Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], John Hearn, [ILLEGIBLE]
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Hearn John
1838
[illegible]
carded
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23600
West Tennessee
John Hearn
of Henry Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Com commanded by Captain [Solomon] Pope of the Regt commanded by Col. [Leroy] Hammond in the S Carolina
11 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Feby 1834 and Tho K Porter Paris
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 91.67
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 18.33 = 110.00   
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 83
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Let to Hon Jacob Thompson
Dec 21 "47

23600
West Tennessee
John Hearn
of Henry Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Com commanded by Captain [Solomon] Pope of the Regt commanded by Col. [Leroy] Hammond in the S Carolina
11 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Feby 1834 and Tho K Porter Paris
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 91.67
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 18.33 = 110.00
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 83
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State of Tennessee Henry County ss
I Thomas H Porter Clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that the foregoing pages contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Hearne for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in the town of
Paris the 15th day of January AD 1834 & 58th year of American Independence
Thos K Porter Clk
by B C Brown DClk

29,218
John Hearn
Tennessee
from 1779 private
11 months
$36.66/100
clk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Tennessee Henry County         December Sessions of the County Court 1833
On this 31st day of December 1833 personally appeared before the worshipful county court of said County John Hearn a resident of said county and State aged seventy 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 an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1779
in the County of Edgefield and
State of South Carolina as a drafted man for the Term of five months under Captain Solomon Pope and Col Leroy Hammonds Regiment, that after serving Two months he was appointed the orderly Sargent of
said company and continued in said office the ballance of the five months that he was in the battle at Stono [Ferry] during said tour of five months that immediately after serving said tour of five months - he was again called into service and continued as
an enlisted soldier for the Term of six months in Captain Joseph Tolls [Towles] company and Col Samuel Hammons [Hammonds] Regiment - that he was attached to Gen [Andrew] Williamsons Brigade during the
first five months and Gen [Andrew] Pickens Brigade during the six months, that he was stationed a
part of his time near Ebenezar and a part of his time in Edgefield county
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That he received a discharge for each tour of duty, but the same has long since been either lost or destroyed - that he dose [does] not know of
any living witness by whom he can prove his service, he removed from said county of Edgefield and State of South Carolina to Barron County Kentucky - from thence to Humphreys County Tennessee and from
thence to King County Tennessee where he now resides. That he is now blind and pennyless and makes this call upon his country for they have granted to the soldiers of the
Revolution. That he is well acquainted
with John H Warren- John L Hagler
who are his near neighbors. That he
hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of the agency of any State
in the Union Sworn to in open Court
Decr 31st 1833
Thos Porter clk
John Hearn his X mark
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We Frederick W. Deats  John McAuley  is a clergy man  residents of said County  do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hearn who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration , that we believe him to e seventy  six years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier  of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to subscribed in open  Court  Jany  3rd, 1834. B C Brown ( signed D Clk ) FW Deats ( signed ) John McAuley ( signed )  

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as stated  and the Court further certifies  that it appears to them that Frederick  W Deets & John McAuley  who has signed  the foregoing certificate are respectable m and credible men  and all residents of said County, and It further appears to the  Court  that here is no clergyman resident of said County with  whom said John Hearn is acquainted.  Wm. Edwards ( signed ) Julian Frazier ( signed ) Sam Kendall ( signed )
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State of Tennessee
Henry County ss 
I Thomas H Porter Clerk of the County Court
of said County do certify that the foregoing pages contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Hearne for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court at office in the town of
Paris the 15th day of January AD 1834 & 58th year of
American Independence
Thos K Porter Clk
by B C Brown DClk

29,218
John Hearn
Tennessee
[illegible] 1779 private
11 months
$36.66/100
clk
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Papers of Lucretia Hearn the 
wife of John
Hearn,
of Henry
Co. Tenn. & So Ca
his pension at
Nashville Tenn
Write J. W. Hearn
Cornersville
Miss
Sir  Please give this case your [illegible]
and most favorable attention and oblige
yours J Thompson
[black round stamp:] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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Papers of Lucretia Hearn the
wife of John
Hearn,
of Hearn,
Co. Tenn. & So Ca
his pension at
Nashville Tenn
Write J. W. Hearn
Cornersville
Miss
In Please give this case your [illegible]
and most favorable attention and oblige
yours J Thompson
[black round stamp:] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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[ State of Tennessee Humphreys County  ] Personally appeared before me  Janes Yeates an acting Justice of the peace  in and for said County  Levi Kirkland  with whom I am personally   acquainted and made oath in due form of law that he was personally acquainted with Lucretia Kirkland  who intermarried with John Hearn some time in the year  seventeen  ninety seven and that he knows that the said Lucretia  is the lawful wife of the said John Hearn  and that he went with them both to the Minister  of the Gospel  that solemnized the rites of matrimony and saw them married and that I knew  them both well until his death  . Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th  October 1849 . Levi Kirkland ( signed / sealed ) James Yeates ( signed / sealed )  JP for said County of Humphreys  [ THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES ]  [ State of Tennessee Humphreys County ] I Coleman E Harris clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that James Yeates whose name is to the foregoing affidavit  is an acting Justice of the peace in & for  said  County   and that full faith and credit is due and should be given his official acts as such  . Given under my hand and seal of the County Court that office the  18th October  1849  . C. E, Harris ( signed / sealed ) Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Humphreys County ⎬ I James Yeates Esqr
Chairman and presiding magistrate of the
County aforesaid do certify that Coleman E. Harris is Clerk of the County Court of said County & that full faith and credit is due and should be
given his official acts as such Given under my
hand at office this 18th October 1847
James Yeates J.P. A hand