Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 475, Drury Banks, N.C.
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Contents: N.C.

Banks, Drury

Number: R.475
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Drury Banks
Georgia
Rejected
Thomas Watson
18 Sept. 1834
Hon. L J Gartrell
May 24/ [illegible]
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L J Gatrell [illegible]
Hon Geo C Whiting
[Illegible] of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ex'r. INVALID
No. 1175
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
Drury Banks
P.O

Service:

Enlisted: ,18
Discharged: ,18

Application filed: ,18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney: 
P.O
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Drury Banks
Declaration for a pension

31.987

[illegible]
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State of Georgia) SS
Coweta County)

On this the third ["April" was crossed through] ^May 1834 personally appeared before me Saml D Echols one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Said State and County Drury Banks, a resident of the county of Coweta and State of Georgia aged Eighty Years. (80) (the applicant from age and infirmity not being able to attend in open court) who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, ore 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 following named officers, and Served as herein Stated. That he entered the service as a volunteer in a troup [troop] of horse, on the first day of October 1780. his Captains name was William Cage and his Col. [Colonel's] name was Litteral, he was living in Chatham County North Carolina when he entered the service, he served out his tour of three months and returned home. In the month of December 1781 there was ["an order" was stricken through] ^a draft ordered on Chatham County, to furnish (I do not now recollect the amount of men) from each company, to serve Eighteen months, (I now think to serve in the Continental service) and every thirteen men, had to furnish one man, ^on standing a draft and it fell to my lot to go. I furnished in my place [here there is a small x above the letter "b" in the next word] (being then a married man with a family) an abled bodied man as ^a Substitute. [ "who entered" was stricken through] by the name of John Thompson ^and who entered the service (I think) in January 1782, and served out his tour, and was discharged and returned home. he received for his services one hundred fifty pounds for his Services, the name of his officers, I never Knew, after entering the Service he was marched on to the north, but I cannot tell any thing about his services - That he has no documentary evidence, and that he Knows of no person, except Jessy George whose testimony he can procure (which is hereunto annexed] Who can testify to his Service. He hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present,
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and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any of the agency [agencies] of any State.
[Signature] Drury Banks [or Bankses]

Sworn to and Subscribed) before me
the day and Year aforesaid)
Saml [Samuel] D Echols I[?J]CCC [possibly meaning a Judge of the Inferior Court of Coweta County]

Answers to interrogatories from the war Department
To the 1st Interrogatory
He answers that he was born in Brunswick County Virginia in the [year] 1754

To the 2 [2nd] Int [Interrogatory] 
He answors [answers], that he has none

To the 3rd Int, [Interrogatory],
He answers, that he was living in Chatham County North Carolina, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, in Warren County Georgia, and now in Coweta County Georgia[.]

To the 4th Int [Interrogatory]
He answers that the tour [illegible] He was a volunteer, the tour he [or I] furnished a Substitute, [here it looks like "I" was changed to "he"] was drafted[.]

To the 5th Int [Interrogatory] 
He answers, that he served with no Regular Officers or Continental Regiments, I was called out for the purpose of putting down the tories

To the 6 [6th] Int [Interrogatory]
He answers, that he never did 

To the 7 [7th] Int [Interrogatory]
He refers to William Banks and Abram Carmichael

[Signature] Drury Banks

Sworn to and Subscribed before me
the day and Year aforeSaid.
Saml D Echols I[?J]CCC [possibly meaning a Judge of the Inferior Court of Coweta County]

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We William Banks and Abram Carmichael, residing in the County of Coweta and State of Georgia, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with [here the first name was overwritten, but appears to be:] Drury Banks who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 80 Years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we Concur in that opinion[.]

[Signatures] William Banks [his X mark]
Abram Carmica

Sworn and Subscribed, before me)
the day and Year aforesaid)
Saml D Echols I.[?J.]C.C.C. [probably meaning Judge of the Inferior Court of Coweta County]

And the Said Samul D Echols do [does] hereby declare it, to be his opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the abovenamed applicant, was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States, and is entitled to Credit on his oath. 

And I Samuel D Echols do further [here the following word was overwritten, and appears to be either Certifies, or Certified], that it appears to him that William Banks and Abram Carmichael, who has [have] Signed the preceeding Certificate (there being no clergyman ^near who was acquainted with the applicant) are residents in the county of Coweta and State aforesaid and are credible persons, men of respectability -, and that their Statement is entitled to Credit[.]

Saml D Echols I.J.C.C.C. [probably meaning Judge of the Inferior Court of Coweta County] 

I Richard W Easte, Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Coweta and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Samuel D Echols in the Matter of the application of Drury Banks for a pension and that Samuel D Echols who has attested the above Declaration as Judge of the Inferior Court, is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Coweta County[,] State of Georgia, and that all due faith, ought
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to be given to his attestation as such _ In testimony Whereoff, [whereof,] I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of Office this 3rd day of [here "April" was stricken through] ^September 1834

[Signature] R [or Rd] W. East [Richard W. East] C.I.C.C.C. [probably meaning Clerk of the Inferior Court of Coweta County] 

[Note: The initials are placed on a separate small piece of paper to the right side of the signature.]