Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,664, James Forgason, N.C.
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N.C. Forgason, James R.3664
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3664
James Forgason
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85.940
James Forgason
Ala
Oct 7th James 32
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1839
State of Alabama
Cooia County. On this twentieth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and forty five personally approve before the [illegible]  a justice of the Peace James Forgason a resident of this County and state forenaid aged Eighty three years who being first duty sword according to the law, doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1839. That he entered the services on herein stated. He declares that he entered the services as a volinteer under Capt_Volin Beverly and led Isaac in Wilks County North Carolina, about the commandment of the Revolutionary War, and marched from the Randolph County and diverse other places during the first Tour of three months and he further declares that [illegible] twice after he returned. he was drafted for three months and still served under  Col. Isaac. He further states that he volunteered his [illegible] in the third tour under Capt. Thomas Forgason and marched from Wilks Count House to Randolph County and served only one month until the returned home and soon after volunteered again under Capt. Gist and then marched to Wilks Court House where they were stationed for some time and then pursued their march under the command of the Col. Campbell on to King Mountain, where they engaged in a battle with the British and tories, several of whom they took prisoners and guarded them on their march to Salem where the remained stationary for some time and then returned home after serving five months, and in a short time after that he volunteered under Capt. Gist again and marched to  Randoring Mill, serving only one month , he returned home, making
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in all thirteen months during the whole time, of which
he furnished his own horse and served as a mounted Volenteer
and he further states that he 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
Jacob J. Richards
Justice of the Peace
James Forgason X his mark


We Asa Baucom and Hiram L. Stewart residing in the
County of Coosa, State of Alabama, do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with James Forguson who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
Eighty three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion-
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jacob J. Richard
Justice of the Peace
 Asa Baucom
Hiram L Stewart

Jacob J Richard Justice of the Peace for Coosa County, Alabama
do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Asa Baucom
and Hiram L Stewart whose names appear to the above certificate, and that
they are respectable citizens of said County, and of undoubted veracity.
and also that I am well acquainted with James Forguson, whose name
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appears to the foregoing declaration, and do believe that the statements
made by him in his declaration are true, and should be entitled to
credit, and also that he is from infirmity and old age unable
to attend Court-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 12th day of November 1844
Jacob J. Richard ℗
Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama
Coosa County
December Term 1844, County & Orphans Court
The Declaration of James Forguson, certified on the 12th day of
November 1844. by Jacob J. Richards a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, being submitted to the Court, the said Court doth ┃
approve his proceedings and acts in said case, and hereby direct the
of Clerk to endorse the approval on the papers
Ebenezer Pond Judge

State of Alabama
Coosa County
A.G. Hallmark Clerk of the County and
Orphans Court of Coosa County do hereby certify that the foregoing
proceedings, is the original proceedings had and approved of by the
County and Orphans Court of Coosa County at its December Term
1844, relative to the declaration of James Ferguson to obtain the
benefit of acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary pensions
and I further certify that the aforesaid Jacob J. Richards is and was an
acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and
ding to law, and that the signature pertaining to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of Office at Office in Rockford
in said County this 2nd day of December-
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State of Alabama
Coosa County
I, Judge of the County and
Orphans Court of Coos County do certify that ___________________________
whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time it bears
date Clerk of the County and Orphans Court of Coos County duly
elected and commissioned according to law, and due credit should
be given to his official acts as such, and I further certify that this
is a Court of Record
Given under my hand and seal this
day of December
1844.
Seal
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James Ferguson
ALa
Suspended
Set. Richard Sansring 17th Jany 1845
N. Hon Fry Bowden 17 Jany 1844
3664
Act June 7th '32
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Dec. 12. 1844

James Ferguson
Jan 7 1832
Ala


S. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Dec. 12. 1844

James Ferguson
Jan 7 1832
Ala


S. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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November 12th 1844
Dear Sir
I send you a pension claim ┃
for examination

Yours &c [sic]
Richard Lanning
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Washington City
Jany 9 - 1848

Hon P.L. Edwards
Sir;
I herewith enclose you a letter
from Mr Ferguson, one of my constituents, asking
information as to a pension due
his father James Ferguson
Please inform me at your earliest
leisure as to the matters inquired
and return to me the letter
of Ferguson -

[illegible]
H. Bowdon