Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3786, William Freeman, Va
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SERVICE
Va
Freeman, William
NUMBER
R. 3786
CONTENTS
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REJECTED
AW
3786
P.O. ______________
Wm Freeman
Service: _________________

Enlisted: ________________, 18
Discharged: ____________, 18

Application filed: ___________, 18

Alleges: ____________________
Re-enlisted: _________________

Attorney: _____________
P.O. _____________________
_______ Recognized. _________ Contract.
_______ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____________
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[Checkmark] No 8.104
- Freeman dec.d widow of William.
Georgia.
H. C. Spaulding 6 Jany. 1855.

3186

Act 4 July 1836.
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line as settled their Accounts and received Certificates for the balance of their full pay, according to An Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (See Hening's Statutes at Large, Vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 11th day of February 1784 in the name of William Freeman as Sol. Arty and evidence of the indebtedness of the State to him for [pound sign]69,,4,,2 delivered to Jere: Yancy but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this Office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated

Given under my hand at the [scratched out: First] Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 7th day of December 1854 -
G. W. Chitter
Adr. P. Accts

{NO SEAL OF OFFICE.}
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Washington, Jany 2nd 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Sir
I submit the declaration of Wm H. Freeman for pension in right of his mother as the widow of Wm Freeman a revolutionary Soldier in Va Continental Line as per Certificate of Auditor of Va.
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
H. C. Spaulding
Atty
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State of Georgia} SS. Be It Known
County of Wilkes} That on this Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court, within and for the County and State aforesaid William H. Freeman who being sworn in due form of Law, on this oath Saith that he is fifty nine years of age that he is the only living child of William Freeman that the said William Freeman went into the American Revolution against Great Britain from Culpepper County, Virginia as a private Soldier in the Virginia Continental Line and served a period of service the length of which deponent does not Know, neither does he Know where his Fathers Certificate of discharge is nor what officers he was under that the said William Freeman soldier as aforesaid was married in Culpepper County Virginia in the year 1780. or. 81. for that deponent did in the lifetime of his mother hear her say that the oldest child of William Freeman Sol, as aforesaid, was nine months old at the time of his returning from service and that after his return from service the said William Freeman Solr, came to the State of Georgia and died in Louisville in the State of Georgia about the 15th o Feby 1776 leaving a widow who also died in Wilkes County Georgia on the 17th day of May 1852, leaving this deponent the only living child of the said William Freeman Solr as aforesaid and that deponent now makes this
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declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Acts of Congress of the United States of America which are now of force granting Pensions and Bounty Lands to the officers and soldiers of the American Revolution their widows or living Children and that there has never been any claim set up for the same in this or any other State within the United States.
William H. Freeman.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of December 1854.
William Q Andersen J.I.C.
And I further Certify That I am personally acquainted with William H. Freeman the declarant in the above case and that I believe him to be of the age stated and his statements are entitled to full Credit in Law, and that he is at this time a respectable Resident of the County of Wilkes in the State of Georgia
Given under my hand and Official Signature this 15th day of December 1854, I having no interest or concern in said claim.
William Q Andersen J.I.C.
Wilkes County Georgia

State of Georgia}
Wilkes County} I Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court within and for the County aforesaid do Certify that William Q Andersen whose official attestation appears to the foregoing declaration & affidavit, and Certificate as also to the accompanying Power of Attorney Was at the dates thereof a Justice of the Inferior Court within and for said County of Wilkes, and that said Signatures thereto purporting to be his are Genuine -
Given under my hand and seal of office this 18th day of December 1854
Royland Beasley
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him to be of the age stated and his statements are entitled to full Credit in Law, and that he is at this time a respectable Resident of the County of Wilkes in the State of Georgia
Given under my hand and Official Signature this 15th day of December 1854, I having no interest or concern in said claim.
William Q Andersen J.I.C.
Wilkes County Georgia

State of Georgia}
Wilkes County} I Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court within and for the County aforesaid do Certify that William Q Andersen whose official attestation appears to the foregoing declaration & affidavit, and Certificate as also to the accompanying Power of Attorney Was at the dates thereof a Justice of the Inferior Court within and for said County of Wilkes, and that said Signatures thereto purporting to be his are Genuine -
Given under my hand and seal of office this 18th day of December 1854
Royland Beasley
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Know all men by these present
That I William H. Freeman do hereby Constitute and appoint S. Flourney of Wilkes County G.A. and H.C. Spalding of Washington D.C. my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my name to prosecute my claim for the services of my Father William Freeman for his services in the American Revolution against Great Britain and to Examine all papers on file at Washington City or elsewhere in regard to the same, and to receive the Pension Certificate which may be issued for Pension or bounty Land and to do all Things which I might or Could do were I personally present at the doing of the same hereby notifying all that my said attorneys shall lawfully do in the premises either Quietly or severally and revoking all former powers. Whatever this power being Irrevocable. Given under my hand and seal this 15 day of December 18543.
William H Freeman {S.S.}
acknowledged in presence of
Edward R. Anderson
William Q Andersen J.I.C.