Rev. War Pension of Handy HANDLEY (1833); Dorchester County, Maryland Submitted By: Jean & Steve Woolston Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* Handy Handley - Revolutionary War - Pension State of Indiana) Sullivan County) On this 5th day of May 1833, personally appeared before the County court, said county, Handy Handley, a resident of Hadden Township, in the County of Sullivan and State of Indiana, age 78 years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an Act of Congress, June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in March 1781, and served in the 3rd Maryland Regiment of the Line under the following named officers, to wit: Colonel Peter Adams (the other field officers not recollected), Captain Libben Williams, Francis Baker, first lieutenant, and ------Price, 2nd Lieutenant. He enlisted for three years; his residence was in Dorchester County, Maryland. He enlisted in Caroline County, in the same state, marched to Annapolis where Major Morrison gave each of us his note of hand for $20.00, which was received at Annapolis in payment for goods, etc. We then marched by order of General Smallwood to Georgetown where we received $3.00 in specie and $3.00 in red money. From thence we marched through Williamsburg to Gov't(?) Town and arrived there on the day that Pigeon Hill was taken by the Americans. After being engaged in making preparations for the attack on Lord Cornwallis he received a wound in his left leg from the bursting of a bomb shell, a few days before the surrender of Cornwallis. He was then taken to Williamsburg hospital and after his recovery he was allowed to return home, in March 1782, having been out twelve months when he was allowed to return; he received from Lieutenant Baker a pap and expected again to be called into service - but he never was so called. The pap has since been destroyed. The applicant has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid (Signed) HANDY HANDLEY We, John Davis, a clergyman residing in Hadden Township, Sullivan county, and James McLanahan, residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Handy Hanly, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and that we conceive in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid (Signed) JOHN DAVIS JAMES McLANAHAN and that the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the above matter, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Davis, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in Hadden Township, Sullivan County, and that James McLanahan, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same township,and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit. (Signed) A.B. CARRUTHERS? JEFSE HADDAM ABRAHAM SNAPP Judges of the County Court of Sullivan County This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/dorchester/military/revwar/pensions/handley-h.txt