Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2737, for Dory Malott, Maryland
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Service Md.
Malott, Dory or Theodore
Number S. 2737
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Ohio. 13.328.
Dory Malott of Vermont Co in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Co commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg.t commanded by Col Davis in the Maryland line for two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon T. Corwin, Lebanon W Co. Ohio.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 33. 40.00
$200.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm. K. Palmer Clerk, Book G[?] Vol 8. Page 16.
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The State of Ohio
Clement County Court of Common Pleas held before honorable George P. Torrence President Judge and Robert Harris, Isaac Whitaker and John Emery associates

at three on November {illegible] in the year 1832 Clement County C/P

Personally appeared in aforesaid Court Dory Malott of the county aforesaid aged seventy seven years [insert] as of the day of first December [end insert]  (77) who bring first duly sworn according to law on his oath make the following [insert] declaration [end insert] in order  to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.  That he enlisted in the service of the United States services the following named officers that at [illegible]  in the County of Washington in the State of Maryland in the year 1776 (the day of the month not [illegible]) he continued in the service of the United States as a private soldier under the command of Colonel Joseph Smith, Captain James Smith, Major Christopher Randolph(?), Lieutenant Christian Eakel, Ensign William Sheller(?), orderly sergeant Isaac Phillips, [rest of the line illegible] such provisions could be obtained for [illegible] scheduled from [illegible] to reach Genl Washington's army at Coriels ferry on the Delaware River in the state of Pennsylvanian but were not between old Lancaster and Coriels ferry the
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British prisoners that had been captured at Princeton and Trenton in New Jersey - some went on the Corels ferry and crossed the river and most to Flemington, where we remained but a few hours and then we got information that Washington had fixed his winter quarters at Morristown, we then marched from Flemington to Quibbletown on the Pluckamin in the State of New Jersey, remained there one night marched [illegible] to Quibbletown remaining here a short time, and [several words illegible] from thence to Morristown, and remained there probably three weeks, and proceeded from thence to Quibbletown, where we remained the balance of the winter, and were on the ninth of March discharged at that place by Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland commander in chief of the Maryland Militia having served the full tour for which he enlisted that [illegible] months, then returned home to the County of Washington in the State of Maryland, remained there but a short time before myself and brother John Malott together with Ignatious Keith were pressed into the service by Colonel John Rollins to go to Hagerstown Town where we went and remained there employed in butchering for the prisoners that were then at Fort Frederick on the Potomack River, remained in the above service at Fort Frederick Hagerstown about three months, and was then discharged by Colonel John Rollins who commissioned said prisoners.  In October 1777 at Hagerstown aforesaid I was drafted and
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placed under the command of Captain Andrew Heinites or "Haynes" Lieutenant John Shaiy ensign John Wilkins orderly sergeant John Ox, from thence we marched old Lancaster in Pennsylvania remained there probably two nights, and there got us away and accoutrements, the British were then in the possession of Philadelphia, from Lancaster we marched hard to join Washington's army at Whitemarsh Hill there we joined the army, and remained there three or four days before General Gates army joined Washington's and in a few days a part of General Gates army under the command of General Morgan were engaged in fighting the British one whole day, we remained under army all the time, and were between a half and a quarter a mile from the battleground, the British retreated and went to Philadelphia, cold weather then [unclear] on, from Whitemarsh Hill we marched to Valley Forge for winter quarters, all in the State of Pennsylvania. On one March we  crossed the Schuylkill River by making a fence of a bridge at the baggage waggons, at Valley Forge we ordered to build tub and cross.  So accordingly, [2 words illegible] in the winter were raised and accordingly marched down the Schuylkill River to join Colonel Pettiss regiment of the Pennsylvania militia, after we joined them on the Schuylkill
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river [strikeout] where we remained til we were legally discharged by Barone De Kalb who was commander in chief of the Maryland line, Otto Williams was Colonel [strikeout] of the Maryland line; the whole of the time that we were in the last named service amounted to six months, the time in which we were first drafted and I received a full discharge. -- In September 1779 I was ordered together with others by Colo Rollins to go to Fort Frederick in the State of Maryland to guard the prisoners, when I was ordered into this last service I was then a member of {strikout] a minute company and had all but two days notice before I had to march to Fort Frederick we remained at Fort Frederick about five months and a half and I was then discharged from the fort by Colo. Rollins, Colo. Richard Davis then called for volunteers to go with him to catch Tories, we took upwards of one hundred and eighty prisoners some of them had Commissions from General Howe we took them to Frederick County Jail and there kept them til Governor Thomas Johnson had them tried by the Court.  Stitches, Soosman and Pleciar were convicted and hung, some of the rest were sent to Anacostia, from Frederick County Colo. Davis marched us to Hagerstown and there we were discharged again having served about 5 months and a half that of the last service.  In about a week afterwards Colo. Davis again commanded myself and others to march [4 words illegible] to Virginia to meet the British Prisoners from the Albemarle barracks, and we met the Prisoners at Shenan-
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-doah River at the ferry we then made a forced march til we got into Maryland.  The Virginia soldiers went home, we marched the prisoners into Fort Frederick, during this march we suffered much for the want of food, then occurs cases to Colo. Rollins to exchange prisoners, from Fort Frederick we guarded the prisoners to Philadelphia under the command of Colo. Richard Davis and Captain Patterson.  We were delayed about three weeks before we commenced the march from Fort Frederick for the want of waggons, and horses. The prisoners were [illegible] in the barracks in Philadelphia we then left them and Colo. Davis generously I and others a discharge for six months service.  That during the whole of the foregoing service he was in the [2 words illegible] with his brother John Malott and Ignatious Keith that myself and Thom White  at home and not in actual service [rest of the line unclear] in the County of Washington State of Maryland, that the said Keith and John Malott are now [illegible] and needed to testify to the foregoing service.  That the accrued discharges [strikeout] written from, his several officers, at the termination of the several periods of service alluded to and remembers that he [unclear] the whole of them at one time.  That he was born in the County of Washington in Maryland about five miles from Hagerstown
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That he has a record of his age in a bible in his father's handwriting saying that [Dory?] was born the 7th day of December 1755. That he lives on his fathers farm in Washington County aforesaid after the revolutionary was til the year 1805 when he came to the township of Williamsburg in Clement County this where he still resides and has resided there {2 words illegible]

That John Kain, William Waters Esq., Job Stockton postmaster at Williamsburg in said township are all acquainted with [several words unclear] aforesaid that his clergyman lives in the immediate vicinity of where he lives.

We hereby [4 words illegible] whatever to a pension or annuity except the personal and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
[Signature]
Dory Malott

Sworn & subscribed to in open Court anov. 14 1832
J.D. Morris Clerk

We
residing in the Township of Williamsburgh in the County of Clermont hererby certify that we are well acquainted with Dory Malott who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be nearly seventy seven years of age that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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by

Ignatious Keith and John Malott both of the County aforesaid appeared in open Court and made oath that they are both well acquainted with Dory Malott who has signed the foregoing declaration, and that they have heard the same, and that they know from their own personal knowledge that he served in the army of the United States as he has therein stated, they were [unclear] and always and in the same company.

The above statement of Ignatious Keith and John Malott was sworn to in upon Court

J.D. Morris Clerk
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for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the arm of the revolution," approved on the 15th day of May 1828, I, Theodore Malott of the township of Williamsburgh in the County of Clermont in the state of Ohio, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revo-lution for and during the war, and continued in the service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain John Reed's company in the sixth regiment of the Maryland line.  That I also declare that I afterwards received certificates, for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th day of May 1778.

And I further declare, that I was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pen-sion list of the United States.  Witness my hand, this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord 1828.

[Signature]
Theodore Malott

Before me the undersigned one of the acting Justices of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio personally appeared this day Job Stockton and James Perrine of the said County who did severally make oath that Theo-dore Malott by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in service as therein stated -

Witness my hand this 17th day of June in the year 1828

William Waters Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio 
ss
Clermont County
[looks to be a seal]

I [unclear] A. Bryan Deputy Clerk for David C. Bryan Clerk of the Court of  Common Pleas in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio do hereby Certify that William Waters Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to, [illegible] at the time, was acting Justice of the  Peace in and for said County and duly empowered to administer oaths, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to  all his Official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and official seal of the said Court this 10th day of June in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

A.W. Bryan Dep'y Clark
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No Number

Dory Malott

Clermon Co.
Ohio

13,328

Adm 2 years

Hon. T. Corman
Lebanon
Warren Co.
Ohio
[Last two lines partial]

[Upside down on left]
60931
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War Department,

Pension Office,

25th June, 1833

Sir:
 
This evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulation will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

[Beginning of Form]
A Statement, showing the Service of Dory Malott Clement Co O

[Column 1]
Period when the service was rendered
Abt. 1776
about or
Dr. Oct. 1777
About 1779
[Ditto marks]

[Column 2]
Duration of the claimant's service
[broke down by Years/Months/Days]
6 Months
3 Months
6 Months
5 1/2 Months
5 1/2 Months
6 Months

[Column 3]
Rank of the Claimant
Private
[ditto marks]
[ditto marks]

[Column 4]
Names and rank of the Field of-fficers under whom he served.
Col. I. Smith
Col. Rollins
[ditto marks] Williams
[ditto marks] Rollins
[ditto marks] Davis

[Column 5]
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
77 years
Washington Co. Md

[Column 6]
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Winesses.--

Not certified as Credible
[End of Form]

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
22 July 1828

Theodore Malott of Williamsborough in the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private, in captain Reed's company, in the regiment of the Maryland line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eight dollars, provided by the resolve o the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

Representing the Secretary
A. Dirkind

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Third Auditor's Office
28 July 1824

[Paragraph struck through]
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Revolutionary Claims.

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
29 July 1828

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Theodore Malott, under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution.

[Signature]
Richard Rush

The Hon. the Secretary of War,

War Department
Bounty land office

It does not appear from the records of this office that Theodore Malott of the Maryland line ever received a Warrant for bounty land or that he is entitled to receiving one.

[Signature]
Robert Taylor

No Record
Nov. 26/80
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Rec'd 27 June 1828
acknowledged 30 June

[Reversed text]

Williamsburgh O
Jun 20th

Hon. Richard Rush

Department of the Treasury
United States

Revolutionary Claims
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Williamsburgh Ohio June 19 1828

The Hon. Secretary of the Treasury

Sir in behalf of Theodore Malott a soldier of the revolution whose papers are herewith transmitted I will state one fact -- at the Surrender of Gen'l Hall's army, the said Theodore Malott drew a pension but he was so patriotic that he resigned his pension to the United State untill the close of the war -- he expects his papers were burned but at this time he is old and in indigent circumstances -- and stands in need of assistance from the Government.

Theodore Malott and Lieut. Hugh Malloy requests that if they receive any thing it would be sent to this office.

Your most Obedient and Humb. Servent
William Waters
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Williamsburgh O
June 20th 

Hon. Richard Rush 
Secty of the Treasurer
U. States

Revolutionary Claim
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[At Side] Rev. War

2737
INVALID

File No. 2737
Dory Malott
Privt. Rev. War

Act:  June 7 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 235
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Theodore Malott
Maryland line
Ohio

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#2737 Rev.

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#2737
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County

Court of Common Pleas
November Term 1832

"On this [?]the day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court Dory Malott an applicant for the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrog-atories prescribed by the said department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states"

The State of Ohio
ss
Clermont County

I Jonathan D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of the Term aforesaid had come the above named application of said Dory Malott for a pension.

In Testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 19th day of November AD 1832.

J.D. Morris Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County 

The Court of Common Pleas
May Term 1833

"This day personally appeared in open Court Dory Malott an applicant for or pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 For the purpose of amending his declaration made at the November Term of this Court in the year 1832 in relation to his services as a soldier of the Revolution and after being duly sworn according to law deposed and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent lapse of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned and in the following grades for two years and three months he served as a private soldier and for such service he claims a pension, and the Court hereby certify that John Malott & Ignatius Keith who at the last term of this Court testified as to their knowledge of the services of the said Dory Malott as a Soldier of the Revolution are persons of credibility and that their statement is entitled to credit."

The State of Ohio
ss
Clermont County

I Jonathan D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of Common Pleas the Term aforesaid had on the above named application of said Dory Malott for a pension.

In Testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 29th day of May AD 1833.

J.D. Morris Clerk