Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24027, for William Munday, New York

SERVICE
SERVICE New York
NUMBER _____
Sunday, William Leah
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11019.
Reported Only surviving Children, to wit Hannah P. Munday Jane Hammer Wm Munday
District of Columbia Leah Munday, dec'd Widow of William Munday, who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the year 1829, of in the State of who was a Lt & 2 nd Major in the Revolution commanded by Captain of the the line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Washington City at the rate of 1119 Dollars 93 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. & end 8 October 1840 when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Dec r 1830 and sent to J. W. Risque, present.
Payable to Hannah P. Munday Total amount $ of only Exrt. for all our children Surviving [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Chase Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 473
See back of this file for names of the surviving children

A.
Copy of Marriage License.

THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
Baltimore County, Set.
I Hereby Certify to all whom it doth or may concern, That on the Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty six . a License issued from the office of the Clerk of Baltimore County Court, directed to the Reverend Mr. _____ or any other person qualified by Law, to celebrate the rites of Marriage between a certain William Munday and Leah Simpson of Baltimore County, according to Law; there appearing to him no lawful cause, or just impediment, by reason of any consanguinity or affinity to hinder the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of Baltimore County Court this Second day of October 1850
A. W. Bradford
Clerk Baltimore County Court.

Memorial of Hannah Munday daughter & Executrix of Leah Mun- day Dec d . praying that the arrear of pension due under the act of the 7 th of July 1838 be paid to her.

To the Honorable James L. Edwards commissioner of Pensions, the Memorial of Hannah Munday of Washington in the District of Columbia respectfully represents:
That your memorialist has been informed and believes that her father William Munday deceased, in his life time belonged to the second regiment, New York Line of the continental army during the Revolutionary War, having been commissioned as a Lieutenant in said Regiment on the twenty first day of November A. D. 1776, Quarter-Master on the _____ day of May A. D. 1778, omitted as Quarter-Master on the _____ day of January A. D. 1780, and dismissed by a general court martial on the eleventh day of October A. D. 1781.
Your memorialist further represents that the said William Munday deceased, was married to a certain Leah Simpson in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland on the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and eighty six, by the Rev: Mr West an Episcopalian clergyman, that she does not know that any record of the said marriage exists, but she respectfully refers to a certified copy of the license authorising the marriage of the said parties, here produced marked, "A" and the affidavits of Jonathan Wabuley, George Dicker, and William J. Alcock marked "B".
Your memorialist further represents that the said William Munday deceased, had by his wife the said Leah, four children to wit: Edward, William, Jane, now Mrs Hammer, and your memorialist, the first of whom is dead and the rest are living and are the only surviving children of the said William

and Leah Munday. The said William Munday departed this life on the twenty eighth day of December A.D. 1829 and the said Leah Munday on the eighth day of October A.D. 1840, at Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
Your memorialist further represents that the said Leah Munday in her life time made and published her last will and testament by which she bequeathed to your memorialist all of her wearing apparel, all her shirts, blankets and table linen, and all the net and residue of her personal estate, including a certain pension which she claimed to be due her on account of the military services of her late husband the said William Munday deceased during the Revolutionary War, she bequeathed jointly share and share alike to your memorialist and her sister the said Jane Hasummer. That your memorialist and a certain Eugene Charlton Warneboff were appointed executors of the will aforesaid, which was duly admitted to probat by the Orphans Court of the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, on the sixth day of November A.D. 1840. Your memorialist further represents that her mother the said Leah Munday in her life time to wit on the fourth day of September A.D. 1838, presented her claim to you, for a pension under the act of the 7 th of July A.D. 1838, which was however rejected.
Your memorialist further represents that she is the sole executrix of the last will and testament of her late mother the said Leah Munday deceased as will appear by the certificate of the Judge of the Orphans Court within and for the county of Washington and District of Columbia, and she

Wherefore prays that the claim to the pension aforesaid under the act of Congress of the 7 th day of July A.D. 1838 may be re-examined and that the amount due her mother at the time of her death may be allowed and paid to your memorialist as her executrix and your memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray &c.
H. P. Munday
Subscribed and sworn to in open court this seventh day of November A.D. 1850.
Leah Ed. N. Roach Reg. Clerk
District of Columbia } Washington County } ss.
Be it remembered that on this seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Hannah P. Munday personally appears, before the Judge of the Orphans Court within and for the county aforesaid, in court judicially sitting, and now here in open court before the said Judge and made oath according to law that the facts stated by her in the foregoing memorial are true and I hereby certify that Leah Munday who is named in the said memorial died at Baltimore in the State of Maryland on the eighth day of October A.D. 1840 as fully appears by the affidavit of Jonas P. Keller made before the Orphans Court aforesaid on this day, and I further certify that said Keller is a credible witness well known to the Judge of said court.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set

my hand and affixed the seal of the said Orphans Court the day and year above written.
Ed. N. Roach P. J. G.
District of Columbia, Washington County { ss.
Be it remembered that on this seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Jonas P. Keller of lawful age of the County and District aforesaid personally appeared before the Judge of the Orphans' Court, within and for the County aforesaid, in court judicially sitting and now here in open court before the said Judge and made oath according to law that he was well acquainted with Mrs. Leah Munday, widow of the late Lieutenant William Munday, deceased, for eleven years prior to her death, that she departed this life at Baltimore in the State of Maryland on the eighth day of October A. D. 1840. That the said Leah Mun- day had four children by the said William Munday deceased, namely, Edward, Jane, now Mrs. Hammer, William and Hannah Munday, the first named of whom is dead, and the rest are living and are the only surviving children of the said William and Leah Munday. That the said Hannah Munday resides in Washington in the District of Columbia, William Munday in the city of New York and Mrs. Jane Hammer

in Baltimore in the State of Maryland, with all of whom this affiant is well acquainted and he believes them to be the only surviving children of the said William and Leah Munday deceased and that he is disinherited.
Jonas R. Keller
Subscribed and sworn to in open court the day and year above written.
Test: Ed. N. Roach Reg. Wills

Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 189___
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of _____, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his own application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Conn.   Nov 21 1776 — Lieut 2nd Regt 3rd Line   May 1778 — 2nd              
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, not given  Date of application for pension, _____  Residence at date of application, _____  Age at date of application, _____  Remarks: Wounded Sept 19-1777
Very respectfully,
_____ Commissioner.

No 14260
Leah Munday died in 1840
D. C.
Set 7- July 1848
Ad. 20 notes 2m. $3296.60 4 - do. 53.32
$449.93
for ann from 4- Mch 1834 to 8- Oct 1840, when she died.
Payable to Hannah P. Munday Esq, for the benefit of her children P. Munday, Jane Ham- mer and Wm Munday, her only surviving chil- dren.
Wm Munday, died in 1829 Leah sent to D.P.R.
F. W. Riggs
Present.
As by order of the Socy of the Interior.

Peru in Africa Dec 19. 1880
Sir:
In compliance with your direction I have the honor to state that
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Pension Office Dec 1850
Sir:
The case of Leah Munday is now before me for examination. Her husband appears to have performed more than 2 years' service during the Revolution, but was finally cashiered by the sentence of a Court Martial. In the case of Sarah Farrington, Mr Erving decided that such a sentence as this did not preclude the widow from receiving the benefit of the Pension laws. This decision is, however, opposed to the uniform action of this Office and to the decision of every preceding Secretary under whose charge it has been, so far as I am informed. It must have been based upon the fact that Congress grants a pro rata pension according to length of service, and does not require that their service shall be shown to have terminated honorably. But there is a tacit condition annexed to every grant of this character that the service so remunerated shall have been of an honorable

character. A disgraceful discharge is always held to relate back and to taint the whole past career of the soldier. Under any other construction, a man who deserted to the enemy and fought against his country to the close of the war, might yet claim pension for the length of time he remained under our colors. As this question involves great pecuniary interests to the government, I have respectfully to ask the instructions of yourself or of the Secretary as to the effect to which I am to be guided by this decision.
I have the honor to be Yr. M st . Serv t . H. H. C. (unintelligible)
Hon. J. E. Heath Commr. of Pensions

Washington D.C. Decr: 11 th 1850.
Sir,
As I have not had time since my interview with you yesterday to prepare a brief in the case of Miss Hannah P. Munday, I have availed myself of the services of J. J. Coombs Esq m . who has heretofore fully investigated the legal points involved in the case, and herewith enclose you his letter to me upon the subject, to which I deem it unnecessary to add anything. My original brief is already filed.
I am very Respectfully
Hon:
your ob t . serv t
James C. Heath Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.
J. W. Resigne

Brief in the claim of Miss Hannah P. Munday Executrix of Leah Munday Dec d . for arrears of Pension under the act of the 7 th day of July A.D. 1838.
F. H. Risque

1. Washington D.C. Nov. 8 th 1850.
Sir,
I herewith present the papers in support of the claim of Miss Hannah Munday, daughter and executrix of Leah Munday deceased, for the amount of pension due the said Leah at the time of her death, under the act of the 7 th of July A.D. 1838, as the widow, and on account of the services, of her husband William Munday, during the Revolutionary War.
From the rolls in your office, it appears, that the said William Munday, belonged to the second Regiment, New York Line of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, — that he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in said Regiment on the twenty first day of November A.D. 1776, — Quarter-Master on the _____ day of May A.D. 1778, — omitted as Quarter-Master on the _____ day of January A.D. 1780, and dismissed by General Court Martial, on the eleventh day of October A.D. 1781.
A certain William Munday, whom I am induced to believe, is the identical William Munday above referred to, appears to have been a Sergeant

in the first Regiment, New York Line, on the 22 nd day of July A.D. 1776, as he was recommended for promotion to an ensign on that day, in Capt: Ledyard's company, in the Regiment commanded by Col: M c Dougall. See American Archives 5 th Series Vol: 1 st page 646.
The said William, intermarried with the said Leah, whose maiden name was Simpson, on the sixth day of February A.D. 1786, in Baltimore and State of Maryland, as is substantially proved by a certified copy of the marriage license, and the affidavits of Jonathan Whitley, George Decker, and William S. Alcock, which accompany the memorial of the said Hannah P. Munday. The said William Munday had by the said Leah four children, to wit Edward, William, Jane and Hannah P. the last three of whom are still living, and are the only surviving children of the said William and Leah Munday. The said William departed this life, on the twenty ninth day of December A.D. 1829, and his widow, the said Leah, who survived him, departed this life on the eighth day of October A.D. 1840. The said Leah presented to you, her claim on the tenth day of

in the first Regiment, New York Line, on the 22 d day of July A.D. 1776, as he was recommended for promotion to an Ensigncy on that day, in Capt: Ledyard's company, in the Regiment commanded by Col: M c Dougall. See American Archives 5 th Series Vol: 1 st page 646.
The said William, intermarried with the said Leah, whose maiden name was Simpson, on the sixth day of February A.D. 1786, in Baltimore and State of Maryland, as is substantially proved by a certified copy of the marriage license, and the affidavits of Jonathan Whitley, George Decker, and William S. Alcock, which accompany the memorial of the said Hannah P. Munday. The said William Munday had by the said Leah four children, to wit Edward, William, Jane and Hannah P. the last three of whom are still living, and are the only surviving children of the said William and Leah Munday. The said William departed this life, on the twenty ninth day of December A.D. 1829, and his widow, the said Leah, who survived him, departed this life on the eighth day of October A.D. 1840. The said Leah presented to you, her claim on the tenth day of

3. September A. D. 1838, under the act of the 7 th of July A. D. 1838, which was however rejected by you, because her husband, on account of whose service the pension was claimed, had been cashiered by the sentence of a general court martial. After the rejection of the said claim, as aforesaid, the said Leah, made application to the Congress of the United States for relief, and a Committee of the House of Representatives, to whom the papers were referred reported in favor of allowing to the said Leah Munday, widow of the said William, "five years' full pay of a lieutenant" as will appear by a copy of the Report and Bill here produced marked P and 2.
As some evidence of the efficient services, and high military character of the said William Munday, and that he received a severe wound while fighting in defence of his country, I beg leave, to refer you to copies of certain letters and certificates of Col: Chs. Van Cortlandt and Capt: S. Fish of the 2 d New York Regiment (the originals of which as I understand were filed with the claim of Mrs Leah Munday in your office but cannot now be found), here produced

marked "R".
All of the facts necessary to establish a claim to the amount of the pension aforesaid to be due to the said Leah Munday, at the time of her death, having been fully proved, as I conceive, the only question which presents itself, is, whether the claim is barred by the sentence of the General Court Martial aforesaid, by which the said William Munday was dismissed.
The acts of Congress of the seventh of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty two, and of the seventh of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight, contain no clause or proviso, which can, by any possibility, be construed, to exclude or impair, the right to the arrears of pension, now claimed. So far from it, the act of the seventh day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty two, expressly stipulates, that "each of the surviving "officers, non commissioned officers, musicians, sol- "diers, and Indian spies, who shall have served, in "the Continental line, or state troops, volunteers or militia, "at one or more terms, a period of two years, during the "war of the Revolutionxxxx is authorized to receive, out of

" any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, " the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank, ***** such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, one " thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and to continue during " his natural life; and any such officer, non commissioned " officer, musician or private, as aforesaid, who shall have " served in the continental line, state troops, volunteers or mi- " litia, a term or terms, in the whole, less than the above period, " but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive " out of any unappropriated money in the treasury during " his natural life, each according to his term of service, an " amount bearing such proportion to the annuity granted " to the same rank for the service of two years, as the term " of service did, to the term aforesaid; to commence from the " fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and " thirty one."
By the act of the seventh day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight, the widows of those who ser- ved, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid, of the seventh day of June A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty two, and "whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of service, and before the first day of January A. D. seventeen hundred and ninety four, are entitled, to receive for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March,

"eighteen hundred and thirty six, the annuity, or pension, which "might have been allowed to the husband, in virtue of said act, "if living at the time it first passed."
That the construction, which I contend, ought to be pla- ced upon the acts of Congress aforesaid, is correct, and has been sanctioned by the executive department, I beg leave to refer to two recent decisions of the late Secretary of the Interior. The first is that of the case of Elizabeth Spoor, only daughter of Jerusha Farrington widow of Thomas Farrington deceased, late a Lieutenant Colo- nel during the Revolutionary War. It appears from the certificate of the Secretary of State, of the common- wealth of Massachusetts, filed with the papers in the case, that the said Lieut: Col: Farrington, was "cashiered" on the seventeenth day of May A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy seven. There being satisfactory evidence in the case, that he had served from the 20 th day of November A.D. 1775, to the 17 th day of May A.D. 1777, the claim was allowed by the late Secretary of the Interior, with instructions, that the pension should be computed for that period. This decision was made by the  the day of March A.D. 1850, and extended the benefit of the provisions of the act of the 7 th day of July A.D. 1838, to the only daughter of

Jerusha Farrington, widow of the said Lieutenant Col: Farrington, notwithstanding, that officer had been cashiered as aforesaid.
The other decision above referred to, is that, in the case of N. Wells, administrator of Hannah Currier widow of Moses Pigeon, which is analogous to the case of Jerusha Farrington, and was decided in favor of the said administrator, on the 28 th day of August A.D. 1850.
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That the will of the said Leah Munday deceased, has been admitted to probate in the Orphans Court for the county of Washington in the District of Columbia, and that the said Hannah P. Munday has been duly qualified as executrix thereof, will be seen by the certificates, of the Register of Wills, here produced marked S.
As the right of the said Hannah P. Munday, executrix as aforesaid, to the means of of pension aforesaid, has been definitively settled by the decisions aforesaid, I hope the claim will be promptly acted upon, and allowed.
I am Very Respectfully Your affec: son J. H. Risque
Hon: James L. Edwards Comm: of Pensions Washington D.C.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24027
Leah Munday Wid of William Munday Green River Road
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. M , Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1892 Apr 26 check to Chas. H. Miller City P.S.
1892 June 8 Cop of Van Corlands Certs above X.
1893 Jan 9 - Amt of pension due & whom paid to Mr. Hildeth Pen. office

K C. M. V.
M.
JAN 25 1892

N 24027
Washington, D.C. January, 20/92.
The Honorable, The Commissioner of Pensions. Sir:
I have the honor to most respectfully ask if the papers filed with the claim of the late William Munday, an officer of the Continental Army, who served in the 2 nd New York Regt. from Nov. 21 st 1776, to Oct. 11 th 1781, are now in the files of your office and, if so, whether the rules of the office would warrant you in allowing myself one of his, Munday's lineal descendants - to make copies of some autograph letters presumed to have been filed with the application for allowing the claim made by his heirs - ? In the year 1853, as nearly as I can fix it, by tradition, the sum of $2,500 was allowed his - Munday's heirs, (two sisters, Hannah Munday, and her married sister, Jane Hamner), by the U.S. Govt. for Munday's services during

the Revolutionary War.
My reasons for soliciting the request are, that I wish to arrive at the exact time when Munday was wounded and , to get his complete military record etc.
I will esteem it as a very great favor if the papers can be found and my request granted.
I am Sir,
Very respectfully, &c. Charles S. Keller, 2024 N. Street, N.W.

O.W. & N. DIV.
P.S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
June 8, 1902.
Sir:-
In reply to your inquiry of the 31st. instant, returned herewith, I have to inform you that there are no autograph letters from Col. Van Cortlandt or Major Fian on file with the claim for pension of Mesh, widow of William VanCay; an officer of the Revolutionary War, neither are there any letters or other papers on file with the claim which throw any light on the cause of the officer's discharge from the army in 1781.
There is on file with the case, however, a copy of a certificate from Col. Van Cortlandt relating to the officer's services. You will please find enclosed a copy of the same.
Very respectfully,
Charles S. Keller, Esc.,
Deputy Commissioner.
Gen. Office,
War Department,
Civ.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
COPY.
This is to certify that William Sunday was an officer under my command at the capture of Burgoyne's Army where he was severely wounded and fell at my side in an engagement with the light infantry of the enemy on the 19th of September, 1777, after his recovery he did the duty of Lieut. and Quarter Master to the Regiment for a long time and continued under my command until the 20th of October, 1781, when I was deprived of his services which I ever regretted having rightly esteemed him for his bravery and attention.
Given this 5th day of Aug., 1822.
Col. V. Corlies, late Col. 2nd. N.Y. Regt., Revolutionary Army.

It is contended that the Act 7 th June, 1832, has reference to the time spent in the military service alone, without regard to the manner in which that service terminated. If so though that time were employed in exciting mutiny or corresponding with the enemy, though at its expiration the party deserted to the enemy and warred with them to the close of the war, he might still receive the benefits of that act. If Genl. Washington and Genl. Arnold were now living, each would be entitled to the same gratuity. Upon what arguments is based so strong a conclusion?
1 st That the Pension is a compensation for the loss sustained by the depreciated currency in which the Revolutionary soldiers were paid. In other words, the Continental Congress promised certain wages which they were unable to make good, and we take upon ourselves the burden of their contract. But the soldier was under a contract no less than the government and when he violated his part of it he forfeited all claim at the same time. If the men of the Revolution had undertaken to liquidate this equitable claim, would they have

have for a bound to include in the settlement those who endeavored to foil their efforts, either by actively aiding the enemy or by introducing confusion into their own ranks? But Pension is no such compensation as is pretended, otherwise it would not be equally extended to those who received Continental money when it was at par, when it was at 100 to 1, and whom soon, towards the latter part of the war, were paid in specie. It is intended as a grateful acknowledgment from a wealthy country to its poor founders, and its design was evidently to embrace those alone who rendered honorable service.
2 da The word employed in the Statute is "Service." This is a word, not only of many shades of meaning in common parlance, but of various meanings. It has, besides, several technical significations in law phraseology, and is, I contend, technically used in military language. "Service," in the latter application, is a unit, embracing the whole range of the enlistment, and having respect to its termination as well as to its commencement. A dishonorable discharge or escape from it is universally

Considered as terminating its whole currency, and in fact annulling it and making it as though it had never existed. Whenever Congress has promised any other thing beyond ordinary pay for services thereafter to be performed it has in express terms required that such service shall terminate honorably. In this Statute the service had already been rendered, its character already determined, and such a qualification may have been deemed unnecessary. In fact all the Statutes relating to Bounties of every description, for duty performed or to be performed, are in pari materia , and when one of them speaks of service we must refer to the others for a description of it.
The rule for which I am contending has been enforced in the Pension Office and approved by every succeeding Secretary from the passage of the first Pension Law down to the case of Drew v. Farrow . Yet Congress, aware of this construction, did not attempt to vary it in the Act of 1832. Knowing that this construction was applied to that Act, it left made precisely the same provision in

the Acts of 1836, 1838 &c. Legislatures are always presumed to act with an understanding of the construction put upon its laws by the tribunals before which they are adjudicated.
I see no distinction between an officer who was cashiered, a soldier who was disgracefully discharged, and either who deserted. The act of leaving the service in one case is voluntary, in the other not; the act which induces the leaving of it is always voluntary. Injustice may sometimes have been done by the sentencing the Court Martial, as it is done in civil causes and even in criminal trials, but if it be suffered to stand unresisted at the time, it is too late to appeal to a court instituted half a century afterwards.
This argument has been too hastily drawn to enable me to condone it; it simply developed to suggest to the Secretary

I hereby certify that William Monday late a Lieutenant in the Second New York Regiment in the Army of the United States was wounded in an engagement opposing the Right of the Army under General Burgoyne on the 19 th day of September 1777 of which wound he suffered greatly it having nearly deprived him of life, lingering a long time with sentiments of Mortification
Given the City of Washington Jan y 22 nd 1806
Chas O'Portan dt
late Col t 2 d N.Y.R.
City of Washington Jan y 24 th 1806
Dear Sir
In reply to the request made in your favour of the 17 th I herewith send the enclosed certificate and should be much better pleased & more gratified if the act proposed was passed into a law giving a compensation for deserved and suffering merit, such as I know yours to be justly stiled — however I am in hopes that the law will be soon passed and then you can make use of the enclosed, the assurance of which will give me pleasure as will the reflection of having any way been instrumental in procuring this pittance which you should long since have enjoyed — in hopes of seeing you soon reap the benefits we contemplate please to accept assurances of my Great esteem M c William Monday Baltimore Maryland
Chas O'Portandt

This is to certify that William Sunday was an officer under my command at the capture of Burgoyne's army where he was severely wounded and fell at my side in an engagement with the light Infantry of the enemy on the 19 of September 1777. after his recovery he did the duty of Scout and Quarter master to the Regiment for a long time and continued under my command until the month of October 1781 when I was deprived of his services which I ever regretted having highly esteemed him for his bravery and attention.
Given this 5 th day of August 1823 Chas V. Courtlandt late Col 2 nd N.Y. Rgt Revolutionary army
New York November 10 th 1824
Dear Sir In arranging my papers I this day met with a letter of old date from you to Theodorus Bailey Esq Post master at New York in closed in a letter from him to me which having been unfortunately placed in a bundle of old papers was overlooked and consequently not duly attended to which I very much regret both as it relates to you & to myself especially as it has deprived me of a pleasure which I should have derived from rendering you service and particularly in substantiating your just claim to the provision which your military services in our Revolutionary War entitle you to.
Presuming that the deficits in Genl Courtlandt's certificate have long since been corrected, I can now only say that should it be otherwise and any difficulty still exist which it may be in my power

power to remove that you may freely communicate me, and I beg you to be assured that it would afford me very peculiar  particular gratification not only to furnish the necessary certificate but in any other way to serve you
I am with sincere regard Your friend & old brother soldier Richd Fish William Monday Esq. Baltimore
Cortlandt Town Aug 15 1822 1823
Dear Sir
I hope that the inclosed may answer the purpose of assisting in obtain- ing your Pension, which in my opinion you have an undoubted title to receive for your long and faithful services in the Revolutionary War, I avail myself of the goodness of my friend General Badley to forward them to you with assurances of my best wishes both for the success in obtaining your pension but also for the restor- -ation of your health and with great respect I am yours most truly
Chas. Cottan dt
Lieut Wm Monday

R.
Copies of letters etc.
State of Maryland, } to wit: City of Baltimore, }
It is hereby certified that on this sixteenth day of November A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of said State in and for said City, appears Alexander Yearley, of said City, to me well known as a respectable citizen of Baltimore and entitled to implicit credit in the here statements, and makes oath that, as agent for the late Leah Munday widow of Melick Munday he took steps toward procuring for her a pension in consideration of her said husband's Revolutionary services and such other allowances as might be lawfully claimed; and that as part of the testimony relating to that claim issued from said Yearley transmitted to Washington to the Pension Agency, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Eight two Letters of Charles Van Cortlandt, two Certificates from the same, and one Letter from Nicholas Fish, of all which respectively the within writings are true copies; and he further says that said Letters were never returned to him, and in no wise ever came back to his hand, nor to any one else to his knowledge.
Alex Yearley
Signed by Alexander Yearley, and sworn to by him, before me -
John L. Snyder J.P.
I, Augustine W. Bradford, Clerk of Baltimore County Court, do hereby certify that John L. Snyder who has subscribed the foregoing certificate of Alexander Yearley having made oath as therein stated was at the time of said subscription a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore. In witness whereof I have set my hand and the seal of said Court this Sixth November A.D. 1850.
Augustine W. Bradford Clerk

"B."
Mr. Munday's
Claim.
Affidavits of Jonathan Preh- ley, George Decker and William J. Alcock, as to the marriage of William & Leah Munday.

I, Jonathan W ethly truly certify that I have resided in the City of Baltimore for sixty ————— years and upwards. I was well acquainted with the late William Chamunday, of Baltimore, and Leah his wife, who is also now dead, but who survived her husband. I knew said William and Leah as man and wife and so living together from a period before the year Seventeen Hundred and ninety four; and they so lived together constantly and were recognized as man and wife in said city. In witness whereof I have set my hand this thirty first day of July in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty five.
Jonathan Wethly
I, George Decker, of Baltimore, well knew William Chamunday and Leah his wife, both now deceased. They lived together as man and wife to my knowledge for many years in said City, and from a period before the year Seventeen Hundred and ninety four. As witness my hand this thirty first day of July in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty five.
G. Decker

I William J Alcock, of the City of Baltimore state that I once knew William Munday and Leah his wife of said City. They are both dead. Munday died about sixteen years ago, and Leah about five years since. I knew them as man and wife; and as such living together until said William's death; and I knew them as married and so living together for a period before the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Four.
In witness whereof I have set my hand this thirty first day of July in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty five. Wm J Alcock
State of Maryland, } to wit: City of Baltimore }
It is hereby certified that on this thirty first day of July in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty five before me, the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said State in and for said City appear Jonathan Welsch and George Decker and William J Alcock who have respectively signed the above - written Certificates or Declarations and made oath that all that they have severally stated in their respective Declarations or Certificates aforesaid

is true as by them respectively therein stated.
John Wright
State of Maryland, } to wit: Baltimore County, }
I, Augustus W. Bradford, Clerk of Baltimore County Court, do hereby certify that John Wright, ~ who has signed the above-written Certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of said State in and for said City, duly commissioned and sworn.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my Hand and my Seal of Office, the Seal of said Court, this Seventh day of August in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Five. —
A. W. Bradford Clerk.

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Certificate of Ed: N. Roach Register of Wills.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
WASHINGTON COUNTY, to wit:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
KNOW YE, That the last Will and Testament of Leah Munday _____ late of Baltimore Maryland _____ deceased, hath in due form of law, been exhibited, proved, and recorded in the office of the Register of Wills, for Washington County aforesaid, a copy of which is to these presents annexed; and that administration of all the goods, chattels, and credits of the said Leah Munday _____ deceased, is hereby granted and committed unto Hannah P. Munday of the County & District aforesaid, and that she has entered into Bond, with Security approved by the said Court -
WITNESS, William H. Purcell esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia, this Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 50 - and of the Independence of the United States the 75 -
Teste,
Edw. N. Roach
Register of Wills.

I, DO SWEAR, — that I will well and truly administer the goods, chattels, and personal estate of Leah Monday _____ deceased, to the best of my knowledge, according to law, and will give a just account of my administration when thereto I shall be lawfully called. So HELP me GOD.
Sworn to in open Court, Test, Col. N. Roach Reg'd

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LEAH MUNDAY.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 471.]
JULY 10, 1840.
Mr. ANDREWS , from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Leah Munday, of Maryland, report:
That the claim of the petitioner for a pension, under the act of 7th July, 1838, as the widow of William Munday, a lieutenant in the continental army, has been rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions, because Lieutenant Munday, after a service of nearly five years, was dismissed from the army, by the sentence of a general court martial.
The question, therefore, presented to the consideration of the committee is, whether this decision of the Commissioner is correct.
The act of 7th July, 1838, allows a pension for five years to the widows of those who served in the war of the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act of 7th June, 1832. By reference to that act, in connexion with the act of 15th May, 1828, and the resolution of Congress of 21st October, 1780, it will be perceived that the act of 1838 was intended to apply to the widows of those men who had served a period of two years during the war, and had not been included in the provision made for those who were in service at its termination. The committee can find no law which provides that the right, acquired by the two years' service, should be forfeited for subsequent misconduct of the party. They therefore consider that the dismissal of Lieutenant Munday ought not to deprive his widow of the benefit of the law of 1838; and accordingly report a bill.

Leah Munday '21

JULY 10, 1840.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. ANDREWS, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill :
A BILL
For the relief of Leah Munday, of the State of Maryland.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and di- 4 rected to place upon the pension-roll the name of Leah Munday, 5 of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, widow of the 6 late William Munday, a lieutenant in the army of the Revolu- 7 tion ; and that there be allowed to the said Leah Munday five 8 years' full pay of a lieutenant, to be paid according to the pro- 9 visions of the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty- 10 eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.