Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 25,549, Thomas Gadd, Md.

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Md. Gadd, Thomas. S.25,549

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350
Maryland Roll
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Thomas Gadd,
Cdo Steuart Private 4
Maryland Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Transcribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 14th. of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of May 1818 
and sent to N. Brice, Esqr of Bal
timore, Maryland.
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Arrearages to 4th. Sept. 1818 
4 months 22/31 $37.67
{Revolutionary claims,} 
{Act 18th March, 1818}
Three Years

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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sc.
On the 14th. day of april in the year of our 
Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen personally 
appeared before me the undersigned. Thomas Gadd. residing
in the city of Baltimore, aged fifty Eight years, and 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"- 
and then and there make the following declaration on 
Oath by me administering. - "that he enlisted on or about
the first of July 1780 in Queen Anne County on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland, was mustered in Chester Town in said 
State in Captain Sheppards Company of "State Regiment,"  
ordered to Annapolis, from thence to Philadelphia, then 
back to Annapolis, and from thence in the month of 
October of same year, marched under Command of Colonel 
Smith to the Southward,- area in the month of January 
1781 joined the army then commanded by General Green, 
on their retreat from the "Sharrow Hills" in S. Carolina -
In the month of March following the Regiment being 
broke up, deponant was transferred to Capt. James Bruffs 
Company of Second Maryland Regiment, then under the 
Command of Col Stewart - soon afterward deponant was 
severely wounded in the head by a musket ball at the 
battle of Guilford Court House, sent to Perkins' Hospital 
in the state of Virginia, and about the first of June 
following, joined the Regiment at the seige of "96" 
and when the Brittish evacuated Charleston deponant 
was stationed on James's Island from thence transported

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by water to Annapolis, there receiving and unlimited furlough, on or about the Month of July 1783 - which was afterwards published by proclamation of General Washington, as a final
discharge -- [illegible] will appear by the annexed papers - deponent relinquishes the pension formaly obtained, and from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support- 

Subscribed & sworn 
to before me 

[Signed] N. Price
Chief Judge [illegible] 
City Court

[Signed] Thomas Gadd, X his mark

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State of Maryland 
        City of Baltimore

             I hereby certify that the said Thomas Gadd in addition to the within declaration under oath, produced a paper purporting to be a pension Certificate, for wound received in the Revolutionary war; entitling him to half pay; which is hereunto annexed - from which it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Gadd served in the Revolutionary war, against the Common enemy, on the Continental establishment, for the term therein mentioned.

[Signed] N. Price, Chief Judge [illegible] [illegible] 14th april 1818 ~

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Maryland
________________
Thomas Gadd
Private
Revolutionary Claim
Battle of Guilford Court House
________________
of Disability - not [illegible]
ath of during Testimony, by [illegible]
th day of July 1815
________________
Act 30th April 1816



papers sent t [illegible]
member
Maryland

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[diagonally on top left: 34896.
Reolution]
25549.
INVALID
  ______
File No. 25,549
Thomas Gadd
Prv Rev War
Act:
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 148
1876 age 58
Baltimore [Arrangment of 1870]. [illegible] July 1780 
Queen Anne Co Md Capt Sheppard, Col Smith
to South [illegible] to Capt Buff to Col Stewart 
at Guilford Siege of 96 James Island

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25549
Thos .Gadd 
of Md [illegible] 
Capt Bruff 2 m Reg

Col [crossed out: Smith] 
Stewart
the [illegible]
Mr. Chappell.

[written over the top of all above: Increase his Pe
sion to a full
one commencing
the 3rd of Jany.
1817.]
9 Jany. 1817



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In the House of Representatives of 
the United States. 
January 7, 1817

On motion of Mr Wright, 
Resolved that the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary 
Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing
the pension now allowed by law to Thomas Gadd of the State
of Maryland formerly a soldier of the the Revolutionary War.

Attest.
Tho Daugherty CHR

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Department of War, Pension Office,
January 2, 1817
Sir,
I have the honor to inclose the papers relating to Thomas Gadd, an invalid pensioner, 
inscribed on the roll of the Maryland agency, 
under the act of the 30th. April, 1816, together with a receipt for the said papers, which you will please to sign, and transmit to this Office. 

With respect, 
I have the honor to be,
Your most obedient,
William Lambert.

[illegible] Robert Wright, 
member of Congress
for Maryland,
City of Washington.
.

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On the 19th day of April 1816, comes
the Hon. Robert Wright before
me one of the Justices of the peace
for the District of Columbia, and
made oath on the holy Evangely
of Almighty God That he well
knew [illegible] and who was
a physician of great celebrity of
unblemished character who was
the husband of a sister to Judge
Nicholson-and that full faith
and credit is justly due to his
certificate and facts in the case
of Thomas Gadd.  That I
know William Chambers the
present collector of the Paper
in Queen Anne as Magistrate
[illegible] the term of his [illegible]
in the case of Joseph Wabb's
deposition.  That he also was 
the husband of a sister
of Judge Nicholson.  That
I also know [words lined through] [illegible]
[illegible] then a Magistrate

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in Queen Anne to whom full
faith and credit is due in
all his Magisterial acts.
He further made oath that
he well knew Joseph Wabb
who was a soldier of the
Revolution during the
Revolutionary War.  That
he is a man of [illegible]
matched character of good
reputation and credit and
in [illegible] to as [remainder of sentence illegible]
as any man. 

He further made oath
that he well knows Thomas
Gadd, a venerable patriot
of the Revolution of the
most respectable charac-
ter that he verily believes
he is entirely disabled
to get his [illegible]
by his wound.  He is [illegible]

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from that and old age
being solely obliged to forsake
the [illegible] of the [illlegible]
vent Act.  He [remainder of sentence illegible]
and remarkably indus-
trious, and respectable
man who frequently [illegible]
me about this case-which
I have been [illegible]
from about the [illegible] of
his documents, to pro
cure the adjustment [word struck out]
[words struck out], as the Committee
may be misinformed by
application [remainder of sentence illegible]
this officer to [illegible] those
papers heretofore were
to have been sent.
All these persons was added
at the time of these docu-
ments

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[beginning of sentence illegible] of
me and are well known 
to me.  I further make
oath that I verily believe
that a half pension ought
to be passed to Thomas Gadd
as a [illegible] from
the date of his papers
in 1810.

Sworn before
Danl Rapine

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Chester Town Md April 15th 1816

Sir

I have the honor to enclose certain
documents relative to the claim of Thomas
Gadd of Maryland District to be placed
upon the pension List of the United States.

Duplicate Commissions with their returns
are in the hands of Mr. Wright of the House
of Representatives and will probably be
deposited in your office in the course of 
a day or two.

I am with great respect
Your Obt Sevt.
James Houston

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Original Claim
United States
Maryland District Ss

I James Houston Judge of the
District Court of the United States
of America for the Maryland
District, by authority of an
Act of Congress, passed the 25th
day of April 1812, entitled, "an
Act to revive and continue in
force an act to provide for
persons who were disabled by
known wounds received in the
Revolutionary War, and for other
purposes," do hereby especially
authorize and commission
Kensey Harrison, Esquire ---- of the County of
Queen Anne and District of Maryland to take all evidence
pursuant to the Rules and Regulations of the said Act
for substantiating the claims of Thomas Gadd of Queen
Ann County in the District of Maryland, a Soldier
in the 2d Maryland Regiment under the Command
of Captain James Bruff to be placed on the pension
list for the United States by reason of known wounds
received in said war, while in the actual service
of the United States, and in the line of his duty.
And when the same shall be completed, (to)

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to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and
proceedings had there upon, together with this
commission, to the Secretary for the Department
of War.

Given under my hand and
seal at Chester Town the
twenty fifth day of April in the
year Eighteen hundred
and fifteen

James Houston

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Chester Town April 15th 1816

Dear Sir

In the year 1810 I opined the neces-
sary Commissions for causing Thomas Gadd
of Queen Anne County Md to be placed upon
the pension List being first satisfied that
his reasons for not having before applied were
as commendable as rare.  The wounds
he had received although occasionally trouble
some did not for some time prevent him
from supporting himself by his labor.

However they gradually become real
infirmities and he would have applied sooner
for public assistance if he had known how
it was to be obtained.

The Commissions thus opined
were shortly afterwards executed but instead of
being forwarded to the Clerk of the District
they were finally sent to me and were car-
ried with other papers into the County to avoid
the

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British and it was not until this day
when looking for other papers that I laid
my hands upon them.

Mr. Gadds papers being thus mis-
laid (and as we supposed entirely lost) I opined
other Commissions that were executed but
have not yet been deposited in the War
Office.  This last I shall enclose to the
Head of that Department notifying him that
you are in possession of the first.  These 
are now forwarded to you because Mr. Gadd
is one of your Constituents and because I am
sure it will give you pleasure to assist
an old soldier against whose claims nothing
but the mere forms of office can possibly
be urged.

He seems to be entitled to every
thing the Laws will admit of & I cannot but
hope that his case will be made to relate
back as far as then Laws will authorize.

I am with great respect
yrs
James Houston

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Papers in the case
Mr. Gadd.

Apl. 20 1816.

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United States
Maryland Justice

To Doctor Davidge Emery and Doctor James Houston of Queen Anne County in said District. [illegible] to an act of congress of the United States [illiegable] the 25 of April 1812, [illegible] "An to [illegible] and Continuous [illegible] an act to [illegible] for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War And for other purposes you are hereby appointed and authorized
to examine Thomas Gadd who is
an applicant to be indicated on the pension list 
of the United States and you are to [illegible] in writing and on oath an affirmation your opinion of this nature of his disability and 
to what degree of [illegible] him how attaining a [illegible] by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act. 

[illegible under my hand and seal at [illegible]
seal at the twenty fifth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen

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At the request of the applicant I [illegible - page torn]
that commissions issued in his case on or about
the 11th of August 1810 which are flaked to have
been executed but never further acted on
James Houston Judge
United States for Maryd. District

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In pursuance of the authority [illegible] in us by
the Hon. James Houston United States Judge for the Mary-
land District hearing date now 25th of April 1815 
we hereby certify that we have reexamined ^by oath^ Thomas Gadd
a Soldier in the revolutionary war, who was wounded
by a musket ball in the memorable battle of Guildford
Court House on the 15th of March 1781. The citatrix of
which wound now evidently appears on the upper part of
the left parietal bone . upon which wound he declares
exfoliation of bone took place before it cured up. He further
declares that can since he received the wound he has been
affected with pain and groding in the head from stooping
down & from some eucin which symptoms frequently
cause him to duit from his labour. He is now old, &
further declares that he feels more symptoms increase
with his years. We are of opinion that being in the situation
he describes himself to be , he certainly must be considerably
incapacitated from gaining a maintenance for himself &
family by manual labour.
James K. Harper
John Davidge Emery

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Be it remembered that on this 15 day of July in
the year 1816 personally appeared before me the
subscriber commissioner named in commission
joined by the Honorable James Houston [illegible] Judge
of the United States for the Maryland District
Doctors James Harper & Davidge Emery and
makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty
God that the within report is correct and
true to the best of their knowledge
Kensey Harrison

I do hereby certify that John D. Emory & James
K Harper physicians who have made the
within report are persons of most unquestion
=able veracity and integrity
Kensey Harrison
Commissioner

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Papers in the case
Wm Gadd.

Apr. 20. '1816.

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By virtue of the annexed commission the commissioner
therein named is authorised to take on oath an affirmation
the testimony of persons offering to establish the
claim of Thomas Gadd of Queen Anns county in the
State of Maryland to be placed on the pension list
of the United States - The said commissioner on the 11th
day of July in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen
did take the following depositions to wit: James
Bruff aged about fifty nine years being first duly
sworn on the holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth
and saith that during the revolutionary war he was
a captain of a company belonging to the second
Maryland regiment in he service of the United
States and that he was then and is at present
well acquainted with Thomas Gadd of Queen Anns
County in the State of Maryland who was a
private in his company in the said war -
That at the battle of Guilford Court House in 
the year 1781 he recollects that the said Thomas

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Gadd received a wound on his head while under
his command and in the line of his duty and
this deponent further saith that the said Thomas
Gadd to the best of his knowledge served as 
a good and faithful soldier to the end of the
said war. Taken and subscribed the day and year above mentioned  
J Bruff

Test
Kensey Harrison

The deposition of Joseph Nabb of Queen Anns
county in the State of Maryland aged about fifty
eight years who being sworn on the Holy Evangely
of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he was
a Fifer in the second line of the Maryland regiment
in the revolutionary ^war^ in the service of the United States
and that he hath been acquainted with Thomas Gadd
of said county from a boy to the present time. That
he well recollects that the said Thomas Gadd was 
a private in the company commanded by Captain
James Bruff in the said regiment and that at the

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battle of Guilford Court House in the State of 
North Carolina the said Thomas Gadd received a
wound on his head while in the service of the United
States and in the actual line of his duty of which
this deponent hath often heard him complain for
many years past. This deponent further states that
the said Thomas Gadd served from the time he was
enlisted ^or drafted^ until the end of the revolutionary war and
that he has lived and resided in Queen Anns county
from the time of his discharge to the present time
and his employment is that of renter of Land and
further this deponent saith that. Taken & subscribed the
day & year afd 
Joseph +^his mark^ Nabb
Test
Kensey Harrison

I d hereby certify that James Bruff & Joseph
Nabb who have given the foregoing depositions
are citizens of Queen Ann county Maryland and
of the most unquestionable veracity and integrity
Kensey Harrison
Commissioner -

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I beg leave to return to the Honourable the
secratury of war of the United States that in virtue
of the annexed commission I have fairly & truly written
down the depositions of the several witnesses who
offered themselves to establish the claim of Thomas
Gadd to be placed on the pension list of the
United States, which together ^with other papers and^ with the said commissioners
I return under my hand this 15 day of July in the year 1815 as by the said commission I am directed
Kensey Harrison

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Tho. Gadd's
papers.

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In pursuance of the authority vested in me by the
annexed commissiors I do hereby certify that I did on the 23d
day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and ten
examine Joseph Nabb a witness brought before me which
said Joseph Nabb being first sworn on the holy Evangely
did depose and Say that he was a Soldier in Captain Perry
Bensons Company of the Second Maryland Regiment, that he
well knows Thomas Gadd, and that he has a perfect recollection
of the said Gadd, having received a wound at the Battle
of Guilford, in his head by a musket ball, and that in 
consequence of said wound, he the said Gadd was some time
absent from the army but that he returned again to
the army, in which he continued to serve as a good and
faithful Soldier, until the army was disbanded-
In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand
the day and date above written
William Chambers

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James Houston Judge of the United States
for Maryland District to William Cham
bers Esquire of Queen Anns County in the State
of Maryland Greeting
In pursance of the Statutes of the
United States in such case made and provided
and upon the application of Thomas Gadd for-
muly a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army of
the United States to be placed upon the pension 
List I do hereby assign and appoint you 
to examine upon oath and take in writing the
testimony of all such persons as shall be
brought before you for the purpose of
proving the grounds on other Inquiris [illegible]
received by the said Thomas Gadd while
in the actual service of the United States
Given under my Hand and Seal 
this eleventh day of August in the year 
Eighteen hundred and ten
James Houston [hand drawn seal with the word Seal inside]

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I do hereby [2 illegible words] my affidavit
as to Thomas Gadds being in-
=titled to a half pension was
under the Impression that the
law limited that at the eargist
pension that could be given 
by the proction, but observ-
-ing that eight dollars
was given to others, I think
That Gadd was as much
intitled as any other inva
lid pensioner in the Bill
I also concern that as far
as Thomas Gadd produced
his [underlined: Evidence,] proving
his wound - his [underlined: Disability]
and that they were in 
The [underlined: service] and that
he served to the [underlined: End]
of the War - he had
done his Duty and
that the late has of
the Judge or [crossed out: illegible]
magistrate to report
[illegible] case ought not
to arrest him [illegible]
and as on 31 Aug
1810

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This was done I think his 
pension ought to be al-
lowed from that Day at
8 Dollars per month -
Mrs Robert Wright

To the Committee
of Senate - 
On the third Day of Jany
eighteen hundred and seventeen personally
appeared before me
Robert Wright and 
made oath that the
statement above made
by bring is first and
these to the best of
his knowledge - 
Sworn before Danl Rapine

[vertically on lower left side of the page]

part of
Tho Gadds
Case for
Hon. R Goldsborough
of the Senate

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James Houston [illegible - large black smudge obliterates text here for the next two lines] of the United
States for Maryland [illegible - black smudge]
To Perry E [illegible - black smudge] of Queen Anns
County and State of Maryland Doctor of
Medicine Greeting

In pursuance of the Statute
of the United States in such cases made and
provided and upon the application of 
Thomas Gadd formerly a Soldier in the 
Revolutionary Army to be placed on the
Pension List of the United States I Have
assigned and appointed and by then presents do
assign and appoint you to examine upon 
oath or affirmation and report upon oath
or affirmation your opinion of the nature 
of the disability of said Thomas Gadd
and in what degree it prevents him from
obtaining his livelihood agruably to the
provisions of the said Statute
Given under my Hand and Seal 
this 11th day of August in the year Eighteen
hundred and ten.
James Houston [hand drawn cloud around the word Seal]

In persuance of the authority vested in me by the annex-
ed commissioner J Perry E Noel having examined Thomas
Gad the [illegible] therein nauced and other persons [illegible]

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In persuance of the authority vested in me by the annex-
ed commission J Perry E Noel having examined Thomas
Gad the person therein named and other persons well acquaint
ed with him do report and find that the said Thomas Gad
was a revolutionary Soldier during the greater part of that war
and at the ever memorable Battle of Guilford received a severe
wound in his head which fractured his scull and brought
his life intiemenent danger from the effect of which his head
is so much effected where heated by any kind of severe exsertion
that he is immediately obliged to desid therefrom and seek
repose. - This utterly prevents him from exertion that man=
ual labour so necessary for the support of himself and young
Family -


Queen Anns County, To Wit
On the 31st day of August in the year 1810 came
Perry E. Noel before me the subscriber one of the Justices
of the peace of County affd. and made oath on the
Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that the above is
a correct report to the best of his knowledge -
Sworn before Ed. Crayton

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Thomas Gadd.
Maryland - 17.

N Boen Sig
14th Apl
Balt

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
No HG17

I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, on the
30th of April 1816
Thomas Gadd late a Private in the army of the
U States
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency,
at the rate of four dollars per month, 
to commence on the 11th day of July one thousand eight
hundred and fourteen

Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 24th day of May
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen

Wm H Crawford

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Baltimore 14: April 1818
Sir,
When the Pension Certificate issues in my case
[illegible] to order the same forwarded to to me through
the post office, directed to the "case of Thomas Bailey
Inquire Baltimore" 
I have the honor to be with due [illegible]
Sir your mo: obed: Servant
Thos. x ^his mark^ Gadd

Witness
T.G. Hand