Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8971, William Wall, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Wall, William
Kitturah

W. 8971
B.L. Wt. 26217-160-55

CONTENTS
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13418

Maryland

William Wall

of Dorchester Co in the state of Md. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel___ of the Maryland line, for the term of 2 years 3 mo to '80

Inscribed on the Roll of, Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollar per month, to commence on the 26th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of July 1819 and sent to WilliamB. Martin Esqr Cambridge Maryland

Arrears to 4th March 1819 .... $74.58 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sep 1819 48

9 mos 10/31                 #122.58

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Dec. 6 Apri 1838 from 4 March 1836 to 16 Decr 1836 Agt notified 12 Decr 1838
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4911

Maryland, Kitturah Wall widow of William Wall
Md who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars and 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued 3d day of Feb. 1855 and sent to Elias Griswold, Cambridge Md.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 118. Vol. A
(18)

Sent: to E. Griswold. Feb 20th/53

Not found
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34.481. Mar. 3. 1833

Apr. 2 "

Kitturah Wall, widow of William Wall, Private

Capt.
Col.
Ensd.
Dis.} Revolutionary War.

Pensioner.

Feb. 53 4911

No 26.

Boynton

AV: 160 Aci May 16/56
Boynton M

Elias Griswold. Cambridge, Md.

Cir E. Groswold Aug 20/55
Let (not found) Sauer Sept 6/55

Feby 53-No 1911

Vol. WI. page 15.
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In the matter of the application of Mrs William Wall for Pension

Affidavit of illegible [illegible] of [illegible]
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September 27th, 1831 William Walls and Kety Wright were married by William Davis according to his own record.

Matthew G Davis

State of Maryland, Dorchester County} on this 19th day of January 1855 personally appeared appear(sic) before me a Justice of the Piece(sic) for the County and State aforesaid the aforesaid Matthew G Davis and affirm of the holy Evangel of Almighty God that the above a true memorandum from the Record kept by his Father, Rev. Wm. Davis Who resided at his death in Carolin(sic, should be Caroline) County State of Maryland that he is a son of said William Davis but have no authority to allow original record to go out of his hands. 

Affirmed to and subscribed before me this 19th day of January 1855,

Matthew G. Davis

Test James B. Thompson (seal)
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State of Maryland, Dorchester County} On this 22nd day of January 1855 personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County of Dorchester Mrs. Kittura(sic) Wall to me known and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that there is no record evidence either in family Bible or otherwise to her knowledge of her marriage to William Wall unless it be in a record kept by the minister Revd William Davis who performed the ceremony that the said Davis lived at the time of her marriage in Caroline County Maryland and died there that through her son she has applied for and procured from his son Mathew G. Davis the accompanying certificate and affidavit but has no power or authority to procure the original record and cannot procure it. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 22nd day of January 1855.
Kitturah (her x mark) Wall
Mr. James B. Thompson
I herby(sic) certify that the said Kitturah Wall is unable by reason of bodily infirmity old age and blindness to leave her home and the above affidavit was taken by me at her residence on the day and year first above writen(sic) James B. Thompson (seal)
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State of Maryland, Dorchester County}ss

I Francis J. Henry Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County in and for the County & state above mentioned and hereby Certify that James B. Thompson whose genuine signature appears on both annexed Affidavit and Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, that alld his official acts as such are Entitled to all faith and credit. Given under my hand and seal of office at Cambridge this 24th day of January A.D. 1855

F.J. Henry, Clk
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Wm Wall

13,418

iss'd. July 1819
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Schedule
Maryland Dorchester County ss

On this thirty first day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record which proceeds according to the course of common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount sharing the power of fines & imprisonment for the said County, William Wall aged about eighty six years resident in Dorchester County in said State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare the he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:  in the Second Company of the Second Maryland Regiment the date of his original declaration is the 26 day of May 1818 the number of his pension certificate now in his possession is 13,418 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed o my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress,entitled "an Act of 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 herety annexed and by me subscribed.
A pension from the State of Maryland of forty dollars per year.
One cow, one iron pot, one iron oven broke, a few cups & saucers & a small quantitiy of earthenware, 3 old pewter plates, 1 old pewter dish; one plough & one Harrow valued by the Court at the sum of Ten dollars exclusive of the State pension; my occupation has been that of a Farmer but from affliction & old age am unable to labour. I have four in family including myself viz my wife Lovey aged about fifty one years very much afflicted, my wifes daughter Nancy Easton, aged about thirteen years, sick at present but generally healthy, & my Grandaughter Rebecca Wall aged about four years
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very infirm and afflicted.

William (his x mark) Wall

Witness
Jno Donovan

Sworn to and declared on the thirty first day of October 1820. Before Dorchester County Court in the State of Maryland in Open Court.

Clerk E Richardson Clk

I, Ezekiel Richardson, Clerk of Dorchester County Court as hereby certify, that the aforegoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court; and I so further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the afresaid Schedule is Ten Dollars.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, nad affixed the Seal of the said court on this sixth day of November 1820.

E Richardson Clk

Clerk of the Court for the County of Dorchester in the State of Maryland.
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd Section of the Act of 3rd February 1853.
State of Maryland, County of Dorchester}ss:

On this fourth day of January 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Orphans Court of Dorchester County State of Maryland aforesaid Mrs. Kitturah Walls a resident of the County of Dorchester and State aforesaid aged 64 years who first being 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 in the 3rd of February1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of William Wall who was a revolutionary soldier and Pensioner under the Act (she is informed) of 1818, that his pension she believes was $96 per year and that his name was in the Maryland Rolls of U.S. Pensioners. She also declares that as the widow of said William Wall she is in the reception of $40 a year from the State of Maryland granted to her as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Wall on the 27th day of September
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Eighteen hundred and thirty one; thus the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev’d William Davis in the County of Dorchester and State of Maryland aforesaid; that her maiden name was Kitturah Smith; that her said husband died in said County and State on the 7th day of October 1836; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow. She also declares that she has and does appoint hereby Elias Griswold of Cambridge in the County of Dorchester and State of Maryland as her true and lawful attorney to apply for and receive her pension certificate should it be granted.
Kitturah (her x mark) Wall
F.B.C. Turpin
Henry Bramble
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that by reason of bodily infirmity the said widow is not able to attend the Circuit or Orpans Court of Dorchester County she being old, infirm and blind.
James Thompson
Judge of the Orphans Court of DC
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State of Maryland, County of Dorchester}
I Thomas H. Hicks Register of Wills of the Orphans Court in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby Certify that James Thompson whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Orphans Court in and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and Sworn; that all his official Acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the aforesaid Orphans Court is a Court of Record having general Jurisdiction in said County. I also Certify that I have no interest in the result of the case and am not concerned in its prosecution. Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Cambridge this fifth day of January 1855.
Tho. A. Hicks Reg W.D.G.
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34,481 Uriah Wall
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State of Maryland, County of Dorchester}ss.
On this 28th day of March A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Kitturah Wall aged sixty nine years a resident of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland who being duly sworn according to law declared that she is the widow of William Wall deceased who was a private in the Maryland Continental Line in the War of the Revolution, and would refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the papers now in his office in which the obtained a pension of $96 a year from the 3rd day of February 1853, for proof of her marriage with the said William Wall and for the service performed by him. She further declares that she has not received a Warrant for Bounty lands under this or any other Act of Congress nor made any other Application therefore. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be Entitled under the Act approved March 3rd 1855.
Kitturah (her x mark) Wall
James B. Thompson J.P.
We William H. Brinsfield and John D Walker residents of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Kitturah Wall
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In our presence and that we believe from the appearance and Statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Wm. H. Brinsfield
John D. Walker
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me in 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.
James B. Thompson J.P.
State of Maryland, Dorchester County}ss.
I hereby Certify that James B. Thompson Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit and acknowledgement was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County duty Commissioned and Sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County this 29th day of March A.D. 1855.
F.J. Henry Clk
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Know all men by these Presents that I Kitturah Wall of Dorchester County and State of Maryland have constituted and Appointed Elias Griswold of said County and State my true and lawful attorney irrevocable for me and in my name to apply for and receive for me the United States Government this Bounty land certificate or Warrant to which I may be Entitled under the Act of 3rd March 1855 as widow of William Wall a Revolutionary Soldier and generally to do all other necessary acts & things touching the premises hereby confirming all whatsoever my paid attorney shall legally do or cause to be done in & about these premises. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty Eighth day of March 1855.
Kitturah (her x mark) Wall (seal)
James B. Thompson J.P.
State of Maryland, Dorchester County}ss.
Personally appeared before me on this 28th day of March 1855 Kitturah Wall to me known who is the person mentioned and described in law purporting to be the party to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same & be her act and deed for the purposes wherein named. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this day and year aforesaid.
James B. Thompson J.P.
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William Wall Privt 
5th Maryland Regt
[illegible] he serv’d ab’t 3 years May 26th 1818.
[illegible] 2nd Regt
Maryland Troops

Admitted

Cambridge, Md
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State of Maryland ss.
On this 26th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber, Chief Judge of the fourth Judicial district of Maryland personally appears William Wall aged about eighty six years resident in Dorchester County & State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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;” that the the said William Wall enlisted in Dorchester County in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Capt. Eccleston of the fifth Maryland Regiment; that he continued to serve in the said company or in the Service of the United States until sometime the year 1782 having been in the service about three years when he was discharged from the service in Annapolis by Col. Forrest; that he was in the battle of Brandywine & was there wounded & was also in general skirmishes and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn to & declared before me, the [illegible] year aforesaid.
William B. Martin
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I William B. Martin Chief Judge of the fourth Judicial district of Maryland do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Wall did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the conditions of the aforementioned Act of Congress as witness my hand this 26th day of May 1818.
William B. Martin
Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
I hereby Verify that the Honorable William B. Martin by whom the above Certificate appeared to have been given and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of giving and being the same and still is the Chief Judge of the fourth Judicial District of the State of Maryland duly Commissioned and Sworn.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the official seal of my office this 27th day of May 1818.
E Richardson
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July 6, 1939
XXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/CC
William Wall
W.8971
Miss Lida B. Perry
Route #3
Carthage, Missouri.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Wall, born in 1732, in Maryland.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in bounty land and pension claims W.8971, based upon service William Wall in the Revolutionary War.
Date and place of birth of William Wall, and names of his parents are not shown.
William Wall enlisted in Dorchester County, Maryland, the date not stated, and was in the battle of Brandywine, where he was wounded, and in several skirmishes; he served from May 15, 1778, as a private in Captain Eccleston’s company, 2d Maryland Regiment, and was discharged August 22, 1780, by Colonel Forrest; he rendered subsequent service and was discharged sometime in 1782; he stated that he rendered service of about three years.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1818, at which time he was aged about eighty-six years and a resident Dorchester County, Maryland.
In 1820, while still a resident of Dorchester County, Maryland, soldier stated his family consisted of himself, his wife Lovey, aged about fifty-one years, his wife’s daughter, Nancy Easom, aged about thirteen years, and his granddaughter, Rebecca Wall, aged about four years. He was then receiving a pension of $40.00 a year from the State of Maryland.
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Add pencil additions to regt history. F
He died October 7, 1836, as stated by his widow or December 16, 1836, as shown on the official report from the Treasury Department on file in this claim, in Fork district, Dorchester County, Maryland.
William Wall married September 27, 1831, in said Dorchester County, Md, Mrs Kitturah (or Kity) Wright of that county. Her maiden name was Smith. Date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown.
The soldier’s widow Kitturah, was allowed a pension on her application executed January 4, 1855, at which time she was aged sixty-nine years and still a resident of the said Dorchester County. She was then receiving a pension of $40.00 a year from the State of Md. on account of ser. of her husband, Wm Wall, in the Revolut. War.
March 28, 1855, Kitturah Wall, while still a resident of said Dorchester County, made application for the bounty land which was due on account of the service of her husband, William Wall, in the Revolutionary War. She was granted on hundred sixty acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 26217, under the Act of March 3, 1855.
In 1855, Kitturah Wall referred to her son, and in the same year reference was made to her children by a former marriage. Their names are not shown.
In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land cited above, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish the warrant number, the acreage, and the act under which said warrant was issued.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of Kitturah Wall, widow of William Wall, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Kitturah Wall, widow of William Wall, certificate #4911 issued February 3, 1855, rate $96.00 per annum, commenced February 3, 1853, Act of February 3, 1853, Maryland agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8971
Kitturah Wall Wid, William Wall Privt Rev War

Act: Febry 38 1853
Index:--Vol. NC, Page 307

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1939-July 6-Hist to Lida B. Perry cc
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26,217

[illegible]
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W.5414

Kitturah Wall, Wid: of William

Md.

Set: to E. Griswold Atty: 12/55
Not found

Acct/5B
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Kitturah Wall wid William
Reg 3 an 55. [illegible]34481
Boynton Ad 3 [illegible] 53 - 11[illegible] 4911

Official Annuity

Hon. J. Minot
Comr Pensions
Washington D.C.
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William Wall Md. 18 m 1818
FREE

Official business

Hon Commissioner Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Clerg: rec: 3 rep & Co:
3 to death 7th Oct: 36.
3 to wit: [illegible]

"Boynton"
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Pension Office.
January 30th/55

Sir,
Please Certify the time to which the within named pension was paid on the date of his death.

Very Respectfully,

Pd 16 Decr 36

W. Cole
for the Commissioner

R.J. Atkinson, Espr
[illegible]Attn, Treasury

"Boynton"
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William Wall died 16 Dec. 1836. pd

Rob J Atkison
Auditor
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Jany [illegible] 1855

Kitturah Wall.
Wid: of William.

Dorchester Co, Md.:

Act/53

$96.00 per An:
COM: Feby: 3. 1853.

Revy

Elias Griswold
[illegible]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business

Commissioner
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Auditors Office

Annapolis 24th Jany, 1819.

I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that William Wall a Private in 2nd Regt. Enlisted on 15th May 1778 and was Discharged on 22nd Augt 1780 by Col Forrest.

R Loockerman And Genl.
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Cambridge Oct 30th 1834

To the Hon Commissioner Pensions 

Dear Sir
I have just been spoken to by an old blind and infirm lady Mrs Keturah Wall widow of William Wall, of this (Dorchester Co. Md) in regards to a pension. She says that her husband rec’d during his life $90 per year from the U.S. Government as a pension. He has been dead several years-say 17 years-and she is very poor, and has recd nothing since his death.
If her Statement is correct (which I do not doubt) the evidence is in your office of her husband’s title to his pension, and I desire
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to know from you whether she is not also entitled to a pension & arrears of pension, as also to Bounty Lands and if so what evidence from her your Department would further  require as to his claim.
I trust Sir those to whom you refer this letter for reply will not turn this lady's claim down with a curt official reply without Examination & without information if by the laws of her Country she is entitled, per the manner in which these affairs have heretofore been managed by the determined hostility of the governmental Departments toward the just recipients of its Bounty for military service is a shame and blot upon our Country. 
I have had occasion before
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to correspond with the Department about Pension claims, but I do not seek this kind of business. It comes to me in the ordinary causes of my practice.

Very Respectfully & [illegible]
Elias Griswold
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller’s Office,
December 8th, 1838.
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,” Ketturah Wall, widow of Wm Wall, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Baltimore, Md Agency at the rate of eight Dollars per month under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1836 to the 16th December, 1836, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris, Comptroller.
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Cambridge Aug 30th, 1855
Hon J. Minot
Comr of Pensions
Yours of the 20 Aug stating that the claim of Kitturah Wall for Bounty land (34,381) is [] has been recd. Your Circular says the revolutionary Service of Wm Wall her husband does not appear of record in your office.
It is certainly then a very remarkable circumstance that on the 3rd of February last your office granted Mrs. Wall, a pension of $96 per year for her husband’s services of which service she sent no evidence, but only of her marriage & his death.
However the record evidence can be got at Annapolis, but I earnestly desired an account of the poverty of the [illegible] to avoid that expense & I feel confident that there is some oversight in regard to her husband’s service. Allow me to hear from you again before we are forced to the expense of a transcript from Annapolis
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for it appears unaccountable to me that Mr. Waldo should have authorized a pension to Wall’s widow of $96 without evidence of his Service.


Very Respectfully [illegible] Elias Griswold
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Brief in the case of Kitturah Wall widow of William, Dorchester County and State of Md: act 3d Feby: 1853.

Claim, ("original.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was pensioner under the Act of 18th March 1818 & cont. at the rate of $96.00 per Ann. A copy of the Clergyman recount of marriage is filed, & the affidavit of three witnesses to reputation of marriage & cohabitation. The pensioner died 16 Dec: 1836.[Illegible] the affidavit of three reliable witnesses & report of the [illegible] Auditor. [Illegible]& infirmity is established by the affidavit of three credible affiants.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent Elias Griswold [illegible], Cambridge, Dorchester County, Md.

S.C. Boynton, Examining Clerk
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136

Pension Office Nov 9 1834

Sir

I enclose several forms for declarations under the various Acts of Congress one of which may be used by the widow of William Wall of Md., as I presume she is entitled to a pension under some act.

I would remark that I am much aware that any of the clerks of this Bureau are in the habit of returning Cwd replies to enquires for information and if they are not i can not perceive the propriety of your strictures upon that subject.

Elias Griswold
Cambridge, Md
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Hon L.P. Waldo
Comr. Pensions
Washington D.C.

FREE

Md ad 53
Kitturah Wall
Boynton, Feb 19 '55

M.[illegible]
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Cambridge Feb 12th 1853
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Comr Pensions
Dear Sir
I recd yours of Feb 3rd 1853 enclosing Certificate of Pension for Kitturah Wall only yesterday new mails having been interrupted for more than a week past by ice in the river has prevented an earlier reception.
I perceive that your Certificate gives Mrs Wall a per annum from the 3rd day of Feb 1853 the date after act.
Will you have the kindness to let me know if, under the ruling of your Department, she is now entitled to back pay from the death of her husband or from an earlier date than the passage of that act. If it has been so ruled in other cases, will you let me know and how I should proceed to obtain the back pay.
If it has been ruled otherwise and any opinion of the [illegible] has been taken please inform me of it. If the point has not before been made, you will consider her claim in this case, from the death of William Wall, and let me know your decision. The Act says they shall be entitled to a pension in the
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same manner as those who were married before that date” (ie 1800)
Now those who were married before that date were entitled under the law of 1838 to the same their husbands got from the 4th day of March 1836 for five years & rendered [illegible] day. This law of 1848 to this same to commence on the 4th of March 1848. To these former laws there was a point of commencement stated and prescribed by law. To the law of 1853 Sec 2nd there is no time of commencement limited, except that they are to have “in the same manner” The clear meaning of which is, as I understand it, that the discrimination against widows married since 1800 was considered wrong in principle and they were placed in the same footing as those married before, and entitled in the “same manner” as those married before.
Upon the higher principles of [illegible] remuneration of those who have sacrificed the best years of their lives in the defense of their country and become thereby unfitted to engage in such business as will enable them where their families in competence certainly the woman who has been their stay and companion in the decline of life is as justly entitled
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to the bounty of the Government as those who were married earlier. And it strikes me that a law could not be framed more briefly and clearly dispensing with such discrimination than the 2nd Sect. of 1853. Will you also inform me whether there is any balance due William Wall on his pension undrawn.
If this widow is entitled to any bounty lands I would be glad to receive the proper forms of application to file upon.
Expecting to hear from you soon in reply, and to this matter's [illegible].
Respectfully yr obt svt
Elias Griswold
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State of Maryland, County of Dorchester}ss
On this fourth day of January 1853 personally appeared before me James Thompson a Justice of the Orphans Court in and for said County and State the persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, who are residents of said County and whom I certify to be credible persons and made oath that they are well acquainted with Kitturah Wall the applicant for a pension and William Wall (who to her knowledge was a Revolutionary Pensioner) during the life time of said William Wall, that we knew them to live together as husband and wife and to be so reputed, that we know of the one personal knowledge that the said William Wall died at Fork District in the County of Dorchester and State of Maryland on or about the 7th day of October in the year 1836 and that the applicant Kitturah Wall his widow has not married again since his death, that she is blind and is allowed a pension of $40 a year as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier by the State of Maryland her deceased husband having served in the Maryland Continental line. They also swear they are disinterested witnesses.
H.B.C. Turpin
Henry J. Bramble
Henry E Powell
Test James Thompson
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State of Maryland, Dorchester County}ss

I Thomas H. Hicks Register in the Orphans Court of Dorchester County in said State of Maryland do hereby certify that James Thompson whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Orphans Court in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and Sworn and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that said Orphans Court is a Court of Record. Given under my hand and seal of office this fifth day of January 1855.

Tho H. Hicks Regr W.O.C.
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[illegible]

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner Pensions
Washington D.C.

Kitturah Wall wid William
Boynton
Jan 11/55
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Cambridge Eastern Shore, Maryland
Jany 5th 55
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Comr Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed I hand you declaration and testimony in the case of Mrs Kitturah Wall for a pension. I trust all the papers are correct. You will find by reference to Resolutions No 63 Laws of Maryland 1818 a pension was granted to Wm Wall by the State of Maryland and by Resolution No 42 Laws of Maryland 1836 it was received to his widow.
I suppose she is entitled to back pay from the death of her husband and it is for that [illegible] pension in future that she now applies. May I hear from you in regard to this as early as possible. 
Something was said in your last in reply to a former letter of mine in regard to curt replies from Clerks I your Department. I do not suppose that any replies are intended so to be, but if opportunity afforded for me to show you two letters from the same [illegible] in the [illegible] subject from your Department you would recognize the justice and import of what I said.
Very truly yr obt svt
Elias Griswold
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FREE
Official business

L.P. Waldo
Court Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Kitturah Wall wid William

Boynton, Jan 20/55
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Cambridge Jany 16th 1855
Hon L.P. Waldo
Dear Sir
Your of the 12th inst stating that in the case of Mrs. Kitturah Wall record evidence if any of her marriage should be filed if not her affidavit that it does not exist is recd. I made every effort in this case (as in that of [illegible] and sent afterwards) to comply strictly with the Regulations of the Department and if you will turn to the printed regulations sent me from your office dated Jan 25 1853 in regard to the Law of Feb. 23. 1853 you will find that nothing is said in them about record evidence of marriage on the applicants averment of its absence. If there had been (or if not & it had occurred to me) I should have placed what evidence I could gather in the application. As it is I have written to her & her friends who know if in Family bible or otherwise, there is a record. More is said here in the Clerk's office.
Now their pastors live some 25 miles from here, and the cost is considerable to go & come, besides the risk of inaccurate  execution of papers by illiterate persons in the absence of some intelligent Agent. And in both cases I have sent in, the parties are very poor & unable to get
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abroad. And in both cases there is their affidavits & other testimony of their marriage as much as IF Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland on their behalf as widows of their men. The Legislature of Maryland was fully satisfied in this lead, under these circumstances & the absence of that requirement in your printed regulations for the Act of 1853 Feb 3. I submit that this additional expense imposed on these widows is hard, and it is this kind of particularity of the Department in meritorious coms of which many think just complaints are made.
I shall however endeavor to supply the additional evidence or an averment of its absence.
Yours respectfully yr obt svt
Elias Griswold
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Additional Secondary Evidence of the marriage of Mrs. Kitturah Wall

Rec'd Feby 6/55, Pen Off: "Boynton"
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State of Maryland, Dorchester County} In Circuit Court for Dorchester County
January Term 1855
Personally appears in open Court this 30th day of January 1855 Francis. B.C. Turpin a citizen of said County and State who being duly sworn deposes and says that that(sic) he is well acquainted with Mrs. Kitturah Wall and was well acquainted with William Wall in his life time. That they lived within three or four miles of his residence, that the said Mrs. Kitturah Wall now and for some time past has lived near him; that he was present sometime in the fall of the year 1831 (the exact month and day he cannot recollect) at her residence in Dorchester County and saw her then married to said William Wall by Rev. William Davis; That said William Wall is since decd; and that Mrs. Kitturah Wall has remained a widow ever since his death. But he does not now know of any other witnesses who were present at the marriage ceremony of Mrs Wall & William Wall now living except Mrs. Wall’s children by a former marriage; that he this deponent is now in the 48th year of his age.
Sworn to in open Court this 30th day of January 1855
Francis J Henry Clerk
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State of Maryland,ss
I James A Stewart Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Maryland comprehending the Counties of Dorchester, Somerset & Worcester do Certify that the foregoing attestation of Francis J. Henry Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County is in due form and by the proper officer. And I further certify that the said Francis B.C. Turpin who took the foregoing affidavit in open court is a citizen of Dorchester County and a credible person. Given under my hand this [illegible] day of February 1855
James A Stewart
State of Maryland, Dorchester County}ss I Francis J Henry Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County in and for said County and State above mentioned do hereby Certify that James A Stewart when genuine signature [illegible] above is and was at the time of signing the same judge of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County in and for the County [illegible] aforesaid, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit & that the aforesaid Circuit Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction. I also certify that I have no interest in the result of the case & am not concerned in its prosecution. Given under my hand & seal of office [illegible] Cambridge this [illegible] day of February 1855.
F.J. Henry Clk
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official business
FREE

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Comr Pensions
Washington D.C.

34,481
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Cambridge March 19th 1855

Hon. L.P. Waldo

Dear Sir

Enclosed I have a new application of Mrs Wall still living for Bounty land under the 8th Sec of the Act Mar 3d 1855.
[Illegible] according to law & they refer further [illegible] of her husbands to the Evidence in your office.

Very Respectfully yr obt svt
Elias Griswold
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R.S. Carthage, Mo.
May 1, 1939

Veterans' Administration
Dept of Revolutionary Records
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Will you please send me a copy of the application papers for pension with all family history contained of the widow of William Wall, born 1732 in Maryland. 
This pension was granted to William Wall's widow and in the new Volume of Revolutionary pensions of Maryland is marked that there is family history contained. 
Thank you, I am Very truly yours,

(Miss) Lida B. Perry.

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