Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6845, for William Nourse, South Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Navy
S.C. Sea service

Nourse, William
Rebecca P

NUMBER
W. 6845
B.L.Wt. 34,836-160-55

CONTENTS
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No 567 Kentucky
William Nourse
of Mercer Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a midshipman in the Frigate commanded by Captain [Seth] Harding called the Confederacy and in the frigate South Carolina for three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 144 Dollars _ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept 1832 and sent to Robert B. McAfee Esq. Harrodsburg Ky
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832. 216.
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 Mar, 33     72. = $288.
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by R. [llegible] Clerk,
Book   D  Vol. 9  Page  52

see letter to Pensioner June 18. 18__
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State of Kentucky 
[illegible] Cty
William  [illegible]
court - and made oath to the following statement of
[illegible] of Claimant a pension under the act of Congress for
the relief of Captain [illegible] officer and soldier in this and this 7th
appointed June 7th 1832 [illegible] by state that in the 16 day of
October 1780 [illegible] into the naval service of the united states
in a [illegible] 7th in states  called "The Confederacy" commanded 
by Seth Harding by the

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10th                            Wm Nourse

State of Kentucky
Mercer Circuit ss  July Term 1832

I William L. Kelly Sole & Presiding Judge of the Mercer Circuit Court do hereby declare it my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Midshipman in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and Served & Suffered as stated in the above declaration.
Sworn to this day before me   Given under my hand the 10th of July 1832
(signed) William L Kelly 
               Circuit Judge

State of Kentucky
Mercer Circuit  ss   July Term 1832

I Philip T. Allen clerk of the Circuit Court aforesaid do Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Said Circuit Court, in the matter of the application of William Nourse for a Pension
[ SEAL]  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of Said Circuit Court at the Clerks Office in Harrodsburg, this 10th day of July 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth.
(signed) Phil. T. Allen
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State of Kentucky }
Fayette County }  ss

Personally appeared before me James Davis one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Fayette, Mrs. Catherine B Cooke, a respectable and creditable witness, aged 73 years of the City of Lexington, County and State aforesaid and being sworn deposeth and saith - That she well remembers that the before named Willm Nourse was a Midshipman in the Navy of the United States from and to the times before stated and also of his being taken prisoner by the British, carried into New York and that he was afterwards sent a Prisoner to England ----- and after his return from imprisonment that he entered into the Service of the State of South Carolina in a Frigate belonging to that State.
(signed) Cath'e B Cooke

Sworn and Subscribed
before me the 23d July 1832.
(signed) J. E. Davis J.P. H.


Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette County to wit:
I James C. Rodes clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do Certify that James E. Davis Esquire, who has signed the foregoing Certificate, is and was at its date a duly authorised (sic) Justice of the Peace for said County Commissioned and qualified as the law directs, and that his signature is genuine, to whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Lexington Kentucky this 24d day of July 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth.
(signed) J. C. Rodes  C. F. C. C.
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Mercer County Ky  -  This day appeared in open court Jesse Head a  Clergyman residing in the town of Harrodsburgh near which the within named William Nourse resides and Peter Huff a revolutionary soldier residing near this William Nourse in the same County do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with the sd (said) William Nourse who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be of the age he has stated and that he is reputed and believed to be a man of truth & veracity and a midshipman in the navy of the U. States during the revolutionary war and we concur in the above opinion.
Witness our hand this 9th August 1832
(signed) Jesse head
(signed) Peter Huff

State of Kentucky }
Mercer County }  Augt County Court 1832
This day Peter Huff the subscriber to the foregoing Certificate came personally into Open Court & made Oath to the Truth of the Statement by him Subscribed and the Court further Certifies that said Huff who has signed the Certificate is a credible Witness & that his Statement are entitled to credit and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Head who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Mercer County & I Thomas Allen Jr. Clerk of the  County Court afsd (aforesaid) Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Nourse for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office at Harrodsburg this 9th day of August 1832
(signed)  Tho. Allen Jr.
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5257.
Kentucky
Rebecca P. Nourse,
widow of William
who served in the Revolutionary
as a Midshipman
Frigate "South Carolina"
---ribed on the Roll at the rate
144 dollars  --
---s per annum, to commence on 
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued
9th day of June 1855
and sent to 
John B Akins
Danville Ky

March 4, 1863

Recorded on roll of Pensioners under act
January 3, 1853, }
              28, 1855} Page 176.  Vol. 

205582

1866 April 25  Pension Agent
   "     "             Louisville Lexington
   "     "  2d  Compt. of 3d Aud.
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State of Kentucky
Boyle County Court, July Term 1853

I John B akin Clerk of the Boyle County Court do certify that (illegible) S. Fry Esqr is the Presiding Judge of said Court and that the within affidavit was subscribed and sworn to in open court.  The oath having been commissioned by said Fry by virtue of his office , he being duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the Boyle County Court this the 18th day of July 1853
(signed) John B Akin Clk
Boyle County Court
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State of Kentucky
Boyle County } s.s.

On this the 18th day of July 1853 personally appeared before the Boyle County Court in the state of state of Kentucky A G Kyle and A I Caldwell who are personally known in the court and (illegible) of credit and give standing and they being duly sworn according to Law stated on oath that Rebecca P. Nourse the applicant for pension is the Widow of William Nourse Dec'd who was a Pensioner of the Louisville Ky Agency, that said Rebecca & William were married in Mercer County in the month of May A.D. 1813 and contnued to live together up to the day of the death of said William Nourse which was on the 30th day of August AD 1836.  They also state that said Rebecca is still the widow of said William, she not having married since his death.  They also state that they are disinterested.
(signed) A G Kyle (seal)
(signed) A I Caldwell (seal)

Sworn to and subscribed on this the day and year above written in open Court before 
(signed) Speed S. Fry P. J. B. C.

Attest  Jno B Akin  Clk
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State of Kentucky
Boyle County Court July Term 1853

I John B. Akin Clerk of the Boyle County Court, do certify that Speed S. Fry , Esqr is the Presiding Judge of said Court, and that the within affidavit was subscribed and sworn to in open court. The above having been administered by same Fry, by virtue of his office - he being duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Boyle County Court, this the 18th day of July 1853
Jno B Akin  Clk
Boyle County Court
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State of Kentucky
Boyle County } s.s.

On this 18th day of July 1853 personally appeared before the Boyle County court of the State of Kentucky Rebecca P Nourse, a resident of Boyle County and State aforesaid, aged 61 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the law of the  United States, passed 3rd February 1853, that she is the widow of William Nourse, Decd who was a Pensioner of the United States on the Kentucky Agency at the rate of $144 per annum as will appear by an examination of the proper office.  She further states that she was married to the said William Nourse on the [BLANK] day of May (1813) eighteen hundred and thirteen, and that her said husband died on the 30th day of August (1836) eighteen hundred and thirty six, in the County of Mercer (now Boyle) that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January eighteen hundred but at the tie above stated.  She further declares that she is now a widow having never married again.
(signed) R. P. Nourse

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
(signed) Speed S. Fry  P. J. B. C.

Attest Jno B. Akin  Clk}
B Co. Court.
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Danville Ky
July 18th 1853

L. P. Waldo Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Sir I am requested by Mrs. R. P. Nourse of this county to forward her application for Pension.  Please send Certificate to me.

I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
John B Akin


Mrs R. P. Nourse
widow of 
Wm Nourse.
Application
for Pension

Jno B. Akin
Danville Ky
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205,882 Act Mar 3/55
Aug. 25/55
___
Rebecca P. Nourse 
wid of
William Nourse
Midshipman
___
Capt. Harding 
[illegible] U. S. Ship Confederancy
Rev War
[Written vertically across the page]
No. 34836 issd July 24/56
___
Rec pension 
Ky Feb 53 5257
___
Ad. 160 acrs July 22d /56
Boynton 
___
Michael Nourse  Vol N-121
Present.
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FORM OF DECLARATION

TO BE MADE BY THE WIDOW OF A DECEASED PERSON WHO HAS NOT HAD A LAND WARRANT.

STATE of Kentucky , }
County of Boyle } ss.

On this the 14th day of August, A. D. one thousand eight 
hundred and Fifty Five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace 
within and for the county and state aforesaid, Rebecca P. Nourse, aged 62 years, a resi
dent of Boyle County, in the State of Kentucky, who, being duly sworn 
according to law, declares that she is the widow of William Nourse, deceased, who 
was a [struck out: [blank] in the company commanded by Captain [blank]
in the [blank] regiment of [blank] commanded by [blank]
[blank], in the war] a midshipman on board the United Ship 
Confederancy & also on board the South Carolina, Captain Harding 
in the war of the Revolution-- that her said husband continued in said 
[struck out: at [blank], on or about the [blank] day of [blank]
A. D. [blank], for the term of [blank], and continued in actual service in
said] war [struck out: for the term] until he taken, [struck out: and was honorably discharged at] prisoner & sent 
to England until the close of the War, [struck out: on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D.]

She further states that she was married to the said William Nourse, in Mercer County 
Kentucky, [struck out: now Boyle County Kentucky] on the 2nd day of May --, A. D., 1813, by one Thomas 
Kyle, a [struck out: paster] Minister, and that her name before her said 
marriage was Rebecca Kyle; that her said husband died at his residence in Boyle 
County Kentucky on the 30th day of August, A. D. 1836, and that she 
is now a widow, reference is requested to the papers on which the said Wm Nourse was placed 
on the pension list, and to those upon which she received a pension certificate, the act of Feb 1853.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she 
may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."  Rebecca P. Nourse

We, Wm R. Robinson and A. G. Kyle, residents of Mercer County 
[blank], in the State of Kentucky, upon our oaths declare that the 
foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Rebecca P. Nourse in our 
presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is 
the identical person she represents herself to be. 
Wm. H. Robinson
A G Kyle

And I, Rebecca P. Nourse do hereby constitute and appoint ---
--- MICHAEL NOURSE irrevocably my true and lawful attorney, with 
full power of substitution for me, in my name and place, and stead, to present this my claim, to 
ask for, receive, and give good and sufficient receipts for any land warrant to which I am enti
tled, and which may be issued by reason of said services, and generally to do any and every 
act that I might or could do were I personally present at the doing thereof; hereby ratifying 
and confirming whatsoever he, my said attorney, or his substitute, should do in and about 
the premises by virtue hereof, hereby revoking all other powers heretofore granted. In witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
Rebecca P. Nourse [SEAL.]

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, and said 
power of attorney duly acknowledged, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I 
know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself 
to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Chas. T. Worthington J.P. Boyle
Ky

State of Kentucky, Boyle County, Sct-
I, Richard R. Bolling, Clerk of the Boyle County Court 
do certify that Charles T. Worthington, whose signature 
appears to the above certificate, is now and was at
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the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace, duly elected and
Commissioned and sworn, that his signature thereto is genuine, and that full faith and credit are due to all
of his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Boyle County Court this 20th day of August, A.D. 1855
s/ R.R. Bolling, Clk B.C.C

1813 May 2d William Nourse & Rebecca Kyle Married by the Revd Thomas Kyle on the Second day of May Eighteen Hundred & thirteen

State of Kentucky Mercer County I Thomas Alline Clerk of the Court for the County afd do certify that the
foregoing is a true Copy of the Marriage record of the Minister
who solemnised the Marriage between the above parties as the same stands upon Record in my office except the addition of the date which is written out in letters and words
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of the Mercer County Court this 17th day of July 1855. s/ Thos Alline

165582 Declaration of Rebecca P Nourse for bounty land per act of March 1855
Her husband was a midshipman in Revolutionary War
She has papers on which he drew a pension, also those of Mrs Nourse lately granted
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6845
Rebecca P Nourse
Widow
William Nourse
Midship Rev War

Act: Feb 3d. 1853
Index:--Vol. M, Page 88

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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34,836
Rev War
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July 23, 1853
Appl. of Rebecca P Nourse widow
of William Nourse
Boyle Co., Kentucky
56 $144
Act 3d Feb. 1853
$144. per ann
Comg Feb. 3d 1853
Rev.
John B. Akin
Danville, Kentucky
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office Official Business
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2 testify to Mar in May 1813
died in Aug 1836  2 wits
2 [Illegible] 
Boynton
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No. 2701
Rebecca P Nourse
widow of Wm Nourse
Let to Jno B Akin 29 Sept '53
act 3d Feb 1853
not entitled [Illegible]
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LP Waldo Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington City DC
Official
free
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free official business
SEP 29
comr of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Brief in the case of Rebecca P Nourse widow of William
Boyle County State of Kentucky
act of 3 Feby 1853 & Feby 28" 1855,
Claim, (original)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioner under the Act of 7, 1832, at the rate of $144 per Ann.
Two Witnesses testify to the Marriage in May, 1813. Pensioner [Illegible] 3 August 1836 [Illegible]  the affidavit of
two witnesses Report of it. Third Auditor [Illegible] identity is established by the affidavits of two credible affiants & a certif of court.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
s/ John B. Akin, Esqr
Danville, Ky;
Name and residence of Agent
JC Boynton Examining Clerk
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215582
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Washington Aug 24 1855
Sir
I enclose the following declarations for bounty land
Vz of Rebecca P. Nourse widow of Wm Nourse, a Midshipman
in the Revolutionary war
of John Myers, private, war of 1812
Respectfully your obt st
Michl Nourse
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[Illegible] June 4, 1853
sir Please certify the time to which the within annexed pension was paid with date of his death
very respectfully
[Illegible] 
LP Waldo commissioner

William Nourse died 30 August 1836
Paid in full
Robt J [Illegible] 
Auditor
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JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
June 11
Wm Nourse
Rev War
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Near Danville Ky June 3, 1836
JL Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Sir
I have long had desires of writing to you on the subject of my Pension but may have properly defered it on account of the great press of business in your office-- which now may have measurably ceased.
The pay of $12 pr month the pay of a Midshipman of the Navy of the Revolution, which I am now receiving was supposed sufficient in those
arduous times of trials and sufferings (in which it was my lot to have had a
considerable share) but now how inadequate to the present day.
I perceive of the Acts of Congress for some years past that considerable additions have been made to the pay of Midshipman in the Navy of the United States say $19 and upwards pr Month.
The great rise of the necessaries of life for sometime past in this Country now induces me respectfully to trouble you with this letter, praying that to my present Certificate for 12 months, an addition may be made to it equal to the present (or minimum) pay of Midshipman in the Navy of the United States.
I am, sir, Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Wm Nourse
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The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions
Present
105512
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The Petition of William Nourse of the Navy of the revolution for a pension

2268
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled
The Petition of William Nourse formerly of the Navy of the United
States on board the Frigate Confederacy during the Revolutionary war humbly sheweth. That your Petitioner entered into the service of his County at the age of 17 as a Midshipman the 16 of October 1780 on board the United States Frigate aforesaid, Seth Hardin Esq [Captain Seth Harding] commander, then
lying in the Port of Philadelphia, that in December following, he sailed
in said Frigate for the West Indies, and Captured on the passage a British Brig bound from New York to Turks Island for salt, and carried her
into Cape Francois (now called cape Henry) in the Island of Hispaniola.
That your petitioner in the month of Feby following sailed in said Frigate
on a cruise in the West Indies seas, in company the United States Frigate
Dean, _ Nicholson Esq commander, and Captured in that cruise on
African slave ship called the Diamond bound to Jamaica, and returned
with her to the then Cape Francois aforesaid, where the said ship with 
her cargo of slaves, and the Brig aforesaid, were condemned and sold
for the benefit of the United States and the captors.
That your Petitioner afterwards sailed from the West Indies, bound for Philadelphia, but was unhappily Captured on board the said Frigate Confederacy near the Capes of Delaware by the British Ship of war the Roebuck Cap. Hammond of 44 guns and two Frigates on the 16 day of April 1781: a day long to be
remembered by your petitioner having lost by her capture nearly every thing but the clothes on his back was then carried into New York at which place he suffered for many weeks the most true and rigorous treatment on board the Jersey Prison ship then lying in the Walabough near the harbour of New York-
That your Petitioner when  scarcely recovered from a putrid fever which raged with great mortality on board the said prison ship, was sent with about 40 others from on board said
Prison ship prisoners to a fleet then lying near the Hook bound for
England and put on board a British Ship of war and confined down to the hold or cable tier of said ship (for the enemy in those trying times made no distinction between officers and men and on its arrival at Portsmouth
Portsmouth England, he was put on board the admirals ship in that
Harbour, and afterwards with others his fellow prisoners taken before a
civil magistrate, and after examination was committed to Forton Prison near Portsmouth on suspicion of high treason, agreeable to an act of Parliment passed about the beginning of the Revolutionary war. where your Petitioner was confined for seven months, and during the long and tedious winter of 1781 and beginning of 1782 without
any fire or other comforts of life much to the injury of his health and
very detrimental to his constitution which he sadly experiences to
this day-- Your Petitioner would further beg leave to state - that
after the capture of Lord Cornwallis at York in Virginia (at which time your
petitioner was in Forton Prison above mentioned) and the charge
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change of the British ministry he was sent back in a cartel to Philadelphia
with about 300 american prisoners and arrived in that city in August
1782, but being then out of employment and the Navy of the United states nearly destroyed by the enemy, he entered as a Midshipman
on board the large Frigate South Carolina John Joiner Esq commanded then lying in the port of Philadelphia of very heavy metal belonging to and shortly before built in Holland for that state but your
petitioner was in December following again captured on board said
Frigate by a Fleet of British ships of war and again called into New York, paroled on Long Island and afterwards to Philadelphia
from which situation he was only relieved by the return of peace
and the United States obtaining her glorious Independence.
your Petitioner in conclusion would beg leave to state that he is now
and has been for many years a citizen in Mercer County Kentucky is now in the sixty fourth year of his age, three years of the bloom of which he spent in the service of his country suffering on that account the rage of a cruel enemy, in bonds and rigorous
imprisonment, which is probably the cause that he has been laboring for many years with a broken constitution and for months together such heavy infirmities as to render him entirely unable to attend to any kind of business. He therefore prays that your honorable house to take his case into consideration and grant
him that relief that as a suffering officer of the Navy of the
Revolution he is entitled to receive
Signed Wm Nourse
,
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State of Kentucky Mercer  County
Personally came before me Jas. Lillard one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Mercer William Nourse the aforesaid Petitioner who being duly sworn doth say that all the facts contained in the foregoing petition are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
(Signed) William Nourse
Sworn and subscribed before me the 1 February 1827
(signed) Jas Lillard JP
City of Washington 17 Feb. 1827
My Younger Brother William Nourse, the above named was by his Father James Nourse in 1780 placed under my direction; and the circumstances narrated by him in the foregoing Memorial receive all the attestation to their verity I can give them
the present
Joseph Nourse
the present Registrar of the Treasury
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near George Town
12 July 1832
I do hereby confirm the Certificate annexed dated 17 Feb. 1827 givin at that time for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, but which he the Petitioner Wm Nourse, never obtained either of Congress or South Carolina; the statement is perfectly correct
according to the best of my knowledge and belief. Given under my hand and seal and Witnessed the date & year above written
Signed Sealed delivered in presence of Janet Hutchison
s/ Joseph Nourge
late Register
of the Treasury
of the
United States
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Re[illegible]
&MM
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Know all men by these presents, that I Rebecca P. Nourse widow of William Nourse who was a Midshipman in the Navy of the Revolutionary War and was received a pension or half pay from the
United States under Act of 30th day of August 1834 do hereby constitute and appoint my brother [illegible] Nourse of Washington, my true and lawful attorney, [illegible] to apply for and receive from
the proper department a certificate of pension to which I am entitled by the act of 28 February 1855 and the act therein referred to, and do request that the amount of the pensions indicated by the
certificate when issued be made payable at the Agency at Washington City at Treasury of U States

In witness whereof I do hereby set my hand and affix my seal this 18 day of May 1855, hereby confirming that my said attorney may lawfully do in virtue thereof
[signed] Rebecca P Nourse ℗
Witnesses
A G Kyle
W. H. Robinson
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State of Kentucky
County of Boyle
On this 18th day of May 1855 appeared before me Justice of the Peace, in and for County aforesaid, mentioned Rebecca Nourse acknowledged the same to be [illegible], and do further certify there she is the widow of the late William Nourse
Charles J Worthington J.P.B.C.


State of Kentucky
Boyle County Sct.
I, Richard R. Bolling, Clerk of the Boyle County Court do certify that foregoing signature of Charles J
Worthington is genuine- that said Worthington is now and was at the time of signing said certificate a Justice of the peace in and for Boyle County, duly elected and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due all of his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of said Court this 26th day of May A.D. 1855
R.R. Bolling, Clerk
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[mostly illegible stamp]

[illegible]
[illegible]
AMERICA
Aug 20 18
PENSION
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note death on roll
Harrodsburg Kentucky
August 23 1855
Hon. Joseph H. Barrett
Dear Sir
Mrs. Rebecca P. Nourse who has been a pensioner for many years is now dead and there is some back pay coming to her or heirs I believe her attestation told me there was some of $140 or thereabouts says she had not drawn anything for a year or so before her death. It seems that the administrator cannot find the certificate showing that she was a pensioner I want you if you please to send be a blank and instructions how to prepare Said claim by referring to form books you will see that she is the wife of an officer and that she has been getting a pension for some years - send me the forms and instructions and Much Oblige your Friend
Geo. Passmore

Act Feb. 3 1853, 2d Sec.
Paid to Mch 4:63
5237
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Danville Kentucky
September 24th 1843
To Comr of Pensions
Washington City
-
Dear Sir
Some months ago, at the request of Mrs. Nourse of this County sent to your Department application for pension under act 3d Feby 1853, the reception thereof having never been acknowledged and sufficient time now having elapsed for the Certificate to have been issued-- I would like to learn whether his application was receive &c
-
I am very respectfully
your obt servant
Jno Baker

claim received July 23/53
Adams
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[illegible postal stamp]
Free
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington
D-C

P. O. [illegible] 5320
15 Aug 1832,
Kenty
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Harrodsburg Mercer County 17 Aug 6. 1832
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Washington DC
Sir
My friend Genl Robt McAffee has promised me, to forward for your Department, the proceedings of the Circuit Court Judge of this State in July last, on my application to him for the same in relation for a Pension, under the late Act of Congress as a Midshipman in the Navy of the United States & during the arduous struggle of the Revolutionary War which papers I endeavour'd through the Genl assistance to have as perfect as possible for your approbation

Since those papers where measurably executed I have received from my aged brother Joseph Nourse of the District of Columbia and late Register of the Treasury of the United States the enclosed paper which is a copy of my Petition laid before Congress in Feby 1827; with his Certificates in relation to my said Petition annexed thereto - which copy of my Petition with my said brothers Certificates I have thought it would be best to enclose to you (the I have written to him to wait upon you in attestation thereof) - the whole of which I respectfully trust will meet with your approbation, and a favorable
issue
Sir
very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Wm Nourse