Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34649, Christopher Beall, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md

Beall, Christopher
or Bell  
or Beale

NUMBER 
S. 34649

CONTENTS
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Dist of Columbia
10,609
Maryland 4
Christopher Beall
of Baltimore Co in the state of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood of the Maryland Line for the term of three years to'79
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 5 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of May 1819
and sent to John Moriarty Baltimore Md
Arrear to 4th of March 1819
Semi-anl, -all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819
  80
   48
$128
Continued
{Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 1818}
*Duplicate  & issue 11th Sept 1819 and sent to John Moriarty, Esq Baltimore Maryland

Dead see letter to J Trimble Nov 2 1831
do (ditto) to A. Yearley Nov 1 1838
do do 4 Jany 1838
Paid at the Treasury widow the act of the 6 of April  1838 for the 4 mons of 1831 to 17 July 1831 Agt notified 7 Feby 1839

Dead
(unreadable writing on left of page)
 Notification sent Oct 4th 1820 to W H Murray
Maryland
Letter
Duplicate (illegible) 16 Sept and sent  to W. Y. (illegible) Baltimore
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5 May 1818

State of Maryland
Baltimore County S.S. 

On this twenty fourth day of April in the year
of our Lord 1819, before me the Subscriber, chief ["one of the" crossed out] Judge[s crossed out] of
Baltimore County Court, personally appeared Christopher Beale 
aged sixty six years, resident in said County, who being by me first
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set.
I hereby certify that the Honorable Walter Dorsey
Esquire before whom the aforegoing Deposition and certificate 
was made and given and who hath thereto subscribed
his name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of
the Sixth Judicial District of the State of
Maryland and of Baltimore County Court duly
Commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
name and seal of office this twelfth
day of May Eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Wm Gibson Clk Balto Coty Cot
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Anne Annall County, Third Judicial
District of Maryland

On this twenty first day of September 1820
personally appeared in Open Court being a Court
of record for the said County constituted such
by the Constitution and Laws of the State of
Maryland, for an Anne Arundel County Christopher
Beall aged sixty Eight years resident in Anne
Anna County 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 Captain Benton Lucas'
Company of the first Maryland Regiment who
were in the service of the United States during the
Revolutionary war, commanded by Colonel
William Smallwood in the year seventeen
hundred and seventy six as a private, and that
he continued in the service for the term of four
years when he was discharged; that he follows
the occupation of a Laborer and not able to
obtain subsistence by his labor, that he has a
wife living with him who is sixty one years of age
and who is too feeble to work; and that he has no
children living with him to aid in his and wife's
Support.

This deponent further saithe that he is on the 
Pension List and his Original Declaration
bears date on the 5th day of May 1818 and his
Certificate bears date on the 11th day of September
1819. No 10.609
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And I the said Christopher Beale 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
manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
being myself within the provisions of an 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 debts, due
to me; nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed,
and by me subscribed

A Schedule of the property of Christopher Beall
the applicant above named Bedding and
clothing of himself and wife excepted)
2 trunk valued by the Court at two dollars
his
Christopher X Beall
Mark

Sworn to and declared, on the twenty first
day of September in the year 1820 before the
Judges of the Third Judicial District of
Maryland sitting in Open Court in and for
Anne Arundel County
Wm S Greene Coty Cot
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 2d 1839-

Sir
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, the children of Christopher Beall,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland
Agency, at
the rate of eight Dollars and _____ Cents
per annum, under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1831,
to the 17th July, 1831, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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E Israel
Christopher Beall
#34,649
5
Edw Israel
(stamp) Illegible
PAID
M (illegible)
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

Recd April 17th / 50
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Baltimore April 15th 1850
Sir
Mrs Margaret Logan and Mr James
Beall are the only children and heirs at law of Mr
Christopher Beall who was a soldier of the
Revolution and pensioner on the Maryland
Agency and received his Pension $8 per month
to 4th March 1831 and died July 17th 1831.

The arears of his Pension to day of his death
$35.47 were paid to his children Feby 1839.

Mr Christopher Beall was from Prince
Georges County Maryland and enlisted
to serve during the whole war.

His children believe there was
Bounty Land due him which he never received
and which if he did not receive they are
entitled to under the Pension Laws.

You will oblige me if you will inform
me whether there is any bounty land due them
so that I may put them in the way of obtaining
it.
Your's ec
Israel Atty over
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P.S. You will oblige me if you will inform
me whether you received a letter from me
dated March 25th 1850 in reference to a
claim of a Mr Allwine, Having received
no answer from you I am unable to tell
whether you ever received it.
Yours
Edward Israel

Address Edward Israel
Atty
Baltimore
Md
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34649
Revy INVALID.
File No. 34,649
Christopher Beall
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. D, Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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letter to E. Israel
May 9, 1850
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Christopher Beall, Maryland roll - act March
18. 1818.
Be pleased to say to what time his pension
was paid.
pd to 4 March 1831 J H
Pension Office
Novr 1. 1838.
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State of Maryland Baltimore County
Be it remembered that on this 8th day
of September 1819 personally appeared John
Moriarty of the City of Baltimore, who made oath
on the Holy Evangelists that he has never received
the Pension Certificate of Christopher Beall, when
as represented, has by the Records of the Pension
Office been forwarded to him the said Moriarty
at the City of Baltimore on the 14th May 1819
but that he verily believes that the said Certificate
has been lost or mislaid in either the Post
office at Washington, of Baltimore, also
at the same time personally appeared the
said Christopher Beall, who likewise made
Oath as aforesaid, that he has not any time 
directly
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or indirectly received the said Pension
Certificate
his
John X Moriarty
Mark

Subscribed & Sworn
before me.
W. H. Murray
grs (illegible)
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Adm
(stamp)
Baltimore
May

Department of War
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Baltimore May 13th 1819

Sir
Enclosed I forward to you the second declaration
of Christopher Beall, conformably to the direction, which
you had the goodness to give to me, on the 15th last month.

I most earnestly entreat you, Sir, that, as you
promised, you would please " to attend to it immediately and
that on your sending on the Certificate, which, I hope, will 
be in a few days, you would please to instruct the Agent
here to pay the Pension up to the 4th March last, as this
poor man is in the most pressing want- The Certificate
of his service from the Rolls at Annapolis, I delivered
into your own hands, on the 9th Sept last-
With high respect, Sir,
Your humble servants
John Moriarty

J L Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington
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20
(stamp)
Baltimore
Sep 9

The Department of War
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Baltimore Sept 9th 1819
Sir
By a note signed by you, under
date of June 28th 1819, it was expressed, that
according to the Records of the Pension Office
the Pension Certificate of Christopher Beall
was on the 14th May 1816, forwarded to me at
Baltimore- The inclosed deposition, taken
before Mr Murray, the Agent for paying
Pension here, will, I hope, sufficiently 
prove to your satisfaction that said certificate 
has not been received and it is to be concluded
that it has been in some manner lost
or mislaid in either of the Post Offices.

I request Jr. that you would
please to forward a renewal of said Certificate
on your receiving this.

With great respect
your obedient Servant
John Moriarty

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington
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Recd Sept. 16. 1826
Christopher Beall
for new cert

Wm Y. Purviance
Baltimore, Md

20

(stamp)

Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City
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Baltimore, September 15, 1826

Sir

I have now the honor to transmit enclosed the affidavit of Christopher Bell of St Mary's County now here respecting the loss of his certificate of Pension - supported by that also of his for Benjamin Bell as they are poor people and detained is on evidence [illegible] the boat in which they came. Respect to return will be ready by Monday afternoon to leave them, they will esteem it as a favor if you can facilitate it as received by that period that of returning or granting a new certificate.

I am Sir
respectfully
Your Obt servant
William Y Purviance

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Office Washington
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Wm. H. Murray
Baltimore
23rd Sept. 1820
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Office Discount & Dept
Baltimore 23d Sept 1820

James L Edwards Esq
War Dept Pension Office

Sir
At the request of 
Christopher Beall a Revolutionary Pensioner I enclose
herein his declaration & Schedule to be submitted to
the consideration of the proper authorities- When a
decision is had in his case I will thank you to address
a copy of it to my care.
I am very respectfully
Your obt Servt
W H Murray
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J.L. Edwards Esquire
War Department
Pension Office
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Office Bank U States
Baltimore 19 April 1825

James L. Edwards Esq
War Dept. Pension Office
Sir
Enclosed you will receive
the application of Christopher Beall, Revolutionary
Pensioner for a transfer to the books of the Maryland Agency
from those of the District of Columbia with two pension
certificate copies of which have been issued and now in
the possession of the Pensioner.
I am respectfully
Your obt Serv
W H Murray
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Baltimore Jany 2, 1839

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com of Pensions

Sir
In the case of the claim of the heirs
of Christopher Beall for a balance of Revolutionary
Pension due at the time of his death. He died leaving
no widow, but he left 6 children-- one of whom has died
since his death leaving children-- now, are those
grand children entitled to their parents proportion 
of said Pension P. Be so kind as to inform me.

I beg leave also to request your
kind attention to the application of several
interesting old widow's now some time before you
Viz the case of Pricilla Smith, sent you, Oct. 27 1838.
The case of Aivey Marr, sent Sep 11 and additional 
proof sent Nov 8 1838
-----" ---------Elisabeth Elliott --------Nov 15 1838
-----" ---------Ann Hall ------ --------Nov 22 1838
-----" ---------Catherine Paul  -------- Dec 11 1838
-----" ---------Margaret Schneck ------ Dec 11 1838
-----" ---------Magdalena Etchberger -- Dec 22 1838
-----" ---------Elisabeth Shane widow of a 
soldier who died of wound recd
in Battle with the enemy in the late
war with England. Dec 11 1838.
Very Respectfully
your obt. Servt
Alex Yearley
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State of Maryland, Baltimore City, 88.
BE IT KNOWN, That before me a Justice of the Peace for the
City aforesaid, personally appeared Christopher Beall
and made oath that he is the identical person named in the original Certificate
in his possession, of which the following is a copy-

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
(SIGNED)
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States,
of the 18th of March, 1818.
Christopher Beall
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 5th day of May 1818

Given at the WAR OFFICE of the United States,
this 11 day of September 1819

(signed) J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

that he is entitled to a pension of eight dollars per month on account 
of services rendered the United States, during the Revolutionary War; that he
served in Captain Lucas Company of foot
in the 1st Maryland Regiment; that he now resides in
St. Mary's County and has resided there for the space of
about 10 or 11 months, past; and that previous thereto he resided
in Georgetown D.C. that meaning henceforward to reside
within the State of Maryland he requests to have his name
transferred to the Roll of the Pension Agency of that State
his
Christopher X Bean
Mark

Sworn and subscribed this 9th day
of March 1825.
William Y Purviance
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County Set

I hereby certify that William Y Purviance Gentleman before whom the aforegoing deposition was made and who has thereto set his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this nineteenth day of April eighteen hundred and twenty-five.

Wm Gibson - Clk Balt City Court


Christo Beall
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore to wit

On this 15 day of September 1826 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore - personally appeared Christopher Bell of the county of St Mary's - doth on his oath declare that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Barton Luca in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood first Maryland in the service of the United States, that by name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Maryland - that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate on or about the 12 day of September inst - being a boat or bay craft coming into Baltimore he missed as well as his pocket book in which the said certificate  was contained that he deponent remembers on the evening of the 11th of sept after he left home, he paid off his coat when he got down to the shore side to get on board the craft & supposed in taking up his coat it must have dropped out as he did not miss it until the next day - that the vessel then was nearly halfway to Baltimore before it was so missed - that the deponent had to come about nine miles before he reached the landing as
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Bay there when he took shipping that it was after dark when he so reached there - that he is uncertain whether he lost it in the woods upon the road or at the shore - but is positive that he lost it between the shore [illegible it an leaping home on the vessel.

Christopher Bell

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.

J B Walsh

City of Baltimore to wit

On this 15 day of September 1826 also before me the said Justice appeared Benjamin Bell of lawful age - about twenty-five years old - who made oath that he is well acquainted with Christopher Bell pensioner to the U.S. who hath sworn & subscribed his name to the above affidavit - that he has acknowledge that he is the same person who is there meant or described.

Benj Bell

Sworn & subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid - J B Walsh

City of Baltimore

I certify that I verily believe that the deponent is a person of veracity - J B Walsh
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State of Maryland Baltimore County

I hereby certify that Jacob Walsh Gentleman before whom the annexed deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore County Court this fifteenth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty-six.

Wm Gibson - Clerk Balt County Court
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Christopher Beall
10609
Sept 1819

W H Murray Esq
Baltimore

4 Oct 1820
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I William S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel County Court do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property as listed in the aforesaid schedule is two dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty-first day of September 1820.

Wm S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel County Court
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Application for a Transfer

County of Washington DC
On this 19th day of Feby 1823 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Washington personally appeared Christopher Bell who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Barton Lucas in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood 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 state (district or territory) of Columbia where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. That he at present receives eight dollars per month.

Christopher Bell
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to the before me the day and year aforesaid.

Enoch Reynolds JP

Note> the oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate whose official character and signature must be properlty authenticated.
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FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Chs Beall Nov 1
MD Roll 1818
14 May
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Baltimore, October 31, 1838

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions

Sir

Christopher Beall was a private in the army of the revolution - he rec'd a pension of $8 per month - the pension certificate is with me. He was on the pension list, roll of the Maryland Agency.

He rec'd his pension to 4 Mach 1831 - and died on the 17th of July 1831 - leaving 6 months & 12 days pension due him. He left no widow. But he did leave six children - 4 of whom are now living and two are now deceased one of whom died without issue; and the other one left six children some of whom are now minors.

I have been requested by one of the children of the above Christopher Beall to inquire what proceedings are necessary in order for them to obtain the valance of said pension.

Respectfully your obt servt

Alex Yearley