Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5730, for Abraham Maury, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Maury, Abraham
S. 5730
carded
CONTENTS

Virginia No. 694
Rept 13 Sept 11/43 - see let to agt. as above - at B R G Voss, July 17, 1845.
Abraham Maury deceased - of Spottsylvania Co in the State of V D who was a Lieutenant in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt: - commanded by Col: Lewis - in the Virginia line for 2 years Increased from $320 - per annum
Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & ending on 23: March, 1833, the day of his death
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Sept r 1843 and sent to Thos. Green Richmond, V D .
Arrears to the 4th of _____ Semi-annual allowance ending
$980.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. ... Clerk, E - Vol. 6. \frac{1}{2} Page 25 -

694 Virginia
Abraham Maury
of Spottsylvania Co. in the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Marks of the regt. commanded by Col. Lewis in the Virginia line for four years
Inserted on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 390 Dollars / Cents per annum to commence on the 24th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of October 1832 and sent to Pensioner Fredericksburg, Va.
Arrears to 24th of September 1832 $480. — Pension allowance ending 24 March 1833 160 —
$640. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Allison Clerk, Book L Vol. 7 Page 106

Honorable Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Fredericksburg Va. 29 Aug 1832
Sir
I beg leave to indorse my Credentials on which I have for many years claimed & received a pension as an officer in the Revolutionary War. My object at this time is to claim the benefit of the act of Congress of 7 June 1832 for which purpose I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except what I am entitled to by the above act of Congress, and hereby declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State, or if any, only on that of the agency of the State of Virginia, where my pension has heretofore been paid. I should be pleased to continue to receive it in Richmond, and will be greatly obliged by your pointing out any mode that may be requisite to perfect my claim to the benefit of the above recited act of Congress.
I am most respectfully
Sir
Your mo ob d Serv t ,
Have the goodness to favor me with an immediate reply, as the pensions fall due 4 Sept r
Abraham Maury
Abraham Maury.

I certify that it appears by the books of this office that on the 3rd of January, 1783, a warrant No 89 - for 2666 2 / 3 acres land issued to Abraham Maury, in consideration of his services for three years as a Lieutenant of the Continental line.
Given under my hand at the Land Office, in the city of Richmond the 5 th Jan y 1818. Wm. H. Pendleton Reg. L. Off.

Abraham Meury
ul
1555.
Sept. 1810.
Mound L. 6. 6

Virginia:
Fourth Judicial Circuit:
Superior Court of Law for Spotsylvania County, to wit:
On the 25th day of May, 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record by the laws of the state, Abraham Maury, aged sixty-two years, resident in Spotsylvania County in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: That he was appointed a lieutenant about November 1776 in Capt. John Mark's company of the 14th Virginia regiment on Continental establishment, then commanded by Col. Charles Lewis. That in 1778, the regiment, by a new arrangement was changed to the 10th commanded by Col. Wm Davies, in which he remained until February 1781, when he resigned his commission. His original declaration was made before Judge Dase late in March, 1818; his pension certificate is N o . 1555 & dated August 1st 1818. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that since that time I have not by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. Viz. a bond of one thousand dollars executed by Titherton & Robertson, which I put in the hands of a friend or agent in the state of Kentucky, about eight or nine years ago - a judgment against Godlove Boyer for a sum not now recollected, (though not large) from neither of which have I any hope or expectation of ever receiving one cent, as I have been told all three of the persons are insolvent. I have an interest or claim in four fifths of one thousand acres of land in Kentucky, which I conveyed in trust about the same time to indemnify a security, from which I have not the smallest hope of receiving any thing, as I have been informed by the trustee that he believes it has been sold for the taxes, & if it has not, I do not believe it would produce enough to discharge the debt for which it was conveyed. Abraham Maury.
As to my occupation I have none. I have been a merchant & a farmer, but now for want of eyesight, am unable to pursue either, even if I had the means. I have not been a housekeeper for eight or nine years past, but have lived among my friends. Abraham Maury.
Sworn to and declared this 25 day of May, 1820, before me, Judge of the said Court in open Court.
Wm. Brockenbrough.

I, Robert Smith Chew, Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Spotsylvania County, in the state of Virginia, 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 Court that the property specified in the aforesaid schedule of the said Abraham McCawley is worth nothing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 25 th day of February in the year of our Lord 1820, and of the Commonwealth the 44 th .
R. S. Chew, Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Spotsylvania.

Abraham Maury dec d
Va at 7. June 32
Increase 2 yrs 2 mos 10 days 480 $
from 4 March 31 to the day of his death - to Eliza beth B. Vap Adm d of Abraham Maury dec d
Thos Green Esq d Richmond Va

State of Virginia Corporation of Fredericksburg \frac{2}{3} S.S.
Be it known that before me John Hart a Justice of the peace for the Corporation of Fredericksburg and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Elizabeth B. Voss of said Corporation and made oath in due form of law, that she is the administratrix of Abraham Maury, the identical person who was a pensioner, and who is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued, under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1837 for a pension of $370. per Annum as a Lieutenant in the Virginia Continental line of the Revolution. That the deceased pensioner, resided in County of Spottsylvania in the state of Virginia for the space of about twenty years before his death and that previous thereto he resided in Madison County. That the said Abraham Maury died in the Town of Fredericksburg county aforesaid on the 23 d day of March 1833, having first duly made and published his last will and Testament which has been duly admitted to record, Mrs Willie G. Gregory qualified as Executrix, she has since departed this life viz: on the 13 d day of April 1838. and the affiant has since qualified as administratrix De bonis Non . The said Abraham Maury left no Widows but the following children living at his death viz: Willie G. Gregory dec d , formerly Maury, James N. Maury, Catherine M. May, formerly Maury, Abraham Maury Jr and the affiant Elizabeth B. Voss who is herself a widow. The said Elizabeth B. Voss states that she has been informed, the said Abraham Maury was an Adjutant as well as a Lieutenant for more than two years, as the affiant has been informed and in the allowance of a pension of $370. under the act of Congress of 7th 1837 no estimate was made of the services of said Abraham Maury as Adjutant which the affiant is informed should have been taken into consideration if the fact had been shown to the Department; she refers to the public records, and particularly to the extracts from those of the State of Virginia which will accompany this application, now made

for the balance of pension so due and unpaid to the said Abraham Abraham Maury from the fourth day of March 1831 to the day of his death viz: to the 28 th day of March 1833.
Elizabeth B. Vass.
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the peace for said Corporation this 19 th day of June 1843.
John Hart D.P.C. F.
State of Virginia Corporation of Fredericksburg } S.S.
I John James Chee Clerk of the Corporation Court in the Town of Fredericksburg and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Hart again whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same, a Justice of the peace in and for said Corporation duly Commissioned and qualified according to law, and that the signature purporting to be his is gen- uine, and I further certify that Elizabeth B. Vass is still the Administratrix De Bonis Non of Abraham Maury decd.
I further certify that at the Hustings Court for the Town of Fredericksburg held on the eighth day of June 1843 the following order was made of record.
The court doth certify that it appeared by satisfactory evidence that Abraham Maury died in the year 1833, leaving the following children then living, viz: Abraham Maury, William Gaskell Gregory, Elizabeth B. Vass, James F. Maury and Catherine M. Hay.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of the said court to be hereunto affixed this 19 th day of June in the year 1843, and of our Independence the sixty seventh.
J. J. Chee C.C.H.F.

State of Virginia.
Capitation of Fredericksburg County.
I John James Chew Clerk of the Capitation Court in the town of Fredericksburg, do certify, That, at a Husting Court, for the town of Fredericksburg held on the 13 th day of July 1843, the following order was made of record.
"The court doth further certify, that it appears by satisfactory evidence that Abraham Many, died on the 23 rd day of March, in the year 1833."
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court, to be hereunto affixed, this 13 th day of July, in the year 1843, and of our Independence the sixty eighth.
J. J. Chew Clerk.

J. Fontaine Maury of the City of Washington do hereby certify that Abraham Maury now an applicant for a Pension under 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 " was appointed by the County Court of Albemarle in the State of Virginia, in the month of November 1776 a Lieutenant in the Army in the Army of the United States, that in Spring following he was attached to the 14 th  Virg. Regiment on Continental establishment & commanded by Col Charles Lewis, that he served in that, or some other detach- ment of the said Army until the year 1781 when he resigned his Commission, that he was in the Battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, and that about Eight or Ten years ago he had the misfortune to

to lose his Eye Sight since which he has been in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for Support
Fontaine Maury
Washington City August 1 st 1818
I do further Certify that a Certificate to the foregoing effect has been granted by Judge Dade of the General Court of Virginia has been placed in the Pension Office bearing date on or about the 25 th day of March last, which it seems cannot now be found - Fontaine Maury
City of Washington 1 st August. 1818.
Personally appeared before me Mayor of the City aforesaid Fontaine Maury being duly sworn deposes & saith that the above foregoing certificates by him written & signed are true to the best of his knowledge & belief
Given under my hand this said first of August 1818.
Henry G. Orr Mayor.

Information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Abraham Hance Ser. file 5730
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Nov. 1776 1778 Lt. Col. Advt. John Marks Charles Lewis 10 Va   1778 to Feb. 1781 " ———— William Davis 10 Va   when he resigned at Charlesfield L.H. Va.   Also commanded a battalion of militia during siege of Yorktown  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill Residence of soldier at enlistment, Albemarle Co. Va. Date of application for pension, June 1818 Residence at date of application, Stafford Co. Va. Age at date of application, He died Nov. 25, 1823 at Fredericksburg Va. Remarks: He left a widow, Maria Hance, and children: William, Maria, Sarah, and Elizabeth. His brother Thomas was a minister of the Gospel in 1818.

drop A. Maury from the Roll. Issue a cut: for $320 per ann. for him under act of June 1832 & send it to him at Frederickslory V a
Oct. 1. 1832

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Abraham Maury
Service Va.
Additional Service Rev. War
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim except I#5730

Rev War
5430
INVALID.
1908 Oct 16 Hied. to W. M. Bunting V.L.M. 1910 Nov. 2 Hied. to Mrs. Robert Billington 118 East 37th St. Savannah, Ga. V.L.M.
File No. 5730
Abraham Maney Adopt Lieut. Rev War
Act: June 18 th '32
Index:—Vol. m , Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Delivered to Mr
— Mairy —
(brother to Pensioner)
1 Aug t 1820

Virginia Roll.
1,555
Abraham Massey,
Lieutenant, Virginia Line,
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 1 st of August 1818, and delivered to Fontaine Massey, Esq. W. City.
arrears to 4. Sept. 1818.
5 months 4/30. $ 102. 66
{ Revolutionary claims, { Act 18th March, 1818, }
3 Years —
Continued
Virginia

Payable on the 14. Sept. d r the U. States Richmond,
[Signature]
Cancelled
Record [Signature]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18. March 1818, Abraham Maury,
_____ late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution,

District of Virginia
This 4 th day of June - 1818 before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the General State Court for the State , personally appeared Abraham Hance aged sixty years, resident in the County of Stafford, in the said district, who being first duly sworn, ac- cording to law, then 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 Abraham Hance was appointed a lieutenant in the County of Albemarle in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Colonel Robert E. Lee of the Continental Virginia regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis that he continued in service in that unit for a period of four years, when he resigned his commission in the State of Virginia at Peter- field Town, Virginia, that he was in the battles of Brandywine and Red Bank, and after resigning commanded a battalion of Militia during the siege of Yorktown in Virginia and that he is 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 service but what have been transmitted to the War Department.
W. A. G. Dick

Virginia Court
I William & G Dade a Judge of the General Court and Judge of the High Judicial Circuit do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within cause Abraham Massey did serve - as stated in the preceding declaration in the on Continental Establishment War against the American enemy for a longer time than nine months continued service, and that he is in such reduced circumstances as to stand in need of the support of his country - and I transmit his declaration to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the act - of Congress
Witness my hand & seal this 4 th June 1818.
Wm. G. Dade

Virginia, Stafford County to wit:
I John Moncure Conway clerk of the Supreme Court of Law for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that William A. G. Dade Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing attestations, was at the time of subscribing the same and now is, one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia, acting and presiding in the third Judicial Circuit which comprehends the county of Stafford
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed a Scroll, (there being no seal of office) at the court house this sixteenth day of June 1818. In the 42 nd year of the Commonwealth
J. M. Conway C.C.

Abraham Maury
Lieutenant
Four years
C Lewis' reg t Virginia reg t .
Date of disch e 1 st June. 18

Virg a Culpeper C t March 27: 1818
At the request of Abraham Morrey I do hereby certify that I recollect his being in the Army of the United States in the time of the American Revolution. I think he was an Officer in the 14 th Virg a Regiment which was commanded by Col o Charles Lewis but I can't say what his Rank was, or how long he served in that Regiment but am pretty well satisfied that he served one Grade or another several years.
Edward Stevens formerly Col o of the 10 th Virg a Regiment

Isaac Wmley maketh oath, That Col: Abraham Hance late of Madison County, now of Spotsylvania County in the State of Virginia in the year 1808 conveyed to him in Trust, the whole of his pro- perty real & personal, as well then & as ever since been believed, for the equal benefit of his the s d Abrahms Hance's creditors. That in the year 1810 by the consent & request of the s d Abrahms Hance, the whole of the property was advertised & sold. That by an estimate of the debts & of the sale of the property it was found that the creditors would be paid about 15/ in the pound. and That the Deponent from his estimate acquaintance with Col: Hance, and knowledge of the loss of his eyesight & of his circumstances generally, is confident that he has acquired no property since.
Isaac Wmley 25 th May 1820
Sworn to in the Superior Court of law for Spotsylvania County, on the 25 th day of May, 1820.
R. S. Chew, Jr.

July 21, 1843.
6 B. Rep.
In increase
A. Many
Column of Pensions
J. L. Edwards
Colo
344 Dept. of the Interior July 21, 1843

Col. J. L. Edwards. Commr. of Pensions.
Washington 21 st July 1843.
Sir.
Enclosed is the application of Eliz. B. Voss a daughter of Abraham Maury, for the increase of Pension due him under the act of 7 June 1832, as an Adjutant - from 4 March 1831 to the 23 March 1833, when he died. He recd. a pension as a Lieutenant.
The first certificate of Court, shows most of the requisite facts - the second shows the precise day of his death.
The enclosed copy of his Account shows he was adjutant for 4 years.
I am y. ob t Servt. Thos. Green

1 Case. 607 4
W m A. G. Dade, Judge, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia.
Rec d 12 th June, 1818.
Endorsed within
(Signature)

Sir
Falmouth Virginia 9 June 1818.
In April last Judge Dade enclosed to you my declaration in support of my claim for pension, arising from service during the revolutionary war. Since then I sent you through the hands of my brother Fontaine Maury, certificates in corroboration of the same from Generals Edward Stevens & Thomas Parker, as also a certificate from the Register of the land office of Virginia, showing that I had received my bounty of land for three years service in the Continental army. I now enclose a second declaration required by the war department, in which I refer to the documents named above, which I hope will be found in order, & prove satisfactory.
I am with respect Sir
Your ob t Serv t Absalom Maury

Sept 25
South Long Creek
Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
FREE

Hon ble Lewis C ab , Secretary of War
Sir
Frederick, V a . 13 Sep 1832
I took the liberty to address you late in last month, & inclosed my Credentials from your department on which I have for many years drawn a pension - my object was to identify my eligibility as a pensioner, and by relinquishing my former pension, to claim the benefit of the act of last June, requesting the favour of your instructions what steps were necessary to attain that object. I have received no reply, and you will do an old revolutionary officer a great favour by as early an attention to my request as comports with your convenience, being in want of funds.
Yours most respectfully
Abraham Maury
(5)

ada Tapes in the case of Lieut: Abraham Maury, applicant for pension.
Dep y by Mr. Maury Apr 29 th 1818
Y.R.
? Virginia roll.

I hereby certify that Abraham Maury Esquire & myself were Lieutenants in the Revolutionary army on Continental Establishment in the year 1788. how long he served I do not know, but I well recollect that he was considered, as a very valuable & exemplary officer
Given under my hand the 8 th day of April 1818
Thomas Parker a Captain at the end of the Revolutionary war
Dear Sir Soldiers Retreat Frederick City above you have the certificate you requested, which I give with great satisfaction & am very sincerely Your Friend & old Fellow Soldier Thomas Parker

The affidavit of W. May will be considered as equivalent to the certificate of the judge, which has been mislaid
J. B. B.

July 17 45 2
Col. Edwards
Com. of P. D. Ins.
Washington D.C.
Abn Maury Vard

1057_01051 Fred g July 8. 1845
Col Edward
Sir
Will you be so good as to send me the evidence by which Lieut. after- wards Capt Abraham Maury received a pension for his military service during the revolution and oblige Yrs Respectfully R. C. Vass

W. M. Bunting
W. M. Bunting
2045 So. 17th St
Lincoln Neb.
Oct. 18 1908.
Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir Will you kindly inform me if the records of the Pension Department show that a pension for services in the Revolutionary war, was ever granted to "Lieut. Abraham Maury" of 10 th Regt. Virginia. If so what if any record does the books show as to date of death of said "Abraham Maury", Lieut. - 10 th Virginia Regiment.
Your answer will be very grately appreciated
I am yours &c
W. M. Bunting
2045. So 17 th St.
Lincoln Neb.

7 8061 7 100 "0 5'V PEN1083H File with 1191840 ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE 1433840
Lincoln, Nebr. Sept. 30, 1908.
Abraham Maury, Lt. 10 Va. Regt. Rev. War.
W.M. Bunting,
Date of death.
Address: "The Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C."
1433840
WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, October 6, 1908.
Respectfully returned to
Mr. W. M. Bunting, 2045 South 17th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
For information from the records of the Pension Bureau application should be made to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars.
J. H. Quinn The Adjutant General.

D r The United States In ac t with Abraham Maury 6 o
  1780 To pay as S t from 1 st Jan y By pay & Subsistence   1781 77 to 11 th Feb y 1781 396 - - Rec d at Sundry times 627 6 - 70 17   To pay as Adjt s from 1 st Jan y June By cash of General   79 to 11 th Feb y 1781 99 9 - 1781 Muhlenburg 1800 - - 20 15   To Retained Rations 64 10 - Jan y By D r of Treasurer of V a 1780 - - 63 9   By Sundries of Capt s Stile 6 3   Certificates 398 11 1 1/2   30 May 1783. Scowen   to be paid James Taylor 
The above is truly copied from a Book of Settlements of the Officers of the Revolutionary Army.
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office Richmond, this 21 st day of June 1813.
John Heath and

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th: June, 1832, Abraham Maury, deceased, who was a Lieutenant and an Adjutant in the Revolutionary War, was entitled for the services of which he was entitled  the 28th of March 1833 , to a pension of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th: of March 1831, and ending on the 28 th of March, 1833, the day of his death; The amount due will be paid to upon the production of the proper vouchers to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Vass, Administratrix of Abraham Maury, deceased, after having deducted the amount already paid him under the same act.
This pension has been increased from $320- per annum.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this — 11 th : — day of September — one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. ..
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
Commissioner of Pensions.