maryland presented a claim to a pension under the act of July 7, 1838, which was rejected because the widow died before the passage of the law.

Nathaniel Williams, Esq
Atty at Law, Baltimore

Act 38
Maryland
Rejected
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The Honorable
J.L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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The Honorable J.L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Baltimore August 27. 1841.

Dear Sir
The person handling you the present is John Lanham, the person alluded to in the letter lately had the honor of addressing to you. He visits Washington for the purpose of marking some further inquiries respecting his claim. 
Very respectfully, 
Your Obt Serv 
Saml Young
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Samuel Young Esq
August 21st, 41
OC
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Pen Office
Sept 21, 1841

Sir
In reply to your letter of the 20th inst- in the case of Mrs Susanna Lanham decd widow of John Lanham decd I have to inform you that her children are not entitled to a pension. She was married after the termination of the revolutionary war and the Act of 4 July 1836 does not provide for any one who was married after that time. She died in May 1838. Had she been living at the time of the passage of the Act of 7th July 1838 her children would have been entitled from 3 March 1836 to the time of her death under that act. The papers of the case are on file in the office.

Samuel Young Esq
Baltimore MD

(right side corner)
O. C
1775 Act 38
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[stamp] BALTIMORE AUG 26
The Honorable 
J.L Edwards Esquire 
Com’r of Pensions 
Washington D. C.
Md  August 21st 1841
J. V. Allison
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Baltimore Aug. 20, 1841 

Dear Sir

I have to apologize for the inaccuracy of the statement made in my letter of the 17th. In which arose from misinformation rec. from the applicant.

I find that Susanna Lanham was not a pensioner, but the application are made by her Orphan Children, under the act of July 4th 1836, and the petition vouchers present some time ago, by Sam Fernandis Esq. as their agent 

Very Respectfully 
Your Obs Serv
Saml Young

The Honorable
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Comr Pensions
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Copy
War Department Pension Office
22nd November, 1826

Mrs. Susannah Lanham
Annapolis, Maryland

Madam, 
Since the 15th instant, when a letter was addressed to you, respecting the pension of your late husband, John Lanham, a communication has been received from the Pension Agent in Richmond, Virginia, a copy of which is herewith enclosed. From the circumstances contained in that communication, it will therefore, be unnecessary for you to apply at the Pension Agency in Richmond, until you shall have exhibited the most satisfactory proof to this Department, that the John Lanham on whose estate you administered in the same person whose name was placed on the Pension List of the Virginia Agency, and that his death occurred at the subsequent period to the 21st of November, 1801.

J.L.E
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Copy
War Department Pension Office
November 22nd, 1826
Richard Anderson, Esq. 
Resident U. States Branch Bank and Agent etc. Richmond, Virginia

Sir,
Your letter of the 20th instant respecting John Lanham has been received. Under the circumstances set forth in your letter, no further payment will be made on Lanham's account, without instructions from this Department. 

J.L.E
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Baltimore February 25, 1840
Respected Sir
I would esteem it a peculiar favor to be informed of the result of your examination of the papers of Susanna Lanham, widow of John Lanham, a revolutionary soldier, left in your department sometimes since, as I am informed , by her son John Lanham. 
Your early attention to this request with much obliged

Your very respectable and Obs Serv
Saml Young 

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Washington
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Feb 24. 1840
Mary or S. Lanham
J.L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
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(top left corner)
Henry Brice
Jany 9, 1840 o.b.

(top right corner)
1775 Oct 7 July 1838

Henry Brice Esq
Baltimore Md.
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War Dept Pen Office
Jany 9, 1840

Sir, In reply to your letter of the 6th inst in the case of the heir of Mrs. Susanna Lanham, decd, I have to inform you that they are not entitled to any pension. It would appear from the testimony exhibited that she was married after the termination of her husbands service ("which would have" line drawn through) and before 1st January 1794 which would have entitled her to the benefit of the Act of 7 July 1838, had she been living at the time of the passage of that Act or had she been living at that time, and had never obtained a
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pension, her heirs would have been entitled to the amount due up to the period of her death. She died in May 1838, which having been before the passage of the Act of 7 July 1838, leaves no vested right in the heirs. 

(right side)
Henry Brice
Jany 9, 1840 
o.b.

(lower left corner)
Henry Brice Esq
Baltimore Md.

(lower right corner)
1775 Oct 7 July 1838
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395
War Dept. Pen Office 
Feb. 25, 1840

Sir, In reply to your letter of the 21st inst in the case of Mrs Susanna Lanham now decd widow of John Lanham decd, I have to inform you that the claim was examined on the 25th Sept. 1838 and a letter of that date a copy of which is herewith ordered was addressed to H. H. Dent, Esq sharing the objections to the admission of the claim.

Samuel Young Esq
Baltimore Md

(lower right corner)
1775 Oct 7 July 38
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Free

Jan 7, 1840
Mail Stamp

Mary'd

Department of War
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.

Lanham
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J.L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
I have been applied to to day by one of the heirs of Susanna Lanham, widow of John Lanham a Revolutionary soldier to make enquiry respecting a pension supposed to be due to his mother. He states to me that his mother made application to your Department some years, filed some papers, what they were he does not know, but failed in her application because the proof of marriage was not proved. Susan Lanham died about a year ago, and if it can be proved that she was entitled to a pension, being a vested right, it would go to her heirs. 
Be pleased to give information what is wanted and I will endeavor to supply it. 
Bar. b Jan 1840

Henry Brice
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[Left side]
25073
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 25873
John Lanham*
Pri [Private] Md [Maryland] Line
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Act:  Revy War
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 130

[Arrangement of 1870.]
*W.D.G. Apr. 27,07

[Right side]
1940, May 3 hist. to Mar
Jas. S. Bryan.  M.C.A.
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Mat

H.H.Dent

[upside down] 1775
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
To all whom these presents shall come:
Know ye, That on the sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord, One Thousand

Administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits, which were of John Lanham late of Charles County, deceased, was granted and committed unto Susannah Lanham of the county aforesaid she having first entered into bond with sufficient securities for the due performance thereof, and also taken an Oath, well and truly to administer the sane, to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of the said goods and chattels, and to render a just account of her Administration when she should be thereto to

Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty seven and of the Independence of the United States the Fifty First.
William D. Merrick Register of Wills for Charles County.
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[Written sideways on left margin:] Dec'. 22 Nov. 1826

United States Loan Office
State of Virginia

[Circular stamp] [illegible] NOV 20
VA [illegible]

[written upside down:]
Recd. 22 Nov. 1826

J. L. Edwards Esquire
War Department
Washington

[written upside down:]
From
Virginia Agency
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J L Edwards Esqr
Office Bank U. States
Richmond Novem 20th 1826.
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 16th inst I
have to inform you, that it appears by the books of
the Loan office here, that on the 14th Novem 1805, there
was paid to Wm. Barry for the Exer or adm of John Lanham
Invalid Pension $7 50/100 being amt of the pension [lined out: from] up
to 21st Novem. 1801. at which time it is presumed he died,
since which time, the Pension has been discontinued-

I am, Sir,
Very respectfully
Yourobst [Your Obedient Servant]
Richard Anderson Pres
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(8-1776)

SERVICE Md.

Lanham, Thomas

NUMBER
S. 30534

CONTENTS
(blank)
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30.702
Kentucky
Thomas Lanham
of Madison Co in the Sate of Kentucky who was a private in the company commander by Captain Bell of the regt commanded by Col Smallwood in the Maryland line for eleven months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Dec 1836 and sent to John White A.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $200.66
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March '37 18.33
$220.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm. S Allison Clerk
Book  E.2 Vol. 7 Page 31
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State of Kentucky Madison County ss:

This deposition of Stephen Lanham taken at the house of said Lanham in the county aforesaid on the 4th day of June - 1836 before me John Hawkins a Justice of the Peace in & for said county. Said Lanham having been first duly sworn according to law states that he was born in Prince George County in Maryland in the year 1760 according to the account received from his father that he is the brother of Thomas Lanham of the county of Madison aforesaid, who is about to apply for a pension to the United States; that said Thomas better than two years older than deponent & was born as deponent always understood at same place in Maryland - that deponent and his said brother were living with their father in said county of Prince George & Montgomery at the commencement of the Revolutionary War - he is unable to say whether in 1775 or in 1776 the said Thomas Lanham enlisted as a private into the service of the United States - that he enlisted at a muster about six miles from Bladensburg on the main road from Bladensburg to Baltimore - some six or eight other young men enlisted at same
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time & place. That said Thomas enlisted under Capt. Reason or Resin Bell & for during the war - that there was no Lieutenant present at the time of the enlistment. That a man by the name of Bracker was afterwards Lieutenant of said company & a man by the name of Harkmon was second lieutenant that the company deponent thinks was in or belonged to the regiment commanded by Colo Smallwood. Deponent thinks it was the 7th regt. That shortly after said Thomas enlisted which deponent thinks was in the winter season or early in the spring he marched with said company & was stationed at a place called Port Tobacco on the Potomac River in Maryland - that said Thomas continued in the army as a private or soldier as aforesaid fifteen or eighteen months, stationed at Port Tobacco - that when the company or troops left said place of Port Tobacco Thomas was left sick & confirmed that he was innoculated at that place for the smallpox which was followed by a severe spell of sickness - that said Thomas was left at said place sick and destitute of everything & his father & mother both went & brought him home - where he remained sick & helpless for a long time with very little hope that he would recover.
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Deponent thinks he continued in that situation for a year or more - that he was not afterwards called for & did not in consequence of public health again join the Army. That said Thomas moved to Kentucky the county of Madison where he now resides near fifty years since & has resided there ever since.

Stephen Lanham X(his mark)

Subscribed & sworn to before me a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid & I further certify that in consequence of old age & feeble health it is not convenient for said deponent to attend court at the court house that it would endanger his health so to do. I further certify that said deponent is personally known to me as a citizen of said county of Madison & that he is a man of excellent character & a credible witness on oath - given under my hand on the day & year first handwritten

John Hawkins J. P.
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State of Kentucky }
Madison County } Sct

I David Irvine Clerk of the
County Court for the County
aforesaid do hereby certify that
John Hawkins whose Certificate
is forgoing, was at the date
thereof & still is an acting Justice
of the peace for said County
& that his signature [illegible] to is
genuine - 
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the seal
of my said office this 13th
June 1836 -
-
David Irvine CouClk
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33.719
Th. Lanham
Declaration
-
Kentucky


Hon. J. White
H. R. [House of Representatives]
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Declaration

State of Kentucky, }
Madison County } Sct
& Circuit

On this 8th day of June 1836 personally
in open Court before the Hon. James
Simpson, sole & presiding Judge of the
Circuit Court for the County of
Madison aforesaid, now sitting, Thomas
Lanham, a resident of the County of
Madison & State aforesaid, aged
about seventy nine years - who being
first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he enlisted in to the army of the
United States in the winter or early
in the spring 1776, his best recollection
is he enlisted in that year, but he may
be mistaken as to the year. He is
positive as to his enlistment & that
was enlisted to serve during the
war. He enlisted at a public muster
held on the public road between
Bladensburg & Baltimore in
Maryland and about six miles
from the Former place. Capt
Rezin Bell was the officer, who 
enlisted him--Bracker was the
Lieutenant of the Company, into
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which he enlisted & afterwards commanded
said Company as Captain- Hackerson 
was the Second Lieutenant - Colo. Smallwood 
he thinks commanded the
Regiment - he cannot be positive
as to the number of the Regiment
nor whether it belonged to the State
line of Maryland or whether it
was in the Continental Establishment.
It was a Regiment of Infantry & he
knows he enlisted to fight for the
United States during the war-
Shortly after his enlistment he joined
said Company & was marched to a
place or post on the Potomac River
in Maryland called Port Tobacco -
We remained stationed at Port Tobacco
about Eighteen months. During
this time there were frequently alarms
& we marched to other points up and
down the River - He thinks the object
was to protect the Country against
Lord Dunmore more particularly
that we were stationed at Port Tobacco
& occasionally marched from that
point to others on the River. His
recollection is that during the time
he was at Port Tobacco the Company
was divided & Capt Bell took the
command of a part & marched
to a place called-- Drum Point
The residue of the Company remained
at Port Tobacco where deponent
remained - After being in service
at said point for about a year
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he was attacked with the small pox,
which broke out among the troops.
He well recollects it was said that
Lord Dunmore had sent a man
infected with the disease among
the troops to spread it-- He remained
sick for a long time & his life was
despaired of. He remained with
the Troops at Port Tobacco till late
in the fall of the second year
after his enlistment - when his father
& mother came to that place and
carried him home in a very low
& feeble State of matter -- Subsitive
previous to his being thus removed,
how long he is unable to say,
his company was marched from
Port Tobacco - leaving only the sick
who were unable to go. He remained
in the hospital a considerable time
& was at length got out by his friends
a family by the name of Lucket
who lived in the edge of the Town
or place. He was nursed & 
remained at the house of Mr Lucket
till his parents came & removed
him home to their residence, which was over
the line between Prince George &
Montgomery County Maryland.
That he remained at his Father's
in a very feeble state of health
for several years, wholly unfit
for duty or for any kind of labor-
He states that in consequence of
his impaired & feeble health
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he did not again join his company or the Army. 
He states that he was in the services of the United States at Port Tobacco as aforesaid not less than eighteen months was prevented by ill health from serving during the war according to his enlistment - he claims a pension for his services according to what the laws & bounty of his county allow him - he states that he never had any discharge and never received but very little pay - he has no records evidentiary of his services & knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services except his brother Stephen Lanham whose testimony he has procured.   
He was born in Prince Geroge County Maryland and as he has always understood in the year 1757 - he has no record of his age & never had any - his father was an illiterate man & did not write - when he enlisted into the service of the United States he was living in the state of Maryland with his on the line between Prince George & Montgomery Counties - he lived with his father in Maryland till the close of the Revolutionary War when he moved to near Wheeling in Virginia from whence he removed to the
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County of Madison, Kentucky where he has resided more fifty years & where he now resides.

He is known to Thomas S Bronston a clergyman residing in Madison County & also to James Dejarnett a citizen of said county who has known him for many years & who can testify as to his character for veracity and also as to his belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Thomas Lanham
His X Mark

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Mr. Thomas S Bronston clergyman residing in the county of Madison aforesaid & James Dejarnett residing in same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Lanham who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-nine years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion - and we further certify that said Lanham is of excellent character.

T S Bronston
James Dejarnett

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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and the said court do hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states - The court can certify with great propriety that said applicant is a man of very excellent character that his brother Stephen Lanham whose testimony is also before the county taking the application and services of the applicant is also a man of fair & unblemished character - upon the whole case the court is entirely satisfied that the application is a meritorious one - and the court further certifies that it appears to the court that Thomas S Branston, who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Madison aforesaid - and that James Dejarnett who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County & is a credible person & their statement is entitled to credit.

James Simpson
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State of Kentucky
Madison Circuit

I David Irvine clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Lanham for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 13th day of Jun in the year 1836.

David Irvine Clerk
of Madison Circuit Court

SEAL
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February 1, 1933

Thomas Lanham - S.30534
BA-J/AWF

Mr. W.B. Lanham
College Park, P.O. Box 113
Maryland

Dear Sir:

As requested, this day, by Mrs. R.L. Francis you are furnished the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Lanham, in his claim for pensions, S.30534.

Thomas Lanham was born in 1757 in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

While living with his parents whose names are not given, on a farm which lay in Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties, Maryland, Thomas Lanham enlisted about six miles from Bladensburg, Maryland in the spring of 1776 and served as a private in Captains Rezin Beall's and Bracco's company under Colonel Smallwood, in the Maryland troops and was stationed at Port Tobacco on the Potomac river; while there he was taken sick and put in hospital where he remained until this father and mother came and carried him to their home, his service amounted to about eleven months.

After the Revolutionary War Thomas Lanham moved near Wheeling, Virginia (later West Virginia) and thence to Madison County, Kentucky.

The soldier, Thomas Lanham was allowed pension on his application executed June 8, 1836, then living in Madison County, Kentucky, having lived there about fifty years.

There is no reference to wife or children.

His brother Stephen Lanham was a resident of
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Madison County, Kentucky in 1836 and stated that he was born in 1760 in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Admitted for
11 months $36.66

Hon John White
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Land Office, Annapolis, June 25th, 1836

Sir

In reply to your letter of the 23rd Inst. which I have just received, I have to state that the papers in the case of Thomas Lanham have been very carefully examined - he states in his declaration that he entered the service in 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Rezin Beall - by the Army Ledgers of the revolution in this office, it appears that Captain Rezin Beall, commanded one of the independent companies - there were six companies raised in this state in 1776 styled Independent Companies but there are no muster or payrolls to be found of other of the companies - I am therefore unable to furnish any evidence in the case of Thomas Lanham - the records and papers of the revolution do not show what services were performed by the Independent companies or how long they were in service - From Capt. Rezin Bealls account upon the army ledgers, I should presume that they were no longer in service than eleven or twelve months - Capt. Rezin Beall is charged in January 1776 with money paid him on account of his company and his account upon said ledger was stated and settled from that period up to the 20th December 1776 - the papers are herewith returned.

I am respectfully
your obt servant
G.G. Brewer

J.L. Edwards, Esq
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War Department
Pension Office
September 24, 1836

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 15th instant, I have to inform you that a letter was addressed to you at the House of Representatives from this office on the 30th June last, respecting the case of Thomas Lanham, a copy of which is herewith enclosed. A pension may be allowed him for eleven months service upon his acceptance of the same being made known to this office.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your obt servant

J L Edwards

Hon John White
Richmond
Kentucky
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J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Dec 9

Kent

Hon Jno White
H.R.
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Washington City, Dec 7, 1836

Dear Sir

I accept the compromise of the claim of Thos Lanham as proposed in your letter of the 24th of Sept provided Lanham is not entitled to bounty land - on some specific claim under the laws of Maryland.

Yours

John White
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Rev & 1812
Wars Section

September 20, 1930

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.30534 that Thomas Lanham was born in 1757 in Prince George County, Maryland.

While living with his parents, whose names are not given, on a farm which lay in Prince George and Montgomery Counties, Maryland, he enlisted about six miles from Bladensburg, in the spring of 1776 and served as a private in Captains Rezin Beall's and Bracco's Maryland company and was stationed at Point Tobacco on the Potomac River. While there he was taken sick with smallpox and put in the hospital where he remained until his mother and father came and carried him home, his service amounting to about eleven months.

After the revolutionary war, he moved to Wheeling, Virginia, which was later West Virginia, and thence to Madison County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 8, 1836, at which time he was living in Madison County, Kentucky, having lived there about fifty years.

There is no reference to wife or children.

Very truly yours

E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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Feb 1st 1933

Veterans Administration

Please mail to Mr. W B Lanham P O Box 113 College Park, Maryland the revolutionary war record of Thomas Lanham file number S.30534.

Thanking you for this courtesy.

I am, very truly

Elizabeth W Francis

(Mrs. R.L.)
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4455 Kahala Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii
September 2, 1830

The Commissioner of Pensions
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Referring to my request for the Revolutionary War record of James Clark of Virginia and Kentucky and your reply of August 18, Rev and 1812 Wars Section A.W.F.;M.L.B I beg to offer the following additional information.

James Clark was born in Virgnia where he enlisted for service in the revolution. He died 1813, Fayette County, Kentucky, where he had taken up land on David's Fork, Brier Hill Precinct of

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Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky prior to 1793 when his daughter Elizabeth was born there. He also had a son William Clark born Nov. 1790.

James Clark married Elizabeth Summers.

One James Clark served in the 11th and 15th Va Regt's ([.264 & 269 Saffels Rev War Records).

One James Clark Sergt received land warrant No 692 Kentucky for services in Virginia; which one James Clark, private received land warrant No 2782 Kentucky for services in Virginia (p.56 Eroziers Va County Records and 1913 Year Book Kentucky Sons of the Revolution). I don't know which if either of these is my James Clark who married Elizabeth Summers and lived on David's Fork, Fayette, Co Ky until his death in 1813.

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Have you any revolutionary war records for Thomas Lanham who was born in Maryland where he was reared; went to Pennsylvania for a time; then settle in Boonesboro, Kentucky? I do not know his wife's name. He was probably the father of Slyvester Lanham born after the Rev War in Kentucky.

Please give me also information contained in the Rev War records of William Estes (Eastes, Estis) of Va - 2 V.R., W.D. 41,1;6V.R., W.D. 129,1, W.D.143,1.

Thanking you again for your kind interest and any assistance you may be able to give me, I am

Most gratefully

Lillian Prewitt Goodknight
(Mrs. C.S.)

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Left Side Page

30534
INVALID
Revy

File No 30534
Thomas Lanham
Pri Rev War

Act June 7, '32
Index Vol 2 Page 236

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right Side Page

1930 Sept 20 Hist to Mrs. C.S. Goodknight
1933 Feb 1 - Hist to Mr. W.B. Lanham
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Kentucky
Thoams Lanham

Susp'd

Hon John White
Jan 30, '31
act 24 Sept 1836.