Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34654, Jacob Blake, Md.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE Md.

Blake, Jacob

NUMBER S.34654

CONTENTS

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Maryland

Jacob Blake, of Worcester County in the state of Maryland, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gunby, of the Maryland Line, for the term of three years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dolars per month, to commence on the 4 th of June, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd of July 1820 and sent to Hon. Thos. Bayly, House of Reps. 1[?]6. S. 

Arrears to 4 th of Sept. 1819. 15 mo. [illegible]/[illegible] | $: 121.33
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Mar: 1820. | 48.00
$:168:33

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

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J. Blake

The judges certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant named

Certified accordingly 
JBR

Adm. 


John Chandler,
[crossed out text]
Annapolis

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State of Maryland
Worcester County 

Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen personally appeared Jacob Blake before me the subscriber an associate Judge in the Fourth Judicial District of Maryland and being first solemnly sworn on the said day and year [illegible] of Almighty God makes this declaration to wit. That he was enlisted at Snow Hill in the year seventeen hundred and eighty and that he joined the extra Maryland Regiment at Annapolis commanded by Colonel Smith; that during this time of his public servicehe was under many different officers that he was in the Battles of Eutaw Springs of Ninety Six, of Guilford and of Campew; that he returned to Annapolis in August or September seventeen hundred and eighty-three under Major John Evelstone where he was discharged, and that he has no other evidence by which he can claim the benefit of the provision of an act of the Congress of the United States entitled 'an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war' before

James B Robins
Associate Judge 4th Judicial District of Maryland

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State of Maryland
Worcester County

I do hereby certify that it does appear to my satisfaction that the written named Jacob Blake was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was on the service for the term specified written and do transmit the proceedings said in this case to the Secretary for the Department of War in order that the said Blake may be entitled to the benefit of 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."

James B Robins
Associated Judge 4th Judicial District of the State of Maryland

Worcester County
I Samuel A Harper being first sworn on the Holy [illegible] of Almighty God deposeth saith that he is well acquainted with John Blake and knows that he is very infirm, has a large family and depends on his labor for support and that he is in reduced circumstances. J B Robins

Also hereby certify that it does appear to omy satisfaction that John Blank the [illegible] is in reduced circumstances and requires the assistance of his country for support.

This 16 Mary 1819

James B Robins

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State of Maryland Worcester County Court

I hereby certify to all whom it doth or may concern that the honorable James B Robins Esquire who appears to have taken the aforegoing written affidavit and declaration and who also gave the aforegoing Certificate was at the time of his so doing and still is an associate Judge of Worcester County Court in the fourth Judicial District of Maryland duly commissioned and Qualified and to all his acts as such due faith and Credit is and ought to be given in Courts of Justice as thereout 

In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 3 rd day of July Anno Domini 1818

John C Handy Clk W. C. C.

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Rec'd 2nd July 1821
 442
Jacob Blake
Declaration

Sept 1819

13,422

State of Maryland

SCHEDULE.

Con. I.L.E.

John C Handy
Snow Hill, MD

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(F.) One Cow, a small yoke of [illegible] {which have been purchased. with the pension hither to denied me by the Unites States, six old chairs and old table, six plates, four or five old knives and forks, one tea kettle, one old pot full of holes, one old chest, six chickens, two ducks, one hundred weight of pork purchased with a part of my former pension, one old plow, a sow and four pigs purchased with a part of my former pension, one axe. I am sorely afflicted with a disease of my bowels and severe rheumatism, my wife is seventy years old and also afflicted with rheumatism. I am residing with a son sixteen years old and moderately afflicted with rheumatism, I have with me a daughter entirely blind whom I am compelled to support and another aged nineteen years whose sight is very imperfect. I am also compelled to support four grandchildren the least of which is nine years old and two others of the breast and without [illegible] or individual hereby should perish. 

Valued about $40.

Jacob Blank
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on this 27 day of February Eighteen hundred twenty one in open court.

Hon John C Handy Clerk 

I John C. Handy Clerk of Worcester County 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 Forty Dollars and [blank] cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 23rd day of June 1821

John C Handy
Clerk of the court for the county of Worcester

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Rec'd 2 July 1821

Number 442
Jacob lank
Declaration

John C Handy
Snow Hill, MD

SCHEDULE
State of Maryland
(A.) Worcester County SS.

On this 28th day of February 1821 personally appeared in open court (*) being a court of record [illegible] civil and criminal jurisdiction keeping a record of [illegible] and having power of fine and in person mouth of said county 
Jacob Blake aged sixty-five years resident in Worcester County in the state who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionay War as follows: (E) He enlisted in Snow Hill in the year 1780 in the 1st Maryland Regiment under Colonel Smith and another in the continental service 3 years and 4 months when he was regularly discharged and that the number of (too light to read)

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 entitle "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 andt hat 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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34654
[illegible] INVALID. [illegible]

File No. 34,654
Jacob Blake
Pri. Rev War

Act: 18” March 18”
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 43

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Left Side Page

Certificate returned by Thos Bayly Esq. on 22nd Dec 1819 and sent to John Chandler, Esq. at Annapolis, MD

Notification of continuance sent 12 July 1821 to John C. Handy Snow Hill, MD

Right Side Page

13,422

MARYLAND

Jacob Blake
of [blank] in the state of [blank] who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smtih of the Maryland line for the term of 3 years 3 months was inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 20th of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of July 1819 and sent to Hon: Thos Bayly Princess Anne Somerset Co, MD

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $67.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $48.00

8 mo11/30 4/31
TOTAL $115.96

{revolutionary claim act 18th March 1818}

to 83
Continued (too light to read)

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Jacob Blake's Decl.

Too light to read
which is the proper person - Jacob Blake and Jacob Harman

Jacob Blank is the proper person - J.B.

Hon. Th. Bayly

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District of Maryland

On this fifteenth day of November 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the fourth Judicial District of Maryland personally appeared Jacob Blake aged sixty-three years resident in Worcester County in the said district 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 entitle "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 Jacob Blake enlisted for the term of 3 years during the war on the [blank] day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty in Snow Hill in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Bruff of the regiment commanded by Colonel John Gunby in the line of the state of Maryland on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the Month of August of Sept 1783 when he was discharged from service in Annapolis state of Maryland that he was in the battles of Camden at the siege of 96 and the Eutaw Springs and a number of skirmishes. And that he is in reduced circumstances and stand 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 declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

Jacob Blake
His X Mark

James B Robins

I James B Robins Judge, &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Blake did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support and I do further certify that the said Jacob made a similar to the above before me on or before the 4th of June 1818.

James B Robins
A Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Maryland

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State of Maryland
Somerset County [bracket followed by "to wit"]

I John Done Clerk of Somerset County in the State of Maryland do hereby certify to all as whom it both as may concern that James B. Robins [?Esquire] [scratched out name] whom this within certificate appears to have been made, and above signature is affixed thereto, was at the time of making and certifying the same, one of the associate Judges of the Court in Judicial district of this State of Maryland duly commissioned sworn and qualified, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all acts done by him well in Course of Justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the [? publish and] of my office this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord and thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
John Done of the Somt County
[partial stamp or seal with no legible words or numbers]

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Auditor’s Office, Annapolis, June 9 th 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the payrolls remaining in the Auditor’s Office, that Jacob Blake Private received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $80.00 for arrears of pay from the 1st. August. 1780 to the 1st. Jany 1782 Also, the sum of $80.00 for pay from the 1st. Jany 1782 to the 1st. Jany 1783 and also the sum of $43.30 from the 1st. Jany 1783 to the 15th. Nov. 1783 when his time expired.

Thos. Karney 
A. [illegible]

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Auditor’s Office, Annapolis, Feby 21st. 1820

I hereby certify that it appears from the payrolls remaining in the Auditor’s Office, that Jacob Blake, private received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $80.00 for arrears of pay from the 1st Aug. 1780 to the 1st. Jany 1782 Also, the sum of $80.00 for pay from the 1st Jany 1782 to the 1st Jany 1783 and also the sum of $43.30 from the 1st Jany 1783 to the 15th. Nov. 1783 when his time expired.

Thos. Karney A.G. S. Md.

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Payable on the 4 th March and 4 th September of each year, by Prest. of the [illegible] Bk [illegible] in Baltimore.

No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate. 

Registered, by Clerk, in book B, volume [blank space] page [blank space]

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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jacob Blake late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 

J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.