Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35951, Francis Freeman, Md.

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(S-1776)

SERVICE
Md. [Maryland]

Freeman, Francis

NUMBER
S. 35951

CONTENTS

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14.498

Delaware

Francis Freeman of New Castle Co [Company] in the state of Delaware who was a Private in the 2d [second] regiment commanded by Capt [Captain] Herdman of the Maryland line, for the term of 5 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 [eight] Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st [first] of July 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th [sixth] of Sept. [September] 1819 and sent to James Boothe, Esquire

New Castle, Delaware

Arrears to 4th [fourth] of 4 Sep: [September] 1819   $112.00

Semi-anl. [annual] all'ce ending 4 Mar [March] 1820  48.

14 months  $160.00

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th [eighteenth] March, 1818.}

[illegible]
Mr. Roberts
Wilmington, D. [Delaware]
Apt [apartment] [illegible]

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Francis Freeman, Private
Maryland Line
1777 - 5 years

[marked out] The testimony, or oath, of two or more [underlined] disinterested and credible persons, proving nine months service in continuance, or continental establish-ment [establishment] is required; also, the judge's certificate, under the Seal of the Court, that he is satisfied the applicant is in [underlined] reduced circumstances, and needs the support of his country.

[illegible word written over paragraph]

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State of Maryland [illegible] County Court

I hereby certify that William Crow gentlem-an [gentleman] before whom the within probate appears to have been taken and whose name is [illegible] signed was at the time of [illegible] and signing the same and State is one of the state of Marylands Justices of the peace in and for said County duly [illegible] qualified and sworn and to all whose acts as such due faith and [illegible] [illegible] and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office the sixth day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and Eighteen

James Sewall [illegible]
[illegible] County Court

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Eighteen
James Sewall [illegible]
[illegible] County Court

State of Delaware [illegible].

Be it known, that on the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Before me James Booth, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware, personally appeared Francis Freeman, a person of colour, resident of White Clay Creek Hundred, in the County of New Castle, and State of Delaware [illegible], aged ninety two years and upwards, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, doth declare and say, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, he enlisted in the second company, then under the command of John Herman, in the second Regiment of the Maryland Line, in the Continental Service; that at the expiration of the term for which he inlisted, which was about nine months after he entered the said service, he re-inlisted in the said Company and Regiment, for and during the Revolutionary war, and that he continued in the said service until the termination of the said war, at which time he received his discharge; which he lost a few years ago; and this deponent further declares, that, from the infirmities of old age, and his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his Country for support.

Taken, Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, Before me, Jas [James] Booth

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Francis X Freeman
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State of Delaware
New Castle County [illegible]

I Joseph Roberts [illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware in and for the said County of New Castle, do hereby certify that the Honorable James Booth before whom the foregoing deposition of Francis Freeman was taken and who hath subscribed the same was at the time thereof and is now Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware duly Commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are and ought to be five to all such his acts and attestations.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at New Castle the twenty fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen

Jos. [Joseph] Roberts Prothy. [Prothonotary]

State of Delaware [illegible]

I James Booth, Chief Justice as aforesaid, do certify, that it appear to my Satisfaction, that the aforesaid Francis Freeman 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

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Maryland Cecil County [illegible]

On the sixth day of June 1818 then appeared Genl [General] Hezekiah Foard before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and made Oath on the Holy Evangles [Evengels] of Almighty God, that the bearrer [bearer] hereof Francis Freeman Coloured Man, was a soldier several years in the Maryland Line in Revolutionary war the time said Freeman entered the service I do not recollect but he belonged to the second Regt [Regiment] of said line in the Spring of 1780 Marched with the same to South Carolina and I believe he Continued in the Service untill [until] the close of the war

Hezekiah Foard

Sworn and Subscribed to on the day and year first above written before me

William Crow

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to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the Direction of the Act of Congress, intitled [entitled], "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war." I am also satisfied, that he needs the assistance of his Country for support. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court afsd [aforesaid] to be hereunto affixed, at New Castle, in the County of New Castle afsd [aforesaid], the seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen:

Jas. [James] Booth

Auditory Office Annapolis 7th [seventh] Apr. [April] 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls remaining in the auditory office that Francis Freeman Enlisted as a private in the Second Maryland Regt. [Regiment] on the 25th [twenty-fifth] May 1778 and was discharged on the 1st. [first] Nov. [November] 1780

Thos. [Thomas] Larney Audr [Auditor]
State Md. [Maryland]

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308

Francis Freeman

14,498

March 1820

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State of Delaware
New Castle County [illegible]

On this thirteenth day of December one thousand eight Hundred and Twenty, personally appeared in Open Court of Common Pleas of the said State, in the County aforesaid, being a Court of record for the said State and the said County expressly made so by the laws and constituting the said State which created the said Court, Francis Freeman, aged ninety two years and upwards resident in the Village of Christiana in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit, in the Company commanded first by Captain John Herdman, and after his death by Captain Hezekiah Forde in the Second Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Woolford, in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental Establishment, as he hath heretofore Stated and his original declaration made on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; that he received a pension certificate in pursuance of the act of Congress of the eighteenth of March in the year (as aforesaid), which said Certificate is numbered 14,498. And I do So [illegible] Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight Hundred and eighteen; and that I have not Since that time by gift, Sale or any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent hereby So to diminished 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 eighteenth day of March One thousand eight Hundred and eighteen;

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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. And I do further Swear, that my Oc-cupation [Occupation] is that of a Labourer, that I am disabled from pursuing it by reason of my being afflicted with Severe pains occasionally by the Wounds I received in the Service of my Country; I have no family residing with me. And further, I do Swear, that I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my Country, except by private or publick charity.
Sworn to and declared in Open Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, now sitting at New Castle for the Said County of New Castle, on the 13th [thirteenth] day of December 1820
[illegible]
Jos. [Joseph] Roberts Prothonotary

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Francis V Freeman
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Schedule of the Property of Francis Freeman.
7 plates         $0.25
1 Dish 1 pan      .12 1/2
1 Spade             .50
1 ax                    .75
1 Decanter and Tumbler     .25
1 Stone pitcher      .50
1 pitch Fork            .15
Coffee pot              .10
2 Bowls                   .10
                           $2.72 1/2

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Francis V Freeman
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State of Delaware
New Castle County [illegible]
I Joseph Roberts, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware, in and for New Castle County, in the Said State do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the Said Court; and I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the Said Court, that the total amount in value of the properly exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is, according to the valuation thereof made and exhibited to the Said Court by Andrew Thompson and Isaiah Shuster, upon their Solemn oaths is Three Dollars and Seventy two and a half cents.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at New Castle the Fifth day of January in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight Hundred and Seventy One.

Jos. [Joseph] Roberts Prothy. [Prothonotary]

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for a statement of the military history of Francis Freeman (a person of color) a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [marked through] (or his widow's) application for pen-sion [pension] on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[illegible]

RANK.
Pvt. [Private]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Hardyman
Hezekiah Ford

COLONEL.
Woolford

STATE.
2d [Second] Md. [Maryland]

Battles engaged in, . . .
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [illegible]
Date of application for pension, July 1, 1818. [illegible] allowed.
Residence at date of application, White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle Co. [County], Del. [Delaware]
Age at date of application, 92 [ninety-two] years
Remarks: No family data.

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V.L.M.

35951
INVALID.
Revy [Revolutionary]

File No. [Number] 35,951
Francis Freeman
Priv [Private] Rev [Revolutionary] War

Act: 18 March [illegible]
Index: --Vol. [Volume] 2, Page 145

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1907 Oct. [October] 3 Hist. to James H. Wolff

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[underlined] Rev. [Revolution]

[stamp] G W. & R. Div. 
SEP [September]
[illegible]
1907
[illegible]

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RESIDENCE:
86 BAYARD STREET,
ALLSTON.

TELEPHONE 1929-1 HAYMARKET.

JAMES H. WOLFF, 
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NO. [number] 1 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. [Massachusetts]

BOSTON, MASS., [Massachusetts] Sept [September] 2d 1907

Commissioner of Pensions
Arlington D.C. [District of Columbia]

Dear Sir
I wish to inquire if ever one Francis Freeman of the 2d [Second] Maryland Regiment [illegible] a private of Lieut [Lieutenant] Hardman's Co [Company] commanded by Col [Colonel] Thomas Price Revolutionary War who enlisted May 25 1778 and Reenlisted in same organization in July 1779 was ever carried on the Pension Roll if so when was his name dropped We know he died in Philadelphia at the age of 109 yrs [years] We are seeking simply to complete a family Record We think he had drawn a Pension either from the State or the general Government according to some memoranda in our possession This information will only be valuable for the above purpose
Very Respectfully Yours
James H. Wolff

[stamp] PENSION
U. SEP [September] S.
5
1907
OFFICE

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME  Freeman, Frank  GRADE  Private  LINE  Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER  5793  ACREAGE  100  ISSUED  Dec. [December] 24, 1796
to  not shown 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-quent [subsequent] dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.