Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34684, Edward Chambers, Md.

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Md.  Chambers, Edward   S.34684

CONTENTS
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[sideways on left side] 
Notification sent May 18th 1824 to Wm. Green, Esq.
Duplicate certificate issued 2 April 1820 and sent to Thos. Karney Esq Annapolis Md

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Maryland Roll
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Edward Chambers
Capt Gray
Maryland Line   Private 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 20th of June 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of Aug. 1818 and sent to John Randall, Esq^r. Annapolis.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept^r 1818.
['Semi-anl. all'ce ending' is crossed out]
2 months  .15/30   $20.00
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[Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
1780 thru years: 4
Continued
Anne Arundel Co

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Edward Chambers of Anne Arundel County State of Maryland made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that he served three years [inserted next 3 words] and a half ['years' crossed out] in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, in the third Maryland Regiment Captain Grays company and was regularly discharged at the peace in the Year Seventeen Hundred and eighty three. That he is a poor man not able to support himself [inserted next 2 words] and Family and now solicits an annual pension from the Government of the United States under the law 18th March 1818
Sworn before [inserted next 2 words] the underwritten Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of the State of Maryland this twentieth day of June 1818 and I the underwritten do hereby Certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction that the said Edward Chambers is in indigent circumstances and stands in Need of Support.
Jeremiah Townley Chase
Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of Maryland

I hereby certify that Edward Chambers served as a private Soldier the third Maryland Regiment in the Revolutionary War and was discharged in the year 1783 and since resided in the State of Maryland
June 21st 1818
John Randall
Mayor of the City of Annapolis

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[Edw]ard Chambers

State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County to wit.
I hereby Certify, that the honourable Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquire who appears to have taken and signed the ['aforegoing' crossed out] within and aforegoing affidavits was at the time of checking and signing thereof Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of the State of Maryland comprehending the Counties of Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery duly Commissioned and qualified, and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are sure and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen. 
Wm S Green [illegible initials] AA Co[illegible]

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Edward Chambers.
2293
Sep 1818

Con. J.L.E-

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District of Maryland Anne Arundel County Ss.
On this 21st day of April eighteen hundred and twenty one personally appeared in Open Court being a Court record for said County possessing the power of fine and imprisonment and a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount Edward Chambers aged about fifty six years resident in Anne Arundel County State of Maryland who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows. He enlisted in new Town Chester in said County on or about July 1777 under major  Dunne[?] in the 3 Md. Regt. in the Maryland line commanded by Colo. Adams and served in  sd. Regt. three years & six months during which time he was in the battles of the high hills of Santee, and during the Siege of Cornwallis and at Charleston, and was with Genl Washington as one of his body guard & that he was discharged in Frederick Town Maryland in 1780: and he further solemnly swears that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of his property or any part thereof so as to diminish it, as to bring himself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled, An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day March 1818 and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property Certificates Contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income or property other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed He does further, declare that he is now a pensioner of

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of the United States and that his Certificate is dated 18th day May 1818 since which time he has drawn two years pension, that he is by Occupation a labourer but from age and infirmity he is not in a situation to pursue it to advantage and that he has a family 
Schedule property as follows
1 Old Gun. 2 axes. 1 maul & wedges.
Valued by the Court at five Dollars
his
Edward X Chambers
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Sworn to and declared in Open Court this 21st day of April 1821 Before the Judges in Court sitting in and for Anne Arundel County
Wm S Green Clk [signature]
I William S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel County Court 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 [illegible, possibly 'as listed'] in the aforesaid Schedule is five dollars. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23d day of April 1821.
Wm S Green [illegible] Anne Arundel County Court

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Auditors office
Annapolis 31st March 1823
Sir,
Enclosed you will receive the affidavit of John H. Duvall Esq^r. and one from Edw^d. Chambers Setting forth that the Original Certificate Cannot be found, you will Serve the Cause of Humanity by sending on a duplicate with directions or a Blank form by which I may draw his pension for him, the old man resides in a distant part of the County and is waiting in this City, and says he will not go home untill I get his money for him, you will oblige me by attending to this as Soon as you can with Convenience - 
I am respectfully
Yr. Obt. Svt. 
Thos. Harney

J.S. Edwards Esqr.
Washington

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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE
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County of Anne Arundel ss.
On this 29 day of March 1823, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Anne Arundel personally appeared Edward Chambers who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Gray in the regiment commanded by Colonel A Adams in the service pf the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the United States - that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the first day of Sep^r 1822, at or near Annapolis Maryland. The certificate was lost - 
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid} Henry Hammond [signature]
his
Edward X Chambers
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NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction  of the original certificate. 
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

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City of Annapolis to Wit
On this 29th day of March 1823 personally appeared Jn^o W. Duvall Administrator of William Warfield Deceased before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the City aforesaid and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that he hath made diligent search amongst the papers of the Deceased and cannot find the certificate of Edward Chambers a pensioner. 
Henry Hammond [signature]

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Maryland, Anne Arundel County to wit.
I hereby Certify that Henry Hammond gentleman who appears to have written and signed the within affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as are so in Courts of Justice as thereout. 
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel Courts this 29th day of March 1823
Wm S Green [illegible initials] AA Cot^y Crt

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I certify that it appears by the Pay Roll of the Troops in the Maryland Line that Edward Chambers a private in the Maryland Line Received arrears of Pay from the 1st of Aug^t 1780 to the 15th Nov^r 1783.
R Loockerman Aud^r. Gen^l
Auditors Office Annapolis 25th June 1818.

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34684
Revy INVALID
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File No. 34,684
Edward Chambers
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18th March 1
Index:-Vol. D, Page 481
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41  
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Chambers, George GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 11081   ACREAGE  100
ISSUED January 8, 1796 to George Ponsonby, assignee
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*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 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.