Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9481, for Henry Six, Maryland
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(3-1776)

Service
Md.

Six, Henry

Number
S.9481
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carded
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Contents
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Maryland 31.208

Henry Six
Frederick Co in the State of Maryland who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wiley of the Regt. commanded by Col. Rawlings in the Maryland Line for 6 month

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 20 Dollars   ___ cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Sept 1837 and [crossed out] sent [end cross out] deliver to [illegible] Present

Arrears to the 4th of March '38  130.00
Semi-amt. allowance ending 4 Sep. " 10.00
$140.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,
Book E.2. Vol. 5. Page 111
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State of Maryland Frederick County [illegible Sct?]

On this 24th day, of Sept 1835 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Frederick County now [illegible sitting?] [underline] Henry Six [end underline] a resident of Frederick County State of Maryland [underlined] aged 82 years [end underline], 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 June 7- 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein after states:
He was born near Emmitsburg in Frederick County Maryland and continued to reside in said County until he entered the military service of the United States ^ as a substitute [end ^] in a company commanded by [underline] Capt John Wiley [end underline] under whom he [illegible] as Sargeant and marched to Fort Frederick when he continued in service [underlined] two months [end underline] on garrison duty for two months under command of Col. Rawlings.  He returned  home after the [illegible] of this first tour of duty and having remained there about six weeks
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he, again entered the service of the United States as a ^drafted (end^] militia man under the immediate command of Capt John Jekas and marched to Frederick Town to guard the prisoners who had been taken at York Town , and continued in that peruse as a Sergeant two months under command Col John [illegible Rufus King?] and Major Bruce.  At the [illegible] tour of duty applicant entered the service of the [illegible] ^as a drafted militia [illegible] a third time at Frederick Town as a Sergeant under immediate command of Capt Joe Wilson and marched thence to Harpers Ferry to take charge of certain prisoners who had been taken at the surrender of Cornwallis and conducted them to York in Pennsylvania when they were delivered over to other American Militia to be taken into the interior of the County for safe keeping.  After his company reached York applicant was regularly discharged & returned to his former residence in Frederick County having served two months more and having been in the military serviced the [illegible shorthand writing]  as a Sergeant in Militia
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for said months. This applicant has no documentary evidence [illegible written?] of his service [illegible] several discharges [illegible]; neither does he know any person, whose testimony he can procure to testify concerning the facts set for this in his declaration
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Role of the Agency of any Rate
                Henry Six
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before
John Schley Clk
Frederick Court

Robert Long & Geroge Froshour residing in Frederick County and State of Maryland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Six
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age & that he is respected and believed, 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 
Robt Long
George Froshour
Before
John Schley, Clk Fr Cty Ct
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation's subscribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that is appears to them that Robert Long & George Froshour who have signed the above certificate are residents and citizens of Frederick County and State aforesaid, and that they are credible persons and this statement is entitled to credit
Test  Jno Schley Clk F Cty Ct
24th Sept. 1835

I John Schley Clerk of Frederick County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Six for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of September [crossed out date July ?]  1835
John Schley Clk.
Frederick Cty Court

[written on the right side of the document perpendicular over the top of the above writing is as below]
33.263
Henry Six
Maryland
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9481
INVALID.  [perpendicular writing Rev War]
File No. 9481
Henry Six
Priv Rev. War

Act:  June 7th 1832
Index: Vo. 1, Page 342

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Henry Six
$20 per an
Private 6 mo.
Maryd. role act '32
Pensioner
[illegible present?]
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Francis Thomas, at Frederick Maryland will be glad to hear from the Commissioners of Pensions respecting the accompanying application of Henry Six for a pension.
Frederick Oct. 3-1835
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Md 
Apl 23

[Postal stamp]  Frederick Md  April 23

J.L Edwards Esq
Commissioner Pensions
Washington
D.C
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Sir
I have the honour to enclose the affidavits of Philip Fuss and Joseph Ways rendered more specific and stating the ground of their knowledge according to the [illegible] of the department in the last communication on this subject- I trust that the application of this very indigent and as I think deserving old man will find favor with the [illegible] - I have the honour to be now the [illegible] Respect
[illegible signature]
Wm Henry Daingerfield
Frederick April 22. 1836

JL Edwards Esq
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[postal mark]  Frederick MD.
March 4

To
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner Pensionary
War Department
Washington 

FREE
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Frederick Cty March 3rd 1836

Sir
The difficulty as stated in your letter to the Honorable Francis Thomas & by [illegible] to me in the application of Henry Six for the Benefit of the Pension Law of 1832 have been [illegible] to me by the enclosed amended application here and therewith accompanying affidavits of Philip Fuss and Joseph Wayse-  The Applicant [illegible] in his Original application to have been misunderstood in the statement matter of his third and last Tour of duty, or to have [illegible] an engagement to serve for three months with an actual service for that length of time which misunderstanding or confusion his amended application seeks to comment or explain.  The Original Declaration now set forth no time [illegible] duration [illegible] two months- 
The affidavits above alluded to three- one tour to have been three months  It is respectfully
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suggested that these affidavits are in contradiction, but in support of the original Declaration- There is apparently no inconsistency in a Declaration that he served two months and proof of three for the proof necessarily [crossed out illegible] included and supports the time mentioned in the Declaration- I [illegible] to refer the department to the Honorable Francis Thomas and for such further information on the subject and may be [illegible]  age and in accordance with the Regulations of the Pension Office
Respectfully
[illegible Your most ]
Wm Henry Daingerfield

J.L  Edwards Esq
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Deposition of Philip Fuss in the Application of Six
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On this twentyeth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty-six personally appeared Philip Fuss before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the [illegible State?] in and for the County of Frederick in the State of Maryland and made oath on the holy Evangely of Almighty God that he is personally acquainted with Henry Six and that said Six served with him  [illegible] of three months as a [underline] private [end underline] soldier in the Revolutionary War with England in Capt Wiley, a company of Volunteers and this he much knows having served with [illegible] the said Six
Sworn before Thomas Hays

I Thomas Hays Justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit was made do hereby certify that the above named Philip Fuss is a credible witness entitled to belief and that he  has the reputation of having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War----Witness my hand
This 20th day of April 1836
Thomas Hays
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STATE OF MARYLAND, FREDERICK COUNTY, Ss:
I, [crossed out JOHN] Henry Schley, Clerk of Frederick County Court, do hereby certify that 
Thomas Hays. Esquire Gentleman before who the foregoing [illegible] affidavit appears to have been made and whose name is _________ thereto subscribed, was, at the time thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace, of the said State, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn;

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the said Court, this 22nd day of April 1836

Henry Schley Clerk.
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The Amended Declaration of Henry Six
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The amended Declaration of Henry Six to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of Maryland
Frederick County} Sct.

On this 24th day of February personally appeared in open court before the subscriber one of the Judges of Frederick County Court Henry Six a resident of said County in the state of Maryland aged eighty four year who being first duly sworn according to las doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress passage June 7th 1832.  That though in fact he did not serve for two whole months in the thirds and last tour of duty in his first said declaration mentioned nor was it his intention  [illegible so?] to say in his said declaration yet he says that he engaged to serve for this length of time fully expecting and intending to serve and was [illegible liable] to serve  during the said term and that he only failed as to do because he was discharged there not being any further duty for him to perform [illegible] war ending about that time by surrender of Cornwallis, at York Town.  Accompanying this amended declaration are two affidavits one by Philip Fuss the other Joseph Hays which [illegible] that instead of his [illegible]  two months in his said first [crossed out illegible] service, in his first declaration mentioned as the declarant [illegible] and amended in his said declaration he in fact served three months in this said first tour of [illegible service?] which [illegible] three months so [illegible] as aforesaid [illegible] to this with his this tour of service more than [illegible] six months.
[crossed out] The declarant hereby [end cross out]

Sworn to in open Court this 24th February 1836
Test
Henry Schley Clk
Thos Buchanan
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Maryland
Frederick County [illegible]

I hereby certify that the Honourable Thomas Buchanan, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition, is an associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Maryland, composed of the County of Frederick, Washington and Alleghany; 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 where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Frederick County Court, this 3rd day of March AD 1836

Henry Schley Clerk
Frederick County Court
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Deposition Joseph Ways Henry Six in the matter of the application [illegible] Six
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State of Maryland
Frederick County Sct}

On the twentieth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty six before me the subscriber a justice of the peace and for said County personally appeared Joseph Ways who being first duly sworn according to law-deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with Henry Six having served with him and having been in the same [illegible] with him in the company of Captain Wiley of Maryland during the Revolutionary War between the United States of America and Great Britain; and having served with him he knows that the said Henry Six served three months under said Wiley that being the term for which he was enrolled with said Wiley, at the said Ways [illegible] he the said Ways having been drafted for the same time

Sworn before
Jas Smith

And I Jas. Smith the justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit was made do hereby certify
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that the aforesaid Joseph Ways is a credible witness and entitled to belief and that he has the reputation & character of having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War
Witness my hand this twentieth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty six
Jas. Smith

State of Maryland, Frederick County, Ss:
I, [crossed out] John [end cross out] Henry Schley, Clerk of Frederick County Court, do hereby certify that James Smith Esquire Gentleman before whom the foregoing amended affidavit appears to have been made and who name is thereto subscribed, was, at the time thereof and still is a Justice of the Peace, of the said State, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn;

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the said Court, this 22nd day of April 1836.

Henry Schley Clerk