Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35030, for Jesse Power, Maryland
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Power or Powers, Jesse

Number: S35030

Service: Md.

Contents: (blank)
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7678 
Maryland

Jesse Powers of Saint Mary’s County in the state of Maryland who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Adams of the Maryland line, for the term of 3 years - to SB.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 12th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of March 1819 and sent to John R Plater Esq. Judge from (illegible)

Saint Mary’s County Maryland
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 - gone 24/31 = $78.19

Semi-anl. All’Ce ending 4 Sept 1819 - $48

$126.19

Revolutionary Claim 
Act 18th March 1818

Continued notification 
Pass Oct. 1820 to JG Harris Leonard Foure

(In the Margin): JT Cullan June 9, 1854
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District of Maryland Saint Mary’s County to writ. On this 12th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the first judicial District of Maryland personally appears Jesse Powers aged about 57 years. A resident of Saint Mary’s County Maryland who being by me and first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled “and 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 Jess Powers enlisted in Charles County Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Mitchel of the Maryland line in August 1780 for three years; was marched to Annapolis and was placed under the command of Captain Alexander Riceman of Colonel Adams regiment also of the Maryland line. That he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United Statds until the months in year 1783. When he was discharged from service at Frederick Town Maryland by Captain Gaither. That he was in the battle of the siege of York. Was onboard of the Sloop Porpus in her fight down the Chesapeake Bat under the immediate command of Captain Beveller acting as Marine officer and was wounded in the knee. That after the siege of York he marched to Charles Town South Carolina 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 if his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

JR Plater

I John Rousley Plater associate Judge as for said do certify that it appears TJ my satisfaction that the said Jesse Powers did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And that he is in very reduced circumstances, and is in need of the assistance of his country. 

May 12th 1818

JR Plater
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Saint Mary’s County town

I Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Mary’s County, do hereby certify that the Honourable John R Plater Esquire, who appeared to have taken and signed the written declaration was at the time of taking and signing there if ever since hath and still is one of the associate Judges of the county courts of the first Judicial district of Maryland (illegible) the counties of Saint Mary, Charles, and Prince George’s duly commissioned and qualified and that to all his acts as such due faith and credit in kind ought to be gone as well in courts of Justice as there out. 

In testimony to hereof I have hereunto sot my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this 12th day of May 1818.

JO Carrisg
St Mary’s County Cl.

Additional certificate:
I further certify that from the certificate of the state of Maryland in whose office the Pay Roll of the troops of the Maryland line of the revolutionary army that Jesse Powers the aforesaid applicant was a revolutionary soldier for upwards of three years. That on tve 17th of July 1783 he was discharged and that he received arrears of pay from the 1st August 1780 to the 15th day of November 1783. I further certify that he has been always distinguished in his neighborhood as one of the faithful surviving soldiers of the revolutionary army is extremely poo and stands much in need of the assistance of his country.

Saint Mary’s County
Maryland Feb 6th 1819

JR Plater one associate Judge of the first judicial district of Maryland
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Jesse Powers
Scheduled 7.678
Sept 1819
(Illegible)
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State of Maryland first Judicial District 

On this 11th day of August 1820 Jesse Power personally appeared in open court being a court of Record having submitted original jurisdiction with authority to (illegible) imprison for the said Judicial District. Jesse Power aged about fifty nine years and a resident of Saint Mary’s County one of the Counties that is included in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declared that he served in the revolutionary war as follows he enlisted August 1780 in Captain John Mitchell’s company of the first Maryland regiment and in 1783 he was discharged at Frederick Town Maryland he was at the siege of York that he made his first application for a pension from the United States on the 12th May 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 7678. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the 18th day 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 interest thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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” papers on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or wares (illegible), 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. His family is a wife about 35 years old, 3 children all females one 21, one 15 and one 10 years old.

A schedule of my property my necessary clothing, excepted (illegible) 2 mares one size and one 15 years old, 2 colts 1.3 months, the other one, one year and two months, 5 head horned cattle, 2 sows one hay pig, 4 shoaly, 1 cart.
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3 pots, 5 pewter (illegible), 1 doz pewter spoons, 1 doz (illegible), 2 ploughs, 2 illegible, 1 pr of wedges, 2 illegible, 1 chest, 1 (illegible), 3 boxes, 11 old (illegible), 6 (illegible), pan and pot (illegible). I receive as a pension from the state of Maryland forty dollars a year. 

I am indebted in the sum of $46.60.

There is from $13.66 or .80 dear to me.

Jesse Power

Sworn to and declared on the 11th day of August 1820 before the Johnson.

I Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Mary’s County Court Company in part the first Judicial District of Maryland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto announced an truly (illegible) from the record of said court and I do further certify that the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and thirteen dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Saint Mary’s County Court this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty. 

J. Harris Clerk of Mary’s Cy. Court
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL

Jesse Power 
S.35030

October 24, 1929

E.F.J. Tafe 
437 Hope Street
Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.35030, it appears that Jess Power or Powers, while residing in Charles County, Maryland, enlisted in August, 1780, served in Captains John Mitchell’s and Alexander Trueman’s companies in Colonel Adams’ Maryland Regiment and was discharged July 19, 1783. He was in the battle of Yorktown.

It also appears that he was “on board the Sloop Porpus in her fight down the Chesapeake Bay”, Captain Revellee and was wounded in the knee.

He was allowed pension in her application executed May 12, 1818, at which time he was aged about fifty-seven years and a resident of St. Mary’s County, Maryland.

In 1820, the soldier stated that he received a pension of $40 per annum from the State of Maryland.

In the same year he gave the age of his wife as thirty-
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five and stated that they had three daughters, aged twenty one, fifteen and ten years respectively the names of wife and daughters are not shown. 

The above is the history of the only Jesse Powers who served with the Maryland Troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Such records do not show that a claim for pension was ever made to the United States by the widow of the above named Jesse Powers. 

For information relative to pension that may have been granted by the state of Maryland, it is suggested that you apply to Maryland at Annapolis and to the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.

Very truly yours,

Earl D. Church
Commissioner

[as a postscript]
Date of Death
Not on AB
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35030

Revy INVALID

File No. 35.030

Jesse Powers

In Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:- Vol. 8, Page 485

(Arrangement if 1870)

1929 Oct. 24 - Hist. to Miss EEH
EF Tait
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[in margin]
Jess Powers
Md to 18 M 1818
Cole

[Illegible signature]

L. Cole Esq.
Chef Clerk, Pension Office
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[in the letterhead]
E. Palmer Tucker, Secretary
Lansing G. Lytle Sayre, Assistant Secretary 
Colin Munro Gair, Treasurer 
Burnham Robert Creer, Assistant Treasurer 
Lewis Augustus Winston, Registrar
Cassius Milton Jay, President 
Vice Presidents:
Dr. Wesley Wilbur Beckett
Judge Benjamin Franklin Bledsoe
Dr. Edward Marshall Pallette

Willis Milner Dixon, Librarian
Nathan Wilson Stowell, Genealogist
Ella F J Tafe, Assistant Genealogist 
Rt. Rev. W. Bertrand Stevens, Chaplain
Colonel Harcourt Harvey, Marshal

Directors: 
Edward Bouton 
Dr. Everton Crispin
Colonel. Charles Harrison Haskell
John Emerson Marble
Ores Eugene Monnetto
General Charles Henry Whipple

Board of Trustees:
Eugene Waddell Britt
Judge Guy Richards Crump
Ralph Beldan Hardacre
John Emerson Marble
Henry Mauris Robinson

Sons of the Revolution in the State of California 
437 South Hope Street 
Los Angeles

August 21, 1927
Hon. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, DC

My dear sir:

Will you kindly send me at your earliest convenience pension data relative to family of Jesse Powers and Milly his wife of Maryland. Both received pensions.

I shall be most grateful for an early reply. Thank you for your kindness.

Very truly yours,

EFJ Tafe
Assistant Genealogist
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Auditors Office
Annapolis Jany 23rd 1819

I certify that it appears by the Pay Role of the Troops in the Maryland Line that Jesse Powers a private was Discharged on the 19th July 1783 and received arrears of Pay from the 1st Augt 1780 to the 15th Nov 1783.

Rdoockerman Audlyend
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Do the form herein sent hereby what is the state of H. Carr of the (illegible) of Jesse Powers a revolutionary soldier of Md referred h in accompanying letter of Jo Spauldroy 20 Dec 1854 in May 1853 the two recd each $10.

Respy,
J Flallum
Clk. Mil Con
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[in the margin]
Ordered Feb 26 1819
Feb 26 1819

Leonard Town MD
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John C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
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Saint Mary’s County Maryland
February 6th 1818

Sir
I have the honor of returning the application of Jesse powers a poor old revolutionary soldier accompanied with an additional certificate from me. And also the certificate of M Lockerman Auditor General of the State of Maryland to which due faith may be placed. In his department is placed the Pay Roll of the revolutionary soldiers of the Maryland line. This poor old Man has ever been respected in this country and particularly among those whom he is intimately known as one of the faithful soldiers that served his country for three years during the revolutionary war. I am in with great consideration.

(Illegible)
JR Plater