Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,863, for Jacob Plain, Maryland
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the pleasure to have your opinion in regard to the above cases. If they are entitled to any thing either Bounty Law or any other compensation you would confer a great juror by informing me at your earliest convenience I would be obliged also for some blanks to enable me to make out their claims if [illegible]
very Respectfully yours
Thomas [illegible] Renshaw
Butler Balto. County
Maryland
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October 30, 1854, one Thomas M. Renshaw of Butler Baltimore County, Maryland, made inquiry in regard to any land which might have been due the heirs of Edward Holland and Jacob Plain(Mrs. Julia Ann Rogers and Mrs. Hannagan). He stated that Catharine Plain died in 1850. He designated Mrs. Hannagen as the heir of Edward Holland but did not designate Mrs. Rogers as the heir of Jacob Plain at that time. 

In order to obtain the date of the last payment of pension of Catharine Plain the name  and address of person paid and possibly the exact date of her death, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city and cite the following: 

Catharine Plain, widow of Jacob Plain
Certificate No. 48
Issued April 29, 1843
Rate $100.00 per annum
Act of March 3, 1843
Maryland Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Miller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator.
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332

Apl 13 1843
Mary?
Mar 8 43
Cath Plain
AWF
Bit Am Safl 1743

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington
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Annapolis 20th Sept. 1847
Sir
I will be greatly obliged to you if you will
send me as early as practical  and authenticated 
certificate showing the time Catherine Plain
attained pension from the United States, the
amount she received at the time she attained
said pension, and the amount she received 
annually to the time of her death in 1846
very respectfully
John Pinkney

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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1459
Catharine Plain, widow
of Jacob Plain
Maryland

on record 3rd auditors
Office Acct Sees (illegible)
from 1 Aug 1780 to
15 Novr 1783

admitted
Pr Can 2 yrs
$100

A Yearley
Balti
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District of Columbia
Washington County To wit.

On this 29th day of August in the year eighteen
hundred and thirty eight Before me the subscriber one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said County and
District personally appeared Sarah Smith of
the City of Washington aged 77 years, who being
duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare
that she was present at the Solemnization of the marriage 
ceremony between Jacob Plain and Catherine
Folks of the City of Annapolis on or about the Twenty
fourth day of April Seventeen hundred and eighty
eight by Parson Ralph Higginbotham of that city.
That the said Jacob Plain who had been a soldier
of the Revolution died about the year 1801 leaving
the said Catharine his widow and that the
the said Catharine Plain Widow of said Jacob
Plain has not married again but still
remains his widow
Her
Sarah X Smith
Mark

Sworn to and subscribed
Before me B.K. Morsell J. Peace

And I do hereby certify that the above named
Sarah Smith who in my presence signed the aforegoing
declaration & statement and made oath to the truth
thereof is a person known to me as entitled to
credit as witness my hand this 29th day of
August Eighteen hundred and thirty eight
B.K. Morsell J. Peace
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Single Paid
Mrs. Sarah Smith
Care Mr. Isaac Hollin
Who is requested to forward this letter to Mrs. Smith immediately.
Washington City District of Columbia