Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4463, Hall Hudson, S.C.
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SERVICE  NUMBER
S. C. Hudson, Hall R.4463
or Hall, Hudson
CONTENTS
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Alexander H. Evans,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
and
General Claim Agent,
Washington City, D. C.
References:
Gen. Sam Houston
Gen. Thos. J. Rusk U. S. S.
Hon. S. A. Douglas
M. D. Cooper & Co., N. O.
WM. M. Shuster & Co., Wash.
Murdoch, Duer & Evans, Balto.
Rich’d Patrick & Co., N. Y.
WM. Coxe Dusenberry, “
Washington Dec. 18, 1854
Sir,
Please find enclosed some papers asking information from your office.  You will oblige me by answering the questions proforwarded by Col. Blood relative to Mrs. Tabers claim for Bounty Land - also 
(over)
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whether there are any papers, and what, on file in the name of Hall Hudson of Fla. or Georgia or Alabama. - Ms. Tabor does not say of what state Mr. Hudson was a citizen but I presume of one of the states I mention. Your early attention to the above is requested by 
Very Respectfully 
Yr. Ob. Servant
A. H Evans 
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Committe.(?)
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Orange Hill 
Nov 28⎬ Paid 3
Mr C. H. Blood 
Tallahassee Florida
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November the 2th day A.D. 1854

Dear Sir,

I see from an advertisement in one of the Tallahassee papers that you have returned from the north and are still engages in obtaining pension claims. Bounty Land warrants, back pay of soldiers xc. I have been requested by Mrs. Susannah Potter to apply for her husband's (Miles Potters) bounty land warrant. It appears that Miles Potter served six months in the state of South Carolina, and if necessary his service can be proven by his brother, who now resides at Oakey-Hill in this county. In the meantime I will inform you that since the death of the husband. Miles Potter. She has intermarried with a man by the name of James Sweat, and after having one child, they seperated, and she said for and obtained a divorce from him, and has assumed her original name of Patter, so this circumstance does not prove a barrier to her case. I see no reason why a warrant can not be obtained. The other is a man by the name of Hall Hudson, of revolutionary character, it appears that in his life time he applied for a pension and the matter was in the hands of Col. Long of Jackson County but for some cause he let it fall to the ground, but for what reason i never understood. If you think of undertaking these cases and will send me the necessary papers for both xc I will attend to them here and forward them to you either at Tallahapu, Washington city, or wherever you may direct, if you should succeed in both or either of the cases, your usual fee in such cases will be allowed please address me a line on the subject, what you will aa in the matter, directed to orange hill post office 

James KC
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Respectfully referred to the Secretary of War Dept of State 5th Dec 1839 

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Pension Office
Florida
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Postmarked 1839
To the house
John Forsyth Secretary of State Washington City DC

Respectfully referred to Secretary of War 
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5th Dec 1839
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Marianna Novr 22 1839. 
Dear sir, 
There is living, not far from me, a poor old man a revolutionary soldier, who has applied to me and of Charity to obtain for him, a pension, if he is entitled to one. He is indeed very poor and decrepit, yet, possessed of that firmness and independence of spirit of men of his day, he is a beggar, with bad grace. 
He sent me, on yesterday, the following statement, which I ask to present to you, and if he comes within the provisions of any of the laws of the U.S. on the subject of pensions, that you will make such a supposition, of this, as, that I may be furnished with the necessary forms required by the proper department in such cases. 
Hall Hudson, the applicant for pension, was born in South Carolina , near the mouth of Big Pedee, (in what he believes, was then called Cheraw district) on the 14th day of March 1758; at the age of about sixteen, he entered the service of his country, as a private, in Capt Thomas Loyds Company of Militia, and was garrisoned at Cheraw Hill So Carolina, Colo Powell Comanding; and served, to the best of his recollection more than two months, and was then with rest of his company sent home for a time. In the same year, he was ordered into service, and served, about the same length of time, at the same place and under the same officers. The spring after he entered the service again, and was ordered to Charleston where remained untill he received and injury on his left leg, which caused a sore or ulcer under which he has been labouring until the present time, a cripple. This tour,
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of [duty], was performed under the command of Capt Richard Johnson, of the Militia, and to the best of his recollection, was the spring before the battle of Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbour. The applicant several times after this endevoured to serve his country, but was discharged and forced to leave its service, by the sore on his leg. The applicant is a member of the Baptist Church, of good standing, and entertains a good character with all who know him. and but for his affliction and poverty, would consider himself sufficiently paid for all his services and sufferings, in the knowledge "that his county is free, and his fellow citizens happy"

I am indebted to you, an appology [apology] my Dr [Dear] Sir for addressing this letter to you. The liberty, however will I hope be pardoned, when I inform you that applications of this kind are so rare, in this section of our County, that prescribed forms are not to be had, and not a volume of the laws of the U.S., are to be found in our county, add to this; decendant as I am, you know, from a revolutionary soldier and having heard, from so good a source in my youth, the history of those so deserved & highly [illegible] patriots, I can not but feel deeply interested for one of them who is affected and in want.
With sentiments of the highest Esteem
I am yours truly
Rich'd H Long
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[Checkmark/X]
Hudson Hall
Florida
Rejected 
[Illegible] 
R.o N. Song
A H Evans December 23 1852,
did not serve
six months
4463
[Illegible] June [Illegible]
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
Commissioner

E
Cole
Hudson Hall
[Illegible] 1852

[Note: This is an envelope]
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
[Strike through of the above line]

4463
P. O.
Hudson Hall
Service:
Enlisted:  REJECTED, 18  .
Discharged:             , 18  .
Application filed:          , 18  .

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.  Contract.
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Tallahassee Fla,
Dec 11/54

A H Evens Esq
Washington D. C.

Dr Sir
Enclosed
herewith please find Col Washington Tabors 
letter of the 27 Nov. to me, of which you
will notice Col Tabor, is a gentleman well known in Our State, and is at this
time Judge of Probate, of Washington County
Fla, _ Hope the Department will so far
entertain the questions as to inform me, through you - if Mrs Potter is intitled (the facts being
proved) under the 
Acts of 1850 and Aug 4/54
to bounty land in the right of her first husband
or is any divorced woman, a widow in the eye
of the Act, _ 2) Is there any vouchers in the case
of Hall Hudson on file if so please examine and if they are worthy of our notice inform
me, what you think we can do in the 
premises I have often heard this case spoken
of, - I dislike to burden the Department with
claims not admissable for the want of proof
and I would respectfully ask a little indulgence,
before I have gone to expense which will
probably be the cheapest and shortest dispose

[Note in left margin] [Illegible] Dec 20/54 W.H.W
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of the matter,  If said Hudson has
made his Decliration in his lifetime
you can pretty well decide upon
the prospects - if it is worthy of taking
up will for'd such facts as can be procured
Very Respectfully
Your Ob Servt
C. H. Blood

My best regards to Mrs Evens & the babies
C.H.B.