Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 26510, for Paul Tanner, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va-
Janner, Paul Mary Ann
W 26510
CONTENTS

Reported.
District of Columbia Mary Ann Tanner widow of Paul Tanner who was a private of Cavalry in the Virginia line, for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100. Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of April 1843. and sent to W. L. Allison Esq. Present.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 246.

9 Aug. 3692
W. Allison
Act 4 July 1836
AL
Lawrence D. Atkins
Print

District of Columbia Washington County ss
On this 9 th day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me one of the Assistant Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia Mary Ann Farnum a resident of George Town in the County of Washington in the District of Columbia aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the 4 th 1836. & the joint res- olution of July 7 th 1838. : That she is the widow of Paul Farnum, who was a private of Cavalry & was in the Infantry at the battle of Brandywine & was made prisoner at Williams- burg & was in the Light horse at the siege of York, that he served to the end of the war she further declares that she was married to the said Paul Farnum in December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, that her husband, the aforesaid Paul Farnum died on the fifth of August in the year eighteen hundred, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by a reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Mary Ann Farnum maker
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written
Before James M. Morris

732 DC 7 July 1838.
admitted Pr law 2 yrs $100.
admitted Pr law. 2 yr $100
Filed by Francis Atkinson 4 Sept 1838.
No. Sept 18 th 1838

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows".
District of Columbia } Washington County } f.
On this third day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, before me William Crouch Chief Judge of the District of Columbia personally appeared in person Mary Ann Tanner, a resident of Georgetown in the County of Washington & District of Columbia, aged seventy three years, being informed & unable to and appear in court and who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Paul Tanner who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution.

That she knows nothing of her late husband service from her own knowledge, but that she has has always understood and believed, both from him & from others that he entered the Army early in the revolution as a substitute first for William Herbert and afterwards for Peter Due, both of the Virginia Line Militia & was made a prisoner at Williamsburg V a & that after he was exchanged he enlisted in the Cavalry and was at the siege of York & served until the end of the war. - That she recollects having heard that one of his Captains was named Valentine Payton. - She further declares that she was married to said Paul Tanner on the twenty seventh day of December in the year nineteen hundred and eighty four. - That her husband the said Paul Tanner died on the fifth day of August in the year eighteen hundred; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the

Marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz: at the time above stated. and that she has remained a widow ever since his death.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first before written, before me
W. Branch
for Mary Ann F. Tanner mark
Witness W. Crouch }
District of Columbia } County of Washington } Scl.
I William Brent, Clerk of the Circuit Court for the District and County aforesaid do hereby certify that the Honorable William Branch, whose name is subscribed above, was at the time of signing the same still in Chief Judge of the Circuit Court for the District & County aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of the said Circuit Court, the 30 th day of September at the City of Washington A.D. 1894. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal Wm Brent Clerk

7. Sep.
add end Mas. Ann Tame D. Cole
no Sept 7

District of Columbia } Washington County } 3 p.
Personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Mary Ann Tanner and Thomas Tanner her son, who being first duly sworn on their oaths say - That is Mary Ann Tanner says that she has no record of her marriage with Paul Tanner and that she does not know of any in existence - that she had a family record in which the date of her marriage was stated which record was borrowed some years since by a grand daughter of hers to copy and was lost by said Grand-daughter, so that she never again received it. - & Thomas Tanner says

that he is the son of the before named Mary Ann Tanner, that he knows there was such a record as stated by his mother which record also contained the ages & dates of the births of her children that the said record was lent an executor and lost as stated by his mother. that he has been to Fairfax Court House Va. to obtain a true copy of the certificate of his mother's marriage, but none could be found & that he understood from the Clerk of the Court that the records of that period were believed to be very imperfect.
Sworn to before me this 7 th Sep 1838 ————— J. S. Hance AP
Thereby certify that the Witnesses mentioned in the above affidavit, are respectable, and I have every reason to believe are entitled to Credit J. S. Hance

See Scrip Application no. 543 - Act Aug. 31, 1852 - in Interior Dept. Archives - Nat. Arch.

District Columbia 361.
Let to F. A. Dickens, Oct 27. 1838.
Mary Ann Tanner, widow of Paul Tanner,
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 5 th August 1800, of Georgetown in the State of D. Col who was a private in the Cavalry commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the Virginia line for Two years
Inscribed on the Roll of D. Col. at the rate of 100 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 15th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Sept r 1838, and sent to F. A. Dickens. Esq Washington, D. C.
Arrears to the 15th of Sept r '38 $250.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '39 50.00
$300.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by J. M. Condy Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 234.

Oct 25
Write Mrs. Tanner.
Oct 19 Edward S. Harkness
Pensions.

Washington, 23 d Oct. 1838.
Sir,
Having been requested to present to the Executive of Virginia the claims for Bounty lands of the heirs of Samuel Wise and of Thomas Tanner, I shall be much obliged to you if you will be so good as to have me furnished with certified copies of the papers of Mary Ann Tanner a pensioner under the act of 7 July last and a resident of Georgetown D.C. and the Samuel Wise referred to in the enclosed letter. Be so good as to return the enclosed letter with the copies.
Very respectfully
Yours &c
James L. Edwards Esq.
Com r of Pensions. Francis A. Pickens.

66 261-57 29-43
Payment to be made at Washington D.C. by J. P. Van Ness, Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of the District of Columbia First payment to be made on the 31st December, 1838, and on the 4th March and 4th Septem- ber in each year there- after.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 234 by L. M. Curdy Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the first section of the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Ann Turner, widow of Paul Turner deceased, who was a private of Cavalry in the revolution, and died on the fifth day of August 1800, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of one hundred dollars and  cents per month  annum , commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
S. Cooper Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

A list of Soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment who have received certificates for the balance of their full pay agreeably to an act of Assembly passed November Session 1781.
   Name Rank date of Settlement Amount     Paul Tanner Sold. Cav. 1 June 1784 £118..19..6  
Treasury Department
Registers Office 8 August 1838
I certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the Book returned to the Treasury by the State of Virginia and acted on by the Commis- -sary for settling the accounts of the several States with the United States
J. Stuart Register

Washington City 3 p District of Columbia 3 p
Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in the County of Washington and District of Columbia Robert S. Reid of Fairfax County in the State of Virginia, who being first duly sworn on his oath saith That he was well acquainted with Paul Tanner and with Mary Ann Walker now Mary Ann Tanner widow of the said Paul Tanner both before and since their marriage. That he knows nothing of Paul Tanner's revolutionary services from his own knowledge. That he is seventy eight years of age next June. That he has always understood and believed

that Paul Tanner was a soldier of the Revolution. he was generally so reputed & this affiant never heard the report doubted. That he was not present at the marriage of the said Paul Tanner and Mary Ann Walker . but that he understood before they were married that they were to be married. that at the time he was he resided within a mile and a half of the said Mary Ann Walker. that afterwards he understood that they were married. that such was the general report and belief throughout the neighbourhood in which they lived. that Paul Tanner was received and treated by her friends and relations as her husband. her father among the number, and that they lived together as Man and wife. That this affiant was married the first day of February in the year (1785) seventeen hundred

and eighty five. That Paul Tanner and Mary Ann Walker were married nearly about the same time. certainly not more than a year to two before or after that Mary Ann Tanner who now applies for a pension is the is still the widow of Paul Tanner and is the same person who he knew before her marriage as Mary Ann Walker. That this affiant knows that the said Paul & Mary Ann Tanner had several children and that some of them must have been born before the year seventeen hundred and ninety. —
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4 th Sept. 1838.
Robert H. his Reid Mark
W. B. Van Landt I. Price. Witness.

General Land Office June 1 st 1852.
Sir:
Will you have the kindness to send me the papers upon which a Pension, under Act of 7 th July, 1838, was granted for the services of Paul Tanner, a Soldier of the Continental Line, in the War of the Revolution.
I desire to examine these papers in connection with a Claim for Revolutionary Land Scrip, under Act of Aug 31 st 1852. now pending in this Office.
Very Respectfully Your obedt servt John Nelson Commissioner.
L. P. Waldo Esqr. Comm r of Pensions.

District of Columbia County of Washington to wit:
Personally appears John Boutcher before the subscriber a Justice of Peace for the County aforesaid and makes Oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God, That Mary Ann Tanner is the Widow of Paul Tanner, That he saw them Married many years ago, but does not remember the year sworn to before me this 31 st day of May 1838 JOHN, COX Justice of Peace

31 May
I certify that John Boucher was known to me, and I fully believe him on his oath
JOHN COX Justice of Peace
John Boucher Justice of Peace

N o 13 V
Mary Ann Tanner widow of Paul Tanner Dist. of Columbia.
abt Mar 3 rd '43.
W. S. Allison Prost Mar 21 st 43.

District of Columbia } Washington County } So
On this twentieth day of March A. D. 1843, personally appeared before me Thomas Holleman a Justice of the Peace in the county aforesaid, Mrs. Mary Ann Tanner a resident of Georgetown, D. C., aged seventy eight years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Paul Tanner who was a private of Cavalry in the Virginia line, and that she was allowed a pension of one hundred dollars per annum, under Act 7 th July 1838. She further declares

That she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before Witness Th P. Holzman
her Mary Ann X Tanner mark
and I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the identical person she represents herself to be.
Th P. Holzman

GENERAL LAND OFFICE. OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Commissioner
L. P. Waldo Esq. Commr of Pensions

May 3. 1843.
file
May 4 Tanner DB rule man 3 1843
Pen cat deliv d to Sam l blank May 4. 1843

Colo. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, will please to deliver to Mr Saml Clarke, whom I wish to act as my Attorney in the case, my Certificate of Pension
Respectfully
Geo. Lunn Jr
May 2 d 1843
Witness
W. White
her
Mary Ann + Tanner Mark

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
am
File No. 26.510
Mary Ann Farmer Wid of Paul Farmer Rev Vir line
Act Mar 3rd 1843
Index: Vol 51 , Page 266
[Arrangement of 1870.]

District of Columbia Washington County (to wit
Perry Hoskins aged sixty six years, Personally appears before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, and makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that he was personally and well acquainted with Paul Tanner and Mary Ann Tanner his wife both of them of Fairfax County in the state of Virginia. that he lived neighbours with them many years and was well acquainted with them both before their marriage which took place in the year 1783 or 1784 as well as he can remember. that the said Paul Tanner and Mary Ann Tanner had several children by their marriage, all of whom he knew from infancy. That said Paul Tanner died in the year eighteen hundred in the County of Fairfax That he verely believes the said Mary Ann Tanner never afterwards married but remains a widow to this day
Sworn to before me this 7 th day of August 1838
JOHN COX
Justice of Peace
I certify that Perry Hoskins is known to me, and I fully believe him on oath
JOHN COX
Justice of Peace