Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9020, for Andrew Mc Adow, Maryland
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[handwritten on pre-printed card]
SERVICE NUMBER
Md. McAdow, Andrew S.9020
carded
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5275
Maryland
Andrew McAdow of Harford in the State of Md who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the regt commanded by Col McConay in the Md line for 6 mos 21 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 22 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feby 1833 and Sent Hon Chas Sewell H of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $33.49
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 30 11.16
$44.65
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by T H McBlair Clerk, Book D. Vol. 7th Page 37.

Let to Hon. James W Williams H R feb 22 1842.
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Andrew McAdow
Private 6 months 21 do.
[faint illegible writing]
Hon C. Sewell
H of Reps
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[handwritten on pre-printed form
BRIEF in the case of Andrew McAdow County of Hartford in the State of Md (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 71 & upwards
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Sum or fall In 1777| 2 Months | As a Private | Gen. Cap Bradford Col McComas
Spring 78 | 21 days & upwards | do do 
 | 2 [illegible] | " | Capt. S. Smith do
Spring 79 | 2 months | " | Lt McComas do
5. In What battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Harford County
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses traditionary Evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signed] D. D. Addison
Examining Clerk.
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Declaration of Andrew McAdow a Revolutionary Soldier now residing near Belle Air Harford County Maryland, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832
State of Maryland}
Harford County}
In the Orphan's Court of Harford County
On this fifteenth day of January 1833 Personally appeared in open Court Before Thomas A Hays Samuel Bradford and John W Stump Esqrs, Justices of the Orphan's Court of Harford County now sitting Andrew McAdow a resident of Harford County in the State of Maryland aged Seventy one years in July last, 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 the 7th day of June 1832
That he entered the service of the United States as a private Soldier under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that is to say that in the year 1777, in the summer or fall of that year, when the British Fleet were in the Chesapeak Bay, he, then just arrived to 16 years of age and subject to Militia duty was called with the rest of the Regiment to which he was attached, called out en masse to guard the Wester Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and that he marched from his residence in Harford County as a private in the company of Militia, commanded by Captain Wm Bradford, Edward McComas first Lieutenant, Joseph Rose Second Lieutenant, and George Cunningham Ensign, to a place called Sidney Park on Said Bay & during the time he was stationed there, 3 or 400 of the Virginia troops commanded by Small, or Smallwood came, and continued there 3 or 4 days, during which time Capt Greenberry Dorsey who commanded a company of Militia on the Bay Shore, came there with an express that the
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British had landed on Stony Points, and proposed to go and carry the express to the Commander in chief, (Richard Dullam) but he was requested to return to his men, instead of which he put whip to his horse and rode on to Dullam, and on his return, which happened in 2 or 3 days he laid down his commission. We were at this time called to arms to march to Stony Point and being at a short distance from it & it dark we were ordered to rest upon our arms till daylight, we then marched on to the place; a company called the Harford Greens were on the lookout in advance, and discovering no British commenced firing by platoons, he the declarant with his regiment had orders to march to the spot and marched up the Shore within half a mile of the British Fleet & then returned to the place of rendezvous, that he continued in the said service about two months, and when the British Fleet left the Bay, he, together with a number of others were drafted to continue and guard the shores, and remained in that service three weeks and upwards, and was then discharged. He states that his service on that occasion was confined to the Shores with Harford County, and that Colonel James McComas was the Superior Officer commanding, and that he knows of no person now living who has a personal knowledge of this service, nor has he any written discharge or document relating to this service or other evidence of the Same except this, his solemn declaration upon oath. He further states that in the Spring of 1778 he this declarant was again drafted from Captn Bradford's company and with others placed in the command of Capt Samuel Smith and Lieutenant Edward McComas for a tour of two months duty and marched under his command from Harford to Cecil County to what was called the Head of Elk, and continued to serve there, and it
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various points in the neighborhood for the space of two months and upwards, and was finally discharged, having performed his tour of duty. That Captain Samuel Smith late of Harford County deceased was Captain of the Company, James Ellison was one of the Lieutenants, and he thinks James Walker was also an Officer of the Company. He does not now remember what Field Officers commanded unless Colonel James McComas, then of Harford County who he had often seen, while at Elston commanded the Regiment, or detachment he was in; he further states that he never received any written discharge from this Service, and has no document whatever of the Service except Jacob Foxwood, who is now living, and can prove his having served as above stated, all his officers and Fellow Soldier except Foxwood being now gone, or dead so far as his knowledge extends. He further states that in the Spring of 1779 he was again called upon by draft to march to a place on Bush River, called Otter Point in Harford County to guard a Ship that was building at that place, together with some public stores under the direction of Richard Dallam, who, this declarant understood was United States, or SSates Paymaster for Harford Count, and on this occasion he was under the command of Lieutenant Edward McComas of Captn William Bradford's Company, and continued to serve at the Point about fifteen, or twenty days, and was then marched into Gunpowder Neck, opposite Poole's Island, where a party of the enemy had made a lodgement, and continued there about ten days, and was then marched back to Otter Point where he served the remainder of the term of two months, and which term of two months he fully served and was then finally discharged. He has no documents or other evidence of this last drass and service than his own declaration on oath which he now makes, all his
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Officers and brother Soldiers being dead
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State
Sworn to in open court and subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
[signed] Andrew McADow
[signed] Thomas A Hays
[signed] Saml Bradford
[signed] Jno. W. Stump

Mr. William Finney a Clergyman residing in Harford County, State of Maryland and I William Smith Colonel of the 42nd Regiment of Maryland Militia residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Andrew McAdow who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we beleive him to be seventy one years of age. That he is reputed and beleived in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
[signed] William Finney
[signed] Wm Smith
[signed] Thomas A. Hays
[signed] Saml. Bradford
[signed] Jno. W. Stump
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Interrogatories put by the court to the Applicant
1st ~ Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer ~ In Harford then Baltimore County Maryland, in the year 1751
2nd ~ Have you any record of your age? and if so, where is it?
Answer ~ I have none
3rd Where were you living when called into service. where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Ans I resided in Harford County where I now reside and have resided there ever since
4 How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? If a substitute for whom?
Ans I was first called out with my company in masse - I was afterwards twice drafted
5th State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
Ans I do not recollect, nor perhaps did I know the names of any of the officers in the regular Army except General Washington and some of the generals whose names I had heard myself, being at all times exclusively with the Militia - Colonel James McComas commanded our regiment, the number of which I do not know. Captn William Bradford & Captn Samuel Smith of Harford commanded the companies I was in, and my service consisted in guarding the shores of the Chesapeak Bay when the British were in the Bay in 1777 & 1778, and in marching to various points as to Elkton, Otter Point and other places to afford protection to the country against the enemy
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Ans I never did receive any written discharge; when my terms of service were up, we were drawn up and discharged verbally by our Captain
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your
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character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans I could name a number of persons in my neighbourhood who I think would certify to my good character, but for the present I name the Revd Mr William Finney and Coll William Smith who will certify to my being considered a soldier of the Revolution, and to their belief of my integrity and veracity as a man

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Reverend William Finney who has singed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Harford County and that Colonel William Smith who has also signed the same is also a resident of said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit, and they further certify that Jacob Foxwood whose deposition touching the service of the applicant is annexed to, and accompanies these paper is also a resident of this County and is a credible person and that they think his affidavit entitled to full credit. The court likewise think the same of Crispin Cunningham whose affidavit is also annexed
[signed] Thomas A. Hays
[signed] Saml. Bradford
[signed] Jno W Stump
I Thomas S Bond Register of wills for Harford County, and Exofficio Clerk of the Orphans' Court of the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew McAdow for a pension
[word obscured by white paper] testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal sixteenth day of January Eighteen hundred ty three
[signed] Thos. S Bond R M H Cy
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[handwritten on pre-printed form]
9020
Rev war 
INVALID
File No. 9020
Andrew Mcadow
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. [illegible], Page 246
[Arrangement of 1870]
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feb 9 1842
Andw McAdow
Maryd
 to be [illegible] feb 10.42
St 1sit
Hon J W Williams
HR
Jon. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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House of Reps
Washington, Feb. 8, 1842
Sir,
Three or four days ago, I had the honor to enclose to you, at the request of J. W. Geyer, a letter of his with papers accompanying the same.
Will you please let me have an answer at your earliest convenience?
I am requested by a member of the House of Delegates of Md. to ask for the original papers in your office, filed there, in behalf of Major Andrew McAdow, of Harfd. County, Maryld., who is at present petitioning the Legislature of Maryland for a Pension from that state.
Pray excuse the trouble I give you, and believe me, with great respect,
Yr. obedt Sert
[signed] James W. Williams
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[left half of page]
N. B.
Should any thing be wring in these Papers Please to inform Charles S. Sewell now a Member of the house of Representatives - His residence When at home is -- 
Abingdon 
Harford County Maryland
Pens. Office, 
21 Jany. 1833.

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Petition of Andrew, M,cA,Dow
For a Pension
Md.

[free stamped]
S. Sewell 
Congress Hall
[illegible]
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Crispin Cunningham aged sixty eight years, residing in Harford County State of Maryland, deposeth and sayeth that in the time of the revolutionary war, (he thinks in the year 1777) the militia was called out in Mass, to guard the Shores of the Chesepeak Bay, and that part of sd. Militia were stationed at a place called Sidney Park on sd Bay, that Capt. William Bradfords company with 1st Leut Mcomas. 2nd Leut. Joseph Ra[remainder cut off] and George Cunningham Ensign was there for some months. but does not know how long, and that he knew Andrew Mcadow to be long to said company, and has n[cut off] doubt but he was one of the number, he further state his his deponants brother and Andrew Mcadow, ser[cut off] together at the head of the Elk under Capt. Samuel Smit[cut off] leut. Edward MComas, the following spring, which he believes were drafted from Capt. Willan Bradfo[cut off] company, for that purpose - and says further that Capt. William Bradfords company or part of their wer[cut off] stationed at a place in this county called Otter Point. for the purpose of guarding a ship which was there building together with provision for the army. that Col. Richard Dollam was the officer who had care of said provisions and this was in the year 1779 - and that he believes Andrew Mcadow to be one of the men stationed there
signed by [Andrew crossed out] [signed] Crispin Cunningham
Harford County Sct
I do hearby certify that Crispin Cunningham appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for said county and made oath the above probate is true as there written & that the sd. Cunningham did then and there in my presents sign his name given under my hand this 12th day of december 1832
[signed] Thos. W. Bond
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State of Maryland }
Harford County } SSs
The deposition of Jacob Foxwood aged seventy one years after making oath on the Holy Evangelish of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he knows Andrew Mcadow was drafted in the time of the revolutionary war (say in 1778 to ser[illegible cut off] tour of two months duty in the Maryland Militia and that he did perform the service by being part [illegible cut off] , or all the time at the Head of Elk River in the said State under the command of Captain Samuel Smith and that he did continue in the army and Service untill legally discharged and further saieth not
[signed] Jacob Forwood
Sworn to and subscribed before me one of the State of Maryland Justices of the peace in and for said Harford County this 27th day of October 1832
[signed] John C Fomood
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Application of Andrew McAdow of Harford County fa Pension under the act of 1832
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Maryland Sct. I Thomas S Bond Register of wills for Harford County in the state of Maryland. do Certify that Thomas A Hays Samuel Bradford and John W Stump Esqrs who signed the aforegoing instrument of writing was at the time of so doing and still is a Justices of the Orphans Court of Harford County duly Commissioned and sworn, and that all their acts as such full faith an credit are and ought to be give as well in Courts of Justice as their out
[white paper attached to left margin with dark ribbon]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this Sixteenth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty three
[signed] Thos S Bond R W H Cy