Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,678, James Fincher, N.C.
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Fincher, James.        S.31.678
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8007
Georgia
James Fincher
Jasper County in the state of Georgia
who was a private in the Company commanded
Captain Few of the Regiment commanded
by Col Few in the North Carolina
Militia for 6mo.[illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 20 Dollars  Cents per annum
to commence on the 4 day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March 1833 and [illegible]
Newnan, Georgia
Arrears to March  1833
[illegible]  allowance ending 4 Sept

40.00
10.00

50.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible signature]
book 4 Vol. 8 Page 132
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Georgia
Jasper County

Personally appeared before me Mary
McClendon who being duly sworn
deposeth & saith, that during the Revolutionary
War, she recollects that her Brother James Fincher
entered the Military Service of the United States
& that it was said by the Family on his return
he had been absent six months-- this deponent
was at the time young not exceeding 8 or 10 years
of age & recollects nothing more.

Mary   McClendon
  her  X  mark

Sworn to & subscribed before
me 21st Jany 1833

Jesse Loyall J. P.
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Jasper Inferior Court January Term 1833

Georgia
Jasper County

On the Twenty second day of January Eight
teen hundred and thirty three Personally
appeared in open Court before Reuben C. Shorter, 
James Whitfield & Edward Price Justices of the Inferior Court
of said Country now sitting it being a Court of Record,
James Fincher a resident of said Country and State
aged Seventy five or six years, who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered
the service of the United States, under the command of, Colonel
Captain Benjamin Few afterwards Colonel & his Brother
Ignatius Few who was at that time a Lieutenant
the precise time this deponent cannot now recollect
but he continued in the Service Six months, or upwards
in the State of North Carolina & County of Randolph
that he was drafted and marched from North Carolina
into Georgia-- was part of his time at Fort
Barrington in said State & was eventually discharged
at Savannah-- after the Revolution this deponent
resided in North Carolina, a part of his time in
Randolph & Mecklenburg Counties & then
moved to Georgia about Sixteen years since, where
he has resided ever since-- this deponent being old
& infirm must refer to the affidavit of Mary
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McClendon for further proof of of his Services, as well
as to the certificates of the Reverend Cyrus White
a clergyman & Jeremiah Pearson of his respectability
for character & their belief of his having sworn
as a Soldier of the Revolution & that he is
of the age represented as their declaration-- this
deponent has no documentary evidence of his
Service & that he knows of no person in Georgia
by whom he can better substantiate his Services--
this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension Or annuity except the present, &
stating that his name is not on the pension rolls
of the agency of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

James Fincher

Reuben C. Shorter   J. I. C.
James Whitfield    J. I. C.
Edward Price   J. I. C.

Rev. Cyrus White a clergyman residing in
the County of Jasper & Jeremiah Pearson residing
in the same, hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with James Fincher, who has subscribed
& sworn to the above declarations, that we believe
him to be 75 or 76 years of age, that he is reputed
& believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur
in that opinion-- Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid


Cyrus White
Jeremiah Pearson

[ Seal]

Reuben C. Shorter  J.I.C.
James Whitfield   J.I.C.
Edward Price    J.I.C.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after said investigation of the matter, and
after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above named applicant was
a Revolutionary Soldier and sworn as he states
And the Court further certifies that it appears to
them that Cyrus White who has signed the preceding
certificate is a clergyman residing in this
County of Jasper & that Jeremiah Pearson who
has also signed the same is a resident in the 
same County & is a credible person, & their
statement is entitled to credit.

Reuben C. Shorter  J.I.C.
James Whitfield   J.I.C.
Edward Price   J.I.C.
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Georgia
Jasper County

I, Robert Kellam Clerk of the
Inferior Court of the County & State
aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of James Fincher for a pension

[ Seal]

In testimony whereof I hereunto put my hand
and seal of office this 22nd day 
January 1833

Robert Kellam   Clk
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Loftons Store Georgia
Nov 17 1844

Furman Walthall
Pension for widow
of James Fincher

W 1/4 53. Pen Due 12/49

Pension Office

James Fincher

Geo roll 2

Loftons Store
Dec 30th

Hon. Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.
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Lofton's Store Butts Co. Georgia
27 November. 1849

Dear Sir

James Fincher of Jasper County
drew a pension under an act
of Congress passed in the year 1832
untill his death his widow
still survives  She is old and
indigent will you please inform
me whether or not she is entitled
to receive any thing from the
Government as a pension and what is
necessary for me to do in order to obtain
it.

Respectfully yours

Furman Walthall

Hon Secretary of War
Washington City
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31678

Revolutionary  INVALID

File No. 31,678

James Fincher

Private Rev War

Act:  June 7th 1832

Index: --Vol. 2, Page 136