Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,847, for James Mead, Maryland
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Mead, James
Mary

SERVICE
Md.

NUMBER
W. 3847
B.L. Wt. 2434-100
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Rep Aug 31

1686
Maryland
Mary Mead
widow of James Mead
who was a Drum Major
in the Maryland line
for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 108 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of August, 1843 and sent to Alex.r Yearley
Baltimore
Md

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 143.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On this fourteenth day of January in the
year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty two before the Orphans Court of Baltimore City and County A Court of Record personally appeared Mary Mead aged seventy four years A resident of the aforesaid City and formerly a resident of Queen Anne County in the aforesaid State who being first duly sworn
according to Law on her oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838 Entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she the said Mary Mead the widow of James Mead who enlisted as a drum major in the second Maryland Regiment on the 15th day of August 1777 And on the 15th of November 1783 was discharged. That her husband deceased James Mead rendered services during the Revolutionary war under Captain Levin Wynden And the aforesaid Mary Mead formerly Mary Wilkinson further states that she was Lawfully married to the aforesaid James Mead after his revolutionary services on the first day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety one at John Mead in Queen Anne County by the Revd John Forkman of the Methodist Episcopal Church at a place adjoining a farm called Ruthsburg And this deponent further states upon oath
that her marriage aforesaid was never recorded to her knowledge and that the only proof was those who were
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present at the marriage ceremony. And that her husband James Mead died on the tenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and Seven, that she the said Mary Mead is still a widow, and never married again since his death. Sworn to and subscribed before us the Judges of the Orphans Court for the City and County of Baltimore

her mark
Mary Mead +

Wm. Baker
James B. Price
John H. Briscoe

Justices of the Orphans Court of Baltimore City + County

Maryland J. I hereby Certify that William Baker James B. Price and John H Briscoe who have subscribed the aforegoing Certificate were at the time of so doing Justices of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law.

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my
name and affix the seal of said Court this 17 day of January 1842

Test D.M. Perine Regr.
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8147
Declaration of Mrs. Mary Mead of the City of Baltimore
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Received Jany 24th 1849. Land Warrant number 2434. for one hundred acres, [illegible] in favor of Philip Mead sole heir of James Mead deceased, who was a solder in the Maryland Line.
Michael Dunn
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State of Maryland 
City of Baltimore S.S 

I Philip Mead, heir at Law of James Mead drummer do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that James Mead did enlist in Seventeen hundred and Seventy six, or about that time for during the War and served in the Regiment No 3, under the command of Colonel Smallwood, of the Maryland, line; and that he continued in the said Service of the United States, until the end thereof 

I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land, promised to the said James Mead, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe, that he ever received it or transfered his claim to it Therefore, Know all men by these presents that I Philip Mead aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Michael Dunn to be my true and Lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, to demand, and receive, from the Secretary of War of the United States; a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint
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One or more substitutes or Attornies under
him for the special purposes above
expressed
Attest this 25th day of September 1848. Philip Mead
Sworn to before A. H. Penningtion J.P.
State of Maryland Baltimore Cnty [illegible]
Personally appeared
the above named Philip
Mead subscriber, to the aforegoing declaration
and in my presence acknowledged the power
attorney thereby subjoined to be his free act
and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
Attest this 25th day of September 1848.
A. H. Pennington Justice of the Peace
in and for the City of Baltimore

State of Maryland, Baltimore County, Sct.
I herby certify, that Augustine H. Pennington Esquire before whom the 
annexed affidavit & acknowledgement were made and
who has thereto subscribed his name was at the
time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the
State of Maryland, in and for the City
Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and
affix the seal of Baltimore County Court, this 25th day of September
A.D. 1848.
A. W. Bradford
Clerk Baltimore County Court
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Set 

As an Orphans Court held for said County on the twenty fourth day of August AD 1847 satisfactory evidence was adduced, in Court to prove that Philip Mead a resident of the City of Baltimore in said State is the nephew and only surviving Heir at Law in fee of James Mead who served to the close of the war as a Drummer in the Third Regiment attached to the Maryland Continental line 

William Brewer 
Los N. Stockett 
Stevens Gambrill

 In Testimony that the aforegoing is truly taken from the minutes and proceedings of the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County I have hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of office this twenty fourth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty seven 
[signature illegible]
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Rev. War Section.
Aug. 29, 1922.  

Mrs. F. J. Boiseau 
Apt. 34, The Isabella, 
1483 Newton St. 
Washington, D.C. 

Madam: 
In response to your letter of the 13"" ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, W. 3847, it appears that James Mead served as Drum Major in the Second Maryland Regiment, from Aug. 15, 1777, to Nov. 15, 1783. He died Mar. 10, 1807. 

He married in Queen Anne Co. Md. March 1, 1791, Mary Wilkinson, who was allowed pension on her application executed Jan. 14, 1843, while living at Baltimore, Md. aged 74 years. She stated that she never had any children. 

Very respectfully, 
Washington Gardner Commissioner.
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1922 Aug. 29. Hist to Mrs
Boisean A.
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3847

Mary Mead ┃
Wid.
Ja's.
Mead
Mussr McLine
Act: Mch 3rd 1843
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 1
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Mary Mead
of James
Maryland
Suspended
See let. 4th Feb: 42
Nomilton Jones
let: to same 21 March 43
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Agen notified
James Bryant and Cath Spencer's
affidants Copd & sent to A.
Yearley Balto,
Jany 19. 43.

6645
Maryland
Mary Mead widow of 
James Mead, decd
was a pensioner under the Act of
who died on the 10 March 1807
of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
who was a Drum Major in the Comp. commanded
Captain Wyneden
of the regt. commanded by Col.   
in the Maryland line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 108 Dollars Cents per annum,
is commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of March 1842
and sent to Hamilton
Jones Esq Baltimore Md
Arrears to the 4th of March 41
540.
Semi-annual allowance ending
540.00
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by Theo Smoody  Clerk,

Book A. Vol. 2 Page 175
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Land Office, Annapolis 
15th September 1841. 
I hereby Certify, that it appears by the muster roll of the Revolution remaining in this Office, That James Mead, enlisted as a Drum Major in the 2nd Maryland Regiment, on the 15th day of August 1777, and was present on the 1st day of November 1780, And I further certify, that by a Pay roll, kept by John Hamilton, Agent for the Maryland line, that James Mead (a Drum Major), appears to have received pay and Gratuity up to the 15th of November 1783. 

George G. Brewer 
Reg. Land off W.S. M.
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AI / Machine-Generated
(4 months ago)
3 - 049.
Ex. [illegible poss. MMH] Div. Rev. War Section
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. July 7, 1922
The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
1st name of widow
Name of soldier James Mead
(possibly spelled in some other way )
P. O. address of claimant at enlistment
and after service 
Company
Regiment.
State where enlisted Talbot Co. M.
Date of birth
Date of death
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.
Drum Major 2nd Md. Regiment
commanded by Col. Thomas Woolford
and Col. Thomas Price
Return attached letter with reply.
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
G-2469
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Apr. 24. The Isabella
1483 Newton St.
Washington, D.C.
May 30, 1922
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C
Sir,
Please furnish me with the
of James Mead who served
with the Maryland forces during
the Revolutionary war.
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Respectfully yours
Loretto Boiseau
Mrs. F. J. Boiseau
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'---
State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County
November 10th 1841-
Then Came James Bryant before
me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the
State of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel
County aforesaid, and made oath on the
Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that he knew
and was well acquainted with James Mead
who was a Drummer in the recruiting
service of the United States, in Queen Ann's
and Talbot Counties, and that Capt Devin
Winder was the recruiting officer, Sargeant
John Chambers was the recruiting Sargeant
of the recreating party in said County
this fact is impress'd upon his mind from
the circumstance of a great battallion
meeting at a place call'd, "the Royal Oak"
in Talbot County, where Sargeant Chambers
recruited a number of recruits for
the regular Army - Deponent farther
saith that he well recollects said
James Mead as aforesaid, because
he acted as Drummer under Sargeant
Chambers in the recruiting service
in Queen Ann's County where deponent
enlisted, and deponent further saith
that after James Mead aforesaid return'd
from his Revolutionary service, he was
lawfully married to Mary Mead
formerly Mary Wilkinson, (and who is
now his widow) in the month
of March seventeen hundred and ninety
one at John Mead's in Queen Anne's County
by the Reverend John Forkman of the Methodist
Episcopal Church on a farm which
adjoins a place called Ruthsburg, and that ┃
(the )
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the reason for recollecting the time so distinctly when the parties aforesaid were married is from the fact of his being present, and an eye witness when their Marriage Ceremony was performed, and from the fact of the wedding being kept up all night by dancing and amusing themselves and this deponent with one other of the Company played the violins for them, after which and on the following day he with the rest of the party
went in company together as spectators to
see some Horse racing, and that he knows
the said Mary Mead to be the same person
aforesaid, for he and the within named
party's lived near neighbours during their
younger days and that she has never married
since the death of her said Husband James Mead
James Bryant
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year the first herein before written
R Welch of Ben
Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with Mr.
James Bryant now resident of the City of
Annapolis that he is a respectable and
worthy old Gentleman and whose integrity and
honor stands unexceptionable, his character
can be well understood by refference
to the Document produced by him when
making application for a pension at the
department
R Welch of Ben
Anne Arundel County Court
I hereby certify that Robert Welch of Rice
Gentleman who appears to have thus and signed the
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One
within affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the State of
Maryland's Justices of the peace and for Anne Arundel
County duly Commissioned and sworn
In Testimony whereof thereto [illegible] my
name and affix the seal of Anne
Arundel County on this Eleventh day of
November Eighteen hundred and forty
W S Green Clk County
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State of Maryland Alt City 
On this nineteenth day of January one thousand Eight hundred and forty two, before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of Maryland, in and for Baltimore City, personally appeared Spencer, an aged lady and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that she is well acquainted with Mary Mead now the widow of James Mead, a drummer in the war of the revolution and when they were living together as many and wife at least forty nine years ago in Queen Anne’s County when the deponent resided at the time when they were respected as man & wife by all the neighborhood. 
Catherine Spencer /her mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me
/s/
I hereby certify that I have known Ms. Spencer above named for many years and that she is a lady much respected and on whom reliance may be placed for veracity with perfect safety.
/s/
State of Maryland
Baltimore County Sch.I hereby certify that William B. James Gentleman before whom the above affidavit was made and by whom the above
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Certificate was given and who has thereto signed his name was at the [illegible] of so during a Justice of the peace of the State aforesaid in and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned therein. 
In testimony whereof thereto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore COunty Court this 20th day of January 1843
/s/
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Maryland Queen Anne’s County, Set
I James Tilghman, Clerk of Queen Anne’s County Court do hereby certify that the records of my office contains no evidence or proof of any kind that a marriage license was [illegible] from or granted to any Minister of the Gospel to solemnize the marriage rights between James Meads and Mary Millmson of Queen Anne’s County aforesaid. 
In testimony whereof, I hereto [illegible] my name and this seal of Queen Anne’s County Court the eighteenth day of October Ano. Dorman Eighteen hundred and forty one. 
James Tilghman
Of 
Queen Annes County Court
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Mary Mean of James 
Maryland
Admitted
Drum Major 2 yrs $108
Cap. Wayne don Col. 2
Md. Reg. 
died 10 March 1807
Act oof July 1838
Hamilton Jones
Baltimore, Md
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United States of America
State of Maryland-to wit:
I, William Eichelberger, of J. Notary Public, by Letters Ptent under the Great Seal of the STATE OF MARYLAND, Commissioned and duly Qualified, residing in the CITY OF BALTIMORE, in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, attest, and make known, That on this twenty eighth day of March in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty two personally appeared before me Marat Mead, who being duly sworn [illegible] Evangelic Almighty God Deposeth and Sayeth that she was lawfully married to her husband James Mead deceased, in March in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety one in Queen Anne’s County in the State of Maryland and that her husband and rendered Service during the war of the Am Revolution as Drum Major and the deponent further states that the marriage aforesaid has never been [illegible] or any family [illegible] to her knowledge and that she never gave [illegible] to any soldier and that has only ever has [illegible] which she can[illegible] in support of his claim in that furnished by those who were present. 
Mary Mead/her mark
In testimony whereof, I, the Notary, have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed ny Notarial Seal, the 25th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
[illegible signature]
Notary Public
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1963
Mary Mead
$108 per an
Alex Yearley
Baltimore
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore S.S.

On this twenty first day of April Eighteen hundred
and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland
in and for the City of Baltimore, Mary Mead, aged 85
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth
on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of
Congress, passed on the 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to
widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; That she is the widow of James Mead, who was a
Drum Major in the 2nd Maryland Regiment in the war
of the Revolution. That she received a Pension of one
hundred and Eight dollars per annum for five years
under the act of July 7th 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mary X (her mark) Mead  (Witness William Stewart)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before me and I do hereby certify that the above declarant
Mary Mead is personally known to me
William Stewart
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set
I hereby certify that William Stewart Esquire before
whom the within affidavit was made and who
hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time
of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of
Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned
and Sworn
In Testimony whereof I hereto set
my hand and affix the Seal of Baltimore
County Court on this 9th day of June
1843
Thos [illegible]
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Baltimore 21st April 1843

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Herewith I send you
my application and declaration, in order to obtain
the benefits of the act of Congress of 3rd March 1843, granting,
pensions for one year to certain widows who have obtained
Pensions under the act of July 1838
Be pleased to direct
to me to the care of Alex Yearley Baltimore
William Stewart
Very Respectfully
I am Your obt sevt
Mary ((X her mark) Head

Witness William Stewart
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Baltimore March 16th 1842
Sir

Enclosed you will find a certificate
in Mrs Mary Meads case to a pension and
in suport of her marriage and to amend
the first deposition given by Mr James
Bryant, your immediate attention is much
desired by Mrs Mary Mead who is anxious to
leave this place and settle among her
friends some distance west,
Hamilton Jones
attorney for Mrs Mary Mead
To the Commissioner of Pensions
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Washington City
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Baltimore  March 28th 1842
Sir
Enclosed to you the deposition made
by Mrs Mary Mead in suport of her application for a pension, and which I have
no doubt will be found sufficient to
establish her claim, your attention to this
will be gratefully acknowledged
Yours Very Respectfully
Hamilton Jones


J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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5 July 1848
J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Commission er of Pensions
Washington
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Baltimore Jany 4. 1842
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir

your early
Mrs Mary Mead a resident of
this City - states to me that she is the widow of James Mead
who was a Drum Major, in the 2nd Maryland Regiment in
the War of the Revolution and that she has recovered
through the Agency of Mr Michael Dunn - Five years Pension under the act of July 7. 1838. out of which
she states that Mr Dunn paid her $280. in full
She wishes me to apply to the Legislature of
Maryland for a pension, and begs the favor of you
to send her a certified copy of the proofs under
which you granted her U.S. Pension, to place
before the Legislature of Maryland with her petition
Your early compliance will oblige
Your Obt. Servant
Alex Yearley
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State of Marylan City of Baltimore to wit
On this 18th day of August A D. 1847 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of
the State of Maryland in and for the City of
Baltimore personally appeared Elijah Alexander
aged seventy nine or about a resident of the
City aforesaid but formerly a resident of
Queen Ann County in said State, and made
Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God
that he well knew and was intimately
acquainted with James Mead of said County
was said to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, his reasons for recollecting the
said Mead more particularly is from
the fact of said deponent brother and
said Mead, Sailing a vessel together from
Queen Ann's County to the City of Baltimore
after the said Mead, had left his
Revolutionary service, this deponent
further declares that he knows the
said James Mead, to be the identical
person for whose service in the revolutionary War
his widow had received a pension from
the United States up to the time of
her Mary Meads death and that Philip
Meads of the said City is the only Lawful
surviving heir of the said Soldier James
Meads
Elijah Alexander
Sworn to and
subscribed
R Middleton
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In Testimony that the aforegoing is a true copy of the original remaining on file in the Office of the Register Wills for Anne Arundel COunty 
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of the office this fourteenth day of November 1848
[illegible signature]
This is to certify that we have known the within dependent Elyah Alexander for some hears and would without any hesitation believe any statement made by him under oath. 
[illegible] Nov 16, 1848
Henry Myers
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James Mead
No. 2434
Mich. Dunn
Baltimore
Md.
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Michael Dunn
And Oct 17th, 48Ja. Mea Dec. McLune

Rec. [illegilbe] 17th 48
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Baltimore Sept 25th 1848.
Sir

Herewith I send the papers application
for Bounty Land claimed to be due Philip
Mead on account of his relations Revolutionary
services.
Will you be kind enough to give your
attention to the case as soon as convenient
I am very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Michael Dunn

Oct 17th 48. Informed Mr Dunn, that if there was testimony taken before the Court
in regard to the service and identity of James Mead, the Uncle of Philip Mead
that testimony should be produced to this office in the Affidavits of the person or
persons who gave it, and the Credibility of the affiants duly certified
Also, that it must shown when, and where James Mead, died, and what
is the age of the present applicant

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Baltimore Novr 16th 1848,
Sir
Herewith I send you the evidence which I 
procured from the Orphans Court of Anne
Arundel County, in support of the application
for Bounty Land claimed due Philip Meads,
upon account of his alledged uncle James
Meads Revolutionary services
Your attention to this case soon will be
thanfully acknowledged
I am very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant

Michael Dunn

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington D.C
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Baltimore Jan 22d 1842
Sir
Enclosed you will receive the papers in
the case of Mrs Mary Mead which I am
in hopes will prove satisfactory, and your
early attention will oblige
Your respectfully
Hamilton Jones
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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United States of America
State of Maryland,-to wit:
I, Robert M. Malch, Notary Public, by commissioned and duly qualified, residing in the City of Baltimore, in the State afore said, do hereby Certify, Attest, and make known, that on the date of the date hereof, before me personally appeared, James Bryant, now a resident of Queen Anne’s County, State of Maryland, and did declare, depose, and says on oath that his reasons for remembering the date of the marriage of James Mead to Mary Millferon as set forth in a previous disposition, grew out of the fact of the death of his, the deponent’s first born child which occurred in the same year of the marriage of the said James Mean and Mary Millferon and, he further deposes, that the date of the marriage is the more particularly remembered in consequence of the Grieg of himself and wife growing out of said loss to them, of their first born child. 
Of which an Act having been of me requested, I have granted these present, to serve and avail as need and occasion may require. 
IN testimony thereof, I, the said Notary hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notary Seal, the Eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two. 
/s/ Robert M. Melch, Notary Public