Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,241, John Frazier, Ga.
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SERVICE
Ga. 

Fraizer, John
Or
Frazer, Mary

NUMBER
W. 24.241
B.L. Wt. 2015 -200
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Marriage Certificate
John Frazier and Mary
Louham of Prince George's Co
See vouchers on file in the
war office on which warrant
Cook for 200 acres of land
paid in right of Lt John
Frazier
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Prince Georges County Set.
I hereby certify
that it appears from the Records of
&
Prince George County Court that a Marriage licence
was granted to a certain John Frazer and Mary Lau ham
on the twenty fourth day of October Anno Domini 1789
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name affixed the
Seal of Prince George County Court
this 8th day of August Anno Domini 1838
Aquila Beall Clk
[illegible]
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John L F'razier Elof.
W. Fany   Piscataway
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No 2015 or 200 and is
the 6th
March 1834 to John L.
Frazier,
Mrs. Frazier  &  Emilia Frazier, Children
and John G. Robinson, Grand Child
the duly heir at law of John
Frazier, who was a Leut of the
Georgia line, and the same
delivered to Verp Ellis, Atty.
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In the name of God Amen: I John Frazier of Prince George County and State of Maryland being in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling unto mind the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die [illegible] and ordain this my last will and testament that is to Pag, specifically and first of all I give and commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God: that gave it and my body [illegible] mend to the earth to be burried in a [illegible] and Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection  I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and devise in dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
Item: I gave and bequeath unto my son John [illegible] Frazier a tract of land called "Fosese Hole" and [illegible] lot at the death of his mother to him and his heirs forever.
I gave and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Frazier one negro girl named Charlet. I gave and bequeath unto my daughter Amelia Frazier one negro girl named Rachael. The remainder part of my estate, both real and personal, I give and bequeath unto my dear beloved wife Mary Frazier during her life, after the death of my beloved wife and all [illegible] just Debts is paid, the ballance of my
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SERVICE                                             NUMBER
Ga.         Frazier, John                       W.24,241
           or Frazer. Mary                 B.L.Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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January the 31st. 1821 I hear by athorize John Lanham Frazier to the business of John Frazier's estate late deceast of Prince Georgia County Test
Walter Fenley Mary Frazier +her seal mark

Maryland Prince Georgia's County {illegible}
I Philmore Chew Register of wills for said County do hereby certify that the {illegible} is a true copy of Mary Frazier's {illegible} filed recorded in my office {illegible} where of
I have hereto Sch my {illegible} {illegible} the Public Seal of my office the 4th day of March Anno Domini 
1834 Test Philmore Chew Reg
of wills Prince George County
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4728
District of Columbia
Mary Frazier dec.d late 
widow of John Frazier dec.d
[crossed out words]
and who died on the [crossed out] about 1821
of P. George Co. in the State of MA
who was a [illegibe] in the compy commanded
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Georgia line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of District of Columbia at the rate of 320 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of [illegible] 1839 and [illebible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $640.00
Semi-annual [crossed out] allowance ending on 20 July 1838 the day of her death} $122.66
$762.66
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by [illegible] Addison Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2.a Page 236
payment to be made to William, John, and Amelia Frazier children of the deceased
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4615.
Mary Frazier
MD.
act 7 July '38
m 89-
evidence of more than 2 years service as Lt. in the 3 Reg. Ga line in 
W Stagner's office GMC
aomo
2 yrs Ls.
320$$ to Wm Jas L.D. Amelia Frazier children from 4 March '3{illegible}to 25 July 1838-
Henry Northup
Present
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Service
Number
Ga.
Frazier, John 
Frazier, Mary
W.24,241
B.L Wt 2015-200
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State of Marland
Prince Georgia County Sct
At an orphan's court
being a court of record held in and said county on the 13th day of August 1839 personally appeared in open court John L Frazier administrator on the estate of his late mother Mary Frazier who makes the following affidavit
and declaration for the purpose of attaining the benefits of air act of congress
of the 7th of July 1838 for giving previsions
for five years to the widows of certain of officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution
to{illegible} that so far as comes {illegible} his knowledge and belief his late father John Frazier
was an ensign and lieutenant of the Georgia line of the army of the revolution,  
the precise time of his commencement or the rank which he held or the battles in which he fought he knows not neither does he know the time of his leaving the service, all of which was befre his intermarriage with [illegible} mother
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neither does he know what become of his commissions of whether he ever had one, he has never seen or heard of one of them nor any other document or papers pertaining to the same, his said father dying when he was only about twenty four or twenty five years of age that his late mother Mary Frazier departed this life the 23rd of July 1838 of which a record is made in their family bible and that his late father John Frazier has been dead about 18 or 20 years that they always from the time of their marriage lived in the immediate vicinity in which they lived, Sworn to and subtended in open court this 13th day of August 1839 
Phil Chew Regt
Marland Prince George County {}
In testimony that the above affidavit of John L.
Frazier was made in open court int the manner above specified.
I have hereunto subscribed my name offices the Seal of the Orphan Court of Prince George County this 13 Aug 1839
Phil Chew Regt
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Frazier
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District of Columbia    
Washington County

In the matter of Mary Frazier desd widow of John Frazier

Be it remembered that at an orphans court held in and for the county aforesaid on the fifteenth day of October Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty Nine, application is made to the Court in the matter of Mary Frazier deceased widow of John Frazier reputed to have been an officer of the army [inserted above line-by the oath of John L. Frazier and William Callaghan] of the revolution, and satisfactory evidence is [illegible] to prove that the said John Frazier departed this life on the twelfth day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and that Mary Frazier his widow survived him until the twenty third day of July in the year of one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight when she departed this life; that she did not contract any marriage after the death of the said John Frazier as aforesaid; but was still his widow at the time of her death on the day last aforesaid: that she left living at the time of her death children of her and the said John Frazier in the three following names, and none others, to wit William Frazier, John L. Frazier and Amelia commonly called Milly Frazier: and that they are all three still living all which facts being proven to the satisfaction of the Court are Certified according by on the day and year first above written.
Test: Ed: N Roach [illegible]
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Left Page
Lt Mr Frazier
Georgia Line
[illegible] 

Right Page
John Frazier
No. 205

[written sideways] Lt. Jn Frazier
Georgia Line
[illegible]
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State of Maryland Prince George County Court,
On this 20th day of December 1833, personally appeared Basil Hatton a revolutionary Soldier about 74 years old a man of truth and first respectability in the neighbour where Lieutenant John Frazier lived when he left Maryland and entered in the revolution in the Georgia Line, and made oath before me a [illegible] of the pension in and for said county, on the holy evangelist of Almighty God the the ca[illegible] of Lieutenant John Frasier entering in the Georgia Line was that Capt John Jarrot opened a rendezvous in Fairfax County Virginia at a village calle[page cuts off] Newgate perhaps now Centerville, for the purpose of inlisting men for the Georgia Line and offered to give a commission to him that would inlist most men [illegible] the said Lieutenant John Frasier went and contracted with the said Capt John Jarrot to inlist [illegible] men and he was taken in the services as Ensign in 1777. about the last of February or First of March of that year to inlist men to go to Georgia; he went into the Georgia Line and served in Redgment No 3_ commanded by Col James Erwin; and that Lieutenant John Frasier was wounded by the British when acting as and officer in the Georgia [illegible] & he had his shoulder & cholar bone broke so that he could not use his arm after that time and that he the said Basil Hatton inlisted under the said Capt John Jarrot and served as a private in the same company in Redgment No 3 with Lieutenant John Frasier and further declares that he knows John L Frasier to be the on of the aforesaid Lieutenant John Frasier and believes him to be [illegible] [illegible] of his father; on the same day [illegible] [illegible] 
 [illegible] John [illegible] a revolutionary soldier about seventy fours years old who is a man of truth and made oath in due from of law that he was well acquainted with Lie[page cuts off] John Frasier and declares the the fact, [illegible] by Basil Hatton was the com[page cuts off] of said Lieut John Frasier leaving Maryland and going to the Georgia Line, a[cuts off] that he is well acquainted with John L Frasier ad knows him to be the son of Lieut John Frasier who served in the Georgia Line; and on the same day personally app. Joseph Bryant near neighbour to John L Frasier, and made oath on the holy evangelist  of Almighty God that the said John L Frasier is the son and Executer of Lieutenant John Frasier who served in the Georgia Line, to the best of their knowledge & belief; Sworn before Geo. T. Brown

State of Maryland Prince George County Sc
I hereby certify that George T Brown gentleman before who the above affidavit appears to have been made and where name is thereunto subscribed was on the day of the date thereof and still is one of the State of Maryland Justice of the Peace in and for Prince George County duly commissioned & sworn  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Prince George County County this 1st day of January 1834
Aquila Beall [illegible]
Prince George County Court
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SERVICE                                    NUMBER
Ga.          Frazier, John             W.24,241
              or Frazer. Mary         B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                       NUMBER
Ga            Frazier, John               W. 24,241
              or Frazer. Mary            B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                NUMBER
Ga.             Frazier, John         W. 24,241
                or Frazer. Mary        B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                              NUMBER
Ga.         Frazier, John          W. 24,241
            or Frazer. Mary        B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                               NUMBER
Ga.          Frazier, John         W.24,241
            or Frazer. Mary       B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                    NUMBER
Ga.         Frazier, John                W. 24,241
            or Frazer. Mary             B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                 NUMBER
Ga.           Frazier, John           W. 24,241
              or Frazer. Mary         B.L.Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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M
Orphans Court of Prince George's County
in the State of Maryland Let
Be it remembered that this 10th day of
December in the year of our Lord 1839 personally
appears Thomas Sheriff of said
County fifty five years, before
the Justices of the said Court in open Court
Thos Sherriff
Alexr 24 July 18
To A Coffin
To James Green
$4.50
Recd paymt James Green
the late on the day of the
in the year 1830 aforesaid, Jno. L Frazier
son of the said Mary Frazier called on this
deponent and informed him that his mother
Mary Frazia was dead, and that she
died about 3 oclk P. M. on that day-- &
requested this deponent to go to Alexander
& procure a coffin to be made for her and
deponent accordingly went to Alexander
the next day, that is on 24th of July in
1838, and procured a coffin for her from
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SERVICE                                         NUMBER
Ga.           Frazier, John                 W.24,241
              or Frazer. Mary              B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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Mr. James Green, and that the bill in
account which is hereunto lacked marked
is the account which was rendered by
Green for the said Coffin & that this
deponent saw the mortal remains of the
said Mary Frazier interred the
25th of July 1838.
and further this deponent saith not
Justices of the Orphans Court
Prince George County MD
Prescott Justices
Alex Keck
of the
Barnhellulkin
County
Maryland Prince George, County Set
J Philemen Register of William and for Prince
Georges County do hereby certify that the above deposition was made in Open Court and that Horatio Cefcott
Alexander Keech & Baruch Mulliken gentlemen before
whom the same was made were at the time of taking
the same and still are Justices of the Orphan Court of Prince Georges County duly commissioned & sworn In 
M Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name & affixed the seal of my office this to
December 1839
Phil Chew Reg Wills
of Prince
Head
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H615
Affidavits & Declarations in the case of Mary Frazier for Pension
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Male
State of Maryland, Prince Georges County personally appeared before the Subscribe
& justice of the peace in and for said
---
County Bazel Barnes and Elias Palmer
aged Citizens and persons well known to me and who I hereby
Certify two Witnesses of Credibility who being each duly cautioned and sworn saith that they were personally acquaint
with John Frazier of said County and reported to have been
an officer of the Georgia line of the Army of the Revolution and Mary his wife that they knew them
for several years before the death of the said John Frazier
which took place about nineteen years ago and have
known his widdow from that time untill the day of her
Death which took place on or about the 25th day of July last they
have even and at all times known them as husband and
wife and never at any time heard aught to the contrary
they having live and Died Husband and wife at the same
place or in the same neighbourhood and further
they say not -
Sworn to before me this
Thirteenth day of March 1837 Jenkins
Justice of the peace
State of Maryland  Prince Georges County Personally appeared before me the
. Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County Bazel
Hatten a Revolutionary soldier and Pensioner and
who I hereby certify to be a man of great wealth personal Respectability and integrity of Character who being duly sworn according to Law Saith that he
was well aquainted with John Frazier that he served in the State of
Georgia and was taken prisner at Savannah in the Hospital
that he was a Lieutenant in this Regiment, and their
Company of the Georgia in said Regiment was
commanded by Col. James Scribers- that this deponent
was not taken prisoner at the same time he being about
in a now gaally that he afterwards bore a dispatch
to Genl Howe that said Frazier left
Georgia Some 18 months before this deponent now
or what particular time he left the services he does
not now recollect that he has been well acqua
inted with both Frazier and his wife, that he was
the attendant of Frazier at the time of his marriage
with Mary Lanham that he has been acquainted with
them from that time untill the day of their death
the former of which took place about Eighteen or
Nineteen years ago and that her Frazier Heath took
place on or about the 25th of July last-- that both
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Frazier and wife have always lived within two or
three miles of this deponent from the time of their Marriage
untill that of both their death, that he has been will
and intimately acquainted with them both ever since
their marriage and always knew them as husband and
wife and never at any time heard or knew ought to
the contrary they having lived and Died both Husband
and wife at the same place and further he say not
Sworn to before me this thirteenth day of March
1839-
Richard Jenkins
Justice of the peace
State of Maryland Prince Georges County  John L. Frazier administration on the estate of my late Deceased Mother Mary
Frazier for the purpose of obtaining from the Pension
agent of the United States at Washington City the
amount of pension to which my late mother became
entitled to under an act of Congress of the 7th July
last do hereby testify and declare so far as serves within my own knowledge and belief to wit that my
late father John Frazier was a Lieutenant in the
Georgia Line of the army of the Revolution that he intermarried with Mary Danham my late Mother in
the said County probably fifty years ago and they resided
together as Husband and & wife in said County
from that time untill the day of both their deaths
the former about nineteen years ago and his said
mother on the Twenty third day of July last and
that therefore he as administrator aforesaid
on the estate of his said mother thus applies for the
amount of pension due her under the act of
Congress of the 7th of July last
Sworn and subscribed to the
foregoing declaration before me 
this Thirteenth day of March 1839
John J Frazer
administrator
Pack L Jenkin
Justice of the peace
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State of Maryland Prince Georges County 
I hereby certify that Richard L Jenkins gentleman before the aforegoing affadavits and depositions appear to have been made and whose name is thereunto subscribed was on the day of the date
thereof and still is one of the said State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for Prince Georges County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
On Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Prince Georges County court this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirty nine.
Aquila Beall Clk of Prince Geo. Coty Cot
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The Estate of Mary Frazier deed To J. T. Hoxton 1838 July 23d Visit Mrs Frazier $3.00 
Prince Georges County Personally appears before subscriber a justice of the peace for said County Dr J T exter and makes oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the above account as stated is just and true to the best of his knowledge and belief November 12th 1839 Henry Tolson 
Received the within account in full of Mr Jno L Frazier Nov 12th 1839 Maryland Prince Georges County Sct On Philemon Chew Register of Wills in and for Prince Georges County do hereby certify that the above is a true copy taken from the Original account filed in my office in the settlement of Mary Frazier Estate by Mo L Frazier her administrator In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 10 day of December 1839 Phil Chew Regg
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SERVICE                                  NUMBER
Ga.          Frazier, John             W.24,241
               or Frazer. Mary         B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                        NUMBER
Ga.            Frazier, John                W. 24,241
               or Frazer. Mary             B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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SERVICE                                NUMBER
Ga.                 Frazier, John      W. 24,241
                   or Frazer. Mary     B.L Wt 2015-200.

CONTENTS
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Maryland Prince Georges County to wit
At an Orphans Court of the State of Maryland
being a Court of record, begun and held at upper
Marlbro [Marlboro] Town in and for Prince Georges County aforesaid
Tuesday the [blank space] day of November in the year
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty
nine and of the Independence of the United States
America the sixty fourth-
Were Present
The Honble | Horatio C. Scott
Baruch Mullikin & | Esq Justices
Alexander Keech
Samuel Fowler Shffr
Aquila Beall Clk
In the records of the proceedings of the same Court
among others is the following viz.
Comes into Court William H. Files, Thomas
Sheriff and John T. Horton (witnesses whom the
Court Know to be persons of credibility, and as far
as they can learn disinteresed [disinterested]) and make oath on the
Holy Evangels of Almighty God that Mary Frazer Widdow
of John Frazier late of said County deceased departed
this life on the twenty third day of July 1838 and that
William John L. and Amelia or Milly Frazier were her
only children then living and who are yet living. Whereupon
the Court do order and it is hereby certified that Mary
Frazier Widdow of John Frazier late of said County
deceased departed this life on the twenty third day of
July Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight, and that William
John L. and Amelia or Milly Frazier then and now
living, were her only living children at the time of
her death - In Testimony that the above is a
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true copy taken from the Records of the orphans Court of said County.
I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 20th November 1839.
Phil Chew Reg. of Wills P. G. County,
[faint] see [illegible] Edwards letter of [illegible]
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Mrs Frazier
MF
def nov 22 39.
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State of Maryland Prince Georges County Set
At a County Court of the first Judicial District
of Maryland begun and held at Upper Marlbro
Town in and said County on the second Monday
in October being the fourteenth day of the same
month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty nine, and the sixty fourth
year of the Independence of the United States of America
Were Present.
The Honourable
John Stephen Esq Chief Judge
Edmund Key Esq Ass Judge
Samuel Fowler Esq Shff Aquila Beall Clk
In the Record proceedings of the same Court
among other things is the following to wit
"On motion of William H. Tuck Esquire an attorney
of the Court the family Bible of John Frazier late
of said County, was produced in open Court, in which
is recorded & registered the death of Mary Frazier
widdow of the said John Frazier on the twenty third
of July 1838. Also John L Frazier being duly
sworn in open court says that said Bible is his
late father's John Fraziers family Bible that he
has been dead now near nineteen years. that
his Mother Mary Frazier died on the day stated
in the record contained in the said bible that
the said Record was made out the time of her death
or before her burial. that there was living at
the time of her death, three children who are yet
living towit. William, John L. and Amelia
commonly called Milly and further saith
Also William Bryan being duly sworn in open
Court says that he is now fifty two years of age,
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that he has resided for the same number of
years in the immediate vicinity of the late
John Frazier reputed to have been a Revolutionary
Officer. that he has been dead eighteen
or twenty years or more, that his widow
Mary Frazier died in the month of July 1838.
the precise day he doth not know not being
related or connected with the family. that
he sat up one night with deceased and feels
well assured that it was at the time stated in
the record their family bible he says that there
were living at the time of her death three children
to wit William John L. and Amelia or Milly
who are yet living and further he saith not.
And the Court doth order this 30th day of October
1839. that it be certified that the said Mary
Frazier departed this life, on the twenty third
of July 1838 and that there were then living
William, John L. and Amelia or Milly, her
children who are yet living, and they certify
the said John L Frazier, and William Bryan
to be witnesses of credibility-
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State of Maryland Prince Georges County Set
I hereby Certify that the within and
aforegoing is truly taken and copied from
the Record and proceedings of Prince
Georges County Court
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the Seal of Prince
Georges County Court this
thirtieth day of October Anno
Domini 1839-
Aquila Beall Clk of
Prince Geo Coty Cot
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Washington City 31st of October 1839
Sir
Enclosed is the certificate of Prince Georgia County. Court agreeable to the letter of your requisition of the 18th [ineligible].
The parties are poor and needy and have been [ineligible] since Aug 1 1838 but until last March. Through another agent who it appears applied to [ineligible] instead of Pension department. Will you sir therefore oblige me and befriend them by deciding on this claim on care by as practicable. [ineligible] as it is for the amount due from 3rd of March 1836 to 23 of July 1838. Then it [ineligible] and also where
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Service Number
Ga.  Frazier, John W.24.241
Frazier, Mary B.L Wt 2015-200
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Washington City 21st of October 1839

Sir
     During the month of March last John L Frazier as admin on the estate of his late mother Mary Frazier the widow of John Frazier applied for the amount of pension due to his late mother at the time of her decease under the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838. Those papers were returned with a letter from you stating what further evidence or requirements were necessary to [illegible] their claim. This evidence was furnished. When again on the 8th October you wrote the following note "Sir. In the case of Mrs. Mary Frazier deceased widdow [sic] of John Frazier deceased under the Act of 7th of July 1838, the day of the [crossed out] claimants death and of her late husbands death should be certified by the court together with the names of the living children at the time of her death. The evidence on file is satisfactory of two years increase as a Lieutenant" Such [illegible] is a copy of that letter. And although there has been regulations from time to time published for government of those [illegible] their claims under the several pension laws, none of which laws ever required any certificate of court--as [illegible] to be made in [illegible] Court, [illegible] and except the declaration of the party applying and even in this case it is not required that the party shall make the declaration in the county in which he resides nor is any particular county named. Thus this evidence which you have admitted and recognized as sufficient [illegible] the rank and service of the officer--and which same evidence proves the marriage times of death and the names of the living children and which the magistrate has certified to be credible witnesses and which you have admitted as sufficient to prove the rank and service of the officer yet reject this same evidence to prove the death and names of the living children and require in your letter of the 8th Instant a certificate of court--this [illegible] has been duly furnished you, giving also the names of the witnesses, which the court have also certified to be satisfactory to them, and also the same witness which the majistrate in a previous affidavit on file with the papers pertaining to the claim has certified to be credible. This certificate of court furnishing everything [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] which you required in your letter of the ith Inst-. This [illegible] was done by the parties who are poor and needy and who have been now upwards of seven months endeavoring to get that which they believe themselves entitled to by law, as the first court held after the receipt of your letter of the 8th. These living have courts to which they could have suit and three of them before the court would sit in the county in which they lived, to wit Alexandria, Washington City and Port Tobias, two of which living nearer than
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than their own county and the others but little further) the opportunity of furnishing this certificate of court required by you. And in strict conformity to that requisition which now in your letter of the 10th is rejected and another and new requisition is made. This sir is surely so very hard and [illegible]. In the first place when the published regulations are [illegible] in then collecting testimony to substantiate claims and which testimony then you have admitted as satisfactory to prove the rank and service of the party in whose right the claim originated but reject this same evidence to prove where the party claiming the benefits died and who are her living children. And again when authenticated by an order of court in conformity to your requisition is again rejected. Sir I would not be troublesome or difficult, but surely applying the rule by your several requisitions I am disheartened and cannot feel any degree of confidence that if further documents are obtained that I shall be able to meet the requisition, having as I supposed previously met it to the letter. I must ask of you sir to do me the kindness to reexamine the claim and [illegible] if you remain unchanged in opinion, I must respectfully ask an appeal to the Secretary of War and have to request that you will do me the kindness to lay these papers together with your letters of 8th & 10th Instant and this letter of mine before the Secretary of War for his approval or reversal of your decision.
I remain sir
yours respectfully
Henry Northup
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James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington City 2nd August [crossed out] September 1839
J. L. Edwards [illegible] Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
The papers of the [illegible] as the presentation of Mrs. Mary Frazier deceased. The widdow of John Frazier deceased who was a Lieutenant of the Georgia [illegible] of the Army of the Revolution for the purpose of obtaining pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, are herewith returned, having endeavored so to correct them to meet the requisitions of your letter of the [number omitted] th of March last, which I hope will be found satisfactory. Should any further evidence be wanted I would respectfully refer you to the lists in the War Office [the writing here becomes faint] of [crossed out] where Lt. John Frazier is [illegible] as one of the officeers who acquired a right to County [illegible] and a warrant was obtained for the same in the fall of 1833 as early in 1834 the [illegible] on file will thus I believe give further evidence. And his being noted as entitled to bounty land surely shows him to have been in service to the end of the war as [illegible] became a [illegible] officer under some consolidation as to have been a prisoner in captivity an [illegible] were entitled to land (In the declaration of Congress of 16th of September 1776) only those who served to the end of the war or fell in battle but a [illegible]
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a prisoner of war surely became intitled to all the pay and instruments of an officer engaged in actual service and I expect that the act giving pensions in any case is constrained in the same way. I pray you sirs to have this case taken up as early as convenient and oblige sirs 
yours faithfully, 
Henry Northrup
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State of Maryland | Personally appeared
Prince Georges County |before me the sub
[illegible] a Justice of the
peace and for said County Bazel Hatton
Revolutionary soldier and pensioner and personally
known to me and who I hereby certify to
be a man of great truth and personal respectability
and integrity of character who being duly sworn according
to law saith some time in the month of March 1777 the
deponent enlisted at a place now called centerville in
the State of Virginia in the company commanded by
Capt John Jarrett of the third Georgia Regiment that the
same time and place John Frazier whom he
was then intimately acquainted with entered as an
Ensign in the same Company and Regiment
that they were marched with much expedition to
Georgia when Capt Jarrett was killed by the enemy
on a march from Augusta to Savannah late
in the spring or Summer of said year when the
said Ensign John Frazier became second Lieutenant
and served in that capacity untill captured
by the enemy in the hospital at Savannah
in 1778. The despondent escaping being on board this
legally. The Regiment was commanded by Col
Scriven [Screven] who was killed marc to Midway Church
during the war. he knows not whether the said
John Frazier had any commisions or not. but knows
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that he acted and was recognized as Ensign and Lieut in the manner and times before stated he knows not how long the said Lt John Frazier was kept in captivity, but says that as he understood was exchanged, and had returned home. he knows that when he deponent returned home after his service expired which enlistment had been for three years He said Lt. John Frazier had then reached home. and as he understood had been for some time and he says that he was present at the marriage of the said John Frazier and Mary Lanham being grooms waiter and was most intimately acquainted with Both of them from that day to the day of their death they were being near neighbours not more than one
two miles distant, the former died about eighteen or twenty years ago and the widdow about twelve or thirteen months ago also he will have as all their children to wit William, John L., Emily, and Mary deceased wife of James F Robinson [illegible] now [illegible] aged about 12 or 15 years of age named James G. there are
all now living there was one son named Geo
who died many years ago without having children and further he saith not
sworn and subscribed before me this Seventh day of August 1839
his
Basil Hatton
Mark
Richard Jenkins JP

This deponent being afflicted with the palsy, causes his inability to write his own name
R.L. Jenkins
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State of Maryland 
Prince Georges County
Personally appeared before me the subscriber & Justice of the peace in aforesaid County
Eliel Palmer and William Gallahan aged citizens
and persons well known to me and whom I hereby certify to be witnesses of credibility who being each duly sworn according to law saith that that they were will and personally acquainted with John Frazier and Mary his wife late of said County deceased. and they say that the said John Frazier was known and reputed to have been a Lieutenand of the Georgia line of the army of the Revolution and has
been dead 15 or 20 years. that his widdow [sic] Mary Frazier departed this life on the twenty third of July 1828 as they discover by a record in their family bible they deponents knowing the fact of her death but do not know the
particular day of the month. they allways knew them as husband and wife and cannot doubt the fact of their being such. They say that there is now living William John L and Emily Frazier children of said Deceased and James G. Robinson son of Mary Deceased a Daughter who intermaried with James F. Robinson and that those are the only children and heirs of the said
John Frazier and Mary his wife and further they
say not
Sworn and subscribed before me 
this Seventh day of August 1839
his
Eli B Palmer
mark
his
William Gallaher
mark

The above deponents, Eli Palmer and William Gallaher being illiterate and uneducated men renders them unable to 

and uneducated men, renders then
unable to sign their own names
Rich B Jenkins
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Maryland. Prince George's County [illegible]
I hereby certify that Richard L. Jenkins gentleman before whom the within affidavits appears to have been made was on the day of date thereof and still is a justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that the within signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Prince George's County Court this thirteenth day of August AD Eighteen hundred & thirty nine
Aquila Beall
Deposition of Bazel Hatton and Athens