Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4477, for John Lee, Maryland
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Md.	Lee, John	W.4477
	Graham, Martha	B.L.Wt. 11459, 100 acres. Issued June 3, 1795. B.L. Wt. 295-60-55
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Revy War
[illegible] act	Phila. Penn agency
Recd. 100 acre lot no 11.459 Jume 3 1795 Md: Line
[illegible] April 21 / 56
[illegible]
G.N. Hickman
Baltimore
[illegible]
Nov. 12 / 58 Let to Mr. W. Lee & Josephine [illegible] of Balt. Md. enclosing [illegible] for duplicate.
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Pennsylvania - 3860 
of in of Martha Lee, alias Graham widow of John Lee who died on the 30th August 1803 of Lancaster Co  in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the ------- commanded by Captain ------- of the -------- commanded by ---------- in the Maryland Line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia the rate of 80 Dollars ------ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of April 1843 and sent to Hon: James Buchanan, Lancaster Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of March ’43 - 		$960.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 	     40.00 
$1000.00
Revolutionary Claim,
 Act July 4, 1836,
 Section the 3d
Recorded by WM Stewart – Clerk,
Book C Vol 3 Page 155
Let to Hon T Stevens 24 Feb 53
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Martha Lee 
widow of 
John Lee 
238.70
Revolutionary Maryland Line
Act of march 3d 1855 
Revolutionary Pensioner
Payable at Philadelphia agency
Geo. G. Hickman
Attorney 
Baltimore Md
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State of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
On this 25 day of December, in the year 1855 before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Said State and County personally appeared Martha Lee aged 92 years a resident of Lancaster County a County, Penna. and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of John Lee, who was a private in Maryland line in the Revolutionary War and who was a U. S. Revolutionary Pensioner. I further declare that I am now a Pensioner of the U.S. and that all the papers respecting my marriage to said John Lee: Widowhood &c are now on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
I further declare that I have remained a widow ever since the death of my said husband (John Lee) that I am now a widow and that I draw my widows Revolutionary Pension at the City of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, I make this application to procure the Bounty Land to which I am entitled under the act of March 1855, and that I have not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor. 
Martha Lee x her mark Allias Graham
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We John R Lee. and David L Glackin - residents of Lancaster  County upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs. Martha Lee in our presence,  and that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
John R. Lee
David L. Glackin
2 witnesses sign here
Lancaster County ss. December 25th 1855.
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. 
Samuel Wicks
Justice of the Peace
State of Pennsylvania Lancaster County 
I, Joseph Bowman [illegible],  Notary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that Samuel Wicks Esqr. before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavits were made, is now and was at the time of making the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Lancaster, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the first day of February A.D. 1856
J Bowman [illegible]
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John Lee & Martha [illegible] for August 1799 Published
State of Maryland 
Harford County
On the twenty fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before Thomas Bay a Justice of the peace in and for Harford County and State aforesaid James, B. Alderson and Thomas Alderson grate grand Children to Parson John Davis late of Harford County and State aforesaid Decd who being each seven according to law doth depose and say that the above minutes of the marriage of John Lee and Martha Howlett on searching for was found amongst the papers relating to marriages belonging to the aforesaid Parson John Davis attached to which was an other minute of a marrage of William Grover and Sarah Bosly dated November the fifth 1789 by license, which we considered it right to preserve and therefore cut it off of the piece of paper containing the minute of said John Lee and Martha Howlett marriage and further that her is in our posession amongst the papers of Parson Davis served minutes of Marrages on small pieces of paper such as the above and that they believe the above attached peace of paper is in the hand writing of Parson Davis 
Sworn before Thomas Bay Smith
State of Maryland 
Harford County to wit
I hereby certify that Thomas Bay Gentleman before whom the above affidavits was made and who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Harford County duly commissioned and sworn. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and affixed the seal of Harford County Court this 24th day of March 1843- Henry Dorsey Clk of Harfd Coty Cot
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lancaster
On this thirteenth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before John Webster esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Lancaster Martha the widow of John Lee late of Harford County in the State of Maryland and the said Martha having first been duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension made by the act of Congress passed July the fourth Eighteen hundred and thirty six, and the act explanatory of said act passed March the third Eighteen hundred and thirty seven that she is seventy eight years of age that, she was married to john Lee by Parson Davis a minister of the Baptist church residing in Harford County Maryland on the thirteenth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine that she lost her certificate of marriage , and that they lived together until his death which happened on the thirtieth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and three, that they had seven children namely John R, James H, Edward David, Ann S. Parker and Carolne. The eldest was thirteen years of age at the time of the death of his father John Lee and the youngest eleven months of age. That the said John Lee enlisted in the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy nine under Captain in John Smith, as will appear by a copy of a certificate dated May the first seventeen hundred and eighty four and that he had served nine months previous  as a drafted militia man and that the served until the close of the war, and that she has frequently heard him tell of being at the battles of the Cowpins and Guilford Courthouse and the Eutaw Springs. That she again on the eighteenth day of July eighteen hundred and four intermarried with a man of the name of Robert Graham and shortly after they were married she attained information that he had another wife which caused [illegible] between them and he went away in a short time after their marriage and she has never heard any word of him since, and that she considered herself to be a widow on the fourth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty six and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto and [illegible], swore and subscribed on the day and year NB she never having [illegible] above written before me the subscriber who do also certify that she is old and frail and unable to go before the court to make her declaration and that she owns no property to support her.
Witness Present
David Lee John Webster a Justice of Peace
Martha Lee x her mark
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State of Pennsylvania
 Lancaster County ss
I Rudolph F. Ranch Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. Do certify that John Webster Esquire, before whom the within proceedings were had is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Lancaster duly commissioned & qualified; and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of February in the year of our LORD. One thousand eight hundred & forty three – 
R. F. Ranch 
P Prothy 
Sam L. Howard
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Lee, John	Grade Private	Line Maryland
Warrant Number 11459	Acreage 100	Issued June 3, 1795 
						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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May 9, 1940
Mrs. Ruth Lee Briscoe
 Medical Library
 University of Maryland 
Baltimore, Maryland
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
JOHN LEE
 W. 4477
 BA-J/MIS
 Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know whether or not in the claim for pension made by Martha Howlett Lee for service of her husband, John Lee, the names of her parents are shown. 
All papers in the claims for pension and bounty land on file under W. 4477, based upon service of John Lee, have been examined. The names of the parents of his widow, Martha, are not shown, but it is believed that other data in those papers will be of interest to you, therefore, are given herein as found in those claims. 
The date and place of birth of John Lee and names of his parents are not shown. 
John Lee enlisted, place not stated, in the winter of 1779 in Captain John Smith's Maryland company for the term of the Revolutionary War and served as private until the close thereof, was in the battles of Cowpens, Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs; other names of officers were not given.
On account of his service in the Revolution, the soldier was granted one hundred acres of bounty land on Warrant 11459, which was issued June 3, 1795. He died August 30, 1803, in Harford County, Maryland, from an accidental shot.
John Lee married August 13, 1789, in Harford County, Maryland, Martha Howlett; they were married by a Baptist minister of Harford County. The date and place of birth of Martha Howlett were not stated.
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John Lee's widow, Martha, married July 18, 1804, one Robert Graham, a stranger, who soon left and was not heard of afterward.
She was allowed pension on account of the Revolutionary War service of her former husband, John Lee, on her application executed February 13, 1843, at which time she was aged seventy eight years and a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Her name was borne on the pension roll as Martha Lee alias Graham. 
Soldier's widow, Martha, while still living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, applied December 25, 1855, for bounty land which, also, was due her on account of the service of John Lee in the Revolution. She was granted sixty acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 295, under the Act of March 3, 1855.
John Lee and his wife, Martha, had seven children whose names were as follows: 
John R. aged thirteen years at the time of soldier’s death in 1803 and who was a resident of Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1855.
James H. Edward David, who in 1843 was living in Little Britain, state not named. 
Ann S. or Nancy Parker Caroline, aged eleven months at time of her father's death.
In 1857, soldier's grandson, John W. Lee, whose father was John, was living at 16 Josephine Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of soldier's widow, Martha, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data; Martha Lee alias Graham, widow of John Lee, certificate #3860, issued April 4, 1843, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act July 4, 1836, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Agency. 
If you desire information relative to the location of the bounty land granted the soldier and his widow, Martha, you should 
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apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of each warrant, the acreage, and date of issuance of the warrant granted John Lee and the date of the act under which the warrant was issued to his widow, Martha.
Very truly yours
 A. D. HILLER
 Executive Assistant
 to the Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C. -----, 19—
In reply to your request of -----, received ---- for a statement of military history of John Lee a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow’s application for pension on file in this Bureau.  W.F. 4477


DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  Winter 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 9 mos  Winter 1779 served to close of war.
RANK. Priv 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. names of officers not stated John Smith
COLONEL.
STATE.  MD.

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated 
Date of application for pension, Feb 13 1843 her cl. was al.
 Residence at date of application, Lancaster Co. Pa. 
Age at date of application, 78 yrs. 
Remarks: Soldier mar Aug 13 1789 in Harford Co and Martha Howlett. Children: John R. James H., Edward, David, Ann S. or Nancy, Parker and Caroline, the elder was 13 yrs and the youngest 11 mos of age at the death of soldier which occurred Aug 30, 1803 as the result of being accidentally shot. 
Respectfully, 
Commissioner. 
N.B. as it appears that soldier's widow was [illegible] in her supposed marriage to Robert have no reference is made in circular, to her relationship with said Graham
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tion.
November 12, 1914.
Mrs. George B. Stotts,
1125 South Main Street,
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 6th instant,
you are advised that the Revolutionary War records of
this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard
to John Lee who served under Captain John Holder and
Colonel John Bowman,
In the Revolutionary War pension and bounty land
claim of Martha widow of John Lee of Maryland, the name of
his father is not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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Baltimore, MD
APR 11
3 PM
1940
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
Department in of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D.C.
(Revolution War)
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
MEDICAL LIBRARY
BALTIMORE MARYLAND
APR 11 1940
Gentleman
I would like to know whether, in her
declaration for pension Claim
Martha Howlett Lee case, there
are any reference to her parents.
(Revolutionary Soldier John Lee, [illegible],
Harford Co. [illegible])
How much would copies of the
four (4) pages cost
Thank You
MRS. RUTH LEE BRISCOE
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LIBRARY OF THE
University of Maryland Rev Sec H
(FOUNDED 1813 )
S. E. COR. LOMBARD AND GREENE STS.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
MRS. RUTH LEE BRISCOE,
Librarian
Nov. 23, 1915
To the U.S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Sir: I am desirous of securing the following information:
My great-grandfather (John Lee) of Harford
Co. MD. (or he may have enlisted in Penna. as he later lived there)
served in the Revolution, and his widow
enjoyed a pension. He was in the
battles of Cowpens, Monk's Corner, Eutaw Springs, etc.
I do not know the dates of his birth, marriage or death.
One of his sons (John Riddle Lee) was my great-grandfather.
also
John Riddle Lee of Pennsylvania
was in the war of 1812. He was a
member of Capt. Poney's Co., 39th Regt.
Md. Militia. He served with his
regiment at North Point. His wife
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was formerly Miss Eleanor Hough, I have all their dates.
My maternal great-grandfather was George (or Thomas) Williams of Phila Pa. whose wife was formerly Ann Conway, who received a pension. I have no dates for these people. They had a son George Williams & other children.
How can I secure data for the aforesaid John Lee, (Revolutionary Soldier) and John Riddle Lee, and George Williams (War of 1812 ) for the Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of 1812. 
John Lee (the Revolutionary soldier) lived in his later years near neighbors to President Buchanan whose influence was exerted and was successful in securing a pension for his widow.
Yours respectfully 
Ruth Lee Briscoe
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1914 Nov. 11 M.B.H.
8-87
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by M.B.H 
Claim No. 
Certificate No. 
Claimant
Soldier John Lee
Service. Md.
Additional Service Rev
No. claim, State records 191
No claim, combination records 191
REMARKS:
No claim as above except W. 4477 
6 -- 1944 Chief Division.
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Please tell me if there was any land grant or patent for land made to John Lee, he came from Maryland, he helped survey & improve parts of the then called County of Kentucky State of Virginia in 1775. finally settled on Pottingers Creek If there in such a grant and John Lees fathers name is given in the grant would like to have a record of his fathers name.
Respectfully 
Mrs. Geo. B. Stotts
1125 S. Main Tulsa Okla
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1914. Nov. 12. Mrs. Geo. B. Stotts advised name of soldiers father does not appear M.B.H.
1940, May 9 - Hist to Mrs Ruth Lee Briscoe MLD
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4477 
Martha Lee alias Graham
Wid.
John Lee
Pvt. Md. Line
Act. July 1836, Sec. 30
Index:--Vol. A Page 426
[ Arrangement of 1870.]
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Feb 2. 1843
Pa.
July 4 1836
Martha Lee Graham
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Will W. Edwards be kind enough to examine the enclosed papers. the old lady to which they relate has raised a very respectable family; but their circumstances are poor, They reside in a remote part of Lancaster County, & have an honest & good reputation 
Monday Morning 20 Feb J. Buchanan
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[illegible]
Matha Lee
Hon Jas Buchanan
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Lancaster 30 March 1843 
 
My dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you the only documentary evidence in existence of the marriage of M. Lee together with her son's letter. I presume it will prove satisfactory. I have no doubt it is a perfectly fair case.
From your friend 
very respectfully 
James Buchanan
J.L. Edwards
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I certify that John Lee enlisted by me in the winter of Seventy nine for during the war and has not been set & but for his depreciation and the pay given to the soldiers their return from the south war
John Smith Captain
 May 1st 1784
To the [illegible]
For the State of Maryland
On the back is the following
Sir please to settle my pay with Mr. Ignatius Wheeler Junr. and you will oblige me 
May 1st 1784
John Lee
 Auditors Office Annapolis May 5th 1794
I hereby certify that the above are true copies take from the Original filed in this Office
[illegible]
Robt. Denny Auditor
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John Lee
Accompt against the Estate of Coll Wheeler
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Col. Ignatius Wheeler with John Lee
							L               S           D
June 	27th	by Captn. Re.				0	17	6
1705
April 	30	by Captn. Re.				0	7	6
May 	2	By an order to Thomas Smith		0	3	0
	6	By the Bushels of wheat @ 6/6		0	9	9	
	7	By 2 Bushels of Corn @ [illegible]	0	6	0
	30	By 2 Bushels ditto			0	6	0
June	11	By an order to john Stump		3	0	0
	24	By 2 Bushels of wheat @ 6/6		0	13	0
	27	By 2 ½ Bushels of Corn @ 3		0	7	6
July	1	By one Sickle @ 6/6			0	6	6
August	1	By an order to John Stump		1	0	0	
		By 2 ½ Bushels of Corn @ 3	/	0	7	6
	29	By 1 Bushel of Corn @ 3/		0	3	0	
Sept	2	By [illegible]				0	1	6
	9	By Captn. Rec.				3	0	0
1706
Febr.	15	By 4 Ct Wt of hay @ 3/			0	12	0
	22	By 2 Bushels of wheat @ 6/6		0	13	0
June 	15	By 3 Bushels ditto			0	19	6
							---	---	---
							13	12	3
		By Smithwork Recd.			4	6	3
							---	---	---
							17	10	6
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Col. Ignatius Wheeler to John Lee
1705							L               S           D
April 30		To Soldiers Certificate of 
		200 Dollars				20	0	0
Decem. 20	to 1 Ditto of [illegible] Dollars of [illegible]	31	5	0
		to 10 years interest on [illegible]		10	11	0
		to [illegible] interest on [illegible]		1	4
---	---	---
							71	0	0
	To interest on [illegible]			17	10	6
---	---	---
		Balance					53	2	2

Harford County to wit 
On this 7th day of January 1794 Came the above named John Lee before me the Subscriber. One of the [illegible] Oath according to Law that the above Accompt of Seventy one pounds and Eight pence is just and true as it stands stated and that he never received any part parcel Security or other satisfaction for the [illegible] to the best of his knowledge more than the credit given.
[Illegible]
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Hon J. Steven 
Feby 24 1853
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250 
Pension Office 
Feb. 24, 1833 
In reply to the enclosed letter. have to inform you that Martha Lee widow of John Lee, is in the receipt of a pension at the rate of $80 per annum.
As this is the highest rate of allowance for the services of a private of infantry, it is not in our power to increase her stipend 
Hon T. Stevens 
[illegible]
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423
Pen off 
Feby 23rd 
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Mrs Martha Lee alias Graham has been examined & her papers filed under the act of 7 July 38. The claims for her first husbands service which is duly established but the date of her marriage to him should be established by the certificate of the Clerk of Harwood Co Md. where the licence issued.
She states that after his death she married in 1804 a strange man who came into the neighborhood by the name of Robert Graham and that soon after --- their marriage she heard that he was a married to another woman which caused a state of things that resulted in his going off & that she regarded the marriage as [illegible]
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[illegible] & has never heard of him to this day - several of the neighbors confirm by their depositions the report of his being a married man & of his leaving her in a few months after marriage.
The act requires that she should be a widow and in order to sustain that character some direct evidence should be adduced that Graham was previously married or that he is now dead- No proof of either fact has been adduced 
Hon James Buchanan Senator
Hon Senator Buchanan Feby 23 1843.
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Mr Boynton
Penn 36 – No 3860
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Official Business
Geo. C. Whiling Esqr
Department of the Interior
 Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Referred to room no. 100 Nov 3
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Official Business
Geo. C. Whiling Esqr
Department of the Interior
 Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Referred to room no. 100 Nov 3
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295
60 acres
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No. 5763
Martha Lee alias Graham
Pa
Letter Hon J Buchanan feb 23 ‘43
Act 4th July 1836
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FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office,
Washington
D.C
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OFFICIAL BUSINESS
FREE
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
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OFFICIAL BUSINESS
FREE
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
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State of Maryland 
Harford County 
On the ninth day of February eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before John Dougherty one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Harford County Thomas H. Morgan Esqr. after being duly sworn on the holy evangalist of almighty God doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with the above named Martha widow of John Lee late of Harford County Maryland decd. since the year seventeen hundred eighty nine about the time they were married, and that they resided about a mile from my Fathers house at the time of the death of the said John Lee which occurred by accident, that they had at the time of his death seven children namely John B. James Edward David Nancy Parker and Caroline and that they were all young and that I was informed that they were legally married by Parson Davis a minister of the Baptist church and that they have been allways considered as legally married and lived together as man and wife, and that the said Martha widow of the late John Lee was placed in the most distressing circumstances at the time of the death of her husband, and that she has allways sustained a good character and I have frequently heard my father Robert Morgan say that the above named John Lee served as a private soldier in the revolution, and further recollect that the aforesaid Martha Lee was afterwards married to a man who came in the neighbourhood about six or eight months after the death of her husband that they were married that his name was Robert Graham that it was reported shortly after their marriage that he was a married man at the time which caused [illegible] unpleasant feelings between them that he stayed a short time and went away since noones heard anything of him.
My age is sixty nine
Thomas Hamilton Morgan
[illegible] and subscribed the day and year above written,
before John Daugherty J. P.
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No 5763 Martha Lee alias 
Graham
a
Act 4 July 36 
Aomo
2 yrs pri
80$
Hon. J. Buchanan 
Lancaster
Pa.
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[illegible]
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Parson Davis where they were married and returned to my fathers house where they resided for some time and further he resided in the neighbourhood about a mile distant when the said John Lee & Martha his wife first went to housekeeping that he resided in the neighbourhood not far off when the above named John Lee accidentally shot which caused his death in about five hours, this circumstance produced the greatest distress with the said Martha widow of John Lee for she had at the time seven children all small and unfit to take care of themselves at the time of his death he resided on a part of the farm owned by [illegible] Wheeler and that he is certain the aforesaid Martha is the widow of John Lee who served in the revolution [illegible] recollects of hearing of the said John Lee when he returned from the war he was at that line about seven or eight years of age that the said this the widow of the said John Lee sustaining on charities [illegible] of her being married to a man in the neighborhood a short time after the death of the said John Lee by the name of  Robert Graham and that he recollects hearing shortly after they were marred that he the said Robert Graham was a married man this report occasioned many unpleasant feelings between them that he stayed a short time and went away since he never heard anything of him
Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and year above written
Samuel Dick
before John Daugherty J.P.
 I do hereby certify that the aforenamed Thomas Hamilton Morgan Esq Elizabeth Brown and Samuel Dick I have known them for the last twenty five years and have every reason to believe they [illegible] and have resided in Harford County to the present time that they are all persons of excellent characture and undoubted veracity and that in my opinion their statements are entitled to full credit
Given under my hand in Harford County the tenth day of February Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and forty three 
John Daugherty 
Maryland Harford County to wit:
I Henry Dorsey Clerk of Harford County Court hereby certify that John Daugherty Gentleman before whom the annexed & aforegoing affidavits were made & who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland Justices of the in & for Harford County duly Commissioned & sworn 
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the Seal of said Court this tenth day of February A.D. 1843 
Henry Dorsey Clk
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Baltimore October 29th 1858 
Geo. C. Whiting Esqr 
Dr Sir
I wish to advertise the 60 Acre Land warrant paid by Pension Office Augt. 25/56 which was sent to Geo. H. Hickman & who never delivered to my Grandmother Mrs. Martha Lee alias Graham widow of John Lee a revolutionary soldier. I applied for her through said Hickman
Messrs Jno. S & R. H. Gallaher stated to me April 18/57 that they had filed a caveat at General Land office & notified said office that Hickman never delivered it to the proper owner.
I have lost one of the figures in the number of the warrant marked - 238.78 - Will you be so good as to furnish me the number & the proper form of advertisement as I can get no satisfaction from agents. [illegible]
Respectfully 
No 16 Josephine St John W. Lee
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Little Britain March 27th 1843 
James Buchanan Esqr 
Dear Sir 
Yours of the [illegible] was duly received, but to comply with the request, to procure a copy of Mothers Marriage license, is out of the question as she was married by being published previous-- which was legal and customary at that time. The only way remaining was to go in quest of the records of Corson Davis who married my Father & mother, which I did on Thursday last, and found his papers relating the marriages in possession of his grate grand sons, Messrs James, B. & Thomas Alderson in Harford County, and after considerable searching we found he piece of paper attached to the within affidavit, on which is a memorandum of fathers and other marriage. This is the only record which he made of their marriage as there was a grate many on small bits of paper, and on the [illegible] of license on our license I counted five or six minutes of marriages. When by license he wrote under the note which he made license) and when they were published he wrote published this was the case with all the minutes which I noticed. The memorandum which I found corresponds with the statement set fourth by mother in her declaration except the day of the month this must of been forgotten, however this is the condition it was in, perhaps it may [illegible] satisfactory, it is at any rate I believe the only documentary evidence which can be obtained If a pension is obtained please to write me at the receipt of this letter when it will take place and at what period it will commence since the law was enacted
I remain Yours most sincerely 
David Lee
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Martha Lee - alias Graham
wu 
John Lee 
Reg 238782 Aug 7th 
Ar295
60 acres
[illegible]
Regt Deserted Sept 9/56 
Martha alias Graham
Jan 36 
Max Boynton May 17th
Page 50

Baltimore Feby 21st 1857 
Com. of Pensions 
Dr Sir 
I have received from my Father John Lee a soldier in the last war who served at North Pointe a letter stating that the application for a Bounty land warrant was filled up and signed the 7th August 1855. So that it could not have been much later than that month when it was forwarded to you. His Mothers application was filled and signed some time in Jany 1856 Her Name is Martha Lee alias Graham widow of John Lee a revolutionary soldier who now receives a pension as she banks of Pennsylvania 
Both of these I put in the hands of Geo. H Hickman & could never get any satisfaction in regard to [illegible] while he was here What I wish to know is whether such warrants have been issued if so I wish to file a caveat for each 
Respectfully John M Lee 
No 16 Josephine St.