Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34925, David Hopkins, Continental Md.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE 
Continental Md.
Hopkins, David
NUMBER
S.34925
B.L. Wt. 1190-300
and
B.L. Wt. 1087-400 Majr of Dragoons
Issued July 29, 1790
No papers.
CONTENTS
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Maryland.
David Hopkins
Colo Moylan Major (Maryd)
In the Army of the U. States.
At 20 dollars per mo: to commence on the 24th of March 1818.
Certificate of pension issued 29th of March 1818, and sent to himself at the U. S. Arsenal near Baltimore, Maryland.
Arrs. to 4th Sept. 1818. 5 9/28mos. $106.42
(Rev.y. claim 
act 18th March 1818)
June 16,1805
Pennsylvania Line
Continental & Maryland.
Records corrected June 17, 1805
Seven Years
Continued satification
sent Oct 5, 1820 to
Philip Moore Esq
Balt.o
Baltimore Co.
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Warrant No. 1190 - issued to Wm. L. Hopkins &c- heirs of Captain David Hopkins of the Pennsylvania line for
300 acres of land
October 13th, 1826
and delivered to Wam P Stewart
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore ss
Personally appeared before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace for said City William L Hopkins and made oath in due form of Law that he is the son and youngest heir at Law of David Hopkins late a Captain in the first Regmt Light Dragoons Pennsylvania Line appointed 21 day of January 1777 and Major in the First Regmt Light Dragoons Pennsylvania Line appointed 1 day January 1781 of the Revolutionary Army ^ service until the close of the War
 and that the said David Hopkins died on the 7 day of March 1824 leaving 2 sons the eldest of whom is at this time and has been for the last 19 months absent from this State.

Sworn & subscribed before me
this 2 day of September 1826
William Ashman Justice of the Peace
City of Baltimore

Personally appeared before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the City aforesaid.
John Cagle and Henry Hood credible and disinterested witnesses and made oath in due form of Law that they are acquainted with the above mentioned William L. Hopkins and that he is the
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reputed son of David Hopkins who died on the 7 day of March 1824 leaving 2 sons the oldest of whom is now and has been for the last 19 months absent from this State 
Sworn and subscribed before me this 2 day of September 1826
Clerk of the County of Baltimore before me
William Ashman Justice of the Peace J.P.
Clerk of the County of Baltimore

crossed out
before whom
do certify that
the above affidavits were taken was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said City given under my hand and seal of Office this    day of September 1826
 

State of Maryland, Baltimore County
I hereby certify that William Ashman gentleman before whom the within Depositions was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore County Court this second day of September eighteen hundred and twenty six.
Wm Gibson Clk Balto Coty Cot
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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore to wit;
Be it remembered that on the Twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, David Hopkins aged sixty five and upwards residing in Baltimore County in the state of Maryland, an applicant for a pension under the 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." personally came before me the undersigned and then and there did make the following declaration under Oath by me administered to him.

That he the said David Hopkins entered the Army of the Revolutionary War under General Washington at Cambridge in July 1775 as a Cadet, and in September following, he with several others in the same capacity joined the detachment under the command of Col. Arnold and ascended to Quebec through the wilds of Kennybec and Canada - Was in the Siege and Storm of said Fortress under General Montgomery and
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And in the Spring of 1776, entered Captn Smiths (now General Smith in Congress) Company, Smallwood Regt. and served that Campaign, both at his own charge. On the 21st January 1777, General Washington gave him the Command of a Troop of Horse in the 4th Regt. of Light Dragoons, Commanded by Col. Maylan - And was promoted to a Major. Command in the 1st Regt. of Light Dragoons 1st January 1781 - That he continued in the service of the United States to the end of the revolutionary War. Having served more than eight years making nine Campaigns. 
That he has never received any Pension from the United States and is now poor from unforeseen events not within his Power to control ______ And therefore is compelled to make application for Pension under said Law. 
Subscribed & sworn to before me                        David Hopkins
N Brice Chief Judge Baltimore City Court

State of Maryland, City of Baltimore to wit:
I hereby certify that said David Hopkins in addition to the above Declaration under
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Oath produced to me a Certificate signed by John Calwell Chiefs Clerk in the War Department dated 31st January 1800. Also a letter from R.J. Meigs dated 15th March 1816. Also a Certificate signed Benjn Tallmadge dated 2 Jany 1817 all of which are hereto annexed and numbered 1. 2 & 3. From which it appears to my entire satisfaction that said David Hopkins served in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy from the 9th Sept. 1775, till the conclusion of the War - at which last period he bore a Commission of Major of Light Dragoons. In Witness whereof I have her to set my hand this 24th day of March anno Domini 1818. 
 N Brice Chief Judge
Baltimore City Court
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City of Baltimore
I, Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City Court, hereby certify that the honourable Nicholas Brice Esquire, who appears to have taken and certified the foregoing proceedings was at the time of taking and certifying the same, ever since hath been and since is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Baltimore City Court this twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen -
Thomas Harwood Clk
Baltimore City Court
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Schedule.United States of America
(A.) Maryland District     SS.
On this thirteenth day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court (*) (+) (B.) in the District Court and for the (C.) District of Maryland

David Hopkins aged sixty six years, resident in Baltimore County in said (D.) District who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on this oath, declare, that he served
 in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.) That in the month of July 1775 he left Baltimore and entered into the Army of the United States before Boston in the state of Massachusetts as a Cadet and resided in Gen Washington family until September of same year 1775 when he volunteered as a Cadet in Capt. (afterwards Gent) Morgan's Company in Col Arnolds Corps and was present at the siege of Quebec under General Montgomery on the 25 December of same year, on the opening of the Campaign of 1776 entered as a Cadet in Capt (now Gent) S Smith Company and found gratuitously until January 1777 when he was given command of a Company of Calvary in the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Col Maylan and in January 1781 promoted to Major 1st Regiment Light Dragoons in which command served to the close of the war. That he made his original declaration before the honorable Judge Brice at Baltimore on or about 24th March 1818 and was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Maryland agency at the rate of $20 per month as will appear by certificate date 29 March 1818 and numbered - 4-
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States of the 28th 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 bring 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 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.
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(F.) That he hath no property except some tufting articles of House hold. Furniture consisting of one dozen common Chairs, 3 Common Tables, some China, Queen ware and Glass also some kitchen Furniture. The cost of the whole of which did not exceed Fifty Dollars, and not now worth that from say [underlined] $50 [/underlined]
That his Occupation was that of a Farmer but being reduced in his Circumstances and from the affliction of a rupture of the intestines occasioned by the injury received in the service is unable to gain a livelihood by labour, and that he is now temporarily supported by being occupied as a Storekeeper. That his Family consists of his wife named Hannah aged about 45 years and a son named William aged 15 years. That in Consequences of reduced Circumstances and affliction he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support being unable without the pension to support himself except by private or public charity. 
David Hopkins
Sworn to and declared on the 13th day of September 1820
Before, the District Court aforesaid
I, Philip Moore, Clerk of the said District 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 --- 50 --- Dollars and ------ Cents.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 21 day of September 1820
Philip Moore 
Clerk of the District court for the District of Maryland
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No 2

Scribe W Hopkins
respecting his claim

12 Jun 1820
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State of Maryland
County of Baltimore
I, William L Hopkins heir at law of David Hopkins do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that David Hopkins did enlist in 1775, for the term of during the war, and served in the Regiment No, 4 Calvary under the command of Colonel Stephen Morland of the Pennsylvania line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war.
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to David Hopkins and his heirs on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever; therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, William L Hopkins aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Asbury Deakins of the City of Washington to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorney under him, for the special purposes above expressed. W L Hopkins
Attest, James Hood Esquire
Personally appeared the above named William L Hopkins subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
;Attest James Hood Esquire
William Ashman Justice of the Peace for the City of Baltimore
In testimony that the above written William Ashman was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, & in the State of Maryland at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Baltimore this twentieth day of May 1820
William Gibson    C. Clerk & c.
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Dated May 20 1826
Respected Sir,
Being entirely unacquainted in the city of Washington area knowing that there (?) between yourself and my Father David Hopkins a friendly acquaintance, I have taken the liberty of executing the Power of Attorney to you to obtain for me the land that may be due my Father from the United States.
If no letter is in the city he would secure any service for me but I fear he has left it.
Your assistance in this case will always be remembered with gratitude any commendations can be directed to the care of Luther J Cox Baltimore.
Respectfully yours
Asbury Deakins Dsquire
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Branch Bank of the United States, Baltimore, 10 April 1824
Received of John Donnell, Pres't. Agent for the payment of United States' Pensions in the State of Maryland, [handwritten] One hundred & twenty one --- 3 [/handwritten]/100 dollars being for [handwritten] 6 1/10 [/handwritten] months Pension, due to [handwritten] David Hopkins --- [/handwritten] from the [handwritten] 4 [/handwritten] day of [handwritten] Sept. [/handwritten] 182 [handwritten] 3 [/handwritten] to the [handwritten] 7" [/handwritten] day of [handwritten] March [/handwritten] 182 [handwritten] 4 [/handwritten] for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Dollars [handwritten] 121 03 [/handwritten]/100 
[signature] Corn Howard, Adm [/signature]
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I Howes Goldsborough do hereby certify that I attended the late Major David Hopkins during his last sickness at the United States Arsenal near Baltimore and that he departed this life on the Seventh Day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty four.
Howes Goldsborough
Attended Surgeon 
U.S. Arsenal Baltimore

Baltimore County
State of Maryland
To wit; on the 12th day of April 1824 came Doctor Howes Goldsborough before me the Subscribed and Justice of the Peace of the State and County of and made Oath that the above certificate signed by him of the time of the death of Major David Hopkins is just and true.
Sworn before
John
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16
David Hopkins
Rev

Baltimore Maryland
Six April, 1824
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United States of America
The State of Maryland
To all to whom these Presents shall come:
Know ye, that on the Eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four Administrate with the will annexed of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits, which were of David Hopkins late of said County, deceased, was granted and committed unto Corneleus Howard of the County aforesaid he having first entered into bond with sufficient securities for the due performance thereof, and also taken on Oath, well and truly to administer the same, to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of the said good and chattels, and to render a just account of his Administration when he should be thereto legally required.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty four and of the Independence of the United States the forty seventh
William Buchanan
Register of Wills for Baltimore County
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[typed letter]

February 15, 1936
BA-J/MCS
David Hopkins, S.34925
[handwritten illegible initials]

Mrs. Louis C. Bulkley
1044 Rutherford Avenue
Shreveport, Louisiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of February 3, 1936, requesting information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Major David Hopkins, Captain Ezekiel Gillies, and Edward Dorsey.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of any soldiers named Edward Dorsey and Ezekiel Gilliss (searched under all spellings) who served in the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 34925, based upon the military service of Major David Hopkins.

The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

He left Baltimore in July, 1775, and entered the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a cadet under General Washington and on September 9, 1775, he volunteered as a cadet in Captain (afterwards General) Morgan's company in Colonel Arnold's corps; he went on the Canadian expedition by way of the Kennebec River and was at the storming of Quebec. In the spring of 1775 he entered Captain S. Smith's company in Colonel Smallwood's Maryland regiment captain in Colonel Stephen Moylan's Fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons and continued as such until the close of the Revolution, serving in all, more than eight years.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed March 24, 1818,
at which time he was sixty-five years of age and was a resident of 
Baltimore County, Maryland.

In 1820 David Hopkins stated that his wife, Hannah, was forty-five years of age.

William L. Hopkins, aged fifteen in 1820, stated in 1826 that
his father, David Hopkins, died March 7, 1824, leaving two sons, the
eldest of whom (name not given) had been absent from Maryland for 
nineteen months and that he, William L., was "the youngest heir-at-law of
David Hopkins".

The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.

Very truly yours

A. D.  HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Major D. Hopkins
Payable on the 4th of March and 4th of September in each year by the agent at the Branch Bank
United States, Baltimore Maryland

Recorded
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War Department
Revy Claim

I Certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, Eighteen hundred & eighteen, David Hopkins late a Major in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month to commence on the 24th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 29th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

J. C. Calhoun
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34925
Revy Invalid
File No. 349David Hopkins
Major Rev War

Act: 18th March 18 (?)
Index: Vol. 2, Page 231
(Arrangement of 1870)

February  -19 - 1903
Leon L. L. French - City

1915, Aug 21. History to Rev Joseph B Turner FN.

1916 Nov 28. History to Timothy Hopkins from about letter
1924, October 27. History to Charlotte Wilcox y.m.

1925 Sept 3. Copies mailed to H W Jenks AUF

1928 - Dec 15, History to Robert Hopkins, ME. E.

1936 Feb 15. History to Mrs. Louis C Bulkley UCS
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Washington City
15th March 1816
Sir
I intended to write you a long letter to bring to recollection a number of incidents [illegible] ascending the River Kennebec. We left the Army lying before Boston on the 9th of September 1775 after marching to Newberry port [Newburyport] we embarked on board 10 schooners for the mouth of Kinnebec [Kennebec] River, we ascended that river to Fort Washington, there embarked part of our little Army with provisions for the Army expedition against Quebec. When we arrived at the head of the river one hundred & eighty of our Beillozs [Bellows] lost, or had become useless, we carried three or four over the Alleghanee [Allegheny] Mountain to the head of the Chaudière River, our march from that time was by land through a trackly's [trackless] wilderness, one boat only descended the Chaudière to the first french [French] settlement where we arrived without a mouthfull [mouthful] of provisions.
The French inhabitants having been apprized [apprised] of our approach received us in the most friendly manner. They had provided for us, fine Potatoes & Butter, we fed luxuriously on these and continued our march 72 miles to Point Léve opposite to Quebec, all the water craft [watercraft] had been destroyed or taken away by the Brittish [British] to prevent our crossing the St Lawrence River, we (?) some delay, procured Boats
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of the Indians made of Birch Bark with those we crossed the St Lawrence in the middle of the night passing between ^2 ships of war which had been placed to interrupt our passing. We land at Walefes Cove, Dasiended [descended] the heights and formed some men on the Plains of Abraham13th November having been 75 days on our march. The insidents [incidents] from that time to to [sic] the 31st of December I will pass over.
On the 31st at night day II Oclock  [O'clock] a.m. we marched to the assault of the town, we succeeded storming a Battery made [illegible] of about 70 men commanded by a Captain belonging to the regular troops in the City - here you recollect we were surrounded by three or four times our numbers. General Montgomery having been killed. The whole garrison was turned against our column after holding the Battery we had taken several hours, we were made prisoners, except a few.
You and I were in the Column Commanded by Arnold, you recollect in the attack we had [had crossed out] six small mortars in the subberbs [suburbs] of Fort Roe, six shells were frequently in the air at the same time from our little Battery [illegible] the walls of the City. The Brittish [British] were at the same time throwing shells from the City, & their 32 pounders were playing on us at the same time. Their shot & shells flew harmless over our heads, but they killed and wounded
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about 90 of our men ^with their [illegible]ting as we approached the Battery mentioned; & notwithstanding our loss of men, the march of our Column was not stoped [stopped] a moment till [until] we reached the Battery & took possession of it. Such an attack & defence [defense] exhibitted [exhibited] a night scene of exquisite splendor; & the senses of sight & of hearing were saluted, if not gratified.
It is (?) since that interesting event happened, time has silenced our heads. This clearly reminds me that I am now an old man.  I am now 75 years old, 15 years probably older than you. I hope we can both look back & forward & console ourselves that we have done our duty to our Country & that we will never shrink in prosecution of that duty while life shall remain.
Most of our companions are gone before us, a kind &tinder [tender] providence has sustained us. This ought to awaken in our hearts the finest sensibility. -- with esteem Respect your Obt. servant.
Major David Hopkins  [signed]
Return J Meigs [signed]
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R.J. 
I recollect all the names of the Cadets who voluntarily attached themselves to our little Army in that expedition. Besides yourself there were Matthias Ogden, Peter Grubb, Eleazer Oswald, Mathew Duncan and Aaron Burr of which two only are living, yourself and Aaron Burr.
E[illegible] and this No. 2   R J Meigs  [Signed]
24th March 1818
N Brice Chief Judge Balt Cty [Baltimore City] 

[Handwritten pencil bottom left of page: 
David Hopkins
S.F. 34925
Continental.
md.

[Black stamp bottom left of page]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF THE 
UNITED STATES

[Handwritten black ink:  on right side of page perpendicular to other writing ]
Col. Return J Meigo
%
Major D. Hopkins
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David Hopkins
4 September 1818
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[typewritten]

* The whole of the form in the first section, to verify the amount of property of the applicant, the oath of the party, and the certificate of the clerk excepted, must be done while the court is in session.

All are courts of record, within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:
1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the State which create them;
2d, Which have been solemnly adjudged, by the tribunals of the several States, to be courts of record;
3d, Which proceed according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;
4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;
And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law, having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal. The court should, in every instance, state, on the face of the proceedings, that it is a court of record, and state why it is such. -- [italic print] (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States.)
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DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS.

A. District,-circuit,-county, or corporation, as the case may be.

B. State why a court of record.

C. After repeating the district, circuit, county, or corporation, insert the declarant's name.

D. District, circuit, county, or corporation.

E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension-certificate should be inserted.

F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted, and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country," comprehend those only, who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government, except by private or public charity.

[in italic print] Extract of a CIRCULAR LETTER from the War Department, to the several Agents for paying pensions, enclosing the foregoing Form.
"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly, that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases, no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."
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W M Stewart
Department of War
Washington City
October 17 1826
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Baltimore October 16 1826
Col W. M. Stewart

Your letter of the 14th concerning Service war record No 1190 I hereby acknowledge to have received being the Career area to the late Capt David Hopkins of the Penn[sylvania] Line for review during the Revolutionary War.

With Respect,
W L Hopkins
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[handwritten]
Mr Boyd,
From: Col. Talmage

and won the [illegible] if
[illegible] March 1118. SB.

[substraction and multiplication  calculation]
1818.9. 4
1818.3. 23
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        5. 9/28
        20
     ------ 
     $100  
           6.42
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   $106.42
[Long division calculation]
28|180]642
    |168
---------
   120
   112
--------
   180

Bryn Talmage [name upside down, bottom of page]
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It appears by the records of the War Office that William D Beale was a Major in the Maryland Line, took rank from the 6 November 1781and was deranged in the year 1783 - and that David Hopkins was a Major in the first Regiment of Light Dragoons and took rank from the first day of January 1781 and was continued in service to the end of the war.
John Caldwell
C L  Clke War Department

War Department
31 January1800
No. 1
Exhibited before me this 24 March 1818
N Brice Chief Judge Baltimore City
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Cartificate War Office

No 1 -
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This Certifies that I was well acquainted with Gen. David Hopkins during the Revolutionary War, I take great pleasure sharing all whom this may concern that he was an active, faithful & intelligent officer of the Revolution. He began his military services early in the war, and ended them with peace, and since that period I have understood that he has ascertained usual important public officer, and discharged the same with fidelity.
Given under my hand in the Washington, District of Columbia, this 2nd day of January 1817
Benjn Tallmadge

No 3

(?) before me this 24th March 1818
N Brice Chief Judge Baltimore Court
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[oval stamp]
DEPARTMENT  [illegible] INTERIOR
APR 28 1872
[illegible] OFFICE.
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In answer to your inquiry of the 13th inst addressed to the Hon W H Perry, by him referred to this office, relation to a pension which is supposed to be due for the service of your grandfather Col David Hopkins in the war of the Rev[olutionar]y I have to State that the date furnished is entirely insufficient to identify him with a pension, an officer of the same name who did not reside during or after the war in S.[outh] Ca[rolina] but in a State North of it. The laws granting pensions for Service in the above named war require that the same shall inure only the benefit of the Soldiers & their widows during their life time & these laws contain no provisions to pay any pension, after their decease to their children or other heirs.

Attention invited & e
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[circular stamp, upper right]

U. S. PENSION OFFICE

OCT 6
1924
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[printed letterhead] MISS CHARLOTTE WILCOX
3923 NORFOLK AVENUE
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

[handwritten letter below]
October fourth, 1924

Commission of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
I have been referred to you by the office of the adjutant General's at Washington in hopes you could help me in my research for information concerning my great grand-father, Major David Hopkins, a Major in Washingtons staff. Can you tell me where he was born, the name of his father or the names or places of residence of any of his children. I am trying to complete family records and as I am told there were two men by the name of David Hopkins in Mary land at the same time. I do not know which one was my great-grand-father. I will greatly appreciate any information that you may have and am enclosing a stamp for reply.

Respectfully,
 (Miss) Charlotte Wilcox
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[typed]
Mr. H. W. Jenke, 28, 18th St. S. E. Washington, D. C. wants photostat copies of seven pages (certified) from Revolutionary War pension claim of David Hopkins, Continental Maryland Troops, S. 34925.
Received payment
$1. 30
August 28, 1925.
Antonia W Ford [signature]
Rev. and 1812 War Sec.

MM&F [handwritten]
[Rectangular stamp, bottom right of page]
FINANCE DIVISION
AUG 28 1925
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

[addition sum scribbled in pencil, bottom right of page]
15
[illegible]
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1. 05
    25
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$1. 30
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3-2233      113
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
[handwritten] Aug 28 [/handwritten] 192[handwritten]5[/handwritten]

Chief [handwritten] Rev. Sect. /handwritten] Division. ["Division" is struck through in pen]

I have this day received from [handwritten] H. W. Jenks [/handwritten]
[handwritten] cash [/handwritten] No. [blank]
for $[handwritten]1.30 in payment of  [/handwritten]
photostat copy
post-office address } as per ["post-office address" is struck through in pen]
letter herewith. ["letter" is struck through in pen] 
[handwritten] memorandum [/handwritten] [memo written directly over "letter"]
[handwritten] Copies mailed
Finance Division
notified September 3 '25 [/handwritten] 
O. J. Randall
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Chief Finance Div. [handwritten] H. C. L. [/handwritten]


3-2006
Office of the Chief Clerk

Job No. 2338           Date  August 29, 1925
Subject [handwritten] David Hopkins - S-34925 - Rev. War [/handwritten] 
[handwritten] 1 [/handwritten] copie of [handwritten] 2 [/handwritten] piece consisting of [handwritten] 7 [/handwritten] pages to be forwarded when completed to the
[handwritten] Rev & 1812 War Svc [/handwritten] Division ["Division" crossed out in pen]
Approved: 
Margaret M H Finch
[handwritten] Acting [/handwritten] Chief Div. ["Div" crossed out in pen]
Rev & 1812 Wars Section
Chief Clerk. [empty signature line]
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Form 21
[letterhead]
BERNAL L. TATMAN President
C. L. MATTES, M. D. Medical Director
GEORGE EIGEL General Counsel
AUGUST A. JEKEL Secretary and Treasurer
The Reliable Life and Accident Insurance Co.
Home Office, Reliable Building, 3639 Olive Street St. Louis, Mo.  [/letterhead].
Office at [handwritten] Mexico Mo March 1 [/handwritten] 192[handwritten]8
Pension Department
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs,
I am asking for information in regard to [underlined] David Hopkins [/underlined] of Revolutionary Period. I would be glad to have any records pertaining to him. He fought throughout the entire war and was wounded. I would like to know if he drew a pension, and where he received his discharge; Town County & State.
Also have you a record of Birth and the date on which he died.

Yours Truly,
Rob[er]t Hopkins
Mexico Mo
Box 124 [/handwritten]

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 MAR 2 1928 U. S.
[illegible]ION OFFICE A MAR 13 1928 U. S.
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Form 21
[letterhead]
BERNAL L. TATMAN President
C. L. MATTES, M. D. Medical Director
GEORGE EIGEL General Counsel
AUGUST A. JEKEL Secretary and Treasurer

The Reliable Life and Accident Insurance Co.
Home Office, Reliable Building, 3639 Olive Street St. Louis, Mo.  [/letterhead]

Office at [handwritten] Mexico   November 11     1928
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

From War Department Adjutant Generals office shows David Hopkins served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the 4th Regiment Light Dragoons Continental Troops. A Pennsylvanian organization commanded by Colo Stephen Moylan. He was commissioned January 21 - 1777. He was transferred to 1st Regiment Light Dragoons Continental Troops a Virginian organization. Exact date not know. His name first appears on a list of officers dated December 1st 1777. in the Virginia Line. He was promoted to Major. Date not known. His name last appears on a pay muster Ge[illegible]'s return of special pay due offices of the 
[circular stamp on page] PENSION OFFICE U.S. A MAR 13 1928
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Form 21
[letterhead]
BERNAL L. TATMAN President
C. L. MATTES, M. D. Medical Director
GEORGE EIGEL General Counsel
AUGUST A. JEKEL Secretary and Treasurer
The Reliable Life and Accident Insurance Co.
Home Office, Reliable Building, 3639 Olive Street St. Louis, Mo.  [/letterhead].
Office at ........2.......192

Virginia Line. This return is dated June 10 1786. Also shows he was Deranged Jan 1 1783. But remained in service. This also shows he rce  400 acres land on acct of his eight years and four months services. But nothing relative to his family. I thought probably the Pension Department could furnish me with some information in regard to his family. I would greatly appreciate this information and I am willing to compensate for the trouble taken this matter.

Most Truly
Robert Hopkins

[Black stamp near bottom: Illegible [PENSION] OFFICE U.S. MAR 13 1928
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[handwritten]
Mrs T. D Gondelock SC
May 13, 1886
Revy Col David Hopkins
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[letterhead] Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE. 
Washington, D. C. 
[handwritten] Old War [/handwritten] Div.
No. .............
Co. ............. Reg't .................
-----:o:-----
Return this letter with your reply. [/letterhead]
IND
May 24th, 1886

Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th inst enclosing the letter of your correspondent, Mrs T. D. Gondelock which is returned herewith together with a reply, addressed to her, relative to her enquiry about a pension that is supposed may be due to her on account of the services of her grandfather, Col David Hopkins, in the Revolutionary War.
It is proper to state for your information that the name of David Hopkins, and a Major and Col David Hopkins who served in the Revolutionary war, appear in the published Index of private claims which have been presented to the House of Representatives, as a petitioner for himself, and by heirs for compensation, commutation, and for reimbursement for advances, in the 14th, 24th and from the 29th to 36th Congress (except the 34 Congress) but there is no [underlined] data [/underlined] by which the petitioner or deceased officer can be identified with Mrs Gondelock's grandfather.
Very respectfully

Commissioner
Honorable W. H Perry
House of Representatives
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[NSDAC Logo at top left of page] 
[letterhead] NATIONAL SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS
COLONIAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS
Mrs. Louis C. Bulkly, Chairman
1004 Rutherford Ave.Shreveport, Louisiana [/letterhead]
late [handwritten next to letterhead]
Received Feb 6 1936 MAIL SUB. DIV. VETS. ADM. READER No. 31 [Circular date-received stamp, stamped over letterhead so is partially obscured]

[handwritten] Honorary State Request La -  

Will the Veterans Administration Pension of Rev. War bureau kindly send data from the affidavit and record of Major David Hopkins Md Line personnel March 24 1818 there 80 died in Baltimore Co Md March 7 1824 to prove the names of children and parentage of wife Mary Hill Dorsey born July 23 [ul] 1764 [/ul] (date is questioned) and no date of death known.
This Mary Hill Dorsey was the daughter of Edward Dorsey 1728-17-- of Queen Caroline Parish Anne Arundel Co Md and Betty Ellis daughter of Ezekiell (Capt) Gilliss and Mary Hill. It is sought to prove that: Mary Hill Dorsey daughter of Joseph Dorsey and grand daughter of Edward of ei[?] born in [ul]1785[/ul] did not marry Major Hopkins who was in reality the husband of her aunt.
If any pension record exists for Capt Ezekiell Gillis (wife Mary Hill) or proof for Edward [ul] Dorsey [/ul] on a Committee for Ann Arundel County. Mrs Bulkey
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will be grateful to receive it. The full statement on this family is in J W Warfield 483-4-5. The younger Mary Hill Dorsey married in Brownesville Pa George Wilson. The elder Mary Hill Dorsey Hopkins probably married and died in Maryland. Mrs Bulkley's thanks please - in advance.

Feb 3. 36
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U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
D

AUG 16
1915
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[letterhead] The Presbyterian Historical Society
Representing the Churches of the Presbyterian Order in the United States
Organized 1852    Incorporated 1857
[Officers and Executive Council (28 persons) listed directly below letterhead]

[handwritten] Rev Section - H - [/handwritten]

520 Witherspoon Building Philadelphia [handwritten] August 14-1915. [/handwritten] 
Bell Phone, Walnut 7390


G M Saltsgaber
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me whatever information your Bureau may have concern David Hopkins, of Virginia who was the Captain of the 4th Continental Dragoons, 21st Jan'y, 1777, & Major of the 1st Continental Dragoons, Va -1780. He served to the close of the War, received bounty lands in 1791, & died March 4 - 1824. I particularly wish to know where and when he was born, of what parents, where he died, and where his lands were located.
Very respectfully yours,
(Rev) Joseph Brown Turner, General Secretary.
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[stationary head] 
Timothy Hopkins 
Nevada Bank Building
San Francisco, Cal. [/stationary head] 

[handwritten] Rev
7 Nov 1916

Bureau of Pensions
Rev. War Section
Dept. of Interior
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:
I seek Revolutionary War records of the two pensioners below, whose names I find on the Rolls for 1833-4. I would appreciate full information, & if there be charges, will remit upon notification. Thanking you for your attention, I am, Yours truly
Timothy Hopkins 

[different handwriting] Maryland
David Hopkins; Major: placed on Roll 29 Mar. 1818: ae 80: (clm 1833?)
Virginia Preston County.
W 11330
Levi Hopkins: private: placed on Roll, 9 Sept 1833: Ae. 80 [/handwritten]
[Circular date stamp, bottom left of page]
U. S. Pension Office. N NOV 13 1916
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IN REPLY REFER TO  [typed] Rev. &1812 Wars Section. [/typed] 
[Letterhead] 3-1865
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
[typed] March 6, 1928. 

Robert Hopkins,
Box 124,
Mexico, Missouri.
Sir: 
I advise you that from the data furnished by you this Bureau has been unable to identify the record of a David Hopkins who might be the subject of your inquiry. 
If you can furnish some of the following data another search of the records will be made on your behalf: approximate date of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.
Please return all of this correspondence with your reply.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott [signature stamp]
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner. [/typed]

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Washington City
15th March 1816

Sir.

I intend to write you a long letter to bring to recollection a number of incidents on our ascending the River Kennebec, We left the Army lying before Boston on the 9th of September 1775. After marching to Newburyport we embarked on board 10 schooners for the mouth of Kennebec river - we ascended that river to Fort Western. there we embarked part of our little army with provisions for the expedition against Quebec. When we arrived at the head of the river one hundred and eighty of our Battoss were lost, or had become useless. We carried three or four over the Alleghanee Mountain to the head of the Chaudiere river, our march from that time was by land through a trackless wilderness, one Boat only descended the Chaudiere to the first french settlement where we arrived without a mouthful of provisions.

The French inhabitants having been apprized of our approach received us in the most friendly manner, they had provided for us; fine Potatoes and Butter; We fed luxuriously on these and continued our march 75 miles to Point Levi opposite to Quebec - all the water

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Craft had been destroyed or taken away by the British to prevent our crossing the St. Lawrence river, - we with some delay procured boats of the Indians made of Birch Bark with these we crossed the St. Lawrence in the night, passing between 2 ships of war which had been placed to intercept our passing. We landed at Wolefes Cove and ascended the heights and formed our men on the plains of Abraham - on the 13th November, having been 75 days on our march. The incidents from that time to the 31st of December I will pass over.

On the 31st. at night say 11 Oclock P. M. we marched to the assault of the Town. We succeeded in storming a Battery and made prisoners of about 70 men commanded by a Captain belonging to the regular troops in the City - here you recollect we were surrounded by three or four times our numbers. General Montgomery having been killed, the whole Garrison were turned against our column. after holding the Battery we had taken several hours, we were made prisoners, except a few.

You and I were in the Column Commanded by Arnold - you recollect that in the attack we had six small mortars in the subberbs of St. Roe. Six shells were frequently in the air at the same time from our little Battery

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under the walls of the City- the British were at the same time throwing shells from the City & their 32 pounders were playing on us at the same time, their shot and shells flew harmless over our heads: but they killed and wounded about 90 of our men with their musquetry as we approached the Battery mentioned; & notwithstanding our loss of men, the march of our Column was not stoped a moment till we reached the Battery & took possession of it - such an attack & defence exhibited a night scene of exquisite splendor; & the senses of sight & of hearing were saluted, if not gratified.

It is now forty years since that interesting event happened; time has silvered our heads, this daily reminds me that I am now an old man. I am now 75 years old, 15 years probably older than you. I hope we can both, look back & forward, & console ourselves that we have done our duty to our Country, and that we will never shrink in prosecution of that duty while life shall remain.

Most of our companions are gone before us, a Kind & tender providence has sustained us - this ought to awaken in our hearts the finest sensibility -

With esteem and respect
Your Obt. Servant
Major David Hopkins
Return J. Meigs.

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P.S.
I recollect all the names of the Cadets who voluntarily attached themselves to our little Army in that expedition. Besides yourself there were Matthias Ogden, Peter Grubb, Eleazer Oswald, Mathew Duncan, and Aaron Burr, of which two only are living - yourself and Aaron Burr.

R. J. Meigs.
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F.W. [handwritten]
letter corrected Oct. 22 -24 [handwritten note]
Gen Made “family” meant his staff officers. [handwritten note left margin]
[typed letter; heavily edited] 
Rev. War Section
August 21, 1915.

Rev. Joseph Brown Turner,
Presbyterian Historical So,
520 Witherspoon Building
Philadelphia, Pa.

Sir:
In response to your letter of the 14” instant, you are advised that from papers in the claim sur File No. 34,925, Rev. War, it appears David Hopkins was allowed pension on his application executed March 24, 1818, While sixty-five years old and a resident of Baltimore County, Maryland.
He stated that in [strikethrough] the month of [/strikethrough] July, 1775, he left Baltimore and entered [strikethrough] into [/strikethrough] the Army [strikethrough] of the United States before Boston in the State of [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] at Cambridge [/handwritten edit] Massachusetts as a Cadet [strikethrough] and resided [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] under [/handwritten edit] General Washington [strikethrough]’s Family until [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] and [/handwritten edit] September [strikethrough] of same year, [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] 9 [/handwritten edit] 1775, [strikethrough] when he [/strikethrough] volunteered as a Cadet in Captain [handwritten edit] afterwards General [/handwritten edit] Morgan’s company, in Colonel Arnold’s Corps [handwritten edit] for the Canadian Expedition [/handwritten edit] and was [strikethrough] present [/strikethrough] at the [strikethrough] siege [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] storming [/handwritten edit] of Quebec; [strikethrough] later in [/strikethrough] [handwritten edit] In the spring of1776 he entered [/handwritten edit]Captain S. Smith’s company. Colonel Smallwood’s [handwritten edit] Md [/handwritten edit] regiment. [handwritten edit] On [/handwritten edit] January [handwritten edit] 21 [/handwritten edit] 1777, [strikethrough] when [/strikethrough] he was appointed Captain [strikethrough] of a troop of Horse. [/strikethrough] in Colonel Stephen Moylan’s 4th regiment [handwritten edit] of Light Dragoons. [/handwritten edit]
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[struck through]Light Dragoons,
and on January 1, 1781, was promoted Major, 1st Regiment, Light Dragoons, and continued as such to the end of the War ^serving in all more than
[struck through]having served 
eight years). [struck through]for which he was allowed 400 acres of bounty land.

The names of his parents and the date and place of his birth are not stated. In 1820, re referred to his wife, Hannah, aged forty-five years.

Soldier died March 7, 1824 (place not stated). leaving two sons, William L. of Baltimore, nineteen years of age, name of elder son not stated,
[crossed out](and they were allowed a grant of 300 acres of bounty land on account of their father's services.)

[remainder is circled, with line drawn through, and the word 'omit' written]
In order to ascertain the location of said bounty lands, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D.C., giving him the following data:
"Bounty Land Warrant No. 1,087, for 400 acres, Rev. War, issued July 29, 1790, David Hopkins".
"Bounty Land Warrant No. 1,190, for 300 acres, Rev War, issued October 13, 1826, David Hopkins".
For the last known residence of soldier, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department, citing the following data:

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[Typewritten]
"David Hopkins. Certificate No. 4. issued 
March 29, 1818. at $20 per month from
March 24, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 
1818, at the Maryland Agency."

                            Very respectfully,
                                 (Signature) DE. C. Tieman
                                        Acting Commissioner.
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[typewritten letter]

[torn portion, upper left] Section.
October 27, 1924.

Charlotte Wilcox
3923 Norfolk Ave.,
Baltimore, MD.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.34925, it appears that David Hopkins left Baltimore in July 1775 and entered the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a Cadet under General Washington and on September 9, 1775, volunteered as a Cadet in Captain (afterwards General Morgan's Company, Colone; Arnold's Corps, The Canadian Expedition and was at the storming of Quebec. 
[paragraph symbol in left margin] In the spring of 1776 he entered Captain S. Smith's Company, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland Regiment. ^ Length of service not given [paragraph symbol in left margin] On January 21, 1777, he was appointed Captain in Colonel Stephen Moylan's Fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons and on January 1, 1781, was promoted Major in the First Regiment of Light Dragoons and continued as such to the end of the Revolution, serving in all more than eight years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 24, 1818, while as resident of Baltimore County, Mary-

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Rev. & 1812

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land, aged 65 years.
[handwritten] ^insert here par about land

The names of his parents and the date and place of his birth are not stated. In 1820 he referred to his wife, Hannah, aged 45 years.

Soldier died March 7, 1824, place not stated, leaving two sons, William L. of Baltimore, aged 19 years, name of elder son not stated.

Respectfully,

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Commissioner.
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
MEE/eel

December 15, 1928

Rober Hopkins
Box 124, Mexico
Missouri

Sir,

    I advise you that from the paper in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 34925, it appears that David Hopkins left Baltimore in July, 1775, and entered the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a cadet under General Washington and on September 9,1775, volunteered as a cadet in Captain (afterwards General) Morgan's Company, Colonel Arnold's Corps, for the Canadian Expedition and was at the storming of quebec.
     In the spring of 1776, he entered Captain S. Smith's Company, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland Regiment, length of service not given.
     On January 21, 1777, he was appointed Captain in Colonel Stephen Moylan's Fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons and on January 1, 1781, was promoted Major in the First Regiment of Light Dragoons and continued as such to the end of the Revolution, serving in all more than eight years.
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     He was allowed pension his application executed March 24,1818, while a resident of Baltimore County, Maryland, aged sixty-five years.

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 It also appears that warrant No. 1190 for three hundred acres of land was issued, and Warrant No. 1087 for four hundred acres of land was issued July 29, 1790 for his services as above stated in the War of the Revolution.
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     The names of his parents and the date and place of his birth are not stated.    In 1820 he referred to his wife, Hannah, aged forty-five years.
    Soldier died March 7, 1824, place not stated, leaving two sons , William L., of Baltimore, aged nineteen years, name of elder son  not stated.

                 Respectfully, 

                 WINFIELD SCOTT
                        Commissioner