Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4186, William Durham, Md.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md.

Durham, William
Anna or
Ann.

NUMBER
W.4186

CONTENTS
[illegible-too faint]

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5879
Maryland,
________
Anna Durham,
widow of William Durham,
^Md^
who was a Private
in the Rev. War.
________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
________________
Certificate of Pension issued the
23 day of July 1844
and sent to 
David Corey
Baltimore, Maryland.
________
([Act of March 3, 1843.])
June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1  Page 141.

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[handwritten]
On this 28h day of November Eighteen hundred and forty two. Before me the Subscriber Nicholas Brice Chief Justice of Baltimore City Court. Personally appeared Ann Durham a resident of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland aged Seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of William Durham, a Soldier of the Revolution, who according to the best information she possesses, enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Hines of the Sixth Maryland Regiment; that he was at the Battle of Camden and various other battles the particulars of which as related by him not now recollected by her. That he served during several years, was wounded in his head and hand and did not return home until the close of the war of the Revolution.

She further declares that she was married to the Said William Durham at Joppa in Harford County Md. by Revd. Mr. Wilmer of the Protestant Episcopal church, to the best of her recollection in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty six, without Licence, the marriage intent being published in the Church, that the Records kept by Parson Wilmer are very imperfect and do not contain her marriage, that her daughter by her Said Husband is now fifty four years of age.

That her husband the aforesaid William ([Durham])

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[continued from previous page, handwritten]

Durham left home a long time ago and has not been heard of for twenty years past; that She was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated
Ann  her X mark  Durham

Witness 
[signed] N Brice

Sworn to and Subscribed,, on the day and year first above written.
[signed] N. Brice, Chief
Judge Balt City Court
28 Nov 1842

State of Maryland  City of Baltimore  Sct.
I hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the above Certificate was signed was & still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned & sworn, & to all whose acts as such full faith & credit are due & ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as therewith.

In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this Twenty eighth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred & forty two.

[signed] Wm. M. Medcalfe
Balto City Crt
[flourish]

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I, John Durham of the City of Baltimore State of Maryland aged sixty six year. Depose and say that at my earliest recollection when about three years old then residing in Harford County Maryland, I perfectly remember seeing William Durham who was my Uncle in his Regimentals a Soldier of the Revolution, then on a visit to this Father John Durham (who was my grand Father) at whose I then resided. That after the close of the war William Durham returned to Harford County, when and where I have often heard him tell of his dangers and services in the said war and showed the marks of the wounds he had received in his head and hand in battle with the enemy. I was also well acquainted with Miss Ann Tolby who resided in the family of my said Grandfather John Durham some time prior to his marriage with said William Durham, then soldier which marriage took place in the immediate neighbourhood of my said grandfather where then resided according to the best of my knowledge and belief in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six. That said Marriage was a matter of public notoriety and I was in constant habit of visiting them as man and wife, in which relation they were known and acknowledged in respectable society; that they raised a family of children; the eldest one of whom Elizabeth is now fifty four (say 54) year of age the wife of W John Cooper of the City. That the said William Durham left home many years ago and has not been heard from for twenty years past. That said Ann Durham his widow has not intermarried but remains his widow, and she is now in this City but is a resident of Baltimore County, sustaining a good moral character and is the identical person who
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[cont'd]

who is now applying for a Pension on account of the Military services of her said husband in the war of the Revolution in which application I am disinterested. As witness my hand this 30th day of November eighteen hundred and forty two.

John Durham

Sworn to and subscribed before me. And I do hereby certify that the above named John Durham, deponent, is known to me as a respectable resident of this City entitled to full and ample credit. Witness my hand this 30th day of November 1842.

J.W.P. Heath J.P.

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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore
December 15, 1842

I, John Timmons, aged 52 years, a resident of the City of Baltimore, and formerly of Harford County, Maryland, where I resided until the year 1830, Depose and Say, That I was well acquainted with William Durham, and his wife Ann Durham formerly of said County. That I have often heard said William Durham tell of his exploits and sufferings as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. That he (the said William Durham) left his residence in Harford County aforesaid, in or about the year 1817 in a state of (partial) mental aberation [aberration]. That about one year thereafter, a letter was received by my Father or Mother, from my uncle Stephen Sutton of Venango County, Pennsylvania, stating that said William Durham had arrived there, in a deranged state of mind. That in about 6 to 9 months afterwards, another letter was received from Mr. Sutton stating that said William Durham was dead; of the truth of which information this deponent hath no doubt. And I do further depose and say that I am not interested in this testimony, or its results as it respects the application of said Ann Durham window of said William for a pension, or any otherwise. 
John Timmons

State of Maryland, City of Baltimore S. S. 
On the 15th of December 1842, Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore, Personally appeared John Timmons the above deponent and made oath according to law that the matters and things in the above statement or deposition are correct and true as therein stated. And I do hereby certify that John Timmons the above named deponent is a respectable resident of this city, and entitled to full and ample credit.
Subscribed & Sworn before 
T.W.P. Heath

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State of Maryland
Baltimore County Sch

I hereby certify that James P. Heath Gentleman before whom the within deposition was made & who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the state aforesaid in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned & sworn.

In Testimony where of I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 15th day of December 1842. 

Thos. Kell Clk. [Clerk]

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,__________, 19___



In reply to your request of __________, received __________
for a statement of the military history of William Durham
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired 
information as contained in [crossed out: his] ([crossed out: or] his widow's) application for pen-
sion on file in this Bureau.
[Table headers: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.[sub-header: CAPTAIN. COLONEL.]]
[illegible] 28, 1778 | 3 yrs | Pvt | [illegible] | [illegible] | Md |

Battles engaged in, Camden & Cowpens, Cerecd wounde in head & hand
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Hartford, Co. Md.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 28, 1842, New claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Baltimore Co. Md.
Age at date of application, 79 yrs
Remarks: Soldier was the cow of John Durham, and he mar. at Joppa,
Harford Co. Md in 1786, Ann Tolby, they had 7 children, only name
stated being the oldest, Elizabeth, aged 3-4 yrs 1842, she mar. John Cooper of Prallo Md
William Durham left his home about 1817, about a year later, one letalure Sutton
on Venaueles Pa, wrote that he had arrived in that co. & 6 or 9 mos later wrote that
he was dead. Date & place of death not on record
Respectfully,

J--285C

Commissioner.

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[two column pamphlet]
[left panel] 1920 June 2 Heist to Mrs. N.L.
Dashiell. aw.

[the following is all on the right panel of the pamphlet]
Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4186
Anna Durham
Wid.
Wm Durham
Pvt. Rev: War

Act: Mch, 3" /&3, June 17"/44
Index:--Vol. A, Page 198

[Arrangement of 1870.]

See Rejected claim 3160. Wm
Durham, no proof that he was 
this soldier but reports of service

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No original papers instead [illegible - tains?] as the declaration was returned Nov 30 1832 not properly authenticated. no data about soldier useful. Indiana residence. nothing that could identify him as this womans husband

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8334  
see Attn to D. Cosey July2:
1844 - [illegible signature]

Maryland
Anna Durham
widow of William Durham
who was a pensioner under the Act of ______ and who died in the year [crossed out: 1844] "?"
[faint note above next line: "see  evidence in claim"]
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [? - Ulrich] of the Reg commanded by Col ______ in the Revolution [crossed out: "line"] for 2 years.
[double line across the page]

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 Dollars _______ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
[double line across the page]

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of April, 1844 and [illegible] S. Allison Esq
[illegible] GeorgeTown, Del Co

Total Amount,  $400.00
[double line above and below $400.00]
[in brackets:  Act July 7, 1938.]
Recorded by Tho [? Sumskin], Clerk,
Book D, Vol. 1   Page 251

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6524
Act 1838
Anna Durham


Married in 1786
husband died in 1819
_____
Maryland Rob
_____
$80 per an
_____
Sent cert. to 
W.S. Allison
near George Town
D.C.

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Land Office, Annapolis, 28th Novr., 1842,

I hereby Certify that it appears by the Muster rolls of the
Revolution, remaining in this office, That William Durham,
enlisted as a private, in Captain Hines's Company, of the 6th Mary-
land Regiment, on the 28th day of April, 1778, for the term of
three years, and was present on the 1st of November, 1780,

George G. Brewer
Regt. LandOffi. W. S. Md.

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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore & Wit.

This is to certify that Anna Durham, who appeared before me on the twenty eighth day of June last post, produced before me her Certificate for a Pension granted to the Widows of deceased soldiers of the Revolution, that she qualified before me as to her identity and under her said qualification received her pension at the Merchants Bank of Baltimore, and I feel fully satisfied of the truth of her statement.

Given under my hand this sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred forty four.
Geo. P Woodward
Justice of the Peace for the
City of Baltimore

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State of Maryland
Baltimore City 

On this 28th day of June A Domini 1824
Personally appeared before me this Subscriber
a Justice of the peace in & for said City of Baltimore
and State of Maryland Anna Durham as
resident of said county aged [blank] years
who having by me first duly sworn according
to Law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits
of the provisions made by the act of Congress
papered on the 3d day of March AD 1843
Granting widows pensions of Persons who
Served during the Revolutionary war
That she is the Widow of William Durham
a soldier of the Revolutionary war in the
Maryland line and that the annual
amount of pension which under the act
of July 7th 1838 amounting to Eighty
dollars per annum for [crossed out: illegible] which 
She has recd on this day of this date
[illegible] That fur this du cares she still
remains a Widow
Sworn & Subscribed on this day{  Anna X ^her mark^ Durham
and [illegible] above Written{
[illegible] {
Geo P. Woodward

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[lots of bleed through from the other side on this page so is very difficult to read]

Hon
J L Edwards, Esqr
Please grant me a pension
Certificate [illegible] the Acts of 1843 and
deliver this same to David Corey of York
Pa and OMedys yours{
Humble Servant{
Baltimore June 28{
A.D. 1844
Anna X ^her mark^ Durham

Attest Geo P Woodward

State of Maryland
Baltimore County [illegible] I hereby certify that
George P. Woodward Esquire before whom the
writtin affidavid was made and who has
there to subscribed his [illegible] was at the
time of [illegible] one of clc Justices
of the Peace of the State of Maryland
in and for the City of Baltimore duly com-
missioned and Sworn - 
In Testimony where [illegible]
Subscribe my name and affix
the seal of Baltimore County Court.
this 29th day of June 1844 
Thomas Kell Clk

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Know all men by these presents that I Ann Durham do hereby make Constitute & appoint William Atkinson my True and Lawfull Attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive of the Secretary of War of the United States a pension Certificates for the services of my late Husband William Durham dec [deceased] hereby giving and Granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to every other act and thing in the Law needfull and necessary to be done in and about the promises or fully and Largely to all intents and purposes as I might or could do were I personally present for the purpose aforesaid that hereby revoke all former powers of Attorney heretofore given by me and do hereby agree that whatever my said attorney shall lawfully do for me & in my name & stead I will Ratify and Confirm the same as my own act & deed In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & seal this [date blank] day of November AD 1843. 
Attest
Thomas N Thompson

Ann [X her Mark] Durham
Seal [flourish around word]

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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

On this 9th day of November A.D. 1843 Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County one Ann Durham and acknowledge the pressing power of attorney to be her Act and deed In testimony whereof I have here unto set one hand & seal the day & year above [illegible, smudge]

James Haney 
Seal [surrounded with flourish]

State of Maryland
Baltimore County Scb.
I hereby certify that James Haney Gentleman before who in the aforegoing Acknowledgement was made and who has thereto signed his name, was at the time of his signing one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Baltimore County duly commissioned & sworn.
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and offer the seal of Baltimore County Court this 24th of Nov. 1843
Thos. [Thomas] Keller Clerk of Baltimore County Court

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July 16 182[illegible]
D Prop
noaut 1843
36nact 1844
rito care
Mary
Mar 3 1843 & 44
Ann Durham
8354-NP-38

$80 per an

David Corey
Baltimore Md

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Pension Office
July 2, 1844

Sir, 
The declaration of Anna Durham, widow of William Durham, is herewith returned, in order that the Magistrate who administered the oath, may certify that she is personally known to him. She should make a declaration under the act of June 17, 1844, if she wishes to obtain the benefits of that law. 

I am, Sir, 
very respectfully,
your Obedient Servant.
J L Edwards


Mr. David Corey,
Baltimore,
Maryland.

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Baltimore July 3, 1842

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
On the 30th Dec. last I sent you the appreciation of Jacob Greaves for a New Pension Certificate U. - On the 31 you wrote him that he was transferred from the Roll of Washington, to that of Baltimore - but did not send him a certificate! without which he cannot get his money. 
Very Respectfully
Your obs. Servant
Alex Yearley

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Baltimore June 29, 1844
Sir
Enclosed I send you the Claim of Mrs Anna Durham widow of Wm Durham to Obtain her a pension Certificate for one year, pension due her under Act of 1843. She has just recd [received] the five year pension. She now wants this one year pension if you find All Correct please send me her pension Certificate and Oblige. 
Your H. Ser.
David Corey

Hon J L Edwards

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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Dec 16, 1842
Mary [flourish]
Ann Durham

[stamp, illegible]

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Baltimore Dec 15, 1842

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
In answer to your Letter of 12th sent to me relative to the case of Ann Durham, Widow of William Durham, dec. I herewith send you Testimony as to the death of said William Durham; as also the certificate of George G. Brewer Esq as to his military service in the War of the Revolution.
All of which is most respectfully submitted on behalf of Mrs Durham
By
Your Obs. Servant
Alex Yearley

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8524
Md

aeb 7. July 28
Anna Durham

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State of Pennsylvania

Venango County, Ss
On the 14th Day of August 1843 personaly [personally] appeared before Me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Venango Isaiah Roberts a Resident of Said County Aged Sixty four years and who being by me duly Sworn According to law Saith that he was well acquainted with William Durham a Soldier of the Revolutionary War in the Maryland line as he stated to the Deponent and that he was also well acquainted with his wife Anne Durham and That he knew them to live together as Man and Wife from The year 1790 for twenty years or more during which time There was born unto the said William Durham and Anne [ink smudge] Durham his Wife Seven Children all of whom Deponent well knew as he was a near Neighbor to this Deponent in Harford County Maryland. Deponent was not present when they were married never heard it disputed that he has often heard William Durham State the time and place in Harford County Maryland where they were Married to [missing from text] and also the Statement of said Durham Services in the Revolutionary War and that He showed the Mark on His head Which he said he Received From a Cutlass of a Brittish [British] Soldier  this same William Durham was Reputed and believed in the place where he Resided by all his Neighbors to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War and further saith that.

Isaiah Roberts

Sworn and Subscribed before Me on the 14th Day of August AD 1843
John Gillmer
Seal

I do hereby Certify that the above deponent is of good Character and Entitled to full faith and credit. Witness my hand and Seal the 14th Day of August 1843.
John Gillmer 
Seal [flourish around word]

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State of Pennsylvania

Venango County Ss [Social Services]

Personaly [Personally] appeared before Me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county of Venango Rubin Sutton Who being duly Sworn according to law Saith that he was Well acquainted with William Durham a soldier of the Revolutionary War in the Maryland line as he stated to the Deponent and that he was well acquainted with Anne Durham his wife and knew them to live together as Man and Wife from the year 1790 for twenty years Or More and Raised a large family of children together as Man and Wife that it was believed by all his Neighbors and acquaintances that they were Married and Durham said she was his lawful wife. Deponent was A Neighbor of the said Wm Durham in Harford County Maryland and that not.e now lives in Venango County in the State of Pennsylvania and that about Twenty five years ago this same William Durham Came to this place in a Mental State of Derangement and Remained here for a short time and that he left This place for or about twenty five years ago that Deponent has never seen him Since and further forth not.

Reubin Sutton

Sworn and Subscribed before Me this 14th Day of August AD 1843
John Gilmer 
Seal [flourish around word]

I do hereby Certify the above Name Deponent is a Person of good Character and Entitled to full Credit.
Witness My Hand and Seal
John Gillmer [underlined]
Seal [flourish around word]

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Venango County Pennsylvania Ss [Social Services]

I George W. Connely Prothonotary of the several Courts of Venango County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that John Willmer Esquire whose name appears to the within depositions in an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County regularly comunified and qualified and that as such full faith and credit are and of right to be given toward by Official acts, and that his name is signed to the within depositions in his own proper hand writing. Given under my hand and seal of said Court at the Borough of Franklin Venango County State of Pennsylvania the 17th day of August A.D. 1840.

George W. Connely Proth.

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Mar. 28, 1843
Ann Durham
Maryland
Act of July 1838

Additional to.
Case of Ann Durham

W.S. Allison
Priest

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Baltimore Dec 5, 1842

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension

Sir,
Herewith I send you the application of Ann Durham for a Pension under the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an "Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
I have taken much pains in investigating the case of this old lady, and believe it to be correct and true. The Rev Mr. Keetch, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, called on me and stated he has in possession the Records kept by Parson Wilmer, that they are very important, and do not contain the Marriage of William Durham, to Ann Tolby now Ann Durham. The Testimony of John Durham and Elizabeth Cooper, however, is strong to that point. Mrs Durham has no original family remaining in her possession. Her case is respectfully submitted By
Your Obs Servant
Alex Yearley

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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore S.S.

On this fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty two, before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, at the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore aforesaid, personally came Elizabeth Cooper, aged 54 years a residency of this City, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare that she was personally acquainted with Wm [William] Durham late of Harford County, that she has often heard him tell of his services and sufferings as a Soldier of the Revolution in the Maryland line. That he told of having been in a number of battles in the South, particularly of the Battles of Cowpens and of Camden. That he showed scars of a wound on his head and another on his hand. That fifty years ago she knew him as the husband of Ann Durham to whom as she has been credibly informed, he was married in the year 1786. That she this dependent being their daughter knew them as man and wife until about the year 1817, when in a State of dispondency [despondency] he left home and has not now been heard from for more that twenty years. That she has known his widow to this time who is now on a visit to this City a resident of Baltimore County of good character and entitled to credit, and is the identical person now applying for a pension on account of the military services of her said husband in the war of the Revolution, and that she this dependent is not interested therein.
Elizabeth Cooper
Alex Yearley, Witness
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me, and I do hereby certify that the 
[above]

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above named Elizabeth Cooper, dependant [dependent], is known to me as a respectable resident of this City entitled to full and ample credit. Witness my hand this 25th day of December 1842.
George W King J.P.

State of Maryland Baltimore County Sel. I hereby certify that James P. Heath and George W King Gentlemen before whom the a foregoing depositions were made, and who have thereto subscribed their names, were at the time of so doing Justices of the peace of the State aforesaid, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof here to subscribe my name, and can affix the seal of Baltimore County Court, this fifth day of December 1842.
Thos [Thomas] Kell Clk of Baltimore County Court

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Rev. War [illegible]
May 8/1920

U.S. Pension Office
May 13, 1920

Pension Office
Wash. D.C.

Anne Durham received a pension - from the government until her death - for services which her husband rendered during the American Revolution. A descendant wants to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, but does not know the name of her great grandfather. Is there any way of establishing these facts through the

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fact, that she received a pension? Thanking you for whatever help you can give me - Yours Truly
Mrs. N.L. Dashiell
2927 St. Paul St
Balto. [Baltimore] Md.

Pres. Col. Nicholas
Ruxton Moore
Society Children
of the American Revolution