Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5560, for Solomon Jarvis, Maryland
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Service: MD
Jarvis, Solomon
Number: R.5560
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
(indecipherable) June the 7 of 1832
State of Kentucky
County of Scott
On this the twenty six day of March eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared in open court before the Magistrate Court of Scott County Kentucky now sitting Solomon Jarvis a resident of the county of Scott state of Kentucky aged upwards of eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th, 1832 that he was a soldier of the Revolution and made application some years ago while  living in Fleming County Kentucky for a pension and refers to his Declaration and the evidence on file for evidence of his services by reason of his great age and loss of memory he is now entirely unable to state his services or the time he made an application for a pension but does well know that he was in the Revolution
as stated by him in his former Declaration and that he made an application for a pension as stated and of the impression that he proved  his services by James Rigdon and Hannah Jarvis and others who had a personal acquaintance with knowledge of his services who have both since departed this life and he knows of no person by whom he could prove his services
at this great length of time nor any person that knew him during his services during the war of the Revolution and he prays that the best evidence that can be produced may be received and a pension granted to him a poor Soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the (indecipherable) and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
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Sworn to and (indecipherable) the day (handwritten signature of Solomon Jarvis-upper right hand corner) one year above said
We Thomas Thomas and Cleargyman (clergymen) 
 residing in the County of Scott State of Kentucky Daniel Polk  residing in the same County and State certify that we reside in the neighbourhood of Solomon Jarvis who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and have been acquainted with him ever since he has resided in this neighbourhood that we believe him to be about eighty years of age a man that we believe him to be a man of respectability truth and piety that we have reason  to believe he was a soldier in the Revolution that we have never heard any person express any doubt of his being a Revolutionary soldier and further we certify not (order interlined in the twelfth line to be read before to obtain page 7) Thomas Thomas, Daniel Polk
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
I Lewis Jarvis of the County of Scott and the State of Kentucky state that I am the son of the said Solomon Jarvis and believe the declaration made by him to be the truth I know he was considered to be a man of respectability truth and piety at the time he made his declaration in Fleming County Kentucky in order to obtain a pension and I was informed and believed that he proved his services by James Rigdon and Hannah Jarvis who were known to me by the advantage of several years acquaintance and I believe both sustain the character of persons of respectability truth and piety I have heard the said Solomon Jarvis speak of his Revolutionary services from my early recollection up to the present time and I have never heard anything said to the contrary and I most truly concur in the opinion that he was a soldier of the Revolution as stated by him and that he is
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now upwards of eighty years of age and in consequence of his great age he has almost entirely lost his mind and memory and is unable at this time to detail any circumstances correctly he is entirely unable to state the length of time he served in the war of the Revolution or the time he applied for a pension and will have to rely alone upon his former declaration and the evidence in his case for a pension I have been informed and believe it to be the fact that the Said James Rigdon and Hannah Jarvis both departed this life by whom he proved his services
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid [signed] Lewis Jarvis

Before the Magistrate Court of Scott County Kentucky being a Court of record holden by William McMillen a justice of the peace in and for Scott County State of Kentucky I William McMillen Certify that Solomon Jarvis personally appeared in open Court held By me at the House of Lewis Jarvis is Scott County and Made oath to the Truth and subscribed the forgoing declaration and that Thomas Thomas a Clergyman and Lewis Jervis all Residents the County of Scott and state of Kentucky and are well known to the Court to Be persons of Respectibility Truth and piety subscribed and made oath to the Truth of the Forgoing affidavits in open Court and the Said Court do Hereby declare their opinion after a full investigation and after puting the interogatories procribed By the Ware Department that the above named applicant was a soldiere of the Revolution and served as he states and is unable By reason of his greate age and Loss of memory to Detail any Circumstance at this time Correctly Given undere My Hand this 28th of March [illegible date] 
[signed] Wm Mc Millen J P S C
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State of Kentucky
Scott County Sct

I Ben B Ford clerk of the Court for the County aforesaid do Certify that William McMillen whose name is attached to the foregoing Certificate is a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforsaid and the Signature purporting to be his is genuine and I do further Certify that the Court over which he presides is by Law a Court of Record 
[white paper attached to left margin]
In Testimony wherof I have herunto Set my hand & affixed the Seal of my said office in Georgetown the 17th day of April 1839 and 49th year of the Comwealth
[illegible]
[signed] Ben B Ford
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[typewritten letter]

Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
R. 5560 [handwritten initials]
MEE/HMM

July 22, 1929.

W. Guy Tetrick
Clarksburg, 
West Virginia.

Dear Sir:
I advise you from the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau it appears that [underlined name] Solomon Jarvis applied for pension March 10, 1829, at which time he was a resident of Poplar Plains, Fleming County, Kentucky, aged seventy-six years, and alleged that while residing in Bellaire [Bel Air], Maryland, he enlisted there for and during the war, and at its close was a private under the command of Commodore Matthews in the naval service in a sea squadron. The length of his service is not given.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law.

In 1839 he resided in Scott County, Kentucky, and stated that he was then aged "upwards of eighty years." In 1842 he was living in the same place.

The soldier's mother, Hannah Jarvis, testified for him in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1829; she was then in her ninety-ninth year.
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[typewritten letter, continued from previous]

The name of the soldier's wife is not shown. His, son, Lewis, was a resident of Scott County, Kentucky, 1n 1839. There are no further family date.

Very truly yours,
[typewritten name] KARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
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[typewritten letter]
[handwritten initials, upper left] M.B.H.
Rev. War Section.

August 24, 1916.

Mrs. William Brent Maxwell
529 West Pope Street,
Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated the 16" instant, you advised that in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim Rej. No. 5560, it is alleged that Solomon Jarvis while a resident of Bellaire [Bel Air], Maryland, enlisted and served during the Revolution as a Private under Commodore Matthews in the naval service.

He applied for a pension on an application executed March 10, 1829 while a resident of Poplar Plains, Fleming County, Kentucky, aged 76 years but his claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of the alleged service.

His mother, Hannah Jarvis was 98 or 99 years of age in 1829. There is no further family data on file.

Very respectfully,
[signed] G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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Power of Atty
Solomon Jarvis
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[handwritten on pre-printed form]
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Solomon Jarvis of Scott in the county of Scott and State of Kentucky intitled to be a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint R m Johnson of White Sulpher in the county of Scott and State of Kentucky my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States, for paying pensions in the Unitd States my pension from the 4 day of March 1831 1831 to the 4 day of September 1842
Witness my hand and seal this 8 day of September 1842
              his                            ******
Solomon X Jarvis                   *SEAL*
              mark                        *******
Sealed and delivered in the presence of 
[signed] James Griffith
[signed] Nancy Jane Glime

State of Kentucky Scott County --ss.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the 9th day of September 1842, before the subscriber a Justice of Piece in and for said county, personally appeared Solomon Jarvis above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have heerunto set my hand, the day and the year last above mentioned. [signed] James Griffith J. P. M

State of Kentucky Scott county--sct.
I, Ben B Ford Clerk of the Court of Scott County, certify that James Griffith is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this 30th day of September 1842
[signed] Ben B Ford
Clerk of the Court of Scott County. 
by M Price Dr

State of County--ss.
BET IT KNOWN, That on the day of 18, before me, a in and for said county, duly authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths, personally appeared the Attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath, that he has no interest whatever in the money his is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney, either by any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer, and the he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned,
Before me,
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled, "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828, I Solomon Jarvis of Poplar Plains in the County of Fleming, in the state of Kentucky, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Commodore Matthews's company *See explanation page 3rd And I also further declare that I was not on the 15th of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.
Witness my hand this 18th day of March in the year 1829
signed [signed] Solomon Ja[illegible]

Before me Truman Day a justice of the peace in the County of Fleming in the County of Fleming in the state of Kentucky personally appeared this day James Rigdon & Hannah Jarvis who did severally make oath that Solomon Jarvis by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand, this 10th day of March in the year 1829
signed [signed] Truman Day
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I Joshua Stockton Clerk of the Court of the County of Fleming, in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that Truman Day Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace for said county duly commissioned & qualified as such according to law & empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my name & affixed the seal of said County this 13th. March 1829
[signed] Joshua Stockton clk
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Oh Rej
#5.569
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Solomon Jarvis    Pvt
probably Maryland line
Kentucky - Rej. File no %,560
OK
Not allowed
Act 1828
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Solomon Jarvis
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copy
War Department
Pension Office 
November 9 1838
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 31st ultime, respecting your case, I have to inform you that your claim under Act 18 March 1818 was rejected, because your alleged service was in the Virginia State Navy and not in a vessel belonging to the Continental establishment.
In order to obtain a pension under [illegible, creased] act of June 7 1832, you should make a declaration as prescribed in the enclosed printed sheet. The records in this office afford no proof of you alleged service; and the affidavits of Hannah and James Jarvis, exhibited with your declaration under the act of March 18, 1818, on file in this office, are not made in conformity with the note marked [illegible] the enclosed printed sheet, to which you are referred such proof as is therein required should be exhibited
I am, respectfully,
Your obt. servt.
[signed] J. L. Edwards
Mr Solomon Jarvis
care of L. C. Suggett, esqr
Georgetown, Kentucky.
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[handwritten address]

Free

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

[circular postmark to left of address]
GEORGETOWN KY.
APR 18

[handwritten below postmark, perpendicular to address]
Ken:
Solomon Jarvis
act 1832
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Georgetown Scott Co Ky April 17th 1839
Dear Sir
The Enclosed Declaration in the Case of Soloman Jarvis you will please to Have the Kindness to Examin I Presum This Former Declaration was made in order to obtain the benefit of the 18 of March 1818
Yours with great Respect
[signed] Lewis C Suggett

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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copy-
War Dept. Pension Office Oct 5, 1829
Jeff Evans Esq -
Flemingsburg - Ky-
Sir -
the papers which you sent to this Department in support of the claims of Robert Roll and Solomon Jarvis have been examined, and place don the files of rejected cases. It does not appear that the service in which they allege to have been engaged, formed a part of the continental establishment. As the laws providing for those who belonged to the land and naval service of the U. States during the revolutionary war, embrace none who did not belong to said establishment, their claims cannot be admitted.
J. L. E.

copied - July 19, 1929
M. E. E.
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I have examined very carefully the Master and pay rolls, as also the Army Legers of the revolution, and they afford no evidence of either Michael Down or Solomon Jarvis, having served in the revolution, their names are not to be found upon any of the rolls, The name of Jeremiah Tarleton, I find upon the roll and furnish above a certificate of his service.
[signed] George G. Brewer
Regr. La Off. W. Shore Md
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5560
P.O. [blank]
Solomon Harvis
Service: [blank]

[stamped] REJECTED

Enlisted: [blank]
Discharged: [blank]
Application filed: [blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract.

[handwritten on right side]
1916 Aug 24 - history to Mrs. Wm. B. Maxwell.
M. 13. H
________--
1929- July 22,
Hist to Mr. Guy Tetrick.
His letter incl. of John Rose, R 9006, M.E.E.
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[paper is dark, handwritten]

Solomon Jarvis
Kentucky
________
Suspended
__________
[illegible]
9 Nov 1838 to applt 
[illegible] above only

5 Feb 39 
Hon R. N. Johnson
[illegible]
April 11, 1840

5560
Act June 1832

[vertically along left side] Nov.. 9, 1838
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31077
Solomon Jarvis
Revo. Ken.
copied 
Rejected. See letter 5th Oct. 1829 to Jeff. Evans, Esqr. 5 Oct . 1829, do. to Hon H. Daniel H. R. Feb. 11 1830
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* I Solomon Jarvis (the aforesaid applicant for a pension) being of the age of seventy six years, being first duly sworn deposeth and saith as follows that he enlisted under Captain Commodore Matthew in the time of the Revolution and entered into actual service and continued therein until the termination of the war by the conclusion of peace, at which period to wit at the conclusion of peace Captain Matthews with whom I was, was at Fells point. I lived at [illegible crossed out], Bellaire, County of   state of Maryland when I enlisted under Captain Matthew under whom was sergeant John Monohan; This deponent further states that the reason why he is unable to state the regiment to which Captain Matthew belonged was this, he the said Matthews was deputed to the naval service and continued therein for the time aforesaid; This deponent affirms further that he is in very indigent circumstances not being worth exceeding twenty dollars, and no means other than charity upon which to subsist, his mother he believes to be ninety nine years of age and possessed of no means of subsistance whatever save that which is rendered by her children who are unable to afford her anything like a comfortable sustenance, The deponent states that he never applied for a certificate which would entitle him to eighty dollars under the resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778 As witness my hand and seal this 10th day of March in the year 1829
[signed] Solomon Jarvis
[seal surrounded by circle]
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The affixed deposition was sworn to before me Truman Day a justice of the peace for the County of Fleming & state of Kentucky Ao witness my hand and seal this 10th day of March in the year 1829
[signed] Truman Day 
[seal surrounded by circle]

We the undersigned are personally acquainted with the aforesaid Solomon Jarvis and can testify, that he is a correct, honest man of respectable standing in society and that his pecuniary circumstances are very slender, arriving but an indifferent bed or two and one cow not worth probably more than twenty or twenty five dollars and that he appears to be a man advanced in years appearing something like seventy or eighty years of age and doubt not but that implicit retrance may be placed upon his oath, and also upon the oaths of the two individuals who have sworn to his being a reputed soldier of the Army of the Revolution,
[signed] William Pearce [seal surrounded by circle]
[signed] Robert Hasmon [seal surrounded by circle]
[signed] Hugh [illegible ink blot[ [seal surrounded by circle]

This day personally appeared before me Truman Day a justice of the peace for the County of Fleming State of Kentucky William Pearce William Pearce, Robert Harmon & Hugh Drennan and made oath that the above is correct and das witness my hand and seal this 10 day of March in the year 1829
[signed] Truman Day [seal surrounded by circle]
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[handwritten address]

Free

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.

[circular postmark]
GEORGETOWN KY
OCT 32


[handwritten vertically on left]
[illegible] at Ken.
Nov 7
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[handwritten]

Georgetown Scott 60 Ky Oct 31" 1838
Dear Sir
I was a Regular Soldier on the Maryland Lin [Line] during the War of the Revolution and applied for a Pension in Fleming County Kentucky some years ago and employed [struck through - employed] William [illegible], ^and^ after his Death Jefry Evins to obtain my Pension for me and Produced evidence of my Service Proven by two Respectable Witnesses
I Served my Country Faithfully and am at a Great Loss to know why my Pension was not obtained
I have Since Removed to Scott Co Kentucky and employed Jarvis E Liggett Esq to aid me in obtaining a Pension for me
You will please to have the kindness to inform him of every particular in relation to my Claim and what now is required by the Department to enable me to obtain a Pension and you will greatly oblige an old Soldier of the Revolution
yours with the Greatest Respect
[signed] Solomon Jarvis

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Sir
Mr Solomon Jarvis is a man of Respectability and from his Statements I think he must be entitled to a Pension and that his Declaration and evidence is on File. Please to have the kindness to inform me what is required to enable him to obtain a Pension

yours very Respy
[signed] Jarvis C Liggett
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The deposition of Solomon Jarvis for the purpose of procuring a pension for Revolutionary service.
This deponent Solomon Jarvis age 76 years being first only sworn deposeth and saith that he enlisted for and during the war of the Revolution and continued in its service until its final termination, he was placed under the command of Capt. Commodore Matthews in the naval service or what was then called a squadron, this after saith that he was not disbanded in, upon the service until peace at which time he was (crossed out word) discharged because of peace having been concluded. This deponent furthermore states that he never received any money from the U.S. and never before applied for a pension except to the Treasury Department a few months since and he was then recommended to apply to the War Department and further this department most.
Signed, Solomon Jarvis
Fleming County Sct
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I Truman Day a justice of the peace for this the County of Fleming in the state of KY do certify that the foregoing deposition was sworn to before me this 12 day of Sept 1829
Signed
Truman Day
Justice of the Peace for Fleming County, Kentucky

Before me Truman Day a justice of the peace in the county of Fleming and state of Kentucky personally appeared Hannah Jarvis & James who did several make oath that they knew the above deponent Solomon Jarvis at the time of his enlistment in the Revolutionary war and that he continued in its service until its end and we furthermore believe he enlisted for and during the war and that he was a soldier in the army of the Revolution as is stated in the foregoing deposition

Signed 
Truman Day J.P.F.C.
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Kentucky Fleming County Sct
I Joshua Stockton clerk of the Fleming County Court, certify that Truman Day Esq before whom the foregoing oath was taken and who has subscribed a certificate the same way at the time of signing the same and still is acting Justice of the peace (crossed out word) for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such & entitled to credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County this 23rd of September 1829
Joshua Stockton clk

Fleming County Set
I John D Bell presiding Justice of the Peace in & for said County certify that the foregoing attestation of Joshua Stockton, who is clerk of the Fleming County Court is due form of law Given under my hand this day of 23rd of September 1839
J.D. Bell
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Flemingsburg, Ky
March 13
Secretary of the Treasury of the U States
Washington City

(On the side) Revolutionary Claims
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Sir, I should not trouble you with a detail/ so much at length, of the grounds upon which the aforesaid Solomon Jarvis found his pretensions to a pension, only that he cannot comply strictly with the declaration for the procurement of a pension. However there is one other additional reason why the aforesaid Solomon's claim has been presented thus minutely viz the depressed circumstances under I know the said Solomon to live together with his advanced age, and the situation of his mother whom I saw when she was sworn to the foregoing declaration. She was almost destitute of sight and informed me that she was in her 99th year. To say any further upon the situation of the aforesaid applicant is wholly unnecessary.

Should a record of Capt Matthews company be found and should Solomon Jarvis not be enrolled in the same, Sol Jarvis may be, as he requests now to say he went by the name of Sol generally. There may be a mistake in the name of the Captain for he might have been formerly called Commodore.

With profound respect and esteem your obt. servant
[signed] Jefferson Evans

I wish if my claim is allowed that a check be sent me on the Lexington Branch Bank Ky.. directed to Flemingsburg Fleming County Ky.
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Solomon Jarvis
(underline)
July 10, 1840
Report versus--No. 664
(double underline)
Feb. 10. 1840
Com. Revy Pensions
(double underline)

Mr. W.O. Butler
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Letterhead: The Congress
1st Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
February 10, 1840
On Motion of Mr. W.O. Butler
Resolved that the Committee on Revolutionary Pension be instructed to enquire into the propriety of granting a pension to Solomon Jarvis whose declaration and papers are now in the offices of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Attest, H.A. Gusand, Clerk
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Postmark: Pension O U.S. Office, Aug. 17 1916
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Rev. Sec
K.J.G, (check mark underlined)
Seal: Daughters of the American Revolution
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Can you give me any information concerning one Solomon Jarvis, who was a soldier or officer in the Revolutionary War from Maryland or Virginia. Am not sure which state
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Thank You in advance for any information you may find. Your Truly
Lilly Jarvis Maxwell
Mrs. Wm Brent Maxwell
529 West Peter (?) St
Clarksburg, WVA
Aug. 6th 1916