Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34970, for Edward Mahony, Maryland
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[handwritten on pre-printed card]
SERVICE     BLACK STAR        NUMBER
Md.   Mahony, Edward       S.34970
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(113)
Maryland.
Edward Mahoney, private, Anny M. States 4
Capt Smith Maryld
At $8.a per mo: com@. 9th. . April, 1818
Cert: issued th. . april, 1818 and delivered to the Pensioner who resides in Prince Georges Co, Md.
Ars. to 4th Sept 1818 4 27/30 mos. . . $38.96
(Revy. Claims Act 18th March, 1818)
Maryland Line
Six g[illegible[
Prince Georges Co
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34970
Revy INVALID.
File No. 34.970
Edward Mahoney
Pri. H. S. A. 
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 272
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Mr Mahoney wants to apply to Congress for his donation of Land for services in the revolution - He ought to procure for testimoney to support his claim facts that he did serve [therefore crossed out]
get a certificate that he is a pensioner of the State =
get a certificate also that he did recieve of the State of Maryland the [Bounty crossed out] donation of Land due from that State
get the Auditor to give a certificate of any evidence on his Books which may tend to prove his title as a revolutionary soldier for instance a settlement by [illegible] White the United Sates commissioner to settle with the old officers & Soldiers at the conclusion of the R. War
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I Doth hereby Certify that, February 7th 1818 the petitioner Edward Mahoney Served in Revolution War from the year 1777 until the close of the War after Cornwallis Defeat
[signed] Henry Hill
[faint illegible signature below]
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[handwritten on a pre-printed form]
District of Columbia, 88.
On this 9th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, on of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United Sates for the said district, personally appears Edward Mahany aged 58 years, resident in Prince Georges Coy. Maryland [in the said district crossed out] 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 he the said Edward Mahony enlisted in Frederic County Maryland in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Smith of the 6th Maryland Regt.; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the year seventeen hundred & eighty three when he was discharged from service in Morristown state of New Jersey [Pennsylvania crossed out], that he was in the battles of Germanton Brandywine, & at the seige of little York and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. except the annexed certificate 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
I, B. Thurston Judge, & c. as aforesaid, do  certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Edward Mahony did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Given under my hand this 9th April, 1818. 
[signed] B. Thruston
[SEAL OF THE COURT surrounded by box]
To the Honble 
The Secretary at War
1818.9.4
1818.4.8
4.27/31
8
$32
6.96
$38.96
[illegible crossed out]
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31  216  696
186
300
279
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State of Maryland Prince Georges County Sct.
I Hereby certify that the Honourable John Rousby Plater before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken (his proper signature being thereto affixed) on as at the time of taking and signing the same and now is one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland composed of the Counties of Saint Mary, Charles and Prince Georges and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit [illegible, page folded] and ought to be give as well in Courts of Justice as [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I do hereunto Subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said County Court. This 7th day of April eighteen hundred and Eighteen
[signed] Ed. Harwood Clk
P G Cy Ct
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Prince Georges County Maryland
This is to certify that Eward Mahony a revolutionary soldier and now a citizen of Prince Georges County and State aforesaid personally appeared before me one of the associate Judges of the first judicial District of Maryland composed of Saint Marys, Charles and Prince Georges Counties and made oath that he inlisted as a soldier in a company commanded by Captain John Smith in the Sixth Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Ford in the 1777. for three years. That in the year 1780 he reinlisted for three years more and to the end of th war and continued to Serve untill the end of the War when he was discharges at Morris Town in Pennsylvania. That he is in very reduced circumstances - Sworn to before me this 8th day of March 1818.
[signed] John Rousby Plater
 The Honble 
The Secretaryd at War 
Sir 
I have the honor of inclosing the above certificate under the oath of an old soldier. & Am Sir with great consideration and Respect yr obt Sert
March 8th 1818
[signed] J R Plater