Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34939, for Alexander Jones, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Va
CONTENTS
Jones, Alexander
[illegible] Prince Georges County Maryland wife Mary
NUMBER
S. 34939
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12.7
Maryland.
Alexander Jones
Capt Ewell private Virginia
[illegible] United States

Ah
At $8 [illegible] 25 March, 1818
Cert [illegible] 11 April, 1818.
[illegible] delivered to the pensioner
who resides in Prince Georges County
Maryland

Portion of [illegible] from [illegible] on
25 March, 1818. 20/28 month at the rate
of $5.33 [illegible]  = $3.80
[illegible] from 25 March to 4
[illegible] 1878. 5 8/28 months     $41.14
                                                      $44.94  

[illegible] blaine
Act 18 March, 1818          

Virginia Line
three years
[inelligible] War     
[inelligible]
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Handwritten calculations for what looks like the amount of pay due.

The Honorable
John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington
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Prince Georges County State of Maryland
This is to certify Nate Alexander Jones 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 the counties of Saint Marys [illegible] and Prince Georges and made oath that he enlisted in the army about the year 1779 as well as he recollects in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Sewell which was afterwards commanded by Captain Evan [illegible]  The [inelligible] company was attached to the first regiment of the Virginian line commanded by Colonel Gibson and afterwards by Colonel Beaufort. that after the defeat at Guilford Court House the regiment was turned over to the command of Colonel Hawes who commanded him until the end of the war. that his intentment was to serve during the war which he faithfully complied with and executed. that he served principally in the southern army under general [illegible] that he was severely wounded, is now advanced in years with a family dependent on his [illegible] exertions and is in adverse circumstances and stands greatly in need of his governments assistance. sworn to this eight day of March 1818.
John Rowsby (question spelling) Plater

The said Alexander Jones states that he is now in the receipt of his pension of sixty four dollars per annum which he hereby releases from and after the time at which he shall be [inelligible] in the pension [inelliglble] under the act [inelligible] at the present session of the congress of the United States March 8th. 1818

Test        His
JR Plater    Alexander Jones
March
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The Honorable the Secretary at War
-
Sir
I have pursuant to the late act
of Congress the honor of enclosing you a
certificate under oath of a revolutionary
soldier. I am Sir with great respect
[inelligible]
JR Plater

State of Maryland Prince Georges County

I hereby certify that the Honourable
John Rossby Plater before whom the aforegoing 
affidavit was made his
signature being thereunto affixed
was at the time of taking and signing
the same and now is one of the Associate
Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland
duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose
acts [illegible] due faith and credit is and ought to be
given as well in courts of justice as thereout
In Testimony [illegible] thereunto
subscribe my name and affix
the seal of Prince George County Court
this seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
E. Harwood [inelligible]
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Alex Jones.
No 127.
11 Apr 1818
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That he was in the Battle of Camden, [illegible] on or at ninety six where he was wounded

SCHEDULE.
(A) Prince Georges County Maryland SS.
On this day of 1820, personally
appeared in open court (*) being a court of record, (B.) proceeding according to the course of common law having jurisdiction for the said (C.) County of State of Maryland Alexander Jones

aged sixty years,
resident/near Bladensburgin said (D.) County
who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served
in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.) in the first Virginia regiment
which was commanded by Col Haws in the company
of Thomas Ewell as a private for three years &
four months part of which time deponent was in the
hospital, & when this deponent first enlisted
he enlisted for the war that he has received a
pension which commenced on the 25th March 1818 on
Certificate dated 11th April 1818 & was inscribed as
the pension list roll of the Maryland agency the No of certificate is obliterated.

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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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E. Schedule of all my property
The milch cows 2 Calves & 2 yearlings
2 Horses 2 pigs 1 Cart & geer
2 Saddle, 1 bridle 3 Hoes 3 axes
1 Manure fork 2 plough,
1 Bureau 2 Cupboards & 1 Small table
2 Spinning Wheels 1 linen wheel
4 old chairs 15 plates & dishes 1 iron pot
1 Dutch oven & frying pan 5 Milk pots & pans
1 Gun, 1 pair fire tongs & Shovel.
No real or mixed property-- I follow the occupation of farming on a piece of land I rent of Col Deakins, am sickly, old & feeble. have a wife & Seven children living
My wife is named Mary aged about 40 years. my children are Johns about 21 years old William about 19 years old- Lucy about
old Nancy about 10 years old, Mary about 8 years old Henry about 5 years old born deformed in his foot & Charles Going 3 years old 

his
Alexander Jones

Sworn to and declared on the 12th day of September mark[inelligible] 1820
Beford JW Johnson

I, Aquila Beale, Clerk of Prince Georges County 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 one hundred by three dollars and
--- Cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this day of 182
Aquila Beale Clk of Prince
Georges County Court
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*The whole of the form prescribed 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. - (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States.)

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 ships, 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. 

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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34 939
[inelligible] Invalid

File No. 34,939
Alexander Jones
Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: -Vol. 8, Page 207

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(Disability)
Invalid pension certificate
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Jones, Alexander
Va. 534939
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War Department

I certify that in conformity with the Act of Congress of the 25th of April 1808, entitled, "An Act concerning Invalid Prisoners"
Alexander Jones was placed on the pension [illegible] the United States [illegible] Agency [illegible] of three dollars thirty-three [illegible] cents per month.

 Given at the War-Office of the United States, this 4th day of September 1811.
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No.13. This Certificate is granted in lieu of on formerly issued to said Alexander Jones which he declares to be lost.

W Eustis
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Mr. Jones-

I have written your deposition which you must take as soon as possible to Marlbro and swear to before Judge Key, or one of the judges of Prince Georges County- and then get the county seal to it and bring it to me. I forgot the year you first enlisted but have left a blank in the paper which the judge can fill up when you swear to it by telling him the year.

Yr Friend
Sam Birch.