Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,806, Thomas Ellis, Md.

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Service Md

Ellis, Thomas

Number S. 34.8066

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[Following written vertically top to bottom]

Notification sent 15 Jany. 1821 to Hon. S. Archer H Reps

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16,058 R
Maryland

Thoms Ellis
of Hartford County in the state of Maryland
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Williams of the Maryland
line, for the term of nine months

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 9 of Novr. 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 29. of Novr. 1819
and sent to Nicholas Brice Esq.
Baltimore Maryland

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820 30.89
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
3 mo 22/30 4/31 $30.89

Dead.

[Revolutionary claim, }
Act 18th March, 1818. }

Continued

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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore Ss

On this 9th day of November A.D. 1819
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the City
Court, in & for the said City of Baltimore, in the
State aforesaid, personally appears Thomas Ellis,
aged about 70 years, resident in Harford County in
the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly
sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the
following Declaration in order to obtain the provision
made by the late 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: " That he the said Thomas
Ellis enlisted on the third day of June in the
year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, for nine
months in the company commanded by Captn Joshua
Miles in the 6th Maryland Regiment under Col
Otho H Williams; and that he served out his
time, and was discharged at Middle Brook in
the State of New Jersey on the 22d of March 1779.

That soon after his discharge he re-enlisted
under Captn. Griffith for the war and marched
with the Maryland Troops to Carolina and was
in the action near Camden on the 16th August 1780.

That he was in the actions at Guilford
Court House and at the Eutaw Springs;

That he remained with the Maryland
Troops until the close of the war and was 
then embarked

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then embarked on board of a vessel at
Charleston and arrived at Annapolis where
he was finally discharged with the troops 
and that he served after his reenlistment more than nine m [word cut off]

That he is now in reduced circumstances
and stands in need of the assistance of his
Country for support and that he has no other
evidence now in his power of his said services

Sworn to and subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid.

N Brice  Thomas X his mark Ellis
Chief Judge Balt
City Ct

Baltimore 9. Novr. 1819

I hereby certify that from the aforegoing
declaration on oath and annexed Certificate &
affidavit it appears to my entire satisfaction
that Thomas Ellis above named served
as a private soldier in the Army on the Conti-
mental establishment during the revolution-
ary war against the Common enemy for
more than nine months in continuance
and from good information am satisfied
that from his reduced circumstances in life
he requires the assistance of his Country
for his support.

N Brice Chief
Judge Balt City Ct

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Schedule

State of Maryland Harford County Court.

On this twentieth day of November 1820 personally appeared
in Open Court being a court of record made and Constitu-
ted so by the General Assembly of Maryland for the said
County Thomas Ellis aged seventy one years resident
in Harford County in said State who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that
he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he
enlisted in the Sixth Maryland Regiment and served un-
der Captain Joshua Miles Company and that he has
received a pension and that the number of his pension
Certificate is Sixteen thousand and fifty eight 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,

Property none of any kind or description that
he is a labourer and unable to labour that he has no
family.  Sworn to and declared on the 20th day of No-
vember 1820 Before Chs W Hanson Associate Judge
of the Sixth Judicial District of Maryland.
Received and recorded the twentieth day of November
Eighteen hundred and twenty and Examined by
Henry Dorsey Clk

I Henry Dorsey Clerk of Harford County Court do hereby certify
that the foregoing oath and the Schedule annexed are
truly copied from the record of said Court and I do
further certify that it is the opinion of the said

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Court that the total amount in value of the prop-
arty exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is _______
_______ and ______ [ word Cents lined through]

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
on this 20th day of November 1820
Henry Dorsey [blank circle]
Clerk of the Court of the County ___ of
Harford in the sixth Judicial District
of Maryland

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34806
Revy INVALID. [illegible]

File No. 34,806
Thomas Ellis
Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index:--Vol 2; Page 484.

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Thomas Ellis
Private
[illegible] 8--9 months

Williams Maryland
Regt.

Admitted

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Thomas Ellis'
application for
a pension

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[illegible] in continuance:

State of Maryland;
City of Baltimore, to wit:

I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City
Court hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before
whom the foregoing proceedings appears to have been taken and
Certified & who has thereto subscribed his name was at
the time of taking and certifying the same and still is Chief
Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly Commissioned and
Qualified: And to all his acts as such full faith and
credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of
Justice as thereout.

In Testimony I have hereto subscribed my
name and affixed the seal of Baltimore
City Court this Eleventh day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.

Th Harwood Clk
Baltimore City Court

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State of Maryland Harford County to wit,

On the 6th day November 1819 personally
appeared Thomas Poteet Before me the sub-
scriber a justice of the peace in and for
said County and made oath on the Holy
Evangely of Almighty God that Thomas
Elis did enter into the service of the
Revolutionary War in the year of
One thousand seven Hundred and seventy
seven and did not return until the war
was over and at and end and that this
said Thomas Elis is the same man.

Nov. 6th 1819 
Sworn to before Wm. S. Amoss

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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, Oct. 1st. 1819

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remain-
ing in the Auditor's Office, that Thomas Ellis
enlisted as a pvt.--- in the 6th---Maryland
Regiment, on the 3rd.--- day of June 1778---
and was discharged on the 22nd March---1779.

Thos. Karney--Aud. S. M.

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--procured from the Auditors Office and forwarded to [illegible] for [illegible]
October 7th 1819 by John E. Harwood [illegible]