Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 204, William Anderson, N C
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
NC
Anderson, William
Sarah
NUMBER
R. 204
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State of Georgia. Clark County
Athens 24th Nov.r 1856
Before me one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, personally appeared Sarah Anderson widow of William Anderson late of DeKalb County said State, deceased. Who being duly sworn deposeth & saith [sic], that the said William Anderson & herself both formerly resided in the County of Greene in said State & were there legally married in the year Eighteen hundred nineteen as will appear by a Copy of the Marriage License hereto attached. She also further swears that before & since her marriage with the said William Anderson, she has repeatedly heard him say that he joined the Revolutionary Army [inserted] in the State of North Carolina & remained a soldier of the said Army for several years which fully appears by the certificate of George W Brooks Comptroller General of the State of North Carolina hereto annexed. That her said husband had in his possession until about ten years before his death, papers establishing the facts here sworn to, that at that time or about that time her said husband lost his mind & whilst in that state [burned or otherwise destroyed his revolutionary papers with all others he had. That her said husband lived in the State of North
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Carolina at the time he joined the Army & remained a soldier for several years. That she has repeatedly heard him tell over the battles in which he was ingaged [sic] and among them was the battle of Ramshours Mill [Ramsour's Mill] as he called it. She also swears that the persons by whom she could have established the fact of all that is here stated are either dead or removed to parts unknown to her, that this circumstance has delayed her in applying for the benefit of the Act of Congress approved 7th June Eighteen hundred & thirty two "Supplementary to the act [written twice] for the relief of certain surviving officers [inserted] & soldiers of the Revolution". Finally that her said husband did not in his lifetime receive any pension from the General Government. & that she now makes the application for the pension due her husband in his lifetime as well as that due her as his widow since his death, that she is still the widow of the said William Anderson dec.d. The word "Army" on first page interlined before sworn to. 
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me on the day
& date above written
Jos. Henry Lumpkin
J. S. C. J. G. [?]
[signed] Sarah Anderson
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Georgia
Greene County
These are to authorize and permit you to join in the honorable State of Matrimony William Anderson of the one part and Sarah Stephenson of the other part according to the rites of your church, provided there be no lawful cause to obstruct the same, and this shall be your authority for so doing.
Given under my hand as the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of the county aforesaid this 1st day of February 1819.
Ebenezer Torrence Clk COGC Seal
To any Minister of the Gospel,
Judge, Justice of the Superior Court, or Justice of the Peace to celebrate.
I do hereby certify that William Anderson and Sarah Stephenson were joined together in the holy bands of Matrimony by me on the 2nd day of February 1819.
F. Cummins V. D. M.

Georgia Greene County - Ordinary's Office
J. Eugenius L. King Ordinary in and for said State and County and Ex Officio, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true Transcript from the Records of my Office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 26th day of November 1856.
Eugenius L. King, Ordinary
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[addressed envelope]
For the Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington City
D. C.
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Milledgeville Ga [illegible] 9/5/1

Dear Sir,
Your favorof the 4th just is received
At this day, Mrs Anderson has no other proof than her own oath as to about what time her husband ["was" scratched] remained a Revolutionary Soldier & all she knows upon the subject, she got from her husband. It is my neglect that her statement as to about the length of Service was not inserted in her affidavit. If that will answer, it can yet be supplied, & no one who knows Mrs Anderson would for one moment disbelieve her statement. Doctor Hoyt her Pastor, stated at the time he signed the Certificate that she would not in his opinion utter an untruth for the US Treasury.
In addition to Doctor Hoyt & Church, Professor Waddel & Mr Newton, I could have attained any number of certificates of like character, but supposed they were sufficient.
The present Mrs Anderson is the second wife of Mr Anderson & greatly his junior. If he were now in life would be over 100 years. I knew him intimately for at least 20 years before his death during which time he was recognized & respected as a soldier of the Revolution who had performed hard Service
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Please inform me if Mrs Andersons oath will supply the deficiency, if not, I know of no one can do so. I am satisfied if the Government knew her as she is known in Ga, they would require nothing more than her statement on oath.
The impression made upon my mind by the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina is, that all the payments certified to were made to the same man but by different persons at different times & places. I think you will agree with me upon a second examination.
Very respectfully
Your ob[edient] Servant
Rob. E. Martin
Mon Geo C Whiting
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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State of Georgia DeKalb County
Before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths, in & for the County & State aforesaid, personally approved Sarah Anderson widow of William Anderson late of the County & State aforesaid dec.d [deceased], who first being duly sworn as the law directs, in addition to the oath upon the same subject heretofore taken in the town of Athens & County of Clark & state aforesaid in the month of November last before the Honorable Joseph Henry Lumpkin one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia, she doth now further swear, that not only from information she obtained from her said husband in his lifetime, but from his papers which he destroyed as stated in the first affidavit, she puts no hesitancy in saying under oath, that her said husband was in actual service as a soldier of the Revolutionary war for more than two years all of which she would have testified in her first affidavit had she known it was necessary or had her attention been called to it. She also swears that the Battle of Ramshours Mill is the only one she remember the name of, but that he always claimed to have been in several others. That all the information she has & here sworn to was obtained from her said husband & from his revolutionary papers that he burned as before sworn to all of these
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statements I would have made in my first affidavit if my attention had been called to it.
Sworn to & subscribed before me 12th Dec 1851
Asa W Howard JP
[signed] Sarah Anderson

State of Georgia DeKalb County
I am personally acquainted with Mrs Anderson who signs the above & sworn to before me, I feel no hesitancy in stating that Mrs Anderson established character for truth is unimpeached & unimpeachable this 12th day of December 1851.
Asa W Howard JP

Georgia DeKalb Conty
I as clerk of the Inferior Court of the County & State aforesaid do certify that Asa W Howard whose official signature appears above is & was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County & entitled to due credit as such & that his s[ignat]ure [covered by paper seal] is genuine.
Sworn under my hand & seal of office 12th Dec 1851
Alexr Johnson Clerk
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Executive Department Georgia
Milledgeville 13th Dec 1851
I certify that Asa W Howard and Alex Johnson whose official signatures are subscribed to the within and foregoing instrument are and were at the time of the signature thereof duly commissioned qualified and acting Justice of the Peace and Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the County of DeKalb and State of Georgia and that due faith credit and authority are and ought to be given to their attestation as such.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville the day and year above written
B. B. de Graffenried [or Graffenrieg]
S[ecretary?] Ex [illegible]
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Georgia DeKalb County.
Before me a Justice of the Peace in afor [sic] said County personally appeared James B Robertson, Thomas L Robertson & Nathan Center citizens of the County & State aforesaid & after each being duly sworn say that each have been upwards [?] of twenty years Citizens of this County. That they each were acquainted with the late William Anderson a Citizen of this County to the day of his death, that they each have a distinct recollection of the death of the said William Anderson, & say on oath that his death took place in the year One Thousand Eight hundred & thirty nine in this County & that his remains are now lying within a few miles of the spot on which we are now standing. The two Messrs Robertsons say on oath that they each lived within two miles of the said deceased Mr Anderson at the time of his death & are still residing at the same place
Sworn to & Subscribed
[illegible] this 9th Apr 1857
Asa W Howard JP
James B. Robertson
Nathan Center 
Thos [sic] L. Roberston
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Georgia DeKalb County.
Before me a Justice of the Peace in afor [sic] said County, personally appeared Sarah Anderson (widow of William Anderson) & at this time a citizen of the County & State aforesaid who being first duly sworn & oath, that in addition to the affidavits heretofore subscribed by her, before sworn Jos Henry Lumpkin one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of this State & one taken & subscribed before me as a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & State in relation to her claim for a Pension due her said husband as a Revolutionary Soldier & Also due her as his widow under the various acts passed by the Congress of the United States upon the subject of granting Pensions to Revolutionary soldiers & their widows, doth now state before me an oath. That her said husband was a Native of Pennsylvania, that he removed from that state to North Carolina when in his sixteenth year. That he resided in the Counties of Iredell and Ruthford [emended] in said last mentioned State previous to his going into the army as a Soldier of the Revolution, but in what particular County he claimed as his residence at the time he became a soldier she cannot state. Also that she has repeatedly heard her said husband say he remained
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a Revolutionary soldier in the actual service of the Government nearly from the commencement of the war to its close except at intervals when he returned to his friends in North Carolina for the purpose of obtaining clothing & invariably returned to the Army upon such occasions as soon as he was furnished with clothing. 
That she has repeatedly heard him speak of his being at Wilmington & Salisbury as a soldier & then in actual service of the Government as a soldier. That she cannot name any particular battle that he was in, except as before stated in her final affidavit but remembers distinctly to have heard him repeatedly give an account of various chores he gave the tories during the war. And also states that she remembers that he claimed to have held some office above the grade of a common soldier for at least six months of the latter part of the war, all of which statements have made, she says could be established by Papers & Certificates given by the office to her said husband during the continuance of the war which papers her said husband destroyed as stated by her in her previous affidavits & forwarded
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to the Commissioner of Pensions at the City of Washington & now of file as she supposes with that officer.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 9th Apl [sic] 1857 Sarah, Anderson 
Asa W Howard J.P.

Georgia DeKalb County
I Asa W Howard a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County before whom the foregoing affidavits hereto attached were subscribed & sworn, do certify that I am well acquainted with James B Robertson, Nathan Center & Thomas L Robertson, that they are each men of established character for truth and veracity, that I have heretofore given my certificate of the character & standing of Mrs Sarah Anderson (whose signature appears above) for the truth, and here again repeat that her character for truth is above reproach, this 9th April 1857
Asa W Howard J.P.
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Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
April 13th 1837 [?]

I B. B. de Groffenried Secretary of the Executive Department of the State of Georgia, do hereby certify, that Asa W Howard, whose judicial signature is affixed to the within and foregoing instruments, is and was at the time of the signature thereof a duly commissioned qualified and acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of DeKalb and State of Georgia, and that his signature is genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville, the day and year above written.
B. B. de Groffenried
Secty Ex Dept [sic]
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Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
April 13th 1857
By an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved 9th of June 1823, "To dispose of and distribute the lands lately acquired by the United States for the use of Georgia of the Creek Nation of Indians, by a Treaty made and concluded at the Indian Springs on the twelfth day of February Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Five" it is provided among other things, "that all Revolutionary Soldiers who were not fortunate drawers as Revolutionary Soldiers in the late land lottery shall be entitled to two draws as Revolutionary Soldiers and that the following Oath shall be administered to all Revolutionary Soldiers who shall apply for draws under this Act, I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I served as a Soldier in the Armies of the United States during the Revolutionary War, a tour or tours of duty and am entitled to a draw or draws according to the provisions of this Act. So help me God."
I do certify that the Records of the Land drawings of this Department in the Lottery established by the above Act, show,
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that the name of William Anderson of Dawson's District, Greene County in this State was returned by the Commissioners as entitled to two draws as a Revolutionary Soldier, and as such that he drew two lots of Land which were granted by the State to him _ that the Oaths administered by the Commissioners to each applicant were doubtless verbal and therefore not returned to this Department and the other Department of the State so far as known _ and which was doubtless acted upon by the Commissioners, is and was, that any person taking the above Oath was entitled to two draws as a revolutionary Soldier, regardless of the length of his tour of Service in the Revolutionary War.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville the day and year above written.
B. B. de Graffenried
Secty Ex Dept [sic]
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Georgia Greene County
personally appeared before me James [?} W Godkin a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & State. Thomas Hart of said County & State, who being duly sworn deposeth that he was well acquainted with William Anderson, the husband of Mrs Sarah Anderson
formerly Sarah Stevenson, [illegible] about the year Eighteen hundred twenty, while he lives in this County. And that deponent has frequently heard him, the said Anderson, say, about the time of the Land Lotteries in this State _ that he was a Revolutionary soldier, and had served as long as any [illegible] & was entitled to as many privileges & rights as any one, or words to that effect. [illegible] deponent say that much was the general belief in the community, & he believes it to be the truth. Thomas Hart [signed]

Sworn to & subscribed before me, this tenth day of April 1837. And I certify that the said Thomas Hart is a good & orderly member of the Methodist Church, & a man of good character for truth & veracity, & entitled to full faith & credit.
James W. Godkin J. P.

Georgia Taliaferro County
I certify that I am well acquainted with Mr Thomas Hart of Greene County whose deposition is given above I have known for about twenty years. He is a man of probity and truth. I also know Mr James W. Godkin his signature above is genuine - He too is a man of good standing.
27 April 1835
Alexander Stephens
Member of [illegible]
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Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
April 13th 1857
I B. B. De Groffenried Secretary of the Executive Department of the State of Georgia, do hereby certify that James W. Godkin whose official signature is affixed to the foregoing instrument is and was at the time of the signature thereof a duly commissioned qualified and acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Greene and State of Georgia and that his signature is genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville the day and year above written.
B. B. De Groffenried
Secty Ex Dept
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[official service record maybe]
William Anderson
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39.082
William Anderson of Georgia
[R]obert. E. Martin Dec. [...] 1856 - same & Hon. A[nd]erson & N. G. Foster, Dec [...] 1856. R. E. Mar[tin?] Feb.y 4 1857. Same [...] March 3 1857. Same [...]ne 13, 1857. Same [...] May [?] 19, 1857.
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[envelope]

Sarah Anderson and [?] William
I find M [stamped over]
this case original

[addressed to]
For the Commissioners of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

[stamp] Athens Ga Nov 29
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[envelope]
William Anderson Ga Jun 1832 [?]

[addressed to]
Hon Geo C Whiting
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
[stamp] Macon. GEO Feb 12
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[envelope]
William Anderson 
Ga [illegible] 1832

[addressed to]
Hon Geo C whiting
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

[stamp] Milledgeville Ga May 6
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State of Georgia
DeKalb County

Before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administrates Oaths, personable [sic] came John Stephenson of said County& State who after being duly sworen [sic] says that he was well acquainted with William Anderson the husband of Mrs Sarah Anderson who formerly resided [inserted text reads: as said by - illegible] in the State of North Carolina and County of Iredell at the time he attached himself to the Army as a Revolutionary soldier. Also that he died in the County of DeKalb State of Georgia on the 10th day of June 1839
in deranged state of mind
Sworne [sic] to before me & subscribed this 3 day of January 1857
[signed] John Stephenson

Asa W Howard J. P.
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State of Georgia
DeKalb County

Before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personably [sic] came Sarah Anderson widow of William Anderson late of the County & State aforesaid deceased who after being duly sworne [sic] deposeth and saith, that her husband at the time he attached himself or joined the Army of the Revolutionary war as a soldier [insterted text reads: as said by him] resided in the State of North Carolina in the County of Iredell in said state & that he died in the County of DeKalb in the state of Georgia on the 10 day of June 1839 as before stated in my first affidavid [sic]
in athens [sic] before his Honor Joseph Henry Lumpkin [illegible] before [illegible]
sworne [sic] & subscribed before me this 3 day of January 1857
Asa W Howard J. P. 
[signed] Sarah Anderson
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State of Georgia Clark County
Know all men by this presents that I Sarah Anderson widow of William Anderson deceased do hereby constitute & appoint Robert E Martin of Milledgeville Georgia my true & lawful attorney for me & in my name to receive & receipt for any amount of pension allowed me in sight [?] of my husband William Anderson who died on the last day of June Eighteen hundred & thirty nine as well as that due me since his death as his widow under the Act of Eighteen hundred & thirty two & approved 7th day of June of that year
Signed sealed and delivered in person of me on the 24th day of November 1854
Jos. Henry Lumpkin [initials J P C S G  
[signed] Sarah Anderson
Mrs Sarah Anderson widow as aforesaid being on the same day & year as above further sworn before me deposes & says that her husband William Anderson aforesaid died on the 10th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred [inserted] thirty nine in the County of DeKalb in said state without child or children.
Sworn to before me as above
Jos. Henry Lumpkin
J P C S G
[signed] Sarah Anderson
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Department

I Geo W Brooks Comptroller of the Public Account in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that [illegible] appear of record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry person for Military Service in the Revolutionary War as follows

William Anderson
Book N Pag 012 - £ 9.0.0 Wilmington District 1782
"  " 42 - 2.5.0
" 8 " 3 - 9.0.0 Salisbury District
" 23 " 78 - 9.14.8 Hillsboro Ditto
" ' 142 - 9.4.0 Ditto
" D 3 - 15 - 2.16.6
" G 26 " 21 " 2.2.0
" 17 " 31 " 37.11.8
" M 16 " 31 " 1.5.6 Corr. [illegible] of Bladen County
" " 78 " 2.8.11 Halifax District
" C 2220  " Hillsboro District
"" 19 " $ 155.83 Corporal Contintal
" " $ 92.52 Continental
" 28 " 2 £ 37.0.8 N. Caro Line
" 30 2 62.7.5 Corporal N. Caro Line

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my office at Raleigh NC
this June 3 1856
Geo W Brooks
Comptroller
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"An act to dispose of & distribute the lands lately acquired by the United States for the use of Georgia, of the Creek nation of Indians by a Treaty made & concluded at the Indian Spring on the 12th day of Feby [sic] 1825."

Office of Secretary of State of the State of Georgia.
Milledgeville 5th Jany [sic] 1857.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Caption of an act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, approved by His Eccellency [sic] the Governor on the 9th of June 1825 by which the lands mentioned in the said Caption were disposed of by Lottery among the citizens of said State, that by the eleventh section of said act, among other things it is provided "that all Revolutionary Soldiers who were not fortunate drawers as Revolutionary Soldiers in the state land lottery, shall be entitled to two draws as Revolutionary Soldiers". And that by another provision of the said Act, persons giving in for a draw or draws as Revolutionary Soldiers, were required to take the following oath. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I served as a soldier in the Armies of the United States during the Revolutionary war a tour or tours of duty, & am
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entitled to a draw or draws according to the provisions of this Act. So help me God."
Given under my hand (at the Capital) & Seal of Office on the day & date above written.
E P Watkins
Secretary of State of the State of Georgia

Office of the Surveyor General of the State of Georgia
Milledgeville 5ht January 1857.
I certify that it appears by the records & files of my office that under the provisions of the Act mentioned in the foregoing Certificate of the Secty [sic] of State, that William Anderson of Greene County Georgia, gave in as a Revolutionary Soldier for two draws, that it further appears that he the said Anderson as a Revolutionary Soldier drew in said Lottery two tracts of land, & that the said land thus drawn by him as
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aforesaid, was granted to him by the State of Georgia as a Revolutionary Soldier by grant, one dated on the 8th day of December 1831, & the other dated on the 2d Jany [sic] 1833.
Given under my hand and private Seal, there being [illegible] Seal of office day & date above.
James A Green 
Surveyor General of the State of Georgia
[on the side a bubble with "Seal" written inside]

Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
January 5th 1857.
I L H Briscoe Secretary of the Executive Department State of Georgia do hereby certify that E. P. Watkins and James A. Green, whose Signatures appear to the foregoing papers, the one authenticating certain portions of an Act disposing of the Lands acquired by the United States for the use of Georgia of the Creek Indians by the Treaty at Indian Springs, and the other certifying that William Anderson of Greene County gave in as Revolutionary Soldier in said Lottery and draw accordingly, was the former Secretary of State of the State of Georgia and the latter Surveyor General of said State at the time of their respective
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signatures, that their Oaths and Bonds are of file in this Department, that they have legal custody of such evidence as they have given and full power to Certify, and that their signatures as above are genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capital in Milledgeville the day and year above written
L H Briscoe
Secy. Ex. Dept.

Office of Surveyor Gen.l of the State of Georgia
Milledgeville 5th Jany [sic] 1857
I further certify that it also appears from the records & files of my office that no other man by the name of William Anderson of Greene County Georgia, gave in for, or drew a lot of land in said land lottery, as a Revolutionary soldier, other than the William Anderson as within designated.
Given under my hand & private seal there being no seal of office.
James A Green
Surveyor General
State of Georgia
[a bubble with 'seal' written inside is also present]
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[probably back of record with 204 [?] written}
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Clerks office Supreme Court of Georgia
Milledgeville 28 November 1856.
I certify that their Honors Joseph Henry Lumpkin & Charles J Mcdonald whose names appear officially to the foregoing certificates & affidavits were at the time of signing the same acting Judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia, & that the same is in the proper hand writing of each.
Given under my hand & seal of office.
Rob. E. Martin Clk. [sic]
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State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 27 Nov.r 1856
I am personally acquainted with Mr John S Corry. His character for trust & veracity is above reproach with those who know him.
Thomas W Thomas

I am acquainted with the Hon Thomas W Thomas who signs the above & have been for many years past. he is a gentleman whose character for truth & veracity is unquestioned. I am also acquainted & have been for many years with Mr E L Newton, James P Maddel, Doctor A Church & Rev'd [?] N Hoyt all residents of Athens Georgia. Each of the above named gentlemen maintain & deserve a character for strict truth that has never been questioned [a second 'questioned' is crossed out] within my knowledge
Athens 27th Nov.r 1856
N Toombs
U S Senate
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State of Georgia Clark County.
Before me personally appeared John Stephenson who after being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he knew William Anderson from about he year 1800 until his death, that he was ever regarded & respected as a Revolutionary soldier by all who knew him, that he married at my home in Greene County, Georgia in the year Eighteen hundred & thirteen & that the present applicant for a pension is the identical person he then married & that she is still the widow of said William Anderson & that she the said Sarah Anderson widow as aforesaid is a lady of veracity & enjoys the reputation among all who know her as a lady of strict truth and her statements are entitled to full cred. [sic]
Sworn to before me
this 24th Nov 1856
Jos Henry Lumpkin
J S C S G

Signed by John Stephenson
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State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 26 Nov 1854.
I am acquainted with Mrs Sarah Anderson widow of William Anderson & also with John Stephenson whose affidavits are hereto attached, from my knowledge of the character & standing of each of them, I feel no hesitantcy in saying that their character for truth & veracity, is unimpeachable.
Sworn to & subscribed
before me on the day and date 
above stated
Charles J. McDonald
J. S. C. St of Geo
[signed by] E. L. Newton

State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 26 Nov 1854
Before me a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, personally appeared James P Waddel one of the professors of law a professor in Franklin College Georgia who says on oath, that he is acquainted with Mrs Sarah Anderson widow of the late William Anderson& that her character as a lady of truth & veracity, is unimpeachable.
Sworn to the date above 
Charles J. McDonald
Judge S. Ct. 
St. of geo
[signed] James Waddel
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State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 26 Nov.r 1856.
I am acquainted with Mrs Sarah Anderson whose affidavit is hereto attached.
She has been for some years a regular communicant of the church of which I am the Pastor. Mrs Anderson is a lady of undoubted veracity & enjoys that reputation with all who know hr.
In presence of Charles J McDonald
J. S. Ct. State of Georgia

N. Hoyt
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Athens Ga.

State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 26 Nov.r 1856.
I am acquainted with Mrs Sarah Anderson who is an applicant for a pension as the widow of William Anderson a revolutionary soldier. Mrs Anderson character for truth & veracity is above reproach & I take pleasure in so stating.
In presence of J. McDonald
J. S. Ct. St. of Geo

A. Church, D. D. 
Pres. Univ Ga
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State of Georgia Clark County.
Athens 27th Nov.r 1856.
I am personally acquainted ["with" crossed out], have been for many years past, with E. L. Newton, James P. Waddel late Professor in Franklin College of this place, Doctor N. Hoyt Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at this place & Doctor & Church late President of Franklin College each of whom have given this respective certificates & affidavits [inserted here: "hereto attached"] establishing the character of Mrs Sarah Anderson 9an applicant for Pension) for truth and veracity. I take pleasure in saying that each of the above named gentleman maintain a character throughout this State for truth that is above reproach & that they are all residents of this place & have been so for many years past.
Jos. Henry Lumpkin J. S. C S. Ga
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State of Georgia Clark County
Athens 27th Nov.r 1857.
Before me, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, personally appeared John S Corry, who being duly sworn saith, that he was acquainted with William Anderson in his lifetime [inserted here: "&"] for many years before his death. That he always reported [possibly] himself as a revolutionary soldier & was esteemed & regarded by all who knew him, which fact he never heard questioned by any one during many years acquaintance & living together in the same County with him. He further swears, that about forty years past whilst he was acting as a clerk for John West in Greensboro Georgia, the first wife (now dead) of said William Anderson in company with another lady was in the store, & whilst there a stranger came into the store, & upon his doing so, Mrs Anderson the then wife of said William Anderson steped [sic] up to the stranger & said to him in about these words "You are the very man that robed [sic]" or assisted in robbing "& burning my husbands [sic] house in Carolina which my husband was fighting with the liberty men & having me & my family without bread to eat" at the same time naming the Colonel with whom her husband was at the time, but at this time forgotten by this deponent, but he well remembers that the accused did not deny the charge, but left the place instantly. That from his knowledge of Mrs Andersons [sic] character for truth, he had no doubt of the truth of the
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charge made by her. That after the death of this first Mrs Anderson, the said William Anderson again married as appears by the marriage licence [sic] hereto annexed.
Sworn to before me on the day & date above [illegible] written
Charles J. McDonald 
Judge Sup Ct
St of Georgia

[signed] John S Corry
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State of Georgia DeKalb County
This 3d day of January 1857
I Asa W Howard as Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid before whom Mrs Sarah Anderson & John Stephenson have each been duly and separately sworne [sic] & signed before the foregoing affidavits
respectively are persons residing in the County aforesaid, with each of whome [sic] I am well acquainted & that the character of each one for truth & veracity in unquestioned I have examined the record of the death of Wm Anderson as recorded in Mrs Anderson family Bible & find that he died on the 10 day of June 1839
In witness where of I have hereto subscribed name officially on the day and date above written
Asa W Howard J P
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Clerks office of the Inferior Court of DeKalb County in the State of Georgia 7th day of january 1857
I Alex.r Johnson Clerk of the Inferior Court of DeKalb County Georgia Certify that Asa W. Howard Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Said County of DeKalb duly authorized to administer oaths and that his signature to the foregoing affidavits are genuine and that due faith & credit are due his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office on the date above 
Alex.r Johnson Clerk
Infr [sic] Court
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Executive Department
Milledgeville Georgia
January 9th 1857
This is to certify that Alexander Johnson whose Official Certificate appears on the foregoing page authenticating the Official and genuine signature of Asa W. Howard was at the date and time of his giving said Certificate a duly Commissioned & acting Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of DeKalb in this State, and his acts entitled to due faith and credit as such as appear from the record of this Department
Witness my hand and Seal of the Executive Department at the Capitol in Milledgeville this 9th day of January 1857
L. H. Briscoe
Sec Ex Dept
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[addressed envelope]
How Howell Cobb M. C.
Washington City D. C.

Respectfully referred to the Comm of Pensions Howell Cobb

[stamped]
[note written on top]: Sarah Anderson
William Ga  Sus. 1882
Cole
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Macon Ga Feb y [sic] 27/57

My dear Sir
I have unfortunately been selected by Mrs Sarah Anderson widow of Mr Anderson a Rev Soldier, to obtain from the Government what she believes under the law is justly due her for services rendered the Government as a Revolutionary Soldier & to her as his widow since his death. Mrs A. now resides in DeKalb Co. At the time of her first affidavit, she resided in Clark Co.
Will you be so kind as to call upon the Comm.r of Pension, examine the papers sent in her case, & learn if you can, what is necessary yet to be proved & give me the information. If Mrs A. can come up to what is required, she will do so at once, if not she will with the same promptness abandon the further pursuit, but live out her days with the knowledge she claimed nothing to which she was not entitled & so will all believe who know her.
Your friend
Rob. E. Martin
How Howill Cobb
Washington D. C.

[note added on the left side]: Court will adjourn on tomorrow or rather I think so.
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Milledgeville Ga Feb.y 12/57.
Sir,
Yours of 4th [illegible - August maybe?] in sec.d informing me that the additional evidence furnished of the death of W.m Anderson is not satisfactory. So far as this is concerned, I could have furnished any am.t [probably short for amount] of testimony, had I not supposed that the fact of his death would be clearly established by the proof furnished.
From the fact that Mrs Anderson swears that her husband was originally of Iredell Co N Carolina, you therefore confirm or retract [?] him to payments made in Salisbury dist.
If I remember correctly Mrs Anderson's affidavit does not confine her husband to the Salisbury dist., but that he served the longer part of the war. I have not seen Mrs Anderson since year last. I remember that in her statement to me, she said that her husband stated that he was a part of the time stationed at Hillsboro & Willmington [sic]. I regarded this as unimportant & did not state it. Lastly, to prove that W.m Anderson served for [illegible] than six months, you [illegible - cite?] refer to his oath taken under our land Lottery act of 1825. With this act I am
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familiar. By its provisions, if Gen.l George Washington had been in life & at that time a citizen of Ga, he would have been entitled to the same number of chances in the land lottery as Mr Anderson or any other citizen of Ga at the time who had been a Revolutionary soldier for any length of time if he had performed service.
This was the universal Construction given to the Act from the day of its approval to the present time. & I furnished you the Act for the purpose only of showing that Mr Anderson had himself sworn that he was a soldier of the Revolution. 
I have written Mr Stephens M. C. from Ga to say to you that what I say of this act is true.
I am at a loss to know whether I am to consider the claim of Mrs Anderson as disposed of. The truth is, I have undertaken this matter for Mrs Anderson without fee or reward, since doing so, I have at my own expense made one trip to Athens & 2 to DeKalb Co & do not wish further trouble & expense unless I know whether the claim is still open. And I can further state that I should not now or at any other time have been the advocate of this claim if I did not from an intimate acquaintance of forty years standing conscienciously [sic] believe that Mrs A. is entitled under the law to a pension as the widow of a Revol [sic] soldier as well as to receive
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from the Government the pension now due her husband as a soldier. Knowing Mrs A. as I do, I believe she could not be induced to utter an untruth upon and consideration whatever. & this character she has maintained to my knowledge for over forty years, on this account as well as her poverty I take the interest I do. & for this alone, & if her claim shall be refused, I shall have the satisfaction as well as the claimant of knowing that her claim as far as it goes, is supported by gentlemen of the strictes [sic - might be French spelling] integrity & that all she has sworn is believed strictly true by all who know her. Please have the kindness to inform me if Mrs Anderson claim is still open for further proof & the nature & extent of that proof & especially if Mrs Naderson character for truth requires further ["proof" crossed out] support.
Very respectfully
Rob. E. Martin

before Geo C Whiting
Washington D. C.
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Washington City
Dec. 20th 1856
Dear Sir
At the request of Robert E. Martin [illegible] of Georgia, I take the liberty of stating that I have been personally acquainted with Mr. Thomas Stocks of Greene County, Georgia, for more than twenty five years, that he is one of the most reputable & reliable men in the State and has frequently filled high & responsible offices. He served probably more than twenty years in the State Legislature & was on several occasions President of the Senate. He is a man of eminent piety & occupies a very high place in the confidence of all the acquaintances & of the people of Georgia personally. Anything that he may have said or stated may be [?] relied on. 
I am respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
Alfred Iverson [signed]
Geo C. Whiting Esq
Com. of Pensions
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[addressed envelope]
How George C Whiting
Com of pensions
Washignton City
D. C.
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Milledgeville Ga August 25/57
Hon Geo. C Whiting
Sir. 
By mistake, your last communication upon the subject of Mrs Andersons claim, was addressed to me at "Macon" & was thus accidentally rec.d about the 1st July.
For the purpose of quieting Mrs A. have the kindness if you please to say to me, whether her claim is, or is not rejected.
& oblige [?]
Your ob. Serv.
Rob. E. Martin

N. B. I make this inquiry, supposing it possible, you may have written me, & your letter [illegible] or addressed to me at some other office than Milledgeville Ga.
R. E. M.
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[addressed envlope]
Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D. C.
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Milledgeville Ga Jan.y 14/57
Sir.
In passing Stone Mountain a day or two since, I droped [sic] from the Cars a letter to your address. As I do not know that it reached the Post Office, I now say to you what I then said.
I have seen Mr Hant the gentleman named in my last. I find that his testimony would be unimportant in establishing the claim of Mrs Anderson & will not therefore trouble you with it.
Very respectfully
Rob. E. Martin

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Com.r of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Stone Mountain Ga 12 Jan.y 1857
Sir
Since I last wrote you I have seen Mr Hant & find that his testimony amounts to no more that what you now have in the Case of Mrs Anderson widow of William Anderson & therefore decline taking it.
Very Respectfully
Your ob.t Servant
Rob. E. Martin

Hon G. C. Whitin
Commissioner
Washington
D. C.
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Hon Geo C Whiting
Commissioner
Washington
D. C.
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Milledgeville Ga Jan 7 9/57
Sir, 
Mrs Anderson has sent me her own & Mr
Stephensons additional affidavits with the certificate of the Magistrate, which I herewith inclose.
You will also find inclosed the Certificates
of the Sect of State & Surveyor Genl of Ga, which
show that Wm Anderson in his lifetime swore
that he served a tour or tours as a Revolutionary
Soldier.
Mrs Anderson has had the affidavit
of Mr Thomas Hart, swearing (as I understand)
to circumstances which go to prove that Mr
Anderson was a soldier during the larger
part of the war. When I receive these, if it
give any additional information, I will
forward it.
The day I recd your last. I wrote
to the Auditor of N Carolina, I presume he
will not answer for the reason, that he
sent with his certificate, a note saying,
that the certificate embraced every thing that
was upon the record in relation to William
Anderson. This note I have mislaid, or I
would now inclose it.
This is about all the evidence that
Mrs Anderson has to offer in support of
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her claim, in aid of which, she offers the name of no one who is not esteemed a gentleman of worth & high respectability in the Community where they reside.
Very respectfully
Your ob. servant
Rob. E. Martin

Hon Geo C Whiting
Commissioner
Washington
D. C.
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Milledgeville 16th December 1856

Sir.
The inclosed [sic] letter I rec.d today from Maj Stocks of Green Co Ga which I hasten to inclose to you. I have not taken time to send back to the Major for his affidavit to what he states for want of time to do so & for the additional reason that he is favorably known to our Senators & Representatives in Congress & his hand writing familiar to most if not all of them.
Very Respectfully
Your ob. Servant
Rob. E. Martin
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[addressed envelope?]
For/The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Milledgeville 23rd Nov 1856
Office Clk Supreme Court of Ga.
Sir
I send you the petition & affidavit of Mrs Sarah Anderson for the pension of her deceased husband & hers since his death. Among the names to the inclosed, is that of Senator Toombs.
The most of the inclosed names are well known to Senator Iverson. Also, their Honors Stephens, Warner & Cobb Members from Ga.
Mrs Anderson has seen proper to constitute me her attorney, she being quite advanced in years, & living in a remote part of the State. Please address to me at Milledgeville Georgia any communication you may see proper to make.
Very respectfully
Your ob. Serv.
Rob. E. Martin
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[addressed envelope]
Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Com.r [illegible]
Washington City
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Milledgeville Georgia
December 13th 1856.

Sit.
Since my last letter to you, I have seen Mrs Anderson & taken her additional affidavit which you will please find inclosed [sic]. I regret the necessity of this second affidavit especially as it was my omission & not hers.
Very respectfully
yr ob.t Servant
Rob. E. Martin
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Milledgeville Ga 6th May 1857
Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Dear Sir
A few days past I forwarded from this place to your address a package containing an additional oath of Mrs Sarah Anderson, & others, with a certificate from the Executive office showing the instruction given to our Land Lottery Act with regard to Revolutionary Soldiers. [illegible]
Very respectfully
Rob. E. Martin.
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House Repr. 23 Dec /56

Dear Sir,
I rec.d today a letter from a friend in Ga. wishing me to furnish to your Department evidence of the standing of Thomas Stocks of Greene County Ga, who has given evidence of the claim of Mrs Anderson, widow of Wm Anderson Rev. Sol. of Greene County. I have to say I have known [illegible - possibly Mayor] Stocks from my infancy. He was Chairman of the County Court for more than 30 years & retired against the wishes of all the good people of the County. Was president of the State Senate for more than ten years, & has been Moderator of the Baptist Church
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Convention almost time out of [illegible]. No man can have a better standing than Thomas Stocks in all that enables human nature, and every reliance may be put in whatever he states, as facts on every subject.
Your Ob.t Sv.t
N. G. Foster