Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2157, for Laurence Hurdle, Maryland
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE 
Md.
CONTENTS 

Hurdle, Lawrence 
or Hurdell, Lawrence 
or Nancy 
NUMBER 
W2157 
B.L. Mt. 1-60-55
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Too dark to read top half

Maryland Line

War man in Maryland Con Line under Capt. Jno C Jones & Col Jno Gunby & rec'd 100 acres of land

Admit for 60 acres
Apr 25, 1855
Boynton
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From
Maryland Roll.
to Dist of Columbia
No 1.292
Lawrence Hurdle
Private 4
Maryland Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 30 of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818,
and delivered to the Pensioner
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
2 months 5/30
$17.33
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818 }
There years of
Continental War
War
Montgomery
File

Notification 
Del (illegible)
23 Nov 1820

Fram of from Md to
D Columbia 1 March
1832 to take effect
from 4 Sept 1831
The first not not dated (illegible)
a correct one made out & del to the pension
agent.
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582
District Columbia 

Nancy Hurdle 
widow of Lawrence Hurdle 
who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a Private 
Md Line 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
96 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 1st day of Decem. 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 
8th day of June 1850 
and sent to 
Col. J. G. Berret 
Present 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29 1848, Page 124 Vol. 1
Book [page torn]

1855 
March 7 Transfer from Richmond to [?] fro[m]
to Septem 1850
note to Pens to present
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L. Hurdle
Con
1292
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St of Maryland Montgomery County to wit 
On this 17 day of November 1820 personally appeared in open 
Court being a Court of record for Montgomery County in 
the said state and so Constituted by the laws of said 
State Lawrence Hurdle aged sixty two years resident in 
Montgomery County and State of Maryland who being 
first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare 
that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows 
that he enlisted in Rockville in Montgomery County in 
the State of Maryland in the company commanded by 
John Courts Jones in the 7 Maryland Regiment commanded 
by Colonel John Gunby of the Maryland line that he was 
in the battle of Camden and the Harlem Heights that 
he continued to serve in said Corps or in the service of the 
United States untill after the taking of Lord Cornwallis that 
he was discharged in Annapolis in the State of Maryland 
in 1782. That he has no settled occupation that is seldom able 
to work from his infirmities that when he is able he hires 
himself whenever he can get any thing to do that he has a 
Wife named Nancy aged forty eight years and five children 
two daughters one aged Twelve years the other one aged eight years and three sons one ten 
years old one five years old and the other three years old which 
compose his family that he has received a pension under the 
act of congress passed the 18th of March 1818 and the certificate 
is No 1292 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
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Citizen of the United States on the 18 March 1818 and that 
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any 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 not nor has any person in trust for 
me any property or securities contracts or debt due to me nor 
have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
Schedule of my property two cows and calf three hogs Seven old chairs and one old table This property valued by the Court at forty Dollars 
Lawrence Hurdell 

State of Maryland Montgomery County Nov Term 1820 
17th Then came Lawrence Hurdle in open Court and Swore the aforegoing is a true and perfect schedule of all his property 
Test Upton Beall Clk 
Montgomery County Court 

In Testimony that the foregoing is truly taken and Copied from the Original filed in my Office for record this day I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office this 17th day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty 
Upton Beale Ck
Montg Coty Ct [Montgomery County Court]
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Lawrence Hurdle's 
Certifate [certificate] for Pension
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This is to Certify that Lawrence Hurdle 
of Montgomery County and State of Maryland 
Served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War 
and received a wound, while under my Command 
in the Action at Camden in South Carolina 
on the 16th day of August 1780 and I believe Continued in service to the End of the War 

Given under my hand this 30th 
day of June 1818
Richd. Anderson, late Capt in 
the Md. Line 

State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct 
On this 30th day of June 1818 appeared the above 
Named Richard Anderson before me the subscribe[r] [?]
of the State of Maryland, Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and made Oath on holy Evangely of Allmighty God that the facts stated in the above Certificate are true to the best of his knowledge 
Sworn before  
Brice Selby
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State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct.
I hereby Certify that Brice Selby 
Gentleman before whom the aforego 
affidavit appears to have been taken and 
who has subscribed his name thereto was 
at the time of subscribing the same 
and still is a Justice of the peace for Montgomery County duly commission and Sworn.
In Testimony whereof 
I have hereunto subscribed 
name and affixed the 
of my office this 21st day 
of July Anno Domini Eighteen 
hundred & Eighteen 

Upton Beale Clk of 
Montgy County Court
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State of Maryland Montg County S.S.
On this 21st July 1818 Before me the Subscriber  
associate Judge of the third Judicial District of Maryland 
personally appears Laurence Hurdel aged sixty years resident 
in Montg County in the said District 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 he the said Laurence Hurdel enlisted in Montg 
County in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Capt John Courts Jones of Colo Gunby's 
Regt [regiment] of the Maryland line. That he continued to serve 
in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States Until 
the end of the War when he was discharged from service 
in Annapolis in the State of Maryland that he was in 
the battle of Camden and that he is in reduced circumstances in life and he is in need of the assistance of his country for 
support and that he has no other evidence now in his power 
of his said Services except for the annexed certificate 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
Chs J. Kilgour
I Charles J. Kilgour Judge &c as aforesaid do certify, that 
it appears to my satisfaction that the said Laurence Hurdel, 
did serve in the Revolutionary War, and is 
in indigent circumstances in life and needs the bounty of his Country for support as stated 
in the preceding declaration that he 
did serve against the common enemy 
untill [until] the end of the war on the continental establishment
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And I now transmit the proceedings 
and testimony taken and had before me 
to the Secretary for the Department of 
War pursuant to the directions of the 
aforementioned act of Congress 
Chs J. Kilgour 

State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct 
I hereby Certify that Charles J Kilgour Esq. 
before whom the aforegoing affidavit 
appears to have been made, & has subscribed of his name thereto was at the time of subscribing 
the same and still is one of the associate Judges of the third Judicial District of Maryland composed of the Counties of Montgomery Anne Arundle & Calvert, duly commissioned & Sworn 
In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto Subscribed my name 
and affixed the public seal of 
my office the 21st day of July Anno 
Domini Eighteen hundred and 
Eighteen 
Upton Beale Clk of 
Montgy. [Montgomery] County Court
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515
Nancy Hurdle,
Widow of Lawrence 
Va.

29 July 1848

Let to
Levi Hurdle
Alexandria, Va,
Sept 8/49
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Virginia Alexandria County, to wit 
I, Benjamin H. Berry, Clerk of Alexandria County Court, in the State aforesaid, hereby certify, that before said Court, 
on the 30th day of August, 1849, Nancy Hurdle personally appeared 
a resident of said County, aged seventy seven years, who being duly 
sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration 
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the 
Act of Congress passed July twenty-ninth day, in the year 
eighteen hundred and forty eight; that she is the widow of 
Lawrence Hurdle, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, 
who is inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the Maryland Agency, 
at the rate of eight dollars per month. She further declares that 
she was married to the said Lawrence Hurdle on the 20th day of October, between the year 1790 and 1793 inclusive, that her husband the aforesaid Lawrence Hurdle died on the first day of December, 1848; that she was not married to him prior to his 
leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 
second of January, eighteen hundred, viz: at the time above stated. 
She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and annex the seal of my said office, this 4th day of September, 1849, and in the 73d year of the Commonwealth 
B. H. Berry, Clerk of 
Alexa. County Court
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1654
Nancy Hurdle 
Widow of 
Lawrence Hurdle 
Private 
in the Maryland Line 
Revolutionary war
Act March 3. 1855[?]

Presented by 
F. L. Brockett 
Alexandria
Virga.
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State of Virginia 
Alexandria County } towit. 

On this 15th day of March 1855 
personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace 
within & for the County & State aforesaid 
Nancy Hurdle aged 83 years a resident of Alexandria, Virginia, who 
being duly sworn according to law, declared that she 
is the widow of Lawrence Hurdle deceased who 
was a Private in the Maryland Line, Revolutionary 
War, for which service she is now, receiving a Pension 
under the act of 29th July 1848 at the rate of 
Eight Dollars per month, and to the papers in which case she referrees for the particulars of her said husbands service, 

She further states that she was married 
to the said Lawrence Hurdle in George Town, DC. 
on the 20th of October between the years 1790 & 1793 
by the Rev Mr Baltz a Presbyterian Clergyman 
and that her name before her said marriage was 
Nancy Wheeler & that her said husband died 
at Alexandria, Virga. on the 1st day of December 
1848, (all which will more fully appear by reference 
to her said Pension papers) & that she is now a widow, 

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be 
entitled under the act of March 3, 1855[?] she not 
having received a warrant under any act heretofore passed 
Nancy Hurdle her X mark

We Levi Hurdle and Lydia B. Hurdle 
residents of Alexandria, Virga. upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed 
& acknowledged by Mrs Nancy Hurdle in our 
presence, & that we believe from the appearance
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& statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be Levi Hurdle 
Lydia B Hurdle 

The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to 
& Subscribed before me on the day & year above written, 
& I certify that I know the affiants to be credible 
persons, that the claimant is the person she 
represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim, 
Robt Hunter. J P

Virginia, AlexandriaCounty, to wit: 
I Benjamin H. Berry Clerk of the 
County Court of Alexandria County do certify that 
Robt. Hunter before whom the foregoing 
declaration and affidavit were made is now, and 
was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace 
duly commissioned and qualified in & for the County 
aforesaid, and that his signature thereto is genuine 

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe 
my name and annex the seal of 
said Court this 15th day of March 
1855 and in the 79th year of the Commonwealth.

B.H. Berry Clerk 
Alexandria County Court
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District of Columbia 
County of Washington   Ss
Personally appeared before 
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said 
County, Noble Hurdle of said District aged sixty seven 
years - a disinterested and reputable witness and 
being duly sworn according to law, doth declare and say, that he was well acquainted with 
Lawrence Hurdle, deceased, who had served as a soldier in 
the Maryland Line of the Revolutionary War 
that he is well acquainted with Nancy Hurdle widow of the aforesaid Lawrence Hurdle decd [deceased] who 
now resides in the City of Alexandria State of Virginia, 
that he was acquainted with the above named Lawrence and Nancy, that some time in the fall of 1792 or 1793 Lawrence Hurdle and Nancy Wheeler daughter of Leonard Wheeler (all of Montgomery County 
State of Maryland at that time), were married at 
Georgetown, which marriage ceremony was administered by, and at the house of the Reverend 
M Baultz of said Georgetown that after the 
Marriage ceremony was performed the parties adjourned to the House of the Uncle of this 
deponent whose name was Leonard Hurdle who resided in what is now called Capitol Hill 
where the marriage feast or cellebration [celebration] was 
had at this feast the deponent being one of 
the party he learned the facts of the marriage 
of Lawrence Hurdle and Nancy Wheeler, who were received and treated at the House of 
his Uncle as man & wife of the fact there 
was not a question of doubt that from the 
said fall of 1792 or 1793, up to the first day of December 1848 the said Lawrence and Nancy lived togeather [together] as man & wife never having heard
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heard a doubt expressed on the subject nor does 
this deponent believe that such doubt ever did 
exist during this period between the marriage 
and death of Lawrence Hurdle Nancy his wife became the mother of twelve children 
all of whom died before their father except 
three to wit, Levi, Thomas and Ann Hurdle. Deponent further declares that he has no interest 
in the issue of the application of the Widow for a continuation to said widow of the Pension he has heard was granted her husband Lawrence 
in his life time except that of doing justice to 
the memory of the parties and asserts his firm 
belief that Lawrence and Nancy Hurdle became man and wife as before stated and he as firmly believes that it was the universal belief of the community in which the parties lived & were known 
that Lawrence Hurdle and Nancy Wheeler 
were married and as man and wife cohabited as he believes any fact in history or otherwise 
Noble Hurdle 
Sworn before me and subscribed 
this 5th day of October 1849  
J. H. Goddard J. Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Hurdle Lawrence GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 11361
and B. L. Wn.. 1.60-55
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED February 1, 1790
to- not shown--

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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Rev War
WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 2157 
Nancy Hurdle, 
Widow 
Lawrence Hurdle 
Pri Rev War 

Act July 29, 1848. 
Index: -- Vol. Page 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nancy Hurdle 
Act 29 July 1848 
Let [letter] to Levi Hurdle, Sept 8, 1849 
“” [letter to] A M Farquhar Mo Nov 2 [?]
Let. to A.M. Farguhar Nov 5th [?]
Let. To same, Nov. 7th/49
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60 acres
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Nov 12/(illegible)
Nancy Hurdle
of VA
29 Jun 48-582
W Alls
Admit

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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1654 
Nancy Hurdle 
widow of 
Lawrence Hurdle 
Private 
Maryland Line 
Revolutionary War 
Act March 3, 1835 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
Pension Office, Official Business, 
Commissioner
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9 Mo Courts Jones Capt.
9 Mo Gumby Col. MD

Feb 1 1790 100 acres
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Wid. Heir: Act 29 July, 47.  Distr. Col.
No. 582.

Boynton
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$30 Simmi
Annually
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George Mackiebin Esqr 
Treasurer of the [illegible] Shore of Maryland 
Pay to the order of D English 
Cash[?]  Twenty five Dollars & Sixty Six 
cents being 5 months & 4 days Pension due 
me Oct 1 1826[?]
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State of Maryland Montgomery County to wit

Be it remembered that on this    day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty one before 
me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace of the 
State of Maryland for Montgomery County appears 
Lawrence Hurdle of the county and State aforesaid and 
made oath in the holy evangely of Almighty God that 
he is the identical Lawrence Hurdle to whom the State of Maryland has granted a pention [pension] for his services 
in the Revolutionary war, that he served in Capt Coats Jones’s Company in the Seventh Regiment of the 
Maryland line under the command of Colonel John Gunby 
J S
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District of Columbia 
County of [Alexandria?]

Be it remembered that 
on this first day of April in the year of our 
Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Thirty Six 
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the 
Peace in the aforesaid County appeared 
Lawrence Hurdle of the District of Columbia 
& County of [Alexandria?] & made Oath that 
he is the Identical Lawrence Hurdle to 
whom the of Maryland has granted 
a pension for his Service in the Revolutionary War, that he served in Captain Coats Jones Company of the Seventh Regiment 
of the Maryland Line under the command 
of Colonel John Gunby 
Given under my hand the day & year first Written
Newton Beene
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Washington Nov 3 1849 

To J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension 
Sir 
Will you do me the favour 
to examine the declaration on oath made 
by Noble Hurdle and filed about Oct last. In 
that declaration you will find that he swears 
that Nancy Wheeler was married to Lawrence Hurdle in 1792 or 1793 - and this I presume 
is prior to 1800, he declares the place of marriage to be Georgetown D.C. and that the marriage ceremony was performed by the Revd. M. Baultz. The Witness declares 
that as man and wife Lawrence & Nancy Hurdle lived togeather [together] as man and wife from time 
of Marriage to 1 December 1848. time of death of Lawrence Hurdle that they had by this 
marriage 12 children three of whom only 
survive the father to wit, Levi, Thomas & Ann Hurdle. Doc. Jones of Georgetown at an earlin 
day proved similar facts. Is all this proof to go for nothing 
I will attend to the Record proof.
Respectfully 
A. M. Farquhar
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Washington Oct 29. 1849 
To
J.L. Edwards Esq 
Com. of Pensions 
Sir 
The Widow of Lawrence Hurdle 
thro [through] her son Levi, has again called (I was absent 
In Penna [Pennsylvania] at the time) respecting her pension application, 
her health is one of the causes of anxiety pecuniary matters as others You can confer a favour 
by giving the application an examination with 
a view to learn whether the additional testimony of marriage offered & on file in your office is 
sufficient, and if so held, to ask early action. the claim has been on file for a length of time 
as mentioned in my note before I left for for Penna [Pennsylvania]
If on examination you find the proof insufficient early information of the fact should 
be known to enable us to perfect it. It is ought in my power to be prepared for the deficiency as you could not permit me to see the original file. Why the party directly interested or her legally Authorized attorney are refused such examination is unknown to the undersigned Such rules may be peculiar to some others. they do not exist in all 
Yours &c 
A. M. Farquhar 
Atty for Nancy Hurdle
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Washington 20 May 1850 
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Comm of Pensions 
Sir: 
I filed some 
time since the application of Mrs Hurdle 
for Pension under the act of 29th July 1848. Mrs Hundle resides in Alexandria 
and if her claim should be allowed I 
respectfully request that her certificate may be made payable at this agency. 
I am with great respect 
Your Obt. Sert. 
James G. Berret
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Pen Office 
March 7 1855 
Transferred from Richmond 
to District Columbia by 
direction of Chief Clerk 
R McRae
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May 14/50
Additional Evidence 

James G. Berret 
Present
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Washington County 
District of Columbia 
On this fourteenth day of May 1850 
personally appeared Noble Hurdle 
who being duly doth 
depose and say, that he well 
remembers that Lawrence Hurdle 
was married to Nancy Wheeler 
prior to the year one thousand 
eight hundred; for the reason that 
he deponent was bound to the Brick laying business in the year 1797 and that 
the marriage of Lawrence Hurdle 
took place previous to that 
period. Deponent further states 
that he is in no way interested in 
Mrs Hurdles application for a
Pension.
Noble Hurdle
Sworn & Subscribed 
before me this 
14th May 1850 
Jno D Barclay J.P. (Seal)
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Washington Nov. 10. 1849

To J. L. Edwards Esq 
Com of Pensions 

Sir 

Herewith you will receive 
the reply of the Clerk of the Court of Montgomery 
County Maryland in answer to my request 
for a certificate of the Record evidence of the 
Marriage or License in the case of Lawrence Hurdle and Nancy his wife for which 
you will see that the Clerk will furnish 
no certificate on the subject declaring at 
the same time no Register of the kind is kept.
I have asked of him all I can ask, and 
the enclosed to be used or not by you as you think proper. 

I have now come to the conclusion 
that it is worse than useless to spend time 
in endeavoring to get satisfactory proof 
and will therefore trouble you no more 
I can feel for the aged and infirm widow 
but cannot in this case give further aid than 
I have given.
Very Respectfully 
A. M. Farguhar
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This is to certify that I was well acquainted 
with Nancy Hurdle and her Husband Laurence, who is said to have died last December, some forty years ago- that they lived on a place adjoining 
the farm upon which I was born & that Mrs. Hurdle was always regarded as the lawful 
wife of the said Lawrence Hurdle. I would 
further remark that from my knowledge of 
the parties, there can be no reasonable doubt of the fact. 
Wm Jones 
Late Postmaster 
of Washington D.C. 

Washington May 19th. 1849.
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Washington Oct 12 1849

To J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir 
Herewith you will receive 
additional proof of Marriage of Lawrence Hurdle decd [deceased], late a Sergeant of the Maryland line with Nancy 
Wheeler now Nancy Hurdle Widow of above named 
deceased, to sustain her claim for Pension. 
Also Power of Attorney to the undersigned to attend to the case &c Your Early attention to the case is respectfully requested 
Very Respectfully 
A. M. Farguhar
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER. 
District of Columa [Columbia] 
County of Washington ss. 
On this 1st day of March 1832 
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of 
Washington personally appeared Lawrence 
Hurdle who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Jno Courts Jones in the Regiment commanded by Colonel 
John Gunby in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maryland from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the (District, or Territory,) of Columbia where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Maryland to Alexandria, in order to be nearer to his children as well as to be more convenient to draw his pension - 
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
Lawrence Hurdle his X mark 
R. S. Briscoe 
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The county Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the Pensioner's identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify, that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed. 

I certify that Lawrence Hurdle is the Identical person & pensioner who has taken the above Oath 
R. S. Briscoe
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Know All men by these presents that I Nancy Hurdle of the City and County of Alexandria 
and State of Virginia, have constituted & appointed 
Abraham M Farquhar, of the City of Washington 
D.C. my true and lawful attorney for me and 
in my name, place and stead to prosecute my claim 
for a pension from the United States Government 
as the widow of Lawrence Hurdle decd [deceased] a Sergeant 
in the Maryland Line Revolutionary War, the application 
for which has been long pending with the 
Commissioner of Pensions Col J. L. Edwards, upon whom 
my said Attory [attorney] is Authorized and requested to call 
and to present the additional proof hereto annexed & 
to procure other & further proof if required and to do 
any and every other act or acts that I myself 
might or could do were I personally present at 
the doing thereof, hereby confirming whatsoever my 
said attorney may do in the premises
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of October 1849 
Sealed & delivered in presence of }
W Thompson }
W. H. Donoho. }
2 Witnesses
Nancy Hurdle her X mark (seal)
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District of Columbia. County of Washington Sct Personally appeared before me 
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said 
County Nancy Hurdle, grantor in the foregoing 
power of Attorney and acknowledged the same 
to be her act and deed 
Witness my hand and seal the date aforesaid 
W Thompson JP. (Seal)

District of Columbia 
County of Washington ⎬ Sct
I hereby certify that              
Esquire before whom the foregoing 
Power of Atteny [attorney] was acknowledged, and 
who has thereunto subscribed his name, was 
at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace 
in and for the County and Sworn aforesaid, duly commissioned and Sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed 
the seal of Alexandria County Court this    
day of October 1849 

Clerk
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State of Virginia 
City of Alexandria 
County of 
Personally appeared before the subscriber 
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Nancy Hurdle 
widow of Lawrence Hurdle, decd [deceased] a soldier of the Revolutionary 
War, and made oath that she has made & has caused to be made due & dilligent [diligent] search for Record 
evidence of her Marriage with the said Lawrence Hurdle decd [deceased]
which Marriage was prior to 1800 in 
the year 1792 or 1793 - and has failed to procure 
such Record Evidence as is required by the Commission[er]
of Pensions who has her application for a pension 
before him. That she is informed and believes that her Agent and Attorney Abraham M Farquhar 
of the City of Washington that he applied to the Clerk of the Court of Montgomery County Maryland 
for evidence of License or some other Record Evidence 
of said Marriage or notice of such intended or 
actual Marriage who states that no such evidence can be found but declines in his letter 
to my attorney that he cannot give a certificate officially declaring a negative [illegible] she is informed and believes was sent by said attorney 
to the Commissioner of Pensions. That she has 
been informed and believes that all the papers
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Records &c &c of the Reverend Mr Bautz decd [deceased] the 
Clergyman who [performed the ceremony ?] of Marriage of Lawrence Hurdle and this affiant were destroyed by fire and that she has no 
Bible or family record of the fact of Marriage and finally that she has no means of producing record Evidence of said Marriage at this time and the affiant further declares & believes 
that her husband Lawrence Hurdle who in his 
lifetime and up to about the time of his death 
drew a pension from the United States was at 
the time he was in the service or a part of the time a Sergeant and that if he received a pension only as a private that he was wronged out of a part of his just rights 
Sworn & Subscribed 
Before me this 29th 
day of January 1850 
Before 
Geo. White
A Justice of the Peace 
for Alexandria County Va.

Nancy Hurdle her X mark

Virginia: Alexandria County, to wit: 
I, Benjamin H. Berry, Clerk of Alexandria 
County Court do hereby certify that George Whit [White] is a magistrate as above, and that the fore
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going signature purporting to be his is genuine 
In testimony whereof I hereto 
subscribe my name and 
affix the seal of said Court 
& of my said office this 29th 
day of January 1850 and 
in the 74th year of the Commonwealth.
B.H. Berry Clerk 
of Alexa [Alexandria] County Court
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Washington April 29. 1850 
Sir
I enclose additional 
evidence in support of Mrs 
Hurdle claim for Pension under 
the act of 29 July 1848- 
With great respect 
Your obt Sevt
James G. Berret

Hon J L. Edwards 
Commiss
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
PENSION OFFICE, 
March 1, 1832
SIR,
In conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Maryland to that of the District of Columbia to take effect from and after the 4th of September 1831 
I am, sir, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J.L. Edwards 

Mr. Lawrence Hurdle 
U. S. Pensioner. 
Present
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Payable on the 4 March 
& 4 Sept of each year 
at the U. States Branch 
Bank Baltimore, Md

(Recorded)
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 March 1818, Lawrence Hurdle, late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 


Given at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
J C Calhoun 
Sec. of War
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Washington Nov 6. 1849 

To J.L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir, 
Yours of 5 inst has been received 
I have applied to the Clerk of the Court of Montgomery Co. 
for the Record evidence of the Marriage of Lawrence Hurdle 
& Nancy Wheeler now Nancy Hurdle widow &c.

If I am correctly informed there is no family record of this 
Marriage. the absence of Mrs Hurdle from Washington (she 
resides in Alexandria) does not enable me to say whether there 
is a family Register of Births &c of the children This can 
be enquired into after we hear from Montgomery.

I am told that when Lawrence Hurdle applied for his 
Pension & before it was granted him, that he was required 
to furnish proof of having a wife & the number &c of his 
children. I would most respectfully refer you to the proof 
in this case, it may prove all relevant, it certainly will establish his rank in the service whether a Sergeant or a private- 
The testimony of D. Jones will be filed & a certificate 
of the present officiating Clergyman at the Church in Georgetown 
in which Revd Mr Baultz had charge, that there is no Church record of this Marriage 
Very Respectfully 
A. M. Farquhar
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions

Oct 23/49

A M Farguhar
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Washington Feb 22d 1849

To J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
The original application of Mrs.
Nancy Hurdle, Widow of Lawrence Hurdle, decd. [deceased] a
soldier of the Maryland Line Revolutionary war,
has long been on the files. The additional proof
of Marriage together with a power of atty [attorney]  
to undersigned was filed first inst. Will
you please call it up, with a view to final
action.  Should the proof be found on examination to be deficient early information 
to be deficient, early information is 
very desirable, so that such deficiency be
[illegible]
Very Respectfully
A. M. Farguhar
Atty for Widow
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R
Nancy Hurdle
widow of Lawrence
Virga [Virginia]
(Rich agers) [Richmond? agency?]
admitted
Private - $96
per annum 1 Dec 1848
had 1 Dec 1848

Act 29 July 1848
J.G. Berrett,
Prest [Present]
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(stamp)
Rockville VA
Nov 7

A M Farquhar
Wash City 
DC
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Rockville Va 6/49

D Sir
I have no power to certify
to a negative.  I can only certify to things
that exist in my office & of course
as no record of marriages or licenses
granted in this office, is kept. I
cannot comply with your request.
Whatever pleasure it would give
me to comply with any thing
you might desire, consistent 
with the laws of our state.
very Resp
S.T. Stonestreet

(stamp)
Rockville VA
7 Nov

A.M. Farquhar Esq
Washington City
DC
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War Department, No. 1292
PENSION OFFICE,
November 20th 1821

Sir
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your
property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed
your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.

You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March,
next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending
your pension. Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that
time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards

To Mr. Lawrence Hurdle,
Montgomery Co A
Maryland.