Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 893, Hugh Black, Md.
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[3-1776]

SERVICE
Md.

Black, Hugh
or Blackwell
                     Sarah

NUMBER
R.893,

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

17,467
Ohio

Hugh Blackwell
alias Hugh Black
of Pike Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the [^4th Marland] regiment commanded by
by Colonel Hall of the Maryland
line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7th of July 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of June 1820
and sent Van Zandt & Rockwell
Washington

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 -- 159.48
Semi-anl. [semi-annual] all’ce [allowance] ending 4th Sep 1820 -- 48
$207.48
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Contd [Continued] 4 Sep 1820

[right side of page – let to W. Hunt Dec 9 
Same Dec 12, 1846
His – Jas. K. Black Aug 76 - 47
Same Jan 7 29 1850
Let same June 10 / 50]

[written sideways – Sent April 19th 1821 to Joseph Martin, Esq. Clk [Clerk] Pike Co. Court, Ohio -]
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7 cafes [calves ?]. 1356
John Thompson, judge
Piketon, Ohio.

Rec”d [received] 21st July 1818

Transmitted to the Auditor General of Maryland for further evidence
Admitted 14 Apr 1819
The name of Hugh Black does not appear on the Maryland Rolls but the name of Hugh Blackwell does & in the same [Illegible] is within named War This [Illegible] sometimes called Blackwell? Let [Illegible ink smear] satisfactory [Illegible] services [Illegible] be given. Enlisted in Maryland right about 1779 not 1776 and 3 years –
July 7 1818
[Illegible] Van Zandt & Rockwell
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State of Ohio Pike County SS Be it remembered that on the seventh day of July in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and eighteen [1818] and of the Independence of the United States of America the 43d [43rd] and of this State the 16th personally came before me the subscriber President of the Courts of Common Pleas of the second Circuit, who after being sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Hugh Black aged eighty-one years resident in the said County of Pike in the said State of Ohio who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United [States] in the revolutionary war”: That the said Hugh Black enlisted in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Burgess of the fourth Maryland Regiment; That he continued to serve in the said Corps, first for six months, and then enlisted again in the same, for three years and served the whole time out and according to the best of his recollection he entered the said service sometime in the year 1776 and served until sometime in the year 1779 or 1780 when he was discharged from service at Elk-Ridge State of Maryland. That he was in the battles of Guilford Court House [March 15, 1781] in the southern Army, Brandywine [September 11, 1777], German Town [Germantown, October 4, 1777] and Monmouth [June 28, 1778] in the Army commanded by Genl [General] Washington and was wounded by the bayonet in the thigh and arm and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in absolute need of the assistance of his Country for support: and that he has not, at this time, any other evidence now in his power of his said services which were in the Maryland line on Continental establishment in the revolutionary war between England and her Colonies of America; sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid 
At Piketon John Thompson 
Hugh [his x mark] Black
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State of Ohio SS
I, John Thompson president as within & named do certify that per examination within it appears that affiant served in [the] revolutionary war as a soldier, and on examination of him and [Illegible] neighbors it appears indubitably that applicant is poor destitute of property and debilitated in body, and on his own labour [labor] depends, which affords a very poor and contracted support and he much needs the assistance of the provision of the act of Congress entitled “act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States” of North American or revolutionary war” 
Att Piketon Pike County}
Second Circuit}
John Thompson 
July 7th 1818. 

State of Ohio Pike County SS
I Joseph J Martin, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do certify that John Thompson esquire before whom the within Deposition appears to have been taken and certified the same is President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Second Circuit of Ohio duly commissioned and qualified and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given unto his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereat. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittston this 7th day of July 1818 Joseph J Martin Clk [Clerk]
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Free

To the Secretary of War City of Washington 

Piketon O [Ohio] July 13
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Hugh Blackwell
(alias Black)
17,467
Septr [September] 1820

Joseph J. Martin, Esqr
Elk Pike Coy [County] Court, Ohio

[written sideways – Ohio 29[Illegible] Recd [Received] 20 Nov. 1820]

[written upside down - Free To His Honorable the Secretary of War City of Washington]
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State of Ohio}
Pike County} Pike Court of Common pleas of the Term of October 1820 
On this 13th day of October 1820 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for said County Hugh Blackwell aged eighty-two years, resident in the Beaver Township in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: He served as a Volunteer six months in the flying Camp so-called under Genl [General] Putnam, he then enlisted for the term of three years or during the War, sometime in the latter part 1776 or the beginning of 1777, in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Burgess in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hall in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental establishment – That he continued to serve in the said Corps untill [until] after the War, when he was honorably discharged from the said service at Elkridge in the State of Maryland. He was in the Battles [of] Germantown, of Brandywine, of Monmouth and of Guilford in which last Battle he was twice wounded once in the thigh with a Ball, and once in the arm with a Bayonet. He was also in many other Small Battles and Skirmishes. He has received a pension, the certificate of which was numbered 17467 – And he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power except his own Oath and declaration as aforesaid – And I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any other manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War” – passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have
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Have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed - 
One Cow worth about $11.00 
One old Bed “ “ [worth about] 4.00 
One Iron Pot “ “ [worth about] 1.00 
Four tin Cups “ “ [worth about] .25 
Two small plates “ “ [worth about] .50 
Four Iron Spoons “ “ [worth about] .20 
Hugh [his x mark] Blackwell

I am by occupation a farmer, but too old and decrepit to pursue any labour [labor]. I have no family but a wife named __ who is about my age and worn out with rheumatism. And I have no dependence for a Subsistence except upon the Charity of an only Son who is considerably in debt, – and has a family to Support. I must therefore depend upon the Charity of my Country. 
Hugh [his x mark] Blackwell

Sworn to and declared on the 13th day of October 1820 in open Court 
State of Ohio}
Pike County} SS I Joseph J. Martin Clerk of the Court of the Common pleas for said County of Pike do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid is Sixteen dollars and twenty five cents - 
 In Testimony whereof I have - hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 31st day of October Anno Domini 1820 And in the year of this State the 18th 
Joseph J. Martin Clerk
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April 23. 1857 
7.7 28
My Vouchers
in the matter of Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell revolutionary Soldier 
-Widow-

Return the answer of the voucher to James K. Black administrator to Poplar Bluff, Butler County Missouri
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State of Missouri}
County of Butter}SS
On this the Fourteenth day of Febuary [February] AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the County Court of Butler County aforesaid James K Black aged 29 years a resident of Butler in the State of Missouri who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision of the act made by the act of Congress passed July the 4th AD 1836. That - He is the administrator of the Estate of Mrs. Sarah Black or Blackwell who was the identicle identical] Widow of Hugh Black or Blackwell who was the identicle [identical] Hugh Black or Blackwell who was a pensioner of the Ohio Roll of the degree of Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and entitled to Eight Dollars per month as such soldier and that he has sattisfactory [satisfactory] evidence of the fact of their marriage having been on the 20th day of July A D one Thousand seven hundred and seventy nine that the said Hugh Black or Blackwell died on the Twenty seventh day of November AD 1835, the day of his death, and that Sarah Black or Blackwell did survive her said husband untill [until] the 13th day of March AD 1839 the day of her death [scratched out - in] and that she died his lawful Widow on the Thirteenth day of March AD 1839. as will more fully appear by the proof hereto and annexed.
James K. Black Admr [Administrator]

Sworn to and subscribed before me}
on the day and year above written}
before me Jacob C. Blount}
Clerk of the County Court of Butler}
County in the State of Missouri}
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State of Missouri}
County of Butler} SS. 
I Jacob C Blount Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Butler in the State of Missouri Do hereby certify, that sattisfactory [satisfactory] evidence, has been exhibited, to said County Court of Butler, [word scratched out] (and made of record) That Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell (late deceased), was the lawful wife of Hugh Black or Blackwell, and that he the said Hugh Black or Blackwell was the identicle [identical] Hugh Black or Blackwell that was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States of the Ohio Roll of the degree of Revolutionary soldier and that this identicle [identical] Sarah was his wife, and that they were legally married to each other, previous to the termination of the revolutionary [^ war] of the United States and that they lived together as husband and wife untill [until] the Twenty seventh day of November AD One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty five, the day of said Hugh Black or Blackwells’ death and that Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell his wife did survive her said husband from his death (To wit) 27th day of Nov. 1835, untill [until] the Thirteenth day of March AD One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty nine the day of her death (whereby she did become entitled her half pay as Revolutionary soldiers Widow from 27th day of Nov 1835 untill [until] 15th of March 1839) and that she died his lawful Widow and has children now living. Heirs of her as well as the said Hugh Black or Blackwell and that James K. Black has been appointed administrator of the Estate of the aforesaid Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell and has perfected his capacity as such administrator and is now qualified to receive any dues from the United States to said Sarah Black or Blackwell Note interlineations occurs in the above (to wit) (War) of (well), to be to the Black of the pensioners name the war to follow the revolutionary marked (No 3)

{In testimony Whereof I Jacob C. Blount Clerk of the 
{County Court within and for the County of Butler and State of 
{Missouri have hereunto set my hand and affixed 
{my private seal for said Court there being as yet no seal 
{provided for said Court or office done at –
{Poplar Bluff at said office this the eighteenth day of 
{February A.D. One Thousand eight hundred and fifty 
{one – 
{Jacob C. Blount 
{Clerk of the county court of Butler County, Missouri A
{Seal}
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Poplar Bluff Mo Feby [February] 20th 1857 
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir should the vouchers in the case of Sarah Black or Blackwell be sattisfactory [satisfactory] please to give the matter the proper termination to the 3rd Auditor & let the ammount [amount] due be forwarded to me at Poplar Bluff P.O. Butler Co Mo. I have had the Secretary of State to certify the genuiness [genuineness] of our Clks [Clerks] signature in this matter which is now in your office or ought to be Respectfully . 
Your obt [obedient] Servant
James K Black 
Administrator of the Estate 
of Sarah Blick &c 

[N. B.?] I sent a voucher on this subject last Winter to the Secretary of State to have a certificate from his office to be forwarded to your office & have not heard [scratched out [ of] from it since. And I want you to see if this Mrs Black or Blackwell is entitled half pay only or or whole amount for I cannot tell from your instructions set forth My opinion is that the vouchers I sent last winter are lost so I send another & if it has been received & not sattisfactory [satisfactory] let me know & I will Rite [write] 
Your obt sevt [obedient servant] James K. Black 
County in the State of Missouri}
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Auditor’s Office, Annapolis, May 10th, 1819 
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor’s Office, that Hugh Blackwell enlisted as a Private in the Fourth Maryland Regiment, on the Second day of April 1777 and [scratched out - was discharged on the] in May 1779 was not heard of. 
The applicant’s name may not be properly spelled on the Muster Roll T. K.
Thos. Karney 
Aud. S. M.

[written sideways – The applicant is the [ink smear] is called Hugh Black]
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Poplar Bluff, Mo Aug 11th 1851
J. E. Heath 
“ “ [J.E. Heath] Commission of Pensions 
Sir in transmitting to your Office another voucher in the case of Sarah Black or Blackwell; I will be constrained, to ask your pardon for sending such a volumious [voluminous] package & also to submisively [submissively] ask your candid discretion to overlook the informality of the Voucher for it is a Candid fact that [^ I saw] here is in its crude state so much so that unless a clerk or Sheriff feels an interest in your welfare you know not ask a [Illegible] no adds how obligitory [obligatory] on him hence the slowness of my present Voucher our Clerk being anti [Illegible] a so little party here, out of politicle [political] animasity [animosity] at me did refuse to make me a proper certificate I showed him your letter to me in ans [answer] to [the] 1st Voucher which stated that the declaration in it set fourth that Sarah Black was not married previous to the termination of his the said Hugh Black service in the said War. Let our proper Record on file in this County Court show that they were married previous to the termination of his service in said [^ war] you will see that own clk [Clerk] only put down the Records without consolidating the whole matter; a 50 cent fee together with an idea of prejudicing my claim was his motive. I appeal to your Honor for Justice hoping that my claim may be Judiciously considered I am so certion [certain] of its justness that I will even pray for the allowance & if rejected this time I will be under the necessity of putting in the hands of a Lawyer at your places the amount is most to [too] small to do so the please answer to Poplar Bluff Co Missouri 
Respectfully your obt [obedient] Servant
James K Black Adm [Administrator]
of S [Sarah] Black de”d [deceased]
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PS it [is] hard to get such business as this here done proper it has been a long time since I thought of this & Predecessor sent me rules & forms & the Acts to enable Mrs to obtain this allowance Your J.K.B
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letter To J. E. Heath Commissioner of pensions in the matter of Sarah Black or Blackwell
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Hugh Blackwell, alias Black, Ohio roll, act March 18 1878 [1818].

Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid. Ans: to his death – Nov. 27-`835.

Pension Office}
Jany [January] 26 1850}
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Cane Creek Mo [Missouri] 
31 July ‘49 
Jas. K. Black with receipt & ingy [inquiry] as to proof
Rec.d [received] 13 Aug. ‘49 
Ansd [answered] 13th --- 
Respy referred to the Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions 3d Auditor office
Aug 13th 1849
Wally M 
M. Randall

[written upside down – Cane Creek Mo Aug 31st 1849} 
Free
--Peter Hagner 3rd Auditor
{Washington City
Mail}]
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Cane Creek Mo Aug 1st 1849 
Peter Wagner

I herein send you the receipt for the pension. I would be glad to know of my Grand mother Mrs Sarah Black wife of said Hugh Blackwell. She was his wife during the Revolutionary War she died in March 1839 - thus Surviving him 4 years - provided she is entitled and therein please let me know it & I will send & procure proof of her death &c 
Your Obt Sert [Obedient Servant] 
James K Black
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Cane Creek Mo 25 Nov. ‘49 Jas K. Black pens’r [pensioner] Claim of Hugh Black's Widow 
Rec.d [Received] 18 Dec. ‘49
Ans.d [answered] 24th

Respy [Respectfully] referred to the Com.r [Commissioner] of Pensions 
3d Auditors Office 
Decr [December] 24th 1849 

Dec 31/49 Wilson W. Randall

[written sideways – Receipt – Commisr. [Commissioner] to Peter Hagner, 3d Auditor. Washington. D. C.]
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Received from Peter Hagner Two Hundred 25/100 Dollars the arrearages due from the US as arrearages of Sarah Blackwell or Black the wife of Hugh Black a Revolutionary Soldier of the Ohio Agency. As heirs of James Black & heirs of said Sarah Black 
Cane Creek Mo. Nov. 25th A. D. 1849 
{James K. Black 
{W. C. Black 
{Joseph K Black

P Hagner Audr. [Auditor] I have made out my Grand Mother’s vouchers. You will recollect that I sent you the papers of Hugh Black last July. I sent [^ to] the Commissioner & got some instructions which I enclose. I also send a receipt provided it may be required. My Brothers told me to do so provided it was necessary. I have done the best I can & will get the Clerk to sign it – & if there is any chance I [? want it for] I have no chance to get a Lawyer that is worth a dime hear [here] to aid me. Should it be proper please Direct the Arrearages to me at Cane Creek Butler Co. [County] Mo. [Missouri] or else instructions. I would have done this in the Circuit but I am the clerk of that court myself. Your obt servt [Obedient Servant] 
James K Black
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Voucher Pension
Sarah Black or =well
a Revolutionary Soldiers
Widow

Answer to James K. Black Adm. [Administrator] Butler County Mo [Missouri]
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State of Missouri}
County of Butler} SS 
On this the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty one; Personally appeared before the Clerk of the County of Butler County and State aforesaid James K Black (Admistrator [Administrator[ of the Estate of Sarah Black or Blackwell Deceased). A resident of the County of Butler in the State of Missouri Aged 30 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 act of Congress, passed July the fourth in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty six; That he is the admistrator [administrator] of Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell who was the identicle [identical] Widow of Hugh Black or Blackwell who was a revolutionary soldier and such a pensioner of the Ohio Agency up to September the 4th 1834 and a soldier of the revolution at 8 Dollars per month
He further declares that she was married to the said Hugh Black on Blackwell that she the said Sarah Black or Blackwell was married to said Hugh Black or Blackwell on or about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or eight as appears to me by tradition as well as record that the said Hugh and Sarah Black or Blackwell have children now living Towit W. C. Black or Blackwell resident in Van Buren County Arkansas State and Mrs Lucy Ann Hill of this place Butter County Missorie [Missouri]; That her said husband the aforesaid Hugh Black or Blackwell died on the 27th day of November A.D. 1835- Eighteen hundred Thirty five; that she has remained his widow untill [until] the thirteenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine the day of her death as will appear more fully by reference to the proof hereto annexed 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year above written, before Jacob C Blount Clerk of the County Court of Butler County
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State of Missouri} SS 
County of Butler}
At the Butler County Court February term and Twelfth day of the [delete the] month Wednesday the 3d [3rd] day of the term in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty one To wit)
Amongst others [ink smear] the following proceedings Estate of Sarah Black or Blackwell, [words scratched out] --- Widow of Hugh Black or Blackwell deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier --- Now at this time comes the administrator of the Estate of the above named Sarah Black or Blackwell and on his motion this case is submitted to the Court who after hearing the proofs offered herein doth consider that sattisfactory [satisfactory] Evidence has exhibited to this Court that the above named Sarah Black or Blackwell was lawful wife of Hugh Black or Blackwell who was a revolutionary soldier of the United States and as such a pensioner of the Ohio Roll. That the said Sarah and Hugh Black or Blackwell were married [words scratched out] prior to [^ the termination of his the] expiration of said Hugh [^ Black or] Blackwell’s service in said War between the U. & Great Brition [Brittain] and that she survived her said husband from the Twenty seventh day of November AD 1835 the day of his death untill [until] the thirteenth [crossed out – day] of March AD 1839 the day of her death and that she left two children living [words scratched out] at her death as heirs of her Estate and that she was the lawful [wife crossed out] widow of the said Hugh Black or Blackwell 
And that James K. Black of Butler County [^ Missouri] has been appointed her [^Sarah Black or] administrator and as such administrator of Sarah Black or Blackwell has filed his Capacity as such Administrator; and that said pensions has children now 
Towit, Wm C. Black of Vanburen [Van Buren] Arkansas & Lucy Hill of this County;

State of Missouri}SS 
County of Butler} 
I Jacob C Blount Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Butler and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of Records now in force in the Clerks office in and for Butler County aforesaid 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and of affixed the seal of said office Done at office in Poplar Bluff in said County this the 4th day of August AD 1857 
Jacob C Blount Clerk
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State of Missouri} 
County of Butler} At the February term of Butler County Court and Wednesday 3rd day of the term and 12th of the month A.D. 1857 amongst others are the following proceedings to wit 
Estate of Sarah Black deceased of}
Order of that James K. Black be appointed administrator of said estate and that he enter into bond in the sum of three hundred dollars A. True copy of the order
in Testimony whereof I Jacob C Blount Clerk of said County Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 4th day of August A.D. 1857 
Jacob C. Blount Clerk
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Poplar Bluff Mo April 10th 1857 
To the Commisoner [Commissioner] of Pensions 
Sir Why is it that I have not been inform [informed] of the decision of the matter of Sarah Black Revolutionary Soldiers Widow which vouchers I had the Secretary of the State of Mo. added to for to make good our Clks [Clerks] Seal and also I had a voucher made up of the Clerks individual seal & Signature and transmitted to you some 8 weeks ago. I have went [^ to] an expense near as large as the claim to Establish it in the Co [County] Court of this County and do both & merit the arrears due her I am the Lawful administrator of her Estate & as such will contend for the claim 
Respectfully your Obt Sevt [Obedient Servant]
James K. Black 
Poplar Bluff, Mo,
Butler Co [County] Mo [Missouri], 

P.S. I suspicion the P.M. [suspect the Post Master] at Cane Creek our former PO of detaining my voucher & also 5 Bounty land clames [claims] not yet heard of J. K. B.
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Commissioner of Pensions
letter in the
matter
of Sarah Blacks
Pension
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Pension Office 
August 16. 1847 
Sir
In reply to your enquiry in the case of your Grandmother Mrs. Sarah Black widow of Hugh Black of Ohio, act 1818 I cannot inform you whether she was entitled to a pension at the time of her death in March 1839 unless it shall first be made known to this office at what time she was married. If she was married before the termination of her husbands service and there is a child or children now surviving her they would be entitled to what would be due from her husbands death to the period of her death.
I am respectfully
Your Obt. [Obedient] Servant
J L Edwards

Mr James K Black
Cane Creek
Missouri
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Treasury Department 
Third Auditor's office. 
July 11 1849 - 
Sir 
The treasurer will remit to you, as administrator of 
Hugh Blackwell or Black formerly a pensioner, per Act March 18 - 1818, on the Ohio roll - $118-40 (his pension from Sept 4 1834 to Nov. 27 1835, at $8. per month): for which, when received, please forward you receipt to this office 
Respectfully,
Yr. obed’t serv’t [Your Obedient Servant]
Peter Hagner Audr [Auditor]
P.S. The accompanying paper is returned as desired 
Mr James E. Black 
Cane Creek P.O. 
Butler Co- Mo. [Missouri]
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Washington City Dec 8, 1846 

Sir,
Will you oblige me by informing me whether a certificate was awarded to Hugh Black, a Revolutionary Soldier once a resident of Pike County Ohio, and if so, the particulars On behalf of the heirs of said Black I make this application 

Respectfully 
Yor Obt st [Your Obedient Servant]
William Hunt 
Attorney at Law

Hon J L Edwards
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Washington City Dec 11, 1846

Sir

Your polite note informing me that Hugh Blackwell, alias Black, was pensioned under the Act of 1818, was received.
You state that ‘before you can give further particulars, you must know the object.” Only object is to ascertain, on the part of the heir, who has authorized me so to do, up to what period the pension was paid; as, he states, that his father neglected to draw his pension for some years previous to his death.
Perhaps I ought to apologize for omitting to stat this in my former letter.

I am respectfully,

Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
William Hunt

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Stamped] - REJECTED

___ Ex’r.      INVALID

Sarah Black or Blackwell

P. O. widow of Hugh

Service: _________

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18

Application filed: _____ ,18

Alleges: ______
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Cane Creek Mo Jany [month January] 18th 1850 
To the Pension agent 
Dear Sir 
I have Reced [received] a letter from Jno S. Gallaher 3d [3rd] Auditor to whoom [whom] I had sent  Vouches [Vouchers] - I inclose [enclose] with this to you Vourches [Vouchers] on the subject to which I note you last Aug [August] I will inclose [enclose] the previous letters on the subject of Mrs Sarah Black pension who was the wife of Hugh Black or Blackwell of the US Revolution 
I have obtained from the Clerk a certificate to show the Organization of A New County. I am sattisfied [satisfied] that there is due me as Admr [Administrator] 4 pr month from Nov 27th 1835 to 13th March 1839. and I have but poor way of getting [delete at] hear [here] as their [there] are no Lauyers [Lawyers] hear [here] to aid me. So do for me as well as the Nature of the case will admit
Your Obt [Obedient] Servant
James K. Black

PS the money is due my Father}
Mrs Sarah Black is my}
Grand Mother - James Black is my Father
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Hugh Blackwell, alias Black, Ohio roll, act 18 March 1818, at $8 per month 
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid 
Pension Office}
2 Dec 12,1846.} Paid to 4th Sept. 1834. 
B. L. B
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7728
Sarah Black or Blackwell
wid of Hugh
Pensioner

[Illegible] 2
to J. K. Mach, - Jany 9 / 51

J[Illegible] 4 1836   893
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State of Missouri}
County of Butler} SS I Jacob C Blount Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Butler and State aforesaid do hereby certify that sattisfactory [satisfactory] evidence has been exhibited to the County Court of Butler County aforesaid and made of Record that Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell (late deceased) was the lawful wife of Hugh Black or Blackwell, who was the sd [said] enticle [entitled] person who was a pensioner of the Ohio Roll of the degree of Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and that [crossed out – they] she was lawfully married to the aforesaid Hugh Black or Blackwell in the State of Maryland Previous to the termination of the revolutionary War of America or the United States, that they continued to live together as man & wife untill [until] the Twenty seventh day of November AD One thousan [thousand] Eight hundred and Thirty five the day of his death untill [until] the Thirteenth day of March AD one thousand Eight hundred [^and] Thirty nine the day of her death and that she died his lawful Widow and that they have now living lawful Heirs, to wit: William C Black of Van Buren Arkansas and Mrs Lucy Hill of this state (that above date of her death is intended to be March AD 1835 this is done to prevent an objection to the Blotch of the date of her death &c.
And further that James K. Black of the County of Butler has been appointed administrator of the Estate of the above Widow Sarah Black or Blackwell and has perfected his capacity in that respect, and is fully empowered as an administrator to receive from the United States all dues to said Sarah Black or Blackwell deceased and further that she the said Sarah Black or Blackwell is entitled to her half pay from 27th day of Nov 1835 untill [until] the 15th of March 1839
{In testimony whereof I Jacob C Blount Clerk of 
{County Court within and for the County of Butler in the state 
{of Missouri have hereunto set my hand and affixed my 
{private seal there being no public seal provided for this 
{office as get Done at office at Poplar Bluff in said County 
this eighteenth day of February AD one thousand Eight hundred and fifty one – 
Jacob C. Blount Clerk

{Seal}
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State of Missouri}
County of Missouri} SS. 
On this Fourteenth day of Febuary [February] one Thousand Eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the undersigned Clerk of the Court of Butler County and State aforesaid James K Black a resident of the County of Butler and State aforesaid Missouri Aged 29 years Twenty nine years who being [scratched out duly sworn] first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 4 fourth A.D. 1836. that he is the Administrator of the Estate of Mrs Sarah Black or Blackwell, who was the identical [identical] Widow of Hugh Black or Blackwell who was the identicle [identical] Hugh Black or Blackwell that was a pensioner of the Ohio Roll of the degree of Revolutionary Soldier He further states facts occuring [occurring] to [^ bind him] that she the said Sarah was married to the said Hugh Black or Blackwell on or about the month of July Seventeen hundred [delete hundred] and Seventy Eight - that her husband the said Hugh Black or Black [well] above mentioned, died on the Twenty seventh day of November one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty five and that she remained his Widow untill [until] the Thirteenth day of March A D one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty nine, the day of her death as will more fully appears by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
James K. Black Adm.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above Written Before Me --- - Jacob C Blount Clerk of Buther County 

[written sideways – Voucher of S. Black this was the declaration 1st intended to be sent but the mistake we sent another. By reference to the declaration in this that it was 1778 that Mrs. Blackwell was married & in consequence of this mistake I got this one sold. It was before the expiration of Hugh Blacks service that were married for it was proven here that she went through the country with him as a Washerwoman. J. K. Black]
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State of Ohio Pike County SS. Be it Remembered that on the day of [left blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the 44th and of this State the 17th personally came before me the subscriber President of the Court of Common Pleas of the second Circuit, who after being sworn on the Holy evangelist of Almighty God Hugh Blackwell aged eighty one years resident in the County of Pike in the said State of Ohio, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War.” that the said Hugh Blackwell enlisted in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Burgess of the fourth Maryland regiment. That he continued to serve in said Corps first for six months, and then enlisted again in the same for three years and served the whole time out and according to the best of his recollection, he entered the said service some time in the year 1776 and served until some time in the year 1779 or 1780 when he was discharged from service at Elk Ridge State of Maryland. That he was in the Battles of Guilford Court House in the Southern Army, Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth in the Army Commanded by Genl [General] Washington and was wounded by the Bayonette [Bayonet] in the thigh and Arm and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in absolute need of the assistance of his Country for support, and
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that he has not at this time, any other evidence now in his power of his said services which were in the Maryland line on Continental establishment in the revolutionary War between England and her Colonies of America; Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid 
John Thompson
Hugh [his x mark] Blackwell

I certify that the above Blackwell is the same for whom I certified some time since at Piketon Pike County, Ohio in the name of Hugh Black, and he says called sometimes Black, and Blackwell and this declaration is made in addition to former declaration accompanying this to be handed Col. [Brush?] our member, or Congress, to be carried by him in his writing & application 
John Thompson 
Chillicothe 17th 1814 

The State of Ohio}
Ross County}
I Humphrey Fullerton Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid Certify that John Thompson esquire whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit & certificate is President Judge of the Court of Common pleas for the second Circuit including the County of Ross and that the signature of the said John Thompson is in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Chillicothe this 17th day of September 1879 
Humphrey Fullerton
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[left side - Hugh Blackwell, 
alias 
Hugh Black]

[right side - Hugh Blackwell, late a soldier in the Rev. War of the Maryland line claim for pension 
Van Zandt, Rockwell agt [Agent]
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[right side - The --- Matter of Sarah Black Revolutionary Soldiers Widow 
Vouchers]

[left side – sideways – This the day of November}
-----AD 1849}
Thomas Scott, Clk [Clerk]
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State of Missouri}
County of Butler} SS 
I, Thomas Scott Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Butler do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Mrs Sarah Blackwell or Black deceased, was entitled to a pension at the time of her death and that she was the lawful wife of the late Hugh Blackwell whose arrearage was established in this Court heretofore and that they the said Hugh Black & Sarah was married previous to the termination of the revolutionary War. And that she is the identicle [identical] Sarah Blackwell or Black who was the only lawful wife of the said Hugh Black formerly a pensioner of the Ohio Roll. And that [^ she] did survive her said Husband from the 27th day of November AD 1835 the day of his death untill [until] the 15th day of March AD 1839 the day of her death.

And that she the said Sarah died and left one Heir only the late James Black who is now dead and that he left three heirs that are now living (To wit) James Kelly Black, W. C. Black & Joseph A. Black of Butler County Missouri –

And further satisfactory testimony is adduced to the Court that the said Sarah Blackwell was a Revolutionary Soldiers widow - and as such [^ was] entitled to the sum of four dollars per month from 27th day of November 1835 to the 15th of March 1839 the day of her death and that the said [delete – said] James Black was her only heir who died June 19th 1845 and appointed his son James K Black now of the late County of Butler formerly Wayne his Executor as appears to me by a transcript of the Docket or Records of the late County of Wayne Mo [Missouri]-  who also this Court appoints administrator of the said Estate to receive the arrearages of the said pension due the said Sarah Black deceased. 

{In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 
{the seal of said Court. (Towit) the substituted 
{[L. S.?] there being no seal, for this County 
{Done at Cane Creek Butler County Missouri 
{this the 25th day of November AD 1849 
{Thomas Scott Clk [Clerk]
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I James K. Black of the County of Butler in the State of Missouri make oath and state that Sarah Blackwell or Black was the identicle [identical] person who was entitled to a pension as the lawful wife of Hugh Black who was a pensioner of the Ohio Roll and that she is now dead and that she died at French Grant on the Ohio River on the 13th of March AD 1839 - and left only one surviving Heir (To wit) James Black, who died June 1845 & that he left only 3 Heirs who survive at this time or at the time of his death 
James K. Black
Sworn to and subscribed to before me.}
Thomas Scott Clerk of the County}
Court of Butter County, Missouri}
This the [blank] the day of November}
--AD 1849 ---}
Thomas Scott Clk. 

[written sideways – The Matter of Sarah Black Revolutionary Soldiers Widow =
Vouchers]
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State of Missouri}SS
County of Butler}
I, Thomas Scott Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that Sarah Blackwell or Black deceased was the lawful wife of Hugh Blackwell or Black deceased who was a pensioner of the Ohio Roll of the degree of Revolutionary Soldier and that she was [ink smear] to her husband Hugh aforesaid previous to the termination of the said Revolutionary War of the U.S. And is Entitled to the sum of [ink smear] dollars per month as the lawful Widow of Hugh Blackwell aforesaid from 27th day of November AD 1835 to March 13th 1839. the 27th of Novr [November] being the day of his death & 13th of March 1839 the day of her death, and that James Black Arthur Black & William C. Black are the only surviving children of the said Sarah & Hugh Blackwell aforesaid and that they are the legal Heirs at Law as the Sons of Hugh & Sarah aforesaid & that James K. Black has been appointed the Admistrator [Administrator] to receive from the Government the arrearage due said heirs of said Sarah Blackwell or Black aforesaid
S.S. {In testimony whereof I Thomas Scott 
{Clerk of the County Court aforesaid have hereunto set 
{my hand and affixed the private, S.S. for the seal 
{of said Court the Court having no seal as yet 
{Done at Cane Creek in the A. 1850
Thomas Scott Clk [Clerk]
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I James K. Black of the County of Butler in the [delete – the] State of Missouri make oath & state that Sarah Blackwell or Black was the only & Lawful Wife of Hugh Blackwell or Black & that the they were married previous to the termination of the Revolutionary War And that she is identicle [identical] Sarah Black whose pension is now demanded as the lawful wife of Hugh Black who was a pensioner of the Ohio Agency. & that he Hugh Black died at Danvill [Danville] Indiania [Indiana] November 27th 1835, and that his wife Sarah died at Hanging Rock Ohio March 13th 1839 
Sworn to and subscribed to}
before me this 18th day of Jany [January] 1850} 
James K. Black 
Thomas Scott, Clk [Clerk]
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Vouchers
in the matter
Sarah Black