Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4375, William Gudgeon, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Gudgeon, William

Number
R.4375
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Schedule of the property of William Gudgeon

COPY

The following text is crossed out:
Respectfully submitted to the Auditor General of Maryland at Annapolis for proof of service from the Pension Office of the War Department June 6, 1822

J.B. Eccleston Esq
of Kent Co Maryland
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Maryland Kent County 

On this twenty third day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two personally appeared in open court being a court of record and having the power of fine and imprisonment for the said county of Kent in the State of Maryland William Gudgeon aged sixty years resident in Kent County in said State of Maryland who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that is to say he enlisted in the third Maryland Regiment at Chester Town in Kent County aforesaid on the third day of April in the year 1780 as a private and was attached to the company in said Regiment commanded by Captain Claggett and that he served in said regiment until the fifteenth day of November in the year 1783 when his time expired and he was regularly discharged. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof; with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day
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of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed:

One Horse $60.00
Three Cows $35.00
1 Heifer and 2 Calves $10.00
1 Cart $12.00
1 Plough $3.00
1 rake and 1 hoe $1.50
1 walnut Table $1.50
1 Pine table $0.75
1 old bureau $1.00
1 cupboard $2.00
1 trunk and 1 chest $2.50
6 chairs $2.00
1 Dutch Oven $1.00
Pot Hooks $0.75
1 pair of andirons $0.75
2 sad irons $0.50
1 batteau $7.00
Cart and plough gears $1.00
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Amt Carried up $142.25

Amt brought up $142.25
6 knives and forks $0.50
6 pewter spoons $0.25
1 looking glass $0.75
3 decanters $0.62
2 sets of cups and saucers $0.75
1 tea pot $0.50
4 pewter basins $1.00
2 brass candle sticks $0.75
1 iron candle stick $0.125
2 guns $16.00
1 pair of fire tongs and shovel $0.50
4 iron wedges $0.75
1 small spinning wheel $1.00
some old wooden ware $0.75
3 stone pots $0.375
2 iron pots $3.00
1 tin coffee pot $0.25
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Total $170.12

That I receive from the State of Maryland a pension of forty dollars per annum granted to me in consideration of m services during the Revolutionary War

William Gudgeon
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That he works as a laborer but from his age is able to do but little toward the support of his family. His family consists of his wife, two sons, one daughter and a grandson. His wife is named Elizabeth and is about 60 years of age. His oldest son is name Benjamin and is 17 years of age. The second is name James and is 16 years of age; his daughter is named Eliza and is 21 years of age and the grandson is named William and is 12 years of age. That his wife is very infirm and incapable of rendering any assistance toward the support of the family. His daughter takes care of the family and assists in its support as far as she can by sewing and spinning; his two sons are common laborers and in that way aid in the support of the family; they are not acquainted with any branch of mechanism, and neither is it in the power of the deponent to furnish either of his sons to become an apprentice at any trade or profession because his family cannot be maintained without the proceeds or benefit of their labor and barely with their assistance.

Sworn to and declared on the twenty third day of March eighteen hundred and twenty two before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the second judicial district of Maryland.

Tho Worrell
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I William Scott Clerk of Kent County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and seventy dollars and twelve cents.

In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court in this twenty third day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty two.

William Scott Clerk of the Court for the County of Kent of the 2nd Judicial District of the State of Maryland.

SEAL
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Form 3-525
O.W. and N. Division

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Reg 4375
Rev.

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of William Gudgeon; a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his 9or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Enter at Chest Town Kent Co Md
Apr 3 1780
dis Nov 15, 1783

Rank = Private

Officers under whom service was rendered = Claggett

State = MD

Battles engaged in: [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment: [blank]
Date of application for pension: March 23, 1822
Residence at date of application: Kent Co, Md
Age at date of application: 60
Remarks:
1822 wife Elizabeth 60; ch Benjamin 17, James 16, Eliza 21 and a grandson William age 12 year

this claim was rejected on the ground that he was pensioned by the state of Md which precluded him from the benefit of the Act of March 18, 1818 by May 1820
N claim for Lieut Sutton Gudgeon

Very respectfully, 

Commissioner.
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1907 July 13 Chas D Miller, 60 North Garfield Ave, Columbus, Oh

3-595
O.W. and N. Division
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
No claim for Sutton Gudgeon

Feb 6, 1907
Searched by Gill
Original No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [blank]
Soldier; Sutton or Wm Gudgeon
Service; Rev War
Remarks:
no claim except Rej 4375

Chief of Division
23266b5m6-06
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July 16, 1822

J.B. Eccleston Esq.
Kent Co, MD

Sir

The claim of Willian Gudgeon has been examined. His service in the revolutionary war is clearly proved. But in reference to his schedule, it would appear that he receives a pension from the State of Maryland. The regulations under the act of Mary 1820 preclude such pensions from benefits of the law of the 18 March 1818. The claim is therefore rejected. Be pleased to give the claimant notice thereof. The papers lodged in this office by you in support of the claim, will remain on our files agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of War.
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O.W.N. Div Date Stamp
Feb 6, 1907

Columbus Ohio
Feb 4, 1907

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I would be pleased to have you give me the military record of the two following soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Lieut. Sutton Gudgeon, State military Company, Gunpowder Battalion
Private William Gudgeon, Maryland Line, Third Regiment, 6th Company

Thanking you for any information that you may be able to give,

I remain yours truly

Charles D Miller

Please address to:
60 North Garfield Ave
Columbus Ohio

US Pension Office Date Stamp: Feb 5, 1907
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Sol stated that he lived successively in Kent Co, Md
1794 to Franklin Co, Va -15 years, Campbell Co Va - 2 years, Buckingham Co. Va - 13 years, Campbell Co Va - 2 years, Grayson Co Va - 18 years and Carroll CO, Va - in 1847 
Franklin Co, Va - 12 yrs and Campbell Co - 5 yrs
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In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of William Griffin a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau.

Dates of Enlistment:
Ent into service during the Fall - Jany 1779 for length of 1 year, 9 mos. and 15 days. Rank of [illegible] under Captain Isaac Perkins and Gen'l Smallwood in the state of MD.

Feb y 1781 for length of 9 mos and 15 days again under Captain Isaac Perkins and Genl Smallwood in MD

Discharged at Newtown, Charles Co, Md
Wounded in left thigh at somerset Co. Snow Hill Aug 1780 captured [illegible] some weeks.

Battles engaged in: Salisbury Md, Snow Hill in Somerset Co taking of Cornwallis 

Residence of soldier at enlistment: Kent Co MD
Date of application for pension: July 1847 and Oct 21, 1852

Residence at date of application: Carrol Co, Va and Cambell Co, Va

Age at date of application: b: Feb 25, 1759 in Md

Respectfully,

Commissioner

Dec 1852 not sent - not from Charles Co, MD
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Following words marked out:
Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1878

REJECTED

4318

William Griffin

Enlisted: Jan 9 1779 wounded Md Line
Discharged: blank
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Isaac Cannell
Alexandria
Div Va
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, June 10th, 1822

I hereby certify, that it appears from the payrolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Wm. Gudgeon, Private received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $53.10 for arrears of pay from the 1st August 1780 to the 1st Jany 1782. Also, the sum of $80.00 for pay from the 14th Jan 1782 to the 1st Jany 1783 and also the sum of $43.30 from the 1st Jan 83 to the 15th Nov 83 when his time expired.

Thos Karney - A.G.S. Md
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W. Edwards
Pension Office
Mail Washington

Upside down is written "Died 5 Dec 1823"
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Alexandria Dis Va Dec 3rd 1823

W. Edwards

Dear Sir:

I called my office yesterday for the purpose of attending to some business for Old Mr William Gudgeon a worthy old man in Ken County Maryland. It appears to me that in June 1822, William Gudgeon's schedule and application for a pension from the General Government as a revolutionary soldier under the Act of Congress was filed in the Pension office in the war department but his application was rejected because he was then receiving a pension from the State government - during the last session of the Legislature of Marylan, the pension was improperly taken from this poor old soldier. Having been a member of the Legislature myself, last winter I have a perfect knowledge of the fact. I hope and trust the poor
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old worthy soldier may be placed on the pension list of the United States. I shall be in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, therefore I should be pleased if you will write me a few lines by the mail for Baltimore on Saturday morning.

I have the honor to be sir your obedient servant

Isaac Cannell
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Left Side of Page

See letter to Isaac Cannell Esq, Alexandria April 27 1824

Right Side of Page

Page 76 Regiment
William Gudgeon, MD served 3 years from April 1780 - age 60 years - wife 60 years - 1 son, 17 years - 1 son, 16 years - 1 daughter, 21 years - one grandson12 years of age - The claimant and his sons work as laborers. Property amounts to $170 - consists of one horse, 3 cows, 1 heifer, 2 calves, a cart, a batteau, 2 guns, furniture etc. he receives a pension of $40 per annum from the State of Maryland. He states that he is able to do but little and that his wife is very infirm and incapable of rendering any assistance.

Rejected - See letter to J.B. [illegible]16 July 1822

4375

See letter to Isaac Cannell 3 Dec 1823

J.B. Eccleston, Esq of Kent County MD
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Left side of page

1907 Feb 13 Hist to Chas D Miller

Right side of page

4375

William Gudgen

REJECTED